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TOCOOA, GEORGIA.
THE LEGISLATURE.
bills fused bt the senate AND HOUSl
0» REPRESENTATIVES,
A four mile prohibition law 7 for Pope's
chapel in Wilkes county. Also a four
mile prohibition bill for Independence
church in Wilkes. A bill to incorporate
the Hawkinsville and Florida Southern
Railroad company; to incorporate En-
terprise Street Railroad company of Sa-
vannah; to amend the charter of the
Empire and Dublin Railroad company.
A 2} mile Baptist prohibition church bill for Moore's
Grove in Clarke county.
A hill to incorporate the Ha,ilia Hirer
Transportation for company. A resolution
the relief of Baldy Rvalis, former tax
collector of Dodge county. A bill to
authorize the mayor and council of Lin-
coluton to issue municipal bonds for the
purpose of raising money to build an
academy; to relieve Eugene Begnin, of
Baldwin, on account of a surety on a for¬
feited bond of Turner; to establish a
school district in Lumpkin county; Sa¬ to
authorize the mayor and council of
vannah to establish harbor lines; to
provide a punishment for any executor, who
administrator, guardian or trustee
shall fraudulently convert trust property
to bis own use; to amend the tax act of
1888-89; to provide for the establish¬
ment of the line between Georgia and
Alabama; to authorize the mayor and
council of Athens to levy a tax to pave
the sidewalks of that city.
A bill to incorporate the town of H'l-
ton, in Early county, one-half mile in
every direction from Hilton’s storehouse;
to incorporate the town of Trenton; to
incorporate the Empire Mills Tele¬
graph company; to incorporate the
Germania Havings Bank of Savannah;
to authorize tbe mayor and council of
Savaunah to establish and control harbor
lines in the Savanuah river, at the cross
tide above the city to the sea, to prevent
the building of piers and bulkheads so
as to prevent the shoaling of the river;to
amend section 509 of the code, by in¬
serting thirty days instead of ten days;
to amend tbe act establishing public
schools in Carrollton, by increasing the
number of school trustees; to require the
registration of voters in McIntosh county;
three mile prohibition and Baptist bill for churches, the Ray¬
town Methodist
except iu Sharon, an incorporated town.
A bill to repeal the act creating a board
of commissioners of roads and revenue
for the county of Emanuel; to amend the
net authorizing the sale of the arsenal
lot in Savannah; to prohibit lotteries,
gift enterprises and games of chance,and
to provide a misdemeanor penalty for the
violation of the law; to incorporate the
Farmers’ Banking and Storage company
of Jackson county; to prohibit child la¬
bor; to authorize the Atlanta Gaslight
company to use electric lights as well as
gas aud to issue,bonds; to prohibit hunt¬
ing on the lands of another without con¬
sent in Telfair county; to prohibit the
catching of fish with seins or nets in Tel¬
fair and Montgomery; to make the or¬
dinary of Gordon county a member of
the board of commissioners of roads and
revenues for that county; a resolution
to have the portraits of distinguished cit¬
izens in the old capitol cleaned, reno¬
vated and hung in tbe new capitol.
Fifty dollars appropriated; a bill giving
landlords special liens on the crops of
renters superior to all other liens except
those for taxes; to change the time of
holding the the superior court of Crawford
from third Monday iu April to the
third Monday in March; to amend the
wet for the forclosure of liens; to author¬
ize the governor to issue bonds of the
state to pay off the debt falling due iu
October, 1890; to amend the act estab¬
lishing a board of pharmaceutic exam¬
iners.
ATLANTA GETS IT.
THE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE TO BE LOCATED
AT THE CAPITAL OF GEORGIA.
The alliance exchange will be located
in Atlanta, Ga., and will be opened for
business just as soon ns the building can
be changod to suit the alliance. The
■exchange will be located at the corner of
Forsyth and Hunter streets. The offi¬
cers of the exchange, into whose hands
the location had been placed by the al¬
liance, met Monday morning to consider
the bids submitted for the location of
the Felix exchange. There were present, Hon.
Corput, of Cave Springs, presi¬
dent; lion. L. F. Livingston, vice-presi¬
dent; Ellis Ledbetter, of Cedartown,
secretary, and W. A. Broughton, of
Madison, treasurer. Propositions from
quite a number of towns were received,
but monied bids were submitted by three
only. Atlanta, Griffin and Cordelo were
willing to pay the alliance for the loca¬
tion. The vote was unanimous for At¬
lanta. The directors of the exchange
will meet again in Atlanta next week,
when the action of the officers of the
exchange will be submitted for ratifica¬
tion or rejection. At the same time a
trade agent will be elected.
THANKSGIVING IN GEORGIA
THURSDAY. THE 17TH INSTANT, DESIG¬
NATED BY GOVERNOR GORDON.
by Tho following proclamation was issued
Governor Gordon, at Atlauta, Ga., on
Wednesday, in compliance with the re¬
quest of the State Farmers’ Alliance and
the State Agricultural society: “In ac¬
cordance with the united request of the
State Farmers’ Alliauce and of the
Georgia State Agricultural society, com¬
municated to me by committees of those
bodies, I, J. B. Gordon, governor of
Georgia, do issue this my proclamation
designating Thursday, the 17th iust-ant,
»» a day for thanksgiving to Almighty
God for abundant harvests; for His
mercy and loving kindness, aud for the
innumerable blessiugs the people of
Georgia have received from His bounti¬
ful hand. I would earnestly call upon
all the citizens of this state to unite in
this special thauksgiviug service; and to
those who have been blessed with
abundance, I would recommend that they
signalize the day by generous gifts to the
poor aud afflicted among them. Given
under my hand and the seal of the exec¬
utive department, at the capital, iu At¬
lanta, the ninth day of October, A. D.
1889. J. B, Gordon, Governor.”
The Pennsylvaniia Railroad is making
experiments to mitigate the horrors of
burning the trains. It is proposed to place
on steam-pump, engines a connection with the
attached aud by which a hose can be
used to quench fire, a
trial v,as made the other day in West
stream Philadelphia, and the pump threw a
over the highest buildings. If
further experiments prove successful, a
number of passenger engines will be
equipped, tho aud the train crews exercised
Ui fire drill.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS L
The Isthmus of Panama is marked by
dullness and distress.
A violent gale prevailed on the Massa¬
chusetts coast Monday.
Cl«rk A Kem, manufacturers of
worsteds, Philadelphia, made an assign¬
ment Monday.
Rev. Dr. Talmage’s Tabernacle at
Brooklyn, N. A'., was destroyed by fire
Sunday morning.
The triennial national congress of Con-
gregational churches met in Worcester,
yias*., on Wednesday.
A , cormcl of was helu Pam on
»ar m
“ on,lay ' 11 ™'deeded to strengthen
thl! * ro “ t “ ir -
°-d board of directors of the
Western Union telegraph company was
re-lected Wednesday without opposition,
A movement to combine all the cracker
and cake oakers of the northern cities
into a kind of tiust to regulate prices, is
said to be progressing.
The regents offered ex-Queen Natalie
a large sum of money, provided she
would accept their proposed conditions
aud depart from Servia.
Up to the recess Tuesday night 627
jurors had been excused in the Cronin
case at Chicago, four accepted and sworn
in and four temporarily passed.
The magnificent store and residence of
Clem Studebaker, in Evansville, Ind.,
which cost $300,000, was almost de¬
stroyed by fire Wednesday morning.
Sister Martha Elden died Tuesday at
the convent of Mount St. Josephus,
Frederick, Md. She was ninety-four
years old, and had been in the sisterhood
seventy-six years.
General IL Faulkner, the convicted
Danville bank wrecker, of Buffalo, N.
Y., on Wednesday gave bail in $20,000
to await the result of the appeal of his
case now pending.
Judge Jameson, in the superior court
at Chicago, on Monday, granted a bill to
close up the affairs of the Treacy Carbon
Lamp be company. The company is said to
a tremendous swindle.
York LaBourgogne. Sunday, which arrived at New
had on board Millet’s pic¬
ture, the L'Angelas, recently purchased at
Paris Exposition for the American
Art association. $110,000 was paid for
the picture.
A dispath from Brainerd, Minn., an¬
nounces that tbe requisite number of sig¬
natures to ratify the sale of the lands of
the Mille Lacs Indians have been ob¬
tained. 'l'he sale embraces 3,000,000
acres of land in Minnesota.
has Judge Day, at Auburn, N. Y.,
decided that the electrical
execution law is constitutional,
aud remands Kemmler, under a death
the sentence by electricity, to tbe custody of
warden of Auburn prison.
Fire broke out in Cook’s lumber yard
at Serpent River, Ont., Saturday after¬
noon, and fanned by the wind, soon de¬
stroyed the greater portion of the city.
Fifty million feet of lumber were con¬
sumed. The loss is estimated at $300,-
000 .
James Morgan, an Indiana farmer, who
lately advertised that lie would give
$5,000 to any woman who would marry
him, has been accommodated. Miss
Hetty 8. Wilson, aged forty-seven, has
accepted the offer. Morgan is eighty-
two years old.
Since the first of September there have
been five deaths from alternating electric
currents in New York City alone, and
fifteen accidental deaths from contact
with electric wires outside of that city,
nine of which were caused by alternating
electric currents.
An estimate has been made by the audi¬
tor losses of incurred the Pensylvania railroad of the
floods, which shows during the Johnstown
that $1,500^000 will
have to be expended in repairs, while
there was a comparative incidental loss iu
earnings of nearly $1,000,000.
It is reported that William Warldorff
Astor, at a banquet, given by himself to
Mayor Grant, on Wednesday night, de¬
clared that the World’s Fair at New
York, must be a success, and that if
necessary he would foot the entire bill,
estimated at $20,000,000, himself.
W. R. Robinsou & Co., oil dealers, of
Providence, R. L, made an assignment
Thursday to J. Swift, of New 7 Bedford.
The firm was established in 1829, and
has an oil refinery in New 7 Bedford, aud
an office in Providence. The firm’s in¬
debtedness is placed at from $250,000 to
$300,000.
At Terre Haute, Ind., Axtele, the
great trotter, was sold to Colonel Con¬
ley, of Chicago, for $105,000. Colonel
Conley is supposed to represent a syndi¬
cate. Andy Walsh, of Hartford, and John
Madden, of Lexington offered $101,000,
but it was refused, This is the highest
price ever paid for any horse.
The Daily News, of Loudon, prints a
letter from Crete, which confirms the re¬
port that Chakir Pasha, the governor,
allorved Turkish troops to pillage and
persecute Christians after gaining their
confidence by promises of protection.
The letter gives a list of killed, banished
aud imprisoned and describes the atroc¬
ities iu detail.
Two thousand women workers in Lon¬
don, England, held a meeting Thursday,
at which they resolved to organize for
the purpose of improving their condi¬
tion. The Bishop of Bedford presided,
and among the well known persons pres¬
ent were Lady Sanhurst, the Rev. Messrs.
Price, Hughes and Clifford, and Messrs.
Burns, Tillett, Mann and Champion, la¬
bor agitators.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York for the past week amounted to
$721,017. of which $58,100 w r as in gold
and $662,912 silver; of the total exports,
$11,000 in gold and $652,662 in silver
$10,255 went to Europe, and $47,100 in gold and
silver to South America Im-
ports of specie for week amounted to
$27 964 Ofl’in of which$9 ’ 351 was in ^ trnld and ‘
ciivpr '
A s p e cm, . Paso » Texas, says:
Mexican * . onora » -Kxico, two companies of
soldiers were caught in swim- ^
ming by the Yaqui Indians, and all of
them were slaughtered. The dead bodies
of the men were found terriblv mutila-
ted and stripped of all clothing and
valuables. The Mexican government :
has sent 40.000 men iu pursuit of th« I
Indians. j
Great dissatisfaction is reported in tin
Conemantth valley over the failure to
#3,000,000, intended half for tl,erehef the flood fund sufler.; of
ers. There are many cases of great des {
titution, are detailed. and some Gross very mismanagement pitiful instances o: j
the funds is charged. It is ; j
that clerks and reported
expert accountants ar« ;
fund. drawing extravagant salaries from th*
A wreck occurred on the Cleveland,
Wheeling and Lorain railroad, two miles
west of Bridgeport, Ohio, Friday morn-
ing between aa engine and caboose car¬
rying about one hundred laborers. One
train was going north and a freight with
a caboose coming south. A general
smash-up whose was the result. Four men,
names could not be learned, were
killed and twelve were fatally injured.
The corner stone of the New \ T ork
a^P.tk V 1 b rank * or t streets, w as
i laid • i Friday i ufternoon , bv Joseph Puut-
“■ Jr - r»-r-r-oia-s„o of the pro.
prietor and editor of the World. Col¬
onel John A. Cockerill, editor of the
World, represented Mr. Pulitzer, and
made the opening address. He was fol¬
lowed by Chauncey Depew and Governor
Hill. AmoDg those who attended the
ceremonies were Governor Green, of New
delphia Jersey, George W. Childs, of the Phila¬
Ledger, E. Furlong, of the Cam¬
den Post, and Mayor Grant.
RECOVERING THE BONDS.
THE NEW ORLEANS GRAND JURY RECOVER
MOST OF THE MISSING SECURITIES.
The grand jury at New Orleans,
Wednesday, made the following report
regarding the stolen bonds: To the
Hon. R. II. Marr, Judge of the Criminal
District Court: “We have the honor to
report that the following missing bonds,
known as Constitutional bonds, have been
recovered aud have been turned over to
the attorney general of the state, to wit:
Two hundred and fifty-two $1,000
bonds, numbers 249 to 500, $252,000;
two hundred and thirty $500 bonds,
numbers 31 to 35, and numbers 76 to
300, $115,000; one hundred and sixty-
three $100 bonds, numbers 88 to 200,
$100. Total amount recovered, $383,400.
We have deemed it our duty to make
this announcement to your Honor, so
from au official source of information it
may reach the public, and to some extent
tend to settle the condition of the finan¬
cial affairs of the state.” Attorney-Gen¬
eral W. H. Rogers states that of the
stolen Constitutional bonds there is still
out the following: One $1,000 bond,
number 199, $ 1 , 000 ; forty-nine
$1,000 bonds, numbers 201 to
248 inclusive, $49,000; forty
$560 bonds, numbers 36 to 75,
$20,000. Total Constitutional bonds un¬
recovered, $70,000. The impression now
is that all the stolen bonds will be re¬
covered by the authorities, most of them
being held in New Orleans.
THE VETERAN PREACHERS
PASS RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET AT THE
RESIGNATION OF CORPORAL TANNER.
The Veterans’ Association of Ministers
of the Genesee Methodist Conference,
numbering about fifty members, held its
annual meeting in Lock port, N. Y., on
Thursday, and adopted tbe following
resolution: Resolved, That we have
heard with sincere regret of the resigna¬
tion as commissioner of pensions of
Corporal .Tames Tanner, forced from him
by the influence of politicians, and that
we depreciate the subordination of the
pension department to political wire¬
pullers, so who, that it cannot be administered
by a man like Corporal Tanner, has
the true interest of the soldiers at heart,
and we call upon the President of the
United States to place the granting of
pensions iu the hands of those who will
administer it in the interest of the coun¬
try, and to bestow upon Corporal Tanner
such recognition ag befits a man who, in
every position, has shown himself the
true friend of the soldier.
A DEADLY GAS PIPE.
DISASTROUS AND FATAL RESULT OF A
GAS DISPLAY.
A second accident in the history of the
Kokomo gas belt occurred at Jerome, fif¬
teen miles east of Kokomo, Ind., on
Monday night, in which Chusa Mormon
was instantly killed; Frank Little had a
leg broken, necessitating amputation;
Iliram Overman had his skull fractured,
and John Hogue probably fatally burned,
whiie a number of others who were in
close proximity were more or less injured.
A large crowd had gathered at this well,
which is the strongest one in the state,
to witness the gas display. Sixty feet
of four-inch pipe was laid from four the well
in terminating height. m a vertical elbow, applied feet
The young man who
the down torch foolishly ground, turned this elbow
to lie on the and just as
the gas ignited the tremendous force
flung sixty feet of pipe around, striking
and burning everything within its reach.
DEADLY WIRES.
MAYOR GRANT, OF NEW YORK, ORDERJ
THE ELECTRIC WTRES DOWN.
hastily Mayor Grant, on Saturday morning,
called a meeting of the board ol
electrical control of New 7 York, and as
soon as it was assembled, a resolution
was adopted ordering the immediate re¬
moval of all electric light wires that
were of this not properly insulated. The cause
Friday, hasty action was the killing, on
of a lineman by electricity from
badly Mr. connected wires. An interview with
Edison, the iuVentor, has been
printed, in which he says that no insula¬
tion will make an electric wire safe; and
that sub ways and insulation will alike
prove ineffective, aud that the only way
to prevent loss of life is to regulate the
pressure the same as the pressure of steam
boilers is regulated.
POISONED WINE,
Rev. James Kelly, of Oneida, N. Y.,
is is seriously ill, and the circumstances
connected with his sickness point to a
crime of murderous intent. He celebrated
piags in the rink Wednesday morniug,
and partook of about two teaspoousful
wine » se j z ° d with great
. he
P aiD9 re ^ arded as
°, f P°! 80D ’ He quickly
rttlr - cd . frorn % altar and sent
to had adrug the store for all anodyne, which
desired effect of relieving him.
The theory is that some one entered the
pint and p U t a deadly drug in the small
bottle of wine used. *
WILL BUILD SHIPS.
„ organized
in charleston,
*. c., for that purpose.
m. There was forwarded . 7T to the secretary
the'dld^UmT^l’l,!'c'h'irt°r
South Carolina Naval Construction aud
Ship-owners' Association," o,odo, of Charles-
6took tl0 iu shares of
$50 each. The names of the incorpo-
patois will be published later. The ob-
jects and purposes of tbe new enterprise
ship are, brieflv, yard‘for to establish in Charleston a
carrying the building of a fleet of
marine vessels, combining with this tho
insurance.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS OOINQ ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Montgomery, Ala., last week, beat any
the same week last
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judge, y a -! was Thursday. again postponed by the chancery
The trial of Edward Brown, charged
with the assassination of Colonel Roger
J- Page, late editor of the Marion Time a-
Register, was begun at Charlotte, N. C.,
Friday, iu McDowell superior court.
The general Assembly of the Knights
of Labor will be held in Atlanta on the
12th of November, and the executive
committee of the order, now in session at
St. Louis, are arranging business for the
assembly.
An agreement was reached between
the striking miners at Coalburg, near
the Birminghiin, Ala,, on Wednesday, and
miners will icturn to work. It is re¬
ported that the terms of the operators
were accepted.
A fire in the Montgomery, Ala., ware¬
house, Marks & Gayle, proprietors, Mon¬
day morning, damaged about one
thousand bales of cotton. Insurance
$64,500; loss about forty per cent, of the
insurance.
Cotton men at Savannah, Ga., say that
indications point to an attempt by New
York parties to corner OctoDer cotton.
It is reported that all the friegqt room
from there to New York for the rest of
the month has been engaged, or, in the
language of the street, “swept cleau.”
The property of Hillman, the electric
health resort, at Washington, Ga., was
sold on Tuesday at auction and was
bought by Mr. James Btnson for $8,000.
There are about 150 acres of land. Mr.
Benson is one of the persons whose
health was restored by it. lie says it
will be kept up as a resort.
Coke iron was made in Anniston, Ala.,
for the first time on Friday. The two
furnaces have been in course of construc-
tion for two years, and ere among t e
largest and best in the couutry. The ton¬
nage of iron, when both furnaces are in
blast, will be more than that of the cot¬
ton crop of the whole south.
A dispatch from Fiemingsburg, Ky.,
says: At least five hundred thousand
pounds of tobacco in this county has
been entirely destroyed by the frost of
the last three nights. The auditor’s re¬
port places the average crop of the coun¬
ty at 4,700,000 pounds, and this year the
crop was above that figure. About half
of the crop had been housed aud cured.
The Tennessee conference, now in ses¬
sion at Murrretsboro, Tenn., has a pecu¬
liar question before them. In passing
the characters of the preachers, the
charge w T as made against Brother Hag¬
gard that he had been engaged to two
women at the same time, marrying one of
them within a week after writing a letter
to the other pledging referred his undying love.
The case was to a committee for
trial.
Last June the town of Liviugston,
Sumter county, Ala., was almost entirely
destroyed by fire one night, causing
heavy loss to the business men. Recently
evidence was discovered tending to show
that the fire was of incendiary origin,
and citizens of Livingston sent detective
Robins, of Birmingham, who went down
Thursday and arrested Andrew Moore,
Andrew Ivy and Donham Jones, charg¬
ing them with the crime.
Nine negro men and three negro wom¬
en were arrested at Charlotte, N. O., on
Saturday, charged with robberies extend¬
ing ovet several mouths. Over 100 res¬
idences and business bouses in that city
have been raided by these thieves. In
one instance $500 worth of jewelry was
taken from a store, and losses traceable
to the gang aggregate nearly $100,000.
The whole gang will probably be hung,
as burglary iu the state of North Caro¬
lina is a capital offence.
The supreme court of Georgia, now in
session at Atlanta, has already com¬
menced passing upon the acts of flic
present legislature. Sometime ago a bill
was passed which provided for the pay¬
ment to Hon.Tom Glenn and Capt. Ellis,
former solicitors of the city court of At¬
lanta, certain insolvent costs, said to be
due them by the State. The supreme
court had the matter up before it on
Monday and declared the act unconsti¬
tutional.
On Saturday, Attomey-Gencrad Ro
gers, before the civil district court of
New Orleans, sued out two writs of se¬
questration—one and against Maurice J.
llart another against Miss Laura
Gaines, a sister to Mrs. E. A. Bunte,
both to recover certain portions of stolen
state bonds, which he alleges to have
been transferred to these parties by Ex-
State Treasurer Burke. After deducting
the amount of the bonds so far recovered
from Burke's deficit, he is still about
$400,000 shoit
The New York Sun's cotton review of
Friday: Futures declined 8to 11 points
under an unexpectedly weak report from
Liverpool instead of the advance which
the bulls expected. On this decline
there was a brisk demand to cover Con¬
tracts, and r.S the day w r ore on the com¬
paratively small crop movement gave
strength to values. An exceptional
feature was the further development of
October cotton, which caused this month
to close dearer. Cotton on spot was
steady but quiet.
The great fertilizer factory of G. Ober
& Sous, established in 1857, at Locust
PoiBt > Baltimore > burned Thursday. It
consisted of three large buildings which
cost $125,000. The first building, iu
which 100 men were at work, burned to
the ground and the flames, driven by the
winds spread to another large building,
completely gutting it Fitly $260,000
of damage had been done to the
buildings before the flames were got on
under Control, which a member $00,000 of the
firm says cost $200,000, and
worth of stock.
- GRAVE JROBBERS
YT CONCORD, M \SS , STEAL RALPH WALDO
EMERSON’S SKULL.
On Monday afternoon while attending
a burial at Sleepy Hollow cemetery, tw 7 o
gentlemen of Concord. Mass., discovered
that the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson
had been disturbed. The authorities
were notified and found that the grave
had been opened during Saturday night
exposing the casket. Whether the re¬
mains were taken out or not is not known
at present. A watch was at once placed is
at the grave, but the general opinion their
that the miscreants accomplished the skull,
object and secured at least
which was probably what they were
after. There is great indignation over
the affair.
STOLEN DOCUMENTS.
ALL THE RECORDS IN THE CRONIN CASK,
AT CHICAGO, DISAPPEAR.
A dispatch from Chicago says: A
startling rumor was current, early Satur¬
day morning, that the entire official re¬
cord of the Cr-min case had been stolen.
The record includes a copy of the pro¬
ceedings before the coroner’s jury, the
3 worn affidavit of witnesses before the
grand jury, portions of the hair, blood
clots, cotton batting, and other tangible
evidences of the crime found in the catch
basin, the Carlson cottage and the bloody
trunk. An cx-employe of the state at¬
torney's office, who had full access to all
the valuable pieces of evidence, is now
missing and may be in Canada. \ olu-
minous documentary testimony and mote
precious, but still bulky, material evi¬
dences were kept in what was considered
a safe place in the state attorney’s office,
to which only trusted employes had ac¬
cess. The times ex-employe been is in said proximity to.have of
several seen
this vault, which, when he wss in the
employment of the county, he had abun¬
dant opportunity to learn every nook
and crevice. The discoveries were made
Friday morning, when the necessities of
looking up the addresses of witnesses in
compliance with an order expected to be
entered by Judge McConnell at the morn¬
ing session of the trial, made a reference
to affidavits taken before the grand jury
imperative. Then, it is said, that the
awful fact presented itself to the state’s
attorney and colleagues, that the result
of their labors since May 4th had van¬
ished as if by magic.....A1 Hanks and
Mark Solomon, criminal court bailiff's,
are under arrest, charged with Racking
the CroDin jury. The first suspicion of
the fact, was the failure of the men to
report for duty Saturday morning. Tlieil
absence was due the fact that they were
taken to a Northside hotel by several de¬
tectives, and were kept there in close
surveillance. Two men have also been
discovered in attempting to corrupt McCon¬ ve¬
niremen summoned to Judge
nell’s court, and to instruct those favora¬
ble to the prisoners how to answer ques¬
tions of the state’s attorney in order to bo
retained as jurors.
IN DARKNESS.
CITIZENS OF NEW YORK FEELING TTIEIR
WAY TO THEIR HOMES.
It has been decided that all electric
wires above ground in New York City
must go. All companies doing business
in the city have gotten out injunctions
restraining the mayor from interferring
with their wires, 'but the wav around
these injunctions lifts beefl discovered.
Under tbe laws of the state, no injunction
can be served on the board of health
unless eight days’ notice has been given,
and should the court make the injunc¬
tions against the mayor permanent, the
board of health will take the matter in
hand, and before the eight days have
passed, not a wire will be left above the
ground. The sudden determination of
the Brush and United States companies
on Monday to shut off their city circuits
plunged a large sectiou of the city into
darkness, the time being too short to ar¬
range for the lighting of thousands of
gas lamps which have fallen into disuse
since the introduction of electricity.
Iu Madison square and Union
square parks, afound -which the
life of the city clusters reigned at night, and
almost impenetrable gloom
pedestrians in crossing the open squares
were obliged to take their bearings from
hotel and theatre lights. A large num¬
ber of streets were also darkened, and on
that portion of Broadway occupied by
commercial houses, closed at nightfall,
the scene was dismal, The sky was
starless, and the clouds served to intens¬
ify the effects produced by big tbe store absence had
of artificial light. One
one vS olitary candle in a window with a
card bearing this legend: Still “There’s live.” no
electric light, but we On
Third avenue, up to Eighty Ninth street,
where the Mount Morris company’s
lamps begin, the effect was even more
pronounced, the elevated structure con¬
tributing to the funeral aspect. In some
stores oil lamps, candles and even Chin¬
ese lauterns were called into play.
ROASTED ALIVE.
A HOUSE AND ITS INMATES BURNED UP
BY THE EXPLOSION OF GAS.
At Davis Switch, a small village, thir¬
teen miles from Bradford, Me., the
dwelling of Patrick Daily was burned,
and his wife aud three sons aged thir¬
teen, eleven and nine respectively, were
roasted in the flames. At 6 o’clock Sun¬
day night, while the Daily family were
at supper, the father went to the stove
to partly turn off the gas, He uninten¬
tionally shut the throttle tight, and on
reversing it again the house was filled
with gas, and an explosion followed, and
in an instant the entire house was in
flames. The three boys and the mother
fell prostrate on the floor, overcome by
the heat and flames. The house was
entirely consumed in a few 7 minutes.
The charred and blackened bodies pre¬
sented a most sickening sight. Mr.
Daily was severely but not fatally burned
about the head and face, and is almost
crazed with grief.
A PROPOSED CHANGE
TO BE MADE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THl
KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
At the coming convention of th«
K nights of Labor, to be held at Atlanta,
Ga., an effort will be made to amend the
constitution of the order bo that Mr.
Powderiv will have the power of select¬
ing his own advisers. This amendment,
if successful, will give the general master
workman the power to surround himself
w ith men of his own choice. Opposition
to the proposed amendment is to be ex¬
pected, but the local authorities state
that the amendment will carry neverthe¬
less, As the general assembly meets on
November 12th, all lcsolutions to amend
the constitution must reach the general
office uot later than October 12th to per¬
mit them being acted upon by the gen¬
eral assembly.
AN ANARCHIST MEETING-
HISSING THE STARS AND STRIPES AND
CHEERING THE RED FLAG OF ANARCHY.
When anarchist the stars and stripes meeting were in raised Var-
at an mass
waert’s Turner hall at Chicago, Sunday
afternoon, the flag was thousand greeted with
hisse 9 by probably half a men
and women in the room at the time. Ihe
red flag was then unfurled, and was
greeted with enthusiastic applause. One
speaker declared the hanging of the an-
archists the gravest crime ever committed Chicago,
in America. He was proud of
as it would one day be the Paris o
America, a city of revolutions, Smoul-
dering discontent would §oon break fort!
in fiery revolutions.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND MS ADVISERS.
AITOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Edward D. Olmstead was on Thurs¬
day appointed postmaster at New Deca¬
tur, Ala.
The President on Thursday appointed New
Edward D. Olmstead, postmaster at
Decatur, Ala.
The government dry dock, ju9t opened
at the navy yard in Norfolk, Va., is o 30
feet over all, and will hold 8,0 0»00d
gallons of water. It has cost $500,000.
Francis Fava, son of the present Ital-
ian minister to this couutiy, qualified the
as a citizen of the U mted States at
state department, Monday.
A. G. Riddle, attorney for the District
of Columbia, aud Henry E. Davis, assist¬
ant attorney, on Saturday, tendered to
the district commissioners their resigna¬
tions, which were accepted.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Bussey, on Wednesday, rescinded the
order of Commissioner Tanner, shall provid¬ be
ing that no disability pension month.
less than four dollras per
John Henry Ilaynes, consul at Bagdad,
Turkey, writes the state department, cholera un¬
der date of August 22d, that was
raging then in Bagdad and surrounding
country. Iu Bagdad 59 deaths were re¬
ported in one day.
Secretary Tracy issued an order Thurs-
to the contractor of the petrel to deliver
vessel at the Norfolk, Va., navy yard for
acceptance. Her electric light plan* will
will be placed aboard, and then she
be complete and ready for service.
The surgeon-general of the marine hos¬
pital service, received a telegram Thurs¬
day morning from Dr. Posey, at Jack¬
sonville, Fla., saying that the state board
of health reports several cases of yellow
fever at Key West. The surgeon says
there is no need of apprehension, and
that every precaution has been taken to
prevent the spread of the disease.
Acting Rear Admiral Walker has or¬
dered the purchase of libraries for ten
of the new ships of the navy for the
special use of the enlisted men on board.
These books are generally novels of the
better s it, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray
and the like, and miscellaneous works,
and aie intended for the entertainmet
of the men in the forecastle, (where they
will be placed) when off duty, Each
ship will be provided with about three
hundred volumes.
T he present term of the United States
Supreme Court will be confronted with
docket of 1,325 cases, and it is esti¬
mated, diligently as court may sit, it can
dispose of not more than 400 during the
term. Virginia coupon cases will be
called immediately^ as will also be the
case of Cross and While against the
state of North Ci.rolina. This latter is
a criminal case which, in pursuance of a
previous order of the court, has been
advanced on the docket.
T lie president, on Saturday, made the
following appointments: Andrew 7 W.
Smythe, of Louisana, to be superintend¬
ent of the mint, at New Orleans; Charles
A. Cook, of North Carolina, to be U. S.
attorney for the eastorn district of North
Carolina; Simon S. Matthews, of Missis¬
sippi, to be U. S. marshal for the south-
era district of Mississippi; Benjamin S. W.
Walker, Of Alabama, to be U. mar¬
shal lor the middle aud southern dis¬
tricts of Alabama.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that the total amount
of‘standard silver dollars iu the treasury,
against which certificates may be issued
is $5,176,171. Of a total coinage of
$341,199,650, silver dollars, there is in
the treasury $282,829,333, against which
there are in circulation $277,753,162 of
certificates, The amount of standard
dollars in circulation is $38,370,377, and
the colint of silver certificates in the
treasury is $2,582,205.
The necessity of making some prepa¬
ration for the meeting of congress has
compelled the president to establish the
following rules for the daily transaction
of business at the executive mansion,
which w r ill be strictly obeyed: Senators
and members and others having business
with the president will be received every
day, except M onday, between eleven and
half-past twelve, and at no other time.
Public receptions in the east room at 1 p.
m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday,
will be held as usual.
Cotton returns of the first of October,
to the department of agriculture, show a
large plant growth, active opening of
bolls, the fibre in good condition, and
generally fine weather for picking, yet
the plant is everywhere reported late,
and fears arc expressed that frost may
seriously shorten the crop. The crop has
been injured more by moisture than
drouth, though some soils and localities
have been too dry in September. Worms
have wrought considerable injury, not¬
withstanding the general use of insecti¬
cides, especially west of Alabama. Com¬
plaint of adulteration of paris green is
made in certain quarters. The following
state percentages were presented: Vir¬
ginia 58, North Carolina 72, South Car¬
olina 81, Georgia 87, Florida 88, Alaba¬
ma 87, Mississippi 79, Louisiana 83,
Texas 78, Arkansas 83, Tennessee 82.
This makes, as a general percentage, 81.4
of a full crop. Prospects on the first of
October, compared with 87.9 per cent,
last October
A BIG SCHEME.
CONSOLIDATION THAT WILL REVOLUTION¬
IZE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
A gigantic railway consolidation that
will connect the two oceans and revolu¬
tionize the international railway traffic,
has just been revealed signed at Chicago, the III.
Contracts have been whereby
Baltimore & Ohio railroad is to enter into
an agreement with the consolidated
Wisconsin Central and Northern Pacific
lines, connecting tho oceans. The Atcli-
i-on, Topeka & Santa Fe system is in tbe
deal, reaching Mexico and southern Cal¬
ifornia. Chicago will be made the centre
for operratiDg the three great lines. The
Northern Pacific will be extended from
Puget’s sound and built into Alaska,
making a continuous line from New
York city to Sitka.
BANK STATEMENT
Following is a statement of the asso¬
ciated banks at New York for tbe week
ending Saturday:
Reserve increase..... ..$ 960,02 1
Loans decrease........ .. 4,070,300
Specie increase....... .. 1.335,300
Legal tenders decrease .. 1,152,300
Deposits decrease..... .. 5,107,700
Circulation decrease.. 13,200
The banks now hold $705,708 leas
than 25 per cent, iule calls for.
Since 1800 the population of Europe
frya iust doubled itself.-------- 4
THE TABERNACLE BURNED.
THE REV. DR. TAlMAOE’s CHURCH, AT
RROOKLYN, N. Y., DESTROYED BY FIRE.
The famous tabernacle, at Brooklyn,
New York, of which Rev. T. DeWitt
the Talmage is pastor, was on Sunday, for
second time in its history, totally
destroyed by fire. At 2:15 o'clock in
the morning, a policeman discovered
flames issuing from the small windows
over the main entrance, and rushing to
the nearest signal box, sent the alarm.
The firemen found the fire had assumed
large proportions, and it became evi¬
dent that the edifice was doomed.
Desparing of saving the church, they
rected their efforts to the adjoining
property. The three-story frame struc¬
ture No. 353, Schermerhorn street, ad¬
joining the church on the east, was the
first to take fire, and No. 355, a similar
structure, followed. No. 357 was also
damaged. On the west side of the
church the flames extended to two brick
dwellings, and on the opposite side of
Schermerborn street, a row of three-story
brick dwellings numbered 338 to 348,
were greatly damaged. In the mean¬
time, the doomed church building was
being rapidly consumed, and iuau hour’s
time only the tottering walls remained.
Dr. Talmage was on the Scene soon after
the first alarm, and did not leave until he
had seen the edifice, which had been his
pride, laid in ashes. The origin of the
fire is unknown. Edison’s men were in
the building until 5.30 p. m. Saturday,
arranging a new electric plant, and it is
thought that during the thundershower,
which prevailed during the night, the
lightning had been carried into the build¬
ing by wires they introduced, aud which
ran arouud the gallery about on a level
where the flames were first seen. The
loss on the church building, including
the organ, which was one of the finest iu
the country is $150,000.
FATAL RIOT.
ALLIANCE MEN AND TOWN AUTHORITIES
HAVE A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.
A bloody riot occurred at Dotlien. Ala.,
on Monday, in which George M. Strin¬
ger, proprietor of the alliance warehouse,
and Jeff Walker, an alliauce man were
killed. J. L. Domingos, town marshal,
and Parker Powell, deputy marshal were
mortally wounded. Peter Tew, an alli¬
ance man, Green Stringer, and B. Strin¬
ger, were seriously wounded. The riot
grew out of the town council passing an
ordinance imposing taxes on drays in the
town, which was disregarded of by which the alli¬
auce men, the consequence was
a general fight all around with the above
results. Dothan is a small town about
one year old, with 800 people, having
sprung into existence in anticipation of
the Alabama Midland railroad, which
now ruus in half a mile of its public
streets. There has been no feud what¬
ever between the alliance and the town,
but on the other hand, the best of feel¬
ings have existed heretofore.
BURNING COTTON.
TWO COMPRESSES AND 4,000 BALES 09
COTTON BURNED IN SAVANNAH, GA.
The lower hydraulic and the Tyler
cotton compress, with their sheds and
4,000 bales of cotton were burned Wed¬
nesday morning, at Savannah, Ga.
The tire was discovered in the lower
press on Bay street at 2 o’clock.
Everything was fery dry and the fire
swept from yard to yard rapidly. The
wharf frontage was over five hundred feet
and the depth to Bay street was about
two hundred and fifty. For three hours
all of that space, two acres and a half,
was ablaze. Three vessels, the Napier,
the Cypress and the Carlton, all British
steamships, were lying at the wharves in
front of the burning buildings bales, andjards.
All of the cotton, 4,000 on the
wharves took fire aud wero complexly
destroyed. The presses are valued at
something like $75,000 and the build¬
ings are protected. The toifd loss on the
cotton and presses is $400,000.
ALLIANCES IN ALABAMA.
BOTIT WHITE AND COLORED ALLIANCES
BEING ORGANIZED AND BOOMING.
The following is from Greenville,
Ala.: “Thirteen colored Farmer^ Alli¬
ances have thus far been organized iu
this, Butler county, alone, and before the
close of the year similiar organizations
will he formed in every township. The
membership is not large,but it is rapidly
increasing, and bids fair to be strong.
The white and colored Alliances are
united in their war against trusts, and in
promotion of the doctrine that farmers
should establish co-operative stores and
manufactures, and publish their own
newspapers, conduct their own schools,
and have a hand in everything else that
concerns them as citizens or affects them
personally or collectively. A manufac¬ under
turing and commercial company,
the auspices of the Farmers’ Alliance,has
been organized here, with a capital of
$125,000.”
NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
WHO WILL MANAGE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
AFFAIRS FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
The grand encampment Knights Tem¬
plar of the United States, in secret ses¬
sion at Washington, D. C., cn Thursday,
elected the following officers to serve for
the next three years: Very Eminent Sir
J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, most
eminent grand master; Very Eminent Sir
Hugh McCurdy, Very of Michigan, deputy
grand master; Eminent Sir Warren
Lome Thomas, of Kentucky, grand
generalissimo; Very Eminent Sir Reuben
Hedlin Lloyd, of California, grand cap¬
tain general; Very Eminent Sir Henry
Bales Stoddard, of Texas, grand senior
warden; Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Van
Slyck, of Rhode Island, grand junior
warden; Very Eminent Sir II. Wales
Lines, of Connecticut, grand treasurer;
Very Eminent Sir William B. Isaacs, of
Virginia, grand recorder, The next
conclave will be held in Denver.
TO COLONIZE THE NEGROE8
THE BILL FOR THAT PURPOSE PASSED BY
THE MEXICAN LEGISLATURE.
Advices from Mexico say the bill to
grant a concession to Henry C. Ferguson
and William H. Eilis, two colored men
from Texas, who propose to colonize
lands in Oaxaca, Guerrero, Vera Cruz,
Michoacan and San Luis Potasi with Ne¬
groes from Texas and other American
states, has passed the lower house of
congress and has gone to the senate.
It is believed it will be passed expected and be
signed by the president. It is
that 2,000 Negroes from Texas will move
to Mexico and raise cotton on these
lands, and many thousands of industrious
blacks, skilled iu cultivation, will follow
then* from states east of the Mississippi.