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Tin limit Advertiser.
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FORSYTH, GA.
Omciu Ojmam <xr Mono* Oovim
BY MoGINTY A CABANWK
The Philadelphia R»rard avers that
dairying represents a greater investment
than banking and commercial interests
together.
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may b„c been drained
from buying 110-ton gum by conddera
lion of expense will Ic irn with gratifica¬
tion, opines the Boston Transcript, that
European naval authorities look upon r
these monster pieces of ordnance as mis¬
takes. Tho weight of British opinion is
that a fifty-ton gun is good enough for
anybody.
The English police have at last adopted
the measurement system for tho identifi¬
cation of criminals,though such measuro
aicnts are tifif to be taken till after con¬
viction. The new system furnishes tht
best chock to the operations of profes¬
sional criminals, as it insures their iden¬
tification even when they have been skil¬
ful enough to remove marks on their
person.
[ A confidential agent ot the Peruvian
Government has been negotiating with
C’hill for the return of public documents
»nd official archives carried away by the
Chilian troops in 1882. Ho has just
succeeded in obtaining an order for th«
restoration of tho records of the Minis¬
tries of Finance, the Interior and Foreign
delations. The municipality of Lima
has recently erected a monument to the
soldiers who fell in defeusc of the nation
tt tho bnttlo of Miraflores.
Chicago already has twelve-story,
Sixteen-story and nineteen story build¬
ings; but in the spring she will go her¬
self one better, and put up a twenty
four-story steel office. “Tho vast
itrueture will present unbroken fronts of
itouc and glass, but iis strength will
rest in its maze of steel columns, shafts,
sleepers, sills, etc. The very lintels will
be of steel. It is claimed there will bo
scarcely enough wood in the cntiie pile
to furnish kindling for a single fire in a
cooking stove.
I A quarter of a century since tho aver
ngo doctor was almost everything, muses
the Chicago Herald. Ho w r as phy
eician, surgeon, oculist and now and
again, in ease of emergency would pull a
“'Si taught to believe that
specialism in medicine is a very modern
invention. But read this from so old s
writer as Herodotus: “Tho Egyptians
have among them a great multitude of
physicians of ono part of the body only,
for one healeth disease of the eyes and
another teeth.” Verily, there is nothing
new under the sun.
I According to the Chicago Times “the
Australian colonies have adopted n
Federal Constitution, framed on the
pattern of the American institution. But
their President will not be elected by the
United States of Australia. He will be
appointed Governor by the Queen of
England. How long such a British Gov¬
ernor will continue—that is to say, how
soon the Governorship filled by a royal
British nominee will have to give way to
a presidency dependent On the election
or the people—will depend greatly on the
wisdom which will induce the Governor
to refrain from interfering iu the busi
uess of the Australian commonwealth.”
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British fondness for territory is illus¬
trated very graphically in a well known
pocket atlas published by an Euglish
firm. British possessions are are all print¬
ed in a brilliant shade of red, but the
world is a large place aud even the
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numerous immoniK colonies of the little island , . fail , !
to make a* great a show as was desired, 1
*o Grant Land, the great continent of
/ock and ice lying north of the Arctic
circle, and Graham Land, a similar tract
south of the Antarctic circle were also
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nrinfr printed .1 iu a rosy hue. 1 These desolate
wastes are undefined and unexplored I
and of about as much use as the
.. . .... y. (. ert.unly no nation will dispute
Britannia s right to paint them red if
she wants to.
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Me*i:o regards itself as the Italy 0 f
tho American continent, at lctst in so
the more enlightened of the residents ol
the capital city is the providng of prop
cr hotel accommodations for tourists
from the United States. The Her icon
Financier, in its last issue, voices the
general sentiment. It savs- “Wert o,;:
Mexico in possession at
!’ r f,Tff™ T Europ ,s : and
u e, 3 o the United
Mates are, with every luxurious appli- |
, ince r JZf baths ; elevator* rim 71 trip KpU ¥^ lser '
comfortably =
vice, M f furnished chambers, a
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first-class cuisine and that disciplined
7<» of s "” nts 7
of travelers , in gnat foreign hotels lifer
the stay of a king in his palace—who
..in -m aisheuevt disbelieve tnawnenumocr that the number of oi tourists tourists
roming here each winter and spring
aould grow tenfold? And this influx ol
rich travelers would annually leave here
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millions of dollars in casu, which would ,
five life to trade and enhance the pros¬
perity not only ot the capital city but ol
the entire Republic.”
Ff you adyerfVf want to reach the people you
fjaould '* • 'paper.
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. TUESDAY. MAY 10, J891. -EIGHT PAGES.
geo ?giabriefs.
Interesting Paragraphs from all
Over the State.
Atlanta's residences and business houses
are to be renumbered. The contract h' a
oaen awarded by the city c* unci!.
The number of applications for
and widow*’pemions have increased to 2,500,
thev are yet coming in at the rate of
fifty a day.
The Macon Water Company has gone
to work in carm at to develop more water
and to nid them in this they have en
water. Tt£S&
It is officially stated that the Richmond
A Danville railroad will broaded tho
( °[ l * Llberton Air-Line, thus
pR11 H e ie
l putting it on an oqu«l footiug with other
railroads of the country.
W. W. Harrell sent in his resignation
as eoTcltor of the county court of Deca¬
tur county a few days ago, and the gov¬
ernor appointed unexpired Frank S. Harrell to fill
out the term until the legisla¬
ture meets.
Henderson, Ga., has the honor of hav¬
ing the oldist merchant in the state. He
is Mr. 8. D. Henderson, Sr, after whom
j the place was named. He was in busi¬
ness in Hawkinsville in 1828-29 aud
| 1831, and commenced at Hendersou in
1832, and has been continuously in busi
ness ever since. Fifty-nine years as a
merchant in one place is a pretty good
showing.
Work on the extension of the Savan¬
nah, Amcricus and Montgomery is pro¬
gressing rapidly. A prominent official
of that road has said that there is no
doubt now but that the road would be
completed and trains running into Mont¬
gomery early in June. Only a short gap
remains to be closed, and the 1,000 men
employed on the construction will, no
doubt, make short work of that.
Treasurer Hardeman has been on a six
week's tour of inspection of state banks.
Under an net of the legislature the treas¬
urer is required to in-pect all banks
chartered by the state annually. The
colonel has inspected about forty, and
lias about twenty yet to inspect. “I
found every bank in splendid condition,”
he said, in spenking of his tour. “Indeed,
I had no fault, whatever to find with the
management of any. Some of our banks
are conducted as well ns any in the
world.”
Dr. Hunnicutt, of the agricultural de¬
partment, received a letter from a New
York financial paper some days ago, ask¬
ing for the number of bales of cotton
produced iu Georgia the past season.
’1 hi re is no way to get at the exact
figures, right now, on account of the
large amount of cotton being held back
by the farrmrs for higher prices. How¬
ever, the doctor has calculated it in this
way: There are 3,000,000 acres iu cotton
in the state. The usual production is
157 pi unds to the aero. This year, it
of run up to 180 pound*. Last year’s crop
cotton was 950,000 bales. And this
year's, lie says, will reach 1,100,000 bales.
A committee from the Brotherhood of
Locomo ive Engineers visited Marietta a
few days ago to look into the condition
of liffai?-* o/> the Ma^ tta and -North
Georgia railroad, the time for the rein¬
statement of the brotherhood men on that
road having expired. They state that
everything wis found working well oa
the road, and from an interview which
was had with Receiver Glover, they are
convinced that Mr. Glover inteuds in all
respects to carry out the contract between
the road and the brotherhood and every¬
thing will be all right on the Marietta
nnd North Georgia.
Tlie Cvntrnl’s New Line.
Iu reference to the recent deal between
the Central road and the Chattanooga,
Rome and Columbus, the Savannah News
says: “The New line, it is understood,
will be a part of the Savannah and West¬
ern the system. Chattanooga, A proposition was submitted
to Rome and Columbus
for purchase of the property, to endorse
$224,000 first mortgage 5 per cent, bonds
issued by the Chattanoogi, Rome and
Columbus and r.ow outstanding, aud in
addition thereto to transfer to the stock¬
holders of tne latter road $400,000 of
Savannah and Western 5 percent, bonds.
In consideration of the foregoing,
the Chattanoogi, Rome and
Columbus was required to
deliver to the Savannah and Western all
property belonging to the former road,
rolling stock, roadbed, terminal facili
ries, aud two-thirds of the common stock
and $1,400,000 of non-cumulative in¬
come bonds. The proposition was voted
on by the stockholders and unanimously
nccepted, being represented nearly three-fourths the meeting.” of the stock
at This
purchase Chattanooga. will give the Central a through
liue to The connection is
by ti e Savannah, Griffin and North Ala
bhma to Carrollton, and by the Chatta
nooga, Rome and Columbus from Carroll
toQ Uhattauooga.
Teachers’ Examination,
TJle examination of teachers for the
^ Gth. te l>ublic Mate schools School Commissioner win be held on Brad- June
well has sent cut the following-circular •
“To the countv School Commissioners of
have Ueosgia: Notice is hereby given that I
j„ appointed Saturday dav the 6th day of
ae ne xt, as the for examination of
all applicants for' teachers’ licenses
throughout the State. Only one day of' will
be allowed for the examination both
C0 , < ? re tl applicants but the ex
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v
iu blic places l tb uexWe^^IwiU throu^out^ou^ cTntf' “feid
e
accompanied ^ n " tructloa9 Wlli be
taining tbe applicants the questions bv to'^propSnTd
for licenses to teach in the
»**.«.«««» ou w ill take every f precaution that the
1 xyntna ion shall be conducted fairly
and impartially, and allow no applicant
tocarr 7 aco py of ^fi ue9t io°sfromtha
room.”
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A. .he Georgi, ,e g -
islature . passed
of $500 an act was and individual imposing & tax
on each every doing
a cold storage business in the State ol
Georgia n was a blow at the companies
w ho had been engaged through their
aecnts in the sale of Afresh meats in city
and state - When the time came for the
collection of the tax. the tax collector of
Fulton county, Mr. Andy Stewart, issued
his fi fas, and levies were made upon the
property of the Armour Packing Com
pony, the Nelson-Morrison Compnnv and
the Atlanta Beef Company, all doin»
business in the city " of Atlanta!
These companies appealed to
the courts on the crpund that
they di 1 hot come under
the Provisions of the law, as they did
hot do a cold storage business in that
sense. Rut Judge Marshall J. Clarke
rendered a decision a day or two ago that
they were within tho limits of the law,
and hi* decision will stand, un^s there
is an appeal to the Supreme Court. The
outcome of the suits will be watched
with interest, as there are many thousand
dollars invested in the 8 ate, and if the
decision holds good, it will have the cf
f ‘ driving them out oi the business,
or Pitting Tennesso and western beef
at such a price as will be beyond the
reach of the average consumer.
Tile Work VTapped Oat,
A meeting of the newly elected district
lecturers of the State was held at the
Copeland presided The object of the
meeting w«s to confer together generally
about the work and to receive instmc
tions from the State Lecturer. It was de
cided that all the lecturers are to take
the field fit once. Great results are ex
pected by the alliance authorities of this
new plan or organization of lecturers.
Reports from different districts and from
the State Lecturer on the condition ol
the order and the outlook were heard.
From every source the most encouraging
reports came. Never in the h story of
the order has there been such thorough
organization, such unanimity of pur
pose, such steady aud healthy
growth. All the weak plarcs
have beep strengthened and now there
is hardly a county in the State in which
the Alliance organization is not all that
cou’d be desired. An important decis
ion of thi■* meeting was that hereafter the
lectures, or most of them, will be for tho
public at large. That i*, they will not
be made with eloseddoors to the Alliance,
but the people generally w ill be given an
opportunity of Fsteuing to some good
Alliance doctrine. Each of the lecturers
is expected to devote all the time he
possibly can to spreading Alliance doc¬
trines in his district. He makes his
own dates. Ti»e State lecturer will visit
each district whenever it is in his power
to do 80 .
You Are In a Bad Fix,
Bv.i we will cure you if you will pay
us. Men who are Weak, Nervous an i
Debilitate!*, suffering from Nervous De¬
bility, Seminal Weakness, aud all the ef¬
fects of early Evil Habits, or later indis¬
cretions, which lead to Premature Decay
Consumption or Insanity, should send for
and read the “Book of Life,” giving
particulars of a Home Cure. 8ent
(sealed) free, by addressing Dr. Parker’s
^Medical and Surgical Nashville, Institute, 151 North
iSpruce street, Term. They
guarantee a cure cr no pay .—The Sunday
Morning.
Dc AN'i 1 t'.s Little Euly Risers never
gripe or c use nausea.. Mild but sure,
assist rather than force. Best little pill
for sick headache, chronic const pation,
dy-pepsin. NY. P. Poxdek.
EXPLOSION ON A STEAMER.
Eight Men Killed and a Score of
Others Injured.
A London cablegram brings intelli¬
gence of a tqrrific explosion w r hich oc¬
curred Monday in the forehold of the
British steamer Taucarvilio, undergoing
repairs in the dry-dock at Newport. One
hundred men aud boys were at work in
and around the steamer when the explo¬
sion occurred. Eight men were killed
outright , and twenty-five or thirty were
more badly or damaged less injured. The steamer was
by the explosion. The
Tancarville is a tank steamer engaged in
carrying oil in bulk from American ports,
and her last voyage was from Philadel¬
phia for Havre. After reaching the latter
port and discharging she proceeded to
Newport, where she -was to lo id for
Baltimore. There is no* doubt the ex.
plosion was caused by gases that prevail
to a greater or less extent in the h fids of
all oil-carrying ships. The force of the
explosion was so great that the fored'eck
w r as torn from its fastenings and blown
off. As the steamer was out of the wa¬
ter there was no pressure on the hull to
counter-balauce the tremendous outward
strain < xerted by the explosion, and it is
reported that some of the plates on the
bottom of the Tancarville were blown
from their bolts. The woodwork of the
forward portion of the steamer caught
fire, but the Unifies w r ere soon extin¬
guished.
V ry popular, very small, very good.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers, the pill for
constipation, billiousncss, sick headache.
W. P. POKDEII.
IN HOT PURSUIT.
The Ocean Race Between the
Charleston and Itata.
A Washington dispatch business of Tucsdny
says: I p to the close of hours
no news was received at the navy depart
tucm ofthe movement, of the Charles
ton, and so far a-, officials there knew,
the Itata is still at liberty. The Itata sailed
from San Diego six days ago. If pushed
to her highest speed she must be nearly
out of coal, so that she must soon
into port somewhere to replenish her
bunkerS - The Charleston has now been
out three and a half days, and although
chor !t , 19 at least one night her coal tLT supply
1S ™ nnin " so 1 ° w * ha * R haz [
anious ^ . her essel hout sail
or a w
to continue much longer at sea.
that some news from one or both of
^J^ey “uUnto® poTfo/'coIl? 1 This
will probably be a Mexican port, and im
the status of the Itata.
Tt „ n , ite the fashion notTTo take D
Witt's Little Elrly Risers for liver, stom
ach and bowel di-orders. They are small
R il,s - but & ood on s ‘ P *
Ponder . c ciIs them.
ATTACKED-BYTSINAMEN.
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Dwellines ^ of DnwrP E ans Burned
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Shanghai, A cablegram of W cduesday from
China, says: An anti-Euro
pean riot has occurred at Woo Hoc. The
natives attacked and burned a Catholic
taken refuge upon hulks anchored in the
river. Her majesty's ship Inconstant has
been ordered to the scene of the riots and
to protect the lives and property of Eu
ropean residents. Woo Hoo is ‘a treaty
P ort China in the province of Hgan
Hoei, on the Yang Tse Kiang river,
about fifty miles from Nanking. The
population is estimated at about 40,000
people.
A . beautiful -TN skin, y \—I-- bright
eyes, sircet
->rei ,• sood appetite, vigorous body,
P ure blood and good health resu t from
ust ' °‘ ’’ 3 Sarsaparilla. It is
80 , *' >>. r. Pondek.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
Crawft rd & Co., furniture dealers, of
Eufaula, Ala., made an assignment on
la t Wednesday. Assets and liabilities,
unknown. Supposed to be a result of
thp John McNab bank failure.
The celebration of the hundredth an
C orated and full of visitors,
The x New » Orleans „ , grand , . „ Tues
jury on
, returned to Itahau Consul Conte,
wl thou t re T ! T or comment lm letter
. . the body
^incising report of that on the
f Hlr enness ‘ - v case aud the P arl » h P nson af *
°f The People's bank, of Knoxville, one
the oldest private banks in East
Tennessee, closed its doors Thursday.
The bank has been couducting business
ou a small capital, and business has been
shrinking for some time. No statement
itios h? s been will made, be about but equal, the assets and liabil
A Raleigh dispatch says: The Su¬
preme Court on Tuesday filed an opinion
in the appeal of Henry Brabham, who,
at Charlotte, was convicted of the mur
der of the Italian Moeco, and was sen
tenced to be hanged May 21st. The
Supreme Court says there is no error, and
orders the judgment of the lower court
to be executed,
Dr. George Ben Johnston, grand¬
nephew of General Joseph E. Johnston,
has presented to the ladies of Hollywood
Memorial Association at Richmond the
saddle formerly owned by General John¬
ston. It went with him through two
wars. Twice he was shot out of it in the
Mexican w r ar, and a third time at the bat¬
tle of Seven pines. It will be placed in
the Davis mansion for confederate relics.
A Nashville dispatch of Tuesday says:
Gov. Buchanan has appointed Andrew
J. Harris to be coal oil inspector a’.
the Memphis. This is the richest office in
1888-90, governor’s and little gift, paying $9,000 $8,400 for
a over for 1890-
61. Thcre were a large number of ap¬
plicants, but they finally narrowed down
to seven. Harris is areal estate agent at
Memphis, and a nephew of Senator Har¬
ris.
A New Orleans dispatch says: The
Wednesday's supreme lodge of Knights of Honor at
session he ird the reports of
officers, which show that there are 2,573
working lodges with a membership of
137,000 Knights of Honor in good stand¬
ing. The benefit fund has a balance of
$123,000 on hand, and paid out during
the year to widows and orphans $3,533,
000. The general receipts for the year
amounted to $97,000, and there is a bal¬
ance of $51,000 still due to this account.
A dispatch of Thursday says: Four
reputable physicians of Knoxville nre
authority for the statement that there
is a well-defined case of small pox in that
city. During th<e day a physician w y as
called to see a side child, in a neighbor¬
hood of shabby P auses. He found the
characteristic patient quite ill, and with an eruption
of small pox. Three other
physicians were called in and each agreed
that it was small pox. The authorities
have taken every precaution to prevent
the spread of the disease.
THE COTTON OIL INDUSTRY.
Gigantic Strides of the Business
Since 1880.
The Manufacturers' 1 Record of last
jwetfk, publuhes a list of every cotton
seed oil mill in the Squth, giving the
name, location an 1 capacity of each.
This report shows that there are now 194
mills with a capital of over $20,000,090,
against forty mills with a capital of $3,-
500,000 iu 1880. Forty of these mills
have estab ished fertilizer factories in
cannection with their oil, using the cot¬
ton seed meal as a basis for manufactur¬
ing fertilizers. Reviewing this industry,
The Manufacturers' Record says; “It was
but a few years ago when tho
cotton seed was an incumbrance
aud when the farmers had to
dump them wherever they had waste
place. It is true that, to some little ex¬
tent, their value as a fertilizer was recog¬
nized, and- here and there a few were
used for that purpose; but they counted
nothing in adding to the w’ealth of the
south or to the prosperity of the southern
farmer. The increase in the mills has
been greater in the size and quality than
iQ number. Many of the oil mills that
wire badly constructed and fitted with
machinery have been r.b.an
and bus,ness ha. been concrn
* ' * £“, ““‘°
d e c oi ceasid
p UrS ued this policy aud lias to
0Dera te a number of mil s that it uurch
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BIJSTNF^ REVIEW if.
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Dun & Co.’s Report IOP the Past
Week.
R - G - & Co. report some weak
ness in the gtock - mark6 t, caused by the
continued dra drain of gold to Europe—the threat
j n being caused by the Russian
t 0 withdraw the dep.^it SS, of gold and of that
country from Engl France Ger
i a, ! d tbe de ^° t d t w ^ v^this
a time when
i e o?s'h r no™siake ’the withdrawal
There has
been a great decline in wheat, amounting
lo cents per bushel in as many days,
£“ ‘shSehiX^wBh ,7i aJimprove i dT
, n - j f, r r NVool is scarce and
SZZfiS&fiZ 4
trade in liquors, tobaceo, oil and cigars is
quiet, in drugs good, and in chemicals
and jewelry fair with an improvement in
Lde ,,ain s. On the whole, while the usJal, present
is not quite as active as the
out’ook Would ^ b» highly encouraging
M UDCer '
The failures of the week number 212.
For the corr-spondino'week we?e = of last year
the tbe figures L « ures were 185 1S0 *
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J&y IS NOW Safe.
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Charles I. Dixon, the man who m «
York several days ago from Puebl > tor
t^e purpose of killing Jay G -uld, aud
who was subsequently arrested, was re
moved from Bellevue hospital Friday
morning by a number of friends. Dixon
goes somewhere in Connecticut, the loca
tion to be kept secret, and after a good
rest his friends will take him west.
COTTON CULTURE.
Report of the Condition of the
Plant for May.
The May cotton report Washington, of the depart¬
ment > 4 . agriculture at is¬
sued Saturday, relates to the progress of
planting. posed The proportion of the pro¬
breadth already planted ou the I t
of May was 75.5 per cent, which* is less
than the average of a series of years.
Many correspondents report planting one
to Carolina two w eeks and late, especially late one-third in North
Tennessee. Fu ly
of the area yet to be seeded north of the
gulf states, from Georgia west to Texas,
the state averages vary only 2 or 3 per
cent. The figures are as follows: Yir
ginia, 55 per c nt; North Carolina, 63;
South Carolina, 78; Georgia, 80;
Florida, 92; Alabama, 80; Mississippi,
?7; Louisiana, 78; Texas, 79; Arkansas,
76; Tennessee, 71. The delay is due, in
all sictions of the cotton belt, to exces¬
sive rainfall in February and March,
which made early ploughing deficiency impractica¬
ble, and to a very general in
April, rendering the soil djy and cloddy,
and hindering germination. The seed
bed. as a rule, has been imperfectly pre¬
faced, and is in a relatively poor condi¬
tion. Th’s may depend somewhat on
the opportun ty for completing the area
during ties n until, and the prospective
pr fits of a large breadth of cotton.
WILL REORGANIZE.
Westing-house Electric Compa
ny Under New Managers.
A Pittsburg, Pa , dispatch of Sunday
s-iys: Negotiations looking to there
organization of the Wcstinghouse Electric
Compiny will now be brought to is.-ue,
providing plan the stockholders agree. Tho
is to be carried out by a syndicate,
composed of August Belmont, the New
York banker, Charles Fairchild, of Lee,
Higrinson & Co., and Brayton Ives, !
presidmt of the Wes’ern National Bank,
af New York, who with Henry I). Hyde,
president of the Equitable Life Insur
ance ley, Company; Marcellus Hart
of Hartley & Graham, of
New York, and Charles Fracis
Adams, of Boston, have agreed
to directors become members of the board !
of upou completion of the or- j
ganization. The syndicate above referred
t», with certain creditors of the company, !
his agreed to take $3,090,000 of 7 per
cent, preferred stock, upon the assent of j
p.ises tnc loliowiug ‘tlllSSi? piopositions: 1 C tT llie | !
present authorized capital, $10,000,000,
is not to be increased; ho.ders of out
standing stock, amounting to ubout
are°to*^mVender^0°n*r holding fhc ^easSrv C cent^f
holdings into into the treasury.
PENNSYLVANIA WOODS
Being 1 Devastated by Forest
Fires—Oil Welfs Burn.
A message received Monday from
Superintendent Strong, of the Oil City
Fuel Company at Oil City, Pa., frotp
Fine Grove township, says that thus far
thirteen oil wells, four gas well of the Fuel
Supply Company and nine wells of the
NorthPennOilCompany have been burned.
The fire is still burning. Minor forest fires
arer^poited from Various points iu that
section. r l he fuel company is in receipt of
message from E k and Clearfie d counties
announe ng serious forest fires, which are
spreading. Ad spatch of Monday fromCou
dersport, Pa , says: A train with two car¬
loads of men, at Moore’s run, was ditched
between two burning skidwnys. Super¬
intendent Badger, of the Sinnamaho ring
Valley railroad, was burned to death
Five others were fatally burned and
many dange’ously injured, The whole
traiu was burned,* the men scattered,
and the full extent of the loss of life and
the number of injured has not been
learned.
WOULD NOT SELL
Thoug’h a Syndicate Offered
$2,500,000 for the Property.
An adjourned meeting of the stock¬ and
holders of the Tennessee Coal. Iron
Railroad Company was held at Tracy City,
Tenn., Friday, with over $1,000,000
stock represented. This is the largest
representation at any meeting ever held.
The proposition to sell all the company’s
Tennessee property, consisting of several
furnances and a large area of coal and
iron lands, to an English syndicate for I
$2,500,000, was defeated. The company
held one-half of the $10,000,009 stock of
the Eusley Land Company, and a propo
sition to exchange this stock for $500,000
etock in tbe Southern Steel Company was
accepted. !
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THE GRIP IN LONDON.
Business Seriously Affected—
Gladstone Sick. |
A cablegram of Monday reports that
tho epidemic of influenza from which
England lias been suffering for some time
past is now' ravaging London. All busi
ness j g m ore or less affected by the
absence of employes. The business of
iaw courts is seriously impeded, and
many important cases have been post
pone d. In the house of commons alone
forty-one me nbers are recorded as suffer
iug from influenza. Mr. Gladstone is the
latest of the prominent men of Great
Britain to be announced on the sick list. j j
A Millonaire’s Break.
;
A Lansin ^ Mich - telegram says: On
T ues d a J> J 111 )* 69 M. Turner, candidate
T ? ity a “ d “in
nTuHr^fiffid a^ino^ "tl ^
covering f aU his personal property in au*f
vor Q Henrv F. Joy, C. H. Buhl
t olt National Ba! f bank ^ and P{ * Central roit > tbe Michi- j
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Catarrh, neuralgia, rheumatism ai d
most diseases originate from impure
blood '
Cleanse it improve it 1 rurifv Sth it
wUh De Witt's Farsar l?. a ilh P.’Fonder and
is restored. Sold bv
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The Crisp New Bills.
A . M ... ashington ,. dispatch --, of . Thursday ,
says: The committee appointed to d_- i
sign the new two-dollar certificates has
completed its work, and the bureau of
engraving and printing will very soon
have the plates ready for the printers,
There will be a vignette of the late Secre
tary Windom in the center of the certifi
cate, and a bright carmine seal will fie
substituted for the brown seal which a;
pears on the old notes. About $40,000
000 of the old two-dollar certificates are ;
autstanding, and as fast as th*-y are re
ceived at the treasury department they
wilt be marked for destruction. * ;
Manufactory, Baltimore, Mn ,
213 \V. German Street.
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O UNTIE PRICE
CLOTHIERS.
TAILORS,
HATTERS
FURNISHERS,
17 and 19 Whitehall Street,
A-TLA-ISTT-A. GKA-.
TNo Brandi House in the City 7.
UNCLE SAM BEATEN.
Cubans Take Advantag-e of the
New Tobacco Tariff.
John W. Link, a special agent of the
treasury, recently stationed in New Or
lean*, arrived in Chicago Tuesday under
special orders to investigate a phase of
the McKinley tax upon Cuban cigars that
the government had not anticipated, and
which is serious] v impairing the revenue
expected from the tobacco trade. Link
has discovered that the Cubans have got
awa y ahead of Uncle Sam without com
mitring anv fraud, and nothing can stop
them. Under the McKinley law Cuban
cigars percent, are taxed $4.50 dity. per pound aud 25
l nd valorem The old duty
W as $2.50 and 25 per cent, respectively.
The new law sent prices of Cuban ciga. s
up according to the increase, but soon
dealers began to Fell Cuban cigars at
Z old prices, department, and on orders from the treas
Link, who was then
stationed at New Orleans, began an in
vestigation which resulted in the dis
r'l " M ,he C " b “ ?*" 7 k MS
been lor , time • making their -
some cigars
light. They wrapped the cigars much
looser and slightly smaller, with the re
suit of saving from two to three pounds
■“ "T? L 000 cigars This makes a sav
mg ot from $9 to $13 per thousand
cigars, and the practical resu t is th t
he increased duty does not bear any
lnuder than the old tariff, and the only
difference to the smoker is that he gets a
slightly small er cigar, loosely w iapped.
Purif.cs the blood, increases the circu
... »*!»"• ‘T , r”m hura , ” r ? nnd .
be.Meiipt ie eyslem. W I,at . more d» you
w,mt„ medicine to perfom) !)c W.U 8
Sars.pnnllii w rehnlde. W. P. Ponder.
THE WOLF CREEK TRAGEDY
Has Developed Into a Very
Serious Affair.
A telegram of Monday from Duck
town. Teoit., recites the fact that the
horrible* tragedy occurring at Wolf creek
last week has proved to be more serious
than at first supposed. Bell, the man
Avho was in the mob that tried to kill
Ballow, the witness, and was shot by
Ba low has since died. The young bride
of Grandfather Bell, who was so terribly
whipped ing by the Bell woman, after suffer¬
uutold and excruciating agony, is
dead, and lms been buried. Three other
men, who were with the women white
caps, injured. were The very seriously, if not fatally
report of the affair pub¬
lish* d in the Ducktowu Reporter, Nash¬
ville llcrald and Chattanooga Netca,
aroused much indignation among the Bells
aud their friends, and they swear ven
geancc ou Editor Craigmilcs, of the
Reporter. In fact, the threats have be¬
come so open that Craigmilcs has fled
from town and his whereabouts is u li¬
known. The daughters of o’d man Bell,
who under whipped the b| de to death, are now
arrest, but f teir friends declare
they shall never be placed in jail. Slier ff
Hancock and possee are at the seat of
trouble. It is expected that bloodshed
will follow when the women are taken
to jail. Wolf creek is right in the heart
of Frog mountain, and is surrouuded on
all sides by the blockade stills. Every
body is i roused and fully armed,
and the outcome of the tragedy will pro
baby be more rnurdc*
If food sours on the stomach, digestion
is defective, De Witt’s little Early Risers
will remedy tills. The famous little pills
that never gripe and never disappoint.
W. P. PoKDEIl.
China at Chicago.
The department of state at Washing
ton has been officially informed of the
acceptance by the government of China
of the invitation to participate in the
world’s Columbian exposition.
Constipation, blood poisoD, fever!
Doctor's bills and funeral expenses cost
about two hundred dollass; De Witt’s Lit¬
tle Early Risers cost a quarter. Take
3 our choice. W. P. Ponder.
They Met Their Match.
hunter is a villain, whom it would he
base / att ery to call a confidence man, or
^Mt. Shasta,''fhe gueJtfsiuW oY’the
hotel porch descried an immense elk
standing composedly cm the high trail,
about 2,000 feet above their beads.
" Instantl^ right*entbustasti^sportsmen
-£> wi?h tbermomp?^ d , h TM be
f .]; m K P d the ^a"
otpp*, until i- thev they rearhrrl reach*ed th'e top. As
he toremoat crept breathless into the
., ^
lDS
stena oi an unugntea pipe.
e!h w^ntr paS STSSS Way ,hat
fhe man pointed to where a group of
old campers Duck out antlers were from unstrapping a pair of
the head of a mule.
, blandly, /‘You see,” “we discovered said the man just with the that pipe,
now we
hadn t a single match left in camp, so as
it was a leetle hot to go clear down be
low we thought that perhaps if we could
decoy some of you fellows up here, as it
were, you might have enough iu your
pockets to see us through—don’t you
8ee ? ’
And if the sportsmen hadn't all been
* 00 Used to ^breathe they would have
slaughtered him on the spot.—Cottage
Hearth.___
Washington, D. C.
Cor. 7th & E. St.
A COUNTERFEITER’S MANIA.
spending Weeks in Making a Singlo
Twenty-Dollar Note.
“This is the most remarkable piece of
counterfeit money I c\ei came ivross
said an agent of the lreasuiy cpai -
meat s Secret heivice iecen y, c rawing
from a big.wallet what to all appe arances
was an ordinary twenty-dollar >i . no
n F c ut j or !?) )C ratl ve ’ ^ wich men are
called . . in oilieial . documents, 1 , handed , , ■, over
the money to the leportor, who on look
! hls n .S m ilt '"f lt . clos }*>*"”'''? V 1 r v '™ 8 l \ *! in at f l® ih °, t0 no m f ® e J"? U P
counterfeit The officer then n handed
H, na l’ 1 *’ am the resemblance
between . the twyowasreinarkabie. Hus
one,’ the Secret Service _
eontmucu man,
*> th / ! had \ ,U 1 i!‘
lh ,IK “' !'' , ni ' u l e 11 * e
* y
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nil J ‘ 1 m j |s . K -a nionom.ui j , a
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1111 \ l ,c , ft??”* ,1 ‘.’ J'SJ ''n
l,nM! 1 01,1 ' ian 1 noui • i 1 ' ■ IU
S o Z ZZ lino, hid to Wi
JVn'irkab'c .,, •mUie ""a „ ex'uu- ivw .
.j -kiP close
• f , i (lov
' ,‘j '
. • s , how faith
fully Uie counterfeiter lms copied every
dclai! of th : design of the engraver,
t . Th(J , |tilk(>1 . () f this bil[ js8U03 one 0 f
tl ilt lo;i intcrV als, so that he cannot
(l } a on his countorleitiugfor a living,
j (;cl suru thcrefore that he takes so
much pleasure in outwitting the Govern
meat officials that he is willing to spend
time that ought to to be w. nth several nun
died weutv-d dollars ll, bin. him iu raakfBg one ' ualtry
t 0 tr
. ljf i.„ , d „ nH 6 .‘ring lhat thcre „
mMch c nce of him, beeauso
lie utters so few of the spurious notes.
At the same time it is entirely possiblo
that we will be able to trace the next
one he makes back to him. It is as likely
as not that he is a man who holds a re¬
spectable place in his community, and
that his arrest would cause a sensation.”
The Secret Service man had just re¬
turned from a long trip West, and as the
rssult of his labors, exhibited thirty
pieces of counterfeit money, no two of
them alike. One of the cleverest of the
lot was a $l-bill which had been raised
to $10. The Secret Service officers are
having much trouble just now with
counterfeiters, who are pouring out
spurious silver ddllars in large numbers.
The coins are supposed by the officers of
the Government to be made by Italians.
Just why they believe that persons of
that nationality are tho guilty ones they
will not say. The dollars are admirably
executed mechanically, having a good
milled edge and the figures being clear
and sharp. The coin is exceedingly de¬
ceptive, because it has such an excellent
ring, for which most people drop a coin
on the table when they wish to satisfy
themselves that it is good. The one de¬
fect of the counterfeit dollar is its light¬
ness, which amounts to about 10 per
cent. The coin is made chiefly of tin
and antimony.—[New Y’ork Tribune.
Nine Stories of Flame.
A most disastrous fire visited Francis H.
Leggett & Co., wholesale grocers, at the
junction of Varcock, Franklin and West
Jlroadway, Before New Y'ork, Sunday afternoon.
the flames weie gotten under con¬
trol $400,000 wortli of damage was done
to tin* stock and $30,000 to the building.
The stock was insured for $500,000, and
the insurance on the building could not
be ascertained. The fire broke out on
the top floor of the nine-story building,
which was exclusively occupied by Leg¬
gett & Co.’s immense establishment.
On© Good Torn Deserves Another.
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