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news. 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.