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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
(ONDi.NSUD FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short anil Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Reader*.
Between August 27 and September
1 there were 53 eases of cholera and 21
deaths throughout the German cm
pire.
A careful estimato of the number of
lives lost in the forest fires at Hinck
hy, Minn., places the total at 275, and
th< total in the burned district at 6*25.
Eli Whitney, of New Haven, Conn.,
a grandson of the famous inventor of
I h< cotton gin, has invented a machine
which nmy revolutionize cotton pick¬
ing.
T he Nevada republican state c iiiven
tion lms nominated John P. Jones,
present surveyor general, to be gov¬
ernor, arid K. Hndlcr, of Eureka coun¬
ty, lieutenant governor.
After making a thorough investiga¬
tion of the conditions existing among
the employes of the Pullman company
who participated in the recent boycott
and trike, Governor Altgeld lms is
MU*d un appeal to the people of Illinois
or relief.
A private dispatch received in Wash¬
ington announces the death at Hart¬
ford, Conn., <>f the Rev. Dr. J. C.
Gelling, president of the Columbian
I niversify, oi Washington, 1), (!., one
«*f the most prominent educational in¬
stitutions in this country.
I he state populist convention of
(’olorud met in Pueblo and renomi¬
nated (Inventor Wait e. < fiber nomi
nations were: Lieutenant governor,
G. \V, Nan non, o if Arapahoe county;
stato auditor, 8. L. Lincoln, of
Boulder county,
I ho New Hampshire republican state
convention met at Concord Wednes¬
day. Charles A. Busiel, of Laconia,
was nominated for governor. At the
sveond district congressional republi¬
can convention Hon. Henry M. Baker
w a s nominated by acclamation.
Russia w ill send to east Asiatic wu
G rs the warships, Emperor Nicholas 1,
armor-clad, 8,01)0 tons, twenty-four
guns; and the Pamiat Azova, armor
clad, 6,000 tons, thirty-three guns.
Both are comparatively new and are
reckoned among the powerful vessels
of the Russian navy.
Returns from thirty-threo counties
of Arkansas indicate increased dem¬
ocratic majorities over two years ago,
although tlie total vote will likely be
20 per cent less on account of the new
election law. 11 is estimated that the
democratic state ticket is elected by at
least 25,000 majority.
N ermont held her state election
Tuesday. A full state ticket, members
of the legislature and two congressmen
»!*•' to be elected, and there are four
tickets in the field for all except the
congressional race, nominations hav¬
ing been made by the populists and
prohibitionists «s well as by the repub¬
licans and democrats.
I lie vote of the Vermont towns thus
far reporting shows heavy republican
gains, i’he indications are that the
republican majority will exceed that of
any in the last 20 years and far sur
I MISS tlmtof 1892 the presidential year.
1 be average republican majority in off
years since 1876 is u little less than
17,000.
A break lias occurred in the ranks
of tlu* manufacturers at New Bedford,
Mass , which will probably result in
the resumption of work in all the mills
within a few days. The directors of
the Bristol corporation met Wednes¬
day afternoon for the purpose of tak¬
ing action looking towards the start¬
ing up of the mills. It was practically
decided to do so.
Advices from Winnipeg, Manitoba,
state that fire is burning on both sides
ot Rainy lake and along Rainy river.
Largo tracts of timber have been
burned on the Canadian aide. A wo¬
man and four children were burned to
dent h. 1 lie tires jumped tho Rainy
river from the Minnesota to the Cana¬
dian side. All settlers back from Rainy
river have been burned out, losing
everything, and several lives have been
h>st.
A dispatch from Slmnghia to the
Central News says a large number of
Chinese recruits are arriving at Tien
Tsin, where they are receiving their
arms and equipments. The province
of Shung-Tung is showing much dis¬
content and little or no sympathy with
the war against Japan, and is with¬
holding the men and supplies which
have been demanded of that section of
the country.
City Health Commissioner Kempster,
of Milwaukee, has formally asked the
state board of health to take control of
the smallpox epidemic in the city.
State troops will not be sent to Mil¬
waukee to quarantine the city or any
part of it, nor will the state board of
health take charge for the present at
least. I his is the result of advice given
the city authorities and the state board
by Governor Beck. Governor Beck
insists that the local authorities should
do their full duty.
A dispatch from Uniontowu, Pa.,
says: In this end of Connellsville
field the coke men went out again
Tuesday and nearly all the plants
soutli of this place are idle once more,
Before the old hands went back ami
pleaded poverty and peaceful inton
tii'iis t.» the operators, they had an un
dm standing with their fellows that
they would go back long enough to
displace the colored men and drive
tiu in out of tin legion, which would
enable the original strikers to get n con
trol again.
A Ohio*. »iwcia! f ,v S: Attorney
< inter, . I Mull", e \ i. Mill „tter the
*
a,. ,ian alaee tar Company. He
ut^ notified its attorney that he will
appear before Judge Gibbons and ask
leave to file the amended petition iu
the quo warranto proceedings iu which
the company is asked to show cause
why it should not forfeit its charter.
The reasons given are that the com¬
pany sells gas and water without
proper authority, and also does a good
business in supplying steam heat to
residences at a large price.
Congressman Jerry Simpson opened
bit, ei mpaign at Wichita Tuesday
night. lie devoted most of his time
Jt the “republican enemy,” charging
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSTHY GA.. TV ESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1894.-EIGHT PAGES.
tho republican minority in congress
with n sponsibility for much of the
legislation of the fi f ty-third congress.
Io the populist members h** credited
tiie income tax annex and said it was
the only measure passed in the inter¬
cut of the masses and he alleged that
the people could expect no relief un¬
less they elected populist congressmen
who nre pledged to give the country a
currency based not only on gold and
silver, but on all the wealth of all the
people of all the. land. Mr. Simpson
spoke heartily of woman suffrage.
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
Governor Carr, of North Carolina,
has offered rewards of $100 each for
The capture of Bud Harris,Will Downs
and Plato Bartlett, three young white
men, who, with Charles*Bridges, per¬
petrated a horrible crime in Hayward
county. but Bridges has been captmcd,
the others are at large.
At Jacksonville, Fla., William Hay¬
es, n dissolute young follow, shot and
killed his wife and seriously wounded
his mother-in-law. The latter was un¬
able to give any alarm, and therefore
the crime was not known until some
time after the deed \vn« done. The
couple were only married a year and a
half ago.
In the face of a general belief in
the magnificent condition of the
cotton crop, The Garland \eirs pub¬
lished in tho heart of the cotton
region of Dallas county, Texas, states
that in that section half of the cotton
cri >p has been destroyed by boll worms,
and if tho showers continue, the crop
is likely to be entirely destroyed.
A movement lms been inaugurated
in Chattanooga to secure a joint ex¬
hibit of all Chattanooga’s enterprises
at the Atlanta exposition. Interviews
had with the various manufacturers
develop the fact that such an organized
movement will be asked for very
shortly. A meeting is to be held in a
few days to take definite action iu the
matter.
Much excitement exists in Hancock
county, Georgia, about a shooting
affair on a large scale near Devereaux
station Monday night. Anything like
reliable facts is difficult, the scene
of the shooting being several miles
from Hparta. Rev. 13. F. Gaston, who
claims to be an agent to procure negro
emigrants for Liberia, was shot dan¬
gerously. Three or four more negroes
were also wounded.
Knoxville lms just suffered from the
largest tire experienced in years. The
largo tobacco factory of W. C. McCoy
and the livery stable of J. N. McBee
»V Co., on Broadway, were entirely
consumed. There were several horses
in tho livery stable, and these were
saved, but the fine carriages and bug¬
gies were destroyed. Nothing about
the tobacco factory was saved. The
loss is estimated at $40,000; insur¬
ance, $10,000. The origin of the tire
is unknown.
The Columbia, 8. C., Journal pub¬
lishes an interesting article stating
that rumor has it that the legislature
may be called together in extra session
to change the election laws, iu order
“that there may be no question of the
legality of Tillman’s election to the
senate. It should bo stated that the
republicans are now contesting the le¬
gality of the eight box and registra¬
tion laws of the state,” and if these
laws are declared constitutional, might
not the legislature elected under them,
and which, in turn, elects a United
States senator, also be unconstitutional.
W. J. Burns, the special agent of
the secret service bureau of the treas¬
ury department,who has been at Jack
sou, Miss., for nearly two months,
made formal demand Wednesday upon
the governor and auditor for the sur¬
render of the plates upon which the
special warrants wore printed, over
which tho controversy between the
treasury department and the state of
Mississippi has arisen. Mr. Burns first
called upou the governor, who de¬
clined to surrender the plates, iwul
then on Auditor Stone, who likewise
declined. Mr. Burns stated that he
had performed his duty by making the
demand as directed and had nothing
further to do but to make his report
to the government and await further
orders.__
BURYING CHARRED BODIES.
Survivors of the Forest Fires Removed
to Places of Safety.
Specials of Tuesday state that nenrly
all those who survived the terrible
forest tiros iu northern Minnesota have
now been removed to places of safety
in Superior and Duluth, and as a
heavy rain has quenched the flames,
there will be no further casualties.
The work of searching for the dead
is progressing in earnest. Monday
afternoon, fifty-four bodies were bur¬
ied at Sandstone.
Most of them were charred beyond
recognition and were buried wherever
found. When the relief train reached
Sandstone not a sign of a building
was left iu the town. Around or in
the ruins of each house were found
several human bodies. The living iu
habitants of the town were brought
into Superior at midnight,
At Hinckley 328 bodies were lying
iu tbe streets. They are being buried
as rapidly as possible by a committee
from rine Cit y,
At Pokegame, on the St Cloud di
visiou ot the Great Northern, there
are 28 corpses. They are still lying
unburied, the rest of the people hav
‘“K Wt the place. At Partridge, only
dead though m,t » hi, ldmg t.
standing. It is impossible to tell
; where Partridge was, as the whole
j j surrounding countrv is in ashes,
Passenger traffic was resumed on the
' St. Paul and Duluth Tuesday. On the
Great Northern through trains will
not be running for some time.
Seven Burned to Death.
A St. Paul, Minn., special says:
Seven people were burned to death in
f the forest fires Marengo,
i j at a few
miles north of Ashland, Wis. The
j bas just Leeu received at Ash
Kfid- Ihe bodies have reached that
,
t ‘By» but are so badly burned that re
cognition is impossible,
HUNDREDS DIE.
FEARFUL FOREST FIRES RAGE
IX MINNESOTA.
Three Towns In Ashes and Many Peo¬
ple Dead.
The first report of the terrible loss of
life at Hinckley, Minn., was received
at St. Cloud early Sunday morning
roro Pine City through a message to
tbe officials, which said that Hinckley
nad been burned. The Great North
ern freight building was said to be the
only building left, and that thirty *
people perished.
A second telegram at noon placed
the dead at nearly 200, and word
was also received to be prepared
to render assistance. From the stories
of survivors the loss of life at Iiinck
ley is variously estimated at from one
to four hundred, and it is almost cer
tain the loss will equal two hundred,
It will be several days before the full
extent of the disaster will be known.
HUNDItEDS OF CUAKREO BODIES.
Dispatches of Sunday from Mora, a
neighboring town, state that one hun¬
dred and forty-eight bodies have been
taken out of Hinckley and places in
the vicinity. I lie neighboring town
of Pokarna is wiped out. The eastern
Minnesota train which left St. Paul at
10 o’clock Saturday night took 300
people on board and moved westward
toward St. Cloud. The train has not
been heard of since. It has not reach
ed St. Cloud, and lias not gone back
to Hinckley. There is a general fear
that it has been burned with all on
board. There is no chance that they
are alive, unless they have found a
stream or slough into which they
could go and escape the fire.
All is confusion and excitement
among the surviving people, who are
searching for their children, and chil
dron searching for their parents. The
death list increases every hour. The
walls of the railroad round house and
of the schoolhouse are the only parts
of buildings in Hinckley which remain.
Every family in Pokama is homeless
and in danger of starving to death.
A freight trrin is in a ditch one and a
half miles west of Pokama. Twenty
five people are in the caboose and the
fire is all around them. If they are
not rescued soon, all must perish.
THREE TOW*S IX ASHES.
A special of Sunday night from Pine
City says: Three towns, Hinckley,
Mission Creek and Pokama, now lie in
ashes and more than 200 corpses lie in
tho reigion in the neighborhood of
Hinckley. The vast valley between
the Ketlo river and Cross Lake is laid
waste, including several villages and
settlements.
Besides the towns that were reduced
to ashes, farms wore swept clean by
the flames. The forests are still burn¬
ing fiercely and rain is required to
drown the fires that are sweeping over
that vast region.
Whole families have been cremated.
In some instances only one or two
men*escaped from a neighborhood to
tell of the destruction. They saved
their lives by running to small lakes
or hiding in potato fields, and reached
Pine City more dead than alive.
The dead are being picked up by the
score and brought here. Searching
parties are penetrating the burned dis¬
trict but find none but the charred re¬
mains of the inhabitants. The people
from Hinckley and Mission Creek, who
escaped with their lives, are destitute,
having neither homes nor food.
ESTIMATED DOSS OF LIFE.
A special to the St. Paul Pioneer
Press from Pine City, gives tho fol¬
lowing estimate of the dead : Hinck¬
ley, 200; Sandstone, 46; Sandstone
Junction. 25; Pokama, 25; Skunk
Lake, 29; miscellaneous, 30—total,
255.
Six Towns Destroyed.
Advices of Monday from Duluth
state that so far as heard from the
forest fires which have shut that city
*>*11 of communication with the outside
world for over twenty-four hours, both
b^ wire and rail, have almost com¬
; pletely ’ Minn., wiped at the out junction six towns—Hinclc- of the St.
y,
’aul and Duluth and Eastern Minne¬
sota railways, i, with a population of
1,200 or 500; Sandstone, fifteen
miles north on the Eastern road, a
quarry town, with a population of
1,000; Partridge and Mansfield, small
stations farther north, near the Wis¬
consin border, with a population of
300 each; Shell Lake and Baronette,
Wis., on the Ornaho roail, south of
Spooner, with a population of 2,000
each, both lumber towns. Besides
these, Bayfield and Washburn, on
Lake Superior, from which nothing
can be heard, have probably suffered
considerably, and numerous little set¬
tlements all through the northern
parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.
No names can be obtained on account
of interrupted transportation and tel¬
egraphic facilities.
A special correspondent investigat¬
ing the result of the fire in the towns
burned on the St. Paul and Duluth
road counted 312 dead bodies. There
are 217 dead at Hinckley, seventeen at
Sandstone, twenty-two at Pine City,
five between Sandstone and Miller,
with the interior yet to hear from.
RELIEF TRAIN SENT OUT.
A relief train returned at 10:30
o’clock Monday morning from a run
down the St. Paul and Duluth road,
bringing about 250 destitute and blis¬
tered people from points along the
line. At Sandstone fifty bodies, most
of which had been identified, were
found. The work of searching for the
dead still continues. Another train is
being made up to curry supplies, cloth¬
ing and doctors to the burned districts.
THE LOSS AT PINE UITT.
A private dispatch received at Min¬
neapolis from Pine City says that the
number of victims in and near that
place from the forest tires will reach
at least 425
First Clearance of New Cotton.
The first clearance of cotton from
Galveston, Texas, for this season has
been made to a foreign port. The
Sierra line steamer Maria cleared for
Liverpool with 6,100 bales of cotton
valued at $227,248. The eutire cargo
came from one comnress in Houston.
WASHINGTON NOTES
SEWS CONCERNING THE VARI
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
Sayings and Doings of the President
and Members of the Cabinet.
The treasury department has decided
that salt imported from England is eu
titled to free importation into the
^ nited States under the new tarilt bill,
notwithstanding the fact that several
the dependencies Oi Great Britain
impose a duty on that commodity
when imported from the United States,
Section 608 of the new tariff bill treats
*his subject.
Secretary Smith was in consultation
with the scretary of the treasury NVed
nesday morning in regard to the re
moval of the government building at
Chicago to Atlanta. The entire com
mission, with the exception of the rep
resentative from the navy, hns been
appointed and within the next peek
the chairman will be named. Secre
tary Carlisle says As that uaLd just as S oou M
the chairman be would " *
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A movement lias been started at
Washington to organize a chorus in
Georgia for the Cotton States and In
ternational Exposition of 10,000 voices
to be known as the “Dixie Chorus.”
Those formulating the plan intend it
to equal the great peace jubilee chorus
°f Boston when Patrick Gilmore or
gauized and trained 13,000 voices,
Professor N. DuShane Cloward will
leave for Atlanta in a few days to sub
his specifications and plans to the
exposition managers. Professor Clow
ard is the leading musician of the
capital, and with the exception of Pat
Gilmore, has organized and conducted
the greatest choruses ever gotten to
gether in America,
The Hon. William L. Wilson, chair¬
man of the ways and means committee
of the house of representatives, was a
passenger on tho American liner “Pa¬
ris,” which sailed from New York for
Southampton Wednesday morning.
Mr. Wilson said before sailing that he
was going abroad in order to recuper¬
ate from the severe strain of liis con¬
gressional labors. “I am going to
London, where I shall knock around
for about ten days and then come
home. I am only going in order to
make tho voyage, which my doctor
tells me will do me more good than
anything els* that I can do. As soon
as I return 1. shall plunge at ouee into
the thickest of the political campaign,
and I shall certainly need all the
strength I can get.”
Secretary Carlisle has called for the
resignations of Peter S. Garretson, of
New Jersey; James P. Lowe, of Mas¬
sachusetts, and Frank Milliken, of
Maine, all chiefs of division in
the architect’s office, treasury de¬
partment. Messrs. Leaver, Har¬
rington, Latham ? nd Beatty, also
chiefs of divisi lil'An the treas¬
ury department, wii (‘''Designed by re¬
quest some months ego, but who have
been continued, were notified that
their services would be no longer re¬
quired after October 1st, next. The
places of this last batch of chiefs of
division will be filled by putting in
chiefs of division in the comptroller’s
oftice appointed by Secretary Carlisle,
who have been legislated out of office
by the provisions of tlio treasury re¬
organization bill, which takes effect
October 1st.
Chief Hazen, of the treasury secret
service has received a telegram an¬
nouncing the arrest in St. Louis, Mo.,
of Secretary Smith, of the St. Louis
Bank Note Company. This company,
it will be recalled, printed and en¬
graved the live dollar and two-dollar
warrants of the stato of Mississippi,
which bore a striking similarity to
United States money. The president
of the company will be arrested when
he returns to St. Louis, and Agent
Holmes, of the company, who
is in charge of the Chicago branch,
will also be looked after. In the
meantime the United States district at¬
torney at Jackson, Miss., is preparing
a case against the state officials of Mis¬
sissippi. Governor Stone and others
in the same case. The Mississippi of¬
ficials refused to call in the warrants,
but the fact that they have been de¬
clared illegal by the general govern¬
ment has, it is said, had the effect of
destroying public confidence in them
as money, and the banks refuse longer
to take them.
Another surprise is about to be in¬
troduced to the public by the whisky
combine. It will announce its deter¬
mination to oppose, by every possible
legal means, the payment of the in¬
creased tax of twenty cents a gallon
on its goods now in bond. This is
admitted practically by P. J. Hennes
sy, who says that probably the
whole matter will have to be set¬
tled by the supreme court of the
Lffiited States, The point made by
the whisky men and attorneys
friendly to them, is this: Goods
manufactured and in bonds at the time
the new tariff law went into effect are
not subject to a tax of $1.10 a gallon,
because there was an implied contract
with the government when it took
charge of the goods that the tax was
to be only 90 cents a gallon. As the
combine has about 10,000,000 gallons
in bond it would save close to $2,000,
000 should it be permitted to cart away
its whiskey upon the payment of only
90 cents a gallon tax.
ATTACKED BY CHOLERA.
A Baltimore and Ohio Train with the
Dread Disease on Board.
John Peter Walther, a native of Ba¬
varia, a newly arrived immigrant, was
taken off a westbound train of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Cum¬
berland, Md., Wednesday, and died
shortly afterward. His symptoms were
those of Asiatic cholera. The balance
of the passengers were locked up in
the car, which was run west as far as
Shaner station, near Pittsburg, and
side-tracked.
Plot to Kill Mayti’s President.
The Haytien minister at Paris has
received the following telegram from
Port Au Prince: “ t here has been an
attempt against the life of the pres>
dent The amh rs have been s-hq 5
aUl j perfect quiet now prevails,”
GEORGIA IN BRIEF.
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE
AND THERE OVER THE STATE
And Condensed Into Pithy and Inter¬
esting Paragraphs.
Mr. C. C. S. Baldridge, engaged in
Tifton in January in the real estate
business, has located twenty families
who control a capital of over $2,000,
000, all of whichVill be invested in
Tifton. These immigrants are from
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
have come on Mr. Baldridge’s recom¬
mendation of the resources of this see
tion. With this as a basis, it is im
possible to estimate the value a well
organized state bureau of information
would be to Georgia,
The Tri-State Medical Association
will hold its fifth annual session in At¬
lanta next month. The association is
composed of the most prominent and
™ CCMstal pby«ic«n» *>'
® cor « ,a “ nd «•*.» “»*
five vears old. , I he association was
organized in Chattanooga, and there
^,,8 nevor been a session held outside
of that city. Last year the meeting
-was one of the largest and most ini
portant in the history of the body up
to that time.
The Washington correspondent of
tke Tribune telegraphs that paper con¬
cerning the proposed establishment of
a new military department, with head¬
quarters at Atlanta, as follows: “The
question ns to whether a department
of the south is to be established is one
which excites much interest in army
circles. As announced in these dis¬
patches some time ago, an earnest
effort is being made by southern mem¬
bers of congress to have tho new de¬
partment organized. So far neither
the president nor Secretary Lament
has intimated what action in the mat¬
ter will be taken.
Mr. Park Morrill, who has been, for
several years, at the head of the state
weather service of Georgia, with head¬
quarters at Atlanta, lias won first place
in the weather examination, over all
competitors. The examination took
place in Washington and was for the
purpose of ascertaining the best man
for the position of national forecast
official. Mr. Morrill cleaned up the
entire lot, including “Farmer Dunn,”
the toasted weather man of New York
City. The following was the way the
contest ended, the percentage ranging
in order down from 79, which was Mr.
Morrill’s: Park Morrill, Atlanta;
Alex. McAdie, Washington; R. E. Ker
ham, New Orleans; E. B. Dunn, New
York; 13. S. Payne, San Francisco, and
F. H. Clarke, Little Rock.
Captain Charley Furlow, of the
comptroller general’s office, has made
a study of the returns for taxation ns
reported by the tax receivers for 1894
aa<2 show seme i&ierestj.vg darts con
cerning the big decrease. The only
item in the whole list which shows an
increase is that of stocks and bonds,
The greatest decrease is shown in the
improved lands; next comes city and
town properties; next money and sol
vent debts, and next cotton manufac
tures. The figures do not contain the
returns for railroads and street rail
roads. The Columbus Southern is
still under arbitration and until the
return is decided upon it will be im¬
possible to stato the exact decrease in
the railroad business, but it is certain
that in proportion the decrease is very
much less in this kind of property
than in any other.
It is confidently stated that the
Southern Railway Company will pur¬
chase the Central before the cotton
crop is gathered. This has been men¬
tioned time and again and has never
met with more than a soft denial from
the Southern Railway officials. Par¬
ties who are in a position to know
what they are speaking of now declare
that the great deal will certainly be
consummated in the near fixture.
There are many reasons why the
Southern should want the Central. It
would give that line an opening to the
best seaport on tne South Atlantic
coast, where more business is handled
than any other, or perhaps all the
others combined. In addition to this
the terminal facilities iu Savannah are
extremely valuable. In the hands of
the Southern Railway Company Sa¬
vannah would be made one of the
greatest features of this immense sys¬
tem.
Rev. Walter R. Branham, probably
the oldest Methodist minister in Geor¬
gia, died at his country home, near
Oxford, Ga., a few days ago. The
aged divine spent sixty years in the
pulpit, and after a blameless life he
departed in peace to the mansions of
his Father. He was 81 years of age,
and in the early years of manhood be¬
gan the life-work which he so nobly
carried out. Mr. Branham preached
during his lifetime in nearly all the
towns and cities in Georgia. He was
born in Putnam county in 1813. He
began preaching in 1834. His father
was Dr. Henry Branham. The de¬
ceased was known as the “St. John”
of the Georgia Methodist Conference.
He was, for many years, the delegate
from this conference to the general
conference. He filled pulpits in Au¬
gusta, Athens, Milledgeville, Colum¬
bus, Oxford, and other smaller towns,
and was presiding elder for the Atlan¬
ta, Athens and Griffin districts.
The rosy prospect of bountiful crops
which has been shining before the far¬
mers of Georgia for six weeks past
continues to hold good, according to
Acting Observer Gorgas’ weather bul¬
letin. There has been no diminution
in the general favorable outlook, and
the farmeis have little cause for com¬
plaint in the general condition of their
crops at present. The past week, with
its decrease in rainy days, has, on the
whole, been favorable for the improve¬
ment of such crops as are approaching
maturity, while at the same time al¬
lowing for the harvesting of the win¬
ter supply of fodder. It is true that
cotton appears to be from ten to fifteen
days late, and rust, rotting and shed¬
ding are evidently increasing; but
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probably these conditions are no more
noticeable than at the same season in
past years, and it is hoped that the
season will ultimately end with an
average crop of the staple. Corn still
continues to flourish, and the yield
• i, *
wili , be larger , than that of , past, ,
years
Richer, in Georgia Hills.
Professor Yeates, t lie* state geologist,
and his assistants, have returned to
Atlanta ...... after absence , of „ several
an
months in the field. The Professor is
busily at work getting out his repots
of work done in marble and corun¬
dum by his two assistants. He him¬
self has been in Rabun and White
counties making some examination of
the gold properties there, examining
the old gold mines which were worked
forty or fifty years ago, but which
were abandoned when the California
gold fever swept over the country.
He reports that these old deserted
mines, which were worked by hand,
contain enough gold to make them
pay, if the modern gold-working ma¬
chinery is put into them.
The report of Mr. King and Mr.
McCallie, the assistant geologists, will
soon be out, and they will give some
interesting information to the public.
Mr. Kim bus been working on the
corundum deposits, which run irem
Rabun down to Carroll. He found
that there is a considerable amount of
this valuable product which is worth
$80 a ton. Mr. McCallie has been
working on the marble deposits in
Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens, Cherokee
and Floyd, and has made a complete
survey of all the marble beds in tho
state. His report is an exhaustible
one, which will be a very valuable ad
dition to the geological literature of
the state. He says that the deposits
G f marble in Borne places are inexliausti
ble, and the quality is good. In one
place in Whitfield county, ho examined
a n immense bed of marble that 1ms
never been worked. It is a continua
tion of one of the many beds in Ten
nessee. Specimens of the Georgia
marble have been submitted to many
different tests, and have stood them all
in reports tho most of the satisf| i e^.' , *g l p|
as 1 SOU 1 aij) jo 3
be out in time uq
legislature,
EIGHTEEN
Found in One Dugout in Minnesota.
Latest from the Forest Fires.
. „ , ^ TT ednesday n . night . , burned , .
r e
everything . at Cromwell, Minn., except
0 8 choolhouse. ihe fire came upon
the ? lace wlthout warning and the
people only , saved their lives by get¬
ting into the lake. Woodbury Whit¬
ten, E. P. Duffey, George Wright,
Charles Morse and others lost every¬
thing. It is feared that many settlers
lost their lives. Even the ties of the
railroad are burned.
EIGHTEEN DEAD IN A DUGOUT.
A special from Duluth, Minn., says:
The relief party which left here in
charge of W. T. Bailey and George
Ash, to search the eastern line, found
eighteen dead bodies in one dugout,
into which the victims had rushed,
hoping to escape with their lives, only
to find that they had jumped into a
veritable furnace.
THE WORK OF RELIEF.
Dispatches from Pine City state that
the worst has probably been told at
Hinckley, and it is doubtful if there
will be any very* large additions to the
list of the dead. Wednesday night
several bodies were fouud in a cellar,
but they xvere so badly burned that it
was impossible to determine whether
there were three or four bodies.
Supplies are coming into Hinckley
at a rapid rate and there is no lack in
any department of relief work. All
persons and bodies that have collected
cash donations have wisely retrained
from giving any to the refugees, and
there is a general understanding that
every cent shall be turned over to the
state committee, which, on account of
the complete information it will have,
will be able to handle the funds to the
best advantage.
The excitement caused by the fire at
Pokagama has about subsided, and now
that all the dead have been buried, at¬
tention is being paid to the hundreds
of dead animals scattered over the
country. These are being cremated as
fast as found.
Not a vestige of the village remains,
but the surviving inhabitants, who
have been cared for by citizens of St.
Cloud, are preparing to rebuild their
homes as soon as material can be pro¬
vided.
MISS WINNIE DID NOT VOTE.
The Report That She Favored Woman
Suffrage is Untrue.
A dispatch from Colorado Springs,
Col., says: The report that Miss Win¬
nie Davis has taken up her residence
in the city and come out in favor of
woman suffrage is untrue. Its only
foundation is the fact that Miss Davis
recently visited her sister here, Mrs.
Hayes. The visit was a short one, and
there was no intentton on Miss Davis’
part of abandoning her residence in
Mississippi. Instead of proposing to
vote here Miss Davis is opposed to
woman suffrage.
After the Lynchers.
Governor Turney of Teunessee, has
offered a reward of $5,000 for the ar¬
rest and conviction of the parties who
lynched the six negroes in Shelby coun¬
ty last week. This decision was
reached after a consultation with
Criminal Judge Cooper, of Shelby
county,
3
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week,
The report on the industrial condition of the
®‘‘ u ,h past o° ek slu,w ? ih V the ”****"'
iz.uionof t the southern railroads, now nearly
pjeted, will be followed by e iisUKrable railway
building. Extensions of several lines are to be
begun at once, and work on some roads that were
left unfinished will be n Burned. Tho < ntlook
continue# to be encouraging in allliuesof indus¬
try. There has been no material advanco in
prices, but producers are fluding it easier thnn
It has been to make sales. The Southern cot
ton mills are in exceedingly good condition. A
good many enlargements and additions will he
made and reviral new mills on a largo scale will
be built during the coming season.
Thirty-one new industries were incorporated
or established during the week, together with
ten enlargements of manufactories and eight
important new buildings. Among the new in¬
dustries of the ween ar : A $150,000 cotton
mill to be built at Spartanburg, S. C.; the
Quinimont Coal and Coke Company, of Quini
moiit, W. Va., capital $150,000; tho South
Bound Land Company, of Columbia, 8. C-,
capital $50,000: tho Sky land Furniture Manu
faotnring Company, of AslievilB, N. C , capital
$3*2,000; tin? Wichita Falls Minimi Company, of
Wichita Falls, Texas, capilal $30,000; the Union
Woodworking Company, of Parsons, W. Ya.,
capital $25,000, anil tho Piorpont Lumber Com¬
pany, of Crescent City, Fla., with $15,000 capi¬
tal.
The erection of agricultural implements works
at Houston, Texas, is also reported; a cotton
compress at Sheffield, Ala.; a cotton mill at
Canton, Ga., and electrical plants at Athens
anil Cutlibert. Ga. Flour and grist mills are to
be built at Claryviile, Ky., and Chublake, N. C.;
a furniture factory at I, xitigton, Ky.; ice fac
‘oriiM at St. Augustine, Fin., and Mouudsville,
W. Va.;H mines at Claremont, W. Va., and a
granite quarry 'Vijmsboro, S. C. An oil and
Nashville, gas <lev< loping company lias been chartered at
Tenn.; »n oil mitt is to be built at
Muldoon, Texas; a tobacco factor.. Hickman, j
Ky„ and woodworking plants at Flotu,, , an(
Mobile, Ala., St. Francis, Ark., Rochelle »nd
Waldo, Fla., and Hickman. limit Ky.
Waterworks am to be at Arkadolphia,
Ark., Cuthhert, Ga.. and Thibodaux. La. Tho
enlargements include a planing mill at Nolin,
Ky., a cooperage at Little ltoclt, Ark., mining
plants at Cleveland, Tenn., and Corona, Ala.,
phosphate works at Acme, Fla., a $30,000 ad
dition to a cotton mill at Concord. N. C., water
works at lledford City, Va., and woodworking
plants at Bridgeport, Ala., Beaumont, Texas,
and Gauley Bridge, W. Va. Among tho new
buildings are business houses at Jacksonville,
Fla.. Moore field, Kv., Now Berne, N. C., and
Gidilings, Texas, a $10,000 railway station at
Greenville, Texas, a natatorium at Mobile, Ala.,
and a warehouse at Harmony, Grove, Ga.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
ALABAMA CONGRESSM EN.
eqocjirr ,,\G, '•v^Wis'OqVffi'b'Hinated in
pilR UOlTCjr>clnro i ruuMi-mt
•t> ir>
jU
c stftto:
Kv^t —Richard H. Clarke,
:/f ' -'TvYi District—Jesse F. Stallings,
renominated.
Third District—General George P.
Harrison, to succeed Hon. William C.
Oates, governor-elect.
Fourth District—Mardis Wood, to
succeed Congressman Robbins, de¬
feated.
Fifth District—Judge J. E. Cobb,
renominated.
Sixth District—Congressman Bank
head leads with a small margin over
three other contestants. The conven¬
tion is apparently in a deadlock.
Seventh District—W. H. Denson,
renominated.
Eighth District—Gen. Joe Wheeler,
renominated.
Ninth District—Oscar W. Under¬
wood, to succeed Congressman Turpin.
A. R. U. DIRECTORS ON TRIAL.
Before the Court to Answer to Con¬
tempt Charges.
The contempt cases against Eugene
V. Debs, George W. Howard, Sylves¬
ter Kelliher, L. W. Rogers, James
Hogan, W. E. Burns, Leroy M. Good¬
win, W. J. Elliott and J. F. McVean,
directors of the American Railway
Union, came up iu the United States
circuit court at Chicago Wednesday
morning before Judge Woods. Tho
defendants are accused of violating the
injunction issued by Judge Woods
and Grosscnp during the
recent strike, which restrained the
American Railway Union and all others
from any interference with the mails
or with interstate commerce.
COTTON CROP OF 1894.
The New Orleans Exchange Issues Its
Official Figures.
The New Orleans cotton exchange
issued its official announcement of the
cotton crop of 1893-’94 Saturday. This
announcement is made on the 1st of
September of each year, and is re¬
garded as the most authentic official
report of the crop issued. The figures
this year are as follows: Port receipts
for the year, 5,940,092. Overland,
931,706. Southern consumption, net,
678,019. Total crop, 7,549,817 bales.
Gross southern consumption, including
40,406 taken from ports, 718,515.
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