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THE TOCCOA NEWS -■ AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. VOLUME XIX. e. 3 s». euMPSom 9 TOCCOA) GEORGIA mmwtm mmm. 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. DHS. STARKE? & PALER'S TREATMENT BY INHALATION. frsgiafcgfeif TKADEMARIf . REGISTERED* . a&M bom Ei© ywl? »r>;:0 Arch L-itxoet, TrTLlkjcl’a, Pa. for t*uniniBi)iloii| Asitimn, I>rono!iHl*,Uj-9- nn>sta, (marrli, liny Fever, Headache, Debility, Klio’iniatlsin, Neuralgia aud all ( bronie and Nervous I>J»ordern. '•Tho original nn l only genu no compound oxygen L< using treatment," I»r . Btarkey A P.ilou nave on for tho last twenty your a, is a aeie.i- titi ■ adjustment of the elements of oxygeu aod nitrogen magnetized, an I tho compound is so co.el. iwi.1 and inwle p triable that it ri smt nil over tho world. Drs. Starkey <4 Pa or) have the liborty to re¬ fer to the following name I well known persons who liavi. tried their treatment: lion. Win. D. Kelley, member of Congrats, I'hih.dt India. It v. \ i tor L. Conrad, Ed. Lnth'n Obsovor, Philadelphia. K v. Charles W. Cushing, D. D., Rochester, Now York. Don. Wm. Penn Nixon, El. Intor-Ocean.Chi- CSa'O, lit. W. II. Worthington, Editor Now Smith, New ( 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. Results,* '•Compound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and is the title of a new brjehuro of 200 RA'ies, which gives published to all inquirers by Drs. full S'at infoi key A at Paleu, ion in as to this remarkable curative ugent and a record of .-i voral hundred surprising civ.es iu a wide range of chronic cases—many of them after be¬ ing abandoned to die by other physicians. Will ho made 1 free to any address on application, lie ul the brochure ! DBS. STARKEY & PALEN, Ko. 1529 Arcli St., Philadelphia, Pa. Please run it on dais paper when you order Com¬ pound Oxygen. 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 ieY«ttL Tff§k#a 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. __ 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*