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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. ------— 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