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TOCCOA, GEORGIA. Real estate iu New York city doubles in value every eight years now. There are only about 40,000 vacant lots left. There are Frenchmen who say the close of the Exposition in Paris will be the beginning of a “Boulanger Revolu¬ tion.” A sign of the business boom in the South, according to the New York Nats, is the rapid establishment of new banking institutions. Spain must concede to Cuba the right of self government within certain limits or there will be trouble there, declares the Washington Star, and resident Span¬ iards will side with the Cubans. At present the human race is increas¬ ing 30,000,000 a year, aud if that “elix¬ ir of life” turns out a success the New York Ikrahl predicts that we will soon have to annex some unoccupied planet. It is stated on good authority that notwithstanding the destruction of human life by the late Civil War the white pop¬ ulation of the Southern States has in¬ creased in a greater ratio than the colored race by nearly four per cent. The New York San suggests that one feature of the Paris Exposition which, by all means, ought to be transported to New York for the great Exhibition oi 3892 is the mammoth globe, forty feet in diameter. It affords an object lesson in geography of incomparuble^ralue. In China the inhabitants are counted every year in a curious maimer. The oldest master of every ten houses has to count the families, and has to make a list, which is sent to the imperial tax bouse. Last year the whole number amounted to 879,383,500 inhabitants. The Now Orleans 'Times-Democrat, in a jocular vein,says: “The restaurateurs of the country are preparing to roast the skewer trust, which has just been formed. With toothpicks, skewers, frying pans and stoves all syndicated, the great American stomach is certainly in danger.” Taught by the experience in the case of Mrs. May brick, the London Law Times advocates a change in English law', so that prisoners may be allowed to testify iu their own behalf, as the they do with us. “The highest interests of justice are sub- served by granting that privilege,” de¬ clares the New York Sun. Nevada is groaning under her State taxation and therefore laments a diminish¬ ing population and lessening wealth. “Sheis prematurely old,” says the Phila¬ delphia Record, “the dried-up dwarf in the sisterhood of young, lovely and blooming States! Where is the elixir that will renew Nevada’s life?” Electricity will be used in a practical way in the taking of the census. The census blanks will be the same as usual, but tho information they contain will be recorded on a large sheet of paper by the punching of holes in it at certain inter¬ vals. An electrical circuit is formed through these holes, and counters are added electrically, recording on their dials all items of the same kind. Boston is an unlucky name in our naval history. If Ilaincrsly is right, the new United States cruiser is the fifth Boston we have had in our navy. The fate of throe was disastrous. One fell into the hands of the British at the surrender of Charleston; another was burned at Wash¬ ington in 1811 to keep her out of the British clutches; and a third was wrecked on the island of Kleuthera in 1846. Suicide manias are often ascribed to at- /no,spheric influences, but may be often due to a penchant for imitation, fostered by the graphic sectionalism of our periodical press. Jack the Ripper’s ex¬ ploits were emulated in not less than fifteen different American cities aud a few days ago the manhole horror of the Cronin affair simultaneously repeated itself in Hamburg, Germany, and Cincinnati. lays the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: “Memphis is mad. It has been dis- covered that a geography procured foi ir, ii, 0 b" * > ,* u> ^ , ^ °f that city suinimriz ei 1 - enipiis as a mer port from, which cotton is sent to New " v Hrlfinc ' 11 - » Tb,. * be enterprising agent who , miapts his text books to different localities . rtjade a mistake in shipping them and tent the New Orleans geographies to •Memphis.” she King of famous Dahomey in Africa is dead, aud as his successor must prove before he ascends the throne that he is a brave and great man man, ine the young voun- aspirant aspirant is -ii- looking around for adventures. At last accounts he had gone hunting for Kimj Tofa. of PortoNovo, dectemgthat noth- ing e.vs than the head of that potentate would satisfy his ambition. King Tofa was at peace with all the world, into’ but his country is suddenly plunged terrible commotion simply because his head i { * wanted across the border in Dahomey, The French are now busily engaged in Porto Novo helping the King keep his head on his shoulders. It is such puerile quarrels as these that are playing the mis¬ chief with the West African trade, and keening a long stretch of the coast in an SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OE WHAT IS OOINO ON OF IXTOKTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The Cincinnati Southern Railroad Ma- chine shops, at Chattanooga, lenn., were burned Friday. Estimated loss $25,000. Governor Lee has appointed delegates from Virginia to the National F. niters’ congress to be held at Montgomery, Ala., November 13th. The hotel at Bon Air, a summer resort eighty miles from Richmond,Va., on the Richmond and Danville railroad, was burned Wednesday. Less $25,000; par¬ tially insured. 900 Jacksonville, Fla., will build a $100,- cotton factory, The shares in the stock have all been taken, and the com¬ pany will organize aud begin operations at as early a day as possible. On Friday night a freight and passen¬ ger train collided in the Baltimore and Potomac railroad tunnel, near the navy yard, Washington, I). G., aud ten or a dozen lives were lost. Dr. J. W. Owen, over eighty years of age, a prominent physician Maryland, well known throughout Virginia and died at his residence, in Stephens City, Va., Sunday. Governor Buckner, on Monday, issued a proclamation to the people of Harlan county, calling up m them to aid the state troops in enforcing the law in that part of Kentucky. New counterfeit two-dollar treasury certificates have made their appearance in Chattanooga, Tenn. The engraving is line, but the paper is poor. Ail coun¬ terfeits, so far discovered, are numbered B 105441741, and bear a picture of Gen¬ eral Hancock. hen . wood , Cotton „ , mills, Lowell, T near oii-itou county, x <. ( ,, were binned rri- lay. Jhey had been shut dow n for weeks. Loss is sixty-thousand dullais, with $•) 1,000 insurance. Inc mills were new and had six thousand spindles. Dispatcht s to the Dallas News from all sections of north and northe. r stern and nnrthwestcin T< xus indicate genera) damage to crops and property and delay of tiaflic from ii >ods, occasioned by tains, which have fallen incessantly in that territory during the past week. A one thousand dollar ve rdict was found against the Richmond and Dan- ville railway company in tlie city court at Atlanta, Gn., on Wednesday. The plaintiff was Hariy C. Beck, who sued for ten thousand dollars damages for be- ing ejected from a train in August, 1830. destroyed At Fernandina, Fla,, Wednesday, the the city jail, and one negro prisoner, in the flames. named Henry Baker, perished The origin of the fire is unknown, but it is suspected that the prisoner aecidei tally set himself and bedding on fire while lighting his pipe. The Louisville & Nashville Railway „ Friday, . . . let . contracts , . for . company, on forty-seven miles of road from Cumber- land Gap to Princess Hat, \a. where connection is made with the Norfolk and Western giving a through line from Louisville to Norfolk. One of the largest charters ever granted to any corporation in the south, was granted by the superior court of Georgia, by which the Southern Home Building and Loan association, of Atlanta, Gn., was incorporated, with authority to do business in Georgia or any other state, The authorized capital stock is $20,000,- 000 . At the trial of Plicntand Doll Tatliorn two of the notorious Hatfield gang at Irikevillc, Ky., cm Saturday they were convicted of the murder of the McCoy brothers, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Elleison Mounts was found guilty of murder of Elflora McCoy, aud sentenced to be hanged December 3. Anniston, G. L. Stallings, the chief of police of Ala., publishes in the News of that city a card in which he solemnly ligatrs himself to the Pelham family to leave the community of Anniston on or before Mondav, September 20th, never to return. The card is a long one, and is the outcome of the killing, some time ngo, of William Pelham by Stallings. The triennial conclave of the grand encampment of Knights Templar will be held iu Washington, D. C., next lnonth, and the event is attract- ing attention all over the United States. This conclave will l>e the luost impottanl and at the same time most interesting ever held ou this continent. The attend- nnce will be vety large, aud it is expect- ed that there will be at least from 40,000 to 50,000 Knights formed in l.ne on Pennsylvania avenue on that grand oc¬ casion. Vnemicallv \ substitute for cotton in the nhann of prepared ramie ' fibre h-q been inverted bv 5 The' Dr P-m k in oV ill of “a- Charleston £ S C a“ method e‘ret taU is estimated that the cost per hale r r pci pound will not exceed that for the prep- arationfor market of equivalent amounts of long cotton. Dr. Panknin is in com- munication with business men in New Yorkwho are interested in the discov erv. Something very interestin'' in the way of the development of the industry may be shortly expected. ' At ft meeting of the Farnurs’ Alliance, held at EUavilic, Ga., the following res? olutions were unauimous ! y adopted: Re¬ solved, Fir-t, By the Schley county al- iiar.ee low in session, that we demand of 11k cotto ? l>u vtrs o! EJaville, an allow- - auce in ot eight pounds tare on cotton baled cotton bagging. Resolved, Second, l f sai “ demand is not complied ' V1, h. we insist that every member of the alliance of Schley county do re use to patronize said market or any other mar- ket win re said demands are refused.” Adopted September 10th, 1889, The annual meeting of ilie stockhold- trs cf the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. L uiis railway, was In lo in the office of the company, in Nashville, Tennessee, on last Atdmsriay. Jbc gross earnings for the year were shown to be $3,000,- lt*5.16; operatii g ~xjx*twen $1.9o1.444.- ?w mt °, anun f S ’ i’° 48,7 ''! 58 ' Out of this -urn there f ha* been paid m- forest and taxes, s-G^Gp.,.>4; improve- ments. $50.9U3.30 t.2.>,588.90: leaving the capital stock have been declared, $333,426.58; leaving i balance, $84,- 69 ). It*. -- A FATAL THUNDERBOLT. -- While Sunday school services were be- ing held m a small frame church near Columbia City. Inch, lightning struck the spire, and coursed down through the roof, striking and instantly killing two gkls, both aged 17, who were sitting to- gether in the center of their class. Other children in the class were badly stunned, DISASTROUS STORMS • WEEPING TtlE ATI.AN TIC COAST, DOING UNTOLD DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. A terrible and disastrous storm swept alon" the Atlantic coast Monday, doing considerable damage. At New York, the North and East river fronts and the cellars of warehouses and tenements oa both the east aud west sides of the lower part of the citv are in a decidcdlv eba- ot i c g t a p e Some of the piers are en- tirely covered by the tide, and some that arc usually twelve feet above decks high water mark the have their licked by angry waves. The Jersey shore was inundated in many places. On the East river front, buildings from Fiftieth stre.t io Fourteenth street. are affected by the great rise of water. The lower end of Blackwell’s island is submerged, aud the keepers were engaged early in the morning in removing pa¬ tients from frame out-buildiugs on that portion of the island. It is the general impression among sea faring men, tbit the tide is the highest known for twenty- live years. No vessels arrived at New York up to noon Tuesday. The storm came from the seaward, and was full grown when it struck the coast. Along -he Jersey coast the surf is reported the heaviest ever known. A similar condition prevails all along the coast of New Eng¬ land and New Jersey. Reports from Coney island are to the effect that Mon- day night’s storm and its acco.i panying high tide were the most disastrous in the history of that storm-beaten isle. The Marine railway Ins been swept away. The esplanade in front of Manhattan Beach hotel washed out, and the sea is flowing into the basement of Manhattan Beach ho: el. A greater part of the Concordance is gone. Reports from Philadelphia say: The damage to railroad lines entering Atlan- tic City, Cape May, Sea Isle City, Ocean City, and other coast resorts, by the great storm is very heavy. The Camden and Atlantic and West Jctsey roads were un¬ able to get a train in or out of Atlantic (jj t „ oa Tuesday. 'Ihe storm carried away telegraph poles and wires and all communication was cut off. Water in the old Camden and Atlantic excursion house at Atlantic City is four or five feet high, and in the meadows it is as high, S c tliatitis difficu t to calculate the dam- age that has been done to railroad prop- erties. Ocean City is almost entirely under water, and the beach road, which j a floated by every high tide, il believed to be an entire wreck. The news from Lewes, Delaware, is that the tide was the highest since 1867. Telegraphic communication with the Breakwater was destroyed, The schooners Alena Covert, Henry McLarke, J. F. Becker, Byron M, Maud Seward, Ncuona, Gertrude Summers aud four unknown schooners are ashore. Both wooden piers have been destroyed. THE RAGING FLAMES, FATAL ANIl DISASTROUS FIRES AT LOUIS* VILLE, KY., AND JACKSONVILLE, FLA. three, Bamberger, Bloom & Co., ’ one of the t wholeSllle dry goods aud notion houses in Louisville, Ky., was completely destroyed bv lire Sunday b\ m falling „rning. Four firemen were caught walls ail l killed and two mote etc reported under the debris. They were working close up in the rear when the walls fell and tney were crushed beneath. Four have been taken out dreadfully mangle 1. A conservative cs- ! tiffiate of the InsS on the stock is $750,- 000. The i uilding was a double six story, owned by the firm, aud valued at $75 000 Fire broke out Sunday in the im- mense warehouse of the Clyde Steam- ■''hip company on the pier at the loot of Hogan street at Jacksonville,Fla. There was very little freight in the house at the time. About 250 bales of hay oil *nid a small amount of miscellaneous freight were destroyed. 1 he loss is not exceeding $2,000. The value of the warehouse was about $5,000. The «*]> ’^ton which is now being at 8t. Joseph, Mo., met with a gr<?at disaster Sunday night. Fire broke ou ^ ^ ie } na ’ n hall, a great building, L100 feet in length, and filled with ail mauncr of exhibits. The entire building and contents were consumed in spi'c of the most heroic effort on the part of tho tire department. The origin of the fire is s iid to come by electric lights. The loss must exceed a quarter of a million dollars. A LATER ACCOUNT. The following is a list of the killed 111 flic Baml erger, Bloom & Co. fire: Edward Early, captain No. 1 hook and ladder company; Lawrence Steigliter, pipeman; Thomas Whalen, reel driver- Foley’ John Monahan, pipeman; Patrick ladderman; Frank Bess, Iaddcrman; Den- nis McGrath, ladderman, was so badly i n j m 'cdthat he will die. Losses and in- surnnee on the pro piny destroyed, ac- cording | 0 estimates bv the firms burned out > !ire » s follows: Bamberger, ^00^785,000; Bloom LoUlS Grauman & Co., shoes, stock $Go,- ()(! ° ; L - Ilrctzfddcr & Co., hat«, stock, ^ 5 » 000 ; W - C - Cave A Co., shoes, stock, $10,000; Isaac Baer, saloon, stock and building, $2,000; Kohlhcpp estate sa- b’on, stock and building, damaged by falling walls, $5,000. The total loss " m probably reach $125,000. This makes the grand total loss $1,263,0C0. The lossts in tho St. Joseph fire are placed at $279,000. s. S, COX DEAD. A LONG AND EVENTFUL LIFE BRIEFLY SKETCHED. York Congressman S. S. Cox died at New on Tuesday evening. He was born at Zanesville, O, September 30, 1824, being 65 years of age at his death. He graduated at Brown college iu 1846, be- came a lawyer and editor, and in 3855 became secretary of legation to Peru. The following year he was elected to congress from Ohio, and re-elected for three consecutive termq servin'' removed in all eight years. In 1866 he to New York, and two years later was elccted to congress from that city, and re-elected in 1870. President (Jleve- ,and appointed him minister to Turkey, which post he resigned after filling it creditably for two years, and on his re- turn to this country was re-elected to FOREST FIRES. -- loss of life and destruction of property in Montana, -- A dispatch from Helena, Montana, says: Information has been received here of one of ihe fiercest and most de- struetive forest fires yet reported in Montana. The tire occurred Sunday night in Stregis district, Missoula eoun- ty, and the Cokely ranch was mrie a barren waste in less than thirty minutes, It is reported that several people perished in the flames. 'I he destruction of prop f erty will aggregate fully $1,000,000. ‘ GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKU, i ires, and HArrExiNos of interest. Tl.e king of Holland has again weak¬ ened and hs condition is serious. It is reported that the new German army bill will involve the expenditure of 200,000,000 marks. Six cotton mills at Blackburn, Eng¬ land, have been closed, owing to the depressed state of trade. President Harrison on Wednesday re¬ ceived the resignation of James Tanner as commissioner of pensions. Forest fires destroyed the Central Pa¬ cific railroad bridge, at Upper Cascades, Cal., Friday, together with one mile of suoav sheds. Charles F. Scott, of West Virginia, has been appointed pardon clerk of the department of justice, vice Judge Bote ler, resigned. The Johnstown, Pa., distributing committee have $1,500,000 on hand, and there is considerable worry over the mittcr of its disposal. The thermometer registered forty-two digues at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday morning. Cheyenne, A severe frost is reported at Wyoming. The heaviest rainfall in the country has been in New York. For twenty-four hours, endiug at 8 a. m. Friday, the rainfall was 2.40 inches. Socialists attempted to hold an open- air meeting at Hamburg, Germany, on Tuesday the night. The pdice bn ke up meeting and arrested thirteen per¬ sons. * The entire bench of Judges, Distiict and Ciicuit, of Bigs, Russia, have been ai rested for using the German language after they had been ordered to u-e Rus¬ sian. The rate committee of the Southern Railroad and Steamship association met in New York on Wednesday, and deckled that at present no advance in freight tariffs would be made. The A dispatch from Laramie, Wis., says: first snow fall of the season ft.l here on Saturday. Storm seems over large portion of Amie plains. Leadville, Col., also reports a lit*lit fall of snow. Duncan Cample'l, Jr., of the firm of Duncan, Campbell & Sou, of Montreal, Canada, dialers in tailors’ trimmings,has disappeared, and it is found that paper to the amount of $10,000 was forged by him. A boiler in the California sash, door and blind factory at Oakland, exploded Wednesday, sevirai'others, killing four men outright and injuring two peihaps fatally. Two others are supposed to be buried in the ruins. A number of merchants have signed a memorial addnssed to Prince Bis¬ marck, in which charges of impoliteness and general mismanagement are made consul against Mr. Edwards, United States at Berlin, Germany. Judge Sawyer, in the United States circuit court at Sau Franck Co, on Mon¬ day rendered rf a decision in the habeas Ltavid Nagle, Carpus case Deputy Marshall and discharged Nagle from cus¬ Wm. P. Iliginbotlimi, president of the Blue Valley Bank of Manhattan, Kansas, 1 as been convicted in the District Court of grand larceny. The case is the out¬ growth of the suspension of lliginboth- ; m's bank Wednesday, when the ledger showed a deficit of §100,000. The President,on Saturday, appointed Cl arles S. Johnson, of Nebtaska, United States attorney for the district of Ala.ka. E. G. Haywood, of North Carolina, has been appointed chief of the judiciary division of the first comptroller’s office, vice J. A. Johnson, resigned. It was understood, from advices re¬ ceived in Rochester, N. Y., on Saturday, that the big strike in tlie Pennsylvania soft coal region is settled, and the men will resume work Monday. The strike was confined to the Conncllsville district, but over 3,000 men have been idle for two weeks on account of it. The portraits of General Grant, Sher¬ by man direction and Sheridan, which were painted of George W. Childs for the military academy, will be formally trans ferred to that institution on October 3. General Horace Porter will represent Mr. Childs upon the occasion and will deliver an appropriate address in presenting tie - portraits. Exports of specie at the port of New York for the past week amounted to $457,440, of which $141,080 wi s gold, iiu< ^ $318,360, silvir. Of the total cx- ports, $2,000 in gold and $313,360 in fcDVer gold went to Europe, and §142,000 in and no silver to South America. Imports of specie for the week amounted *>.<#0 »»» <“ aml 1Q Slivtr * During Tuesday and Wednesday there were great convulsions of nature and subterranean commotions, followed by tremendous explosions of gas and steam iu the upper geycr basin at Hot springs, in Ask. All the larger geyseis are fu¬ rious activity. Scientists explain that ail of this phenomenal outburst is direct ly traceable to and connected with the atmospheric and sub marine demonstra¬ tions of the great storm that prevailed I long tbe Atlantic coast. The strike of the western window- glass workers at Pittsburg, Pa., was practically settled at a conference of workmen and a committee of manufac¬ turers, Saturday. The manufacturers conoid d the 5 per cent, advance de¬ myndod by the employes. The matter presented to a general meeting of nia Bufacturtrs, and if the committee’s action is ratified, a general resumption ta fe pl ace ne Xt week. The setttc- Bient affects sixty-one factories in the west, employing about o,000 men and bo J s ' demy During a roar of laughter in the aca- of music last Tuesday night at Reading, character Pa., at the eccentricities of the of Joshua Whitcomb in “ The Old Homestead,” a ladv in the audiene was seen to throw up ner hands and fall back in her seat in a state of l^sterics, utashto teamed JiT laughter she had swalloweri a silver plate containing in two teeth. The lady lingered agony until Wednesday, when she died.' At the post mortem examination the teeth were found in her wind-pipe. A NEW JOHNSTOWN. J — qq le new directory of Johnstown, p t , ? antJ t ^ e r . u 'rrouiidln^ boroughs “hundred con- ta j D s the names of over five business and urofessional men. It also shows that there are now thirty-six fn grocery stores and fifty-one saloons open the place. TO GEORGIA FARMERS. A JOINT LETTER CONTAINING VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS TO COTTON RAISERS. Commissioner J. T. Henderson and President of the Alliance, L F. Living¬ stone, of Georgia, aro back from New Orleans, and issue the folio a ing joint letter to the (otton raisers of Georgia, which will be read with great interest by those to whom it is addressed, and by thousands of others: “Tne action taken at New Or.cans on the 11th inst. by the convention composed of delegates from the cotton exchanges of the United States agreeing that all cotton should he priced and sold net, and fixing the tare at ered twenty-four pounds on each bale cov¬ in jute, and sixteen pounds on each bale covered in cotton standard bagging, three-fourths' pounds per yard, by their action is to become operative on aud after the first day of October, which will avail to every farmer selling cotton on and after tbi t date, covered in cotton bag¬ ging, fourteen pounds per bale over the present tare allowed, and this, at ten cents $1.40 per pound, makes a net gain of per bale. Also, cotton covered with jute, a gam of six pounds per bale, at 10 cents, or a gain of 60 cents per bale. This, on a crop of 7,500,000 bales, estimated crop for 1889, is $6,100,000, or bales a gain of $2,800,000 on 2,(00,000 covered in cotton, and $3,800,000 on 5,500,000 bales covered in jute. Now, will not all cotton producers fall into Hue at once, and back up this liberal and just action on the part of the cotton ex¬ changes? need From October 1st, no man complain of h ss on cotton covered in cotton, aud all using jute can thank this noble body of men lor the gain ol 60 cents per bale on cotton thus cov- cred. J. T. Henderson, Connni siouer of Agiiculture. L. F. Livingston, President Georgia Farmer’s Alliance.” CROP BULLETIN. ISSUED FROM THE SIGNAL SERVICE BU¬ REAU AT WASHINGTON. The weather bulletin for the week end¬ ing September 14thj says: It has been warmer than usual over the Corn and cot¬ ton regions and genera'ly on the Atlantic coast, the daily excess of t mperature in ceutral valleys banging from three de¬ grees to nine degrees, while on the At¬ lantic coast about the normal tempera¬ ftom ture prevailed. It was colder than usual Dakota westward to the Pacific coast. There has been less than the Usual amount of rain during the week gener¬ ally throughout the principal agricultu¬ ral districts, including the corn and cot¬ ton regions. An excess of rainfall oc- cmred on the Atlantic coast, from Mas¬ sachusetts southward to North Carolina, and excessive rains also occurred over limited areas in the northwest, including northern Missouri, eastern Kansas, east¬ ern Dakota, western Minnesota and south-eastern Iowa. In the remaining states of the upper Mississippi and Mis¬ souri valleys well distributed showers are reported, while no rain occurred in the lower region of the Ohio valley, and western Pennsylvania, the portion lower Michigan, over greater of Tennes¬ see and Mississippi. Only light showers ftte reported over the east and west por¬ tion of the cotton AN EXC ITING SCENE, A SMALL FIRE IN CHICAGO’S EXPOSITION BUILDING CAUSES A PANIC. On Saturday night, between 8,000 and 1<',000 people rushed pell mcll out of the exposition building at Chicago^ Ill., falling over each other down stairs and jumping through windows in their hurry to escape an imaginary holocaust. Fire had started in one of the big booths uear the centre of the huge structure and the glare of the flames and the crash of plate glass caused a panic. Men, wo¬ men aud children joined in the mad scramble for exits, regular and impro¬ vised, which fortunately were numerous enough to prevent any fatal crushing. Within five minutes the excited thous¬ ands were safe outside, the flumes ex¬ tinguished and one fouith of the expo¬ sition interior in ruins. The damage to the building itself was slight and the gallery $7,500 wholly the escaped. Probably will cover loss. SETTLED AT LAST. THE STRIKERS AT LONDON. ENGLAND, AGREE TO RESUME WORK. The master lightermen conceded the terms demanded by their men, and thus the last ob-tacle to a full resumption of of work by the strikers at London, England, is removed. 'llie men re¬ sumed work Monday. Burns, at a meeting of the strikers, proposed a vote gratitude for colonial assistance that had enabled the men to achieve victory. The action of the colonial workmen, he said, was the first step toward the form¬ ation of the laborers’ universal federa¬ tion. The motion was carried unani¬ mously. Burns and Tillete, represent- atives of the strikers, Saturday, on behalf of the men, signed the agreement entered into between themselves and the directors of the dock companies for a settlement of the strike. HORRIBLE, IF TRUE. INMATES OF NASHVILLE CITY HOSPITAL CLAIM THAT THEY ARE STARVING. A dispatch, of Saturday, Investigations from Nash¬ ville, Tenn., says: made by an Evening Herald reporter, show a horrible state of affairs at the city hospi- tal hero. The complaints started from the neighbors, who wcie subjected to piteous appeals daily from the inmates, “for God’s sake to send them something to keep them from starving to death.” Two patients have died the past week, and another, who is now dying, and who escaped from the hospital, tells a terrible iale of suffering and neglect, and says that the inmates are starving to death, and that the way the hospital is man¬ aged is a shame. Not only the neigh¬ bor?, but patients and visitors eorrobate the story, and considerable excitement exists. WORK OF THE SlORM. CREWS OF ABANDONED VESSELS BEINO riCKED UP AT SEA. - A dispatch from Lewis, Del., says: The bark Sorrideriu, previously reported as having lost her second mste and stew- ard oveiboard duriug the storm o’i the 11th instant, picked up twelve of the crew of the Norwegian bark Facya,250 miles oft Cape Henry. They had been twenty hours in au open boat. water-logged On the 12th, sehoon- sjie took five men off the er, Carrie Hall Luster, Captain Howland, Monday night, in the same vicinity, the Sorrideriu passed a vessel bottom up. Those on board were u able to distin- guish the name of the wrecked vessel. An abandoned four-masted schooner was also ‘passed. THE LEGISLATURE. RILLS TASSED BY THE SENATE AND IIOUSE OK REPRESENTATIVES. A bill to abolish the county court ol Jefferson county; to amend the act en¬ larging the jurisdiction of the city court of Savannah so as to permit the judge to pr ctice law ns a conveyancer under cer¬ tain circum.-t m e*| to incorporate the Southbound Railroad company; to incor¬ porate the town of Mineral Bluff; to amend the charter of Macon eo as to pro¬ vide for the improvement of the streets and sewers. An act to repeal an act fix¬ ing the salaries of the treasurers of Sum¬ ter and Randolph countieR at $300, so fat ns Sumter is concerned. A bill to incor- poiate the Georgia Equitable Insurance company; to provide compensation at the rate of $2 per day for managers and clerks of elections in McDuffie county;to railway incorporate the Carrollton Street company; to renew 1 he charter of the Tur.le liver and Buffalo Canal company; to abol sh all exemptions from jury duty so far as felons trials are concerned, except physics and apothecaries, statenouse clerks, grist millers, telegraph operators, railroad engineers, conductors and station agents, employees of the lunatic asylum, pilots and men over sixty and minors—amended to ex¬ cept firemen and train hands; to order an election on the question of free schools in Perry; a bill to prohibit the sale of li¬ quor within the 788th district of Heard county, lying east of Chattahoochee riv, r; to amend an act incorporating the 1 Waycross Air-Line; to prohibit the sale church of liquor in three miles of the Baptist in at the fork of Broad river, Madison county; to incorporate the Bel¬ ton, II. mer and Carnesville railroad; to incorporate the Washington and Liu- colnton railroad ; to authorize the towvi of Mad : son to establish a system of pub¬ lic schools; to amend the charter of Ellt- jay, in Gilmer county; to amend the charter ot the Underwriter’s Mutual In¬ surance company; to establish a system of public schools in Dtwson; to incorpo¬ rate the Germania Savings bank; to in¬ corporate the Georgia Fidelity insurance company. A hill to make a ‘'no fence” law in certain porlions of the county of Thom¬ as; to pr< hii it the sale of liejuors in cer¬ tain porlions of Walker county; to pro¬ vide for the registration of voters in Clatke county; to empower the city council of Athens to pave certain gtreets of said city; to incorporate the Brooks Alliance Banking company; to amend the chatter of tile Macon Savings Bunk; to prohibit the sale of liquors within live miles of a church in Decatur county; to prohibit persons from selling, providing or giving to minors cigarettes, tobacco or cigarette papers; to establish a system of sewerage in the town of Way- cro^s; Surety to incorporate the Georgia and Investment company; to establish a board of commissioners of roads and revenue for Bryan county—al¬ so, a bill to provide for the registration of voters in Bryan county; a bill to re¬ duce the corporate limits of the town of Shellman, in Randolph county, from a mile to a half mile radius ; to repeal the act repealing the act creating a board of commissioners of roads and revenue for the county of Clay; a bill to empower the mayor and aldermen of Ilawkinsville to the grant the Empire and Dublin railroad right to pass through the town, and to and change the time of electing the mayor aldermen ; to amend the charter of thcThomasvilleStreet Railroad com| any, increasing the stock from $10,010 to 125,000; to amend the act Creating a board of commissioners of roads and levCnue for Carroll county; a bill to re¬ incorporate der the town of Ihomasvllle un¬ the name of the City of Tbomasville. BILLS SIGNED BY Till! GOVERNOR. The foliowring bills have been signed by Governor Gordon, and are now' law's: An act to create a board of commission¬ ers of roads and revenues for the county of Hancock, approved October 5. 1886. An ac t to encourage and authorize the construction of telegiaph lines in the state of Georgia, and conferring certain privi'eges and powers on the owners. Au act to amend section 10 of an act in¬ corporating the town of Eastman. An act to amend sections 10 and 18 of the act incorporating the t <wn of Chauney. An act to amend an act incorporating the tottn of Chauney. An act to extend the corporate limits of the town of Eastman, in the County of Dodge. An act to in¬ vest Milton Hitch, a minor of the county of Brooks, with all the rights and privi¬ leges of an adult. Au :.et to establish a system of public schools in the city ol Conyers. An act to authorize the estab¬ lishment of a system of public schools in the town of IXcatur. An act to require the owners of horses, mules, cows, hogs, slump, goats and cattle of all kinds, to prevent the same from running at large, whether inclosed or uninclosed, in the 961 G. M., Schley county. An act to incorporate the Melon Belt Railroad company of Brooks county. An act to prevent the sale or manufacture of spir¬ ituous or malt liquors within three miles of Mt. Olivet Methodist Church in Banks county. An act to provide for the transfer of misdemeanor eases, which art now pending, superior or which may hereaftei arise, in the court of Stew’arl county to the county court of said county. Au act to amend section VII ol an act approved December board 8th, 1888, en¬ titled an act, to create a of com- missicncrs of roads and revenues in the county of Stewart, so as to increase the pay of>the clerk of said boa’d. An act to prov=dc the payments of the insolvent crimin#/ ci-%ts in the clerk and sheriff «i the superior court of the county ol Co- luntbia, when there L no^fuud, or suffi- cient fund, arising from ^nes and for- feitun s. An act to requmi~tfjiowners Mhcr J f horses, mules, of all cow.-, kinds sheep,^M|£^and from large stock the-lands of another running in at upon the tiist district, and a portion of the second ninth districts of PooIy county, THE COTTON REPORT AS BENT OUT BY THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON. of The the cotton department report of of agriculture the statia^^ian for September represents abundant the crop as com¬ paratively is generally late. reported, Too producing moisture rank weed and retarding the development of bolls. fly Rust has appeared quite ger,er* a on sandy uplands. The gray coils of the Atlanric coast show most rust. There has been considerable dropping of forms and of young bolls in the areas most affected by the extremes of moist- ure and temperature. The general aver- a g e of condition is 86.6, against 89.3 last month and 83.8 in September of last year. State averages are as follows: Virginia, 62; North Carolina, 79; South Carolina, 87; Georgia, 90; Florida, 94; Alabama, 91; Mississippi, 88; Louis- iaaa, 91; Texas, 81; Arkansas, 90; Ten- pesssc. 8Q. A LIVELY CHASE. CITIZENS OF A KANSAS TOWN' PCR8UIXO THE COUNTY TREASURER. Bitter feeling between citizens of Ra¬ venna and Eminence, Kansas, over th<? unsettled county seat question, was re¬ newed Saturday by the removal by W, T. Williams, treasurer of the county, of the records of his office from Ravenna to Eminence. The guard of Ravenna citizens who had been detailed to watch the treasurer to prevent this removal, were at the time in attendance upon the judicial district convention, and Williams loaded the records of his office into a wagon and was about to drive off, when the alarm was given. The guards hur¬ ried from the convention and, arming themselves, they started in pursuit. On the way they mistook another wagon for the treasurer’s and followed the wrong trail. They fired several shots at the supposed fugitive, who finally escaped. In the meantime Williams had reached Eminence and put the records in a place, of safety. The citizens of Eminence have armed themselves in anticipation <>f an attempt by the Ravenna people to capture the records aud return them to their citv. THE DYING TRUST. EFFORTS OF THE JUTE TRUST TO DISPOSE OF TIIEin RAGGING. It is officially announced at Raleigh, N. C., that the jute trust has made a proposition to the Farmers’ Alliances that, if they will again use jute bagging, it will again be sold at 8$ cents on time, and that the jute trust will pay the farm¬ ers $2 more per ton for their cotton seed thau is offered at any of the cotten seed oil mills. This is regarded by the Alli¬ ance as an indication that the trust i- iu bad straits, The jute trust is shipping its bagging to cotton points all over the state, with or without orders, aud in some places it has been offered at two cents per yard. The trust sends bagging in quantities, and at two points Wednes¬ day arrived addressed to parties who have no existence. In other cases it is arriving addressed to merchants who re¬ fuse to touch it. No sales of trust hag ging are being made in the state, and in some large markets merchants have not purchased a pound of it. The fight against the bagging trust is now hotter than ever. TROUBLE AHEAD. EXCITEMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA OVER TAE LYNCHING OF AN INNOCENT MAN- The excitement in Burke, county, N, C., on account of the lynching there Tuesday night and of popular Frank St- Union ck, a highly respected county farmer, who was suspected of murdering a man named Parker, and who is now believed to be innoce nt, grows more in¬ tense each day, and indications plainly po : nt to serious trouble ahead. The citizens of Union county have called f» mass meeting and propose to express their indignation and organize a plan to have the lynchers brought to justice, although they realize they will have a rough time of it, as it appears to be the policy of the lynchers to swing up every witt man who undertakes to interfere them. ANOTHER VICTIM. A MUTILATED HUMAN BODY FOUND IN WHITECHAPEL, LONDON. the Tuesday body of morm’rg, fallen U policema^^^v^l Ijing the a woman a* corner of the railway arch on Cable street, Whitechapel. An examination of the remains showed that the head and arms had been cut off and carried away. The murder is the worst of the whole series of Whitechapel murders, Tho manner in which the limbs bad been severed from the body shows that tho murderer was possessed of s- me surgical skill. The mo-t intense ^excitement \guin prevails in Whitechapel. STANLEY HEARD FROM. MOVEMENTS OF THE GREAT 1 XPLORElt THE WILDS OF AFRICA. Cable dispatches from Zanzibar to the government of Congo state say: “Henry M. Stanley, on leaving basin of Allicit Nyanza, endeavored to make his way up¬ ward by passing to the west of the Vic¬ toria Nyanza. He failed, however, northward, in this attempt. He then went and reached the eastern shore of the lake. Emia Pasha accompanied him”. After a long stay on the lake, awaiting supplies, he marched in the direction of Bombassa. lie is expected to reach the eastern coast about the end of October.” A SERIOUS JOKE. A NEWLY MARRIED COUI’I.E I'RESENTND WITH DRUGGED CAKES. 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