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HARO TIMES- Hard times are these. Money has been more tightly locked in the safes of the rich men of the North for the past year than was ever known to the oldest inhabitant. Here in the Sooth it has almost amounted to a money panic. Farmers have practiced economy to the border line ot starvation and the laboring classes have all gone about their daily toils with cheaper clothing and more bumble food than they ever hope to experience again as long as they live. It is wrong for any man to preach economy to these poor people. It is wrong upon the face of their abject poverty to accuse them of extrava gance. If they have not economized for the past twelve months, then somebody tell ue what is the mean ing of the word economy. Forced to denying their dear little ones and their fond wives sufficient bread and meat for imparting that stren gth ol body necessary to discharge the do mestic duties that fall to them, the farmer feels, and has a right to feel insulted at him who would preach economy to him. Heaven knows in pitiful recognition the suflerings of the poor farmer, and Heaven knows he has economized. It has been not much easier for the people in* the cities. The rich, of course, have not felt the sting of poverty, but they have felt the tight clasp ot the money powers in the North and many a denial has been made ttbere luxury once prevail! d. The poor people in the cities have been forced to economy similar t that experienced by the farmer. The fact is just this: Money has been out of reach in the South. Hard times have been exper enced all over the Southern States. There has never been such a tight squeeze in the South's financial world. Henry Clews, the great financier predicts that money will flow easier in the near future. Let us hope that the prediction will come true. In the meantime can any one won der that the laboring classes should THE MORE WE SELL, THE ■HEADER WE SELL! And we do sell more than we Hid. because we sell cheaner. Wp. sav to the Public: Wake up! Compare our prices ! VV e are anxious for « • And we do sell more than we did, because we sell cheaper. We say to the Public: Wake up ! Compare our prices ! We are anxious for a comparison w the people that quote the prices. And we do as we promise. No one can dispute this. Don’t accept any insinuation to the contrary. If such isd'.ne it * ^ lead you. 'They are doing it for self gain, and you are the loser. You get every inch you are promised, and eve? ■'nee sold to you. Competition must D3is * ~ " “ ' " **"''■ nr1 , lffere ht or make slanderon, means than tndery. We are responsible to you for every assertion we make, and in the future shall hold such p;»■ t-es responsible who insinuate remarks about us. We have the right to sell as cheap as we feel disposed to do ,/lhJRrJLE ^ 3E3 To a healthy competition we have no objections. Put up your goods at lo*»e r prices th*n we do, and drive us from the field, But d»n*t fittempt it othei^ _ Bargain offerings are a benefit to the public and it is wrong to deprive them of such, MAX JOSEPH’S ESTABLISHMENT is the first great money-saving Grocery introduced ip Athens. We have the finest grades of Coffee, the best Standard sugars, and the freshest Canned Goods and th* ° D ^ I shall give the most wonderful Bargains ever thrown at you. The prices below for this *reek will tell the tale. RTH A ~Q Til VE RY * j T Jp ^ ee It is money, good hard earned money in your pocket. Special GROCERY SALE. Daring this week. One package Tharber’s Fresh Boasted Coffee for 15c. (Fifteen Cents) or 2 packages for 25 cents. Not more than 2 pack* ages to one customer. Following Groceries will be distributed all the week. 18 lbs choice quality Rice for 100; 5 lbs best Rio Coffee for 100: 5 lbs fine laundry Starch for 25 cts; 20 lbs standard Granulated Sugar for 1 00; 1 lb box French Candy for 25 cts; 1} lbs mixed Candy for 25 cents; 2 lb box shredded Oats for 25 cts; 1 pint bottle Catsup' for 10 cents; 1 dozen boxes Matches for 5 cents; 1 lb Tharber’s 34 parched coffee.25c; 10 lbs fine Mess Mackerels in kids for 1 00; 7 boxes fine Salmon for 1 00; 3 l}lb sacks flue Table Salt for 10c; 6 boxes railroad Snuff for 25 cents; 1 lb Gunpowder Tea fine quality.25e; 1 English Breakfast Tea for 25c; Canned Goods, 2 lb boxes Sugar Corn for 15 cents - 2 lb cans Tomatoes for 10 cents; 3 lb cans Tomatoes for 12$ cents; 3 lb boxes yellow Peaches for 12$c; 3 lb boxes Apples for 10 cents; 2 lb boxes Lima .Seans for 12} cts; 2 lb boxes String Beans for 10 cts; 2 lb boxes Marrowfat Peas for 12-}c; 2 lb boxes Pine Apples for 15 cts; 2 lb boxes Blackberries for 10 cents; 2 lb boxes Cherries for 10 cents; 2 lh boxes Strawberries for 15 cents; 2 lb boxes Gooseberries for 10 cents; 2 lb boxes Pears for 10 cents; 3 lh boxes Pie Peaches for 10 cents. EVERY Box of CANNED GOODS I guarantee the best and freshly canned, of the best Canning Factory in tbe United States. Money will be refunded if not satisfactory. New Dress Goods. Tbe latest designs and styles, bought only two weeks ago. I can suit you in style and quality, and at great Bargains in prices SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK. 18 pieces double width Cashmere at 12$ cents; 23 pieces Henriettas at 18c; w’th 30c; 53 pieces Varieties Serges, Henri* ettas, Mattelasses, Satin stripe, choice at 29 cents. 16 pieces all wool 54 inches Ladies i Cloth, worth 90c. at 58 cents; i BLACK DRESS GOODS. A world of Bargains You must see them. Elegant Cashmere at 12$ cents; 42 inches Jaquard, worth 75c. at 29c; 54 inches Silk Warp Henrietta, worth 2 00, at 1 25; COTTON DRESS GOODS. 38 pieces Ginghams worth 8c. at 4$c; 64 pieces elegant Calicoes at 3$c; 96 pieces twilled Reps, flannel back, worth 12$c at 8$c; 49 p’cB yard wide twilled Reps at 8$c; 8 pieces black ground white flowered French Satteen at 8}c, worth 20c; 16 pieces} half wool, yard wide Flan nelettes worth 20& at 12$c; 68 choice pattern Dress Flannels, worth 20c at 10c; 10 pieces Outing Flannels,worth 12$c at 8 cents; 36 pieces corded Worsteds at 5 cts; 46 pieces Wool Cashmeres at 10 cts; 39 pieces twilled half waol Serges, 15c quality at 8$c; 20 pieces Colonial Cloth, 34 inches wide, worth 12$c at 7}- cts, 35 pieces choice Ginghams at 7$c; 24 pieces Flannel Skirting, worth 30c at 12} cents; CLOAKS AND REEFERS. 8 Reefers ia black Russian Hire. worth 10 00 at 5 50; 5 Curly Astrachan Reefers, worth 15 00 at 8 50; 56 Misses Newmarket Reeiers at 100, worth 3 00; 54 Misses woolen Jackets, worth 3 00 at 1 50; 48 Ladies Jackets, worth 2 50 at 1 50 18 fine double front satin lined La dies Jackets, worth from 6 50 to 12 50, choice at 4 00; 12 Ladies Reefer Jackets with for reverse facings, worth 10 00 at 5 50; 11 black Chevoit Jackets with fnll fnr collar down to bottom, trimmed, worth 12 50 at 6 50; 23 assortment Chevoit plain or corded Jackets, trimmed in black tan, nat ural O’possum,worth 14 00 at 6 00; Every Jacket warranted the ’atest styles, puffed sleeves, raised shoul ders, tight back, loose front, elegantly trimmed. Come and see my line of Jackets—get first choice. This is my first Bargain Sa e. Underwear-Ladies and Gents. ONE BIO LOT FROM AUCTION—THE GREATEST BARGAIN ON EARTH 3 doz. very fine Cardinal all fine wool Ladies Vests at 85c, worth 1 25; 4 dozen finest California, wool Ladi< s U ndervests, worth 2 25 at 1 25; Hosiery from Auction. 40 d z. Ladies black Hose at 5c a p'r; 30 dozen seamless Ladies black Hose at 10 cents; 45 dozen children’s black ribbed hose at 7} cents; 60 doz' Ladies colored hose at 8}- cts. 10 doz all wool Ladies hose at 25 cts. The biggest of any Bargains ever offered anywhere in the land Call early. 139 Heavy White Quilts at 65 cents' | 1» Marseilles Quilts at 75 cents; 19 Extreme> heavy White Quilts, light | twilled Quilts, worth 3 50 at 1 50. i 1 small lot heaviest White Quilt made, 5 00 quality, choice at 3 00. sewed, worth 2 00 at 95 cents 1.-3 pairs Dongola Ladies RK 2 25 grade at 125 Shoe *, » HANDKERCHIEF4 from Auction 150 dozen large bordered Handker chiefs at 15 cents a dozen. 135 dozen children .handkerchiefs at 1 cent each. V 120 dozen turkey red large handker chiefs at 25 cents a dozen. 110 dozen very large, flue quality Gents handkerchiefs at 3 cts each 120 dozen hemstitched very fine bor dered Ladies handkereniefs at 7$c. 10 dozen heavy ribbed Vests at 25c; 6 dozen natural wool Ladies Vests worth 75 cents at 40 cents; 10 dozen Children’s Sanitary Wool Shirts and Drawers at 35 cents; 6 dozen fleeced heavy Ladies Vests at 45 cents, worth 80 cents; TOWELS FROM AUCTION 160 towels,good and heavy at 5c each; 140 very large huck towels at 7-} cts 130 very fine bleached towels, yard long at 10 cents. 142 extra fine linen fancy border, pink, blue, red, 35c quality at 25c. 147 extra long, knotted fringe, very fine imp<>: ted linen, 36 inch -towel-, 50 cents quality at 35 cents. BLANKETS, Extra Special Sale, bought at Auction. 98 White Blankets at 35 cents each 69 white fleeced Blankets at 50 cents each; worth 1 00; 114 pairs very fine white Blankets, worth 2 25 at 100; 98 pairs al wool Blankets, worth 3 00 at 190; 16 pairs red a 1 wool Blankets, worth 3 75 at 2 50; 16 pairs fine California all wool Blank ets at 5 ( 0, worth 8 00; 10 pairs California all wool Blankets, ripst made, at a great bargain; Lot 4—bargain 205 pairs fu’l stock Brogan. oak lo toms at 90 centf ’ hlt * tley are worth at who esale 15 00 a pair at 1 0 00, Lot 6—bargain. If« pairs oil grain Men’s WVl. Shoes, worth 2 00 at 1 25 ° UC *' Jr 4 •"-»***«. lot) pair, choice of lot or calf Goodyear welt, or hand^ B s a id Congre-s, worth 6 00 a i,», warranted, ONLY 3 00 A PAIR ’ all styles toes Li* 7-BARGAIN. 140 pairs children’s 8hoes at 50 cl. >>t 8—BARGAIN 114 pairs Misses School Shoes W. or bu ton, 2 00 qta ity at 1 25. ’ ** LAP RO BES from Auction. White Counterpanes and Spreads from Auction. 26 Honeycomb Quilts at 45 cents; 23 flush Lap Robes at 2 00. 16 double plush Lap Robes, worth 3 50 at 2 00. 6 very fine double Robes worth 10 00, extra large size to go at 6 50. SHOES, for Ladies, Children and Men. 8 GREAT BARGAINS. /•»1 solid leather, warranted or morey refunded. Lot I-BARGAIN 10S naira good heavy Ladies Shoes sit 50 cents; L.t l -BARGAIN. ICO pairs (a’f Ladies >hoes, machine FREE OF CHARGE. To every customer this week no matter how small the purchase is AN ELEGANT ’ Memorandom Book! send your orders if you cannot come. (S^RKME MBER, all goods to be pun;tually delivered. ANY PERSON not aide to come to the Store can make out a list for Groceries or Dry Hoods, and they will be delivered at prices as odvertised It is my aim to introduce my Grocery Department in connection with the Dry Goods and Shoes. Therefore never-tiring efforts to be the only Bargain Distributor in Athens. Respectfully, THESE HANDSOME BARGAINS. MAX am with you, for you. JOSEPH. with rise op and demand a rightful ex- | pension of the Government’s cnr» rency ? but alas! that it is the fault of man kind. When we say mankind we are not excluding or shielding woman kind. It has come to a pretty pass THE AUGUSTA EXPOSITION- All Georgia points to the Augusta I w ^ eQ the people of this world toler» Exposition, now in progress, with ate the mere mention of a theory pardonable pride. It is an exposi- j^ e that of Nordan, so well outlined Uon of which the whole South should byArminins>or can read witho ut a feel proud. It lathe completestEx- prote8t the mi8erab le winnings of position of its kind the South has ingersoll against the sanctity of holy ever seen, and this surely is saying we dlock. It is a doleful enconium a very great ueal in its behalf. I U po n human society. And yet the Augusta has lately taken on dif» I divorce system of some States right ferent airs to those which have in I here in fair America has such slight former days characterized her. I regard for tbe bonds of marriage The old city which for years slept that the conclusion is inevitable that lazily In the wealth and contentment W e are drifting upon strange ideas of an old-time Southern aristocracy I of morality and social refinement has sprang forth with a newness of I it is all very, very funny ; and yet life, and is now a typical city of the | not so funny after all. growing new Sonth. Augusta is capable of al 1 she ba | Brunswick is still at war with the Says the Boston Herald in a xecent issue: Mr. W. kVvandebbilt wasn’t feel ing quite well the other day, so he de cided to take a trip to Europe accompa nied by his physician. The dootor said be could not afford to leave his practice, which was worth $1000 a week. Mr. Vasdibbilt offered to give him $10,000 to make tbe trip of six weeks with him. They went. Even as ardent republican as Colo nel Shepard believes that it is high time to retire Pat Egan. Not every one is with the colonel on closing up the World’s fair on Sunday, but tbe whole country is with him on closing up Pat as a representative of Blaine's jingoism in Chili.—Chicago Herald. Well tbe closing of the World’s fair on Sunday is the consummation more devoutly to be wished, and the sooner this matter is settled the better for the country and the World’s fair. Georgia editors will work up an ex hibit from Georgia to the Wot Id’s Fair. What is it that Georgia editors can’t do when they try ? Georgia may not be represented at the World’s Fair, but Floyd county will be.—Tribune-of-Rome. And so will the State University. Go out to the meeting of the Young Men’s Democratic Club Saturday night. Every young democrat ought to be there. Soke people are forever borrowing trouble. Let the future alone. Isn’t this weather glorious enough for you ? NEWS DISPATCHES CONDENSED. Krarj We are glad to know that Congress man Jambs H. Blount is doing all in his power to elect Cbisp speaker. undertaken in holding this great Ex- combined powers of tbe Richmond and position. Tho fairest and most pro. i* ftov lll® railroad oompaa,. Th. * I Brunswick Times says: gressive city that decks the smiling When the legislature was in session, valley of the Savannah, she is the I large and liberal were the expressions .. . r> , . . which came from the authoritive sources city of all Georgia cities to make 0 f tbe Richmond and Danville. The such an exposition the grand and credulity of the rural farmer and of the , * , „ sanguine and optimistic lover of Geor- splendid success it OQght to be. Now I gia were imposed upon. let all Georgia join with South Caro- Not that quite. The “rural farmer” lina in making this a fitting proof to ha8 known »lL alOD * what the broads , ,. , .... meant by this giant combination, and the world at large that here is the they were opposed to it . Rather charge best part of the Sunny Sonth, which I it to Colonel Livingston. The farm- South is confessedly the best part of ere have never been catering to the the world. Richmond and Danville’s combinations. I never. Success to tbe Augusta Exposi- It took two columus in the St. Louis Republic for a woman to tell how to live on a dollar and a half a week, when a tramp could have told the story in a two-line nonpareil paragraph.—Trib- une-of-Rome. Allowance must be made for the fact that she was a woman. If the tramp were a woman, the chances are she would have filled the two columns also. tion. MARRIAGE A FUNNY THING- Somewhere else in to-day’s Ban neb we give a very lnteiestiog com. I brated novel, *‘I Promessi Sposi” (“Tbe A beautiful monument has been erected to the memory of Alessandro Manzohi, tbe Italian poet, in Lecco Lecco was chosen as the site of the statue, as it is tbe scene of bis cele- munication by tbe scholarly <* Armi- hius,” who has already become known to tbe readers of The Banner most favorably. It is upon marriage. A very interesting topio, to be sure, and those who will read the communication will find that “Ar- minius” has handled the subject Betrothed”), as we!! as his home. On the base of the work is the inscription: “Erected by the citizens of Lecco, to gether with their brethren from all parts of Italy, in this place, where the author of *1 Promessi Sposi’ lived and found his inspiration.” The Boston Herald says: Gov .-elect Flower’s declaration that be contributed only $3000, direct- very ably and with an interesting I ^ or indirantly, to the Democratic . ° I campaign fund in New York is some- y e ‘ thing of an eye-opener to those who The article was suggested by some have supposed that he was nominated otes told by “ The Wanderer” I on account of bis bar*!. The declara nt The Banner a few days since, whose tendency was to show how jhtly marriage is coming to be re led by the world al large in these ) days of fast society and light ed men and women. “ Is marriage a failure or is it tion is duly sworn to, however, and Mr. Flowrr is generally rated as an | honorable man. Now let’s bear from Mr. Fassktt. After all, the question is a serious one. Not that it is the fault of the peremouy, ot the custom or system, - Was it but a dream? Ah could it have been some strange phantom thought that danced across our mind and brain? We had thought .that Georgia bad a Geological department and yet we have no special proof that we were not dreamjng. We never hear from such a department of .State if such a department of State there be. A Western Exchange says: Sabah Althra Terry Hill, etc., is worrying the police of San Francisco. The other day while she was temporarily absent from her room she claims that $8 000 worth of skins in bolts was stolen from her trank. The jail is going to be put in excel lent condition at last. Thanks.—Ath ens Banner. What’s the number of your room. Brother Crawford?—Tribune-of- Rome. Good Joke! We “aint in it” the jail. There * as this pleasing evidence of literary culture and good taste with the fellow who played the newspaper fiend at Patti Rosa’s performance the other night: He carried an armful of weekly Banners Prince Henry XXIV. of Reucs, in Germany, is a composer of some talent. A symphony by the princely musician was. recently produced for the first time inLeipsic and met a favorable recep tion. Another poor girl gone wrong: Miss Cora Nrese, of Lebanon, Ind., smoked a cigarette and died from ihe effects. Her escort to a theatre induced her to smoke the vile thing. Governor Russell, of Massachu setts, doesn’t propose to be under obli gations to the corporations. He has returned every railroad pass sent him Hill dreamed he was made presi dent. He dreamed it, but—“Oh what a difference in the morning!” There will be a grand meeting of tbe Young Men’s Democratic Club Satur day night. Don’t forget that! The Ea3t Tennessee passenger trains now run into the big depot in Atlanta. This is as it should be. Hill couldn’t carry a state in the Union. Sounds hard on Hill, but name the state. Wonder if the Water Works Com pany has had enough rain. If not, let os pray. Do all yon oan for the Harvest Home. Who’ll be President? ODDS AND 'ENDS. An English peer cannot resign his peerage. Preston is supposed to be the most Roman Catholic town in England. It takes Bailing vessels 123 days to sail from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Three hundred British steamers and sailing vessels are lost at sea every year. A column of masonry in Kansas tnarka the exact geographical center of tbe United States. within the last year. Is the agricultural interest of Amer ica waning as Secretary Rusk's state- | ments seem to indicate? If so, then tbe work of reformation should begin A dealer in artificial limbs sayB that an arm will last a lifetime if properly cared for, but that after five or six years a leg gives way to the weight and strain and has to be renewed. The London Lancet denounces as erro neous the story that abundant hair is a sign of bodily or mental vigor in man. It is a well known fact that the Chinese are generally very bald, and still they are the most enduring of races. An Englishman who has been travel ing in'Siberia says that the life of the Russian exiles there is not so hard as it has been depicted. They enjoy society, indulge in fancy dress balls and have a good time generally—but with limita tions. Aa Epitome of Happenings froi Ssctlon. A valise containing $20,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from a train at Day- ton, O. The Bank of Spain has raised its rate of interest ou loans on government stock to 41 per cent. The president has announced that he will make uo important appointments untii congress meets. During a fire in Hayward, Wis., a dozen people were badly hurt by an ex plosion of dynamite. The authorities of the Russian war office have resolved to construct a line of forts along the coast of China. The water famine at New York be gins to look serious, and rainmakers will be asked for unless relief cornea soon. Three life convicts made their escape from the state penitentiary at Wanpnn, Wis.. through a tunnel dug under the building. The sudden discovery of a wholesale system of opium smuggling across tlie Canadian border has startled custom house officials. Senor Don Cosmo Herrera, one of the richest men in the island of Cuba, Is iead. The fortune left by Senor Her rera amounts to millions of dollars. Revolutionist Garza’s whereabouts is mt known, but he is believed to have eft the Texas border, and it is expected ae will next be heard of in the tropics. Rev. O. C. McCnllongh, the distin guished pastor of Plymouth Congrega- ion church, in Indianapolis, is lying critically ill. His death is hourly ex- !»ected. ^ The report of General Secretary Treasurer Hayes shows the Knights of Labor to he in a flourishing condition. The convention continues in session at Toledo, O. Mrs. J. T. Pearson was shot dead by her drunken brother at Clarksville, Tex. She had just secured his release from the station house. She was trying to quiet him when he shot her. The British steamship Bendo sailed from Savannah, Ga., for Liverpool with the largest cargo of cotton with which any vessel has ever sailed from a sonth Atlantic port. She carried 12,843 bales The Eiffel tower is evidently a finan cial success. Over £17,000 has been paid for admission to it by visitors since March 22 last, when this year's season commenced. During August, when Paris is always crowded with tourists, the receipts exceeded £4,000. John Triber, a city councilman of Deadwood, S. D., is in a military prison at Mainz, Gei many. He is an Ameri can citizen, and was arrested and held for army service while on a visit to Germauy. The fourth cedar bncket factory in the United States has commenced oper-* atiou in Huntsville, Ala. It is turning out 80 dozen per day. The other three factories are at Richmond, Va., and Nashville and Mnrtree .boro. Tenn. The Rankin Manufacturing company, of Nashville, Tenn., a wholesale cloth ing house has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Assets, $193,- 000; liabilities. $183,000. Tight money and bad collections are said to be the A number of physicians were present at Bridgeport, Conn., at the autopsy on the body of Charles Balaam, a Koch’s lymph patient, who died at the alms house of consumption. They report that no traces of any healing or other effect’s from Koch’s lymph could be found. The hands at the Pennsylvania Glass works, in Anderson, Ind., went out on account of a redaction of their wages.* The factory is non-union, and the men who walked out will not be re-em- P^oyed. The proprietors claim they can get all the hands they want at the I wages offered, r. exchange of at. l<ouis has imanimonsry endorsed deep water for &v-*nr>ah, after speeches by Cap- ttyfo Brown and Major Ryals. The mey - cf St. Louis endorses deep water officially, and the city council will take •im.iur action. F the desecration of the Countess Mira?:.i’s grave in Rome^the Vatican is blamed by the police, and the Vatican, in t urn, lays the sacrilege to the gov ernment itself, which, it claims, is de sirous of stirring up the bitter feeling against the pope. In the county court at Bonham, Tex., Bara Adore, of Washington, D. C., ana Jane and Larv E. Murray, of Fairfax, Va.. filed petition for the partition of the famous Tom Green estate, valued at $1,000,000. They name all the heirs in the petition. The suit reopens the whole case. The federal grand jury, in session at Ban Antonio, returned four indictments against President Paul Conrad, Vice President John A. Morris and thirteen other members of the Louisiana Lottery company. They are charged with using the mails to distribute lottery adver tisements in violation of law. Warrants were issued for their arrest. sir. and Mrs. Thomas Gregg, of Hamilton, Ills., have celebrated the fifty- fifth anniversary of their wedding. Mr. Gri gg is 86 and his wife is 87. Both are in fair health. Mr. Gregg is doubt less the oldest newspaper man in Illi nois, having founded The Carthagenian. of Carthage, Ills., in 1886. Leading Republicans from all parts of Kansas met at Topeka to consult and prepare for the campaign next year Among tlie fifty present a large major ity • for Blaine, several for McKinley and number for Harrison. It was deci :ed to open headquarters and com mence next yent’a campaign at once. During a storm at Killee, Belon county, Tex., H. Ludwig and H. Bryan soaght shelter in a stable. The build ing was struck by lightning, killing two horses and knocking the two men insensible. Bryan has partially recov ered, but Ludwig ia still in a very bad condition and has not regained con sciousness. Tlie New York Herald’s Valparaiso dispatches states that the Chili story about the sinking of the cruiser Balti more has been brought to the attention of the junta, and has caused it much vexation. The judge of crimes, foster, who is conducting the inquiry into the assault upon the sailors of the Balti more, has agreed to the presence of au officer from that ship at the examina tion of th< Baltimore’s seamen on the condition that he can speak Spanish. A dispatch from Huron, S. D., says- The Sonth Dakota Fanners’ Alliance is in annual session here. It is the small est gathering that has assembled at an annual session since its organization Instead of several hundred being pres ent, as on funner occasions, not more than sixty are here. The small crowd is a source of great annoyance to the leaders. Political defeat and the in- cessaut clamor for office made by the leaders nre said to have nearly wrecked the Alliance in this state. RAILROAD JOTTINGS. A special to The Evening Dispatcn at St. Paul, Minn., says: The town of Heywood was badly damaged by the explosion of a large amount of dyna mite in the warehouse of the North Wisconsin Lumber company. It caught fire, and before it was suppressed the flames spread to the explosives stored there, and the explosion followed. Buildings in the immediate neighbor hood were badly shattered. One man was killed outright and many were in jured. The caboose of a freight train standing on a sidetrack was blown into fragments. Thu Manitoba Pacific route of the Great, Northern has opened a new aud pictu resque line to Spokane, Wash. Th j mechanical headquarters of the Richmond and Danville road has been removed from Washington to Atlanta The Northern Pacific company made the trip of the ticket agents doubly en joyable after their recent convention by issuing souvenir books of coupons to each member who took the trip to Yel lowstone park. An agreement has been made between the Mexican National and the Monterey and Mexican Gulf road whereby the iattei gains access to the City of Mexico over ;he former’s lines, thus making di rect shipments possible from Tampico. Tho 1,000 box ears that the Madison car compatly is building for the Chicago, Burlington and Qnincy rood will be equipped with the Westinghonse air brakes and Janney couplers. According to tho contract the car works will turn out 8)0 cars a month. Th 3 general passenger agents of twen ty o)’ the railroads entering Chicago have organized a special association for the determination of excursion rates to the eepoaition and for arranging facul ties for caring for the enormous crowds of Vidtora to the World’s fair. Tli 3 Chicago and Northwestern is eqni; ping its suburban trains with new coaclea fitted with high backed seats, large' windows and lighted with the Pints3h gas service. The improvement over • he old train is marked. It is now easy to toad at night In all parts or a car. Fred Harvey, who resorted to the courtn in order to protect his restaurant interest against the Atchison, Tope*® and Sinta Fe dining care, has succeeded in obtaining a perpetual injunction againi it the company, and now the lat ter must cease running or operating dt“* ing cars west of the Missouri river. The Baltimore and Ohio is making tests cf the hanling capacity of its en gines on the different divisions, witn a view of determining how many cars wt eonsti nte a train load. The tramuicn in some instances are raising oppoffltto to the tests, as the tendency is undou - edly t> increase the size of trams future. Elen born Banka Art Voloabta. The fates are combining to matt things pleasanter for the western farm • the latest discovery of value to w» ing that, the husks of corn will ®aW * cellent paper. Hitherto huska have noi had any commercial value, and only been eaten by stock under I* 0 *®" and during hard spells. Now, hows > the esta blishment of paper mills ln _ . west should pnt a stop to the cons»n shipping of paper from the ^ also convert a waste article __ manufacturers would call a * r® 3 ' ^ profit,” such as coke in a gas * aCtor y era is not many years since old rags looked upon as the only materia] forth* manufacture of and the course from cast off MWi 7^ the covering of corncobs has been steady ind interesting.—Interne