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NEWS.
TOCGOA. GEORGIA.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Bills Passed by he Senate and House
of Representatives of Georgia.
Governor Gordon, on Tuesday, signed
the following important bills and they
are now laws: An act to lie entitled un
act to amend section five of an act en¬
titled an act to incorporate the Traders’
Bank of Atlanta, Ga. An act
to authorize th j governor to sell the city
Jot and old capital building in tho city
of Atlanti, and all of its appurtenances,
located on Marietta street, at public
ea’e, after advertising the same one
hundred days, and to make title of the
purchase. An act to define the rights
of landlords to declare the effects of cer¬
tain contracts to make it ]>inal for any
cropper to sell or dispose of crops in cer
tain cases, and to make certain
acts of the landlord indictable.
An act to amend section 339 of the
code of 1882 so that it shall read “no or¬
dinary shall engage directly or indirect¬
ly, iu thepraciice of law in his own or
in the name of another as partner, open
or silent or otherwise, in any case or
proceeding iu his own court or in another
court of which his own court lias or has
had or may have jurisdiction, or in any
court or auy manner whatever iu behalf
of or against auy executor, administra¬
tor, guardian or trustee, or other person
acting in a representative capicity,
whose duty it is to make returns to his
court, except to give such advice or in¬
structions as his duty may require of
him as ordinary in his own court and
for which he shall receive only such fees
as prescribed by law.”
HILLS r ASS ED IJY THE SENATE,
A bill to amend an act incorporating
the Griflio, LnGrangc and Western rail¬
road; t > amend an act incorporating the
Georgia Overland Railway and Improve
men! Railway company; to incorporate the Street
company of Clarksville; to
change the time of holding the superior
court <>f Rabun county; to incorporate
the Simmons Short Line railroad; to in¬
corporate the Cartersvilie Street railroad
company; to incorporate the Whit-
field bank of Tunnel Hill;
to incorporate the Florida, Dawson and
Northern railroad; a bill to grant police
powers to the county commissioners of
Bibb county over the Central City Street
Railroad company. Amended to read
provided nothing in the act shall apply
to public roads in the city of Macon.
STOCKS TUMBLE.
TnE COTTON SEED OIL COMBINE HAVING
CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE.
Calamity seemed to icach its climax
Thursday, for tho bulls in the trus-t
stocks, on the stock exchange at New
York. The grief was concentrated in
cotton oil crowd. Everybody was pre¬
dicting an immediate advance of many
points in cotton oil certificates, based on
ihe rosy programme of converting the
trust into a corporation, aud reducing the
capital from $42,00u,000 to $30,000,000.
doubt of tho success. But alas for the
frailty of promises and prospects in Wall
street, tho popular expectation failed
sadly of realization. Immediately on the
opening of the market there was on over¬
whelming pre-sure to sell. The first sale
was 41^, aud from that point
a decline instantly set in,
which hud no check until the
price was hammered down to 86J. This
tumble of five full points meant a
shrinkage of over $2,000,000 iu the mar¬
ket value of the total capitnl
of the trust. The scene on the
stock exchange baffles description.
Tho real reason for tho most of the de¬
cline was probably because of the serious
disappointment which some prominent
insiders felt at tho annual report. The
showing of earnings flattering. for the last year is
by no mentis For the first six
mouths tho net profits wore entirely sat¬
isfactory, but tho last six months wero
bad. The total net earnings for the
year amount to a little over $1,600,000
which is at least $1,000,000 less than
officially predicted. Several of the mills
belonging to tho trust have been shut
down on account of proving un¬
profitable, and it is said that several
more will probably have to be closed for
the same reason. The corporation into
which the trust is to be resolved will be
known as the Cotton Oil Company of
New Jersey.
BURNING WIRES.
AN EXHIBITION OF THE POWER OF THE
ELECTRIC CURRENT.
A frightful exhibition of the power of
the electric current of the street railway
circuit was given at Cincinnati on Satur¬
day along the line of the Mount Auburn
Street railroad. Their guard wire,
which hangs nlove the conducting wire
to protect other wires from coming in
contact with the electric current, broke,
and as it formed a circuit when resting
on the charged wire with one end on
the street the current passed through it.
The result was terrifying. The wire be¬
came white w ith heat aud sparkled and
flamed with the blue and white flashes
of an overcharged conductor. Confusion
reigned on the streets. The buruiug
wise consumed and fell iu pieces. Men
ran and women shrieked. Horses were
frightened and rushed away from the
dreadful light. Wagons and street cars
oollided, but fortunately the falliug wire
nowhere touched any human being and
no casualties followed.
THE SUPREME COURT
OF HEW YORK SUSTAINS THE ELECTRIC
LIGHT INJUNCTIONS.
The Supreme Court of New York, ou
Thursday, junctions rendered a decision in the in¬
obtained by toe electric light
companies the against the city, in which it
sustains temporary injunctions with
certain be tried. modifications,‘until ■■■■■ The decision the cases can
company should have reasonable oppoi
to put its wires in safe condition,
ana if it does not do so the same should
be removed by the commissioner of pub¬
lic works as obstructions, or the matter
•faould be laid before the grand iury.
BANK STATEMENT.
Following is a statement of the asso¬
ciated banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday, November 2d:
Beserve itaire&se..... $ 8,800
Loans decrease........ 758.200
Specie ■ •
Legal increase,..... .. 547.200
tender* decrease .. 231.200
Deposits Circulation decrease...... .. 1,292 60f
increase.. 16,300
The banks now hold $1,120,475 in ex-
«esa of 25 per cent rule,
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SC DTE.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IN GOING ON OP
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Ftro
Schofield building, adjoining Hollings-
worth block, on Poplar street, Macon,
Ga., and dest-oyed nearly $100,000
worth of property
According * i . to the u order of , . business .
before the Supreme Court of Alabama,
the app aled cases of Dick Hawes, Fan-
me Brymt aud others from Birmingham
will not be reached until some time in
December.
A receiver was appointed, on Friday,
for the firm of Ktinck, Vickenburg &
Co., for the last half century engaged in
r,^ Cery bus:ncs9 ia Charleston, 8. C.
Liabilities are about $70,000, and assets
nominally large.
A Key West special to the Times- Un -
ion, of Jacksonville, Fla., says: Del Pino
Brothers’immense cigar factory, contain-
ing one million cigars, besides a large
quantity of tobacco, was consumed by
fire Sunday morning.
Charleston's great earthquake festival
opened Monday with cloudless skies and
charming weather. Public buildings,
private residences and commercial houses
were bedecked with flags and bunting
from one end of the city to the other.
Billy Ryan, lessee and manager of the
Casino variety theatre, at Birmingham,
Ala., left the city Saturday night for
paits unknown, leaving about $2,000 of
unpaid debts. Several members of his
company are left without a dollar and
several week’s salary due them.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says:
A company with a capital of a million
and a half has been organized to reclaim
a hundred thousand acres of land near
that city. It will be done by straight¬
ening the channel of Trinity river. The
land will be worth ten million dollars.
A. Hirsh & Co., the largest dry goods
and militiery house in Birmingham, Ala.,
was closed on Saturday by the sheriff on
attachments aggregating $43,000. About
$20,000 of the attachments are in favor
of clerks in the store and relatives of the
firm. The Alabama National bank at-
t relied $19,000.
News comes from Spartanburg, one of
the best cotton-growing counties of North
Carolina, of a new cotton plant, which,
if it is as claimed, will make a wonderful
revolution in the agricultural and cotton
oil interests of the nation. T. Ferguson,
an experienced cotton planter, claims to
have a cotton plant which will produce
nothing but cotton seed without the lint.
Rube Burrow, the train robber, took a
ride on the night express train on the
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham
railroad Tuesday night. He was seen
aud recognized, but no one attempted
his capture. He boarded the train, west
bound, at a small station in the western
pa:t of Alabama, and rode a few miles
across the line into Mississippi. He was
alone, but carried a large Winchester
rifle and two pistols.
The superior court of Richmond
county, Ga., has decided against a num¬
ber of prominent citizens who, twenty
years ago, subscribed to the capital stock
of the National Express and Transporta¬
tion company. A test case was made on
Wednesday in case ofWilliam H. Howard,
a prominent and wealthy cotton factor,
and a verdict rendered against him.
This virtually carries the other cases with
it. The verdict is regarded as a great
hardship, although in accordance with
court decisions in these cases in all states
from Maine to Texas.
One of the largest transactions in land
ever cousumated In the South, has re¬
cently been perfected at Jacksonville,
Fla., and made public Friday. All unsold
lands in Florida of the Plant system of
railroads and steamships, of the Florida
Southern railroad, of the Jacksonville,
Tampa & Key West system, including
the Florida Southern railway, and the
Florida Commercial company, have been
consolidated under the name of the As
sociated Railway Land Department of
Florida. Over six million acres of land
are consolidated under one management
by the formation of this syndicate.
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO
HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAY.
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 ^ -ery week. They threaten
to become a controlling power in toe
politics of the state, and then to spread
over the entire country. The patrons
claim to have beeu forced into being by
monopolies and trusts, and they propose
to organize a combination that will
strike terror to the hearts of their ene-
nries. At present the patrons are devo¬
ting themselves exclusively to merchants,
aud in every town where they have a
foothold they enter into an iron clad
contract with oue dealer in each line of
trade to purchase only from him, exact¬
ing a pledge that they shall not bo
charged to exceed twelve per cent ad¬
vance on wholesale prices. The patrons
have lodges iu forty-seven counties, with
a membership of more than 5,000.
SUEING A NEWSPAPER.
MRS. MACKAY, OF CALIFORNIA, SUES AS
ENGLISH PAPER FOR LIBEL.
The action for libel brought by Mrs.
John 4V. Mackay against toe Manchester,
England, Examiner , came up for hearing
in the court of queens bench, Thursday.
The libel complained of alleged that the
plaintiff was a poor widow with two
children, and that she was employed as
a washerwoman by Nevada miuers when
and Mackay was first attracted toward her
fell in love with her and married her.
The plaintiff contends that the words of
the article suggested that she was not a
lady of birth or education, and that she
was not accustomed to associating with
persons of good positions.
THE BANK CLOSED
IN GONSEQUENCE OF ITS DEFAULTING
CASHIER.
Ou the door of the Tradesmen’s Na-
tional bank of Conshocken, Ps., on
Thursday, was posted the following no-
tices: “To whom it may concern: This
bank is closed iu consequence of toe
defalcation of the cashier. The deposit-
ors will suffer no loss.” The cashier
refeired to is William Henry Cresson,
and the amount of his defalcation is not
less than $50,000, and may exceed $75,-
000, Cresson has lived in Conshocken
six or seven years, and had made him-
self quite prouinent in the place, and
his name had become identified with sev-
eral of its leading enterprises.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
A STORY DETAILING THE MANNER IS
WHICH DU. CRONIN WAS KILLED.
A special dispatch from Winnipeg,
Canada, Saturday morning, says: “As¬
sistant State’s Attorney Baker, of Chi¬
cago, had a long interview with Bob .
Heffer. and from him receive! a detailed '
“"“J °. f lhe flurry «f Cronin
B k took a *i u ct fa /> c J to Heffer, and
^ T*' r * v co J nmi j nicat ive wita him, tel.mg
'S J the C "u 6 - H ° '
told t Heffer u that Coughlin was the main
act0 r in the tra^edv and had engaged
both him and Coonev to mrtirin£te°in
the crime. He told Heffer that sand
bags were used bv two of the assassins
while the third wielded a common base-
ball bat; that he was under the impres-
eion that Cronin was being decoyed to
the cottage under the pretext that he was
goi D g to attend a sick woman, who waj
represented to be at the point of death.
Four men were waiting in the cottage
for him. They listened for the sound ol
wheels. At last the carriage drove up,
and an instant later the doctor hurried
«P * be ■ t *P» and knocked loudly aud
na8tu g y as 11 be realized that his presence
was urgently required. Two of the as-
sasrins stood behind the door ready to
8tr ^ e > while one of the others from the
inner ro< m called out in a loud voice,
“come in.” The door was quickly
opened and the doctor strode in. The
instant he was in one of the assassins
slammed the door, while the other struck
the physician a terrible blow with a sand
floor.” bag. The doctor fell heavily to the
Burke always decliueel to sav
who struck the first blow, and this fact,
Baker thinks, makes it quite clear that it
was Burke himself, else he would have
mentioned the name. He always spoke
about the four taking part in tile crime
and poundtug the doctor at the same
time. The moment the doctor was
down, the whole four rushed on him,
and with sand bags and clubs pounded
the life out of him. The poor man
struggled, and moaned awfully. Blood
poured from his mouth, nose and before* eyes.
Nearly twenty minutes elapsed he
cease 1 to gasp. Then the fiends stripped
the blood-stained clothing off of him and
one of them pounded his face so as to
make it impossible to recognize the body.
Coughlin then hauled the trunk over and
the body was crammed into it. One of
the quartette went out aud brought an
express wagon which had been left in a
convenient place. When they Went to
carry the trunk out blood was dripping
from it and ran on the floor, and tho
trunk was set down and these leaks
stopped with cotton batting, which was
found in the doctor’s instrument case.
The trunk and its contents were then
taken to the lake, Coughlin driving the
horse. There was a boat at the point
expected, and they tried to shove the
trunk out into the water, but it would
not work. Anxious to get rid of the
body some way, Burke suggested that it
be thrown into the catch-basin. The
suggestion was adopted.
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING.
PRESIDENT nARRISON ISSUES HIS THANKS¬
GIVING PROCLAMATION.
The following proclamation setting
apart Thursday,November 28th as a day of
national thanksgiving was issued by
Presiident Harrison on Friday. By
the president of the United States.—A
mindful proclamation. A highly favored people,
of their dependence on the boun¬
ty of Divine Providence, should -seek a
fitting occasion to testify gratitude and
ascribe praise to Him who is the author
of their many blessings. It behooves us,
then, to look back with thankful hearts
over the past year and bless God for his
infinite meicy in vouchsafing to our land
enduring peace; to our people freedom
from pestilence and famine; to our
husbandmen .abundant harvests, and to
them that labor recompense of their toil.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of Ameri¬
ca, do earne-tly recommend that Thuts-
dtiy, the twenty-eighth day of this pres¬
ent moilih of November, be set apart as
a day of national thanksgiving and
prayer, and that the people of our coun¬
try, ceasing from the cares and labors ol
tliejr working day, shall assemble in
their respective places of worship and
give thanks to God, who has prospered
us on our way and made our paths the
paths of peace, beseehing him to bless
the day to our present and future good,
making it truly one of thanksgiving foi
each reunited home circle as well as for
the nation at large. In witness whereof,
1 have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be af¬
fixed. Done at the city of Washington,
this first day of No'vember, in the yeai
of our l ord eighteen hundred and eighty-
nine, and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and four-
teeath. Benjamin Harrison.”
GOOD NEWS,
WHAT A PROMINENT COTTON FIRM SAYS
OF THE OUTLOOK.
The following from an autograph cir¬
cular of Messts Latham, Alexander &
Co., the well known bankers and com¬
mission merchants of New' York, will be
of interest to those interested in cotton:
“Planters,” say the firm, “in many sec¬
tions, are sending their cotton to markit
in a deliberate manner. A systematic
nod commendable, abrupt holding back of the crop of is
not and such a course
action has not been adopted in the South.
Plauters their have, however, resolved not to
rush cotton to market, and it is
gratifying to know that they are in a
posiriou to adopt their present policy
without being dilatory in meeting their
obligations. The fact is, they have made
their crops with much lighter
advances from factors and n e -
chants than in any previous year.
They have used less of commercial fer¬
tilizers than formerly. The majority of
them are, therefore, in a position to sell
their cotton when they please. It is
gratifying to see planters now approach¬
ing a condition of permanent financial
independence. ‘ The demand is so great
that a higher plane of value for cotton
than in some years past, seems likely for
this season ”
A MANIAC’S DEED.
CRA11ED THROUGH FINANCIAL TP.OCBLES,
KILLS HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
--
A terrible tragedy occurred Monday
morning in Vergennes township, Kent
county, Micli. llaggal Westbrook, a
farmer, took a hammer and fractured his
wife's skull, and then went to a room
where his three small girls were asleep
and treated than in about toe same man-
ner- Westbrook then ran down stairs,
procured his razor, and cut his own
throat. Westbrook is dead, and report
says the girls were instantly ki.led, and
that Mrs. Westbrook is mortally
wounded. Westbrook was in financial
difficulty and had become insane.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIES*.
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
Meetings of the Salvation Army have
been foroidaca in Switzerland.
The total number of women killed in
** Glissbow factory by the fall of u
wa ii WAfl * as thlrtv tmrt y*
’
The fued of the Hatfields and McCoys
in Lincoln county, West Virginia, is re-
P orted to be in bloody progress,
The new census of India {.ives the
population in March, 1888, as 269,477,-
728, of which 60,684,378 belong to the
naive States.
M. Selto & Co , notion jobbers, at
Philadelphia, Pa. assigned Tuesday,
with liabilities likely to reach $100,000.
As ets about one-third.
( hnlpra is still ramner in the vallevs of
the Tigris thfee and Euphrates During the
last months there have been 7,00J
f i« a ths f nm the diseRae
Four deaths from diptheria were re-
poited in Fuirhaven, Conn., Tuesday,
and some anxiety is caused by the news.
The vicrims are all children.
The reports of destitution in North
Dakota are said to be greatly exaggera¬
ted. There is nothing in the situation
to justify the leports that a famine ex¬
ists in Dakota.
Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York
World , is about starting from Paris upon
i tour around the world, accompanied of
by invited guests. 11c got s by way
the Suez Canal, India and Japan.
The emigration comm ssioners at New
York, on Friday, notified all steamship
companies that a head tax of fifty cents
each wili be collected fiom them for
every alien that they will bring heie.
This will include children.
The Piince of Wales sailed on the
royal yacht Osborne, fit m Alexandria,
arrival Egypt, for Piraeus Tuesday. Upon he his
at Alexandria from Cairo, re¬
ceived an ovation. The streets were
decorated with garlands and flag?, and
triumphal inches were erected along the
route taken by the priiice.
The exports of specie from the port of
New York last week amounted to $421,-
284. of which $63,050 was in gold and
$358,234 iu silver. All the diver went
to Europe, and all the gold to South
America. The imports of specie for the
week amounted to $351,272, of which
$301,895 was in gold and $49,377 was in
silver.
By the breaking out of molten iron iu
the stack of Colbrook furnace No. 1, at
Lebanon, P«., Monday alternoon, five
men wero killed, and three severely
burned. The men, all of whom were la¬
borers, were overwhelmed by the rush of
molten metal while at work, and some of
them were burned almost beyond recog¬
nition.
The gable wnll of a building that was
being erected alongside of Templeton’s
carpet factory at Glasgow, Scotland, was
blown down Friday. An immense ma^s
of debris fell on the roof of the wear¬
ing department of the factory, crushing
it employed in, and burying weaving fifty girls and women
iti the rooms. It is
probable that fbi-ty of those buried ate
dead.
M. Mackenon organizer of the London
expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, has
received the following dispatch from
Zanzibar: Letters have been received
from Stanley, dated Victoria, August
29th. With him were Emin Bey, Casati
Marco, a greek merchant, Esman Effendi
Hnssan, a Tunisian apothecary. Stars
Nelson, Jephson Parke and Bonny.
Eight hundred people accompany him
toward Mpwapwa. All were well. Stan¬
ley reports Waddell in the hands of the
Mahadists.
GEORGIA GOLD MINES
TO he rUKCHAgED AND OPERATE!) Et A
BOSTON SYNDICATE.
Mining circles are agitated is over a ru¬
mor that a Boston syndicate negotiat¬
ing for the purchase of the Dahlonega,
Ga., gold mining property. The rumor
states that the owner will dispose of all
the valuable water power, acqueducts
and mines for the sum of $1,500,000.
The Boston syndicate, it is stated, have
discovered that the gold of the Dahlonega
mines can be worked to advantage cheap¬
er than any other known property.
Low grade ores, which assay one dollar
to the ton, can be milled for twenty-five
cents, leaving a handsome profit. In the
west ore which averages two and three
dollars a ton, cannot be worked without
loss. The ore of the Dahlonega mines
is almast inexhaustible, and it is said the
Boston syndicate, if the purchase is
made, will work on the system that the
greater the output the greater the profit.
A REPORTED BATTLE
IN KENTUCKY IN WHICH SIX MEN ARE
KILLED.
A special to the Louisville Courier-
Journal from Pineville, Ky., says: News
reached here that Judge Lewis came up
with Howard and his gang Thursday on
Martin’s Fork and killed six of the How¬
ard gang without losing a man. Three
of toe men killed were named Hall, one
named Whitlock, the other the two judge names
not learned. Friends of say
that he is determined, and will never
quit his chase until Howard and his gang
are all killed or driven from the country.
Both parties are being reinforced daily,
and more bloodshed is expected. It is
thought that Howard has gone to Vir¬
ginia, but is expected to return. The
best citizens of Harlan county, Ky., are
joining Judge Lewis, and with such a
determined leader there is no doubt but
that the law and order party will come
out victorious, and break up the gang
that has been a terror to all eastern Ken¬
tucky for the last twenty-five years.
BOUGHT A BRIDE-
AN OLD MAN GIVES $100,000 IN CASH
FOB A WIFE.
Jesse Fovell, seventy-nine years old,ot
Calhoun county, 111., and Mamie Isdell,
twenty-three years old, of St. Louis,Mo.,
were married a few days ago. It is said
the uld gentleman ia worth about half a
million dollars, and lives on a farm in
Calhoun county, III. His nephew, Isaac
Fovel, lives in St. Louis, and Miss
Isdell, beautiful and accomplished,
but poor, has been sort of
companion and nursery governess
in Isaac’s family. The uncle recently
visited his nephew, and became greatly
smitten with the yoimg girl’s charms.
He paid court to her, and the affair, ac¬
cording to the story, culminated in a
cash offer of $100,000, which was ac¬
cepted.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
DCS & CO.’S REPORT FOR "WEEK ESDISG
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2d.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review says:
Money has been working closer the past
week.* falling to four per cent, but then
raising steadily to nine, even more being
paid in some cases. Prices are suffering,
though the general level has advanced
scarcely a quarter of one per cent, in two
weeks.* In speculative markets there
has been more activity, and except in
pork products and coffee, an advance.
These changes call for more money in the
movement of products and building op¬
erations are also unusually active at many
cities. Liquidation in trust stocks con-
tinues, particularly in cotton oil, which
has been heavily sold at a severe decline.
But railroad stocks have been stubbornly
held, and the average in price almost
exactly as they did a week ago. Arrange¬
ments between the Chicago and North¬
western and the Union Pacific and the
rumored sale of the Chicago and Alton
look toward the consolidations of the
great systems,and in the end a projected but
railway trust of gigantic proportions, lead
meanwhile popular disfavor may to
interruption by congress ot state legisla¬ has
tion. Speculations in breadstuffs
advanced, wheat If, and corn 1}
cents on sales of twenty-five and ten
million bushels, respectively, but exports
do not increase. Oil has advanced 3|,
oats | and cotton f. Coffee has de¬
clined a quarter upon larger crop esti¬
mates from Brazil. The sugar market is
only nominal and prices of refined are
not well maintained* but the trust stock
has been more firmly supported. weather, Coal but
has been stiffened by cooler
still sell about forty Cents below circular
prices. Iron aud steel in all forms are ih
great demand and firmly held with a
shade of an advance in bar iron and nails,
but the feeling is expressed that the im¬
provement has been too rapid deemed to be
maintained, and some reaction is
possible. Chicago reports money be¬
coming tighter oecause of the country
d< mands, but no apprehensions regarding
the immediate future, an active trade iu
dry goods, wool and hides, but dullness
in* clothing and boots and shoes. At
Pittsburg, window glass has advanced
ten per cent, and a rise in coal is ex¬
pected; iron products are firm. All
othet points trade 13 full and active for
eeasoii with scarcely an exception. Bus¬
iness failures during last week, 32, number
in United States, 229; Canada, Total,
261, against 225 last week.
CROP BULLETIN,
ISSUED FROM THE CIVIL HUKEAU FOR fffE
MONTH OF OCTOBER;
The monthly weather crop bulletin of
the sign tl bureau for October says: Oc¬
tober nas been cooler than usual in all
agricultural districts east of the Rooky
mountains, except in D ikota. The daily
average temperature for the month in the
wiuter wheat belt, including the states
in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valley,
ranges from four degrees to eight de¬
grees below normal. About the same
thermal conditions prevailed in the mid¬
dle Atlantic states, Southern New Eng¬
land end along the south Atlantic coast,
while in the gulf state* the deficiency in
temperature ranged from about one de*
: to four degrees. Thera was a slight
excess ih teinpefature in the Ilocky
mountain district had thence W stward
to the Pacific boa§t. The linfc df killing
frost has extended south to the northern
portion of the gulf states and the north¬
ern portion of South Carolina and we-t-
ward to the western portion of Washing¬
ton territory,central Oregon and northern
Nevada and light frosts occrured as far
south as southern Alabama, central Geor¬
gia and northern Louisiana. Tncre has
been less rain than usual in the central
valleys, and generally thr. ug’iout Mori thd
southern states and New England.
than the usual amount of rain occurred
lu California and Oregon, in the middle
Atlantic states and ill the centr U Ro :ky
raoufifain plateau region. The rainfall
was fornia, greatest generally gfeatest throughout Cali¬
fiver tiie portion of whicii
the monthly rainfall exceeded six inches.
About two inches of rain occurred during
the month in the winter wheat region;
extending from the lake region and
southern Iowa southward to the gulf
states, and only light showers occurred,
in the northwest, including Minnesota,
Dakota, Nebraska and northwestern Iowa.
The drouth condition which existed in
the central valleys has been succeeded by
timely rains, which have doubtless greatly
improved the winter wheat crop, lhe
drouth continued during the month in
the southern portion of the gulf states,
extending from Florida westward over
southern Texas, over which region only
light showers are reported, and the de¬
ficiency of rainfall for the month ranges
from one to five inches, but this morning,
(November 1) generous rains are reported
from Texas,northern Louisiana and south¬
ern Alabama, and rains are heavy- in
central Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys, with heavy snows in Nebraska
and western Kansas.
MORE MONEY WANTED.
*THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE BAYS
THE APPROPRIATION IS TOO SMALL.
The annual report of the secretary of
agriculture was made Tuesday, The
‘ecretary makes the usual references to
the work of the several scientific and
other divirions of his department and
deals at length with certain plans for the
organization of the department, and sug¬
gests several new features in the interest
of the department of agriculture. The
fecretary calls attention to the small ap¬
propriation for the current fi-cal year,
and insists on adequate appropriations to
enable him to meet what he believes to
be the obligations of the department to
toe country. The problem which present ed
itself to the secretary, that of getting
toe results the work done by the
department of more promptly before
the people has been solved, he says,
by the establishment of a new di¬
vision which furnishes promptly
to the ngricuituial and commercial press
i synopsis of the main points of every
bulletin and report published by the de-
partment. Farmers’ institutes are re-
ferred to particularly, a? one of toe
greatest movemen's in the history of
agriculture and as the strongest lever for
raising and upholding the work of the
superior agricultural education repre¬
sented by our system of agricultural col¬
leges and experiment stations. The sec¬
retary recommends that the department a;d and
should be empowered to afford
mcouragement to this work.
THE SUPPLY OF COTTON,
The total visible supply of cotton for
the world is 2.020,691 bales, of which
1,737,091 bales are American, against
V,697,786 and 1,478,886 bales respect¬
ively last year. Receipts at all interior
towns, 187,870 bales. Receipts at plan¬
tations, 329.108 bales. The crop in
sight is 2,143,199 bales. _____
WASHINGTON, D. C,
MOVEMENTS OF TEE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
or interest from the national capital.
Secretary Tracy, Friday, formally ac¬
cepted the cruiser Charleston.
The Washington Star says that invest¬
igation of the charge* of opium levealed smug¬ the
gling at San Francisco has
fact that du ing the past six months the
government has been defrauded of
$400,000 in duties through the opera¬
tions of a gaug of smugglers.
The collector of customs at Norfolk,
Va., has asked the treasury department practipe
for instructions in regard to tho
of Liverpool cotton merchants of send¬
ing men under contract from that city to
Norfolk for the purpose of tuying and
grading cotton tor the English trade.
The immigrant inspector for the state of
Virginia reported the matter to the col¬
li ct ir as a violation of alien contract la¬
bor, and the collector wants to know
what he can do al out it. Treasury offi¬
cials are divided in opinion in the mat¬
ter, and it will probibly be referred to
the solicitor for settlement.
The following dispatch was sent from
the executive mansion, on Saturday af¬
ternoon, to Governors Melletta and3Iiller,
of North and Sou to Dakota, Bismark,
North Dakota: “The last act in the
admission of the two Dakotas as states
in the union was concluded this after¬
noon at the executive mansion* by the
president signing at that moment the
proclam ttion required by law for the ad-
mission of the states. The article on
prohibition, submitted separately in each
state, was adopted in both. This is the
first instance in the history of the nation¬
al government that two states North
and South Dakota, entered the union at
the same moment.”
Quartermaster-General S. B. Holabird,
of tiie army, in his annual report to the
secretary of war, recommends the enlist-
nit nt oi n.en for the quartermaster-gen¬
eral’s department, the establishment of
drill halls for winter exercise of troops,
and stales that repairs are needed to
roads leading to the national cemeteries
at Clialmette, La., Natchez, Miss,,
Knoxville, Tcnn., Richmond, Ya., Vicks¬
burg, Miss., and others. He also rec¬
ommends that permanent means of ap¬
proach be established to the national
cemeteries at Alexandria, Arlington, Va.,
Culpepper, Va., Fredericksburg, Va.,
Fayetteville, Ark., Foplaf Grove, Va., York- Va.-,
Staunton, Va., Seven Pines,
low n, Va., and Athens.
The director of the mint has submit¬
ted to the secretary of the treasury his
annual fepOit. He savs the value of
gold deposited Was $48, *900,712, of which
$31,440,778 consisted of the product of
mines of the United States, a falling of!
in gold product of abOfit one million
dollats, us compared with the previous
fiscal year. Silver received aggregated
$35 627,273 standard ounces tor coining
value ot $41,457,190. Of silver received,
$32,895,985 standard ouuces of counting
value of $8,278,964 was classified as of
domestic production, Profit on the
coinage of silver dollars during
the year was $9,370,062 and on
snbsidary silver coins, $32,987; total
coinage of silver dollars under the Bland
act to and November, 1889, was $343,638,-
001. total profit on silver coinage to
July 1, 18S9, $59,378,254; net distribution profit af¬
ter deducting expenses for June
and wantage for eleven years ended
30, 1880, was $56,349,737. The direG-
tor recommends legislation looking to-*
wards a discontinuance of coinage of $3
and $4 gold pieces and the three-cent
nickel piects and withdrawal from circu¬
lation of pieces of those denominations
now outstanding.
A PHILANTHROPIST.
THE WILL OF HENRY STEERE, AND THE
BEQUESTS IT CONTAINS.
The will of Henry J. Steere, one of
the wealthiest men in Providence, R. I.,
who died recently gives away directly and
in trust the surd total of $1,139,000. Mr.
Steete was a single gentleman, and was
all his life distinguished fer philanthrop-
ic»l impulses. He gives *654,500 to in-
2l2. d Si?.»'SwL, ta T?’
?o charUaWo oig .ntatons freedmen etc., ia of *340,- Prov-
000. The home for the
idence received $150,000; Home for Aged
Women, of Providence, $25,000; Benefi¬
cent Congregational church and St.
Stephen’s Episcopal church, Providence,
get $50,000 and $5,000 respectively;
the Charitable Fuel society, of Provi-
idence, $5,000, and to the Rhode Island
Historical society is bequeathed $10,-
000; The Tabor college, in Iowa, is
given 50,000, and the Roanoke college,
at Salem, Va., $25,000. The executor oT
of the vast property is Alfred Metcalf,
Providence, who is only required to give
personal bond to nav the les cies. etc.
FIGHTING OVER THE ROAD,
CITIZENS OPPOSE THE CONSTRUCTION OF
CHATTANOOGA’S BELT ROAD.
An interesting railroad fight is in pro¬
gress in the Chattanooga, Tenm, courts. miles
The belt railroad, operating forty
of transportation lines, attempted to
build a line to Lookout mountain. They
had to cross a road leading to Forest Kill
cemetery. The Cemetery association en¬
joined tliem, and the county courts sub¬
sequently granted the right of way across
the road in controversy. On Wednesday,
the citizens of St. Elmo, a suburb of
Chattanooga, filed a bill to enjoin the
company from building the road, and in
order to avoid the right of way granted
by the county, the bill attacks the char¬
ter under a late decision of the supreme
court, as other companies are endeavor¬
by°the ing to occupy the territory now occupied
Btrit Railroad company. Great
excitement prevails in railroad circles,
and the outcome will be awaited with
great interest. A temporary writ of in¬
junction was granted upon the bill.
FROZEN TO DEATH.
COWBOYS CAUGHT BY A BLIZZARD AND
SUCCUMB TO THE COLD.
One of the results of the terrible bliz¬
zards which swept over western Colora¬
do and northern New Mexico Thursday
and Friday of last week, reached
Denver 3Ionday from Folsom,
N. M. Thursday several cow-
bojs. who were camping near fcleira
Grande with 1,800 beef ca’tle, were
struck bv the blizzard and became sepa¬
rated Friday night. Gee of them wan¬
dered into Head’s home ranch, half dead
with cold and hunger. He told his story,
and a rescuing party was immediately
sent out, and the frozen bodies of Henry
Miller, Joe Martin and Charlie Jolly
were found ljing on the open plains not
far from Folsom. The other men suc¬
ceeded in finding their way to the camp
before being overcome with cold.
“HULLO.*
Wen you see a man in woo OS
__
Walk right up and say “hullo ?•
Say “hullo” an 7 “how d’ye dot ;
Slap How’s the the fellow world on a-usin’ his back, you?" Vy
Bring yer han’ down with a whack;
Waltz right up an’ don’t go slow,
Grin an' shake an’ say “hullo!”
Ts he clothed in rags? O sho! -
Walk right up and say “hullo V*
Rags is but a cotton roll
Jest, for wroppin’ up a soul;
An’ a soul is worth a true.
Hale, an' hearty “how d’ye do!”
Don’t wait for the crowd to go.
Walk right up and say “hullo"*
W’en big vessels meet, they say.
They saloot and sail away.
Jest the same are you an’ me—
Lonesome ships upon a sea;
Each one sailing his own jog
For a port beyond the fog.
Let yer speakin'-trumpet blow, \
Lift her horn an’ cry “hullo'*
Say “hullo’’an’ “how d'ye do'”
Other folks are good as you.
W’en yer leave yer house of clay,
Wanderin’ in the far-away,
W’en you travel through the strange
Country t’other side the range.
Then the souls you’ve cheered will know
Who you be, an’ say “hallo!”
—S'. W. Foss.
HUMOR OF THE DAI.
A chatter box—The phonograph.
Useless with “hands off"—The clock.
Forced politeness-—Bowing to neees-
g ^.
A little thing that feels big in a tight
place is a corn.
Age is not always a criterion of
ability; for many a man of thirty can
often “lie like sixty.”
A fitting tribute—The check that pays
for your suit of clothes. — Washington
Capital.
Bertie—“Charles ha» lost his reason
ing power.”—Algernon—“I pity thn
finder.”— Time.
’Tis not criminal to owe your hatter.
Nor a cause for worriment; and yet.
The conviction is not one to fiatter
That you’re “over head and ears iu debt.”
“Home, Sweet Home,” is a beautiful
song, but if sung too early in the evening
it is apt to hurt a sensitive young man's
feelings .—New York Journal.
“Yes,” admitted the visitor, when the
proud mother exhibited her >*aby, “he
has his father's nose, but don't worry.
It may not always be that red.”
A London merchant advertises that he
is “special umbrella maker to the Queen,”
and the Lynn Item thinks Victoria's long
reign has probably been profitable to
him.
Consistency is indeed rare. A man
will unblushingly comb his back hair over
a bald spot on the top of his head, and
yet expect a grocer to put his smallest
apples in the top laver of the box.
A speaker at a public meeting talked
and talked and talked. “How full he ia
of his subject?” said a friend. “Yes,"
said an enemy; “but how slow he is to
empty himself !”—San Francisco Warp.
Now pick out the biggest of pumpkins;
The daintiest apple and pear;
The reddest tomato;
The finest potato;
And bring them along to the fair.
—DansciUe Breeze.
The inventors who have gTowu tired
of the perpetual motion problem might
turn their attention to discovering some
method by which a dog's skin could b«
tanned with his own bark. -— Mercha nt.
Traveler.
Englishmen propose to liny up the ga«
plants of Chicago and furnish fuel at
twenty-five cents a thousand feet. They
won’t make much money if the feet are
of the regulation kind iu that city .—New
York News.
“What prompted you to rob this
man’s till ? ” asked the judge of the
prisoner. “My family physician, sir,” 1
was the reply; “he told me it was abso¬
lutely necessary that I should have a
little change.”
“The Empress of Austria sits alternate-
, on sidc her b „ au
article on Horseman,hip for Women."
Everybody -Hi t- gM to l.cer that the
slts tha ‘ alternately and not ennui-
taneously. Terre Haute Express.
Constituent (to newly-elected Con-
gressman,—“You’re Congressman—“Er—well, a pretty big man
now, eh?” I
don’t know. I did lay that flattering
unction to my soul until 1 saw my moth
er-in-law scornfully sizing me up .”—New
York Journal.
“How does it happen that the couple
over the way live so happily together'
They have been married now' twenty-two
years and have never yet had a dispute.’ 1
“No wonder; she goes out teaching
music all day long away from home and
he is a night editor on a daily paper.”
Housemaid— ‘‘There is a gentleman*
downstairs, m’m. who is almost pulling
the bell out, and says he wants the key
to the fire alarm laox.” Mistress (rushing
to the mirror)—“Ask him to send up his
card, and tell him I w'ill be down in a
few minutes .”—Burlington Free Press.
Decendants of Bread Makers
Our Bakers, say's an English paper,
speaking of family names, maybe readily
turned back to their floury-handed an •
cesters, but the Baxters must be followed
for generations before we find they were
of the same family; being the defendants
of the Bagsters, who were the offspring
of the Bagesters, who acknowledged that
they were the children of the Bakesters,
who were femenine bakers, Of the
bread making tribe were also the Pread-
ers and the Whitbreds, the latter perhaps
once priding themselves on the color of
their stock in trade, while nearly related
to them were Mills, the Millers and the
Mealers.
The large and respectable family ot
Boulangers came from the'French bakers,
who carried on their trade in England
during the age when family names were
growing, while Mr. Lowe suggests that
the Bollingers and the Bulliners are of
the same origin.
Few points in Great Britain are more
.
than a hundred miles from the sea, and
in all ages fish has formed one of the
staple articles of British diet. Catching
toe fish was. therefore, an important in¬
dustry., and Fish, Fisher and Fisherman,
doubtless had their origin in the occu-
pation the men who first assumed these
names, of which fact there is abundant
record. It is quite possible also, as Max
Muller suggests, that men may have
made a specialty of taking or of selling a
particular kind of fish, and thus Salmon,
from Robert le Salmoner.: Bering, from
John le Heringer.; and Tiouter, from
Roger le Trowter, may have arisen with-
■out .violence-to the-laws of.Dtuloiasr.