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XXII.
COTTON FOR A
HUNDRED YEARS
THE PRICES AND FLUCTUATIONS.
THE BULLETIN
Ofthc Agricultural Department Shows
That Prices Have Been Lower
Than Now and That Supply
Regulates Them.
T„, bulletin on price of cotton to,
100 years, ’ which the Department of Agrl-
culture has had in course of preparation for
"*•»"«* “»■**>»• Th.
period considered begins and ends with two
of the most important events In the history
of cotton culture: the introduction of Whit-
ney’s saw gin (T785) and the production of
the largest crop the world has ever seen,
1894 '95.
The highest and lowest average prices of
the crops of the United Htates, the exports to
foreign countries, the supply and consump¬
tion in the United States, Great Britain and
continental Europe are given for each year,
as well as the chief causes that have led to
the ris<‘ and fail in price* from year to year.
In addition to a series of tables in which
these facts and figures are presented the
bulletin contains numerous data relating to
the progress made from time to time in the
production this and foreign and consumption countries. These of cotton in
are so
arranged ns to present a brief historical
sketch of cotton-production and consump¬
tion in tie- United States during the past
century. The tables show that prices of
cotton have not been so low duriug the past
reason as 1850.' they were during the decade from
1840 to
The object of the Department has been to
make this bulletin a valuable work of refer¬
ence as to the production, consumption and
prices relating of cotton and other numerous facts
cither to cotton, for ail who are interested
in cotton planting or in the cotton
trade.
find Referring to the conditions of the market
the prices in the decade from 1840 to 1850,
bulletin says:
“In 1840. the largest crop ever made up to
that time, aud tho largest accumulation of
Stocks ever witnessed in Liverpool, caused
n decline to the lowest average for ten years.
This was the beginning of the heavy accu¬
mulation of stocks in Europe during the
next five years, which led to an extraordi¬
nary decline in prices.”
The highest price per pound in New York
that decade was 13 7-8 cents, in 1850, and the
lowest, 5 cents, in 1842 and 1845 Bhepper-
son 4 quoted middling in that year as low as
cents. .
“In 1812." continues the bulletin, “mid¬
dling to lair cotton* reached as low as 4 1-2
cents iu New Orleans, and there is on file in
the ing Department of Agriculture a letter show¬
that a Marengo county. Alabama, planter
sold this year 17 bales of cotton iu Mobile at
3 1-4 cents. The price currents of the day
quote middling to fair cotton in New Orleans
in 1845 ns lew as 4 3-8 cents, and in Mobile
tlm same year, 3 1-14 eents per pound,”
With respect to tho lustrum ended with
1895, it is shown that tho highest priee per
pound in New York was 10 5-8 cents in 1891,
and tin- lowest 5 9-16 eents, the present year.
A table of the fluctuation in prices shows
that in 1825 it amounted to 18 cents per
pound; in 1837 to 12 1-2 cents; in 1865 to 1.21;
in 1865 to 1.47, and in 18.86 to only .86 of a
cent, tho smallest on record.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
Of the 15,000 tailors employed by con¬
tractors iu New York city, Brooklyn and
Brownsville, fully 12.0(H) are now out on a
strike.
The Union Steel Mills at Bridgeport, Chi¬
cago. which closed down in 1692. started on
Monday, facture employing 1,100 men in the manu¬
of steel rails.
Mince the outbreak of cholera in Japan
there 5,000 deaths. have been 9,000 cast's of the disease ami
and (he Liao Thescourge Tung isragingin Corea
on Peninsula.
Tho delegates to the Democratic conven¬
tion were selected at the county convention*
held at Webster City, Iowa, They were not
instructed as to the*silver question, but are
opposed to free coinage.
The v isible supply of cotton for the world
is 2,914,182 bates, of which 2.573,682 are
American, against 2,420,950 and 1.498,750 re¬
spectively last year; receipts of cotton this
week at all interior towns 2,972; crop in
sight 9,671,151.
At Austin. Tex., Governor Culberson
(Saturday prohibitory afternoon of issued a proclamation
the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight.
He asserts that it is a flagrant defiance of law
and will bring disrepute upon and foster a
spirit of disobedience of all law.
At Bellnire, O.. the 200 employes of the
Bellaire b!:v i furnace were granted on
Monday the second increase in wages of 10
per cent. Tliis makes an increase in their
wages of 20 per cent, sinee the 1st of May.
The old wages of 1893 will soon be resumed.
At Pottstown. Pa., the puddlers of the
Glasgow Iron Company have been notified
of an advance in their wages from $2.50 to
$2.75 per ton to go into effect at once. This
makes tho second advance there in a few
weeks.
Telegrams received at the War Depart¬
ment. Washington, on Monday from the seat
of tin* Indian troubles are of an encouraging
nature. The denial of the reported massa¬
cres of Jackson's Hole is followed by reports
of a pacific nature that is gratifying to the
department. Under date of July 27 General
Coppinger telegraphs Adjutant General Vin¬
cent that he intenas to accompany the troops
from Market Lake to Jackson's Hole. The
roads, the telegram says, are in good condi¬
tion save ten miles through the Teton Tass.
Five cam panics of the Eighth Infantry left
Russell Saturday evening with the intention
of making a forced march to Market Lake,
It is the purpose of the management of the
Cotton States and International Exposition
to make September 18th. the opening day of
the Exposition, a notable occasion in the
history of crowd Atlanta and if the country. The
immense will gather and await with
eager expectancy the signal that will opeu
the The Exposition will to the sight-seers of the world.
wire be connected with the throttle
of the twiu mammoth engines, all of the
belts will be placed on the pulleys, the flags
will struggle with the breeze, in their attempt
to free themselves, dead silence will reign,
and then, like the lightning's stroke, the
flash will come, and, with a lifelike move¬
ment. the wheels will slowly turn, and the
doors of the building will be opened to the
world. It will bo an impressive scene.
A TEX AS FAMILY EXTERMIN ATOR
A Farmer Kills his Wife aud Daughter
und theu Shoots his Head Off.
Henry Bradshaw, a farmer, living sixceca
miles west of Paris. Texas, who has been iu
bad health for some time, entered his house
with a shotgun the other evening and shot
his wife in the back as she was at work in
the kitchen. He then shot his four-year-old
d.«ghWr.»ho i» «oth« room Tho
lown gun, went into the sitting room, and laying
on the floor, placed the gun ra his
mouth, pushed the trigger with the result of
almost decapitating himself. No other mo-
tive for the terrible deed can be given except
Bradshaw bad grown weary of living and
did not want to leave his wife and child,
The Toccoa News.
THE GREAT TEN DAYS’ DEBATE
Between the Author of “Coin’s Fi¬
nancial School” and Ex-Congress¬
man Roswell G. Horr.
The Horr-Harvey debate, at Chicago, on
Thursday ally was marked by a more than usu¬
sharp encounter.
Mr. Horr called^ his opponent's attention
to a statement which he had made in bis
criticism upon Senator Morgan, wherein he
itated that the silver dollars of 412 1-2 grains
were ?ation largely of coined previous the demoneti-
silver in 1873 and after the passage
of the law of 1873, making subsidiary coin¬
age of less value than its seignorage. There¬
fore he inferred that Senator Morgan wa3
mistaken in stating that none of the 412 1-2
dollars had been coined from silver mined in
this country. Mr. Harvey says that the old
^
standing that at that time the bullion was
worth mono uncoined than coined. Mr. Horr
the mibt for that purpose. Congress had
provided that foreign coin should be received
b ? thft government at a certain fixed value,
and further that such coins should not he
again put into circulation but should be re-
coined at the mint. The report of tHe direc-
tor of the mint showed that over five mill-
ions dollars in silver had thus accumulated,
having been found in the gold during the
process of assaying it.
At this point, Harvey challenged Horr’s
statement, saying that he had not brought
his authorities with him and therefore his
arguments were entitled to no standing in
the debate. He then handed Mr. Horr a
statement of the director of the mint, which
he said reported that during the year 1870,
412,462 silver dollars had been coined at
Carson City.
Mr. Harvey again called his opponent to
task for not confining bis remarks to the
order of debate originally agreed upon, and
said that he would not be diverted from thi 3
order. He then entered upon a discussion
of primary aud credit money, saying that an
over-issue of credit money caused a drain
upon the primary money for redemption
purposes. An example of -.his had just been
witnessed in this country in the issue of
bonds by the present administration for tho
purpose of maintaining the gold reserve.
Mr. Harvey sai l ho had received a letter
within tho last lew days from a large New
York manufacturer, in which the writer
stated that all the money the bank sent him
to pay off his men was in silver certificates.
Mr. Horr took his opponent to task for
makmg a mistake in his figures by 400.009
regarding the amount of silver dollars coined
fn 1870 at the Carson City mint, and asserted
that the mint report, from which the silver
eliampion had quoted, had sustained Mr.
Horr’s proposition. Mr. llorr added: “Up
to this moment, Mr. Harvey has not said one
word upon the real question in debate. He
has not successfully controverted a single
statement of mine. He has nowhere proven
any act of bribery or the influence of money
lu a single step taken during the progress of
,the bill through Congress. Ho or no one
else will, because there was none,”
There was an attendance of less than 100
listeners on Saturday when Mr. Horr inau¬
gurated the next to the last session of the sil¬
ver debate in Chicago. Mr. Horr opened by
quoting a report of the finance committee of
the United States Senate for the purpose of
«bowing that gold had not appreciated since
1873, basing and challenged his opponent’s sincerity
In his arguments iu this matter upon
Saubeck’s tables, which are compiled by an
Englishman and based upon English values.
In his reply to these charges Mr. Harvey
produced an article written by Mr. Horr had in
answer to a correspondence which ap¬
peared in the New York Tribune, in which
Mr. Horr scoffed at the idea which he has
frequently advanced in the political debate
that human labor formed a trustworthy
standard of value. Mr. Horr’s reply to the
concluded Correspondent, as quoted by Mr. Harvey,
with these words: “Your system
teems so absurd that I can hardly treat it so-
oerly,” Mr. Harvey said he was accused by
nis opponent of finding fault with men and
conditions for the reasons, as he charged,
;hat the silver people delighted to do so. Mr.
Horr has contrasted against that the better
things imposition in man that loved to look on
that are pleasant. Mr. Horr’s inap¬
propriate inight language consisted of words that
be addressed to slaves but not to free
Hen. Mr. Harvey, iu defending his use of
ihe Saubeck table to show the decline iu
prioes of staple articles since 1850, attacked
the Aldrich table, which he said was made
partly by the help of Edward Atkinson,
whose bias could be judged by the fact that
ae had recently said over his own signature
to a Chicago paper (hat the proper way to
Seal with a silver man was to hit him over
the head with a club. Yet that report showed
l decline in prices of 30 per cent, below 1872
rad 8 per cent, below the price of 1860.
Mr. Horr accused his opponent of being
irieky in quoting one sentence from the arti-
tle which he had written for the New York
Tribune and as assuming that it showed the
gist of the whole article. What he said iu
reference to the man’s theories being ridicu¬
lous did not relate to his measure of value at
all. It was his attempt to substitute a paper
dollar based on nothing with which to do the
business of the country. Mr. Horr added
•‘that is where Harvey will land yet. The dis¬
ease that he has never dies out, What he
wants and what these people are after is to
destroy all property and to put this nation
on a socialistic and anarchistic basis.”
[Cries of “no "1.
Mr. Horr: “That is right. I knew you
would understand that.”
Mr. Harvey: “There is not one scintilla in
this debate that authorizes you to say that.”
Mr. Horr: “I say there is one scintilla in
it. and I say that up to date you have got
applause from the audience, your part of it
only, when your arguments tended to show
that you think the whole society ot this
country “no.”)* ought to be destroyed.” (Cries of
Mr. Horr: “I know what I am talking
about. Now as to banks, why is it that Mr
Harvey feels called upon to enter into a
tirade against bauks and to iudulge in such
a torrent ot abuse against bankers? I can
hardly conceive of a greater, more wicked
misrepresentation of facts than have crept
into the talk he has given us up to the
present moment. No nation has been as pros¬
perous as the United States since 1873.'’
Mr. Harvey presented his opponent with a
table of failures in the United States during
the last 38 years and declared that the credit
system of money would account for every
dollar in those failures.
AN EDITOR SENTENCED
To Fine and Imprisonment for Criti¬
cism of a Public Officer.
At Asheville, N. C.. in the case of H. G.
Ewart. Judge of the Criminal Court, against
Frank E. Robinson, editor of the Citizen, for
contempt, the editor appeared Saturday.
His answer to the charge of contempt was
that the editorial complained of did not
represent the proceedings of the court un-
fairlv. The criticism was made in pursuance
of the rights of the press under the Constitu-
tion of the United States, anp North Caro-
Una as well. The editor further denied that
he intended any contempt of court, and.
under decisions of the Supreme Court of
North Carolina, it was believed by ail the
' To the surprise of all present, however,
Judge Ewart, after a long decision from the
bench, during which he displayed great
TOhS't?pS
and in a few minutes the bond was made up
by the leading eitizens-bankers, merchants
and others of the city and the editor was
released from the custody of the court.
, An appeal was at once taken to the Supreme
Court of North Carolina. The case wid be
fought by the best talent i n the state,
TOCCOA, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST I, 1895.
SPECIAL DAYS
At the Cotton States and International
Exposition.
The list of special days at the Cotton States
and International Exposition Atlanta is be¬
ing rapidly completed. Many of the largest
organizations in the world, and almost all
the States will have special days. All organ-
Nations of national reputation, and having
wide membership, have been invited to come
to Atlanta to visit the Exposition in the fall,
and arc requested to communicate with tho
Exposition authorities in reference to spe¬
cial days. Following is a list of the days
that have so far been decided on:
Hept. 18 th-.Opening Day—Liberty Bell
Dav.
Sept. 19th—Georgia Editor's Day.
Sept. 25 th—Kentucky Press Association.
Sept. 28th New England Woman’s Press
Association.
Oct. 1st - Missouri Press Association,South-
ern Mining Convention, Texas Press Assoeia-
tion.
Qet. 2d— Georgia Bar As^tciation, . . South
Carolina Press Association, Southern Mining
Convention.
Oct. 31.—Georgia Bar Association, . South
Carolina Press Association,
Oct. 4th—Georgia Association, Bar Association, South
Carolina Press
Oct. 5th—Tennessee Day.
O t. 7th—National Irrigation Congress,
North Carolina Day.
Oct. 8th—National Irrigation Congress,
American Institute Mining Engineers,
Oct. 9th—Chicago Day, National Irrigation
Congress, American Institute of Mining En-
gineers. Get. 10th—Farmers ... National Congress,
Women’s National Council, American Insti-
lute of Mining Engineers,
Get. 11th—Farmers’ National Congress,
Women s National Council, American Insti-
tuteof Mining Engineers,
Oct. 12th—Farmers National Congress^
Women's National Council,
Oct. 14th—Farmers’ National Congress,
-Women’s National Council,
Get. 15—Farmers’ National Congress, Wo-
Inen’s National Council,
Get. 16—Farmers National Congress. Wo-
men’s National Council, Bankers’ Associa-
tion of America,
' Get. 17—Koad Parliament, Women s Na^
tional Council.
Get. 18th—Commercial Traveller's Day,
Daughters of Revolution, Road Parliament.
tOct- —Virginia Day, Orator, Gen.
Daniel; Daughters of Revolution,
Oct. 21st—Connecticut Day, Senile s Or-
chestra.
Oct. 22d—Georgia Association of Manu-
tfaeturers, Lady Seidle s Orchestra, Morlds Fair
Managers. Seidle
»-Oct. 23il—President s Day, s Orclies-. ,
1 ra -
Oct. 24th—City of Washington Day,
Women's National Press Assoeiation, Inter¬
national League of Press Clubs.
Oct. 25th—South and West Trade and
Grain Congress, Seidle’s Orchestra,
! Oct. 26th—Educational Congress, Seidle’s
Orchestra.
Oct. 27th—Pennsylvania 28th—Educational Day.
Oct. Congress, Plant
System. 29th—Educational Day.
Oct.
Oct. 30th—Wesleyan Female College, Edu-
,rational Congress. National Associati - 'ii
Household Economics.
Oct. 31st—Educational Congress, National
Association Household Economics,
i Nov. 1st—Educational Congress. Louisiana
Day, Women's Federation of Clubs.
Nov. 2d—Women’s Federation of Clubs.
Women’s Educational Congress.
Nov. 5th—Women’s Christian Temperance
Union.
Nov. 7tli—Daughters of Confederacy,
Southern Female College. Pennsylvania Day.
Nov. 8th—Peabody Normal.
Nov. 8th—Delaware Day.
Nov. 11—Association for Advancement of
W Hijnon.
Nov. 12th—Georgia Day, Women’s Press
Clubs, Grady Day, Georgia Editorial Day.
Nov. 13th—International League, Women’s
Press Clubs.
Nov. 16—Kentucky Day.
Nov. 20th—Letter Carrier's Day.
Nov. 21st—Connecticut Day.
Nov. 28th—South Carolina Day, Library
Day. Cobb Library
Nov. 29th—Lucy Day, Day.
Dec. 3d—National Briekmakers’ Associa¬
tion.
Dec. 4th—National Briekmakers’ Associa¬
tion.
Dec. 5th - National Briekmakers’ Associa-
tion.
Dec. 6th—Khode Island Day.
Dec. 10th—Woodmen of the World.
Dec. 11th—Woodmen of the World.
Dec*. 28th—International Folk Lore Asso¬
ciation.
Dee. 29th—International Folk Lore Asso- (
ciatioc.
MILL BUILDING IN THE SOUTH.
Tlm Year Promises to be an Important
One for the Textile industry.
The Louisville Courier-Journal , says:
Last winter Massachusetts became so alarm¬
ed over the prospect of losing her cotton
mills that a Legislative committee was sent
down South to investigate the extraordinary
advantages offered by this new manufactur¬
ing region. This committee was followed by
another of manufacturers. While their in¬
vestigations were not wholly discouraging
to New England enterprises, the manufac¬
turing States of the South were given an ad¬
vertisement of priceless value. and The Cotton result Re¬ is
seen in the American Wool
porter’s list of the new mills under construc¬
tion in the United States during the first six
months of the year.
The showing is a remarkable one. North
Carolina takes the lead with thirty-one new
mills and a number of costly enlargements of
old plants. South Carolina has twenty-two,
Georgia fourteen. Alabama five, Texas and
Virginia three each. Arkansas two and Lou¬
isiana one. Pennsylvania comes next tc
North Carolina, with twenty-nine new plants,
and New York, with twenty-three, finishes
ahead of South Carolina by a bare nose.
Massachusetts has only nineteen, and New
Jersey exactly as many as Georgia.
This year promises to be an extraordinary
one for the textile industries. The number
of new enterprises begun during the s x
mouths is 201, while for the first six montlr-
o! 1894 it was only 263* 116, and the total for the
year was but The proportion of cotton
mills in the 1895 plants is very large, there
bring 73 of these to 38 woollen, 57 knitting.
16 silk and 17 miscellaneous.
Not only does the South build a flee pro¬
portion of these new mills; she also has some
of the largest to her credit. The principal
ones are the Georgia branch of the Massa¬
chusetts Cotton Mills, at Rome, with 3G.00C
spindles and 1.000 looms; the Hampton, S.C..
Cotton Mills, with 50.000 spindies aud 20C
g 0 **’ aad a ’ >0 ’ 000 SpindIe miH at Gmnby ’
It is hard to guess how much this vast out-
lay of capital means to the whole country,
but especially to the .South. Manufactories
have been so scarce down this way that a
few go a long distance; but this will not al-
ways be the ease. Then this activity ra mill-
building means a great awakening in the
texile industries and better prices for raw
products. In the face of the new clip wool
bly Imavy Cotton is certain to go up. too;
but even if it did not the planters would
profit mdi^tiy by having the new market
Tte Sooth wUl oevor hoM ,11 ,he coitoo
he *£*****&*
^ Lie maiiri4 majority 5 of th?new?nterDri^ the new enterprises. P
August Belmont purchased Hasti ngs a
two-vear-old colt, at the Gideon & Dalv sale
of horses, for $37,000.
LATEST NEWS
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS.
Iraportant Happenings, Both Horae
and Foreign, Briefly Told.
Ncwsv Southern Notes.
Wilkinson Philip Norman Nicholas, . , , the murderer ot,
and Mills, by drowning them, was
banged in tho Hen civo county, Ya., court-
yard Thursday.
James Breeden was shot and killed by
Deputy Sheriff Mitchell, of Sevier county,
ing near Sevierville, Tenn. Breeden was resist¬
arrest and started to shoot the deputy
sheriff.
It was finally decided that Dallas, Tex., is
to be the scene of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons
fight. The match will take place in the
Dallas Athletic Arena oa the morning of
October 31st next,
Abe Small, the negro arrested at Baltimore
a week ago charged with the murder in
Savannah, Ga., of Policeman Neve, con¬
fessed the crime and was taken to Savannah
for trial. Neve was trying to arrest the
negro when he drew a revolver and shot the
officer dead.
Three of a quartet of negroes who broke
jail in Fernandiua. Fla.. Monday were sur-
prised late Thursday night in the scrub of
Amelia beach by posses commanded by three
sheriffs. They refused to halt and were fired
upon, when they ran straight for the ocean
and plunged in. No trace except a trail of
blood on the beach and three hats has been
found of any of them.
In Louisiana it is proposed to insert a
clause in the new Constitution which will
disfranchise the majority of the negroes of
the State by requiring that all voters must
pay taxes upon at least two hundred dollars.
isiana A- a majority do of the colored citizens in Lou-
not pay taxes it is evident that they
would not have much to say in the govern-
meat of the State if such an amendment
should prevail.
—— --
Weekly Cotton Statistics.
Total sales of the week 54,000, American
51.000: trade takings, including forwarded
from shipside 52,000; actual export 8,000; total
import 24,000, Amoricon 11,000; total stock
1,445,000, American 1,131,000: total afloat
47,000, American 31,000; speculators took
400, exporters took 1,400.
—— -- ——
Disasters, Accidents, Fatalities.
The Y. M. C. A. building at Washington,
D. C., was burned on Wednesday, together
with all its. contents. Loss f25.000.
Dynamite instantly killed three men and
seriously injured a fourth on the drainage
canal Chicago on Tuesday. The accident
was caused by a premature explosion during
the process of tamping. The dead are:
Wm. Kelly, of Marquette, Mich, Thos.
Soaker, ot Chicago. Joseph Smith, resi¬
dence unknown. The injured is Matthew
Ilealy. thirty years old, severe scalp wounds.
The Silver Movement.
been At Portland, received Oregon, twenty replies have
from the chairmen of county
Democratic committees iu the State by the
secretary of the State central committee in
reply to the circular letter asking their views
as to the policy of calling a State convention
to pass upon the silver question. Most of
the replies are ambiguous aud not fully ex¬
pressive of ttie desired opinion. The chair¬
man of Multonomah County, the largest in
Oregon, is opposed to the convention pro¬
posed.
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Foreign.
The race for the Machell plate at Gatwick,
London, was won by the American horse
Banquet.
The Sultan has granted amnesty to the
Armenian political prisoners unless they are
also charged with common law offences.
At Toronto, Ont., the coroner’s jury on
Thursday rendered a verdict of murder
against killing Holmes, who is charged with the
of the Pietzel girls.
With ail the constituencies save two heard
from ^II^KaZffiSlnS^ at London, the new House will consist
iieliites.
Labor.
The Buffalo, N. Y., Furnace Company has
increased the wages of its 500 employes 20
per cent. The works arc running night and
day.
The Glastoburv Kuitting Company, at
Manchester Green, Conn., has notified its
cm ployes that, beginning Aug. 5, the 10 per
cent, reduction iu wages, made in 1894, will
be restored.
Crime.
Henry R >lin, a young farmer living near
Manchester, Iowa, Sunday iiis night in a fit of
insanity, shot and killed brother.
At Columbus, O., William Taylor was exe¬
cuted in the state prison Thursday midnight
for tilt* murder and robbery of an old farmer.
Miscellaneous.
According to the latest returns of the
Indian office there are 248,253 Indians in the
United States exclusive of Alaska. One hun¬
dred and thirty-three thousand four hun¬
dred and seventeen of these are living on
reservations, 98,632 of whom support them¬
selves. The total self-supporting Indians is
212,900.
NO MORE SEED/
.Secretary Morton Abolishes That Di¬
vision of the Department.
Secretary Morton has i- aed an order
abolishing the seed division of the Agricul¬
tural Department to take effect Oct. 1st. by
which date W. E. Fagan, ehief of the divis¬
ion, by the same order is directed to have its
work wound up.
The abolishing of the seed division will
throw out of employment ten people, besides
the chief, at present, and will result in de¬
'he priving fully 150 more of occupation during
busy season—the winter months—when
ft is necessary to send out the bulk of the
tweeds. There The chief has a salary of $2,000 a
flight rear. are two clerks at $1,200 and
at $840. The extra force employed in
the winter season is paid at the rate of $1.50
be per day. It is probable that Mr. Fagan will
appointed to another branch of the ser¬
vice after his resignation as chief of the seed
division takes effect.
The Alabama Populists,
The executive committee of the Populis
party in Alabama met in Birmingham oi
Thursdav. Capt. Kolb, the Bev. Saa
gStSffi Ad andmLvoffier State Senator Goodwin thenart! Franl
^ in^ttendance lead ere of 3
Kgome^w^^sentas r e Col I> inrifed^i 8 Trov ^ o *
* an
^ delivered aprfiaud^ a speech P ^no5 which oth™tilings was vocifer-
h<=
fto^Tthrou-h T^e th^Populist coL pirty*
report of the mi tteeon r esoi atiom
that the executive com-
“.“.rSraplSSTiSS ^‘..J
be an avowed Populist and untainted Sherman
with the financial vagaries of John
nlld Grover Cleveland. They are cordial!*
invited to co-operate with the Populists, and
it is hinted that minor places on the ticket
may be given them. B >th wings of the party
appear to be satisfied with the resolutions,
TREE SILVER NEWSPAPER MEN.
Democratic Editors Addressed by Mr,
Bland and Senator Cockrell.
The Democratic Free Silver Editors’ Staff*
Convention met at Sedalia, Mo., last week,
The principal address of the day was that of
Senator Cockrell, He said:
“The pending financial issue was whether
the single standard of gold should be con¬
tiuued, stored. or the true bi-metallic system re¬
; ceal. “Every possible effort will be made to con-
Let complicate and mystify this vital issue,
us not be mistaken or deceived, nor mis-
led. The Forty-second Congress with a two-
thirds majority of Republicans in each house,
passed the coinage law of Feb. 12. 1873,
which was approved by a Republican Presi-
dent aud established the single standard of
gold, made the gold dollar the unit of value,
denied any coinage to the standard silver
dollar, limited the legal tender value of all
silver coins to five dollars, aud thus de¬
stroyed the bi-metallic system.
unlimited “To-day our laws authorize the free and
coinage of gold at our mints into
full legal tender money and thus endow and
clothe the gold metal with the functions of
money and make the metal equal in value to
the coin, but they did not authorize or per-
init the coinage of any standard silver dol¬
lars except the bullion in the Treasury, pur-
chased under the Sherman law. thus denying
to the silver metal any functions of money.
“lu the Brussels conference of 1892, Mr.
Alfred de Rothschild, a delegate from Eng-
land, said:
“Gentlemen: I need hardly remind you
that the stock of silver in the world is esti-
mated at some thousands of millions of dol-
lars, aud if this conference were to break up
without arriving at auy definite result, there
would be a depreciation in the value of that
’contemplate commodity which it would be frightful to
and out of which a monetary
i panic would ensue the far-spreading effects
:of which it would be hard to foretell.’
conference did adjourn without
definite . results, and on June 26, 1893, India
.closed her mints to the free coinage of silver
a “d the commercial value of silver measured
' vlt “ at once fell about 15 per cent. Our
' “ ^ov. * ' 189S, repealed the purchasing
still c ]?,V , f lower. | e 0i By Sherman the undisputed Jaw and testimony silver fell of
historic record of events, Mr. Carlisle
was right in 18<8 in his denunciation of the
act of 1873, as ‘the most gigantic crime of
this or any other age.’ ”
Hon. R. 1’. Bland spoke for nearly two
hours. Iu his address, which was frequently
applauded, Mr. Bland said:
“There can bo no greater question affect¬
ing the welfare of the people than the ques¬
tion of currency, and we are asked to become
the advocates of a system of currency sup¬
plied by national banks, The [lower to con¬
trol the volume of the money of the country
will necessarily result in the enslavement cif
the people and the breaking down of the
power of the States. If all the facts stated
in Mr. Carlisle’s speeches in Memphis and
other places be true, and if the doctrines he
advocated are correct, then Democracy as
taught iu history aud practiced by our
fathers was a fraud. Ratio is an exceptional
question, done belonging to Congress, but justice
must be to silver by putting it back
right where it was in 1873. The duty of the
present generation and the present time is to
undo the wrong and wipe out the crime of
1873.”
In conclusion. 51 r. Bland said: “In my
opinion the conspiracy which seems to have
been formed here and in Europe to destroy
by legislation, or otherwise, from three-
sevenths to une-half the metallic money of
the world, is the most gigantic crime of the
age or any other age. The consummation of
such a scheme would ultimately entail more
misery upon tho human race than all the
wars, pestilences and famines that ever
occurred in the history of the world. We
still believe that silver's restoration is abso¬
lutely necessary to the prosperity of this
people, and we will follow Carlisle and his
record as a member of Congress and not
Carlisle and his record as Becretary of the
Treasury.”
WASHINGTON LETTER.
A Vessel Ordered to Panama. Rcfom
in the Consular Service.
By Our Regular Correspondent.
Uncle 8am may have a little sum
mer scrap on his hands, if the threat
enecl war between Ecuador aud Co
lombia materializes. Under a treaty
«•*> >»«» «•** the |l,«
States has the right to maintain free
communication on the Panama Kail-
road, across ihe isthmus, if Colombia
fails to do so, aud the New York offi¬
cers of the Panama Railroad have ap
pealed to this government to protect
their property, which they say is in
danger on account of the labor
troubles on the isthmus, regardless of
how the threatened invasion of Co¬
lombia by Ecuador shall turn out.
Secretary Herbert has ordered a ves¬
sel to Panama to look out for and pro¬
tect American interests.
The average memory is short. When
Secretary Olney made public his in¬
tention to try to reform the United
States consular service and to have
consuls seleeted because of their tit-
ness for the position, and not their
political “pull,” few people remem¬
bered that a determined effott in that
direction was made thirty odd years
ago by Secretary Seward, and that
the greediness of the politicians for
patronage caused its failure. Such is
the fact, shown by the records of the
State department Secretary Seward’s
idea was to educate the men to be ftp-
pointed consuls in the work they were
to do. After getting the necessary
Congressional legislation he appointed
ten bright young men consular clerks,
assigning each of them to duty in the
office of an important European con¬
sulate. Before his retirement from
office he had the satisfaction of seeing
his young men full-fledged United
States Consuls. He thought the re¬
form would be continued, but it wasn’t.
Congress repealed the law providing
for consular training, and the politi¬
cians never stopped until the last one
of those trained consuls was turned
out of office to make room for a man
with a political “pull.” Way Secretary
Olnev be more successful in his at¬
tempt to reform the service.
Mother and Son Drowned.
and At Ceredo, W. Va.. Mrs. William Pierce
son, Franklra. (of Middleport. N. Y.,)
were drowned at the public landing Sunday
afternoon. Mrs. Pierce was walking on the
guards of the wharf boat, when she fell
overboard. Her son leaped into the river
and was bringing her to shore, when the
current swept them under a fleet of barges.
A stranger who also leaped into the water to
render assistance barely escaped the same
fate. The bodies were recovered.
Two Children Burned toDealli.
At Norrth, S. I., th, Cootmtatlo-at
aad rereu children, was totally destroyed by
fire. The children, who occupied a back
ro om. were just retiring when coal gas in a
chimney exploded and instantly the bouse
was ablaze. All the children escaped with
the exception of Clarissa and Mary, both
bodies being burned to a crisp.
AN INDIAN
BPRISING.
SETTLERS OF JACKSONS HOLE
WIPED OFF THE EARTH.
None Left to Tell the Story. The Reds
Then Burned Every House in
the Settlement.
A courier who arrived at Market Lake,
Jdaho, reports that all the settlers in Jackson
Hole have been murdered by Indians aud all
the houses burned.
II. J. Grey. L. M. Tart and Senator Hamer,
.of Illinois, and T. R. Hamer, of St. Authony,
all left St. Authony Wednesday morning on
a fishing trip to Jackson's Hole, taking no
stock iu the Indian war. Friday they re¬
turned and report that every man, woman
aud child in Jackson's Hole is murdered.
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
At Cheyenne, Wyo.. Governor Richards,
on Friday received the following official re¬
port of Adjutant General Stitzer. of the state
militia, who is at Market Lake as the
governor's representative: W. A. Richards,
Governor: In obedience to your verbal or¬
ders, given July 17, 1895, directing me to
proceed to Jackson's Hole and report the
cause of the disturbances between the settlers
and Indians in Uinta county, Wyoming, I
proceeded to Marysvale, arriving there on
Saturday evening, July 20th. On Sunday
forenoon, July 21st, at the Marysvale post-
office a conference was held between T. B.
Teter, agent for the Hall Indian reservation,
and about fifty-five settlers of Jackson’s
Hole. Captain William House, ofthe Indian
police, a Suoshoue Indian, was also present
at the meeting. The conference between In¬
dian Agent Teter and the settlers was of a
very unsatisfactory feeling. character and created
Some bitter
! In 1894, owing to the repeated petitions of
the settlers and complaints ol the county au¬
thorities of Uinta and Freemontcounties, the
department 'of of the interior, by circular fetter
instructions, under date of February, 1894,
instructed tho Indian agents at Fort Hall
and Shoshone agencies to issue no passes to
Indians for the purpose of leaving their re¬
servations, under any circumstances, and
especially for the purpose of hunting,
j “During the spring of 1895 the settlers of
Jackson’s Hole determined to see to the en¬
forcement of the game laws. On June 24tli,
a process was issued for the apprehension of
nine Bannock Indians and placed in the
hands of Constable William Manning for ser¬
vice. deputies One June 26th a constable of and two
came upon seven the Indians in
the Fall river basin in the act of taking the
hides of nineteen head of cow elk, which had
just been killed. The Indians resented any
interference with their unlawful acts and
threatened the constables and deputies with
personal violence vicinity, if they did not immediately
leave the aud threatened the depu¬
ties that if they of the people of Jackson’s
Hole in any manner iuterl'erred with their
hunting they would kill every man. woman
and child iu Jackson Hole. At this time the
constable being unable to make any arrests
returned to Jackson's Hole and reported the
fact.
“Oa Friday. July 19, Capt. John Smith, a
prosecutor and miner in charge of some of
the Gros Ventre Mining property was re¬
turning to In's camp, when he was fired on
from ambush by five Indians and shot in the
right breast. The wound, however, was not
a serious one, and Capt. Smith returned the
lire, killing one of the Indians and the others
made their escape. It is estimated that 3.000
head ol elk have already been killed by the
•Indians this season. The bodies of the elk
fire* i lying on the hillsides and timbered
n vines, shorn of their hides only. Mother¬
less calves follow the horses of the settlers as
ihey pass through the country, their moth¬
ers having been killed by the Indians. This
is the causa of the trouble between the In¬
dians and white men of this country.”
THE COMMERCIAL REPORTS.
Improved Crop Prospects. A Gcncr
ally Favorable Outlook.
Brudstreet's report for last week, says;
The most striking features of the busiaes*
week ace the influences of improved croj
prospects and the continued large demand i
for iron aud steel, with one of the largest
makers in the market as a buyer of Bessemer
pig. Most of tho commercial aud industrial
features of the preceding w *sk are retained.
The volume of trade has not varied materi¬
ally, but iu instances is larger than at a cor¬
responding period last year. Trade in al¬
most all lines is fairly active for the season
anil the general tendency of mercantile col¬
lections is toward greater ease. Commer¬
cial travelers are being sent out in all leading
lines aud reports from those now on the
road appear to meet expectations. Among
larger Eastern cities no striking changes in
the condition of trade are reported, with the
exception of an improvement in industrial
lines, aud in the lake trade at Buffalo, and a
rather smaller volume of business reported
from Baltimore. Pittsburg iron furnaces are
sold months ahead, aud at Philadelphia the
strike among textile workers remain unset¬
tled. Central Western cities, among them
Cleveland. Detroit. Cincinnati and Louis¬
ville, report the usual volume of mid-sum¬
mer business with perhaps more activity
relatively at Louisville, where the question
of suspending the production of whiskey i?
being discussed.
Textile works have a better outlook with
larger demand, both for cotton and woolen
goods, a shade advance in print-c-Jottis, and
in most bleached goods, and a more powerful
market for light weight woolens which, if
scarcely advanced beyond last year’s prices,
are on the whole selling better.
The feature of the week at the South is
rather more satisfactory by reports from
Memphis, Chattanooga, Augusta and Gal¬
veston, where orders have been received in
some instances iu excess of expectations, and
the volume of business is larger than at the
corresponding period last year. At such
points as Charleston, Savannah and New
Orleans, no material change is reported as
compared with a week ago, and the like is
true at Birmingham. Atlanta reports rather
less doing in dry goods, notions, groceries,
but that the outlook for trade this fall !3
good. The volume of business ba3 fallen off
at Jacksonville. The most disturbing influ¬
ence in Louisiana is the withholding of pay¬
ments of the sugar bounty.
Total number of business failures tn the
United States this week as report**! to Brad-;
street s is 237. Last week the total was 214.
*.n the week a year ago it was 237.
The U.S. Tobacco Crop Report for July.
The United Stafes Department of Ag¬
riculture, in its crop report for July,1895,
says: price tobacco has resulted in
The low of
decreasing the acreage devoted to that crop
to 84.8 per cent, of that of last year, while
the ia<-k of ram. and cut-worms aud insects^
have reduced the general average condition
to 85.9.
Three per cent, has been added to the area
under tobacco in Tennessee, which No is the de-
only State showing an increase.
crease is shown for Maryland, Missouri for Ken- and
Arkansas. The decrease in area
tu*-ky is 14 per cent, of that of last year;
North Carolina, 5 per cent.; Virginia, 11 per
cent.; Ohio, 49 per cent., and Pennsylvania,
27 |>* r cent.
The general average condition, 8 j. 9, is
better than that of the corresponding period
of last year, which was 81.
The average condition for Kentucky is 87,
a* against 78 last year: that of North Carou-
na is 91; of Virginia, 80; Tennessee. 06; Ohio,
61; Pennsylvania. 94. Massachusetts and
Connecticut slipw 92 and 99, respectively.
NO. 41.
A GREAT RICE CROP.
A 10,000,000 Bushel Yield—Th«
Largest Crop Ever Raised in
America.
The last circular from Dan Talmage's Sons
has this to say about the coming rice crop:
We hand herewith present condition ol
and prospect for the rice crop in respective
States. It cannot as yet be said to be assured
as contingencies may arise which would cur¬
tail promised outcome. If. however, there
should be a continuation of previous favor¬
able circumstances, will give a result fract¬
ionally in excess of 1S92. Estimated yield
10,000,000 bushels—treblo amount grown
prior to the war and bouble that of any year
since:
Nobth Carolina. —Under the contrary
conditions crop got a late and poos' start.
Plant has made One growth past month and
promise now better than expected. Estimated
yield 200,000 double that of any year since.
South Carolina.— Along the Cooper
Ashepoo, circumstance Combahee aDd Ponpon rivers ever y
conductive to the prosperity
of the plant Acreage larger than last yea r
and a Oner crop, both ns to quantity and
quality, confidently looked for. Further
north, Black Pee-Dee, Santee, Wacomaw ami
Fields rivers, chances much less favorable.
under water during almost entiro
month of March. April and May. Only by
use of powerful steam pumps could any laud
be drained sufficiently to be seeded earily.
Few having such facilities, planting generally
delayed until June aud with limited time,
work performed in a crude imperfect man¬
ner. Some fearing blight by early frost
decided not to plant at all; the result in latter
section will be two-thirds average. Estimated
yield 850,000 bushels.
Georgia.— Conditions floe; well advanced
consideringlate start. Only doubt expressed
is in regard to the fate of May riee.and there
is more than usual, when the birds strike it
in September. Estimated yield 450,000
bushels.
Louisiana.—R iver crop promising and will
greatly almosi exceed last year. Under heavy and
continuous rains the past month;
plantations, abandoned as too expensive to
work or because ready to die, have come to
life again with unexampled vigor. Thq stock
is good, tall and heading heavily, but grass
rank and product will be more seedy on the
average than ever before.
Texas. Florida, Alabama and Mississippi—
Good progress, but the first named only of
commercial prominence. Estimated yield
509,000 bushels.
SOUTHERN PROGRESSION.
Large Increase In Railroad Traffic,
Especially in Coal and Iron Regions.
Reports to the Manufacturers’ Record show
a large increase in the traffic of Southern
railroads, and especially those iu the coal
and iron regions. Tho Alabama Car Asso¬
ciation reports having handled nearly 21,099
cars in June against 12.000 in June of last
year. The improvement in railroad affairs
is bringing to the front a large number of
railroad extensions of existing systems aud
also quite a number of short lines, which wo
being organized in many parts of tho South,
every State being represented.
The number of cotton mills organized for
the past week is even larger than usual and
includes Greensboro, two mills to cost $200,000 each at
N. C., and two more being
worked up at the same place, but not yet de¬
finitely assured; tin.000 a 4200.000 mill at Lumber-
ton. N. C.; a 41 null at Toccoa, Ga.: an
increase of capital of over 4200.000 for the
enlargement of a Tennessee mill; a $60,000
mill company at Salisbury. N. C.;a new mid
in Alabama; a 450,000 mill at Athens, Ga.; a
large knitting mill at Newport News, Va., to
turn out 209 dozen garments a day; a pro¬
jected mill to cost 4100,000 in Texas, and a
number of enlargements of established mills
at different points.
Other important events for the week
include the letting of bids for contracts for
extensive wharves; docks and piers for the
Southern Railway at Norfolk; a $100,009
sewer nine pipe company in Texas; contract fur
miles of belt rufinai and gram eleva¬
tors and cotton compresses at New Orleans;
a $300,000 cigar and tobacco company in
Florida, and a number of miscellaneous en¬
terprises in different parts of the South.
A TRAIN HELD UP.
Six Mounted Robbers Do Their Work
Expeditiously.
An express train on the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad, was held up by
3ix masked men Wednesday midnight, at a
louely place in the woods known ns lteeco
Siding, between Archibald and Striker, Ohio.
The train stops there to let tho. eastern
jx press pas3. The latte re train was ap¬
proaching when the robbery took place. Tho
robbers were mounted and rode out of tho
track. woods, Conductor which are Darling, dense and close to tho
w ho was stand¬
ing near one of the coaches, was ordered
inside at the point of a revolver. A1 mission
to tho express car was obtained by the same
means, and the messenger was forced to
open the safe. The amount reported to have
been obtained Gy them is said to be $3,000,
but it is believed that a much larger sum
was taken. No attempt was made to molest
the passengers, many of whom knew nothing
of tlm occurrence. When the thieves had
secured the contents of the safe they rode
quietly a wav.
London’s .Juvenile Horror.
Robert and Nathaniel Coeinb?, aged re¬
spectively 13 and 11 years, who murdered
their mother about three weeks ago by
stabbing her while she was asleep, and lived
* *ri days in the house with her decomposing
body, were arraigned in the Police Court ut
London. The police authorities announced
that l(my would not charge the younger
brother with participation ra the crime, but
would <* ill him as :t witness.
Nathaniel was then brother’s placed in having the witness
box. and told of his bought
t he dagger with which the killing was done.
He did not see his mother killed, but heard
her groaD. and went rato the room and
looked at her while she was dying. His
brother admitted to him that it was he who
had killed her. The magistrate half-witted committed
the elder brother, Robert, and the
man. Fox, who was arresto-l with the boys,
for trial on the charge of murder, and held
Nathaniel as a witness.
AN APPALLING DISASTER.
140 Soldiers Perish. Men lu the Cars
Drowned Like Rats in a Trap.
A frightful accident, in which 149 soldiers
/>eri.shed, occurred on the railroad running
from Kobe, Japan to Osaka. A train of
twenty-three ears returning to Kobe with 400
Japanese soldiers, who were returning from
China, was running along the sea wall, on
which the tracks as they approach the city
are wall, laid, an immense sea leaped over tho
separating the train and derailing the
engine and eleven cars, which plunged off
the wall into the bay. Most of the men in
them were drowned like rats in a trap. Some
of the men who managed to get out of the
cars while they were in the accident were
dashed to death against the wall.
* Three Boys Killed,
J. Waters Biundon, aged 13 years, J. Guy
Brown. 15 years old, and Charles E. Lvncb.
15 years old, were killed near Riverdale Park
station, several miles from Washington on
the B. O. R. R. The youngsters were walking
OQ jjj e north-bound track. To avoid an ap-
proaching south-bound train the boys stepped on the
ing “Royal track, Blue” directly in front of a fast
mov express train. *11
three were instantly killed, their bodies
being frightfully mangled.