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A Matter of Health. Housekeepers faintly realize the danger of an indiscriminate use of the numerous baking powders nowadays found upon every hand, and which are urged upon consumers with such per sistency by peddlers and many grocers on account of the big profits made in their sale. Most of these powders are made from sharp and caustic acids and alkalies which burn and inflame the alimentary organs and cause indiges tion, heartburn, diarrhceal diseases, etc. Sulphuric acid, caustic potash, burnt alum, all are used as gas-produc ing agents in such baking powders. Most housekeepers are aware of the painful effects produced when these chemicals are applied to the external flesh. How much more acute must be their action upon the delicate internal membranes! Yet unscrupulous man ufacturers do not hesitate to use them, because they make a very low-cost pow der, ner to urge the use of their pow ders so made, by all kinds of alluring ad vertisements and false representations. All the low priced or so-called cheap baking powders, and all powders sold with a gift or prize, belong to this class. Baking powders mado from chem ically pure cream of tartar and bi-car- bonate of soda are among the most useful of modern culinary devices. They not only make the preparation of finer and more delicious cookery possible, but they have added to the digestibility and wholesomeness of our food. But baking powders must be composed of such pure and whole some ingredients or they must be ta booed entirely. Dr. Edson, Commissioner of Health of New York, in an article in the “Doctor of Hygiene,” indicates that the advantages of a good baking pow der and the exemption from the dan gers of bad ones in which the harsh and caustic chemicals are used, are to be secured by the use of Royal Baking I'owder exclusively, anil he recom mends this to all consumers. “The Royal,” he says, “contains nothing but cream of tartar anil soda refined to a chemical purity, which when combined under the influence of heat and moisture produce pure car bonic, or leavening, gas. The two materials used, cream of tartar and soda, are perfectly harmless even when eaten, but in this jireparation they are combined in exact' compensating weights, so that when chemical action begins between them in the dough they practically disappear, the substance of both having been taken to form car bonic-acid gas.” Hence it is, he says, that the Royal Baking Powder is the most perfect of all conceivable agents for leavening purposes. It seems almost incredible that any manufacturer or dealer should urge the sale of baking powders containing in jurious chemicals in place of those of a well-known, pure and wholesome character Bimply for the sake of a few cents a pound greater profit; but since they do, a few words of warning seem to be necessary. An Air Thermometer. The air thermometer is the name given to a recent English device for giving warning of a fire. In this ap paratus the expansion of air by heat in nil nir box fitted to the ceiling of the room is made to inflate a thin hollow India rubber diaphragm. This raises a small terminal rod, bringing it into contact with another terminal, an elec tric circuit being thus completed, the current ringing an alarm bell aiul re leasing a semaphore, which serves to indicate the location of the outbreak. As thus arranged the apparatus con sists of throe essential parts, the air box, the pulsator, and the indicator. Heat currents ascending to the ceil ing cause the enclosed air in the air box to expand—the force of this ex pansion being directed by a pipe to the under side of the India rubber diaphragm of the pulsator—an electri cal current is in this way made and the alarm given. The air box and pulsator may be in the same room, or in proximity to each other, but the in dicators may be placed in any part of the building or at a remote distance. The sensitiveness of such an apparatus to thermal changes, and the ease with which it can be adjusted over a wide range of temperature, have, it is as serted, been fully determined by nu merous experiments. The Congressional Directory; The Congressional Directory sho'vs that there are twenty-two Representa tives in the house of foreign birth. There is only one negro. Ireland fur nishes eight members, five of these being in the New York delegation. Germany gives four, Canada three, Norway two. Florida, with three Congressmen, has no native Floridians on the floor. Georgia furnishes five Congressmen to other States. Fifty- five members of the House have work ed on farms, thirty-two have taught Schools, eight were printers’ appren tices, four were sailors, two were tele graph operators, four have been black smiths, three have been shoemakers, and two carpenters. There are in the House eighty-seven graduates of col leges and thirty-one whose college course was out off. Of the three hun dred and fifty-six members two hund red and seven have practiced law. Forty-two members were in the Union nrmy and forty-seven iu the Confed- ate army. To Meml Broken Cast iron. Here is a recipe which Ofliee and Laboratory recommends for broken cast iron : Take two ounces of sal am moniac, one ounce of sublimed sul phur and one pound of east iron til ings; mix in a mortar and keep' the powder perfectly dry. When it is to be used, mix it with twenty times its weight of clean iron filings, grind the whole in a mortar, wet with water until it becomes a paste, and apply to the parts to be mended. It will often become, after a time, as strong and hard as any part of the metal. Fruit-eating bats are as menacing to Australian farmers ns the rabbit. They call them flying foxes, when they advance upon orchards of evenings. Another great nnnoyance to farmers in Australia is the poisonous nettle, or “stinging tree.” It is so poisonous that if its heart-shaped leaves are only put in motion they cause one to sneeze. They are covered with nettles on both sides and a sting from them gives great pain. Horses wounded by them roll over as if mad with pain, and if they do not at once receive attention they will in this way kill themselves. Still Booming. Eastern Man—“How are tilings iu Dugout City now?” Western Man — “Booming, just n- booming Why, I happened to want a little spending money last week, and '■it didn’t take me half an hour to get a ■third mortgage on my bouse.”—Neu i York Weekly. NEARLY 2,000 DROWNED. Fearful Havoc Wroaght by tbe Gulf Coast Tornaao. Appalling Loss of Life and Millions in Property Swept Away. The news received nt New Orleans Wednesday morning from the islands on the lower coast of Louisiana is most appalling. The rumored disaster at Grand Isle has been confirmed and the death list has swollen until it now reaches into the thousands. Grand Isle was all but swept out of existence, and out of 750 souls who were on the island at tho time of the storm, only about twenty escaped. The island of Chieniere C'arrida, about a mile and a half west of Grand Isle, contained over two thousand persons. Of these only about one hundred escaped. There are five small islands in Grand bay, and each was populated by a large number of fishermen, of whom only a few escaped alive. At Bayou Coke, eighty-seven persons lost their lives by actual count. APPALLING LOSS OP LIFE. Nearly 2,000 killed and five million dollars’ worth of property annihilated is the record so far. There lias never been anything approaching it since the country was settled. More than half the population in the region ovei which the hurricane swept are dead. Everything is wrecked. One house in ten is standing,nud the surviving pop ulation is left in the most destitute con dition, without food or even clothing, for most of them were sleeping in their beds when their houses were crushed by the wind or waves. More than <. dozen relief expeditions went down from New Orleans Wednesday to dis tribute food among the survivors. The death list is already above 1,800 and only a portion of the devastated country has been heard from. It is such a network of islands, bayous, lakes and swamps that it will be a week before the relief boats can trav erse nil the waterways and discover the full extent of the damage done. The worst, however, is known, for all the large settlements have been heard from and it is only the smaller ones scattered along the bayous and in terior lakes that will hnve to be vis ited. 1,840 DEAD. The deaths so far reported, and which are confirmed, ns follows: Clie- meie Cnminnda 820 fishermen from the settlement; at sea in their boats 240 ; Bayou Cleallon40 ; Oyster Bayou 28 ; Bayou Cook 87; fishing settlements around Bayou Cook 43; Bird island 45 ; Simon island 16; Rosario island 20; Razor island 5; St.Malo,25,all Malays. Adam bay, 200; Fishing camps around Daisy postoflice, 20; Grand bayou,20; Tropical Bend, 10 ; Pass Aloutre, 40; Pointe a la Hatclie, 4; Grand Prairie, 5; Bartholemy, 0; Fort St. Philip, 0; Hospital bay, 8 ; . Sheel beach, 12 ; Grand bank, 8; Grand isle, 10; Buras, 3; Point Pleasant, 5; Sixty-Mile Point, 3; Bayou Andre, 40, all Chinamen employed by a San Francisco Chinese firm in packing shrimp. Devi ’s Flat, 1; Boli var Point, 3; Happy Jack, 2; Nich- olls’s postoflice, 3 ; Faitulings, 3; F. Cosses, 5; Stockfletcho, 1; Quaran tine, 2 ; Eadsport, 1; Pearl River, 1; Near Point Pleasant, 2 ; Bay St. Louis, 2; Back bay, 1; Lost on Webre, 20; Lost, in the bogs or at sea 45; Bayou la Fond 110: Bayou DufonlO; Cal- sausage 20; on lugger General Yixie 4. ALONG THE COAST. The towns and settlements extend along the Mississippi from Pointe a la Hache, forty-five miles below New Orleans to the gulf on Balou Barntara and the oyster reefs between there and the mouth of the Mississipi, and on the islands stretching from the Mississippi to the main land at Clie- meie Caminada, Bay St. Louis and Pearl river are in Mississipi. The great majority of tho people drowned are whites and not over one hundred are colored. MILLIONS IN PROPERTY LOST. The damage is now estimated as fol lows: New Orleans, $360,000; Palque- mine parish, houses, etc., $600,000; orange crop, $280,000; other crops, $250,000; cattle, etc., $250,000; ship ping—schooners, luggers, etc., $250,- 000; cattle, etc., $250,000 ; fishing set tlements, $40,000 ; railroads,$900,000 ; miscellaneous,$350,000; total, $3,590,- 000. Between New Orleans and Mobile the damage done is placed at $500,000, and in and around Mobile at $300,000, the total damage amounting to $4,300,- 000. The loss of the crop of Plaque- mine parish is estimated at 25 per cent the loss iu oranges is 75 per cent, while about 20 per cent of the orauge trees were killed or blown down. The oyster and fishing fleet is almost com pletely destroyed and the levees badly washed and will have be rebuilt. Tbe shipping suffered severely, but prin cipally the the smaller vessels. The dueWebre, Aspinwall, Cbaniberlane and two other steamers arc supposed to be in the wreck. One of them was blown into a rice field. One hundred and twenty schooners and barges and 265 luggers are suuk, iu most eases accom panied with heavy loss of life. Some 150 small vessels are missing and are supposed to be lost. The entire gtili coast of Mississippi and Louisiana west of Atchafalaya is strewn with wreckage. DAMAGE TO RAILROADS. Of ihe railroads, the Louisville and Nashville is the heaviest sufferer and the damage inflicted will run from $500,000 to $600,000. The greater portion of the liue be tween New Orleans and Mobile, 142 ^niles, is more or less damaged. Nine hensand feet of the Bay St. Louis oridge is completely swept away, 3,000 feet of the Biloxi bridge is gone, while the Scranton and Jackson bridges are ,11 badly injured anti cannot be used. Utout five miles of embankment and trestle work and fifteen miles of track are washed away. EIF.ST REPORTS. Special dispatches of Tuesday state that the storm which visited Mobile, Ala., Monday left it a perfect wreck. At present the damage can only be conjectured, but it is safe to estimate it at nearly a million dollars. Several schooners and small crafts were dis mantled and the passenger steam er Crescent City was wrecked on the bay shore. Several of the scows word ing in the lower bay went ashore, but fortunately no one was hurt. CATTLE LOST BY HUNDREDS. It is certain that three or four hun dred head of cattle have been lost. The home of Stephen Walker was swept away and his family, consisting of himself, his wife and niece were drowned. The city was in utter dark ness Monday and no street cars were running. There was only one wire out of the city and, no trains are run ning. THE LOWER COAST DESOLATED. News from the lower coast is heart rending. At Grand Bay four churches were destroyed, while at Scranton five churches suffered a like fate. Houses have been scattered, crops ruined and desolation appears on every hand. Between Mobile and New Orleans are twenty miles of bridges, the long est of which are at Bay St. Louis and Biloxi. All these bridges are washed away, and traffic on the Louisville and Nashville railroad is suspended. Accounts of the storm are coming in slowly and it will be several days before a true account can be obtained. THE DAMAGE ABOUT NEW ORLEANS. A New Orleans special says: A ter- riffic storm struck New Oi leans late Sunday night, coming from the north east, and raged all day Monday, sweeping to the south afong the line of the Mississippi river, through the par ish of Plaquemine to the gulf. The storm was one of the worst which ever visited this part of the country and, as far as can be learned, ' twenty-four or more persons were killed and probably three times as mnnv wounded, some fatally. The wind had reached a velocity of 48 miles an hour at 8 o’clock Sunday night, when the anemoneter of the weather bureau was destroyed, and it constantly increased in force until 2 a. m., when its velocity was estimated at 60 miles an hour. The crash of sheds and buildings blown down, trees torn up and houses unroofed, caused intense alarm, and most of the population of the city re mained up all night, expecting their houses to be blown down. The icvetment levee on Lake Pont- chartrain, which protects New Orleans from overflow on the rear, was washed away, and water swept over it fifteen feet or more. Many of the yachts there were sunk or injured. The tracks of the Louisville and Nashville railway were badly washed for fifteen miles, and it will be several days be fore it can run trains. THE MORTALITY SEVERE. Three deaths and one person wound ed severely, if not fatally, is the mor tality record in New Orleans. Below the city it is far worse, especially in Plaquemine. Here the wind reached a velocity of 100 to 125 miles an hour, sweeping everything before it. The parish seat of justice, Pointe a la Hache, a town of 2,500 people, was the worst sufferer. In the town not a single house escaped injury. The courthouse and the Catholic church, the principal buildings in the town, and some t wenty other buildings were destroyed, and the situation was so threatening that the greater part of the people, fearing destruction in their buildings, camped out in the street all night in the heavy rain. The air was filled with debris, and the wind was blowing so fiercely that many of them had to anchor them selves against trees to prevent being blown away. Four grown persons are known to have been killed in Pointe a la Hache, and several children—how many is not exactly known. It is probable that ths mortality will be greatly increased when the news is re ceived from the far-away sett’oments on the gulf const below Pointe a la Hache, in tho range country of Lou isiana. THE ORANGE CHOI- RUINED. The orange crop was ripe upon the trees and about to bo harvested. It was completely destroyed in the storm, with a loss of $350,000 on this one item. The crop iu the orange farms of 1 radish Johnson, the largest in the south, had been sold to a fruit dealer in New Orleans, Mr. Oteri, for $65,- 000. It is said that there is not an orange left on the trees, and it is the same all the way down the const. The sugar district escaped the worst of the blow. There is much damage to rici and sugar cane. LATER DISPATCHES. A New Orleans special of Thursday says: The return of several of the relief parties sent to the storm-stricken districts of the state fully confirm the news of Wednesday and adds to the list of those drowned or killed a cor rected list which swells the total num ber of dead to 2,041. This may be increased some 250 or 300 more by news from the St. Bernard marshes and tli* vessels off the Louisiana coast, from which only meagre returns have been received. These indicate nearly complete destruction and that none of the smaller vessels in the open sea es caped. The additional losses reported arc : Eigolets 16 ; Biloxi 1; Chandlier 110; Near Grand Bauree 10 ; from vessels 93. The loss of life at Chernue Cam inada is now known to be 1,250. At Bayou Andrew seventy-two jterished instead of forty, and nt Grand Isle iwenty-fonr instead of ten. PERHAPS ALL ARE LOST. The only section from which no re turns have been received ns yet is the St. Bernard or Lake Bargne marshes. The marsh extends from Lorgne to the gulf. It is a dead level ocean marsh—more water than land—cover- in; 1,200 square miles. Its only in habitants were some two hundred fish ermen, who lived in cabins built on spiles. Not a word has been heard from this section since the storm. Not one of the inhabi tants has come to town or any neighboring settlement. At the spot in the Chandeliers where the tornado was so violent none are said to have escaped. In the west Plaquemine parish the wind reached a velocity of 120 miles an hour. The chances of the Lake Borgue fishermen surviving the hurricane are considered very doubtful and a bont was sent to tlieir settlements to see if any survived. Loud complaints came from the Bayou Cook section of the stench from the dead bodies there. The land is too low for burying. Already some 126 bodies have conveyed by boat to the high lands on the Mississippi at Frysnal Bend for burial, but many are unburi ed in the swamp and rapidly decaying. Many of the bodies were found to have been looted and robbed. Most of the fishermen were well-to-do and all car ried their fortunes in cash. No money has been found on their remains nud sums of from $3,000 to $10,000 lias dis appeared. Nearly all of the bodies were badly mutilated by the slime. South American Revolutions; The New York Herald correspond ent in Santiago, Cuba, telegraphs that the government of Argenta has over come the revolutionists in the state of Santa Fe, and also has suppressed the turbulent element in the city and pro vince of Buenos Ayres. The Brazilian government has issued a decree order ing all vessels arriving from European ports to be quarantined. Yirginla Bonds Quoted. At the stock exchange at New York Thursday, $10,000 Virginia funded debts bonds of 1891 sold at 51}. These bonds were listed Wednesday at the stock exchange and were issued under the settlement of July 1, 1891, as made by the Virginia bondholders’ commit tee. CONGRESS IN SESSION. lie Daily Rontine ol Both Houses Briefly Epitomize! What is Being Done to Allay Finan cial Depression and Bring Relief. 47th Dat.—The repeal was taken up in the senate at 12.25 Monday. Mr. Sherman pointed out another fraud and forgery in connection with the demonetization act of 1873. Mr. White admitted that he had not veri fied the quotation referred to which he had found in other speeches and statements, and said that he would have it omitted in the reprints of his speech. Air. Dubois complained of the statement made by Air. Gorman last week as to his resolution for the postponement of the repeal bill being offered for the purpose of delay. He denied that statement and said he was in no plan for obstruction. Mr. Kyle then addressed the senate in opposition to the bill. 48th Day.—In the senate, Tuesday morning, a letter was read from the secretary of the treasury in reply to a resolution of inquiry, showing that five million ounces of silver were ex ported during July and August each. Air. Gallinger introduced a joint reso lution, making the $230,000 appropri ated in 1890 and suspended later,avail able for the purchase of a site for the government printing ofliee,and direct ing that the square continguous to the present building be bought. Air. Mor gan submitted an amendment to the repeal bill. It provides that citizens of the United States are entitled to and shall enjoy all the rights and priv ileges defined in the act of January 16tli, 1837, supplemental to the act establishing the mint, and to add to the value and secu rity of such rights, the secretary of the treasury is required to deduct from the custom duties that are or may be imposed by law upon imports, 20 per cent, of such duties, when such imports are made in United States vessels or in vessels of the country where snch imported articles were produced, provided such country shall by law provide that the standard silver dollars coined in the United States mints and of the present stand ard shall be legal tender for all debts, public or private, in such country and so long as such laws shall be maintain ed in full force and effect. The re peal bill was taken up, and Mr. Dolph continued the speech begun Alondny. During its delivery Air. Teller asked Air. Dolph if the Sherman act were unconditionally repealed, would Air. Cleveland approve any legislation fa vorable to silver, anil Air. Dolph re plied that in such case he certainly didn’t expect that the president would approve anything of that sort. 49th Day.—In the senate AVednes- dav, Mr. Morgan, from the commit tee on foreign affairs, reported back without recommendation the bill mak ing appropriations to enable the sec retary of the treasury to enforce the provisions of the Geary act, and it was referred to the committee on ap propriations. Arr. Pcffer offered a resolution for the appointment of a committee of three senators to ascer tain what legislation is needed to im prove the banking system so that fi nancial paniesmny beavoided, a better circulation of currency secured, and the safety of deposits assured. It was laid over till Thursday. Air. Alorgau asked immediate consideration of the resolution directing the judiciary com mittee to inform the senate what pro visions of the act of 1837, establishing the mint and regulating coinage, are still iu force, and authorizing it to re port by b 11 or otherwise. Air. Mc Pherson believed that the adoption of the resolution would delay pending financial legislation, and on his objec tion the proposition was laid over. The silver bill was then taken up and Mr. Butler took the floor against the repeal. 50th Day.—After a quarter of an hour spent iu morning business by the senate, Thursday, the only feat ure of which was a proposed amend ment to the rules by Air. Hill, author izing senators paired aud not voting to be counted to make a quornm, the senate went into executive session to deal with the nomination of Ind an agents. the house. 47th Day.—The federal election re peal bill was taken up Alonday morning before a very small audience, and 31r. Dinsmore took the floor in its advo cacy. Air. Benson, of Alabama, fol lowed in the support of repeal. He appealed to his fellow-members of the north and south to help wipe from the statute books laws so obnoxious to the intelligent citizens and voters of the great section he represents. Northern men who were willing to invest money in business in the south and trust the business men there to care for it, ought to be as willing to trust them to enforce the laws regarding elections. 48th Day.—Tuesday, the house without transacting any morning bus iness, resumed the consideration of the federal election repeal bill aud was addressed by Mr. Northway in oppo sition to the measure. He was always, he said, iu favor of the under dog in the fight, and in this fight the United States was the under dognnd the states were the upper dog. He affirmed the constitutionality of the federal laws. 49th Day—The house in transacting rontine business Wednesday, passed a joint resolution tendering the thanks of the United States to the foreign governments which generously end ef fectively participated in the World’s Fair. The bill to promote the safety of national banks by prohibiting the officials of such banks to borrow mon ey except by consent of the board of directors was then considered. The bill went over without action. The bankruptcy bill and the bill to amend the Chinese exclusion act were re ported and placed upon the calender. The house then engaged in routine business. 50th Day.—The house transacted some important routine business Thurs day morniug and received from Secre tary Carlisle his answer to its resolu tion asking why the Sherman act had not been enforced dufing July and August. The communication was re ferred. The house passed the bill au thorizing the sale of the old custom house in Louisville, Ky. Bills were passed for the inspection of boiler plates at the place of manufacture and placing the secretary of agriculture in the line of presidential succession : al so for the relief of theChurchof Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. The federal election repeal bill having been taken up, Alurray, of South Carolina, concluded his speech in opposition to the measure and criticised the election methods in vogue iu South Carolina, claiming that the presence of federal soldier supervisors was necessary to conduct a fair and free election. When Murray concluded, Ben Russell, of Georgia tool; the floor. He made a constitutional argument, interspersed with cold fncts drawn from the actual varieties of the political situation. He caused much amusement by announc ing that he had listened with interest to the gentleman from Indiana and the member from South Carolina. ODR LATEST DISPATCHES. The Happenings oi a Day Chronicled in Brie! and Concise Paragraphs And Containing the Gist of the News From Ail Parts of the World. News reached Huntsville, Ala. .Thurs day that the posted gins, about twenty, in the county had resumed work. Fear-s •if trouble are subsiding. Only nine new eases were reported by the Brunswick board of health for the twenty-four hours ending Thursday at noon. Five eases were discharged. The New York democratic state invention was called to order Thurs day noon at Saratoga. Daniel N. Lockwood, of Buffalo, was elected temporary chairman. Three new cases of cholera and five deaths were reported in Leghorn, Ita ly, Thursday. In Palermo there were fourteen deaths aud no new cases. Since September 20th there have been sixty-eight cases of cholera and thirty- eight deaths in the lunatic asylum at Nocera. A special of Thursday from Liucoln, Neb., says: It was after midnight be fore the democratic state convention settled its disputes by the overwhelm ing defeat of the silver element, led by Congressman Bryan. Secretary Alor- ton directed the movement of the re peal leaders from Washington. A Knoxville special says: Judge Hicks, Thursday morning, refused to allow the sixteen soldiers now confined in jail, charged with the lynching of Miner Richard Drummond, a change of venue from Anderson to Knox county. Their counsel will at once enter habeas corpus proceedings to have them re leased. A Jackson, Alias., special of Thurs day says: Judge H. D. Aleyers, of the eight judicial district, embracing thir teen counties iu eastern aud southern Alississippi, denies the sensational re port sent over the country in regard to white caps taking the country. He says white capism is about extinct in his district, which has heretofore been regarded as one of the strongholds of the order. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch of Thursday says: Ex-Assistant post master It. H. Burger, under R. L. Houston has been indicted, and is now under bond on the charge of em bezzlement. He is charged with ap propriating $1,379 to his own use on or about June 30th, last. He had fill ed the place about eight years and en joyed the confidence of all who knew him. Until recently his life has been above suspicion. A very interesting case was decided Thursday at AVilmington, N. C., in the superior court. When the Bank of New Hanover failed there last spring State Treasurer Tate claimed that he alone had the jurisdiction to bring action for the appointment of a receiver. Creditors had filed a bill and the superior court judge appoint ed Junius Davis receiver. The court decided that the state treasurer had the sole right to bring action to secure the appointment of a receiver. The white caps have at last arrived in Randolph county, Ala., according to a dispatch from Roanoke. Several of the ginneries were found posted with the following notice: “The white caps have come at last—No. 846. If you gin or haul any more cotton yon had as well haul out your fodder anil corn also. Take warning.” Alost nil of them were worded differently in different handwritings. The most conservative citizens think th ’re is ground for fear. BUSINESS REVIEW. Condition of Trade as Reported by Dun & Co. for the Past AVeek. R. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of trade says: A complete statement of failures for the quarter, which closed Friday night, is not possible, but the number thus far reported is about 4,000, and the aggregate of liabilities about $150,000,000, greatly surpassing the record of any previous quarter. For the past week the failures have been 329 in the United States, against 177 last yeat, and in Canada34 against 31 last year. “Hope deferred” explains the past week iD part, and it is doubtless true that many indulged unreasonable hopes, but business has not entirely answered expectations. The feeling of disappointment is commonly as cribed to delay of action on the silver bill in the senate. It is also true that many works, which have resumed op erations, do not find orders as large or the demand from customers as vig orous as they anticipated, and with some it is a question whether they will not close again. AA'hile money on call has been abundant andcheap,and about $4,500,000 clearing house certificates have been retired, there is a percepti ble greater caution in making com mercial loans at New York and at some western points. Confidence, prover bially of slow growth, has been some what diminished, in part, because ad vancing exchange suggests the possi bility of gold exports. The cotton manufacture is gaining more than any other, and there is a stronger market for print cloths and prints, while some reduction has helped to stimulate trade in other goods. The enormous de crease in production for the past two months begins to be felt, and sales are larger, though much below the usual qantity. AA’hile seventy-eight manufacturing concerns are reported as starting, wholly or in part, against twenty clos ing or reducing force, more than a third of the increase has been in cot ton mills, and another third in ma chine shops, nail mills, manufacturers of stoves and hardware, tools and cars, while in the iron manufacture proper, only seven concerns have started, against three that have stopped, and the outlook does not seem brighter. The closing of the largest iron mine in the country, the Norris, which ordina rily produces a million tons yearly, indicates the limited character of the business. At the east the demand for products is painfully inadequate, even for the scanty force now at work, and the lowest prices on record attract little business. It is said that one sale of steel rails ha3 been effected by a sjharp reduction in price. The contest be tween the Amalgamated Association and the works in the Pittsburg region, has been settled, but too late for most of the men. SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS. The Drift o! Her Progress and Pros perity Briefly Note! Happenings of Interest Portrayed in Pithy Paragraphs. For the 24 hours ending AVednesdny noon, the Brunswick board of liculth reported 16 new cases of yellow fever, 9 discharged, aud 2 deaths. The fever record stands: Under treatment 51, deaths 14, total 148; ratio mortality 9.4 per cent. Three deaths were officially reported by Brunswick’s health board Tuesday —Miss Rosa Nisi, the infant of Blount Bowen and Mrs. Emma Willis, all white. Fifteen new cases of yellow fever were reported and five patients were discharged. A AV’ashington special says: The Pelmetto trademark case from South Carolina, Governor Tillman against the commissioner of patents, was de cided Tuesday by Justice Bradley in the district supreme court in favor of Governoi Tillman. R. A. Tompkins, tax collector at Russellville, Ala., who was recently found to be several thousand dollars short, is missing. Several days since he was arrested for embezzlement, but the suits were withdrawn on certain conditions. It is believed that he has left for parts unknown. A Raleigh dispatch says: There is now no doubt from reports received by the state agricultural department Tuesday that North Carolina’s cotton crop will be picked by October 20tli. Three-fourths of the cotton is now- open on most farms. Sncli early and general opening was never before known in North Carolina. Surgeon Murray arrived at Jesttp Tuesday morning from Brunswick and visited the suspicious cases reported Monday. He declares them to be yel low fever. They are in four parts of the town. The town is ulmost depop ulated by the white citizens. A strong cordon has been placed around the city. Notone will bepermitted to leave unless by way of Camp Detentson. A Knoxville special states that Ad jutant-General Fite and Captain AA’nrd arrived in the city Wednesday morn ing from Nashville. They did not go to Clinton to disband the troops, as at first expected, nor will they, since consulting with General Carpenter, as it would damage the cases against the soldiers now in jail to scatter their witnesses over the state where they conld never get them together again. A Birmingham dispatch says: AA'eil- nesdav morning Leonard Lippman, ex-president of the New York College of Commerce, was sentenced to two months at hard labor in the mines. He was found guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses. Lipp man came from Savannah a few years ago. He was an expert stenographer and typewriter. At one time be was private secretary to the general mana ger of the Central railroad. The cotton crop report of Sonth Carolina, published Tuesday, says: Cotton is opening rapidly and with good weather the crop will be all gathered by November 1st. Some damage from water, dropping off wet leaves and staining the staple, is re ported in the west counties. Abbeville county reports cotton nearly half gathered. There will be no late crop or very little in many counties. Esti mates still give cotton at about one- hnlf a crop. A Birmingham special says: Col onel Clark, of the Second Regiment of the Alabama state troops, received a telegram late Tuesday night from Governor Jones, ordering the four military companies of Birmingham and vicinity to arms to await further orders preparatory to going to Deca tur, Ala., on a special train, to protect the Louisville and Nashville railroad company’s property and quell the riot between the striking shopmen and the men at work, which was anticipated. Invitations were extended Monday by tlie Port Royal Shipping Company to President Cleveland, A’ice Presi dent Stevenson members of the cabi net, governors, senators of Georgia and Sonth Carolina and to exchanges, newspapers, mayors and prominent business men throughout the south west to attend a celebration at Port Royal, S. C., October 9th in honor of the inauguration of direct trade with Europe from that port. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina will pre side. State Geologist Holmes, of North Carolina, reports that the geological survey will close this season’s work. It has conducted this jointly’ with the United States geological survey. The section from the Cranberry mine to the Georgia line along the Great Smoky mountain has been examined by iron experts. Particular examina tion was made in that region for chrome iron, corundum and nickel ores. The winter will be devoted to the examination of tlie piue forests of the eastern counties. A Birmingham special of Wednes- dav says: Owners nnd operators of Alabama cotton gins are becoming more and more frightened every day. In several parts of the state they have been forbidden to gin cotton by secret notices posted at their gins and threat ened with incendiarism if they persist. In Madison, Courtland and Bibb counties nearly all the gins are idle. Ihe notices rend ns follows: “Please do not gin any more cotton. AYe have struck for 10 cents per pound. If you gin any more you will be burned out. —Shotgun Company. ’ ’ During the monetary stringency it. Au"nst the banks of Montgomery. Ala., 1 egau to issue (Ie;*ing house certificates which have been in circulation since that time. Alonday the police were informed that some one had passed a number of counter feit certificates on Saturday night, and five or six of the certificates were brought to headquarters AA’ednesday. All of the certificates counterfeited are of the denomination of 35, and in each instance where they were passed, purchases of less than $1 were made, which made the transaction net the party passing the bills more than $4. ALTGELD ENDORSED In His Action Pardoning tlie Hay- market Rioters. A Chicago special says: That the democracy support Governor Altgeld in the pardon of the anarchists, and his denunciation of Judge Gary’, was publicly demonstrated at the county convention AVednesday, AA’hen it reached Judge Gary’s name for re nomination, ex-Judge Moran, one of the most respected jurists in the city, was howled down and threatened with personal violence when he presented Gary’l name, Animal Statistics. Russia stands at the head of the list in the matter of having the largest number of horses in the world—20,- 000,000. The United States stands second with a horse population of 16,- 000,000. In proportion to the number of inhabitants, however, the Argentine republic surpasses, as there are there more horses than people. From the latest accessible figures the Argentine republic has five head of cattle to every man, woman and child. Italy, with a population of 30,000,- 000 people, has only 720,000 horses; but has 1,500,000 mules and donkeys. Spain has one horse to every sixty peo ple—about 3,000,000 horses. The “gay cavaliers” of Spain still ride on don keys. The United Kingdom of Great Bri- tian und Ireland have 2,000,000 horses. The United States has a larger pro portion of pigs to the human popula tion than any other country. Ireland has always been considered the Utopia of the pig. Tho United States wears, however, the “blue ribbon” as to greatest number. She owns 46,000,- 000 swine. Australia is par excellence the coun try of the sheep. The population is 3,000,000 people, and the number of sheep is 62,000,000—twenty sheep to every man, woman and child. The United States lias a sheep population numbering about 47,000,000. The United States and British India have about the same number of head of cattle—52,000,000. Lost-An Appetite! If you have lost your appetite it wiil return to you if you apply to a druggist or general dealer who sells Hostetter’s Stoma h B.tters. When you arc in po-session of this helpful tonic, you have a restorer of appetite which is unfailing and prompt. Moreover, it restores digestion as well as appetite, and regulates the bowels, liver and kidneys, and protects you lrom malar.a and rheumatism. One hundred cents make a dollar, but they wouldn't if they were in the newspaper busi ness. _____ . Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys tem by Brown’s Iron Bitter-, which enriches the biood, tones the nerve--, aids digestion. Acts like a charm on persons in general id health, giving new energy and strength. Mav all the wire-pullers in Congress en counter a live wire and be laid out. When Nature Needs assistance it may be best to render it promptly,but one should remember to use even the most perfect remedies only when needed. The best and most simple and gentle remedy is tbe Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. It is raid that a man has been found so radi cal on silver that he wouldn’t embrace a golden opportunity. A NOTED BUSINESS COLLEGE. A High Compliment from a Former Presi dent of Vanderbilt University. Bishon McTyeire, while President of Van derbilt Un versify, raid to a mother whose son wan e l a po ition: “Send him to Jennings’ Business College, Nashvili; a certificate 1 r un R. W. Jennings to your son, recommending him fora posi ion, will le of more benefit to him than any other influence he could have.” 9100 Reward. 9100. The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaaed disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional 1 reat- ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood an l mucous sur faces of tho system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Do lara for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Chenet & C0.,Toledo, O. ^~Sold by Druggists, 75c. In every community there arc a number ot men whose whole time is not occupied, such as teachers, ministers, farmers’ sons ana others. To these cla ses especially we would say, if you wish to make several hundred dollars during the next lew months, write at once to B. h. Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va., and they will show you how to doit. 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