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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF TIIE PRESIDEN1
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
It is estimated at the treasury depart-
ment that there has been a decrease of
$ 13,3U0.000 iu the public debt since the
first of September.
The board of the navy yard, the com¬ ;
mandant, appointed to investigate the
navy purchasing system, has adjourned
is after efficient deciding that the present system
and only minor changes in the
direction of reducing the number of
vouchers checks, etc., can be made with-
out detriment to the service.
.... I he secretary of , agriculture, . , _ Rusk, , , has
returned to \Vashington after an inspec-
tion of mills for the manufacture of su-
gar from sorghum cane by the new d.fu-
non process, which was lately subsidized
by congre-s by an appropriation of
$80,00d to encourage experiments m the
industry which now has about a
dozen e-tubl.shrnents in the United
. t 'tt s. becietary Rusk reports that the
pioce-ss looks uke it will be a failure,
and unless some improvements are made
ie is vt ry dou »tful about the profit of
making sugar from sorghum cane.
The Postal and Cable Telegraph com-
pany will open offices simultaneously all
over the south on Thursday. The com-
pany is ten years old, and has fifteen or
twenty thousand miles of wire, reaching
from Portland, Me., to California. It
has forty or fifty lines from New York to
Chicago and has invested altogether $12-
000,000. It is owned by McKay, tho
Califomia bonanza millionare, whose
Wealth is estimated at thirty millions,
The other leading stockholder is James
GoriPn Bennett, proprietor of thc New
York Herald.
The newly appointed minister to Hav-
ti, Frederick Dougla*, and party sailed
for the West Indian Islands on the Uni¬
ted Himes steamer Kearsarge from
Brooklyn navy yard Tuesday morning.
The oust-unary salute of seveuty-llvo
gu s was fired in honor of the minister.
M Secretary Tracy, rather unexpectedly
>nday evening, relieved Captain Sheph-
ar l from command of the Kearsarge,
aud replaced him by Commander W. H.
Whiting. No explanation is furnished
at the nany department for the change.
l’os ina-ter-General Wanamaker ha>
issued an order abolishing the postoffice
at Luverney, Ala. A colored man wai
recently appointed postmaster, and thc
citizens, it is said, showed their appre¬
ciation of him by boycotting him in
every way, and finally iu burning down
the old building which he had succeeded,
with great difficulty, in securing for a
postofficc. In view of these facts, Mr.
Wauamakcr decided that the 500 inhabi¬
tants of thc place could go three miles
for mail and do without a postoffice for
a time.
Tho debt statement issued Tuesday
shows the decrease of the national debt
during September to have been $13,685,-
094.25; decrease since June 30th, 1889,
$6,591,u90.49; total cash in the treas¬
ury, $637,540,530.01; total interest bear-
ing debt, $872,602.261.81; total debts of
all kinds, $1,636,774,868.82; debts less
available credits, $1,070,055,530,96; legal
tender notes outstanding, deposit $346,681,016;
certificates of outstanding, $15,-
275.000; gold certificates outstanding,
$116,675,349; silver certificates outstand¬
ing, $276,616,715; fractional currency,
$0,915,090 47.
The following president on named Saturday appointed
the postmasters:
Charles C. She its, at Decatur, Ala., vice
L. II. Grubbs, commission expired; Fe¬
lix G. Lambreth, Florence, Ala., vice
Bessie McCallister, resigned; Columbus,
Browning, at Dalton, Ga., vice Jefferson
T. Whitman, removed; Joseph P. Smith,
at Thomasville, Ga., vice II. M. Sapp,
resigned; Thomas W. Hicks, at Hender¬
son, N. C., vice R. 1». llendetsou, re¬
moved; Mts. Ada Hunter, at Kingston.
N. C., vice W. J. Barrett, removed;
Samuel II. Vick, at Wilson, N. C., vice
N. M. Gay, removed; I). J. Taylor, at
Pocahontas, Vn., vice J. L. Deaton, re¬
moved; John H. lffunt, at Ashland, Va.,
office having become presidential; Am¬
brose II. Lindsay, at Portsmouth, Ya.,
vice VV. A. Fiske, removed.
A dispatch from ■Birmingham, Ala.,
says: “Six hundred miners at the Coal-
b< rg coal mines of the Sb ss Iron and
Steel Company wc-ut out on a strike Tues¬
day morning. The company has been
paying fifty cents per ton for mining
and fifty cents at slopes where the vein
uas thin. Lu-t week they notified the
Rico of a reduction to fifty cents at some
of the slopes, where they had been pay¬
ing fifty-five, ami at a meeting of the
miners a strike against the reduction was
ordered.
BIRMINGHAM’S REPORT.
FOUR MEN KILLED—TWO BY ACCIDENI
AND TWO MURDERED,
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala.,
says: Death reaped a harvest m Jefferson
county Friday. During the morning
Geoige Estes got caught in the fly-wheel
of the rolling-mill at Gate City, and was
beaten to peices. W. Benton, an era-
p oye of the Pullman Car company, wss
walking backwards behind a car in the
Georgia Pacific yard. The car was dis¬
connected and moving slowly, and he
He was trying to stop it with a crow-bar.
felt across the track and his body was
cut in twain. Deputy Sheriff Ivifig Yanu
was shot and instmtly killed by John
Steele, a negro, and four hours later his
murderer was overtaken by a posse and
his body riddled with bullets, lh; mur¬
dered deputy was one of the most popu¬
lar officers iu the county.
ORDERED TO STRIKE.
FOOLISH PROCEDDING3 OF A BRIKLATERS’
UNION—TROUBLE EXPECTED.
Between .three and fou. - hundred men
were thrown out of employment at by a
strike ordered by the Bricklayers’ union
at New York, on Monday. Some of the
contractors have been using brick and
cement made by Peck, Martin & Co.
Peck, Martin & Co., employ at their
works, four non union men, (colored
teamsters.) and it was to compel the dis-
charge ordered. of these men that the strike was
Some of the contractors are
placed in a bad position, as they are un¬
der time contracts, and alto under con¬
tracts to use bricks of Peck, Martin &
Co. s make. The workmen ail side with
the contractors and are loud in their de¬
nunciationof the union and walking
di-legates. lockout. There is a prospect of a long
THE LEGISLATURE.
BILLS PASSED BT THE SENATE AND HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to amend the act establishing
the city court of Newnan; to incorpo*
the Thomasville and Suburban Railroad
company; ja-per to prohibit the in sale of cotton
seed in epunty quantities less
than five hundred pounds between Au-
gust 15th and December 15th; to regu¬
late tue sale of liqu *r in "Wilkes county;
to establish a dispensary in Oglethorpe
county for the sa.e of liquors for inedici*
nal purposes, the grand jury to appoint
the seller; to prohibit the Union sale of liquor
within three miles of Baptist
Church in Spalding couuty; to create
the office of county solicitor for the
county court of Wayne, the solicitor to
be , appointed , , by the governor; to change ,
tbe tlTnc °. f holdin * ™ UT }.J n S " eVfc a
c ° UQ t>' i to incorporate the Citizens’ bank ,
°/ Lastmnn; to tmend the charter of
thc P aD r> 1,ultOQ to incorporate . Count y ***** the ^.lroad Catoosa com- Raxl-
road company; to incorporate the
Washington and Lincoln Railroad corn-
Orchard three . miU; pro hibit.on bill for
HU1 . a bdl prohibit the sale
Qf farm productg * after night in Spalding
c „ unt . a airee-milc prohibition obi for
TeamonBapdstChurchinCabin’sdis- £, bill in-
trjct o{ Sl ding toU nty; a to
corp0 | rate the Paulding County Building
mjt Loan A880ciat ion; to prohibit the
sa !e of intoxicating, spirituous or malt
liquors M or bitters in any quantity within
, 0 ur mi!es of upper and lower Coal City
cb urches in Dade county; to incorporate
)he Union Poiut and Elberton Short Line
Railroad company; to incorporate the
Woodville, Penfield and Oconee Val.ey
railroad; to incorporate the town of
Waycross and to con.'er additional pow
e rs; to incorporate the Dalton and Ste-
vemon Railway company; to regulate the
8;i i e of liquors in Teliair county; to
amend the act creating a board of com-
lt issioners of roads and revenue for Fay-
ette county; to amend tbe charter of the
city of Athens; to authorize the rnunici-
pal courts of the city of Athens to im-
p0 se fines to the amount of $500, or to
sentence for a tenn of twelve months;
to amend an amended charter of Mays-
ville, Ga.; to authorize the trustees of
the Second Presbyterian Church, Colum¬
bus, Ga., to sell certain lands held by
them for church purposes; to amend the
charter of LaFavette. Walton countv.
A bill to prescribe thc process of in¬
dictments aud special presentments
against corporations; to make it penal
for persons in weighing cotton to use
untested weights; to incorporate the
i>auk of Blakely; to prohibit the sale of
liquor within two miles of Braswell acad¬
emy, in Morgan county; to incorporate
the Ocean Pond and 1st. Mary’s Short-
Line Railway company; to prohibit the
destruction of game in Colquitt county:
to incorporate Thomasville; to incorpo¬
rate the citizen’s bank, of Eastman; to
incorporate the town of Adell, in Berrien
county; to better protect the lands in
the 785th district, known as the “tick-
skillett,” in Schley county, so as to pre¬
vent stock running at large; to make the
19th day of January, Lee's birthday, a
public code; holiday; to amend section 534 of
the to provide when liens and
transfers shall take effect as against third
parties; to amend the charter of the Tra¬
ders bank, of Atlanta; to change the
Eatontonand Machen railroad to the Mid¬
dle Georgia and Atlantic railroad; to es¬
tablish the office of state bank examiner;
to incorporate the Toccoa banking com¬
pany, with a capital of $50,000 to $100,*
000; to amend the charter of Colquitt;
to amend the act recently passed reduc¬
ing thc number of trustees of the State
university and fixing their compens ation
at $4 a day and mileagej so as to cut out
the compensation and leave only actual
expenses to be paid by the state; to in¬
corporate the town of Richland, in Stew¬
art county; to incorporate company;'"to the Georgia
Investment and Bauking
amend the law constituting the board ol
pharmacy; to prohibit the sale or manu¬
facture of liquor within four miles ol
Independence church, in Wilkes county; oi
to prohibit the sale or manufacture
liquor Wilkes; within four prohibit miles of Pope*s chap¬
el, iu to the sale oi
manufacture of liquor within two and
two-third miles of Moore’s Grove Baptist
church, iu Clarke county.
A bid to incorporate the Montezuma &
Flint River Steamboat company; to au¬
thorize . Fairburn issue
to bonds to build
a school house; a sti ck law for Sumter
county; to incorporate the Bank of
Brunswick; i-nd to incorporate the Atlanta
Seaboard Railway company; a bill
to give wa er works companies or muni¬
cipal corporations the right to condemn
the right of way for mains; to give the
county commissioners of McDuffie two
dollars a day each while in session; to
incoiporate the Commercial Bank of Ce-
dartown, Ga.; to inc u porate the S it llo
I'rausport .lion company; to provide for
the pi\ment of the insolvent criminal
costs of the justices of the peace, nota¬
ries public and constables of Hancock
couuty; to provide for the creation of a
board of commissioners of roads and rev¬
enue iu Telfair county; to amend the
charter of the Albany and Bainbridwe
Railroad company; to amend tne charter
of the Nortn and South Shore Line
Railway company; to amend the charter
of the city of Greensboro: to authorize
the ordinaries of the counties of Ware
and Ciincti to have the line between the
two counties plainly marked; to incorpo¬
rate the town of Jeukinsburg, in Butts
Couuty; to authorize and require the
Jasper; registration of all voters in the countv of
o;hers from to prohibit stock drovers' or
the allowing lands their cittle to tres¬
pass upon of another in Jack-
son County; to amend the act iucoipo-
rating the Cherokee Wesleyan Institute,
located at Cave Springs; to incorpora-e
the Albany ar.d Cordele Railway * Com¬
pany; and to incorporate for the towu of Still-
more other purposes; to amend
an liquors aetprohib ting the sale of intoxic ding
within one mile of Midway
Church, in Gwinnett County; to prohibit
the sale or mauu.’acture of spiritous
liquors within three miles of Nazareth
Pr -testant Methodist Church in Gwin¬
the nett County; to repeal the act reducing County";
w rk on roads in Johnson
to the town of
Early County; to prevent the runningat
large upou the land of another, whether
enclosed or unenclosed, in the 998 dis¬
trict, G. M., in Randolph County, of all
cattle and stock; to incorporate the
Ellijay Street Riilway Company; to
provide compensation for the cltrk of
the Superior Court of Bibb County for
expenditures certain made by him in sending Court*
records to the Supreme
to amend the ch irter of the city of Dal¬
ton—another bill to amend the same
charter; for the protection of game in
the county of Giynn; to amend the char- j
ter of AdairsriU.e, Bartow county; tc
Loan incorporate the Metropolitan Savings and I
company; to amend an act "to iq.
corporate the Atlanta Mutual Insurance
company; to aradnd the charter of the 1
town of GnytoD, Effingaam county; tc I
provide for the payment of imolv eQ{
turnkey fees of the sheriff of Brrke
county; to amend an act to consolidate
and amend the several acts concerning
the incorporation of Brunswick; to au¬
thorize the mayor and council of the city
of Forsyt to issue certain bonds; to
| rohibit the manufacture or sale of spir¬
ituous, malt, or int xicating liquors
within three miles of Summerous Chapel
Methodist church, in Murray county; tc
provide for the funding of the bonded
debt of Clarke county; to authoriz-* and
require the mayor and council of Cuth-
bert, Ga., to levy and collect a tax for
educational purposes; to prohibit the
manufacture or sale of spirituous, malt or
intoxicating Cumberland liquors within three miles of
Union Pre-bvterian church
of ra Murray the county; to prohibit the jidge
county court of Putnam county
from practicing law in the tnal of die-
dememor cases; to provide a system of
public schools for the town of Social
Circle,in Walton county; to prohibit any
person or persons from catching fish ■with
seins and nets in the waters of Gum
swamp and Sugar creek in the counties
of Telfair and Montgomery; to amend
the road laws of this state, so far as re-
lates to Emanuel county; to amend the
charter of the town of Hartwell; to au-
thorize D. Whilehel and A. W. Pass to
erect gates across a certain road in Hall
county; to author.ze the mayor and al-
dermen of Savannah to establish harbor
lines on the Savannah river from the
cross tides above to the sea.
BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR.
The Governor has fixed hi* signature
to the following bills originating in thc
House: An act to amend an act to incor¬
porate the town of J-fferson, in thc
couuty of Jackson; approved August
14, 1872. An act to amend sections
2783 and 2783 (a) of the code so as to
inclule among the public holidays the
19tli of January and for other purposes.
An act to amend the charter of the city
of Macon so as to provide for the im¬
provement of its streets. An act to
amend the charter of the city of Macon,
and the several acts amendatory thereof, and
so far as to authorize the mayor
council of the city of Macon to issue
bonds in the amount of two hundred
thousand dollars, for the purpose of
packing, paving and seweraging the
streets of said city of Macon. An act
to incorporate the Piedmont Loan and
B inking Company at Gainesville. An
act to prevent the running at large upon
the land of another, either enclosed or
unenclosed, in the 431st district, G. M.,
of Clay Coirnty, of all horses, mules,
cows, hogs, sheep, goats, etc.
An act to prohibit the sale of spirituous,
malt or intoxicating liquors within two
miles of Brawelle Academy in Morgan
county, Ga. An act to prohibit the
killing and destroying of game in the
couuty of Colquitt. An act to amend
and change tl the town of
Hawkinsville. a to incorporate
the Ocean, Pond & St. Mary’s Short Line
Railroad comuany. An act to better
protect the lands and farming interests
of the 785th district, G. M. in Schley
county, Ga. An act to incorporate the
Dahlonega & Dawsonville Railroad Co.
An act to provide when transfers and
liens shall take effect as against third
parlies. Also these bills originating in
the senate: An act to amend an act, to
incorporate the Waycross and Air Line
railroad. An act to declare all escapes
from the penitentiary negligent, proceed immedi¬ and to
require the governor to
ately to collect the damage now fixed by
law for each escape and for other pur¬
poses. An act to prohibit the sale of
spirituous, malt or vinous liquors by the
gallon or large quantities in the county
of Harris, unless the seller shall pay a
tax of twenty-five dollars to the county,
and obtain the written c msent of two-
thirds of the bona fide citizens, fie.hold¬
ers within three miles of the locality
where the same is sold. An act to amend
an act entitled an act to establish aboard
of commissioners for the county of Bibb,
to define their duties, and for other pur¬
poses. An act to incorporate the town
of Richmond in thc county of Stewart.
An act to authorize and require the
mayor and aldermen of the city of Mil-
ledgeville to elect three freeholders as
city assessors, to prescribe and define
their duties, and for other purposes.
A HUGE COMBINE.
TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA CAPITALISTS TO
UNITE IN A BIG SCHEME.
A number of prominent Tennessee and
Alabama capitalists have for several days
been in consultation in Nashville, Tenn. i
with a view to organizing a mining aud
manufacturing company, which will be
the largest iu the south, exceeding even
the Tennessee Coal and Iron company.
The gentlemen interested left for Ala-
hama Friday, to effect a corporate organ¬
ization of the company. The deal is the
most important which has occurred iu
that section. The plan embraces the con¬
solidation of the LaGrange, JStna, and
Warner Furnace companies, the Roane
Iron company, of Chattanooga, the
Wayne County Iron company, and other
properties, hix furnaces, now in opera¬
tion, are involved in the deal, aud many
thousand acres of fine ore lands in Hick¬
man, Stewart and Wayne counties. The
main object is to manufacture charcoal,
non and steel on a big scale, and to es¬
tablish a steel rail mill. The ultimate
object is reported to be the consolida¬
tion of all the charcoal furnaces in Ten¬
nessee and Alabama in a tremendous
combination. It is said that the amount
of b instal-
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
1JRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
An extensive strike of dock laborers
has begun at Rotterdam, Holland.
Five persons were drowned Friday in
pond near Fall River, by the capsizing of;
a boat.
The Temple of Heaven, at Pekin, con-
taining the dragon throne, has been de-
stroyed bv fire
The recent flre . h temple / 0 ( heaven,
in chi ^ wa8 of incendlsr ' or ietn. 8ev-
cral ma(i -
arrc have been
_ ‘hooner capsized Monday
\~ e 8c Urie on
. t> Port Ont., and eight
e - near Rowan,
P erg ODs were drowned,
A number of branches of the National
league in the counties of Waterford and
Tipperary, Ireland, have been suppressed,
Ihpresentatives of the shippers and
strikers at Rotterdam, England, had a
conference Tuesday, but without result,
The firm of Gibson Parish & Co of
Chicago, Ill., was forced to apply 11 * for a
receiver on account of the embezzlement
of $39,000 by Harry F. Clifford, their
bookkeeper.
that A the dispitch from Marion, Iud., says
has caused prevalence such of dipththeria the there
alarm that public
schools were ordered to be c’o3ed Tues¬
day for one week, About a dozen
deaths have occurred.
Fire at Buckley & Douglass’ mill at
Manitee, Mich., Wednesday afternoon,
hnd destroyed over a million feet of lumber
three hundred feet of docks and
tramways. The loss is estimated at
$125,000.
August Belmont, of New York, has
ordered $500,000 in gold for export.
The a^sav office does not know where
the gold is to be shipped. Belmcut &
Co. also refuse any information about it.
General Samuel D. Sturgis, U. S. A.,
died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., on
Sunday. He graduated from West
Point, in 1840, along with George B.
McClellan, Stonewall Jackson,Stoneman,
Pickett and many other famous Boldins
On Thursday morning flames broke
out in Emery’s big soap factory, at Ivey
Dale, Ohio, and soon got beyond the
control of the department. The large
buildings were completely gutted, and
it is estimated that the loss will be in
the neighborhood of $125,000.
A boiler used in a quarry at Wrights-
ville, Pa., exploded with terrific force
Saturday. Mrs. Lerniel Barnes was
killed instantly. Her head was blown
from her body. Her husband had his
skull fractured and cannot live. A small
building was blown to atoms.
Shipping circles at Baltimore were
somewhat disturbed on Monday, at a
yellow fever flag displayed on the British
steamer Recta, Captain Lowe, which ar¬
rived in ballast from St. Lucia. West
Indies, to load for London. She is at
quarantine with three seamen sick.
Action has been commenced by Attor¬
ney General Tabor against the assembly
ceiling contractor, John Smith, in the
supreme court of Oneida county, New
York, to recover $250,563. The Albany
county slier If on Monday arrested
Smith, who gave bail in $5'),000.
A cable dispatch from London says:
The deficiency in cotton stock strength¬
ens the corner which has now assumed a
serious aspect. It is reported that the
chief operator in the corner has made
arrangements to send thc bulk of cotton
tendered him to Havre, and thus starve
the Liverpool market.
At a meeting of the creditors of Gib¬
son, Parish & Co., of Chicago, Parish
Gated that Clifford, the absconding
book keeper of the firm had carried off
between $40,000 and $100,000 of the
firm’s assets,, and he was inclined to think
the latter figure nearer the correct one
than the former.
Leon Leonardi, Italian private banker,
at 41 Park street, New York, disap¬
peared on Monday, leaving his clients in
the lurch. They xvere principally of the
laboring class. Nothing was left in thc
bank except the safe and all the furni¬
ture of Leonardos residence was sold.
His depositors number 800 or 900.
Early Thursday morning, Laflin &
Rand’s powder mills, at Cresson, three
milts below Pottsville, Pa., blew up.
The explosion was terriffic iu force.
Three workmen were killed and a num¬
ber of other workmen injured. Nearly
all the window' glass in Cresson was
shattered, and the concussion w r as sensi¬
bly felt in Pottsville.
J. K. Tallier, leader of the gang who
robbed the train on the Sonora railroad,
near Nogales, Ariz., a year ago last May,
and who killed Conductor Atkinson and
Fireman Forbes, and who was subse¬
quently convicted of the crime aud sen¬
tenced to death, w r as shot early Monday
morning by Mexican authorities at Gu-
avamas.
The tin plate and sheet iron workers of
Boston, Mass., and vici ity, have de¬
cided to leave the Knights of Labcr and
organize an independent union. said The
immediate cause of withdrawal is to
be the support given by district assembly
30 and general offices to thc cigarmakcrs’
local assembly. A mass meeting will be
held Tuesday to act upon the question of
applying building for membership in the amalga-
trades council.
ST. LOUIS IN THE RING.
EFFORTS MADE TO HATE THE WORLD'S
FAIR IN THE METROPOLIS OF MISSOURI.
j A well attended meeting of prominent
fficials of roads centering at St. Louis,
jlo., k being revealed taken the by fact them that in great the World’s interest
rair and that active efforts will be made
ly Ln them to have it held in that city.
assessment of $1,000,000 on the rail-
pads 11 likelihood will be promptly that subscribed will be exceeded and in
sum
iy prietors them. A meeting of newspaper pro¬
also brought out subscriptions
largely in excess of the sum assessed
pon them. The individual subscriptions
f the daily papers are: Globe-Democrat,
[20,000; \atch. $15,00d; Republic, Star, $20,000; $5,000: Chronicle. Post-Dis-
2 , 000 .
A BRIDAL COUPLE KILLED.
MBUSHED WHILE RETURNING FROM THEIR
WEDDING TRIP.
On Ya., Big Heart Brujnfield creek, Lincoln his county,
Al and newly
wife were returning home after
brief wedding trip, when they were
by a man who shot them both.
Brumfield died in a few hours.
is dying. He claims to have
his a £ sassin, but refuses to say
it w T as. It is believed that a formei
of Mrs. Brumfield, who failed to
her, is the murderer.
DISCUSSING THE TARE.
SOME RESOLUTIONS OF VAST IMPORTANCE
TO COTTON GROWERS.
The National Cotton committee and
the Tare committee of the National Al¬
liance held a secret s< ssion at Atlanta,
Ga., Monday night. It is rumored that
the joint committees are preparing wide-reaching some
instructions which will be
in their effect. These arc instructions to
til the pr.maries, wheels and unions, ad¬
vising and instructing them to ho'.d
meetings and petition the governors of
each of the cotton states to call the leg¬
islatures in extia ses-ion to suspend the
processes of the courts for the collection
of debts for six months, The object of
this action, they say, is “to thwart and
prevent the robbery planned and deter-
mined against them.” The tare question and af¬
was discussed by (he committee,
ter a careful consideration the following
resolutions were adopted: “Whereas,
The association of the American Cotton
exchange met iu New Orleans on the 11th
instant, and in conjunction with the va¬
rious commissioners of agriculture and
representatives of the farming interests,
did recommend that cotton be sold by
net weight as a solution ot the tare
question ■ And Whereas, The action
taken by the New Orleans Cotton e±-
change in favor of assisting the farmers to
get paid'for the 8 pounds more cotton that
each cotton-wrapped bale contains than
the jute-covered bale is highly appreci¬
ated by the committee, and the determi¬
nation of said exchange to continue to
contend for the Ctuse, in spite of the fact
that many leading exchanges had de¬
serted it, is espec ally commendable, and
will be co-operated in by the inti rests we
represent; and, Whereas, The justice
and equity of the farmer's claim on the
tare question is b sed on the one fact,
which stands boldly out undisputed and
indisputable, that every cotton-wrapped
bale actually contains eight pounds more
of lint cotton than it would if covered
with jute; thirefore, it is hereby Re¬
solved, That the action had by the
Shreveport Cotton exchange be adopted
in the present emergency, and every far¬
mer is hereby instructed when
offering for sale cotton wrapped in cot¬
ton bagging, to demand payment for
eight pounds more cotton than the act¬
ual gross weight of such bale. Resolved
second; That this action is intended to
supercede and take the place of all pre¬
vious action and instructions in regard
to the tare question. In no case shall a
bale of cotton be sold subject to a dock
of sixteen pounds for cotton bagging, or
twenty-four pounds for jute bagging as
agreed upon in New Orleans, unless the
cotton be sold at a half cent per pound
in advance of the current price at that
time and place. R.'J. Sledge, Chairman,
Texas; M. L. Donaldson, South Carolina;
W. J. Northen, Georgia; R. F. .Kolb,
Alabama; W. L. Lacey, Mississippi; A.
T. Hatcher, Louisiana; Oswald Wilson,
Florida; S. B. Alexander, North Caro¬
lina; B. M. Hord, Tennessee; L. P.
Featherstone, Arkansas.
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN DEL¬
EGATES TO BE SHOWN ABOUND.
A train of Pullman cars, which, in it3
appointments and arrangements for jour¬
ney,is believed to be without a precedent
in tho history of railroading, will leave
Washington, D. C., on Tuursday, bear¬
ing representatives of American nations
to the international conference to be held
next month at the national capital. The
party, as guests of the governm nt, are
to be taken over a large section of the
Uni'ed States, in order that they may
see and appreciate, to some extent, the
vast resources of tliis country. Congress,
at its last session, authorized the secre¬
tary of state to invite delegates from all
South and Central American nations to a
convention to be held in Washington,
November 14t b, for the purpose
of discu-siug reciprocal, commer¬
cial aud financial interests
of the countries reprssented,
and appropriated $125,000 for the ex¬
penses of the convention. Under this
authority, and as preliminary to the
convention, the state department organ¬
ized this tour of commercial and manu¬
facturing cities of the United States,
with the prime object of showing the
visitors the great n;tural resources of
the country. The Pennsylvania Railroad
company agreed to undertake the task of
arranging aud carrying on the details for
this unprecedented trip. It is unique in
at least two respects, namely, in that
there will be no change of cars through¬
out ihc entire distance of 5,046 milos,
and this will be the first known instance
where railways have permitted an’entire
train, with its own engine, crew, etc., to
pass from other loads over their lines.
The train will pass over the main lines of
shirty d fU-rent railway corporations,
passing Hire ugh the states of Maryland,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut!,
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wis¬
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Missouri and Kentucky, twenty in all.
V crew of twenty-six men will be rc-
juired to run the train which, as it
it ads, iepresents a cost of $150,000.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
ME RESIDENCE PORTION OF GRAND
HAVEN, MICHIGAN, BURNED OUT.
A large part, and the best part, of the
residence portion of Grand Haven,
Mich., was wiped out by a great fire
Tuesday morning. Among the buildings
burned are the following: The Cutler
hou e, one of the best ho’els in Michi¬
gan; the residence of Dwight Butler,
beautiful place, filled with exquisite fur¬
niture, valuable pictures and works of
art. The residences of Mrs. Slayton, T.
A. D. Parris, George D. Sanford, Capt.
McCullom, A. S. Kenzie. 1 hree
churches were burned—tbe First Re¬
form d, Unitarian and Methodist. Be¬
sides these there were thirty residences.
No lives were lost. The sweep of fire
included both sides of Main street from
Slayton’s grocery, wh- re the fire origi
nated. to Ackely institute, and everything
in its path was wiped out. The total
loss is about $500,000, with a fair
amount of insurance.
BLACK BART FREE.
THE NOTORIOUS TRAIN BOBBER BREAKS
JAIL AND ESCAPES.
A dispatch The Gogebic from Sfefsemer. Mich.,
says: mund ge robber, Rei-
Holzhay, ot] /wise known as
c”ail XTpriFoJek S hfs r e.c"pe from^’
»
was brought here from Republic, where
he was arrested some days ago for hold-
mg up a Gogebic stage and murdering
Illinois. one of its The occupants, Mr. F}eisbbein, o
sheriff has called a posse
to pursue the fugitive. Citizens art
much excited, and are turning out iu
larue numbers to ioia in the min hunt.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
A CONDENSED
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
excursion of business men.
Fifteen miles of track have been laid
on the Columbus Southern railroad, ine
work is being pushed with great rap it
ty, and trains will be run into Cussetta,
Ga., in a few days. Hermitage
The directors of the Ladies
jssociation of Nashville, on Tuesday sent
an invitation to the delegates of the in¬
ternational congress to visit the home of
Andrew Jackson.
The Hamilton couuty, Tenn., five per
t’ent. twenty year bridge bonds on Tues¬
day sold to Forster, Leech & Co., oi
Chicago, for 104 plus. The sale is re¬
garded afl most satisfactory.
The village of Cambria, Cal., was al¬
most entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday.
The post-office, telegraph and express
3 ffices were totally destroyed. The total
loss is about $123,000; insurance about
$ 12 , 000 . granted
One of the largest charters efc t
to any corporation in the south, w*as
trauted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000 .
A war among the boats on the Chatta¬
hoochee was inaugurated at Columbus,
Ga., on Tuesday, and the half rate will
prevail hereafter. Cotton will be trans¬
ported to Brunswick for fifty-five pounds cents a
bale instead of per hundred as
heretofore. The fight promises to be a
lively one.
The statement is now made at New
Orleans upon what appears to be good
authority, that irregularities have been
discovered in what is known as the
“babv” bonds, commencing at number
102,000. Nearly all of the “baby” bonds
above 102,000 are fraudulent. The de¬
falcation already in sight will reach more
than 1,200,000.
The grand jury of the parish of Or¬
leans, La., met Tuesday aud investigated
the state bond fraud. The session of the
grand jury lasted four hours, and nine
indictments wrere found against some
person or p; rsons charged with fraud
and embezzlement. No names are given, that
but it seems to be well understood
ex-treasurer E. A. Burke is a party in
each case.
Governor Fowle, of North Carolina, in
re ply to the letter from the secretary of
war, suggesting the removal of the In¬
dians at Mount Vernon barracks to the
mountain sections of North Carolina, ex¬
presses disapproval of the proposition, rapid settle¬ as
that section is in process of
ment by tbe whites, and suggests that
the Indians lie located on the abandoned
lands of Vermont.
The Chattanooga, Tenn., I 1 lines, pub¬
lished reports from seventy-five of ninety-
six counties comprising thc state of Ten-
U( ssce showing an increase of value of
real and personal property of twenty-six
million dollars over assessment of 1888,
and an increase of one hundred million
over the assessment of 1886. An increase
of one hundred million dollars in taxa¬
ble* iu three years is unprecedented in any
state in the union.
The Mayo Bridge & improvement com¬
pany was chartered in the circuit court
at Richmond, Va., on Saturday, The
objects are to run a toll bridge between
Richmond aud Manchester ar.d other
points where. over Also the to James River and elec¬ else¬
construct steam,
trical, horse aud other railways, to erect
buildings, electric mills, etc., to furnish gas and
light, to utilize water power,
etc. The capital stock is to be from
$50,000 to $100,000.
Monday closed the Danville Va., to¬
bacco year. The sales of leaf tobacco on the
warehouse floors for the year were 28,-
803,363 pounds, a decrease from last
year's sales of two and a half millions.
The average price was $8.75 per hundred.
The decrease in the sales was due to a
short crop. The sales of the manufac-
Hired product since s January were
$5,807,000 pounds, an increase over the
same time last year of nearly two million
pounds.
A ROW EXPECTED
IN KNIGHTS OF LABOR CIRCLES AT ST.
LOUIS, MO.
Important depositions bearing on thc
great strike of 1886 were taken Friday
at St. Loui®, and when the result becomes
known in Knights of Labor circles, it is
l kely to cause a tremendous row. The
recent war between Mortimer T. Shaw,
of that city, and Master Workman Pow-
derly, in which a number of prominent
knights of that city became involved aud
which is bringing Master Workman
Powderly and his entire executive board
to St. Louis, is really the cause which ha*
led to the present effect. The deposi¬
tions taken were from a number of dis¬
satisfied knights who, havingbeen inside
of the affairs of the great strike have
been able to give testimony of great im¬
portance to the Missouri Pacific railway,
which will be used in defease of the
damage suits instituted by the men pros-
i cuted for the Wyandotte train wrecking.
The depositions contain startling charges
against the leaders of the knights,
among other things is an alleged plot to
blow up the big Eads bridge at St.
Louis.
NEWS FROM MEXICO.
visited by TERRIBLE STORMS—CROPS
RUrNED—MUCH SUFFERING.
A dispatch from Mexico 6ays: The
main force of the storm that visited Ba-
ji° country within the past few days has
abated, although in its track desolation
is apparent on all sides. The second crop
of corn, which was very laige, is a par¬
tial loss. This will entail great suffering
among the laboring classes. Trains on
the Mexican railroad are again running
regularly. The town of Celaya still re¬
mains^ the lower undated. Inhabitants' living in
streets have been removed to
the old San Franciscan convent for safe¬
ty. Fields in the vicinity of Leon are
all under water. It is estimated that the
lqss. of cropg in Bajio country wilt be
over $500,000.
BANK STATEMENT.
is “ <* «* MW
ffi.’SSSfiXT enain « » alura ay • 0 * f °’
ff^ erv, edecrease.- .... m 600
Specie decrease..... 603
Ugal tenders decrease 1,424,030 339,TOC
Deposits decrease. *.. 2,844 200
circulation decrease... 14,200
The banks now hold $938,700 in ex-
cess of t&e 25 per cent. rule.
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