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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR TOflfSTA^SSaaSiBK: : VOL. XXIV. t -- HE PROPOSITIONS FOR ENDING MINERS’ STRIKE FALL FLAT. OPERATORS MADE 3Iu* Jlepresentatlres of Miners Would Accept Nothing Less Than a Kate of Sixty-Nine Cents. Pittsburg special says: The final t to arrange a plan for ending the *> *“» —> « c strike goes on. At noon Mon- e c onference between a commit- <• of coal operators and the miners’ nal ami district officials closed, e conference adjourned without : miners ’ representatives did not • from their original proposition • ttle the strike by arbitration and f Hie mines at the 69-cent rate. T e operators offered to divine the (‘iice between 54 and 69 cent making the price 01 cents, was rejected. Then additional oik, sit ions were made. i )ne wa to (■ tart the mines without i iuiv price for thirty days, and n t > pay the rate agreed upon by (i beard of arbitration. This was 11 i'-fno'd by the miners, they claim- fs" *• they the had operation! been fooled too often to 't again. They de- f iiied to work for a month giving the j ( ! i itoi the output for that length of pi'ii'- without knowing what wages j mild he paid. j I A proposition was then made to op- ! A rate the mines for ten days without living the price and allow a board of titration to fix the prices for that i'i io. President Ratchford insisted it nothing but the 69-cent rate could possibly accepted. Tho operators were firm, but the minors were equally determined, and every argument of the mine owners was met by the miners’ leaders. Neither side would concede another point, and it was decided to end the conference. President Ilatchford had hut little to say on tho matter, but cave out 11 io following statement: We have disagreed. Our proposition r a a';i'd unchanged. Besides our propo- ilicii to arbitrate, wo made them a second Ioiik tho lines of bringing about n gen- l onferenee of miners and operators of nr ning states. They refused to lend "ir efforts in that direction, and tho strike ili he continued. Wo have no other plans r the future,” Operators In Secret Session. Immediately after tho close of the lorning conference a meeting of op- or was called for 2 o’clock in the Infternoon to discuss the situation and ratline a plan for future action. T operators were in secret session oral hours and when the doors opened their press agent an¬ nounced that the mines would certain¬ ly bo started with the old diggers if possible, with imported men if the old men refused to work. A committee was appointed, com¬ posed of representatives of every firm in the district, to map out the mode of procedure for the resumption. Lie operators’ press committee is¬ sued a statement after the conference. It detailed the several propositions made, both by the operators and min¬ ers’officials, which have already been A scribed. In regard to the proposition f Mr. Ratchford, it savs this could ■ . ...... unco oi _i ptl cent m wages anci " il l entail irreparable losses upon the producers. Attention is called to the fact that A*'operators are confronted constantly M. i two forces—the pressure of buy- .0 net the lowest price, which is (1 e zsiXssxzss t l*t’ ■ -I'lnsil.l,- for whatever disaster r ." follow to themselves and families. .............. ' (.reeks Anxlmts firbSt Again. j ' ' meeting of over 11,000 people h* U at Athens Sunday adopted an ad- to King George r^ect urging him and - vovmnent between to the proposed ' Greece and Tm-key and nme hostilities which were in- red liy the truce. PRESIDENT FAURE IN RUSSIA. Homi of French Government Is Royally Received by Czar. A St. Petersburg cable dispatch President Felix Faure arrived ‘onstadt Monday. Up distinguished A*isitors were en- i ii’-.ed at a banquet at the ucav j : :u*f palace, and speeches Avere ■ y M. Fame and the czar in ■i pledges of the utmost cordiality re made. president’s party were met by nr in person on the imperial Alexandria, a mark of the most ~ fished courtesy. Great enthu- is manifested by the people of i toward their French guests. FIXED BAZAAR PEOPLE. Th l’(<>motors and Employes Held Re¬ sponsible For Deaths. Ad es from Paris state that Baron kaii, one of the chief promoters m the cha itv bazaar of the Rue Jean mm, which was destroyed bv fire Mav 1th last, Avith a loss of over a Ired lives, has been sentenced to a due of 500 franc** O: i.eol the employes of the cinema- 'I'li establishment, which caused “'..fi pri t :™ 4 se“.Teneed t to e“ht r rnols ye pmomnent and to pay a tine. MORMON ELDERS GALORE. 1 tah Sends Delegation of Twenty-Four a lo Work in southern States. atCwU List i r ^ T' or “ OU 7 / r kler ° m s T r -wgmeied at headquarters in that city, w, ( - ar °hna. So iar there , T 0 t4la " “' Jil °' t l€ ‘ Pe c ‘ f ‘ rf K ent t «it.dttitt y beto^^^ DEBS ISSUES CALL To "Social Democrat.*" and Lovers of Liberty For a Conference. E. Y. Debs has issued a call to the “Social democracy and to all lovers of j liberty and fair play” to attend the conference at St. Louis, when,he says, “Prompt, united and vigorous action will be taken in regard to the miners’ He says, “The hour has struck to call a halt.” In conclusion he says: “Every atom of American manhood | revolts against the spectacle.. Judges, by the usurpation of power and play¬ ing the role of tyrants, have annikila- *ed the constitution, abrogated the riKht of trial b - y i u, 7» forbidden free assem- into an absolute despotism. They are faulty of judicial treason and should be made to answer at the bar of an outraged people. The issue has been forced upon us and we have retreated before it to the verge of slavery. Let us now meet it as it would have been met by the patriots of 1776.” L’ALOUTTE WINS FUTURITY. Rich Slakes of $4.~,OQO Fulled Down By Thompson’s Filly The Futurity was run atSheepshead Bay Thursday and, as usual, the uu- expected happened, the filly L’Al¬ ouett-e of the Thompson string, Avin- ning the rich stakes, with a length or two to spare. Her backers were happy, for al- though her victory was a surprise, she was coupled in the betting with her stablemates, Gibralter and the Hugue- uot, and as the stable was the favorite for the race, the ring suffered. The other unexpected thing was the run- ning of Lydian, who got the place. Uriel was third. The track was in anything but satis- lactory condition, the heavy rains of having Monday night and Tuesday morning turned it into soft mud. which had dried out sufficiently to make the going heavy and sticky when the race was run. The stake was worth this year some¬ thing like $45,000. The course was 170 feet short of three-quarters of a mile. IVI! EAT COMES DOWN. Liverpool Weakness ami Cmlahy’s Selling Causes Reaction. Wheat broke 5 cents per bushel at Chicago Tuesday and closed within 3 4 of a cent of the lowest figure of the season. AYeakness in Liverpool and selling here by Cudaliy were largely responsible for the slump, al¬ though the market was in shape to break w hen Cudahy began a raid. The price was given no support, and the standing stop-loss orders were reached for over an hour after the de¬ cline started. People who also had pyramid trades and others who had profits were anxious to get them. Just before it was claimed that Decem¬ ber wheat owmed by the bull power had been liquidated and that they now had only a line of the September op¬ tion. A decided change in the relative value of the tw r o options was one of the chief features of the day’s trad¬ ing. September Avheat early sold up to 98 cents, finally went as low as 91 cents and left off at 91J cents, as com¬ pared with 96 cents at the close. GEORGIA’S TAX RETURNS SHORT. The Decrease a Heavy One Ami Amounts To the Sum of SI,639,655. „„ lhe tax returns , for th ® state of Borgia , . was completed , , Tuesday , by ^ " ,, . , , ^Ytlfiskiss , tS * $863*363 u property Ft ^7^ 2907n r^hoad Up .mrniiv returns and * ’» Wg* Z. monerty j Fis FiWinst the state is ^V’ltnr , fi03 oT tbFs vear’s «41° ’rebrrFs 770 05a u * ‘7 f 'i H,Sn 1 , s) .00 fS’ ■> r’ w H up <Y Moroni divisions of property and and gain are. Tho treasury books and comptrol- ler’s books were balanced against each other and showed a net loss of $129,- 353 in the treasury fund since the first of wa_s " ^.34,bb8.now "T^ f.TonWSiOo” it is only *400,- 315.61. SECRETARY WILSON IN DEMAND. Many County Falva Send Invitations To Head of Agricultural Department.. Many invitations addressed to Secre¬ tary Wilson to visit state and county* fairs during the approaching agricultural autumn are being received at the department at Washington. The invitations from this section ex- press a desire to inspect the agricul- tnral conditions aud to have the bene¬ fit of his advice as a practical farmer after such inspection. Nash- The secretary expects to go to A'illo during the fall, and it is consid¬ ered probable that he may not prolong his visit there and take in some of the fairs in the surrounding country. COIN COSTA RICA MONEY. That Government Appeals to the United States Mint Bureau. Information conies from Costa Rica j that government has asked the | United States mint bureau to coin i 600,000 colons under the former gov- ernment’s new system of coinage fa- : arable to gold. It will also seek to 1 , gold b.™ ,tufflcteet I < additional -'J , sc • “ s?J*srs. cos.. » | gold coinage and is silver. made is 32 to 1 as between 1 _ ASSESSMENT NOT INCREASED I and Iron Com- And tlte Tennessee Coal _.,nv Will Re Taxed as Heretofore. I d increase of #2,225,000 Lf propose the Tenues- tee the Coal' tax assessment on 1 j <ee and Iron Company’s heard bv prop- the xv as if ter ‘ arguments over the matter .i je court declined to raise the assess- y tbrfn wefflfb f> TOCCOA, HABERSHAM COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 27,1807. LONDON PAPERS EXPRESS THEIR OPINION SARCASTICALLY. “UNMERITED LUCK,” SAYS ONE. "Western Farmers Will See at Once That High Prices Are Compatible With a Gold Standard," A special cable dispatch from Lon¬ don says: The fact that the price of wheat has reached $1 a buslfCVjn the United States has produced consid¬ erable excitement among grain specu¬ lators and others in London. The sec¬ retary of the Baltic said: “Of course we have been caught largely short. The rise iu the price of wheat makes a somewhat hysterical market. The rise of six pence in the price of barley, for example, Satur¬ day, was due to no assignable cause. There is no speculation here, as it is known on Wall street, although there is some speculation at Liverpool. The secretary of the corn exchange remarked: “There is no speculation here, as -juch transactions are generally known. There has been a disposition on the part of the outside public to bear the market; but the brokers have dissuaded tlieir clients from so doing, The rise in prices yesterday morning and today was not due so much to “dollar wheat” as to the buying by France, where threshings are proving disappointing. Our millers, too, are short.” “The brokers have not made much,as they held no stocks; but it is needless to say that the rise of half a crown in the price of what yesterday, makes the liveliest times on Mark Lane. The Americans have apparently got it tlieir wn way.” The Westminster Gazette, referring to the rise in the price of wheat, says: “Dollar wheat” is an unmerited stroke of good luck for President Mc¬ Kinley’s government, which ought to have been overtaken by swift calamity for shamelessly paying election debts to the trusts by tho passage of the Dingley bill.” At the same time the Westminster Gazette finds comfort in the allegation that “the Bryanites are made to look foolish,” and adds: “The western farmers will see at once that high prices are compatible with a gold standard, and the destruc¬ tion of Bryan and his panacea is bound to follow. But if President McKin¬ ley’s supporters are wise, they will not for a moment imagine that when they dispose of the silver craze they will dispose of the revolt against the capit lists who have never used tlieir power so ruthjcssly as since the late presidential election.” The Westminster Gazette then pro¬ ceeds to denounce “the extortions” of the new United States tariff, which, it adds, is one of the worst and most fruitful sources of corruption of public men and public servants.” In conclusion The Westminster Ga¬ zette says: “The degree of success which has attended Bryan shows that Americans are becoming alive to the rottenness of something, and the next time the cam¬ paign will be directed less to the gold standard than to the standard of pub¬ lic life.” FIVE CHILDREN DROWNED. Sixteen Here Rescued. Five ctildren were drowned in the harbor at Toronto Sunday afternoon by the capsizing of a float. The float was made of rough timber and used for conveying workman from the mainland to the breakwater, a dis- “ d ,tM Sunday afternoon twenty-one ohii- *«■, »oys »»d girls, ranging from oTg^g - «*. M In7children «“ <*““*’*«$** ’ ™‘‘ er “ tbe children were were thrown h o into the j mnwc thele boats in tbe neierh- j and were quickly Soothe at “ children we re60ne d except five, _ ALASKAN BOUNDARY CORRECT. Official of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Says Lines Will Not Be Changed. In speaking of the boundary line between Alaska and the British possessions, General Dnffield, of the coast and geodetic survey, said: “I do not belieA-e that Avhen themat- ter of the boundary lines between the tAvo countries is settled there will be any appreciable change from the lines which are down on the map. Dawson City is 100 miles or more east of the 141st meridian, Avhich is the boundary line. The difference between the United State and Canada surveys on the 141st meridian is a matter of feet onlr.” NEGRO ARTIST WINS DISTINCTION The French Government Buys One of Hen¬ ry Tanner’s Paintings. Henrv Tanner, an American negro, wbo been studying painting : j parig for some yea y S! bas won the grea test distinction that has come to | j member c f his race in that field. He recently exhibited in the salon a | j ^ pr{ _ ent j t i ed received ‘*The Raising signal of praise Laza- rns, ” which j from the critics, and has been pnr- [ chased by the French government for the Luxembourg. missionary The artist is a son of a of the African Methodist church. NEW RAILROAD PROJECTED. j The California Southern Will Begin . Operations Soon. ; The California Southern Railway Company, a new line in course of construction from Biggs Station on ; + 1 ,^ Oroxmn Railway and Navigation pjneville, a distance of 129 miles, will t, c 1D operation about September 5 as hat-tog been completed, Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. Industries Established in the South Du¬ ring the Past Week. Among the most important njw in¬ dustries reported for the past we?k are the following:** The Decatur Compress Co., capital $15,000, New Decatur, Ala.; an electric power plant to be erected at Pensacola, Fla., by a $200,- 000 company; large flouring mills at Crisman and New Market, Ya., and Sedan, W. Ya.; the Gulfport Land and Improvement Co., capital $200,000, at Gulfport, Miss.; the G. W. McDon¬ ald Co., capital $1,000,000, at Clarks¬ burg, W. Ya., to mine coal, manufac¬ ture coke, etc., and the Columbia Gold Mining Co., capital $30,000, at Ricli- | mond, Ya. The Colgin Cigarette and Tobacco Co., capital $10,000, has been chartered at Richmond, Ya., and woodAvorkiug plants will be established at Musgrove, Ga.; Hartford, Ivy.; Shreveport, La., and at NatMoore and Wilmington, N. C. All reports from southern manufac¬ turers and business men continue en¬ couraging and business prospects have not ^ been so favorable for many years, number of idle manufacturing plants have resumed work during the past week and Bessemer pig iron has been advanced. Prices for agricultu¬ ral products are also advancing and heavy exports of wheat and corn are reported. In the south the iron and steel trade is steadily improving and business among the textile and lumber mills is active. — Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) A LOSS TO THE BUSINESS WORLD. The Demise of John P. Lovell Elicits General Expressions of Regret. Seldom has there been such a general expression of sympathy over the loss of one whose life has been devoted to business pursuits, as has been called forth by the recent death at Cottage City, Mass., of that vener¬ able landmark of the business world, the late John P. Lovell, founder and president of the John P. Lovell Arms Company, of Boston. Numerous mes¬ sages and letters of condolence on the death of the honored father have been received by Col. Benjamin S. Lovell, treasurer of the Lovell Arms Com¬ pany. The wide scope covered by those communications is in itself evi¬ dence of the great regard in which he was held by the leaders in business and public life. These expressions of sympathy were not confined to New England, but they were received from every prominent business centre of t ! *e North, East, West and South—in fact, from every portion of the Union; because the name of John P. Lovell, and the cor¬ poration created by him, have been for more than a half century the synonym of honest dealing and busi¬ ness integrity. Even from English firms with whom Mr. Lovell had en¬ joyed the pleasantest business rela¬ tions for more than fifty years, Colonel Lovell has received messages of con¬ dolence on the death of his father. DENIAL FROM WEYLER. “Butcher” Saj's Evangelina Cisneros Has Not Been Sentenced or Tried. Captain General Weyler, in a cable dispatch from Havana to the New York World, denies the report that Evangelina Cisneros, a Cuban girl of eighteen, of sensational beauty, gentle breeding and pure life, had been tried or sentenced to imprisonment for twenty years in the Spanish penal col¬ ony at Ceuta. The girl is the niece of the presi¬ dent of the Cuban republic. General Weyler’s dispatch to the World reads as follow’s: ‘‘For judicial reasons there is on trial in the preliminary stages a person named Evangelina Cossio Cisneros, who deceitfully lured to her house the military commander of the Isle of Pines, had men posted secret¬ ly, who tied him and attempted to assassin¬ ate him. This case is in its preliminary stages, and has not as yet been on trial by a competent tribunal, and consequently no sentence has as yet been passed nor ap¬ proved by me. I answer The World with the frankness and truth that characterize all my acts. Weyler.” USE OF TOBACCO FORBIDDEN. Central Railroad Says Employes Must Ab- j ure the AYeed. Among the new rules promulgated by the Central Railroad of Georgia for the government of its employes, is one Avhich forbids the use of tobacco around any passenger station and the ase of it by trainmen on passenger trains. ' ASK FOR LOWER RATES. New York's Move To Secure Trade Arouses Southern Cities. All the trade centers in the south appear to have been aroused by New York's blow about increased buying there by the merchants of this section. NeAv Orleans, Montgomery, Chatta- ; nooga and Knoxville have all made | application to the Southeastern Pass- j e nger Association for New excursion York, and rates like those given to a | committee from the New Atlanta Mer- chants’and Manufacturers’Association has been in conference with leading passenger officials, though the formal application to the Southeastern Pass¬ enger Association for low rates has not been made. PUGILIST SLA YIN IS LOST. ] AVas Last Seen In the Chilkoot Pass In the Wilds of Alaska. A letter received at San Francisco from the head of Lake Bennett says that Frank Slavin, the pugilist, is lost in the wilds of the northwest. On August o Slavin started back alone j from the lake towards the summit of j Chitkoot Pass to find a number of arti 1 cles lost from his pack. Up to August 9, the date of the let- ' nothing had been heard from him ter, ; and grave fears for his safety are en- | tertained. __ TO SETTLE CLAIMS. 1 - j Commission to Arbitrate Between Spain and the United states. * * Washington * special savs: It is P 05 ; ible 1 ” that a convention will be ne- •* a e* <■ j i y., v ' <, claim commission similar to that j \ lnte ,i j n isn which settled the after the insurrection of that time. TO SOUND ATTITUDE OF EUROPE ON CUBAN QUESTION. UNCLE SAM READY TO INTERVENE. Government Officials Wish to Know, How¬ ever, What the Result Would Be Before Taking Action. A Washington special says: Officials of the state department were very ret¬ icent Friday when asked concerning a report in circulation that definite in¬ structions have been given all our for¬ eign ambassadors and ministers in European countries to sound and as¬ certain the attitude of European gov¬ ernments in case the United States intervene in case of Cuba. While denials were made by some of them, others intimated that the United States was ready to assume the position taken by President Grant in 1874, shown by the instructions of Secretary Fish to Mr. Cushing, although it never appears that these instructions were carried out, and there is no knowledge of what Spain would do in the premises. It is pos¬ sible that Minister Woodford will have a different report to make. It can be stated, on information re¬ ceived here, that there is no truth in the report that Lord Salisbury has sent an unfavorable answer to a sug¬ gestion that the United States should interfere, the fact being that he has not replied at all to the attempt of our ambassador to sound *him on the sub¬ ject, and that his attitude gives reason to believe he will not oppose such ac¬ tion as our interests may make neces¬ sary. Minister Woodford’s instruc¬ tions are to intimate to Spain that the United States will intervene unless the situation in Cuba speedily improves. These were the instructions which were given Mr. Cushing by Mr. Fish, and it is understood that the attitude of the United States is almost identi¬ cal with the position taken during General Grant’s administration. Then, as now, the good offices cf the United States had been tendered to Spain, to bring about a settlement of the war, “but,” said Secretary Fish, “the well intended proffers of the United States were unwisely rejected by Spain.” The secretary reviewed the situa¬ tion, which presents many similar phases to that which exists now. President Grant, said the secretary, regarded independence as the only so¬ lution to the Cuban question. ANGIOLLO EXECUTED. Castillo’s Assassinator Meets Death on the Garrote. Advices from Sebastain, Spain, says: Michael Angiollo, avIio shot and killed Senor CanoAas del Castillo, the prime minister of Spain, at the baths of Santa Agueda on Sunday, August 8th, was executed at 11 o’clock Friday morning, according to the sentence ef the court- martial imposed upon him. Angiollo heard calmly the ne ws that he was to be executed, but he appeared to be surprised at it, and bitterly com¬ plained of the frequent visits of the priests, declaring that they Avould ob¬ tain nothing from him. He declined to enter the chapel, say¬ ing he was comfortable enough in his cell. An executioner from Burges performed the garroting, just prior to Avhich Angiollo responded: “Since you cannot get me out of prison, leave me in peace. I myself will settle wdth. God.” ONE DOLLAR WHEAT. Short Crops of Foreign Countries Canse of High Prices Here. Friday 90J @ 90|e Avas bid for Sep¬ tember w-heat at the opening on change at Chicago. Even at this price an ad¬ vance of 3|c since Thursday offerings were few and far between, and the market continued to run up to 91ic. Higher prices at Liverpool, bullish crop estimates from Minneapolis and widespread damage to crops in Hun¬ gary were the main factors when the regular trading began on ’change. Dispatches said wheat at Minneapo¬ lis had touched $1. New York wired that Avheat acceptances by cable were simply enormous, sixty-two boatloads being taken for export at New York and twenty-eight loads at other points, all for England. AZCARRAGA SPANISH PREMIER. Queen Regent Names the General as Can- ovas’ Successor. The queen regent of Spain, Friday, conferred the premiership upon Gen¬ eral Ascarraga, who is also minister of war. The cabinet will not be modi- fied, but it is expected that there will not be instant dissensions. It is well understood that had St> gasta, liberal, been appointed to suc¬ ceed Canovas, there would have been wholesale resignations. It is said that General Weyler’s resignation is now in hand, bearing an “if” in reference to Sagasta. The belief is expressed that Sagasta would have received appointment but *©r Weyler’s threatened resignation. HOSHI HEARD FROM. Japanese Minister Acknowledge the Re¬ ceipt of Sherman’s Note. Secretary Sherman has received •rompt acknowledgement from Minis- er Hoshi, of Japan, of the secretary’s etter relating to the annexation of Tawaii to the United States. Mr. Hoshi’s acknowledgment is for- lal and does not go into the merits of he subject, as the answer to Secretary herman’s late note will not be made intil word comes from the Japanese foreign office. IN ACCORD WITH WEYLER. ] Spanish Premier Makes statement Ab 10 H,B Advices from San Sebastian state tbat General Azcft rra f> the Spanish ! cided to and convoke the 4 cortes ^ v“ Novem- in ! b "' The premier announces that he is in | accord with General Weyler, captain 1 j ei l era °' >at r aerve * t °. ' the Cu an q e. REFUSE ARBITRATION. United Mine Workers Torn Down Opera- tors’ Proposition. The national executive board of the United Mine “Workers adjourned at Columbus, O., Friday, after having issued a call for a conference of or¬ ganized labor to be held in St. Louis August 30th. The board rejected the proposition of the Pittsburg operators for a con¬ ference to arbitrate the wage dispute in that district, claiming that such action would be prejudicial to the in¬ terest of the miners at large. The board is ready to consider overtures for the arbitration of tho issue of the great strike only when these overtures come from all the operators in the competitive district, which includes Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The board has decided not to devi- ate from the established policy until the result the St. Louis conference is known. The aggressive work in the held will bo continued, and the efforts to spread the stnk^m the West ^ 1 1 ^ inia dlstrict renewed. r I n he success or failure of the stnkt hangs upon the St Louis conference, the call for which has been issued by Samuel tampers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and J. lt. Sovereign, general master work- man of the Knights of Labor. They maintain that the fight now being waged by the miners is one of com¬ mon interest to organized labor throughout the country. At the St. Louis conference all labor organizations -will be asked to join is¬ sues with the miners. If the object of the St. Louis conference is accom¬ plished the strike will be extended to nearly every branch of label* in the country, The call among other things, says: “The tyrannical and un-American injunctions of the federal and state courts are revolutionary against the first principles of free government and derogatory to the inherent rights of the masses, endangering the public peace, and destroying the personal se¬ curity and individualities of the com¬ mon people.” ‘ ‘The courts have deserted the tem¬ ple of justice and now stands forth the defiant bulwark of confederates in the capitol. Their arbitrary rulings have set up one standard of rights for the rich and another for the poor. They decree that capital is always right and labor always wrong. They have made it unlawful for starving working peo¬ ple to appeal against tyrannical treat¬ ment, present grievances or propose just and peaceable terms for the re¬ dress of insufferable wrongs. STEINWAY AND SONS SELL. English Syndicate Reported to Have Pur¬ chased Their Piano Business. The New York Times says: It is re¬ ported that the pi esent members of the piano manufacturing firm of Stein- Avay & Sons have consummated a deal whereby the extensive business of the concern passes into the hands of an English syndicate. The price paid Avas $4,000,000. In 1896 the real property of the fh’in of SteinAvay & Sons w-as assessed for taxation at $3,000,000 and the capital stock and surplus at $2,250,- 000. The buildings containing the general warehouse and salesroom and SteinAvay hall Avere A'alued at $170,000, and the piano factory on Park avenue at $181,000, the factories near Astoria, Long Island City, at $445,000, and the employes’ houses there at $680,- 000 . The factory in Hamburg was valued at $220,000, that in London at $260,- 000 . EUROPE SHORT ON GRAIN. Advices Received at AVashlngton Tells of the Deficiency. Advices to the agricultural depart¬ ment at Washington from private and indirectly from official sources confirm the predictions of a considerable scar¬ city in the European wheat crop,Avhile rye, Avhich is the chief bread grain of eastern Europe, is also short. This fact, a special report of Sta¬ tistician Hyde, of the department, says, as Avell as the Avheat deficiency, will tend to restrict the export of the . latter from those European countries which usually have a surplus of that gram As to non-European countnes, other than the United States, their ag- gregate contribution to the European I supply wiH be materially affected by famine, te fact that will have India, practically denuded no by wheat the to export. NEW LEASE FOR FLANAGAN. Judge Candler Grants Stay of Execution | a For Indefinite Time. At Decatur, Ga., Saturday, Judge Candler signed a stay of execution, in the case of Edward Flanagan which means indefinite life for the prisoner. | After hearing the reading of several j affidavits by both sides in the motion or a new trial, the court announced that it would not be able to take up | the question for consideration for sev- i eral days. This means that Flanagan will not be executed until after the question of a new trial has been decided, and even should it be decided against him he j has another chance in supreme court, j A TEST CASE WILL BE MADE. Chattanooga Attorney Tenders License for Brokerage Office. A Chattanooga special says: A rep¬ resentative of Odell & Co., of CiDcin- nati, whose “brokerage” office was closed Saturday by Mayor Ochs, has made a tender of $50 in gold to the city auditor, tbe amount of city license for brokerage. The auditor declined to accept the tender and it is stated that the com¬ pany will make a test case in the courts. The mayor based his action on the opinion of the city attorney, which at length defined the gambling acts. ARMY OF THE POTOMAC Hold Their Twenty-Eighth Annual Keon- ion in Troy, n. y. Great preparations were mad© ar Troy, V Y. to entertain the 3,000 vismng members and mends of the Army of the Potomac who gathered tnere Friday for their 28th annual reunion. The city was ablaze watt, decorations and every hall and avails- b e space has been turned into an ar- mory for the accommodation of wel- come guests. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $1.00 A YEAR. UNFAVORABLE CROP REPORTS CAUSE A FLURRY. SHORTS ARE VERY MUCH EXCITED. The Fleecy Staple Comes In as a Rival for Wheat In Rapidly Advancing Frices. The opening call of the cotton mar¬ ket at New York Monday was attended with great excitement. The shorts were panic-stricken by a large number of bull orders and H sharp advauce in Liverpool. Crop news was also decidedly bullish, too muc]l rafh in the Atlantic states and the Mississippi valley, according to reliable reports, having done exten- sive damage, while worms in other . sections were said to bo infesting the staple greath . to ita detriment, The mar ket opened irregular, with trades in different parts of the ring lowing a range of 2@3 points. Au¬ gus t opened 13 points higher, Septem- bcr 17> October 22, and November 27. -p be res t Q f tfi e list showed an advance of 24 to 26 points, the opening range 13 to 17 points above Saturday’s clos¬ ing figure. The trading was the heaviest in near months. Over 25,000 bales changed hands on the call, and at 11:30 tran¬ sactions aggregated 55,000 bales. New Orleans and Liverpool sent sell¬ ing orders early, but became active buyers as the market advanced. Com¬ mission houses were heavy purchasers. Selling for profits by timid bulls caused a reaction of 6@9 points di¬ rectly following the call, and at 11:30, after violent fluctuations, the market was very feverish at a net advance of 20 to 25 points. World’s visible, September 1, 1895, was 2,500,000 bales, spinners’ reserves were estimated as extremely heavy, having been bought up at low prices. Cotton was worth here j c more than it is now when we don’t expect the visi¬ ble to be over 800,000 and know the invisible to be decidedly less than in 1895. The long expected speculative revival in cotton seems to have set in. PLANS SUBMITTED. Miners anti Operators Make Propositions For Settlement of Strike. At a meeting of operators and miners at Pittsburg, Pa., Monday, propositions looking to a settlement of the strike Avere presented by both sides. Three propositions w r ere of¬ fered by the operators as follows: Miners to resume work at the 54 cent rate pending a decision of a board of arbitration. Miners to resume work at an inter¬ mediate rate between the rate demand¬ ed aud the one paid prior to the sus¬ pension, pending a decision of a board of arbitration. Miners to resume operations Avith- out price named, pending a decision of a board of arbitration. The proposition submitted by the officers of the miners to the special committee A\ r as as follows: Miners to resume Avork at the 69 cent rate pending the decision of a board of arbitration. The propositions were talked over in an informal manner by both sides when an adjournment w r as taken until 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. NORTH CAROLINA MILLS. State Labor Commissioner Reports on Spindles and Employees. State Labor Commissioner Hamrick of North Carolina has completed his compilation of mill statistics and says there are 206 cotton, fifteen wmolen and ttvo silk mills, making a total of 223, with 1,030,000 spindles and 23,000 looms. Gaston leads in spindles, having 113,000, Mecklenburg has 84,000 and Rutherford 80,000. There are mills in forty-seven of the ninety-six coun¬ ties. In the number of factories Gas- ton leads with twenty-three, Alamance having twenty, Randolph eighteen and Mecklenburg sixteen. Rutherford has the largefit miU wit]l 74,000 spindles and o 400 Jooras . Surry county has one . tMrd of all woolen mills, The mill employing the most opera¬ tives is Henrietta,in Rutherford, which has 530 men, 665 women and 345 chil¬ dren. MORE MILLS RESUME. New England Factories Start Up After Idleness—Outlook Encouraging. Dispatches from different New Eng- land manufacturing centers announce that many cotton mills which have been idle resumed operation Monday. During a part of July and August thousands of spindles were not operat¬ e d in that section owing to unsatisfae- tory conditions which prevailed, either in the finished goods or neAv cotton market, or to the need of repairs. In addition to this several other mills closed for two weeks in accord- ance with their annual midsummer custom. Many of the Fall River mills resumed operation last week. INSANE HUSBAND’S DEED. Slays HU Wife and Her Brother and Attempts Suicide. Sunday night at Nashville, Tenn., insane from drmk, . Robert Blum Rich, a young cabinet Avorkman, murdered his Avife and her brother and thsn at- tempted to commit suicide, inflicting wounds from which he will die. Rich is thirty-four years old and was married to Mary Olixa Porter De¬ cember 25, 1887. He was a heavy drinker and did not get along well with his wife, from whom he separated last May. MOB SLAYS GREEN. He Had Killed a White Man and Fatally Wounded a Negro Woman. Two quick deaths and a probably j f ata i wounding marked the day at Lovett G a station on the Wrights- j ville aad Tennille road Sunday. Andrew Green , a npgro , after shoot- | ■ Lala George, a woman of his own j col ki n ed George Heath, a promi- neut citiz ftnd in turn kil j ed j mob organized to aTen ge the death . Heath ^ NO. 41. THROUGH GEORGIA. Macon’s Carnival association met a few days ago and decided to have the carnival on October 11th and 12th in¬ stead of just one day. Low railroad rates will he given. • * * * The election in Habersham county the past week for or against the re¬ moval of the county site from Clarks¬ ville to Toccoa resulted in a majority of 300 in favor of Clarksville. Atlanta’s anti-theater hat ordinance is now in full effect. Mayor Collier signed the paper and made it a law of the city. The law makes it unlawful for any lady to wear any kind of a hat or bonnet on her head in the theatres. Governor Atkinson has given Gus Fambles another respite, this time un¬ til November 19th, in order that he may testify in Mrs. Nobles’ ease if the supreme court grants a new trial. Gus Fambles aud Mrs. Nobles were con¬ victed two years ago of the murder of old man Nobles in Twiggs county. * * * At a meeting held in Atlanta a day or two ago the preliminary steps were taken for the organization of a Mer¬ chants’ and Manufacturers’ associa¬ tion, whose purpose is to secure trade for Atlanta, to obtain favorable freight rates and accomplish other like objects usually sought by merchants’ organi¬ zations in other cities. Major Glessner, immigration com¬ missioner of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, has returned from New York and reports the outlook good for a great increase in immigra¬ tion to Georgia this winter. He says he has a larger number of desirable immigrants than ever on his list and he expects to bring a great many northern people of the better class to Georgia before the close of the year. The executive committee, represent¬ ing the colored Masonic Grand Lodge of Georgia, has decided upon Ameri- cus as the location of the home for the widows and orphans of deceased Ma¬ sons. The proposition of the local Masonic lodge was accepted, though six cities contested for the home. The local lodge donated twenty acres of land and cash. A handsome brick building will be erected for a school and home. a As a result of a meeting of the Workmen’s Benevolent Association of Savannah, sixty white longshoremen, comprising twelve gangs, have decided to go to Charleston and secure employ¬ ment there during the cotton season. Their reason for leaving Savannah, they say, is because the contracting stevedores prefer negro help and re¬ fuse to pay white men living wages. This situation of affairs was brought about by the strike of two years ago, iu which the striking union longshore¬ men lost and have never been able to regain their prestige. * * * The prevailing opinion that there is a small peach crop in Georgia this year seems to be ill-founded. Official reports show that the crop has been very large, and that while the yield of fine shipping fruit has been small, the inferior varieties of seedling peaches have produced wonderfully. The in¬ ternal revenue office is an unfailing gague of the peach crop in Georgia. This year the number of brandy dis¬ tilleries is comparatively large. Last year not more than sixty distilleries were operated in the state for making government brandy. This year there will be over a hundred. The district road commissioners of Fulton county held an enthusiastic meeting a few days ago at which the following resolution Avas unanimously adopted: “Resolved, That we, the district road commissioners of Fulton county, express ourselves in favor of having the felony convicts of this state, under sentence of five years or less, turned over to the county author¬ ities to be worked as misdemeanor convicts now are, on the public roads, as such a course will serve the double purpose of insuring better roads and reducing the amount of convict labor now at work in competition with the free labor of the state.” E. G. Jones, who was shot by his Avife several months ago, has filed suit for total divorce in the superior court, alleging it is impossible to live longer with her and enjoy any peace of mind or immunity from danger. It will be remembered that Jones barely escaped instant death on account of the wounds inflicted by his wife with a shot gun. The shooting occurred at the home in Fayette county and Mrs. Jones was arrested and carried to Atlanta, where she remained in jail several days. She Avas dismissed from custody as the re¬ sult of a'settlement that was reached between herself and huhband. The fixing of the state tax rate at 5.21 mills on the dollar, as has been announced, means that the state will raise by taxation for all expenses of the government during the year 1897 the following sum: For schools, $600,- 000; for pensions (approximated), $450,000; for sinking fund, $100,000; for all other purposes, $1,423,000. This, of course, contemplates that all the taxes will be paid and that suffi¬ cient money will be received by the state treasurer to pay all his outstand¬ ing accounts. The action of Gover¬ nor Atkinson and Comptroller General Wright in carrying over into next year the extra school appropriation of $400,000 considerably simplifies mat¬ ters, and it looks now as though the receipts as above indicated would be sufficient to pay the state’s running ex¬ penses during the present year. “The East does not know,” says the Denver Republican, “and will not believe that Colorado is a gold-pro¬ ducing State, except in a moderate way. Above all, it does not know that it will surpass California this year, and that in the course of a few years it will go ahead of the Rand dis¬ trict in South Africa. People are ready enough to believe stories of the discovery of almost fabulous wealth in the Yukon Valley, but they turn a deaf ear to the statement that Colo¬ rado is one of the greatest gold re¬ gions in the world.”