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VOL. XIII. NO. 3 VIENNA, GA. ■ TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1894. PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
In Arstria-Hungary, with a popula
tion of 50,000,000, there are 4,000,00*
supported at public expense.
It is claimed that better metal ships
can be built at San Francisco than in
the East, because better wood for the
framework can be had there.
Canadians are preparing to harness
Up their side of Niagara Falls now.
“They know a good iking when they
Bee it,” remarks the New Orleans Pic
ayune. •'
The greatest preponderance of fe-
Tnalcs to males is found in the District
of Columbia, where the proportion is
110,242 females to 100,000 males.
This is due to the extensive employ
ment of women in the Government
offices.
Two very ingenious contrivances for
casing the work of the weary type
writer pounder have been recently
placed on the market. The one is
styled a “typewriter prism.” It is a
rod of highly polished glass, fastened
to the carriage beneath the impres
sion roller. Two of its sides arc flat
and inclined to each other at an
angle of forty-five degrees; the third
is a strong cylindrical curve. This
contrivance reflects the writing under
neath, and the lifting of the carriage
to locate an error is thus obviated.
The other device is an attachment by
which the writer can tell the number
of words which he has pouuded out of
his machine.
The question—Is a man the ownei
of his own teeth?—has come before a
German court at Gera. A man who
I hail been suffering for some time from
toothache made up his mind to have
the tooth taken out. The stump
‘ proved a difficult one to draw, and
!h when it was out it was of such curious
1, shape that the dentist declared he
would keep it as a curiosity. His
patient, however, thought he would
like to keep it himself, an l claims 1
it; but the dentist, ou the ground
that a tooth, when drawn with the
free consent of a patient, is ownerless
property as'soon as it leaves the jaw,
rofused to give it up. The patient at
once entered an action against the
dentist.
A Japanese mosquito-catching plant
was exhibited in New York City the
other day. The bare mention of snob
a thing suggests infinite possibilities
to ty Tribune. “The real name of
is Viucetoxicum acuminatum, but
.Cs name is a matter of no conse
quence. What we should like to
know is why it has up to the present
time been blushing unseen. In the
specimen exhibited every blossom
held within its embrace a mosquito,
which appeared to be fast beyond
possibility of escape. In a little time
we may expect to see summer hotels
and boarding houses announcing in
flaming lotters that they are fully
equipped with large fields devoted to
the cultivation of this plant. Why
Japan has concealed the treasure so
long is a mystery.
From what we read in the papers
about cowboys, one would be justified
in believing that they were a rough
and vulgar lot. A gentleman just from
the West, and who has many cowboys
in his employ, surprised us not a little
by assuring us that many of these men
arc well-oducated; that they belong
to good families, and that many of
them are not addicted to profanity or
intemperance. He also gave us the
important information that a herd of
half-wild cattle is as timid and ner
vous as so many sheep, and that the
herders, who fully understand their
peculiarities, are accustomed to soothe
them, particularly in the night-time,
by singing. AT the sudden appear
ance of any strange object, or the
sound of any unfamiliar noise, the
herd stampede, and when the cattle
get running, they are almost as diffi
cult to check as a mountain torrent or
a prairie lire. At such times, a part of
a cowboy's duty is to ride around and
around the “bunch” of cattle, singing
a song—often a hymn—as melodiously
as he can. Gradually the auimals are
quieted, and come to a halt, and drop
down, one by one, till at length they
are all asleep), and the weary singer
can dismount from his panting horse,
and give his own throat a rest.
A ltaiu ot Salt.
Friday was a balmy day at Poca-
lello, Idaho. Late in the afternoon a
drizzling rain blew up), carried on a
wind directly from the south. It was
of peculiar whiteness, and, after it
had passed, everyone who had hap
pened to have been out in it, and who
wore a dark suit of clothes, or a dark
hat, noticed that clothes and hat were
covered with thousands of tiny white
specks. Later it was noticed that
every window in town looking to the
couth was also covered with white
spots.
“It has been raining mud,” said
every one who noticed the pheno
menon at first, but later some of the
curious tried tasting the spots. They
had a distinctly salty flavor and an
analysis made later by druggists
proved that they were salt.
The question now is: Where did
the salt come from? There can onlv
be one answer—from the Great Salt
lake, nearly 301 miles south in Utah.
It must have been a warm day over
the Great Dead Sea when a strong
south wind swept over it, catching up
the salty vapor and sweeping it north
to Idaho an ! finally bespattering the
clothes and windows of the good peo
ple of Pocatello with the salty spray.
—Chicago Times.
GEORGIA DEMOCRATS
CONVENE AT ATLANTA AND
NAME A STATE TICKET.
HOli. W. T. ATKINSON, OF COWETA,
NOMINATED FOB SOTEBBOR
The Platform as Adopted by
the Convention.
Summary of the Most Important Fca-
tares of the Meeting.
The Georgia State Democratic con
vention met in Atlanta Thursday and
was called to order at noon by Judge
Allen Fort.
The meeting was held in the hall of
tho House of Eepresentatives and the
delegates on their arrival filled the
seats and soon every available inch of
space was occupied by a chair and the
spaces between tbe chairs were occu
pied by the eager onlookers. Tho gal
leries were also p)acked to suffocation.
Nearly all the prominent men of tho
state, the men who have made Georgia
what she is, who have spread her name
and her fame to the four corners of
this great country, were present, and
everybody agreed that a more repre
sentative body of Georgians had never
been gathered together under one
roof.
It was exactly 12 o’clock when Judge
Allen Fort rapped the convention to
order. Judge Fort said it was no time
for speech-making, ns tho convention
was here for the purpose of transact
ing business, and he therefore declared
tbe first business in order to be the
selection of a temporary chairman.
The names of Judge James S. Boyn
ton, of Spalding, and T. B. It. Cobb,
of Fulton, were presented for tempo
rary chairman. Before the vote was
announced Mr. Cobb withdrew and
Judge Boynton was nominated unani
mously.
On taking the chair Judge Boynton
made a brief address regarding the
business of the convention.
He thanked the “representative
Georgians” for the honor conferred
upon him—an honor for which he was
profoundly grateful. He called the
attention of the convention to the
fact that it had assembled for the pur
pose of nominating candidates to fill
the offices of the state. The duties of
the convention in this particular were
very easily performed, except in an
instance, has already chosen these can
didates.
“Another and a more important
business,” said tbe speaker, “is the
formation of a platform of democratic
principles. In discharging this duty
we should go about it right and should
proclaim only democratic doctrines.
We should proclaim true democratic
doctrine.
“No plank should bo put in the
platform for the purpose of catching
votes. We should deal honestly by
the people whose voices will be beard
in the election. Be true to yourselves,
true to your party, true to your coun
try. Let us allay every bitter feeling
that has been engendered by the heated
contest for the nomination.”
At tbe conclusion of bis speech Hon.
M. A. Hardin and Hon. W. A. Harris
were elected temporary secretaries.
Mr. James B. Smith was elected mes
senger and Captain Wilson of Bich-
mond, doorkeeper.
For the purpose of saving time Bieh-
ardson, of Fulton, moved that tho roll
call for the purpose of getting a list of
delegates be dispensed with. The mo
tion prevailed.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
Temporary Chairman Boynton an
nounced that the next business of the
convention was its permanent organiz
ation. Hon. Wm. Davis, of Burke
county, placed in nomination for office
of permanent chairman the name of
Hon. Steve Clay, of the county of Cobb.
At this juncture a sensation was
created when Mr. Trox Bankston, of
the Binggold New South arose and
said:
“Mr. Chairman, I believe that a
gentleman should be nominated for
the position of permanent chairman of
this convention who is free from the
stain of populism and republicanism.
It has been charged that recently that
the gentleman whose name has just
been put before the convention has
been guilty of—”
Mr. Bankston got no further. A
volley of hisses greeted him and he
gesticulated wildly, but not a soul
could hear him. Shouts of “sit down,
sit down!” came from all ever the
chamber, every member of the con
vention rose to bis feet, and as many
as could climbed on the desks.
PANDEMONIUM REIGNED SUPREME.
All the time Judge Boynton was
pounding the marble slab with the
gavel, but in vain, for Bankston kept
up his efforts to make bis speech and
the crowd would not hear him.
During the hub-bub Mr. Clay man
aged to get in a word of explanation.
He began by saying:
“Tbe gentleman who referred to
certain charges a moment ago is a nice
young man aDd personal friend of mine.
I desire that he be heard.”
“There were certain affidavits pub
lished by certain gentlemen in a weekly
paper,” and Mr. Clay waved a package
of papers in his hands.
It began to be evident that possibly
it was Mr. Bankston’s intention to
bring the matter before the conven
tion, so that Mr. Clay would have a
chance for vindication.
Mr. Cabaniss, of Fulton, settled tbe
matter, and at one stroke brought
order out cf chaos at this juncture by
saying: “I move we settle whether
we think Mr. Clay needs any vindica
tion at the hands of this convention
by rising as one man nud electing him
to the place for which he has been
nominated.” The motion was put and
cameo, and a committee appointed to
escort Mr. Cl&y to the chair,
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
On assuming the chair Mr. Clay
called the convention to order and
made a few remarks regarding the con
fusion in the convention. “The gen
tleman you have refused to hear,” said
he, “is a nice young man and a person
al friend of mine. He referred to cer
tain affidavits published in a certain
weekly paper. Two certain men
charged me in these affidavit!? that I
had promised two other certain men
that if they would vote for Mr. Atkin
son, I would do what I could to make
a fine against them as light as possible
in a certain case then in court. I de
ny the insinuation thus made, and de
clare that this charge is too contempti
ble to need vindication at my bands or
yours. They are false.” Mr. Clay
then read an affidavit, which he held
in his hand, exhonerating him and
proving the charges unfounded. When
the reading of the affidavit was con
cluded Mr. Clay began his address to
the convent'on.
He eulogized the democracy and
said that when a man concluded to
join a church, the first thing he did
wrr to see whether or not his convic
tions agreed with the doctrins of that
church. After that was decided, he
should join that church and live np to
these doctrines,and there should beno
dissention or perversion of the princi
ples taught by bis creed. So it should
be with one who enrolls himself in the
list of the democracy, whose doctrines
were as old as the hills, and as solid as
their granite foundations.
Mr. Clay then went on to enumerate
the things, both state and national in
character, that had been accomplished
by the democracy. He went into a
detailed enumeration of these things.
The speaker quoted Jefferson,who had
announced a hundred years before that
peace, commerce and friendship with
all nations, with entangling alliances
with none, were the true principles of
the democratic party. That the dem
ocracy taught local self-government,
right of election by the people, honest
payments of our debts, freedom of re
ligious opinion and freedom of the
press, and fair and impartial trial by
jury. These principles set forth our
political creed.
Mr. Clay’s conclusion was warmly
applauded.
THE PLATFORM COMMITTEE.
On motion of Hon. Bobert Berner,
of Monroe, a committee on platform
and resolutions was appointed.
The committee named, with Mr. Ber
ner as chairman, was as follows:
From the State at Large—Allen
Fort, J. S. James, Pope Barrow, Hal
Lewis.
First District—J. A. Brannon and
Mr. Brinson.
Second District—E. P. Boyd and A.
L. Hawes.
Third District—Mr. Hodge and Mr.
Wright.
Fourth District—Warner Hill and
Price Gilbert.
Fifth District—E. P. Howell and H
H. Cabaniss.
Sixth District—B. L. Berner and
Mr. Schumate.
Eight District—Hamilton McWhor
ter and Alex S. Erwin.
Ninth District—W. E. Simmons and
Harvey Taber.
Tenth District—W. A. Little and
Boykin Wright.
Eleventh District—C. E. Pendleton
and W. G. Brantley.
The convention then adjourned un
til 3 o’clock p. m.
When the convention reconvened at
3 o’clock tho nominations for governor
were called for. Hon. W. Y. Atkinson
was placed in nomination by Mr. Hew
lett Hall, bis former law partner.
The first seconding speech was made
by Mr. James II. Blount, of Bibb,
He was followed by Mr. Hardwick, of
Washington county, and Mr. Henry
Persons, of Talbot. Colonel Atkinson
was then nominated by acclamation,
and a committee of five sent out to
conduct tbe nominee to the platform.
It was some minutes lefore Colonel
Atkinson could find vent to talk, so
great was the enthusiasm of the dele
gates. They stood upon desks and
tables, throwing hats in air and waving
handkerchiefs.
When the applause had subsided
sufficiently to allow anybody to be
heard, Chairman Clay said : “Gentle
men of the convention, it now gives
me the greatest pleasure to introduce
to you the man whom you have chosen
with such unanimity to be your stand
ard bearer in the battle upon which
we are entering. He needs no intro
duction from me, for he has a place
already in the hearts of you all. He is
Hon. W. Y. Atkinson, the favorite
son of Coweta, who has now become
Georgia’s favorite son.”
This was the signal for another dem
onstration. When the cheering had
ceased Colonel Atkinson began his
address by thanking the convention
for the honor conferred on him.
Among other things he said: “We
have passed through a campaign of
friendly rivalry. That is now at an
end, and after this hour it is no longer
a question between individuals. It is
not a question of like and dislike.
That has all been eliminated, and now
we rise to tho lofty question of a
choice between a party of principles
and a party without principles. After
this hour I am a candidate for noth
ing. It is now a contest between the
principles of the democratic party and
principles which are erroneous, isms
which are dangerous and which, it
must be borne in mind, being danger
ous, are not made respectable by being
espoused by any than, no matter who
he be. The principles and the pur
poses of the enemies of the democratic
party of 1894 cannot be, and are not,
more respectable now than they were
in 1892, when Mrs. Lease and Weaver
were their chief advocates.
“After this hour I call upon no man
to be loyal to me or to be faithful to
my interests. I take to-day in my
hands the standard of the democratic
party, and I say to the democrats of
Georgia to stand by me until the fight
is finished. Let us make war not only
upon those principles that threaten our
government, but upon those methods
that threaten chaos to the south, and
will, if carried to their last analysis,
engulf us in ruin.
“Now, I want to ask this conven
tion to be true to itself; true to its
convictions. Let your public utter
ances be the truth, and let them not
be a dodge. I ask you to give me and
the democracy of Georgia a square
cut, democratic state platform, and I
pledge you my word that I know how
to win with that. There’s ope thing
that 1 do not know, and that is How
to dodge. And I don’t want to begin
learning in this campaign.”
Colonel Atkinson concluded by
again thanking the convention for the
honor which it had bestowed upon
him, and as he retired from the speak
er’s chair he was given another great
ovation. His speech was a most timely
and most excellent one, and was greet
ed with great applause throughout.
Then came the contest for secretary of
state, the contestants being Hon. A. D.
Candler and Col. Clifton, of Chatham.
The vote resulted: Candler, 196 5-16;
Clifton, 149 1-16—giving Candler the
nomination.
The remainder of the statehouse offi
cers were then nominated by acclama
tion, as follows:
Comptroller General—William A.
Wright.
Treasurer—B. U. Hardeman.
Attorney General—J. M. Terrell.
Commissioner of Agriculture—B. T.
Nesbitt.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
The executive committeemen from
tbe congressional districts were then
reported as follows:
First.—B. A. Denmark,Chatham; W.
T. Herrington, Burke.
Second—W. W. Dews, Bandolpli;
W. H. Luke, Berrien.
Third—C. B. Warren, Pulaski; W.
S. Thompson, Dooly.
Fourth—J. E. Dunson, Troup; B.
H. Bichardson, Muscogee.
Fifth—John S. Candler, DeKalb; C.
J. Haden, Fulton.
Sixth—Bichard Johnson, Jones;
Douglas Glessner, Spalding.
Seventh—John J. Black, Floyd:
Sam P. Maddox, Whitfield.
Eighth—James M. Smith, Ogle
thorpe ; B. D. Calloway, Wilkes.
Ninth—J. C. Allen, Gilmer; C. H.
Brand, Gwinnett.
Tenth—W. H. Fleming, Bichmond ;
James Whitehead, Warren.
Eleventh—J. L. Beach, Glynn; J.
E. Wooten, Dodge.
By resolution the committeemen
from the state at large were increased
to seven. Two of these will be Hon.
Fleming duBignon, of Chatham, and
Hon. Bob Lewis, of Hancock.
ONE GENERAL PRIMARY.
The closing hour of the evening ses
sion was brimful of sensation. The
following resolution was introduced:
“Besolved, That it iB the sense of
this convention that the democratic
executive committee in calling the
next general convention for the nomi
nation of governor and statehouse
officers shall direct that tho several
counties of this state shali select dele
gates to said convention on the same
day throughout the state.’ 1 '
The resolution went through with
a rush, but not without a spirited
fight. At the hour of adjournment,
the opponents of the measure were ex
hausting all their ingenuity to secure
a reconsideration.
The convention then adjourned un
til 8 :30 o’clock, when they were prom
ised a report from the platform com
mittee,
A Platform Presented.
The night session was, of course, for
the reception of tho platform, which,
it was generally understood, had been
agreed on, and but little else was at
tended to.
A cheer went up when Captain Dick
Wilson walked down the middle aisle
and announced the committee on plat
form as ready to report,
Mr. Cabaniss, the secretary, then
stepped to the clerk’s desk and read
the following platform:
“We, the representatives of the
democratic parry of Georgia, in con
vention assembled, declare our unfal
tering faith in the principles which
brought the party into existence under
the wise leadership of Jefferson, and
which gave victory to the democratic
party in 1892, under the masterly
leadership of Grover Cleveland. We
declare anew our devotion to the fun
damental principles of sound democ
racy; that the federal government is
one of limited powers derived only
from the constitution; determined op
position to all centralizing tendencies;
a strict adherence to the doctrine of
local self-government, and of the
rights of each state to govern itself
and exercise all functions of govern
ment not delegated in the constitution
to the federal government; taxation
only for the purposes of government,
honestly administered; gold and silver,
the money of the constitution as pri
mary money; equal and exact justice
to all men, nnd the courageous and
faithful discharge of official duties.
“We denounce the socialistic, pater
nal and centralizing ideas now sought
to be propagated in our midst as dan-
erous and destructive heresies which,
if successful, would dethrone liberty
and enslave the people.
“While it is true that only state offi
cers are to be nominated by this con
vention, and only state officers are to
be elected at the approaching October
election, and that the direct question
upon which the people are now to pass
—whether or not the democratic party
should be entrusted with and continued
iu control of our state government—
makes it a 6tate and not a national con
test, yet, we cannot ignore the fact
that we are deeply and vitally interest
ed in those national questions which
can only be solved by the federal gov
ernment and which now challenge the
earnest attention and patient thought
of every patriot.
“We hereby approve of and reaffirm
our allegiance to the principles of the
Georgia state platform of 1892, and of
the platform of the democratic party
adopted by the national convention in
1892, nnd especially do we insist upon
those parts relating to the tariff - and
currency. Upon the great question
of currency, we reiterate the princi
ples and purposes of our national plat
form, endorsed with such unparalleled
unanimity by the people in 1892, and
urge upon our senators and representa
tives in congress, and upon our presi
dent, a speedy repeal of the prohibi
tory tax upon the issue of state banks.
“We demand the immediate passage
of such legislation as will restore sil
ver to its constitutional position as a
monty metal, and will secure at once
the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver on a parity, and give to
every dollar a circulation, whethi r
coin or paper, the same debt-paying
and purchasing power.
“We further demand a just and
equitable tax on incomes.
“We guarantee to the people of
Georgia a continuance of a vise and 1
honest administration of state affairs
inaugurated and maintained by the
democratic party and which has se
cured to the people of Georgia for so
many years the blessing of good gov
ernment.
“We are opposed to government
ownership of railroads, but we favor
and will enforce laws providing for
rigid and just control.
“While the present contract for the
lease of the state’s convicts has not ex
pired, its approaching termination de
mands the consideration of this grave
public question and we pledge the
democratic party to take such steps as
will enable the state, when this ques
tion does arrive, to dispose of the con
victs in such manner as to secure them
proper treatment and impose upon
ihem legal punishment without their
hecoiniuff a burden to the taxpayers of
the state and without permitting them
to come in competition with free labor.
‘ ‘Becognizing that the education of
the people is necessary to the elevation
of the citizen and to the maintenance
and preservation of free government,
the democratic party obligates itself to
maintain its system of common schools
for the the education of all the chil
dren of the state in the elementary
branches of an education free, and to
continue to improve the same and in
crease the fund as rapidly as the finan
cial condition of the people will per
mit.
“Obedience to law is the first duty
of a citizen; a faithful, speedy nnd
impartial administration is the highest
duty of the state, and we condemn
every form and species of mob vio
lence and lynch law, and appeal to
citizens of every class and condition
to nssist in their prevention and pun
ishment.
“We congratulate the entire coun
try upon the repeal, by this congress,
of the federal election laws and now
urge upon that honorable body the ne
cessity for a speedy enactment of the
pending tariff bill in such form as will
insure for it the united support of all
democrats, in both branches of con
gress, and its approval by a democrat
ic executive.
“We especially commend the presi
dent and the house of representatives
and the senators from Georgia for
their patriotic endeavors to have en
acted, as near as possible, a tariff for
revenue only.
RESOLUTIONS SUBMITTED.
"In addition to this platform,”
continued Mr. Cabaniss, “the com
mittee submits these resolutions,
which are separate from tho plat
form :”
The resolutions he then read, as fol
lows :
“Besolved, That we tender the
president our special thanks for calling
to his cabinet an eminent Georgian,
who, in the discharge of his arduous
duties as secretary of the interior, has
rendered invaluable services to the
people of the country at large, and
awakened tho particular pride of his
fellow citizens of Georgia.
“We have an abiding faith in the
courage, wisdom, honesty ahd patriot
ism of President Cleveland and ap
preciate the difficulties confronting his
administration in its efforts to remedy
the evil effects of republican misrule
and extravagance.
“Besolved, That the democratic ex
ecutive committee of the state be and
is hereby clothed with tho power of
ordering primary elections or mass
meetings as the county executive com
mittees may determine, for governor
and state house officers, on the same
day throughout the state, under such
regulations as said state convention
may prescribe.
All of the features of the platform
were cheered. Mr. Berner then moved
the adoption of the platform and the
resolutions accompanying them.
“And on that,” said Hon.W. E. Sim
mons, who was a member of tbe com
mittee, “I call for the previous ques
tion.” The call was sustained and the
main question was then ordered. And
when the question was put they were
adopted without a dissenting voice. A
motion to adjourn was carried with
great unanimity.
Tho convention had finished its la
bors.
WILL PAY COUPONS.
Announcement by the Southern Rail
way Company.
The receivers of the Georgia Pacific
Bailroad Company at Mew York an
nounce that the coupons from the 5
per cent equipment bonds of the com
pany due August 1st, will be paid at
the Central Trust Company.
The Southern Bailway Company
announces that the coupons from the
first mortgage 4 per cent bonds of tbe
Washington, Ohio and Western Bail-
road Company, due August 1st, will
be paid at the office of Drexel, Mor
gan & Co.
Also, at the same time and place,the
coupons, due July 1st, on the consoli
dated mortgage 6 per cent bonds o'
the Bichmond and Danville Bailroad
Company with interest thereon to Au
gust 1st.
The New Cable Finished.
The final splice of the Anglo-Ameri
can Telegraph Company’s new cable
was made at Heart’s Content, New
foundland, at 11 o’clock Friday morn
ing, Greenwich time, and the laying
of the largest cable across tbe Atlantic
was then successfully completed.
China Orders Torpedo Boats.
A special cable dispatch from Berlin
says: The Chinese government has
ordered the construction of four tor
pedo boats by German shipbuilders.
A few Sundays ago the family ol
Mr. W. A. Wykeham Musgrave enter
ing their pew in Thames Bark ChapeL
Oxfordshire, England, they were sur
prised to see a partially built robin's
nest on tbe book ledge against a pray
er book and a hymn book. The fam
ily immediately decided to occupy
another seat and to leave tbe little
red breast unmolested in its strange
abode. On the following Sunday the
nest was completed and contained
five eggs, and on the succeeding Sun
day the bird sat on the eggs during
the whole of the service. It has now
been found, says the London Stand
ard, that tbe bird hatched four yonns
ones, and the mother flew in and out
of the chapel during the service las'
Sunday with food for her young.
Trust in fhe Lord to deliver you
from danger, but never put Him to a
test by thrusting yourself into it un
necessarily.
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composing the firm of William Egg
ert A Co., tobacco merchants at New
York, assigned to Theodore Bohrberg,
with preferences aggregating §45,000.
The Michigan republican state con
vention met at Grand Bapids with 929
delegates in attendance and 5,000 peo
ple in the audience. Governor Rich
was renominated on the first ballot.
An immense warehouse at Hamburg,
Germany, containing stores of cotton,
wine, piece goods, furs and feathers,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
will largely exceed a million marks.
Advices from Corea say the Japan
ese are preparing to withdraw a part
of their troops from Seoul, and rein
force their army in front of Yasham
with a view of renewing their attacks
upon that place.
Judge Joseph Holt, who was judge
advocate general of the army, and nt
one time acted as secretary of war,
died nt his residence in Washington
City Wednesday. His death was dne
indirectly to a fall sustained a few days
ago, but to which he paid little atten
tion.
The Italian government has received
information from Africa that a battle
was fought Tuesday between a force of
Mabdists 300 strong and a detachment
of Italian troops near Kassala. The
Mnhdists were defeated and the Italians
took possession of Kassala, which they
occupy. The Italian loss was slight.
The Chinese embassy at London
has received no confirmation of the
report of a naval engagement on the
30th ultimo. Some of the dispatches
reporting the engagement are dated
Tien-Tsin, via Shanghai. The embas
sy officials say that telegraphic com
munication with Tien-Tsin is inter
rupted.
J. B. Sutler, a well-known man of
Little Bock, Ark., for many years a
bnnker, Sunday school superintend
ent, populist leader and editor, is said
to be a defaulter to the state board of
missions of tbe Little Bock confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, of which he was assist
ant treasurer. The exact amount of
his shortage is not known.
The Russian newspapers are unani
mous iu saying that, whatever the re
sult of the war between China and Ja
pan, Russia will not tolerate any di
munition of Corean territory nor alien
ation of Corean independence. Rus
sia, it is declared, will not permit any
interference upon the part of Great
Britain or any other power, if such in
terference endangers Russian interests.
The Iowa democratic state conven
tion met at Des Moines and nominated
the following ticket by acclamation :
Secretary of state, H. F. Dale, of
Polk; anditor, John W. Sitfield, of
Guthrie; treasurer, L. W. White, of
Wayne; supreme judges, long term.
John Cleggert, of Cerri Gordo; short
term, Edward W. Mitchell, of Fre
mont; attorney-general, J. D. F.
Smith, of Cherokee; railroad com
missioner, W. L. Parker, of Oseola.
Vico President Wickes, of the Pull
man company, announces that the
works will be started up at once. Mr.
Wickes said that about 800 men have
promised to return to work, nnd the
repair department and one or two oth
ers will be opened, and the official ex
pects to have the entire plant in full
blast within a short time. Applica
tions have been received from about
1.000 of the old employes. This num
ber includes 600 special policemen,
who have been guarding tho works.
The notice of the federal clerk of
the Indianapolis courts to the various
railroad companies in Indiana to ap
pear and pay the ccst3 of the several
injunctions issued at their demand
against the strikers, has developed the
fact that the roads intend to resist the
payment of the costs. They would
be charged for copies of restraining
orders, but say that these were part of
a proceeding for the benefit and pro
tection of the United States, and that
no part of the expense can be lawfully
charged to them.
A WHOLE TOWN DESTROYED.
The City of Phillips, Wis., Wipod Out
by Forest Fires.
Thirty-nine buildings out of seven
hundred stand amid smoke and ashes
on the site of what was a few days ago
the flourishing city of Phillips, the
county seat of Prince county, Wiscon
sin, and one of the wealthiest and
most prosperous of all the towns in
the timber regions of the state, and
3.000 persons are homeless and except
those who have been offered shelter in
the neighboring towns, whose people
will themselves pass a sleepless night
through the fear that the fierce fires
raging in the forests on all sides will
sweep away their homes at any hour.
At leaat thirteen persons are known
to have lost their lives. All the dead
were drowned in Elk Lake while trying
to escape from the fire, except an un
known man, whose body was found in
the ruins of the house of F. W. Sackett,
editor of the Phillips Times.
The property loss can not at this
time be accurately estimated, but it
will reach at least §1,250,000. The
immense plant of the John B. Davis
Lumber company is a total loss,
amounting to between §500,000 and
§600,000. On this property there is
an insurance equal to at least four-
fifths of the value of the plant. Of
the rest of the city about half of the
property was insured. Many of the
poorer people carried no insurance on
their homes, and they have lost every
thing.
There were many fine business
blocks and private residences in the
city, and every one was burned to the
ground. Many of the residences cost
upward of §3,000 and were handsome
for a city of this size.
A Scorching Wave.
Satnrday was the hottest day New
Fork city has experienced iu thirteen
years. The record is held by 1881,
when one day in July the mercary got
up to 100 degrees. At l o’ofock Sat
urday the heat reached 95 ^ degrees.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The week just ended, says The Tradesman,
of Chattanooga, Tenn., in its review of thein-
dnswial situation in the sontli for the past
week, has recordtd a steady advance in the im
provement in all kinds of business. Much de
pends in the south on the condition of its
crops, and unless all signs fail, the year IS94 is
to be above the average, i>oth as to the amount
and quality of its agricultural products. The
farmers have learned to be econom cal, and are
more generally out of debt than at any previ
ous time. Mercantile business is in good con
dition, collections being well maintained. The
new industrial plants of the week are more in
number and importance than usual. There
seems to be an improvement in the situation in
the coal mining regions, and railway transpor
tation is now in good condition.
Forty-one new industries were established or
incorporated during the week, prominent among
them being the following : The Maxim Power
and Torpedo Co., of Norfolk, Va., capital $1,-
000,000 ; a million dollar improvement and de
velopment company at Little Rock, Ark. :*a
$100,000 brick and tile company at Gtdett, Ark.,
and the Central City Glass Works, of Central
City, W. Va., with $100,000 capital.
The Greensboro Iron and Steel Co., capital
$300,000, has been chartered at Greensboro, N.
C.; the Southern Powder Works, capital $100,-
000, at Atlanta, Ga.; tho American Talc Co.,
with the same capital, at Ashevill", N- C., and
the Potomac Lumber Manufacturing Co., capi
tal $100,000, at New Alexandria. Va. A $50,-
000 cotton compress is to bo built at Birming
ham, Ala.; a $50,000 cotton mill at Monroe,
La.; the Rockdale, Texas, coat mining com
pany has been chartered with $30,000 capital;
the Poteo Brick Company, capital S25.000, at
Alexandria, Va., and tho Empire Box Printing
Co., capital $20,000, at Atlanta, Ga.
Cotton mills are reported at Piueville, N. C..
and Palestine, Texas, a cotton compress at Cor
sicana, Texas, a canning factory at Fort Myers,
Fla., and electric light companies at Rome,
Ga., and Crowley, La. Tanning extract works
on a large scale are to bn bniit at Charles on,
W. Va.; fertilizer works at Berkley, Ga., a ma
chine shoo is to be built at Gayton, Va., paint-
works at Waco, Texas, and phosphate works at
Eliaville, Texas. A shoo factory is reported at
Jacksonville, F,a., a sngar mill near New Or
leans, La., stove works at Waco, Texas, a tan
nery at New Decatur, Ala., a tobacco factory
at Danville, Va., and woodworking plants at
Daphne and Florence, Ala-, Jacksonville, N.
C., and Newport News, Va.
Water works are to be built at Crowley, La.
The enlargements for tbe week include an ico
factory at Norfolk. Va., a mining company at
Roanoke, Va.. an oil mill at Rockdale, Texas,
and woodworking plants at Seims, Ala., Tu
pelo, Miss., and Chattanooga, Tenn. Among
the eighteen important new buildings reported
are an $80,000 asylum at Lakeland, Ivy., and
au addition to a brewry at Louisville, Kv-, am 1
a $25,000 addition to a New Orleans clubhou-e;
a $100,003 government building at Florence, S.
C.. and school buildings at Evergreen, Ala.,
Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla., Atlanta, Ga.,
Monroe, La., and Mer dian. Miss.
A JAPANESE VICTORY.
Battle on the Waves and a Chinese
Ship Sunk.
Reports from Hong Kong show an
unrest both in northern and southern
China, and tho outlook for foreign
missionaries is bad. Anti-missionary
disturbances are reported from Kiang
Yon, on the Yang-Tse-Kiang, but a
far more serious affuir occurred at
Skek Lung, near Lung Kun, on tho
Pearl river, on Juno 20th. In this
instance, the Ameiican Presbyteri
an church was demolished by the
mob, and one Christian—whether for
eigner or native h«R not yet been ascer
tained—wnB killed. The Roman Cath
olic church is well guarded by Chinese
soldiers, and it is a fact worthy of no-
tice that here, as at Kiang Yon, tho
Catholic missionary escaped scathless,
while the Protest brethren suffered
heavily.
JAPANESE AGAIN VICTORIOUS.
A cable dispatch from Tien Tsin
brings the news that a naval battle was
fought Monday between ih: Chinese
and Japanese fleets. The Japanese
sunk tbe Chinese battle ship Chen
Yuen, and two large cruisers,supposed
to be the vessels built for China by
the Armstrongs, were captured or de
stroyed by the Japanese.
THE FIGHTING WAS DESPERATE.
The battle was hotly contested, but
the Japanese appear to have handled
their guns, ships and torpedoes with
more skill than the Chinese. The
Chinese fleet engaged carried nearly a
thousand men, and a large number are
reported killed or drowned. Later
dispatches say that few, if any, of the
Chinese engaged in the battle escaped.
Two German officers in command of
the Chen Yuen are reported to have
met death with the crew of that vessel
THE DISPENSARIES OPEN.
Tillman’s State Bars Are Again in
Full Blast.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The state bars are now doing business
at the old stands all over the state and
the state wholesale dispensary here is
hard at work filling orders to the re
tail shops. The reopening has been
accompanied with not the slightest ex
citement and so far the liquor situa
tion in this city has not been changed
in the least. Saloon keepers, or what
the governor calls “four-eyed tigers,”
have been selling whisky as usual and
there was no pretense of concealment.
Official and non-official fluids are be
ing “dispensed” with equal freedom,
but the sales of the latter have been
nominal. How long this condition
will prevail nobody knows. Not a
whisky constable is in the city. The
governor is absent on his campaign
tour and there is nothing to annoy the
“tigers.” Some of them say that they
will close up shop Saturday night, but
this is taken with a grain of salt.
Others boldly assert that the govern
or’s sole idea in reopening the official
bars is to dispose of and realize on his
stock on hand and that he will make
no effort to rigidly enforce the restric
tive features of the act of 1893, until
it has been declared valid by the state
or federal courts.
DEMOCRATS OF FLORIDA
Sleet in Jacksonville to Name a Jus
tice of the Supreme Court.
The Florida democracy assembled
in convention in Jacksonville at noon
Tuesday for the purpose of nominat
ing a justice of the supreme court.
Hon. S. M. Sparkman, chairman of
the state executive committee, called
the convention to order. Hon. John
H. McKennie, of Jackson county, and
Hon. Henry W. Long, of Marion
county, were nominated for the tem
porary chairmanship. Mr. McKinnie
withdrew and Mr. Long was chosen by
acclamation. Mr. Long, on taking
the chair, made a neat speech, plead
ing for harmony in the party, and
urging the necessity of standing by
the administration of President Cleve
land. After the appointment of a
committee on credentials the conven
tion took a recess until S o’clock p. m.
At that hour the credentials commit
tee, not being ready to report, the
convention adjourned until 10 o’clock
Wednesday.
Earls to beer makes p$rly to bier.
THE BILL PASSED
AND ATLANTA GETS $200,000
FOR HER EXPOSITION.
No Opposition Expected From the
House on the Measure.
The appropriation bill for the Cot
ton States and International exposition
passed the senate in the committee of
the whole Tuesday afternoon without
a single objection or even a question be
ing asked on either side of the chamber.
The sundry civil bili was under discus
sion the entire day and at 4 :45 o’clock
the exposition clause was reached. It
was the last in the bill. The full text
of the clause was as follows:
“Cotton States and International
Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., Section
3—That the expense of the selection,
purchase, preparation, transportation,
care and return of articles and mate
rials to comprise an exhibit illustra
tive of the functions of the govern
ment of the United States, to be made
at the Cotton States and International
exposition to be held in the city of
Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, in
the year eighteen hundred and nine
ty-five, of which not exceeding
§5,000 may be expended for clerical ser
vices, §150,000 to be disbursed by tho
board created by section 16 of the act
approved April 25, 1890, entitled ‘An
act to provide for celebrating the 400th
anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus, by
holding an international exhibition of
arts, industries, manufactures and the
products of the soil, mine and tho sea
in the city of Chicago, in the stato of
Illinois,’ and the jurisdiction, powers
and duties of the said board are hereby
extended to includo the said exhibit at
the Cotton States and International
exposition under all the provisions
of law which governed the gov
ernment exhibit at the World’s Co
lumbian exposition ; provided that the
foregoing sum shall be apportioned
among the several departments of tho
Smithsonian institution aud the fiffi
commission by the secretary of tho
treasury, and such apportion shall bo
made final and shall be so made by
him as not to create a deficiency and
shall cover every expenditure on tho
part of the United States, including
the return of such exhibits except as
hereafter provided.
“For taking down the government
main building erected by the govern
ment exhibit at the world’s Columbian
exposition and its transportation, or
so much of the material thereof as may
be available, and the re-erection upon
the site selected for tho said Cotton •
States and International exposition,
including the purchase of such new
material as may be found nec
essary, §50,000, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, to be dis
bursed by the secretary of the treas
ury ; provided that if it be found im
practicable to take down, transport
and re-erect said building for the sum
herein appropriated, then the secre
tary of the treasury shall cause a new
building to be erected upon said site of
the Cotton States and International
exposition for the government exhibit
at a cost not to exceed §50,000, for
which purpose the amount herein ap
propriated shall be applicable.
“Provided farther, That the United
States shall not be in any manner re
sponsible for the conduct or manage
ment of said exhibition, nor shall it be
liable in any manner for any ram on
account of the erection of any build
ings for the Cotton States and Inter
national exposition or for the expenses
incident to, or growing out of said ev
positiou. ”
Movement of Specie.
Exports of specie from tho port of
New York for the past week were $5,-
864,081, of which §5,314,040 were
gold, aud §550,041 silver. Of these
amounts §5,300,000 gold and $533,794
silver went to Europe and §14,040
gold and §16,247 silver to South
America. For the corresponding woek
of 1893 the exports were $902,840.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
(Groceries.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbnoldo’s 22.75 V 100 lb.
cases, Lcvering’s 22.75c. Green—Extra
choice 20c; choice good 19); fair 38c; com
mon 17c- Sugar Granulated 4%c.
powdered 5c; cut loaf
white extra C 4c; New Orleans yellow clari
fied 4%a4%c; ye low extra 0 4 \ Syrup-
New Orleans choice 45c; prime 35@40c; common
20@30c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@38c; im
itation 22@25. Teas—Black 35@55e; green
40@60c. Nutmegs 65@85e. Cinnamon 30@12>^.
Allspice 10@Llc. Singapore pepper
11c, Mace $1. Rice, Head 6c; goo 1 5^;rammon
4%c; imported Japan 5@5%e. Salt—H awloy’a
dairy, $1.40; lee cream $1.10;
Virginia 70c, Cheese-fiats 32@’.2%
White fish, half bbls. S4-00; pails 60c;
.Mackerel, half barrels, $G.00@6.50. Soap.
Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs $3.00@375.
turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
Candles—Parafine lie; star lie. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s
5gross $3 75.Soda-Kegs,bulk 4%c; do I lb pkgs
5Vc; cases, 1 lb 5%c, do 1 and %lbs 8c, do/ib
6/£c. Crackers—XXX soda 54£c; XXX butter
6%c; XXX pearl oysters’ GJ^cahell and excelsior
7c; lemon cream ‘Jc; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn-
hills 9c. Candy—Assorted Btick Ci^c; French
mixed 12al2%. Canned goods-Condenaed Milk,
$0 00a8 00; imitation mackerel$3 95a4 00. Sal
mon $5 25a5 50: F. W. oysters $175; L W
*135; coin $2 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Ball potash $310. Starch—Pearl 4c; Lump.
4>fc.~; nickel packages $310; celluloid $5.00,
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints a 90c? t 20; quarts,
$110a! 75. Powder—Rifle, kegs $3.25; % kegs,
$1 90; l A kegs51 10. Shot $1 25 per sack.
Flonr. Grain and Meat.
Flour—First patent $4 25; second patent
$4.00; extra fancy $3.20; fancy $3 10; family
$2 90. Com—No. I white 66). No. 2
white, 65c. Mixed, G2c. Oats, Mixed
47c; white 55c; Seed rye, Georgia,
75a80c- Hay—Choice timothy, ia-ge bales,
$1.00 No. 1 timothy, large bales, $1.00; choice
timothy, small bales, Si.; No. 1 timothy, small
bales 95c; No. 2 timotlrv, small bales, 90).
Heal—Plain 66); bolted 62c. Wheat bran—
Large sacks 90c, small sacks 90c. Cotton
seed meal—$1 3 i per cwt. Steam feed—51.10
per cwt. Stock peas $1.25al.30. Grits—
Pearl $3.30.
Conntrv Produce.
Eggs 9al0c- Batter—Western creamery
18a2'be. Fancy Tennessee I2%n\5c: choice,
6al0, other grades 4a5- Live poultry—
Turkeys 7<§/8) per lb; hens
Spring chickens, large 16al8c
Duck*. 18a20c. Dressed poultry-Turkeys
12%al5c; dneits, 12%a.\x; chickens, 10al2J^.
Irish potatoes, $1.75a$2.00 pei bbl. Fancy
per bushel, 76a8!c. Sweet potatoes new,
$l.50a2.00 per bn. Honey—Strained, 8al0c;
in the comb, lOalJb'c. Onion* 75 :80 per bn.
Hlf bbl. sacks Fl.25il.50. Per bbl. $3.00a2.50.
Cabbage, 2a2%c.
boxed 7%aSc, ioa-curo.l bellies
1 hams i :> 114according
rage; California, lO^c. break-