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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
The historical works relating to the
American Civil War already exceed 6000
volumes.
Efforts are being made ln the courts to
have electricity considered as a manufac¬
tured article.
Thc cattle industry of the United
States represents the immense capital of
$ 1 , 200 , 000 , 000 .
According to ihe Prairie Farmer “thc
Fanners’ Alliance is actively at work in
the Vr'est and South fighting obnoxious
trusts and other monopolies.”
The New York Jleraui statos that “race
ind religious prejudices are making po¬
litical conditions in Canada that appear
to threaten the disruption or the Domin¬
ion.”
The Chilian Government has engaged
many railway engineers from this coun¬
try for the building of its new roads—
tome 2500 miles in length—from coast
cities to the interior parts.
A project is being considered for add¬
ing 250,000 acres to the irrigated area in
Egypt? the water being taken from a
point so high up on the Nile that the
canals shall never run dry.
Thc Prince of Thurn and Taxis has
taken his place among the comparatively
limited number of royal patentees. This
enterprising potentate has invented yet
another method of making paper.
Miss E. A. Southworth, who has been
made assistant mycologist at Washington,
is said to be the first woman to receive an
appointment to a scientific post at Wash¬
ington. Her specialty is fungoid growths.
As a New York World correspondent,
looking from the vantage ground of the
Isthmus of Panama itself, sums it up
that 20,000 lives and $200,000,000 have
been thrown away on the grand DcLes-
seps fiasco.
Jerusalem seems now to be a rapidly
growing city. This i3 due to the great
number of Jews who arc flocking there
yearly. They notv number 30,000 more
than the Moslem and Christian population
combined.
A shoemaker named John Ryan, oi
Joliet, Ill., has won the international
prize of $500 offered by a boot and shoe
fournal of Boston for the best essay on
boot and shoemnking in all its branches.
Every Slate in the Union contested foi
the prize, also Canada, New Brunswick
aud Nova Scotia.
Iu Hungary tho whole system of rail¬
ways is to be divided into fourteen zones,
and within any such zone all the fares arc
to be equal; the rates may bo guessed
from the fact that the third-class fare in
tho outer zone is four florins for morc-
than 500 kilometres—i. c., about $1.G?
/or about 320 miles.
Thc reduction ot the death rate foi
England and Wales from 20.5 to 18.8,
which has been effected between 18S1 and
1SS7 by tho progress of sanitary science,
means a saving per annum of $38,175,.
000. This, it seems, is thc money ivorth
of that amount of human life, at an aver-
»gc value of $795 per life.
Tho year 18S9 is thc fiftieth anniversary
of thc establishment of the penny post in
England. It was in 1S39 that a com-
mittee,of the House of Commons reported
favorably upon Sir Rowland Hill's
scheme for the establishment of cheap
postage. The bill received a majority of
100 votes and became a law on August
17, 1S39 .
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The death of Sirs. Hayes leaves but
five women living whose husbands were
at any time Presidents of thc United
States. These are Mrs. Tyler,Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Cleve¬
land. There are two other women still
alivo who also acted as mistresses of the
Presidential mansion—Mrs. Harriet Lane
Johnson and Mrs. McElroy.
The Euglish company who arc work¬
ing the Nacoochee mine in Georgia took
out the other day a nugget of gold weigh-
SnglSOO pennyweights, and valued at
$2500. Not long ago they took one nug¬
get that weighed thirty pennyweights,
and another of 507 pennyweights. Such
finds as these, muses the New York Sun,
are calculated to make a fellow feel rich
streaks rim up and down his back.
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The Oriental Congress which is to take
place in Stockholm, in September, will be
of unusual interest. Five hundred foreign
members have announced their intention
to take part iu the proceedings. Deouta-
tions. single members from Persia, Arabia,
tudui. Egypt, Japan, China, etc., will at¬
tend, and many renowned savants of the
l ar East are expected. King Oscar is
donomry President. Several fetes will
ae given in honor of the strangers.
The noted Philadelphia street-car syn¬
dicate, which now owns many street car
ones in Chicago and other cities, has
just purchased the Citizens' and People's
lines of Baltimore, and has its agents out
Nil rough the country looking for fresh in¬
fest meats in the same line. The Phila-
Aelphia syndicate is composed for the
most part of retired politicians. The
Company, as it known, cen-
150miles of ctreet runway m iriuu-
1 pkia aiouo.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NUTS FBOH ITZRTWHZKE—ACCIDENTS, STBIXB3,
FIRES, ASI> HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
The Connellsville, Pa., coke strike is
spread.ng „ and * ,, the strike , ., will ... , be general ,
‘v> ays.
Snow storms and rains . prevail through-
out Switzerland. Mountain passes are
partly blocked.
p ctureset with brilliants.
Three young men were drowned near
San Francisco, Monday, by being washed
from a rock by a large wave.
Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner in Read-
hag, Pa., jail, committed suicide Thurs-
day by hanging himself in his cell.
Bethlehem, Pa., iron company Thurs-
day issued a notice of an increase in
wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80
per day.
Eight thousand bunches of overripe
bananas were seized by the New York
board of health Thursday. The fruit
was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy
lue ‘
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Eleven houses were burned at Fenn-
viile, Mich.. Wednesday night, involving
a loss of $35,000. A tramp caused the
conflagration, and he was arrested and
jailed.
Gen. Boulanger has issued a declara¬
tion in which he says the accusations
against him are infamous slanders, and
that he relies on the French people as
his sole judge.
According to the latest statistics care¬
fully compiled by the board of injury, at
Johnstown, ber Pa., Wednesday, the num¬
of lives lost in the devastated district
was about six thousand.
Chief Postoffice Inspector Rathbone
lias been informed of the arrest of George
Crawford, mail agent running between
Wellston and Cold Spring, Ga., for rob¬
bing a registered pouch of ten letters.
Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royce, late of
the Willimantic Savings institute, was
arrested Thursday in Willimantic, Conn.,
on a new charge of embezzlement of
$15,000 from the institute and making
false entries.
W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers,
doing business at 244 Purchaser street,
Boston,have failed. Liabilities $225,000.
The cause of the failure is the general
condition of the leather business for the
past three years.
Twenty thousand dollars was paid out
by Treasurer Thompson, at Johnstown,
Pa., from 12 o’clock till 4 on Friday.
Work is in shape to be pushed right along
now, and the money will soon be in the
hands of the people.
The New York Herald says the cotton
crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, and
that reports of the corn, cotton and wheat
crops have been underestimated. Such
cotton was never seen, and wheat and
oats are up to the average.
The French heirs of Stephen Giiard
are about to bring suit in Philadelphia
for the recovery of $13,000,000 worth of
property. They claim that the trustees
have violated the provisions of the will.
A part of the property in dispute consists
of 208,000 acres of land in Louisana.
Tw of in thelockedout children,belonging to the wife of
one miners,died at Spring
Valiev, 111., Tuesday morning.and physi¬
cians whe attended them, pronounced it
a clear case of starvation. The mother
had but little food in the house, and was
unable to provide sufficient nourishment
for them.
August Beginning August 5tb, and lasting to
12 th, a great encampment of
Knights of Pythias w’ili be held at Spring
Fountain Park, Ind. It will be com¬
posed of the entire Indiana brigade of
uniform rank, including sixty divisions,
and many from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Kentucky and Missouri.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York last week amounted to $089,437, of
which $163,580 wms in j/old consigned to
South America, and $525,851 silver con¬
signed to Europe. Imp u ts of specie for
the week amounted to $25,218, of which
$11,588 was in gold ancl $13,710 in sil¬
ver.
The president left Washington on
Tuesday morning on his trip to Bar Har¬
bor, Me., to visit Secretary Blaine, lie
was accompanied by Secretaries Windom
and Proctor, Private Secretary Halford
and also Secretary Tracy. The presi¬
dent expects to return to Washington by
the 17th
The assessors appointed by Governor
Gordon, of Georgia, to estimate the
value of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air-
Line Railroad, made their report Friday.
The road valued their property at
$1,625,903. The assessors, however, find
it to be worth $1,809,997, a difference of
$184,094 in favor of the state.
The grand national monument, in
honor of the pilgrim*, was dedicated at
Plymouth, Mass., on Thursday. The
Sons and Daughters of Plymouth were
there m great numbers, also visitors from
far and near. The dedicatory exercises
were carried out by the Masonic grand
lodge, according to the ritual of their
order, and were very interesting.
The debt statement issued at Wash¬
ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in
creuse of debt during the month of July
to be $1,017,311.51; total interest bear¬
ing debt $S95.391,886 96; total debt of
all kinds $1,646,777,309.91; total debt,
less available credit, $1,077,663,932 96;
legal tender notes outstanding $346,-
681,016; certificates of deposit outs land-
iug $17,575,000: gold certificates out-
standing $118,541,409; silver certificates
$20,557,125; fractional currency $6,916,-
023 4^J t0taI 04311 ln treasury $034,723,-
The ice trust at Indianunolis Tnd
Which, since the: bugiDniu.tr of the sc*
son, has kept wfs prices charJU up to 14U iear, percent
more than last hai
StoSSbT be hre S T 1, " ed from an
hi<ffie? tb th ^S . ,<>rca price* 8 ,di
f>n 1,. the dcalers refuscd tc
agree ntq-ee to to thr the proposition and withdrew
purchi X h rnl e dTr Ct bad ° f previously lake ,Ce
sufficient for the whole ’
city, he i. states,
soThrt d e nnbl£ e t I !r rly “if
Cent »»euefi^of the ^ ? 1 a ° W * C
A A d H “P atc ; h f ! rom i? ^ ansaa r e CUtt,DK City, Mo., *
exnre*°« „ V 1 . ^, led lt ” rda OUt y nl . Sbb Uuricm, as the Wabash it was
I tr i*"*, tuo road a^uts, who com-
e 1 >as f eD i^f r ^’i 8t *be ni'izzle »-f
On! tw Ir'a i VlR bold up their hands.
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* e n ! en thiough the pas-
hist* “ x-*L >Ut ’ " *“ ,*■ r,le otber.w ith
^his extended arm, kept a
In thi b^tr • & ciol/^huT «°i U °j ° °l f ecu,edail ) l >OS!t:0!1 -
he d ? b,s haste, and the
robbers r ui w had i escaped. The passengeis
louud they ad ben relieved of $175 in
tu ana two gom wa cue>.
A Chicago dispatch says: A terrible
epidemic of bloudj flux has appeared at
^ arsaw. It came on last Monday in a
light form and resembled dysentery, but
on phase, Wednesday it assumed a more serious
and now fifteen people have died.
Four deaths occurred Thursday and four
Friday, dren. the victims being mostly chil¬
One hundred and eighty cases
ire now reported. The people are ter¬
ror-stricken and do not know what to
make of the scourge. Hamilton, The disease has
also appeared at and it is said
to ex j 8 t epidemic form at Canton and
Kahoka, Mo.
The president, on Monday, appointed
Julian H. Bingham, of Alabama, and
0 f public moneys, respectively, at Mont-
gomery, Ala.; William II. Hart, of Indi-
ana, to be third auditor of the treasury;
John T. Rankin, of Pennsylvania, to be
deputy auditor of the treasury for the
post office department; Walter H. John-
son » of Georgia^ the to be collector of inter-
'l 31 revenue lor district of Georgia;
Eugene A. Webster, of South Carolina,
be collector of internal revenue for the
district . of South Carolina; Columbus C.
Zl?om S \x the 'port WAUantaf°Ga^
John F Pattv c f Louisiana, ’ to be nava
officcr of custoins in the dist rict of New
Orleans, La . George w Jolly> of Ken .
tuck}’, to be attorney of the United States
for the district of Kentucky; William
Grant, of Kentucky, to be attorney of the
United States for the eastern district of
Lousiana; Peter A. Williams, of Florida,
to be marshal of the United States for
the south*, rn district of Florida.
RUSHING WATERS.
GREAT FRESHET IN VIRGINIA—HOUSES AND
STREETS FLOODED—UNTOLD DAMAGE.
Reports from Richmond, Va., say that
the James river is seventeen feet above
the ordinary low water mark, and rising
four inches per hour. The wharves at
Rocketts are all under water and adja-
cent streets, houses and cellars and the
gas works are inundated. A number of
business houses had to suspend trade aud
move their effects in consequence of
Schockoe creek backing up water from
'or years. Repo,though-
At Fredericksburg the lower portion ol
the city is submerged from high water
in the Rappahanock, and merchants
and citizens are moving their
effects to places of safety,
At Danville, Thursday morning, there
was more water in Dan river than was
ever known before. Factories and small
dwellings on the river banks were flood-
ed, and the loss will be about $15,000,
exclusive of the damage to the railroads,
Travel, on the Danville and New River
road is suspended, lwo bridges and
one long trestle have been carried away,
and the wires are all down. Carson the
Atlantic and Danville track are complete-
ly submerged and lnduen from view,
Harrisonburg, Va., the rains have been
continuous for days, and all the streams
are out of their banks. Much damage
a££?5=SsSt3 as een one. m. rainy .spe w iu i
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SDroutiuff Xomv for in the shocks The outlook is
fdelphia farmers Renorts from Phil
say: Waters in the Schuylkill
river Thursday attained the hi'dies t point
reached reacnea in in this mis citv ry for iori twenty y years yea , in-
wore subL’rgod, bLbou^sflooded the banks and
some of the streeis near nver
were under water to the depth consul- of be-
tween four and five feet, doing
erablo damaue.
SPOKANE IN ASHES.
A YOUNG CITY OF THE NEW STATE OB
W ASHINGTON SUCCUMBS TO 'J HE FLAMES.
A dispatch to the San Francisco Ex¬
aminer says: Spokane, one of the most
prominent of the many new cities in the
infant state of Washington, situated on
the line of the Northern Pacific Rail¬
road, close to the Coeur de Alone mining
region, was visited by a disastrous fire
on Monday afternoon, iu which twenty-
five business blocks were reduced to
ashes. The city has been the site for
many large industrial establishments,
such as smelters and kindred enter¬
prises. Expensive public edifices had
also been recently erected, and the
population was easily supporting
two prosperous daily papers.
The burned district wa 3 in the strip
between the Northern Pacific railroad
tracks and the Spokane river. This
strip was five squares across, and extend¬
ed about seven squares in lencth. It
was solidly built up with brick aud
stone structures, the cost of which va¬
ried from $25,000 to $125,000. Ten
banking houses, five hotels, opera house,
and many wholesale establishments, do¬
ing business estimated at half a
million dollars each, were situ¬
ated within the district described.
The population city of the city w T a 3 about 20,-
000. The possessed an excellent
waterworks modeled after the Holly sys¬
tem. with a capacity of 9,000,000 gallons
daily. There were no fire engines, but
by the system in use five or six good-
sized streams of water could be concen¬
trated upon any block ixr the case of lire,
'ilie fire department spread was a volunteer one.
The flames with fearful rapidity.
The firemen were power iss. Attempts
were made to check the fire by blowing
buildings , . its . path, ...... but it
up in was use.
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A BIG GRAB.
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There was a big sensation in Wheeling,
W kaown'!ha. Va Fridav morning SejbS'kl,1 when it Wam. C
Barer bookkeeper yery
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rest * )f ^ f d bank fo ^ embezzling of Wheeling, $27,000 had from been the ar
bank. On tliq 10th of April, dipositeS a package
containing $27,000 was iu the
* U k hy a P l0miaent business mm,
end i was placed iu the va tit
aV b<3 bus J lwss hours
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f tCr tbe bank had closed, the man
wh i hid i depos ted the Package went to
get u and found ,t missing. Tbe ab-
se-nce o, the package was keq»t quiet for
n time, being as »t appeared evident that
- -me e.nploye had taken it. HiriySey-
>ol; \\;s found to be spending money
' lT - v Iec !J- Su>pictou at once rested ou
urn aiu ie wa>. arrested. He was taken
‘ justice r& i am charged vrah
tUe theft. At first Seybold denied th,
a i er f 10 ' 1 *i x uniuation 1 y
fiDal %T f ff1?
J-«ken em the lo money v uf tlie beybold b< ntv f. has r the been past m
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even ye. -I and hs books ba-e always
ev L J z. ' ‘rree. tac i » xa..iinauo...
Wtiiat ° e tu 1 th^*temntlu«I tem Ptation w&> too strong.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OP
importance in the southern states.
The fire in Pratt mines, Ala., which
had been burning six days, was extin-
guished "
' Saturday
IV. H, Heyward, one of the richest npd
most prominent rice planters of the olden
times, day, died at Charleston, S. C., Tues-
a«ed %„, seventy-two years
Uo The first lot of “anti-trust* cotton ,,
•' Pf for the scas o n received
in V oldosta, Ga., Saturday It attracted
quite a crowd to inspect this new cover-
ing which the Fanners’ Alliance has re-
solved to use.
J. F. Shillis,. who opened a music
store in Birmingham, Ala., a few weeks
ago, went in debt as deep as he could
and skipped. His shop is in the hands
of the sheriff under attachments sworn
out by numerous creditors.
In a row between Andy Baker and
Wude Purcell, at M< unt Vernon, Ky.,
Monday morning, Constable Proctor at¬
fued tempted to arrest Purcell when the latter
at Proctor. The ball took effect in
the back part of the neck and rauging
downward. Proctor fired a shot into
Purcell’s bowels. Pioctor is badly
wounded and Purcell will die.
Saturday night, at Raleigh, N. C.,
Theodote Couusil, a young man who
poisoned his wife with “rough ou rats,”
was captured in the woods near Wil-
liamstown, Martin county. A large
number of men had pursued him ever
since the verdict of the coroner’s jury
had fixed the murder upon him. He is
' ^ 18 1 nerit S . eutlea b c v° ,u r “* ing uat to he appear is crazy. m-
A storm broke over Richmond , Va., on
Thursday night, during.which the city
railwa y stables, located just without the
cuy limits in \\ est End, were struck l y
lightning. Ihe building took tire, the
11hu1( ' s spread rapidly, and before aid
nyed ] the entire structure was consumed
and sixty mu.es and horses were burned
«00;i_ *4C,500, aU in foreign
aT ; ^ „ ot ^
the Smiths and Slashers, near Pineville,
Ky., over a hog worth * 3 . Smith’s
home was attacked Saturday last by the
Blushers and a volley poured into the
house which put holes through the door
and broke several windows/ Smith re-
taliated by putting a guard, armed with
Winchesters, on the Slushers’ road to
Flat Lick, the nearest village. Both
sides are now well armed aud are watch-
ing for each other.
At a house on East Lanvale street,
Baltimore, Md., a few sharp words and a
hastjr use of a revolver and an appa-
rentiy happy young couple, husband and
wife, were lying dead, each shot directly
through the heart. The house was
broken in aud there stretched upon the
floor were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs.
Dolan. Asi there were powder marks on
the man’s shirt and as the pistol was near
1 he belief is becoming very general
throu g hout North Carolina that Gover-
nor Fo v ' le ' vd l request Dr. Grissom to
r ? s if ^ + v superm tendency of the asylum
au ludei S b \ Ihe governor has no power
to act officially in the matter, uUais but it is
'FfU - ,s> 'T' a m f i
thc k-qiest ,\ m the name of the { people ^ of
, ho st and for , u „ od of ho ati .
tution .
dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala,, rc-
ports the mysterious death at noon Mon-
day of Arthur Fills, superintendent of
the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, and son of
J. Fitts, a prominent banker. He was
seen lust walkiug back and forth on ihe
grounds of the mills, and finally disap-
peared under an old building. A pistol
shot was heard, and an employe louud
Fitts lying on the ground with an ugly
wound behindAm right car, and the pis-
tol with one chamber empty at his feet
There is nothing to determine whether it
is a case of suicide or murder.
A collision occurred ou the Virginia
Midland Railroad Sunday morning at
Burley’s, Va., fourteen miles north ol
Charlottesville, between two freight
trains. Fireman Ford A. Fox, of the
southbound train, was killed instantly,
and Engineer Charles Davis, of the
northbound freight, seriously injured,
Engineer Ernest Hayes, of the south-
bound freight, and Biakeman M. A. Me-
Donald, are missing, and are supposed to
be under the wreck Fireman Kelly and
Biakeman Mculatn, both of Alexandria,
are also badly injured.
For several days past there have been
rumors to the effect that a new ferry line
between Charleston and Sullivan’s Island
direct was to be started at once. The
report was tnat there were parties in
Charleston who owned a steamboat cap-
oud kind of is Sp* said that
in some w< rk. It
the owners made a proposition to run the
steamer between Charleston and Sulli-
van’s Island, making a trip from the city
every hour during the day from 7 a. m.
till 10.30 p. m., with extra night trips
after the last named hour, as occasi n
might domand, for the sum of $75 per
WLC k.
A GREAT EXODUS.
rp, . , . , . &.sr , ,, ,
at Kaliigli, N. C., last April to go to tlit
mS an i k°rn itain wi whM at arran aSn tnuius can hcraade uc ruauc
ored tokntclL'uighatoncer.uihcsoii’llrecst. -wu'lrereKorV,'Suita eLset
J lie committee says thut over 78,000
names of those who will move have been
enrolled Lw^t and that tln-v lS,> have «<qved See lu^ to
mffir
been given them, pmvidtd the commis-
sion mi kes a favorable and‘the* report If the
conditions ai o fav.-rabb- cr mm, t-
tte shall so report, it is ihouaht that at
least fifty thousand people will be m wed
, ext fall. Louisian,, Tennessee, Kansas,
Arkansas, Texas and California tea in to
lie making pre-jwratjems to incense lie ir
colored population at the expense of
North Carolina.
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KILLED BY LIGHTNING
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At Catawb*. North Carolina on Mon-
night, Mr. J. A. Trollinger had
church, accompanied Miss Addle A. Reid from
and wffiile together in the parlor
a t un Jer storm began, and a str ?ke of
.g.» nmg tearing down he chimney,
1 Killed the young lady aud hex
unitor.
TRADE PROSPECTS.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS OF GOOD CROPS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s review of trade fot
thi week ending August 3d, says: “The
country begins to feel the stimulus ol
good crops. New Spring wheat began
t0 arrive at Chicago on the first, ten days
e &ri.er than last year. The St. Louis
coru confer has no effect, and an abund-
r“ ld “ expected and business in all
d 'Y is Stmireg. The North-
i he r ' el d
nt ity, 500 > 000 > 000 bushels of excellent qual- , ,
and the mills at Minneapolis are ac-
t ve with water plenty. St. Paul natu- ;
rally repoits an improvement in trade, i
and Milwaukee also in all branches. At
Omaha the of above the ’
assurance crons
average a era e makes makes business business excellent. excellent in In
the iron regions a distinct increase in i
demand is felt, and orders for one hun- !
dred new locomotives were placed dur-
ing the week. The certainty of large
traffic also has its effect upon railroad
negotiations, which have made progress Trade
toward peace. The volume of
continues to exceed last year’s, at New
York, 12 per cent, and outside 12* per
cent., banks. according to clearings through j
Exports for July, from New York,
appear 1 - 1 * per cent, larger than last
year, with imports 5* per cent, larger,
and these figures would point to an ex-
cess of about 11 , 000,000 imports over
exports, and yet large offerings of bills
against products to be moved hereafter
prevents apprehension, The prospect is
better for a decline of 2 § cents in wheat
during the week, though corn, oats and
cot on for immediate delivery are fiac-
nonally higher. Pork products have
o per r tno 100 pounds. ll Tl 1 he specula!, Fr ve 20 move- ° C " ta
f ’ the*sales^of f ’‘
00( 0 00 buabels for the week G cor
7 000.000 and of cotton 191 000 stronger' bales
j blt C( ,fl; ee j g three-quarters
wbb Stde3 Q f 32(5 qqO bags. In oil oiilv
3,700,000 barrels have been sold aud the
pr i ce is about one ceut lower ”
THEY Y WAN WANT T ALL ALL OF np THEM,
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H “ n Tif ^ <• u . g property WC addres in 8 .y° Fall u
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/ „ n ii ttp'r > oT oc V - on eiu a ? a^-is o mu- °
x n _, yoTthSt . thToiSrS CoS'-
nanv of New York has consented to act
a s trustee in behalf of both Dirties f^vor'
Should the matter meet with vmir
able consideration, we will confer with
you personally in regard to details. Very
respectfully, George F. Mellen, Emerson
c. McMillan, H. B. Wilson Committee”
The syndicate, which has been formed
represents principally foreign
and that already the amount subscribed
what imed at, and the operations will
not b. -onfined to Fall River, but extend
to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and
the best mills in the country. The Fall
R'Yer mills have a capital exceeding
$ 20 , 000 , 000 . and an investment probably
ot $3 ?’ oo ' ooo .?, r ,h *
by i thousands of stnekboldcrs. The di-
r to „ fc ,„ few'hundred p!iwer to seU the mills, and,
beyond a shares probably
Utile stock could bo bought at an,limit
like the prevailing prices.
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THEYOBJECT. _ ucv
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1 * ’ ’
_
rpv ^ The - f i n ChmokS
cupied 5ians eastern band of
In which live in Jackson, Macon,
Graham aud Cherokee counties, *. North
Carolilia are greatly excitcd 0 er the
fmn0 uncement that Geronimo aud his
band of Indians are to be located on a
Reservation iu Swain county. The
Cherokecs oppose the plan, and the
tirnent of the white settlers is strongly
opposed to it. Tho people realize that
the government has this band on its
hands and must do something with it,
and these Indians are now, and will be in
the future, treated as prisoners of war,
with an armed military guard over them,
In that case they can’t see the need for
quite so much land. There are 425 of
the band, 75 being children of school
age. From 6,000 to 10,000 acres of land
looks li ke a pretty big allotment, the pen
pie say.
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SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS,
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a wonderful plenty-peaches fif-
TEEN CEKT IA! RATE '
The abundance of fruit this vear seems
to be general throughout the whole state
of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit
is actually a “glut” °nto ou the market.
loads Farmers ‘bring that they city wagOD
of melons for which are nn-
able to find a market at any price. Can-
taloupes of the finest quality sell for a
song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif-
teen or twenty cents a dozen. One of
afnnmtar
cents. In fact ther a is a superabundance
° f 4,1 ^ fr :‘_______ .*■
A COTTON TRUST.
--
“““““win misapranAaiHUl
AN ENGLISH eritproTU.
A formal prooosition * has been made to
nnnY il.t, leadi smithern cotton mil's bv 1 a
& the purch^ ffit-nstVinone It^vUnU^ .
u viivv of couffii«.inn mg mtenets m one ccn cea-
r-.it , . scf mills‘haTe'heremfore
th t cot ton d od
emubined the Tim leU. s of prono 1 are
now in hands of various Xis mH hive owners
in Cohmibus (i a No been
taken but there is no knowing ^ the final
result
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GIRLS CN A STRIKE.
_
Over one bundled young women cm-
b’ovcd in ITu sickt r & Co’s., Kt ad ing,
Pa.. Hosiery mills, w nt out on a strike
Monday cunning. They l ad n meeting
»nd resolved not to go back until their
grievances were righted. They struck
becau-e the firm reduced wages from
ou teen to twelve cents per dozen stock-
iuga j>nd »nnou <ced th t t e giils would
be charged-extra for the use of machine
needles, etc.
TWINS
mysterious sympathy which
EXISTS BETWEEN THEM.
A Great Antipathy Shown tVwranU
All Twins by Somo Sarage*
—The Peculiar Customs
of the Ishogoo*
Few things are more mysterious than
the undefinable sympathy which often
exists between two beings who came into
Therecanbenodouot - . .,
world together. _ ,
the
that this sympathy is real, and not the
effec t of the imagination, as some have
3ut(T>osed So far as fcseTf is known it does
Dot alwa y s develop develop itseir, ana and when y\nen it v. is a
^erstood. P resent lts cause A very K real no ^ affection ^ an N means generally ’
. , bet ^ e ' } a wms to
h< ltself the J\ ’.. , , f /’
® ? w m eaI es
-
It is no uncommon thing for a twin who
bas lost bis or ber counterpart to pnie
away, drooping . gradually into tne
clutches of the destroyer, whom taking
away the other, has deprived life of all
its joy. But though intense fondness is
no doubt to a great extent the cause of
such sad occurrences, the sympathy which
twins have for one another shows itself
here. With many savage races twins are
hurried out of the world immediately
they have entered it; others allow them
to live, but only under certain conditions,
In western Africa, a little below the
equator, beteen 10 degrees and 12
degrees cast longitude live a
j ar g e tribe called the Ishogo. They have
many J £ peculiar customs, but none more so
tfaan t e ir treatment of twins and of th,
mother who is so unfortunate as to bear
, hem . idea seems .. exis , with tncm
tbat no woman ought to produce more
than a single child at a time, and they
seek to rectify the error by giving tneir
deities every chance of killing one of the
children before they have arrived at the
a £ e afc which they ar e considered aide to
take care of themselves. This is held to
be at about 6 years old; once that age lia*
passed, is is thought by these peo-
that a proper balance between life
^ plac v hehu marked tv in whichthecvent some manner winch s ap b
11 “ de r ■* '/ “tmguidiaMe from
.
" ' n ,'
1 hose w r ho have read accounts of Afn-
cau travel will probably remember the
unanunous testimony which explorers of
the dark continent bear to the extraordi-
nary loquacity of its natives, Africans
talk as they breathe—unceasingly, and
ye t the unfortunate mother of twins is
forb any ^ but the t ° immedlat f Xcha ?^ e a ^ngle members >vord of with her
^ amd y* She may go into the forest for
firewood i and perform the household
work necessar y f °r the existence of her-
self and her children, but it must be all
doQC in strict silence, unless she finds
herself near one of her close relatives,
The consequence of this jteculiar custom
is that the Ishogo woman dreads the
event of twins more than anything, ex-
than to tell her that she is sure to become
the mother of two children at a birth,
When the six years of probation have
dragged out their weary length, a grand
ceremony is held to celebrate the release
n f t b( * f bp thron z&T’AX.
J^, ° U ? A ^ ‘ '»>> P V *"» ^ ”
o Ute Principal street, , and tlio mother re and
*.J “tslv n “ d S/ **J e t? stand ‘“Vlf on either •**:
"»"?>* ."'p ™" 1 their faces The rest
of the »*»lMt»nt. , of the place congre-
gate , round about, and at a given signal
e women march away from the hut,
bn ' ed b ^ tbe twlns > Gie mother clap-
, ber bands and capering
P\ inend ng beating about, the
a lusty tattoo upon a drum
and a song appropriate to the
the SnrT round ’ Thll of the" 1 ^UaS i 8 ' n ^ S there SSi °- is n a hHS general g ° Q 1
Sli ?. d ™ n to a
feat feast, and eating, drinking and
daDC1D f [on for the rest of the
Ciay ,f nCt a 1 tbfou ^ b the ni gDt. As soon
as tbc next da y dawna all restrictions
u P on the mother and her offspring are
held t0 be rem oved. This ceremony is
known as “M’paza,” a word which sig-
nifies both tbe twins, and the rite by vir-
tue of which they and their mother are
admitted to the companionship of their
kind.
Cases in which one of a pair of twins
has felt some disturbing influence at
work within him when evil was befalling
his other self are numerous. As with all
matters of the kind, the instances related
are apt to border upon the land of fiction
but there are many which are uerfectlv
well authenticated. ~
Though twins are
usually alike in form and feature this i«
DO t invariably the case. The writer
knows twin brothers who can scarcely J be
*> b-r even » fa mily likeness o lie
the vptv y ^xtrprnpTnf ®? ? f da TTT kne exions f aad f. air '
aess ____ * n Lut tho ^ h unlike . bodily, they
resera ' ) ie one another mentally to such an
f xteat that tbey P assed from‘the bottom
, °I Slde ^PP by OI side j e .—London our ?? rea Standard. ^ public
scno s
The Curfew in New York’s Capital.
There is a custom in Albany, N Y
1
h? 1 1 * naif eighth of a second, at 9 each
.
with Dudley Observatory, and it
a stroke ol one at 9 o’clock night ami
morning. All the private clocks
watches are set by it. anil it is . curious
revelation to the theatrical companies
| bat v ™ t thereto see nearly everybody in
h ‘ Judl .® nce Jul11 out hls ° r hcr watch at
apparently a preconcerted moment aud
1<K ‘ k at H ' Tim effect is very novel. Jt
Andersou fariy , upset when John they McCullough played there and 3Iary U>~
S^her some yearn ago. McCullough had
seen the air-drawn dagger, and he
thou S ht the were going to ring
thc chestout bells on him. The effect is
a?so v 8 r y fl «nny in thc churches. But
the same bell also tolls the fire alarm,
and, by numbers of strokes, signals the
district where the fire is. It is customary
on these occasions for the good pastors to
remark: “If any one feels called by that
warning, there will I.*e no objection to his
now withdrawing." and there have been
occasions when a number do so .—New
Yo ,k Star.
Last year the number of visitors to
Shakespeare’s birthplace was 16,800.
Americans constituting one-fourth of thc
numbe u
•
SUNSHINE LAND.
\
They came in sight of a lovely shore,
Yellow as gold in the morning light;
The sun’s own color at noon it wore,
And it faded not at the fall of night;
Clear weather or cloudy, ’twas all as on*,
The happy hills seemed bathed with the sun;
Its secret the sailors could not understand,
But they called this country Sunshine Land.
What was the secret? A simple thing,
I will make you smile when one© you know
Touched by the tender finger of spring.
A million blossoms were all aglow;
Bo many, so many, so many and bright,
They covered the hills with a mantle of light;
And the wild bee hummed and the glad breezo
fanned,
Through the honeyed fields of Sunshine
Land.
If over the sea we two were bound,
What port,dear child, would we choose for
ours?
We would sail, and sail till at last wo found
This fairy land of a million flowers.
Yet, darling, we’d find, if at home we stayed,
Of many small joys our pleasures are made,
More near than we think, very close at hand.
Lie the golden fields of Sunshine Land.
—Edith M. Thomas.
P1TII AND POINT.
The picnic belle should wear ringlets.
Time is money. Some car conductors
beat time.
The language of a deaf mute is a thing
that goes without saying.
Wffiat was it the buzz saw? Saw teeth,
of course .—New York Netcs.
When a man goes to work he generally
takes off his coat, but if he is a painter ho
puts on one.
It may be ^difficult to build war-ships,
but it is not so hard to rear-admirals.—
New York Netcs.
The tombstone is about the only thing
that can stand upright and lie on its face
at the same time .—Terre Haute Express.
A Pullman porter is not necessarily
dishonest because he is in the habit of
going through the sleepers.— New York
News.
A tailor being asked if the close of the
year made him sad said yes, until the
clothes of the year are paid for. —Texas
Siftings.
“Dorothy, my love, I think you are
dreadfully extravagant to buy all those
things.” “But, my dear Rufus,” said
dearest, “I had them charged.”
“I love you well,” the stamp exclaimed,
“Dear envelope so true;
In fact, it’s evident to all
That I am stuck on you.”
—New York Sun.
Mrs. Jones—“Your baby is very small
for its age, don’t you think?” Mrs.
Brown—“Yes, the poor darling was fed
on milk which was condensed—that’s
why the baby is so too. w
Clerk—“Mr. Daybook, I would like
leave of absence this afternoon to attend
the funeral of a cousin.” Mr. Daybook
(next morning)—“What was the score,
John ?”—New York Sun.
A private Broadway detective agency
advertises that it will do “pumping.” A
private detective agency generally has to
get a new “sucker” every time it com¬
mences to pump .—New York News.
Tramp—“Thank ye, ma’am, for given’
me the grub, but I kin never eat without
a fork.” Farmer’s Wife—“Well, amble
along, and you’ll find a fork in the road
a little further on .”—New York Tribune.
A St. Louis paper declares that no man
who claims to be a gentleman, will re¬
verse his cuffs. We are waiting patient¬
ly to see how Chicago will get even for
this cruel thrust .—Minneapolis Tribune.
Here is the reason Wagner’s scores
Are made a nuisanco whoppin’;
Folks Handel it as though it was
A wood-pile they were Chopin.
—Philadelphia Stage.
Mrs. Gabble—“What an awfully wor¬
ried, anxious,despairing look Mrs. Good-
soul has.” Mrs. Dabble—“Yes, I guess
she’s stopped doing her own work and
gone to keeping a girl .”—New York
Weekly.
Of the size of her hand you may judge by
her glove;
For there is needed no art;
But you never can judge the depth of the
love
Of a maid by the sighs of her heart.
“Well, sir, what are your prospects?
My daughter cant’t marry a beggar,” “I
expect to come into a large fortune, sir.”
“Inherited from whom?” ‘ ‘Inherited
from my-—er-r—that is to say, from my
father-in-law. ’ ’— Time.
“I have met this man,” said a lawyer
the other day, “in a great many places
where I would be ashamed to be seen.”
And for a minute he couldn’t understand
why everybody laughed so uproariously.
—New York Tribune.
Nine of this summer’s graduates at
Agontz, the aristocratic Philadelphia
school were Chicago girls and the class
numbered only twenty-one. They all
spell “pork” with a “q-u-e” how.—
Minneapolis Tribune.
Jenny—“Here comes Jack, auntie. I
wish you would come down and stay in
the room ” Aunty—“Why?” Jenny
—“I’m afraid he’s going to propose and
I can't trust myself—he looks so poor
and so handsome.”— Munsey's Weekly.
Johnson—“But can you speedily cir-
cuiate thfJ rumor in a roundabout way
uJtZ
niul ^ •
present?” Drummer—“YYm have only
ray word for It but (proudly) I am from
Chicago, and a Chicago man was never
known to tell a lie.” (Merchant dies.)-
dotturr and turn,tier.
Stranger (in Chicago)—“I don’t see
bow you can sleep nights when you know
that bloody Jake is roaming around
‘
loose.” Chicago Man—“Jake don’t do
„
anybody any harm now. He’s been given
a nice position on the police force.”—
New } ork Mail and Express.
Prehistoric Clams.
While workmen were digging on the
base ball grounds at the park at Bar Har-
bor a few days ago, they came upon a
mussel lied atiout three or four feet below
the surface. The briny odor from it was
«3 strong as it is from those to be seen on
the seashore, and down about two feet in
the bed thousands of clams were found
right side up and in a good state of pre-
servatiou. This is certainly a curiosity,
a, the park is at least a mile from the
nearest salt water. The enthusiastic
geologists will find this an excellent place
in which to pursue some investigations.
— Jkmgor (Jfo.) GmmerciaL