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J** en estimated that Uncle Samuel will
at at least §1,500,000 in artificial
« *i«»nd arms in 1890.
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p railroad companies of the United
‘—f owe §4,600,000,000. Last year the
j’iit v4e of interest paid by the railroads
United States was §207,000,000,
I he amount in dividends §80,000,-
_______ If tire amount of freight hauled
Int jail reduced to one mile, it would
to §70,000,000,000 tons of
Jt.
.aquin 3Ii!ler, who, after he went into
| : street and lost his little pile, used
| Jil at the rich and revile leading New
capitalists, has become a capitalist
JJelf. Some years ago he bought 200
ths of land near Saa Francisco, and now
I have become valuable for town lots,
al poet says that he shall spend the re-
]|pder of his days on the Pacific
’he whole trade of Calcutta was
a ost paralyzed recently by a general
^jke of native bullock-carters, 30,000
^number. municipal They license. arc forced to pay a
~vy A local firm
ieavored to levy a further fee for
®vate registration, and the carters
»ught that this was an endeavor to
^lose au increase of taxation. The
^understanding was removed.
t
jit Is said that the common cowcatcher
| jachment to locomotives is about the
ly article of universal use that was
jver patented. Its inventor was D. B.
ivies, of Columbus, who found his
odel in the plow. Red lights on the
*ar car of trains, it is further said, were
lopted at the suggestion of the late Mrs.
tvisshclm, after a railway accident in
hicb she had a narrow escape.
The number of the blind in the United
dngdom according to the last census
as 32,296, being at the rate of 879
liud persons per million of the general
opulation as compared with 950 in 1871,
34 in 1S51, and 1021 in 1851. The
iecrease in blindness would thus appear
*> be gradual but steady, even allowing
or the fact that many who have very de-
ective sight and are practically blind
*bjcct to return themselves as such.
The highest statistics which have over
>een reached in the annals of suicide
were recorded at Berlin. Fifty-nine
persons attempted to quit “this mortal
life” in one month, and thirty-eight
among them were successful. One boy,
twenty women and thirty-eight men
made up the number. Twenty-two
Bought death m the water, fourteen by
hanging, twelve through bullets, five by
poisoning and two by jumping from
windows.
Treasury statistics show that the ex¬
portations of SIcxico for the first half of
the fiscal year 1SSS-9 amounted to 826,-
846,990, indicating a total exportation
for the year of §53,000,000, the largest
ever known in the history of the country.
The exportation of precious metals in¬
creased in the half year, as compared
with the previous half year, §1,999,809,
aud merchandise exports increased §570,-
263. These facts bear out the statements
regarding the prosperity of the country,
and what railways are giving to the de¬
velopment of Mexico.
Rev. J. Crossett, an independent
American missionary recently died in
China, where he had been devoting him¬
self to labor among the benighted. He
had charge of a winter refuge for the
poor at Peking duriug several winters,
aud made it his business to seek out the
**ck and unfortunate for the purpose of
affording them relief rather than to
change their faith. He went about in
Cuinese costume, aud accepted no remu¬
Deration for his labors except his enter¬
tainment. He was everywhere welcomed
among the Chinese aud was called by
them “the Christian Buddha.”
The inquiry is not infrequently ad¬
dressed to a millionaire, “Why do you
not discontinue business? You have
wealth enough, you need not work any
longer -—and the nnswer almost invaria¬
bly is, “What shall I do with my idle
hours, if I have no employmentt” This
was tb e answer that that eminent Chica¬
goan of brains and wealth. Mr. Philip D.
Armour, made when an English syndicate
offered him a bonus of §5,000,000 in ad¬
dition to the estimated value of his great
pork and groat beef-packing plant. Mr.
Armour doubted if he would find peace
oi mind in a plethoric purse and no busi-
ness.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is not
quite sure .whether we should “rejoice at
Chinese progress or regret it, for the.
waking up of the vast Mongolian masses
means the precipitation of an overplus
upon the Aryan world that we do not
yet know how to deal with. However,
it is certain that China will soon be
practically & modern State, The conser¬
vative element is effectually overcome
and railway construction has been en-
tered on as a national policy. Peking is
•t once to b© joined to Tien Tsin by a
road passing through the most populous
district of the Empire. The radicals or
reformers are at last entirety triumphant,
China will adopt every means for de-
It will be impossible to
on the same planet under a system
Ld asr-liMio*.”
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS
ASD EXCITING EVENTS.
KTirs FT.OM EVEBYWHEJi*— ACCIDENTS, ^TKIKEi,
HUES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
in Cornwall, England, Suuday.
The Swiss government has adopted the
smokeless powder for her army.
A terrific storm prevailed on Lake Hu¬
ron have Monday. It i e feared several vessels
gone down.
A fire in Pittsburg, Pa., on Monday
niyht, distroyed Oliver Cmthers’ mill,
on Tenth stieet. Loss $250,00 >.
A number of branches of the National
Tipperary, league in the (ountics of Waterford suppressed. and
Ire and, have been
A( cording to the latest estimate, ihe
aew Ft* nch chamber of deputies will
have 865 republican aud 210 opposition
members.
An anonymous writer has returned
$650 conscience money to Secretary Win-
dom. Joseph, The letter was postmarked St.
Mo.
It is rumored that the German govern¬
ment will ask a credit for 300,000,000
ra irks for bronze guns for the new smoke¬
less powder.
The large four-story morreco shop of
Peter Sib & Sons, on Grove street, Sa¬
lem. Mass., burn* d Friday. Lo-s $1,000-
000, partially injured.
Up to the iccess Tuesday night G27
jurors had been excused in the Cronin
case at Chicago, fou accepted and sworn
in aud four temporarily parsed.
The Rotterdam, Holland, dock labor¬
ers’ strike was Lrouuht to an end on
Wednesday. The modified terms of the
employers were accepted by the men.
Re’urns, on Monday, from towns that
ca>t more thi.u two-thirds of the state
vote of Connecticut la-t year, show that
the vote on the prohibitory amendment
is about three to one against it.
Eleven men were killed by au upheaval
of the Thursday. earth in alquarry near Lima, O.,
on The upheaval was fol¬
lowed by the spouting of a subterranean
stream of water 200 feet into the air.
A construction train on the M cky
railroad left the track at a point about
eighteen mil-s w est of Beufoid, Iud.,
Thursday afternoon. Ten of twenty-
eight men on the train were seriously in¬
jure d. Six were dangerously hurt, while
two will die.
There was a fntal collision on the St.
Louis and Sin Francisco railroad, near
Noithview, Mo., on Satuiday. Seven
cars The were dumped over an embankment,
engineer of one train was killed,
and four men dangerously hurt.
Conebauere, M. P., who was relea c ed
from Londonderry jail, Saturday, was
received with great enthusiasm on his
arrival at London. A procession, com¬
posed of thousands of friends, e-coited
him to Cleikenwell gieeu,where speeches
of welcome were made.
The grand jury, at Chicago, III., on
Saturday, failed to return any indict¬
ments against any of the gamblers of the
city, though their attention was particu¬
larly directed to it by Judge Horton.
The Evening News alleges th it the polit-
eal “pull” of the gamblers prevented it.
The A ni-p itch from Pittsburg, Pa., says;
boom in steel and iron rivals the
memorable advance of 1884. Steel rails
to-day cannot be bought for le^s than
$33 per tun, and manufacturers are quite
independent on these figuisi, for it is
confidently believed tlie price will reach
$35.
Liverpool’s cotton statement for the
past weak isas follows: Total sales of tbe
wei k 88,009; American, 27,< 00. Trade
luaking)*, including forwarded from ship-
side, 34,000; actual export, 3,0'»0; total
import, 32.000; American, 22.00 1 ; total
stock, 303 (tOO; American, 2u2,000; fatal
afloat, 134,000; Americm, 120,000.
The suicide <4 a whole family is re-
por ed from O le3sa, Rus-la. A sehocl
teacher named Sause committed suicide,
w hen upon his widow bicame insa: e
She fiist threw three of her children out
of a ihird-story window', and then, tak¬
ing the other two in Kr arms, jumped
out with them. Ad were killed.
On ex-Queen Natalie’s visit to Bei-
grade.lier presence was totally ignored by
government official*, but Bbe was re-
ceivtd most enthtt iasttaally by crowds
that thr. nged the fetriets through which
she passed. On private residences and
places of business throughout the city
flags were displayed in her honor.
The strike of the window' light glns 3
blowers, w hicu began at Baltimore, Md.,
last June, and h s seriously affected
manufacturers aud 5,0J0 employes in
busiuess, most of whom are located in
New York, New Jer.-ey, Pennsylvania
and Maryland, was settled on last
Saturday. Tkedemrad of the blowers
was for an advance of ten per cent., but
a compromise of oi per ant. was agreed
upon.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting of
the National Ass. ciation of Wool Man-
ufactuiers was held at Nevr York on
Wednesday. ^ The loliowing officers
were elected for the eutuiug yaar:
President, Presidents, Win. Whitman, Bostou ; Vice
John L. Houston, Hartford,
Coun.; A. C. Mi ler, Utica, N. Y , and
Thomas Dolan, Philadelphia; treasurer,
Benjamin Phipps. Boston, aud secretary,
8. N. D. North, Boston.
A frightful wreck occurred on the
Youn^sto a n & Ashtabula division of the
Pennsylvania company’s lines at llaz e-
ton. Ohi j, eariy Thursday morning, by
which Flagman John Fitzgerald was in-
badly stimily killed and Conductor Ben Milner
injured. A treight train going
west broke in two goingup aste- p grade,
and the detached part ran back to pn-
gme 231 going ln‘ tne same direction.
The engine was wrecked and several
fteisht cars were smashed to kindling
wood.
The Iowa supreme court, at Des
Moings, has given a death blow to
the hitherto saeied rights and privileges
of charaviri parties. It has reverse i the
decision of Judge Stewart, in the district
court, in the murder case of the St ite vs.
Royal Adame. Adams was indicted for
murdtr in the first degree, for toe acci¬
dental shooting of a person named H -r-
ing. a member of a c’naiaviri 'party, con¬
victed of m raslaughter, and seiHeneed to
the peniteutiary for seven years aud six
months.
A FAT AL PLUNGE.
, . ~~Z ’d threshing ~
,. Io u be.ug en S lJe moved au machine,
across a small stream
mar jonesvalje, !ud on Fu-day, broke
a aQd ian dc-d i n the wa •
thirty feet below. , Five men
, wers
un4er engine- John Sparse
wid Henry wrignt were pinioned beneath
tne boiier, ana before they could be res
cued had been sealdcu to dtath by e»-
caping steam. Three others were fe*
but no t fa tally injured. .'
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
THE BOILERS OF A STEAMER EXPLODE
WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS.
The steamer C.rona, of the Ouachita
r-onsolidat* d line, left New Orleans,
Thursday night for Ouachita river, with
a full cargo of fr- ight and a good 1 st of
na-sengers. She exploded her boilers at
Fa se r ver, nearly oppo.-ite Port Hudson,
at 11.45 Thursday steam/r morning, causing the
loss ot the and about forty lives.
I he An 1 hor line steamer City of St.
Louis, Capt iu James O’oeii, was near
by. and w th bis crew' and boats saved
many lives. The surviving passengers
sad crew weie taken on b >ard
by Captain O’Neil, and were very
kindly cared for bv him and his crew,
Following are 'hi lm of the low and
„ved ,s fare, known. Crow lost.
J. W. Blank-*, captain; J. Y. Gordon,
d'St cl, rk; Charles C. EUos, second clerk;
Swimp Ilaua, third clerk; Fred Dinkle,
baikei per; itewart; Fred Verman, barkeeper; Pat
[Ivan, Dick Curtis, fireman ;Tom
Hook, endneer; Henry Doyle, porter;
Jomes 8wipn, porter; — Ta'e, barber;
Henry Davis, deck hand; Tom Cook,
sail ).man; Billy Young, second mate;
Sam Steel, a boy; boih captai .a of the
deckwatch; fifteen rous ers, ' names un-
known.. The ] assengers lost were:
Dr. Atwell, corn doctor; four negro mu-
sicians; Mr. Scott, Smithland, La.; Mr.
Stockman, Texas; Mr. Koench; Mrs.
Hull, of Opelou-es, sister of Captain
Banks; Mr. Wilson, of Red River Landing,
The Corona was on her first trip of the
season, and li .d but recently come out of
the drydock, where she received repairs
h mountim; to nearly $12 000. She was
buiIt at heeling, W. \ a , *even years
ng », and has a carrying capacity of 2,700
bales of cotton. At the time <>f the acci-
dent she was valued at $20*000.
MORMONS IN CONFERENCE.
URGING THE ADHERENTS OF THE MORMON
FAllH TO 6USTAIN ITS PRINCIPLES.
A d spa f ch from Salt Lake City says;
The sixtieth general -emi-annual confer¬
ence of the Mormon Church Legin Sat-
urday. Wilfred Woodruff, president of
church, presided, and George Q. Can¬
non, of the ill st presidency, was pres¬
ent. There were a-so pr sent, five oth< r
high church officials. President Wood-
niff, in the opening address, said the
Mormon church had been establi-hcd by
God, and that no power on earth could
stuy its progress. All revelations given
to the saints, including polygamy, came
direct fiom God, aud notwithstanding
tbe trials and Doubles through which the
Mormons had passed, the Lord would
susta n alt those who obeyed bis princi¬
ples and his revelations. Apo-tle John
W. T ay lor commended the people to give
obei-ci.ce to the priesthood, “These
men at the head of the church,” he said,
“have the spirit of revelation and speak
for God. I bear my testimony that
President Woodruff and his eonnsellors
are hand prophets, seers and revelators. The
ot God is over this claim h, and no
power ress.” can destroy it or impede its prog¬
A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
IN WHICH THREE MEN ARE KILLED AND
ABOUT TWENTY INJURED.
Two men wore instantly killed, an¬
other fat.lly injured, and about twenty,
more or less, hurt, at the bottom of the
Cah Houghton, meut aud Hecla perpendicular Friday. The shaft
at Mich., wereHred us¬
ual blasis of dynatn.te Tliuis-
day evening, bvit one failed to explode.
On Friday one of the miners accidently
struck the charge with his pick. A deaf¬
ening crash followed, the dynamite ex¬
ploding and sending masses of shattered
r ck in deadly showers all around tbe
sjiot. Otto Flink and Alfred Er.ek^on,
were killed instantly, their bodies being
friglitiully torn and scarred by the filing
pieces injured. of rock. Nelson Boone had was his fatally right
John Cameron
aim broken in two places by pieces of
stone,bath legs l eing cut in many places.
Twenty-six miners, who were at work in
the vicinity, were all nv>re or less injured.
The accident took place 1,000 feet under
the ground.
Routing the mormons.
THE AVniTE CAPS DRIVING MORMON ELD-
lERS FROM TENNESSEE.
News came from Wilson couniy,
IV*mi., Thursday, that the Mormon eld< rs
A ve been driven ouc of that county by
the White Caps. The elders disap¬
peared some time ago, when the agitation
was hot against them, bu r a few days ago
returned, believing the storm to have
blown over. Their incendiary utterances
were ople not wh forgotten, however, and the
oi < warned them proposed to
make iheir threats good. Forty or fifty
men, tna ked and robed in wh te, on
W ednesday night visited the house of
William B.rretr, Thoiras Smith and Lee
Ba ivtt, where t ie elders had been,
searching for them. Some one, however,
had givtn warning, and not an elder was
to be found. Tin-se men were cautioned
against allow ing the elders to ever darken
their doors again, and the eldeis left the
county.
UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN
MANY FEOPL-<: SUFFEHING FOR WANT OF
PROPER CLOTHING AND SHELTER.
With the thermometer about the freez
ing i oint there is a great d< al of suffering
at Johnstown, Pa., the^e i sheltered iuhts by peo¬
ple who are imprope ly and
poorly clad. The relief money, which
was intended to supply their necessities,
even if paid at once, will come too late
to be properly applied in providing
against the b asts of winter. Clothing
that was «>n hand when the commissary
d<partment shut down has been trans-
fered to the Red Cr« ss society, by whom
it will be disiiibuted to the needy,
There have heeu a great many deaths
there within the pasDfcweek and most of
them have been superinduced by
inents contracted in the flood. In the
Red Cross liosp tal there are twenty-two
of typhoid fever. *
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THE SAME OLD STORY.
THE BOOKKEEPER OF A CONNECTICUT FIRM
ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.
Charles S. Pratt, confidential book-
keeper, secretary and cashier of the H.
Liueu Company, of Meriden,
Cunn., was arrested on Thursday for era-
bezzlemeat. Pratt’s embezzlement
amounts periods since to over $10,000, Covering varioui
by 1382, and wo 3 accomplished
false entries mainly on pay rolls. The
affair has caused a profound sensation, as
Pratt w »s au officer in several local or-
gamzations, treasurer of the First Con-
gregational He Society and a eity alderman,
con essed hi* guilt to his employ-
ers, lirinjr saying: “Jt is ttie game old cr> tovy of
Uriel,” beyond one’s means. * fW am g
SOUTHERN NEWS.
1TE3IS OF INTEREST FR03I VA-
D100SPOiMSJN^ THE kOUiH.
a condensed accocnt or what is going ox or
mpoetance in the southern states.
Ex-Governor Perry, ’ of Florida, is cly-
; n „ R. ln( in M -r.
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\ A receiver was, on Monday, . appointed . . ,
or the South Carouna railroad.
The Florence, Ala., bink has been au-
thoiized to begin business with a capital
°f $50,000.
The property of the North Alabama
Lumber company of Bridgeport, Ala.,
was attached by creditors Thursday.
Norlh Carolina will pay the prioripal-
?, 47.0)0 -on onold cUi, uol^ .he Boiled
qubtlon on'ntmLt tolinTuniteTstales
supreme L, court.
Th ;, ... £\ , neric . ? n «««»««
’ , hat tne M vl * White Leal
has a, - ;‘ n company
been , absorbed , by the national had
trut L and that the stock of the company
turned over to the trust Thursday.
Three men were burned to death at
Winona, Miss., in a fire which destroyed
the restaurant of R. E. Lotus. The men
«ero Thomas Law try, his ion and Paul
Williams.
The corner s'one of the new' music
hall at New Orleans, La., was laid Sun-
day afternoon with great ceremony. It
will have a seating capacity of 0,000 iu
the auditorium and 1,800 on the stage,
Robbers intercepted a boy mail r clei
between Leakeville and Palestine, Miss.,
Monday,and after rifling the m ill pouch,
containing two regi.-tered lcttets, gave
ti e empty pouch to the bov' aud de-
parted.
One of the largest charters ever granted
^rant«d to any corporation iu the of south, was
by the superior court Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building Ga°
and Loan association, of Atlanta,
was incorporated, with authority to do
bu-iness in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000.
A letter received at Greeusboro, N. C.,
on Wednesday, from Russell A. Alger,
the Michigan millionaire, says that he
intends to visit North Carolina in the
ne<ir future with a view of investing
some of his vast accumulated wealth. It
is not known just what line of bus ness
he will interest himself in, but it is be¬
lieved he will place a good deal of money
in the state. .
The Peabody Normal college at Nash¬
ville, Teiin., opened Wednesday morning
for the session of 1889-90. There weie
262 enrolled students from the following
suites; Alabama 24, Arkansas 9, Flori¬
da, 2, Georgia 10, Louisiana 7, Missis¬
sippi 1, Missouri 1, .North Carolina 15,
Ohio ], South Carolina 12, Tennessee
142, Texas 12, West Virginia 12 and
Virginia 12. This is the largest number
ever is the present at the college. Keutueky
only Southern state not repre¬
sented.
T he board of trade, on Friday, took
final steps toward making Jacksonville.
Fla., a cotton market. Warehouse fa¬
cilities have been secured temporarily
and a stock company has been formed
to build a new warehouse. All Farm¬
ers’ Alliance growers wi 1 ship their cot¬
ton to Jacksonville, and a Brunswick,
Ga., firm has agreed to open an office at
Jacksonville,, that and ship largely through
eighty port. thousand It is expected that at least
bales will be handled
there this year.
A Pensacola, Fla., special to the Jack¬
sonville TimeA- Union says; At a meeting
ot the city commissioners held Thursday,
Mayor Chiplcy w as instructed to com¬
municate with the mayors of Montgom¬
ery, B rmingham, Nashville, New Or¬
leans, Mobile, Savannah, Charlesion aud
other cities to induce a joint effort tc
have the present route of the foreign del¬
egates to the International American
Ci gn ss so changed as to include all
import porle.” nt cities of the South and Gulf
A teleefam was received at Savannah,
Ga-i British Monday afternoon, statin." that the
j, steam-hip Amy Dora. Captain J.
ThoinpSou, which clean d there for
Geuba in the latter part of September,
lias gone ashore on the Virginia shore.
A hole was stove in her hull aud she
filled with water. She was attempting
to put in at Newport News for coal.
She has aboard 4,700 bales of upland
cotton, weighing 2,846.968 pounds, and
valued at $238,318, shipped by various
Savannah firms.
The town of Trenton, Tenn., eighteen
miles south of Chattanooga, on the
Alabama Great Southi rn R ad, is ou a
bo< in, oc asioned by the reported clos¬
ing of a bi" deal by a Northeu syndicate
involving tlie purchase of large tracts of
mineral and town land.-, $600,000' and pledging
the syndicate to spend in im- '
provements. Hundreds of people are
there from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee,
M ssissippi, and other States laying off
okl cornfields, etc., into town lots. The
peo ile s.re fairly -wild, and large amounts
day. < f property are changing hands every
THE STORM IN FLORIDA.
K DISASTROUS STORM VISITS TIIE 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 proper 1 y. At Wi st Jacksonville, four
or five miles out in the coumiy from ilio
city of Jacksonville, three or four houses
were blown down aDd two churches
wrenched from their foundations.
Through the outlying country for many
miles, fallen trees were encountered
everywhere, many of the monster moos-
hung oaks, which had withsiood the
storms of a hundred years, were pros¬
trated. At Switzerland, Panama, Park,
Scotland, Mayport, New Berlin and suv-
eral small set tlements on St. Johu’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.
BAD MONEY IN THE BOX-
A FRF.ACHER'S FLOCK PAY UP IN COUNTER-
FEIT MONEY—SUBSEQUENT TROUBLE.
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A sensation was created in Chambers
county, Ala.. S'-veral days ago, by the
arrest of Rev. J. H. M. Duran, a Metho*
dist minister, charged wi h passing eoun-
terfeit monev. He was lodged in jail,
and his trial came off Thursday. He ad-
mit’ed that he had passed spurious
money, but proved that he ha t got it out
of the contribution box. There were
eight of the© sifrer dollars in the box. and seven
were counterfeits. He said God
and the sinners who passed the coins
were the only ones who knew, i he ease
was dismissed on account of the officer*’
inability to get absent witneweg,
EX-TREASURER BURKE.
EAGER TO FACE HIS ASS.VTI.AXT3 REGARD¬
ING THE ILLEGAL JBOXD8.
R h Buike,cx-treasurer of Lruiriam,
who failed from Liverp-ol for New Aork
on ,he Reamer 1 uetonic.but disembarkc..
upon the arrival o. the sttamir at
ut.n, sa\s that ^“^hc when re ^arrived arrive a
nt Queenstown and returned to
Londim he found waiting him there
a number of telegrams from Mr. Mat-
thew Robbins, his London agent, insLt- _
ing that he return to attend to negoiin-
tions relating to his Central American
a °d other properties, which Robbins raid
wc * e imperilled through the haste in
which he bad taken his departure. c.bledi.,.».chcs lie
!"•” f’ ° ufged alto Reived J, reZin n”d
k ew ,ee eo«
V k : 0 Ms business in England, or to put
it in a safe way forcompletion. Buikesays
he has not had a single communication
Irom the state officials of Louisiana and
He mis s he will succeed, after he le-
turns to the United States,in discovering
how the illegal bonds got about, lie dc-
dines, meanwhile, to make the slightest
suggestion directing suspicion toward
anyone. He dedans that the attorney-
gineial of Louisiana aud others
directing the present inquiry and
are animated by political animosity,
he eagerly awaits the moment when he
will confront him iu New Orleans. He
is fretting under the disadvantage en-
tailed by his lorced absence from Amer-
ica.
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a GOOD SHOWING.
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advantages of the souTn in the cot-
ton mill industry set forth.
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The Tradesman, of Chattanooga, has
instituted an exhaustive inquiry into the
cotton mill industry of the South, and
has received reports from all 'the leading
mills bf the southern states, actual
number ot mills in operation is 839,
against 142, in 1880, an increase of 232
per cent, since the census year. The in-
crease in mill consumption of raw cotton
m the same period has been 253 per cent.
South Carolina is the banner state;
132 319 bule3 were consumed in that
state last year, against 120,988 bales iu
Georgia. The consumption of increased raw cot¬
ton in South Carolina has
33 p< r cent, in two years, The
concensus of opinions of leading
manufacturers of the South in their
written reports to the Tradesman, is that
the South possesses advantages over any
other portion of America for cotton man¬
ufacture in: 1. Proximity to ra v mate¬
rial. 2. Superior climate. 3. Cheaper
power. 4. Lower cost of renting and
living. 5. Lower wage scale. 0. L st
liability to strikes. 8. L-ss expeuso for
heating mills. 9. Saving on freight. The
'Tradesman has r. Ccived returns
of dividends from twenty-five leading
mills in the South, located iu six differ¬
ent states. These dividends run between
extremes of four and tweniy-eight per
per cent, and average of twenty-five is
1 li per cent, per annum. These twenty-
live lairly represent the whole.
BANK STATEMENT.
ciated Following is a statement of the asso¬
banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday 5th:
Reserve decrease...... .......$2,603,800
Loans decrease......... ....... 1 , 995.200
Specie dec i t ase........ ....... 2 , 252,360
Deposits Legal tendeis decrease. ....... 1 , 614,100
decrease...... ....... 5,060 400
Circulation increase .•.. ....... 11,6L0
The banks now hold $1,068,050 less
than ^ 25 per cent, rule calls for. Fof the
first time Since the week following the
May panic of 1884, the statement shows
the reserve held to be less than 25 per
cent, of the deposits required by the na¬
tional banking law. The deposits
only amount $1,014,000 to $412,273,800, against which
is held in reserve. The
deficit is $1,668,050, as the legal re¬
quirement is $103,068,450. The deficit
is almost wholly caused by the drain of
money to the West and South where over
$67,000,000 was shipped last week, and
iilmo.-t as much went in the week pre¬
ceding,
BRIDE AND GROOM KILLED.
ANOTHER BLOODY CHARTER IN THE HAT-
FlELD-MCCOt VENDETTA.
A dispatch from Jambofee, Pike
county, Ky., says: The old Hatfleld-
McCoy fued has broken out again, and at
least three more lives have been sacrificed
in. the bloody vendetta which has lasted
over seven years. The shooting occurred
at a ma riage at the faimhouse of Peter
McCoy. IBs daughter was to become
the wife of John Handy, a relative of the
Hatfield gang, and members of both
factions had sworn to prevent the union.
Handy had never been connected with
the dispute with ihe factions and refused
to recognize the leaders. Tuesday night
the bridal party assemoled iu McCoy’s
house, and just as young Handy aud Miss
McCoy stood before the minister a vol¬
ley was poured through a w indow which
killed both of them aud fatally wound-
i. g the cleigyman.
MARSHAL NAGLE AGAIN.
THE STATE COURT OF CALIFORNIA DE-
BA l;RED FROM TRYING HIM.
The grand jury of San Joaquin
county, Cal., has presented its final re¬
United port concerning the case of Deputy
Stales Maishal Nagle. It says
the facts show that the killing of the
late Judge Terry was intentional and
deliberate, and while the accused should
be tried under stale laws, he was taken
from the power of the state by a process
cmenating from the United States circuit
c< ut t. The report continues: “The
United States circuit court has decided
that Nagle cannot be tried by a state
court Essentially for a like want of
jurisdiction, from which it is fair to
cocclu :e he cannot be tried in any court.
DISSATISFIED ITALIANS.
THE PEASANTS SAID TO BE OVERTAXED
AND BADLY TREATED.
Archbishop Logue, Catholic primate of
Ireland, has referred in the strongest
terms to Italy’s treatment of tlie Pope.
He declared that the Italian peasantry
were overtaxed and in a worse condition
than Donegal or Connemara peasants;
that Italians were immigrating faster
than the Irish; that the Italian govern¬
ment had cnc-ircled the Vatican with
troop 1 , knowing that if the Pope de¬
parted, grass would goon grow in the
streets of Rome.
ON A BOOM.
The new city directory, of Dallas,
Texas, just completed, shows that In. the
city has over 60,000 peop’e. ' • 1882
Dallas had a population of 17,000, in
18S3 it had grown to 21,830, in 1885 it
had 40,009, since which time the city
b%s gained more than 13,000,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MO VE31 ENTS OF TI1E PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATT ESS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
E. O. Leech has becu appointed direct¬
or of the mint at Columbia, S. G., vice
Dr. J. P. Kimball, resigned. appointed
Tsui Two Viu, the newly United States,
Chinese minister to the
was ou Thursday presented to the presi-
dent.
The comptrol er of the currency has au-
tnorized the First National bank of Tal¬
lahassee, Fla., to begin with a capital
of $50,000. sound, tas
Blackheard Island. Sapelo department
been transferred by the navy
to the treasurey department for quaran-
tine purposes. The navv department
reserves the right to cut and use timber
thereon. de-
Bids were opened at the treasur M1|1 _
partment ou Wednesday, for the -O
house lotte, N. and C., the postofhee lowest neing 11
of J. E. Tinsley, of ,_tau.no ,
Ya,, at $05,841. Washington,
The state department, at
is in recept of a n port of the recent riot
Navas-ia, Jamaica. 'the laborers
charge that the bosses and managersat-
tacked them with firearms because they
re fused to work after being improperly of the
treated, that they captured some
guns and returned the fite.
The streets of Washington arebegin-
ningto be arwitness to the approach of the
conclave of Knight Templars of the
United States. Leading hotels are being
decorated, and many business houses
and private dwellings are Hags, assuming and in- a
holiday attire of banners, Work-
signias of the order of templars. decorating the
men are also engaged in
treasmy building,
Three vacancies in the staff depart¬
ments of the army were filled Saturday
by the following appointments i Lieuten¬
ant George 8. Hoyt, 18th infantry, to be
ass stant-qnartermaster, with the rank of
captain; Lieutenant If. B. Osgood, 3d
artillery, and Generiil W. 3!. Alexander,
to be commissaries of subsistence, with
the rauk of captain. All three began
their military careers in volunteer ser¬
vice during the war.
The Southern men in Washington are
indiguant over the tour mapped out for
the delegates to the all America’s con¬
gress, and are making heroic efforts to
have the programme changed in order
that they gray visit some portions del- of
the South. Their desire is that the
gates shall see at least North Georgia and
North Alabama, where they will find ns
vast, natural resources as can be found in
either the North or the West.
The newly appointed minister to Hny-
ti, Frederick Douglas, and party sailed
for the West Indian Islands ou the Uni¬
ted States steamer Kearsarge from
Brooklyn navy yard Tuesday morning.
The customary salute of seventy-five
gurs was fired in honor of the minister.
Secretary Tracy, father unexpectedly
Monday eveniii", relieved Captain Sheph¬
ard Irom command of the Kearsarge,
and replaced him by Commander W. II.
Whiting. No explanation is furnished
at the nany depan ment for the change.
A protest has been made to the treas¬
ury department against the action of
collector of customs of New York in re¬
fusing to accept preliminary entries for
exportation with the benefit of drawback
of certain jute bagging shipped as the
covering of cotton in bales. The col¬
lector reported that entries were rejected
for the reason that they did not conform
to the rule laid down iu section 965,
paragraph 1, wliuh, he says, rtquirts
merchandise covered described by piel.minaiy en¬
tries should be fuily therein by
marks and numbers.
The debt statement issued Tuesday
shows the decrease of the national debt
during September to have been $13,635,-
094.25; decrease since June 30tli, 1889,
$6,591,090.49; total cash in tbe treas-
uiy, $637,540,530.61; t< tnl interest bear¬
ing debt, $872,502,201.81 ; toial debts of
ail kinds, $1 036,774,868.82; debts le s
available credits,$ 1,070,055.530,96; legal
tender notes outstanding, $340,68l,01G;
certificates of deposit outstanding, $15,-
275,000; gold ceitificates milstanding,
$116,675,349; silver certificates outstand¬
ing, $276,016,715; fractional currency,
$6,915,690.47.
THE L. & N.
ANNUAL MEETING ON BTOCKHOU. EBB—•
ELECTION OF OLD OFFICERS.
The annual meeting of the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad stockholders, was
held at St. Louis, Mo., on Thuieday.
Pie ident Norton and Directors J. D.
Probst, VVm. Mertens, August Belmont,
Jr., J. M. Horsey and A. Marcus, of New
York, were pre ent ns stockholders, rep¬
resenting. tbiough proxy, otta r d rectors
and London and New Yorx stockholders.
The issue of thirteen million dollars of
new stock was confirmed, only one
stockholder, a woman, owning fifty-four
shares, obj*.cti- g. Tlie directors of the
road met aud re-elected the old officers.
The bonded indebtedness is $05,726,660,
an increase of $1,680,000; gr- ss earniug^
$lfL5JIL39G; ne cumin. o* $5,273,310.
COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT.
SURROUNDED BY OFFICERS AND EIGHT
XIEN ARRESTED.
Two gangs of counterfeiters were sur¬
rounded near Paloi, Ind., Satur-
day, by Unit d States’ officers. Eight’
men were captured. silver Several months ago
some spurious dollars were put on
the market, in the vicinity of Indianapo¬
lis, Iud., and Treasury Agent Carter,
after considerable investigation, traced
the stuff to Orange coun’v. A trusted
man was sent to the locality. He inaug¬
urated himself into the confidence of the
men and gradually accumulated evidence
against the unsuspected violators, with
the above results. There are fifteen men
in all engaged in the making of counter¬
feit money.
BAD MONEY IN THE BOX-
A PREACHER’S FLOCK PAY UP IN COUNTER¬
FEIT MONEY—SUBSEQUENT TROUBLE.
A sensation was created in Chambers
county, Ala., several days ago, by the
arrest of Rev. J. H. M. Duran, a Metho¬
dist minister, charged wiih passing coun¬
terfeit money. He was lodged in jail,
and his trial came off Thursday. He ad¬
mitted that he had passed spurious
money, but proved that he had got it out
of the contribution box. There were
eight silver dollars in tbe bo?, and seven
of them, were counterfeits. He said God
and the sinners who j-assed the coieg
were the only ones who kuevr. r ihe east-
was dismissed on. account of the officers’
inability to get absent witnesses,
THE GOLDEN-ROD.
Yes, let our nation’s emblem be
The flower that blooms from sea to sea.
That flings by every roadside free
Its wealth of feathery gold,
That decks the mountains in their pride
And waves along the prairies wide.
And smiles when frailer beauties hide
From autumn's gathering cold.
In fields where happy children meet
And hear the wild bees humming sweet
And tread the sward with naked feet.
Among the orchards fair;
On banks where scarlet berries grow,
In quiet lanes where lovers go.
Bright bursts of yellow glory show ?
The Golden-rod is there.
Where barrens burn, where torrents pear.
Where swells the hill, where sweeps thl
shore,
Where sparrows flit, where eagles soar,
It shakes its conquering plttme;
In the old grave-yards, brier-grown.
By cabined poverty, well-known,
Man's friend the Golden-rod aloao
Maintains its faithful bloom.
And eyes that weep the yearsdecaj
Smile last to see that flower display
Its fulvid mantle o’er the gray.
While ’neatb October’s sky;
Its splendor that survives so well.
Flashing from every hill and dell.
Continuous like a sunset spell
Gilds summer’s long good-bye.
Symbol of loyal life, confess
By North and South, by East and West>
Faith’s bravest blossom blazons best
The empire of the free.
And breeze and sunshine, bee and bird,
Will join when patriots speak the word,
And say: “Our floral sign preferred
The Goldeu-rod shall be.”
_ \f. B. Ckaddock, in Youth’s Companion,
PITH AND POINT.
“Going, going, gone!”—A sail at sea.
In the mist of an ocean voyage—Fogg.
Makes attractive waist places—A sash;
Always gets “fired out”—The cannon
ball.
Even a cloud occasionally geta on a
burst.
Some transatlantic lines — Ocean
cables.
The up's and down’s of time—Clock
weights. found
Look for the germ seed and when
make an oat of it.
The original national flower was th»
Mayflower .—Chicago Herald.
The man who is given to sober reflec¬
tion seldom gets into a tight place.
Some jails would make good publia de¬
speakers, they have such an easy
livery.
A citizen who has been run into by a
safety bicycle says it hurts just as much
as the old kind.
Persons whose favorite occupation is
rolling a lawn-mower cannot be said t<t
be wanting in push.
“So live that when the summon*
comes”—j ou won’t be afraid of the sheriff
who serves you with it.
Difference between a ship and a street
sprinkler—One walks the water and thi
other waters the walk.
We occasionally hear the expression!
“pocket the loss,” when the meaning is, !
the loss has been unpocketed.
Greece is to put up a monument in
memory of Byron. It should be “Maidl
of Athens” marble .—New Orleans Pica?
yune.
“No one can tell the effect of a smile f
,
says a philosopher. Can't, eh? Sup-,
pose you try apple-jack and see .—New
York Journal.
Jinks—“Been to the circus, eh? Se*
anything new?” Blinks—“Yes, the
children who laughed at the clown wer®
new .—New York Weekly. ”
A barrister her lover was
And of the proper sort;
He never went to law, she said,
But often came to court.
— Washington Capital.
A runaway South Carolina convici
sprinkled snuff in his tracks, and whep
the bloodhounds sniffed it they said,
“That’s ’nuff,” and quit. — New Tori
News.
Peasant (after having thoroughly
thrashed a stubborn ox)—“See now, \I
you were not so obstinate we two might
live together like brothers .”—Fliegendt
Blaetter.
Man may be afflicted with 11,415
diseases known to medical science, and
99,000,000 medicines ten times worse
than any of the diseases.— Lawrence*
American.
Singley—“How much you resemble
your sister, Miss Bjones! I would taka
you for her.” Miss Bjones—“W-w-ell,
Mr. Singley this is so sudden; but you
may ask pa .”—Lawrence American.
A Rare Entertainment: Gus — 1 ‘What
did you think of our amateur theatricals.
Miss Mamie? Rather a rare entertain¬
ment, was it not?” Miss Mamie—“Well-
er-yes; it wasn’t very well done, to be
sure.”— Harper’s Bazar. i
An Apartment Dressed With Canes. ■
I ran across rather an odd form of
ornamentation in a bachelor’s apartment
in New York, a day or two ago (»y»
Blakely Hall). It was in the form of a 1
wainscoting around the library composed
entirely of canes, which were set an inch
or two apart, and extended entirely!
around the apartment. The collection
comprised every variety of cane conceiv¬
able, from the boomerang of the South
Sea Islanders to the most delicate of the
silver-topped insignia of dudedom. The
collector was for many years on a man-
of-war, and drifted into every country in
the world. He always had a fad for
canes, and he devoted his leisure while
traveling to the collection of specimens.
There are over-300 canes altogether in
the unique wainscot which surrounds his
library, and the notable and unusnal
ones are numbered so that the history of!
each may be looked up in the private
catalogue of reminiscences which tells the
history of the collection.
Irrigated Area of tlie United States.
In the United States it is estimated
that the irrigated area is divided about
as follows:
Acret
California........... Irrigated.
...... 8 , 000 , 0 ®
Colorado............ ....... 2,250,000
Wyoming........... Utah................ ......1,0®,00o
Arizona............. ...... 500,000
Xew Mexico........ ...... 2®,000
Nevada............. ...... 3®,000
Montana............ ...... 75,0®
Idaho............... . 56,0®
Eastarn Oregon Washinsrton . 30,0®
and . o0,00Q
Western and Sooth western Texas.. . 50,0®
Western Kansas and Nevada..... . ®.0®
Estimated total 7,555,0®