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rpiTF? I I I Vj PROGRESS. TEEMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to ?s Fall Where They May.” JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Propriitor, VOL. XII. NO. 7 Vj 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. ” f 1 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.