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THE VIEN
PROGRESS
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TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
Hew to the Line, LSthe Chips Fall Where They May.”
JOHN E HOWELL Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XII. NO. 9
VIENNA, GA.mTESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1893.
PUBLISHEi) WEEKLY.
lIPE-SAVINCt.
METHODS OFTHE MEN ON COAST
AND LAKE STATIONS.
An Interesting Pen and Pencil Sketch
of the United States Life-Saving
Service as Shown at the
World’s Fair.
OSSIBLY the hardy
life-saver in the ser
vice of the Gov
ernment is the least
talked abont and
most interesting
man in the Federal
service, says the
Chicago Record. A
new occupation has
been found for the fisherman in the
winter months where before he had to
rely on the profits of the fishing season.
The United States is the first Nation in
1 he world to establish and to maintain
a life-saving service. It has already
had its effect in fostering navigation,
and since 1872, when it was founded
on its present basis, hasproved a grand
success. On the English and French
coasts stations have been setup at dan
gerous points for the mariners by vol
untary contribution of ship owners.
Neither the British fior the French
Governments takes any interest, pecu
niary or otherwise, in this work of
charity and protection. The marin
ers in distress are left entirely at the
mercy of salvage companies.
The life-saving service of the United
States is under the direct control of
the Federal department and is one of
the growing organizations of the Gov
ernment. Within the last decade the
increase in the value of the service,
according to departmental statistics,
hns been enormous. The total num
ber of disasters in which the life-savers
have had anything to do since the for
mation of the corps has been 6450, the
total value of the vessels wrecked $71,-
367,850, the total value of cargoes
$33,342,469, the total amount of prop
erty involved $104,710,319. By the
live-saving stations alone of the prop
erty involved $78,821,457 has been
saved and only $25,888,862 lost in
wrecks. In all of the 6450 wrocks
there were 52,879 lives in danger, of
which number only 627 were lost. The
of the crew receives a salary of $65 a
month, and the keeper a salary of $900
», year. The crew is under strict
discipline. Daily drills and rigid ex
ercise is exacted. The stations on the
Atlantic coast are manned from Sep
tember 1 to "May 1. During the sum
mer months the men fish in the
vicinity and may be called together at
THE OLD MOTAR.
any time, although not on regular
duty. On the great lakes the sta'tions
are manned from the opening of navi
gation in the spring until closed late in
the fall. The static ns on the Pacific
coast are-in service all the year.
There is a regular system of promo
tion for the men. Fr om the keeper
down they are numbered. In the
absence of No. 1 the next man, No. 2,
is commander of the crew. From
sunrise to sunset the 10,000 miles of
sea and lake coast of the United States
is patrolled. On foggy days the men
are constantly on duty and walk the
coast -with lighted torches as a warn
ing to laboring vessels. The night
patrol is divided into four watches and
two surfmen are picked for each
watch. The patrols on the Atlantic
coast connect and form a continuous
line from the far-eastern cost of Maine
to Florida. When the patrolmen from
different stations meet at the
boundaries of their territories they
exchange cheeks, and these are for
warded to the captains at each station
as an evidence that the whole coast has
been covered. Each man carries a
beach lantern and several red Costan
hand-lights. Upon the discovery of a
VIEW IX THE LIKE-SAVING STATION, WORLD’S FAIR.
ratio of lives lost to the lives endan
gered and of the property destroyed to
the property involved in wrecks has
been wonderfully lessened in the last
twenty years. ,
Every year Congress appropriates
$1,000,000 to the life-saving service
and every years new stations are built
and equipped. The only Nation on
the globe that supports even one life
saving station aside from the United
States is the Turkish Empire. The
Sultan has established a station on the
Bosphorous to protect the Oriental
mariners from its dangerous reefs.
LIME-CUTTING TACKLE.
The sea and lake coasts of the United
States, exclusive of the coasts of Alas
ka, have an extent of 10,000 miles,
protected and patrolled by the Gov
ernment’s life-savers. Upon these
coasts there are 262 life-saving sta
tions, of which 199 are on the Atlantic
coast, forty nine on the great lakes,
thirteen on the Pacific coast and one
on the falls of the Ohio at Louisville.
The stations are all placed at points of
navigation.
From the eastern extremity of the
coast of Maine to Race Point* on Cape
Cod, a distance of 415 miles, there are
sixteen stations. In the Revolutionary
days the Massachusetts Humane So
ciety was formed, and life-saving was
its aim. This organization is still in
existence, and watches for wrecks on
the coast of Massachusetts. On ac
count of this protection the general
Government has not found it neces
sary to establish stations except at
places where wrecks are unusually fre
quent.
Between Sandy Hook and Cape May
on the New Jersey coast, where the
coast-wise trade is congested, there
are forty stations. Between Cape
Henry and Cape Hat Leras is a danger
ous spot for mariners, and in the 121
miles of coast there are. twenty-five
stations which form s complete chain.
At »ob station there is a crew of
HfM sssa <H)4 6 top?:: M MZ
wreck, a vessel in distress, or one run
ning dangerously near shore, he ignites
a hand-light, which givts a brilliant
red flame. This serves as a Warning
and tells of assistance at hand. The
greatest work the service has accom
plished has been in the line of warning
vessels off shore and preventing dis
asters.
The uniform is simple, consisting
of a blue blouse, a cap with the letters
U. S. L. S. S. embroidered on it, and
coarse flannel trousers. The badge of
the service is a life buoy on which a
boat hook and an oar are crossed. The
men picked for the service are mostly
fishermen from the locality where they
are to do duty. They are men who
knowevery inch of the ground they are
to cover and know every bump in the
bottom of sea within a mile from land.
There used to be great loss of life in
the service, but the danger gradually
diminishes as new inventions are made.
No patrolman on his lonely watches on
the beach can shirk duty. When the
stations are placed so far apart that pa-
trolmendonot meet, each surfman car
ries a clock with a dial that can be
marked only by means <*f a key, which
also registers the time of marking.
This key is secured to a post at the
end of his beat and he is required to
reach it tef bring back the dial prop
erly marked.
Ida Lewis was made famous by her
daring feats of bravery at the Lime
Rock light in Newport harbor long be
fore any life-saving station was in the
vicinity. Equal feats have been ac
complished by the surfmen, but as it
was in the line of their duty their
deeds have been lost in the every-day
humdrum. The forerunner of the ser
vice were the sheds which were built
by the fishermen on the Atlantic shore,
where they kept a boat, mortar and
life-lines. The door was always locked,
but in case of a wreck the house was
broken into by the first man on the
scene and the boat was hauled out to
The one roan who was drowned at
tempted to ride on the roof of the car,
but was washed away in the great
waves.
The appropriation made by Congress
for an exhibit of the life-saving ser
vice at the Fair called for all kinds of
boats and equipments used in the ser
vice. There are two large self-bailing
and self-righting mahogany life-boats
and several old-fashioned vessels. The
self-bailing boats are the ones chosen
by the service. The average boat
weighs 1200 pounds, is twenty-six feet
long and the beam measures seven
feet. The self-righting and self-bail
ing boat is too heavy to be hauled on
the beach and is mainly used on the
lakes. A track and a sloping plat
form is needed to launch it success
fully. The life-saving car carries all
the equipments of the station and can
be readily hauled by the men.
The life-saving station at the Fair
will be maintained even after the term
of the Exposition. The situation has
been found to be better adapted to the
service than the old one an 1 the post
will be removed. The crew which now
mans the World’s Fair station belongs
in Ludington, Mich., and will return
at the close of the Fair. This crew,
the best drilled on the lakes, is com
manded by Captain John Tufts. The
members of the crew are Surfman J.
F. Pratton, M. W. Grinnell, J. Nelson.
F. Carlson, B. Carlson, O. Wilkinson
and J. Mitchel. They are detailed on
regular life-saving duty while here,
Drills are given every Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday afternoon at 2.30
o’clock. On Saturday an exhibition ot
life-boat capsizing and righting
given.
The exhibition on Monday, WedneS'
day and Friday consists in the full
work of saving ship-wrecked sailors,
The surfboat is maneuvered on th«
beach, a line is fired over the wreck,
the whip and hawser are sent out and
then breeches buoy. In this the men
one at a time, come ashore. At the
end of the hawser printed instruction!
are given in English and French.
The life-saving station and the ex
hibits at the Fair are under the super
vision of Lieutenant Charles H. Me
Clellan of the revenue-marine service,
assistant inspector of the life-saving
service. He is the author of several
books relating to scientific life-saving,
and is the inventor of most of the ap
paratus used in the service. He rep
resented the service at the Cincinnat:
Exposition in 1887, the New Orleans
Exposition in 1884, and 1885 and the
London Exhibition of 1883.
GEORGIA SEWS
Hems of General Interest
All Oyer tlie statd
Biggest of All Searchlights.
A searchlight of 375,000,000 candle-
power, set up at the World’s Fair, is
the biggest and most powerful electric
searchlight in the world. It dwarfs
into insignificance by comparison the
100,000 candle-power searchlight on
Mount Washington, hitherto the great
est in existence. With the exception
of the reflecting lens mirror, which
was made in Paris, this great light is
entirely of American manufacture.
The height of the light is ten feet
six inches, and the weight 6000 pounds.
It is so perfectly balanced that a child
could move it in any direction. The
reflecting lens mirror is sixty inches
in diumeter, three and one-quarter
inches thick at the edges, and one-
sixteenth of an inch thick at the cen
ter. It weighs about 800 pounds. The
maximum current at which the lamp
operates is 200 amperes. This gives a
THE BIG SEARCHLIGHT.
total luminous intensity to the re
flected beam of about 375,000,000
candles. The light was successfully
tested at Middletown, Conn., before
being sent to the World’s Fair.—New
York World.
Chinese Regard for Beasts ot Burden.
Chinamen have such regard for
beasts of burden, such as an ox and
the mule, that they make companions
of them when alive and never use
their meat for food when they are
dead. These animals usually live in
the same building with their masters,
but in a separate apartment, which is
especially devoted to them. They are
not required to eat at the family table
unless they wish to, and meals are
served in their rooms without extra
charge. They are expected to report
any incivility or inattention on the
part of servants to the master of the
house. A pair of oxen can reside in
I the house of their master and enjoy
the water s edge, ready when the fish- ! all the privacy they would have iu a
ermen should come to man it. There j stall of their own, and a sensitive and
were no such inventions as the life lines' t retiring mule is never in any danger
now in use in the ’20s, and the brave
fishermen worked against great odds.
The first rescue with the imple
ments similar to those the Government
life-savers use now was off Sandy Hook
on January 11, 1859. The British
schooner Ayreshire, with 202 souls on
board, mostly Irish immigrants, was
wrecked about 300 yards off shore late
at night. The natives of the fishing
settlement were aroused and with their
mortar sent the life line to the imperiled
boat. In the metallic car 201 of the
202 passengers on the ill-fated schooner
were safely brought to shore. This
mortar with the ball that carried the
line are on exhibition in the life-sav
ing station at the Fair. The rusty iron
ball has a long history. It struck the
deck and went crashing through the
timbers. The vessel sunk and was in
the course of time buried in the sands.
In 1875, during a heavy storm, the
wreck was uncovered and washed on
the shore. Between the old timbers
of being
Herald.
intruded upon. — Chicago
Odd Collectors.
Philadelphia possesses a collector of
horseshoes, Boston a gatherer of bricks,
New Orleans a collector of sugnr sam
ples, Louisville a gatherer of sample
flasks of whisky, but Nebrsska beats
them all. She boasts of a man who
takes locks of hair shaved from the
heads of noted criminals which he
labels and indexes with great care—
Kate Field’s Washington.
Montgomery county will hi
lie hanging on Sept. 29. Fi\ r
will pay the penalty for mnr
* * +
The Brush Electric Light
of Savannah with $250,000 cl
gobbled up the Peoples’ Elect'
company and the Electric j
company.
* • *
John McGarrity, eighty-sixyears of
age, died in Carroll county iecently,
leaving eleven children, one lundred
grand-children and thirty-sit great
grand-children.
* * *
Orders have been issued to n»e con
tractors to hire more hands ai'l push
the work on the South Bound I’Vir all
it is worth. There are lively/ times
just now nil along the line of thlf ( road.
* * * It
Lucy Cobb Institute openY. with
the largest attendance ever km. rn in
its history. The increasing poeslari-
of the institute is a high trim a, to
the ability of-Miss Mildred Bather-
ford the principal.
* * *
The Middle Georgia Military and!
Agricultural College has added ; bus
iness department to its curricflum,
and shorthand, typewriting and >ook-
keeping are taught all the cdlege
classes without extra charge. Tie de
partment has become very popilar
with the students who are takin,
vantage of the opportunity o:
them in that line.
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A Hot to for Everyday Life.
Here’s a motto which, in the opinion
of the Atlanta Constitution, is
i for evervdav life:
rood
‘•Tickle the earth and make her grin—
The more you tickle, the more you win. '’
The army medal given by the Duke
of Cambridge for Jong service and
hr5 foniui ths iron brfU firmly i»* 1 good posdnot ha* been aw&rtiftd to 150
bmUkd, Iks Ills which brought! HhBMffit&issiohftd cSiesrs and men ba<
theisoise m sshibitiom | tesfiftf Brimb ««jr<
A request on the part of tli*?m_
ities of Brunswick for permissioiLo
use the arms and ammunition of t; e
state, gave rise to some sensational rV-
mors. There was no occasion
anxiety. The telegram which was
ceived at the executive depart-me
simply asked iiermission to equip, wi
the guns in the possession of t
Brunswick military companies, tl?
guards thrown around the city by thi
health authorities. The permission
was promptly granted.
* * *
The old cannon which has lain al)»ut
Courthouse square since the Indian v ar
of ’39 until recently, has disappears!,
and will soon lose its identity if lot
seen after. The traditions of a couitv
should be preserved. This old cannm
has been associated with DeKalb br
so long that it is well worth the attri
tion nesessary to put it again in tie
park at the courthouse. We learn thit
the cannon was carried to Stone Moui-
tain to celebrate for Cleveland. Lit
it be brought back.—Decatur Record.
* * *
Savannah is rapidly becoming a
manufacturing city. A few years ago
there was hardly a manufactory of any
kind there. Now its manufactured
products are all important items in its
year’s business. The introduction of
manufacturing-industries brings busi
ness, makes a market for material,
gives employment to skilled labor and
adds to the worth of the city. Savan
nah’s manufactures for the last year
approximated $7,000,000. Within the
next decade and the introduction of
manufacturing industries at the rate
they are now springing up, it will
more than treble that amount.
* * «
The Tybee railroad may be equipped
with electricity when it is rebnilt. It
is known that the Central railroad
officials considered the idea of equip
ping the road with electricity once be
fore, and made investigations as to the
cost of equipment and operation. The
cost of electric railway supplies was
much greater then than it is now, and
the idea was abandoned. It is said
that the Central officials are now con
sidering the idea of engaging with one
of the street railway companies of the
city to equip and operate the Tybee
line. Doubtless they would prefer to
make a complete sale of the road, but
this is not likely.
* * *
Sumter county has a small elephant
on her hands just now in the persons
of a number of prisoners convicted at
the last term of the county court, and
sentenced to terms in the cliaingang.
For the past several years the county
has leased her convicts to the Ocmul-
gee Brick Company and various lumber
companies, but just now none of these
want additional labor and consequent
ly the prisoners are allowed to remain
in Americus in jail, a burden and ex
pense to the county. There are several
strong, able-bodied men among the
number, who are under sentences of
from one to two years, and the county
would be glad to entertain a proposi
tion from any reliable concern looking
to the lease of these convicts.
* * *
An Ontlibound League.
United States deputy marshals have
brought to light a peculiar oathbound
union of illicit distillers with head
quarters in Murray county. It has a
membership of nearly 2,100. The ob
jects of the association are to protect
the members from the government
and to encourage the manufacture and
sale of moonshine whisky. Whenever
a member of the union is arrestee! it
is the duty of the other members
to see that he is released.
If the marshals get one witness
to swear that he saw the man making
whisky, three or four of the members
of the union would come into court and
swear to having seen the prisoner at
another place at the time he was al
leged to have been at the still. Each
member was bound by an iron-clad
oath, signed in blood, not to give any
information that would lead to the ar
rest of a brother member. And he
swore to kill any member who did in
form on another. In this way they
hoped to protect each other from the
revenue men. But their secret leaked
out and now prisoners are carried to
Atlanta for trial to get them away
from the influence of the union.
* « *
Special Report ou ( ottuu.
The season has now reached a point
where an estimate of the yield of cot-
ion can be made with some accuracy,
all crop reporters were requested to
subinit estimates of the condition of
the crop in their respective sections
for thUpftst week's weather bulletin,
and a summary of the results follows :
It will be remembered that the seas
on opened with a considerable increase
iu cotton acreage, 'not far from 10
per cent. The spring was late and
cold, giving the crop a poor start.
More favorable weather followed in
May, but a severe drought set in the
latter part of June and the early part
of July, which did much injury. Again
in August there was a period of defi
cient rainfall.
The unfavorable features of the
weather seemed to be most marked in
the northwest seetioo of the state and
here, as a result, we find the crop in
lowest condition. Reports from this
section give in every case a shortage
of the crop, varying from one-third
to over one-half, with an average value
of 43 per cent. - i.
In the eastern section the conditions
were farily good until the hurricane
of August 27th and 28th and the heavy
rains which followed. These so dam
aged cotton as to bring it at present
to nearly as poor a state as in the
northwest, the average shortage being
41 per cent.
The south and southeast sections
make the best showings, with short
ages of 24 and ’22 per cent, respect
ively. Other sections of the state re
port shortages ranging from 27 to 30
per cent.
For the entire state there is found
an average condition of 30 per cent
below full crop condition. This is
some 5 per cent in advance of last
year, and, taking the entire acreage
into account, would indicate a crop of
some 100,000 bales more than that of
last year in Georgia.
While this, of course, is not offered
as an accurate statement of the final
returns, it is likely to prove rather
less than more than the final figures,
unless we have abnormallv early frosts.
SOUTHERN NEW’S ITEMS.
Drift ot Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Noted
Happenings of Interest Portrayed la
Pithy Paragraphs.
Taxes of I lie .state.
The net decrease in the taxable
property for the state as a whole is
$11,064,745. Thisisthe first decrease
in fifteen years and a study of the dif
ferent items will, for the reason, be of
special interest.
The item of improved lands shows a
decrease of nearly five million—to be
exact, $4,930,622. Wild land also shows
a decrease, amounting to $1,049,851.
City and town property, on the other
hand, show an increase of $857,474.
Among the other items are:
Bank shares, an increase of $647,876.
Surplus in banks, decrease of $1,-
317,962.
Gis and electric light companies, de
crease $318,362.
Building and loan associations, in
crease, $240,256.
Money and solvent debts, a decrease
for the state of $2,946,299.
Merchandise, decrease, $320,125.
Shipping and tonnage, increase
$11,501.
Stocks and bonds, decrease, $1,401,
097. ,
Cotton manufactories, an increase
of $1,0:6,989.
Iron works, etc., decrease, $3,519.
Capitil in mining, decrease ,$27,093.
Housihold and kitchen furniture
an increise of $34,314.
Watclcs and jewelry, deorease.
$12,993.
Horse and mules, decrease, $75,894.
Plan ta;ion nnd mechanical tools, de
crease, $iol,746.
Cotton corn,etc., for sale, decrease,
$28x.7fc..
O.ier property, decrease, $182,810.
Piopertv of railroads, decrease,
$659 446. '
Properl.- of street railroads, an in
crease of $19,457.
The chrnge in the law of which the
boards of equalization are done away
with was mire largely responsible for
the decreas' than any other one fac
tor. The general hard times had, of
course, something to do with the de
crease,. but tie fact that the greatest
slump is in rial property with no verv
gret t decreas in the items of person
al property shows that the abolish
ment of the loards had most to do
with it. Anolier interesting feature
in this eonnecion. The state has lost
554,723 acres if land in the past year.
There is returied less improved land
by 313,123 Hires, and less wild land
than by {241,5& than last year. This
is quite a big iem in itself, as the av
erage vajlue is about S4.25 per ac-rc.
But tlie iquestiin is, where has the
land gome? -
i.pngua es ot Indians.
In the neccntp.issued seventh annual
report of tme bu. nu of ethnology, 3Iaj.
J. W. Fowl ell, dinctor, comes to several
new conclusions aiout the North Ameri
can Indian?. Heholds that instead ol
related diajlects, eiginating in a single
parent langluage, key speak many lan
guages belonging to distinct families,
with no apparent nity of origin. The
population alt the tne of Columbus has
been greatly I exaggeated. As compared
with- the vast: territi-v occupied and the
abundant food suppy, it was very small,
and nowhere) save pssibly in California,
had it augmented mfficiently to press
upon the food! supph Though the In
dians had ovelrapreadthe whole of North
America, the Europens found them in a
state of equilibrium. With the acquisi
tion of horsesi and fisarms, but not till
then, many of tie tribes became
nomadic. Agricultoe was generallv
followed atnopig the ribes of what are
now the Eastern U ited States, but
nowhere were 'its promets sufficient to
emancipate theip whoir from the hunter
state. |
A curious operation as been reported
to the French Ophtfcalnflogical Society.
A boy of thirteen, aftr injury to his
eyelid, had it so ^everei; contracted that
he could no longer clos his eye. Ac
cordingly an inoijsion ws made in the
eyelid and tiny fragmem of frog skiu
were inserted in a kind u chequer work.
It adhered perfect ly andthe wound wa3
completely healed ove. After about
five months the i evelU recovered its
power of movement. A iuy transverse
line across the lid is the oily sign visible
of the fragments', horrored from the
frog.
• The superstition about the number
thirteen ha» forced the maiager of the
Turin O; er » House to rnumber stail
13 and in Ike it 12a. Foraerly none ol
the audi ? ce would occmy this sup
posedly ui lucky seat, but the manager
thinks heh--3 now exorcise! the uncanny
spirit.
Ax exati !>• ; °f the mutatbn of fortune
occurred 'keretifr dijys ag> when the
Supervistp of Soatna, C^I.-made
special oil er placindjonqui
the poor a£ flOja raoo
jaw oae o’’ the ricl4t raen
tU.
A charleston dispatch says: State
Constable Swan seized twelve barrels
of liquor on the Clyde steamship
wharves Tuesday morning. The trial
justice refused to issue a search war
rant for the goods in transit in accord
ance with Judge Simonton’s decision.
The liquor remains on the wharf, but
in Swan’s charge.
The leading colored men of New
Orleans had a secret meeting Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning fur
nished the press with the resolutions
adopted. A committee has been ap
pointed to call on the governor at once
and ask for troops for protection
against the reign of terror existing in
Jefferson parish, on the outskirts of
the city.
Mrs. Lottie Cummings was placed
on trial in the criminal court at Knox
ville, Tenn., for her life Wednesday
afternoon. She is charged with mur
dering her ten-year-o’ld step-son, Lou
is, on June 9th, present year. She is
accused of besting the child to death
with billets of wood, and after cutting
his throat, throwing the mangled body
out of a two-story window.
The New Orleans limited train on
the Illinois Central road was held up
shortly after 11 o’clock Wednesday
night, just ontside the city limits of
Centralia, 111., and in the battle which
followed between the robbers and the
train hands one of the robbers was
mortally wounded and three of the
train crew badly hurt. The thieves got
nothing in the way of booty, but made
their escape.
A special from Canton, N. C., says:
The most horrible accident known in
this locality for many years occurred
near Weather Station on the Murphy
branch Monday. Six men were in
stantly killed by the explosion of a
boiler in L. J. Kerby’s hardwood saw
mill. The explosion occurred about
11 o’clock and completely wrecked the
whole mill. Not a piece of the boiler
was left near the foundation.
A Brunswick special says: The fol
lowing resolution was passed by the
board of health Wednesday:
This hoard, upon reports of prac
ticing physicians, officially announce
that no new cases of yellow fever have
developed in the twentv-fonr hours
ending Wednesday noon, and during
the same period of time two cases pre
viously reported sick, have been dis
charged and no deaths, making now
but 17 cases under treatment.
In the federal court at Charleston,
S. C., Monday, Judge Simonton filed
a decree in the suit brought by the
Bichmond and Danville railroad to
abrogate the reduced rates on liquors
ordered by the railroad commissioner
under the dispensary law. Without
finally disposing of the matter Judge
Simonton appoints R. W. Shaw spe
cial master to take testimony as to
whether the change complained of by
the railroad is just and reasonable.
The case of M. J. O’Brien, ex-su
preme treasurer of the Catholic
Knights of America, who is behind
about $75,000 iu his accounts with the
order, came up Monday for trial in
the circuit court at Chattanooga and
was continued. The charge was em
bezzlement. Among tho prominent
officials of the order in attendance
were Supreme President Hine, Su
preme Treasurer Hersch, Supreme
Secretary Barr and Supreme Trustees
Duffy and Walsh. The continuance
was granted on account of the absence
of an important witness. •
A Memphis special of Monday say:
Ex-Congressman Rice A. Pierce, the
member of the executive committee
for Tennessee appointed at Chicago Au
gust 2d, has issued a call to the people of
the state requesting all who believe in
free coinage of both gold and silver to
meet in their respective county seats
Mod day, October 21st, and pass reso
lutions requesting their senators and
representatives in congress to vote
against the repeal of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law, unless
coupled with a permission to return to
the coinage act repealed in 1873.
A Memphis, Tenn., special of Mon
day says: A reign of terror prevails
among the planters and ginners all
over northen Mississippi. The white
caps have organized in nearly every
county and posted notices in gins for-
bidrling the owners from ginning cot
ton until the price reaches 10 cents
per pound. Several ginners have dis
regarded the notice and opened their
establishments for business. The
white caps promptly burned them to
the ground, and warned them that an
other attempt to resume would be pun
ished v» ith death.
PHOSPHATE MINERS BLUE.
Governor Tillman and the Commission
ers Cannot Aid Them.
A Charleston special says: One of
the state phosphate commissioners
made a tour of the phosphate mines
Friday in the steamer Catherine. The
Catherine first went to Williams is
land, where the Pacific company has
been carrying on operations. Then
she steamed across to Buzzard’s island,
where what is left of the quarantine
station is to be seen.
Out of Dine buildings there only one
is left. From Buzzard’s island the
commissioners went around to the
works of the Farmers’ Mining Com
pany. Besides having lost considera
ble in its floating stock, the'Farmers’
met with much damage at the works.
The expensive loading and nnloading
apparatus hai been completely destroy
ed, and there were other losses more
or less serious.
The next objective point was Coo-
saw. All along the line wrecked ves
sels high and dry were to be seen. At
the Coosaw the commissoners had
a convincing spectacle.
Governor Tillman, arrived in Char
leston Friday night. At a meeting of
the phosphate commission held after
the governor’s arrival, it was decided
that no arrangement would be made
with phoshate companies which would
TRADE REVIEW.
Dun
ort of Business for
Fast Reek.
B. G. Dun & Co’s, weekly review of
trade says: Returns from every part
of the country show a decided im
provement. A hopeful feeling prevails,
money grows abundant at speculative
centers and is somewhat easier for
commercial purposes. The number of
estalishments reported as resuming
work is thirty-one wholly, and twenty-
six in part, still exceeds the number
closing, thirty-three for the past
week, besides ten reducing the force
so that the hands' employed have
somewhat increased. The num
ber unemployed is still very large; the
great industries are still far below
their normal productiveness, nnd part
of the resumption of work has been
secured by lowering prices nnd reduc
ing wages. But business is pulling it
self together, and even the crop report
has caused a little depression in stocks.
The industrial improvement is largely
in cotton, and otherwise appears
scarcely moro satisfactory than last
week. About two-thirds of the Fall
River mills are operating, but at
a reduction of about 10 to 13 per
cent in wages, and there has been
a sharp cut in prices of lending cotton
goods. Several shoe factories have
started in part, but orders are said to
be not enough to keep half the force
busy, though a distinct improvement
is noticed. In all eighteen metal works
have started in part and six wholly,
while thirteen have stopped and four
teen have reduced hands or wages.
The outpnt of j)ig iron, September 1st,
proves to have been 82,602 tons week
ly, a decrease of 98,947 since May 1st,
indicating that only 45 per cent of
the productive force was employed.
Sales of grey forge for $7 at Birming
ham and of steel billets for $19.50 at
Pittsburg, support the statement that
resumption of work in many cases is
at the expense of a great sacrifice in
price. But in this industry business
revives more vigorously at the west
than at the east.
An obvious effect of short crops is
that railroad earnings may shrink
with u smaller demand the coming
year for iron products and for stocks.
Abundance of money seeking loans on
collaterals and call tends to render ths
market indifferent to public abstention
and reduced earnings.
MAD RUSH FOR HOMES.
not fn
tfes y#
uMsnteo a si segregate royalty foj
rear of at lesrt ITSiOflO.
The Chrokee Strip Formally Opened
for Settlement.
A special from Arkansas City, Kans.,
says: One hundred thousand people
settled upon the Chrokee strip Saturday
On the lines in tho vicinity of the
various border towns the boomers had
gathered in great numbers. As far as
the eye could reach in either direction
could be seen men mounted and in
wagons and afoot closely packed to
gether making a solid column 200 feet
or more in the middle and tapering
away to a mere streak of black in the
distance.
THE MAD RUSH OF THE BOOMERS."
The scene when the column broke
at the firing of the signal gun, and
each individual entered to contend for
a common prize, be imagined bet
ter than describe Confusion reign
ed everywhere. . closely were the
contestants packet, together that the
start was a hazardous one. Horsemen
were unseated, wagons overthrown
and pedestrians prostrated in the mad
rush to be off. The cries of angered
men, the- shouts of the racers, the
clattering of hoofs, the rattling of
wagons and the shrieking of locomo
tives combined in a roar similar to that
accompanying the progress of a tor
nado.
In the race many men were injured
and some killed. Of the latter some
met death by accident and two -*ero
murdered. The details of the crimes
are not known, but the dead bodies—
one stabbed and the other shot
through the head—tell the manner of
death. Many dead horses have been
found on the prairie. Some died of
over-exertion, some were killed by fal
ling in the race, and others received
broken limbs in the rough prairie,
were shot by their owners.
FOUR POPULOUS TOWN'S.
Saturday night the strip which
twelve hours before was wholly de
serted, was a populons country. Four
of tho new town sites have populations
estimated at 5,000 each. Others boast
populations ranging from 1,000 ' to
3,000. Every desirable claim has at
least one claimant and may have two
to ionr. Contests will, of course, he
numerous.
POLK’S REMAINS REINTERRED.
They Are Given a Sew Resting Place at
Nashville.
A Nashville special says: After forty-
three years in the tomb, the remains
of ex-President James K. Polk, for a
brief time Tuesday, reposed under
the roof where the happiest days of
his life were spent, and then, followed
bv civic and military authorities, state
and federal officials, were conveyed to
what will probably prove their final
resting place.
This is the second time the ex-pres-
ident’s remains have been moved.
When he first died, iu 1849, he was
buried in the old city cemetery. Then
the tomb at the Polk place was erect
ed, and, on May 22,1850, the remains
were placed therein. President Polk
made an invalid will, and when Mrs.
Polk died, August 14, 1891, suit was
soon after brought by the heirs, and
the will broken on the ground that it l
attempted to create a perpetuity, i
Thereupoh the Polk place was ordered j
sold, and the last legislature granted i
permission for the removal of the tomb :
to Capitol Hill. A beautiful site was j
selected just north of the Jackson j
statute, and there, the tomb, a square,
open temple, with plain columns,'has
been erected. The caskets containing ;
the remains of of President and Mis. !
Polk were encased in new boxes and ,
taken into the parlor of the Folk place, |
where prayers were said. Brief ser- |
vices were conducted by Rev. S. A. ;
Steel and Rev. Jerry Withersoon, af- ;
ter which the caskets were placed side ;
by side and left in peace.
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