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Snap Eliots.
Massachusetts has 579 congrega
tional churches and 105,943 members,
leading all her sister states in this re
spect.
The costliest fur known is that of
the black fox of Kamchatka. A single
skin of one of these rare animals is
sometimes valued at $1,000.
The difference between the tallest
and the shortest races in the world is
one foot four and one-half inches,
and the average height of man is five
feet five and one-half inches.
A man’s full mental power is not
reached before the age of 25, and the
development of talent is most
marked between the ages of 30 and 45
years.
Thero are now 1,370. Christian con
gregations in Madagascar. The Ro
man Catholics began work there in 1616,
but not a trace is now left of their la
bors.
In the recently published “Essays”
of the late Sir Morell Mackenzie the
observation is made that it is “only
singers who preserve the purity of
language.”
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Fostoria, O., has done away with the
single communion cup and furnishes a
separate small tumbler for each com
municant.
To take out paint, mix • equal parts
of ammonia and turpentine. Saturate
the spot two or three times, then wash
out in soapsuds, or cover the spot with
olivo oil or butter, and apply chloro
form, chloric ether or benzine. Paint
can often be rubbed out of woolen
goods after it has dried.
The People of India.
The Englishman thinks of Indian
society ns an innumerable crowd of
timid peasants, easily taxed and gov
erned by a few' officials, or as a popu
lation full of luxurious princes, with
difficulty restrained by scientific force
and careful division from eating up
each other. In reality Indian society
is more complex and varied than that
of Europe, comprising, it is true, a
huge mass of peasant proprietors, but
yet full of prmccs who are potentates
and princes who are survivals, of land
lords who are in all respects great no
bles and landlord's who are only
squirreens, of great ecclesiastics and
hungry curates, of merchants like the
Parings and merchants who keep shops,
of professors and professionals, of ad
venturers and criminals, of cities full
of artificers and of savages far below
the dark citizens of Hawaii.—London
Spectator.
GEORGIA NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gaiters! at Ration
Fortune Seeking Emigrants.
Many a poor family that Peeks the western
wilds in the hope of winning a fortune, is pre
served lrom that insidious foe of the emigrant
and frontiersman chills and fever—by Hoi-
totter’s Stomach Bitters. So effectually does
that incomparable medicinal defense fortify
the system against the combined influence of
a malarious atmosphere and miasma-tainted
water, that protected by it the pioneer, the
miner or the tourist provided with it, may
safely encounter the danger.
Tho note of highest value issued by the
Bank of England in tho ordinary course of
business is for $25,000.
Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mala
ria, Biliousness and General Debility. Gives
strength, aids Digestion, tones the mrves—
creates appetite. The best tonic for cursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
About twice as much power is required to
stop an express train as to start one.
To Cleanse the System
Effectually yet gently, when costivo or bil
ious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish,
to permanently cure habitual constipation,
to awaken tho kidneys an l liver to a healthy
activity, without irritating or weakening
t hem, to dispel headaches, cold or fe vors, us#
S> rup of Jb'lgs.
Clouds are, on the average, about 500 yards
in thickness.
.T. O. Simpson, Marquess, W. Va., says:
“ Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me of a verj r bad
case of catarrh.” Druggists sell it, 75c.
Ev. ry night in London over 0,000 persons
sleep in the open air.
Many persons are broken down from over
work or household carts. Brown’s Iron Bit
ters rebuilds tli«' sy-tem, aids digestion, re
moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A
splendid tonic for women and children.
—*
Profoundly Grateful
For Help Derived From
Hood's Sarsaparilla
“ I am profoundly impressed with the medi
cal virtues of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, I was
threatened with cancer, and disagree
able eruptions on my back and other places.
The cauccr was appearing on ray lip. Provi
dentially I obtained a bottle of Hood’s Saraa-
parilJa, and by the time it was gone. Ifce bad
symptoms had nearly all disappeared. I have
used four bottles, and I believe it has
Saved Me From Premature Death.
1 am now almost 73 years of age and I tvvk
like a tiger. And 1 knote that Hood's
Sarsaparilla has bad much to do with my vigor
and strength.” Ruv. O. H. Power, 2034 Han
over Street, Chicago, III.
HOOD’S
Sarsaparilla
CURES
The latest developments in the state
bank matter at Brunswick are that E.
S. Marsh, capitalist, of Brandon, Yt.,
will inspect its condition and if favor
able will probably reopen it within a
few days.
* * *
Notice has already been given of the
annual convention of the State Bank
ers’ association, which meets in Savan
nah June 8th. The bankers of Savan
nah have prepared a very elaborate
programme of social entertainment
for the visiting bankers.
Rewards have been offered for the
lynchers of Bill Dennis and the mur
derer of J. J. Brown. Brown was mur
dered by Eph. Walker, May 16th, in
Coffee county. Dennis was a prisoner
of the sheriff of Coffee county, and on
May 18th was forcibly taken from the
sheriff and lynched. The reward in
each case is $200.
★ * *
A committee of alliancemen from
Troup, Harris and Meriwether coun
ties met in Chipley a few days ago and
made arrangements for a grand rally
of the order of the three counties at
Warm Springs camp ground on the
8th of August next. Col. H. B. Har
ris and Tom Watson, Peter Smith and
M. D. Irwin will be speakers, and ev
erybody is invited.
...
It is now the Atlanta and Florida
Railway Company, T. W. Garrett,
general manager, as the followin order
will show:
“The Atlanta and Florida railroad having
been sold under d cree of the superior court of
Fuhon county on tho 2-i day of May. 1-S93, and
a deed having been duly m«''e and delivered by
T. W. Garrett, receiver of the said properties,
now, by authority of the pureha-ers of tile said
properties, out of which is to ha formed a new
corporation to be known as tho Atlanta and
Florida liailway Company, notice is hereby giv
en that tho nnderaigued has this day assumed
charge and con rot as general mtnager of
the said line of railway.”
...
A rumor is afloat that the Waycross
Air-Line railroad will be extended
from Abbeville, Ga., and that the
work will be commenced at an early
date. It will connect with the Way-
cross and Abbeville railrod. There is
no doubt now but what it will be ex
tended to Fort Valley during the next
two years. The extension of the road
to St. Mary’s is a possibility and will
probably be a certainty. Railroad
men who have discussed the subject
say that when the road reaches Abbe
ville the work on the St. Mary’s-divis-
ion will be commenced at once.
* * *
Through a clerical error in report
ing the number of votes cast in an
election for justice of the peace in the
1450th militia district of Montgomery
county, a commission was issued to
John D. Brown. Ho received twenty-
one votes and his name was reported
to the governor for a commission. Af
terward it was discovered that a mis
take had been made and that another
candidate, Elknnah Harrelson, had
received twenty-four votes. Governor
Northen has revoked tho commission
issued to Brown and will makeitontfor
Harrelson, who will be the justice in
1450th G. M.
* * *
The State is Protected.
Attorney General Joe -Terrell has
mi*.e arrangements for protecting the
state against loss through the failure
of the State bank of Brunswick. This
bank had on deposit at the time it
closed its doors $30,449.73. It had in
actual cash only a few hundred dol
lars, and in exchange and other assets
quickly available, $6,000. When the
attorney general appeared in the city
there was some uneasiness among the
sureties on the bank’s bond for the
state deposit. He asked tho sureties
to hold a meeting and see what they
could do. He said that the state was
not disposed to be harsh and force the
bondholders to sacrifice their prop
erty. Colonel Terrell found, after an
investigation, that the state was in no
danger of losing anything. The sure
ties were anxious to protect the state,
and asked for a little time, which will
be granted. The sureties are 0. B.
Lloyd, president of the bank; W. E.
Burbage, W. E. Kay, M. J. Colson,
M. Kaiser, W. A. Cunningham, Thos.
W. Lamb, H. S. McCrary, A. T. Put
nam, M. Nicholson, J. E. duBignon,
J. J. Spears. Steps were taken to pay
the state within sixty days.
of the courts. It hurts every southern
interest to have 6o many southern rail
roads tied up in receiverships, and as
the cases seem to be endless, capital
gets the impression that things are in
a bad way down here.—Atlanta C'on-
silitution.
...
A War Map for Georgia.
Lieutenant Satterlee has a map of
Georgia hanging in his office at the
capitol which is different from any in
the state. He took one of the regu
lation maps and has dotted it with
circles and flags—in yellow, blue, red
and other colors. He can tell at
glance where each company is located
and where its regimental or battalion
headquarters are. The flags indicate
the headquarters. If it is a blue flag
it means infantry. A yellow flag de
notes cavalry headquarters. A
yellow circle shows an Infantry
company. If there is a black ring
inside either the blue or the
yellow it denotes that the troops there
are colored. There is a state flag at
Griffin to denote the encampment.
Savannah has the greatest number of
circles and flags. She has somethin^
of every kind, and the whole face of
the earth down there would appear to
be covered by militia. Lieutenant
Satterlee is tracing the route which
each company should take to get to the
state encampment or to a common
point in case of mobilization. This
will be valuable, for should the occa
sion arise when quick mobilization of
several companies is necessary, a
glance at this map will tell which com
panies are the most convenient and
can be thrown to the spot in the short
est time.
Getting
Thin
is often equivalent to
getting ill. If loss of flesh
can be arrested and dis
ease baffled the “ weak
spots ” in the system are
eradicated.
Scott’s Emulsion
is an absolute corrective
of “ weak spots.” It is a
builder of worn out failing
tissue—nature s food that
stops waste and creates
healthy flesh.
Marshal ISunhip.
Samuel C. Dunlap, appointed
United States marshal for the North
ern district of Georgia, was born in
Gwinnett county about forty-five years
ago. He received his schooling at
Lawrenceville and in state institu
tions. He began practicing law at
Monroe, Ga., but, marrying a lady
whose home was near Gainesville, he
soon moved there, and ever afterward
practiced in that town. He is a fine
lawyer, and his practice grew more
and more profitable. He was attorney
for the Richmond and Danville at
Gainesville, and for some years was
United States commissioner. He was
iortnuatc m real estate investments,
and has a comfortable fortune.
Until recently, he had no ideabf be
ing a candidate for marshal. It was not
until a deadlock was evident between
Renfroe and Dismuke that he conclud
ed to make the race. Hon Carter Tate,
congressman from the ninth, made a
strong pull for his friend, Mr. Dunlap.
Solicitor General Howard Thompson
lent his aid. The compromise candi
date was urged with strong endorse
ments behind him, and he went
through a winner. The appointment
gives complete sat isfaction. Mr. Dun
lap has as many friends as almost any
man in the state.
* * *
On tlio Right Line.
Justice Jackson, in announcing the
postponement of the further considera
tion of the Central railroad ease until
the 26th of June, clearly indicated his
determination to wind up the litiga
tion as soon as possible. He said :
CotiDsel ihoutd facilitate each other as much
as passible in the preparation of the case for
the Ileal hearing. Here is a great property
committed to tho court for administration in
which large interests are involved, and there
are thousands of poor people who are interested
in it and who are.MifferinR front the deity in
the permanent settlement of its affairs. The
conrt is as determined as it can be to close the
matter np as speedily as possible. 'While we
may tight each other as much as we please on
these collateral matters, yet the conrt is going
to the bottom of this case and settle the condi
tion of this properly promptly. After that we
cau settle all these collateral questions in the
distribution of the fnnd in court.
This is on exactly the right line.
The law’s delay in such a case operates
to the serious damage of thousands of
poor people, widows and orphans and
others whose money is invested in the
property which has been so long in
court, where it runs the risk of being
eaten up by the expenses of litigation.
The people are anxious to see the case
disposed of and the Central taken out
Polnitz’s Sentence Commuted.
Governor Northen has signed the
order commuting the sentence of Dr.
Von Polnitz from hanging to impris
onment in the penitentiary for life.
The governor had been beseiged by
petitioners, lawyers, personal letters
and every form of appeal that could
be made. Great pressure was brought
to bear on him to save the man’s life.
The mother and the sister of the con
demned man kept writing to his ex
cellency to spare the prisoner’s life.
On the other hand the family of the
murdered woman begged the executive
to let the man hang. They said that
he deserved the extreme penalty of the
law. They told how dear the victim
was to them. The court had pro
nounced the man guilty and sentenced
him to death. After weighing every
thing carefully, the governor decided to
sign the order commuting the sentence
to imprisonment in the penitentiary
for life. Here are the governor’s rea
sons for the commutation:
Whereas, Very strong appeals have been
made to me involving clemency in his behalf
urging that tire crime was not of such a charac
ter kb to deserve the extremo penalty of the
law. That there was no direct proof which es
tablished an intention to kill his wife ilnugh
h s conduct was brutal.
And, whereas, The grand jury of the county
say: “We find such a lingering feeling among
the law-abiding people of the county ihar there
was, to a certain degree, an absence of that de
liberate intention to kill, that- makes ihe aban
don d and malignant heait and all believe that
the ends of justice and that regard and reaped
for law that is the health of eveiy community
morally, would bo better snbserv> d by a com
mutation of the sentence to imprisonment for
life.” and
Whereas, The foreman of the jury who
found the verdict says: “Since the trial we
have come to the conclusion that a commuta
tion to life imprisonment would serve all the
ends of just ; ee,” and
Whereas, The solicitor general joins in the
request for a commutation of the sentence and
the judge says: “At the conclusion of the tes
timony I was impressed that he should bo found
guilty of murder, but that the jury should
recommend him to life imprisonment because
of the possible lack of intention to Kill,” and
Whereas, A larse proportion of the law-
ab'ding citizens of said comity urge that the
said sentence ke commuted to lifo imprison
ment.
XHe governor states that he has
never had a case which gave him so
much trouble as this one.
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
Tie News ol flic World Condensed Into
Ply and Pointed Paragrapiis.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
Mrs. Mary Nevins Blaine and Dr.
W. T. Bull were married at New York,
Tuesday.
Dr. Nash, the representative of Dr.
Jenkins in Hamburg, Germany, re
ports by cable one death from cholera
in that city Sunday.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: The Southern Cotton Oil com
pany has declared a quarterly divi
dend of 2 1-2 per cent, payable June
15th to stockholders.
A suburban train ran into a passen
ger train on the Texas Pacific road at
Austin, Ylondav night. Two persons
were killed and ten injured. The in
coming train disregarding orders.
The steamship Teutonic, which sail
ed from New York for Liverpool Wed
nesday carried a million and a quarter
of gold. The Fuerst Bismarck which
sailed Thursday carried $2,000,000.
Comptroller Echols stated Monday
that there were indications that the
Chemical National bank, of Chicago,
and the Capital National bank, of In
dianapolis, Ind., would resume bijsi-
The School Censn*.
The returns of the school census
show that in south Georgia the in
crease in the school population has
been heavy, while in the middle and
upper parts of tho state, the counties
have not gone ahead much, and in
some instances t hey have gone back
wards. A gratifying showing is in the
decrease in illiteracy in the state.
The census gives the number of school
<Idler, n in G< ergis, their nmes,
color, sex, whether they have ever
attended school of any kind or not,
whether they can read and write, the
number of blind and deaf and dumb
and idiots.
Savannah makes the best showing as
to education. In the whole city there
are only ten white boys and four white
girls, between the ages of ten and
eighteen, who cannot read and write.
“Out of a total white school population
of 5,398 only fourteen are so illiterate
that they canuot read and write. This
is a high testimonial to the school sys
tem of that city. In a colored popu
lation of 5,871 there are 538 who can
not read and write. That is consider
ed a very small per cent. Chtttham
county lias a total school population
of 15,530, an increase since 1888 of
2,344, or 18 per cent.
Dooly county makes a wonderful
showing, its increase in school popu
lation in the last five years being 90
per cent. Tattnall’s increase has been
46 per cent, Montgomery’s 41 per
cent. Tatnall county has 1,319 more
school children now than she had five
years back, and Montgomery has 1,018
more school children in 1893 than she
had in 1888.
Hancock county has lost 568 school
children. Bockdale had eight more
school children in 1888 than in 1893.
The town of Cusseta, in Chathoo-
chee county, makes a fine showing. In
that town there is not a single white
child, of school age, that cannot read
and write. And there are only seven
negro children in the town who are
illiterate to the extent that they can
not read and write. There are 118
school children in the place.
Habersham county has 980 school
chiidren who are illiterate. This coun
ty has gained 259 children since the
last census.
Towns county makes a fair showing
of children who have had a schooling,
but the gain there has not been large.
Throughout the' mountain counties
many families have gone away to Utah,
Texas and other south and southwest
ern states and territories.
When the statistics are compiled
they will be deeply interesting and
useful. They will refute the charge
of Georgia’s illiteracy. There is no
doubt in the world that there are sec
tions of Georgia which enjoy as good
school systems as the most favored
states. Georgia has fine teachers in
spots, and where there are good
schools the children can read and
write. The gains in population in
south Georgia are explained by the
fact that new railroads have been built
through that part of the state and have
brought in new settlers. Those sec
tions which exhibit gains in the num
ber of school population will get larger
proportions of the school fupd than
they have enjoyed in the past.
Captain Bradwell, the state school
commissioner, is compiling the statis
tics with great eare.
Advices of Monday from London
stated that during the fearful cyclone
which has been raging in the bay of
Benfal the ship Germania was lost and
sixty-four people lost their lives with
the ship.
At a meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany at New York, Wednesday, George
J. Gould resigned as president and C.
P. Huntington was elected in his
stead.
The Iowa prohibition state conven
tion in session at Detroit, Thursday
morning, nominated for governor Cap
tain K. W. Brown, of Ames; lieuten
ant governor, J. C. Reid, of Delta;
and a full state ticket.
The wholesale lumber firm of Muth-
leison & Co., at St. Joseph, Mo., filed
a deed of assignment Wednesday night.
The firm has several yards in that im
mediate section, also in Kansas. Lia
bilities are estimated at $150,000.
It is again reported in railroad cir
cles that the Louisville and Nash
ville has secured control of the
Newport News and Mississippi Val
ley railroad. It is generally believed
that the purchase price is put at $20,-
000,000.
A London cable dispatch of Thurs
day says: Darkest Jlussia, a monthly
publication, announces that Russian
expulsion of the Jews is extending to
Poland. It says that 680 families have
been expelled from the Ronda-Gen-
zowski district alone.
Passenger train No. 36 on the Louis
ville, New Albany and Chicago, which
left Indianapolis Monday morning,
was wrecked near Broad Bipple, sev
en miles noi th of tho city. Engineer
George E. Plant was killed and Fire
man Williams was injured it is
thought fatally.
At a sitting of the sanitary board of
Paris, Thursday, M. Monod, chief of
the department, announced that forty
choleraic cases had been reported in
the department of Morbihau, in the
western part of France, since May
117th. Of these eases twenty-three had
resulted fatally.
The entire block between Eleventh
and Thirteenth avenues and Twenty-
sixth and Twenty-seventh streets, New
York city, was destroyed by fire Thurs
day. The main part of the land was
covered by one corrugated iron build
ing, devoted to foundry purposes.
This was burned to the ground. The
damage is now estimated at $200,000.
Decoration day opened at Washing
ton, Tuesday, with beautiful weather.
At an early hour the processions be
gan forming at the various Grand Ar
my headquarters, and at noon the pro
grammes at the different- cemeteries
were under full headway. An incident
of the day was the decoration of the
graves of Generals Rufus Ingalls and
W. W. Belknap by Major YY. C. Dox-
bury, an ex-confederate.
A Denver, Col., special says: An
awful accident occurred at the Busk
end of the Busk-Ivanhoe railroad tun
nel Thursday morning. It was caused
by a heavy fall of dirt, which struck a
gang of men while they were at work
and completely buried them. A force
of miners went at once to the rescue
and after hard work uncovered the
men. It was found that three of them
were dead and three injured,
probably fatally.
The Diamond Plate Glass company,
of Kokomo, Ind., employing 800 men,
closed Thursday for an indefinite pe
riod. The same company’s branch
plant at Elwood also closed, throwing
COO men out of work. An official of
the company states that they have
more than $600,000 worth of glass on
hand, and the market is utterly de
moralized. The threatening financial
situation has paralyzed new construc
tion.
A New York special of Wednesday
says: Some of the Georgia Pacific
bondholders who are dissatisfied with
the Richmond Terminal reorganization
plan threaten to withdraw the road
from the Terminal system unless they
get better terms. The six per cent,
bonds of the company which sold at
112 at one time, and the holders are
now asked to exchange them for ninety
per cent, in new bonds and thirty per
cent, in preferred stock.
The Plankington bank, at Milwau
kee, Wis., which stood a hard run two
weeks asro when it became known
through the failure of Lappeu tc Co.
that the bank had loaned $219,000 to
that firm, closed its doors Thursday
morning and made an assignment. A
notice was plnced on the door which
stated that on account of the failure of
efforts to reorganize the hank and the
constant withdrawal of deposits it was
thought best to close the bank.
The Victoria Cordage company at
Cincinnati filed a d ?c-d of assignment
Thursday afternr on to W. H. Billings.
The liabilities are said to be $400,000,
'and the assets may reach S500,000.
The plant is in Dayton, but the main
business house is in Cincinnati. The
company was leased by the National
Company, but the lease wss not re
corded. That failure, it is said, has
caused this. It was always regarded
as a money-making enterprise, but it
was not able to realize upon its stock
and material, and was threatened by
creditors.
The National bank at Fargo, N. D.,
and the First National of Dakota, N.
D., were closed Ylondav on orders is
sued by Mr. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency. Both of these banks were
organized by E. Ashley Mears, who
was also the organizer of other nation
al banks and of many state banks and
other Institutions. His plan, says tha
comptroller, appears to have been to
make loans to the various institutions
subscribing to the stock of the two
national banks in some cases exceeded
the amounts in which some cases ex
ceeded the amount of the stock sub
scribed to by them.
TRADE TALK.
Report of the Condition of Business
for the Past Week.
B. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of
trade says: In two ways there has been
quite a general improvement during
the past week. Better weather through
out the most of the country has stim
ulated retail trade, and the large dis-
tribntion of goods has made jobbing
trade more active. Monetary anxie
ties have curiously abated at many
widely separated points; large loans
solicited at New York a week ago, pro
viding for extreme emergencies in dif
ferent countries have not been wanted,
and threatening failures at several
points have passed without causing
much disturbance. Yet, the actual
conditions do not seem to have chan
ged materially. The large demand for
rediscount and advances by western
and southern banks, though considera
bly abated, have been greater than
eastern banks could wholly meet.
There is no definite improvement in
financial affair abroad, and the pros
pect of the continued outgo of gold
for some time to come has not altered.
Speculative markets show compara
tively little activity. Stocks have fallen
off to some extent from the rapid re
covery of last Week, the average being
about one dollar per share lower than
a week ago. Wheat and corn are both
at the same price as a week ago, al
though western receipts of wheat in
fonr days have been 1,902,108 bushels,
and Atlantic exports 1,036,597 bushels,
and corn receipts have been very large,
with insignificant exports. Mess pork
is 25 cents higher, but other hog pro
ducts a shade lower; and, while coffee
advanced 1-2 @ lc,oil declined a cent.
A natural decline is seen in dairy pro
ducts and potatoes. Cotton is also an
eighth lower, although the receipts
have been smaller and the exports
larger than for the same week last
year.
But the enormons stocks in sight
are not diminishing more rapidly than
is nsnal at this season. At Philadel
phia, pig Hon is firmer and manufact
ured in greater demand, owing to the
expected closing of works in the sum
mer. The outlook for pig iron is bet
ter at Pittsburg, and some products
are in better demand, but prices are
very low. At Cincinnati, stringency
lessens. At Cleveland, rolled prod
ucts are in larger demand, but prices
are weak and money close. Indian
apolis reports money tight, owing to a
lack of confidence. At Detroit pros
pects ate less bright than last year.
Chicago reports improvement, though
collections are still slow and bank ac
commodations sparing. Liquidation
continues. At Milwaukee, money
is close. At Minneapolis, the finan
cial flurry has abated. St. Paul re
ports seeding mostly completed ; a fair
jobbing trade, but slow collections.
St. Louis, fair collections, though
southern planters are buying less meat
than usual. Bankers are extremely
conservative. Much money has gone
out to other western cities. At Oma
ha trade is good, but at Denver quiet.
Bnsiness at Nashville is improving,
and also at Savannah, but at other
points at the south bnsiness is quiet,
and nearly all collections are slow and
money close. Mobile reports large
shipments of early vegetables, and
New Orleans reports a bright outlook
in building trades, though the break
ing of the levees will seriously affect
northern Louisiana. Dress goods
are dull, but there is closer discrimi
nation than usual in favor of
choice styles. Cottons are
stronger and print cloths a six
teenth higher. Wool sales are small,
prices favoring buyers. Shipments of
shoes continue .to exceed last year’s.
In the iron manufacturing, new freight
rates from the south affect prices large
ly at points not on the seaboard, but
bar iron is at the lowest point on rec
ord ; plates are dull, and competition
for all manufactured products are ex
ceedingly keen, with prices quoted, in
some cases below actual cost at most
works. Imports are still large for
three weeks in May, exceeding last
year’s by nearly $6,000,000, but ex
ports have Bomewhat increased, and for
three weeks show a slight gain.
Business failures for the last seven
days, number 273, as compared with
261 for last week. For the corres
ponding week of last year, the figures
were 198.
WIND ON A FROLIC.
It Tackles a Circus Tent With Disas-
trous Results.
Dispatches received from several
towns in Missouri and one point in
Kansas report the occurrence Thursday
afternoon oif a severe windstorm. The
storm was accompanied by hail and a
downpour of water amounting almost
to a cloudburst. No loss of life or se
rious injury reported to human life,
bnt the telegraph wires are down in
the country surrounding the towns
that the storm struck.
At Sedalia, Mo., the wind attained
a trrific velocity. It surged under the
tent of Gurgling Brothers’ circus and
snapped the poles supporting it like
pipestems. The crash buried 2,000
people beneath it. They screamed
and struggled and several women faint
ed, bnt all were finally safely removed
from beneath the canvas. Several re
ceived severe bruises.
At Brookfield, Mo., the storm struck
the roundhouse of the Hannibal and
St. Jo railroad and it was partially de
molished. Some of the engines were
badly damaged. A number of work
men were in the building, bnt all es
caped injury.
VERDICT AGAINST BRIGGS.
The Committee Recommends Suspen
sion from the Ministry;
A Washington special says: Having
decided by a vote 388 to 116 that they
had a heretic on their hands in the
person of Dr. Briggs, the first thing
for the Presbyterian general assembly
to do when it met Thursday morning
was to consider what should be done
with him. Accordingly a committee
was appointed to bring in a verdict,
and its members were requested to get
to work at once. After a long session
the committee brought in this commu
nication: “Suspension from the min
istry,” and the assembly adopted the
report.
>. Christie jiurrat, tne ringnst
novelist, turns on his critics in a brief
note to a London paper to demonstrate
that truth is stranger than fiction. Of a
reviewer’s charge that an episode in one
of his novels was ‘‘wholly incredible,”
Mr. Murray says: “Igot that story on
the spot and had full proof of its ac
curacy. In fact, I built the novel od
that genuine bit of history which you;
reviewer thinks incredible.”
THROUGHOUT THE SODTH.
Notes of Her Progress M Prosperity
Briefly Epitomizefl
ind Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Harry Hill, who committed a nma
ber of forgeries in Atlanta, Ga. a few
weeks ago, was captured in Chicago
Wednesday. He will be prosecuted
by his Atlanta victims.
Fire at New Orleans Thursday
night destroyed the Home Brewin
Company’s plant, a factory and oth
er adjoining buildings. The loss is
estimated at $125,000. Daniel Tal-
mage Sons’ rice mills were also burned
loss estimated at $25,000.
General Luke E. Wright, counsel
for the prosecution, finished his con
cluding speech in the Dubose im
peachment trial at Nashville Thursday,
and the ce.urt then went into executive
session to consider plans for taking a
vote on the various charges. The
matter was finally' referred to a com
mittee of five.
An important case has been filed in
the United States circuit court at At
lanta. The Manhattan Trust Com
pany against the Augusta, Ga., Mining
and Investment Company. It is a bill
to foreclose a mortgage given to secure
the payment of $450,000 of bonds of
the Augusta Mining Company.
CharleB W. Haskins was appointed re
ceiver.
The Gulf National bank, of Tampa.
Fla., closed its doors Monday. Mr.
C. B. Floyd, who is president of the
Brunswick, Ga., State hank which
closed last Thursday, is also the pres
ident of the Gulf National. It is un
derstood that a run was made on the
bank when it was learned that the
bank at Brunswick, of which Lloyd
was president, failed.
A deed of trust for $600,000, given
by the Seaboard Air Line Belt Com
pany to the Mercantile Trust and De
posit Company, of Baltimore, Md.
has been filed in the office of the clerk
of the superior court at Atlanta, Ga,
The date of the deed of trust was
April 1st. This deed of trust was
given by the railroad to back up $600,
000 of bonds.
A Savannah, Ga., special of Tuesday
says: The naval stores market has
taken a decidedly upward trend
Turpentine has advanced 1 1-2 cents
during the last week and pure rosins
have gone np from 25 to 30 cents on
the barrel. Prospects are decidedly
bright. Receipts bear out early esti
mates of a much shorter crop than last
year.
The Wesleyan Female college at
Murfreesboro, N. C. ( was destroyed
by fire Wednesday. Professor E. P.
Troy, with the assistance of the citi
zens and visitors, succeeded in saving
all of the young ladies without the
slightest injury. Much of the private
property of the students and teachers
was lost. All of the library and appa
ratus is a total loss. The magnificent
building was insured for only $10,000.
Depositors in the failed Bank of
Commerce at Bertan, Tenn., filed a
bill Tuesday against the l>ank and its
officers and directors seeking to hold
the latter personally responsible for
their claims. The hill cites the eonsid
eration of 40 per cent of the notes
given for stock subscriptions, alleges
gross mismanagement and negligence,
and charges that the bank was insolv
ent two years before it failed.
Commencement exercises of Wake
Forest college, at Raleigh, the chief
Baptist male college in North Carolina,
were held Thursday. There were
twenty-two graduates. The college
endowment fnnd now exceeds $250,
000. It was decided to raise $30,000
to establish the Royal chair of England
in memory of the late Rev. Dr. William
Boyal, who died in Genoa last year,
and who was for many years professor
in the college.
At Milner, Ga., Sunday, the Rev.
William Graham,one of the oldest and
best known evangelists in the state,
and his aged wife were dashed into
eternity by the Nancy Hanks, the
Central railroad’s fast train. The old
people were walking along the railroad
track, returning from church, arm in
arm, when the Nancy Hanks, movin
at full speed, ran upon them, raising
them high in the air and hurled them
down a steep embankment to instant
death.
A Vicksburg, Miss., special of Mon
day says: There are at least ten thou
sand homeless and hungry people in
East Carroll, Morehouse, West Car-
roll and Madison parishes, La., and
the suffering and privations they are
undergoing is appalling. With the
exception of a few small elevations the
whole of the northeastern portion of
the state is under water. Forty-four
negroes were rescued from a perilots
position near Swan Lake, East Carroll
parish, Sunday night. They were
almost insane from hunger, having
been without food four days.
A special from Bristol, Tennessee,
says: The Big Stone Gap Land Com
pany, capatulized at $2,000,000, and
with a bond indebtedness of $1,000,-
000, was forced into liquidation Tues
day by a suit entered in the United
States district court at Abingdon by
Philadelphia stockholders in the com
pany. The bill filed in the federal
court alleges gross mismanagement oi
the affairs of the company and misap
propriation of its funds. By an order
issued by Judge Goff, of the the United
States district conrt of West Virginia,
Messrs. H. Clint Wood, of Bristol, and
J. K. Taggart, of Stone Gap, are ap
pointed receivers of the company tc
wind np the bnsiness.
DECORATION DAY
Fittingly Observed Throiighont the
Couutry.
Memoral Day was observed in New
York City with the usual parade.
Many thousand people visited River
side park and attended the Memoral
Day services at the tomb of General
Grant. The tomb was tastefully dec
orated by the members of the United
States post No. 327 and elaborate
floral offerings were sent by Mrs. Grant,
the Loyal Legion, President Cleveland,
the Sons of Veterans of New York city,
the Chinese legation and the General
Meade post, of Philadelphia.
An Artist’s Good Fortune.
A dispatch of Thursday from Mon
treal, Canada, states that Lee Stanton,
an English painter, bought a leather
valise at the Grand Trunk railroad
sale of unclaimed baggage for $2. On
opening it he found 107 shares in the
Western Gas Improvement Company,
of Chicago, fully paid up and worth
$107,000. The valise was the property
of Louis Halberstadt, who died in
Brockville, Ont., in October, 1891, of
alcoholism. A large sum of money
and some jewelry,which he was known
to have had l just prior to his death,
were missing and it was believed at
the time that he had been robbed.
Flesh Eating Plants.
A familiar example of the carnivor
ous plants or flesh eaters is the little
drosera, so common in various por
tions of the country. The plant is
small and inconspicuous. The first
one I ever saw caught my eye by a
sudden flash of fiery red light, and
kneeling on the damp grass I fairly
caught the little carnivore in the act
which has rendered it so famous.
There were several tender, delicate
stalks in the center, and round about
it near the ground fonr or five singular
ronnd, pad-like objects, about the size
of small buttons. These were leaves,
and their upper surface was covered
with reddish tentacles that stood boldly
up, each bearing a delicate drop of the
dew that gleamed and glistened in the
sunlight like a veritable garnet.
Across the top of the leaves a long-
legged fragile insect lay, caught but a
second before and dying a most terri- j
ble death.
Five or six of the hairlike tenaeles
were thrown across its legs and wings, !
holding it down and pressing its body
nearer and nearer to the leaf, while
other rich, blood red stalks were in
all positions, bending over to encom
pass the victim. The sight was a hor
ror in a miniature and reminded me
of the actions of an octopus, or devil
fish, as the little cephalopod is com
monly called. It has eight sucker
lined arms radiating from a small,
bag shaped body, and each arm has
all the sinuosity, all the possibility of
motion of a snake, ever undulating,
quivering, as if with suppressed emo
tion, while over the entire mass waves
and varied shades of color seem to ebb
and flow.—California Magazine.
Wanton Slaughter of Buffalo.
The Union Pacific railroad was com
pleted in 1869, other railroads began
to reach out their iron arms across the
Kansas and Nebraska plains, and from
that hour the fate of the buffalo was
sealed. For Jbveral years to come he
could be hunted, shot from horseback,
driven into inclosnres and slaughtered,
or perhaps forced over precipices after
the manner described in old geogra
phies and schoolbooks. The animals
seem to have divided into two great
herds toward the close of their career,
for we hear of “the great southern
herd” and “the great northern herd.”
The southern herd was the first to
go. Buffalo Bill and his kind with
English “sportsmen” and American
army officers vied with each other
about in the wanton slaughter. Dur
ing three short years, 1872, 1873,
1874, the number so killed has been
estimated in millions. It matters not
how accurate this estimate is or wheth
er the number so slain was 1,000,000
or 10,000,000, the fact remains that at
the close of 1872 the great southern
herd was extinct. In the north the
conditions were more favorable but
the relentless hunter was hot upon the
trail of tho diminishing herds.—Ham
lin Bussell in Harper's.
There are two or three small longi
tudinal furrows in the forehead which
are sure indications of an eager, anx
ious mind. These constitute what is
called the knitting of the brow, and
are never absent from an American
face. They are too deep for any fill
ing np, and the only remedy for them
is to take life easier.
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I There are a H i
H few people left
who still follow antiquated methods of raising
bread, biscuit, cake and pastry with home-made
mixtures of what they suppose to be cream of
tartar and soda, compounded haphazard,
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i but there are very few |
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The best housekeepers use the Royal Baking
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uniform results. By its use alone can the finest
flavored, most wholesome food be produced. To
any housekeeper who has not used the Royal Bak
ing Powder we would like to send our Cook Book,
free. Mark your request “For instruction.”
Royal Bakin? Powder Company,
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“German
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My acquaintance with Bosehee’s
German Syrup was made about four
teen years ago. I contracted a cold
which resulted in a hoarseness and
cough which disabled me from fill
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baths. After trying a physician,
without obtaining relief I saw the
advertisement of j’our remedy and
obtained a bottle. I received quick
and permanent help. I never hesi
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