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9 fit Hm Mist;. FORSYTH, GA. Orncixt Omai 0» Mokbob Ooirmr BY MrGINTY vY G'ABANISS. An expert sap that when the tele¬ phone wires nee placed under ground thc service will be improved ten-fold. Robert Bonner, thc famous New York horse fancier, has at last told thc price he paid for bund. It was $41,000, he »ay«, or $1000 more than he gave for Maud 0. “There are thousands of farmers’ childrcu in this couutry,” exclaims the New York World, “who never sec s piece of white bread, nor ever get a tea fpoooful o( sugar, nor have anything to but calico.” * wear Before the railroads and street cart were in use in India tlicre-werc seven dif ferent castes in cities like Bombay which could not ride ki the same vehicle with each other. This has all been knocked in the head, declares the Detroit Fret J'rn», and the only struggle between them is to get the best seat. 'I’he New Orleans Tirnet-Democrat is stirring up Louisianians to thc necessity of more schooling and better school houses. It says that only $1730 was «pent on sclioolhouscs in Louisiana in US.t. As a sample of the buildings erected it cites the fact that the new uchoolhouscs in Assumption Parish cost $£8, in Avoyelles $40 and in Acadia $16. Major-General O. O. Howard has un¬ dertaken mission work iu New York wince lie was stationed at Governor’s Island in command of tho United States troops, according to thc Chicago Times. He and his sou have been teaching Bible classes in a miserable room over a stable in Elizabeth street. He is now trying to buy a deserted church in Chrystic street for thc use oT the school and for services for adults. The General contributes $1000, and asks the Christian public to help him raise the balance, about $17, 000 . Tho destitution now existing in the east end of London is appalling. Ninety t housand men are out of employment, and every day deaths from starvation aro re¬ ported. Many people have stripped their houses of every article of furniture to be sold for food. Mcu fight at the docks for f\, iob tbnt n/Jwth'■'vi-.v Aw .shil¬ lings. There is danger in such a state of affairs. Some clay, predicts thc Atlanta Constitution, a mob of half-starved and desperate people, reinforce 1 by the So < ialists, will march through the streets of the British capital crying “Broad or death!”and then anarchy will try con¬ clusions with the law. Statistics lately gathered by the United States War Department show that iu height the enlisted mcu of thc army vary from a minimum of four feet nine inches to a maximum of six feet four aud ,‘oae half inches, thc soldier' of this latter stature, for whom old King Frederick would have given a bonus, serving in thc Department of Arizona. Iu weight there is n range from the minimum of ninety seven pounds to the maximum of 280, with an averege through the army of 157J, and the fair average height of ti\ f e feet sovea inches. The youngest soldier enlisted is sixteen years of age, and the oldest sixty-six, white thc average is about thirty years. A movement is ou foot to, if possible, put the railways of thc United Kingdom under Governm y'* fpetrol, to be operated for the nation am. controlled bv a gov¬ ernment department to be established for the purpose. The railway systems of Great Britain and Irelatnl are said to be in a rotten condition and especially arc the “third-class” passengers “oppressed” by thc companies. .It is argued that these steel roads are just as much public thoroughfares as the turnpike roads and are national avenues of commerce and as such should at once be bought up and nlaintaioed by the national Government for the benefit of the people at large. “This is a move iu thc right direction,” declares the American Agriculturut. “Everything goes by rages in New York society,” alleges tho Boston Tran * ri: *. “Thc present craze is for dinner¬ giving. Nobody who is sufficiently any¬ body to know nice people need go hungry these days, even if he has felt the pinch of Wall street and run behind in his steward’s bill at the club. As for thc average poor relative, he or she is in gas tronomic clover. For ' be it understood ’ lt is aot enough to dine your friends; . your generosity must minor itself iu thc of * i kinsmen • and j who , presaacc women on joy at your l.oxrd a luxury fortune ha? denied them at their own. An avengt of one poor relative to every three other guests is, I believe, thc proper propor lion. In contrast to thc expausiveness of its hospitality 7 the simplicity of thc Gyle , . with which the hospitality is dis- v pensed is to be noted. Very little in the . way of flowers and a simple menu rule, j ‘ Ihe family . cook takes the . place . of , tne , caterer, and bouquets supplant banks of flowers. Gold plate is absolutely bad form, and silver only * permissible on very * 1 etatelv occasions, the MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH. GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1891.--EIGHT PAGES. The Boston Transcript avers that "young men in Connecticut are leaving the farms for the cities in droves.’' Some time ago J*. D. Rockefeller, the c. Standard orwl , ir( i na Oil magnate, testified i i & jt court . that he could q t swear to his exact for tune by at least $10,000,000 or *12,. 000 , 000 . Texas’s Attorney-General has decided that the court house of Bowie Couuty must be built iu the geographical center fo the county. This locates it in a dense wood. Thc Philadelphia H$cord suggests a ’rtC8l.tlor a. article in which it j-ivea the name, and ^dresses of more than 200 women of Philadelphia, most of them young, who mvstcrinunlv mystcno u-lv di«-.T.r.onroU a.sappeared i last ye w. 1 ' ‘ The Hollanders are so mad because people liave twitted them with being Z ruled ,.Z by a * little ' girl *' that tbev have trot fe0t the High Court rr to rule . ,. that thcNorereign of lfolland is King Wilhelmina. The title will be rather awkward, think, the l-o„ "‘- King Wilhei mum comes to get married. The Georgia Legislature has made an appropriation of $35,000 for the current year for thc mi'itia of that State, The Augusta Chronicle says thc good effects of the last summer encampment have al¬ ready been shown. Not only is there greater proficiency among the militia, but the encampment was an educator of opin¬ ion. The General Assembly has recog nized the advantages of the school of the soldier. The companies next year will be better equipped than ever, and the com jng encampment will be a crowning event. Says a writer in the New Y T ork Press: Annuities on the English plan are be comyig quite a feature of insurance now. I believe there is no large corporation in this couutry which makes a specialty of annuities, but several of the leading old line insurance companies have taken up that line of business also, and by the pay ment of certain lump sums they willguar antce you certain yearly payments, which will give you a'fixed income for life. I hear men of considerable means talking about applying for annuities to make them easy lor the remainder of their lives. Bachelors, who have no one de¬ pendent upon them for means of living, are well disposed toward the annuity plan, but men of family prefer to insure their lives for the benefit of those who will survive them. V Hypnotism is likely, in the opinion of ihe New York Mail and Express ,to play aii important part in tho homicidal trag edies ^ the nejn'_future— Tb"e in¬ evitable pica of insanity is in bad odor and has lost its effect with the average jury. Hypnotism combines the elements of novelty and mystery and has the ad¬ vantage of exonerating the hypnotic in¬ strument of crime on the ground of irresponsibility when under the dominat¬ ing influence of a superior will, while it leaves the subject entirely rational and responsible when not in the hypnotic state. This pica is destined to complicate our criminal jurisprudence, and involve the administration of justice in most serious difficulties. If the hypnotized agents of crime are irresponsible, and at the same time are perfectly rational and honorable, the only parties who can bo held for such crimes are those who use for criminal purposes this uncanny power. Dr. Liegcois,professor of' thc medical college of Nancy, testified in the trial of the Paris stranglers, to the effect that not only was Gabrieile Bompard, thc famous accomplice, au unconscious accessory of the crime committed, but that in his opiuion there were from four to five persons in every hundred who were similarly susceptible to hypnotic influence. Chief Justice Bleckley, of Georgia, in deciding that the Antioch Baptist Church at Atlanta must be sold to pay thc salary of the preacher, says: “If any debt ought to be paid, it is one con¬ tracted for the health of souls, for pious ministrations and holy service. If any class of debtors ought to pay, as a mat¬ ter of moral as well as legal duty, thc good people of a Christian Church are that class. No church can have tfci auv higher higher oblioa-ion oh iga.ion restinv resting tinon upon it it than titat of being just. Tne study of justice for more than forty years has impressed me with the supreme supreme imnortance importance of of this this grand and noble virtue. Some of the virtues are in the nature of moral lux uries, but this is an absolute necessity of social life. It is the ho" and hominy ° the he bacon bacon and and beans of morality, n pub- u lie and private. It is the exact virtue, being mathematical in its nature. Merer ;t'’ nitv charity 65 gratitude ’ ’ ’ ’ TOnw clLSi „ 5 ^ ‘'-’ • . . etc., magnanimity, are the liberal vir- I tues. They flourish partly on voluntary concessions made bv the exact virhip' but thev have nn ritrLt sbL to ext , ori , from , it any unwilling concessions. A man . cannot give ^ in charity, * or pitv l i hosffital- i c m ity . magnanimity, . . the or smallest part of j what is necessary to enable him to sat i>fy the demands of justice. Thc law grants exemptions of property to fam dies, but none to corporations or collec- ’ tive bodies, lay ecclesiastical. ’ or These must pay their legal debts if thev can All their property, legal and equitable, ! is subject. Wc think a court may well constrain this church to do justice. It ' . ... ainly . sell is cer an energetic measure to the churcn to pay the preacher, nor would it bo allowable to do so if other means of satisfying the debts were within reach. . „ : * WASHINGTON, D. j NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM THP THE NATIONAL MATTOiaAT r CAPITAL. adttat I _____________ . Proceedings Of the Second Ses sion of the 51 st Congress. ° SENATE. In the senate, Saturday, Mr. Culiom presented , tWo _ resolutions , . of , the , , house of repnsentatives in the Illinois tegis.ature. j He said that they instructed the senators ; from that state to vote for the free com- j I age bill and against the “force bill,” so termed in the“ resolution. He regarded io t 'he records of the Mute. They v. U so ordered. -Mr. Blair, rising to a personal expl -nation, said that he had observed, circulating * in newspapers of the country, red what pur 0 rted to be a copy of an as ment alleged to havo been entered into by republican senators with reference to tha consideration of the force bill, so called, or election bill, more properly Aot called. Mr. Teller said that casp,pe“ he diU intend to pa attt .„, ioo n rep Snv .rts, Atten- and ns u gene™: rule, never garo tion to statements made by newspaper circulated, that he had been in favor of | the force bill—so called, or election bill— at any time, w r as incorrect; that the fur¬ ther statement that amendments were made to that bill in committee whenever he asked to have them made, w r as also incorrect; and that the statement bill* thut he had ever agreed to support thc di¬ rectly or indirectly, was iucorrect. The senate met at 2 o’clock p. m. Mon¬ day. Mr. Turpie introduced a joint re.-olution, which was referred to the conini’ttee amendment on judiciary, proposing an to the constitution l\>r the electi m of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people of the several states. The Unification appropriation bill was then taken up. Au amendment reported by the committee to reduce the ’ appropriation for guns and mortar bat¬ teries for the defense of the harbors of Boston New York, San Francisco,Ilamp tou Roadsand Washington from $1,000, 000 to $750,000, gave rise to a discussion, Mr. Dolph opposing the ameudmeut and speaking at much length on the necessity of a gun factory on the Pacific coast. Messrs. Cockrell, Hawley, Allen an d Plumb took part in the discussion, Mr. Cockred favored the amendment, and regretted that the proposed reduction was not greater. He regarded a system of coast defenses (which would involve an outlay of $125,000,000) as utterly worthless and an absolute waste of money. Isolated as the United States was, it could resist the com¬ _ bined powers of the entire earth. Mr. Hawley ridiculed the pretension that the* United States can whip any other people on the Lee of the earth. He sod: “In twelve or eighteen hours Great Britain could assemble a fleet at Portland; in eighteen or twenty hours at Boston, and in twenty-four hours, per¬ haps, at New York. What are you go¬ ing to do when you .find British war ves¬ sels iu the harbor of New York. They could levy a tribute of $50,000,090 or $160,000,000 on the city of New York, aud New York would be comp iled pay iU In the mauotim*, -Hm . j flkdllh sons of liberty,’ by 100,000 or 500.000 are arming, but they would not be worth a single.last y< ar’s bird nest. You can not defend the harbors of Boston, Port¬ land, New York, Charleston, New Or leans or San Francisco. You have no modern guns.” The senate, on Tuesday, resumed con¬ sideration of the fortification bill. The first item that attracted notice was one appropriating $1,000,000 for the purchase of oil-tempered and annealed steel for high power coast defenseguusof eight,ten and twelve inch calibre. The committee on tion appropriations recommended-a reduc¬ of the amount to $800,000, and Mr. Gorman moved a still further reduction to $250,000, aud made a statement to show that the amount should be reduced. After another long debate, upon much the same lines as that of Monday, and participated in by the same senators— Dolph, Hawley, Allen and Blair—Mr. Gorman’s amendment was rejected. house. house, Monday'being suspension day in the the speaker announced that the unfinished business was the senate bill for the relief of sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamer, Tallapoosa, and on roll call the house refused to sus¬ pend thc rules and pass the bill. Mr. Walker, of Massachusetts, moved to suspen i the rules and pass the senate bill making and additional appropriation of $150,000 to continue the work on the public building at Worcester, 0as3. In the course of the debate, Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, complained of his lack of suc¬ cess iu getting action upon the Hot Springs public building bill, and Mr. Breckinridge,, of Kentucky, referred to the strong existing suspicion that there was a builuing ring which controlled all appropriations for public buildings. Mr. bpinola took advantage his" of the recogm- "the tion to renew appeal for passage of the bill providing for the erection of a monument to the victims of British prison ships. The bi’l was parsed_yeas parsed,’ 138- nays 53 Thc senate bill ias on motion <•« Mr. Edmunds, ,’ of Virginia, J for the tj f b ic buMi „ flt K oanokt thi , Va.. „ith an amendment limiting cost to *75,000. On motion of .Ml Me Kinlcv, a bill was f passed amending ° see tfon ^ reviged s atutes? so as to read; Vacancies occasioned by death or resigna tion shall not be temporarily filled under three preceding sections for a longer P cnod than thlrt J The present law . limits the time to ten davs and the biF has special reference the late to the appointment of a successor to Secretary Win bom. The senate bill was passed with an amendment striking out the appropri at in" a^ublic Clause, providing for the erection of building at St. Paul Minn.. at a cost of $800,009. The message from the president relative to the succession in the office of the secretary of the treasury, was read and referred to the committee and * on wavs means. " - * The secretarv of the^navv formally ac ce-nted the cruiser Newark Saturday * .nd orteed thatAe be put iUcom m i «on. The President on Saturday sent to the sec a ; e a message in regard to the law re . in ten uays after the death of a •ecre.aiy of the treasury. He thinks he should Jiave .° er tlme ’ ' • delegation a ^ L 3n d erst to ^ Washington 2 d Canada, will after send March a 4(L> tte date on whi( J the life of the present congress expires, for the purpose of discussing in/ormullv the questions oi pension tween tne md United development bt .tes and of Canada, trade and be rhe settlement of all auesjions of differ- capital, it is said, ns a result of friendly Sl, ^ e ^° n M from ° r % Washington. AUbam *f 0Q f**! urday, telegraphed Governor Jones that Tr, view of the positive assurances from th* republicans that no further efforts would be made to pass the force bill, it wouid ^ be8t for the AIabaraa legislature now to pass the bill providing for an ex¬ hibit at the world’s fair. Other South ern senators seut similar telegrams to the governors of their states Among them were Senator Harris, of Tennessee; Sena tor Coke, oCTexas, and Senator Berry, 0 f Arkansas. Senator Gorman advised it. m Tbe sundry . civil ... appropriation . bill, reported to the house 1 uesday, contain* Macon postoffiee 18,000; (or the pur cha ce J? f a sl tf and ^ cons< £ uctl £° ^ a f , . me!’° °nd £>7 t °h r. e quarters^ a ' °o (the enlisted’ C D ‘ S e mea a aD d , , a AuvUsta . ial . araei $3 ’ 443; to tb e improvement of McPherson barracks, Atlanta, $75,000; to continue the improvement of mknmauga . P artf . $~00,000. iwnM . . The - > «PI>'°P™t.on for the construct, on ? ! " r0 ; d from *? M ‘p hc ™"" barracks w,,s not provided in , >h« bill, ^£5“'” w j Th™ ommUto ! he believing that the effort be¬ ing made to get it by a few Atlantians was more in the interest of booming real estate along the route than for the con¬ venience of the Dublic. NEWS AND NOTES CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬ pen from Day to Day. Mtissonier, the paiuter, is dead, He was born in Lyons in 1812. Ebenezer Morrison, paper dealer, Wash¬ ington, D. C., has made an assignment. The debt statement shows a decrease of the national debt during the month of January of $15,835,496 67. 'Flic speaker of the house of repre¬ sentatives of Montana, died Monday. This leaves the body a political tic. th'usand A dispatch of Tuesday says: Ten shoemakers in Vienna have gone on a strike for an increa e in wages. The cruiser Newark will'probably join the squadron of evolution in the Gulf of Mexico, and then make a cruise in Euro¬ pean waters. Master Workman Powderly, on Satur¬ day, issued an appeal to the Knights of Labor in behalf of the widowed and fatherless victims of the Mammoth mine disaster. Dispatches of Tuesday evening say': North Nebraska and Southern Dakota are enveloped in a terrific storm. At -Di ad wood it is 20 degrees below zero; at ^ead lena 40 City degrees 30 degrees below. below, and at Ga¬ Assistant Secretary Spaulding has m ed a tobacco firm that all tobacco ld j0 t )ok eff ct wdl be ^rtqbor to duty l^ ' > its j weight ? » at the time of with u P on drawal for consumption, The women of the country intend erecting a monument to the memory of General Francis E. Spinner, and have issued petitions for subscriptions for that purpose. He was the first man’ to em¬ ploy females in the government depart¬ ments at Washington. The Chilian legation in Paris, on Tues¬ day, received a cable message from Chili, stating that the insurgent fleet has not occupied any port of that country. The message adds that the country is quiet, ihe army loyal, and that the coast is effi¬ ciently guarded. James R. Boyce, Jr., & Co., of Butte, Montana, one of the largest dry goods houses in the West, has been levied on by the First National bank for $60,000, and on Monday an assignment was made to D. P. Porter. The assets are $125, 000 and the liabilities $100,000. President John H Inman, of the Richmond and Danville railroad, left New York Monday evening for a trip road. through the sou h over the lines of the He is accompanied by Jay Gould, George Gould, Helen Gould, Sidney Dillon, Calvin S. Brice and General Sam Thomas. The party occupy special cars. They will visit points in all the southern states. * Receipts for customs received in New Yo«-k from Monday last to Saturday night exceeded any previous like period for years past. They amounted, for imports and withdrawals from warehouse, alto gether to $5,216,199. The great increase was due to the activity of importers in fhe cufffimfofficers 9 beh^e the 0 operations c ; t i ie Ar c Kinlev ant which were sns pended until noon Saturday, went into ..ow " Chief , Justice T -on Fuller, on Monday , r an nounced that the supreme court had de cld ed to grant thc P etltl0: > of counsel representing the British . government for leave to file au appbcaiiou for a writ ot 1™hpu.ou to prevest the district court \ A |aska fr „T *. T* <mt Q[ th° ^ee schooner; of forfeiture bayward made is, ■ The the Alaska case f, oUI ^ as f' e( i r ‘' ,ei ^ -now cause w ij ‘ h e wr ‘ t of prohibition should not issue, , lU ao< ’ Wa l 03 ne second M a r ondaym i . - A p r.l -L . NARROW ESCAPE - Of Seventv-five FrS klinfr Coal MioPT»S riOm a o Ui IHIlg: Pit rlt. What almost proved to be another Mammoth mine disaster occuiTed at New GranS castl G Coh, Tuesday evening ins the River coal and coke mines. Just; at 6 o'clock as the day shift, composed of ; seventy-five miners, were about to leave the mine a terrific explosion occurred) and immediately black smoke came pour- ; ing out the side of the mountain. Above: the roar of escaping gases, the pitiable; cries of ttc imprisoned miners couTd be plainly heard willing by their wives and child rcn - Soon lands braved the ^ “"eir Sis “foS?r licame exhausted Soon the seventv-five miners were brought to t { ie sur f aC g SO me of them more dead thaa aIive ’ and EODe tf them an V to ° - soon, as the flamis immediately reached the shaft and came up with such force that it drove everybody away. Explo sions followed every few hours thereaf ter for some time. A later telegram f^c-at . st tes that the excitement was so that it was impossible to tell if anyone failed to get out. It is thought several *»ve perishedi Had the explosion oc curred when ihe miners were at work not olc, would have escaped. GEORGIA BRIEFS. Interesting: Paragraphs from all Over the State. It was in response to an invitation from the board of trade, of the Commer¬ cial club an l the citizens of Lousville the meeting of the Scotch-Irish congress will be held in that city May 14, 15 aud 1(3. The Macon branch of the Southern Travelers’ Association will hold a meet¬ ing n xt week, which, it is expected, will be fully attended. The meeting may have some impoitaut matters to act upon. The cotton is being moved off the streets of Athens in a hurry. The mer¬ chants are selling, and the fleecy staple is going. However, the fanners are still bringing it in and Athens’'receipts will amount to over 100,100 bales. The recent panic, bard times and strin¬ gency iu money matteis have not hurt the farmers of Stewart countv to any great extent. There is a considerable quantity of cotton in the county yet. Much of this is being held for higher prices. Of the section of the Macon, Dublin snd Savannah road from Macon to Dub¬ lin, fifty-four miles, about ten mile* re¬ main to be graded. Over twelve miles of track have been laid, aud it is intended to have the remainder fiuished soon. Judge Speer having refused a new T trial and declined to grant an arrest of judgment in the great case of the tjuited States vs. L. A. Hall, et al., for con¬ spiracy and murder, the public will very naturally iuquistively await the next step of defendants counsel. Detectives in Thomas county are on the track of certain persons w T ho have been wantonly shooting horses in that section. Two fine colts, belonging to Mr. M. B, Jones, ball£ were found in the lot wounded by rifle A number of fine hogs were also found in the sarnw condition. The establishment of new r banks shows the healthy financial growth of 'Thomas ville. Iu a idition to two flourishing banks another—the Citizens’ Bank aud Trust Company—is well under way. This aew T bank will commence business with a capital of $ 100,000. It has an authorized capital of $300,000. The death of Mr. Edward Elder, of Greene county, recalls the fact that he served in the war of 1812. Ho was ninety-seven years old ’at the time of his death, and was the father of twelvd chil¬ dren, seven of whom are living. Of his posterity there are living thirty-four grandchildren and thirty-four great¬ grandchildren and two great-great-grand¬ children . Extensive preparations are being mads for the Georgia Chautauqua at Albany, and a brilliant programme is being ar¬ ranged. The interest in this southern offshoot of the great parent chautauqua of New York is yearly increasing, and important new features arc being cou stantlv added. This year a sensation has been caused among many of the other church people in the fact that the exer¬ cises are to take place during holy week, which they state will debar their presence and participation. At a meeting of the Merchants’ Asso¬ ciation, decided in Favannah, Monday, it was to have merchants’ week this sive. year from There April 27th to May 2d, inclu¬ horsrTraces, will be the usual traces’ dis "f^y, open house to visitors-’ elect. The special features will be a big confederate veterans’ union and a mili¬ tary parade on Memorial Day. The en campment of the Fifth Georgia cavalry and an interstate cavalry tournament, in which prizes aggregating more than $1,000, will be offered. The bondholders of the Covington and Macon Railroad Company held an ad¬ journed meeting at Baltimore, a few days ago. It was announced that proposals to lease the road are contemplated by other parties, besides the Georgia Central, whose .offer on a 4 per cent interest basis was made two weeks ago. They decided to leave the question with the committee of bondholders, to receive proposals and to report to another meeting two weeks hence for final decision. The Georgia, Carolina and Northern railroad people have been interested in the proceedings, which are to settle the future control of the Covington' and Macon road. The following memoiiai has b?en re¬ ceived by Governor Northen, and ex¬ plains itself: “To the Governor of the State of Georgia: We, the members of the Woman’s National Industrial League of America, present this memorial and petition to the legislature of Georgia, that in making appropriations fur the Columbian World’s Fair, to be held in Chicago in 1893, a certain amount be set aside to encourage and aid the industrial women of your State and enable them to make an industrial exhibit. The object of our petition is to encourage, and de¬ velop the genius of » industrial women.” The death of h rses and muleg frora various causes has entailed great loss apOD a Dumber of farmer3 in Henry ^pfow a 1 low stVcV'hllmance^^omDanv^h stock insurance company, by 11 fT^re 10ShCS osL^in m tim respect, *=*””** Five hundred men in . the county will proba bly tatce stock in this company. Out of his number of farmers there will b<? 1,000 head of stock entered and valued for insurance. Putting the average value of this cumber of mules and horses a: *100, they wou d have $100,000 worth ° f Stock ’ whloh ««* » la¬ snrance of $66,080. „ Two per cent would make $5 000. buppoaing only one out o every twenty-five to die, that would make forty of the number to be paid for, $66.66| being the average price. It would require near $700 more to payoff l0SSfcS the com P an y w °u!d sus tain ’ on ecveiate somiers widows who are entitled to draw pensions can have their applications mad t e ou? in about twp weeks. The law provides that a pension or $i JO a year shab be paid to certain widows, beginning on the loth of FeD ruary, 1891. The payment will be made 03 proper proofs presented to the execu Dve department on blanks furnished om j® on manea of the state, ™ Tuoss whose husbamds killed were in the service, those whose husbands died in ^he army of wounds or disease con tr&cted in the service, those whose hus bands went i<? the war and have never been heard from since, those whose hus wounds, and those whose husbands con tracted disease in the service and have died since the war from the effects of that money, mon?v nrovkf^Ih provided that she was the pen Wife ; ion of , the soldier during the war and has never re-married. , ' rne raisei o. a. The impression has got abroad that the railroads one and all bad derided tore fuse passes to the delegates to the State Agricultural Society convention which meets m Savannah. Fhis was based upon the delay of the authoritiei of the Central road in furnishing those courtesies. All sorts of w ild rumors concerning the sup¬ posed cause for this delay were started on their rounds, but these rumors have nl! been knocked in the head, as the passes are to be issued as usual and Colonel General Alexander telegraphed Waddell to that effect. In acknowledging the telcgr m. Colo¬ nel Waddell wired the president of the Central as follows: Atlanta, Ga , February 2 —General E. I\ Alexander, President Central Rail¬ road, Savannah, Ga. The farmers of Georgia render you pr found thanks for your successful efforts to secure free parses tural to delegates to the State Agricul¬ in Savannah Society couventi n to assemble February 11th and 12th. No one appreciates your kindness moro than J. O. Waddell. Ollier railioads had alrea ly granted the request for passes. The Richmond and Danville had d me so, the Georgia rail¬ road, the Covington and Macon, the At¬ lanta and Florida, the Georgia Southern, the Columbus and R *inc, the Savannah, Araericus aud Montgomery, the Wrights ville road aiul the Savannah, Florida and Western. REPORT OF BUSINESS For the Week Just Ended by Dunn & Co. R. G. Dunn & Co’s weekly review ol trade says: Business continues uuprece d* nted in volume aud satisfactory in character, being larger than in any other year atf this season. The tone in com¬ mercial circles throughout the country is hopeful, and money markets are now comparatively easy at nearly all points. The uncertainty regarding the monetary future causes some hesitation, especially as derneath to new undertakings, abiding but there is un¬ an confidence that in the fertile genius of the people and tha measureless r» sources of the country will meet feeling every difficulty. So strong is this that it is often hard to realize that tne pressure and anxiety of Novem¬ ber aud December lasted until within thirty days. But there are some ground! for caution still. The dry goods trade is, on the whole, very satisfactory for the season, and while buying is conservative both in cot¬ ton and woolens, and prices are low enough to embarrass some brandies of production, trade is clearly on a more healthy basis, as well as larger in volume, than it was a year ago. The increasing demand for wool, though still confined to aciual needs for consumption, proves that caricnt prices, low' as they are, do not arrest production. Trade in boot* and shoes and leather is somewhat re¬ tarded by the monetary uncertainty. The embarrassment iu iron and steel manufacture trade is now clearly per¬ ceived to be the resu’t of the marked shrinkage in demands for consumption. Accounts from southern cities indicate only a fair trade, with an improvement at Atlanta, and a slight improvement at Jacksonville, but increasing receipts and lower prices for cotton at New Orleans. Phimdelphia reports a good demand for combing wool. The startling death of Secretary Win dom caused a sudden fall in the price Of bar silver from 47| to 4G| cents in Lon¬ change don, it whatever is Gated in dispatches. financial But policy na in the of the government fs likely to result, t h o ugh it may easily happen that liis sue able, v *may not posses* the fertility of n sources which Mr. VVin dom has shown in meeting emergencies. The operations of the treasury during the past week have in no way affected the" money-market, which is well supplied. Speculation accordingly, grows more ac¬ tive, and wheat has advanced 3^- cents, corn 2^ cents, oats £ cent and coffee 13 cents sixteenth per lower,'and 1U0. pounds; but.cotton is a oil 2$ cents lower. Failures for the week number 278; for the corresponding week of last yeai th^ failures were 246. L J TO REST. Burial of Secretary Windom at Washington. ™ The national ,. , capital ., , was truly . . a city ., of . mourning Monday.. Ihe executive de partments and their various branches were closed all day, and congress did not as semble till 2 o’clock. Flags on the white house and all the other public buildings were displayed at half-mast, and so were ; those of the hotels and other business j es ablishments throughout thueity. These I honors were paid to the memory of the late Secretary Windom, who'was stricken down in thc full tide of his usefulness on the 29th ulfc. I There wns an air of genuine and univer- ! sal mourning throughout the whole city , and streets in the vicinity of the church j where the last rites were performed, and , along the routejtaken by the funeral pro cession were crowded with men, women and children who stood iu respectful si lenee 2 many of them with bared heads, as the mournful cortege passed. The funeral was simple in character and without tlie least attempt at display or ! ; ostentation. The only semblance to mil itary honors was the presence of sixteen members of the treasury branch of the national guard of the district. They acted as body bearers and marched be hind the hearse on its journey to the cemetery. There never was, however, a ; larger purely civic funeral in the city of Washington, and it strikingly evidenced the people’s gt<fet love and esteem for the dead statesman. LOWER INTEREST Wanted by AUianCemen Of North Carolina. A Raleigh dispatch says: The Far mers i Alliance members of the legislature held a caucus Friday night on the bill to j reduce the rate of interest fiom 8 to 8 ; percent. There was much discussion of . the proposed change, but it was decided that it was expedient to make the change, The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of this. Inquiry was made ot ailiancemen and they ail said they would s:and to gether and that the passage of the bill was certain. The ailiancemen are in a large majority. Of course, the bank peo pie will antagonize the bill, and the op ponents of it claim that it will cripple the interests of the state. , ______ IRONWORKS BURN. __ $400,000 Worth Of Property Goes Up In Smoke. The Hecla Iron Works iu YYillam^bure N. Y. were burned at an tarb hour Wednesday morning, causing a loss which is estimated at $800 000 The covered°the iron works were one story buUdfan dtjolli^an's btit ! entire block. Brenan the°Hecla cooper- : age situatid opposite iron works Davis & Comnanv’s cSoperage varnish far tory adjoining building the and six story occupied by J. S. Lugeut paper company, and Eureka Incandescent Lighting company caught fire and par tiallv destroyed. Damage to tlv se firms and buildings is estimated atllfjO^QO. ' ^ SOUTHERN BRIEFS DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE SUNNY SOUTHLAND Curtailed into Interesting’ and Newsy Paragraphs. T. J. Tillman & Bro., dry good*, at Decatur, Ala., male an assignment Mon¬ day. Liabilities $7,000. A disastrous fire occurred at Ozark, Ala., Tuesday. Eight business houses were destroyed. The estimated loss is $25,000. Telegrams received in Macon from Bab timore state that the Covington and Macon railroad bondholders’meeting adjourned j Saturday until February 14th to reccivo further bids. The board of directors of the Business Men’s Association, of Norfolk, Va., calls upon Virginia congressmen to vote for the “tonnage” bill, now pending in the house of representatives. Leaf tobacco sold in Danville, Va., in January, bold since amounted October to 2,919,502^>unds. 1st, JB^8,000 pounds. Increase over tho period last year, 600,000 pounds. The jail at Friar’s Point, Miss., burned Monday, and three negro prisoners con¬ fined on trivial charges perished. They door started thc fire trying to burn the down so they might escape. Tho contract for the construction of the Danville and East Tennessee railroad, from Danville, Va., to Bristol. Tonn., xvas, on Monday, awarded to the Inter¬ state Construction Company, of New York. Thc grand jury at Chattauooga, Judge on Tuesday, found a true bill against J. A. Warder for tho murder of his son in-law, Simpson M. Fugette, Sunday, Jauuary 18th. The verdict is for mur¬ der in the first degree. A Nashville dispatch of Monday says: Hunter McDonald, of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway, will be appointe Atlantic d chief engineer railroad, of the Wes¬ tern and to fill the vacancy occasioned by thc death ofEben Pardor. A dispatch of Sunday from El Paso, Texas, says: The stage running between Chihuahua and Pcmos Alton, Mexico, was held up Friday night by masked robbers, and $6,000 in silver and bullion taken. The highwaymen escaped, but tbe officers are in pursuit. It has been one hundred years since the capital of South Carolina was estab¬ lished at Columbia, and the fcity is pre¬ paring to celebrate the centennial of that event with due form and ceremony. General Hampton has been invited to de¬ liver the centennial Oration. At Charlotte, N.C., the Belmont hotel, used n3 an annex to the Central, was de¬ stroyed by fne Saturday night, entailing a loss of $50,000. A large number of guests were stopping at tho In tel, and naturally a great panic was created, but no lives were lost. The United States circuit and district court for thc western district of North Carolina convened at Greenville Tuesday. There are over 600 witnesses and jurors in attendance. The principal business of tbe court is tbe trial of the moon¬ shiners, who are so numerous in tho mountains of that section of the state. A Chattanooga dispatch of Tuesday says: The Ice Dealers’ Association, com¬ posed of the principal factories in At¬ lanta, Savannah, Macon, Rome, Clia'ta meet oga^and in Chattanooga other Southern February cities, 25th, will to outline the policy for this summer’s busi¬ ness. The association was formed just one year ago. Robert Moore, a farmer living near Carrollton, Ky., died Monday, aged ninety-five years. Until he was stricken a week ago was remarkably hale and active. He lived all his life in a hilly and unfre¬ quented part of the country, within a mile of where he was born. lie came info life while Washington was president; voted his first democratic vote in 1816 before he was quite twenty-one years old. T . reported A Louisville . * that , S. 1S from B- Li ,. win, president of the Kentucky farmers f f^ an< k Alliance, Gardner was was deposed put batur- in his P. e Inc change ,• was owing to far¬ * win , s warning in the alliance paper, of which he v .as editor, to the larmers to keep away from the growers’ tobacco warehous \ of which ex-Senator John S. Williams is president. The alliance has been supporting this warehouse in oppo sition to the warehouse •combination, A Charlotte dispatch of Sunday says: The exercised liquor dealers of the state are much discovered over a movement they have regulating to change the existing law boards of the granting conuni-sinners. of licenses by county The liquor sellers claim that the propose:’, change would place them at the state,“ mercy of third party boards all over the as ^ c]ausc wllich ro , v reads that on ccr _ taia conditions county commissioners .. shall is8Ue i icenscs v ,“ as ljeen changed to read “ raa v issue licenses.” _ b ayerweather and Ladew, who own | je b*rg * tannery in Chattanooga, the birgest in the world, have just completed ‘ r branch tannery on the Chattanooga 6 Southern i ail road, in Walker county, Georgia, eight mi.es south of Chattanoo¬ ga \\ lthm the past month an en rmous amount of tan bark, aggregating^ ■ )00 worth, has been delivered to new tannery. f The shipment will confirm'’, aiid fu ly $100,000 worth will be secured. The tannery is a big enterprise lor Walker county and north Georgia. • A Jack=on, Miss., dispatch of Sunday says: Under the new constitution, all electors otherwise qualified, 4 who failed to pay aii taxes legally assessed to them which they had opportunity of paring for the past two ye.rs. by February 1st, can¬ not vote this year. The time expired with the close of business Saturday, and it is estimated that the j ercentage of white ehetors disfranchised by their fail-’ ure to pay the’r taxes is less than, 8 per cent. The percentage of negroes failing to pay, will, it is thought, reach 40 per cent. Mr. James Ij. Glover, 3Iuriettn, . (>f f „ . Gu. _ f was on Sa turd y appointed permanent receiver o! the Marietta and North a^oralr ’ ' Mr. titover was first appointed temporary receiver on a con sent order submitted by the road and the trust company. The question of a per "fl 1 ®” 1 Jud g ® Newman ln Atlanta Saturday - mornln g. Beingthechoiceofthestock holders a3d bondholders of the railroad well as t trust company, Mr. Glover was a PP 01 nted, his bond being fixed at |25 - 000 ’ wbich fu ^ed. Hunter—“Did you into'the realize anythin^ on that $500 you put Cataract Mine?” Wvrkes—“Y ps- T-piIGpI wriat a chump I Brooklyn Life