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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. Feared for Him. ft r-Y \F t * it. * ‘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- I” • 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. ;