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” TALKS
OF ELECTION
Defeated Candidate Declares That
the Battle Hast Continne.
FIGHT WAS STRICTLY HONEST.
Nehm s ir an Says . That Republican
oney Did Much, But Pros-
P eri ’ty Argument Was
Chief Factor,
A Lincoln, Neb., Special
William J T Bryan says:
allowing 11 • given out the
statement concerning the
election:
“The result was a surprise to me
and A the ,, magnitude
victory of the Republican
was a surprise to our oppe
nents as well as to those who voted
our ticket. It is impossible to ana-
yze the returns until they are more
complete, but speaking generally we
seem to have gained in the large cities
anu to have lost in the smaller cities
and in the country.
The Republicans were able to se¬
cure tickets or passes for all their
veters ■who were away from home and
this gave them considerable advan-
♦age. We have no way knowing at
at this time how much money was
spent in the purchase of votes in colo¬
nization.
“But while these would account for
some of the Republican gains, they
could not account for the widespread
increase in tbe Republican vote. The
prosperity argument was probably the
most potent one used by the Republi¬
cans.
"Tlior a pre e ?hr . a, ,... ,‘ir
tK, ; a f " 18 elg ? 3 h®d *°, 18 with ?. 6 ,'
those who d' V! i »»»»*<* » » tocohelder the
° ° an 8®* The appeal,
ifon ‘stand h hh tv. P res, ‘ ,0 “ t 8 'he ™-
■ ,^ °* luda
’ 1 a f rea ea ence
among those ,, who did .. not . realize that
a war against a doctrine of se f-gov-
eminent in the Philippines must react
upon as in this country. We made an
honest fight upon an honest platform,
and having done our duty as we saw
’,,JL av0 oo hing to regret.
We were defeated but not discour-
aged The fight must go on. I am
sure hat Republican policies will be
repudiated by the people when the
tendency of these policies are fully un-
derstood. The contest between pin-
tocracy and democracy cannot end un-
til one or the other is completely In-
urnp an .
Concernmg himself, Mr. Bryan
Bai
It ‘I T , have come out , of , the ,, .
campaign
with perfect health and a clear con-
science I did my utmost to bring
success to the principles for which I
stood. Mr. Stevenson did all that he
could; Senator Jones and the members
of the Democratic Populist, Silver
Repubhcan and anti-imperialist com-
mittees did all hey could. Mr. Hearst
and his associates in the club organ-
jzation put forth their best efforts.
“Our newspapers, our campaign
speeches and our loca organizations
all did their part. I h.»ve no fault to
find and no reproaches. I shall con-
tinue to take an active interest in pol-
itics ns long as I .ive. I be leve it to
be the duty of citizens o do so and,in
addition to my interest as * citizen, I
feel that it will require a lifetime of
work to repay the political friends who
have done so much for mo,
“I shall not be senatorial _ camli-
a
date before the legislature which has
been elected. Senator Allen deserves
the senatorship, whic S oes ^
Populists. Mr. Hitchcock and Mr.W.
H. Thompson are avowed candidates
for the Democratic senatorship. They
both deserve well of the party, and I
am too grateful to them or^ past sa P*
port to stand in their way, even if I
desired a seat in the senate. I made
my fight for the presidency and I lost.
I am not going to take other men s po-
sitions from them.
Mr. Bryan said he had no other
plans at present than to remain at
homo uum until he had recovered from the
of campaigning. . . tt e 5 erne • ^
fatigue
the report that he would remove from
Nebraska and make Texas his home.
F1YE DEAD IN KENTUCKY.
Quarrels Resulting Over Election and By
• Gambling End In Mulder.
Quarrels over politics and gambling
resulted in five men being shot to
death Tuesday night in Kentucky.
The dead are Alfred Stanhope, at
Versailles, shot by George Woodruff,
town marshal of Midway; Henry Os¬
born, of Harlan county, shot by John
Day; Grant Raines, colored, of Mid-
■o, shot by J. Griffith, white;
[Brown, of Buckeye, shot by
I \°V Ray; Robert Munsey, of Burn-
f
Wj wouuded—-Thomas ' u Ether-
lof Versailles, ... , bys j ander, j shot i ,
■iruff-Stanhope ugh
■ANY ■ 7^ HAS pi kQliy mop,
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tvingr From South Africa is Now
der suspicion at Bremen.
le case bas apparently f devel-
Germany- A sailor named .
i brr . , sss -r, „ sr: n.u
^g. r from iOU ;otmS South thebac?eHo Africa has e
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THE ADEL NEWS
BILL AKP'S LETTER
Bartow Man Tries Hard to Put
On a Hood Face.
HAS SMILE FOR ALL REPUBLICANS,
Hut Admits That It Is a Sickly Effort to
“took Pleasant”—He Hiscns.es
the Election.
The scriptures tell us to rejoice with
those who rejoice and weep with those
who weep. I am trying to do it, but
is an awful strain. When I meet a
McKinley man I try to smile, but it
is only a sickly grin and is only skin
deep. They are pretty thick around
here now since the election,and so be*
tween mourning with the Bryan men
nnd rejoicing with the Republicans
my countenance has lost its normal
and natural condition and it is hard to
tell whether I am crying or smiling.
We did not know that there were
more than a dozen respectable Me-
Kinleyitea in the community, but it
turns out that there were scores of
them. Niarly all of the plutocrats
voted that way On the sound money
platform. They lend money and want
it paid back in gold, A good many
farmers who have some cotton on hand
were led to believe that it would go up
again to 10 or 12 cents if McKinley
was elected, but it dropped 15 points
the day after the election. But it is
all over now and the wheels keep roll¬
ing on. Let them roll. The million¬
aires and plutocrats can’t eat their
money or wear it out. It is obliged to
go hack to the toilers, the people, in
some way.
The Standard Oil Company declared
a dividend yesterday of 40 per cent,
but Rockefeller don’t hoard it. He
gives aw ay a big slice to education nnd
utilizes the rest. What a blessed thing
“ i». that a can’t lake hi. money
”“>> he dies. If ho could I
reckon we poor folks would perish out
in „ ge ueration. After all, it is not
money that brings happiness. A good
living, a competency honestly earned,
brings far more happiness than riches,
This kind of talk is 4,000 years old.
but lbe le don . t believe it t;
everybody ' wants money, ‘ a big f pile of
moD y . x wonld like it myseU; want
aome for a rainy day and some to give
away> but we are not in distress,and
never have been, though for some
of the war and just after we were
G n the
Talk abuut prosperity, I saw it last
W eek over in South Carolina. There is a
uice mtle towu over khere called Proa .
ri , but x didn . t aee it> l weut to
the old lowu of Darlingtou . 1 WftS
there eighteen years ago. It was a
good old town thou, but it has renew-
e d its youth and taken on new life and
I hardly knew the place. Cotton
miHs aud oil mil , 8 and good farming
have done it The *
cotton of th(
count is 3 0>000 bales aud the tobacco
waa 6 , 0 00,000 pounds * aud it
bronght baIf as mnch mone a%o aa the
cottou crop . Fifte en years there
wafi not a nd for sale raised in the
connty . Th didu - t know it would
tbere Now tW are three ,
warebo uses, where it is auctioned off
ey dav j attended the anctions
'
aud it w aa a revela t ion to me . The
farmers’ wagons were unloading all
aroun ,i and tdieir tobacco was piled up £
neatl in j rows and their uam
and the uumber o{ poonda written on
a card and s t uc ] c j n kbe split end of a
little white pine stick and that was
stuck in the center of the £ pile,
For an honr or two bef( e tbe auo .
t ion begius the buyers from Richmond
and Winston and Durham and Liver-
poo i and other markets went all around
and examitjed tbe quality of every pile
and ^0^ notes. The auctioneer talked
so fast I could not understand him,
but the buyers did. I reckon there
were t wo or t b ree hundred piles in
eacb warehouse and the auctioneer
and kbe crowd went from pile to pile
and sold each one where it was. I heard
some knocked down as low as 9 cents
and eome as high as 57 cents,
There is one enrious rule about
tobacco anctions that does not apply
to any other auction. The farmer can
reject the highest bid and keep his
tobacco. If he and his boys have re¬
sol ^ ed that their crop shad biing 20
cents a pound and it brings only 19
be turns the card down and takes his
tobacco home, or maybe hauls it around
to another warehouse,, where the same
buyers find it next day and maybe bid
over 20 cents for it. This is one of the
tricks of the trade. The difference be-
tween the grades was hardly percepti¬
ble to my eyes, but the buyers know.
It was all a bright yellow, but some
was brittle and wormeaten and some
was soft aud pliant as a kid glove.
This was bought for wrappers.
This evolution has come within ten
years, and is increasing every year, for
an acre of good tobacco will bring $100
and it costs only $25 to cultivate it.
My friend, Mr. Williamson, the bank-
er, told me he had thirty-five acres
planted this year and it netted him
$77 per acre. There is another evo-
lutioa iu Darlington county. X en
years ago no wheat was grown there.
jj ow ever y farmer sows Wheat and a
large flour mill has recently been built,
It was the same way in middle Georgia.
Until about five years ago all that re-
gion was under the ban and the farm-
ers did not pretend to grow wheat.
Now make “PI. 6 ^ keat 1o tbe
acre, all around Griffin and Barnes-
vul m ®> than l0RQ we we can cau make m911 ' in in north norm Geor- vxeor
^^..
going 0 o, but they don’t give McKin-
for it in South Carolina It
^ “
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ADEL. BERRIEN COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1900.
tween cotton and tobacco they pocket
a pile of money, and spend nearly
every dollar before they leave town.
One man sold them thirty-seven Rock
Hill buggies in one r eek, and Mr,
Williamson told me of ft darkey who
drew $57 and spent $85 of if that day
for a fine gnu aiid a pointer dog. He
will be begging his landlord for an ad¬
vance before Christinas. I -had a de¬
lightful time at Darlington and Ben-
nettsville and Bishopville and last at
Rock Hill. Bishopville ought to be
named “Sweet Anbnrn, the loveliest
village of the plain.”
I found old friends and acquaintances
,t tviiy place autl was honored far
•eyend my deserving. My wife hasent
ot me b,,ck in the traces yet. Near
4 euojtA i le 1 found an old time friend,
.Mrs. Reid,the sister of my schoolmates,
.'Ted Guntiling and John, and of Frank
Joulding, who wrote the “Young Ma-
uoners.” She is now eighty-nine
years old and came nimbly down the
-teps to meet me. Her husband
neached in Mt. Zion church, near by,
for forty-four years and is buried in
ibe Mt. Ziou graveyard, where that
»-miuent missionary divine, Leighton
Wilson, she is buried. The tears glistened talked
n near old lady’s eyes as we
>f her honored father. Dr. Goulding,
and the old people of Columbus, who
•iad passed over the river.
An i R ck Hill was another revela-
• ion. It is a beautiful little city of
3,000 people and four large cotton
iiills and the largest buggy factory in
ho south. It turns out 10,000 a year,
all kinds aud prices, from a darkey’s
•heap vehicle for $30, to a rubber tire
for $150.
And then the college girls. Oh, my
country. Four hundred full grown
g r!s in uniform, and they looked so
iapj y, and healthy, and loving that I
ouud myself humming, “Oh, would I
were a b >y again.” It made me feel
m l to reflect that all these girls were
• orn to be mated as well as married,
mt some would be neilher, and alas,
•orne would be married but not mated.
— Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
ULTIMATUM IS DRAWN UP.
Poor Old China Must Humble Her¬
self Before the Mighty West¬
ern Powers,
Mr. MorrisoD, writing to The Lon¬
don Times from Pekin Sunday, says:
“Pressed by tbe common desire for
a speedy termination of present con¬
ditions, the foreign envoys have finally
agreed to the following terms, to be
presented in a conjoint note which,
subject to the approval of the govern¬
ments. will be pressed upon China as
the basis of a preliminary treaty:
“China shall erect a monument to
Baron Von Ketteler on the site where
he was murdered, and send an impe¬
rial prince to Germany to convey an
apology. She shall inflict the death
penalty upon eleven princes and offi¬
cials already named and suspend pro
vincial examinations for five years
where the outrages occurred. In fu¬
ture all officials failing to prevent
anti-foreign outrages within their ju¬
risdiction shall be dismissed and pun¬
ished. This is a modification of Mr.
Conger’s proposal.
“Indemnity shall be paid to the
states, corporations and individuals.
The tsnng li vamen shall be abolished
and its functions vested in a foreign
minister. Rational intercourse shall
be permitted with the emperor as in
civilized countries.
“The forts at Takn and the other
forts on the coast of Chi Li shall be
razed, and the importation of arms and
war material prohibited. Permanent
legation guards of communication be¬
tween Pekin and the sea.
“Imperial proclamations shall be
posted for two years throughout the
empire suppressing boxers.
“The indemnity is to include com-
pensation for Chinese who suffered
through being employed by foreigners,
but not compensation for native Chris-
tians. The words missionary and
Christians do not occur iu the note.”
Commenting upon what it calls Mr.
Conger’s “excellent suggestion for the
dismissal of officials permitting anti-
foreign outrages, The Times remarks
that “this is the only considerate ad¬
dition to the terms which the minis¬
ters proposed to submit to China last
month, it s^ys that “American sense
of justice and humany is too strong
and American intelligence too keen
to be deluded by the pitiful Chinese
appeal against the execution of the
Pao Ting Fu officials.”
scarleFfever kages.
Prevalen t, of the Disease In Mississippi
Cause* Health Board to Act.
The Mississippi state board of health
has addressed a letter to Governor j
Lougino, . railing , his attention to the ;
alarming prevalence of scarlet fever
-n several portions of Mississippi, and |
stating that the board is unable to |
take any steps to further check the ;
spread, owing to the small appropria-
,tton made by the legislature to main-
*ain the state hea'th department,
Tho board will not quarantine the
Natchez on account of the case
yellow fever reported from that
place, owing to the lateness of the aea-
8on > and probability of a frost at an
early date.
CHINAMEN ARE EXECUTED.
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Sentence of Death Imposed By Tribunal
of Allies I. Carled Out.
Advices from Pekin, November 6.
via shanghai, November 9 state that
f n of A the i ead i ng officials of Poa
Tm ® ^u, including . > Ting » Tang, 5V the
vieerov of Pe Ohi TJ ’find C4en-
ihe 'TZlel em^efs
death of
sris'siisusz
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
GEORGIA NEWS
Brief Summary bi Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
Working for Deep Watfelf.
Pursuant to the resolution adopted
at the organization of the association,
the Columbus and Apalachicola Deep
n 'a1er association has sent invitations
to the members of the rivers and har¬
bors committee of congress to visit
Columbus and take a trip down the
Chattahoochee river.
A reply has been received from Mr.
Burton, of Ohio, the chairman of the
committee, which states that he will
be in the south soon.
• * *
Altlrud Want* Investigation.
Captain E. E. Aldred of company A,
Fifth regiment, against whom charges
of conduct unbecoming an officer and
of padding his accounts so as to re¬
ceive more money from the state than
his company is entitled, has addressed
a letter to Governor Candler as com-
mander-in-chief, demanding an inves-
tifiatiou of the charges preferred.
It is generally nuderstood that the
form the proceedings have now taken
is favorable to Captain Aldred and
that the final result will be a refusal
to order a courtmartial.
Tlicir Work Finished.
The board of engineer officers ap¬
pointed some time ago by General
Wilson, chief of the United States
engineer corps, to make an examina¬
tion and report upon the feasibility of
the twenty-eight foot project for the
Savannah river from the city to the
sea, as planned by General Gillmore,
has finished its work. The officers
would give out nothing as to what was
done, but it is believed they will favor
the project to give Savannah deeper
water.
Insurance Company Chartered.
The Empire Mutual Annuity and
Life Insurance Compauy, a coporation
with headquarters in Atlanta,has been
chartered by Secretary of State Cook.
The company is chartered to do insur¬
ance business on the co-operative
plan, aud therefore is not compelled
by law to have a capital stock. The
incorporators are James G. Truitt, S.
C. Calloway, W. H. Reid, E. C. Callo¬
way, Alfred Truitt and Samuel Bar¬
nett.
Georgia Cotton Seed For France.
Samples of Georgia cotton seed will
be sent to the French minister at New
Orleans and by him they will be dis¬
tributed among the French colonies,
which indicates that France will ex¬
periment in cotton growing and that
nation may in time become the for¬
midable rival of the United States as a
producer of the fleecy staple.
Samples of Georgia cotton seed were
tent the Russian government several
years ago, and press dispatches this
year announce that the experiments in
tbe colonies of that power have been
entirely successful. This fact, no
doubt, had largely to do with the ef¬
forts of the French government offi¬
cials to obtain samples of Georgia cot¬
ton seed.
Wiggins May Be Released.
Attorney General Terrell went to
Montgomery county last Saturday to
represent the state prison commission
in the case of J. S. Wiggins, a convict,
for when the claim has been made that
he was taken to the penitentiary ille¬
gally.
Wiggins was tried for murder in
Montgomery county six months ago
and on the trial was found guilty of
manslaughter and sentenced to a term
of fifteen years.
When the sentence was passed the
man begged to’be taken to the peni¬
tentiary at once in order that his term
of service could begin without delay,
and the county officers, after receiving
the consent of the prison commission,
agreed to the request. Wiggins was
forwarded to the prison camp before
the remittitur from the supreme court
arrived. There was never any legal
form to his commitment to the peni¬
tentiary, dne altogether to an over¬
sight, and now the friends of the con¬
vict are working for his release on the
grouud that he is held in prison with¬
out legal warrant therefor.
Bubiin’s >'ew Cotton Mills.
The brick work of the main build-
ing of the Dublin cottou mills has been
finished. It will require about tbree
to build the big smokestack and
the brick work will then be com-
It is expected to have the mills in
operation by February 1st- jf
mills prove a success it ismighly
probable that the capital stock in the
of 1901 will be increased from
$100,000 to $200,000.
....
Fire lie*!i-ovs c aw Mill
Tbe o aW , r, 1 n tv,e Retts Bros jino at
Ashburn « ] i one of the largest 1 _ on the thfi hue
0 £ the Georgia Southern and F one a
^ ay, a as ° a * 1 \ ' n ^
one night the past week A ‘
occurred near the .rack ot the railroad
all trams were delayed. No o r
mate of the rrobable amount of the
loss is obtainable, but it must be very
large, as the plant was expensive and
there was an immense stock of lumber
in the yards.
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Walden T»ke, Jail Rife Easy.
Jeie Walden, in Bibb county jail,
nViamotl charged w.th ur th th« tbe mm-8or mmclerot of farmer Farmer
Dixon in Johnson countv, who was re-
^-utly He say. ihatTf he hasTo
go to the penitentiary he prefers a
,i,a ” eD,eoM *° “•* w
it be KK bis intention, S? it
He declared to
he shall finally be compelled to go to
the penitentiary, to make a model
prisoner. The young man talks of his
case in the most nonchalant way, and
seems to bo insensible to tbe cbarac-
tef of the punishment that awaits him
as to the terrible character of the crime
in which he participated.
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Revenue Stamp Involved.
A case involving an altogether new
point of law' and which revives interest
in the murder of Mrs. Eugenia Hamil
ton Pottle, near Macon, just one yea
ago, was argued in the supreme court
at Atlanta last Friday. Small
The suit was a case of vs.
Slocum. Mrs. Pottle owned a large
plantation in Jones county, near Ma¬
con, valued at $13,000. She had leased
the place to a man named Slocum who
was working it before Mrs. Pottle was
killed. In the meantime she had mort¬
gaged the property to A. T. Small,
who kept a store near the place.
Soon after Mrs. Pottle’s death, the
Slocums set up a sawmill on tbe
property and began cutting down the
timber. Small, who had a mortgage,
brought suit in equity against Slocum
claiming that be w as wasting the prop¬
erty.
Slocnm put up bis lease as evidence.
The case ivas heard before Judge John
(J. Hart in the Jones connty superior
court. The main point in the case was
whether or not the lease was legal. It
did not bear the revenue stamp which
is required by an enactment of con¬
gress, and the attorneys for Smalt
made the point that to be a legal lease
it must bear the stamp. The other
lawyers contended that the congress
of the United States had no right to
prescribe the method of procedure in
a state court and if the mortgage had
no stamp it was just as good, accord¬
ing to the state of Georgia, as was one
with a stamp.
The case was decided in favor of
Slocum, and the lawyers for Small ap¬
pealed to the supreme court. The
point on which the case was appealed
involved the revenue stamp and
lengthy arguments were made by
Washington Dessau, counsel for
Small. He contended that the con¬
gress did have the right to rule
on evidence in a state court, and that
the judge erred in not ruling out the
lease which had no stamp.
George S. Jones, attorney for Slo¬
cum, argued on the other hand that
congress had no right to dictate to
state oourts what rules of evidence
they should employ, and under the
laws of Georgia the lease w as a good
one, as it bore the signature of both
parties, and was attested by proper
witnesses.
The case is one of the most import¬
ant ones brought before the court at
this session. It is a big question nnd
the decision will determine whether it
is necessary in Georgia to place reve¬
nue stamps on notes, mortgages, bonds
and other documents required by the
United States under the act of 1898.
IN EAST TENNESSEE.
Twelve Bexnocrats From That See,lion
Are Elected to Legislature.
Complete returns from counties in
east Tennessee show that the section
will be represented in tbe next legis¬
lature by twenty-one Republicans and
twelve Democrats, the largest number
of Democrats ever known from East
Tennessee. Two years ago east Ten¬
nessee- had nine Democrats in the leg¬
islature. Knox county gave
Dcmocrrt a majority, a thing unprec
edented iu the history of the county.
PRICE OF SALT ADVANCED.
Trust Turns Screws and Consumers AVill
Have Put Up Money.
The Chicago Chronicle says: “Tbe
National Salt Company put up the
price of common tabl@salt of fair qual¬
ity to $2.50 per 100 pounds. The
price before was $1.10 per hundred
pounds for the same grade Tbe Na-
tional Salt company controls 95 per
cent of the salt output of the country
and is able indirectly to dominate the
remaining 5 per cent of the produc-
a- ..
BItYAX TO M’KINLEY.
Oefeated Candidate Wires His Congralu-
lations to Succe.sful Opponent.
A special from Lincoln, Neb., says:
Mr. Bryan forwarded the following
telegram at noon Thursday to President
McKinley:
“Hon. William McKinley, President
of the United States—At the close of
another presidential campaign it is my
lot to congratulate you upon a second
nctory. . “W. J. Bryan.”
STATUS OF NEXT SENATE.
itepubiican* win Probably Have 49 Mem-
bers, Democrats 27.
T* 1 ® next senate, assuming that the
state legislature will fulfill their duty
an d choose senators to represent £, their
U1 sW oa the b is of Tues .
^ forty . nine ltepub i icau8 ,
twenty-seven Democrats and nine in-
dependents, with the legislatures in
- n three stat with the pr iviL-
P of electing ° five senators at this
time.
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FLORIDA’S POPULATION.
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on.oiai
A . w ^“ll«JcT a l 8 avs- The
population of F if i loriaa 0 rida as as officially omomuj
announced “ DBU \ Monday by the census
sns “ , ^ OQ _ ^ qqi a oo
187,170, or 35 per cent
2 516^62 as afainlt
POPULAR VOTE
OF THE STATES
Showing Majorities Received By
Bryan and McKinley.
HOW ELECTORAL FIGURES ARE
l resident . HcKinley, According to
the Latest Returns, Will
Have 284 and Bryan 163,
TABLE OF PLURALITIES.
STATES. U’KINLEY. BRTA*.
Alabama.......... 40,000
Arkansas. .•....... 60,000
California......... 40,000
Colorado......... 40,000
Connecticut....... 28,000
Delaware......... 3,000
Florida........... 28,000
Georgia.......... 40,000
Illinois........... 90,4)00
Indiana........... 30,000
Iowa.............. 100,000
Kansas........... 25,000
Kentucky.........
Louisiana......... 31,000
Maine ........... 25,000
Maryland......... 15,000
Massachusetts..... 80,000
Michigan......... 90,000
Minnesota........ 50,000
Mississippi....... 45,000
Missouri......... 40,000
Montata.......... 18.000
Nevada........... 2,000
New Hampshire.. . 18,000
New Jersey....... 55,000
New York 145,000
North Carolina.... 30,000
North Dakota..... 12.000
Ohio............. 70,000
Oregon........... 10,000
Pennsylvania..... 287,000
Rhode Island..... 13,000
South Carolina 40,000
South Dakota..... 14,000
Tennessee........ 30,000
Texas............ 175,000
U tah............. 5,000
Vermont.......... 28,000
Virginia.......... 30,000
Washington....... 20,000
West Virginia.... 10,000
Wisconsin........ 106,000
^Wyoming......... 3,000
Total 1,352,COO 573,500
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
States. Bryan. McKinley.
Alabama........ 11
Arkansas ...... 8 •
California....... e>
Colorado....... 4 •
Connecticut..... o»
Delaware....... co
Florida......... 4 •
Georgia........ 13 •
Idaho .......... 3
Illinois......... 24
Indiana......... , -
Iowa........... j.}
Kansas......... 2Q
Kentucky....... 13
Louisiana....... 8 •
Maine..........
Maryland....... 00
Massachusettes,... . 15
Michigan ,,
.
Minnesota q
Mississippi 9
Missouri.. 17 ■'
Montana... 3 ■'
Nebraska.. 8
Nevada 3
New Hampshire..... 4
New Jersey.... 10
NeAv York..... 36
North Carolina. . 11
North Dakota.. 3
Ohio.......... 23
^ re g° n 4
T®. nia ;..... 32
Rhode Island..... 4
South Caro.ina ... 9
South Dakota..... 4
Tennessee........ 12
Texas ........... 15 •
Utah............. CO
Vermont.......... ^
Virginia 12
Washington........ ^
West Virginia...... 12
Wisconsin.........
Wyoming 3
Totals 163 284
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ALABAMIAij.__' ini „,. VB kUV riTFKSING
Crlt5cal Crl ca IllnesB of Governor-Elect Brine,
0u Moch speculation.
The continued critical illness of
Governor-elect Sam ford of Alabama is
excitiug the tenderest symyathy of
tb.0 stats and tli0 question of who
would succeed him in case of his
death, at this time, is naturally a mat-
ter of very considerable anxie y
throughout the state.
Lawyers differ widely as to this.
gome able ones contend that Governor
Johnston would hold ever for two
years longer. Others insist that. the
president of the senate, who will be
chosen when the body meets next
w e ek » w wou __i ld d onepppcl succeed as as govc governor. v
CIGAR MAKERS AT WORK.
Lons: Strike In New York Has Come to an
The long strike of the dgarmakers
at New Tor k mn !
months ago, » ' in . Kerbs, Wertheim and
Schiffer s f factories, torifta an ana d involved involved 12 i a
ir firm - h ” b “° “
Th@ cigarmaker8 have declared their
strikes off unconditionally, “ d
m
NO. 38.
TREASURY REP!
The Annual Report of United
States Treasurer Roberts,
influx OF REVENUES BREAKS RECORD
Amount Taken In the Largest In History
of the Country For the Fiscal Year
Just Come to a Close.
A Washington special says: The
annual report of the treasurer of the
United States, Ellis H. Roberts, on
the operations and condition of the
treasury, Gage was submitted to Secretary
Monday. Mr. Roberts says the
growth and prosperity of the country
and the general activity of business
are rellected in ’.he transactions of his
office.
The net revenues of the government
for the fiscal year were §507,240,852,
the largest in the history of the coun¬
try, exceeding those of 1866, the next
highest, by §47,291,388. The increase
of $51,280,332 over the preceding year
was contributed from all the general
sources, hut chiefly from customs and
internal vevehue. On the side of the
expenditures there was a net decrease
of $117,358,388 in comparison with
1899, so that the deficiency of $9,111
; 560 for that year was converted into a
j surplus Promptly of $79,527,060 in 1900.
on the enactment of the
new financial law the divisions of is¬
sue and redemption therein provided
for were established, and to them wj-j#
tranferred the records and accounts
relating to the issiv nnd. redemption of
; United States, gold ( tilicates. silver
certificates and currency certificates.
| Up to October 1, 1900, $22,530,854 in
United States notes and $3,594,708 in
treasury notes w ere redeemed in gold
out of the reserve fund of $150,000.
Each day the notes so redeemed
were exchanged for gold from the
general fund, so that the reserve was
kept intact in amount and character.
Besides this reserve fund, the trust
fund, consisting of gold coin, silver
dollars and bullion and United States
notes held for the redemption of cer¬
tificates and treasury notes, amount¬
ed, on the day the act became a law,
to $723,069,283, and increased 0.' by No¬
vember 1, 1900, to $740,965,67
The aggregate amount of money of
all kinds in circulation on October 1,
1900, is estimate! at $2,113,294,983,
an increase of $1S0,810,744 in fifteen
months, of which $94,440,930 was dno
to the enlarged use of gold and gold
certificates. The increase per capita
was from $25.38 to $27.01. The per
capita of gold at the latter date was
$10.50, which is greater than that of
all the curreucy in 1862, while the
total of gold is greater than all the
circulation at any time previous to
July, 1879.
On October 1st 39.24 per cent of
the total circulation was in gold and
| lars, gold silver certificates certificates 26.45 in and silver dol¬
treasury
notes, 15.36 per cent in United States
notes and 15.11 per cent in national
bank notes. It is a significant com-
parison that on June 30, 1890, the
percentage of United States notes was
22.58. Two years earlier it was as
high as 32.07. While the volume of
United States notes, treasury notes
and silver certificates is limited by
statutory provisions, the stock of gold
is constantly growing,
The metallic stock of money is
estimated for October 1, 1900, as
$1,059,288,820 in gold, $566,355,367
in silver dollars and bullion and $86,-
000,748 in fractional silver coin, an
aggregate of $1,711,644,935.
LITTLE MOROCCO DEFIANT.
Refuses to Meet Bemaml of the United
States For Indemnity.
A Washington special says: The
government of Morocco has again
declined to meet the demand of the
United States for the payment of an
indemnity on account of the killing
by a mob of Marcus Essagin, a natu¬
ralized American citizen.
The last request was made by
United States Consul Cnmmere, and
the latest declination of the govern¬
ment of Morocco was accompanied by
an intimation of its freedom from lia¬
bility under tbe terms of the conven¬
tion between Morocco and Spain.
The state department has concluded
that the consul’s representations will
be more effective if he is supported
morally by the presence in Morocco
waters of a United States warship, and
R is probable that he will make his
visit to Fez to again present the case
as passenger the department on a vessel tC for . be; that ^lecte pur-
by navy
pose.
Buller In London,
General Buller, accompanied London by his
and dangliter, arrived in
|,| onda y and reported to the war office.
crowds which bad assembled at
the Waterloo station and in Pall Mall
°° cheered the general.
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After American
A syndicate of Dams]
ban kers h as begun negot
banters for a
OH
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COMMANDED THE NASHYI
j) oa ih of Captain Murray, «f g I
confederate Cruiser,
Captain Lawrence M. Hurra
commanded ihe famous conf<
OTniser • .wno Vmfore befl ° re her her
^ . ., * edera j ft overnment, is
^tween wTork ^ So“th
N ^ e and
Subsequently he .
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