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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. It wiil pay you to advertise with ur. Subscribe for this paper. 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.