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HE NEWS.
TO COO A, GEORGIA.
THE LEGISLATURE.
*0»LS PASSED BT THE SENATE AND HOURS
OP REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to incorporate the Albany and
Cordele railroad company; to provide
for the registration of voters in Polk
comity; to amend section 3854 of the
code prohibiting parties to suits from
testifying in their own favor against an
insane or deceased party so as to make it
a prohibition against such testimony
against insane or deceased parties, only
touching transactions with such parties;
to prohibit fishing on another’s land in
Montgomery county; to amend the act
constituting give the railroad commission, so
rs to authorize it the power to make of joint Second rates;
to trustees the
Presbyterian church, of Columbus, to
sell some church property and make title
thereto; Richmond to incorporate Harrisonville, in
county; to prescribe the time
and manner of perfecting service by
publication; Pendleton to apportion the the road counties hands
to work creek in
of Montgomery and Emanuel; to incor¬
porate the town of DeSoto, in Sumter;
to incorporate the Toccoa Banking com¬
pany.
A bill to amend the charter of Monti-
cello; a registration bill for Jasper coun¬
ty; a bill to allow the mayor and council
of Barnesville to regulate the sale of li¬
quor for medicinal and sacramental pur-
p»8cs Point only; to incorporate the Union
and Eiberton Short Line railroad
compiny; to change the time of holding
the Troup superior court, spring term, from
third to the fourth Monday in April;
to amend the act reducing tlie number
of trustees of the University of Georgia,
and provide for their appoint nent by the
Governor. The amendment cuts off
eompi nsatiou and only allows actual
expon* and Northwestern ch; to incorporate the Bainbridge
Railroad company;
to change the name of the t *e Under¬
writers’ Mutual Insurance company to
the “Underwriters’ United Insurance
company,” and to give it the right to in-
sun- against lightning; to amend the
chart< r of West End; to incorporate the
Atlanta & Alabama Coal and Iron Rail¬
road company; to amend the charter of
Dalton so us to require the registration
of trades and prescribe lire limits; to
amend the charter of Athens, Ga., so as
to authorize the mayor and council to
assess costs for fire protection; to amend
the act to establish public schools at
Quitman; to authorize the city court of
Athens to impose fines up to $200 and
imprison or work on the streets for six
month-*; to amend the charter of Buch¬
anan in Haralson county; to repeal the
act fcfmithville, prohibiting the sale of liquor in
Lee county; to incorporate
the Georgia Fidelity Insurance company;
to abolish the county court of Burke;
Railroad to incorporate the Fairmount Valley
company; to incorporate the
American Inter-Ocean Canal company:
t o repeal an act reducing the work on
roads in Johnson county; a three mile
prohibition bill for Bethesda church, in
Jackson county; to incorporate the town
of Meigs. Also, to incorporate the town
of Metcalf, in Thomas county ; to au¬
thorize the judges of the superior courts
to hold special terms to admit to the
bar pet sons who have diplomas from the
law schools of the State university, Mer¬
cer vide university, or Emory college; to pro¬
Franklin a drainage law for the county of
; to amend the charter of Greens¬
boro.
A JURY SECURED AT LAST,
AND THE CRONIN SUSPECTS WILD NOW GO
ON TRIAD FOR THEIR DIVES.
Cronin The complete jury was selected in the
When case late Tuesday afternoon.
this work had been finished the
state’s attorney asked for an adjourn¬
ment of two days, in order to give the
prosecution time to make out a plan for
the presentation of the case. The hnpnn-
ucling of the jury commenced August
4th. Allowing for the time occupied by
the court in the drainage commission,
and adjournment asked for by the state’*
attorney, seven weeks have been occu¬
pied in getting the jury. One thousand
and ninety-one jurors have beeu sum¬
moned, of whom 927 have been excused
by counsel for cause. In addition to the
1,091 special veniremen summoned, there
were also twenty-four on the regular
panel disposed of. One hundred aud
seventy used, peremptory which challenges defense have been
of the has used
ninety-seven. At the time the jury was
sworn iu, Boggs, the defendant, had
three peremptory challenges left aud the
state twenty-two.
TOO PUBLIC-SPIRITED.
Emmet Y. Rhoades, cashier of the
First National bank ol St. Paris, Ohio,
pleaded guilty in the United States
court, to misappropriation of the bank’s
funds, on Thursday. It was shown that
there was no ultimate intention of de¬
frauding the hank, and the money was
used iu a public-spirited effort to advance
the interests of his community, The
minimum sentence, five years iu the pen
Uentiary was made.
BANK STATEMENT
Following is a statement of the asso¬
ciated banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday:
Reserve increase...... $ 45 , 434.100
Loans decrease......... .. 2 , 221,900
Specie Legal increase........ .. 2 . 635,500
tenders decrease. .. 1 , 563,100
Circulation Deposits decrease...... .. 1,625 275
decrease... 89,300
The backs now hold $916,650 less than
25 per cent rule calls for.
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* ‘I have, ” cried the rampaging campaign
orator, “iu my tongue a rapier with which
to kill all fools.”
“Take it away from him!” yelled a man
in the crowd. “He’s going to commit sui-
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM FVIBYWHKBE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Dr. Phiilippe Ricord, the celebrated
French surgeon, died in Paris Tuesday.
Nearly seven hundred people were
drowned, and two hundred injured, dur¬
ing the September floods in Japan.
A dispatch from Fergus Falls, Minn.,
says that the ground was covered with
snow Monday morning at that place.
The Italian government'has refused
to receive Mashan Effendi, whom the
porte wishes to appoint as Turkish am¬
bassador to Italy.
Cholera is still reging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
The bodies of thirty-seven of the men
killed in the oxplosion in Bentelee col¬
liery, at Longton, Englaud, on Wednes¬
day, have been recovered.
The trial of Father McFadden, charged
with having participated in the murder
of Inspector Martin at Gwedore, in Feb¬
ruary last, began Thursday.
A dispath from Sofia to the Cologne
Gazette, says that the Austrian Lander
Bank, jointly with the German banks,
has loaned the Bulgarian government
25, (W0,000 francs, of which 1(J, 000,000 is
to 0c paid immediately and the remain¬
der in two installments.
There is a great rush of speculators
and boomers to Pierre, the new capital
of South Dakota. On Friday a large
number of speculators from Kansas City,
Omaha, Denver, and as far west as the
Pacific coast reached the embryo city to
invest and to help make things hum.
The finance committee pf the YVorld’s
Fair, at New York, ou Thursday re¬
solved to take, without further delay,
the necessary steps to obtain subscrip¬
tions to guarantee $5,000,000, and a sub¬
committee was appointed to prapare the
necessary subscription books for that
purpose.
whose Dr. Talmnge, of^Brooklyn, N. Y.,
celebrated tabernacle was de¬
stroyed by lire, one week ago, announced
ou Sunday that the trustees of his
church had purchased property 150x200
feet, on the corner of Clinton and Greene
avenues, for the erection of a new tuber-
wade. The ground will be broken on the
28th inst.
The Pope, in an address to some
French pilgrims, at Rome, on Sunday,
advised the formation of an association
which shall be devoted to securing the
material welfare of the workmen by
procuring increased facilities for labor,
calculating principles of economy and
defending the rights and legitimate
claims of workmen.
The senior class of Harvard college, at
Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected a
colored man, Clement Morgan, as class
orator. The election was hotly contested
but Morgan received a substantial major¬
ity, about 270 men voting. Last year as
a competitor for the Boylstou prizes and* he
carried his audience by storm w r on
the first prize.
A dispatch from Fremont, Oh : o, says:
The village of Woodville is a terribly
ravaged place. Nearly onc-third of the
persons in the town are victims of ty¬
phoid fever and diphtheria. Last week
there were ten deaths from typhoid fever
and nearly that number from diphtheria.
Great excitement prevails in the town,
and business is entirely suspended.
Exports of specie from the purt of
New' York for week ending Saturday,
Oct. 19th, amounted to $487,855, of
which $32,830 was in gold and $455,025
in silver. Of the total exports, $17,1)00
in gold and $454,650 in silver went to
Europe and $15,880 in gold and $875 in
silver to South America. Imports of
specie fur the week was $34,234, of which
$26,299 w as in gold and $7,965 in silver.
A strike of moulders at Pittsburg, Pa.,
w’as inaugurated Monday. Two weeks
ago they made a demand for an advance
ot ten per cent in their wages, but up to
a late hour Saturday night, none of the
manufacturers had conceded the in¬
crease, and at a meeting it was decided
to strike on Monday morning. There are
about 1,000 moulders in the city.
Empress Frederick, accompanied by
her daughters Princess Charlotte, Prin¬
cess Victoria, Princess Sophia and Priu-
cess Margarette and Prince Bernhard, of
Sax-Meiuengen, husband of Princess
Charlotte, left Berlin, Germany, on Sat¬
urday, for Venice, on their way to Ath¬
ens, where Princess Sophia is to be mar¬
ried on the 27th inst. to the crown prince
of Greece.
In an address Mouday before the Boys'
and Girls’ National Home association, in
session at Washington, D. C., Alexander
Ilogeland, president of the association,
stated that there were $00,000 boy
tramps in the United States. He advo¬
cated the establishment of a registration
system by which boy tramps might be
found and hired to farmers willing to
employ them.
The jute bagging factory of the South
Mills Bagging company, at St. Louis,
Mo., was damaged by fire Tuesday morn¬
ing to the extent of about $50,000.
About three hundred and fifty hands,
chiefly women and girls, are thrown out
of employment. The factory belonged to
the jute trust, aud was running full
handed. The loss is covered by insu¬
rance.
A disastrous explosion occurred Satur¬
day in a coal mine at Bryant Switch, five
miles south of Fort Smith, Ark., in the
Choctaw nation. A miner's lamp came
iu contact with a keg of powder. The
explosion of the powder caused the ex-
plosion of coal dust which set the mine
on fire. Sixteen men were in the mine,
the shaft of which is 500 feet deep. All
of them were taken out more or less in¬
jured. Four were horribly burned, and
are not expected to recover.
The coflia containing the remains of
Ralph Waldo Emerson,at Concord,Mass.,
whose grave was disturbed last week,and
whose skull was erroneously reported to
have* beeu carried away, has beeu placed
in a securely bound box, which has in
turn been deposited in a grave composed
of blocks of granite cemented together
and securely fastened with a granite cov¬
ering. The generally accepted theory.is
that the vauualbm was committed to
create a sensation.
About three weeks ago Dr. E. T.
Schneider, of Pelee Island, was taken ill
with a disease which proved to be small
pox. that Wednesday word came from Pelee
there were nearly one hundred cases
of the disease on the island. The Can¬
adian government has established a
quarantine against the island The
suite board of health at Columbus, Ohio,
has issued an order closing all ports
along the shores of Lake Erie against
Pelee Island.
At one o’clock Thursday, the grand
jury of Chicago came into court and
handed up twelve indictments, eleven of
which were for every day crimes. The
twelfth was a joint bill against Mark Sal-
omeo.Jofcn Graham.Thomas Kavanaugh,
Fred Smith, Jeremiah O'Donnell, Alex¬
ander L. Hanks and Joseph Keen. All
of these men w.*re already under indict¬
ment for conspiracy to bride the jurymen
in the Cronin < asj.
Typhoid symptoms among Yale stu¬
dents at New Haven, Conn., is causing
increased uneasiness. Oa Tuesday, sev¬
eral men wl o showed symptoms of ty¬
phoid in a mild form, and several suf¬
fering from typhoid malaria, were sent
to their homes to recuperate, A ma-
jority of the men who have been ill, have
rooms away from the college in different
parts of the city, and there is no unusual
sickness among the townspeople in the
sections where the students have resided.
There seems to be no speciMc cause for
the present outbreak.
TRADE REVIEW
FOR WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER
19, BY DUNN & CO.
R. G. Dunn & Co.’s weekly review of
trade, says: As before, the money mar¬
ket higher, is the one f»oint of anxiety. Rates
are but pcrh&ps the apprehension
has somewhat lessened. The country
still calls for money largely, but reports
from all interior points show that the
supply is ample for commercial needs.
The volume of trade continues large;
bank clearings exceed last years’, and
railroad earning are encouraging. The
iron trade is healthy, southern furnaces
seeming to have well sold up, and
though an offer of Lehigh valley brand
No. 1 at $6.50 is reported, the quotation
for pig iS $17 to $18, Bar irou is not
firm as other forms, and a surprisingly
heavy demand for plates and structural
forms is for steel rather than iron. Rails
are quoted at $31.50. Cotton manufact¬
ure is thriving, and the trade in goods
satisfactory. Print cloths selling at 3£c
for 64’s. There was a further decline of
a sixteenth iu raw cotton, and sales at
New York were 540,000 bales for the
week. Receipts and exports both con¬
tinue to exceed last year’s largely.
Speculation for higher prices in wheat
has not been active, for the last govern¬
ment report and heavy northwestern re¬
ceipts, with scanty exports, combine
to depress prices, which ha • fallen
cents for the week, with sales of 31,000,-
000 bushels, against 20,000,000 last
week, Friday alone. Corn has declined
£, and oats 1J cents, while pork products,
though still sustained by the clique, are
a little lower. Coffee has yielded a
quarter. The stock market resists tight
money stubbornly, but has yielded at an
average of $1 per share on active rail¬
road stocks, with some recovery, how¬
ever, on Friday. It is the theory of
some western managers, that an advance
in prices, just before the meeting of the
legislatures in the granger states, would
be most unfortunate. But the more gen¬
erally controlling influence is the con-
viction that western competition threat¬
ens mischief, and is not restrained by
the interstate act or by the good sense of
managers, while for the present, mone¬
tary uncertainties are also felt. Business
failures during last week number for the
United States 182. Canada 41.
A NEW SECURITY.:
PIG IRON LISTED ON THE NEW YORK
8TOCK EXCHANGE.
A new security has recently been listed
on the New York Stock Exchange which
bids fair to be popular with all classes
of traders; from tbe teckless speculator
to the most conservative investor. Tbe
itock ticker now records along with the
mu titudinous railroad shares and trust
stocks, the word “warrants.” This new
character on the price current means a
certificate for so many tons of pig iron,
stacked in a storage yard somewhere in
the United States, and deliverable on de¬
mand to the owner of said warrant.
These warrants or certificates, are guar¬
anteed by a responsible trust company of
New York. In other words, staid old
pig iron, which heretofore has been un¬
available as a speculative commodity,has
at last wheeled into line, and hereafter
will be as easily handled by the traders
ou change, as a barrel of oil, a bushel of
grain, a bale of cotton, a block of bonds,
or a share of stock. A company has
been formed by strong capitalists to
further this end. The purpose of this
corporation is to take care of all the iron
that may be made in the United States
subject to the running requirement of
the iron trade.
A CHURCH MELEE.
A PRIEST EXPEDDED FOR INSUBORDINA¬
TION—A DIVEDY FIGHT.
About three months ago, Bishop
O'Hara, of Scranton, Pa., severely re¬
buked Father Warnegary, pastor of the
Polish Catholic church at Plymouth,and
afterwards expelled him from the priest¬
hood for unbecoming conduct. The
congregation was divided into two fac¬
tions, and one of these insisted upon his
making disposition of the church and its
property. On Tuesday he sent for Rev.
Father Mack and deputized him to act
in his name. The police were called up¬
on to interfere in case of trouble and a
call was made at the parsonage. Upon
admission being refused,the officers were
ordered to forcibly enter the building,
and a moment later they battered down
the doors and arrested six of the inmates.
A fierce fight ensued while the prisoners
were being removed, and in the struggle
Chief of Police Michael Melvin had hi?
leg broken and back injured. A numbei
of the prisoners were hurt in the melee,
but Bone fatally injured.
PENITENTIARY MATERIAL.
A GANG OF BOY DESrEHADOES DISCOV
ERED IN KANSAS CITY.
A large number of small incendiary
fires have occurred in Kansas City re¬
cently, and the police have just discov¬
ered that the incendiaries are a bind of
school boys, ranging in age from eleven
to fifteen years. They were regularly
tain organized, Kid’s and Pets.” called The themselves members “Cap*-
were
bound by blood-curdling oaths to not
reveal the secrets of the order, and all
their plans were carried out according to
written orders signed in blood from the
Arms of the young desperadoes. One of
their number has confe-sed that the
members of the band were responsible
for many fires. The leaders have been
irrested.
A STRANGE CASE,
A negro man went before the grand jury
of Irwin county, Ga., a few weeks ago,
and swore that he had been offended by
another negro cursing in his presenc?.
The grand jury returned a true bill, the
offender was arrested and tried at that
term of the superior court, found guilty,
lars and a*d sentenced to pay a fine of %ve dol¬
costs.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Florida has received twenty awards
sed four gold medals oa its exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
The national missionary convention of
the Christian church convened in Louis¬
ville, Ky., on Tuesday. 600 delegates
from the United States and Canada were
present.
Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, one of Geor-
eit's wealthiest and most respected citi¬
zens, died at his residence in Athens,
Ga., on Sunday, at the age of seventy-
one years.
The Presbyterian . Synod, composed of
two hundred ministers and delegates
from Virginia, West Virginia and Mary-
land, convened at Winchester, Y a., on
1 hursday.
Work is going on upon the public
building at Savannah, Ga., in detinance
of the order of the treasury department
commanding its cessation until congress
decided upon the proposed change of
site.
The R. B. Stone lumber company,with
yards at Chicago and mills at Rice’and,
Ky., assigned $S9,000.' Tuesday. Liabilities $81,-
500; assets The cause of the
failure is said to have been in explosion,
which wrecked the company’s plant.
At a special meeting of the board of
directors of the New r Orleans hoard of
trade, limited, held on Friday, the fol¬
lowing was unanimously adopted:
“Resolved, That this board favors the
city ofChicago as the site for the World's
fair of 1892.”
Argument was begun in the supreme
court of the United States, ou Tuesday,
in the case of Charles E. Cross and Sam-
uel C. White, defaulting president bauR. aud of
cashier of the State National
Raleigh, N. C., against the state of
North Carolina.
A special from Jackson, Tenn., says:
Two Deputy United States Marshals ar-
lived here Saturday morning having in
custody Bill Matlon, the oldest moon-
shiner iu southern Kentucky. West
Tennessee officers have been searching
for him for the past twenty five years,
A dispatch, on Saturday, from Nash-
ville, Tenn., says. Congressman Whitt-
horn, of the seventh Tennessee district
and at one time chairman of the commit-
tee on naval affairs in the house of rep-
resentatires, is lying at the point of
death at his home in Columbia.
The Birmingham Age-IIerald states that
agents of the Corona coal mines and the
Virginia and Alabama mines at Patton
have just closed a contract with an ex¬
port agent for 60,000 tons of coal, which
is to be shipped to Cuba. The coal will
be shipped by rail to Mobile, and thence
it will be sent ia tugs and barges to
Cuba.
The Alliancemen of Laurens county,
S. C., have adopted Tuesdays and Fri¬
days as the days to sell their cotton iu
the Laurens market. This plan is being
adopted all over the South, and one or
two days in each week are set apart and
cotton buyers notified to be present and
take advantage of a full market.
The trades display, which begun at
Knoxville, Tenn., on Tuesday, celebrat¬
ing the completion of the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap aud Louisville railroad,
was more of a success than was antici¬
pated. Trains on when all the roads were
crowded, and the procession
moved off, it was witnessed by at least
fifty thousand spectators.
A horrible outrage, committed
upon a negro woman by another
has just come to light at Charleston,
S. C. A negro woman named Re¬
becca Perkins, on her way from church
Saturday night, was horribly burned by
a rival with a can of vitriol, or concen¬
trated lye, which was thrown in her
face. The victim’s eyes were burned
out, and her face horribly scarred.
A fatal and disastrous fire occurred at
Dawson, Ga., on Judge Friday, in which two
young sons of J. H. Guerry, and
a colored boy were killed by falling walls.
A warehouse and containing 175 bales of cot¬
ton a whole block of business houses
with their contents were wholly de¬
stroyed. The estimated total loss is
about $40,000. The fire is believed to be
the work of an inceudiarj'.
A dispatch from Birmingham ou
Wednesday says: The Richmond Ter¬
minal. Georgia Central, East Tennessee,
Louisville aud Nashville, Southern Pa
cific and other south aud southwestern
railroads, and the Plant system of rail¬
roads and steamships, have united in a
movement to make Tampa, Fla., the
shipping point for all freight handled
on these lines.
Hall county, Georgia, alliance has
wisely appointed a judiciary committee
to whom all differences between brethren
are to be submitted before any legal steps
are taken. This committee will also be
advisory in the matter of making wills,
settling estates, guardianship of orphans,
etc., and is intended to prevert needless
litigation and continued strife on the
part of members.
The jurors for the November term of
scs-ions court were drawn at Charleston,
S. C., on Tuesday. The panel consists
of twenty-nine whites and seven negroes.
At the coming term negroes only are to
be tried for serious offenses. The panel
for the June term of court, at which Dr.
McDow was tried for the murder ol
Capt. F. W. Dawson, consisted of twen-
ty whites and sixteen blacks.
At Hallett, N. C., on Sundav, a mad
dog sprang upon the 11 year-old son
of T. C. Johnson, and fixed its teeth in
the child’s arm. His father and mother
ran to his aid and made awayf desperate at-
tempts r to tear the dog but were
unsuccessful. e i >ot x- .. until the dog j 5 s throat ,i .
was entirely severed would lie relax his
Th“e mu e.e P s o ’the a’™ or!
tr» '
lhe office of , the , Southern _ , _ Express
company, at Millsport, Ala., a small town
about ninety miles we*t of Birmingham,
on the Georgia Pacific railroad, was
robbed Monday. The robbery was
secret by the officials of the compiny
until Thursday, when a man named
Abercrombie was arrested m Lamar
county, charged with the robbery. The
prisoner is believed to be a member of
the Rube Burrows band of outlaws and
train robbers.
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of Jeffer-
son Davis, but more generally known as
the “daughter of the confederacy, left
New Orleans on Tuesday, for New York,
wuence she will m a few days sail for
Europe. Miss Davis goes as the guest of
Mrs. Pulitzer, of New York, who takes
her abroad in thought hope of restoring her tc
health. It is that six months at
the resorts of Riviera, Germany, prefaced her by a
winter on tbe will restore tc
perfect health.
HURLED TO DEATH.
X TERRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON AN
INCLINE CABLE ROAD.
A frightful catastrophe occurred at
Cincinnati Tuesday on one of Mount
Auburn incliued planes which lies at the
head of Main street and reaches to the
height of between 250 and 350 feet in a
space of perhaps 2,000 feet or less. Two
cars are employed, one on each track.
They are drawn by two steel wire cables
that are wound up on a drum at the top
of the hill by an engine located there,
and nine passengers had entered a cai
at the foot of the plane, and a number
were on the other car at the top. The
passage of the ascending car was all
right until it had reached the top, when
the machinery refused to work and the
engineer could not stop it. The car was
drawn against the bumper, the cables
gDapped m tw0 and the car ran back-
wards down the incline at lightning
gpeed The crash at the foot ol
plane was frightful in the extreme.
The iron gate that formed the lower end
of the truck on which the car rested,
was throw n sixty feet do a n the street,
The top of the car was lying almost and a-
far in the gutter. The truck itself,
floor and seats of the car formed a shape-
less wreck, mingled with the bleeding
and mangled bodies of nine passengers.
The list of dead, so far as known, is as
follows; Judge W. M. Dickson, Mrs.
Caleb Ives, Miss Lillian Oscamp, Michael
Kneiss, Joseph Hochstetter. Tlx
wounded are: Charles McFadden, both
legs broken; Joseph McFadden, Mrs.
Hochstetter, and Mrs. Joseph McFadden,
cuts aud internal injuries.
A SUNKEN STEAMER,
THE BROOKLYN GOES DOWN—EIGHTEEN
LIVES LOST.
The steamship Brooklyn, Capt. Car-
son, which sailed from Darien, Ga., Oc-
tober 13lb) with a carg0 of i umber for
the South Brooklyn, N. Y., Sawmill
company, is supposed to have beeu lost
with all on board (eighteen persons in
all) in the gale of the 13th, as she is now
six days over due. A vessel answering
completely to her description was passed
by the steamer Cherokee, October 17tb,
sisteen mi[es east of Body island, with
her boxv t wenty feet out of the water and
her stern apparently ou the
bottom. Her bow ports were
out, showing lumber inside,
T be vessel was also seen by the steamers
Iroquois snd State of Texas, both of
'whiGi report that they passed a sunken
wooden steamer m nineteen fathoms of
water; standing on end, with but fifteen
leet of her bow and bowsprit above the
water; was loaded with yellow pine lum¬
ber, some of which was protruding from
the bow ports, one of which was gone
altogether, and the other lying over on
the hull.
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
LEADING IRISHMEN WILL MAKE EFFORTS
TO IMPROVE THE ORDER.
It is announced on the authority
of a prominent member of the
Irish National league, who is a resident
of St. Louis, Mo., that there is a move-
m ent on foot within the league to in¬
crease its numerical strength, and place
it on a firmer basis than it has ever been.
Iu the past year the affairs in Chicago
have done much to create a wrong im¬
pression of the league, and it has been
affected to a considerable extent. It is
denied explicitly that the league has in
any xvay been mixed up with the Clan-
na-Gael or Cronin murder. Rev. Father
O’Reilly and Colonel John Atkinson, of
Detroit, have gone to England for the
purpose of consulting Mr. Parnell and
his friends on this subject, and Charles
O’Brien, who has just returned from a
conference at Detroit with Father
O’Reillv, left for Lincoln, Nebraska, to
consult with John Fizgerald, president
of the league, and make arrangements
for a thorough organization in the who e
country.
SWITCHMEN STRIKE,
THE LOUJSVIDDE AND NASHVIDDE ROAD
THREATENED WITH SERIOUS TROUBDE.
A dispatch, on Monday, from feared Evans¬
ville, Ind., says: What is may
yet prove to be the beginning of a gen¬
eral strike on the Louisville and Nash¬
ville and Mackey system of railrtads
centering here, was inaugurated in the
Louisville and Nashville freight yards in
this city late Monday afternoon. At that
time the Louisville and Nashville switch-
meu had succeeded iu blockading the
transfer track, which runs through the
city, with loaded freight cars, extending
from one end of the city to the other,
opening being left at street crossings
only, and the pins and between every two
cars were drawn taken away.
It is repotted that the strike is general
at all principal points on the Louisville
A Nashville, system, including
St. Louis, Memphis, Nashville,
Birmingham, aud such places,
The grievance, as stated by the
strikers, is that they have n>»t been re¬
ceiving standard pay, which is $2.25 per
day, while they have only been getting
$2. At present, the strike does not af¬
fect more than five hundred men.
A HARD WINTER,
PREDICTIONS OF A LONG AND HARD
WINTEK BY A VETERAN.
N. K. Ma6ten, formerly cashier of the
Nevada bank, of San Francisco, Cal.,
and a lesident of the coa3t for sixty
J^rs, predicts the longest and coldest
winter tbe Pacific coast his ever expe-
‘ienced. He said: •T have just come
from California, and it is already be-
g ,nn i r1 g to S ct co j ' Low ranges of
moun a.es-.n tact parte t of the f footh.n, nth :n
that have never been known to neve
h in the dead of rein-
d d with „ whke
^ There is one, to me, significant aact, and
that is that the fall geese flight is almost
over now> ’ and not in one year for the
last has this flight begun until
October 15.”
FATAL SMASH-UP.
a wreck on the douisvidle and na»h-
tilde road—disastrous results.
A disastrous freight wreck occurred
Tuesday morning on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. thirty-nine miles
of trails 11 derailed"five Jars
a gourtl bound fast flight train,
Two of the five carg were loaded with
fine horse3 eQ rQUte from Maygvi n e , Ky.,
tQ tbe gtate » air iQ Birmingham. Several
bor s eg were so badly crippled
that they hai to be kjlled. One of the
colored groom-men in charge of the
horses, was insiant’v killed, and two
others were fatally injured. W. L.
G reenej a brakemun on the train, was
a i so severely injured.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MO VEMENTS OF TEE PRESIDES!
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The President, ou Saturday, appointed chief of
Commodore Francis M. Ramsey,
the bureau of navigation of the Navy
Department. appointed
The President on Thursday Pennsylvania, tc
Oliver C. Bosbyshell, of
he superintendent of the mint of the
United States, vice-Daniel Fox, resigned.
The President, on Saturday, Illinois, appointed to
General Green B. Rauin, of
be commissioner of pensions. General
Raum will enter upon the official dis-
charge of his duties at once.
A statement prepared at the receipts post-office
department shows the gross at
thiitv of the larger post-offices during
the quarter ending September 30, 1889.
to be 9.6 per cent, greater than for the
corresponding period last year.
I)r. II. P. Daniel, president of the
stole board of health of Florida, tele¬
graphed to the marine hospital service
that the quarantine restrictions imposed
ou Key West on account of suspicious removed.
cases of fever there, have been
Dr. J. L. Posey, of the Marine hos¬
pital service, on duty at Jacksonville,
Fla., telegraphs to the bureau that Dr.
Porter reports another case of yellow fe¬
ver at Key West, Fla., and in conse-
quence quarantine restrictions were re¬
sumed on Tuesday.
The district commissioners on Thurs¬
day appointed George Hazleton, former¬
ly Republican member to Congress from
Wisconsin, to be attorney for the Dis¬
trict of Columbia, to succeed A. G.
Riddle, w'ho recently resigned, to take
effect the first of December next.
Acting Secretary Batchellor, on Fri¬
day, directed a suspension of the work
of constructing the court house and
postollice at Savannah, Ga., until it can
be ascertained whether congress will au¬
thorize the selection of auother site and
increase limit of cost of both site and
building. The present site was selected
in January, 1888, but is unsuitable for
the purpose. The limit of cost is $200,-
000, and is not considered sufficient.
The department’s action is based upon
the petition sigued by the governor of
the state, members of the legislature,
state aud city officials, and a large num¬
ber of citizens. The acting secretary
also took similar action in regard to tbe
proposed public building at Siatesville,
N, C., because of a representation by
the mayor, aldermen anil merchants of
that city that the site selected by the last
administration is unsatisfactory to the
business community.
The annual report for the fiscal year
1888-89 of the commissioner of pensions,
has been submitted to the secretary of
the interior, aud is now in the hands of
the public printer. There were at the
close of the year 487,925 pensioners.
There were added to the rolls during the
year the names of 51,921 new pensioners pensions
a|pl the names of 1.754 whose
have been previously dropped, were re¬
stored to the rolls, making an aggregate
of 53,075 pensioners added during the
year. 16,507 pensioners were dropped
from the rolls for various causes, leaving
a net increase to the rolls of 37.168
names. The amount paid for pensions
during the year was $88,375,113.28. The
total amount disbursed by agents for all
purposes was $81,131,968.44. The
amount paid as fees to attorneys $1,363,-
583.47. In the aggregate, 1,348,164
pension claims have been filed since 1861
and in the same period 789,121 have
been allowed. The amount dirbursed on
account of pensions since 1861 has been
$1,052,218,413. The issue of certificates
during the Of year shows a grand total of
145,258, this number 51,921 were
original certificates. The report shows
that at the close of the year there were
pending and unallowed 479,000 claims
of all classes.
VANDERBILT’S PARK,
4,000 ACRES IN THE SUBURBS OF ASHE-
VIDDE, N. C., BOUGHT FOR A PARK.
The purchase of 4,000 acres of land,
by G. W. Vanderbilt, the millionaire,
in the suburbs of A'-heville, N. C., is a
matter of current notoriety, Mr. Van-
derbilt is now at Asheville, and brought
with him from New York city one of
the fyest-known architects of Gotham,
and a landscape gardener from Europe.
It is now certain that he well make
his large boundary into a park* not
unlike Tuxedo park in New' York. The
work of laying off these 4,000 acres com-,
menced Friday, making drives, artificial
lakes, fountains and other natural orna¬
ments suited to the location. This prop¬
erly will be made by far the most mag¬
nificent and attractive of its kind to be
found in the south. It will giadually
be made a seclusive resort for northern
millionaires, each of whom will own his
.ottaue for summer use.
THE COTTON MOVEMENT.
A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE NEW
ORLEANS EXCHANGE.
Tbe New Orle&ns cotton exchange
statement, issued Monday, makes the net
cotton movement across the Ohio, Mis¬
sissippi American and Potomac rivers to Northern
and Canadian mills, during
the week ending October 19, 24,180 bales,
against 36.253 last year, and the total
since September 1, 66,253, against 97,-
969. Total American mill takings, north
aud south, for the first seven wi eks of
the season, 313,783, against 369,196, of
which by northern mills, 252,000,against
307,000. Amount of American crop that
has come in sight during the past seven
weeks, 1, 529,475, against 1,305,387 bales.
The statement shows that the net rail
movement overland, which at the end of
the fourth week of September was ahead
of last year 4,397 bales,has since lost 35,-
724, and is now 31,326 behind last year.
Foreign exports for seven weeks are
230,861 bales ahead of last year, while
the American spinners, take show a de¬
ficit of 55,415, and American stocks at
delivery ports and leading interior cen¬
ters are 83,820 bales less than at the close
of the corresponding week last season.
ROASTED ALIVE.
A YOUNG MAN'S CLOTHES SATURATED
WITH GASOLINE AND fcET ON FIRE.
A special to the Mobile Register from
Greenville, A’a., says: Early Saturday
morning a quarrel between a negro and
a young white man named Roberts re-
suited in another tbe negro pouring gasoline over
him and his clothes. negro In applied a lighted
lamp to an instant Rob-
erts was wrapped in flames and was lit-
erally roasted alive. One of the negroes
was arrested. The other escaped.
THE STORY TOLD ANEW.
In the dusk and down the lane
Two walked, hand in hand, together;
Blew the wind and (ell the rain;
Little heeded they the weather.
Cold fall winds might storm about;
Warmth within mocked cold without.
Had the road been paved with gold.
They had never seen a shimmer;
Had the stars left heaven's high fold
Night to them had grown no dimmer;
Earth, unto its widest hem,
Consisted of four feet for them!
What said he to make her start,
Flush and glow with sudcen pleasure?
What could cause the woman’s heart
Then to beat a faster measure?
Why did eyelids, prone to rise.
Hide the light of glowing eyes?
’Twas the story told anew,
Old, yet never antiquated;
Just the same words—just a few—
Just the case so often stated-
Just the same in every wise
As once was told in Paradise.
PITH AN1) POINT.
“A cut and dried affair”—A load of
hay. around the house
A good thing to have
—A piazza. is girl's first
The greatest of all poetry a
love letter.
A woman can keep a secret, but she
doesn't like to .—Somerville Journal.
in a driving storm no one seems
capable of holding the rains.— States¬
man.
A man lost $2,000,000 iu less than one
minute the other day. Cause, heart dis-
case. _ Binghamton Republican .
A writer says that whipping a boy may
make him stupid. It may be, but it is
more likely to make him smart.
Mr. Fleschmau—“Hello, Cholly,
what’s up? Training for a race? ' Chol-
]y_“No; racing fora train.”— Grip.
The man who has lost his “pile'’ in
Wall street looks upon that locality as
the dearest spotou earth to him.— States¬
man.
It is estimated that a Major-General in
citizen's clothes deteriorates fifty per
cent., more especially it he smokes corn-
mon cigars.
They sat within the parlor dim
And fretfully she said to him;
“I wish, dear John, that you’d behave,
If not, I wish that you would shave.
—Boston Courier.
“James, you have been fighting. 1
can tell by the look in your eye.” “Yes,
but mother, you should see the look in
the other boy’s eye. ”— Life. j
Jones has been commanded by his wife
to send a telegram to her dearest friend:
Clerk—“The message costs twenty-five
cents, sir, but the postscript comes to
“Is there anything a man cannot do?”
asks an exchange. AY e have never yet
found a man who could scold the chil¬
dren with his mouth full of pins.— Laic-
rence American.
Little Ethel, less than three years old,'
saw a man w r atking along the street with ’ she
his arm in a sling. “Oh, mamma,
cried, “there goes a man w ith his arm in
a hammock !”—Boston Times.
“Dr. Jackson told me to-day that old
Skinflint is like to drop dead any day
from heart disease.” “Old Skinflint?
“You don’t say so! I didn’t supposed
he had one .”—Somerville Journal.
Punch says- “A book has been recently
published showing how r a quarter of a
million of money was lost ‘in two years’.
This seems like a misprint. Surely it
should be ‘with two ears’—long ones!”
A New York man offers a prize of two>
hundred dollars for the best essay on the
life of the mosquito. A slap with the
palm of the hand is the best essay on its
life that we know, but even that is rarely
successful.
“I trust you will not think hard of
me,” he remarked, reaching for his hat.
“Sir,” she answered, frigidly, “one who
knows you can never think hard of you.”
And wandering homeward, ’neath the
electric light, he wondered what it was
she meant to convey.— Bazar.
Young Man—“I have come to answer
your advertisment for a ‘young man with
plenty of push.’ AVhat is the position
that is open?” Blobson (pushing a baby
carriage)—“My wife refuses to do it, and
I don’t have time; so I shall have to hire
a substitute .”—Lawrence American.
Ada—“So you have been to see
your husband’s folks, have you,
Lulu? And liow' did you like
his mother? Lulu—“Oh! ever so much,
Ada; she made me feel so much at home.
Why, in less than twenty-four hours after
I arrived there she had me in the kitchen
washing dishes.”
An Expert Blind Man.
It is almost incredible that Simon Col¬
lins, of Marietta, who has been blind for
twenty-seven years, is an expert carpet
weaver, makes and prints paper flour
sacks in colors, doing the printing on a
Washington hand press, and with a per¬
fect register, but the Marietta Timei
vouches for that. I have known him for
seven or eight years, and have seen him
frequently on the streets of his town,
cane in hand, walking rapidly, making
all the inns and outs, going down into
a basement or up stairs to a business
office, never making a mistake and never
being hurt.
A year ago he made a canoe from his
own design and the same boat won a race
in the regatta upon the Susquehanna at
Columbia. He is the patentee of a brush
handle, makes fishing nets and cane-seat¬
ed chairs.
His latest triumph is the master}' of th®
type writer, He bought one some
months ago and is now able to operate it
quickly and correctly. He is said to be
an expert euchre player, but I cannot
vouch for that, though it is scarcely more
notable than many things already men¬
tioned which I have known him to do.—-
Philadelphia Times.
Holes Cansed by Decaying Yegetation.
In New' Providence and other island*
of the Bahama group are numerous so-
called “banana holes,” ranging in size
from that of a pint cup to that of a large
cistern. Professor C. S. Dolley,w'ho has
lately studied these holes, finds that they
cannot have had the same origin as pot¬
holes, and do not appear to have been cut
out by the waves, and he can only ac¬
count for them as an effect of the action
of ties decaying vegetation. Large quanti¬
of leaves and other vegetable matter
are found in the holes, and it is probable
that the soft calcareous rock has been dis¬
solved by the fermentation products and
washed away .—Trenton {N. J.) True
American. ;