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THE HOME ADYERTISEE
FORSYTH, GA.
Official Organ of Monroe Connty.
BY McGINTY \ CABANISa
“If people will talk g‘ jil times in
stead of hard times,” avers the India¬
napolis Weutinel, “the latter will
quickly d ppear.
John I).Rc efeller lias given nearly
$5 I I )0<) to the Chicago University
and h'is what the Detroit Free Press
terms, “the good taste" not to demand
that it be named for him.
tSir Charles Dilke, recently said it.
fhe debate in th British Parliament:
“The must dangerous illusion any in¬
habitant of the united kingdom can
have is that we are a popular power.
Wi are probably the most unpopular
jf tho great powers.”
A San Francisco woman disposed ol
an estate of $10,000 by writing a few
lines iu pencil on an old envelope.
Lawyers say that tho will cannot bo
broken, and their opinion that women
know nothing about business they re¬
gard as confirmed anew.
England is having hard times, notes
,lhe Courier-Journal. Its leading
securities declined nearly half a bill¬
ion dollsrs iu value during the past
year. Its imports fell off $88,000,000
and its exports $32,500,000. Its trade
in Coal and textiles dwindled alarm¬
ingly- _ ■
Navigation of the great hikes dm*
ing the season of 1893 resulted in the
loss of 123 lives. The number of ves¬
sels lost was fifty-three, with an ag¬
gregate tonnage of 24,258, and valued
at $1,040,400. Partial losses by
strandings, collisions and fires bring
the total up $2,112,588. The shallow
waters of Lake Erie claimed nearly
half the lives lost, Lake Huron being
second.
Manuscripts by noted authors have so
great a value as autographs that with¬
in the past few years some authors
have stipulated with publishers that
their manuscript should bo kept clean
perhaps copied on a typewriter for
giving out ti» tho printers —ami re¬
turned to them, that their families
may traffic in them after they are
dead, presumably. T. B. Aldrich is
eaid to be one of tlw authors who al¬
ways wants liis copy back.
John Hyde, expert special agent ot
^Statistics of agriculture, has written
mi interesting monogram on what he
terms “Geographical Concentration.”
In it he develops the fact that the pro¬
cess of agricultural centralization
works very injuriously to tho Ameri¬
can farmer, and that many of his vicis¬
situdes are due to the single-crop sys¬
tem. Ho shows, for instance, that
while hemp is a product cultivated in
Europe from the shores of the White
Sea to the Mediterrauiau, and that it
flourishes in extensive regions in Asia,
Africa and South America, its cultiva¬
tion in tho United States is almost
wholly confined to Kentucky, that
State in 1889 having produced 93.77
per cent, of all the hemp raised iu this
country. Obviously hemp is capable
of being produced over a wide area in
the United States, but its cultivation
is almost wholly unknown outside of
Kentucky. Mr. Hyde makes a strong
plea for mixed farming, and says that
so long as American farmers persist iu
devoting themselves to the production
in great quantities of a few things, they
ctuinot expect to prosper.
. Oklahoma is gv>ing to knock very
hard for admission as a State, declares
the St. Louis St»r-Sayings. Tho Ter¬
ritory was organized only three years
»go, but in population and wealth it is
to-dav far iu advance of the other Ter¬
ritories seeking admission as States.
The report aeoompaying the applica¬
tion for admission as a State shows
that she has 2,372,482 acres of
land iu farm use valued at $13,022,-
145. In the last year the farmers har¬
vested 284,254 acres of corn, 222,319
acres of wheat, 109,374 acres of oats,
21,311 acres of cotton, 18,755 acres of
sorghum. 14,121 acres of Hungarian
millet, aud 4 425 acres of broom coru.
It is almost as large as the State oi
Illinois, aud has a population of about
250,000, which is greater thau that of
any other State when admitted to the
Union. Its assessed valuation of
property iu 1891 amounted to $6,878,•
928, which in 1893 had increased to
$13,951,056. It hassix National banks
with deposits of $685,574. The Terri¬
torial Legislature has been attentive
to educational matters, and there are
already iu nearly all the districts
school-houses, normal schools, col¬
leges, and au agricultural and me
chauical college at the town of Still¬
water. In religious matters it has also
kept pace with mauv of the older
States. In the Territory there are
165 Methodist churches, twenty-five
Baptist, twenty-four Congregational,
twenty-five Catholic, twenty-four Pres¬
byterian, six Episcopal, and fifty
Christian Endeavor iSocieties. This
ia a remarkable showing for Oklahoma,
and we eon scarcely believe, odds the
Htar-Snymgs, that Congress can refuse
ku Adttjupmib -4. e&
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSYTH, GA-. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 1894.-EIGHT PAGES.
The London Times save that in »
financial wav the past year was tko
most trying in a decade.
The London Times, commenting on
the condition of the Bank of England,
says that institution is indispensably
to the money market.
Germany has decided that cinnamon
yellow is the beat color for war ships.
The French stick to the gray tint,
something likeawet sail cloth.
The Chinese Y. M. C. A. in San
Francisco has recently sent $42,000 to
Canton as a contribution by the
Chinese of the former for the evangeli¬
zation of their countrvmen.
W. C. Latta, of Purdue University,
in an interesting address on “Farm
Drainage” before the Indiana Tile,
Brick and Drainage Association at In¬
dianapolis, said that uplands as well as
lowlands should bo drained if good
crops were desired.
Under the heading, “Ireland in
1893,” the London Times snvs that the
year was one of the most peaceful and
prosperous of the century. Since 1S2C
there lias been no better agricultural
season, and the people have never been
freer from distress. There are many
signs of tho material aud moral im¬
provement of the people.
According to the figures presented
hy the London Times iu its agricul¬
tural review of the past year, the area
in Great Britain devoted to wheat was
1,798,869 acres; to barley*, 2,251,293,
aud to oats, 4,435,944. The wheat
crop is estimated 45,429,407 bushels.
The paper says that at the end of the
year there were 2,079,587 horses in
Great Britain, 11,207,554 head of cat¬
tle, 31,774,824 sheep and 3,278,030
pigs
_
In the University Law Review some
interesting figures are collected as to
the pecuniary value of life and limb
as estimated in the courts within the
last five years. The value of a life is
in some States fixed by law, and New
York is one of the States which does
not allow the recovery of more than
$5000 for the loss of a life in a suit
against tho person or corporation
through whose negligence the loss oc¬
curred. This figure seems strangely
low, since five times that amount has
been allowed in this State as compen¬
sation for the loss of a limb. Fifteen
thousand dollars has been held not ex¬
cessive for the life of an intelligent
young man in Kentucky, and a verdict
for a like amount has been sustained
in Tennessee when the life was that of
a postman and express agent, thirty
three years old, though a verdict for
$12,000 was held excessive in the same
State where the life lost was that of a
weak man fifty-seven years old. The
courts allow less for the loss of a
drunkard’s life and more for the life
of au industr ions aud steady man. The
lives of children are usually valued at
from $3000 to $1500. In Illinois the
loss of an eye has been compensated
for by $5000, and of two eyes by $9000.
In New York a verdict of $14,009 for
the loss of an eye and disfigurement of
the face has been sustained. In this
State, also, it has been held that $6500
for the loss of a hand is not excessive.
Two thousand dollars was held to be
the proper amount for the impairment
of the use of a band in Louisiana. The
New York courts have usually __been
liberal iu allowing verdicts for dam¬
ages. A verdict for $10,000 for the
loss of the arm of an eight-year-old
boy has been held proper. Texas
juries are even more liberal and the
courts iu that State have upheld a ver¬
dict for $15,000 for injury to one arm
and other wounds. Au allowance of
$11,500 for the loss of the leg of a mau
eighty years old was hold not exces¬
sive iu this State, and one of $15,000
for an injury to the limb of a woman
of twenty-seven was also held not ex¬
cessive. A verdict of $12,000 for the
loss of a leg by a boy five years old
was also approved in this State, and
one of $25,000 for a similar injury was
not disturbed. In Wisconsin a ver¬
dict of $-30,000, for the loss of both
legs of a boy was reduced to 818,000,
aud a verdict of $20,750 was reduced
to $10,750 for an injury to a mau’6 leg
in a Western State. The loss of the
leg of a boy was regarded as worth
$15,000 iu the Illinois courts.
A Great Loss for Islam.
The famous Mahometan mosque at
Damascus, as interesting as it was old,
is no more. Carelessness on the part
of workmen who were repairing the
roof was the cause of its destruction
by tire. This temple was considered
old iu the fourth century, when the
Emperor Aurelius made a Christian
church of it. Indeed, its exact age
may be almost determined. For it is
said to have been the House of Rim
mou where Naarnau worshiped with
the Kiug of Syria about 894 years B.
C. The event is referred to II Kings
v., 18. The church became a temple
of Islam again, however, when Damas¬
cus was captured by the Mahometans.
Beneath the mosque there was a cave
w herein lay a maguifieant casket. This
casket was supposed to contain the
head of John the Baptist. Tradition
had it that his head would one day
be miraculously joined with the body
again and come to life, when he, to¬
gether w ith Mahomet and Christ,would
sit in the great minaret of the temple
and judge tli* world.—New York
Wvrld.
GEORGIA STATE NEWS
IaterestEQs emits lor tie Perusal ol
lie Casial Reate
Surgeon Carter is at Brunswick with
plans and specifications of the Bruns¬
wick quarantine station and will soon
let out the contract for the work.
1873 and 1893: In the first, silver
was secretly demonetized. In the lat¬
ter year the thing was done openly by
joint action of the Democratic and
Republican parties. — >San Francisco
Prex*.
Congress costs the nation $8,000 a
day, not a quorum present one-half the
time, and every pledge made to the
people unredeemed. Shame on Ameri¬
cans who allow such a condition of af¬
fairs to exist. — Farmer*’ Weekly.
The celebrated case at Forsyth in
which Henry Doyle was being tried
for murder has terminated in a mis¬
trial—the jury standing six for con¬
viction and six for acquittal. Doyle
is ably defended by ex-Judge Boyn¬
ton and Colonel B. 8. Willingham.
* * *
The $20,000 contract let to Venable
Bros., for paving Jefferson street with
belgian block, has been suspended by
the Savannah city* council. Negotia¬
tions will probably be entered into
with Mr. Venable for paving West
Broad street with 20,000 square yards,
a contract larger by one-tliird than tho
first.
It is the general impression iu the
section about Macon that more guano
will be used by the farmers this year
than last season. Some think there
will be an increaso of at least 25 per
cent in the amount used. Parties from
southwest Georgia say that many* fam¬
ilies are using more guano than usual
in fertilising corn.
Glascock superior court would have
convener! at Gibson last Monday but
for the delay in the arrival of his hon¬
or, Judge McWhorter. He wired the
clerk to adjourn court until Thurs¬
day, February 22d. There are but few
cases to be disposed of. The most im¬
portant one is a damage suit of G. W.
Perkins vs. John H. Williams. The
amount involved is $1,000.
Tho governor has offered a reward
for the dynamiters of Walker county.
On the 15th of November dynamite
was placed under the house of John
Shahan, in that county, and on the
27th of December dynamite was put
under the engine of J. M. Goodson and
blew it up. The governor offers a re¬
ward of $250 for the arrest with proof
to convict in each of the cases.
Governor Northen has reduced the
fine of John B. Hightower, of Laurens
county, who pleaded guilty of selling
liquor without a license and was fined
$350 and costs. It has been made to
appear that Hightower has paid $200
of this and it is absolutely impossible
for him to pay the whole fine. The
governor reduced the fine to $225 and
costs, this including the fine already
paid.
* H* *
Rev. W. A. Tignor is dead. His
death occurred last Monday at his
home in Jonesboro, and it was the sad
end to a lingering illness of several
months. The deceased leaves a wife
and eight children, among the latter
being Messrs. G. Y. and W. A. Tignor,
Jr., prominent attorneys of Columbus,
and Mr. R.^S. Tignor, a rising young
business man of Atlanta, Drs. J. A.
Tignor, of Rome, and W. F. Tignor,
of Columbus, are brothers of the de¬
ceased.
The eyes of mauv capitalists have
been directed towards Georgia's gold
mines the past few weeks. If Georgia’s
old red hills are filled with tho yel¬
low metal, as some of the more enthu¬
siastic prospectors assert, it will not be
long before the fact becomes of na¬
tional importance, but viewing the sit¬
uation in a conservative light, there
can be no doubt but that money can
be made where sufficient capital is in¬
vested at the proper location.
Attorney General Terrell visited Co¬
lumbus a few days ago to see if he
couldn’t do something to help the
sheriff of Webster county out of a box
he has gotten into. Failing to secure
any other property of the Columbus
Southern railroad, the sheriff attached
a mail train and tied it up for the debt
that road owed the county for taxes.
Now he is in hot water about it and he
sent for the attorney general to co me
down and represent him in the pro¬
ceedings before the commissioner.
President Harry Brown, of the
State Sportman’s Association, has is¬
sued notice to all members of the asso¬
ciation that the railroads have granted
a one and one-third rate fare to all at¬
tending the meeting at Savannah,
February 28th and March 1st. He al¬
so issues instructions to those attend¬
ing, that they should get a receipt
from the agent from whom they buy
their tickets showing that they paid
full fare. This receipt, when signed
by the secretary of the association,
will entitle them to purchase a return
ticket for one-third the full fare.
A few days ago Deputy Marshal A
A. Elder, of Athens, arrested J. E.
Altman, the postmaster at Rehoboth,
a small hamlet iu Morgan county. Re¬
cently a check was received at that of¬
fice, properly signed and made pay¬
able to Mr. M. C. Nunn, at Rehoboth
postoffice. The letter was broken open,
the check taken and Mr. Nunn’s name
forged on the back of the check. The
check was payable to Mr. M. C. Nunn
and called for $24. Mr. Altman is
about 30 years of age. He has a wife
and five little children, who are, of
course, in great distress over the affair.
Death ol‘ Rev. XV. D. Auderaon.
Rev. William D. Anderson, one of
the most prominent ministers in the
Southern Methodist church, died at
Marietta after several days’ illne&s
with pneumonia. The sad news was
received with the most profound re-
'
in its fonr epochs of civilian, soldier, j
statesman and preacher, marks him
among state of the Georgia. distinguished In all men of of these the j
positions ;
he won high rank, and not
by any effort on his part to win a
place, but his own well known merit '
w as acknow ledged and he was accorded
positions of trust and confidence on
account of his worth. As a soldier
he was among the bravest of the brave.
TrJ Trammell , anSUage no more of gallant „ Co !° soldier n fL L - ever X
:™g ht ; He a heutenant on the
staflt of n General Wofford, and was twice
w ounded, from one wound of which he
never In fully recovered to his dying day.
1868 the mune'of W. D. Anderson
occurred theTieorgia amoalr the representatives in
house from Cobb county,
and in that legislature aud in the legis
lature of 1870 he served with great
credit and distinction and was speaker
pro tem for the house of 1870.
With a lucrative law practice and
high political honors within his grivsp
he resigned his seat in the legislature,
gave up Ids law JTtactice and prepared
himself for the work of an humble
minister of the gospel.
SHERMAN’S SOLDIERS ACT.
They Favor Atlanta, Ga., as the
Meeting Place of the G. A. R.
At the regular" 1 ineeting of William
T. Sherman Post, 146, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Bloomington, 111.,
Tuesday night, the following resolu¬
tions were adopted unanimously and
with great enthusiasm:
“Resolved, That this Post has learn¬
ed with much pleasure that the com¬
mon council of Atlanta, Ga.,
a few weeks ago, passed
unanimously a resolution making
an appropriation and galling
for the appointment of a committee to
visit the annual national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
this year at Pittsburg and formally in¬
vite the veterans to hold their next
annual encampment at Atlanta, and
that the mayor, prominent citizens
and the entire city press of Atlanta en¬
dorsed the resolutions in the most
cordial manner.
“Resolved, That it is the sense and
desire of this post that the Grand Ar¬
my of the Republic shall accept the
invitation in the same spirit with which
it shall be tendered, and that the na¬
tional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic for 1895 shall be held
at Atlanta, Ga.”
William T. Sherman post contains
many very distinguished soldiers,
Among them ex-Governor Fifer,of Illi¬
nois, and General John McNulta.
The late General Giles A. Smith and
W. W. Orme were members of the
post. Of its four hundred or more
members, fully ono-lialf marched with
Sherman “from .^lanta to the sea.”
FIRE AT THE FAIR.
The Illinois State Building Consider¬
ably Damaged.
Another world^ufair fire has oc¬
curred in thei^jokwr* g of the Illinois
state building. It was undoubtedly of
incendiary origin, but prompt re
sponse on the part of the fire depart¬
ment prevented much damage.
The chief danger from the fire w*as
the probability that it might extend to
the art palace, which is now used as
the storehouse for the Columbian mu¬
seum. For this reason a second and
third alarm were quickly turned in,
bringing a large number of engines to
the grounds.
Fears for the safety of the art palace
were well grounded, for early in the
progress of the fire flying brands
alighted on the northwest dome of the
building, and in a few moments that
portion of the building was ablaze. A
squad of guards soon extinguished the
blaze, and remained on the roof to
prevent more brands from lodging.
The loss of the Illinois state building
is nominal. Joseph Hallak, a fireman,
fell thirty feet from the northwest
corner of the building, but escaped
with slight injuries.
PUCK’S EDITOR DEAD.
Joseph Keppler, Celebrated Caricatur¬
ist, Passes Away.
Joseph Keppler, the caricaturist, the
editor and part proprietor of the comic
journal Puck, is dead, At the time of
his death he was fifty-six years old.
The immediate cause of death was heart
failure, resulting from a complication
of spinal and lung troubles. Mr. Kep¬
pler published a World’s Fair edition
of Puck in Chicago, and devoted him¬
self to it with so muck ardor that his
health gave way. He returned to New
York in the fall a sick man, and his
condition steadily grew worse until his
death. As editor and caricaturist of
Puck his name attained a world-wide
celebrity.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
THE POLLARD CASE.
The Plaintiff Rust ing Around Get¬
ting Up Testimony.
Calderon G. Carlisle, of Washing¬
ton, attorney for Miss Madeline Pol¬
lard, who was in Cincinnati in com¬
pany with his client for several days,
says that the case will coma up in the
Supreme Court of the District of Co¬
lumbia next Thursday.
Carlisle and Miss Pollard left Cin¬
cinnati for Frankfort. The deposi
tions of Mrs. Dr. Buchanan and Mrs.
Dr. Perry, of Covington, which were
to have been concluded, have been left
unfinished, and Miss Pollard will call
no more witnesses. Such witnesses as
she needs will go to Washington and
testify at the trial.
Exploding Boiler Kills Forty-One Men.
A boiler expldsion occurred at Kiel,
Germanv on the cruiser Brandenburg,
with fatal results to the crew and
damage to the vessel. New boilers
had been put in the vessel amT steam
was gotten up to test them. It is re
ported that forty-one men were
stantly killed aud nine others fatally
wounded.
at the national capital.
AMTS Of GOTemi&Bllt M NSWJ 0[
., lll6 DfiPSPuABIltS „ _• DlSClSSSi .
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple and Their General Welfare.
Mills, of Texas, has withdrawn from
the senate committee on finance, and
will DO lon 8et G n either the sub
committee or the full committee,
A . cable received . the
message at navy
department from Rear Admiral Boham
confirms the report of the arrival of
t^ Nietherov, e government in Rio dynamite cruiser,
barber, where she
anchored. The admiral says, in his
dispatch, that it was reported that the
res t of the loyal fleet will arrive at Rio
from Bohia February 22.
The president has sent to congress
another bulky batch of Hawaiian cor¬
respondence. It includes President
Dole’s letter to Willis, already pub¬
lished, and Willis’ reply with seyeral
other communications. Willis, in his
letter transmitted to Secretary Gres¬
ham, says: “This letter will, on my
part, end the correspondence upon the
subject. ”
The house committee on military af¬
fairs has ordered a favorable report on
the bill providing for the dedication
of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga
National Military park. The expenses
of the dedication are limited to $20,
000, and the date fixed for September
19, 1895. The secretary of war is
directed to directed to arrange the ex¬
ercises.
Attorney General Olney has in¬
structed the United States attorney
for Florida to make full and accurate
copies of the legal proceedings in the
cigarmaker’s cases at Key West, Fla.,
with the view* of having the record
complete, so that the cases, if decided
adverse to the United States, may be
appealed to the supreme court of the
United States. The absolute discre¬
tion of the secretary of the treasury
to decide what constitutes a violation
of the alien contract labor law has
been uniformly upheld until now by
the inferior courts, before whom the
question has been taken. The Florida
courts, in two of the cigarrnakers’
cases, have held differently, and re¬
leased contract laborers on writs of
habeas corpus.
River and Harbor Bill.
The river and harbor bill will be re¬
ported to fhe house March 1. The
committee’s work is further advanced
in this congress than it has been for
many years. The bill will carry an
appropriation of about $9,000,000,
exclusive of $8,000,000 in round
numbers in the sundry civil bill.
This latter appropriation is expended
under the contract system, winch the
committee has found to be both a wise
and economical method of completing
public work. Work on eighteen rivers
and harbors is now carried on by con¬
tract. Under this system contracts
are made in advance and money ap¬
propriated as the work of jirogresses.
In many cases a saving from 25 to 50
per cent is made under this system as
compared with the methods of pre¬
vious years.
Silver Certificates.
Attorney General Olney iu reply to
a formal request, has sent to the sec¬
retary of the treasury an opinion in
regard to the legal status of silver cer¬
tificates, in which he holds as follows;
“Silver certificates are just what
they purport to be on their face and
by their terms—that is, they attest
the fact that the United States
has on deposit so many silver
dollars which will be paid to
the holder upon the presentation and
surrender of such certificates. If they
can be regarded as money at all, it is
only because the United States agrees
to receive them for customs, taxes and
all public dues, and only to that ex¬
tent and for those specific purposes.
In my opinion,” the attorney general
adds, “they are not lawful money
within the meaning of section 4 of the
act of June 20, 1874, and section 9 of
the act of July 12, 1892.”
An Old War Claim.
An interesting caae has been report¬
ed to the house by the committee on
war claims, which recommends that
Mrs. Flora A. Darling, who was arrest¬
ed in New Orleans in 1864 by the mili¬
tary authorities while traveling under
a 6afe conduct signed by General
N. P. Banks, be awarded $5,633
damages. Mrs. Darling was the
wife of the confederate briga¬
dier general, Edward I. Darling,
and was a New Hampshire woman.
She had gone to New Orleans to at¬
tend her husband during his last ill¬
ness and was starting to return home
when arrested. Ten thousand dollars
in con ff*Rr a te bonds, $5,000 in the
notes of Louisiana and Tennessee
banks, and valuable jewelry which she
carried, were confiscated. Mrs. Dar¬
ling’s claim was for $15,683, but the
committee ruled out the confederate
bonds, sustaining the claim for the
state bank notes and jewelry.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
Buildings in Chicago and Rochester
Burned Out.
The immense tin can and japanned
ware factory of Noiton Bros., occupy¬
ing half of the triangular block facing
on Dock and Water streets, Chicago,
has been destroyed by fire. It took
twenty-three engines and two fire
boats to conquer the flames, which
were confined to four walls of the fac¬
tory. The loss is $600,000, and 600
men and women are thrown out of
employment.
SEW tobk's astltjm burned.
The Rochester, N, Y., state asylum
f or the insane has been burned. The
; i oss j 8 §75,000 and there is no insur
ance. There were 450 inmates and
not a person was injured.
Carolina’s Dispensary Profits.
The quarterly statement of theoper
ations of the South Carolina state
dispensary, which has been looked
: forward to with much interest, has
been made public. The statement
shows that the
sary for the past quarter has been
! $67,139. The profits for the last quar
ter were $32,198.16, making the total
| not proceeds from the six months of
the dispensary’s existence $99,337.16.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Report of Trade for the Past Week by
Don & Co.
R. G. Dun Co.’s review of trade
for the past week says; This has been
a week of record-breaking. In wheat,
in silver, in some forms of iron and
steel, in Connellville coke, and in well
known cotton and woolen goods, the
lowest prices ever known have been
made, aud it is gratifying that failures
of importance have not resulted. The
great fall iu wheat had a perceptiblo
influence upon the tone of business
generally, aud there was less confidence
in Wall street, less improvement in
manufactures and n greater decrease
in the volume ot payment,, through
clearing houses, which were 24.4 per
cent less than a year ago outside of
New York, and 41.7 per cent less than
a year ago here, notwithstanding un
usual transactions in grain.
While no action specially affecting
•business prospects was taken at Wash
ington the continued discussion of
revenue aud monetary measures and
the uncertainty regarding them have a
constant favorable influence, and iu
different markets have caused sudden
fluctuations iu prices. Wheat at 60fc,
is lower by 4Jo than it was for a single
day last year, and lower by l-jc than it
had ever been iu the previous seventy
seven years. A visible supply of over
79,000,000 bushels February 10th, with
sales aud receipts from farms continu¬
ing large, has completely destroyed
faith in the official reports of the yield
last year and caused enormous liquid¬
ations. Some trust companies have
arranged to advance money against
wheat as collateral security, but with
results not as yet encouraging.
Cotton declined an eighth with in¬
creasing distrust of short crop esti
mates. Receipts from plantations this
week have been larger than a year
ago, and at no time small enough to
support the idea that the crop of 1893
was but 6,600,000 bales, which would
mean that less than 300,000 bales have
yet to come into sight in over six
months.
The slight recovery in prices of iron
products has not been maintained.
steel billets are sold below $16 there,
while at Philadelphia most rolling mill
products are lower than ever.
Shipments oi boots and shoes from
the east are 19 per cent, less than a
year ago, with cheaper grades pre¬
dominating in orders and in manufac¬
ture and not many factories fully em¬
ployed. Textile industries do not seem
to have gained within the pa.,t week,
for as many works have closed as
have resumed work, aud in woolen and
cotton manufacture rather more.
There has been a sharp break in print
cloths to 2f cents; some of the best
known cottons have been put at the
lowest prices ever made aud there is
more talk of general closing of mills.
Some wollen mills of large impor¬
tance have stopped, one because a re¬
duction of wages was resisted, and in
textile works such reductions have been
more numerous and large rthau in any
previous week. The demand for
woolen goods does not improve aigl
sales of wool decreased sharply after
the brisk activity two weeks ago, being
only 4,114,591 pounds for the week,
against 5,586,300 last year. Though
some grades are scarce and prices rel¬
atively higher west than here, the
markets do not advance.
Exports of merchandise were about
$500,000 smaller for the week than last
year and for six weeks the increase has
been only $3,100,000, or 7\ per cent.,
but imports last week were little more
than half as large as last year and for
the year thus far the decrease is about
42 per cent. There is no change of
importance in the money markets.
Failures for the week have been 323
in the United States against 197 last
year, and thirty-five in Canada against
thirty-six last year.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH,
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for tlie Past Week.
Tho review of the industrial situation in the
South for the past week shows that to judging
from reports received of new industries in pro¬
cess of formation, of enlargements of plants
now in operation, and especially by the in¬
creased inquiiv for machinery of all kinds, the
South is rapidly recovering from the (fleets of
the financial stringency. The week just ended
shows a better record in these respects than for
a year past. All branches of productive indus¬
try seem to show the same favorable symptoms.
Iron producers are in stronger position, with
no pressure to sell. The lumber inti rest,, which
has b in much depressed, is slowly recovering,
and tho demand for its output is increasing.
incorporated Forty-three new indu tries were established or
fifteen during the week, together with
enlargements of manufac ones, an l fif¬
teen important new buildings. Prominent
among the Dew industries of tho week are the
following: Lumber The Ohio-Tennessee Coal and
Co., capital $7,500,000, T. B. 3. Mor¬
gan and others, incorporators, offices at Hunts¬
ville and Jamestown, Tenn.; the Talbott Hons
Co. foundry, capital $250,000, at Richmond,
Boom Va., Allan Talbott, president; the Glady Fork
and Lumber Co., of Parsons, W. Va.,
capital $200,000. 1>. I). Hazletine anil a-ho
ciates, incorporators, and the Lnray Cavorii3
Co., of Lurav, Va. capital $100,000, L. C.
Condon and others, incorporators.
The L. H. Hull C tflin Co., capital $80,000,
has been organized at Atlanta, Ga., by L H.
Hall and associates; the G orgia 8 andard
Ochre Co., at CarteisviiL, Ga., capital $5(0,000,
by W. II. Howard and ethers; the Union Min¬
ing and Manufacturing Co., at Dtngess, W.
Va., capital $.50,000. by E iward. Thomas and
ing associates; the Cairo Lumber and Manufactur¬
Co., capital $50,000, at Cairo. \V. Va., by
N. VV. Rollins and associates; the Texas Li e
Piow Co., capital $25,000, at Dallas, Texas, and
the Summerville Brick an l Tile Co., at Sum¬
iflgs merville, 8. C., capital $26,000, by E. B. H 1
and others.
Aluminum works are reporled at New Or¬
leans, La.; cotton mil’s at Macon, Ga., and
8partanburg. S. C.; a distillery at Louisville,
Ky.; Bock, electric plants at Fort 8mith and L.ttle
Terra Alta. Ark., Biloxi, Miss . Lynchb rg. Va, and
W. Va., and flour and grist mills at
Efird’s Mills, N. C., Harms, Tenn., and Dan¬
ville,Va. Gxs works are to be built at Ocala,Fla.,
and Olive Springs, Tenn.; an ice factory at
Fort Worth, Texas; iron working plants at
Hill-boro, Va., T xus, Petersburg anil Richmond,
and Wheeling, W. Va.; an oil mill at
ville, Birmingham, Ala-; tobacco factories at Louis¬
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Lake City. Fla., Augusta, Ga., Little Rock,
Ark., Louisville, Ky., Columbia, N. C. and
Nacogd ches, Texas.
The enlargements for the week include a
rolling mid at Max Meadows, Va.; a flouring
mill at Athens, Penn.; & foundry at West
Point, Gu.; an o l mill at Belton, Texas; phos¬
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and cotton mills at Montgomery aud Union
Springs, Blacksburg, Ala., Harden and Haw River. N. C.,
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