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L. 1?. ” 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, r * 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 S a:- : "•• ' s: v y-- 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 ^ “ - 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. - 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. ---——— FLORIDA’S POPULATION. — _ 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 _____ 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. -— After American A syndicate of Dams] ban kers h as begun negot banters for a OH WSwi 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 . - ~ -—