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TOGO)A, GEORGIA.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Bills Passed by he Senate and House
of Representatives of Georgia.
A bill to appropriate money to the
State Lunatic asylum—the sum of
$18,300 for heaters, boiler, storage room,
new floors, fences, etc.; $5,000 addi¬
tional for maintenance of the institution,
included in the amount; to amend the
act establishing the city court of Rome
so as to increase the salary of the judge
from $600 to $1,000, and to enlarge the
jurisdiction of the court; to make op¬
erative the stock lavr of the 1334th dis¬
trict of Randolph county; also, a bill to
make operative the stock law for the
9:44th district of Randolph county; to
amend the road laws of Dade county *0
as to provide for a commutation tax in
1 eu of road work- to strike out the eec-
t on exempting Rising Fawn and Tren¬
ton from the law; to amend section
1,465 of the code so as to provide for
r turns of certain property to the comp¬
troller general; to amend item 12 of
section 920 of the code by inserting of
the word oath the words “in conformity
with the blanks furnished said receiver
by the commissioner of agriculture,” so
as to get full and accurate returns of
crops; to incorporate the Smithonia,
Liucolton and Augu-ta Railroad com¬
pany; to incorporate the Laborers’ Loan
and Savings bank; a registration bill for
I’ulaski comity; to amend the road laws
of the state so far ns it relates to Eman¬
uel; to amend the charter of the town of
Hartwell so as to make the number of
aldermen live, and to give them
power to elect a mayor from their number;
to incrcHse the salary of the state libra¬
rian to $1,800. Amended to apply to
tin' office during the present term of the
incumbent; to submit a constitutional
amendment which will authorize pensions
for the widows of confederate soldiers
who were killed in the war or die ! since
from wounds there received.
A bid to amend the charter of Au¬
gusta; to amend the charter of the Mi-
eon Savings bank; to prohibit the judge
of the county court of Putnam from
practicing law in misdemeanor cases; to
enact a stock law for the 885th district
of Forsyth county; to set apart two
rooms of the new capitol for the pre¬
servation of confederate war relics; to
retire inebriates from the lunatic asylum.
BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR.
Governor Gordon, on Friday, affixed
Ids signature to the following bills, and
by so doing made them laws; An act to
appropriate money to p ty the commis-
sioix rs. clerk and surveyor appointed
under a resolution of the general as^em-
bly of 1887, to make and rile an appraise¬
ment and survey of the property known
as the Western & Atlantic railroad for
such services as were rendered in accord¬
ance with taid reso ution. An act to
amend an act to incorporate the Under¬
writers’ Mutual Insurance company. An
act to am :nd an act t > prohibit the sale
of int< xi,eating liquors within one mile
of Midway ohureh in Gwinnett county.
An act to amend act 3, section 7, para¬
graph 7 of the constitution of the state
by adding the following words: “But
the first reading of each bill in each
house shall consist in the reading of the
title only.” An act to incorporate the
town of Jenkiusburg, in Butts county.
An act to empower the mayor and aider-
men of the city of Savannah to establish
and control by ordinance of its council,
harbor lines iu the- Sivannah river from
the crosstides above the city to the city.
An act to author,ze the county commis¬
sioners of Terrell county to submit to the
qualified voters of said county the ques¬
tion of the issuance of county bonds to
pay for the erection of a courthouse in
eaid couu'y. An act to incorporate the
Southwest Georgia rail wav. An act to
repeal the charter of the town of South
Rome, aud to extend the limits of the
city of Rome so ns to include all the ter¬
ritory now embraced iu tho limits of
South Rome. An act to incorporate the
Empire Mills Telegraph company, and to
confer certaiu powers aud privileges on
the same.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
A TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR FIRE
IN SELMA, ALA.
A fire broke out in Leopold Brothers’
dry goods establishment on Broad street,
in the center of the business portion of
Selma, Ala., on Suuday morning about
2 o’clock. The people were alt asleep,
and the fire had gained considerable
head v»y before it was discovered. A
brisk wind was blowing and the flames
spread while with great rapidity. Iu a short
the entire block was iu flames. In
two hours an whole block of buildings
was consumed. Nothing was saved,
The destruction was comp ete. The loss
will foo fc up about $200,000, distributed
as fol uws: Gill s hotel, $50,000, owned
N 7 ,■ '’ • “- Giii, no insurance; Leo-
r? 10 0I " 8 :in< ^ building, $100,-
i ; Rock , way & Co., $20,000; Selma
Fraternal lodge, ->5,0i/0; Fitzpatrick
Bauk saloon, $14,009; Rothschild & Co
confectionery, $10,000. There is iusur- \
5“ „„ bU ‘ Ui,DSS 0nd •*«* ««■*
TAILORS ON A STRIKE
BECAUSE THE MANAGERS REFUSE TO DIS¬
CHARGE THE FOREMAN.
Between six hundred and fifty and
seven hundred journeyman tailors, em¬
ployed in twenty-six of the largest and
first-class tailoring houses in Chicago,
pursuant went out to on a decision strike reached Friday morning’ big
a at a
meeting held Thursday night. Indica¬
tions arc. that the difficulty will not be
in soon adjusted. Ihe dispute originated
the tailoring establishment of Mathews
& Co. The men were dissatisfied with
their foreman, a man named Hendrick-
son. Mathews, They made complain of this man
to but the latter claims that
no specific charges were made, a simple
demi.nd being presented for Hendrick¬
son’s dismissal. The firm refused to dis¬
charge the foreman aud the men quit
work.
BANK STATEMENT
_
the-reek
ending Saturday, October Mth:
Legal ypocid ,., , . t l,27y.Vo 4. ’7 o
tenders decrease..............
-Deposits Circulation decrease................... increase................ 4,13o,'i00
£.2,2J0
The bit-ks now hold $916,650 in excels
&5 per cent rule.
schoolboys jatanese biding papers in bring coffins the story that fiv*
to fool theii
teacher, in the province of Kiangan. wen
suffocated. A sixth, left as a sentinel, wa?
then whipped to death by the teacher.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
Hon. Alexander Morris, exHieuteuant
governor of Manitoba, is dead.
At least one thousand families iu South
Dakota are said to be in a state of des¬
titution.
The steamer Baltimore, which went
ashore near Cape Henry Wednesday
night, was floated Friday night.
A dispatch from Fergus Falls, Minn.,
fays that the grouud was covered with
snow Monday morning at that place.
The factory of the Peerless Plush com¬
pany, at Patterson, N. J., was totally
destroyed by fire Friday. Loss, $05,000.
Affairs in Guatemala are in a bad state.
A revolution on a large scale is immi¬
nent. said to be backed by a New York
syndicate.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
While addressing an audience at Music
Hill, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Friday night,
Hon. Allen G. Thurman, on account of
a failure of strengih, broke completely
down.
The National Carbon works at Cleve¬
land, O., were damaged by fire Sunday
to an extent between $30,000 and $40,-
000; fully insured. This is the largest
carbou plant in the world.
Fire in Port Letdon, N. Y., Friday
morning, destroyed the Douglass opera
house and a number of business houses
and private residences, causing a loss of
over $100,000. All the town records
were burned.
The Chippewacommioners, at Duluth,
Minn., arrived Saturday from the Grand
Bortage male reservation, where they received
every adultlndian’s signature tc
the agreement for the taking up land in
severalty, and selling what remained.
A fire at Port Cliuton. O., on Friday,
destroyed the planing mill and lumber
vnrd of August Spies & Co,, an elevator
li led with grain, and a coal warehouse
owned by L. Couch & Co., together with
I wo dwellings, railroad cars, docks, etc.
Loss $100,0u0.
1 he switchmen’s strike in the Louis-
v lie and Nashville yards at Evansville,
Ind., is practically at an end. New
switchmen n r e arriving on every incom¬
ing train, and some of the old ones have
applied for their places, and will doubt¬
less go to work at once.
The steamer Quinte, of the Deseronto
Navigation company, at Deseronto,Ont.,
was burned on Friday. Four persons
were lost. The boat had a light load of
freight and express matter, principally
lumber, carried all of which was destroyed. She
also ha-ails, which were lost.
Great enthusiasm prevailed at the pe¬
troleum exchange at Pittsburg, Pa., on
Saturday. On that day oil reached the
highest price siuce July 10,1885. The
highest reached was $1.07J; the lowest
this year was on January 27, when it
was 71*, so the range of the year was
36 J, a fine chance for profit.
James J. We3t, ex-editor of the Chicago
Times , gave bond in the sum of $2,500
to answer for his appearance whenever
the State chooses to put him on trial on
the charge of issuing stock of the 'Times
Company with fradulent iutent,for which
he was indicted. Charles E. Graham,
former secretary of the Company, was
also indicted with West.
The squaw men on the reservation
have fettled on all the lands for miles
about Fort Pierre, S. D., and intending
settlers the are greatly excited, claiming that
government has decided that the
squaw men are no better than other
whites. Serious trouble is feared, as the
white settlers are organizing and threat¬
en to go upon the reservation and eject
the squaw men.
and In Girls’ an address National Monday before the Boys’
Home association, in
session at Washington, D. C., Alexander
Hogeland, president of the association,
stated that there were $60,000 boy
tramps iu the United States. He advo¬
cated the establishment of a registration
system by wdiich boy tramps might be
fouud and hired to farmers willing to
employ them.
The plan for changing the constitution
of the American cotton seed trust and
merging it into a new incorporated com¬
pany, was made public, at New York, on
Friday. Under its provisions, the new
company will issue $21,000,000 of stock
and $11,000,000 in bonds. The present
holders will receive twenty-five per cent.
the face of their certificates in new
bonds, and fifty per cent, in new
stock. All property of the present trust
' V1 ^ be translerred to the new company,
A dispatch on Saturday from Fan-
bault, Minn., says: Reports from all
over this country of a terrible drought
are pouring in, anu unless plenty of rain
comes before winter sets in, the effect
will be terrible. A great many wells are
now dry. Many farmers in this vicinity
have to haul water six miles for watering
cattle and for household use. There is
fear that the Faribault waterworks wells
will give out, which will leave the city
iu a helpless condition.
p Erie ^ a north . and .. Mestern i bound - railroad freight , • , . on the wrecked Lake T ,
was moraio*!
at Kokoma, lad., Friday
Twelve oil tanks exploded in quick suc¬
cession, setting fire to the box cars at¬
tached. Two cars of merchandise and
four of coal were consumed. Engineer
Mehl, Fireman Edxvard Murkett, and
Head Brakeman John Sherman were
thrown between the cars and burned.
The accident was the work of wreckers,
this being the third attempt.
A dispatch from F argo, N. D., says:
“A second attempt to rob the post-
office was made Friday morning, the re¬
sult of which is that Harry Melton, night
clerk, has a bullet in his right arm. Mel¬
ton says he was awakened at midnight
by the growliug office. of a dog, iired and found a
robber in the He four shots
at the man as he was escaping through
the window', and was himself shot in the
arm. Melton's story is generally dis¬
believed.
At Irwin, Pa., Thomas and James
Thompson, Robert Robinson, Samuel
sitting Hemmin/uad ider Benjamin Stubbs were
u a car playing cards Sunday
evening, when the shifter pushed the
RoNoson, Hemming Aompsen and Thom„
Thomp.om b,ck Jane, had bis
^ k *l?" d d, * d "7
ith ^ nis lionio* 1 . Stut) ujs esesped
w slight injuries.
A childless old lady of Stoddardsville,
Penn., years ago set apart a small room
for spiders to make their webs in, and no
broom has ever disturbed it. The
spiders dwell together in harmony, as a
rule, although the lady says they some-
have regular cat-aud-aog fights.
TRADE TOPICS.
AN ENCOITH AGING REPORT FROM DUNS
COMMERCIAL AGENCY.
The following is R. G. Dun & Co.V
weekly review of trade for the week
ending Saturday, October 26th: The
money market has become mare easy,
with pro-peels that serious disturbance
this season is no longer to be appre¬
hended. The Bank of Englaud gamed
last week $270,000, and the Bank of
France $231,000 in gold. All report
supplies adequate for legitimate needs.
Collections are unusually satisfactory at
almost all points, though some places
note tardine.-s because fanners hold back
products for better prices. T he volume
of trade, fair for the season, at all points,
is greater than a year ago, though th,
aggregate of bank clearings outside of
New York exceed last year’s but two per
cent. Trade in food* and groceries is
good. The wool tiade has been the
largest at New’ York for a long time, and
more active at Boston, where sales were
3,100,000 pounds, but full at Philadel
phia. Iron in grows stronger, having ad¬
vanced price $1. A demand from
Canada and from Mexico is felt, foreign
prices leiug high, Bir iron is firm.
blooms and billets feverish, and rails are
$31.50 to $32, oiders already booked for
18990 amounting to 75,000 tons or more.
Copper is steady. Tin is a shade lower,
and iead depressed to $3.75 by expecta¬
tion of large Mexican *
trade is dull this supply. The coal
piished week, and has accom-
3,000,900 nothing beyond fixiug ‘ upon
tons as the output for Novem¬
ber; sales generally at $3.00. Liquida¬
tion in wheat continues with prices three
cents lower than a week ago, and sales
of 05,000,000 bushels here, Pork is
weak, and iu hogs the decline has been
sixty cents per 100 pounds. Oil has risen
three cents. Coffee is unchanged and
sugar is again lower. Cotton continues
down, receipts exceeding those of the
same week last year by forty thousand
bales, and exports thirty thousand bales,
and While there has been a touch of suow
iu Virginia, the dreaded frost in the cot¬
ton states is still deferred. The treasury
has done little to help or hinder, but has
increased its cash holdings $900,000 for
the week. On the whole, speculative
markets are not promising, and judi¬
ciously let alone by the public, but the
outlook for all departments of legiiimate
business is more encouraging thau it has
been for a long time. Business failures
during last w'euk number for the United
corresponding States 188, and for Canada 37. For the
week last year, the figures
were 222 failures iu the United Stater
and 82 in the Dominion of Canada.
AN UNPRECEDENTED CASE
THE SUFREME COURT ok TENNESSEE
Starts a new order of things.
The supreme court, at Knoxville,
Tenn., on Saturday, decided a case un¬
precedented in the history of Tennessee.
Last January, Henry Sutton,a prominent
stock buyer, was fired up#n by men in
ambush and killed. Suspicion pointed
to five men, John (or Big John) Ander¬
son, John, Elisha and Clinton Bernard.
They were all closely related to each
other, and a family feud had long been
raging between them and the Suttous.
The Bernards were arrested and tiled on
the same indictment, convicted and sen¬
tenced to be hanged. An appeal waa
taken to the supreme court, and that
body confirmed the sentence of the lower
court. They will be hanged on Decem¬
ber 23. It is a remarkable case in several
particular!, and the first on record where
five men were tried for tnufdSr oil the
same indictment and convicted. At the
same term of the lower court six men
were sentenced to be hanged, and several
sent to the penitentiary for long terms
for homicide. The first sentence to hang
ever given in the county; was givhn tic
that term. Hancock county, which ad¬
joins Kentucky,has been lomr known for
bloody feuds and fatal shooting affrays,
but the decision, Saturday, *
on it is
thought, wilt start a new order of things
iu the mountains.
PETITIONS FOR PARDON
OF MRS. MAYBRICK, NOW SERVING A LIFE
SENTENCE IN LONDON,
Interest iu the celebrated Maybrick
poisoning case which was revived through New a
legal document reached York
on the arrival of the mail from England
Friday. It was a mortgage, and bore
the signature in a firm, bold hand of
Florence Maybrick. The mortgagee is
ll:chard Stewart Cleaver, of Liverpool,
Mrs. Maybrick’s English counselor, and
the mortgage was made to secure his fee.
It bears a date three days after the trial
began, and w'as placed on file in the
county register’s office in New York
Friday morning. At the office of Roe &
Macklin^Mrs. learned Maybrick’s American attor¬
neys, was that strenuous efforts are
being made by several prominent mem-
bers of the English bar to secure a par-
d in for the convicted woman, among
them being Sir Charles Russell, Sir
Henry James, and the recorder of Liv¬
erpool. A petition asking her
majesty’s intervention in the casse
has, it is said, ben signed
by at least two-thirds of the barris¬
ters in England, and members of parlia¬
ment and leading men throughout the
kingdom are interested in securing Mrs.
Maybrick’s release in view of the insuf¬
ficiency of the evidence, as they believe,
which convicted her.
THEY RESOLVE
TO CONTINUE THE USE OF COTTON BAGGING
AND ENCOURAGE ITS MANUFACTURE.
The Georgia committee on cotton bag-
ging^n its recent session iu Macon, Ga.,
passed the following resolutions:
“Whereas, The bilging committee hai
information from a number of sub-al¬
liances throughout this state indicating,
in the strongest terms, a determination
to continue the use of cotton bagging
alone for the purpose of covering the
crop of 1889. Therefore. Re olved,
That in conformity wi h this purpose,
we recommend the*manufacture of bag¬
ging, to weigh not less than one pound
to the yard and 44 inches wide, loosely
woven, similiar to that now manufac¬
tured by the Lane and West Point, Ga..
mills.”
THE PAPERS MISSING,
DOCUMENTS NEEDED TO COMBAT ‘ BOODLE”
CLAIMS DISAPPEAR.
It was announced at Chicago Fridav
evening that important papers were miss¬
ing from the state’s attorney’s office,upon
which the county had largely depended
combat the old “boodle” claims, ag¬
chiefly gregating $250,000. They are needed
Kellogg, to light the bills of Contractor
ex-Warden Varnell, ex-Com-
missioner Fray and the American btone
and Brick Preserving company. It is
said that unless the missiDg documents
are recovered it mar result in the loss of
thousand dollar* to the county.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
ANOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Bids were opened Saturday at the navy
department for the construction of three
2.000 ton cruisers.
The President, on Friday, appointed Uni¬
A. E. Buck, of Atlanta, Ga., to be
ted States marshal for the Northmen Dis¬
trict of Georgia.
Secretary Windora, on Saturday, ac¬
cepted the resignation of Charles B.
Morton, commissioner of navigation, tc
take affect on tie 10th of November,
Dr. R. P. Daniel, president of the
state board of health of Florida, tele¬
graphed to the marine hospital service
that the quarantine restrictions imposed
on Key West on account of suspicious
cases of fever there, have been removed.
The following postal changes ic
South Carolina, were announced or.
Saturday: J. T. Crane appointed
postmaster at Bewerton,- Laurens
county, and H. H. Lynch at Rdck, Pick¬
ens county.
The superintendent of the fre9 deliv¬
ery service has given further considera¬
tion to Postmaster Mowry’s proposition
to increase the postal facilities at Chari-s-
ton, S. C., by the establishment of sub¬
stations office throughout the city. A po?t-
livery inspector connected with is the de¬
branch of the sefvice now iu the
South, and he will probably be directed
to visit Charleston before returning to
Washington.
The ordnance bureau of the war dc-
partment has invited proposals foi
the erection of one main store house,
commanding officers’ quarters, office,
guardhouse, and shed, workshop 3 , of magazine, stable
and two sets barracks for
enlisted men to Comprise an afsenal at
Columbia, Tenn. the proposals are to
be opened at noon on Wednesday; No-
vember 26'.h. The amount appropriated
for the actual cost of construction of the
arsenal is $200,000.
Argument was begun in the Supreme
Court of the United Statesou Thursday,
in the well-known case of Chase Cro s s
and Sami. C. White, defaulting presi¬ the
dent and cashier respectively of
State National the Bank of North Raleigh, N. C.,
against state of Carolina.
Cross and White were indicted in the
North It Carolina State Court for forgery.
was alleged that they forged a note
for the purpose of sustaining certain
false entries they had made i# the back's
books; the intention being to deceive the it
national bank examiner, whose duty
whs to examihe into and report on the
financial condition of the same.
Now that the sinking fund require :
ments for the fiscal year have been fully
met by the purchase of bonds to date,
the sole purpose of future bond pur¬
chase will be to prevent, so far as possi¬
ble, any undue increase in the treasury
surplus. Recent offerings of bonds have
been unusually heavy, and acceptances
during the past few days amount to
about $3,000,000. The continued excess
of receipts over expenditures has, how¬
ever^ bf prevented surplus. According any material reduction
tne td the tieas-
Urer’s statement, issued Saturday, this
now far amounts to $46,345,000. Receipts
so this month aggregate nearly $27,-
000,000, and expenditures neatly $17,-
000,000, making a net gain of $10,000,-
000 for the month;
DISASTERS AT SEA.
SEVERAL VESSELS GO DOWN—FRIGHTFUL
LOSS OF LIFE.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says:
,
The schooner George T. Simmons, of
Camden, N. J., was wrecked off False
cape, thirty miles south of Cape Henry,
inastorm last Wednesday night. When
the vessel was first seen sunk in the
breakers, by the life-saving crew Thurs¬
day morning, five men were lashed in the
rigging. One by one the doomed men
have been swept away into the sea. Sun¬
day night two men were left. Life-saV-
ing stations Nos. 4, 5 and 6 have kept in
readiness a crew of picked men, watching
an opportunity but to go to the rescue of the
wrecked men, the surf has run too
high for the life boat to make an attempt at
relief....A large three-masted schooner,
flying a flag of distress, is ashore eight
miles outside of Oiegon Inlet. Assist¬
ance will be sent from Norfolk.....TL5
schooner Lizzie F. Haynes, lumber iad-
en, from Savannah to Baltimore, has been
wrecked on Body’s IslaUd. The captain
and steward were saved. Five men were
drowned. Two of their bodies were re¬
covered and were buried. The vessel is
a total loss* and the cargo is washing
out on the beach... .The schooner A. jB.
Blackman rolled over when two miles
out at sea. Captain cork Charles Edw'ards,
by aid of a jacket, swam to
New inlet and was saved.
The other five of the crew were lost....
News from Charleston, S. C., Sunday,
says: The steamer Carbis Bay arrived
from York on Friday. She reports that
fifty-four miles northeast by east of Hat-
teras light she passed the abandoned
schooner Mabel L. Phillips, of Taunton,
lumber laden. The bold was filled with
water. All the masts were gone, and the
deck bowsprit was standing iu the track
of the steameis, and is dangerous to
navigation. She left Charleston for
Philadelphia on the 12th with 558,000
feet of lumber on board.
TWO MORE VICTIMS
OF RUBE BURROWS, THE NOTED OUTLAW
AND MURDERER.
A special dispatch on Saturday from
the Birmingham, Ala., says: liube Burrows,
noted Alabama train robber, mur¬
derer and outlaw, has ag in defeated 8
sheriff’s posse and added two in«n to hi-
long list of victims. Late Friday even¬ hit
ing Burrows and one member of
gang, supposed to have been Ben
Thornton, were surrounded near Brooks-
ville, Blount county, A!a., by Suerifl
Morris and a posse of forty men. The
outlaws opened fire, and at the first vol¬
ley Deputy Sheriffs Anderson and Penn
Woodward fell dead, the formei shot
through the head and the latter through
the breast, The officers returned tht
fire, and over one hundred shots were
exchanged. The posse were armed only
with shotguns and pistols, and as they
were two hundred yards from the out¬
laws, they were at great disadvantage, as
the latter were armed with repeating ri¬
fles of large calibre. James Herum, o,
the posse, was dangerously wounded
and five other.-, whose names could not
be learned, received siight wounds. The
outlaws fired only at one point in the
surrounding line, and cutting a gap and in it
they c<ade a cash for liberty es¬
caped, no pursuit being made by the
posse, who remained to care for their
dead ana wounded.
A GREAT DAY.
THE ALLIANCES OF GEORGIA HATH A
GRAND REUNION AT ATLANTA.
Alliance day, at the Piedmont exposi¬
tion,at Atlanta, Ga., on Friday, was even
greater than Cleveland day, two years
ago. There were more people within
the bounds of Fulton county than on any
other one day in the history of Georgia,
and the program at the exposition was iu
perfect keeping with the immensity of
the crowd. Every train that reached
Atlanta, Wednesday night and Friday,
waa All packed roads with incoming thousands.
the ran extra coaches to accom¬
odate the crowds, and ail were taxed to
their utmost to haul the alliancemen and
their friends. At the grounds the crowd
centered mainly in the grand stand and
on the terraces around the race track.
The officers in charge say that it was,
without an exception, the quietest and
most and orderly crowd they ever
saw, body they told the truth. Every¬
The was in splendid exercises humor. began
special alliance
promptly on time, and when they were
opened fully twenty thousand alliance-
stand, men were and within earshot of the speaker’s
in sight of its unique deco¬
ration implements. df Cotton bagging and agricultural
At 10 o’clock a line of car¬
riages, containing the Committee and the
alliance guests, was drawn up at the
Pryor street entrance to the Kimball
house, and a few minutes later the start
for the grounds was made. The proces¬
sion was headed by the Forsyth, Ga.,
alliance band and the Zouave band. In
ihe carriages, among the guests, were a
number of ladies, including Mrs. L. F.
Livingston, wife of President Livingston
and the Misses Folk, the charming
daughters of Hon. L. L. Polk, of Ten-
nessee. The other carriages wefe oCcu-
pied by the speakers of the day, the
delegations from Texas, Tennessee and
North Carolina, the governor, mayor and
the citizens’ and exposition committees,
After the distinguished visitors had gone
over departments, the gtoUnds and through the sever-
they Were escorted to the
speaker’s fitted stand, iii which had been specially
up their horic'r. At eleven
o’clock the speaking began in the pres-
“ ence en and °f, those l? ear ^ who 50,000 wished people—alliai them Godspeed ce
A special feature of the day was a double
weddiug, in which the contracting par¬
ties were attired iu cot'on bagging
costumes. The ceremony was witnessed
the by the thousands who were assembled on
grounds, and was a very interesting
Scene. The day and occasion will be
long (Georgia. remembered by the farmers of
thirty men arrested
FOR COMPLICITY IN THE LYNCHING OF
toUNG BERKIER, IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A special from Lexington; N. C. on
Monday, says: This section has just
been thrown into intense excitement on
account of the arrest of thirty men
charged with being implicated in the re¬
cent lynching of young Robert Berrier,
white, who so brutally murdered his
mother-in-law near here. Following the
special instructions of Governor Fowle,
Sheriff R. D, Leonaid, with a posse of
thirty men, stlrted out with warrants for
the arrest of many men, charging them
with being in the lynching party. Up to
Monday night tie following had been
arrested: John Wood, John Craven, D.
R. Mvers, J. A. Myers, J. N. Myers, W.
A. LiViugood, Ci F. Swicegood, J. M.
Farabee, John Farabee, B. C. Qibble, W.
B; Hunt, W. W. Myers, A. C. Wood,
C, A. Hanes, J. L. Wilson, It C. Britts,
Henderson Shoaff, Ham Sink, Plunk
Daniels, David M&Ck, Alfred Green,- Jos¬
eph Sowers, Robert Julien Nifong,Royal
Shoaff, Jefferson Graver, Henry Michael,
Jr. All these men were guarded at the
courthouse by twelve special officers, the
jail being unable to accommodate such a
number. It is thought that in the examina¬ entire
week will be consumed the
tion of the prisoners, as a great number
of witne-ses will be introduced on both
sides. The greatest interest is manifested
in the investigation, and public senti¬
ment is strongly in favor of allowing the
lynchers to go unpunished.
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO
HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAV.
A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich.,
says that not less than 75.000 Michigan
farmers have joined the Patrons of Hus¬
bandry since last May, and the number
is increasing every week. They threaten
to become a controlling power in die
politics of the state, and then to spread
over the entire country. The patrons
claim to have been forced into being by
monopolies and trusts, and they propose
to organize a combination that will
strike terror to the hearts of their ene¬
mies. At present the patrons are devo¬
ting themselves exclusively to merchants,
and in every town where they have a
foothold they enter into an iron clad
contract with one dealer in each line of
trade to purchase only from him, exact¬
ing a pledge that they shall not be
changed to exceed twelve per cent ad¬
vance on wholesale prices. The patrons
have lodges in forty-seven counties, with
a membership of more thau 5,000.
FLORIDA FRUITS
WILL BE CONSIGNED TO CHICAGO DEALERS
FOR DISTRIBUTION.
A largely attended meeting of whole¬
sale fruit dealers of Chicago was held
Thursday, at which Gen. A. S. Mann,
of Jacksonville, Fla., was present, to
formulate a plan to make Chicago a dis¬
tributing point for Florida for the North¬
west. He said that the fruit growers of
his st ite had arrived at the conclusion
that it was a waste of time and money
to consign hundreds of small packages
to towns and villages throughout the
Northwest. He proposed, as spokesman
of 000,000 the shippers of x Florida, who seud had 10,-
boxes of oranges to over
the country, that the merchants of Chi¬
cago unite to make lhat city a point for
distribution.
AN OLD CLAIM
AFTER TWENTY TEARS RETURNS TO TOR¬
MENT THE PEOPLE OF AUGUSTA.
The superior court, in session at Au¬
gusta, Ga.. was engiged Monday with
the cases brought by John Glenn, trustee
of the National Express and Transporta¬
tion company against the Augusta sub¬
scribers to the stock of that company.
Some twenty-five years ago the company
went to the wall, and now, twenty years
afterwards, the subscribers are being
forced to pay up by a third party, who
bought up the affairs of the company for
a song, and who, it is said, has already
collected a quarter of a million dollars.
About $75,000 worth of claims are held
In Augusta.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA-
R10 US POINTS IN THE S O U TII.
CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 13 001X0 ON OF
A
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN 8TATES.
Local capitalists at Pittsburg, Fa., rolling are
mill organizing to build a $100,000
iu Sheffield, Ala.
Information was received at Rich¬
mond, Va., Friday night that democratic
judges had been arrested in Charlotte
county charged with committing fraud
at the* late presidential election.
Switchmen on roads entering Memphis
Tenn., on Friday petitioned the several
superintendents for an increase of wages
from $2.15 and $2.25 per day to $2.50.
A general strike is threatened if their de¬
mands are not conceded to.
Five thousand cigarmakers are still on
strike at Key West, Fla. Many Cuban op¬
eratives who wished to return to Havana,
petitioned the Spanish consul to send
them home. A Cuban gunboat is on its
way to Key West for that purpose.
Mrs. Robert Brown, of Wilmington, and
N. C., celebrated the one hundred
first anniversary of her birth Friday.
She has indisputable record evidence that
she was bi rn in Charleston, S. C., Octo¬
ber 25th, 1788.
At New Orleans a fire broke out Sun¬
day morning in the cargo of cotton in
the forward hatch of the British steamer
Trinacria, loading for Havre, The Tri-
nacria belonged to the Anchor line. She
had 2,200 bales aboard. The loss is
$ 10 , 000 .
A. A. Wood’s cigar box factory, the
sawmill of the Tampa Lumber company
and the machine and car shops of the
Tampa Railway company, at Tampa,
Fia., were destroyed Friday. The Tam¬
pa Lumber company lose $5,000, cigar
box factory $5,OUO and the Street Rail¬
way company $2,550.
Memorial services were held in the
Centinary M. E. church at Charleston,
S. C., in honor of the late Mrs. R. B.
llayes, who was prominent in establish¬
ing the woman’s mission among colored
women in the south. The missions of
all the other M. E. churches joined in
the services.
A meeting of the directors of the Au-
gusta, Ga., Exposition compauy was held
Monday to consider a proposition to buy
the properly. It was decided to call a
meeting of the stockholders and allow
them the opportunity to take the prop¬
erty by subscribing to preferred stock.
The property represents an investment
of $115,000, and has an indebtedness
against it of $60,000.
A dispatch on Friday, fiom Nashville,
Tenn,, says: The Southern Iron company
has just added another valuable furnace
property, (the Drouiilard Iron company)
to its possession. The propeity coni-
piises 17,000 acres of mineral and timber
lands, lying between the Cumberland
river and Dickson, on the Nashville &
Chattanooga road. The ameuut paid
was $140,000 cash.
Edwin D. Mathews, clerk for C. W.
Oliver, tax collector for Pike county,
Ga., was called by some one to his store
Friday night. He opened the store,
struck a match and lit a lamp, when two
men assaulted him and robbed him cf
seventeen hundred and forty dollars tax
money belonging to the county, Ma-
thews was severely handled by the rob¬
bers, and was painfully wounded.
THE DEADLY AX.
AN OLD MAN KILLED, AND HIS AGED WIFB
KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS.
A dispatch ffjffl Hawkinsville, Ga —
says: A horrible murder was committe w-
8unday night eleven miles from here, just
across Houston county line. Mr. Wil*
dam Miller, an aged farmer, was killed
and his wife was nearly killed. Mr. and
Mrs. Miller Jived alone. They were sit¬
ting by the fire reading and each had a
band small lamp. Mrs. Miller heard Then her hus¬
say: “Don’t do that.” she
felt herself struck, and was knocked un¬
conscious. When she regained con¬
sciousness she heard the clock strike
twelve. She saw that Mr. Miller was
apparently dead, and she was afraid to
call for help, fearing that her assailants
were still there. She lay there until four
o’clock, that she when her suffering were so great
called for help. Her calls were
soon answered by the cook, whose house
was forty or fifty yards distant. On the
bed was an ax which had struck the
blows and the mrable top of a bureau
which had been removed from its place
to enable the murderers to rifle the draw¬
ers in search of money, which Miller
was supposed to have in the house. It is
supposed that Mr. Miller saw the parties
as they raised the ax, and asked them
not to stiike. Mrs. Miller did not see
them. She was nearest the door, and
was struck first with the ax. She waa
knocked senseless, and was probably
thought to be dead. Then it is supposed
that Mr. Miller was attacked. He was
struck five blows with the ax, and his
skull was badly smashed. When found
he was still sitting in his arm chair, with
his head and arm hanging over the side.
The blood had run from his wounds and
made a pool on the floor. His death
must have been instantaneous. Mr. Mil¬
ler was one of the most respected citi¬
zens of Houston; a well-to-do farmer,
upwards of sixty years old. El. John¬
son and Sam Chun key, two negroes, are
suspected of the murder, as they have
disappeared from the neighborhood.
A BOLD SCHEME.
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN PELT A TRICE
ON A NEWARK BANK.
Two well dressed men and a woman
drove up to Gottman savings bank, at
Newark, N. J., Wednesday afternoon.
The men entered the bank and informed
the cashier that the lady in the carriage
was unable to waik and desired to speak
to him and make a deposit. One of them
and the cashier went out and held a con¬
versation with the lady. She deferred
making the deposit so the cashier re¬
turned. The other man left the bank,
entered the carriage and drove off. A few
moments later it was discovered that
|1,150 in bills had been stolen from be¬
hind the railing.
DEVASTATING FLOODS.
In a review of the calamities caused
by floods in Japan during the year 1889,
the Japan J Mail says: “Incomplete re¬
turns show that twelve prefectures have
been devastated, 2,410 pe >ple killed,
155 wounded and over 90,000 p^ppje de¬
prived of of subsistence. 4 More
means
than 50,000 'houses have been swept
away or submerged, 150,000 acres of
crops have been destroyed, about 6,000
bridges have been washed away and
some hundred miles of road tuye been
broken up.”
THE WHISPERING CORK.
Have you e’er walked at early mom
Beside a field of stately corn.
Just while the red sun drossed the rim
Of this round world, mist-wet and dimf
Often have I, if but to hear
Mysterious whisperings far and near.
’Tis just at nature’s waking time.
While hillsides yet are white with rime,
And while the first lark, rising flings
Dew-spray from off his early wings.
And now and then a faint sound tells
Where cattle rise and shake their bells.
“Hush,” says the corn, “with dog and gun
I see a hunter hither run.
Oh, trembling hare, far inward hie;
Lie close, oh, partridge, do not fly.*
The hunter lists. . It seems to say:
“No game is lurking here to-day.”
Sometimes the farmer comes to see,
And theu it says: “Here’s gold for thee
Which sun and air and sky and soil
Have gathered to reward thy toil.
Ten thousand sentinels in line
Guard each gift for thee and thine.”
Or if some Dives walks for health.
Worn out with care of useless wealth.
It whispers: “You make gold of tears, !
Of hunger, curses, prayers and fears.
But here are alchemists whose gold
Must feed the hungry, warm the cold.”
Sometimes with heavy heart there goes
A love-lorn swain along the rows;
Then “List,” it lisps, “at husking bee.
When rafters rise with rustic glee
Of brown-cheeked maids and merry men.
Ah, you shall kiss her, kiss her then."
Thus oft in low mysterious wise
Soft voices from the tall corn rise—
Lulled lispings, as though unknown tongu*
Whispered the long lush leaves among.
They tell me secrets sweet and true;
They’ll whisper, if you wish, to you.
— Georye■ Horton, in Chicago Herald.
NTH AND POINT,
In small business—The dwarf.
Reigning cats and dogs.—The pets oi
the family.
Very few persons can hold their own
on their first sea voyage.
A good many people with lock on the
understanding seem to have lost the key.
The credit of a financial company is
liable to be swamped when its sinking
fund has been lost.
It is unkind to make a jest of aerial
navigation before inventors of air ships.
It is a soar point with them.
A Pennsylvania man has kept an um¬
brella for forty years. He must have
kept it chained .—Somerville Journal.
The court-house is not necessarily a
sad place because so many plaintiff stories
are heard there .—Pittsburg Chronicle.
Things are about even; if you are a
boy, it is the woodbox, and if you are a
girl, it is the dishes .—Atchison Globe.
The man who tries to argue a woman
into loving him may succeed, perhaps,
but he must have a long life and no ri¬
val.
Dignity, my son, is a very proper sort
of thing; but don’t put on too much of
it, or you may be taken for a footman.—
Puck.
Nabob—“In what estimation are you
held by your next-door neiglibor?” Gay-
bob—‘ ‘I don’t know; I’ve never struck
him for a loan yet.”
Little Clara (who is crying because her
papa is going to marry again)—“Ob,
what would my poor mamma say if she
were alive?”— -ChicagoLedger.
McCorkle—“Isn’t Briggs naturally a
lazy man?” McCrackle—“Not exactly
lazy; but he seems to think it is un¬
healthy to work between meals.”— Life »
“Every Is dog must have his day,” i
But a proverb ofLquoted pat;
The notwithstanding what men say,
nights belong to the cat.
—New York Journal, i
It is a curious fact that while women
are reticent about their own ages, they
have no hesitation about publishing the
ages of other women .—Pittsburg Bul¬
letin.
If a bachelor ever feels justified in con¬
gratulating himself, with a hearty, whole¬
some shake, it is when he hears a mother
talking to her baby in a horse-car.—
Somerville Journal.
The old man in the play is forever talk¬
ing about “twenty long years ago,” just
as though there were long and short years,
that could be picked out according as
the notion seizes you.
“Is your father easy to get along
with,” asked George, as they sat on the
doorstep. “Why, certainly. What made
you ask?” “Nothing; only he seems to
be a good deal of a kicker.”— Washing¬
ton Capital.
A simple tale I tell you which nor humor has
simple nor wit,
A story, and this is the long and short
of it.
He lingered long at mountain, lingered long
at Leach resort,
And that was why, when he returned, he
was so very short.
—Boston Courier.
Checks, so the tailors say, will be the
fashionable thing this winter. That is
just the trouble. The tailors want
such tremendous checks that ruin stares
the possessor of a new suit in the face.—
Cincinnati Times-Star.
An author—no good—
By an editor stood,
This remark did propose: ''
“How like you my prose?” 1
Ye Ed. the man eyed,
Then tersely replied:
For ell, it might have been worse,
it might have been verse.”
—Chicago Sun.
Fruit as a Medicine.
Fresh, ripe, perfect, raw fruit is safe
and healthful at all seasons of the year.
Under proper restrictions as to quantity,
such fruits as named will cure diarrhoea,
aid in removing a colic, cold, fever, or
any other disease whose treatment re¬
quires the bowels to be kept freely open;
for this effect fresh ripe fruit is acknowl¬
edged to have the requisite properties; but
to be used advantageously in health and
disease, the following rules are impera¬
tive: Fruit should be eaten ripe, raw,
fresh and perfect. It should be eaten in
moderation. It should be eaten no later
than 4 o’clock in the afternoon. No
water or fluid of any description should
be swallowed within an hour after eating
fruit. To have its full beneficial effect,
nothing else should be eaten at the time
fruit is taken. It is to the neglect of
these observances that erroneous iaapres--
sions prevail in many families, and to an
extent too, in some instances, that the
most luscious peach or apple, or bunch
of grapes is regarded as that much em.-
bodied cholera and death —Journal oj
Health.
The man who borrows trouble wilj
have a big interest to p&y.