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T T ,iws. * y . _____ TOCCOA, GEORGIA. H 2 W York wants imprisonment for debt Soolished. Sensational rumors of a general dis¬ armament pervade European diplomatic circles. _________________ Property along the proposed route of the Nicaragua Canal is advancing iu value eery rapidly. The battle against the desecration of the Sabbath continues to rage furiously in England. A charter has been granted for a rail¬ road in Liberia, Africa. It will be the first in that country. Its length will be 656 miles. The steady rise of workingmen’s wages now' going on in Great Britain is so gen¬ eral, declares the New Orleans Picayune , as to attract attention. The Congo district of Africa appears to be developing as a producer of to¬ bacco. Brussels tobacconists say that its leaves are remarkably w’ell adapted for cigars, being of exceedingly good flavor And very supple. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, and the surrounding pampas seem just *aow an earthly paradise for horse fanciers jmd horse breeders, where money is lit¬ erally no object, so long as the right ani¬ mal be secured by its means. The preachers took a very prominent part in the constitution making in South Dakota. In the convention w'ere six preachers (three Methodists and three ”ongregationalists) and they were nearly all chairmen of important committees. There was a recent ease to confirm the hile of the English law that persons get¬ ting their luads crushed by the slam¬ ming of railway carriage doors cannot re¬ cover damages. The doors are meant to be shut, and passengers must look out for them. The English language is pervading the earth. Most of the large cities of Eu¬ rope, and many small ones, now have their English newspaper. Nice, Dres¬ den, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Na¬ ples, Geneva aud many others have one or two. A “railroad regiment” has now been added to the French army, and the Min¬ ister of War is about to set it at work constructing an experimental line within a given time. The regiment is expected to do everything connected with the lay¬ ing of the lino. Says the Chicago Times: “.Wo are largely indebted to Grass, Gall, Hairy Chin, Red Fish, and Four Clams for tho signing of tho treaty filching 11,000.000 acres of land from tho Indians, These loyal braves talked the common herd into letting go their hold on their reserva¬ tion.” Who ever heard of a cheese mine? Yet one has been discovered at Palmyra, Wis. It isn’t precisely a mine; in fact, being a large quantity of cheese which was bur¬ led many years ago beneath a factory and there in some manner forgotten. It has £ust been discovered and the valuable product is being quarried out by the present owners of the factory. A quarter of a century ago most of our paper was manufactured abroad. Now wo mnnufaefure for our own markets, im¬ port hardly any, and export some to Aus¬ tralia, Mexico and South America. Thriving towns have sprung up in con¬ nection with this industry in different States, aud our farmers are thus able to <ell vegetables aud other farm products dearer home. eerrr. An eminent cartographer declares that the map of Africa is changed by every mail. Fresh geographical news from the Dark Continent twice made necessary changes of parts of the great globe of the Paris Exhibition during its construction, and two years ago some Belgian map- makers were five times compelled to take from the press a large map of the Congo 6tate for additions and corrections. It is said that the common cowcatcher attachment to locomotives is about the only article of universal use that was never patented. Its inventor was D. B. Davies, of Columbus, Ohio, who found his model iu the plow. Red lights on the rear car of trains, it is further said, were adopted 1 at the suggestion ^ of 1 the tbe %at< Mrs. Swi>shelm, afier a railway , acci- Sent in which she had a narrow escape. --- The New Tork Commercial Advertiser observes that photography has disclosed the existence _ of uebulai in quarters of the heavens where previously none had bee;l seen even * lth • f v, the 8ld . a of ', the most , . P°*- erful 4 telescopes. Its aid has now been euccessfully called in to detect the errors ©f witnesses where error was as little e mis- us ^ ©ected as nebulae. In the inquest at «toch£ster, N. Y., into the recent Forest Lawn railway accident, several witnesses .ad testified'that «* of fhe press train that caused the wreck and loss of life had reversed his lever before the collision occurred. A photograph of the wreck was produced at the inquest, and •howed that the rod running from the tever to uk shaft v. ;n' operating so as to dove the trt m tor ard Instead of back¬ r-:L ’s :.'„ay be mistaken*, but M phctoe:r a idi ai .rays tcrils diot-ruth- GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. XSWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE*, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTERFKT. Ex-Surgeon General Joseph Beale died in Philadelphia Tuesday. Ini., Diptberia is prevailing in Marion, schools to have such an extent that the public been closed. Wilkie Collins, novelist, who has been seriously don, ill for some time, died at Lon¬ England, on Monday. The man-of-war, Ossipec, sailed from Boston, Monday, for Hayti with Fred¬ erick Douglass, the new minister. The Baltimore Sugar Refining compa¬ ny hag been incorporated. Capital stock $1,000,090—10,000 shares at $100 each. The reports from the rhine wine grow¬ ing districts of Germany, indicate that this year’s vintage will be the best of the century. The thermometer registered forty-two degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday morning. A severe frost is reported at Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Indiana supreme court has de¬ cided that bicyclists cannot be made liable for damages resulting from horses becoming frightened at. their wheels. The New York Daily Graphic , which has for soaie time past maintained a fluttering existence under financial diffi¬ culties, has ceased to exist, The last number was issued Tues lay. The state inspector of New Jersey, on Monday, killed fifteen head of cattle at Fleischmsnn’s distillery, at Millstone, Somerset county, aud twelve head on adjoining farms, that were afflicted wdth pleuro-pneumoDia. A cable dispatch from London says: The stevedores employed ou the East In¬ dia dock have again gone on strike. They claim that the companies are not engaging the old hands as they agreed to do when the strike was set.led. The police commissioners of Kansas City have ordered the chief of police to suppress the Salvaiion Army in that city. The order was issued on account of the numerous cases of peace disturb¬ ance at the army’s headquarters. Seely Hopkins, a citizen of Phillips- burg, Pa., on Sunday, shot and killed both his wife and mothersn-law, and then tried to kill himself, but failed. Hopkins has engaged in numerous quar¬ rels with his wife during the past two or three months, which culminated in the murders. The mammoth publishing house of Belford, Clark & Co., of Chicago, which has the largest establishment in the city and branches in New York and Sau Francisco, went to the wall Monday, and was taken in charge by the sheriff. The assets of the firm are supposed to be about $350,000, and liabilities about $400,000. In the case of Henry F. Barber, of St. Paul, Minn., arrested for selling meat from cattle not inspected on hoof, Judge Nelson, on Monday, rendered a decision that the law is unconstitutional, as it in¬ terferes with commerce between the states. The prisoner was ordered dis¬ charged. Notice of appeal to the su¬ preme court was given. Lewis Bros. & Co., dry goods com¬ mission merchants of 88 Worth street, New* York, whose failure was announced some time ago, have just made their formal offer to their creditors to com¬ promise at 57 J cents on the dollar. Creditors to whom the settlement has been presented have all expressed a will¬ ingness to accept the terms and have the firm resume business. A statement prepared at the treasury department shows that there remains in the treasury but $837,821 standard silver dollars that are not represented by silver certificates in circulation out of a total coinage of standard silver dollars to date of $339,293,650. This balance is about $10,000,000 less than it was a month ago, and about $85,000,000 less than it was July 1st, 1886. At a meeting of the directors of the Louisville and Nashville railroad com¬ pany at New York on Monday, it w'as resolved to issue thirteen million dollars of new stock, the proceeds to be used to retire $9,402,000 collateral trust six per cent, bonds at 110: A special meeting of stockholders will bo held in Louisville to ratify the action of the directors on October 1st. A story reached London from St. Pe¬ tersburg, Russia, which recounts that just previously to the czar’s departure for Copenhagen, ploded a chest of dynamite ex¬ at Peterhof station. The station was badly wrecked and a railway signal man killed. It is fully believed it was the intention to have the explosion take place when the czar passed through the station on his way to the train, but through some miscalculation, it occurred before the time of liis majesty’s de¬ parture. The official report of the trial board of the new ciuber Charleston, was received at the navy department from San Fran¬ cisco on Monday. Reports show the max mum horse power developed to be O, 816, while the average power was con¬ siderably less, making a deficiency under the contract requirement calling for about $20,000 penalty. In other re¬ spects, the vessel was up to the required standard. No action has as yet been taken upon the report, but the vessel will undoubtedly be accepted. It is reported from Denver. Col., that J. P. Williams, receiving teller of the First National bank, is a defaulter to the ex¬ tent of <8,000. The first of last week Williams was granted a vacation, and to<">k K»- fnnidv to tin- mount in«. Tie* next cray ne returnecr, ana gave as an ex- c us ® ! hat h ®. ha( J C( ^ m ® back for some ! clothing . which 1 they had forgo'ten. Sat- urday the bank officials received a lettei fr* om Mrs. Williams asking where hei husband was. They became suspicious, and an investigation of the books was or- dered, which revealed a deficit of $8,000. A letter written by ex-Father Butler to bis Bishop Wigger, craving forgiveness for mistake and importuning the bishop to relegate him to a place of confinement to do penance for his blunder, was read from the altars of all the Roman Catto- be churches in the dioceses of Newark, bunday. About four years ago, Father Butler, then assistant priest at St. Bri lgett's church in that city, eloped with Miss Mary Brady. They were married b v a Protestant clergyman - S be reins' ated. ANOTHER PROFESSION. “Let's sec," said Mrs. B., “she mar¬ ried a Thompson, didn’t she:’’ slightly “Hey r” exclaimed Mr. B., who is held in deaf, pausing, with a potato air ou las fork.' “She married a Thompson, didn’t she :” .asked Mrs. B. iu a louder voice. “No," said Mr. B. gravely, “shemar¬ ried a ministar.” TRADE REVIEW. REPORTED FOR WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 21ST, BY DUNN <fc CO., OF NEW YORE. R. G. Dunn & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Throughout the country the state of business is encouraging. Stocks have not quite maintained the recent ad¬ vance, and have relapsed into shares dullness, with salts of less than 90,000 for the week, the chief cause b ing the western railroad wars, The specul ition in breadstuffs and cotton has been slight¬ ly lower than the range of prices, with but moderate transactions. Oil specula¬ tion is a shade stronger, and provision steady. Reports from cities for the past week correspond fairly with clearings outside of New York, which show an in¬ crease over last year of about four per cent in the aggregate. At Philadelphia, mone, is active and jobbing good; in the dry goods trade continues grocery trade improves, exceeding last year’s; paper trade decidedly revives; liq nor trade is active, aud drugs and chemicals moderately active; but in w'ool there is very little movement. At Chicago thire is a decline in the receipts of wool and of grain, higher prices for wheat, leading the farmers to hold back, but there is a large increase in provisions. Trade in dry goods and other merchandise is quiet, after the exceptional activity of August. For Ihe year thus lar, trade exceeds last year’s. Milwaukee reports constantly improving business with ac¬ tive money. Kansas City reports busi¬ ness and collections fair, an average sea¬ son, and Cleveland increasing activity, especially in iron ore, with prospect for higher late for money. At Omaha, great crops give good business and col¬ lections, and at Pittsburg Bessemer further im¬ provement is seen in iron and steel, in coke and in coal with resumption of glass woiks at 54 per cent, higher w r ages. Southern reports also are all en¬ couraging as to crop propsects and pres¬ ent tn-.de. These specimens illustrate the general tenor of the reports. Great in¬ dustries appear to be gradually improv¬ ing in condition. While improvement is slow in wool manufacture, there is clearly more active demand at Boston, and sales of wool there during the week were 3,- 258,000 pounds, including some former tales just made public, but a larger movement, mainly in fine wished fleece, has been secured by concessions in prices. In the iron business confusion increases, because Southern coke number one foun¬ dry is offered at $16.75 for delivery to end of January, w hile anthracite number one sells at $17 to $18 and higher for special brands, but consumption is enor¬ mous and seems about equal to the large production. Large contracts for struc¬ tural iron in Chicago and St. Louis ele¬ vated roads have been taken in Eastern Pennsylvania, and the orders for rails on the books September 1, were 1,135,000 tons. Copper has remained dull, and though 500 Ions tin are reported on the way, spot is still quoted at $21 37. The partial failure of potato and fruit crops, and injury to both by recent storms, cause an advance in prices, aud the gen¬ eral average for commodities is now about one per cent, higher than Sept. 1. The movement of cattle and fresh beef to England attracts much attention, exports having been made over 90,000 head of cattle and 40.000,000 pounds of fresh beef within three months, ending with August, besides 34,000,000 pounds Cured or canned beef. With the National Steamship line engaged in transporting this cattle rather than passengers, move¬ ment seems likely to increase largely. Business failures occurring throughout the country during the past week: Num¬ ber for the United States 177; Canada 31; total 198, against 193 last week. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. THE MACHINERY FAILS, AND AN ELECTRIC CAR DASHES DOWN THE MOUNTAIN. An accident occurred Fiiday morning on the electric railroad ruuniug from the foot to the top of Mission Ridge at Chattanooga, Teun. The car had nearly reached the top of the very steep track, when the machinery failed, and the car started down the mountain at groat speed. The motor mau tried to stop the car with the brakes, but failing in this, the conductor shouted to the passengers to jump from the car. The car contained fifty people, all of whom were visitors to the re-union of the Army of the Cumberland, one half the party being ladies. Then there was a scene of wild excitement and the panic seizing all on board, they began leaping rapidly down the mountain who side. Five or sik pei'sons remained on the car were uninjured, as when the load was partially removed from the car it stopped before reaching the foot of the ridge. Mrs. Mary Adams, of . Casey, Illinois, in jumping from the car, received injuries from which she died. Wm. Minford, of Casey, Illinois, in jumping from the car, struck iu a mass of barbed wire and was badly cut. About a dozen others were terribly injured, and it is feared that some of them will die. TOO FAST. HALF-BREED5 WARNED THAT THE CHERO- KEES MAT NOT ADMIT THEM. The attention of the acting commis¬ sioner of Indian affairs, at Washington, was, on Friday, called to the pnss re¬ ports that a large number of half-breed Cherokee Indians, in the state of Geor¬ gia, are making preparations to emigrate to the Cherokee nation iu the Indian territory. The acting commissioner tuakes the following statement in regard thereto: “Under the decision of the United States supreme court in the case of the eastern baud of Cherokee Indians against the United States and the Chero- kee nation, commonly called the ‘Cber- 0 k te Nation West,’the authorities of the Cherokee nation alone have the right to admit or re-admit persons of Cherokee blood to citizenship in tbaf nation. Parties claiming rights of citi- ze n-hip in the Cherokee natkrn by blood, Would be warned against incurring the expense of removing to said nation be- fore their claims are allowed by the Droper Cherokee authorities.” A DRUNKEN DRIVER. A WAGON CONTAINING A PARTY OF YOUNG PEOPLE THROWN OVER A PRECIPICE. A special from Erie, Pa., says a parh of thirty young people weDt out in the country, on Monday, in a band wagon for a picnic. On their return, the driver, bciug under the influence of liquor, drove over a bank, throwing the horses, wagon and party over a precipice forty feet in height. All were badly injured, and Patrick Flaherty, of Springfield, and James Neyland, of Erie, were so badly crushed internally that they cannot live. Others received painful cuts and bruises. Tbe driver, James Lewis, is ieverely in¬ jured. SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM YA- R10US POINTS IN TEE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. A party of gentlemen from Jackson¬ ville and St. Augustine, Fla., will make a tour of inspection through the Indian river country, which rumor says may re¬ sult in railroad and canal enterprises. night, At Harlan, Ky., court-house, Monday eight prisoners, by means of a handspike, removed a log of the jail wall and made their escape. Two or three men charged with murder were among the lot. Counterfeit silver half dollars, date of 1877, are in circulation in Dalton, Ga. The counterfeit is easily detected, how¬ ever, as the coin is very much lighter than tile genuine, and has a dull, leady color, ^hile the milling is poor and the figures are badly impressed. The board of state institutions at Jack¬ sonville, F!a., on Monday, awarded the contract for state printing in classes B and C to the Times-Union", in class A, to C. W. Dacosta. Since the state printing has by law been let out to the lowest bidder the competition for it has been very sharp. One of the largest charters ever granted to any corporation iu the south, was Lranrid by the superior court of Georgia, by which the Southern Home Building and Loan association, of Atlauta, Ga., business was incorporated, with authority to do in Georgia oi any other state. The authorized capital stock is $20,000,- 000 . The Auburn Agricultural and Mechan¬ ical college at Auburn, Ala., also known a3 the Alabama and Polyteohnical insti¬ tute, will soon take possession of its splendid new building, constructed at s cost of $75,000. It is pronounced one of the most elegant college buildings in the South. John B. Mcllvane & Son, consisting of John B. Mdlvane’s estate and J. Bank Mcllvane, of Louisville, Ky., as¬ signed Saturday for the benefit of credi¬ tors. r lhe firm has been in existence there in the whiskey business for twenty- five years. Tht-y are surety for Wattinglj & Sons for $103,000. They can pay about sixty five cents on the dollar. Frank M. Smith, general agent for the S mthern Mutual Benefit association, oi Knoxville, Tonn., has gone, leaving be¬ hind him a number of unpaid bill?, in¬ cluding $200 to various hotels for board. He sold his agency for $200. Smith alsc formed a budding and loan association, by which he secured $200. Nothing has been heard from him so far. Anderson Ward, of North Carolina, liv¬ ing near Edtnton, was found dead in his bed on Sunday morning with his throat out from ear to ear. The wife of the deceased, two grown daughters, twe young of daughters and a son eleven years age were sleeping in the room in which the tragedy occurred, and yet not one of them could give any satisfactory expla¬ nation, as they were all sound asleep. M. Bateman, a member of the North Carolina alliance, has made arrangements to be married on the fir t of Octobei at the state fair to be held at Raleigh, dressed in garments made of cotton bag¬ ging. He took that way of showing his detestation of the jute bagging trust. His wedding in public in his snow-white garments will attract a great crowd, and will be very novel. The governor will be asked to perform the marriage cere¬ mony, assisted by the chaplain of the state alliat.ee. At a meeting of the Memphis, Tenn. Cotton Exchange, held on Tuesday, the resolutions adopted by the New Orleans convention fixing a tare of twenty-four pounds and sixteen pounds on bales covered with jute and cotton bagging respectively, wire unanimously rejected. It was recommended that factors in that market tier in warehouses all cotton- covered bales separately from jute- covered bales, aud that it be sold upon its merits, separate and apart therefrom. The managers of the Alabama state fair, to be held near Birmingham, last week sold the bar privileges for $2,300. Since then an act has been found, passed by the legislature several years ago, pro¬ hibiting the sale of liquor within three miles of a coal mine in Jefferson county, except iu incorporated towns. The fail grounds are three miles from Birmingham and within one mile of a coal mine, and, a3 the law has never been repealed, no liqUor can be sold on the .grounds. A LAUNCH BLOWS UP. SAD FATE OF A YACHTING PARTY OF NINE PEOPLE ON THE LAKES. It is believed, at Cleveland, Ohio, that the steam launch “Leo,” which left Lo- raine, twenty-six miles west of there Sunday afternoon, was blown up about three o’clock Monday morning, 't hree bodies have been recovered, and several hundred men and boys are hunting for the other six. Thursday morning the body of Fred Pelow r wesdiscovered float¬ ing iu a private break-water, a few' miles west of Cleveland. His lace was burned and bruised, and his watch had stopped at 3:18. The watches on the other two bodies had also stopped at about that hour. There were foity gallons of naptha in the hold of the Leo, which was to be used as fuel. WILL TEST IT. THE ACT RESTRICTING THE COINAGE O* SILVER TO BE INVESTIGATED. The Colorado Mining exchange, al Denver, adopted a resolution on Mondai to investigate the constitutionality of and the act restricting the coinage of silver, appointing a committee of tbice, with authority to employ the necessary legal counsel. The committee propose to visi: the mint at Philadelphia with a hundred ounces of silver and demand that it be coined into dollars. This being refused, they w ill bring suit against the directoi of the mint for damages, thus bringing the subject to the atention of the United States supreme court. CHICAGO WANTS IT. THE CITY MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO SECURE THE WORLD'S FAIR. Chicago wants the world’s fair in 1892, aud wants it b’diy, and shs is doing more than New' York and all other cities combined to get the fair. The city has secured subscriptions to the original amount she proposed to raise, say $5,000,000; but her people have decided t<» make the uibscription $10,000,000. it is published that Mr. Field, the dry goods prince of Chicago, has added $100,000 to the subscription in the past few days, and prior to this the Pullmans had subscribed $100,000. AN OKLAHOMA RIOT. AN ATTEMPT TO llbLD AN ELECTION SQUELCHED BY UNITED STATES TROOPS. A sp' cial from Oklahoma to the Kansas City Times says: “Saturday was one of the most exciting days in the history of the city. About six w'ceks ago a faction of citizens, after failing to induce the council to call for a convention for the purpose of framing an amended charter, 1 lamed one themselves and called an election for the people to vote on it. As it provided for the immediate ousting of ihe p'.eseut city government, United States troops, under authority of General Merritt, prevented the election. The original charter faction called an election on their charter for Saturday, again without the consent of the mayor and council. General Merritt again sent or¬ ders to Colonel Snyder to prevent the election, aud Captain Stiles, in command of the troops, carried out these orders at the poiut of the bayonet. The polls weie opened, and a large crowd assem¬ bled. A number of persons endeavored to vote, when Captain Stiles threw his company across the street and gave the command to charge. The company en¬ countered no opposition to their prog¬ ress. The leaders of the Charter faction then rushed to another place and declare d the polls opened again. Captain Stiles repeated his charge, and again cleared the streeti This operation was repeated at other wards where the faction at¬ tempted to vote, but were routed each time by the troops. The leaders of the charter faction, after consulting with Captain Stiles, then advised the crowd to disperse. The advice was followed and the excitement subsided. Nine of the leaders were afterwards arrested on the charge of conspiracy against the au¬ thority of the United States and city governments. A FATAL WRECK. AN ENGINE CRA8HES INTO A PASSENGER COACII—FIVE PEOPLE KILLED. A frightful disaster to a suburban night pas¬ iu senger train occurred Tuesday the southern outskirts of Chicago, Ill. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train, Island, which left the main depot for freight Blue was crashed into by a train at the Lake Shore and Pan Handle crossings near Eighty-seventh street, Englewood. The passenger train was at a standstill, one coach projecting over the crossing. Into this coach, contain¬ ing about sixty persons, plunged the freight train. The wreck of the passen¬ ger coach was instant and complete. the debris When a had thorough search through that been made, it was found three women and two men had been killed outright, and a third man was in a dying condition. Three other persons dead were seriously injured. The five were conveyed to Englewood morgue. The list of the kiiled is: Mrs. Kelly, J. McKinzie, Fred Huebner, Mrs. Brown and an unknow T n woman, all of Washing¬ ton Heights. Those most seriously in¬ jured are: Gus Muleany, fatally hurt: Miss A. K Steele, Anton Shuberg and Parker Harden. The wreck appears tc be entirely due to the almost criminal carelessness of the engineer of the fi eight train, who disregarded signals, and is supposed to have been drunk, at the time. A HUGE JOB. THE PRINTING OF THE TESTIMONY IN CON TESTED ELECTION CASES. The government printing office, at Washington, D. C,, has just completed the immense work of printing testimony in contested election cases, which will come up for settlement before the fifty- first congress The following are thi titles of cases: Chalmers vs. Morgan, Mi sissippi; Laugston vs. Yenoble, Vir¬ ginia; Waddell vs. Wise, Virginia; Po¬ sey vs. Parrott, Indiana; Miller vs. El¬ iott, b’outh Carolina; Bowen vs. Buchan¬ an, Virginia; Kernaghan vs. Hooker, Mississippi; Threet vs. Clark, Alabama; Atkinson vs. Pendleton, West Virginia; McDuffie vs. Turpin, Alabama; Hill vs. Catch ngs, Mississippi; Goodrich vs. Bullock, Florida; Eaton vs. Phelan, Tennessee: Mudd vs. Coynston, Mary¬ land; Featherstone vs. Cate, Arkansas; McGinnis vs. Anderson, West Virgiuia; Smith vs. Jackson, West Virginia. entire The total cumber of pages iu the work is 15,554, which, at 3,000 eras to the page (solid brevier), amounts to 46,662,- 000 ems. THE STORM IN FLORIDA, A DISASTROUS STORM VISITS THE LAND OF flowers—Damage to property. Reports on Tuesday from various lo¬ calities in the state of Florida, indicate that Monday's storm was a disastrous one to properly. At West Jacksonville, four or five miles out in the country from the city of Jacksonville, three or four houses were blown down and two churches wretched from their foundations. Through the outlying country for many miles, fallen trees were encountered everywhere, many of the monster moss- hung oaks, which had withstood the storms of a hundred years, were pros¬ trated. At Switzerland, Panama, Park, Se Hand, Mayport, New Berlin and sev¬ eral small settlements on St. John’s river, houses and trees were blown down. At the Sandhills hospital, made memo¬ rable by the epidemic of 1888, the main building was wrecked and the whole scene is one of ruin. SPREADING RAILS CAUSE THE WRECK OF A PASSENGER TRAIN KILLING SEVERAL PEOPLE. An east bound St. Louis and San Fran¬ cisco passenger train was derailed ne ii Leon, Butler county, Kar., on Thursday, by the spreading of rails. Three passen¬ ger coaches rolled down a fifteen-foot embankmen’. R. M. Bemis was instantly killed; Isaac Dean and Mrs. Matseka. both of Wichita, were fatally cru-hed by the weight of the car. Mrs. John Mitch¬ ell, of Fort Smith, Ark., hid one arm and one leg broken. Mrs. R. A. Hodges, of Arkansas City, had an arm and seve- ral ribs broken, and may die. R. L. Latbrop, leg broken of Kansas City, had his right in two places and received in¬ ternal injuries. About ten more were slightly injured. DEARLY BOUGHT SPORT. PARTICIPANTS IN A PRIZE FIGHT HELD FOB MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE. The principal iu the recent fatal prize fight Mo., in Ahearn’s saloon, in St. Louis, in which young Jackson was killed, will have to pay dearly for their sport. Charley Daly, Dan Dalv, Joseph A. Murphy, a sportiog editor, and a dumbet of others are liel i as accessories to mur¬ der in the second degree, with which Ahearn is charged. The punishment is oot less than tea years in .the peniten¬ tiary for principals and accessories, THE LEGISLATURE. BILLS rASSED BT iHE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENT AT I'FES. A bill to incorporate the Dahlonega and Dawsoaville Railroid company; to authorize the mayor and council of Mil- ledgeville to issue $50,000 of bonds for the purpose of building sewers; to amend the charter of Macon and to au¬ thorize the issuance of bonds not to ex¬ ceed $200,000 for the purpose of con¬ structing sewers; to incorporate the town of Abell, in Berrien county; to pre¬ scribe the manner in which titles shall be exhibited to the chancellor in turpentine applica¬ tions to enjoin the cutting of boxes so ns to require the filing of abstract instead of the original title; tc incoipirate the town of Hapeville; to amend the charter of Atlanta so as to provide for the assessment of $1 a lineal foot on property abutting on the streets in which sewers are la d; to confirm the ch irter of the Atlantic and Northwest¬ ern railroad company; to incorporate the bank of Dahlonega; to regulate railroads or other corj>orat.ous when they sell or lease theit properly, to give notice by posting at their dep its and places of business^ and by publication in a public gazette* at the places of its residence or at ihe capitol of the state, and to fur¬ nish written notice to the railroad com¬ missioners. (This act to apply only to the sale of lease of the franchise of the corporation); to amenid section 4203 in regard to filing a pauper affidavit in car¬ rying a supercedeas to the supreme and court; Na¬ to incorporate the Chattanooga tional Park Railroad company ; to inc >r- porate the Georgia Commercial Insurance company; to increase the rights and powers of the Muietta and Noith Geor- s»i i railroad. A resolution Index to purchase 500 copies of Van Epps Digest. To amend section 4057 of the code; to amend the act licensing stationary en¬ gineers in Fulton county; to incorporate the Enterprise Street Railway company; to repeal an act approved October Gth, 1885, for two weeks’ session of the su¬ perior court of Marion county; to amend itim 12 of section 920 of the code; to repeal the law prohibiting the sale of li¬ quors In Smithville, Lee county: to amend section 3G94 of the code of 1882, regulating the .fees of ordinaries; to amend section G83 of the code. A bill to prohibit the carrying and handling of seed cotton in the county of Meriwether “between sunset in the evening and sunrise in the morning;” to prohibit the sale of seed cotton in Mus¬ cogee county between August 1st and December 20tb ; to donate Madison street, of Dublin, to the Dublin and Empire roads; to incorporate the Southern council Trav¬ elers’ association; to authorize the of Lincolnton to issue bonds to raise funds the for building liquor an academy; to regu- ate sale of in Wilkes couDty. A bill to amend the charter of the Waycross Air Line railroad company. House amendments concurred in: to in¬ corporate the Bank of Dawsonville; to prevent stock from running at large in the 531st district of Clay county; to amend the act providing for the taxation of railroads so as to include street rail¬ roads, dummy lines and electric rail¬ roads, among those whose returns are to be made to the comptroller-general. code relating To amend section 534 of the to maimed confederate soldiers. to provide for the calling of cases in the superior court of Hall county; to prohibit hunting and fishing on the lands of another in the county of Tel¬ fair; to require all railroads to deliver freight transported on through bills of lading; to provide for the time and mode of perfecting service by publica¬ tion; to incorporate the Atlanta and Alabama Coal and Iron Railway compa¬ ny; to prohibit putting obstructions in the streams in Randolph county; to iu- corporate the Oostanaula and Coosawatie Railway company; to incorporate the South-western and Georgia railway; to change the corporate limits of Wares- boro, in Ware county; to amend the charter of the city of Augusta; to amend the act reducing the compensation of county officers of Butts county; to amend the act creating a city court for Floyd county so as to increase the salary of the judge and extend jurisdiction of the couit; to continue in force the charter of the Augusta aud Summerville railroad company; to declare all escapes fmmthe penitentiary negligent, unless otherwise shown; to incorporate the Bruuswick, Athens and Northeastern railroad; to amend an act establishing a board of county commissioners for Bibb county. A DARING ROBBERY. A BANK SAFE OPENED BY BURGLARS, WHO MAKE WAY WITH $59,875. One of the most daring and successful robberies ever committed in the state, is reported from Hurley, Wis. $59,895 was taken from a vault in the Iron Ex¬ change bank, of that city, Saturday night, which was left at the bank for safe keeping over night by the United States V xpress compiny. The cashier put the money inside of the iron vault and left shortly after 9 o’clock. A light was left burning in the office, and a few minutes after 9 o’clock a man was seen working at the safe, but he had on the cashier’s office coat, and nothing wa9 thought of it by thos; who passed the bank. The cashier returned shortly after tl o’clock, when he discovered that the money was missing. No trace of the roti¬ fers has yet been found. The express company bad no receipt for the money from the bank officials. WANTED FOR A SIDE-SHOW. A ST. LOUIS MAN ASKS THE PRIVILEGE OF EXHIBITING DICK HAWES. Solicitor Hawkins, of Birmingham, Ala , on Fiiday, received a letter from W. B. Simpson, of St. Louis, asking if he could obtain the privilege of exhibit¬ ing Dick Hawes, who murdered his wife and children last winter, at the state fair to be held in Birmingham next month. Simpson wrote that he would keep Hawes well guarded, and return him to the county jail when th - fair was over. He proposes to make Hawes a side-show at the fuir, charging admission to see him. He says: “I be¬ lieve there is big money in it, and if you will let me have the noted prisoner, I will divide with you.” Solicitor Haw¬ kins declined the proposition. FOURTEEN CENTS. A GOOD TIME FOR FARMERS TO HOLD THEIR COTTON. The London Timet r cos respondent at Preston says: “There is a prospect that American cotton may yet touch seven pence a pound, and that a fortnight’s stoppage in Ociober will be secured to ! punish thousand the Liverpool ring. 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