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?s Fall Where They May.”
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Propriitor,
VOL. XII. NO. 7
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SEPTEMBER 12, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The silver producing States number
a population but little more than one
per cent, the total of the United
States.
A new order of things has lately
come about in Siam, and the young
men are getting a great and unusual
share in the government of the coun«
try. From the King downward there
is scarcely a single minister whe is
above the age of forty, and many are
much younger.
' Joint-stock farming, by which larger
agricultural operations can be carried
on under one management than is pos
sible for the single-handed farmer,
will probably be one of the future de
velopments of our agricultural system.
This is a practical way of reducing the
..•ost of production.
The New York News thinks it is
v.orthv of more than passing notice
'ilhen the speed record of the bicycle
reaches the astonishing pace of over
428 miles in twenty-four hours. This
performance, achieved in London, sur
passes the distance covered in the first
six days go-as-you-please pedestrian
race in New York City. The simple
two-wheel contrivance has thus en
abled man to travel as far in a day as
his legs alone would take him in a
week.
When Buffalo Bill’s Indians get
through their work, in Chicago in the
afternoon, they like nothing better
than to repair to a merry-go-round
near the camp and revolve to the music
of a bad hand-organ. The passer-by
stops to see the show, for the bucks
and squaw's are in their full panopy of
feathers and paint. Most people would
get enough fun by riding horseback
three or four hours every day without
wanting to rido on wooden horses
afterward; but, then, you see, real
lorses have no hand-organ attaeh-
. iV.ents.
i
In other days the great area called
)kefonokee Swamp in Southern
leorgia was looked upon as utterly
rreclaimable and worthless. It was
lately sold by the State for sixteen
cents per acre and an enterprising
company of lumbermen has penetrated
the supposed swamp and found it to bo
a small inland sea with rich islands. It
is strange, muses the New York News,
that this mystery was not developed
long ago. Many a time the old wild
cat banking system was satirized by
bogus issues of the “Bank of Oke-
fonokee.”
Doctor Edward Everett Hale has not
much patience with the idea that a
clergyman must work six days over a
sermon. He says; “A sermon con
sists of about 2500 words. I take a
cup of coffee before breakfast and
write about six pages—that is, 650
words. In the morning I dictate to
my amanuensis 1500 words. I am in
tensely interested in tho subject, and
this takes only a quarter of an hour.
In the afternoon I look it over and add
600 or 600 words, and the sermon is
done. In all, I haven’t put my hand
for over two hours to paper. ”
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Says the Chicago Herald: ‘ ‘Secre
tary of State Walter Q. Gresham, will
go down to history as the first member
of the Cabinet who became acting
President in consequenoe of the ina
bility of both the President and Yice-
President. On the same day in July
President Cleveland and Vice-Presi
dent Stevenson were both out of the
country. Mr. Cleveland was on board
the yacht Oneida, sailing out to find
deep sea fishing oft' the coast of Massa
chusetts. Mr. Stevenson was on the
steamer Corona, taking a Pacific
Ocean voyage from San Diego to San
ta Barbara, Cal. Both were more
than three marine leagues, or say, ten
and a half miles, from shore, which is
the limit of the jurisdiction of the
United States. It cannot be said they
were the same as on Cnited States soil,
eing on United States vessels and un
itor the United States flag; for, if be
ing on such a craft was the same as being
on the land, they might have sailed
around the world, claiming to be all
the time in the United States. Per
haps Mr. Gresham did not assume the
duties of acting President, but that he
was the legal acting President while
Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Stevenson both
were ten and a half miles from shore
does not admit of a doubt.”
An Unexpected Bath.
Qvide Musin, the violinist, was the
victim of an odd accident recently.
His concert company was about to be-
gid an evening entertainment at a
BaKist Church, and Mr. Musin,
ar’lved in faultless evening dress,
thfllght he would view the audience
without being seen. To accomplish
his purpose he stepped behind a
curtain which hung at the back of the
piatform. There was a splash, and
the violinist found himself in three
feet of water. He emerged a very wet
and angry man. Mr. Musin had in
advertently stepped into the baptismal
font. It was after eight o’clock and :
the concert had begun. A young man
came to the violinist’s rescue, how
ever, and said he would provide Mr.
Musin with a dry outfit. But it was
half an hour before he did, and Mr.
Musin was several minutes late making
his appearance. The new trousers
fitted him rather awkwardly, and he
not in a pleasant frame of mind, but
ot through with his part of the pro-
e, and the audience is probably
ignorant of the fact that he had
n into the font,—London Figaro.
CARRYING MAIL.
POSTOFFICE EXHIBIT AT
THE AVORLD’S FAIR.
ling cart. Th* Oklawha «an travel in ]
eighteen inches of water.
Much handsomer is the model of fee
City of St. Louis, a side-wheel mail
packet thr.t brings letters te the river
towns on the Mississippi,
How 'be Little Two-Cent Stamp
Transports Letters in All Kinds
•f Conveyances—Magnitude
of the Postal Service.
PEER Michigan
mail is transported
on dog-sleds in the
winter. Canine
letter-carriers are
not beautiful to
the eye and it is
doubtful if they
would even be al
lowed to enter a
cross-roads bench
show, but there is
a business-like look
about a tandem
dog team that at
tracts the attention
of every person who passes the stuffed
group in the Postoffice exhibit.
The dogs harnessed to the toboggan
loaded with the mail pouches were alive
and in actual service last winter haul
ing mail out of Sault Ste. Marie. The
wax figure loping alongside is a good
likeness of the Indian who drove the
team. From his snow shoes to the
tassel of his woolen cap the Indian’s
costume is a faithful copy of the I
clothes which enabled the bronze-faced j
mail courier to brave ten-foot snow ■
and a forty degree below zero ther- !
mometer. This group is one of the :
exhibits which show how mail is tran- !
EORGIA NEWS NOTES.
sported in this country.
Few consider what they are doing
when they stick a two-cent stamp on
an addressed envelope. They know
that the person whose name and ad
FOTTND IX DEAD-IiETTEB PARCELS.
An old-time Rocky Mountain mail
coach, swung on _its leather straps,
with its boots full" jf mail sacks, occu
pies a prominent position. It was
built in 1868, and was among the first
to carry the mail in Montana. Once a
week it made the run between Helena
and Bozeman. To-day four mail trains
perforin the service daily. In 1877 the
old coach was captured by Indians,
and after a hot pursuit by General O.
O. Howard was recaptured. Before
General Garfield became President he
rode on the coach through the Yellow-
CARRYIXG MAH, IK ALASKA.
dress are on the envelope will receive
the letter. Few of them, however, ap
preciate the fact that the stamp places
the United States Government under
a cast-iron contract to place that letter
in right hands at the earliest possible
moment, even though the hands are
felling trees in the almost inaccessible
depths of an upper Michigan pine for
est, or working in the tangles of a
Florida everglade. To do this the
Government uses human legs, wagons,
bicycles, railroads, steamboats, dog
sleds, horses, ponies, ocean vessels,
river boats and anything else that will
carry the letter over land or water,
mountains or plains, swamps or snow
drifts, in summer or in winter, at all
times and any time.
Lives have been sacrificed that a let
ter might go forward, millions of dol
lars have been spent preparing the
way for other letters and yet people
place the two-cent stamps on their en
velopes and drop the letters into the
red boxes on the street corners with no
appreciation of what they are doing.
A visit to the Postoffice exhibit in the
Government Building is apt to increase
one’s respect for the little postage
stamp. There are displayed all the
means used for transporting mail, as
well as a thousand other interesting
things which might keep a visitor busy
half a day.
General Hazen, who was Third As
sistant Postmaster-General under Pres
idents Hayes and Harrison, took a
great deal of interest in assembling the
exhibits, and is on the ground daily
for he is a member of the Government
Board. He wished to show the de
velopment of the service and has suc
ceeded admirably. No greater con
trast could be found than is formed by
the two models of ocean mail steamers.
There is a model of the old Southerner,
the first ocean steamship built to carry
United States mail. Forty years ago
it did the service which is now per
formed by nautical greyhounds such as
the City of Paris of the International
line, whose beautiful model is placed
near the old ship.
A queer mail carrier is the Oklawha,
which runs on the river of that name
in Florida. Assuming that the model
is a good miniature, the Oklawha is all
above water, a regular floating house.
According to General Hazen its draft
in so light that it could follow a sprink-
• stone country, President Arthur sat on
; the boot with its driver in 1883 and
j General Sherman in 1877 made a trip
on the ancient vehicle.
Near the old-timer is the modern
yellow-bodied open coach used in the
Yellowstone Park for carrying tourists
and mail. It has usurped the proud
position once held by the stage coach,
which Indians used to capture. The
post rider, mounted on his spirited
broncho, armed with revolvers and
booted and spurred, tells of the letters
carried over alkali plains, broad
prairies and wild western lands. This
mounted group is the admiration of
the small boys, who gaze on it with
wide-open eyes. The pony express
was the original letter-carrier across
the plains, and to-day 1000 mail routes
use ponies and bronchos. The Indian
question was a most serious one- to the
men who carried mail-bags through a
country swarming with redskins. In
the dead-letter exhibit is a mail-pouch
stained with the blood of a post rider
and slashed by the keen blade of the
Indian murderer.
From these exhibits, around which
people gather in wondering groups, to
the mail car, mail-delivery and mail-
collecting wagons, the special-delivery
messenger astride the bicycle, and the
familiar city carrier and railway postal
clerk, is coming from the romantic to
the realistic commonplace.
Statistics are usually dry, but the
large tabulated postal statistics from
1775 to 1893 are always the center of
an interested group. The totals reach
almost incredible figures and demon
strate the enormous business trans
acted by the Postoffice Department.
Benjamin Franklin was the first post
master-general. He was appointed by
the Continental Congress July 26,
1775, and apparently made no report
of the work done in his department
Samuel Osgood, appointed September
26, 1789, who was the first postmaster-
general of the United States to hand
down reports, had seventy-five post-
offices to look after in 1789, and 2275
mile3 of post routes. The gross revenue
for the year amounted to $7510, and
postmasters were paid $1657 for sal
aries. The total number of mail
pieces of all kind handled was 500,000,
evidently an estimate.
At the close of the fiscal year, 1892,
there were 67,119 post-offices in this
country. The extent of post routes
aggregated 447,591 miles, the miles of
mail service performed reached the
amazing total of 363,087,695, the gross
receipts were $70,930,475 and the post-
offices cost $76,960,846. There were
2,543,270,210 ordinary postage stamps
issued, 593,684,700 stamped envelopes
and wrappers, 511,433,500 postal
cards. Of registered letters 15,260,-
094 were earried and 6,781,180 pieces
went to the dead-letter office. The
domestio money orders issued
amounted to $120,066,801 and $15,-
120,271 were sent by international
money orders. During the year the
Postoffice handled 4,776,575,076 pieces
of mail matter of all kinds.
From 1851 to 1883 the postal rate
was three cents for every half-ounce.
In October, 1883, the rate was reduced
to two cents. The total receipts for
the last year of three-cent postage
were $45,334,950. The first year of
the two-cent rate dropped receipts to
$42,560,844, but the figures crawled
up so rapidly th^t last year they
amounted to $70,930,475. General
Hazen was a firm advocate of cheaper
postage. He believed that the slight
decrease in receipts would be made up
3 Cl
react
a much weakened condition.
“When they arrived in Lower Cd
fornia they were so weak it was impd
sible for them to stand. They we|
fed carefully on prepared fodder afl
nursed along, but they dropped
one by one.
“But California is bound to hai
these valuable sheep feeding on her
pastures within a few years. This
time we will select a larger number
and on their arrival in this country
will det lin them a much longer time
than were the Government sheep, so
as to give them an opportunity to re
coup their strength after the very
weakening ocean voyage. Then two
or three stops will be made before
they finally reach California. By tak
ing this care in transportation we hope
to have better luck than did Secretary
Rusk.”—New York World.
Will Run Trains by Telephone.
It is stated that the great Pennsyl
vania Railroad has decided to dis
pense with the telegraph in running
its trains, and to substitute the long
distance telephone. The change is
made in the interests of economy and
safety. The management has decided
that it costs less to run the telephone,
and that its messages are less likely to
be mistaken. The telephone will ena
ble the train dispatcher to communi
cate directly with his conductors.—
New Orleans Picayune.
Quicksilver was first discovered
within the limits of the United States
ia C Jifornia in 1860.
Pliny mentions a Spanish mine
opened by Hannibal wbicbyielded 300
pounds of silver daily,
of General Interest PicM Up
All Oyer Hie State.
[rrell County Camp of United
rans has been formally organized
a large enrollment of members.
* * *
e governor has offered a reward
00 for the arrest of John Con-
who killed Charles Jenkins in
ks county on the 2d of August.
* * *
bee is a scene of wreck and deso-
i. There is little left of Savan-
popular summer resort except
potel Tybee, the Naylor House
Ihe club house.
L 4c * *
W1 has been issued for a conven-
[of sportsman to be held at Atlan-
October 17th with the view of
Jnizing the various associations in
rgia into a permanent sportmen’s
elation.
* * *
public meeting was held at Augns-
few days ago and the Georgia
road was petitioned to change the
of departure of the noon train
Atlanta so as to leave earlier in
i morning.
* * *
iBelieving all danger from the yel-
Iv fever to have passed, and that fur-
ler precautions were unnecessary,
jayor Gilbert, of Albany, has declar-
quarantine against Brunswick and
Iher hitherto affected points raised,
k persons from these points can now
*it Albany without hindrance or
lection.
► * * *
jThe jobbers and wholesale grocers
Savannah have decided to solicit
bscriptions for the aid of the suffer-
> from the storm on the sea islands
t jund Beaufort and Port Royal, and
y contributions of clothing or pro-
sions that may be donated will be
ceived either at the wharf of the
lamer Alpha or at the office of the
holesale Grocers’ Association, where
sy will be acknowledged by Mr. O.
Petit, secretary.
* * *
Under the law the State Pharma-
itical Association presents to the
vernor five names from which he is
select one member of the state
ird of pharmacy. At its last meet-
; the association submitted the five
nes to the governor and he has ap-
inted Dr. S. C. Durben, of Rich-
nd county, as a member of the
ird for a term of five years begin-
lg the 1st of November, 1893.
* * *
The employes of the Richmond and
nville railroad at Atlanta, including
ne of those whose salaries are re-
ced by the cut which went into ef-
:t on Sept. 1, publisn resolutions
nplimentary to the management.
£ employes express appreciation of
s action of the management in sp
ring the reduction to the well-paid
icers, only those who received over
)0 per month being reduced, instead
cutting the wages of the men who
•eive only nominal wages. Those
ected accept the cut without corn-
tint.
* * *
young men’s business league has
en organized at Augusta. The board
officers elected is charged with the
r‘y of selecting the secretary, who
11 be the only salriea officer, and
io will be selected with great care,
ley will also proceed at once to draft
institution and by-laws and procure
iharter. The league will be in the
cure of a chamber of commerce and
[internfStion, and its object
" ^itlier the young men of
fusta in united work for the city,
egins under most favorable aus-
Two receivers have been appointed
Judge Pardee to look after the
siness of the Equitable Mortgage
'company in tbe state of Georgia. The
ames of the receivers are Charles M.
owler and James M. Gifford, both of
ew York. The failure of the com-
has made itself felt in business
,rcles all over the country. It was
a of the leading enterprises of its
araeter in New York state, and its
e was among the moneyed institu-
s of Wall street. The liabilities
company are in the close neigh-
of $20,000,000.
* * *
e total increase in the tax returns
[Fnlton county, during the past
has been footed up, and the re-
i a gain of $1,564,104 in the tax-
property. This is an excellent
ng, and one that ought to make
citizen of Atlanta feel proud. It
that, in spite of the hard times,
have depreciated the value of
in other parts of the state,
has kept the even tenor of her
ihe has moved along quietly in
h of prosperity, and has steadi-
n in wealth while other places
Teased in the value of their
Recent reports received by the cot-
to n factors of Savannah show that the
di image to the cotton crop by the
st >rm was not so great as first report
ed . In fact the factors do not an
tic ipate any appreciable decrease in
th e yield on account of the storm.
Nc ne of the factors estimated the dam-
agi i at more than 5 per cent, and the
ma jotity do not think it will reach
th«lt much. The chief loss has been
frotn open cotton, which was beaten
outj by the storm and afterwards cover
ed 'With earth by the rain. This cot
ton.) where it was not taken np from
the igroTLd within a day or two, has
beg] n to sprout, and is, of course,
woq hless. This loss is thought to be
small, as the cotton is not fully open
yet and at this portion of the season is
harder to beat out of the bolls than it is
later on when the plant has lost its vi
tality.
* * *
Henry La«s to Turpentine Operators.
The turpentine operators, whose
farms were in the path of the recent
storm, are heavy sufferers, as is shown
by tl reports they are sending in to
factois at Savannah. Reports from
the sestion just west of Savannah tra
verser by the Sam and Central rail
roads ihow that the operators will lose
about qp per qeat of the boxes by the
Mowing down of their tiees. This
means a loss of ten per cent of the
crop that would have been made from
now on if the storm had not occurred.
Reports from along the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway from Sa
vannah as far as Jessup indicate that
the damage to the crop has been about
the same as from the other section,
but the other side of Jessup the dam
age has been comparatively slight, and
further on there has been none at all,
as that was out of the path of the
storm.
* * *
The Wenllier and Crops.
Copious rains during the past week
over much of the northwest section ©f
Georgia have been very beneficial to
crops. There is quite a number of
localities, however, in the section that
have had very little rain in the past
three weeks, and the consequent in
jury to cotton and other crops has
been considerable.
Throughout the northeastern sec
tion peas, potatoes and turnips are in
good condition, and it is expected by
all farmers that good yields will be
realized. Considerable damage was
done throughout the section on the
27th to cotton and young corn, but
good weather since has restored them
somewhat.
In western Georgia the weather con
ditions of the past week have been
generally favorable to the maturing of
cotton, late planted corn, etc.
From the central counties are re
ceived many complaints of the poor
condition of cotton, caused by the
winds, drought and rust during July
and August. Picking is being pushed
forward as rapidly as the weather will
permit.
The effects of the recent hurricane
which passed up the coast were felt
by the farmers throughout the east
ern section of the state, the greatest
amount of damage being done to cot
ton and corn, which were blown to
the ground and from a quarter to a
third of both crops will be destroyed
by rot, Peas and sugar cane were al
so injured on the many plantations.
Potatoes are in good condition. Young
corn was in promising condition up to
the time of the storm, but now much
is destroyed,
The gentle., but scattered showers
that fell in southwest Georgia during
the past week greatly improved all
growing crops.
Gardens throughout the section
seem to be in a good condition. Rice
is in fine condition.
The weather conditions in the south
ern sections have generally been quite
favorable for the growth of crops.
Cotton is in poor condition, owing to
the unfavorable weather. It has open
ed prematurely. Sugar cane and po
tatoes ,:.re growing nicely and a large
crop of each is assured.
More complete reports were receiv
ed as to the damage done by the hur
ricane of the 27th of August in the
southest portion of the state. The
counties on the coast suffered the most.
In these counties, Bryan and Chatham
particularly, the hurricai • fury of the
winds almost completely ruined crops,
besides blowing down fruit trees, etc.
Cotton and tide-water rice in many
places are almost a total loss. Irish
potatoes and sweet potatoes, beans,
peas and everything else growing have
all been damaged irreparably. Away
from the coast the damage from wind
and rain was much less. Rainy
weather continued during much of the
past week and crops of all kinds have
hardly had any chance to recover from
the violence of the hurricane.
BUSINESS MORE PROMISING.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Government ani Routine of
the Honse and Senate Discussed.
i
Bradstreet’s and Run Give Encourage
ing Reports^
Bradstreet’s report of trade for past
week says: The clouds over the gen
eral business situation throughout the
country have continued to breakaway.
This is the second week in which the
actual improvement has been recorded,
as indicated by an increase in volume
and distribution of merchandise re
ported at Cincinnati, Chicago, St.
Louis, Kansas City and Omaha. More
travelers have been sent out from these
and other points, and manufacturing
industries there as well as at larger
eastern centers have in a number of
instances begun starting np, some
without special orders.
R. G. Dun & Co. says: The indus
trial situation mends but little. The
signs of improvement observed a week
ago were scarcely sustained, for, while
twelve textile and thirteen steel con
cerns have resumed after stoppage,
fifty-five textile and two steel concerns
have stopped. In addition, thirteen
others have reduced working time,
and several have reduced working
forces. A more satisfactory indica
tion is that the failures are greatly
diminished in importance and some in
number. The number reported dur
ing the past week in the United States
is 356 against 148 for the samS week
last year, and in Canada 29 againsv
28 last year. In the eastern states
the failures number 149; in the west
ern 142 and in the southern 65, show
ing an improvement in each section.
The Debt Statement.
The debt statement issued at Wash
ington Friday afternoon shows a net
increase in the public debt less cash in
the treasury during August of $10,-
442,898. The interest bearing debt
increased SI 50. The non-interest bear-
inp debt decreased $160,908, and the
cash in the treasury decreased $10,-
603,656.93. The certificates and treas
ury notes, offset by an equal amount
of cash in the treasury outstanding at
the end of the month, were $565,614,-
881, a decrease of $11,747,710.
Doctors in Meeting.
The president of the United States
gave a graceful welcome to the Pan-
American congress, whose four days’
session commenced in the national
capital Tuesday and the business
of the gathering was entered
upon under the most favorable
conditions of weather, attendance and
public interest. There were probably
between 800 and 1,000 doctors in at
tendance.
Banks Resuming Business.
A Washington special of Friday says:
The following national banks, which
recently suspended payment, have been
permitted tore-open their doors for
business. The American National Bank
of Nashville, Team ,* tjfe-First National
Bank of Grundy Center) ?bwa, and the
Firs* National Bank of Harrisonville.
Missouri,
Notes of interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
Senator Peffer has presented a peti
tion in the senate from citizens of
Kansas in the form of a resolution pro
viding for the issue of treasury notes
to be loaned the different states ac
cording to demand at interest, not ex
ceeding one per cent to be distributed
among the people of the states and to
be legal tender for all public and pri
vate debts.
Innumerable dispatches received at
Washington indicate that a general re
sumption of business in the manufact
uring plants in the north and west has
begun or is in preparation. This is
particularly marked in the cotton fac
tory section of New England and iron
working"plants in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, also in the miscellaneous indus
tries of Philadelphia and New York.
The treasury department has ordered
all the gold bullion in the department
coined immediately. This bullion is
in the form of bars, and as it cannot
be used in that shape it has been de
cided to coin it. There is about
$90,000,000 in bullion, and as the
coinage capacity of the Philadelphia
mint is only $6,000,000 a month, it
will take more than a year to coin the
bullion on hand at present.
By direction of the secretary of war,
three hundred hospital tents have
been sent from quartermaster’s depart
ment at St. Louis, to the people left
homeless through the ravages of the
great hurricane on the South Carolina
coast. Secretary Lamont was anxious
to send subsistence as well, but found
there was neither money nor stores
available for this purpose.
A Washington dispatch says: Tho
state of South Carolina, by its attor
neys, filed with the commissioner of
patents Wednesday a motion for a re
view of his recent decision declining
to register the word “Palmetto” on a
trade mark in connection with the
manufacture and sale of whisky in
South Carolina. The commissioner
read the brief filed in the case, and at
once rendered his decision, decliniu
to reopen the case.
Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts,has
resigned the office of assistant secretary
of state to which he was appointed by
President Cleveland. This action has
for some time been anticipated, Mr.
Quincy having accepted the position
with the expectation of relinquishing
it after a short service. Since the
Massachusetts state democratic con
vention was held, it has been apparent
that there would be an imperative de
mand for Mr. Quiney to assume charge
of the approaching campaign. His
resignation, as a consequence, creates
no surprise.
The South Carolina delegation had
a meeting Monday afternoon and de
cided to offer resolutions in congress
asking for relief for the hurricane dis
trict in South Carolina. Congressman
Murray, the colored member, has
drawn up a joint resolution, which he
will offer on Wednesday, asking for
an appropriation of $200,000. It is
asked for the colored people, and the
resolution may pass, though there is
no precedent in such cases, and some
of the members of the house think it
dangerous to establish one. Still the
condition is so serious that congress
®ay find some way to give succor.
Secretary Carlisle has decided to
meet the treasury deficit- by issuing
silver certificates against the seign'or--
age of the bullion purchased under
the Sherman law. He estimates that
the deficit for the year will be fifty
millions, which would be covered by
the coinage of the seignorage and the
issue of certificates on the silver pur
chased to September 1st. The need
for money, especially paper currency,
is 60 pressing that the secretary will
recommend the issue of certificates in
advance of the actual coinage, which
would enable the treasury to meet its
obligations without making further
inroads on the gold reserve.
Monday morning Surgeon General
Wyman received a letter from Dr.
Stuart, chairman of the Beaufort, S.
C., board of health, asking for disin
fectants. The chairman writes that
the entire water front of tho town has
been washed away, and that the ac
cumulation of debris in view of the
fever further south, threaten the lo
cality with disease, and that prompt
action will be necessary. Tho law
gives the supervisory surgeon general
power to grant supplies in eases of
epidemics, and he construes this to
mean that he has like authority in
taking such action as will prevent
epidemics, and will, therefore, grant
the request for disinfectants.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Report of the Situation for the Past
Week.
The review of the industrial si'nation in the
south for the past week shows a slight revival
in business, and that the signs indicate that
the south is slowly recovering from the effects
of the r. cent critical period. There have been
to failures of importance, the banka are re
suming pavments in the larger cities, and the
coaling in of the cotton crop is giving
some animation in business circles. Sev
eral of the larger cotton mils
which either shut down or ran
on reduced time have resumed iu full .orce
The cyclone of the last week has seriously af
fected the p' oduction of sea island cotton and
of naval stores, and the crop will be much re
duced. Cotton will not come to market in
large quantities unless the price advances, as
the farmers are generally in shape to hold it,
and will not sell for the cost of production
alone.
Twenty-eight new industries were established
or incorporated daring the week, together with
eight enlargements of manufactories and eleven
important new buildings.—Tradesman, (Chat
tanooga Tenn.
Declared to Be Asiatic Cholera.
A cable dispatch of Friday from
London states that the epidemic in
the Lincolnshire seaport, Grimsby,
has been declared officially to be
Asiatic cholera, after having been call
ed a “choleraic disease” for many
days. The last victim of the disease
was a woman, who died last Tuesday.
Several other cases before hers had
ended fatally. The authorities of
Grimsby believe that the cholera was
brought to the city by immigrants
from th* infected popts, Antwerp and
.Rotterdam,
SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES.
Many Big Business Concerns Resume
Operations.
The Oliver Iron and Steel Company
at Pittsburg, Pa., started up with
non-union men Friday. The compa
ny has enough orders on hand to run
the whole plant for an indefinite peri
od, and there is. very little stock
hand. The plant employs about 4,00
men and has been idle since June 30
Business men and banks of Kans
City are unanimous. in their opinio
that the low points in the * presen
financial depression has been reache
in that city, and that the npwar
ward movement has begun. Ban
presidents estimate that the banks
have gained $2,000,000 in deposits
since the run in July.
The suspended Bank of New Eng
land, at Manchester, N. H., having
assets sufficient to pay depositors and
stockholders in full and have a sur
plus, will resume in a few days.
The St. Louis Stamping Company
has resumed business, Mr. W. F.
Neidringhaus, the proprietor, agree
ing to sign the Amalgated scale. This
will effect 10,000 persons.
A general mass meeting of the
striking coal miners held at Loaven-
worth, Kas., decided to declare the
strike at an end and return to work at
the old scale.
The Cocheco Manufacturing Compa
ny, at Dover, N. H., will start up Sep
tember 6, after a three weeks’ shut
down.
NO STRIKE YET.
But (lie L. & N. Employes Are Awaiting
the Result of a Conference.
A Nashville special of Friday says:
Everything is quite in railroad circles
in the city. The men are at work and
business is proceeding. Great interest
is felt in the result of the conference at
Louisville between the various commit
tees and the officials of the Louisville
and Nashville. If ordered by the com
mittee to strike they will all go out,
but if the committee decides that they
shall remain they will do so. Up to
noon Friday President Thomas, of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis,
had received no communication from
the representatives of the employes of
his road, although this was the date set
by the union employes for a conference
with him. At the last meeting Major
Thomas told the men that if the busi
ness of the road justified it the regular
wages would be restored, but the men
wanted an absolute promise and when
Major Thomas declined to give it they
said they would vote on the matter and
give their answer at a second conference
to be held Friday.
THE STRIKE POSTPONED.
The L. & N. Employes Accept a Reduc
tion Until December 1st.
The final conference between tha
cheifs and trainmen on one side and
the leading officials of the Louisvilla
and Nashville on the other, was held
at Louisville,Saturday lasted and from
half past 2 o'clock until 8:15 at night.
The following is the text of the agree
ment reached.
On December 1st there will be an
other conference as to the restoration
of rates. In the meanwhile the 10 per
cent cut will operate as President
Smith’s order intended it should. At
the deferred meeting of the trainmen
and the officials December 1st, the
business before it will be the considera
tion of the restoration of rates and
this will depend upon the volume of
the road’s business at that time and
its ability financially to restore wages
to the standard existing before the
cut.
The Louisville and Nashville does
not bind itself to restore rates, regard-
leES-cf business alone as the trainmen
at first wahtecHfee-inanagement to do.
In other words, the questTBH-^ijeBto-
ration is loft open for adjustment aT"
the time fixed upon.
EUCHRE IS GAMBLING
Says a Jndge in His Charge to the
Grand Jnry,
A Chattanooga dispatch of Tuesday
says: Judge Moon, in his charge to
the grand jury created a sensation by
declaring that progressive euchre is
gambling. He said: “Not only is
gambling carried on in regular gamb
ling resorts, but people of high stand
ing and respectability gamble. They
may not put down money, but they
set the example for others in playing
for prizes and awards. In these pro
gressive euchre games these persons
play for fine pictures or gold-headed
canes. Examples are set that are a
violation of the law, and it is just as
demoralizing as common gambling.”
COTTON MONEY.
New York Banks Will furnish What
is Needed.
A special of Tuesday from Mem
phis, Tenn., says: All the banks in
the city have been notified by their
New York banking connections that
they are prepared to ship all the
money necessary to Memphis to move
the cotton crop. This news was re
ceived with joy by the local financiers,
who regard the financial stringency
as a thing of the past. The cotton
crop will begin moving in earnest
about September 15th.
A Fatal Wreck.
A southbound freight train loaded
with merchandise, was wrecked and
partly burned about ten miles from
BreDham, Texas, on the Gulf, Colo
rado and Santa Fe, Friday. A prai
rie fire had burned away a piece of
track, and as the train came along at
the rate of thirty miles an hour, it
rushed into a bridge spanning a wide
creek. Jack Swanson, the engineer,
was killed and Fireman Dameron and
Brakeman Ford were fatally injured.
Two unknown tramps were killed and
number of others are reported to be ia
the ruins.
Iowa Populists in Convention.
The Iowa populist state convention
met at Des Moines Tuesday and nomi
nated the following state ticket:
Governor—J. M. Joseph, of Creston;
lieutenant governor—E. O. Ott, of
Des Moines; supreme judge—A. W.
C. Weeds, of Winchester; railroad
commissioner—J. A. Gray, of Musca
tine ; state superintendent—Mrs.
Winthrow, of Marshaltown. There
were no contests for places on tho
ticket.