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THE TOCCOA NEWS -■
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
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TOCCOA) GEORGIA
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And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery.
FwMEhB.m Engines,
BOTH PORTABLE & TRACTION
Geiser Senarators & ShiiHe Mills
Farmers and others in want of either Engines or separators, win
SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. ] am also prepared
to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated
«1ESTEY ORGANS.!*-
Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup
Mills and Evaporators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of
White Sewing Machines
McCormick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders
Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and soe me lie-
ore you buy. I>ai)licnte parts of machinery constantly on hand.
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lion. Win. D. Kelley, member of Congrats,
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K v. Charles W. Cushing, D. D., Rochester,
Now York.
Don. Wm. Penn Nixon, El. Intor-Ocean.Chi-
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W. II. Worthington, Editor Now Smith, New
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Judge H. P. Yronnan, Qu-nemo, Kan.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, Melrose, Masaachu-
setts.
Sir. E. C. Knight, Philadelphia.
Sir. Prank Siddail, merchant, Phila.
Hon. \y. W. Schuyler, Easton, Pa.
K. L. Wilson, 833 Broadway, N. Y., Ed.Phila.
Photo.
Fidelia M. Lyon, Waimea, Ilawa i, sandwich
Itduids.
Alexander Ritchie. Inverness, 8ootlaud.
Mrs. Manuel V. Ortega, Fresnillo, Zacatecas,
Mexico.
5:r*. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Hondo-
t«a, C. A.
J. Cobb, ex-Yics Consul, Casablanca, Mo¬
rocco
M. V. A-hbrook, Red Bluff, Cal.
J. Mo re, Sup’t Police, 1»landlord, Dorset¬
shire Eng.
Jacob Ward. Bowra^ New South Wales.
Aud thousands of others iu every part of ths
United States.
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in as
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Please run it on dais paper when you order Com¬
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CTEWTS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will praclioe in the oounties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention will
be given to all busiuess entrusted to him.
Tbe collection of debts will have spt o-
ial attention.
HUSTON S SUCCESSOR.
Nebeckeris Now United States
Treasurer.
A Washington dispatch says: Treasurer
Huston's letter of resignation, dated
February 24th, and the president's ac¬
ceptance, dated Monday, have been made
public. The resignation takes effect
upon the appointment and qualification
of his successor. Monday afternoon tbe
president Indiana, appointed Charles H. Nebeck-
er, of to be United States treas
urer, vice nuston resigned. It is said
to be probable that he' will not assume
charge of the office for some time yet and
when he does the usual formalties, such
as counting the cash, including millions 45,000
tons of coin aud hundreds of of
notes and lv»?)ds must be undertaken.
The Utopia’s Survivors.
The Italian immigrants who were saved
ia the Utopia disaster, were landed at
thebargo office at New York, Sunday,
from the steamship Angila. Many were
mourning friend; the loss of some relative or
and in some cases nearly all of the
family were missing. Oao little Italian
boy of nine was all alone ; his parepte
having Uses dfowitel
A BLAZE IN CHICAGO
In Which $1,000,000 in Prop¬
erty is Destroyed.
Chicago suffered one of the most de¬
structive conflagrations that lias occured
there since the big fire of 1871, Saturday.
The loss is fully $1,000,000. The fire
started in a stable, the property of the
well-known furniture manufacturer, John
M. Smith, and was located in the rear of
his big house-furnishing establishment on
West Madison street, near Halstead. The
flames speedily communicated to the
furniture establishment, and' a moment
later to Kohl & Middleton’s dime museum.
In a marvelously short time both struc¬
tures had turned into a mass of
flames, which darted across the street
and lodged in the upper stories of
buildings on tho north side of Madi¬
son street. A moment later firemen
along the thoroughfare towering found themselves walls
working between two of
fire. After a heroic fight the fire was
finally gotten under control.
The loss, aggregating over $750,000, is
distributed as follows: John M. Smith,
furniture, stock and building, $500,000;
Kohl & Middleton, curiosities, fixtures and
building, $85,000; Ncelv Bros , boots and
shoes, $20,000; Aldebert Kaempfer,
jeweler, $45,000; Alfred Peats, wall pa¬
per, $60,000; Baer Bros., hats, $10,000;
M. Irrman, cigars and tobacco, $25,000;
Hannnn & Hogg, liquors, $20,000; Royal
Tailoring Company, $6,000; Haymarket
theater, $47,000; board of education
property, in rear of Smith block, $50,000;
miscellaneous loss. $5,000.
POLITZ’S CONFESSION
Will Play an important Part in.
the Grand J ury’s Report.
leans A dispatch of Sunday from New Or¬
says: The grand jury is expecte 1
to report other during tho coming week, and
confession among things it is said that the
of Potitz will be used in the
report. innocence, Although Politz protested his
own he acknowledged that he
had joined the Mafia under the impi’es-
sion that it was a benevolent society. He
was present at the meeting when Heu-
nessy’s death was decided upon, and was
ordered to carry a gun in a sack to Mo-
nasterio’s shanty, but refused. He
did not know of the killing until
th^ Sunday following, but afterwards
learned the details from Monas-
terio, and they were substantially the
same as claimed by the state upon tlie
trial implicating Sheffedi, Marchesi, Bag¬
uette aud Mouasterio as Hennessy’s
slayers. The state did not use the confes¬
sion, because it had direct proof of
Politz’s presence at the killing, which
liis story denied. Politz is said to have
had a brother, who closely resembled
him, who has uot been heard of since tbe
killing, and is presumably in Italy. Had
he been found, the identification might
have been transferred to him, and Politz’s
confession would have formed an impor¬
tant link in the chain of evidence.
A POSTMASTER ARRESTED
For Opening a Letter Addressed
to His Business Partner.
W. H. Morris, late postmaster at Nel¬
son, Durham county, N. C., was arrested
Sunday on a charge of opening a letter
and purloining therefrom a cheek. A
letter containing a check was mailed in
Raleigh recently to W. H. Hopson, at
Nelson. The letter was received but no
check. Shortly after the check was
missed, Morris made an effort to get it
cashed in Durham. The case came up
before United States Commissioner Pur¬
nell. Morris gave bond for appearance
at the June term of the United States
court. His defense is that he and Hop-
son were partners in the lumber business,
and that Hopsou had authorized him to
ooen letters. *
MRS. McKEE ACQUITTED.
Rome’s Sensational Murder Trial
Brought to a Close.
The celebrated McKee-Wimpee poison¬
ing case at Rome, Ga., was brought
to an end Thursday, after a hotly con¬
tested legal battle of eleven days.
The jury rendered a verdict of “not
guilty.” The trial was a most sensational
one, and has been watched with the
deepest interest fri.m beginning to end.
General Spinola Dead.
General Francis B. Spinola, member of
congress from New York city, died Mon¬
day Of night in Washington, after a B iHpess
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TOCCOA. GEORGIA, APRIL 18, 1891
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
ALEXANDER ATKINSON ON ALLIANCE ?OI.r-
The TICS J^D Allianceman OURliENCY.
and says that
and nobody deeply in the interested world is in more (horoi^bly
the Alliance and
its plans than Mr. Atkinson* and but few
are better informed as to the character
and scope of the demands and plans of
the organization* and to verify its asser¬
tion prints the following interview with
him:
“But few people outside of its ranks,
and not all of those inside, comprehend
the magnitude of the evil and the ma"-
nitude of our demands for redress. Our
country last year produced from seven
to hundred eight million million bales of wheat*’ cotton* four
bushels of seven
hundred million bU-hels of oats, two
billion bushels of corn, not to speak of
its mines of precious and useful metals
and coal, its vast manufacturing and
railroad industries aud its timber. Our
national wealth aid national production
is almost beyond the face' powers of concep- A
tion Yet, in the of all this,
at the increasing poverty of the pro-
ducer! Those who make the wealth are
growing poorer every day, and those who
sit in idleness are storing and hoarin"
wealth by the millions. This has gone
on year after year until those who are
producing the wealth have now demanded
an account with those who take it and
keep it.”
“A great many theories have been pro-
posed to set the wrong right.
“Some say that the high protective
tariff is the trouble. Some say combiaa-
tion and monopoly. The great object of
the Alliance is to determine out of all
this confusion what the truth is add to
establish it.” We asked Mr Atkinson
what he considered the most complete
solution of the question. “I think,” he
said, “the cause of the whole is summed
up iu very few words— shrinkage of
currency. Suppose you had a family
beginning As the life in a small one-room house,
family added increases and new mem-
bers are to it unless you add to
the house it becomes crowded and finally
very uncomfortably. So it has been
with our currency. While the business
of the country has been growing, the
population increasing, the increasing, the production
currency has not only
failed to increase in volume but it has
contracted.” “In whose favor do you
think” woSdt” we asked ’ “has this contraction contraction
“Whv capitalists of course he said ia favor of
the who have the money
currencv contracts, the purchasing power
of the dollar increases I mean to say
that if our currency were doubled in vol-
ume there would be two dollars to pur-
chase cotton, com and other produce
where now there is only one. It is out of
the question to talk about higher prices
for our produce when the amount of
money iu the country is so small that a
few capitalists can gather it up and say
to the world just how much of it a cer-
tain article is worth. With an expanded
currency this will be impossible.”
“How,” we ask, “would you propose
to remedy this contraction?”
“We have demanded the free coinage
of silver”
“Do vou think that will effect a com
DleteraUef!”
fixr T • . . , A 4
If all the silve^products werecoined and
nut Lot on sufficient! the countrv r ^B^«ide? as currencv r r the^amemntof it would
be ,
precious metal produced annually is de-
creasinn of'the We also demand the ahnli.
tion National banks and this
would further so far diminish the circa-
lating medium as to render the free coin-
age ° “What inadequate.” idea National
is your about
banks?”
“They are robbers caves for the stor-
age of State goods. A national bank
buys a thousand dollars worth of bonds
for eight hundred dollars and receives
interest on them. The government then
advances them nine hundred dollars on
those bonds to be loaned to the people at
a rate of interest amounting to about fif-
teen per cent, per annum, with the privi-
lege of compounding everv three months,
The fact is thev set about twenty-five
percent. All the time the people are
paying interest on the bonds. The
tercst paid into national banks would
run a dozen governments like ours in
luxury.”
“What do you tbink will give ° com-
plete relief?”
“The direct issurance of money to the
people in sufficient quantities to do the
business of the country without the in-
tervention of national banks.* The value
of money is often all based upon the abil-
ity of the government to pay, the’people. and that is
based upon the wealth of So,
why not come at once to the point with-
out a great circumlocution and enriching
thousands of middlemen! Issue the money
Their on non perishable products stable and property,
value is just as as tbe value
of gold. Tbe volume of needs the currency
will then be adequate to to of busi-
ness. Everything will take on new life.
New industries will spring up, a greater
revoluf.on than the country has ever wit-
nessed before will take place. Capitalists
will then be ready to unload their hands
and develop the country. M hat encour-
agement is there to invest money m pro-
ductive snterprises now, when the prod-
nets bring nothing?”
The Alliance (Tallahassee, Fla.) savs:
The professional politicians the Alliance are music. begin-
ning to dance up to
Thev have been driven from their oppo-
sition to the free coinage of silver by the
aggressiveness of the Alliance. This is
an important point scored for the farmer-
Now let the war be pushed
"With one out post advance captured the the next citadeL will
be easier in our upon
of the money power.
Free coinage of silver will furnish more
money, but it does not furnish a way or
means of getting it into the hands of the
people, nor will the government issue of
treasury notes in double the amount of
the present circulating medium meet the
exigency, if the people cannot get hold
pi it. Now V 0 to fiupid ta 4o tuooose
exigency. It -will do no good to double
or quadruple the volume of currency, if
no way is provided for the people to get
it without going to the Shylocks. The
people are beginning to learn that they
can more safely manage their own
finances, an i are prepared to dispense
with the services of these manipulators.
They have determined to knock out these wbb
the^ "overnmen't come daC3 t0 face
*
the all*ante ,
The imj er'.lled necessities of the peo-
pi j gave birth to our order.
The injustice and oppression of mo-
•leuolistiu uower demanded a rqyolt .^
me ex.acttoni or organized money-
power have been cruel and severe.
I he of this country _
money-power is
completely organized; having complete
and absolute control of the machinery of
governments, S«4 ’legislatures with their tools in place
power; to earn* laws in
their interests. Judges to decide in their
favor > autl executives of their choice and
dictation* with powers to enforce and
armies to compel submission and obedi-
cnce to tlicir unjust and robbing United laws,
nnd that great power in the
States was given them by the voters of
this country, said to be the people. The
.power to enslave ihe born and unborn
and rob them by law of the wealth they
produce. It cannot be denied but that
1 ™ 8
t bsd evei y olnld bcin , comes into ex-
.stenec with the chains of slavery aronnd
Jt -
This . has been given , them by
power
OUr v °tes. We have elected men to rep-
tesent us, the people, who have betrayed
us; who have enacted laws for a class in
P !ac ® of tlm mass of people. We have
done so in ignorance and through patty
prejudice, voting for, and supporting
aud sustaining our party candidates with-
oUt investigating their past votes and
acts, or their future pledges or promises.
We have to a very great extent been rep-
resented iu our legislative bodies* and
particularly so in Congress, by partisans,
not statesmen Had this people been
represented by statesmen no such laws
books, neither would such conditions be
i& existence as there are to-day. Thou,
sands are out of emplaYmeM. Sin, crime-
misery, destitution and want in every
l ,art of this hi g hI y favored land, where
the natural opportunities are at least as
great if not greater than most portions of
* b * s earth. A statesman is one who
knows the force and effects of laws, who
will pass laws in and for the benefit of all
an ^ Socrates not f° r said: a few nor lhat a class. just in _ propor-
Hon as laws are just aud equitable is
mans.opportunities . life for health,
in
wealth and
Good laws.produce good effects, make
ff°°d fvomcn, conditions, make good meli and
„„d make it possible for mankind
to better their condition. Pad laws
P™4 and uc e bad effects, make bad condition,
make it impossible to better their
conditions.
^very man has Certain, clearly defined,
nBtUra l rights; he should know what they
are * and advocate, and maintain, and de-
fend them. To every right there is a
duty, and he should know his duties and
perform them.
Now, reader, have you ascertained
y° ur rights, advocated, maintained and
uerencied.them? Or have you ascertained
your duties and performed them? Cer-
tain X no f', T e al suc b laws
'would not have been placed , upon our
statute books. Nor such con-
ditions been m existence as now
are . In place of sin; crime and misery
being iu existence, peace, condition plenty and
happiness nntinn would bo the of this
Eac of .y° u tbink tbe duopolies that
dominate in vour section are the greatest.
IJ tbe you same examine robbing carefully principle you runs will through find
a11 of them.
The national banking system is the
daddy and mammy of all of them. It
dominates all of them. Other monopolies
OQ iy dominate a certain thing oil.® or article
as tbe Standard does the The
national banks dominate and control all
others. In fact, and iu short, dominates
production d of all kinds.
T b e laQ is the source from which a’l
’wealth is produced. Labor is the means
by which all wealth is _ produced. Money
1S ^be measure by which all wealth is ex-
changed. If so, then the logical deduc-
^. on 1S > that amount of money in actftil
circulation in a country regulates tbe
price of labor, labor products, and all
property. It being the only means by
which wealth is exchanged, and the legal
means to pay debts. If so, then there is
no question so vital, of so much import-
to the people of a country as the
control of the volume of monev. The
power i to iuflate or contract it is certainly
great power to place iu the hands of
an Y man or set of men. The power to
say when you may work, the power to put
a P rice on y° ur labor . or the products of
your labor, your farm, your grain, horses,
sheep, hogs and cattle. This power the
national banks have, the power to control
the volume of money, to contract or in-
flate as their interest may dictate.
As they are organized, it is your duty
to organize; and you have done so. Will
you now sustain this organization? If so,
voh must be faithful and steadfast to the
end.
The following is a quotation from an
interview with Jerry Simpson: “Now, in
the south the democrats declare the
Farmers’ Alliance is in with the republi-
cans, and in the north the republicans
declare we arc nothing but democrats.
And between the two we go parties’will ahead, gather
strength, and in 1892 both see
what we are and whether we can paddle 1
our own canoe ”
JOURNEYING SOUTH.
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PpociHcnttci ^ PRTty t L63.V 6a
... WaSnlHg“tOIL
The president an-^ Mrs. Harrison with
the party who will accompany them on
their trip to Ihe far west, left Washing-
ton train Monday at midjiight on the special
Owing especially prepared for their use.
to the,lateness of the hour onlv a
few person, besides railroad employes,
''vere at the station to witness tfce dep*a*t-
we of train. Among tfciose who
wished the presidential party a pleasant
£ad saJk'trip .ttiss were Private Secret ary jial-
ford, Mrs.^’faVker Wanamaker, Lieu‘s Pr^^or. nan> and
and Secrctarv
NEWS AND NOTES.
CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH
AND CABLE.
Epitome Of Incidents that Hap-
pen from Day to Day.
Total gold coin ordered for export Fri-
$2, <50,000.
Not a Iadltlu has b«en sworn in
tae u regular infantry.
All union painters of Boston, Brookline
and Chelsea, Mass., 6truck Monday,
Monday’s dispatches say that Barry
Sullivan, the well-known actor, is dying
j a London. *
Dr. r. -pi. Eben m Tour,ee, • t founder i ot * the New T
Englwd CMmmtoy of Music, at Los-
’ ’
•. Edbrooke, of Chicago, has been
appointed supervising architect of the
treasury, vice Windnm, resigned,
holm’s On Monday the employes of Westen-
cutlery works, at Sheffield, struck
against a 5 per cent reduction in wages,
Thomas Baumgardner, coal and luin-
ber, Lancaster, Pa., made an assignment
Monday. Liabilities, $500,000; assets,
Y ery small
Twenty national banks in Kansas have
^*££££ i n t Pn tion of dcnationaliz-
btmkintr laws *
Thursday registration of immigrants .
s
at New York was the largest since last
summer—4,382 steerage passengers from
61x steamships.
A new World’s Fair bill has been in-
troduced in the Illinois legislature appro-
priating in $500,000 instead of $1,000,000,
as the old bill,
The medical faculty of the University
0 f Bonn, Germany, has abandoned the
use of both Koch’s and Liebreich’s rela¬
e( jj eg f or tuberculosis,
The flrst consignment of Chinese to-
. brokers! , been received bv London
China is desirous of competing 1
• ^ ,. .
~
The burted States r Cotton , .. ...... Mills, at
Providence, R. I., have shut down for
repairs for an indefinite period, and about
600 hands are idle.
Monday’s dispatches say that Pennsylvania the situa-
tion ifi the coke regions of
is unchanged; but the operators fear
trouble when the military is withdrawn.
General Biber, who represented the
state of Nevada at the Paris exhibition of
jggo bas been sentenced to eighteen
months’ imprisonment in Zurich for
swindling.
Gapt. „ . LamunU ,mnnd Hone Hope Vernev Verney, member mem er
of parliament for North Buckingham-
' h,re > has >e« Lo “' ]on at continent
outagamst
^
Jho Illia ;” s legislature has passed , the ,
, permitting the. West Chicago park
commissioners to issue $1,000*000 in
bonds to complete that system ot parks,
m aid of the world s fair,
Draughtsmen iu the bureau of depart- con-
struction and fepait* of the navy
ment are not satisfied with their pay, and
are rapidly resigning to take positions
with private firms.
Fifteen stonemasons were caught under
a falling wall at Fifth and Race streets
j a Cincinnati, Saturday. Thirteen got
ou t by their own efforts without serious
^ijury, but two were killed,
Tne Fabre nble line of allowing steamships Italianlm- are get-
tr »
migrants who were barred Irom landing
at °' er ^ e IU .^^oittioToTkw^fcscap^ ' 10lati0ri 01 law > t0 escape. C ° me
The trial of the suit of William Witty,
of Philadelphia, against Terence V. Pow-
derly and other members and officers of
the Knights of Labor Monday resulted
in a verumt for Mitty for $1,000, being
the full amount of his claim,
Andrew Todt, Michael Sobal and Geo.
Rushock, three Hungarians, convicted of
the murder of Michael Quinn, who was
killed in the labor riot at Carnegie’s
works at Braddock, Pa., last sentenced new year’s
day, were, on Wednesday, to
be hanged.
So many were the funerals in Brooklyn,
y Sunday, resulting from the grip,
i, e{irse g 0 f that city, though all
^ U9 y an d doing double duty, wereinsuffi-
cient, and many from New York were
sen t over to Brooklyn to meet the emerg-
e
The Umted TT .. , States government ■ • look-
is
mg . at the recor s or e purpose o n
mg e arns against states as offseta aga
direct tax claims. Some have been
accounts of quotas of armsover-is,ued.
One of them w against Georgia,
ln § ~ *
La Patria, published in the City
Mexico, says the United States gc
ment should return to Mexico th e
phies captured by United States
in the Mexican war, and now at
Point military academy, thus
its magnimity.
Crazed with delirum from
Louis Wilhelm, early a' Monday morning
three himself out of window on the top
g oor 0 f a fiy e -storv tenement in New
York. He landed on the sidewalk sixty
f ee t below and died within an hour at
Bellevue hospital.
Senator Geonre hasten F Edmunds ofVer-
who in the senate of the
United neify States nS oSte since 4.nril ’that 1866 and in
J if aR of time hM
J® b een “ £ of 1 the republican ,Xmtion leaders has re-
"f A rf to take 1 effect tbe
of November next.
A New York dispatch of Saturday says.
Mutual Real Estate BuildingAsso- worth
ciatiou has just purchased $20 000
of property from the Augusta Land Com-
P^oy. Tbe property lies in front of
Rc' aue tzen-Plats, between Crawford aye-
nue and Bohlers. It will be rapidly im-
proved.
The three Navassa island
sentence of death at Baltimore have been
granted a respite by President Harrison
from May loth to June 12th in order to
give time to examine the papers in the
matter of the application for a commuta¬
tion of the death sentence to imprison¬
ment for life.
Grand Master Newman, of the Train¬
men’s Brotherhood, on Monday ordered
all the striking Burlington braksoeu t0
tro to woik Jtftteesst
of Sweeney, of the Switchmen's Brother¬
hood, in assorting that the Trainmen’s
Brotherhood would uphold tho strike,
was unwarranted.
The president has appointed John for the C.
Daney to be collector of customs
district of Wilmington, N. C.; Robert
W. Furnas of Nebraska commissioner at
large at the Columbian exposition, and
J. Hale Parker of Missouri to be alter¬
nate commissioner at large. Parker is a
colored man.
Great excitement was caused at Black-
foot, Idaho, Monday afternoon by the
discovery white that the Indians had killed two
emigrants who below were camped that place. at a
water tank, one mile
The bodies of tho emigrants were found
at the tank, and • a number of Indians
were seen taking to the hills. An up¬
rising is feared.
The St. London Telegraph’s Shameiken, correspondent the
at arrested Petersburg says: Monday,
man one week ago on
suspicion of being about to make an at¬
tempt on the czars life, belonged to the
Scalvola Club, the members of which are
bound by oath to make continual efforts
to murder the czar. Most of the mem¬
bers of the club have since been arrested.
Count Reinhold A. Lewcnhaupt died
suddenly at his home, in Wilmingtou,
Del., He Monday married morning, 2nd of typhoid Miss Ellen, fever.
was April to
youngest ard. He daughter attached of ex-Secretary the Swedish Bay¬
was to
legation during Cleveland's administra¬
tion, but went to WilrhingtOD, some time
ago, to learn practical ship-building and
iron-working, in the shop of Harlan &
Hollingsworth.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: The
west-bound passenger train which leaves
this city for Cleveland, O., ran into a
landslide at Van port, Pa., Monday,
derailing the locomotive, baggage and
mail cars. It is reported that four train¬
men and a number of passengers were
injured. George Liebtage, the engineer,
and W. E. Brown, the fireman, are said
to be so badly scalded that they will die.
Others are believed to have been o&ly
slightly hurt.
The total number of deaths in New
York city for the week ending at noon
Saturday was 1,216, as against 1,100 for
the preceeding week. Eighty-three of
these were due to bronchitis, as against
sixty last week, and 299 to pneumonia, as
against 224. The total mortality for the
twenty-four hours ending at noon was
174, including twenty-two cases where
grip was the contributing cause of death.
One hundred and eighty persons died
from grip ia conjunction with other
maladies, a* against fortv last week.
DUN’S REVIEW
Of the Condition of Trade fof
the Past Wedk.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade aays: “It cannot be said that the
business of the country ia expanding
when there is a decrease of nearly onc-
Bixth within a single month in the output
the P% I/rea. In nearly all quarters
admitted slackening of trade is at¬
tributed to merely temporary causes, but
the state of the iron trade cannot be thus
change explained, and while it may at any time
for the better, it is at present an
unfavorable symptom. Anthracite and
coke furnaces were producing April 1st
102,898 tons weekly, against 123,636 tons
March 1st; 171,108 tons December 1st,
and 167,670 tons a year ago.
The iron trade is very dull, and some
southern furnaces weakening as to price.
Another element which may prove of
great, the decision though temporary importance, is
strike May of a great body of miners to
1st for tbe eight-hour day.
At New Orleans trade is quiet; at Mem¬
phis caution rules, but at Savannah the
prospect is bright, and there is an im¬
provement at Jacksonville. In general,
speculative markets are rather inert, and
the general average price is now 2 per
cent lower than it was two weeks ago.
The movement of wheat, flour and corn
falls far below last year’s. The returns
of foreign trade for March appears to in¬
dicate an excess of about $7,000,000 ex¬
ports over imports, but exports cannot be
expected to enlarge from this time forward.
The stock market decidedly improved railroad
most of the week, with good
earnings but has since and prospects of easy though monev, still
grown weaker,
than averaging Week about $1.37 Probably per share the fear higher of
a ago.
important labor troubles bas some influ¬
ence, the state of great industries is just
now Failures altogether encouraging. number 211; for
for the week
the corresponding week of last year the
figures were 176.__
REDUCTION IN RATES
On Fruits and Vegetables by
the Railroads.
A Charleston, 8. C., dispatch of Thurs¬
day says: News has been received here of
an important reduction on fruit and
vegetable freights by the railroads. Early
this year the Pennsylvania railroad an¬
nounced an increase of rates over its
lines of New York, Philadelphia, Wash¬
ington and Baltimore of 3 per cent. Tbe
southern connecting lines have
made strenuous efforts to get this
reduced, and finally got the Pennsyl¬
vania road to send a man down
here to look over the field. A consulta¬
tion has been in progress in Philadelphia,
and a telegram has been received, stat¬
ing that on and after the 20th the rates of
last year would go into effect. This means
a reduction of 30 per cent, and fruit it applies and
to all points south that cities 6hip by jdl-rail
vegetables to northern
route. The truck crop in this vicinity
promises to be the greatest ever raised.
The recent frost did not reach the sea
coast of Carolina, where all the truck
farms are locat«l._
Funeral of General Pike.
The funeral of the late Albert Pike,
grand commander for the Southern j iuns- of
diction diction of of the the Scottish Scottish Rite Rite Ord. Order
Masonry, took place in Washington, D.
C., Friday, ana at the request of the
dead man was marked by simplicity and
an absence of display of any sort. Ma¬
sons of all degrees were present in large
numbers at the services, but the by regalia special of
request none of them wore
the order, with the exception of an
armed escort from tbe Beofcush Pit® Con¬
sistory, which acted as $ guard of bonof
the funeral.
NUMBER 15.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS
DAILY OCCURRENCES IN THE
SUNNY SOUTHLAND
Curtailed into Interesting and
Newsy Paragraphs.
Ex-Gorvernor Waterman, of California,
died Sunday.
The Alabama press convention will
meet at Atmiston on June 10th.
A state convention has been called for
May 19th to take steps to have Texas
represented at the World's fair.
Augustine, Bishop Richard Gilmore died at St.
Fla., Cleveland, Monday. His remains
will be taken to O., for inter*
ment.
day Chattanooga held a mass meeting Mon¬
fund night iu exhibit the interest of raising a
for the of resources of that
section at the World’s fair.
chatter Application was made Thursday for a
for the Atlanta, Ga., Consolidated
Street Railway Company. The new cor¬
poration includes all the lines of the old
Atlanta or Union company, the Atlanta
and Edgewood and tue Fulton county
lines.
At Chattanooga, Saturday afternoon,
Chancellor Kep dissolved the vexatious
injunctions against the Lookout Mountain
The Company, allowing required the deal to give proceed.
company was to only
$28,000 bond. This is the big deal in
which nearly $1,000,000 is involved.
The suits of various creditors against
the Decatur, Chesapeake and New Or¬
leans railway were decided at Shelby-
villc, Tenn., Friday, judgment being
given for the creditors in each case. The
most important $65,000 was that of Ford Wilker-
son, in which was involved.
Jbhn Jones, of Dale county, Ala., is in
to jail on iju^£.arge his nine-year-old of assault with for intent
mr ct son some
trillLjg offense. whipped He hung the boy up by
the thumbs, him unmercifully,
and left him there to die. The little
fellow was almost dead when rescued by
a passer-by.
A Raleigh dispatch of Sunday, says:
Governor Holt is at Burlington to arrange
matters connected with his office of presi¬
dent of the roRgD. hforth Carolina railroad,
which he will On his return he
will enter in earnest upon the duties ctf
governor. He has for fifteen years been
president of the above named road.
The East Tennessee, and Virginia and
Georgia passenger freight depot, re¬
cently built at Athens. Tenn., at a cost of
$5,000, was destrved by fire Monday
morning. The Athens wool and cotton
mills had large shipments in the depot.
Nothing was saved except the cash
drawer. Loss, $20,000, with no insur¬
ance.
A Richmond dispatch says: Clothed
in the confederate uniform and with the
badges of Lee Camp and the Army of
Northern John Virginia on buried his breast, late Saturday General
R. Cooke was
afternoon in Hollywood, where rest the
remains of A. P. Hill, Pickett, Pegram
and other confederate generals. The
funeral was conducted by Lee Camp Con¬
federate Veterans.
Lewis Booker, who wns arrested at
Richmond, Va., on the charge of em¬
bezzling over $20,000 of the money of
Mr. Edward Hanewickel, who was, until
two years ago, one of his wards, and
which created such a sensation in social,
church and business circles, has been re¬
leased from jail on a bond of $20,000,
one-fourth of this amount being required
in each of the cases.
An epidemic, caused by poisoning, oc¬
curred in Chattanooga Monday. Four¬
teen victims have so far been reported,
although none have proved fatal. The
came was cream puffs medium bought is thought from a
confectioner’s. The
to be arsenic, which in an unexplained
way became mixed with the ingredients
of the Shell’s puffs. but So far investigation nothing pos¬ is
itive is known, an
being made.
The Kentucky constitutional conven¬
tion, which has been in session at Louis¬
ville, adjourned Saturday, after a session
of 199 days. The convention completed
tbe constitution to be offered the people.
It has cost the state about $200,000, the and
made very many changes in funda¬
mental law of the state. Some of these
are recognized as considered wise, but very many
are untried, and of uncertain
benefit. On account of the latter, the
constitution will be opposed by many
a’rong public men, ana may be rejected
when voted upon in August.
LETTERS OF INSTRUCTIONS
Sent to Governors of States Re-
gardingfthe Direct Tax.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton, at Wash¬
ington, has addressed a letter to the gov¬
ernor of each of the southern states in re¬
gard to the refunding of the direct tax
collected in those plates by direct tax
commissioners from'citizens. Copies of
the letter were, on Friday, mailed and to the
governors of West Virginia North
Carolina, who have filed applications The following for
the refunding of the tax.
is the text of the letter:
“In the matter of the refunding provided of the
public tax to certain states for
by act of congress, approved March 2,
1891, it is tbe wish of the treasury de¬
partment to furnifih to duly authorized
representatives of the government
of each state access to the
records of the department under
circumstances which will occasion as lit¬
tle inconveniences as possible. Inasmuch
as these original records connot be re¬
moved from the custody of the govern¬
ment, and as the available space in the
treasury building is limited, you are
requested to name, at least wish approximately,
the date when you will your repre¬
sentative to make this search of the
records and the number of persons who
will be thus employed for whom work
room connection will need the to suggestion be provided. is made In that this
the matter would be greatly facilitated if
you would send an agent to Washington need
to look over the records which will
to be examined, and form some estimate
of the amount of work to be done. All
the facilities within tbe control of the
Apartment will be furnished for th® pur.*
pot* indicated*