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THE * NEWS
VOLUME XX.
HUM'S VIEWS.
THE r,nR\T WR«T VIHOtNIA LF.ADEK’s
LESSON FROM HtSTOICV - PROTEC¬
TIONISTS APPEAL TO FEAR—M KIN-
LEY BILL WORSE TUAN TllS TARIFF
OF ABOMINATIONS.
The strongest appeal which the pro¬
tectionist organs and speakers make is
to tue fears of the manufacturers and the
laborers in so-called protectel industries.
Tney frequently succeed in convincing
them that Democratic policies would ob¬
literate our manu acturing Industrie--,
and send us all bacif to t le tiila e of the
soil, making us abject dependents upon
other Nations for all but the product of
agriculture.
This is so unspeakably absurd, when
we consider the advantages we have as a
manufacturing people, in our cheaper
food, more intelligent and better paid
labor, our enterprise and our leadership
in the invention and use of labor saving
machinery, that one must constantly
marvel at its acceptance by intelligent
men.
But those who cannot or will not sea
its absurdity as an argument tnay be con¬
vinced if they will study, a little, our
history and experience in dealing with
protective tariffs.
We began to make protective tariffs in
1816, and it was not the wiser among
our manufacturers that called for sue.I
legislation,
Mr. Everett, in a Fourth of July ora-
tiou, delivered at Lowell, Mass., mauy
years ago, said, in the preseucJ of the
very men who had built up that manu¬
facturing town, that tue sagacious men
who established the manufactures of New
Engkud were never friends of a high
tariff policy.
Hon. Amasa Walker, at one time a
member of Congress from .Massachusetts,
aud a well-known writer on economic
subjects, said that it was within his
personal knowle Ige that %vheu our first
protective tariff was propose 1 iu 1816
the Island, leading manufacturers of Raodo
including Mr. Slater, the father
of cotton spinning iu the country, after
deliberate consultation in the counting
room of oue of their number, came to
the unanimous conclusion that they had
“rather be let alone.” Their industries
had grown up naturally and succeeded
well, and they desired no interference
from the Government.
But as u-.ua! the clamor of less far¬
sighted men and the desire of politicians
to become a special providence, super-
ceding God’s own providence, pre-
vailed.
Protection began, and, as it ever
does, took away this healthy self-re¬
liance, and immediately set its benefi¬
ciaries to crying for more belo.
The protective tariff of 1816 gave
way to the higher tariff of 182U; that in
turn to the still higher tariff oP 1824,
and a yet higher ouo in 1828, growing
in its rates and its “abominations” until
it embroiled the country almost in civ.I
war.
This is the natural history of a pro¬
tective tariff. Left to us own momen¬
tum, it never stops short of prohibition.
Its beneficiaries, al-va 3 7 s disappointed in
its promises, are ceaseless agitators for
its increase.
All our history shows that it never has
given and never can give stability and
coutentment. Now let us see what was
the result when, in 1846, we turned iu
the opposite direction aud adopted a
•Democratic reveuue tariff.
Every representative ot New England,
except one who did not vote, voted
against the Walker tariff of 1846, and
prophesied disastrous consequences to
New England manufacturers from its
passage. That tariff was about 25 per
cent, ou tlie average ot dutiable goods
»3 against quite 6v) per cent, under the
McKinley bill. Iu .11 years every New
Euglaul representative voted for a 20
per cent, reduction of the tariff of 1846,
and two-thirds of these representatives
voted for the tariff of 1857, which made
n reduction of 25 per cent., bringing
down the average rates to less than 19
per cent.; aud so well contented were
the manufacturers of that section with
those rates that when the Morrill bill of
1861 took the first step backward toward
protection their representative in Con-
gress declared that they asked no in-
crease of protection. Hon. Alexander
Rice, of Massachusetts, said in the
House: “The manufacturer asks no ad-
ditional protection.” John Sherman,
professiug to urge the bill in the inter¬
est of the^fariner, admitted “the thanu-
facturers have asked over and over again
to be let alone.” Mr. Morrill himself
has since said that the tariff of 1661
“was not asked and but coldly wel-
corned by manu;acturers. ’ Senator R.
M. 1. Hunter, o. \ lrginia, patron of
the bill of IS.),, said: “Hive any of the
manufacturers come here to explain or
to ask for new duties? Is it not notori-
ous that, if we were to leave it to the
manufacturers of New England them-
selves, to the manufacturers of hard-
ware, textile fabrics, etc., there would
be a large majority against any change?
Do we not know that the woolen manu-
facture dates its revival from the tariff
of 1857, which altered the duties on
wool?”
Furthermore, the census of the United
States shows that both agriculture and
manufactures grew and prospered during
the period from 1S46 to 1861 as they
never prospered in any like period in
our history. Mills were built, forges
and furnaces estaoilsned. and, but for
the coming on of our Civil W ar, and the
necessity for an increased revenue to be
gotten quickly, without regard to the fis»
cal policy by which it was gathered, we
should never have departed from a reve-
nue tariff system.
War tariffs followed one another, and,
since the return of peace, the old road
has been traveled over again. Tne manu-
facturers who in 1816 were prosperous
by their own efforts and asked nothing
of Government, having once received
protection, became clamorous for higher
and yet higher tariffs until they pushed
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
the country to the verge of civil commo¬
tion. So, likewise, the industries that
were content and prosperous under the
low revenue, or, as they now call it, tue
free trade law of 1857, and asked noth¬
ing, having been “protected” against
their will, immediately lo3t all self-reli¬
ance and have vexed our ears ever since
for higher protection.
In the one era we went heailoag un¬
til the “tariff of abominations” pro¬
duced its own overthrow and opened the
way for a more enlightened and j ■nt
system of taxation.
In the other era we have reached the
McKinley bill, far more a clais an i mo¬
nopoly bill than the “tariff of abomi¬
nations.” Out of its enormities we
hope to see a revolution in public senti¬
ment that will lead to a saner and jus:ar
8cneme of impost duties, under whica
agriculture, manufactures and commerce
may all grow with stable and health?
vigor, and the expanding markets for
our products secara to labor stealier
employment, better wages, an 1, wine is
far greater, more personal independence,
for it is the chief wrong of protection
that it3 atm and its result are to. m i ce
the laboring man a deoan lent on taa
capitalist. W. L. Wilson.
Facts for Workingmen to Consider.
It has been repeatedly pointed out the
rate of wages paid to workingmen doei
not determine the labor co3t of pro tec¬
tion. Every employer understands this.
An active, intelligent and competent
manat high wages is more economical
than a stupid bungler. We are indebte 1
to ex-Consul Jacob Schoenhof for an il¬
lustration of this fact draws from the
figures of Mr. Porter’s census of 1S9 ).
lie points out that common laborers in
coal mining get $1.26 in Tennessee,
$1.47 in West Virginia, $1.56 in Ive a-
tucky, $1.63 in Illinois aud $1.77 m
Ohio per day. But the cost of laoor per
ton is almost in an inverse ratio, being
lowest wnere the day rates rauk the
highest: For Tennessee, 82 cents; West
Virginia, 80 cents; Kentucsy, 70 ceuts;
Illinois, 69 cents, and Ohio, 69 cents.
This is in harmony with the results of
his own observation and investigation ou
cotton manufacturing covering a nonod
of ten years, aud extending to Germany,
England and the United States. He says
American weavers operate six to eignt
looms each, while the number operated
in England is three to four, aud in Ger¬
many but two or three. American wor*.
men turn out more product of wnatevet
they have in hand than any others iu the
world. We also have the testimony of
James G. Blaine to the same effect, in
his report ou the cotton industry in 1881.
The American workman ts paid most
because he is more efficient. The Eng¬
lish workman is paid next best, because
he comes second in efficiency. Tite
German is third, and the Fiji islandec is
last of all.
Protection in Germany does not make
wages lower than in England any more
than it makes wages in America higher
than in England. Our products are
manufactured at a cheaper labor cost,
notwithstanding the high rate of wages,
than they can be produced for in auy
other country in the world. Our man-
ufacturers go into the markets of the
world and sell goods lower than E.i-
glish or German manufacturers, and
they make a profit too. They hire their
workmen as cheaply as they can in
ninety-nine cases out of 1U0. They do
not give the workingmen the difference
between what they would sell goods lot-
in an open market and what they get
for them in a protected market. “Yuen
two men are looking for one job, other
tilings being equal, the man who will
work for the lowest wages gets the job.
IV nen two employers are lookiug for
one workingman, the employer offering
the highest wages gets the man.” This
is truism so simple that all can under-
staud it. There is free trade iu labor.
The only persons excluded are Chinese,
and they come from the most highly pro¬
tected country in the world.
These are plain facts that ought to be
carefully considered by every working-
man who has been laboring under the
delusion that protection will increase his
wages. The man who controls the sale
of the product reaps the reward. The
workman offers his labor in competition
with all the world but China. The
manufacturer offers his product in a
market from which competition I12S
been excluded for his benefit. W'no
has the best of it? Who cau command
the benefits of McKinleyism? Working¬
men, cau you?—Utica (N. Y.) Ouserver.
The Loss to the Farmer.
The exports of tarm products continue
to fall off, notwithstanding the McKin¬
ley law, and it would be gratifying if
the statesmen who have been “poiutug
out” to the farmer the value to him
0 f reciprocity should undertake the ex-
planatiou ot the present couditioa of
thimjs.
The following table shows the export
of agricultural articles for September,
1891. compared with Seotember, 1892:
Articles, 1S«. 1S9L
1,830,353 2.S3S.9U
(fWsmda.V.’J 1 >4,015 &W.CS9S
oatrnau 277.644 1.355,737
Rye (bush.)... 1.72.157 3.161,537
Wheat (bush.) ... 10,091,800 19,496,174
This falling off is very serious. It
means, so far as the farmers are con-
ceraed, that Republican reciprocity is
the merest sham. The decline has been
so great that the total exports of some
articles for three months ending Septem-
her 30th have been decreased as follows:
Articles. isk. 3S9I.
f-' jra ..........
OatmeaMpoun is ). 96L841 2.644.557
Rve (busb.i.......... 482,448 4.269,936
wheat (bush.)........31,763,796 30,414,898
'The vatee of the total exports of all
breadstuffis was only half as great in Sep-
tember this year as in the same month
last year, while for the three months
ending September 30th the values were
more than $26,000,000 less in 1892 than
in 1891.
Besides exporting less the farmer re-
ceivea less for what he sends abroad, as
is ahown by the following table of Sep-
tember prices:
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1892.
Prices.——
Articles. 1S&L 1*»1.
Corn mu'h.}........ .i *0 55 *'.66
Gits (bush.).......... . . > .40 0.45
Oatmeal (pounds)..... ".03 0.05
Rve (huso.)........... . . 0.10 0.91
Wneat l us .).... .. .... Vy . ZTJ l.<5
This shows partly what the McKinley
law is doing for the farmer. It also
adds to his cost of living. If he likes it
he will vote for Harrison; otherwise he
will vote for Cleveland.—New Yor.c
World.
General Sic ,les Defen is Cl velani.
On the 5th of October, 188S, in the
Opera House at Utica, with Presideat
Cleveland’s record fresh in his and iu
the public mind, General Daniel E. Sic¬
kles spoke the brave and just words of
the candidate of his party lor President:
“Vow as to President Cleveland’s
record in behalf of the soldiers, They
charge that he has vetoed a good many
pension bills. So be has. I have read
his vieivs. I am a soldier. I love my
soldiers. Had I been President and a
Congress had passed such bills for my
soldiers, I should have vetoed every oue
of them, too. They were mostly all
trauds and shams, and I had no frauds
under me. Any rightminded man,
sworn to discharge hi3 duty, would have
signs! these vetoes as President Cleve¬
land did.”
General Sickles, continuing, gave
President Cleveland’s record regarding
pension bills and said: “I think the Re¬
publicans should hang their heads in
shame in the presence of such a record.”
Waat that record is the World has
shown. Under Cleveland’s administra¬
tion there were 192,U70 pension claims
allowed, an excess of 61,638 over the
allowances under the Repub.ican admin¬
istration.
During General Black’s administra¬
tion of the Pension Bureau under Cleve-
Jand there was disbursed for pensions
$284,738 000, an excess of $62,112,000
over the payments during the GFarfleld-
Arthur administration.
President Cleveland signed more pri¬
vate pension bills than were approved
during sixteen preceeding years of lie-
paolican administration.
Mr. C'eveiaud had neither said nov
done anything, since General SickleTs
just eulogy of him four years ago, to
earn the disfavor of any soldier.
The Ii-sue of Principle.
Judge Gresham ba3 made a concise
and comprehensive definition of the dif¬
ference of principle between himself and
the Harrison Radicals. “The power of
the Government to collect revenue to de-
lray its expenses is sovereign and abso-
lute,” he said on tbe 20tu of last month
while trying a case in the United States
Circuit Court at Chicago. “It cau take
any man's property without process, but
it ought to take uo more thau enough to
defray the expenses of the Government.”
This is not the view of Harrison, who
holds that after the Government has
taken 3l) per cent, for its own revenues
it should take Irom 50 to 10U per cent,
more for the benefit of those struggling,
weak, infant corporations which coa-
tribute to Harrison campaign funds,
Mr. Gresham recognizes the property
right of the individual, Harrison does
not. A tax of 100 per cent, of value is
the denial of all property rights, for it
asserts the right of the Government to
take the w.iole vame—to confiscate, in
this system of confiscation Harrisoa be-
lieves while Giesiiam does not.
Gresham believes with the Democrats
that taxes should be levied for revenue
only, and every nonest man must indorse
that principle. VVuen Government takes
from the earner propsrzy it is not obliged
to use for Go*eminent purposes, it robs
him under the communistic principle
that, through law, the earnings of each
should be made subject to the demands
of all. In tuat commuuism Harrison be¬
lieves as far as it can be applied to bene¬
fit the trusts and other combinations of
corportions; but Gresham will not ad«
mit that it is just to take away the prop¬
erty of tbe humblest by force of law
unless Government absolutely requires it
for its own purposes.—St. Louis Repub-
lie.
TAMMANY’S TICKETS.
With the ... County ru, Democracy, « m Tamms-
ny Nominates Congressmen.
A New V rk i ispntch of Monday says:
Tammany Hall nominations for con-
gress are as follows: Fourteenth con-
gressional district, Colo el John R. Fel-
lows; thirteenth, James J. Gorman;
twelith, Bourke Cochran; eleventh,
Amos J. Cummings; fifteenth, Ashabel
P. Fitch: tenth, Daniel E. Sickles;
eighth, othy J. Edward Campbell. J. Dunlap; ninth, Tim-
The county democracy made the fol-
lowing nominations for congress: tenth,
congressional district, John, DeWitt
Warner; ninth district, Timothy
Campbell; twelfth district, Bourke Coch-
ran; seventh district, John Bartlett,
THE SITUATION IN OREGON.
Democrats and People’s Partyites Ef¬
fect a Combination.
A special from Poitiand, Oregon, says:
A fusion between the democrats and
people’s party was c mpl-ted Monday.
Col. R. A. Miller was taken Lom the
emocratic electorial ticket, and J. N.
Pieice, one of the people’s party electors,
substituted. This was followed by the
wi hdrawal of another democratic elec¬
tor. ihe members of the two parties
will give their vo'es to two democr-ts
and two pe- p e’s party candidates. The
leaders i f b. th parties are confident.
bey are already figuring on 16,000 ma-
jo i y. This is based upon the votes of
both parties cast at the state election in
June.
Peck’s Case Dism ssed.
Labor Commis-ioner Peck’s case ceme
up in the police court As at tbe Albany, district N. Y.,
Monday morniDg. attor¬
ney did not appear and in view of the
fact that & similar case is now pending
in the court of sessions, Judge Gtettman
dismissed thp ca-e.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH
Dotes of Her Progress ai Prosperity
Briefly Epilomlzefl
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Five thousand bales of cotton, together
with a cotton coinpres*, wer* burned and
damaged Monday night at Belton, Texas.
1 he loss is $165,000.
A Tuskegee, Ala., dispatch says:
Probate Judge Hurt, W. H. Ron-y,
clerk, and W. W. Thompson, sheriff,
were arrested Tuesday and carried be¬
fore Commissioner Booth in Montgomery
to show why they d d not appoint fusion
manag. rs for the next election.
The Georgia, Carolina and Northern
railway shops will be located in Abbe¬
ville, the thriving and growing town of
the Palmetto state. The town has do¬
nated tbe land asked for and $15,000 in
money, and that has secured the locating
of the shops and all Abbeville is pleased
with the result.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch of Sa'ur-
day gays: The prospects for the state
f»ir are very rosy. The fair is four aveeks
< ff, but air. ady a number of horse stalls
and cattle stalls have been engaged. I wo
ladies from Illinois have sen in a list < f
entries, numbering 140 d ff rent ariic e«,
while notice h s he n given l>y ladies
fr< m Missouri, K mans, Virginia and else¬
where of large ex ibits of work.
In the | etition from Macon and Mont¬
gomery counties, Ala , addressed to the
United States district court si ting at
Huntsvihe asking that a mandamus is-u •
from ihat court compelling the appoint¬
ment of inspectors of electi -n by the
county officers of said countiis belonging
to the people’s party. Judge Bruce
granted a rule nisi Monday, returnable at
Montgomery Nov< mber 1st arid the Bul¬
lock c unty rule has also been continued
until the same time and place.
General W. G. Veal, of Ft Worth,
Texas, was shot nnd killed in the Con¬
federate Veterans’ hall at Dallas, '1 u s-
day by Dr. R. H. Jones, of Dallas.
Both persons areex-conf derate veterans.
Veal bad come over from Ft. Worth to
attend the reunion of the confederates,
and while writing at a desk in the hall,
Jones shot him through the head with¬
out warning. Joins then surrendered to
the sheriff, stating that Veal had insult¬
ed his wife twei ty-three yiars ago and
this was the first oppor unity for revenge.
Articles of incorpora'ion were fih-d at
the secretary of s ate’s office at Montgom¬
ery, Ala., Saturday, by parties, who pro¬
pose building the Ala. Western Riilway.
The railway is prop is ed to commence
near the line of the South and North Ala¬
bama railroad at or n ar Clanton, Ala.,
towards M-plesville ani in the c unties
of Chilton and Bibb, P. rry and II de to
a pointnn tie line of the A abama Great
South-rn Railway at or near Cincinnati
Junction. The capital stork is one mil¬
lion dollars in one hundred dollar shares
each.
A D-illas, Texas, dispatch says: The
feature at the state fair Mo ulny was the
confederates’ reunion of the dep-rtrnent
of Trans-Mississippi, which was attended
by several thousand od s-ldiers. On
the stag were Mrs. M. Hayes, the daugh¬
ter of J. ff Davis, and her little son, Jef¬
ferson Davis. Ex-G vernor R ss and
General Harrell delivered addresses eu¬
late logizing ihe bravery of both sides in the
war. Mrs. Haves gave a reception
in the evtning. The ladies from tar and
near attended. The old confederates
held a camp tire at night.
first-class Montgomery, Ala., now boasts of two
new compresses. The Alab-ma
Compr-ss and 8 orage Company, started
recently at Vesuvius, a suburb of M ut-
gomery. It is a mammoth concern cov¬
ering many acres, and is perfect in all its
details. It has worked successfully since
the opening of the cotton season, and
done wonderfully well, working day and
night. On Saturday the Mutual
Compress Company, loca’ed in th- city,
started up with its newiy improved
Morse compress, just finished. Both
concerns are under able mmagemeut
ami mean business.
A general strike of warehousemen,
packers and drivers was inaugurated at
New Oileans Mi nday and all the whole-
sale houses are affected. The strike is
^ ue to a refusa l of tiie merchants to sign
the tariff presented by the u ions acting
U' der ti e auspices of the American Fed-
eration of Labor. The chief diff rence
is the contention on the p rt of the union
thtM otdy Union numbers shall be em-
ployed. Th" merchants hold that they
have the right to employ whomsoever
thf T please and want competent aud re-
liable men irrespective of their member-
ship in the union.
A brutal outrage was perpetrated at
D dtou, Ga., just hefoie daylight Sunday
morning. A masked mob visi’ed the
little city, murdered an inoff ns-ive ne-
gro and orutally beat two others. Tbe
law-abiding people of the city and cun-
ty are justly indunant over the outrage,
To show their feelings a mass meeting
was held in the courthouse Sunday after-
noon, one th- usaud dollars was sub-
scr bed to bring the guilty parties to
justice, and a committee of three was ap-
p anted to lay the matter bef- re Gover-
nor Northen. The Governor’s positi >n
on the question of lyi ch law is well
koowu, and he will do alt iu bis power
to assist the law-abiding people of Did-
ton.
News was received at Montgomery,
Monday that the deputy sheriff of Shelbv
county went to serve some pipers on a
farmer who was a K >Ib m in or populist
party man Saturday, -nd the farmer re¬
sisted because, as he alleged, the d puty
wa3 not a proper officer, the s-henff un
der whom he was serving, having not
b<eu legally elected. A fight ensued,
an i the farmer, getting hold iff a rad,
hit the deputy in the fa> ad, felling him
to the ground and then t »k eg the pap rs
away from him. Bh Iby is one of the
counties in which ther*- areconte-ts over
the count vt ffieers pel dteg in the courts.
Much b ,d feeling is said to revFd, and
tbe Kolbites threaten to inn -to al s - r .
vice of pipers by the present sheriff or
nny of the enun y < ffici"-'.
-
The tot ii school enrollment for the Uni tuft
Stites last j oar was 14.20 t.009
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Trade i9 in Hood Condition, Though
Prices arc Low.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review < f
trade say -1 “There is still no cloud in
the busine-s sky, unless the state of
foreign trade be one. AH home trade is
of enormous volume, mas ing an aggre¬
gate of bank exchanges outside of New
dork thus far in October never equalled
in the same month of any previous year,
the excess over last year being about 14
er cent, and over 1890, when
October transactions were the largest
f'-r >n record, the excess this year thus
is about 9 per cent. Prices
are low but merchants are pressing
or more husiness at the same rates.
All domestic industries are crowded
with orders and works, as a rule, are
fully employed, many being pushed to
wertime by ihe urgent deman t resulting
trom an imprecedent* d distribution of
goods. Merrim'.cks are fairly supplied
and there is reason to hope tb it some re*
turn of gold from Europe is n -t far dis-
tmt. Exports in September were but
$62,949,526 in value, against $82,045,-
85 IhSl. jetr, a great decline, due mam-
iv to the fact thit last year’s movement
was far beyond all precedent. The cot-
and t n exports were 21,000,"00 pou ids less,
the average price 7.23 cents against
9.37 last year.
The money markets are nowhere strin¬
gent, nntvvi hstanding the unusual delay
m returns from the wer.t or from
Europe. In 'his market money has
isen from 5 1-2 to 6 per cent on cal and
here is a more active ai d firmer market
it Chicago, t>ut nothing like monetary
pressure is reported from any quarter
The treasury has taken in $400,0"0 more
g>ld than it has pa d >>ut during the
seek, and ha* out $100,000 more -ilver
>ut has added to the circu stion $2,300,-
00 in notes. Reports from Cnic igo
erve this week to indicate the tone of
husiness at the wtst.
Merchandi-e sales in leading lines are
larger than last year, and a great number
of buyers in town. Bu iness in dry go als
and clothing is expected to he brisk
early next week. X ollections are good,
real estate dialings heavier, amounting to
over $3,000,000, and bank clearing- 60
per cent larger than la-t year. Receipts
of all kii d- pr >duce an increase enor¬
mously over last year except, in livestock,
wtiicb shows a slight decr< ase. At otoer
western poiu s transaction- are enormous
and 8t veral report the railroads b'oekaded
ay the amount of fn i_>ht offered.
At the east business has b eu more ac-
ive since the great celebration, and in
volume never equaled. Textile manu¬
facturers continue the extraordinary ac-
tiv ty fully described in receut r ports.
In printing cloths there is someihing
like a corner, and three and five yard
sheeting, the chief production, is sold
into January, and silk gooPs are dearer.
Claims agai- st woolen looms never were
so large and orders seem to i crease about
in proportion to the enorm us distribu¬
tion.
In boots and shoes the season is the¬
oretically and cl sing, yet the business is
large the woik- all busy, and some
cannot meet their orders in six weeks.
Many orders come daily by mail with ur¬
gent demands f.»r immediate use, so that
stocks are well cl sed out and many
hands have been working overtime for
months.
The iron industry fee’s the impulse of
increasing the demand, espec.ally for
plaLg a d structural forms, such works
being all crowded and a greater demand
from shipyards is expected, while the
market for bar is moderately good.
Notwithstanding the larger production
of pig, the market is stronger and some
grades have slightly advanced. Specu¬
lation has not been very active except in
cotton, of which 92;800 bales have been
sold and the price advanced an eighth.
P0RT ROYAL TO EUROPE.
A Direct Line of Steamers Between
the two Points Proposed.
Mr. Pat Calhoun, of Georgia. Mr. Er¬
nest Bigland,of London,and Mr.D. Steiu-
pann Ilghe, of Antwerp,were in Atlanta,
Thursday in conference with prominent
railroad officials upon the cubject of es¬
tablishing a direct line of ocean steam¬
ships between Port Koval, S. C., and
London and Antwerp. 1 hi se gentlemen
have just completed an inspection oj
Port Royal and the harbor ihere, and i-
they are assured proper enC'iur-gef
ment direct*line bv the railroads of the south,
a of steimers will at once be
] ut on beiw-etn that port and Europe.
Mr. Bigland and Mr. Bteinmann Ilghe
ctn.e to America to conrumate eueh an
tnieiprise. 'lh«v have tss<ciatcd sever-
al prominent southerners with them—
Mr. Pat Calhoun, Major T. P. Bianch
Colonel Charles H. Ph nizy aDd Mr. W.
J. Cr>ig The party visited Port Royal,
and every gentleman in it was highly
pleased, especially the two European vis -
itors. They were rather surprised that
the port had never been utilized by
Amer cans.
Mr. B iglaad S 3 id, in regard to the estab
li-hmeutof the pr< pos d line: “ - he com
pa y which I represent already has a
freight line to America. It is the Cuban
Steamship company, which has a lineol
fnight steamers between London and
Cubi. If we are given the
pro per encouragement by the io ith rn ift l-
roads we will at ouce pu ou a line o-
freight steamers bttween Port Royal and
Europe. The steamers are now being
bunt for that purpose ”
The gentlemen connected with the
movement appear quite reticent, and
have very little to sty. They evidently
mean businei-s and it is easily apparent
that the accomplishment of their plane
means a great ueai ior the south. They
h=iv. no connection with the movement
to f st b ish direct trade between B une-
wick and Europe, and it is probable that
both of these gTeat projects may be real-
tztd in a short while.
Snow Storm In England.
A London cablegram i f Salurdat
states that the weather in northern Eng¬
land i* cold and stormy. Along the
Tjn« _ a , heavy , hail and . snow storm pr -
jails and a number of ve^e'S have re¬
turned, seeking shelter They report
heavy weather outside. Norfolk, one of
the extreme eastern counties of England,
i« white with snow, and the whole ha# a
wintry aspect.
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
flie News of tHe World Condensed Into
fitly and Pointed arairajli
Interesting anil Instructive to A1
Classes of Readers.
Pugilist Jim Corbett was arrested at
Cincinnati nFer the performance Sunday
night and Liken to the central station
charg.dwith participating in thea'rical
P 1 rformances ou Sunday. Bond was fur¬
nished.
A notice was posted on the board of
trade of Chicago, Monday, that H. J.
Coon & Co., grain brokers, had suspend¬
ed. Coon & Co, are among the old. st of
the board firms and lately have been
large shippers of corn. Tbe standing of
the firm h s been v. ry high.
A large number of Knights of Labor
and their sympathizers a-sunbled at the
People’s theater in New York, Sundry
night, a' a benefit performance tendered
James Hughes, the Knight of Labor im¬
prisoned for txtortion, at Rochester, in
aid of the appeal lund in his case.
The steamer, La Cou r gogne sailed from
New York Saturday for Havre. This is
the first trip made to or from Havre
since September 3d, when tbe cholera
scare was at its heigh’. Ste >mers have
been sailing to and from Cheibourg since
then. The steamer, La Bretagu<>, leaves
Havre on October 29th.
A New Y »rk dispatch of Tuegdav says:
R v. Dr. John Hall, a d Rev. Dr. Robert
Russell have resigned from the board of
directors of th Union Theological Semi¬
nary a- a result of the complication fol¬
low ng tbe seminary’s dispute with the
Pr. sbvterian church. It is said that the
diiectors will withdraw.
The Albany, N. Y. Journal, in its issue
of Monday, prints a story of over one
hundred columns in fourteen chapters,
wh:c i is alleged to be an expose of mod¬
strous n-gistry frauds on behalf of the
democratic organization in Albany. Two
additional arrests for illegal registry have
b cn made by the deputy United States
marshal.
A New York dispatch of Monday states
that the board of control of the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company, which is to have
charge of the company’s affairs N vem-
ber 1st, next, con-ists of Nat Baxter, A.
M. Shook, J. J. H lman, J. H. Aldrich,
and’ll. T. DeBardelebcn. The latter is to
he financial manager of the consolidated
properties of the company.
In the district court at St. Paul.
Minn,, Saturday morning, Judge Brill
uunou ced ins d« ci-ion in the mandamus
proceedings brought by the democratic
,-tate committee to compel the secretary
of state, Brown, to group the ptison
e.ictois in a d fferent way from what he
had announced. The d<-ci ion was th t
the court had no jurisdiction' and the
case was dismissed.
A Chicago special says: The great
military parade having been finally aban¬
doned Friday n ght, Saturday’s exercises
in world’s fair matters were exce<dingl 7
simple, consisting of the dedication of
several state buildings. Massachusetts
an 1 Iowa dedicated their buildings dur¬
ing the morning and in the afternoon
Rhode Island, New York and Ohio held
similar exercises.
Stockholders of the Western Union
Telegraph York Company,at a meeting in New
Tuesday, the capital unaniim udy $13,800,000 voted to in¬
crease stock to
$100,000,000. At a subsequent meeting
the diiectors will take action as to the
disposition of the new stock. It is un¬
derstood, however, that $8,650,000 of the
extra stock will be given as script divi¬
dend and the remaining $5,1.50,000 will
be held in the treasury.
Saturday, all newspapers in the city of
Vancouver, B. C\, suspended publication
temporarily in consequence of an arbitra
ry demand on the part of the printers for
uli increase of wages. The publi-hers
are willing to pay the union price hith¬
erto in vogue, but claim the right to run
the counting room and editorial depart¬
ment. This, they claim, the new union
scale f ractically prohibits. Consequent¬
ly a strike on the part of the printers.
A Washington special says: The su¬
preme c uncil of Scottish Rite Masons
for the southern jurisdiction on Fn-lay
voted to hold its next moeti' g in 1894 in
St. Louis. Various propositions looking
to an amalgamati -n of the southern and
northern jurisdictions have been sub¬
mitted, and it is thought likely that the
union will t ike place, but how soon can
n"t be predicted. A petition from Cer-
i eau Scottish Rite Ma>ons p r aying for
recognition was unanimously rejected.
The New York Herald of Wednesday
has the following: The Richmond T> rm-
inal investigating interesting committee, discoveries it is said,
has made some
about certain transfers of property that
may le id to criminal proceedings
against well known men hitherto identi¬
fied with the manageni'nt. A directors’
meeting was called to hear the report,
but m thing was given out. It was said
that the report will be deferred for the
present.
A Philadelphia special of Sunday says:
To avoid thirty thr e useh-ss suits, re¬
ceiver Geo. S. Graham testified in be¬
half of the defunct Iron Halt to have the
court decree the title to all orders for
funds to Imncm'ver without pr.jii'tice
to attachments filed under such sui'8.
'i he application which Middle was to will an enable txtent
gra ted by Judge
banks which had Iron Hall funds and
paper to turn over legally without re¬
gard to tbe liens on funds in hands of
various gtrnishe s.
The General was Ineligible.
A New Yo k special of Wednesday
says: General Isaac 8. Catlin, nuni
ated for congress by the dera.-crats of
the third district, has declined. He
gives as a reason the fact that he is inel¬
igible for the place because he is on the
retired list of t^e regular army and
the recipient of a pension. He has been
i’ form d by the uttorney general of the
United States that th* accept mce of the
office would vacate his place on the re¬
in d list of the army, and inconsequence
he would forfeit his emoluments.
Toronto, Canada, proposes to have a reg-
'Tn.-nt un iformed in Scotch fcilte.
NUMBER 45.
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED
By (he Premature Explosion of a Load¬
ed lias Pipe.
A frightful explosion a ten led fhe Co-
Iumbus celebration at Lo- Angeles, (*a!.,
Friday night. A la-ge numb dren, r of peo¬
ple, including many c:ii lnd
crowded around the sp it a here tue pre¬
parations w. re miking to explode a piece
of six-inch gas pipe loaded vntb powder.
The connivance explored juem.tu ely
and caused dreadfu havoc. Seven per¬
sons were killed outright or re-
c ived injuries from w deli they died
soon afterwards. A number of otters
were reriously injured. The dure R rpp
was near by holding his two little daugh¬
ters by the baud. Both girls were iu-
stantiy killed. The dead are Frank
F rd, aged fourteen, Agri a Cohen, aged
eight; L«uis O sen, aged thirteen ; An¬
tonia Ssgherto, Victor Casim*, two
daughters of Theodore Rapp. II rman
Cammet, a d B. B. Bunker received in¬
juries that will probably prove fata 1 .
AFTER LITERARY MATERIAL.
A Number of Noted Writers to Circum¬
navigate the Globe.
A Philude phia dispatch of Wednes¬
day says: The American syndicate of
writers, an organization compose I of
well-known litcrateurs, send a number of
noted writers on a voyage of d scovery
around tbe world after literary material.
1 he syndicate will charter a schooner
to lie mimed th- Sa gosso, which will
sail about January l>t, eirr umnavigating
the globe, Julian Hawthorne wid bo
the hacr. Frauk St ckten, Thomas
Nelson Fage, Joel Chandler Harris, Al.x
Or li an<* < theis are members of the syn¬
dicate, but wid uot go on the Toyage-
Salt and vinegar, applied hot. should are
good for cleanin'! brass, which
afterwards be polished with fine ashes.
RICHMIND & DA1VIILE R.R.
F. AY. II itiflekoner mid tteub.-fi 1'o.ter
Receivers.
Atlanta and Charlol e Air-Liie Divi ion
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Oct. 16, 1802.
NOIt IHBOUND. No. 38 No, 10. No 72
KASTEIt.V T1MK. Daily. Daily. Dai y
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 00 piiii 9 20] ni 8 05am
ChaniOlee . ... ....... y 52 jim 8 40am
NorerO'S...... .......>10 03 pm 8 52ain
Duhitli........ .......10 13 pm 9 Oiani
Snwanee....... .......110 23 pm y 15a in
Buford........ .......!«S7p . !* -8u:)I
Flow ry Branch .......110 SI pm 9 4 a 11
Gainesville..... z 22 pm; 11 10 pm 10 i 3.i m
Lula.......... 2 4 .....jll i pm 1: 30 p.t 10 27am
Bellton........ 38 pm! 10 30.i m
Cornelia....... .....113 05 am 10 51a:u
Mt. Ai y...... .....> 12 no am 10 55a.ii
Torcna......... Westminster... .....Il2 37am|ii mill l'.Jam
117 50a i n
Seneca Central....... ........ .....j 2 1 36 10 am anil 112 1 15pm Opm
Easleys........ .....| .....I ’’ 43 am | •* 50pm
>
Greenville..... 5 24 pm j < 8 am! U 15pm
Greers......... • 7 . in' mi tc piu
Wellfonl....... an 1 ££ > ■ rn
Spartanburg... 6 17 pm 18 an i| CC
Clifton........ 35 am W 53pm
Cowpens ...... 40 a U 58pm
Blacksburg..... Gaffney....... am 20pm
7 06 pm: 37 pm
Grover......... King’s Mount’n l> 4 am) £•» 4*
nii :pm
Gastoma....... am OT pm
L< well........ 10 am) CJt 37 pm
Bellemont..... 19 in! CJ1 40pm
Ar. Charlotte..... 8 20 pm m lOp a
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. II, No.y.
Daily. Daily. Bailv.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am! 1 50 pml 2 20 43 am
Belli-mont..... .... I 2 10pm 3 am
L well......... .... 2 19 pnd 2 53 am
Gastonia....... .... 2 30pml 3 04 am
Ring’s Mount’n .... 2 53pm 3 28 am
Grovt r......... .... 3 07 p ii 3 44 am
Blacksburg 10 56 am 3 16 pin 3 54 am
...
Gaffney....... ........J 3 33 pm 4 40 12 am
Cowpens ...... ........] t 59 pm j 4 a n
Clifton........ ........! 4 01 pm! 4 45 uni
Spartanburg... 11 43 am 113 pm 5 00 am
W Ilford........ ........ 4 34 pm 5 23 am
Greers......... ........ : 1 54 pro 5 42 am
Gre nville...... 12 36 pm 5 24 pml 6 10 am
Easleys......... Central........ .......| 5 53 4*pm pm 6 7 38 O am
t 0 - sin
Seneca......... ........ 1 7 11 pm 7 58 am
Westmins’er.... ........| .......| 7 30 pml 8 i7 am
Toccoi ........ 8 06 pm ; 8 55 am
Mt. Airy....... ........i ........I 8 37 pm pmi j 9 ») am
Cornelia..... 8 41 9 33 am
Bellton........ Lula.......... ........| 22 I 9 07 09 pm 10 9 59am 00
3 pm 9 35pmliC pm; am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 28 :irn
F Buford........ lowery Branch .......jl0 ........j 9 55 07pm|:l pm; 10 48 02 am
am
Suwanee....... ........110 23 pm ill loam
Duluth........ ........j 10 34 pm11 i 25 pm
Norcross...... .......110 45 pm 11 37 arn
Chamblee...... ........! 10 57 p ill 49am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pn 11 30 pi. 112 5 pm
Additioual ra ns Ns. 17 an 18— Lu.a ac*
comm dation, dailvex<ept -und . b-av-s Vt-
lanta 5 30 p in, arr.ves Lula 8 12 p m. Ifetnrn-
ing. leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives A lanta 8 -j 0
a in.
Between Lula and A’h ns—No. II daile. ex¬
cept Sunday, an I No 9 dai v, leave Lu a 9 1 . p
in, and 10 35 a m, arriv- Atnens It 00 p m an l
12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 72dai.y. 7 15 ,> m
and 8 07 a m, arrive Lula 8 55 p m and 9 50
a m.
Between Toccoa and EUxrton—Nos. 63 - ndO
daily; . xcept Sunda . leave Toccoa 7 00am
and 11 25 am arrive Elberton 10 50 a rn ami
2 20 p in. Returning, N •. 62 and 12 da lv • x ept
Sunday, leave» Elherton 4 00 p rn an t 6 00 a ra.
and arrives Toccoa 7 35 p rn ard S 45 a rn.
Nos. 9aud 10Pullman »le per be we n A’lau-
ta and New Y .rk. Nns. 37 • nd 8 Was uugton
and Southwestern V st.bnhd Li lad, 1* twern
Atlanta and W shingtou. Through Pn ltniu
sleepers la tw^n New Y rk and New Oi le n-,
also tie'ween Wash ngtuu and Memphis, via Al¬
lan t an I B rmingham. 1
Nos. 11 an l 12—Pullman Buffet S ee'er e-
'ween Washington *th 1 Atlanta uni in: let wen
Dmv Be and G. eensb ro with t ul man tl eper
to and Irom Portsmouth and N rf 1 ■■
F’or de ailed iuforma ion a* t • locil »nd
thiotigh time ab'es, rite<an! Pul man si epuig
ear reservati- ns, confer w.tb IocjI a^e.. s or un¬
dress HARDWICK.
W. A. TUBE, S. H.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Aas’t. G ul. P ss. Ag't.
Wa-b ngt n. D. C. Atlanta. < n.
J. A-DODSON, Superintende d A'lant t. G
W. H. GI1KEN. OL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. lr ffie Malinger,
Washi igton, D. C. Was lingion. D. C.
LEWIS DAVIS,
\TfOPNEY AT LaA W
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber
«ham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frankl n and Banka of thi
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil'
be gives to all busixeM entruated*io him
'The collectioa of debt* will have speo
ial attrition.