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THE VIENNA PROGRESS TEEMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JNO. E. HOWELL, 1 bIU LACY A. MORGAN, 1 VOL. XII. NO. 2. - . - .. .. 1 VIENNA. GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEFT —— kt OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. of Georgia to the close of business Ju ly 12th, make a fairly good showing in comparison with the banks of other WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Tlie Happens of a Day Chronicled in d“Sh“tter^f^entS it Bricf and Concise Paragraphs. tional banking law are taken into con sideration. The Georgia banks hold a reserve fund of twenty-five and fifty- Happenings from Day to Day in the National Capital. ] with the whole soul purpose of getting j quick action for its money and wiping I from the • face of the congressional | earth every-.vestige of offensive Chi nese legislation. A cable dispatch of Thursday from two one hundredth percent, while the London states that there have been requirement of the law is only fifteen C>00 deaths from cholera in Mecca and i P er cent. 2,312 in Jedda since the present epi- j Evidence of a startling nature con- demic broke out. cerning the cold storage warehouse fire Attorney General Ellis, of Michi- taken by the grand jury at Chi- gan, has given an opinion to the effect cago Thursday. The witness who gave that the insurance law passed by the the startling testimony was John Jos- last legislature is unconstitutional, e Ph Duggan, formerly a Stony Island owin TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. Appointments in the Various Depart- ments—Oilier Notes of Interest. John S. Payne, of Tennessee, a re-- tired army officer, has been appointed a member of the board of pension ap peals in the interior department. - i , , , The First National bank, of Ken- to section o, which permits un- avenue saloon keeper, and the man aallviUe, Ind., whicL suspended pay- companies to do business who first told of the looting of the ment June 22, 1893, has been permit- “ * ht Stste - I ? oId storage warehouse and its firing ted to u its doors for busiuess . burgeon General Wyman received a a & an 8 of robbers. He was flushed . . .. . , , , „ cable message Thursday morning from and excite<1 with the inquisition he 6 18fme of tke stan< t“ ri1 dollars Surgeon E. B. Young, of the Marine ' ba d undergone, but said he had made a clean breast of it all. Tie News of tlie World Condensed Into Ply and Pointed Paragraphs. IN A COMMON CAUSE. THE WORK OF LYNCHERS. THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. The American Bimetallic Leaps Meets in Interesting and Instructive to Ail Classes of Readers. Hospital service, stationed at Naples, stating that the condition of affairs in that city in regard to cholera is grow ing worse. The treasury, in response to its counter offer of Wednesday, has bought 149,000 ounces of silver at $0,- 7090 per ounce—the entire amount of fered. The price of silver was up in London Thursday, beiug in our money $0.7161 per ounce. At the regular weekly meeting in London, Thursday, of the directors of the Bank of England it was decided to advance the rate of discount to 3 per cent. The advance, which was unex pected, is attributed to the further large withdrawal of gold for shipment. Judge Logan E. Bleckley, of Geor gia and Miss Chloo Herring were united in marriage Wednesday night at the bride’s home, on West Fifty- Eight street, New York city. The marriage is one in which ail the peo ple of Georgia are much interested. A dispatch of Wednesday from Paris says: The Behring Sea tribunal of arbitration has made good progress and it is expected a decision will be rendered in a fortnight. The dispatch adds that every point at issue has now been adjudicated and that the decision will give entire satisfaction to Great Britain and Canada. The town of Birsk, in the govern ment of Orengburg, Russia, has been visited by a most disastrious conflagra tion. One hundred and eighty houses were burned, seven persons killed aud a large number injured. Among the buildings destroyed were the city hall and Catholic church. A Birmingham, Ala., special says: The plan for the resumption of the busiuess of the First National bank has been approved by the clearing house and cheerfully endorsed by de positors. Confidence is generally maintained and the situation is tran quil. A fortuight will probably see the First National resume. A private bank at Chicago owned by Lazarus Silverman suspended Wednes day morning. A notice declaring that the difficulty was temporary was posted on the door of the bank. Bankers esti mate his deposit account at $600,000. It is of a commercial nature and de positors are for the most part Jewish dealers engaged in small business ven tures. The treasury department is taking measures to curtail the expenses of the national commission and the board of lady managers at the World’s Fair. It iB stated that both of these bodies have been and are now in session un necessarily, involving large running expenses. Both bodies have executive committees authorized to transact any business demanding urgency, and it is, therefore, contended that it is not ne cessary for both or either of them to remain in session at this time. Sec retary Carlisle’s attention has been called to the large expenses thus in curred, and recommendations have been made to him looking to the cur tailing of the expenses of both these bodies. A Chicago special of Thursday says: The opinion is unanimous among lawyers, that the gates of the World’s fair will be opened every day in the week from now until it is finally closed next October. The appelate conrt will not he in session until after the mid summer vacation which ends in Sep tember, and the appeal prayed for on Wednesday cannot, therefore, be passed ou until October. A report reached New York City Thursday night that the steamship Ivarmania, from Naples, had arrived at quarantine with cholera on board. Three deaths among the passengers occurred during the voyage. Dr. Jenkins boarded the vessel at quar antine aud soon after hurried to the city with the intention, it is said, of holding a conference with the health board authorities. The latter so far refuse to enlighten the public on the matter. A disastrous explosion occurred Thursday on board the German armor clad steamer, Baden, at Keil, Germa ny. Lieutenants Oclsner and Zam- bach and seven seaman were killed and seventeen persons wounded. It appears that some of the men just re moved from the magazine a grenade measuring 26 centimeters in diameter. Through some cause not yet explain ed the grenade exploded, killing or wounding nearly every person iu the immediate vicinity. A Pittsburg, PA.,dispatch of Thurs day says: The New York and Cleve land Gas and Coal company, one of the largest concerns in the Pittsburg district, whose mines are located on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad nre unable to pay tlieir miners in full. The proposition has been made to 800 employes to pay them one half their wages for six months and the balance with interest at the end of that time. The officials state unless this propo sition is accepted the mines will close. Minister Blount’s long expected re port on Hawaiian affairs in the posses sion of the secretary of state. It arrived in the official dispatch hag from San Francisco, in eonqiany with a conimu- eution from Mr. Severance, the U. S. consul general in Hawaii, telling of the Fourth of July celebration in Hon olulu, at which Minister Blount pre sided. Mr. Blount is expected in Washington about August 20th to par ticipate in the conference of the presi dent and Secretary Gresham over the amended protocol of a treaty submit ted by the provisional government. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Development During the Past Week. The review of the indu-d ial situation in the sou l) for the past week reports the organiza tion at Kina’s Mountain, N. C., of the Pied- mmi Miner.il Company, capital, $500,000. by A. It. Kutliril and othtra, " " ” ' ~ from the treasury during the week ending July 30th, was $442,369 for the corresponding week of last year, $440,065. The shipment of fractional silver coin from the 1st to the 30th, amounted to $725,473. The comptroller of the currency has been informed that the First National Bank of Birmingham, Ala., capital $250,000, and Elpaso National Bank, Elpaso, Texas, capital $150,000, had closed their doors Wednesday morn ing. These banks carried quite a line of individual deposits. The total amount of national bank notes outstanding August 1st is $183,- 655,920, an increase of $5,041,335 dur ing the month. This is an unusually heavy increase and is occasioned by the fact that many national banks are increasing their circulation. The number of new banks being organized is unusually small. The report of Minister Blount on Hawaiian affairs is due in Washington and is likely to be delivered to Secre tary Gresham at any time. Mail sent from Honolulu on fhe steamer Austra lia reached Washington Monday and as the Oceanic, which carried Mr. Blount’s report, arrived in San Fran cisco Tuesday the mysterious docu ment seems to be slightly overdue. Secretary Carlisle left Washington Tuesday afternoon over the Pennsyl vania railroad for Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., on a visit to President Cleveland. The Adam Smith & Co., wholesale liquor dealers at Chicago, assigned Wednes day morning. The assets were sched uled at $150,000, liabilities $125,000. | The works of the American Rubber Company at Cambridgeport, Muss., closed down Wednesday morning for two weeks. This action throws 1,700 ; operatives out of work, i The Bellingham Bay National bank at Whitcom, Washington, did not open its doors Tuesday. Assets are $270,000; liabilities $160,000. The hank will probably resume business in a short time. , The North American Provision com- I pany, at Chicago, assigned Wednesday morning to William Schwabacher. The assets are scheduled at $500,0001 lia bilities are not estimated. The failure is one result of Tuesday’s board of trade troubles. i Levi P. Morton’s immense new barn at Ellesee Rhinebeck, N. Y., chicken houses and outbuildings, together with one hundred head of Guernsey cattle and all the farm horses, was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. Loss over ' $100,000. j The sum of 930,000 pounds was i withdrawn from the Bank of England Tuesday for shipment to the United ! States. A portion of this amount will be shipped on the steamer Majestic, I sailing from Liverpool, and the bal- i ance on the Spree, sailing from South ampton. A New York special says: A sensa tion was created in The World office Two Negroes Meet Death Under Most j Horrible Circnmstances. A Columbia, S. C., special says: j Will Thompson, one of the three ne groes who committed an assault on Mrs. Arch Seightler, was lynched at Gaston Sunday morning. He met death under the most horrible circum- i stances, his torture being long drawn m, ,. . ,. , ,, | out. After beiug almost flayed alive The national convention of the ... „ , , , , , . . , . with a leather strap in the hands of American bimetallic league met in ^ hnabaad of t he outraged woman, Chicago Tuesday morning and the at- he WRS kicked and beate “ then 8US . tendance was larger than that of any ; ^ {rom a limb unti l he was be- previous assembly of like character in i strangled, after which the deter- Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized A Heterogeneous Assemblage of Vete rans of Financial Agitation. And Important Happenings from Daj to Day Tersely Told. the history of the financial world i mined ]vnehers fiI]ed hig w with lhe delegates assembled, over crowded • rT -i _ , ,. - r the First Methodist church auditorium before the morning session was called to order, and it was early apparent that a larger hall would have to be se cured for future sessions. bullets. The lynching was one of the most horrible on record. The victim came very near being placed -on the railroad track so that the train would run over him, and a proposition was rrr, . . , also made to slowlv burn him, which The features of many of the battle , many of the crowd " would bave assent . scarred veterans-of financial agitation were visible in the heterogeneous as semblage. General A. J. Warner, of Ohio, president of the bimetallicj league, stood side by side with Con gressman Bartine, of Nevada, and a short distance away was seated Con gressman W. K Bryan of Nebraska, j <^d became of opposite political faith from Mr. Bartine, but foremost in the battle for! ; bo VlTclo7k Preston was captured r m 1 _ C °L nf l ge ’ . ,, I five miles from the scene of the morn- The Colorado delegation had Gover- „ , g ]vnehi He vas taken to Gaa . nor Waite, of the silver state, convers-j ton and the 8ame brutal treatment waa ing with Senator Stewart, of Nevada, ! accorded him before he wafl finally ed to, but which was finally abandoned. SECOND ACT OF THE HORROR. The second act in the lynching was completed Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock when Tom Preston,who Thomp son implicated in the crime, was hung and shot. After hanging Thompson even more savage. The whole county was scoured, and The Anniston Cordage Company at Anniston, Ala., manufacturing all kinds of cotton cord, started up Tues day. The company is capitalized at $100,000 and uses three bales of cot ton daily. Seventy-five hands will be employed. In compliance with a resolution adopted by the Pioneer Citizens’ So ciety a committee of consultation has been appointed to consider arrange ments for celebrating the semi-centen nial anniversarv of Atlanta on Decem ber 23d, 1893. The Chino, Cal., sugar factory, the largest in the United States,with max imum reducing capacity of 734,000 pounds of beet sugar, started up Wed nesday. The factory gives direct em ployment to 2,000 men in Chino and 700 at another point. A dispatch of Tuesday from Beau fort, S. C., says: The top of the cabinet of the schooner Charles lias drifted ashore off Hatteras. Also the BUSINESS REWl lican, but both united in a common | that had no effect cause today. United {States benator Mantel, of Montana, and Shoup, of anxllashes wither'bLggy Trace' Idaho, conversed for some time with 1 - - - — T. M. Patterson, of Colorado, the first two republicans, and the last the leader of the free coinage faction of the democratic national convention of a year ago. “Governor 1 c . . , . , ., ., , . Wednesday evening when Colonel Secretary. 8 vuat to the President at Cbarles H . Jones wa f ked into the edi _ the Kiemult Con- this time is atthe request of the presi- i . ... , • , trailer Company, at Alexandria, Va., capital dent who desires naturallv ennno-h t-U rooms and assumed direction of $250,000, to manufacture tel phone supplied, v ’ ... , . - P the paper. He will not only act as and of the Branchville Clay Company, aloof dl8CU8S ^ th hlB secretary of the treas- ; edit but as the personal representa- Alexandna, capital $100,000. The organize- firy xhe financial situation before he t j ve of p u ljt zer with supreme authority over all departments of the tion is also ienor:ed of lhe Powell Oil Compa ny, capital $50,000, at Bastrop, Texas, by TV. Powell and associaus, of the G iliad Water and Light Company, capital $30,000, of Goliad, Texas, the rebuilding at Mementon, La., of th - E lua Hice .Mills, by Jos'ph llenge, of New completes the preparation of his mes sage to congress on the silver question. AdviceB of Thursday state that Sen ator Vest, after having prepared a bill Orieois, and the incorporation, at Clark-burg, ^ free Coinage at the ratio of twenty TV. Va ; of the Butters and Birtlett Folding to Grato Company, by J. P. Clifford and others. Twen’y-four new industries were established or incorporated during the week, together with three enlargements of manufactories, and four teen important new buildings. Among the new industries not ab <ve referred to are a canning factory at Brunswick, Ga.; a distillery at, tas, Tenu. ;a stave factory at Buena Vis a, Va.. ■ nd a carriage and wanon manufacturing com pany at New Orleans, Li. Water works are reported as to be built at Luverne, Ala., Forsyth, Ga.. and Sheloyville, w.,.." xhe enlargements for the week include organ factory at Key West, Fla., a knitting 11 at Kinston, N. C., an i a cotton mill a' one, has discussed the subject with Acting Director of the Mint Preston. Mr. VeBt has changed his bill to a ratio of twenty-four to one and will introduce it in that shape. It is understood that the administration is FmithVa' T 1 aa Sjotrio liSKHngpUnt.at wi J lin | to accept twenty-four to one, j i‘ 5(J0 looms aud employin 5; ,rs > th, tra.; flour and grab mill* at Elkin, aud there may be a compromise on - - - i j N. C., Woodward, S. C., and Cookville. Tenn.: that basis a mineral wool company at Salem, Va.; a phos phate company at Bartow, Fla., and a wlioe Judge Crisp says he is unable to factory at New Orleans, La give any information or make anv pre- A soap factory is report* d at Victoria Texas- j- a- a at. t v 1 steam cotton gins at Putt am and Smilcv, Texf; di °, tio " s as to the policy of congress, saw mills at Willmington, N. C. and Pocahon- 88 h fi I> a s seen but few members. He says there is a manifest diversity of opinion. It is apparent that the demo crats are waiting to ht-ar from the president. His message will no donbt tend to crystalize democratic opinion. Southern democrats and those from the middle west say they have no sym pathy with the western mine owners and operators. Surgeon General Wyman, of the marine hospital service, received a tel egram Wednesday from Surgeon Har gis at Pensacola, Fla., stating that the Spanish steamer Lenora, which nrrived at the quarantine station on the 22d of July from Cuban ports, brought two sick seamen who were admitted to the hospital. Their disease developed into yellow fever. The steamer was sent to Chandeleur station Wednesday morn- The superior court judges of Georgia an d the physicians, nurses and met in convention in the senate cham- sick weru isolated and all preventives her in the state capitol Monday morn- taken. ing. It has been fourteen years since Heretofore it has been the custom a similar convention was held in the to examine every tenth bale of impor- state. The call was issued by Judge ted tobacco to determine tho grade, so A. H. Hansell, of Thomasville, and the as to properly assess the rate of duty, object was to revise the rules govern- Loss of revenue has resulted from this ing practice. Judge A. II. Hansell, of method, and now Acting Secretary Curtis has directed that not less than an average of every fourth bale of im ported tobacco he examined. This ac tion is mainly directed against fra udu lent importations of Sumatra wrappers for tobacco, the duty on which is $2 per pound. The sentiment among southern con gressmen is strong and apparently al most unanimous in favor of repealing the Sherman act. The sontheru mem- Gibsonville, N. C Among th ; new buil lings are a banting lionet at Gaetonia, N. C.; business houses at Lous- ville and Madisonville, Kv.; Alv.n, Texas, an P cahontas, Va.; clmrches at Norfolk an Wytlieville, Va-; a court h use'renovation Memphis, Tenn.; ball and stores at Jladisoti- vtlle, Va.; a hotel and a j til at Inverness, Fla.; an office bui ding at Atlsnti, Ga.; a seboo building at. Gr.asbeck, Texas, and a wareliotis a* Ty er, Texas—Tiadtsmrn (Chattanooga Tenn.) CONVENTION OF JUDGES. Heads of the Superior Courts of Georgia Meet in Atlanta. Thomasville, called the meeting to or der. Mr. Logan Bleckley, upon re quest, called the roll of judges, and reported the following present: Judge A. H. Hansell, of Thomes- ville, southern circuit; Judge Henry C. Roney, of Augusta, Augusta circuit; Judge C. C. Smith, of Hawkiusville, Ga., Oconee circuit; Judge Hamilton McWherter, Lexing ton, Ga., of the Northern circuit; Judge R. Falligant, of Savannah, Ga., Savannah circuit; Judge J. L. Sweat, of Brunswick, Brunswick circuit; Judge H. Fish, of Amoricus, South western circuit; Judge C. G. Janes, hers will vote for repeal. The project of making an agreement to consider a silver bill after the repeal of the Sher man act is'still being agitated and of Tallapoosa, Ga., Tallapoosa circuit; ! f^ 8 “° re P°P" lar - 14 t a w m u t x> 9 ; ed to interpose anv obstacle to the re- Judge W. M Henry, of Rome Ga., , of the ' gherman law, but to vote Rome circuit; Judge George R. Go- ^ that willingly; thpn ft ’ biU provid . ber, of Marietta. Ga., Blue Ridge cir cuit ; Judge C. L. Bartlett, of Macon, Ga; Judge John J. Hunt, of Griffin, Ga; Judge T. W. Milner, of the Cherokee circuit; Judge S. W. Harris, of the Coweta j circuit; Judge R. L. Gamble, of the j Middle circuit; JudgeC. J. Wellbore, of the Northeastern circuit; Judge J. H. Guerry, of the Patnula circuit; Judge R. H. Clark,of the Stone Moun tain circuit. , r , „ I Upon motiou of Judge McWhorter, r 40 .! 0 u i 'o: j Judge Hansell was made permanent known English medical weekly, chole ra has been epidemic in Marseilles for the last three months. The local of ficials, it is asset ted, hive carried their policy of deception to such length that even the government has been led astray in regard to the real state of af fairs. The prefecture now admits that there has been 601 deaths from chole ra in Marseilles since the middle of May. During the last four week there have been S2G deaths throughout France. chairman. Mr. Logan made seeretarv. Bleckley was GOOD NEWS. A New and Unexpected Element of Re lief for New York Bankers. A New York special of Tuesday says: A new and unexpected element of re lief has been injected into the financial situation. United States bonds have reached such a low figure that the na tional banks see their way clear to A Jackson, Miss., special of Thurs- make a profit by issuing circulation day says: JudgeChrisman holds that against them. Arrangements have, the Postal Telegraph Company must therefore, been made by some of the pay a privilege tax of $1 per mile per more prominent banks to increase their year. The amount involved is $927.21 circulation from the minimum limit at as taxes lor the last three years with 6 which it now stands to such an amount lk * 8 6a * d > are t> a ?kin: per cent interests. There is more in- as will materially relieve the present volved in the case than the $927.21. If position. It is estimated that eight or the postal is exempt other companies ten millions of dollars will be so added that have been paying taxes will also to New r York’s supply of currency claim that they are exempt. The case within a very short time. Orders have will be appealed. The suit was brought already been placed with the comp- by the state revenue agent. ; troller of the currency for part of the News is received from Washington I new Dills, and home of the banks have he abstract of the national banks bought their bonds, preparatory to depositing them in Washington. for free coinage upon a ratio of perhaps 24 to 1 will be offered and duly considered. Authentic advices received at San Francisco, Tuesday state that Minis ter Blount has determined to turn over matters in Hawaii, as far as the United States are concerned, to Com modore Skerrett, of the Boston, and he will sail for the United States on j the 6th instant, without waiting for the appointment of his suc cessor. Mr. Blount may, therefore, be expected to arrive at San Francisco about August 12th. Meanwhile his repiort, which has been mailed by the ] steamer Oceanic, will have preceded him, and by the time the special com missioner and minister arrives in the j east the president and Secretary Gresh am will have the full opportunity to carefully consider its contents. A Chicese Lobby. It is alleged the Chinese will swoop down upon Washington with a live and vigorous lobby. It will raid the capitol building early Monday morn ing. There is to be war to the knife and report has it that it will be push ed in up to the hilt. The Six Compa nies, the great Chinese eorporatioi . the play and everything possible will be dot: to effect the repeal of tm Geaiv or Chinese exclusion a. which passed the lust eongr..; If the reports that come from the Pi; - cfic slope can be relied upon, :• lobby of gigantic proportions,equalim- that of the famous credit mobilier in 1871. is to infest tho coming eongrtr-. paper. The plant of the Valley Falls com pany at Woonsocket, B. I., engaged in the manufacture of colored cotton dress goods, and running 340 looms with 135 hands and weekly pay roll of $1,000, have shut down for an indefi nite period owing to the lack of mar ket for their goods. The same com pany’s mills at Valley Falls, running 600 hands,” shut down also. A panic prevailed in the Chicago j provision market Tuesday morning. | When the market opened pork de- ■ dined $4.50 per barrel from Monday night’s closing price, and almost im mediately afterwards dropped $1.75 more, making a total decline of $6.25. The failure of the following firms,deal ing in provisions,has been announced: E. W. Bailey, F. E. T. Hemholtz, A. Feber and Wright <S: Haughey. It was also announced on board of trade that John Cudahy had failed. Advices received Tuesday at Paris from Bangkok, Siam, show that no un derstanding has been reached in re gard to delimitation of the territory claimed by the French, or, at least, that no knowledge to the effect has reached the Siamese Capital. Neither is it known at Bangkok that the block ade is to be at once raised. On the contrary, dispatches from Bangkok fully support the latest reports cur rent, and much uneasiness as to the final outcome of the trouble is felt in Bangkok, and that anxiety is increas ing daily. Beginning Tuesday, according to a Chicago dispatch, the council of ad ministration of the World’s Fair will not be allowed to spend a dollar with out the approval of the board of fi nance. A statement was made that the council of administration, after repeated conferences with the depart ment chiefs and others had succeeded in bringing the payrolls for the last two weeks of July down to $210,000. This would mean a monthly payroll of $420,000. Hereafter the board of fi nance expects to reduce it at least 20 per cent more. The Chamber of Commerce of Taco ma, Washington, Wednesday evening adopted a resolution favoring the im mediate repeal of the Sherman pur chase act, declaring that the wide spread disaster and distress at present prevailing are directly the outcome of the theatened overturning of the protective policy of the country and requesting the senate and house of representatives to adopt a joint resolution to the effect that no legislation shall, during the next four years, he enacted upon the subject, or in any way affecting the duties levied upon imports of merchandise. ...... ......... . body of a man wrapped up in a small k ° k h, 1 S . T , an ° T „ I killed. Preston denied his guilt, but standing jib. He could not be iden- He was stripped and stretched across a log and a hun- were laid upon his person. He yelled and screamed at a terrific rate and pite ously begged for mercy, but the more he begged the harder the lashes were laid upon him. At last, ho was taken to the same tree upou which the bloody bullet-rid dled body of Thompson still hung. A platform of crossties was made and the rope was put around the same limb. The platform was pushed away by de grees, and the victim was slowly stran gled. The crowd did not shoot until he had hung several minutes. His body was then riddled with a thousand bul lets, more than was given Thompson, opposes j f or be waB afflicted with a disease. The two ghastly bodies were left hang ing, while the mob proceeded to ar range for the lynching of the third man in the jail at Lexington C. H. HOMESTEAD MILLS CLOSING. Tlic Carnegie Steel Works Affected by the Dullness of Trade. A Pittsburg, Pa., special of Monday says: The trouble among the iron mills resulting from the unsettled trade conditions has at last come to affect the steel works of the Carnegie com pany at Homestead. The night turns will be diseontined in the plate mill. Trade is rated as especially significant because this particular department has never been slack of orders before. It has been running three turns, and un der the new arrangement the men in each turn will work every third week. The announcement of the third change caused general comment and specula tion, and some startling stories are afloat in Homestead. Kolb, of Alabama, sur rounded by a score of brawny popu lists, was one of the most conspicuous figures in the convention, and ns he conversed warmly with Editor Good win, of the Salt Lake Herald, the tw o were joined by Herman Taubenecke, of the executive committee of the peo ple’s party, and a moment later the trio was increased by Senator Dubois, of Idaho, who, although a republican, will observe no caucus that the free coinage of silver. When Chairman Warner called the \ meeting to order, Bcores of delegates j were obliged to stand in the aisles. In a few opening words, Charman War ner introduced Mayor Carter Har rison, of Chicago, who welcomed the delegates to the city. The Hon. T. S. Patterson respond ed. Chairman Warner delivered his address, the usual committees were ap pointed and the convention took a recess uutil 2 :30 p. m. THE AFTERNOON SESSION. When Chairman Warner had called the convention to order at 2 :50 o’clock the committee on permanent organiza tion reported the permanent organiza tion of the convention in this order: Chairman, Allen W. Thurman, of Ohio; secretary, Joseph Hutchins, of Colo rado : assistant secretaries, Lee Cran dall, of Washington, and Amos Simp son, of Illinois; sergeant-at-arms, C. S. Chase, of Nebraska. The committee on credentials re ported 810 delegates present from for ty-two states and territories. Chair man Thurman then -took the platform and addressed the convention. He wound up by submitting the follow ing: First, let onr adversaries agree to the free coinage of silver at either the ratio of 15 1-2 to 1 or 16 to 1. I pre fer the former. If they do we will agree to the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law. Next, amend the national banking law so as to permit a national bank to issue its notes up to the actual value of 100 per cent upon the deposit of 90 per cent with the United States gold or silver coin other than subsidiary silver. Then repeal the tax on state bank circulation. Mr. Powderly was then called out and spoke briefly. Next Ignatius Don nelly spoke for an hour, his speech verging upon the dangerously inflama- tory. At 6 o’clock a recess was taken until 8 o’clock. THE MEETING AT NIGHT. A still greater crowd assembled at night. It was a mass meeting and the j big hall was packed from the upper j THE THIRD ONE LYNCHED. Additional advices from Columbia state that Handy Kaigler, the third negro in the Gaston outrage, was strung up Monday morning to the same limb upon which the bodies of Thompson and Preston were hanging. Kaigler had been in Lexington jail four days for safe keeping. When he was taken there it was understood between the lynching crowd from Gaston and the sheriff that Kaigler should be deliver ed to them whenever he was wanted, as the man was not committed by reg- : ular process of law. The sheriff prom ised to keep him and deliver him when ; wanted. At 12 o’clock Sunday night I six men rode into Lexington village ; and having produced the proofs that they were representatives of the peo ple of Gaston, Sheriff Drafts delivered Kaigler to them. There was no ex citement or anger displayed. The crowd was there for business and they transacted it in short order and went away. They took the prisoner back to Gaston, arriving about daylight Monday morning. A large crowd was present and the same treatment that was accorded the other two men, who were hanging lifeless and perforated on a small limb, was accorded to Kui- gler. The state authorities took no steps whatever to prevent the enraged mob from carrying out its purpose. WASHBURN’S CIRCULAR floor to the gallery with au audience well dressed and of a high order of in telligence. Senator Stewart, of Neva da, was the principal speaker. THE SECOND DAY. As soon as Chairman Thurman call ed the body to order Wednesday morn ing. J. S. Dougherty, of Texas,moved that the roll of the states he called for the appointment of a committee to de vise a plan and consider ways and means for impressing upon congress the ruin and peril now threatening our material interests by the de monetization of silver. General Warner announced that the committe on reso lutions would fully cover the subject. Which Briefly Outlines His Yieivs on the Silver Question, George F. Washburn, of Boston, Mass., national chairman of the east ern division of the people’s party, has sent to the state committee a circular letter conveying his views on the sil ver question. It is in part as follows: The most gigantic trust the world has ever seen is the present interna tional bond-issuing and silver-boycott ing syndicate. The most colossal con spiracy the world has ever known is the present one, originated and guided by Baron Rothschild. Their silver scheme is an attempt to enslave a whole world and in a wholesale man ner swindle and plunder God’s people. The first step in this international plot on the part of the usurers will be to still further corner our circulation here in America and then force an is sue of bonds as a means of relief. If half tho population of the world use silver, and if half the metal cur rency is and always has been silver, how can we increase our volume of j circulation by striking down one-half of the amount? If a man has been | forced to live on two meagre meals a tified, bnt is supposed to be Captain I. Edmund of the Charles. A. B. Wheeler, superintendent of the Biltmore brick and tile works at Asheville,N. C., was arrested Wednes day morning on a charge of larceny preferred by Charles Moname, agent for George W. Vanderbilt. Wheeler’s system of stealing, it is alleged, was falsifying pay rolls. A mass meeting of the business men of Birmingham, Ala., was held Tues day afternoon at the Commercial Club rooms, called for the purpose of tak ing action on the repeal of the Sher man silver purchase law. The movers of the meeting were prominent busi ness men who favor the repeal. Near Montgomery, Texas, Tuesday afternoon, three negroes attacked the house of Mr. M. Marsh, killed Mr. Marsh, brutally assaulted his wife, murdered his infant and cut out the tongue of his seven-year-old child. His wife is believed to he dying. One of the negroes was caught and lynched. The sheriff and posse are searching for the others. A Savannah special of Tuesday says: M. Comer, president of the Central railroad, has consented to grant free , passes tc members of the Georgia State Agricultural Society that meets on the 7th of August at Stone Moun tain. This will give an opportunity to all the members of the State Agri cultural Society to attend the conven- ! free. At Nashville, Tuesday, the United j States grand jury indicted W. II. Scoggins, of the defunct Commercial National bank, for wrongfully certify ing checks. A new indictment was found against F. Porterfield, cashier J of said bank, and one against F. Por terfield and G. A. Dazey charging conspiracy. George Childress, cashier of the defunct Second National hank of Columbia, Tenn., is also indicted. A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says: The lease of the Chesapeake and Ohio and Southwestern railroad to Newport News and Mississippi Valley Company was cancelled Tuesday uiglit. The leaseuvas cancelled by reason of the new state law prohibiting companies, associations and corporations of other states operating any railroad in this state until they have become corpora tions of this state. The First National Bank of Bir mingham, Ala., failed to open its doors Wednesday morning. The continual withdrawal of deposits and inability to collect money fast enough to meet the same, was given as the cause. The First National was the oldest bank in Birmingham. It has a capital stock of $150,000. Its assets amounted to $1,350,000, while the liabilities were $650,000. The depositors will be paid dollar for dollar. After a cessation of two weeks the whisky war broke out afresh at Charleston Tuesday. One of the state’s spies seized a barrel of corn whisky, which had been lying at the South Carolina railroad depot for six or eight weeks. It was marked “Dia mond B.,” but had no further con signee on the head. It came from Statesville, N. C. The constable did not appear to know what to do with it, so he took it to the county jail and lodged it there. This proceeding will probably bring the Evans law up in the federal courts, where the anti-dis pensers are anxious to take it. A Bad Week, but the OutloJ Promising, R. G. Dun & Co.’s weel| says: “The hardest week the business world still ab in the soundness and stf*" closed. No hanks ntNfff'j] other eastern cities andl T |J firms of large impo^M 1 gone down, but numerorj failed at the west, ineluo of high repute and lurp ness. Bnt through all the banks of New York have pe' out trouble and imports t commenced. From one to3 lion dollars in money hasl west every day and a large! in bank reserves is expeetd treasury has not been disbursi*] ily. Fewer commercial loa been negotiated at higher raj cago has drawn heavily on bnt in other cities bank states dicate credible soundness. “Grain rose briskly on 3 all speculative markets yieldedl with tight money and slaugl stocks. Wheat closed about lower, hut the lowest receipt moderate. Corn is a fraction and light hog products. CofCtfl declined an eighth, although tc ceipts are larger and export than last year. “Sales of wool at the chief m 1 ' last week were about 2,000,000 pi I against nearly 8,000,000 poundfil year. Orders for boots and shot/ restricted. Shipments from' the*' are 12 per cent less than for the week last year. Bar iron is weak sold at $1.55. Plates nre in nail demand, and structural iron is ir| ular, with beams down to $1.) ' steel bars, 28,000 tons were s agricultural implement maki Chicago. THE CONDITION OF TRADE. ‘ ‘Philadelphia reports better 1 though very little commercial p sold at 7 per cent, and ban hoarding money for depositor^- \ gain is seen at Pittsburg, whei. demand for iron is small and thl jority of tho mills have closed, bit wage scale for iron and glass is settled. “At Cleveland trade is dull, and! Cincinnati orders are not improvtf Chicago reports smaller receipts most products, a decrease of 22 jl cent in clearings, 36 per cent in ral estate sales and 20 per cent in ettj bound shipments; jobbing trade and retail very satisfactory. Wheal at the lowest price ever known ah local securities are pressed for sa!( At Milwaukee business is contractihj Jobbers at St. Paul arc conservativ but average crops are expected. Omah reports quiet trade, and Sioux Citv good crop prospects. Jobbing trade j quiet at Kansas City; cattle receipts moderately low. “Denver has quiet trade and slov collections. St. Louis reports fail trade for the season. At knoxville and Nashville trade is fair; at Little Rock, very consefvative, is fair; _ Columbus and Macon, the outlook is good though money is tight but sound, and crop prospects excellent. Mobil/ reports fair crop prospects: Jackson ville, a close and cautious trade. “Failures during the past week, 366 in the United States, against 171- last year, and twenty-three in Canada, against twenty-two last year. It is noteworthy that only three failures were of capital above $200,000 each, and only 99 per cent of capital over $5,000 each. Over fifty banks stopped dur ing the week, but nearly all were the west.” at AN IMPORTANT DECISION. POSTPONED AGAIN. The Supreme Court of Georgia Makes Ruling That Will Attract Attention. The supreme court of Georgia has rendered an important decision in the Porter Stocks murder case at Atlanta, The ruling is very important as a pre cedent for the future and will attract attention all over tho Union. The higher court affirms Judge Clark’s de cision and finally disposes of the case Porter stocks was tried shortly after the killing of Alph Cassin and con victed without any recommendation to mercy. His counsel moved for t new trial and .Judge Clark granted aj new trial on this motion. At the last term of the superior court ho wat again put upon trial, and after the trial began and a number of witnesses had been examined information was brought to Judge Clarke that tho mother of one of the jurors had died after the trial began. The juror was called out and a colloquy ensued be tween the court and counsel about in forming the juror of the fact of his mother’s death, the result of which was that tho court discharged the juror. The counsel for tho state ob jected to the discharge of the juror and the defendant’s counsel declined to go on with the trial with the eleven remaining jurors. A few days there Then the matter was dropped and a dis- j day and complained of ? ee ling half The Southern Confederate Reinion : aftf r Stocks was again put upon trial patch of greeting from the Knights of Labor at St. Louis was read. It was stated that Assembly No. 4 had adopt ed resolutions for the free and unlim ited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 starved, who hut a goldbug would dream of advising him to eat only one meal per day as a sure cure for hunger? This gold trust, which comprises the leading bankers and usurers of all to 1. This was received with applause. countrie8 nnder the gene ralship of an The committee on resolutions not be ing ready to report, ex-Senator Hill, of Colorado, was introduced to the convention and spoke at length. The sub-commit tec-on resolutions of the silver convention at the night meet- reed to ignore all questions with the exeept;on of that of money and to demand free coinage and the remone tization of silver. THREE MONTHS MORE It Caused a Run. The publication of the intended ac tion of the New York savings banks and institutions to pnt into practice the law entitling them to thirty days’ notice from depositors of intended withdrawals of money precipitated a run Saturday morning. Some of the banks paid the amonnts in full and thus sought to restore confidence. Others required notice, the time rang ing from one to ninetyydays accordinr to the periods And the Greai World’s Fair Will Be at an End- The world’s fair is now half over, and the total paid attendance for the first three months numbers 7,000,000 persons. Three months of the V ig show have elapsed, and only three months remain before the exhibitors will begin to move out their displays and the work of tearing down the white city will begin. After that ac tion the park will belong to the people again to be used as they please, and the greatest fair the world has ever known will be over and gone. Hie Blockade Raised. Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary secretary of foreign office, anncniijgfcd the house of Qftaimons at Loj Wednesday aft;/j n ooi^ doet&de of Bft-i* -w.v. W bipPh raise,i European Jew, is capable of anything. No absurdity is too absurd for them to offer as an argument; uo monstrosity too monstrous for them to perpetrate as an act. They are the monarchs of crime. Shall we, free-born Americans; we who threw off the political yoke of an English king, bow to the bidding of a few foreign bankers who have bought parliaments and congresses and are trying to dictate our national policy? Let us break this international servi tude. Let us rally once more as an American people and demand the re storation of the money of onr fathers. We can drive these foreign money invaders from our shores forever, if we begin right now. The solution of the problem is to be found in the mon ey plank of the people’s platform. Now is our chance to agitate. P.ally in attendance at the silver conven tions. Make clear to the .people the fact that, if silver goes down, gold goes up. It will take more labor from the wage-earner, more merchandise from the business man ; more wheat cotton and com from the farmer than ever before to buy the gold dollars of the bankers, therefore these wealth- Will be Held in October. I before another ^ and before ^ t j. • the evidence began filed The Southern Confederate reunion lea for former jeopardy,^ which was originally to have been held Wfitl thnt the declarlit ion of a nuT at Birmingham in July and was then : tnal £ the conrt v _. as wr and im _ postponed until September loth and . / and amounted to an acquittal. 16th, has again been postponed to j The CQUrt t into Ms order declari take place at Birmingham on Monday j ^ mlstriid all tLe facte upon w hich and Tuesday, October 2nd ad 3d. it bad been dec l are d and the counsel Among the reasons assigned for ; for the Btato demurred to the plea of further postponement is the summer former jeopardy and the court sustain- heat to permit the harvesting of crops, j ed the demurtct and struck the plea the hope and belief that the financial ; ftnd reqnircd stocks to go to trial he sitation would greatly improve dur- ; fore this third plry _ and be was con- mg the delay and principally was the j victed of voluntary manslaughter. His . counsel then took a bill of exception and set up that Judge Clark erred in ! sustaining the demurrer to a plea of desire to afford the old veterans an opportunity of getting the cheapest rates to the World’s fair. Ajntant General Moorman- issued a general order from Headquarters at New Orleans, Wednesday, announc ing the postponement, and stating that the reunion would positively take place at Birmingham on the last nam [ former jeopardy. The case was taken to the supreme court, and that august 1 body sustained Judge Clark This case is remarkable iu legal histo ry from the fact that there is no case i to be found like it in any of the Amer- ed dates, and that theimveiling of the; fcan states. Other grounds for de confederate monument at ^ ^hicago ; c i ar ; n g a mistrial have been laid down by the courts in numbers of instances, would occur on October 7th. As this is the only confederate monument upon northern soil erected to commemorate ! the six thousand' confederate dead i resting in the shades of Oakwood j cemetery, Chicago, Commanding Gen. j such as iliness of a party, sickness of a juror, the end of the term of court, inability of the jury to agree, and in one case which occnred in Iowa, ill ness of the judge’s wife. Bnt, all the; Gordon appeals to all comrades to ; re6earcb 0 f the counsel on both sides 1 form clubs and take advantages of the j f a ji ed to produce any case like this ou] cheap excursion rates secured for the , facts. It is apprehended that nos oc£ss:on. Hon. V?. C. P. Breckinridge such can be found. f L t