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DEATH AND DISASTER.
Further Particulars ot the Death-Deal
ing Storm on the Gulf. .
Scenes of Horror and Misery--The
Heath List Increased to 2,023.
A New Orleans special of Friday
says: The full story of the greet storm
is now told. Every settlement in its
path has been visited, every survivor
interviewed and has told his tale of its
terrors and its heroism. The news
papers of the city are at last able to
publish a list of the dead, which is not
likely to require many changes or ad
ditions. The ouly doubtful element is
the loss of life at Cheniere Caminada,
where 776 bodies have been recovered
and buried. A few are found from day
to day in isolated localities, but the
general sentiment is that nearly all
that are likely to be found have been
discovered, and that the others have
been swept to sea in the great tidal
wave. This leaves 6ome doubt as to
the exact number lost, as the popula
tion of the settlement at the time of
disaster was not known.'Father Gon-
deraux, the parish priest, has furnish
ed a list of 822 known to be dead. The
estimate of the loss runs from this fig
ure to to 1,200 for the Cheniere prop
er, and 1,300 for the whole district.
In the Bayou Cook section the num-
be of bodies recovered has been 131 as
follows:
In Bayou Cook 37; Bayou Shute
37 ; Grand Bayou 26; Bayou Ferrand
7; Bayou Chalard 1; Cypress bay 16
and at Tropical Bend, on the Missis
sippi river, eighteen miles distant
where they floated from the swamp, 17-
There are 183 other persons still miss
ing who have not been seen since the
storm. Their bodies are supposed to
be lying in the swamps or were swept
to sea. A large number of searching
parties are out looking for them, but
as the swamp grass is ten feet high, the
search is a very difficult one and the
bodies are discovered mainly by the
horrible stench they send out. It will
be difficult to identfy them,not only be-
causeof decompositionbutbeeause they
have been badly disfigured and eaten
by the gars and other fish and crabs.
This makes the total loss in the Bayou
Cook country 316, two-thirds of whom
were Austrairis from Dalmatia.
On the coast islands, seventy-eight
bodies have been found on the Chand-
leur and 115 on Cat and Ship islands,
probably all from the wrecked vessels
in Mississippi or Chandleur sound.
The loss of life from the shipping will
bo heavier than was at first reported.
Already 184 bodies have been report
ed, and there are still many vessels
missing whoso fate is unknown. Both
on the islands and on the Bayou Cook
swamp, the stench from the dead bod
ies of men and cattle is most offensive.
BURYING THE DEAD.
The Louisiana state board of health
has sent lime and other disinfectants
to be used where the dead are tying.
An appeal was made to the board to
bury the dead, but a majority decided
that this was not within its province
and that the burying must be done by
the parishes. The Slavonian Society,
of New Orleans, appointed Coroner
Settpm to bury all those found in the
swamps at its expense and erect slabs
over them giving their names. This
is being done. Only a few additional
losses of life were reported Friday,
; except at sea. They are: Creole Gap
5 ; Doe island 3 ; Slidell 3 ; Wrens
island 2. The list of tho dead is now
given ns follows by districts:
Cheniere Cominada and neighboring
settlements, 1,312; Bayou Cook coun
ty, 316; Lost from shipping, 184;
Grand Isle, 27, lower coast of Plnque-
mine, 47; Lake Borgne fishing camps,
47; Louisiana Coast island, 73; Mis
sissippi sound, 73; total, 2,023.
This may be increased fifty or sixty
by other losses on missing vessels. In
addition to those vessels reported lost
Thursday the following are known to
be wrecked with the following lives
on them : Corinne, 5 ; Hope, 5 ; Anne,
4; Govella, 2; Victoria. 4; Nabella.
»; liomn, 3; Clementine, 1; Idonia,
5; Georgiana. 2; Bosnlie, 4. The
Kosalie’s men were found lashed to the
side of the vessel, but dead. Other
wrecked vessels are the Pauline, Made,
Messenger, Danielo, Mary B. Villara,
K St. Barthomew, Iydilare, Dema, St.
George, Beddecke, Julia, Sarah and
St. Helena. *
HAD LARGE FAMILIES.
Of the 822 dead at Cheniere Camin
ada whose names are known, 496 were
children. The Caminada people are
famous for large families. Mr. Lafon
lost his wife and fifteen children, Aiser
Petre his wife nnd ten children and
August Bonumour his wife and ten
children. The families of the three
Valence brothers, who lived together,
John, Aulome and Perie, consisted of
six grown persons and twenty chil
dren. Of these twenty-six only one,
John Valence, survived.
The effects of the storm at the Che
niere are seen only in the destruction
ot all the houses, but the geography
and character of the country are
changed. The settlement formerly
faced Barataria bay. The wash
ing away of its front has made it face
the gulf of Mexico. Chandleur island
has ceased largely o be an island, the
storm washing away the soil and leav
ing it merely a reef covered in ordi
nary tides. A number of bayous have
changed their courses, while lakes or
bays have been enlarged or lessened.
horror’s climax.
Terrific aswasthe work of tho storm
elsewhere, on Cheniere Caminada it
reached a climax of horror. Cheniere
is one of that group of islands which
extend along the lower coast, and to
which belong Grand isle, Tam-
balier and Lost island. It’s a long,
low, flat strip of earth, about three
miles long by one in width. It was
one of the old haunts of LaFitte and
his band. Of late, it was a station
for fishing boats. It contained one
town, Caminadaville, of about 1,800
population, the majority of whom were
fishermen, and all of whom did a great
deal of business with New Or
leans through the firm selling fish in
the French market. The destructive
work of the elements no where finds
better exemplification than at Cam-
inidaville. The condition in which
this once prosperous little town is
now left is appalling. On Sunday
evening there were 1,200 dwellings
within its limits, but only twenty-five
remain standing, and of these, there
is not one uninjured. The mute ap
peal of these shattered heaps of de
bris is irresistible. Even the coldest
heart would grow sick to behold them.
The sympathetic scene is heart-rend
ing.
BURYING THEIR OWN FAMILIES.
It is no unusual thing to see great,
rugged fishermen, bronzed and hard
ened by a life of almost constant ex
posure, embrace each other in tears.
All had shares in the losses of the
storm. Not one of them could claim
exception from the universal depres
sion. There were a thousand duties to
be attended to, and they had little time
to spend in conversation.
So long as the festering dead lay un
buried, one did not have the heart to
detain them from their work. Just
imagine fathers and mothers bury
ing their sons and daughters, and chil
dren, in their extreme sadness, bury
ing their dead parents. Everywhere
one could see graves, wherein as many
as ten people were buried. Some
were drowned; others killed in the
wreckage. There are hund eds of
bodies that; are still unburied. Some
are under the wrecked buildings,
while the balance are floating on the
bosom of the, bay of Caminada.
Beneath some of the wrecks there
are many decaying bodies, but they
cannot be taken out and given even
a rude Christian burial. The brave
little band of grave diggers is exhaust
ed. They have already bnried in the
rude graves on the island 950, and are
still burying what bodies they can
find.
Imagination would be out of place
in describing that scene, for the cruel
truth itself surpasses anything possi
ble to the fancy.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Government anil Routine of
tlie House and Senate Discussef.
Notes cf Interest Concerning the Pea-
pie and Their General Welfare.
Lovick Pierce, of Columbus, Ga.,
was on Wednesday appointed chief
clerk of the bureau of education.
By a unanimous vote of the demo
crats of the house Tuesday, the Tucker
bill, repealing the federal election
laws, was adopted. Under the leader
ship of Speaker Crisp the democratic
party in the house is thoroughly or
ganized and solidified. It is begin
ning to act as one man.
Secretary Herbert has received sev
eral telegrams from Captain Pickens,
of the United States cruiser Charles
ton, now at Bio de Janeiro. One of
these telegrams confirms the Associa
ted Press telegram from Bio, which
said that one of the forts in the har
bor bay had surrendered to the insur
gent fleet Tuesday.
The president sent to the senate
Tuesday the following nominations;
J. D. Hall, of Connecticut, to be con
sul at San Juan, Porto Bieo; Colonel
Anson Mills, United States army, to
be commissioner of the United States
on the international boundray com
mission, provided for in the conven
tion with Mexico of March 1st, 1889.
Congressman Hatch, of Missouri, is
not so much worried over silver matters
that he forgets his anti-option bill.
He said in a recent interview; “I will
again introduce my anti-option bill
and I believe it will pass. The bill I
propose introducing will be very simi
lar to the former bill. There will be
some changes, but in the main it will
be the same as the former bill. I can
not now say just when I will introduce
the bill.”
Unfavorable to Atlanta.
Acting Secretary of llie Trasury
Curtis has written a letter to the chair
man of the ways and means committee
reporting against a subtreasury at At
lanta. Mr. Curtis,however,showsbyhis
letter that he does not understand the
obj ect of tho request. He seems to think
the subtreasury is wanted for Atlanta
only, when it is requested for the ben
efit of the entire southeast. The entire
Georgia delegation will appear before
the ways and means committee to urge
that the bill introduced by Colonel
Livingston be reported to the house.
Members of the delegation will also
explain the situation more thoroughly
to Mr. Curtis and Secretary Carlisle.
They believe the report of Mr. Curtis
will be reversed and that congress will
provide for a sub-treasury at Atlanta.
Conference With Mr. Cleveland.
The President and Secretary Car
lisle conferred with several senators
Tuesday night and a compromise was
arranged. It is said to provide for the
continuation of the purchases of silver
at the rate of 4,500,000 ounces a
month as provided in the Sherman
law, until a fixed date in 1895. Also
for the coinage of all silver bullion in
the treasury and all purchased up to
the fixed date in 1895. This compro
mise reaches practically the same
results as that promised by
Senator Faulkner. It is so
arranged ns to increase the total
amount of silver money in the coun
try to $800,000,000, at which time,
under the operation of the proposed
compromise, the purchase of silver
will stop. The second section of the
compromise gives the secretary of the
treasury the authority to issue bonds
—3 per cents—to maintain the gold
reserve in the treasury and gives him
authority in his discretion to increase
the reserve to $200,000,000. The com
promise is a victory for the silver men.
It provides for the continued purchase
and coinage of silver and for the coin
age of all the silver bullion in the vaults
of the treasury. It is true under the
terms of the compromise the purchase
and coinage of silver stops when the
$8,000,000 is reached, but that will
not be until about June. 1895. and in
the meantime there will have been an
election in the country with bimetal
lism as the issue and the country will
be given an opportunity to speak. If
the country speaks for free coinage,
then the free coinage of both gold and
silver can be provided- for by the next
congress and go into operation the
day the proposed compromise expires.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for Past Week.
1 be review of tlie industrial situation in tho
South for the past week shows that no material
change has taken place in industrial or finan
cial affairs. The average number of new in
dustries is well maintained, and nearly every
brauch of manufacturing is represented in the
list. Reorganization among the banks which
closed during the recent panic, has gone steadi
ly forward, and nearly all of them are now
open and doing business on a satisfactory
basis. An increased activity is reported among
iron producers. The great storms on the
Gnlf coast causing much loss of life, also
affected to a considerable extent the output of
the sugar and rice crops. It is believed, how
ever, that the loss will not exceed one-fourth
of the crop. Cotton raisers are bringing in
their crop more freely, bnt there is no general
disposition to market it, the e being a strong
belief among the growers that higher prices
will soon be had.
Thirty-three new industries were established
or ncorporated during the week, together with
four enlargements of manufactories and eight
important new buildings. Among important
new industries arc the Michigan Lumber
company, capital $100,000, organized at
Little Rock, Ark., by E. E. Moss and others;
the Lamar Grove company, of Houston, Texas,
capital $100,000; the Northwestern Manufact
uring company, of Charleston, W. Ya., capital
S50,000; tli- Columbian Manufacturing com
pany, of Wheeling, W. Ya., capital $25,000;
the Gates Desk Manufacturing company, of
Greenville. S. C . capital $25,100, and a 520,000
stave company at Yazoo C.ty, Miss., organ zed
by L. P. Coojjpr and others, of Memphis, Tenn. A
$10,000 canning factory is reported at McClel-
lanville, S C-; a saddlery company at Dallas,
Texas; a cotton compress at Shreveport, La.; a
milting company at Colombia, Tenn., a large
saw mill at Grand Ridge, Fla., and a foundry
at Aslibotough, N. C.—Tradesman (Chatta
nooga, Tenn.)
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
lie Daily Routine of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomize!
What is Being Done to Allay Finan
cial Depression and Bring Belief.
54th Day.—The resolution offered
Monday by Mr. Dolph, calling on the
state department for information as to
whether the Chinese government has
requested an extension of the time for
the registration of Chinese laborers,
under the Geary bill, was laid before
the senate Tuesday morning. Mr.
Dolph set out to make a speech upon
it but was cut off by a suggestion from
Mr. Sherman that the resolution re
ferred to executive business and had
to be considered in private session.
Mr. Dolph attempted to argue that
the rule was not applicable in this,but
was again cut off by the ruling that
even the suggestion that the matter
before the senate involved executive
business required the presiding officer
to order the galleries cleared and
the door closed. That ruling did not
suit Mr. Dolph’s plan, which was
to have his speech made in open ses
sion and reported; but he had to yield.
The galleries accordingly were cleared
and the doors closed. The doors were
re-opened at 11:50, and the silver pur
chase bill was immediately taken up.
Mr. McPherson argued in support of
the bill, declaring his belief (a belief
which was shared, he said, by two-
thirds of the people who had any opin
ion on such subjects) that the Sherman
law was the main and only cause of the
business troubles. Mr. Squire offered
a substitute for the silver repeal bill,
providing that the silver bullion
produced in the United States may
be presented at the mints anu
the owner receive therefor stand
ard silver dollars to the extent
of the commercial value of the bullion
on the day of offering, the amount of
such issue not to exceed two million
dollars monthly, and coinage to cease
when two hundred million dollars
have been coined. No certificates are
to be issued against such silver. The
purchasing clause of tho Sherman act
is repealed and the secretary of tho
treasury directed to issue two hundred
million dollars of four per cent,
bonds, redeemable after five years,'
the proceeds to be held as a reserve to
insure parity. The national banks
may issue circulation to the full
amount of the bonds deposited by
them. Allen’s resolution regarding
the borrowing of money by the United
States since March 4,1885, was passed.
55th Day-.—On the assembling of
the senate, Wednesday morning, Mr.
Bate sent to the clerk’s desk and had
read a series of resolutions adopted at
a large meeting of citizens of Lincoln
county, Tennessee, commending the
action of the Tennessee senators
against the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman act, declaring the repeal bill
to be in the interest alone of the weal
thy and creditor classes; and denounc
ing “the enemies of silver money as
our enemies and its friends our
friends.” Mr. Bate made some re
marks on the subject as connected
with the contarry action of the
Memphis cotton and merchant ex
changes. He admitted that there was
a wide difference of opinion among
the people of Tennessee on the silver
question, and referred to the facts to
show the variableness of tho opinion
of the Memphis cotton exchange on
the subject of the Washburn anti
option bill last session. The silver
purchase repeal bill was taken up at
11:45, and Mr. Cockrell began the
third installment of his long speech
against it.
56th Day.—The Wednesday night
session of the senate was a peculiar
one. Senator Allen, of Nebraska,
took the floor at 5:15 o’clock in the
afternoon, and without any interrup
tions except such as were purely inci
dental, had the floor all night. He
proved himself an able and indefatig
able talker. At no time did his voice
fail him, and even when the clerk was
calling the roll to secure a quorum he
stood erect and ready to proceed with
his remarks. He concluded his speech
on the stroke of 8 o’clock Thursday
morning, having been on the floor
fourteen and three-quarter hours. His
speech breaks all previous records and
his powers of endurance won for him
the admiration of those opposed to his
tactics. At the conclusion of Mr. Al
len’s speech, Mr. Yoorhees moved to
lay the Peffer amendment on the ta
ble. A call was ordered, dur
ing which Mr. DuBois, of Ida
ho, remained in his 6eat, but did
not vote. Finally, Mr. Yilas called
the attention of the chair to this
fact and asked that the rule be read
requiring the senators to vote. Yice
President Stevenson directed this
done, nnd then ordered the clerk
to call the senator from Idaho. Du
Bois’ name was called, but he remained
silent, looking straight at the presid
ing officer. The vice-president then
called on Mr. DuBois to state his rea
sons for declining to vote. Mr. Du
Bois did so, and the presiding officer
asked : “Shall the senator from Idaho,
for the reasons he has assigned, be ex
cused from voting?” On this Mr.
Butler demanded the yeas and nays.
The roll was called, and the senate
decided that Mr. DuBois be not ex
cused from voting. Ayes, 21; nays,
29. DuBois’ name was again called,
but yet he did not answer. Meanwhile,
the tension was relieved by the an
nouncement that the Peffer amend
ment was tabled—yeas, 33 ; nays, 17,
The amendment thus defeated was a
complete free coinage act in itself. It was
intended to supplement the repeal
paragraph of the '\ oorhees bill. The
amendment prescribed the proportions
and weight of gold and silver coins to
be coined hereafter and the nature of
the alloy, and provided the necessary
machinery for the execution of its
purpose, namely, the free coinage of
both gold and silver. The vote hav
ing been announced, Mr. Yoorhees re
marked that the only other amend
ment pending to the house bill was
the amendment reported from the fi
nance committee. Mr. Martin,of Kan
sas, then addressed the senate in favor
of free coinage.
THE HOUSE.
54th Day.—There was not a quorum
of democratic members present in ihe
house at noon Tuesday, but the repre
sentatives entered quickly and the
house was soon filled. Mr. Outhwait,
from the committee on rules, reported
a resolution for the immediate consid
eration of the bill amendatory of the
Geary Chinese exclusion act. He gave
notice that he would call the resolution
up Wednesday. At 1 o’clock the house
proceeded under the special order to
the consideration of and vote on the
Tucker federal election bill and the
amendments thereto. At 11:15 p. m.,
the first vote was on Mr. Burrow’s
amendment to Mr. Lacey’s amend
ment, and it provides for the retention
of sections 2,005, 2,006, 2,007, 2,008,
2,009 and 2,010. On a standing vote
there were 81 in the affirmative and
183 in the negative. This showed that
the democrats had their quorum, and
the yeas and nays were ordered. The
amentment was rejected—yeas, 100;
nays, 198. The next vote was the
Lacey amendment, which strikes from
the repealing clause the criminal sec
tions of the statutes. The Lacey
amendment was defeated—yeas, 96;
nays, 192. The bill was finally passed
by a strict party vote of yeas 200, nays
101. The populists voted with the
democrats in the affirmative.
55th Day—In the house Wednes
day morning resolutions for a recess
of congress from October 14th to No
vember 1st, was presented by Mr.
Hunter of Illinois. It was objected
to by Mr. Outhwaite and referred to
the committee on rules. The house
proceeded to consider the bill for the
remission of penalties on the dynamite
cruiser “Yesuvius.” No final action
was taken on the bill, and at the con
clusion of the morning hour, Mr.
Outhwaite called up the resolution,
the committee on rules providing for
the immediate consideration of the
bill to amend the Geary Chinese ex
clusion act.
56th Day—In the course of the
morning business in the house Thurs
day, there was a small controversy
over the number of copies of the ways
and means tariff hearings to bo print
ed, but the printing committee’s
recommendation (2,000 copies) was
finally accepted. -The Flynn resolu
tion, fixing the qualification of Chero
kee strip citizens, was adoped. and
the house took up the bill to protect
forest reservations.
BRUNSWICK ASKS FOR AID.
Governor Northen Issues an Appeal to
Georgians in Her Behalf.
Last Monday Governor Northen re
ceived from Hon. Thomas W. Lamb,
the mayor of Brunswick, who is now
at the head of a band of brave men
fighting the fever and starvation in
the stricken city by the sea, a letter
asking for aid for his people. The ap
peal should touch a responsive chord
in the hearts of every Georgian. It
gives the true situation of affairs in
Brunswick.
In response to this letter Governor
Northen has written the following let
ter to the people of the state:
October 10, 1893.
To the People of Georgia:
The following letter from Hon.
Thomas W. Lamb, mayor of Bruns
wick, ascribes fully the unfortunate
condition of the stricken city. Brave
and true to duty, as he has proved
himself during this dreadful scourge,
it is humiliating to him to ask the
charities of the people; but in the
midst of dire calamity he but dis
charges his duty to his unfortunate
people, in the absence of power in his
city government and provision on the
part of the state to render aid abso
lutely needed. I appeal to the good
people of this state, once more, to come
to his relief through liberal contribu
tions in money and in provisions.
Bespectfully, IV. J. Northen,
Governor of Georgia.
The following is the letter received
by Governor Northen from Mayor
Lamb:
To His Excellency, W. J. Northen,
Governor of Georgia:
My Dear Sir—Your favor has been
received, with $6.40 included, for
which accept my thanks for and in be
half of the suffering of this city.
The conditions are daily growing
worse. It now looks as if every man,
woman and child in the city, except
those who have immunity from the
disease, will take the fever. A great
many negroes are sick, many more
than we had in 1876, nnd I am under
the impression that it is for want of
the white race to feed upon, although
there are many white people yet who
may have the fever.
I am praying for frost and aid.
Without the former, we must have the
latter, or starvation is inevitable. The
outside world does not understand
thoroughly our situation. In a few
words, it is this: No business; no
money; city treasury depleted; sick
ness and suffering everywhere. We
are, therefore, compelled to ask for aid
from a generous public, which up to
this time has been kind; but, with the
fever on the increase and both money
and provisions coming in slowly, I am
compelled to appeal again for assist
ance. While we have as yet no dis
turbances among the negroes, should
they become maddened from hunger,
the whites would be powerless to de
fend themselves against such odds.
I apprehend no danger unless in that
event. I have, for want of proper
men on the police force, some twenty-
four of the best colored men as police
men, to protect the houses of thoso
who have left the city.
My task, I can assure you, has been
anything but pleasant. I am trusting
in a kind Providence to guide me in
these trials; and—please understand
me—I have not a word of excuse to
make for myself, but have feelings of
sympathy for a few men who left
Brunswick in her dire distress and
said to a charitable people abroad,
“The people of Brunswick are not in
distress.” If they were in the city
to-day and understood the situation,
and should be struck with remorse,
they feel like praying to a merciful
Father for forgivness. You will par
don me, but I was anxious that you
should know that we bad one or more
citizens who made the remarks referred
to in this letter.
I feel it my duty to keep you advis
ed of the situation, knowing at thj
same time that you are doing all in
your power to assist us.
My clerk this morning was stricken
with fever. It has no respect for per-
lons.
With my best wishes, I remain (in
haste) Your friend,
Thomas W. Lamb, Mayor.
AMICK’S FAME EXTENDING;
His Medicines Being Sen!, to tlie Utter
most Parts of the Earth.
The fame of Cincinnati as a center
of medical research has gone to the
ends of the earth. Dr. C. Howard
Strong, of Cape Town, South Africa,
has been in the city a week investi
gating the Amick cure for consump
tion and takes back with him suffi
cient medicines for sixty patients.
Dr. Joaquin Dnenas, secretary of
Cuba’s delegation to the Pan-Amer
ican Medical congress, was also suf
ficiently impressed to order the Amick
medicines, and yet another delegate
obtained a supply for Venezuela. In
far-off Alaska an American physician,
Dr. Arthur Jordan, is stopping the
ravages of consumption among the
natives on his island of St. George
with Amick’s help and the Cincinnati
discoverer’s offer to physicians every
where of free test medicines for any
number of patients is as eagerly ac
cepted in the frozen north as in the
southern tropics.
ODR LATEST DISPATCHES.
Tie Happenings of a Day dirouiclefl in
Brie! and Concise Paragrapiis
And Containing the Gist of the Sews
From A11 Parts of the World.
For the 24 hours ending Thnrsday
noon the Bruswick board of health re
ported eighteen new cases of yellow
fever.
The Manchester cotton mills, abont
three miles west of Fort Worth, Tex.,
burned Thursday morning. Loss
about $300,000.
Hon. M. T. Bryan, of Tennessee,
was unanimously re-elected president
of the Southern Interstate Immigra
tion Association by the convention at
Chicago Thursday.
President Hurt, of the Atlanta, Ga.,
Consolidated Street Bailway company,
has announced a reduction of twenty
per cent for conductors and motormen
to go into effect the first of November.
The reduction will only be temporary.
The trial in tho habeas corpus pro
ceedings in the case of the six soldiers
imprisoned for lynching Miner Bich
ard Drummond, was concluded in the
in the criminal court at Knoxville,
Tenn., Thursday and Judge Sneed re
served his decision.
A Paris special of Thursday says: It
is Eaid semi-officially that the Count
Ferdinand DeLesseps was suffering
from a stomach trouble which affected
him badly on account of his feeble
ness, but that he was never in danger,
and has now fully recovered.
The Supreme court of North Caro
lina has decided a case under the usu
ry act, holding that if a greater rate
than the legal one of eight per cent is
charged all interest is forfeited and
any payments made are to be credited
upon the principal.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says:
An electric car, on the Memphis and
Baleigh Springs railroad came in col
lision with a cow, was thrown down an
embankment and wrecked eight miles
from Memphis Wednesday night.
Four passengers were injured. Some
are in a critical condition.
A Baleigh dispatch of Thursday
says: The rolls of ex-confederate pen
sioners in North Carolina have been
completed by State Auditor Furman.
There are 2,035 male pensioners and
3,904 widows of soldiers, Wilkes
county leads in number of pensioners,
having 146. Nine counties have over
100 each.
A great sensation was created in
banking circles of Providence, B. I.,
Thursday by the suspension of Wilbur,
Jackson & Company and Sheldon &
Berny. These concerns were classed
among the strongest in New England.
The house of Wilbur Jackson, & Com
pany having been in existence a score
of years and standing a No. 1.
Eire broke out in the engine room
of the new Boston colliery at Potts-
ville shortly after 6 o’clock Thursday
morning, communicating to the
breaker. In an incredibly short time
the entire structure, valued at $50,000,
burned to tho ground. Three hun
dred nnd fifty men and boys were em
ployed and 150,000 tons of coal the
annual output.
Mr. J. Allen Smith, president of the
First National bank, of Abbeville, S.
C., will present Abbeville with a $15,-
000 opera house at once. The brick
and other building material have al
ready been hauled to the grounds.
The building will be three stories
high. The plans show that it will be
something handsome for a town of
4,000 inhabitants.
A London dispatch of Thursday
states that the creation of the Hon. C.
H. Tupper, Canadian minister of ma
rine and fisheries, a knight command
er of the order of St. Michael and St.
George, for the services in the Behring
sea arbitration, has been officially an
nounced. Some of the papers call at
tention to the fact that the United
States have no reward of merit they
can bestow upon their delegates.
The North Carolina department of
agriculture has made its October crop
report based on the information given
by its 1,000 correspondents. The per
centage of the condition of the crops
are given as follows: Cotton, 70; rice,
81; peanuts, 87; corn, 84; tobacco,
76. This is the last report of the
year. The upland corn crop is fine.
Tlie cotton crop larger is than that of
last year.
BEGINNING OF DIRECT TRADE
Celebrated in Grand Style at Port
Royal, S. C.
Monday was a grand day in the his
tory of Port Boyal, and was hailed by
the citizens and by business men of
that section of the country, as the be
ginning of a new era in southern de
velopment. Recently the William John-
son & Co. Steamship Company, of
Liverpool, has put ou a line of trans-
Atlantic steamers between Port Boyal
and Liverpool and organized the Port
Boyal Shipping Company.
By the invitation of the latter com
pany there gathered at Port Boyal Mon
day about 200 representative Georgians
and Carolinians to celebrate the inau
guration of direct trade between Port
Boyal and Europe. Two Ships lay at
the wharves, the Lochmore, just load
ed with 7,000 bales of cotton for Liver
pool, and the Mayfield, which will
carry 8,000 bales.
After inspecting the ships and tak
ing a ride around Port Boyal harbor
the party enjoyed a barbecue at which
a number of speeches were made by
prominent gentlemen. Governor Till
man was to preside but did not get
back in time from Chicago, where he
went from the St. Louis convention.
The following telegram was received
from him:
I cannot be with von to-day. bnt I renew the
pledge of the moral and political support of
the state of South Carolina to the enfranchise
ment or Port Royal. B. R. Tillmaf.
Telegrams were also read from
Lieutenant Governor Gary, ex- Con
gressman Elliott and President J. "W.
Thomas, of the Nashville, Chattanoo
ga and St. Louis railroad, expressing
cordial endorsement of the move
ment.
POWDER EXPLOSION.
Two Hundred Kegs Blow Up and Wreck
a Train.
Five minutes after the east bound
freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago railroad had pass
ed near Lawrence, a few miles east of
Alliance, Ohio, Monday night, the in
habitants of the village were startled
by a terrible explosion. The train
had a car containing more than two
hundred kegs of powder, which be
came ignited, causing an explosion
and completely wrecking tbe train.
The engineer and fireman were fatally
burned. Tbe damage will reach $25,-
000.
Pacts About Honey.
The largest natural hive in the world
is that of Kentucky, known under the
name of “Mammoth Bee Hive.” It is,
in fact, a cavern, the largest compart
ment of which is 150 feet high, and
which extends to about ten acres. It
is in very hard rock, and the whole
height is covered with honey by the
bees.
M. Bertrand, a famous French api-
culturist, has hives containing twenty-
six rows, being double the ordinary
English hives.
The largest bee-keeper in the world
is M. Harbison, of California, who pos
sesses 6,000 hives, supplying 200,000.
pounds of honey per annum.
The United states is at the head of
the list of honey-producing countries.
There are estimated to be 2,800,000
hives belonging to 70,000 rearers,
and producing 61,000,000 pounds of
honey yearly.
In Greece there are 30,000 hives,
producing 3,000,000 pounds of honey;
in Denmark, 90,000 hives producing
2.000. 000 pounds; in Kussia, 110,000
hives, producing the same quantity; in
Belgium, 200,000 hives, producing
5.000. 000 pounds; in the Netherlands,
240,000 hives producing 6,000,000
pounds. In France a yield of 25,000,-
000 pounds is obtaned from 950,000
hives. In Germany and Austria the
production is very nearly the same.
The Opal a Harbinger of Ill-Luck,
Some of the older authorities give
the opal as an emblem of hope. But
a writer on the subject, Babbi Beno-
ni, who lived in the fourteenth centu
ry, says of it: “The opal is fatal to
love, and sows discord between the
giver and receiver. Given as an en
gagement token it is sure to bring ill-
luck.” A late writer on the vagaries
of fashion says “An opal figures in Sir
Walter Scott’s novel of ‘Anne of Geir-
sten,’ and its possession was fatal
to tho family of the heroine. The
idea that they were unlucky obtained
such currency that after the publica
tion of the novel they went out of
fashion.” The same writer says:
“When Miss Grant married Mr. Sar-
toris she had among her presents a set
of opals. Much was said about the
ill-omen, and if report is to be believ
ed, her marriage has been a wretched
one. It is even asserted that they are
especially unlucky when given to a
bride.”—Ex.
A Babe for 73 Years.
The funeral of Charles Talley, at
Cliadd’s Ford, Penn., a few days ago,
was the final chapter in the history of
a remarkable man. He was 73 years
and 6 months old, yet never either fed
or dressed himself a single time in all
his life. Every part of his body was
perfectly formed, yet he could per
form only the most simple acts with
hands or feet. He was 1 year old be
fore he raised his hand from the pil
low, and 12 years old before he made
any progress whatever in locomotion.
His mind was clear, his judgment
keen and his memory retentive. He
was a resident of Brandywine Hun
dred, Del., but uas buried at Chadd’s
Ford.—Philadelphia Record.
Patience Pays.
Little Miss Freckles—“If Susie
Stuckup was as cross to me as she was
to you, I’d get mad and not speak to
her.”
Little Miss Muggins—“No you
wouldn’t, if you knew what I know. ”
. “What?”
“She’s goin’ to haven birthday par
ty, with two kinds of ice-cream and a
whole lot of- lady-fingers and fruit
cake.”—Street <£• Smith’s Good Neies.
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nis Good Point.
Anxious Mother—“My denr, I am
afraid that young man you are en
gaged to has not the disposition for a
good husband. Ho seems very hard
to please.”
Pretty Daughter—“Hard to please?
I should say he was. He never- even
thought of marrying anybody until he
met me.”
He Was Much Obliged.
Tramp—“I’m very much obliged for
that piece of fresh bread you gave me,
mum.”
Young Housekeeper—“You are wel
come.”
Tramp—“Yes, mum. It was a lit
tle too doughy to eat, mum, but it
tightened my leaky shoes up elegant. ”
—New York Weekly.
Don’t Leave Port,
Don’t go on a long journey, don’t start as emi
grant for the far west, if unprovided with that
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Hostetter’s Stoma h Bitters, wh ch will de
fend von from sea sickness, nullify fatigue
and ill health caused by travel and change o
diet, and counteract malaria. Peerless is it
for dyspepsia, rheumatism, liver complaint,
nervousness and debility.
The times are so hard that it is all a person
can do to pay his respect-’.
For impure or thin Blood, "Weakness, Mala
ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness,
take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives strength,
making old. persons fed young—and young
persons strong; pleasant to take.
A good deed Ins a flaw in it when in=tigated
by unwor hy motives.
How’s This !
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
F. J. Chhn'EY & Co., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che
ney for t.he last 15 years, and believe him per
fectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tion made by their firm.
West & Tkcax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
Walding, Ki.vvan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Ha l's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mneons sur
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Edgar A. Poe was one of the first American
authors to give lectures and readings. He was
a fine e*o_ utionist.
For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach
di-order-, use Brown’s Iron Bitters—the Best
Tonic- It rebuilds the Blood and strengthens
the muscles. A splendid medicine for weak
and debilitated persons.
Over one million people in London live on
less than five dollars a week for each family.
Wo Care Raptnrt.
No matter of how long standing. Writ*
for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J.
Hoi I eng worth & Co., Owego, Tioga Co., N. x.
Price $1; by mail, 11.15.
A wonderful stomach corrector—Beecliam’s
Pill-. Beecham’s—no others. 25cents a box.
Mrs. Titus. ,*
Steamboat on the Missouri.
As the railroads of the present day-
contest for supremacy in speed nnd
good service, so did the steamboats of
20 and 40 years ago struggle for posi
tion in the public eye. The point in
contest was always that of speed. In
those days trade on the Missouri was
prosperous. At least 100 boats ascend
ed the stream every season before
July, many of them going as far as
Fort Benton, in Montana. A boat
that made this trip and returned to
St. Louis in two months without a
profit of $75,000 did a poor business.
Those were the days when freight was
freight. No competing vessel cut the
rates. The boats ran independently,
and when one captain fixed the tariff
there was no other boat to be found
that would offer cheaper transporta
tion.—Detroit Free Press.
Learning Journalism.
It is absnrb to say that the newspa
per office must be the only successful
school for would-be newspaper writers.
Modern journalism has well defined
practices and principles that can be
taught by oue who knows them as well
in a school of journalism as in the
office of a daily paper. The trouble
with the schools of journalism that
have come into existence up to the pres
ent time is that they have not been
practical, and thnt their conductors
have not been themselves adequately
trained in the methods of the melon
newspaper world.
It may be that no class of instruc
tion can make a first class author or
journalist of oue who has not natural
talent for literary work, but grant
ing the possession of such talent in
some degree instruction in literary art
or in the principle of journalistic work
cannot fail to benefit the pupil and to
give him a marked advantage over one
whose talent hns been daveloped only
by experience without a guide.
The Drummer’s Advice.
First Passenger (on railroad) —
“Traveling man, eh? Familiar with
Boom City, I presume!”
Drummer—“Yessiree. Take it in
on every trip.”
“Glad to hear it. I have never been
there. What hotel would you advise
me to stop at?”
“The Boomton House.”
“Do you always go there?”
“No, I have never stopped at that
hotel. But I’ve been to all the rest.”
THIRTY YEARS A BOOKKEEPER.
Now Teaching What He Learned in
Coiinting-Kooin* nnd Hank*.
R. W. Jennings, the bead of Jennings’ Busi
es s College, Na hv.lle, T»*nn., lias bad mure
than thirty years’ actual experience as Tel er
and Bookke eper in Banks, and as partner and
Bookkeeper in large mere m tile houses in New
York and Nashville. His College is consi lerctl
tlie most practical school of its kind in the
world—nine out of ten of its graduates get
?ood positions. Write for Catalogue.
Hood’s 5 ?>Cures
“I have been taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla for
some time and every
dose helps me. My little
boy, six years old, had
sores on his feet ani he
could not wear any 3hoes-
Wherever the skin
had cracked bad sores
would form, presumably
on account of the blood
having been poisoned by ivy- Many remedies
failed to do him any good. Finally I gave him
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and after a week the sores commenced to heal
and disappear. After taking two bottles he
was entirely cured and his general health was
greatly benefited.” Mrs. C. S. Titus, South
Gibsop, Pa.
N/B. If you decide to get Hood’s Sarsapa-
rillaldo not be induced to buy any other.
lUtsd’s Pills are purely vegetable, perfectly
hrffoiesi, alwayi reliable and bcaeflctal. J5c»
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr- Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water.Drnegists sell at 25c per bott le.
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Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet-
tei inan others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if oflered.
Will You Marry Soon?
If «o. you are obliged to have a solid
18 karat gold ring. You will want to
feel sure that it IS 18 karat, pure
and genuine. Write to us for oar
catalogue of plain ring*.
J. P. STEVENS & BRO., Jewelers,
ATLANTA, GA.
A Wonderful Clock.
At St. Petersburg a wonderful pho
nograph clock has been exhibited,
will repeat, at any hour fixed RP on >
such orders or announcements as nitty
have been given to its keeping. t
could be made to tell the children that
it was time to get up, the head of the
family that he had only eight min
utes in which to catch his train and
the invalid that it was the hour for
him to take his medicine. The con
siderate young husband could leave a
reminder with the timepiece to the
effect that he would like to find those
buttons sewed on when he came home.
Doubtless the next step will be the
invention of a phonograph watch that
will remark from time to time to its
owner: “Don’t forget to post those
letters I gave you,” or “ be sure to
bring home those gloves. ’ Then tho
era of true domestic felicity will have
dawned and people will be willing to
wait a few years for the millennium.—
Exchange.
Gray Hairs.
How often a handsome womnn of 35
or 40 will watch some young bud of
18 with envy and shiver when the lit
tle peachblow beauty says to a com
panion: “Oh, I’m sure I don’t act
like a child. Why, I feel like an old
lady of 35.” Then the foolish matron
will retire into the dressing room per
haps, take a jaundiced look at a few
gray hairs that adorn her royal head
and possibly shed a tear or two. Fool
ish woman ! If the writer were n man
and you were single, I’d choose you
any time iu preference to the flighty,
bread and butter beauty whom you so
envy. Gray hairs are never unbecom
ing.—New York Times.
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A Reasonable Request.
Jinks—“Phew ! Looks like rain.”
Wink—“We’re going to have a
thunder-shower. ”
Jinks—“Guess that’s so. Lend mo
one of my umbrellas, will yon?”
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August Flower, for sick headache
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she has been a great sufferer, has
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duced to try August Flower, which
gave immedaite relief. We cannot
say to much for it.” L. C. Frost,
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