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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
stfS cl Ike Tto States Told in Para
frarK
A Charter for Lmoola's TJ- w Orchard
Company Highway Robb .ry Near
Chamblea—Gov. At* r*aon With .old*
the Commission of Bibb County’*
Kcwly Elected Treasurer—A Ntgro
Killed by a White Man in Self-Defense.
GEORGIA.
Only two vMip people dl*d in Perry
during the year 1894.
Bessi- Day, a small child of Augusta,
was badly burnt; i Thu; lay.
Wilkes county farmers are shipping
cattle to Augusta 1 th ■ i .!.
Mnj. A. T>. Ahr : ru f r ..rty year
* ii;z< nof
ago.
Col. W. K Ti. S- v has been appointed
reporter ol the Flint ■■■it by Judge
Beck.
Andrew J. Bun i*s. Jr., has bought the
shoe business of Burr.:.-s 1 in. s af
Madison.
The firm of Trevltt A Johnson of Rome
have dtssoh 1 by mutual consent, A.
Trevltt retiring
Albany nrr h'U 's ire protesting
again*
business of that j ! ;
G. W. Fulghnni and Hurry T. Johnson
h ive bought out \\ . s*. Downing in the
grocery iiu; 'nt;; at Grit;
The poultry and pet stoc'; show which
opens at a on J c 15 will 1 - the
largest ever h* 1 i in th* south.
The new redder' of It- n Bulloch, at
Hullochville, Is s; ld • b the b-n ! -orte l
in Meriwether rt rey. it co* t sJ.<**•.
The Albany city council !■ a removed
the prohibit .-ry 1 1* *n •* on - o and
hereafter the - hargen will l s•'" a day.
Boyce Fl* kirn lias r- tfr***l from the
eashiershii* <f Mu* Wahir 'tan K .< hart**
Bank, afttr holding th*- poition for ten
years. J. li. Dyson sure* <*ds him.
Work on the refrigerator room at the
pork packing factory at Valdosta is pro
gressing rapidly and everythin.:; will be
ready for re- * iving hogs by th* latter part
of next week.
The New Em, which has hitherto been
Jj’jblished at Lilhomu, will hereafter have
its office In Iterator. Judge William M.
Ragsdale of the latter place, has pur- !
chased the paper.
Thos. P. Hudson, who has owned the ,
old Evan Ilowdl farm on ti •* t’hattahoo
chee ri\er, near La wrcncevillo, has sold it
to Mr. I’uppa of Atlanta. Th- prlco paid
by Mr. Pappa was si6,ouo.
The wife of Steve Mi!!- r of T’nlon coun
ty died a few months ago. and, to th* sur
prise of all who knew him, he marrir J the
other day his wife's mother. Now h • is !
pronounced to be his own father-in-law.
A colored boy started a fir** at Marietta
with kerosene. It caught his clothing and
as he had a few Roman candles in his
pocket he furnished quite a display of fin
work* for those who happened to be near
by
The More of A. J. Robinson, :>t Milner,
was burKlnrixod Tlitm-.lnv nljrht. Th ’■
Poods were found Frida' In the barn of
C. M. Brinkley. three miles from Milner
Brinkley Is under arrest charged with the
crime.
East Sunday night, while attempting to
cross the bridge mar Ivey station. In
Wilkinson county, Marlon Kyles, an oi l
pentleman who lives in that neighborhood
was thrown from his wagon, ami had his
collar bone broken.
Messrs. A. G. Flemlster and J L. Hog-
Kie have formed a partnership at Dalton
and have rented the store formerly occu
pied by Trotter’s dry goods department
where lin y will wholesale and relail gro
ceries, provisions, etc.
.Baxley's municipal election held last
Thursday evi nhig resulted In the . lec.
turn of 'he following offl ers: N .1 Hol
ton, mayor; It. Millikln. recorder: ft.
W. Johnson, S. M. Johnson, W. \V Mor
ris, 11. Jt, l'a ttei son and J. 11. Thomas,
aldermen.
Robert Perkins, a well known farmer of
Coweta county, was stabbed l.v an. ero In
Turin tlistrli t, Wednesday. .Mr. Perkins
had taken up a cow belonging to the negro
He was called to his gate when the negro
sprang upon him with u knife. The
wounds ate very serious.
At Ath ns Friday, while playing around
* horse that was near his home, little
< 'hurley Yarborough, son of Mr< \VII. >
Hood, received a ten tile kick from the
horse's hoofs upon Ills leg. Dr. Conway
was cull'd in an'!, otter ar. examination,
discovered that the boy's 1. g was broken.
Motion for anew trial for John S.xon,
who is under lilt s ntonee for tlx mur
der of hls father-in-law. I. N. Dillard,
was made before Judge Reese In Sparta
on Thursday of li.s.t we. k, and a now
trial was refused. Saxon's council hate
given notice that they will carry the
case to the supreme court.
Col. James M. Smith of Lexington has
determined to start that <h> e • i.i.-tory
which he has been considering for the
pact year or so. He has engaged the ser
vices of a men from the north who is
fully conversant with the manufacture
of the esc, and by spring ho w ill probably
have the enterprise under way.
I-lon. T. A. Atkinson of Greenville re
ceived a painful Injury lust Tu'-day.
While riding over Lis farm, near Oak
land, In company wPh several gentlemen.
M was kicked on the ! g by one of the
horses. The shoe of the horse cut through
the clothing of Air. Atkinson to the bone.
If no bones are injured he may be out in
b. few weeks.
New? comes from different sec tions of
North Georgia that th- heavy and contin
uous rains have swollen all the streams,
and in many places the rapid rise or the
rivers caused much alarm Thursday. At
Home the water was 27 feet al;ove low
water mark, but was not expected to go
much higher. The* chances, now that the
weather has cleared up. are that no seri
ous damage will result.
Wednesday night a large tree struck the
Kllijay road bridge and knocked out two
bents and moved the bridge about ten
Inches down The BUI jay accom
modation train could not cross It Thurs
day morning. The northbound train was
met at the bridge bv the Killjoy accommo
dation and the mail and passengers were
pent to Blue Ridge and again transf erred.
The river is still high, but is now falling.
A moonshiner by the name of Coats.
Serving: a sixty day sentence, made his
escape from the Mrc- Jail at an curly
hour Wednesday morning. The cement
end brick were removed from the rear
wall, leavng a hole several feet square.
With the aid of blankets, which he tied
together, the ground was easily reached.
Ransom, another prisoner occupying the
tame ward, refused to accompany Coates.
ilohn Hornsby, the young man who
was accidentally shot In the thigh, re
cently, while out dove hunting near I’ark
crsville, in Worth county, will ?■■•-over,
notwithstanding the t t that
condition has all along been considered
seriously critical. Hornsby's right leg
was amputated about midway between
the knee and the thigh and then only
after he had lost such a quantity of blood
that his life v as de x aired of.
Fire in the dry goods store of the George
W. Green Company at Macon, Thursday,
destroyed the entire stock cf goods. an !
the building is almost a total less. T < .
Burke had $5,000 insurance on the budd
ing, and Mr. Green had SIO,OOO on th
stock of roods, divided as follows:
in the London Assurance Corpora t lor.,
$2,600 in the Westch* slcr Kin , and ; r,
in the Liverpool ad London and Globe,
and $2,500 In the North British and Mei -
cantile.
Blackhear Times: Lem Strickland, the
man who killed ,la'-k'.v Wilson at }r t* i
- on Christman day, and was seri* c iy
stabbed himself, ha** sufficiently recovu\d
to be arrested for the murder of Wilson,
but was not able when arrested to bo r -
moved and we understand that he was
placed in custody of a deputy for saf*
keeping, until he was able to he removed.
Monday night while the guard was at sup
per Lem slipped out and has not sine©
been heard of.
Arnold Broyles was appointed receiver
of th** Rome Gas Light Company IVedu-v.
day night by Judge George 1\ Gober. The
appointment of a reeciv*T was sought by
creditors representing of in and bted
ness, and was secured by Brandon & Ark
wright. attorn The peti
tioners were Samuel Spencer of N< w York
Charles L. Cotting of Boston, Edwin
Packard of New York s*r I G. 8 Tucker
man and Frank G Webster of Boston.
i The gontl* nv-n named are in the petition
i a- trustees of the street railway and eiec
j trie properties.
(’ai t. W. H Kenner, a progressive Whit
fi*-*d county farmer. o nit a large house on
, the south le o:' a hi' . double lining it
and hlhr.g the in g with sawdust to hold
1 his potatoes, pumpkins, flowers. e*c. lie
1 -li\i .ed it into large stabs for various
farm products that have kept perfectly,
i He ha bushels *>f potatoes, several
wagon loads of cabbag** and pumpkins,
and two big cribs of oo.n and plenty of
fodder, .*- . j*-s thirty head of liorf. H*=*
r.**.; ed four acres of cotton and 1, * - pounds
e*f fine tuba* * o which he sells to neighbors
in the hand at loc. per pound.
The San Kuru iy o papers contain a
full description of the horrible !- th by
burning oi .Mrs J >hn L- Conte at Berkc
!* y, Cal., on It* • 23. Mrs. be font** vas
th** widow of hr John L Font*-, for
merly ii professor o jrs tnd tron
<my at th** FniversPy of California. Dr.
Conte occur . t the chairs of natural
philosophy and chemistry at the I'riv-r
--vlty of Georg h iuring :!x years, login
ning in 185* li* wlf< was considered one
of the most beautiful women in the south,
♦
of the sot j y leader* of the state.
VaMord i Time-: The growth of ne w In
dustries an-I - hanged condition of de
mands are note-I in the purpose to which
the alliance cotton warehouse i j row' to be
put. The Montgomery Cooj rave Com-
I any whosi* manufacturing plant for tur
pentine barrels i*s In V'aldosta, Is prepar
ing t*> till Ih* w ir**hous*- wiiii r pirit
barrels. Their own storage rooms will
hold 2,!s'io barrels and they are now busily
engaged in tillin'' those quarters. The
demand hes kept up quite late into the
winter season, 6 *.) barrels being shipped
out from h ro in De * rnber. ns against
non * m tho same mouth of the year be
fore.
h." t Tuesday night the city council nf
Macon ' yoked tiie retail liquor license of
James Bir*is**ng, who ran air on Poj
lur street, *ppos!fe the mark* 1 * hoi;- '*. Tho
li* ens - was revokM.l on the allegation that
Mr. Birdsong kept a disorderly pliuo. and
that recently several lights have -- urred
there. It i: rumor* <1 that Mr. Birdsong
will probably sue the city feu damages
because tin- llccns- was i**vok ! without
Mr. Birdsong being arraigned before the
recorder on the charge of keeping a dis
orderly house and that no sworn evidence
against Birdsong was submitted to the
mayor ami council, it is also rumored that
Birdsong has e mployed good counsel and
will make a strong light.
A bold highway ruble ry occurred near
Fhamblee \\d-hie. day night. A. J. Kudi
sil-i, a merchant of that place, left on a
collecting tour several days ago nnd suc
ceeded in obtaining unite a sum of money.
Wednesday night w hile returning home he
was attacked when near home, and all of
the money taken from him. lie says ho
was seized from b hind and quickly over
powered. One of the robbers choked him
so as to prevent his malting any outcry,
while the others searched his pockets. If •
struggled with Ills assailants hut was pow
erless. The robbers succeeded In getting
nearly $::oo, all the money Mr. Kudislll
had collected. Th** money consisted of SHO
in s2o bills, and the balance in $lO and $o
bills.
Ever since the water works were put
In at <'artersvillc. tie* negro residents on
the side of the hill on whbh th* tmver
is built have lived iti dread that tho tow. r
might burst and their house# be inun
dated, and they themselves drpwned.
Consequently when one of the large pipes
burst near the tower the ether day and
a perfect torrent of water rushed down
the hillside, making 1 a mb.hty noisi , there
was such excitement as was never b< tore
Been among the negroes of <\n t-rsvilc*.
The dwellers on the hill tied in terror,
all thinking that their time had come. It
was a long time .alter the flow had stopped
and the huge tank was entirely empty
before any of them could bo induced to
venture near the hill.
The King’s Daughters of Georgia met at
Ma.i.n Thursday morning in tin* annex
building of Mulberry street Methodist
church and perfected permanent organi
zation under th** name of the Georgia
K inn's Daughters Association. Mrs.
Janies A. Thomas of Macon was enthu
siastically elected state president. Tho
other state officers elected were: Vico
president. Mrs. \\ . M. Latimer of Aunus.a;
recording secretary, Mrs. Alexander
Proud tit of Macon; corresponding secre
tary, Mrs. Print up of Home; treasurer,
Mrs. Kate Berrien Anderson of Savannah.
The sc< ictaides of the various depart
ments together with the above mine and offi
cer:? will constitute the executive council
of tho association, which will control its
affairs.
A negro girl named Rebecca Younger
died in Gartersville a ft w days a-<> af
ter being brought home from Atlanta.
S ‘veral months ago she gave birth to a
Child and wrapped it up in rags and
placed It in an old trunk, where it smoth
er- l to death. The officers found it im
mediately and the coroner’s Jury pro
nounced her guilty of infanticide. The
guard put rvir her was lax, it being lit
tle dreamtd she would attempt to < •ip *,
but she fled the first night after the dis
covery and went to Atlanta, it seems,
and kept her whereabouts w 11 concealed.
From tho exposure she had to undergo
she got sick and finally was sent to the
Grady hospital, where she wrote her
mother to come after her. Upon advice
of white people her mother went for her
anl the girl died soon after her arrival
at CartT-vllle.
Dr. Samuel Hape. secretary of tDo Geor
gia slate agricultural society, in discuss
ing the affairs of tho Dixie Interstate fair
at Atlanta Friday, said the society was
not at all uneasy over the effort to hold it
jointly responsible for the payment of
premiums with the Dixie Fair Company.
“Asa matter of fact," sal.l Dr. Hape,
"tho fair people owe us money just like
they owe it to others. We wore in a
sense an employe of the fair company.
Our contract v ith them was that wo
should be paid $1,750 for taking charge of
certain departments. Out of tills money
w • were to pay the expenses of the super
intendence of Are departments. The con
tract called for the payment to us of this
money on the second day of the fair, but
we didn’t get it then, and a week later
succeeded in getting only SI,OOO. The f,ir
people still owe us the remaining $750. In
the contract with the society the fair com
pany expressly agrees to pay all pre
miums. so I do not see how any claim cun
be made on us for their non-payment.'’
Gov. Atkinson has withheld the commis
sion of Mr. Musscnlmrg as county treas
urer of Bibb county. The commissions
of all the other county officers have been
received. It is not known, of course,
upon just what grounds the commission
has been withheld, but it is to b<* taken
for granted that it has been done on ac
count of the pending tilsnute over the
constitutionality of the office of countv
treasurer. Opinion among the authori
ties has been widely fi!vide 1 as to whciher
the governor would have to ‘. sue the com
mission upon th© face of the election re
turns. Many of the ablest lawyers of
Macon have held that he would have* to
do eo and that if tho existence of the
office was to be brought before the courts
by the county commissioners. Others
‘aid that the governor could grant or re
fuse to issue the commission as lie saw
lit upon his construction of the legal
points involved. The blank bond for tho
county treasurer came along with the
o hers and some seem to think that pos
sibly the failure of the commission to
come was due to an oversight.
Valdosta Times: The Mineola Orchard
Company has tiU-d it* application to th*
superior court of the southern circuit for
charter to uo business at Mineola in
Lowndes county. Their petition has been
filed in the office of the clerk of the
superior court by their attorneys. The
capital stock of the company will* be s•'.
000. of which SIO,OOO ha? been paid in. The
incorporators are Milton \V. Strait, Win
-IDM fl. Sheppard, J. M. Loren. ltamlow,
D. Fanning, S. A. Webb of Ohio, and \\
1 . Glessner of Georgia. Some weeks ago
the Times announced that an Ohio syndi
cate of fruit growers, had purchased
through the ag ney of Mr. A. T. Moore,'
the Marlon Nelson plantation, near Min
eola, in Lowndes county, and that thev
were going to engage in pench and fruit
culture on a considerable scale, it was
stated that they had paid about $U).uoO
for the I.J a acies. and further, that they
exi * ted t > !n\ est not Unn tho • T i.ooo in
the venture. This application for charter
is tht next step, and we have information
that they are ptishinc things along rapi
dly, and will soon begin active work mak
ing the place ready for the young trees.
Meldrim Guidon: There is a family of
negroes living, or rath r stiiy about
three miles from Meldrim. on the river
road, that should be looked after at once
There are three i ersons. an old men a
young woman and a little girl. The old
man is too oh' and infirm to work for a
living and the young woman is crazy
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, .IANCARY 13. 1895.
or Idiotic. They are huddled up in a lit
tlo hut without floor or chimney. The
rack* ere op'-n a*i-i the roof leak>. They
rake together a few sticks an l bu id a
hr- in the middle of the hut. and all
hover around it. There Is not a vestige
of bed brig >r furniture about the plaee.
The poor *dd nan has not clothes enough
to cover his person, and the crazy woman
hr*'* on nothing'but a crocus bag with
hoi s t or head and arms, luring ih re-
at col l wee.cher. How they kept from
freezing is .t mystery. The only food
they have | what they can gather In the
w >cds, unless occasionally they beg eome
tli‘ng from the people bvtng in that lo
cality. The little girl, who is about 7
or a years old, seems to have sense
enough, . nd mli'ht be made to earn her
living *f some rood person had her, hut
ic U said that old Joe will not allow any
one to take her .
Kb hi and Paper: A bullet hole through
h l * s skull end brain, wher* th*- ball from a
Winchester rille had plowed Its way
through, s*nt Shelly Johnston, a young
m.-!i. hurrying into eternity Sat
urday. Edward < larK, a young white
man well kn -wn in Richland, tired the
fatal shot, and the homici I** occurred lr;
th-* Gooseberry district, Webster county.
I* - - >ms that the n**gro lived on a place
belonging to Mr. Clark’s brother. This
g :itl* man wanted him to move out of the
hjsc; he was in am. make room for an
other t- na.it. IB* and E-mis Cato went to
s*:* th* negro !*out the matter early In
th-* day, several hours before the tragedy
. urr--i. Th * negro refused to vacate
11:house and a difficulty arose, during
\vhi*‘h the negro seriously l .t Mr. Clark’s
hand and bit Mr. Cato’s nose off, or nearly
;o. When h** heard of th* matter Edward
Clark, in company with several oth*-r
g< nth-men, w- nt to s**e the negro, with
a view to adjusting the affair and get
ting him to move out peacefully and
qui- ;!y. The boy refused t* come out of
the he use and talk with Mr. (’lark, who
told hi.n he want* I no difficulty, but sim
ply desired to talk with him. Mr. Clark
then told the negro that if he wouldn’t
tome out he would go in the house and
talk with him. * All rii;ht; come on,”
• aim** the answer. And Air. Clark went,
lr: the meantime Shelly had gotten a pis
tol from somewhere and, ns Mr. Clark
v• ’M in the *i<ior, the negro covered
him with his gun. Mr. (Mark told <he
li era no. to shoot him, to put up his
p tn-t h’s mission was or.e of
tyarc and h** wanted no difficulty. Be
irg hus* assured the negro dropped his
pistol to his sine and Air. (Mark com
men-e lto talk with him. He had scarcely
finished a sentence, however, before the
n*gro rais* and hi.* pistol and sent a ball
flying clos • bv his h**nl. In another sec
*> ! Mr. Clark had fired liis Winchester
rifle, an l Shelly Johnson was dead.
Athens Banner: In a country home
near Athens there is one thing that at
once rivets tin* attentive gaze of the
s ranger a.- he enters beneath the hospita
ble roof. It arousal the curiosity and stim
ulates to inquiry, but on** question Is all
that is ever asked, for the sad answer
always ends th** conversation and shifts
It to other subjects. Hanging upon the
wall near the fln pla •*} in which the huge
oak 1 -s Maze forth their warmth and
cheerfulness Is an old shattered mirror.
A glance is sufficient to tell that it has
s**n many years of service, and that
many d* cadets have come and gone sine**
B was hung upon the wall for the first
time. It is pa*t the period of usefulness
now, for its shining surface Is shiv* red
Into many pieces, and it no longer reflects
the pleasant features of the human face.
That mirror has a story of sadness con
reded with It, and a small red stain upon
the wall, now almost obliterated by the
tooth of time tells story. Years ago
an old man was standing In front of that
mirror shaving. Ho dreamed of no harm
1- falling him. ami yet the Grim Reaper
was at hand in a most horrible form. Th*
doorway was just behind him, and
the door noiselessly opened a younger
man stepped in and stoo I for a moment
motion!* ss . Then a dark scowl settled
upon the features of the young man an*l
he lifted a gun to his shoulder. A sharp
report, and the old man fell dead upon
th* floor. The mirror was shattered and
a small stain of blood left upon the wall.
Th* young man was a near relative of the
old man. and out of hasty revenge for
some act of the old man had taken his
life. The murderer made his escape, and
w s nc * r captured. The shattered mir
ror still hangs in its place, sacredly guard
ed l> a daughter of th“ victim of that
awful tragedy. She allows nobody to
touch B. nnd It will hang there till she
dies. What reason can be assigned for
its preservation no one can tell, but the
daughter chooses to keep It where It was
the morning of her father’s death.
FLORIDA.
Tho Umatilla Weekly has suspended pub
lication.
mpo Ocala New Onpitol will resume pub
lication in a day or two.
Col. L. 11. Tyler, a prominent resident
of St. Augustine, died Wednesday.
A horne-soekerF excursion of about 100
Ohio people, under the pilotage of M. S.
Bonn of Dayton, 0., reached Pensacola
Thursday.
Congressman Capehart of West Virginia
is said to have paid SI,OOO an acre for a
tract of land between Luke Worth and
Palm Beach.
F. M. Bevillc* & Cos. of Bartow have as
signed to J. J. Mills for th© benefit of ihe4r
creditors. Assets* and liabilities are
both small and nearly balance.
Work was begun on the addition to the
Congregational church at Tampa Monday
morning. Four rooms for Sunda> school
und social purposes are to be add and.
It. is noticeable that Satsuma orange
trees * sfiip* i| the blighting offsets of the
Ire. ze. In groves v here all other lec ct s
are yellow the Bart su mu'a arc still gr*en.
H. E. Charpia of Cltronello lest hls
dwelling and barn with their contents by
fir© Friday. Mr. Charpia was not at homo
at tho time of th© fire and nothing was
saved.
S. Davidson, a diamond broker of
Maiden Lane. New York, died suddenly
of hemorrhage at his room at the hotel
Cordova at St. Augustine Wednesday
night.
J. H. Vereen had on exhibition in Ocala
Monday a tobacco plant stalk from his
firm in Marion county, which measui'vi
fourteen feet in length and ten inches in
diameter.
The Pensacola colored Knights of Labor
a**e divided into two factions, and Monday
night had a lively row in their installation
meeting, the police being required to quell
the disturbance.
The recent cold spell did considerable
damage at Inverness. The leading orange
growers seem to think that a majority
of the trees are killed, though it is hoped
they are mistaken.
A bicycle race for a purse of SSO has been
arranged (it Titusville between Harry
C. Budge of Titusville and A. 3. Thomp
son, recently from Amerlcus. The dis
tance will be five miles.
Mr. Dorsey, son of John Dorsey, liv
ing near Medulla, was struck on the law
by a tree ho was felling Wedresday near
King*--forth IP- was knocked senseless
and the lower jaw broken.
At Port Tampa the dredge Pico is work
ing steadily and discharging material on
flat cars with h . conveyor. These
cars are carried ashore and the material
used in filling in low places.
The saw mill and premises of the Mc-
Millan Lumber Company a' Pine Barren,
Escambia county, is now lighted with elec
tricity. sixty lights being furnished by a
plant owned by the mill company.
Ilillsboror ;h county has no funds in
har.fi to me t the expenses of the crimi
nal court, since no levy has been made bv
the commissioners for this purpose, and
cannot make any before Oct. 1 next.
The receipts at th Daytona postofflee
from the rale of ( tamps anrl envelopes for
1 r-o Teer show an increase of one-fourth
over last year, and almost one hundred
per cent. o\ :'r the receipts for December.
1890.
A horrible feature of the cutting in two
of Darjing at a saw mill at Newberry a
day or two ago was that after Darling hail
been cut in twain he opened hi.- mouth
two or three times os though endeavoring
to speak, but <b th quickly scaled his lips.
Dr. it. L. Harris, for a number of years
chief surgeon of the S. & St. p. R. R. t
w ith headquarters at Oakland, has resign
ed that position, his resignation to take
effect Fel>. l, vvh* n he will remove to Or
lando to reside permanently and engage In
in dieal practice.
Jam s A. Gilfov. prominent in local se
cret societies at Nashua, X. H., who went
to Florida last fall with Charles P. Smith
of the Jacksonville Duval Club, is missing.
The letters his wife has sent him have
been returned, and he has not been heard
from for many weeks.
Wm. Kettle, i white oltv prisoner work
ing in a gaio at the city cremator at
Jacksonville Thursday was badly burned
about tne legs from the fe*-t up to the
knees by stepping through a pile of trash
which was burning and smouldering un
derneath, but which was apparently solid
on top.
Air. and Mrs. John J,. Wilson has pre
rent**! the f*ne property corner of Bt.
George and Bt. Francis -tree' to St. Au
ruai i.. f r * public librmi Th* , * r*v
has been known tor many years as the
Dnmirutt property, whi* h Mr Wii on pui
ch:u-ed an*l entirely remodelleu at a cost
of about
A man named Hardee, who was wanted
In Gadsden county for an assault with
attempt to commit murder, was arrested
by the authorities at Orlando a few days
ago, aid tonlned dill the arrival of
someone to escort him back to the place
where his offene** was commilt* !. Sheriff
Gh*ißter of Gu laden arrived and took him
in charge.
Marshal McFhattee of Kissimmee last
w k arrested a man at Kissimmee who
is charged with murder. A reward of
S3OO is offered, and if proof is established
that the party Is captured. Mr. Mc-
Fhattee will collect the nice sum of s*>oo.
Sheriff Dukes and Marshal If. C*. Weeks
of Denmark, S. C., came on an l took
the supposed murderer back.
Master JameK, the 11-year-old son of
Capt. J. A. Bryan, near Hyde Park ave
nue, at Tampa, is not expected to live.
On Christmas day, in attempting to lire
a toy cannon, a spark dropped into the
priming pan and caused a premature ex
pbjion. burning both eyts badly. The
let. eye has in flam and very seriously and
has involved the optic i* tve reaching the
brain.
It is believed that the DcLard electric
railway s heme is deal, for many have
believ* 1 lor more than a month that Its
projectors had decided to abandon it be
fore they submitted the proposition to
the people to build it if local capitalists
would Take $40,000 of the stock. This pro
posal was made as it was believed that
this amount of stock would not be
taken and thus they would be I t out.
In the lire at Hasting Bui lay ni?ht. In
which V. J. White’s barn wa - de troved,
two persons W’ere painfully burr:**! Mrs.
I’. J. White was burned about tt • i c<* and
neck, but not seriouslv, and the old colored
laim hand, who was sleeping iti the barn,
was burned about the rie.it shoul trr. Airs.
White was burned while trying t * save a
pet calf, and the colored man received
his injuries fighting the iii Mr. White
estimates Ids loss at $3,0*10. No insurance.
The damage to th>* lettuce crop around
GaJnesvllLe by the freeze i im’ as gnat
as was at first suppose 1. Plants that at
first were* supposed t > have been killed
are now sending out new shoots, which
will head in a few weeks. T. Denby, who
had his lettuce under * over, is now
shipping in large quantities. The latest
returns from N**w York have petted him
$4 lor half-barrel Crates, tie will ship iuO
baskets Saturday, and heavy shipments
will be made for several weeks.
At Tampa Thursday, in the trial of
Sela P. Harrison for killing W. M. Hend
ley, the entire day wus consumed in hear
ing the testimony of Mrs. Jennie Har
rison. wife of the defendant. The llicit
relations existing between her and Bend
ley were sworn to and corroborated by
the correspondence passed between them
during the time. Harrison had a knowl
edge of all these things before the kill
ing. The general opinion is that Harri
son will either be aequitbd or a verdict
for manslaughter only will he rendered.
Gainesville Sun: A white man from Co
lumbia county was In the city Thursday
on route to Hawthorne, where he was
to b * united In matrimony to one of the
popular young ladies ot that vicinity.
The poor follow’s pocket book was as Hat
as a shingle after h** had pur tamed a
ticket at Fort White and paid for the mar
riage license In Gainesville. lie did not
have a “red,” and to add to his trouble
and humiliation the train left him. Here
he was, eighteen miles from where the
ceremony was to take place, and with
no means of covering that distance.
A searching party from Kissimmee
was sent out two weeks since to secure a
f*-w of tin* Seminole chiefs for th*- pur
pose of going on a hunt with a party of
Pittsburg hunters. After traveling over
800 miles, through sav-grass, sand dunes,
etc., the party found one tribe of the
Bemlnoles in the heart of the Everglades,
and secured the promise of Ghiefs 'lull i
hassee, Tom Tiger and Billy Bustee to
meet the hunters at Bassinger, give the
“pale faces” an Ideal Seminole hunt and
return with them on th** steamer Koseada
to Kissimmee. Mr. Tlmberlake, of tin*
Tropical, will keep the dusky braves at
the hold as long as they can be induced
to remain.
The golden wedding anniversary of
Judge J. Wofford Tucker and wife of
Sanford took place on Dec. 26. It was
known, however, to only a very few per
sons, on account of the exceeding mod
esty of the judge and his amiable consort.
Sanford Chronicle: Capt. M. E. Brock
of Oviedo, who was in town on Tuesday
last on bis return from Atlanta, On.,
where he had taken a carload of oranges,
picked Jan. 1, and consequently frozen,
states that the 233 boxes in the car sold
for an even S6OJ, and at approximately
that rate, he could have sold five' or six
carload. It was a mistake that our grow
ers generally did not appreciate the op
portunity to thus individually rid them
sel\ cs of the injured fruit. Capt.
Brock saw the chance and took it.
News of a tragedy which occurred near
Winn, in Hamilton county, a night or two
has jtu t I'M- h< I Jai . r. Th | irtlo
ulnrs are meagre, but it seems that Elias
Daniel had a number of his m ighbors
helping him move n house. After supper
the young people assembled there, en
gaged in a" dance. Among the number
was a young man by the name of John
Denmark, who, before engaging in the
dance, gave his pistol to one of his friends,
named Norton, to keep for him. Later
on in the evening Norton slapped Den
mark, kicked him, and as Denmark
stepped, or fell out of the door, shot him
through the heart with the very pistol
that Denmark had given him lo keep,
killing him instantly. Norton then walked
off and lias net been heard of since. What
the provocation was has not been learned,
Norton is a son-in-law of Mr. Daniels,
at whose house the tragedy occurred J and
all the parties concerned are people of
the highest respectability.
Wednesday afternoon* Pilots Edward
C. Allen. Daniel Allen, and a colored boy,
John Ilammomi, eroded the bar at St.
Augi:,tine to pilot in the schooner Julia
Warr, with coal and groceries from New
York. The sea was rough, but they
re-ache. 11 the Warr, and Daniel Allen
jumped on board, leaving Edward Allen
and Hammond to return in the Baldwin.
When crossing the bar in returning a
heavy sea struck the Baldwin so sud
denly that she could not rise with it, and
completely filled her with water, render
ing her unmanageable, and a second sea
threw her on h r beam ends, in which
condition the tide floated her from deep
water onto a shoal. The sea linn began
to wash completely over the boat and
Hammond was swept away, but was
saved from drowning by Capt. Allen,
who had a narrow escape himself. Both
managed to get into a small boat float
ing- from the stern of the Baldwin, and
came safely aero.*a the bar, returning to
town alter a rough experience. The Bald
win is badly injured, there being a big
hole througn her side, made by the mast.
She will probably be floated when the
extent of her injuries will be Known.
The people of Bartow and Polk county
have been greatly annoyed by a communi
cation sent to the New York World by
J. C. Tilson, of Tilson postoffice, Fla. This
is v settlement on the northern boundary
of Polk, where it appears the cold wave
was keenly felt. No one hereabouts
knows of . ly < eof destitution such as
would justify an appeal for charity to the
World. The board of trade of Bartow
met Friday afternoon and wired to the
New York World he following: Board
of Trade, Bartow. Fla., Jan. 10, 1895. Ed
itor New York World: In refutation of
the slander of one J. C. Tilson, of Tilson,
Fla., published in the World of the Bth.
we desire to denounce as grossly sensa
tional and untruthful the entire article.
While there have been some losses as the
result of the re* ent freeze, \vt know of
no ease of destitution in Polk county,
and such temporary want, if any, as may
exist. Poik county is abundantly able and
willing to care for. We are not in need
of any outside help, l’olk county lias suf
fered less than almost auv other section
of the state from the recent freeze. J.
N. Smith, mayor of the city of Bartow;
E. L. Roche, president board of trade. A
committee was also apopinted to make
inquiries about Tilson, and if found to
be in a destitute condition to relieve him.
Punta Gorda Herald: Strenuous ef
forts are being made to make good the
amount of Postmaster George T. Hu
bert’s shortage in the Punta Gorda post
office. Hubert's bondsmen arc circulating
the following petition: "To whom it may
concern: About the first of I>ecembsr,
the pest office department discovered
a shortage of about in the accounts
of G'-orge T. Hubert, postmaster of Punta
Gorda. Fla., and the postmaster was
placed under arrest and i* now held in
SSOO bond for his appearance at the Febru
ary term of th** United States court in
Tampa. The shortage occurred during
several months while the postmaster,
during most of the time, was under the
Influence of liquor, and he is unable to ac
count for the shortage. lie claims and
the public believes that it occurred through
no intention to be dishonest or defraud.
This shortage must be made good, and
to meet It immediately would almost
bankrupt the bondsmen. Financially the
postmaster is unable to meet any part
of the shortage. The feeling among rll
political parties Is that the bond be paid
at once, and that the revenues of the * f
fl<e b* applied to meet the shortage, until
the amount is covered. The office for the
pref nt has been turned over to th** bonds
men, with one of them acting. The of
fi* <• will net about s*><>* per annum above
running expenses. A brother of Air. Hu
bert agrees to pay S2O per annum. His
father and family will assist ail they are
abb*, and it is estimated that the office
will pay out in about three y*-;;rs. So
many people have offered to make small
loans to the bondsmen that they feel
warranted in asking subscriptions, which
will be repaid with interest as rapidly as
the revenues of the office will permit.
We the undersigned subscribe the amount
set oppsite our names.”
THE DAILY MARKETS.
Business Generally Ouiet and Transac
tions Limited in Leading Departments.
Very Little Doing in Naval Stores.
Cotton l-16e Higher for Some Grades,
But Only a Moderate Business Done.
The Local Wholesale Trades Quipt
and Steady Grain and Provisions
Higher- Stocks Firm.
Savannah, Jan. 12.—This was a quiet
day in the leading markets, the only
changes being an advance of 1-lCc for
middling and low middling cotton. Trad
ing in the staple was only fair. In naval
stores there was very little doing, but
prices remained firm and unchanged. The
general wholesale markets were quiet,
w ith the usual Saturdays transactions.
Grain took a Jump at the opening of
the Chicago Board of Trade, wheat gain
ing g.c, corn •* , JJ c to be and oats Uto r 3 c
over Friday’s closing quotations. Pro
visions were also higher. Securities w**re
firm at the New York Stock Exchange,
with a net gain of V* to K 4 per cent, in the
permanent issues. Bonds were active and
higher.
Jn cotton futures there was no activ
ity whatever. The market was devoid
of speculation. Buyers were few and sell
ers scarce.
The following resume of the different
markets will show the tone and the quo
tations at the close to-day:
COTTON.
Middling and low middling cotton ad
vanced 1-I6c to-day, while other grades re
mained unchanged. There was a fair de
mand, th© sales amounting to 1,008 bales.
On ’Change at the first call, at lo:30 o’clock
a. m., the market was bulletined quiet and
steady at an advance of l-16c on middling
and low middling, with sales of 29 bales.
At the* second call, at 1 o’clock p. m.. It
was quiet and steady and unchanged with
sales of 414 bales. At the last call it closed
quiet and steady and unchanged with
further sales of 650 bales.
The following were the official spot quo
tations, at the close of the market, at the
Cotton Exchange to-day:
Good Middling 5 7-10
Middling 51 h
Low Middling 4 13-it>
Good Ordinary p_,
Market quiet and steady; sales, 1,003;
middling same day last year, 74 4 c.
Sea Island—The demand was fair, par
ticularly l’or tiie better grades, and the
tone of the market continued firm. Sale
were made on a basis of the following
quotations:
Choice 15ft 15^.
Extra fine to choice l 14
Extra fine l2(fiVA
Fine "ittj
Medium line 10<fil2
Correction—ln the weekly report pub
lished yesterday, the receipts of Sea Island
for "the san’.- week last year'' should
have been 1,617 bans Instead of 11,647.
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 12.—Sea Island
Cotton—Quote medium line Islands. lTfi,
Ike; tine islands, 221121 c; extra line islands,
281?25c; sales, 40 bales.
Savannah receipts, exports and stocks—
Receipts this day j 4%
Same day last year :! n;i
Receipts since Sept. 1, 1834 720 042
Same time last year 761.48
Kxports, continent, this day 7 uu7
Stock on hand this day ]O6 323
Same day last year
Receipts and stocks at the ports—
Receipts tills day 2.7 °2l
This day last week 2.'i7i74
This day last* year \ 20 618
Total receipts since Sept, 3, lsot.. 5,610 127
Same time last year 4 46k'co
Stock at the ports to-day 1111852
Stock same day last year iV"> '<l
Daily Movement r.t Other Ports-:
Galveston—Firm; middling. 3 3-16- net
receipts. 6,300; sales. 3,039; stork, 264 i23
New Orleans—Quiet; middling, o'o net
receipts. 30,319; gross, 10,341; sules. 3,800-
stock, 532,715.
Mobile—Dull; middling, 5: net reo ipts
I. gross, 1,086; sales, none; stock, 12,(
730.
Charleston—Firm; middling, 5>4; net re
ceipts. 1.033; sales. 450; s:to< k. 67,606
Wilmington—Dull; middling, 6; net re
ceipts, 50,; stock, 20.711.
Norfolk—Steady; middling, SU: net re
ceipts, 1,023; sales, 587; stock, 65.618.
Baltimore—Dull: middling. 5- s ; net re
ceipts. none; gross. 1,572; .slock, 18,145.
New York—Dull; middling. 5-%; net re
ceipts, 28; gross, 12,12; stock, 120,363.
Boston—Dull: middling. 5%; net re
ceipts. 576; gross, 2,052.
Philadelphia—Quiet; middling, 6; net re
ceipts. 434; stock, 8,512.
Dally Movement at Interior Towns—
Augusta—Very stdady; middling, Ru
net receipts. 362; stiles, 818; stock, 35.874. ’
Memphis—Steady; middling, D,; net re
ceipts, 1,120; gross, 2,475; sales, 1,90n; stock
141,310. '
64. Louis—Middling, ; net re
ceipts. 201; t-ules, l.OUO; stock, 74.487,
Cincinnati —Steady: middling, 3%; net re
ceipts, 1,200 gross, 5,313; sales, 800; stock
11,
Houston—Quiet; middling, 5%; sales, 53
stock, 69,695.
Kxports of cotton this day—
Galveston—To Great Britain, 8,128;
France, 6.523.
New Orleans—To Great Britain, 7 076-
continent, 5,207: coastwise, 310.
Mobile—Continent, 526; coastwise, 458.
Savannah—Continent. 7.u07.
Charleston—Coastw ise. 977.
Norfolk—Coastwise. 160.
New Y'ork—To Great Britain, 7,669; con
tinent. 699; forwarded, 7,181.
Boston—To Great Britain, 3,882.
Total foreign exports from all ports to
day and thus far this week—To Great
Britain, 26,755; to France, 6,523, to the con
tinent, 11,782.
Total foreign exports since Sept. 1, 1804
To Great Britain, 1,990,512; to France, 530 -
792; to the continent, 1,107,676.
Liverpool, Jan. 12.—Noon—American
middling. 3 l-16d; sales, 8,000 baler; Amer
ican, 7,100 bales; speculation and export
Oct' hales: receipts, 57,000 bales, American'
56.200 baler.
Futures opened easier: demand moder
ate; January, 2 63d; February and March
Said; March ami April. 2.aid: .'.lav and
June, 3.04d; June and July. 3.03d; August
and September, 3.08d; Scntember and Oc
tober, 3.09d; futures quiet but steadv at
the decline.
1 p. m— Cotton—American middling.
3 l-l'hi. Futures—January. 2.63d buyers;
January and February, 2.63d; Februurv
ami March. 3.(Wd buyers; March and April.
3 (lid sellers; April and May, 3.02d buyers:
May and June, 3.04d sellers, June a:ni
July, 2.05(1 sellers; July and August, 3.06 J
sellers; August and September, 3.06d sell
ers; September and October. S.OOd buyers.
Futures closed dull.
New Yotk, Jan. 12, nocn.—Cotton futures
opened dull, February, 5. S3 - March, 5.58-
A.pril, 5.02; May, 5.67, June, 5.79; July, 5.74.
New Orleans. in. 12.—Cotton futures
quiet; sales, 54,100 bales; January, 5.12;
February. 5.21; Alarch, 5.31; Apni, 5.34;
May, 5.rJ, June, 5.45; July, 5.50; August,
5.55; September, 5.53; October, 5.*53.
New York. Jan. 12.—The total visible
supply of cotton for the world is •!
bales, of which 4.52*5.451 bales are Ameri
can. against 4,£>1.614 bales and 4.127.111
bales respectively last year. The receipts
of cotton this week at all interior towns
were P*8,549 bales. The receipts from the
plantations were 173,441 bales.. The crop
in sight is 7.238,4*>9 bales.
New York. Jan. 12.—The Sun’s Cotton
article says: “Cotton declined 1 to 2 points,
recover*-*! this anl closed dull; suies.
14,70 u bales. Liverpool declined 1 point
and closed dull. New Orleans receipts
on Monday w ?re estimated at 15,000 bodes
to 16,000 bales, against 20,284 bales
last Monday, and 9.028 hales for this
time last year. A Fall River dispatch
said: This market has been agitated and
unsettled throughout. At the closing,
however, it is quiet end easy on a bas.s
of 2*2-16 for extras, sellers having success
fully combatted the efforts of the buyers
to bring the price to 2 1 2 c, the lowest
price in the history of the country. Op
erations were on a more extended scale.
Production 2lO,*juo pieces, deliveries, 22*>,-
Ctto pieces; sales, l’*,o<o pieces, including
84.0 W odds and 82.U0U sixty-four squares,
of which 54.0U0 were spots and 122,W0 fu
tures. Stock, 98,000 odds and 50,0uu sixty
four squares; total, 148,UG0 pieces. If the
pri e should recede to 2 J jc, there may be
a return of the trouble experienced in
August and during the fall of 1854, but
th*- depreciation in the value of the raw
material offsets thio in a great measure.
The market was as near stationary as
it very well could be. Operators were
holding off for further developments. Re
ceipts are large, but prices are lowr.
The speculation Is very light. The cot
ton goods trade is in nything but a sat
isfactory condition. The receipts at the
ports this week are estimated at ISu.oOO
bales, against 100,000 bales for the same
week in the big crop year of 1592.
New York, Jan. 12.—Hi cud an Ar Cos. say
of cotton: “It has been a phenomenally
dull weak in the cotton market, and to
day was about the most inactive ‘lay of
th** month. May fluctuated b tween 5.6**0
nnd 5.68 c. The close was dull, with s.*>7c
bid for May. This seems to be a com
plete pause in the speculation. Buying or
ders are few and far between. On the
olh* r hand, nobody wants to sell. If
there Is to be a further decline, It must
come from the liquidation of speculative
holdings, but holders are not so easily
frightened Into selling out as they were
when prices were higher. Those who
are counting upon liquidation to give us
lower prices may find themselves woefully
mistaken. We have good i cason to believe
that the buyers at pres* lit values Include
a far larger proportion of “stayers” than
ever before. The knowledge that an ur
ti* le of recognized Intrinsic value and
which can be held indefinitely has been
acquired at ;• price far I* :-s than the cost
of production, makes tne purchasers of
cotton contracts feel that they are in
vestors rather than speculators, and in
case* of further decline the chances are
that they will but more rather than sell
out what they have. It is well, however,
to look the facts of the situation squarely
in the face. The crop In sight to-day is
at least half a million bales more than at
the same date in 1892, when the yield was
over 9,000,0un bales. If the movement for
the rest of the season should he the same
as in 1892, we should have to deal with
a crop of over 9,600,000 bales. But it is not
the size of this crop so much as the pros
pects for the next one that will deter
mine the course of prices. If the southern
farmers will cut down the cotton acreage
one-half, or, still better, if they will buy
for future and -livery the cotton they usually
grow and give their land a rest, they will
no longer have to complain, of low prices.
But if every farmer plants all he can„
depending on his neighbors to curtail
production, wo may not only fail to get
an advance, but we may see cotton selling
next fall at 4e. or perhaps 3 cents. The
matter rests on the action of the cotton
growers themselves. Because we cannot
believe that the southern farmers will be
foolish enough to cut their own throats,
financially, we expect higher prices before
spring. Upon ail declines we favor buy
ing.”
NAVAL S’foRES.
Spirits Turpentine—There was a fair de
mand :tt the current price. At the Board
of Trade at the first call, at 11 o'clock,
the rnnrket was bulletined ilrtn at 26c for
regulars, with sales of 398 cask.?. At the
close it vim firm and unchanged, with no
sales reported.
Rosin—The market was rather quiet, the
only Inquiry being for the lower grades.
At the Board of Trade at the tlrst call at
11 '('clock the market was bulletined iirrn
and urn hanged with sales of ill barrels,
all of which were common grades. At
the last rail, the market closed firm and
unchanged v.ith no sales.
A. B. C 81 00 I SI 90
D 1 05 K 2 30
K 1 10 At 2 56
F 1 15 N 2 7o
G 1 35 W G 2 80
H 1 65 XV \y 3 05
Naval Shores Statement—
Spirits. Rosin.
Stock on hand April 1 11.614 109977
Itecelved yesterday 217 4 741
Received previously 256,953 853i388
T' ota l 268,834 968,109
Exported to-day pspt ,un
Exported previously 250,416 76G’,603
Total .252,364 771,613
Stock on hand and on ship
board this day 16,470 196,406
Mock same day last year 15,n0! it- vn
Receipts sance day last year.. i~3 il'n'i;;
Charleston. S. C„ Jan. 12.-Turpentine
firm. 2.J„; receipts, 17 casks. Ro-.ia good
strained, firm, $1; receipts, 207 barrels
Wilmington. Jan. 12.—Rosin firm; strain
ed, 9i.Cc; good strained 51.02 L. Spirits tur
pentine firm at 25c bid. Tar stead'- at 94c
Crude turpentine tirm; hard, si pi- Rn Vt'
{1.50; virgin, 31.70. ' l *
New Y'ork, Jan. 12. Rosin dull steady
strained, common to good. M 351,1 in'
Turpentine, quiet steady; 27oi#28*c. "
RICg.
The market was steady. Th" following
quotations are posted at tho Board of
Trade:
Clean Rice—
Common, 3Llt3<ic per pound; fair, 3-\*f
4( , good 4L'&(‘,e: prime, 4\ choice
head, 0U0V: small lots, USLc higher '
Rough Rice- “ /4 *“KIlFr
t-cPi’o?' 1, 4D ® 6sc r,f>r b >>shel; tide water
io'(3 <|)i. 4cJ.
FINANCIAL.
Savannah, Jan. 12.—Money is steady
Domestic Exchange—The tone of' t’ne
market is steady. Banks are buying at
1-16 per cent, discount and selling at 1 Pi
premium for amounts of 5500 or over
Foreign Exchange—The market to
frnt The following are net Savannah
quotations; Commercial demand s' -Ai
sixty days, 51.87 b; ninety days’ si\,,7*:
lrancs, Paris and Havre, sixty ciiv’
$5,176*4; Swiss, sixty davs, 53.19- n ■ 1
sixty days, 95'i. * '
Securities—There is still a good de
mand for dividend paying securities
Slate Bonds—Georgia 146 p tr cert 1915
114', bid, 115’:. asked; Georgia 7 per cent
1896, 104% bid. 105,., asked; etlorgia V, • Lv
cent., long dates, 100 bid, 101 asked " *'" r
City Bonds—New Savannah 5 t er rent
quarterly ex-January coupons, 105 bid
asked; new Savannah 5 per cent FehV„
ary coupons, 105% bid, 106'j asked
Railroad Bonds—Central Railroad
Banking Company collateral <’ou' - 'V 11
bid, 951 asked; Central con-olidated m-'.rt
gage 7 per cert, coupons, January- (mi
July maturity, 1‘93. 119 bid, asked- e,
vannah and Western railroad 5 n-w
trust certificates, bid, 50 af-ed- B*'
vanuab. Americus and Montgomery 6
cent., 51 bid, 52 asitad; Georg'a"ra'bJ?-
6 per cent., 1910, 110 bid. 111 asked- G. orw
Southern and Florida, first mortyVif'e
per cent., 96', bid, 87',. asked; ilonteo&er-S
and KufauU first mortgage , ..‘J?
indorsed by Central railroad, 104 bid
asked: Augusta and Knoxville
gage 7 P. 1- cent., 102 bid, 103 asked
Steamship 6 per cent., due ivu n'-i i‘,
98b, asked: Columbus and Rime ‘ ttri
mortgage t onus, indorsed by Central (~i
road. - bid. 43 asked; Columbus -f. a
Western, 6 per cent, guarantee?]’ j,* J, ‘J 1
L 0 asked; Ot' and Suburban rai Wav rt-l
mortgage 7 per cent., bid. v-, J 1
Savannah and Atlantic 5 cahi •’
dorsed, - bid. 31 asked: Electric
fir?t mortpag* 6s, bid. 60 ask.*d- s
Georg-ia and Florida first morteaVe 7
cent., 1(> bid. asked: South ,P.r .
Florida second mortgage, iu, r bid
Alabama Midland, SS bid, a -ke’d
askcdand WcStern 43 ’ ua ranteed, Un 73
Railroad Stocks-Central common is
bid. 1. asKed: Augusta and Savannah -
per cent, guaranteed. 50 bid, S3 ex-divi
dend asked; Georgia, ccmmcn r-t
asked; Southwestern 7 per *en* r~ ‘ 3
teed, including order for dn --
asked; Central 6 per cent. ceri ; " 5
with order for .defaulted inter*-V a
23 asked; Atlanta and West }'
road stock. 89 4>iJ. 51 asked;
West Point 6 per cent, certificate* 1 -* 1 *’ 4
55 asked. ‘ -4
Lank Stocks, Etc.—Citizens i ,-
dlv., 59 bid, 100 asked; Chatham ’ .V a "' *4
div., 4S bid, 49 asked; German*® *s
102 bid. 103 asked; Merchant*
bank, ex-div., 92 bid, 53 asked *v~
Bank of Savannah, 130 hid
Oglethorpe Savings and Trust
ex-div., 96 bid, 97 asked; Southern* * 5
of the State of Georgriuex-Jiv %
162 Ooked; Savannah Bank ur >
Company, ex-div., lu2 bid, 1
Chatham Real Estate and Inr *• , ' ’
Company, ex-J!v.. 50 bid, 51 a=V
vam ah Construction Compare ;
75 asked; Title Guarantee and I ’
pany, 73 bid, 80 asked. Lo:a ’
London, Jan. 12.—Bar silver, 27V1
advices quote 3 per cent, rentes” ■ *--' **
47J4 centimes for the account. * **
New York, Jan. 12.—Monty on cal’ -
L&U/S per cent. ,4S4t
Prime mercantile paper. 3ft4 per c *—
Sterling exchange firm, With
business in bankers bills at j - £ '
for sixty days and f for*
Posted rates, $4.89tii.&0; comm-r fW
$4.86 V&4.87^4.
Bar silver, Z9%c.
Government bonds steady: stat K n „*
higher; railroad bonds strong
Silver at the board was quoted r *< a
60%c.
New' York, Jan. 12.—The weekly
m* nt of the associated banks v , ’
following changes: Reserve.
$5,300,050; loans, decrease, $3,707,5*:
decrease, $354,200; legal tenders. ; '
$6,923,300; dep sits, Increase, $2,5s
culation, increase, $21,40*4. The baiiksY-*
hold $41,792,200 in excess of the itou
ments of the 25 per cent. rule.
New York, Jan. 12.—The treasury ha!
antes were as follows: Coin, Vi ~ .7*i
currency', $70,406,000.
New York, Jan. 12.—The following
the opening quotations at the Sto * y
change:
Erie
Chicago and Northwestern
Lake Shore ’ 3
Norfolk and Western preferred -5
Western In lon
Southern Railway common 1
Southern Railway preferred
New York. Jan. 12.—Stocks at th** . J
ing were dull, except for Chk-agj
which ran off from 77 to 75 a M on Uqui la*
said to be on account of interest- i.b .
retire from the directory. La •kawar-i
also dropped 2*4 to 159 on sai s of -2
shares, but :he stock qutcklv bound*-' 1*
lfc* 1 *- The rise in the stock strengthen*!
Delaware and Hudson and Jersey c,. r -.r t ‘
the former moving up from 130*4 t 0 l : aM
the latter from 91 to OSV. No n- v. V a .
sons were assigned for the
in the stocks. Heading was quiet and i
at 12- /<i l i * s . The unfavorable report f*-
the y* ar made public to-day had absoly
ly no effect on the stock. The Granger®
were firm on the belief that the Senate w ii
take up the Patterson pooling bill on Tues
day next and that it will soon thereat
receive the approval of that body. The
moderate exports of gold and an imnm.
slon that there will be no currency K . v .
lat ion at this session on the lines hereto
fore announced, led to some coverin' f
short contracts. While the bank
rnent was not considered favorable, it v
no Influence. In the inactive storks Xa.
tional Starch, 2nd preferred, dropped Vo
20, -and Bay State Gas rose lu t 0
Speculation closed firm, with price?~fop
the prominent issues anywhere from b ti
1 a per cent, higher than on Friday. Chi
cago Gas, Sugar and Distilling and (Vr,
heeding lost Vto per cent, on the !,
Tho bond market wag active and stn
'i he sales of listed stocks aggregated •
Con share**; unlisted 13,"W shares.
The quotations at the closing were a*
follows:
American Cotton Oil, 234; do preferred
Sugar Refinery, 90; do preferred,
91U; American Tobacco, 9S; do pref-rre^
Atchluon. Topeka and Santa Fe V
Baltimore and Ohio, C2 1 -; Canada i’Jrik
06; Chesapeake and Ohio, ?7i 4 ; Chieugo
nn<i Alton. H6U-; Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, 71,.;; Chicago Gas, 76Q; Delawan,
Lackawanna and Western, 162V*:
ami Cattle Feeders, 10%; Erie, do pre
ferred. Edison General Die ;r; .
: j A: Illinois Central. 85; Lake Erie a* 1
Western, 16; do preferred, 7t; Lake Shorf,
l'!7: Louisville and Nashville, 53%; Lour
\ iile and N. A., 6; Manhattan, 10v.,: Mem-
Phi* nnrl Chari, ton, 10; Michigan Centra!,
J'..; Missouri Pacific, --FV. Mobile and Ohio,
P’.rd Nashville, Chattanooga and S:.
Louis, 65; United States Cordage, Gk;
do do preferred, 3*>Vc; New Jersey Central,
New York Central. 9S\: New York
and Now England. 3lF : ; Norfolk and West
ern preferred, Northern Pacific.
do preferred, 17' M : Northwestern, 1
preferred, H3; Pacific Mail, 21%; R. a'lint.
12-q; Rook Island, 62’i; St. Paul. io
preferred,ll7; Silver Certificates, 6 Ter
npss o Coal and Iron. 15; do do prefenoi,
7> asked; Texas Pacific, o\ 4 ; Union Pacifl-,
II 1 :; Wabash, S. L. and I*., 6; do do pre
ferred, 14; Western Union, 87%; Wheeling
and Lake Erie, 10; do 00 preferred. 3’.*;
Southern Railway ss, 88" t,; do common,
10%; do preferred. 35 I G.
State Bonds—Alabama A, 102: do !*,
101; do C, 93 bid; Louisiana Stamped 4s.
100; North Carolina 4s, 93; North Carolir*.
6s, 126; Tennessee, new set 3s, 89; Virginia
6s preferred, 81%; Virginia Trust Receipts,
11V, Virginia Funding Debt, tiu; South
Carolina 4 1 i-.s, 102.
Government Bonds—United States
registered. 313; United States 4s. coupon-,
113; United States 2s, registered, 97.
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.
Bacon—-The market is steady. Smokel
cb ar sides, dry salted clear rib
6%c; long clear, 6%c; bellies, 7c;
cured hams, IP/,c.
Lard—Market firm; pure in tierces. S’.
50-pouml tins, B%e; compound, in tiercef,
5Tc; in ro-poumi tins, 6%c.
Butter—Market steady; fair demand:
Ooschen, 18c; gilt edge, 2Jc; creamery, -k;
E! fin, 27c. *
Cheese—Market dull; fancy,
full cream cheese, 13@13 1 Ac"; 20-pound a'-
erage.
Fish—Mackerel, half barrel, No. 1 ?v r "'
No. 2, $7.50; No. 3, $6.00. Kits. No. 1,
No. 2, No. 3, s93c. Codfish, 1-pouni
brick:*, 6 1 ic; 2-pound bricks, 6c. Siuokti
herrings, per box, 20c. Dutch herring, in
kcjj.4, si.oo; new mullet, half barrels. -
Halt—The demand is fair anTthe market
steady. Carload lots, f. o. b., Liverpool.
2'Hj-pound sacks, 65c; Virginia, 123-poun
burlap sacks, 35c; Htto, 125-pound cofion
sacks, 3Sc; smaller Jots, higher.
Syrup—Florida und Georgia new,
market quiet for sugar house at ■ Y 4"
Cuba straight goods, 23530 c; sugar hou: '*
molasses, 15$ 20c.
Tobacco—Market quiet and steady; Smo
king, domestic, 22iV/60c; chewing, common,
sound, 24<|i.-27c; fair, good, s*: 'k ,
bright, 60h<;5'*; li:i fancy. 65hv*c: extra
fine. SI.COG' 1.15; bright navies, 2r.cUc.
Flour—Market quiet; extra. $2.75;
ily, $3.00; fancy, $2.15; patent, $3.65;
straight. s3.4*'.
Corn—-Market ir steady. White corr.
j‘ b lots, 62c; carload lots. 59c. Mixed com,
job lots, 60c: carload lots, 58c.
Oats—Market advancing. Mixed
lots, 47c; carload lots, lie; Texas rust
proof, 55c.
Rye—Southern seed, $1.60.
Bran—Job lots, $1.05; carload lots.
Hay—Market steady. Western job D’ 5 .
30c; carload lots, 85c
Meal—Pearl, per barrel, $3.10: per sacK.
city meal, per sack. SJ.I7G- P ear ‘
r.is, per barrel. per sack. $1.40; HP
grits, per sack. $1.27>4.
Coffee—The market is dull. Mocha. 29c
Java. 27c: Peaberry, 23c: fancy, or stand*
< lT 'd, No. 1. 21c; chriice or standard. No. -•
- prime or siandanl. No. 3. 19'-ic; gocj
or standard > *. 4 3SV*c; fair or stank-* 1
No. 6. iS<- ; ordinary or standard No- h
l<c; common or standard No. 7,16 c.
Sugars—Market dull and lower. Cut
loaf, sc; crushed, sc! powdered. fv.trXVy; 4
powiierpil, sr; standard xranulaud. 4'i'-
cubes. 4 ri (C; mould, A, 4> 4 c; diamoro A
4' tf:' conf' i-tioners, 4.< ; white extra 'J
extra C, 9'jc; eolden C, S 6 so; yellow. Yt’
laqours—Market tirm. Hiyh wife
v. liisky, per gallon, recti tied.
proof, 81.";,'"/1.7j; choice grades, 0
Straiglu, *1.45(1/9.50; blended. 57.00?i4"• ,
Wines—Domestic, port, sherry, eutawM;
low r:aucs. 60‘885t; fine yradee, 71 : ■
California, lisht, museatel and a
Continued on Seventh Page.
Hopkins Dwight & Cos.,
Cotton Exchangs auilding,
NEW YORK.,
Gotten soil Cution Seed Gii Commission
M erct.anis.
Liberal advancements made on conslS® -
meats for sale or to be held.