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XXII. THE LATEST NEWS • GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. * Important Happenings, Both Home and Foreign, Briefly Told. The Ffrsf CrtUnn .■.__ ’ 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 fWe. ' -_ 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. -<•1 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. -- —...... ---— 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. ---- 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. • *«- 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. • 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. -- 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. ■■ 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 * lAUU fJllJ 1 Uil Li Li 1 1 ijil --*- ^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 . ■ s ® ’ 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 * 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 | 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 - _ . A f'RAZV ___L__. AJAX’S ruiMb: * * 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* _ J!" 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 ' 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. ,n a " 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” ' .'J.f Do your •‘SFf best *"} * n r^. e “ .v, r f 0 . n ;' r ,.t' - r -cl mana 0 - ad ^ »hem iiLvAivp ' rrhM 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- H ” ■^giigip A § 1 ? jfc. fe®*/’ m.. kli Ti A -;Si jJVv 1 iSSIS m I m \ ■ ■ sc m A'M li YV 11.1 I • ir v. gt, ' 11 ’TnKE. 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