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ffdJE NEWS. Dn«. 3 ix TOCCOA, GEORGIA. ;Tly=z = .~ J** en estimated that Uncle Samuel will at at least §1,500,000 in artificial « *i«»nd arms in 1890. ------------------------ 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. * cases — -------------- - 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. .....’ \ 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. -- 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. ______ a GOOD SHOWING. ---- advantages of the souTn in the cot- ton mill industry set forth. --—. 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®