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THE
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
The sentiment in favor of a republic
in Brazil is spreading very rapidly, and it
is by no means improbable that Dom
Pedro is destined to be the last Emperor.
The shipyards on the grAt lakes are
busy building thirty-five steamers of 67,-
330 tons, largely of steel. Among th em
are three of the new “whale-back” steam¬
ers, at Duluth, Minn.
The practice of cramping the feet by
Chinese women is said to be of very an¬
cient origin. It was known as early as
the tenth century, and therefore the idea
that it is of recent date and due to the
efforts of the Chinese women to rival the
Chicago girl is a mistake.
The Indians of the Five Nations take
great interest in news from the surround-
Ing States, as well as within the borders
of their own nations. Ten weekly news¬
papers are published within the territo¬
ry, and a number of daily newspapers
from the States are taken by the Indians.
To the great tracts of land recently ac¬
quired for settlement from the Creeks
and Seminoles in Oklahoma, from the
Sioux in Dakota, and from the Crows in
Montana must now be added the large
areas just surrendered by the Chippewas
in , Minnesota, who , are to concentrate
upon the White Earth and Red Lake res-
ervatious in that State.
During the Exposition at Paris no less
than a hundred “congresses” of one kind
and another have been held in the city,
and all sorts of subjects have been dis¬
cussed, from hypnotism to the best
means of extinguishing fire. Singularly
enough, however, although the Exposi-
tion was originated for the purpose ot
commemorating the Revolution of 1789,
no meeting has been held of any kind in
which that eveut was referred to even in
the remotest possible way.
Garner Robinson forty years ago was
a poor boy among the crofters on the
Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scot¬
land. He shipped aboard a whaler and
was wrecked on the coast of Japan. He
iwas rescued by Commodore Perry's expe¬
dition and became an American seaman,
i He served in the Union Navy during the
iwar and then went to Manitoba. He is
.now owner of miles of wheat fields near
(Winnipeg, on the Canadian Pacific.
Robinson is a bearded giant, weighing
210 pounds.
The seizure of the telephone system in
France by the postal authorities has al¬
ready borne fruit in a forty per cent, re¬
duction of the aunual rental, aud a drop
of ouc-half in the charge for using tht
instrument at pay stations. It was the
rapacity of the private owners which
caused the transfer to the Government.
There are corporations in this country,
enjoying charter privileges granted on
the theory that they are ministering to
the public comfort at the lowest practic¬
able rate of compensation, avIio in the
opinion of the Washington Star, might
take a profitable warning from happenings
across the sea.
If the poor inmates of insane asylums
were capable of gratitude, the NeAv York
Sun thinks they would undoubtedly
biess the name of Dr. A. G. Chase.
This humane practitioner has invented a
system of complex mirrors and shafts
leading to the attic or top story of the
asylum of Norristown, Penn., by Avhieh
an inspector stationed there is enabled to
observe minutely every act and motion
of the patients and attendants in the
wards of the first and second floors, so
as to prevent the abuse of patients. The
trustees have adopted this sort of mute
detectives aud expect from their use a
prompt cessation of the brutalities Avhieh
have hitherto been practised with impu¬
nity in the asylum.
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According to » foreign publication,
•‘it requite likely that wc may rritneee
this year the unusual though not unpre-
cedeuted spectacle of an erport of pota-
toes from Europe, aud even from the
United Kingdom, to America. The chief
sources of supply for the United States
are the New England States, and in all
these except Maine the crop is undoubt-
edlv edlr n a fiilnre failure. Even p_. in Maine it is , be-
lieved tnat the yield will be very poor,
although the accounts are not vet quite
conclusive * The P nrntWf-inn due aon of that Mate
is, however, larger than that of anyothei
in the Union, and if the adverse esti-
mates now current should be confirmed.
there cun be no doubt that imports ^ from
side .. the Alantic ..
oi will be required/
There is no doubt of the energv with
_v: wffich rO, the Mormon propaganda j is f‘, being .
eamea on in Europe.. Nearly every
steamer brings recruits for the New Zion,
in charge of the elders whose eloquence
has ensnared the converts. It does not
take much oratorical skill, observes the
Ean Francisco Chronicle, to induce peo.-
pie who can save nothing bv the hardest
— to emi-
grate to a land that is pictured as a mod-
era Canaan, flowing with mil fa- a nut
honev. The darker side ctf the picture
when.hu
converts are safely landed In Utah. The
latest party of these dupe came from
T.huringian and numbered 110, more »b«v
half of them young girls. Nothing could
. done . to , stop . them .. *t , Castle ^ Garden, ^ „
De
and the authorities were forced to allow
them to so to their-fate.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM FA-
RIO US POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A COVDZXSZD ACCOUNT Or WHAT 19 GOING ON Ot
IMPORTANCE IN TH* BOOT HERN STATES.
The courthouse at Warren ton, Va.,was
burned Friday night.
A Confederate monument was unveiicd
in Buff.dk, Va., Thursday.
The Demopolis, Ala., oil mill burned
Friday; loss $125,000, insuiaace $75,-
000 .
Chief Justice W. N. H. Smith, of
North Carolina supreme court, died at
Raleigh, Thursday.
Colonel L. F. Livingston addressed
the Richmond county, Ga., alliance, Sat¬
urday, on the general condition of the
farmer.
The Early county, Ga., alliance has
determined to cstabl.sh a cotton see 1 oil
mill and fertilizer factory in Blakely to
be in operation by September, 1890.
William Nathan Larrell Smith, chief
justice of the supreme court of North
Carolina, and one of the ablest men in
the state, died at hia home in Raleigh on
Fiiday.
Sanford, Joseph Plummer, aged 88, died near
Ky., Thursday. Two months
ago he had a stroke of paralysis and it
is said went without food for forty days,
his weight declining from 225 to 125
pounds.
James T. Gill’s livery stable an Clarks¬
ville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire Fri¬
day, Hnd in it til teen fiue horses were
burned, among them the famous trotter,
Single Wood, valued at $7,000. Tli a
totd loss will be $40,000, with no insur¬
ance.
A number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, t ol., on fcaturdny from Reno
county, Kan., to locate government lands
in South Santa Fe for a colony of 200
Mennonites, who propose settling on the
line of the Atchison, l opeka and Santa
Fee road. It is the first colony of the
kind to locate in the territory,
D spatches of Thursday from Vernon,
Ala., say that Summers, the merchant
who was robbed there Tuesday night,
declares that the robber was not Burrow.
Summers has known Rube all his life,
and although the men wore masks, he
could iell his visitors were not the fa¬
mous outlaw and his pal.
At a meeting in New Orleans, of the
chamber of commerce and industry of
Louisiana, Thursday night, there was a
spirited contest over the question ol
preference as between New York and
Chicago for the site of the world’s expo¬
sition of 1892. A resolution was finally
adopted fuvoring Chicago.
destroyed Fire in New Orleans, Friday night,
all the buildings on the square
bounded by St Andrew, Franklin, Lib¬
erty and Josephiue streets, except one,
the German Lutheran church, Thit
same square suffered a similar fate ten
years ago, when the only building left
standing was the same little church.
News was received from Reidsville, N.
C., Thursday, that the grand jury had
returned a tiue bill against Mrs. Cora
May Hariis, for the murder of her hus-
band, a merchant of that place, by poi-
eouiug him. The woman is of one ol
the best families in the state, a relative
of ex-Governor Scales, and the case
promises to be a celebrated one.
The United States grand jury, after a
two weeks’ session at Jncksop, Min.,
were returned finally discharged Saturday. They
forty one indictments, divided
as follows: Timber depredations, nine¬
teen; p >stoffice robberies, five; passing
counterfeit money, one; unlawful retail¬
ing, live; illicit distilling, eight; per-
jury, two; intimidating witness, one.
4 he third bi ennial session of the Uni¬
ted Syod of the Evangelist Lutheran
church, South, convened in Wilmington,
N. C., Thursday. This body embraces
eight district synods, and has a commu¬
nicant membciship of about forty thou¬
sand. One of the important matters to
be considered by the synod is the estab¬
lishment of a Southern theological sem¬
inary.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: A spe¬
cial train on the Illinois Central branch
from Aberdeen, Mbs., collided Thursday, north ol
Canton with a sivitch engine
resulting mond, in the death of Patrick Red-
engineer of the switch engine;
Tom Loftin, fireman of the switch en¬
gine. Jim Smith, D. Halsey and V.
Thomas, aud several other persons were
injured.
The annual meetings of the following
roads, composing the Atlantic coast line,
will be held at Richmond, Va., next
Monday: Richmond and Petersburg;
Petersburg, Wilmington and Weldon;
Northeastern, Cheraw and Salisbury;
Cheraw and Danvilie; Wilmington, Co¬
lumbia and Augusta; Central of the South
Carolina, and Albermarie and Raleigh.
The alliance men of Franklin, Haber¬
sham and Rabun counties, Ga., have
formed a joint stock company lor the
§Str°K“mS g^JrS’VSSl? We£l of ^ »Ufkn« t?the
capital stock is to be at least SIS,000.
^3^"^ ro
he worked through the allianceexchange
Dr. R. A. Gerrard was jailed at Chat-
tanooga, lenn., on Friday, charged with
)>ig«niy having ten wives living
ll, 8 to ^ ,e tta ement of wite No. 10,
whom he married in th it city. Several
of his numerous wives are expected to
arrive from different points of the com-
P ass in a * ew tJa J 8 - Ue
has several wives living, . but claims that
he does not know how many he has, his
memory on this point being defective,
The 8tate department of agriculture
oi Alabama has completed its November
report, ba*ed on reports from all sections
of the state. The report is lull of inter-
cst. particularly as it shows but eighty-
per cent of the cotton crop has been
made in the state. The average has been
reduced by the almost total failure of the
crop in some cotton-produeiag counties
of north Alabama. The corn crops is
above a full one, the report showing an
average of 105.
The board of directors of the prison
congress met at Nashville, Tenn., Satur-
day, and attended to the routine busi-
n#>as - neA riv every member of this board
S-VTuV dent
of the board of directors. In the
board are Rufus B. Bu.lock, of Atlanta,
Ga> 1 B - H - I)aw ' son y <>f Montgomery,
leigh, N. aStafTat
C.
The Virginia Methodist conference
met «t Richmond Va., Monday and elec¬
ted the following «"dega r es to a general
conference to be htid at St Louis in
May, 1890: Clerical debates—Rev. Dr.
J. E. Edwards, Dr. R. M. Sedd, P. A.
Peterson, Paul Whitehead, J. J. Laff ry,
A. G. Brown, Rev. J. Lowell Garland.
Lay Delegates—Governor E. E. Jackson.
Maryland; dolph, Prof. W. W. Smith, Ran¬
Macon college; Me srs. J. Pet¬
tyjohn, Lynchburg; Capt. E. V. White,
Norfolk, viile, and Major R. W. Peatross, Dan-
Va.
The Southern Surgical and Gynecolog¬
ical association, which has been in ses-
sion at Nashville the past week, has
officers: adjourned, after selecting the following
President, George J. Engle-
n.ann, of St. Louis; first vice-president,
B. C. Hadra, of Galveston,Texas; second
Na-hville. vice-president, Dr. Duncan Eve, of
Judicial council—Dr. Hun¬
ter McGuire, of Richmond, Va., for five
years; Dr. Bedford Brown.of Alexandria,
Va., for one year; secretary, W. E. B.
Davis, M. D., Birmingham, Ala.; ti eas¬
ier, Hardin P. Cochrane, M. D., Birm¬
ingham, Ala. The next meeting will be
held in Atlanta, Ga.
movement of cotton
WEEKLY STATEMENT OF THE NEW OR¬
LEANS COTTON EXCHANGE.
' T1 e New Orle n > Cotton Exchange
statement, is ued Saturday, makes the
overland movenunt of cotton across the
Ohio, Mis* -a ppi a id Poiomic rive s to
Northern, American aud Canadian nulls
for the week ending November 16th, in¬
clusive, 53,648 bale-, against 71,718 lust
year, and to al since September 1st 241,—
726, against 3 >4,749. Tottl American
mill taking North and Sou h for first
elevm weens of season, 623*031, against
805,573. The total amount of American
crop now in siuht 3.036,441. against
2,706,388. Northern mills are behind in
the taking for eleven weeks 181,280
bales, while th j movement f« r foreign
recount is on a lib. ral scale. Total for¬
eign exports show an exce s to date
over the total ol' the c ose of the corre¬
sponding w< ek of 48,094. The teport
shows that the amount of the crop mar¬
keted pa>sed the three million mark Fri¬
day, the excess over last v ar now be¬
ing 220,093 bales. Stocks at seaports
and .eading interior towns have in¬
creased 32,638 bales during the past week,
and are now 883,967 bales, against 915,-
959 bales at the close of the correspond¬
ing week last year.
A REVOLUTION.
THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL
OF THE ARMY.
The following dispatch from Rio Ja¬
neiro was received at New York Friday:
“A revolution has broken out here. Bra¬
zilian armies in conlfol. The ministry
has resigned. Minister shot. Attempt
to establish republic.” Other dispatches
from Rio Janeiro received at London
concerning the revolutionary outbreak
assert that a movement in favor of a re¬
publican form of government has re¬
cently been strongly fomented, and is
the sole cause of the uprising. Up to
the present hour, however, there is little
information of tangible character. The
announcement is made in cipher cables
already at hand that the Brazilian minis-
t ers have tendered their resignations and
the situation is controlled by the army
a still later dispatch from Rio de Ja-
niero reports that a republic has been
proclaimed with Senor da Fansica as
president. Imperial and ministers have been
placed under arrest are kept in close
confinement. The provisional govern-
urtint has guaranteed protection to mem-
bers of the imperial family,
SOUTHERN ACTIVITY.
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW ENGLAND CAPI¬
TALISTS INVESTING IN THE SOUTH.
The past week has been one of activity
in the organization of enterprises in the
south. Florence Ala., has led with an
investment by Philadelphia and New
England capitalists, including a $500,-
000 cotton mill; a furnace to cost $200,-
000, to be built by Philadelphia parties
and to be knoAvn as the “Philadelphia
furnace,” aud a $300,000 Loan and Bank¬
ing company, while $1,000,000 in cash
has been invested in stock and land of
two local improvement companies in
Florence by these norihern capitalists.
In Florida a contract has been made for
constructing 300 miles of canal to furnbh
a water way nearly the entire length of
the state. At Bessemer, Ala., two new
furnaces, to cost $400,000, are to be
built. At Brierfield, Ala., iron works
are to be reorganized with $500,-
000 of bonds and $700,000 of pre-
fem d stock. At Rome, Ga., a $125,000
furnace is to be built. A steel plate mill
is to be built in West Virginia; a $200,-
000 clothii g factory in Baltimore and
extensive fertilizer works at Norfolk, Va.
CRERAR’S WILL-
liberal beqtfsts to churches and
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
The will of the late John Crerar, of
Chicago, . admitted probate Ihurs-
was to
day in the county court. The will dis-
^ <>f l*™"*' I'-P-fy scheduled
a'f.OO.OoO. and o?hie real e.tate Wch^of valued at
the
b ^ er ““oVeoua' of cousins he ‘T leaves bequests of
degree, and other sums are tiven to
churches, hospitals, charities, historical,
Bcie ntific and literary societus and to
personal J friends, ’ the whole aggregating f =
miliion „ nd a qHarter d()]lrtr The r
mainderofthe estate, estimated tube
worth about $2 250,000, is set apart for
the erection and maintenance of a pub-
li c librarv in the city of Chic ;go, to be
knoivn as the “John Crerar Library.”
POISONED HASH.
OVER A HUNDRED WEST POINT CADETS
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.
A report reached Newburg, N. Y.,
Thursday, that haif the corps of cadets
at West Point, upwards of 150. had re-
ported at hospital that ill from poisoning. It
turns out the illness occurred a few
days ago; that it was not poisoning, but
trouble of the bowels, and the attack
was ge. eral with all connected with the
mess hall—drivers, gardeners, cadets. waiters,
etc., faring as badly as the Even
those who had not tasted food at the
ness for a time, but all recovered. The
superintendent has appointed a commis-
61011 investigate the cause.
COPPER TUMBLES.
A London cable so the New York stock
den exchange, break on Thursday, indicated a sud¬
of nearly two pounds in riie
foreign copper market. G. M B. meta,
which had been taken in la r ge quantities
on market, Wednesday closed at 47 pounds un a steady
weak Thursday at 45
pounds 5 shillings spot and 45.19 fu¬
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
WXWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACC :DENTS, STRIESS
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The boom in the pig iron market it
Scotland has collapsed.
Seventeen deaths have resulted in Ber¬
lin from explosion in powder at llanau.
A heavy storm prevailed at Blooming
to depth n » III., Monday. The snow attaining
a of eight inches.
destroyed Capital Hotel, at Dallas, Texas, wai
000; by fi;e TLu sday. L 033 $50,-
insurance $30,009.
The German consul at Hong Kong tel¬
egraphed that a typhoon has ravaged the
country between Hong Kong and Baig n.
Brazilian securities fell at the Lon-.lon
Stock exchange, on Monday, five per
cent. It is difficult to effect tr.ins iC'.ions
in these securities.
One thousand mother-of-pearl Lmttoc
makers at Vienna have struck for >hort
hours and higher wages. The strike is
likely to become general.
A fast mail train was placed ou the
Atlantic Coast-Lino Monday. It will
leave Washington at 4.15 a. m. and ar¬
rive at Jacksonville, Fla., on the follow¬
ing afternoon at 6.39.
Coal miners of four pool* in the Mo-
nongahela Valley met at Monongahela
City, Thursday,aud decided to strike foi
an advance of one-half a cent per bushel
for the price of mining.
The first regular shipment of the new
crop of California oranges passed through
the port of Nongales Thursday.
quality this season is fine, and the crop I
an unusually large one.
Diphtheria has become so prevalent
«t Elahart, Ind., that all schools
been closed. Several deaths have op,
curred. The authoritii s are takiug
btrong measures to stamp it out.
The Liverpool chamber of commerct
has petiuone i Lord Salisbury to endeav¬
or to procure the rescinding of the action
of the collector at Norfolk, Va., regard¬
ing the employment of English classifi¬
ers of cotton in violation of the iaboi
act.
Ihe extensive new vitrious chiua
works of Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, at
East Liverpool, near Pittsburg, was cn-
firely loss destroyed by fire Monday. Total
is about a quarter of a million dol¬
lars. Insurance $89,000.
The prosperity of the cotton mills ol
Fall River, Mass., during the past six
months, and, in fact, during the entirf
year, is without parallel in the history ol
Fall River manufacturing. Never has
there been a year when the dividends
paid were so large as this.
A dispatch from Roseburg, Oregon,
says: A lone highwayman held up a
Coos Bay stage Thursday, broke open
letters and registered potmbhes and rifled
them of their contents, then handed
them back to the driver, thanked him
politely and bade him “God speed.”
The latest papers from Gautemala,
bearing immediate date of October 27th, tell of the
downfall of the riotous out¬
break which, it was thought at the time,
leaders might result in a revolution. Three
dered, were shot, the others surren-
and all is quiet.
A. W. Morris & Bros., proprietors ol
J. A. Converse, plaster aud cordage
works, Montreal, Canada, have been
compelled to seek the indulgenceof then
creditors. The firm is an old one, hav¬
ing been in existence for about eighty
years. It is impossible to estimate the
liabilities, but they will reach, if not ex¬
ceed $1,100,000.
Exports of specie from the port oi
New York last week amounted to $322,-
972, or which 4 24,409 was gold aud
$298,572 iu silver. All the gold went
to South America, $297,832 in silver
went to South to Europe, and $749 in silver went
America. Imports of specie
last week amounted to $178,832, of
which $126,730 was gold and $52,102
silver.
'I he natural sequence of the position
taken by the Catholic congress was a
mass meeting at Baltimore Saturday
night under the auspices of the Catholic
church, in favor of high license. It was
attended by persons of all shades of re¬
ligious opiuion, and the proceedings oi
the meet ng were highly interesting.
Resolutions in favor of high license were
adopted.
’J he sixty-third annual report of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company,
*or the year ended September 30, 1889.
shows that the gross earnings for 1889
were $21,303,001, an increase over 1888
of $909 510. The expenses in 1889 were
$14 810 844, an increase over 1888 ot
$610,283. The net earnings in 1889
were $6,492,157, an increase over 1888
of $339,227.
The committee appointed at the meet¬
ing (J the govoinors of the thirteen orig¬
inal states, held in Philadelphia in April,
1888, and of which Governor Green, of
New Jersey, was chairman, has issued an
invitation to the governors of all the
states aud territories to meet in person,
or by repre sentation, < n the second Tues¬
day in December, 1889, at the Eobitf
house, Washington, D. C.
Peirrepont Morgan, of Drexel, Morgan
& Co.; John King, president of the Erie
road; M. E. Ingalls, president, and II.
W\ Fuller, general passenger agent of
the Chesapeake and Ohio, and a number
of otlnr New Yoik capitalists, left Rich¬
mond, Va., Friday on a tour of inspec¬
tion of the Chesapeake and Ohio road.
The trip will be extended to Cincinnati,
the western terminus of the road.
Reimund Holzbay, “Black Bart,” oc
trial for the murder of Banker Fleisch
boin, of Belleville, III., and the robbery
of the Gogebic defence £tage, Saturday tool the and stand made in
his own a
confession. He admitted that he robbed
the Milwaukee and Northern train six
months ago; that he held up the Wiscon¬
sin Central at Cadott, Wis., a month
later; and that he waylaid the Gogebic
stage and shot Banker Fleischboin
WILL CONSOLIDATE.
OVE OF THE LARGEST AND STRONGEST
CORPORATIONS IN AMERICA.
It is reported at Birmingham, Ala., on
good authority that the Tennessee Co 1,
Iron and Railroad company and the De-
bardeleben Coal anl Iron company of
Alabama, will soon consolidate. The
consolidated company would be probably
the nchuat coal and iron corporation w
America. The combined property ofthe
two companies ^ coai1 ^ fi ftceD
blast furnaces in Tennessee and Alabama;
about one hundred miles of railroad;
°o.l miDM with , total daily output ol
eight thousand tons; coke ovens aud ore
mines enough to suoply all the furnaces;
and aixmt on. buafed thousand ac«.
the bai t m ineral lan ds in th* south.
THE WEEK’8 BUSINESS
AS SET YORTH BY R. G. DUN A OO., OS*
NSW YORK.
According to R. G. Dunn *fc Co. busi¬
ness continues healthy, confident and un¬
precedented in volume. Long ago i<
was held that a year’s results would turn
upon the crops, and it is now certain that
the yield has been on the wHole about the
largest ever known. Tne question
whether the wheat yield is thi twenty maxi* oi
thirty inilli >n busht ls below
mum is not important. The cotton crop
the will much exceed figures any previous one, T1 )l
latest official are correct. 4
corn crop wi 1 exceed any preceding by
one hundred to two hundred million
bushels. The oat crop is also the larges I
ever known, and the shortage in potatoei
and fruit is immensely ovet shaduwed bj
the gain in meats. Exports of provis
ions aud cattle in October were $12,604,,
857 iu value.against $6,535,277 last year
a gain o: 69J per cant, and while the
breadstuffs movement was $145,000 short
of last year’s, the increase in cotton hai
been immense. The capacity of iron
turn ces iu blast November 1st was much
the greatest ever recoreed, no less than
than 165, 765 tons w eekly, against 151,-
059 October 1st, a gain of nearly 10 pel
cent for the month; and agaii st 141,064
November l-.t, 1888, a gain of 17.3 pei
cent fur the year. It appears, too, that
several other furnaces of large Weekly capacity
are about to begin wotic; pro¬
duction is now greater than that of Great
Britain, and close to the vreatest ever re¬
corded in that country, being at the rate
of nbout 8,300,b00 tons yearly, after the
allowance for difference between capac¬
ity and actual output. Yet no excess of
production has been perceived, and
prices are firm at the recent advance, an
s|otual but small sale of rails at $35
Geiger reported, bar iron being strong
at $1 96, nails in fair demand at $2.10
and plate, structural and sheet mills fud
of orders. One point of doubt iswbethei
the warrants system may not operate foi
lie time, to conceal an excess of output
over real consumption, and thus prepare
for a disastrous reaction later. The coal
msi.-css is still dull, with individual sel¬
lers cutting prices as before. Copper hai
risen to 12J bid for lake, though the pro¬
motion is large. Lead is dull, and tin
weaker at 2If cents. The cotton branch
of the dry goods trade is active. years,but Receipts
of raw cotton again exceed last
• he excess of exports for the week has
been over 59,000 bales, and the price is
unchanged, with speculative sales of
600,0fl0 bales. Wooleu goods are now
moving fairly, and at Concessions in
price. Speculation in products has been
more active, with some advance in prices.
Operators who were buying at Chicago
were selling at New York, and sales
were over ten million bushels Frid iy.
Corn is but a quarter stronger, pork un¬
changed, with but slight advance in larb,
petroleum only a shade higher, and oats
one cent higher. Coffee has been ad¬
vanced again five-eighth of a cent, with
speculative sales of 250,000 bags, but
distribution is dull. There are more thau
the usual uniformity in accounts from
all parts of the couutry. Reports are all
favorable as to the volume of business,
and in the main as to collections. Busi-
tess failures occurring throughout the
country during the last week, number
for the United States 225; Canada, 20.
Total 205j against 207 last week.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS ANDCRAND RALLT
AT SACRAMENTO, CAL.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., devoted most of Sat¬
urday’s session to the election of officers
and routine business. J. H. Brigham, of
Ohio, was elected master; Hiram Haw¬
kins, of Alabama, overseer; Mortimei
Whitehead, of New Jersey, lecturer; A.
J. Ross, of Texas, chaplain; E. W. Dav¬
is, of California, steward; O. E. Hall, of
Nebraska, assistant steward; F. N. Mc¬
Dowell, of New York, treasurer; John
Trimble, of Washington,D. C. secretary;
Ava E. Page, of Missouri, gate-keeper;
Mrs. Edna Brigham,of Ohio, ceres; Mrs.
M. J. Thompson, of Illinois, pomana; flora;
Mrs. Joe Bailey, of Mississippi,
Mrs. Laura C. Douglas?, of Massachu*
setts,ladies’ assistant steward; L. Rhone,
of Pennsylvania, holdover; J. J. Wood¬
man. 1 of Alichigan; X. X. Chartlers, ol
Virginia; J. H. Brigham, of Ohio;
officio executive committee.
SUSTAINED THE SHERIFF
tN THE KILLING OF THE HAWES RIOTERS,
AT BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Ice legality of the killing of the ter
mea who fell at the attack on the jail,
at Birmingham, Ala., during the Hawe?
riot iast Dectmber, was finally settled
Saturday. The suit of D. C. Juskine
ftgfiifcat Sheriff J. S. Smith, which has
been e-n trial for two weeks, was
decided in favor of the sheriff. Jus-
kins sued for $100,000 damages for the
death of liis son, who was in the mob
and was kihed during the attack on the
jaiL A number of similar suits were
brought, and it was agreed to make the
Juskins" suit a test case. The best legal
talent in the state was employed, half. and The the
trial lasted eleven days and a
remaining suits against the sheriff will be
d runused.
ANOTHER SUSPECT
FOUND IN THE CRONIN CASE, BUT nE IS
IN EUROPE.
The Chicago Inter Ocean,of Thursday,
says another important Cronin m-pect
has come to light in the person of a
former resident of Lakeview— an Irish¬
man, named McDonald. He is now said
to be in Europe and the police are mak¬
ing strenuous efforts to locate him.
Before the murder, McDonald was em¬
ployed by the public works department
in Lakeview. After the disappearance suddenly
of Dr. Cronin, McDonald
appeared to be in affluent circumstances, trip
and talked to his neighbors about a
to Europe, and exhibited steamship
tickets. May 19th the family disap¬
peared. The neighbors assert frequently that prior
to May 4th McDonald was
visited by suspicious characters.
A CLEVER FORGERY*
A DRAFT FOR FOUR DOLLARS RAISED TC
FOUR THOUSAND.
A remarkably , e'ever swindle . .. has , just . .
come to light at Chattanooga, T enn -
Last July a weL dressed stranger entered
PjrchSJd $2 row’ each, nVffl paying o^dnfTfor for the same. $4 andtwo The bank foi
d the $4 draft ha.
turned up mNew York asa $4,000 draft.
It seems that the swindler went from
there to Philadelphia, and purchased for ft. a
,oda fountain for $1,100, paying
game with the raised draft, and receiving
$2.900in exchange. The work is so well $
douVth.t it can hardl, B. detected
an expert,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
appointments, decisions, and otheb matters
or INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The statement is out that congress will
investigate the.civil service commission,
and preparations for the investigation
are now being made.
Surgeon Posey bas reported to Sur¬
geon-General Hamilton, of the marine
hospital service, that two new cases of
yellow fever have been developed at Key
West, Fla.
A letter received at Washington from
Cc/acas, dated November 5th, states that
on October 26tb, the btatues of Guzman
Blanco, in that city, were pulled down
and dragged through the s nets in
pieces, Similar fctatueg in other cities
met a like fate.
The president Monday afternoon gave
a special reception to a numb* r of gen-
tlenun, repre-enting the various busine>i
inteiests of the count!y. who requested
that he incorporate iu his message to con-
grtss a re commendation for the enact¬
ment of an equitable national bankruptcy
law.
First Comptroller Matthews has de¬
cided that a United States marshal who
undertakes to serve a government sub¬
poena upon a witness at a distant point
and fails to find him, is not entitled to
the actual expenses of the trip, notwith¬
standing they were incurred only in
going to the place indicated in the writ;
also, that he is not entitled to the actual
expenses for travel to another place tc
arrest a person whom he fails to find; also,
that he is not entitled to mileage for his
return af er conveying a criminal to a
place designated for his c nfinement.
John W. Mason, cnmmUsioner of in¬
ternal revenue, has submitted to the sec¬
retary of the treasury reports of opera¬
tions of the internal revenue service foi
the fiscal year ended June 39, 1889. Ag¬
gregate receipts for la-t fiscal year $130,-
894,434, or $6,567 ; 953 more than tne re¬
ceipts the previous year. The receipts
for the first three months of the fi-cal
year aggregated $34,634,526, an increase
Df $3,470,897 as compared with the re¬
ceipts for the corresponding period
of the last fiscal year. The com¬
missioner says if this ratio of increase is
maintained the receipts of the present
fiscal year will amount to over $112,000,-
000. He docs not, however, think such
to be the case, and estimates collections
for the current year at 35,000,000.
As a result of several conferences of
Attorney General Miller, Secretary Win-
dom and Solicitor Hepburn in regard to
the case of the twenty-five English glass-
blowers, employed at the works of
Chambers, McKee & Co., of Jeannette,
Pa., the first named on Saturday referred
all the papers iu the case to United
States District Attorney Lyons, at Pitt*-
bu?g, with instructions to proceed
.'•gainst the fiim named,' and those officers
of the local assembly of glassblowers,
who were instrumental in bringing the
English laborers to this country, provi¬
ded he is satisfied that suits can be main¬
tained against them under the provisions Solicitor
of the alien contract labor law.
Hepburn has given an opinion to the
secretary of the treasury that the send depart¬ the
ment has ample authority to England.
imported glassblowers back to
On Monday Secretary Windom’s at¬
tention was called to the report that he
had decided to withdraw $47,000,000 of
public funds, now on deposit with na¬
tional banks. The secretary said that it
certainly was not his purpose to make
any such wholesale witudrawal, but that
the question of a withdrawal of a portion
of the fund in depository banks has been and
under consideration for some time,
he fully recognizid the necessity of call¬
ing in such a portion as could be with¬
drawn from the banks without serious
inconvenience to the trade and commer¬
cial interests as early as practicable.
He said also, in answer to a direct in¬
quiry on the subject, that the govern¬
ment for many years past has had on
deposit with banks through which its
current business is transacted, from ten to
twenty mi lion dollars, and that he saw
no good reason why this policy should
be changed.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
SIX MEN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS
BLINDED BY GIANT POWDER.
A Pioneer Press sptcial on Thursday
from Butte, Mon., siys: A bad accident
occurred on the construt on branch of
the Northern Pacific, fifteen miles west
of here, in Jefferson county, on Tuesday
night. blasting The men were at work in a cut
rock. A blast, of giant powder
was tiled but failed to have the desired
iffect. Whereupon, it being close to
quitting time, and the men being anx¬
ious to complete the blast before they
quit, they poured a quantity of black
powder into the drill hole. Some sparks
from the giant powder blast must have
remained in the hole, lor instantly an ex¬
plosion followed, before the men cou d
retire to a place of safety, bix men
were killed and two others had their
eyesblov ' ___
IN HOT WATER.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD SWAMPED
WITH LITIGATION.
Another suit for foreclosure was filed
Thuisday in the United States court at
Charleston against the South Carolina
railroad. The complainants in this suit
are H. P. Walker and other holders of
the original fiist mortgage bonds of the
cld road, whose securities were not con¬
verted in the reorganization. There are
now three suits for foreclosure pending first
in the couits against the road. The
being the suit of the first mortgage con¬
solidated bonds known as the Bound
suit, and under which ex-Goveinor
Chamberlain wasappointtd receiver, and
the second in lx half of the second mort¬
gage (new) bondholders, and the third
in behalf of the first mortgage (old)
bondholders.
EXCITEMENT AT PIERRE.
SETTLERS AND SQUAW MEN PREPARING
FOB A REGULAR FIGHT.
A spec’al from Pierre, S. D,says:
j* or f pj t , rre jjerald contains a start-
ling but earnest appeal for help. It says:
<>We are in a deplorable condition, and
J^diere, ’ 'with^bayonets* iuZLY to-
kh T^ed.kin^oTn EU mbe- of eouaw men
hft d Trc , uble bas bcen expected
, . . weeks owiorr rim
con flj ct : rjrT rlaims of lLlr, intending “settlers
, n a ,quaw men for anj the people
f “J I! wkh 5
aD<i new. from ft.
otL r 8 u
A NEW ORDER
TO BE FOUNDED BY MISS KATE DREXEL
— AN AMERICAN SISTERHOOD.
It has been authoritatively stated at
Pittsburg that Miss Kate Drexel, known
in religion as Sister Catherine, will uot
remain in the Order of Mercy. She is
merely making her novitiate in that or.
dcr so that she may become a nun and
found a new order. The sisterhood she
will institute, it is stated, will be dis-
tinctlv American, and it will have for
its object missionary work and charitable
work among the Indians. The members
of the new order will be expected addition to do
all kinds of domestic work, in
to educating Indians. The name has not
vet been decided upon.
TO SAIL SUNDAY.
A SQUADRON OF FOUR AMERICAN 8HIPI
THAT WILL SAIL FOR EUROPE.
Amid the booming of cannon, hats dipping
of fla<rs waving of hundreds of and
handkerchiefs, and cheers from u many
throats. Admiral John G. Walker aud
his squadron, comprising the ships Chi¬
cago Boston, Atlauta and lorktown,
with bunting flymg and in all ttie gay
panoply of war, sailed majestic illy down
North river. New York, shortly before
noon Monday. Admiral Walker’s orden
direct him to lemain in Boston not latci
than the end of the week, and it is ex¬
pected that next Sunday morning the
fleet will sail for Europe.
SWINDLED THE EMIGRANTS
GALICIAN PEASANTS INDUCED TO COME TO
AMERICA USDER FALSE STATEMENTS.
News comes from Vienna that at Wa-
doice, Thursday, the trial opened of
sixty-five persons who are charged with
swindling a large number of Galician
peasants by inducing them to emigrate to
America by false statements, and then
obtaining commission on tiseir passage
money. Among the per-OU3 implicated
are a commis>ary of p- lice, comptroller
of customs, Ilunimrian ju tgc and a num¬
ber of cm'oms guards. Several Austrian
and Pru^ian gens-de arm were bribed to
assist organizers of the swindle.
CAGED AT LAST.
AFTER A YEAR’S FREEDOM NINETEEN
MURDERERS ARRESTED.
John Jaekson was arrested in Wichita,
Kansas, Wednes-day morning, on a charge
of murder, aud brought to Topeka. He
was one of twenty-nine who, in July,
1888, murdered Sheriff Cross and posse
of Stevens county in the neutral rtrip.
The murderers were not arrested at the
time because of a legal technicality, no
court, it was claimed, having jurisdiction
over the neutral strip. Advices from
Wichita Thursday night were that eigh¬
teen others were placed under arrest.
HE WAS REINSTATED.
Rev. L. Barrow, a theological student
in the U. S. Grant university at Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn., was editor of the Lookout,
the college paper. Chancellor Speuco
demanded that one-half space of the pa¬
per be devoted to the other branch of the
university at Athens, which Barrow crit¬
icised severely, and w r as suspended for
writing this editorial. The Lookout
then stopped publication. Chancellor
DeWitt, of the Chancery court, on Fri¬
day granted a mandamus compelling the
trustees of the University to reinstate
him.
BANK STATEMENT.
The following is a statement of the
associated banks for the week ending
"'aturday: increase...................$1,310,723
Reserve
Loans decrease..,.................. 1,914,000
Specie increase.,,.................. 1,670,009
Legal tenders decrease.............. 160,300
Deposits decrease................... 2,103 900
Circulation increase................ 15,900
The banks now hold 5*549,450 in ex¬
cess of 25 per cent. rule.
REDUCED RATES.
The Monon route railway announces
that, beginning with December, it wi 1
reduc- rates between Chicago and Jack¬
sonville, Fla, ma'rii g the round trip
fr m Chicago to Jacksonville \39.75,ait i
$22 for one way ti< ket- 11 e-e ra'ea
will apply to the In lianap » is ».ud Cin¬
cinnati, and Jbmilton and Dayton rail¬
way, also via Bergin, Ky.
Spearing Lampreys in Belgium.
The rivers of Belgium and the famous
dykes of Hoi and are thick y popula'ed
with lampreys. We use them as bat
for black bass, and in this country they
6eidom grow to any s ze, but the Belgi¬
ans cams der them a great delicacy; and
import them to Eng and iu large quan¬
tities for table purposes.
Iu the spring months they a-e
speare l in gi eat quantities in a some¬
what novel manner. The rivers there
are crosse 1 by a succession of small
dams or weirs, over which the water
comes tumbling only a few inches in
depth. The spearers have a lantern
strapped on the crown of wile of their head by
an arrangement their and a basket
strapped at backs. This basket
has a top shaped v\hich like our eel-pots, with
a ho e through the fish can lie
dropped, but his cannot station crawl ont again.
He takes at the foot of the
dam. or where the 1 glit from his lantern
fal 8 on the water above. The lampreys
at night hold on to the stones w.th their
mouths like our sucsers, and when tliev
see the light they let go their hold and
drift lazily, tail first, ip to the dam and
over it; as they s down the incline
they hang to the first projection, and
quick as a flash the spear strikes them
and they are transferred to the basket.
Visitors crossing the bridges see t! ese
lights scattered over the river, blending
with the lights define on shore, rendering it
difficult to the houses and the
river; they think it the lamp wharf, of some l
ves el ly mg at anchor or at a an
go home to be l never dream ng of the
strange industry going Times. on just under
their noses.—[Chicago
The Argentine Government has in¬
structed its agent in Paris to offer facil¬
ities for emigration to the . ews who are
being thou-and expelled of these from Russia. Several
peoe who are un¬
der orders to quit Be saiab a, have ac¬
cepted engagements to go and colonize
lands on the Argentine territory. A
shipful few days of from the emigrants Ismarlia. will slait in a
A fampklet, has thought to be from high
sources, just been pub ished ia
Berlin, saying that the it usous which
■orevdnted Germany during t:.o days of
ihnyeror Wil crisis iam fr.-m bringing? mat¬
ters to a between Russia and
France on one side and the tr p’e alli¬
ance on the other have now disappeared,
and a precipitation of the contest may
be looked for at any moment