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About The Vienna progress. (Vienna, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1893)
THE VIENNA PROGRESS TEEMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May. 1 JNO. E. HOWELL. I Lacy a. mo roan, f VOL. XI., NO 48. VIENNA, GA.< TUESDAY, .TUNE 27, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. TELEGBAPHIC GLEANINGS. Tie News of tie World Condensed Mo Ply and Pointed Farabis. Interesting and Instructive to AH Classes of Readers. Sloan, Johnson <fc Co., wholesale grocers, of Omaha, Neb., assigned Thursday. Liabilities,upwardsof $300*- 000; assets, §80,000. Admissions to the world’s fair Sun day were: Adults, 54,582: children, 3,094; employes, exhibitors and other free admissions, 16,836; totul, 74,512. The City National bank of Green ville, Mich., was closed Thursday morning by order of Bank Examiner Caldwell. No statement of the bank’s condition has yet been made public. A cable dispatch of Tuesday from London says: Advices from Mecca show that three hundred and seven teen deaths from cholera occured at that city from June 13th to 16th. Natural gas was struck at Iron City, Tenn., Tuesday. On lighting it a blaze shot up several feet and burned steadily. The enthusiastic citizens fried fish by the heat and will contin no boring. An explosion of fire damp occurred in the coal mines of Hartley & Mar shal at Banksville, near Pittsburg, Pa., Tuesday morning. Three miners, who have not reported, are believed to be entombed in the mines. The Ridgeway Bank, a private in stitution at Ridgeway, Penn., closed its doors Thursday morning. The officers of the bank say that all de positors will be paid iu full as soon us tbe assets can be realized. The third and final act of the Penn sylvania National bank at Pittsbur Pa., which failed seven years ago for $3,000,000, was filed Tuesday. The balance on hand will be sufficient to pay the creditors 1-8 per cent or 12 per cent in all. One thousand miners struck near Dux, Bohemia, Tuesday and held a meeting to decide njron their future course of action. A company of mili tia tried to break up the meeting. The miners repulsed them and the police then began firing. After seve ral strikers had fallen severely wound ed the strikers dispersed. The Capitol National bank at Indi anapolis, which suspended business May 11th, resumed business Monday morning. Tbe bank officials received many congratulatory words from the business men. “The comptroller re quired that wo should have $750,000,” said President Byram. “We have about eight hundred thousand dollars —money enough for all.” A dispatch of Sunday from New York says: A modification of the Richmond Terminal plan has been made so as to bring in tbe East Ten nessee, Virginia and Georgia equip ment and improvement bond, thus giving the committee control of the East Teunessoe system. The Cincin nati extension bonds are now all that remain to ho brought in. A six-story building at Wabash avenue and Congress street, Chicago, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday. The structure was occupied by a num ber of firms, whose combined loss aggre gated $300,000. The building was valued at $150,000 and was owned by John Quincy Adams, of Wharton, 111 It was burned two years ago and had only been recently rebuilt. The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern; the Missouri, Kansas and Texas; the Cotton Belt and the Santa Fe roads, on Wednesday, made a ro duction of rates from southern points to St. Louis and Chicago of nearly 10 per cent of the present rate for the round trip. All the roads claim the honor of the reduction, but the Mis souri, Kansas and Texas first made the reduction. A London cablegram says: Thomas F. Bayard, American ambassador to Great Britain, proceeded Thursday from London to Windsor castle, where he presented his credentials. In acord- nnco with the usual custom that ob tains in the case of embassadors, state carriage was furnished by the British government to convey Mr Bayard from his hotel to the railway station. A special of Wednesday from Los Cruces, New Mexico, tells of the ar rest by the sheriff of six counterfeit ers, three men and three women. They were traveling emigrants and claimed to he on their way to El Paso, but had in their possession a supply of spurious coin and the necessary tools to make them. They also had letters showing their connection with experts in Denver and New Yoak. Dispatches of Monday from St. Paul, Minn., state that there were many mining camps employing a large number of men, in Nunberhood, and they were undoubtedly burned by Sunday’s forest fire. Among them were the Mountain Iron, the New England, the Rouhlean, the One Jack and Poca mines. All the camps had had large storehouses. It is feared that some of the men may have per ished in the fierce flames. Wednesday a number of prominent men met in the First National bank of Jersey City to elect directors for the International Navigation Company, of New Jersey. The company is a com bination of steamship lines for the pnlpoee of controlling the greater por tion of traffic between New York, Phil adelphia and several European ports. The capital of the company will be $15,000,000. They are held at $100 a share. ants. The bequests which were attack- j ed and which will now be paid are the • Creerar public library, $2,200,000; ! monument to Lincoln, $100,000 ; Sec- ■ ond Presbyterian church and missions, ! $200,000; Bible Society* $10*000; Chicago Literary Club, $10,000. The assignees of Herman Scaffner & Co., the insolvent bankers of Chicago completed the examination of the firm’s affairs Monday and filed a re port. The liabilities secured and un secured are put down to be$2,350,011. The total estimated apparently good assets $1,894,904 and the total assets of every kind $2,132,218, leaving an excess of liabilities of $37,192. The substance of the report is as as follows: Total liabilities secured and unsecur ed, $2,350,011; the total estimated apparently good assets, $1,894,904. The amount of the clearing house certificates issued at New York Thurs day was $2,250,000. This brings the total up to $4,900,000 since it was de cided to issue the certificates. This amount, with the exception of the $1,000,000 first taken by the Bank of Commerce, is divided up among sev eral of the old banks belonging to the Clearing House Association* no one hank taking any large amount of cer tificates. So far the hanks have re mained in good condition, and the clearing house committee has not been called upon to examine them. GEOEGIA NEWS NOTES. Items ol Interest Gathered at Random from All Oyer the State: BOMB-THROWERS BLOWN UP In an Attempt to Take the Life of Ex-Premier Castillo. A cable dispatch from Madrid is to the effect that a large dynamite bomb was exploded at midnight Monday night a few feet from the res idence of Canovas del Cas tillo, the ex-premier. The explosion was beard throughout the city. The immediate district around the house was shaken as if by an earthquake. The policemen ran to the spot. They found the dismembered body of a man in the street and caught a man crawl ing down the street on his hands and knees. When arrested the man re fused to say what he knew of the ex plosion, but complained that he was severely wounded. One of hiB legs was broken, his scalp was torn and his face was covered with blood. He was taken to a police station, and was there identified by a servant employed in a house opposite the ex-premier’s, one of three men whom she had seen standing on the other side of the street just before the explosion. After the explosion she said she heard a man run away. - Many houses in the neighborhood where the explosion occurred were badly damaged. Windows were shat tered and walls were sprung, hut none of the occupants were injured. While the policemen were looking around just after the explosion Canovas open ed the door and ordered all his serv ants to help in the search. A head and hand was found seventy feet from the place where the bomb was set off. News of the explosion spread throughout the city before 1 o’clock, All the cabinet ministers and many conspicuous deputies called upon Can ovas to congratulate him upon his es capo. intendent AY. J. McKemie* West Point. State aid to high schools, Otis Ash more, Savannah. ' Thursday, 3:30 p. m.—County Nor mal institutes, W. B. Power, Marietta. Discussion led by H. W. J. Ham* Gainesville. Election of officers. Elementary and Kindergarten— The majority of Savannah’s physi- pWednesday, 3.30 p. m. Presidents cians predict that this smmer will be , n ' r ^?, s ; T ^ VS- - The Old, J. E. Witherspoon, Colum bus. General discussion. Thursday, 3:30 p. m.—English in Primary Schools, Superintendent W. H. Wood- all, Columbus. General discussion. Reports of committees. Election of officers* Secondary—Wednesday, 3:30 p. m. —President’s address. The Function ous condition than my time since the tne HigL School, J. E. Pendergrast, war. They have not much ready Thursday, 3:30 p. m.— money, but they have supplies of all The N ew System of Grading and Pro kinds in aoundance, and consequently mo * lon , Superintendent A\ m. Harper, thev are independent and don’t need A ™j 5ricus - Election of officers, much money. Higher.—Wednesday, 3:30 p. m. * « * , —President’s address. The correla- According to reports, the hauling of 2/ educational forces, J. B. Gambrell, the watermelon crop has stirred up ” acon - Election of officers, bad blood between the Central and THBODGHODT TBE SOOTH. Notes ot Her Progress and Prosgsrity Briefly Epitomlzea the healthiest the city has experienced in years. * » * Colonel James D. Waddell, presi dent of the State Agricultural Society, has recently made the rounds of the state in tbe interest of the next fair. Colonel Waddell reports that he has found the farmers in a more prosper ed Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. the Savannah, Florida and Western railroads. The Central railroad peo- The Sutherland lumber yards in east Nashville* Tenn., were burned Wed nesday. The loss is about $75,000. The Southern Passenger Association rate committee met at Asheville, N. C.* Tuesday, in regular quarterly ses sion. Four banks of Los Angeles, Cal., closed their doors Wednesday. They werd the First National, Southern California, Broadway bank and East Side bank. The banka were closed on account of heavy riins that were being made Upon them. A special from Bristol, Tenn., says; Govornor Peter Turney, of Tennessee, returned Tuesday from New York city, where he went to place $1,600,000 worth of Tennessee bonds. He stated to a reporter that he failed to do so, owing to the stringency in the money market. whom they were indebted to secure their claims. The total amount of the property conveyed is something over $115,000. About one-fourth of the indebtedness was to Nashville banks. WHY THE EARTH SHOOK. State Crop Reports. The weather and effect on Georgia’s pie complain that the Savannah, Flor- Kfo^ng crops has, in the past week, ida and Western road absolutely re- differed considerably in the different fuses to place their cars for melon ' sec ^ ns °* state- dn the northern shipments, with the result that the c p’ j nties the rainfall was about the de- Central’s business is very largely cur- j sired quantity (none too much), was | A Knoxville* Tenn.* special says: tailed and the Savannah, Florida and fairl J we31 distributed and very bene- j Sam Walker, the constable arrested Western is getting the lion’s share of flclal to a11 cro P s ’> but . in other sec- for murdering a ten-year-old boy un- the melon business. j t’ ons °t the state the rainfall was gen- ! der most sensational circumstances, * * „ | erally heavier than usual and unevenly ! was given a preliminary trial Satur- The Augusta and Manchester rail- ' dlstributed - In mau J localities the day. He was acquitted, as he had a road, which is a branch of the Atlantic i comffiaiT^s from theTTTff °f ‘ ° f Wlt “ esses to P ro ™ “ alibL Coast Line will no Vmin- to a; complaint, as from their effect, crops Many persons,however, hold the opm- ! "■hiss* .An 1 ‘t,** - * “ New York considerably lessened. The 1 ° * 7“ ;, * the fact that the ; The Bank of New Hanover, N. C., building of the road has been a matter , £ e JL l £L ! ™ Rn0t ° pe “ ed % nda 7 “^ning. A money enough to construct, equip, maintain and operate the lines. A special of Sunday from Duluth, says: The towns of Virginia and Mountain Iron, on the Duluth, Mes- saba and Northern railroad, have been destroyed by forest fires which have been raging for a week. Messaba and Biwabik, on the Duluth and Iron Range, were also invaded by serious fires and Tower had a like experience. -There are 2,000 people homeless in A irgima and without food or shelter, ‘■very provision depot and their con tents iu the place being destroyed. The will of the late John Creerar, Chicago, disposing of an estate of $4,000,000, was sustained in all its provisions Tuesday by the Illinois supreme court. Distaut relatives liv ing in Canada were the disput- Latest advices from Madrid state that the wounded accomplice of the dead bomb-thrower has made a partial confession. Under pressure from the police, the man whose name is Suarez, admitted that the dead man was an anarchist, named Rnise, and that- he carried at the time of the explosion a bottle containing gunpowder and shot, Five more anarchists have been arrest ed in the city and seventeen in Barce lona for complicity in the bomb-throw ing plot. TUESDAY’S FAILURES. An Oregon Bank and a Number of Busi ness Houses Go Down. A Washington special of Tuesday Bays: Comptroller Eckels is inform ed of the failure of the LiDn County National Bank of Albany, Oregon; capita], $100,000. Bank Examiner Jennings has been placed in charge. James McMillan, of Minneapolis, made a voluntary assignment Tuesday to M. C. Fletcher. McMillan was in the hide and fur business, until short time ago when the business was transferred to a corporation known as James McMillan <fc Co. The assign ment does not affect this corporation. Fletcher estimates the assets at about $700,000; liabilities $250,000. Andrian & A ollors, wholesale grocers and liquor dealers, one of the oldest business houses in Wilmington, N. C., assigned Thursday with preferences. The failure was precipitated by that of the bank of New Hanover, in whose favor they executed a mortgage for ninety thousand dollars some months ago. Isaac Held, dry goods dealer at Richmond, A’n., assigned Tuesday. Liabilities §10,500. The General Engineer company, of Harvey, HI., assigned Tuesday and liabilities said to be $75,000. EDWIN BOOTH’S WILL. How the Great Actor Disposed of His Earthly Possessions. The will of Edwin Booth was filed at New York Tuesday. Booth leaves the bulk of his property to his daugh ter, Edina Booth Grossman. The value of personal estate is estimated at $605,000. He gives his brother, Joseph A. Booth, ten thousand dollars, and niece, Mary Booth Douglass, ten thousand dollars, and other nieces and nephews five thousand each. His cousins, Charlotte Mitchell Baltman, and Robert Mitchell, of North Caro lina, each ten thousand, and to sever al friends five and ten thousand each. Actors’ funds and other actors’ socie ties net five thousand ea?h. rumor that it had refused to pay an- $80*000 check* Several hundred de positors, mainly out-of-town people, drew out several thousand dollars, but the deposits during the time of the run amounted to five times the amount paid out. The run was over by noon. Vice President Stevenson reached Memphis Tenn., Wednesday afternoon on his way to Little Rock, Ark., on of conjecture for some years, but now - wF? warn!Tn8° arurnam*° -f* n ? e ba 7 e ! n °tice posted on the door states that all doubt is set aside* and it is positively 7L,} 1h k ? g the depositors will receive dollar for dol- known that before the close of this ' *““1 “ , * ? T ’ i ? ** ! ^ The a88ets are estimated at $1,- year, the road will be completed and ewhat cool eek ., lt " as | 2o0,000, the liabilities at $800,000. in operation. The best evidence of 9 ° , i 7 ° -' Cloud / feather bas -A- 11 unpaid collections of the bank of the fact is that the railroad has bor- 1 A* eont^nathfu^f Th’ 01 ° f * h f ' T6ek ' i Nelr Hanover have be en turned over rowed money enough to construct. ' f th v ?? sent . to tbe Wilmington savings and Trust weather, and more sunshine, is what j Company for remittance, the crops at present need. It should i , . .. , , ., , , be stated here, that locally, over very ! °l » In the United States court at Atlan- small areas, there have been some ; ^ an' of Birmingham, Ala.,, to, a few days ago, Judge Newman ' very heavy hailstorms, that the cot- i Thursday morning, by an unfounded heard the arguments in the case of the ton plant was stripped of its leaves, government for a new trial in the case and wholesale damage was done to of Scott and others against the United other crops. States. The plaintiffs were the own- i The cotton crop, on the whole, is ers of property which the government steadily improving, but from every took in order to establish Chicamauga quartet of the state reports are to the park. The land owners sued the gov- effect that the size of the plant is ernment and were awarded $6,600 with smaller than usual this year, and has interest. The government thought been so from the very first of the sea- that the damages allowed were exces- 1 son. Farmers are being annoyed now sive and applied for a new trial* by the lice on their cotton, and an- private business. He was met at the Judge Newman said that if the plain- other source of annoyance, which is d e P°f hj a large delegation of prom- tiffs would throw off the odd $600 and keeping hands busy, is the rapid and inent citizens. Mr. Stevenson was interest and make the amount an even heavy growth of grass. All through immediately escorted to the handsome $6,000 he would deny the government’s the southern sections of the state cot- : Appeal-Avalanche building, where an motion for a new trial. The plaintiffs ton is putting on forms; though, as informal reception was held and where agreed to this and the motion was de- yet, not very rapidly, probably owing a large crowd and plenty of champagne, nied. • j to the recent heavy rains. ] awaited him. * * * The indications relative to the com- | The A. J. Miller Furniture com- Tbe Xegro Press Association. | ing yield of corn are generally pretty pany, of Savannah, Ga., made an as- The Negro Press association of Geor- 1 good. Upland corn is, at present, do- i signment AVednesday, and Clayton P. gia held its annual meeting in Atlanta ing the best, while lowland corn is Miller was appointed temporary re- Tuesday. Seven newspapers were rep- generally not good, on account of | ceiver by Judge Falligant. The lia- resented by a delegation of nineteen some “bottoms” being literally soaked , bilities are $25,000 and the assets be- members. The meeting remained in with water. Corn is nearly all “laid tween $20,000 and that amount. The session during the forenoon and the by” except in extreme northern coun- appointment was made on the appliea- ties. j tion for a permanent receiver by Grif- The harvesting of wheat and oats fin & Seiler, who represent a large has continued during the intervals of number of northern creditors, fair weather. In the southern coun- i A Raleigh special of Tuesday says: ties little remains to be cut, while in State Geologist Holmes reports that the more northern counties considera ble yet remains standing. Rust has, as usual, made its customary appear- BUSINESS WAS QUIET. Dun & Co.’s Review ot Trade for the Past Week. R. G. Dun <fc Co. ’s weekly review of trade says: Concerted action by the banks in New York has changed the situation. More failures and the tre mendous drain of money to the west had such an effect in the city that the banks were nnanimons in deciding Upon the issue of the clearing house certificates. Much increased accommo dations for the business community are expected to arrive and doubtless will, unless speculation is stimulated to absorb all the increase in available resources through undue preference for marketable securities over other assets. The weakness of hanks of many western points continues and the widespread stringency is having a seri ous effect npon merchants and manu facturers who are in no way concerned with speculative operations. A very sharp fall in foreign exchange rem( ves the change of the gold export at pres ent, but is due to foreign purchases of securities rather than to a change in trade balances. Exports in two weeks of June, it is true, are but $2,700,000, or 15 per cent, below last year’s, and imports show a small decrease in place of the enormous increase reported for months, bat balances are still adverse and likely to be for some time. The decline in prices has tended to some increase in the foreign demands for products, but has been followed during the past week by an advance of more than a cent in wheat, with sales of only 27,000,000 bushels; 2 1-2 cents in corn, and 3-16 of a cent in cotton, with sales of 950,000 bales. Pork has fallen 50 cents, oats a quarter, coffee one-half, but there is no material increase of exports at this season of cotton, the amount car ried over is small and the price tends to prevent. AVheat receipts are still large and accounts of growing crops INQUIRY INTO THE DISASTER ON THE ISLAND OF ZANTE. Reasons AVhy the Destruction AA’as So Croat—The Origin and Direction of Earthquakes. Z ANTE had no reason to expect the second series of earthquake shocks before its inhabitants had hardly begun to recover from the calamity of January 31 last. The Ionian islands are a region of numerous earth tremors and move ments of little violence, but destructive earthquakes have followed one another only at intervals of twenty to thirty- five years, and new generations, pay ing no heed to lessons they might have learned from their fathers, have reared their unsubstantial buildings without regard to the terrible visita tions that might come. The recent earthquakes were much more violent than those of January. Scarcely a house remains inhabitable in the city of Zante, where 20,000 people lived*. In the neighboring village of Gaeton not a building is fit to be occupied. Less than 200 peojde were killed and injured and it was fortunate that most of the peasants were at work in their fields when their homes were destroyed. The island of Zante is in the Mediter ranean, about fifteen to twenty miles west of the Peloponnesus coast. Its inhabitants raise on their rich alluvial plain large quantities of olives, grapes and Zante currants. The chief in terest which Zante’s misfortunes has for us is not the story of destruction, but the studies that have been made to ascertain the causes of these subter ranean convulsions and to add to our knowledge of earthquake phenomena. Immediately after the shock of January 31 the Ecole Francaise d’Athenes sent Mr. Ardaillon, a competent observer, to the island, and the report of his observations has just been printed in Annales de Geographie, together with maps and pictures. This article, says the Chicago Herald, is based upon the material supplied by his report. Another observer also was on the ground. AY. G. Foster, director of disturbed. The earth movements in thm part of the Mediterranean are accord ingly due to the phenomena of plica tion or folding of the earth’s uppei strata. The same tension and com pression which produced many of the mountain ranges is here in action. As the interior of the earth cools it con tracts and tends to leave the outer crust behind. The weight of this outer crust, however, is greater than it can sustain and it is therefore compelled to wrinkle. Thus geologists explain the great ridges and furrows which constitute continents and river basins, and they compare this folding of the earth’s crust with the wrinkling of the skin of a dried apple. AA'hile this pro cess of wrinkling or folding is going on, the mighty movement, of course, destroys the equilibrium of the rock strata, and in consequence earthquakes occur and continue with greater or less violence until equilibrium is again restored. The earth tremors and shocks that have been felt at Zante almost inces santly since August last, and at inter vals for many years past, seem to bo manifestations of this activity at the bottom of the neighboring waters. This region seems then to belong in its geloglical nature rather to the region of the Alps or the Apennines than to that of the Poloponnesus or Attica. Portions of the earth’s crust at the sea bottom are being raised and folded or broken, producing corresponding de pressions and disturbing the rock for mation for a considerable distance around, and unfortunately for Zante it lies in the line of disturbance and must suffer until the same causes that reared our Appalachian Mountains cease to operate in its neighborhood, 1VISE WORDS. following resolutions were passed: To The People of Geoeoia.—The Negro Press association of G-orgia in convention as sembled in the oitv of Atlanta on this the 20:h day of June, 1893, sends greetings. We reaffirm the princip'es set for h iu our address to the public issued at Augusta, Ga., December 26. 1893. We are opposed to the whopsde emigration of onr people. Other things being equal, if the negro cannot succeed in the south, lie will not ance on grain, though not to any great ^We^rge upmf our people the necessity and Tbe ° at ***> aa a rule, will duty of properly educating the young—teach- 1)6 an average one. In some ing them to acquire a skilful knowledge of the counties, principally in the south, oats t0 enter F u ine9 ’? bave turned out much better than pursuits and io have a higher sense of rscpect usua J his force is now encamped at Sanford, making an examination of great beds of brown stone in Moore and Anson connties. It will next examine re markable clay beds in Harnett county. Examinations of phosphate beds, which lie in nine counties, will begin late in the autumn. At present phos- for the home aDd family circle. *’ i UBUal - M heat has done very well this pirate is mined only in Pender county. tem^rTnce'ZTTohri^v p ?£*i£ ° f HI ^ ^ wil1 generaHy be Up j A Eichmolld) y a ., 8pec ial of Sunday temperance ami sobriety, together with all to the average or nearly so. Rve is 1 n wt tt- 1 ^ a those habits and practices which co to make i 4.1 4.1/ j - Ba> J B: Governor McKinney has declm- good citizenship. , re Pf in the north as doing very | J tQ igsu6 commission ( 0 Lieutenant We heariily endorse the course of his eioel- | WdL Many farmers think that of William xr s Pav ,T r n f the Fitz Lee lency, Governor William J. Northern, of Geor- j late more and more attention is being ! l!! gia, and of ths better element of the white peo- uaid to the raisine- of breadstuff's and t roo P s , °f Lynchburg, whoso case has pie of the south against lynch law. ot ,rea („ , ltl3 anc attracted a great deal of attention in In this same connection we take occasion to ! that the supply this year will be more ; military c i rc ] os . Lieutenant Seay was commend the very advanced ground taken by plentiful than usual. The Atianta Constitution, The Augusta Chroni- j Sweet potatoes and Irish potatoes! * . * tt- . ,. PTT _„ r j_ l,, cio, ihe Charleston News and Courier and oth- < , • 1 ,. , . 1 'orders. Histroopsafterwardsre-elec- er leading southern newspapers With reference are doing well and are fully meeting ted hjm tQ o]d ition bnt tie Press Ass ciation of Virginia, we extend greet- vegetables is not reported, in any sec- ing, and wish them much success in their new ! tion. In the melon growing districts «i i n il of the southern portion of the state lhe good results already achieved by us in . , - 1 suggesting the use of the word “Negro” in watermelons and cantaloupes are rip- preference to any other term causes n; °at this i ening rapidly, and shipments are be- ren ®,'' r the suggestion and urge it, if ; coming more and more frequent. Fair possible, with more insistence. i ., ° ,, , 1 , „ . , In conclusion, we beg to say that we are still 1 weather now would be very beneficial fighting the battles of the race, and we shall ; to melons and aid their ripening much, continue to fight so long as we have strength | The large annual fruit crop of Geor and power. We do this, although we are fu lv ■_■ . J ,, , mindful of the fact of the gross lack of suii- ^ la ^ ? 3ow ly ripening, and the only —. t—.i . v , , v complaint is that many apples and pears have fallen off the trees. Most The Georgia Teacher* tbe com plaint oomesfrom thesoilth- j The following is a condensed pro- aa8te ' n counties - where high winds; gram of the next annual session of the tave been the P rmcl P al cause of the Georgia Teachers’ Association, which i dr ®PP m S of the fruit. wiR be held at Gainesville on the 27th ! As a fanale > H ml & ht be sald > tbat inst. It will be interesting to all the elCept that lt; 18 to ° vet at P resent m teachers in the state and to the public central and southern Georgia, condi- -v tions are favorable for all crops. If warm and sunshiny weather could pre vail now for the next week or ten days crops will continue to rapidly im prove ; and again, fair weather now would accomplish another desirable object in enabling farmers to keep decidedly more favorable from the ; the Eastern Telegraph Company at northwest, but conflicting with cotton. The output of pig iron declined $7,572 tons each week in May and is scarcely larger than a year ago. Stock on hand declined 9,000 tons in May, bnt a further reduction of the output is in progress. The market for iron and its products re mains dull and unsatisfactory, bar be ing especially weak and southern pig much pressed for sale. Scarcity of money is reported in a few southern cities like Charleston and Mobile, and at New Orleans money is in good de mand and in fair supply, while at Knoxville the demand is smaller. The volume of business has been much affected by the prevailing strin gency and caution about credits. Iron and its products are weaker at Pitts burg and a strike is expected, the workers demanding last year’s wages. Zante, has made a long study of the earthquake phenomena in that region. He has in his house an excellent seismo graph which records the least shocks. The submarine cables connecting Zante with the mainland have also enabled him at times to determine with much precision tho direction and apparent centres of these phenomena. His observations were of much value to Mr. Ardaillon. At 5:34 a. m. on January 31 an earth quake shock threw to the ground a great part of the houses in the country district and many of those in the city. The movement was undulatory and the duration of the seismic wave was about twelve seconds. A series of vibrations increasing in force and rapidity had preceded the principal shock, and an other series of decreasing violence fol lowed. The force of the principal Trade at Cleveland is dull and at Cin- ; ghock was not great compared with cinnati quiet. Chicago reports an ! ma ny earthquakes. This statement easier financial situation, bnt western port from those for whom we labor. generally: Tuesday, June 27th, 8:30 p. m.— Addresses of welcome: Mayor John A. Smith, Hon. H. W. J. Ham, Prof. A * AV. A anHoose, Gainesville. Re sponses, President E. B. Smith, La- Grange; Secretary J. AY. Frederick, , ., . - Marshallville; Treasurer E. C. Merry, down the troublesome grass. Atlanta. Lecture bv Major Chas H i Smith, Cartersville. * ' | LIGHTNING’S FEARFUL WORK. AYednesday, 9 :30 a. m.—Reports of i committees, etc. The Country Teach- The Bolt Strikes a Circus Tent In* er Hi® Trials and Mishaps, L. A. j stantly Killing Seven People. McLaughlin, Dalton. Theme, The A terrific thunder 6torm raged at Quarterly Payment of Teachers. The River Falls, Minn., AYednesday after- Aecessity for it. Major R. J. Guinn, noon. Rain fell in sheets, and there Atlantaj How it May be^ Obtained, was unusual thunder and lightning. Hon. AA . H. Fleming, Augusta. Dis- Ringling’s circus had just finished its ification required by law. The president, on Tuesday appoint ed Paul R. Trammell, of Georgia, to be collector of internal revenues for the district of Georgia. Hon. Paul Trammell is a member of the legisla ture from AYhitefield county. He was a member of the previous legislatue and speaker pro tern, of the house. He represented his district previous to that time in the Georgia senate. He is the son of Colonel L. N. Trammell, chairman of the railroad commission of Georgia. He was backed by both of Georgia’s senators and nine out of the eleven congressmen. The news of the failure of the Cas sell Publishing Company, of New York, has awakened peculiar interest in Atlanta Ga. This is the company that published the memorial volume to the late Henry AY. Grady. It is also the company that handled the “Life of Toombs,” by P. A. Stovall, and the company that made such a good thing out of “The Making of a Man,” by Dr. Lee of Atlanta. The company has always been very friend ly to southern authors, and has from time to time published a number of southern books, such as those just named. A MAGAZINE EXPLODES. Twenty People Killed and Mncli Prop erty Destroyed. A government powder magazine, a few miles from the city of Athens, Greece, exploded Friday. Twenty per sons, including officers and soldiers, were killed and great damage was done to surrounding property. The crown prince hastened to the scene to aid the sufferers. The loss is estimated at 3,000,000 francs. The magazine was located at Schramanga. Several days ago Hon. L. F. Gar rard, as attorney for the trustees of the first mortgage bonds of the Mobile and Girard railroad amounting to a ^ 0 D j , million dollars, filed a bill for fore- cussion led by Captain J. R. Anthony, performance, and, as the concert was closure in the circuit court of the Uni- Crawfordville. 8:30 p. id.—Address about to begin, a number of people ted States at Montgomery, Ala. Part by J. B. Robins, D. D., Atlanta. A'il- who did not care to attend the latter, of the Mobile and Girard road is in lage Farming, Dr. H. C. AA'hite, were making their way through the Georgia, consisting of a bridge over menagerie tent, when a terrific bolt of the Chattahoochee river and track and lightning struck one of the tent poles, j terminal facilities at Columbus. On and more than fifty people were pros- Tuesday Mr. Garrard filed a bill in trated. Seven were killed instantly, Georgia foreclosing the same mortgage and a number were more or less in- Athens. Thursday, 9:30 a. m.—Election of officers. County institutes, Hon. S. D. Brad well, Atlanta. Discussion led by Gov. AY. J. Northen, Atlanta. The Southern Educational association, Map j jured. W. F. Slaton, Atlanta. Address by The scene of consternation which • r ~~ Fayne, LL. D., Nashville. | followed when the survivors realized ? P- Our Educational and the extent of the fatality surpassed de- , 1 , Superintendent P. D. Pol- scription, and when men and women lock, Newnan. Address by J. L. M. surged toward the scene it was only Lurry, LL. D., Richmond, A a. by the exercise of a rare presence of on the Georgia property of the Mobile and Girard railroad, so that when the railroad is sold it can be sold as a whole. It was generally reported at Nash ville AYednesday that the grain firm of B. S. Rhea & Sons had been forced to assign. Investigation showed that the . V vx c* Xli > f LIUU BIXU V* CU LIXtt L lilt” .Department Programs.—Superin- mind, on the part of Messrs. Bingland rep0 Tt was not entirely correct. The ndence. Vl ednesdav a -an 7* a i 11.1 : .1 v. 1 - r . J ., , , tendence. AYednesday, 3 :30 p. m. President's address. Superintendents’ experience meeting. “Every one pres ent expected to say something.” Elec tion of officers. Normal. AYednesday, 3 :30 p. m.— President’s address. Do easy methods m education give best results - ’, Super- and employes, that a serious and prob- f ac t was that the firm, through the ably a fatal stampede was avoided, tightness of the money market and diffi- The Ringlings did everything pcissible | cultv of collecting, had been so embar- to alleviate the sufferings of the in- ; 2'assed that they deem it wise to make jured. Rough canvasmen, stake dri vers and animal attendants vied with one another in their attentions to the wounded. provision for their creditors. They accordingly made a transfer of a large amount of their property by de«I and by mortgage to the parties tc/ demands urgent, collections very slow, speculation limited in volume, build ing 50 per cent smaller than last year, wholesale trade fairly satisfactory and retail trade im proved. Milwaukee reports con fidence slowly returning. At St. Paul excellent crop prospects make a hopeful feeling, and at Omaha trade is good; at Kansas City fair; at St. Joseph fair. At St. Louis trade is be yond anticipations. At all southern points trade is slower. The market for stocks has been stronger during the week, although the advances have ranged less than half a dollar per share, and the demand for money ad vanced rates on calls sharply. Failures for the past week numbers 313 in the United States, against 153 last vear. MRS. DAVIS AND MRS. GRANT at WiU Enjoy Each Other’s Society Historic West Point. A news special of Saturday from New York states that Mrs. Ulysses Grant and Mrs. Jefferson Davis are to meet. The wives of the two great leaders will exchange their first greet ing at Cranstons-on-the-IIudson, which is in sight of the AYest Point military academy. This location has many as sociations dear to the hearts of both, os both their husbands were graduates of this academy. Mrs. Grant is now a guest at Cranstons, and Mrs. Davis will stop at the same place. The two ladies will thus meet every day. Mrs. Grant, in speaking of Mrs. Da vis’s intended visit, said she hoped she would not disappoint her as she did last year. She is very anxious to become acquainted with her. Mrs. Davis expressed a wish to meet Mrs. Grant on ground which is of such his toric interest to both. She feels greatly pleased with the kind expres sions of interest Mrs. Grant has mani fested in the coming visit. ADVISED TO DEPOSIT Securities With the Mercantile Trust Company of Baltimore. A Baltimore special of Friday says: Drexel, Morgan & Co. have appointed the Mercantile Trust and Deposit Com pany as their agents in Baltimore to receive Richmond Terminal, Richmond and Danville and East Tennessee, Vir ginia and Georgia securities to be de posited under the reorganization plan. The Richmond and Danville under lying bondholders committee at Bal timore has decided, to recommend to the holders of the Georgia Paeiffic securities to accept an amend ed plan of Drexel, Morgan & Co. and i to deposit their holdings as required. Drexel, Morgan <fc Co. have consented to amend their original plan so far as it relates to Columbia and Greenville holding by granting concessions to the road. First moEgage 6’s will be giv en terms accorded to the same class of bonds of the Georgia Pacfie. may seem strange in view of the dam age done, for about 4000 of the 10,000 buildings on the island were either en tirely destroyed or unfitted for occu pancy. The loss amounted to over $400,000, and many might infer that the shock equaled in violence those from which Zante suffered in 1820 and 1840. This, however, is not the case. The great damage was due not to the violence of the shock but to two signifi cant facts. In the first place most of the houses .were very poorly built. The damage to well-built houses was confined to falling plaster and cor nices and the breakage of some fur nishings. But most houses were built of a poor quality of calcareous tufa that crumbles easily and the mortar be tween the layers was hardly better than mud. Upon these fragil walls heavy roofs were placed, and it was certain that upon the occurrence of a shock of considerable intensity the structures would fall. The other reason that made the destruction great was that most of the mined buildings stood upon light, easily disturbed ground where the seismic wave was felt in all its inten- tensity, and there was no obstacle to stop it. The lesson of the terrible earthquake in Japan two years ago was again illustrated in Zante. In Japan the disturbance originated in rock-ribbed hills, where very little damage wag dope, while the great allu- The flowers shed no tears. AVhat women say, men do. Credit is the character of cash. AYe lose the bud in the blossom. Travel should be a great eduator. Learn something from everything. | Covetousness is a chrysalis of crime. Nature abhors a vacuum in the affec tions. Avarice is a vise that squeezes men’s souls. Injustice may begin before its object exists. The person without will has a malady incurable. Happiness is to pleasure as home is to a hotel. The more we forget the better satis fied we are. The girl who doesn’t think, seldom lets her parents think for her. A little history every day makes a well informed man in a few years. Cupid can’t shoot straight. His arrows never go through the centers of two hearts. Suffering alone might break the un tried spirit, but with the prop of hap piness it is bent to grace. One sees how ridiculous or mis placed is a fashion or a passion only when its days of prestige are over. One’s wishes are never so fully re garded aid so promptly executed as during the vociferous period of infancy. Life is an angel. Some- we&-Jl£8—— horn where the lines meet," and they broaden as they grow; others are born at the wide end and narrow down the further along they get. AYe believe in the dignity of manual labor and the advisibility of young men learning a trade to relieve the congested professions; especially is this true with regard to the sons of our acquaintances. How the Chinese Prepare Rice. - There are two principle ways of jire- paring rice, one used by the natives of Shanghai and ono by the Celestials who live in Corea. The latter after washing it in six waters put it in a saucepan to boil. The rice is the thickness of your hand on the bottom of the dish and the water must be the thickness of another hand above it., This is allowed to boil slowly until it is half cooked, when the water is drained off. The dish is then covered with a cloth and set in a kettle of boil ing water and the rice is allowed to steam until it is very well done. No salt is used in the preparation of this article, as it is eaten with all other articles of food as we cat bread. . , . -- - . , In another part of the country, in-, Pfon a * their footjB-as covgred-^^ o{ turning tis -7* fifer^off, Hi, ^ J holes are made in the rice to the bop*** tom of the dish that the water may. sink. The dish is set on the back part : of the stove to let simmer till the rice' is done. It should be in distinct ker- nals, yet it should be soft and leafy. In Japan they wash the rice the night before and boil it in the morning for the entire day. It is a very pic turesque sight to see the young girls at the public gardens emptying the rice from one dish to the other laugh ing and talking, just at sunset. Later in the day after a breakfast of warm rice, the Japanese utilize it by putting it cold into hot tea, and thus making what is to them a very delectable soup. —American Farmer. with destruction, about 100,000 houses being leveled with the ground. It is worth remembering that the most vio lent result of earthquakes are often to be seen in soft, alluvial regions where the upper strata offer least resistance to the destructive forces. So in Zante most of the hamlets are built npon the rich alluvial plain that forms the eastern part of the island. Mountains occupy the western part and among them no damage was done. The city of Zante itself lies upon the flanks and at the bottom of the hill of Castro, an alluvial formation. It was along this soft alluvial shore, hillside and plain that the destruction was wrought. Mr. Ardaillon has a very reasonable theory to account for these earth quakes. All physical geographers have been impressed with the abrupt irregu- t'Ojtly Incendiary Fires. Reportsfrom Iron River, AYis., state that the fires there have been discov- ; m fi e g show that they may be at tributed to the same cause, included in ered to be the work of an incendiary. Another attempt was made AYednesday to set fire to a house on the outskirts of Iron River. The fire department has been on duty night and day, and it is thonght that the worst is over. The total losses by fires during the past week reach $2,000,000, Plate Glass Insurance. Window glass was first manufactured larities in the ocean bed throughout j in London in 1557, bat for a long time the Gulf of Corinth and along the en- I it was a luxury within the reach of the , tire west side of the Peloponnesus. It 1 opulent only. Now, however, its use was found in taking soundings for ca- ' is universal in all civilized countries bles that contiguous parts of the sea j and only measured in extent and qual- bed varied many hundreds ot feet in i ity by the size of the buildings in which depth, and also that at different times j it is employed for light and ornamen- widely differing depths were obtained j tation. in the same places. Thus the sound- j Plate glass windows, especially in ings of 1865 between Zante and Cep- front of large business establishments, halonia showed a maximum depth of are now used for show purposes, and 760 meters, while two years later, after ! are only limited in size by the height the earthquake of 1867, a depth of ' and width of the store front. So gen- 2440 meters was found between same eral and liberal has their use become islands. In 1886, after the earthquake ; that it is found necessary to organize from which the coast of the Pelopon- companies which undertake, for a nesus suffered, it was found that moderate premium, to replace them in changes in the depths of the neighbor- case of breakage, and the growth and ing waters amounted to from 300 to ; development of these companies, stim- 600 meters. ! ulated by active competition, attest to Mr. Ardaillon says that all observa- a great degree the encouragement which tions with regard to earthquakes in this has been given to the plate glass busi- region, about 180 miles long and 130 ness by the protection afforded to its increased use.—Insurance Monitor. Croud ^hs, found in tries, are rude monume* Nearly seventy round thirty to 135 feet high, mauy coun ts to the dead, towers, from are found in 1 f the same category. Over ail this area sharp differences of level at the bottom of the sea and sudden changes in sea I depths are to be observed. It is nat- ' nral to suppose that we are hers in the ; various parts of Ireland. They are j presence of a line of dislocation along i believed to have been used in the cer- ! wljioh the crust of the earth is still being 1 emonies of fireworship. fl
