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XXII.
THE LATEST NEWS •
GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS.
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Important Happenings, Both Home
and Foreign, Briefly Told.
The Ffrsf CrtUnn .■.__
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W vv. J. T Duggan, Fairborn, v ■ i Ga., .. comes to the
front with the first cotton bloom. He brought
one smlk of ‘ otton to town last Thursday
tW ° tl00m3 ° n itthat0p nedlhe
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Newsy Southern Notes
The citizens of Ta'botton Ga Vn,,o,«n of
U ized a stock company P for the erection ot an an
mill there.
; \ i wurvviiii. GrVff Mi.. 01 ! ^ ti, ed j J? eS<1 , ?4 Bob -
Piirvi? hoia Grant t^ilson ,
«cr<* ha t “rrl “ ga,,o r- 7 hes ?
thro© negroes last at March b murdered and
roboerl D. R. King, a flatboatman, who sold
goods from his boat to river people.
Oa. „ Pressley whipped Gross, a farmer of Troup countv,
1 afterwards a the negro boy Tuesday,and short-
y mother of the boy attacked
‘Gross eon and [attempted to shoot him,
instantly. whereupon young Gro: shot her, killing her
A fire at Contre, Ala.. Tuesday night de-
Itroyed the court house and all books of re
cord, including those of t he sheriff and tax
Collector. The loss is about about $°0 -.0.000. 000
Mortuary.
Speaker John Myers of the Illinois Housa
X>f Representatives, died Wednesday at Free-
'port, ’thought III., from nervous prostration. It is
that Speaker Myers’ death will have
an of import rut bearing on tlio extra session
tho Legislature, which convenes on the
9th inst.
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The Turf.
Bright Phoebus won the Realization Stakes
at Kheepshead Ray on Thursday. He was
second favorite. Keenan, theodds-on favor¬
ite, was the oniy horse that gave him any
trouble. This pair fought out the issue for
nearly the full length of tho homo stretch.
* no cou rse was a veritablo quagnjire. It
eould r.ot possibly have been in worse con¬
dition.
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The Silver Movement.
A call was published iu The Standard of
ing Cedartown.Ga,,for in Cedartown a free cojaagc mass meet¬
lo the Griffin July 13th to select delegates
prominent convention. It is signed by
citizens 9I every calling without
regard to profession or politics. A full dele¬
gation from Polk county will go to Griffin to
iwell the tide of free silver sentiment in
3eorgia.
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Crime.
Ben Cagle, thirty-eight years of age, white,
’who cultivates a small farm on au islqiul iu
'lhe Tennessee river opposite Chattanooga,
Tenn., was shot and killed Thursday by his
wife in a domestic quarrel,
August Fields, formerly editor of the Polo
Post, In Caldwell county, Mo., murdered his
wife and child Thursday morning and com¬
mitted suicide at Wheeling, Mo., where he
yvas visiting He his mother-in-law, Mrs. Thomp¬
son. cut tbe throats of his wife and child
pnd then cut his own throat. No reason can
f >e assigned for the act.
At Clinton, la., Tuesday, a highwayman
field up aud robbed Mrs. Augusta Ware,
daughter lumberman. of Chauucy Lamb, tiie millionaire
It oceurrured on one of the
fashionable residence streets of the town,
and was witnessed by several people. Ho
took her purse aud escaped.
Washington.
Professor Mark W. Harrington, chief of the
weather bureau, has been removed by Pres¬
ident Cleveland. There has been friction
between Professor Harrington, who is ahold-
over of the department, and Secretary Mor¬
ton. his official chief, for sometime.
The appointment of Willis L. Moore, of
Illinois, to be chief of the Weather Bureau,
xvas announced from the White House Fri¬
day.
The internal revenue service is now under
the civil service and applicants who desire
positions in the revenue department must
stand their examinations under the new law
recently passed. Heretofore the internal
revenue service has been separate and dis¬
tinct from the operation oi the civil service,
but a change was made some months ago.
By a general order issued by Gen. \lbert
Ordway. commander of the National Guard
«■>? the District of Columbia, the National
Fencibles, a crack military organization, and
the winner of several valuable prizes in loter-
iStiite militia drills, has been disbanded. The
reason assigned for this action is that tho
company has fallen below the mark upon
inspection, and during the recent encamp¬
ment the numerical strength of the company
was below the standard.
Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities.
At Minneapolis, celebrating Minn., Egbert Mayer,
aged 18 years, while the Fourth,
was fatally injured by the bursting of a toy
cannon.
Five were killed and thirty-three injured
is the record of incidents on the Fourth of
July, at Chicago. The flee department was
kept busy. Eight were hit by stray bullets.
* Labor.
The American Wire Company's 300 wire
drawers went on strike at Cleveland. Ohio,
for a 10 per cent, increase in wages.
At Middlesboro, Kv.. the Watts Steel and
Iron syndicate voluntarily increased its
wages ten per cent.
The Boise Steel Car Wheel Works. Scranton.
Pa., employing 200 men have advanced
wages 10 per cent. Tho works arc crowded
with orders.
The furnace men of the South Chicago
plant of tbe Illinois Steel Company have been
granted an increase of 15 per ceut. over the
10 per cent, increase in wages which was
given them voluntarily by the company July
1st. The increase affects the wages of over
600 men. The men claimed that the volun-
tarv increase invalidated their contract with
the company and being insufficient they
asked for more.
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Aliseellaneous.
Atchison, Kansas, is now a dry town, all
saloon? having been ordered closed perma-
neatly by Governor MorriP.
The entire business portion of Wellington,
O. aud Thursday' manv residences were destroyed by *
fire on Loss about $200,000.
The urn, supreme court of Minnesota M has »,i«
adjourned for the summer without touchtig
I he appira. OI HiywarO, tne convictea mur-
tierer. This gives Hayward another lease of
BoK Fitzsimmons.tJbe well known pugilist,
who ha? teen on trial at Syracuse. N. for
a week past on the charge of being respon¬
sive for the death or his late sparring part-
ner. "Coa” Riordan, was found not guilts
and is now free.
TRAGEDY IN A CHURCH.
lhe Congregation . Jumps . from . the .
Windows.
A special to the Columbia. (8 . C.) Sum
»ys that a colored church festival at Bam-
burg Saturday night, Alexander Brabham,
in in the the crowded crowded entrance entrance, tread tread on on Adam Adair
Hannabal s toes. The latter drew a revolver
and shot Brabham dead. A stampede en¬
sued and as tbe murderer held the exit with
drawn revolver the assemblage poured out
of the windows regardless of shutters or
M*h- Hannabal escaped.
The Toccoa News.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
The Howard Banking Company, of Car-
tersyille, Ga., closed its doors. Liabilities
$27,600
b> ex-Senator Butler.
C. W. Tuttle & Co., of Auburn, N. Y.. have
voluntarily raised the wages of the employee.
in their rolling mill 10 per cent.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has ad-
vanced the wages of their 4.000 employes 10
percent. The advance is due to the bright
busia«s outlook '
M G 3 cCaCoii ,, mu^is ... were or-
Bcrlftd j!- ,,
a S flneprospeeS
** to 5W,
increasing it to 8100,000,
At Apalachicola, Fla., George Long, Marlon
t° 5 8 ’ Clem Eldridge and Misses Carrie
o’ 1 .' Emma Euton were struck by
lightning Saturday and killed.
The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage was in
'La., Jackson, Miss., Saturday en route to Ruston,
where he is billed for a lecture before
the Louisiana Chautauqua Assembly.
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Th’’fingush House of Lords . and , House of ,
Commons reassembled at 2 o clock Saturday
JShJS^ 5= uSffJuTt mie VrSaJ "The Scree tX oTd"
medlLtelV wm on wrtt“ for'a^^ « im
which whKtl rit • >r a n new -’V c ”
tinn ' ’
The T . extent of the , voluntary advances in
re P ort ! d to J be commercial agencies
Witnia a month or ttVo has outgrown the re-
have^ P ources endeavored voluntary statistical bureaus which
latest advices being to keep track of 1.000,000 them,
that more than
industrial workers have received an advance
averaging about 10 per cent,
court A charter fiavannah. was applied for in the superior
at Ga., for the Southern
Pine Company of Georgia. The company
Will have an actual paid in capital of $1,500,-
*0,000,000. The lumber concerns which »■> will ‘S
enter this big combine are Messrs. Stillwell.
Miller* Co., J. J. McDonough A Co.. II. P.
Talmadge Lumber Company A Co., of New York; the Clarke
of Darien aud C C
Bouthard. ol NewYork. This will likely be
the largest concern of its kind in the south,
In Shannon county. Mo.. on Saturday, ft
terrific waterspout occurred iu which twelve
persons were d rowned and the financial loss
will reach at least $60,000. The dead are:
Rev. G. W. Duncan. Mrs. G. W. Duncan,
Miss Mattie Duncan. Mrs. Crawford, daugh¬
ter of W. G. Duncan. Miss Crawford. Mrs.
George Nevins, Norma Nevins, daughter of
Lloyd Wright. Maggie Cannon, John Norris
and Mrs. Nevins.
W. C. Tunnel, a drummer, was killed just
outside the Knoxville. Tenn., city limits on
the Knoxville and Ohio railroad. He was
walking on the track.
Sheriff Tarasen, of New York, dismissed
Warden llaabe and Keepers Schoen and
Schneer of the Ludlow Street jail, the claiming of
that Kiiloran”, thev were and responsible Russell, alleged for postofflee escape
Allen
robbers on July 4.
There is great excitement in the Elkhorn
mining region of West Virginia among the
*triking coal diggers. The Governors of the
have troons ready to move.
THE CO AIM ERCIAL REPORTS.
Business Outlook Generally Improving
A Heavy Fall Trade Anticipated.
R.'G. Dun& Co., in their jweekly reviewjol
trade, says: There were 6,657 commercial
failures in the first half of 1895, against 7.039
in tbe first half of 1894, and 6,401 in the first
half of 1893. These commercial failures in¬
volved liabilities of $88,839,944 this year,
against 444 in 1893. $101,739,306 The last year, and $168^864,-
details show a doorcase in
every class of failures in the second, com¬
pared with tbe first quarter of 1895, both in
the number and magnitude, the defaulting
liabilities averaging $34, against $40 for
every firm in business and $3.40 for every
$1,000 solvent payments.
The midsummer reports from all commer¬
cial centres are of especial interest, covering
the questions on which the future business
depends. They indicate distinctly better crop
prospects than other official or commercial
accounts, a marked increase in retail distri¬
bution of products, au active demand for
goods, and a general enlargement of the
working farce, with some advance in the
wages of more than half a million hands.
At the same time they show that the rapid
advance in prices has somew'hat checked the
buying of a few classes of products. Iu
every part of the country the outlook for fall
trade is considered bright.
Nothing disturbs the money market. The
government begins the new fiscal year with
more than the required gold reserve, and the
disbursement of nearly $S0,000,000 by cor¬
porations in interest and dividends will
stimulate business in many branches.
Bradstreet’s report says: There were 197
business failures reported throughout the
United States this week, as compared with
215 last week. 164 in the first week of July
1894: 319 in 1893 aud 152 in the like week of
1892. Total business failures in the Doiniu-
iou of Canada, number 25 this week against
28 last week; 39 in the week oue year ago
26 two years ago.
No materia! improvement is reported from
the South, rains ! continuing to be dam-
aging to agricultural interests and to check
business in Texas, while in tiie South Atlan-
tic and Gulf State cities, the quiet movement
of staple goods and fair or unsatisfactory
collections of the past month or two continue.
But advices from nearly all cities reported,
appear to agree that wholesale dealers in
all lines are greatly encouraged as to the out-
look for business during the autumn, believ-
ing that the demand will be greatly stimula-
ted by the very general aud, as it is now be-
iieved, permanent improvement in prices.
»¥T'i'f ld’c S 'i-E'c-i. ..» c ir iti/nti.it DECIDED
By the Supreme Court of South Caro¬
lina.
The state supreme court at Columbia. S.
C. ' decided the registration law \ test case "
l ,. h y ,, na . or Rimer montns .. ,
L * d many ago ,
and argued last December. The majority ol
the court, the two associate justices Pope
and Oarv hnth pIacaI , in „ 0 " 0 .
URmonism. rendered opinions dismissing
the case—one ou the ground of a lack of jur-
isdietion; the other on the ground that the
complainant had an adequate remedy at law
otherwise.
Chief Justice Mclver, who has been on the
supreme bench for many years, and who is
regarded as one of the most eminent jurists
In the state, tiled a dissenting opinion, hold-
log that the court has jurisdiction and de-
daring the registration law unconstitutional,
null and void on practically J the same grounds &
^ j udge Goff
AIRS. O’LEARY DEAD.
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Owned the Cow Alleged to Have Caus-
ed the Great Chicago Fire.
Mrs. Catherine O'Leary ii*-d wt Chicago
last week. She was owner of the frae-
tious .. cow which ... in . a barn , in . the rear of fV No.
137 De Coven street, on a rm morable night
Sn October. 1871. kicked over a bmp and
btarted a blaze which cost Chicago $1T(KK>.-
DOO. Since the night of that historic confia-
aeration Mrs. O'Leary’s life was embittered
Ky [responsible the popular l>elief that she was indirectly
for the loss of life and enormous
i nv 2«srated thfTtS the fire and cause made affid*-
Tits allegations about herself, the
cow cow and and lam lamp d were were not not true true.
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Iliiuois has produced in one year
SwJ’lT 000 !SrSn Oftf) bushels of corn in which
a busheis of wheal;
100,000,000 bushels of oats.
TOCCOA, GA.. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1895.
n R pp OTf UDD T TTVIirn
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^O n BACON O V OKQKQm
Says He is for Free aud Unlimited
(Coinage " and Tells \Vhy.
GrifflD, Ga. is awaking to the fact that the
Umetahie convention of July 18th will be one
of the biggest affars the state has ever
known, at, 1 .lie peop e tnere .. are preparing ,
accordingly. Among many other letters to
Je local committee one fom Senator A O.
seuato*, firos it im-
possible o come to liffln atm expresses
deep -eg;et because he endorses the conreh-
tion most heartily. He gives his views on
Uie a b-ah,orbing question, however.
fettm-is as follows, and , will ... speak , for .
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l r * m - I ’ ece ‘l' t , , . ... inviting me
to attend tbe bimetal'ic conventton which
convenes In Griffin or> .he 18th Instant, t
would, with pleasure, accept tbe invitation
that h> f™*™? ^
? iade dw f ,°° " r l 0r g tl ( H , \ Ve e Y moijth r ^ at ? a «°l \ fo! ml * ,ett ve
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what pro.racred absence, aud ou the date
namcl \vi. je unavoidably out of the stare.
For many years past I have regarded hi-
metallism «. tfco most important question
beiore tbe pnbiif in ,ha. it. rnoie Jian any
other concerns he persona wc fa: e of the
peop.e, and the ritve opmwnt avo p,ospe,i..v
r. ’ their urn us tries. In this I "eheve tnat I
5 n in harmony with ate opinion oi the great
sh ass of tl*e American people. Tne cause of
f'vp cu W d/ fa “orH,a°t t,!'Mbef-f.'ff'th.fnem nn^S nohJica'narv has
^±’0' ^etallD r «<i to H ami Tim! h/Xm-aev lain of avowed mm.t
P “ n of 1 auv- wm«"ui^wSS D ia doul Ue?i *rUe
... TuVeb ihA ina msbm?" »irM „ f , ...
roii : hone?r -^to V^ as .{ to its Jroo« effects'
1S .eniu.k .+ a.£, -» n.axy, » 'if J not not a’i’r'.e a..aige m 1, m..jon. mliort^nf y to ©1
bonceal^b^^^^ue^fireD^TiT .° “ ma-oue “tnaee
faue d as % -tie friends trienus of 01 bimeta’Uo mmetamc coinage,
while every power is exerted by them to
juaiii.air tbe sing.e gold standaui. Fol the
f utpGse of catchmg vc.es they are theorem -
r b !me t a ‘ ust9 - b “V,°, r j he pu n?' 09 ® 0{ r f«P*
,c r ( .hemstUtj . 1 and caev ul the golden
jiatvrst n * t i?s
from the single standard, they are
practsca, goal monometalbsts. hope
“I rejoice in the that the time for
jugg ing with ambiguous phrases has passed,
and that m the contests of the near future
all those who are m either avowedly or a
heait. g-.i.d m.mometaihsts, will be tanged
logether. will aud that, on the other side, there
stand opposed to tnem, all true, practi-
cal bimetallists, who while they may differ
as to methods and details, nevertheless reai-
ly desire the restoration to the country of
both gold and sliver as primary money, witn
t. e <ioins o, each me .a: of equal interchange-
withtne other.
“Die mau who says such ... bimetallic ....
coinage of equal interchangeable value
would not be ‘sound money’ is not candid;
and he who says that such practical bimetal¬
lism is impossible, ought to avow himself as
a gold xuonometailist, and should cease to
masquerade as a theoretical bimetallist. On
the other hand, all who believe that suca
practical bimetallism is possible, ought to
adjust among themselves differences 0!
method and of detail, and make common
cause against the advocates of the single gold
standard, boldly whether such advocates stand out
as avowed monometallists, or adroitly
conceal tlieir true character under the dis¬
guise of theoretical bimetallists.
“True bimetallism means the use of both
gold and silver coin as the money of final
payment. (hat practical A necessary consequence of this
is bimetallism necessitates go Id
and silver coin of equal, interchangeable
value, aud opposes a depreciated coin of
either metal. Such depreciated coin of
either metal would cause the coin of the other
metal to disappear from active circulation,
and if such a depreciation continued, the re¬
sult would be practical monometallism. A
single standard of either metal will entail the
evils of monometallism. Bimetallism is in¬
consistent with monometallism of any kind.
There is not in the world a sufficiency of
either gold or silver, taken alone, to supply
ihs coin necessities to furnish the money of
final payment required for the business of
the world. This insufficiency of either met¬
al is a constantly increasing insufficiency,
through the rapid and continuing increase
in the world’s population and business devel¬
opment. The earnest contention of the mo-
nometallist is that all nations should have
the same standard. If, in accordance with
this view, all the nations now using the sil¬
ver standard should adopt the single gold
standard, this insufficiency would be grossly
increased. It is difficult to conceive that a
gold monometallist could be found who
would seriously contend that in such case
the gold of the world would be adequate to
the demauds which would be made upon it.
On the other hand, if all nations should adopt
lhe single silver standard, the possible sup-
ply of silver would be insufficient for the
purpose. To meet the demand for the
amount of money of final payment necessary
to do tbe business of the world, the use of all
both the gold and the silver of the world
which is available for coinage is necessary,
The exclusion of either metal from equal
rights of coinage necessarily resultsinmak-
ing the coin of the excluded metal merely
token money, and certainly effects a eontrac-
tion of the volume of the money of final pav-
ment by confining the same to the other
metal, the coinage of which is free and un-
limited. From this contraction of the volume
of money of final payment, result disasters
and financial distress too painfull. 1 y known
to us all, in the loss of personal fortunes, the
stagnation of business, and the paralysis of
enterprise,
“There is no room for denial that by the
demonetization of silver, gold has largely
appreciated, and silver has been correspond-
{ngly depreciated, in relative value. Re-
vette tbe conditions by the demonetization
of gold and the remonetization of silver, and
the relative values of these two metals would
also promptly be reversed. Silver would be
the appreciated, aud gold would be the de-
preeiated metal. Men may theorize and dis-
ous? until tbe crack of doom upon the ques-
tlcn of the true ratio between the two metals,
«ad at test the only solution must be found
In practical experiment and that practical
experiment can only be satisfactorily made
sy coining the two metals upon terms of
exact and perfect equality. The true ratio
annot be shown so long as one metal is
allowed the free and unlimited coinage
which is denied by the law to the other,
When silver and gold are thu9 coined upon
terms of equality, the true ratio or relative
value of the two metals will be correctly de-
monstrated by experience. If, as many con-
fldently believe, and a> all patriots should
earnestly desire, the free and unlimited coin-
of gold and silver at the present legal
ratio of 16 to 1 shall prove that the coins of
the two metals, when coined cn terms of
perfect equality, are at such ratio, of equal.
interchangeable value, the important ques-
tton will be most happily solved upon a basis
which will do justice to both debtor and
creditor, values and restore the proper relative
of property and money. If. on the
contrary, afte^a fair trial of such ratio, made
vpvu terms ot ,'aj a,r equably aud tbe
coin* of the .wo metals saould not prove of
equal interchangeable value, the experiment
wh at is he
true ratio, and the_ true ratio, when h t thus u
ascertained, should be made the legal ratio.
Our people of this seot'on are not inter-
ested m the products of the silver mines, but
ment which can only besupplied bv the coin-
age upon terms of perfect equality of all the
gold and silver available for that purpose.
• T he maintenance of the single gold
standard immensely increases the power of
jthe absolute money masters centers, of the and finances makes and them business the
-of the whole nation. It is easy to under-
stand why the people of such lo „.uities should
earnestly favor a system which enables them
all other sections. But I cor*fe?s I am at a
t fnvoted 0 ** to localities, conceive how be others, induced not to fdvor in such d
caiv
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coinage by international agreement, aU
! wouldpreferita-ftaiieedyaadstaljlesettle- the question;*but
meat of there is no reason-
j able probability of such an agreement, and
In its absence, the pia’n p aeti -al question is,
' shall we ••emain upon the single gold etan-
dard with all of its untold evib. or will this
great nation, with its vast undeveloped re¬
sources, and with its seventy millions of pro-
gressive, restless, ambitious people, go for-
j ward boldly ^
j ,r„ternaGon«?agreement^plaSf tie. either independent imp S-
action bv this gor-
.vnment, or acquiescence in gold monomet-
I Allisu*., A \\ are b’metamsLs the ou>y practicable should alternatives.
tiu f recogaize the
self-evident fact that by refusing to co-operate
in the support of the only plan which i*
wittingly, pin tioable, they are, in alliance fact, a* though «n-
ia practical with the gold
monometallist? 'Those who for anv reason
favor the sir,* 0 ld standard with silver
inVffeotf only to be used c2s3 as tokeu should’“Wy money fas “»?w is now lE
the
and all those who desire both gold and silver
coin as money of final payment, should cease
to divide on theories and cordially unite in
tae effort to make bimetallic coinage s a prac- 1
tiea j sueeecs
'-Your convention i , called as a bimetallic
convention. Nevertheless J assume that all
of thos8 who wl n be present are either now.
or have been in the party’ past, members of the na-
tional democratic aud I also assume
that thev are all now believers in have'been the great
principles of this party as thev founders,
handed dowu tlJ '"'its honored
The fundamental principle of tbe democratic
faith Is that the oigankation and methods
flad P ra,,t ’ :es of the PJvernment should be
, ? ir,s
as wed. as equaht ,. 01 bu dem?. it requires
tbat con,lemn3 H,! sl 01ild taal lmve wh? ec ’* h l ;,a deiliPS J opportunities, good to and the
many, in order that an abundance may be
enjoved bv the few. The single gold stand-
ard-n j-.s contraction of the volume of the
m of t owy overwhelming °\ fl ! ia l' avmeut monev ‘ 1D power t,ie concentration in the hands
ofuie f ttW , and in the dire consequences
w h1ch necessarily flow from it, i? at war with
inis fundamental democratic principle; but
this vital democratic principle finds its hac-
monv. as well as its illustration, in practical
gold and silver bimetallism, which defeats
the concentration of a)i money power in the
hnnd8 0 f the few, and insures to all persons
Rnd sections the equal eujovment of a suffl-
cje nt and stable metallic currency,
" Iat he democratic party alone can the
battle lor gold and silver bimetallism be suo-
cessfully fought. If bimetallists are ranged
under several different flags, their divided
forces wiJ1 be au tasv , ,c ,• t o the common
enemy; but if all the bimetallists of the coun-
try can be marshaled under the banner of
democratic party, they wiii not only consti-
t u te an overwhelming majority of the party,
but they will win a great victory in the next
rettanal ' ‘ oonfli-t .....” Very truly 6. yours,
“A. Bacon."
RAILROAD STOCK SOLD.
The Sout hern the Purchaser at $1,-
500 000
The Southern Railroad was the purchaser ,
of fifteen million dollars worth of stock in
the Alabama great Southern Company at
public , outcry , in Knoxville, r - . rr„„ Tenn., Monday, nr
pursuant to a decree of the United States
Cireuit Court, Special Master John W.
Childress, of Nashville, conducted the sale.
there beiim ol onlv one bidde- President Sam’
Smnccr b the Southern
.
which nanvoT was made by throughXeir tho Centra’ Trust Sent Com- SE
New York
f This'istiie r r 00 000
stock formerly owned bv the
n!(i Pv' er>ntrof,d Vi. «ir,ia ‘the nn.i fionr-in ls
a id 1,cniirim- = ame it
raid, tiie Southern Railway has the Queen
and Crescent svstem under stik. its thumb of' There
were three batches of 5,001 Queen
and Crescent stock; 78,301 shares of ordinary
Alabama Great Southern, and 31.000 shares
of preferred Alabama Great Southern, and
f4.’eim©nthern 34.000 shares of second preferred Alabama
stock ' The sale “' e was W closed d
hvrio r.er--put 1 cash
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A f'RAZV ___L__. AJAX’S ruiMb: *
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Dies W ith His Wife and Four Chi!-
,i <!i 1,11,1 e.i. Insanity the Onlj Explanation.
At Chicago on Friday night, Frederick
Heilman, a mason contractor, 36 vears old,
-rT’ phyxiation, "‘ and S died with 'T,f“ them. d ”°r, The by vie- “■
ti ms were: Ida Heilman, 34 years old; Fritz
Hei’man 12 years o'd i Ida Heilman ,’ 11 year3
oja.WUU. year, , M Hedwig
by Thrift the father of the *amilv during .planned .he past
few weeks seems beyond doubt. Several
weeks ago He.lman had his pipes connected
and fixtures put m the family bedroom only,
the entice family sleeping in one small room.
It seems now certain that He.lman bad the
gas put m for the express purpose of using it
m the murder of ms lamily.
T h £r re IS ° UV C ’ ae ex P lana,1 -' >a and ^bat is
that i i. , Heilman :i was crazy He is said to have
been fairly provided with worldly goods and
to have had no family dissensions. He .eft
a note for his brother, in which he gives in-
struetions regarding the disposition of his
property. He say- that he will not be living
when the note is received but says, in it
a othingjof the premeditated death of the rest
o 1 tb,i fa ,nil y*
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hikplaks . nscat
TJjree 1 ,,ree Desperate Despeiate Prisoners i usoneis Hold noia up up
the Keepers at Ludlow.
........\ d^sne-ate Dostofflcebu'-«lps ‘ ’ 0 ' ’ Joseph ‘
KUioran, Charles Alien aDd . Harry r Russell, ,
prisoners of the United Slates government,
held up Keepers ". Edward A. Sehpeer *»,-<>«'eMi find
unarms r . , fecuoen, c aw.> , ny.z.- <> i in-
. s
Ing revolvers, in Ludlow street jail, New
York Cilv, on Thursday, seized the keys that
opened the three doors between them and
liberty and made good their escape. Ail this
occurred in broad davlight, at 8 in the morn-
jno\ The streets were crowded, as they
always are in that neighborhood, and a
crowd of 1.000 Hebrews chased the escaping
prisoners down Ludlow street to Broome, lost
where the men separated aud were the soon of
in the most crowded section of streets
New York. "----——<*»«•---
A Bull Fi^ht at the E^oosltion.
n Whi.e . for , several days it has , been uc .
.er-
stood there was to be a bull fight in the
Mexican village at the Cotton States aud
Tniei-naUmni d * VvnnStmn :S ^ 1 wmiliL itiont* «?«i n/Wtivu
!ette r from ^o‘«lowin*^ the h cS^Iion& J rec^v^ ,!i' A
^ ^ th^aSra de- rintm w/fi n wM ^ tl^ >h i.
D wi’d
West show as a drawing card. The arena
will be arranged ia the regular way and some
0 f the best bull fighters in Mexico with a
flap ply of trained horses and of the finest
bulls will be brought to Atlanta. It will be
au exact reproduction of the famous bull
fights in Spain, with one exception—the
bull’s horns will be padded so that he can do
,«[!^ IhSi
Jhe the whole shghteSt flaht mav be carried out wrhout
cruekv or more bloodshed than
»seen i« -e^n at at a a Wild Wild We«t est show. -how
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The village ot Red Deck, nine miles east ol
Dwight, Ill., was nearly wiped out by fire
Insurant Thursday afternoon. Loss, 860.000. The
will cover about oae-quarter ol
the b-ra
BUS NESS TROUBLES.
ELOQUENT KEY. DR. TAlMAGE.
Preaches a Tiriiely Sermon on Business
Cares, Trials and Temptations.
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rt 01 tQmgs - —XXMI., JL
We are at the opening door of returning
National prosperity. The coming crops, the
re-establishment of public confidence and,
above all, the blessing of God will turn in
Upon all sections of America the widest,
greatest prosperity this country has ever
seen. But that door of success is not yet
fully open, and thousands of business men
are yet suffering from the distressing times
through which we have been passing.
Some of the best men in the land have
faltered, men whose hearts are enlisted in
every blessed good work and whose hands have
God every fifford great charity, The church of
can to extend to them her sym-
pathies and plead before heaven with ail
availing prayer. The schools such men have
established, the churches they have built,
the asylums and beneficent institutions they
have fostered will be their eulogy long after
their Such banking institutions are forgotten,
men can never fail. They have their
treasures in banks that never break and will
be millionaires forever. But I thought it
would be appropriate to-day and useful for
tne to talk about the trials and temptations
of our business men and try to offer some
curative prescriptions.
In the first place, I have to remark that a
great many of our business men feel ruinous
trials and temptations coming to them from
small and limited capital in business. It is
everywhere understood that it now takes
three or four times as much to do business
Well than it once did. Once a few hundred
dollars were turned into goods. The mer-
chant would be his own storekeeper, his own
salesman, his own bookkeeper. He would
manage all the affairs himself, and every-
thing would be net profit. Wonderful
changes have come. Costly apparatus, ex-
tensive advertising, exorbitant store rents,
heavy taxation, expensive agencies are only
parts of the demand made upon our com-
mereial men, and when they have found
themselves in such circumstances with small
capital they have sometimes been tempted to
run against the rocks of moral and financial
destruction. This temptation of limited
capital has ruined men in two ways. Some-
times they have shrunk down under the
temptation. before They have yielded th© battle
the first shot was fired. At the first
hard dim they surrendered. Their knees
knocked together at the fall of the auction-
eer's hammer. They blanched at the flnan-
cial peril. They did not Understand that
there is such a thing as heroism in merchan-
dise and that there are Waterloos of tho
counter and that a man can fight no braver
battle with the sword than he can with the
yardstick. Their souls melted in them be-
cause sugars were up when they wanted to
buy and down when they wanted to sell, and
unsalable goods were on the shelf and
bad debts in their ledger. The gloom or
their countenances overshadowed even their
dry goods and groceries. Despondency,
coming from limited capital, blasted them,
Others have felt it in a different way. They
have said: “Here I have been trudging
along. I have been trying to be honest all
these years. I find it is of no use. Now it
is make or break.” The small craft that
could have stood the stream is put out be-
yond the lighthouse on the great sea of spec-
u i at i on . He borrows a few thousand dollars
from friends who dare not refuse him, and he
goes bartering on a large scale. He reasons
l n thi ? way: vlU “Perhaps I may succeed, and if
1 don , 11 t ' be no worse oil than 1 now,
for $100,000 taken from nothing, nothing re-
mains.”
Stocks are the dice with which he gam-
bles - :ie bought fora few dollars vast tracts
of Wes.erri land. Some mo.E«, liv
lu? * on a fat homestead, meets this gambler
of fortune and is persuaded to trade off his
estate or lots in a Western city, with large
avenues, and costly palaces, and lake steam-
ors snoking at the wharves,and rail trains
conwhg down with lightning speed Irom
^ y * ir ? Ction ’ ^here tt is all ou paper!
^hearty has never been built nor the rail-
roads constructed, but everythmgr points that
way and the thing wdl be done as sure as
you hv< y Well, the man goes on, stopping
at no fraud or outrage. In his splendid
equipage he dashes past, while the honest
laborer looks up and wipes the sweat from
his brow and says, “I wonder where that
man got all his money?” After a while the
bubble bursts. Creditors rush in. The law
clutches, but finds nothing in its grasp. The
men who were swindled sav, “I don’t know
how I could have ever been deceived by that
man,” and the pictorials, in handsome wood-
“
Aa q that is the process by which many
have been tempted through limitation of
capital to rush into labyrinths from which
MST
meD . On the contrary, I would like to cheer
them on and rejoice when they reach the
goal k ut w j ien there are such multitudes of
men going to ruin for this life and the life
that is to come through wrong notions of
w hat are lawful spheres of enterprise it is
the duty of the Church of God, and the minis-
fers of religion, and the friends of all young
taeili to utter a plain, emphatic, unmis-
takable protest. These are the influences
t jj at <i rown men in destruction and per-
dition.
Again, a great many of our business men
are km:* . empted to overanxiety and care. You
fhat nearly all commercial businesses
are c ,-erdone in this dav. Smitten with the
| ove 0 f quick gain, our cities are crowded
with men resolved to be rich at all hazards,
They do not care how money comes if It
only comes. Our best merchants are thrown
int ; j competition with men of more means
, md !e ss conscience, and if an opportunity
of accumulation be neglected one hour
-ome one else picks it up. From
January to December the struggle goes
on Night gives no quiet to limbs toss-
ing in restlessness nor to a brain that
' v ’l* not stop thinking. The dreams are
harrowed by imaginary loss and flushed
vyitli imaginary gains. Even tho Sab-
bath cannot dam back tho tide of anxiety.
for this wave of worldliness dashes clear
over the churches and leaves its foam on
Bibles and prayer books. Men who are
living on salaries or by the cultivation of the
soil cannot understand the wear and tear of
the body and mind to which our merchants
ire subjected when they do not know but
that their livelihood and their business
honor are dependent upon the uncertainties
H the next "hour. This excitement of the
Drain, this corroding care of the heart, this
'train of effort that exhausts the spirit,
»ends a great many of our best men in rn id-
Me lif© into the grave, their life dashed out
against money safes. Thev go with their
itore on their backs. They trudge like ©am-
lb?, sweating, from Aleppo fo Damascus.
-bev make their life a crucifixion. Stand-
behind desks and counters, banished
rom the fresh air, weighed down by oark-
yish *g cares, they are so many suicides. Ob. I
I could to-day rub out some ©f these
? f tbe
b could i gne
i," 1 1 ^and^th^n e f v ‘ ? rn trusteed 1 Ti”
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.v, r f 0 . n ;' r ,.t' - r -cl mana 0 - ad ^
»hem iiLvAivp
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fowto ot th. atr! Th.y ahv.v.-
have nest?. Take a long breath. Bethink
betimes that God did not make you for a
pack the hogsheads horse. Dig and yourselves the shelves, out and from in among the
light of the holy Sabbath day resolve l hat
rcu will give to the winds your fears, an!
four fretfulness, and your distresses. You
>rought nothing into the world, and it i-
h»ry "'H** certain you can carry nothing out.
f ood and raijfteftt, heftMSSfiUi con-
The merchant came’ home from the
There had been a great disaster there.
He opene 1 tho front door and said in the*
midst of his family circle: ‘T am ruined.
Everything is gone. I am all ruined.” His
wife said, T am left/’ and the little child
threw.no its hands and said. ‘Papa. I am
here.” The aged grandmother, seated in
the room. said. "Then you have all the prom¬
ises of God beside, John, And he burst in-
to tear? and said: “God forgive me that I
SSS-WSS': Again. I remark that UWZJ of business
many Our
men are tempted to neglect their lien>e and
duties. How often it is that the store
home clash, but there ought not to be any
collision. It is often the ease that the father
is the mere treasurer of the family, a sort of
agent groceries, to see that they have dry goods and
The work of family government
he does not touch. Once or twice in a year
he calls the children up on a Sabbath after-
noon, when he has a half hour he does not
exactly know what to do with, and in that
half hour be disciplines the children and
chides them and corrects their faults and
gives them a great deal of good advice, and
then wonders all the rest of the year that his
children do not do better when they have
the wonderful advantage of thatsemi-annual
castigation.
The family table, which ought to bo the
place for pleasant discussion and eheerful-
ness, often becomes the place of perilous asked
expedition. all, If there bo any blessing with the
at it is cut off at both ends and
hand on the carving knife. He counts on
his fingers, making estimates in the inter-
stives of the repast. The work done, tlio hat
goes to the head, and he starts down the
street, and before the family have arisen
from the table he has bound up another
bundle of goods and says to the customer,
“Anything more I can do for you to-day,
sir?” A man has more responsibilities than
those which are discharged by putting corn-
petent instructors over his children and giv-
ing them a drawing master and a music
teacher. The physical culture of the child
will not bo attended to unless the
father looks to it. He must some-
times lose his dignity. He must unliro-
ber his joints. He must sometimes lead
them out to their sports and games. Tiie
parent who cannot forget the severe andtrundlq duties,
of life sometimes, to fly the kite
the hoop and chase the ball and jump the
rope with his children, ought never to have
been tempted out of a crusty and unredeem-
able solitariness. If you want to keep your
children away from places of sin you can
only do it by making your home attractive,
You may preach sermons and advocate re¬
forms and denounce wickedness, and yet
your children will be captivated by the glit-
lering saloon of sin unless you can make
your home a brighter place them. than any Oh.
other place on earth to
gather all charms into your house. If
you can afford it, bring books and pic-
tures and cheerful entertainments to tlio
household. But above all teach those
children, not by half an hour twice a
year on the Sabbath day, but day after day
and every day teach them that religion is a
great gladness; that it throws chains of gold
about the neck; that it takes no spring from
the foot, no blitheness from the heart, no
sparkle from the eye, no ring from tho laugh-
ter, but that “her ways are ways of pleasant-
ness, and all her paths are peace.” I sympa-
thize with the work being done in many of
our cities by which beautiful rooms are set
apart by our Young Men’s Christian Associa-
tlons, and I pray God to prosper them in all
things. But I tell you there is something
back of that and before that. Wo need more
,ia PPy, consecrated, cheerful Christian
homes everywhere,
Again I remark that a great many of our
business men are tempted to put the attain-
ment of money above the value of the soul.
« is a grand thing to have plenty of money
fUe more you get of it the better, if it come
honesty and go usefully. For the lack of it
sickness dies without medicine, and hunger
finds it coffin in the empty bread tray, and
nakedness shivers for lack of clothes and fire.
Wh»I tajm in «»««««£ “fjg
money—a Christian man—as though it haa
no possible use on earth ami he had no in-
terest in it at all, ) 1 come almost to think
that the heaven that would be appropriate
for him would be an everlasting poorhouse
While, my friends, we do admit there is
such a thing;as.the lawful uso of money
-a profitable use of money-let us rec-
^mze aKo the ^^ 'uit momiy cannot satis-
J• man js U thai , :c. no, glitter in the
dark^ across >a the ley, Jordan ^ of death; that it ..°“ cannot Ti f “
unlock the gate of heaven. There are men
in all occupations who seem to act as though
they thought that a pack of bonds and mort-
gages could bo traded off for a title to
heaven and as though gold would be*a law-
ful tender in that place where it lssocom-
mon that they make pavements out of it.
Salvation by Christ is the only salvation.
Treasures in heaven are the only incorrupti-
b ‘Stofryoacver
loss and the ciphered “What out l„ shall the ru.e „«
gain sum, it profit
a man if he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?” However fine your apparel, the
£E£f3SZ2tS,2Si
price is worth more than any gem you can
bring from the ocean, than Australian or
Brazilian mines strung in one carcanet. Seek
after God. tind:IIis righteousness, and all
shall be well here—all shall be well here-
after.
Some of you remember the shipwreck of
the Central America. That noble ship had,
I think, about 500 passengers aboard. Sud-
denly the storm came, and the surges
tramped the decks and swung into the
hatches, and there went up a hundred voiced
death shriek. The foam on tho jaw of the
wave. The pitching of the steamer as though
it were leaping a mountain. The dismal
flare of the signal rockets. The long cough
of the steam pipes. The hiss of extinguished
furnaces. The walking of God on the wave!
The steamer went not down without a strug-
gl e - As the passengers stationed themselves
in rows to bail out the vessel, hark to the
thump of the buckets, as men unused to toil,
with blistered hands and strained muscle,
tug for their live.s. There is a sail seen
against the sky. The flash of the distress
gun Ls noticed; its voice heard not, for it is
choked in the louder booming of the sea.
A few passengers escaped, but the gone! steamer
gave one great lurch and was So
there are some men who sail on prosperously
All’s well, all’s well. But at last
some financial disaster comes—a euroelydon.
Down they go. The bottom of the commer-
cial sea is strewn with shattered hulks. But
because your property goe.s do not let your
soul go. Tnough all else perish, save that,
for I have to tell you of a more stupendous
shipwreck than that which! just mentioned.
God launched this world 6000 years ago. It
been going on under freight of moun-
tains and immortals, but one day it will
stagger at the cry of fire. The timbers of
r oclt w ill burn, the mountains Game
like . masts, and the clouds like sails in the
judgment hurricane. Then God shall take
the passengers off the deck, and from the
berths those who have long been asleep in
Jesus, and He will set them far beyond the
reach of storm and peril. But how many
shall go down will never be known until it
shall be announced one day in heaven. The
shipwreck of a world! 8o many millions
javed! homses’ many mjmo^ downed! you? landsTo Oh my
vour vou^ ao though Possessions nerish’
.
eh all earthlv bloo^of
rn a v riod Aimi covenant, f 'ht v throujfh save^U the the
everlasting your souls!
The Grasshopper Crop.
Professor Otto Lugger, State Ertomolotfsl
of Minnesota, called at the Governor’s office
aud made a report on the grasshopper hopper kill;
ing in Chicago County with the
dozers. They have over 400 of these ma-
chines at work and are gathering ih 8000
bushels of grasshoppers daily. Thu.s far the
ThVfrequent hoppers have not invaded tbe grain fields.
rains have kept the grass grwo
and tender, and they have contented tbW
selves feeding on this.
NO. 38.
QUITS PUBLIC LIFE.
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE.
Anmmuces II is Retirement from the
World. The Passing of a Great Alan.
Mr. Gladstone's promised letter to his
Midlothian constituents in connection with
his retirement from political life was pub¬
lished Wednesday at Locdc-n. After bidding
farewell to the electors who have supported
him at the poils for many years past and ex¬
pressing principles his gratitude for their adhesion to
the be advocated, the ex-premier
proceeds to say :
“It is beyond question that the ceDtury
now expiring has exhibited since the close of
it? first quarter a period of unexampled ac¬
tivity, the changes of which, taken in the
mass, have been in tho direction of true ami
beneficial progress. An overwhelming pro¬
portion of the reforms within this period have
l*een affected within the direct action of tbe
liberal party or by direct action of such states¬
men as Feel and Canning, who were ever
the ready to meet odimn In or to forfeit power for
nublic good. gjl of the fifteen par-
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Laments in which I have served, the people their
of Scotland have decisively expressed
convictions in favor of this wise and temper¬
ate policy and I trust that tbe electors ol
Midlothian will continue to lead the people
of Scotland in tho future as they have in the
past.”
BOSEBERKV OX HIS DEFEAT.
Lord Roseberry has written a letter to the
secretary of the Midlothian Liberal Associa¬
tion in which he says:
“The late government, was overthrown by
a vote of censure which was petty, but fatal.
It is for Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and tbe
north ot England to consider whether they
will allow their interests to remain in perma¬
nent subjection to a hereditary and irrespon¬
sible chamber. With the echoes of Mr. Glad¬
stone’s eloquent and venerable voice still
ringing through the lowlands, I cannot
doubt their response.”
THREE NEW TORPEDO BOATS.
Tbe Navy Department to Let Contracts
For Their Construction.
The Navy Department at Washington on
Monday invited proposals for tbe construc¬
tion of three steel sea-going torpedo boats
for the navy. Tho boats are to be of about
180 tons displacement. The material used
in their construction is to be of domestic
manufacture. The vessels may be coxytruct-
ed of steel or other metal, or alloy. Tbe
contracts will require a speed of not less
than 26 knots per hour, maintained success¬
fully for two consecutive hours. If they
fail to develop and maintain 26 knots but ex¬
hibit an average speed of not less than 25
knots an hour they will be accepted, so far as
speed is concerned, at a reduced price, the
reduction being at the rate of $10,000 a knot.
If the speed falls below an average of 25
knol3 an hour it will be optional with the
Secretary of the Navy to reject the vessels
or to accept them at a reduced price to bo
agreed upon between tbe Secretary and the
• outractors. The act of Congress authoriz¬
ing the vessels, provided that one of them
ibiould be built on or near the coast of the
Pacific Ocean; one on the Mississippi river,
and one on the Gulf of Mexico. The act pro¬
vided further that if the vessels could not bo
built at these points at a fair cost theyshould
be built at any place in the United States.
Referring to thissection of the act the pro¬
posal says:
iu view of the fact that the Department
may not be able to make a contract for the
construction at a fair cost, of one of said
torpedo boats either on lhe Pacific coast, or
on the Mississippi river, or on the Gulf
coast, it is desired that each bidder will state
the price for which he will undertake to
build one, two or all three of said vessels,
according to the capacity of his plant, in or¬
der that the contract may, if necsssary, be
awarded to one bidder for the construction
uf more thaD one vessel.”
TWO COURTHOUSES BURNED.
Ouc in Tennessee and the Other In
Alabama. Suspicious Circumstances.
The substantial brick courthouse at Lex¬
ington. Henderson county, Tenn., was totally
destroyed by fire Wednesday morning, to-
gather with the greater part of aU 1 he court
^ .papers, t etc., of the L^xin^ton cor¬
poration. , >ot a scrap was .avea , n . i.om 1ha .ne
trustees’and circuit clerk’s offices. Trustee
Esary had between 81,500 and *2,000 worth
of warrants in his office for which there is
nothing to show. Judge R. H. Thorn, justice
of the peace, attorney-at-law and United
states commissioner, lost everything, dockets
with thousands of dollars in judgments on
them. While there is no positive proof of
the origin of the fire, there is something very
significant in the fact that the quarterly
court on Monday last appointed a committee
to investigat some forged county warrants
and the committee began its work Tuesday,
The loss is very heavy, with no insurance on
anything burned,
Thursday midnight fire was discovered in
the rear offices of the Center, Ala., court
house and the entire building was soon in
flames. Kerosene had been poured on the
walls and floor and nothing could check tbe
f, r ^. The books and records of the Chancery
sheriff and tax collector are lost. A
heavy rain saved the main part of the town.
Loss about $20,00® with insurance on bui.'d-
ing of $7,000.
1 he Importation of Sugar,
The imports of sugar at six of the leading
ports ot the United States during the month
of June aggregated 333,567,945 pounds, of
2he total value ofif theoae’missingportofccn- 3 351 055. The recelptsat
San Francisco befog
tequence came in free of duty, of Ha.
waiin origin and. therefore, then could not
iffe©t tbe matter of custom*." Mr. Ford that
fh« -hie? of the Bureau of Statistics, states
importation was, therefore, much less
*■» «*«« H «■ ?.
es '
(8H, m quantit> an 1 on y about one half ia
A Decrease In the Treasury Reserve.
The Tra'-urv cold reserve Saturday de-
It *i<y» at the cincc ?t of
WiflT £on 4m 40 The tbhoi.ri* loM ia
“'^ccoant bybea Fran-fsco
at &in CaL