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THE NEWS.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
THE LEGISLATURE
Bills Passed by he Senate and House
of Representatives of Georgia.
A bill to appropriate money for the
military of the State; to fix the tare on
potton packed in cotton or jute bagging; i I
to incornornte the grand lodge of the
order of United Southern Israelites; to
Incorporate the Kingston, Walesca and
Gainesville railroad company; to protect
the interests of underwriters in cargoes
of vessels landing in ports of this State;
to incorporate the Atlanta and Alabama
railroad with one million dollars capital;
to amend the chafer of the Gritiin, La-
Grange and Birmingham railroad com¬
pany; to amend the charter of Marietta;
to incorporate the town of Walesca;
a three-mile prohibition bill for Rein¬
hardt Normal college, in Cherokee
county; a bill to amend the appropria¬
tion act so as to apply $200,000 of the
sinking funds to bonds maturing; to or¬
ganize and incorporate a regiment of
cavalry to be known as the First Regi¬
ment of Georgia cavalry, to include the
Brunswick Light Horse Guard, the Sa¬
vannah Guard, the Georgia Hussars, the
Liberty Guard, the Liberty Independent and
Troop, the McIntosh Light Dragoons
the Screven Troop; to incorporate the
street railroad of Clarksville, Ga.; a bill
for the relief of the Floyd Rifles aud their
sureties in a bond given the state in 1873;
to incorporate the Rome Banking and
Trust company; to prescribe a fatigue
uniform for the Georgia Volunteers. A
bill to authorize the lessees of the Wes¬
tern and Atlantic railroad to construct
tracks acro-s other roads; to require
clerks of courts in cities of 10.000 or
more inhabitants, to keep separate min¬
utes for civil and criminal business; to in¬
corporate the Woodville, Penfield aud
Oconee Valley Railroad company.
A resolution for the relief of J. M.
Wilson, tax collector. Sanford bill, pro¬
hibiting lottery advertisements—house
amendment agretd to. Convict hire bill
—house amendment agreed to. Com¬
mon fchool law—the senate insisted on
its amendments. A bill to provide for
the erection oi stock gaps; to amend the
certiorari law; to confirm the degree of
superior courts extending the charters of
churches and benevolent societies; to au¬
thorize the trustees of the lunatic asylum
to appoint a marshal; to provide that the
clerks of court take the place of the or¬
dinary when he is disqualified; to amend
tho code with reference t > the fees of
ordinaries by adding c rtuin charges; to
amend section 405 of the code in refer¬
ence to the appointment and discharge
of constables; to amend the tux act by
taxing traveling agents of msimiucc
companies fifty dollars; to incorporate
Porter Mills; to repeal the act providing
assessors for Richmond county; to incor¬
porate tho Amcricus and Jacksonville
Railroad company; to require millers and
dealers to stamp the weight of flour or
meal ou the sacks, no person liable to
this except on full sacks; to establish
public schools for Social Circle; to incor¬
porate the Southwest Exchange and
Banking invite company; a resolution to
tho Woman’s Christian Temperance
Uniou to Atlanta next year; to incorpor¬
ate tho Southern Travelers association;
to incorporate tho Atlanta Dime Savings
bank; to provide how jurors shall be
sworn; ville; to incorporate the bank of Smith-
to incorporate the city of Demor*
est iu Habersham; to authorize the gov¬
ernor to lease the Indian Spring reserve^
to change the name of the Winterville
and Smithsouia railroad; a one mile pro¬
hibition bill for Bass church iu Bibb.
Cedar A bill to incorporate the Covington and
Shoals railroad ; to amend section
3732 of the code; to amend the charter
of the Rome Street Railway company; to
incorporate tho town of Emerson in
Bartow; to incorporate the Dublin and
Blaokshear Railroad company; to incor¬
porate the Georgia Banking and Trust
company; to amend the act constituting
the experimental farm; to change the
time of holding the superior court of
Rabun; to incorporate the Savannah and
Isle of Hope Railroad company; to
amend the Atlanta cliartor so as to allow
two readings of ordinances at one meet¬
ing, and to prescribe the number of read¬
ings of ordinances; to amend the charter
of Cedartown; to authorize the judges of
the superior court to hold special terms
to admit to the bar persons who have
diplomas from the law schools of the
state; a joint resolution for adjournment
sine die ut noon Saturday; a ponderous
bill to ameud the charter of Brunswick;
to incorpoate the Athens Railway com¬
pany ; House amendments to the Macon
and Birmingham charter bill agreed
to. A bill to prohibit the sale of liquor
within three miles of the M. E. church,
south, at Blue Ridge, iu Fannin couuty;
to authorize the mayor and council of
Columbus to extend the city limits from
time to time by resolution. Tho exteu
sion already granted by act of tho
general assembly. The deficiency
bill with the amendments of
the senate finance committee.
A bill to amend the prohibition bill for
New Hope church, in Clarke; to estab¬
lish public schools in Marietta; to pio-
hibit the sale of liquor in Monroe county
aft«.r submitting the question to the peo¬
ple; Monroe to prohibit between the sale of seed cotton
m the 1st of August and
Hj* hibition 1st of bill February. for A three-mile pro¬
Macedonia Free Will
Baptist church, in Miller county. To
prohibit the sale of seed cotton in Pu¬
laski between August 15th and Decem¬
ber 24th; to amend the charter of Guy¬
ton; to amend section 1855, with refer¬
ence to the commitment of lunatics to
the asylum; to incorporate the State Sav¬
ings and Banking company; to amend
tho game law of Bibb county; to incor¬
porate the Albany, Florida and Northern
Railway company; to prohibit false
weighing by common carriers; to incor¬
porate tue Empire Building, Loan and
TriuH company; to amend the charter of
the Savannah Fire and Marine Insurance
company, insure so as to give them the right to
against cyclones, tornadoos and
hurricanes; to amend the charter of Val¬
dosta; to incorporate the Augusta Rail¬
the way public company; debt to provide for refunding
of Atlanta; to incorpo¬
rate the Valdosta aud Ocean Pond Rail¬
road company. A stock law for Chatta¬
hoochee, except in the l,107tb and
1,108th districts of that county:
to prohibit hunting on the lands of an-
other in Wilcox, east of the river, or on
Robert Bowen’s land. Owner of land to
pest; to authorize the mayor and coun¬
cil of any city in Georgia to receive be¬
quests for cemeteries; to amend the at¬
tachment law; to amend the Cartersville
Street railroad; to incorporate the Peo¬
ple's Savings Bank of Rome.
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
mnrs non evebtwkbe—accidkxts, sraixzt,
FIRKS, A5D HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The new lord mayor of London, Sii
Henry Aaron Isaacs, was installed in
office Saturday.
The report of the murder of the mis¬
sionary, Savage, in New Guinea, is de-
cIarec * to be untrue,
The Standard Oil company has ab-
sorbed the Glebe refinery at Pittsburg,
Pa., and alto the Freedom, Pa., refinery.
The window glass manufacturers oi
Findlay, Ohio, at a recent meeting, ad-
vanced the price of window glass 15 pel
cent,
The schooner Southwest, iron laden, it
missing, and, with tier crew of nine men,
is supposed to have gone down in Lake
Erie.
Master Workman Powderly says the
Knights of Labor are in bette r shape
than a year ago, the future brighter than
ever before.
Notices have been posted in all fur¬
naces in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, grant¬
ing all employes an unsolicited increase
in wages oi ten per cent.
A convention of the American Associ¬
ation of Agricultural colleges and ex¬
periment stations began its session at
Washington, D. C., Tuesday.
The Volcano of Colina, Mexico, is re¬
ported to be in a state of destroyed, active eruption. and
Many houses have been around
the woods for many miles are on
fire.
News comes from Talequah, that the
Cherokee council will employ attorneys
to contest the government’s claim to ju¬
risdiction over their lands known cs the
Cherokee strip.
The New York Herald says that it ia
understood that the oil producers associ¬
ation is to lny a pipe line from Pittsburg
to the seaboard, in opposition to the
Standard Oil company.
An exposition in a dynamite factory
near the town of Bilboa, in Spain, on
Thursday, demolished the buildiDg.
Four of the employes were killed and a
large number injured.
Fire on the river in Bedford, just be¬
yond the city limits of Manchester, N.H.,
Saturday, destroyed the farm buildings
of Samuel N. Dunbar. Two children
were burned to death.
A telegram has been received from
Zanzibar stating that the report of the
massacre of Emin Bey relief exposition, had
under command of Captain Peters,
not been confirmed up to Saturday.
News lias been received that the Amer¬
ican ship Chesebrough, Capt. Ericson,
from Iliogo to New York, has been lost
off the northern coast of Japan. Nine¬
teen of her crew were drowned.
Advices from the Pan Handle coun¬
try and region* further north says that
heavy snow now covers the earth and
there is every indication that the begin¬
ning of a most severe winter is at hand.
The Austrian bark Joseph II, sailed
from Providence, It. I., for Rotterdam ou
Thursday with $100,000 worth of cotton
eced oil. This is the first direct^ foreign
cargo that has left this port for the last
half century.
The official gazette at the city of
Mexico publishes a contract entered into
between that government and Francisco
Alfaro for the construction by the latter
of a railroad, from the Rio Grande to the
Pacific coast.
The supreme court of Indiana has de¬
cided that natural gas is a commercial
commodity, and, consequently, the legis¬
lative act of last winter prohibiting the
piping of gas out of the state unconsti¬
tutional.
Mrs. Maud ia Morgan, who is said to
be an important witness for the prosecu¬
tion in the Cronin case, was sandbagged
in Chicago, 111., Saturday night, by an
unknown person, and as a result of the
blow is now iu a dangerous condition.
The new state of North Dakota begins
business with a bonded indebtedness of
$500,000 and a floating indebtedness of
about $60,000. With the strictest econ¬
omy there will be a further defficiency
during the first year of at least $50,000.
A call has been issued by the temper¬
ance societies of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa,
North and South Dakota, for a conven¬
tion to be held in Omaha on the 18th of
December, for the purpose of organizing
the states named iu a central prohibition
organization.
Exports of Bpecic from the port of
New York for amounted week ending Saturday,
November 9, to $842,641, of
which $10,426 was in gold and 833,035
in silver. Imports of specie last $177,381 week
amouuted to $279,166, of which
was in gold, and $101,836 in silver.
A program has been issued for a cele¬
bration in Baltimore of the anniversary
ol the hanging of the Chicago anarchists.
It is long and violent. It closes: “An¬
archists, the day has arrived for paying
homage to your comrades, to braud your
enemies, to promulgate your ideas, to
advance the struggle, to hasten the
victory.”
Fire broke out Saturday night in the
flour mill of the St. Paul Roller mill, at
St. Paul, Minn. Close by is a big eleva-
tortor of the same company, which also
caught tire. A loss of $150,000, with
insurance of $100,000 is involved in the
mill and contents. The fire is thought
to have been caused by the explosion of
a lamp in th# shipping room.
The first sod of the Nicaraugua canal
was officially and formally turned on Oc¬
tober 22, amid the booming of cannon
and the cheers of thousands of specta¬
tors. Work was really begun June 3,
but owing to some slight misunderstand
ing between Nicaraugua and Costa Rica
(which has since been amicably arran¬
ged), the formal opening was postponed.
The attention of George W. Childs,
the editor of the Philadelphia Ledger ,
has been called to statements pub¬
lished in several papers that he had ex¬
pressed the opinion “that the body of
General Grant will be removed from New
York.” Mr. Childs denies the report and
says that he has never expressed such an
opinion or said in any form that General
Grant’s body would be so removed.
The United States grand jury in ses-
sion at Baltimore on Saturday, indicted
eighteen of the one hundred and twenty-
four Navassa rioters for murder and be¬
fore the fact, the penalty for which is
death. Seven are charged as principals
aud eleven as having aided and abetted
the murderers.
has Bishop O’Dwyer, at Limerick, letter Ireland,
issued a pastoral forbidding
the clergy of the diocese to grant abso¬
lution to any person guilty of boycotting
or pursuing the plan of campaign, The
bishop retains to himself alone the right
to absolve such persons.
TERRIBLE BLIZZARDS.
COWBOYS AND THEIR HERDS FROZEN TC
DEATH.
A special on Saturday to the Denver,
Col., Republican from Dayton, N. M.,
eays: “Unless the snow otorm, which
has been raging for eight days, comes to
an end soon, next summer will show the
country covered with the dead bodies of
animals as thickly as was the old Santa
Fe trail in the sixties. The depth of the
snow is now not less than twenty-six
inches on a level, and in many places it
has drifted seven feet high. When the
storm struck this section, seven large
herds of cattle, numbering from 400 to
2,000, were being held near this place
The awaiting shipment to eastern markets.
rain of a week ago was followed last
Thursday morning by blizzards of snow
and sleet which sent the herds in a
southerly direction. In vain did the al¬
ready half frozen cowboys try to check
the march of the herds, but on they
finding went through the increasing storm until,
it utterly impossible to hold the
cattle, the cowboys rode aside and let
them pass, and when nearly dead rode
the exhausted horses into canyons, cr
partially sheltered places, where they
passed many hours of misery without
food or fire. Five cowmen are known to
be frozen to death. Two Mexican sheep
herders have been found frozen to death.
Two men coming in report drifts in some
places seven and eight feet high, in which
there are hundreds of dead stock, many
with horns and heads above the snow.
In one drift thirteen were counted; in
another, ten. Some of these were alive,
but unable to move from their frigid
prison. Herds of sheep are completely
wiped out of existence, aud range for
thirty miles from town is covered with
dead carcasses. It is estimated that 20,-
000 sheep have perished in that part of
the territory. At Texline, ten miles be
low Clayton, two passenger trains have
been snowbound for the week. Provi¬
sions are running out and passengers are
compelled to venture out in the storm
and kill the cattle, quarters of which are
taken into the cars and roasted for food.
The storm is by far the worst ever known
in New Mexico, and the exact loss of life
aud property cannot at present be esti¬
mated.
A COURT ROOM FIGHT
IN WHICH THREE PEHSONS ARE KILLED
AND SEVERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
A dispatch from Lexington, Va., says:
burg, “Reports received here from Browns-
a small village of about 800 peo¬
ple, in Rockbridge county, fourteen
miles north of Lexiegton, state that that
village is in a high state of (Xcitement
over a terrible and blood}’ fight between
leading men of the vicinity. Three
persons are dead or fatally wounded,
while a number of others are severely
injured. It seems that Dr. P. J,
Walker, sicians one of the most prominent phy¬
and surgeons of the state, had
threatened the life of Henry Miller, a
prominent and wealthy citizen of Rock¬
bridge county, for an insult offered the
former’s wife. Miller had Walker ar¬
rested to keep the peace. Friday even'
ing the case came up in a magistrate’s
court, and the trouble soon started,
which ended in both sides drawing theii
weapons. Miller was killed, Dr.
Walker fatally wounded and Mrs. Walk¬
er, who was in court as a witness, was
killed. Dan aud William Miller, sons of
the accused, were shot and dangerously
wounded. Samuel Beaver and others
whose names are unknown, are also in¬
jured.” A later dispatch says: “Dr.
P. J. Walker, who was wounded in the
Brownburg affair Friday evening, near
Lexington, Va., has died from his
wounds. Dave Miller is mortally
wounded, and his brothers George,
James and William implicated in the
shooting in of Dr. Walker and his wife, are
jail. Lyucning is feared.”
MOVEMENTS OF COTTON.
REPORT OF NEW ORLEANS COTTON EX¬
CHANGE FOR PAST WEEK.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange
statement makes the cotton movement
over the Ohio and Mississippi and Poto¬
mac rivers to Northern American and
Canadian mills, for the week ending N< )-
vember 9th, 48,837 bales, against 48,770
last year, and the total, since September
1st, 1,188,070, against 239,741 last
year; the total American mill takings,
North and South, for the first ten weeks
of the season, 517,883, against 674,852,
of which by Northern, 431,486, against
587,152; the amount of the American
cotton crop in sight, 2,670,580. The
statement snows a partial halt in heavy
foreign exports, and the excels, which
last week was 410,575 bales, is now 869,-
573 over the total to this time last year.
It also indicates that the Northern mills
are still pursuing a hand-to-mouth policy,
the ten weeks deficiency compared in their with takings for the
last year hav¬
ing been increased to 125,716 bales.
The stocks af the seaports and leading
interior towns have increased 189,374
bales during the week, reducing the de¬
ficiency, compared with the close of the
corresponding bales. week last year, to 30,542
POLES COMING SOUTH,
THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA INVITEB
THEIR IMMIGRATION.
Colonel Julien Allen, of Statesville, N.
C., is making arrangements for a large
immigration of Poles into NorthCarolina,
and says the prospects are good. A Pol¬
ish priest will soon make a tour of the
state, accompanied by Col. Allen, with
this special object in view. It will be
the first movement of Poles to the South.
Col. Allen says they will make good
citizens, and are industrious and well
trained. He expects that a large settle¬
ment of them will be made at High
Shoal, in Gaston county. There will oe
a large arrival of Poles at New York and
Baltimore in the next few months. Five
hundred families arrived at Baltimore
recently. Col. Allen, who was a noble¬
man in Poland, has great influence over
them.
SUITS FILED
TO COMPEL THE DELIVERY AND PAYMENT
OF BONDS UNLAWFULLY ISSUED.
The Massachusetts and Southern Con¬
struction company hag filed suits in the
United States circuit court against the
townships of York, Ebenezer, Broad
River, Catawba and Cherokee, in York
county; the townships of Giles Creek,
Pleasant Hill and Cane Break, in Lan¬
caster county; the state of South Caro¬
lina and the Boston Safe Deposit and
Trust company, to compel the townships
named to deliver and pay over the bonds
issued by these townships to aid in the
construction of the Charleston, Cincin¬
nati and Chicago railroad. The state
supreme court of South Carolina hss de
dared the issuance of such bonds by the
unconstitutional.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTER'S
or INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The secretary of the treasury has ap¬
pointed L. G. Jeffers superintendent of
construction of the federal buildings at
Birmingham, moved. Ala., vice Shepherd j re<
President Harrison, on Tuesday, ap¬
pointed Warren G. Sayre, of Wabash,
Ind., a member of the Cherokee com¬
mission, to succeed J. F. Haitrmft, de¬
ceased. Mr. Sayre was speaker of the
Indiana legislature in 1887.
A new steward has been secured by
the president for the white house. This
time the choice has fallen upon a Scotch-
Irishman, Philip McKira. For many
years McKim was steward at the Metro¬
politan Club, of Washington.
Dr. Green, president of the Western
Union Telegraph company, is preparing
a reply to Postmaster-General Wana-
maker’s schedule of rates in accordance
with the directions of the executive com¬
mittee.
his Monday afternoon the president issued
proclamation declaring that the con¬
ditions imposed by congress on the state
of Washington to entitle that state to
admission to the Union have been rati¬
fied and accepted, and that the admis-
sijn of said state into the Union is now
complete.
Nothing has developed at the State de¬
partment Treasurer respecting the case of Ex-State
it Burke, of Louisiana, although
was reported that Burke was on his
way to Honduras. It was further stated
that if this was true, it w’ould only be
the most natural thing in the world, for
two reasons: First, some Louisiana peo¬
ple, Burke among them, probably have
secured very valuable concessions in
it mining and otherwise in Honduras, and
wouid be to his interest to go there
and work them; second, there is no ex¬
tradition treaty with Honduras.
In the case of Goode Simonds vs. the
Piedmont Air-Line company, in which
discrimination in the payment of rebates
on commutation tickets is charged, the
interstate commerce commission has
granted leave to the complainant to
amend his petition, which was granted,
by substituting the Richmond aud Dan¬
ville Railroad company in place of the
Piedmont Air-Line as defendant. The
case will be postponed to allow defend¬
ant time to answer... .Iq the case of the
Holly Springs Compress and Manufac¬
turing company vs. the Kansas City,
Memphis relating and Birmingham railroad com*
patty, amended to rates on cotton, an
filed the complaint was on Saturday
and hearing of the case, previ-
ously set for hearing November 14th, has
been postponed to allow defendant the
usual time for answering.
November cotton returns of the de¬
partment of agriculture show a remark¬
able variation in the condition in differ¬
ent localities. In North Carolina and
Virginia the season has been very short
aud excessively wet, and the crop seri¬
ously injured by long continued rains in
the season of blossoming. Tennessee
reports injury to the crop by wet
weather, lack of cultivation, and early
frosts during the past month. In these
states the crop is much worse than that
of last year. Elsewhere the crop is
comparatively Carolina late, especially from South
to Alabama, with a large growth
of weed. In the lowlands early frosts
have injured crops east of Mississippi,
while the uplands in the southern belt are
still green. West of Mississippi, in a
large portion of the cotton area, there hae
been no frost. The w’eather for picking
has been remarkably favorable, assuring
the gathering without waste of all that is
opened in excellent condition. Indica¬
tions of the yield per acre, by county cor¬
respondents, are about three per cent
higher than last year. So much still de¬
pends ou future killing frosts and sunny
weather for opening and gathering that
the result cannot be known very closely
until after Christmas. There has not
been severe general loss by caterpillar
and bollworm, though the damage iD
some localities has been serious.
A POWERFUL ORDER.
TttK PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO
HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAT.
A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich. f
•ays that not less than 75,000 Michigan
farmers have joined the Patrons of Hus¬
bandry since last May, and the number
is increasing e^ery week. They threaten
to become a controlling power in the
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, combination and they that propose will
to organize a
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
charged to exceed twelve per cent ad¬
vance on wholesale prices. The patrons
have lodges in forty-seven counties, with
a membership of more than 5,000.
OUT OF PRISON*
GEOLGE FRANCIS TRAIN WILL EXPOSE
THE WICKEDNESS OF BOSTON.
George Francis Train was brought be¬
fore Judge McKim in the probate court
at Boston, Mass., on Monday morning, several
where testimony was given by
witnesses as to his mental condition.
After hearing the evidence aud argu¬
ments of counsel, Judge McKim gave hfs
decision that Train was not insane enough
to be confined in an asylum, but evidently
of unbalanced mind, and therefore not
properly held in durance for debt.
He was therefore he will discharged. back Mr.
Train says not go to
New York until he has laid bare the
wickedness of Boston.
BANK STATEMENT.
ciated Following is a statement of the asso¬
banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday, November 9th:
Reserve decrease............. ....$L?81,926
Loans increase................ .... 1 , 618,200
8pecie increase............... .... 573,100
Legal tenders decrease........ .... 2 , 574,600
Deposit* decrease............. .... 472.700
Circulation loesses*.......... 6,10C
CASH FOR IRELAND.
At the fortnightly meeting of the Na¬
tional League at Dublin, Ireland, on
Wednesday, it was announced that con¬
tributions amounting to £8,000 had been
reoeived from America since the last
A DISASTROUS FIRE.
PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, HAS a f.500,000
CONFLAGRATION.
Petersburg, Va., sustained the heaviest
loss by fire on Thursday it has experi¬
enced since the war. Flames were dis¬
covered by policemen about three o’clock
in the morning, in the rear of the store
af A. Rosenstock & Co., or George H.
Davis & Co. Owing to the density of
the smoke, the officer could not tell in
which it originated. Soon flames burst
out of Rosenstock’s front door and spread The
themselves with frightful responded, rapidity. but
whole fire department much headway. The
were unable to make
buildings in which the fire started were
located in what is known as the “Iron
Front” block, and consisted of five stores,
each five stories high, and was the hand¬
somest in the city. The block was soon
a mass of flames which communicated to
buildings on each side and swept across
the street, consuming sixteen places of
business before they were stopped. The
stores burned on the east side of the
street are: J. H. Robert, furniture deal¬
er; S. 8. Brudgers, general commission
merchant; A. Rosenstock & Co., dry
goods and notions; Geo. H. Davis, whole¬
sale aud retail dry goods and notions; M-
M. Davis & Co., wholesale and retail dry
goods and fancy goods; W. T. Plummer &
Co., wholesale ami retail hardware; T.
W. Price, wholesale and retail groceries; Brooks,
Eppes Hargrave, grocer; G. W.
stoves and tinware. On the west side of
the street the buildings burned are those
of P. H. Steward & Co., carriage and
harness makers; "Western Union tele¬
graph office; Odd Fellows’ hall; Young
Men’s Christian association hall; store of
A. J. Clements, boots nfid shoes and
leather dealer; law office of W. L. <fc T.
G. Watkins and Mayor Charles F. Col¬
lier; auction house of P. I. Seabury and
office of Wm. R. Nichols, coal dealer.
Total loss is estimated at $500,000 and
insurance is estimated at $350,000. An
unfortunate occurrence was the killing the of
Lieutenant George Crichton, of po¬
lice force, by falling walls.
COTTON OIL MEN
HAVE A MEETING AND FAVOR CHANGING
THE TRUST INTO A CORPORATION.
The committee appointed holders at the of last th«
meeting of the certificate
ootton oil trust to examine into its af¬
fairs and suggest a method for changing
the trust into a corporate concern, met
at New York Wednesday. The report,
presented and adopted after considera¬
ble discussion, was on the basis of chang¬
ing the present certificates into stock,
which would be assured by the deposit
of all securities owned by the trust with
the Central Trust company. The new
stock will consist of $27,000,000 com¬
mon and 815,000,000 six per cent now
cumulating preferred that stock. through The com¬ oi
mittee reported $277,110 errors
judgment a loss of had been
sustained and had been charged off on
the books of the company. Mr. Flagler,
president, contributed $150,000 and J.
O. Morse, treasurer, $100,000 toward
making up the dificiency. The company
will be re-orgamzed ou the plan recom¬
mended by the committee.
WILL RESIST.
IHE CHEROKEE LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION
DON’T WANT TO “VACATE.”
The Cherokee Live Stock association
held a meeting in Kansas City, to con¬
sider Secretary Noble’s declaration that
they must vacate the “strip” by the first
of January next. The meeting was not
publio, but it has been learned that the
sense of the meeting was that the secre-
rary’s order would be resisted, and it
was determined to take legal steps to
that end. The association, said one of
the members after the meeting, does not
propose to renew its lease, but simply de*
sire§ to hold its present lease until it*
Summation in 1894.
A GENEROUS GIFT.
A BALTIMORE LADY GIVES JOHN HOPKINS
UNIVERSITY A CnECK FOR $100,000.
Mrs. Caroline Donovan, of Baltimore,
the widow of a New York merchant,
on Saturday university presented to the John $100,000. Hop¬
kins a check for
Mrs. Donovan berused expresses the chair preference
that it to found a of Eng¬
lish literature, though if the trustees see
tit to make other use of the money, they
may act according to their best judg¬
ment. Mrs. Donovan made this money
heifielf by fortunate investments. She
had already provided for all of her blood
relatives and thus made her generous
gift without causing family jealousies.
THE AVERAGE WEIGHT
OF COTTON BALES OF DIFFERENT STATES
BASED ON RECEIPTS TO DATE.
The New Orleans cotton exchange had
published statements derived from other
exchanges as to the average weights of
cotton bales in their respective States,
"based on receipts so far. The report, by
sections are: Texas, 534 24-100 pounds;
Louisiana, 498 80-100; Alabama, 500 {
Georgia, 498 71-100; North Carolina,
and Tennessee, etc., 501 47-100. Com¬
pared with the September weights, the
average of the cotton belt for the months
together lighter. is 10 42-100 pounds per bale
A MEXICAN BLIZZARD.
One of the severest snow and wind
storms in the history of New Mexico has
prevailed for the past three days, and
reports are ooming in of great damage to
live stock on the northern ranges. A
number of oowboys and sheep-herders
have been lost, and it is feared they have
perished. All trains are from five to
twelve hours late, and snow-ploughs are
kept iu constant operation on the Raton
and Glorietta mountains.
COTTON OIL TRUST.
THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER SEND IN
THEIR RESIGNATIONS.
At a meeting of the board of trustees
of the American cotton oil trust held at
New York ou Monday the resignations
of J. H. Flagler, as president, and Jay
Moss, as treasurer of the board, were
read and accepted.
A SWEET REFRAIN.
She (at the piano)—Listen ! How do
you enjoy this refrain ?
He—\ ery much ! The more you
refrain the better I like it.—[Chicago
Globe.
NOT PREPARED TO DIE.
Jack—What are you doing, Mabel ?
Mabel—Making angel v-ake, don’t you
want some?
Jack—No, thanks; I don t want to be
an angel.—[Puck.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIO US POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING OS OF
A CONDENSED
laroBTANCE IS THE SOCTHKBH STATES.
Miss Nellie P. Hunt, daughter of the
late Wm. H. Hnnt, of Louisiana ex-
minister to Russia and a member of Gar¬
field’s cabinet, has been chosen private
secretary to Mrs. Levi P. Morton.
The Times-Democrat quotes cotton seed
and its products in New Orleans as fol-
lows: Seed, $14 per ton; cotton seed
meal, $19 to $20 per ton; oil cakes $20
ton; cotton seed oil, crude, 2o to -8c
per gallon.
per that the last reported
It is now said McCoys
fight between the Hatfields and
in West Virginia never occurred and
that the accounts of previous conflicts
between these factions were much ex-
aggerated. arrested at Cleve¬
Ten men have been
land, Tenu., for passing counterfeit
money. The operations of the counter¬
feiters have been very extensive through-
out that sec Ton for several months past,
silver dollars being the principal coins
made.
A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., on
Monday says: Frank J. Lee, who ac-
com panied Sam Jones, the revivalist, to
this city last winter as his private city prison secre¬
tary, is now locked up in the
on a charge of burglary.
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Murfree, the pa¬
rents of Miss Mary N. Murfree, who has
become so famous as “Charles Egbert
Craddock,’’are nowin Murfresboro,Tenn.,
renovating and refitting the old home, to
which thejj with their distinguished
daughter, have returned to stay.
The Kentucky court of appeals ou Sat¬
urday affirmed the decision of the Pike
county court in the Hntfield-McCoy case. and
Valentine Hatfield, Pylant Mahorn
Dock Mahorn go to the penitentiary for
life for the murder of Tolbert McCoy,
and Ellison Mounts will hang for the
murder of the girl Aliaf McCoy, the sis¬
ter of the murdered man.
News of a horrible double murder
comes from Johnston county, N. C. An
aged and respectable lady named Mrs.
Celia Brown resided in the country,
about four miles from Selma, with her
little grandson eight years of age. Sat¬
urday morning both were found mur¬
dered. They had been killed with a
gun. No clew has been obtained to the
murderer and no cause for it can be as¬
signed.
The well known case of Charlet E.
Cross and Samuel C. White, defaulting
president and cashier, respectively, of
the State National bank of Raleigh, N.
C., was finally disposed of Monday by
an opinion rendered by Justice Harlan in
the United States supreme court. The
effect of the decision will be to compel
Cro* and White to serve out the term
for which they were sentenced.
The royal chapter of King's Daughters,
which is composed of delegates from the
various circles in the state, met at
Charleston, S. C., Sunday, and was very
siimly attended. The slim attendance
was attributed to the publication in a
newspaper of a card, which was supposed
to have been written by a prominent
King’s Daughter and in which the writer
urged the King’s Queen Daughters to get up a
jietitibnto Victoria for the pardon
of Mrs. May brick.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Adalina Patti has dyed her hair yellow.
Seattle, Wash., is to have a $300,000
opera house next year.
P. T. Barnum’s show is the biggest sensa¬
tion in England at the present time.
New York city now has an ordinance
forbidding all playing by street bands and
organ-grinders.
Wilson Barrett and Miss Eastlake took
the place of the Kendals at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre, New York.
The Queen of Iioumania composed a series
of of sea sea songs in Domburg, in Holland, which
will be published next Christmas.
Richard Voss, the distinguished German
dramatist, is suffering from a nervous disease,
which has compelled his retirement to an
asylum.
Otis Skinner, who is pronounced by lead¬
ing critics the best actor in the Booth-Mod-
jeska combination, is the son of a Hartford
(Conn.) clergyman.
“The Dead Heart” has turned out to be
a tremendous popular success at the London
Lyceum, and the nightly receipts amount to
the full capacity of the house, a little more
than * 2000 .
“Hands Across the Sea ,' 1 the English
melodrama which was played at the Stand¬
ard has Theatre, New York city, a few weeks ago,
been purchased by Charles B. Jefferson
and H. 8. Taylor.
The New River runs under the stage of the
old Sadler’s Wells Theatre, in London, and
was often used as a scenic accessory in the
old days, whenever a situation called for the
employment of ships or boats.
Gilbert, the librettist, does not care at
all for society, but is much sought after in
London. His conversation is said to possess
the same whimsical flavor which has made
his poems and operas so popular.
In Melbourne, Australia, special policeman
are detailed every night to visit the theatres
and music halls before the audience are ad¬
mitted, to see that all means of exit are free
and unobstructed. This is an example which
might be imitated profitably here.
Mrs. Kendal, the English actress, makes
a large hobby of collecting fans. She has a very
Mrs. Kendal collection, and is always adding to it.
lias purchased some very rare
and beautiful ones in this country, which she
will take back with her to England.
Leader Sousa, of the Marine Band, Wash-
mgton, has completed his collection of the
national songs of the world ordered by the
Navy identify Department. Mr. Sousa has been able
to the composers of only twenty-one
numbers out of 138 which his book contains.
Sarah Bernhardt is thinking of playing
Cleopatra, ( and has been negotiating, not
very well-known seriously, for a special translation, by a
meditates author, of Shakspere’s play. She
also the assumption of Desclee’s
famous part in Dumas’s “La Visite de Noces,”
or of the Medea of Legouve.
The Conservatory of Valencia in Spain
offers a list of prizes for the best of each of
the following species of composition: A
symphonic poem, a vocal duet, a piano solo,
a four-part chorus, a quartet for strings, a
concert piece for the harp, an orchestral
symphony, St. Cecilia. a violin concerto and a hymn to
The real name of H. B. Conway, the En¬
glish comedian, who has been performing in
the Lyceum Theatre, New York- city, 1 -.
Henry Byron Coulson. He is a grandnephew grandson of
of the poet, Lord Byron, and
Byron’s sister, Augusta Leigh, whom Mrs.
Beecher Stowe attacked in Macmillan’s some
fifteen years ago.
S alvin I, the Italian tragedian, this country, now play-
iEg a farewell engagement in is
a stalwart, enthusiastic mannered man, of the
robust school, with a massive bald head and
a drooping moustache waxed at the ex-
er tom ties. He is as strong as the proverbial He has
Nemean lion, and six and fifty. a
voice like a roar, and a son in the Othello profession, while
and he studied the part of
languishing in the deepest dungeon beneath
the castle wall at Geneva.
4TTEE A CURTAIN LECTURE.
“Joe, your wife looks as fresh as a
morning glory. ”
“Bill, I wish she was a worning-
^“^hy so, she’d Joe?” shut at night,”
“Because up
WHEN SNOW IS ON THE OROU9fXKi|
Just now the happy butterflies are dancing
in the sun, »
Without a thought that by and by with
pleasure they’ll be done;
They kiss each bud and flower and they flirt
with every breeze.
Their whole existence one brief hour of hap-
piness and ease.
The while the wise, industrious ant is work¬
ing with a will,
As day by day her winter’s store she strives
to amply fill;’
And if we gain no wisdom from this lesson as
profound, weather’s cold and
We’ll regret it when the
snow is on the ground.
In summer time when work abounds and
everything’s alive,
When all the bees are bringing in the honey
to the hive,
With birds a-singing everywhere and flow-
ers-all in bloom,
And beauty dancing in the air without*
shade of gloom, wealth ought
Then we forget that of our we
to lay away which to meet
A little sinking fund with a
rainy day. and throw
We spend our salary freely then
our wealth around,
But it’s different when the weather s cold
and snow is on the ground.
—Chicago Herald.
PITH AND POINT.
Trade follows the march of the drum¬
mer.
A counter organization—A salesmen’s
onion.
Does a man take water when he liqui-
dates his debts?
Very few persons can hold their own
on their first sea voyage.
Most people have their lives insured as
% mere matter of policy.
The way of the transgressor is to shin
over into Canada.— Puck.
A man without honor in his own
(Sountry may have profit abroad.
The young mau who is in love is con¬
spicuous for his courtly manner.
Sheets of flame are usually spread over
abed of coals.— Baltimore American.
The man who wants to get ahead of
time should use the spur of the moment.
“All’s well that ends well” is the
motto of the artesian borer .—Boston Ga~
tette.
First Grasshopper —“You look riled.”
Second Grasshopper— “Yes, I’m hooping
mad.”
When a man gets drunk he generally
proceeds home at “full” speed .—Texas
Siftings.
When stung by a hornet jump two feet
high and yell for the police .—Detroit
Free Press. I
It is worthy of mention that the kind
of figures which won’t lie are not enclosed
in tailor-made suits.
The only office that has to seek the
man is the unsalaried one and which
brings no perquisites.
The young man never searches for
motes in the eye of his lady love. He ia
always looking for beams.
“He’s such an exaggerator, I can’t
swallow his stories.” “It’s just as well.
They’re not fresh.”— Bazaar.
Many a man considers himself a great
gun when, in fact, he is nothing but a
smooth bore ,—Boston Transcript.
Woman is a lovely creature, and she
knows it, too, but she is always willing
to be told of it once more .—Somerville
Journal.
The childish miss resents a kiss and
runs the other way, but when at last
some years have passed, it’s different,
they say. i
Wifely Care.—“John, do tie a knot in
your handkerchief before you go to bed,
so as not to forget to get up to-raorrow
at four o’clock.”
To the lone bachelor patching his shirt
at two o’clock in the morning, the mot*
to, “It is never to late too mend” cornea
with striking force .—DanstiUe Breeze.
Things are seldom what they seem.
For instance, a hand painted screen.
For what we think is some dog’s head
May prove a lovely rose instead.
—GoodalVs Sun.
Patti is said to have made over $1
000,000 with her voice. And yet men
are unreasonable enough to expect wo¬
men to keep their mouths shut .—Nets
York News.
Boston Mother (while the ball is at its
full high)—“Is everything going smooth¬
ly, Janet?” Daughter—“Yes, mother;
the caterer has just opened the seventh
barrel of beans.”— Judge.
Extra-ordinary.—Smith—“Look here.
Brown, we’ll soon decide the matter; lets
ask the waiter. Waiter, are tomatoes a
fruit or a vegetable?” Waiter—“Neither,
3ir. Tomatoas is a extra !”—Funny Folks.
Between the summer’s torrid heat
And winter’s frigid storm,
There comes a charming breathing spell
That’s not too cold or warm.
It's after we’re relinquished from
The ice man’s fearful clasp,
And just before we get into
The coal man’s fatal grasp.
—Chicago Herald. •
Nowadays the young men of the peri¬
od don’t go down on their knees in nerv¬
ous agony before their future wives.
They hold a solitaire diamond ring above
their heads and the girls jump for it.—*
Somerville Journal.
‘‘Now, Willie, dear,” the mother said,
“I want to take this chance
To warn you that you musn’t use
The vulgarism ‘pant*.’”
“But ma,” replied the little son,
“The word expresses facts.
Without it I could never tell
You how our doggie acts.’’
—Merchant Traveler.
Lost the Card.
There is a tailor in London who does
not entertain the highest opinion of
American perspicacity. A week or two
ago the Mayor of a Southern city called
upon Consul-General New with a letter
of introduction from the State Depart¬
ment and asked him for the address of a
good tailor, New recommended the aft¬
ist whom he had himself employed, and
wrote the Southern gentleman’s name on
the consular card. The Southerner pro¬
ceeded to lose the card, and another man
found it. This person saw its value and
personated the Southern Miyor, $i200, obtain¬
ing clothes to the value of which
the tailor would like New to pay for.—
New York Sun.
A locomotive, on the trip between
New York and Albany, use* 3200 gallons
of water, six tons of coal and one gallon
of oil.
Birmingham, England, employes 100Q
umbrella-makers.