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VOL. XIII. NO. 7 ' VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1894.
There are eleven American citirs
that spread over more territory than
Paris, while Berlin is exceeded in
area by seventeen of our cities.
Paris is the deeper in debt of all the
larger cities. Every inhabitant would
have to contribute $151 to liquidate
the city’s debt. New York’s rate is
$45 and Chicago’s $9.
According to the report of the North
Carolina Railroad Commission, the
taxable railroad property in that
State now amounts to $24,728,000, an
increase of $500,000 over the assess
ment of laat year.
General Wolseley seems to have a
poor opinion of his most famous pre
decessor as commander of the British
army. In his recently published ar
ticle on the “Decline and Fall of Na
poleon,” he says that neither Welling
ton nor Blncher deserves the credit of
winning the battle of Waterloo, but
General Gneisenau.
This remarkable prediction was made
by the Chicago Record: “It isn’t tax
on street electric railways that is go
ing to ruin the electric street railway
business. A speedier death than that
by taxation awaits the whole system
of electrical appliance as operated at
present. We have information which
leads us to believe that within twelve
months a new machine capable oi use
for providing transportation, light
and heat will be put before the public ;
that this machine will controvert the
“principles of electricity” which now
obtain ; will revolutionize all railway
and other transportation systems; will
do away with fuel, gas and smoke;
will, in short, give humanity un
dreamed-of advantages at a very
moderate price. Yes, within the next
twelvemonth we are going to see somo
very wonderful happenings.”
Consul Sheridan Read, at Tien Tsiu,
China, reports to the State Depart
ment at Washington that he has re
ceived information from a trustworthy
source that the custems official of that
port-, representing the big cotton mills
now being erected at Shanghai and
elsewhere in Central China, has placed
orders with r- European firm in Tien
Tsin for machinery amounting to
nearly $1,000,000. It is said that these
orders will be principally executed in
England. The Consul desires to call
the attention of American manufac
turers of such machinery to the fact
that, many mills are now being built in
various parts of China, and they arc
yet to be supplied with machinery.
He understands that certain kinds of
cotton machinery manufactured in
America give better results, and are as
cheap if not cheaper than similar ma
chinery made either in England or on
the Continent. Where such superior
ity exists, observes the New York Tri
bune, American manufacturers should
be able to obtain a fair share of the
Chinese orders soon to be placed.
So marvelous have been the triumphs
of the human intellect in the past,
that the Rochester Post-Express be
lieves that he would be a rash man
who should undertake to prescribe
boundaries to its discoveries in the
future. For it may be scarcely a de
cade bofore the very achievements de
clared to be impossible, will be ac
complished fact. Fifty years ago Au
guste Comte, the famous founder in
France of the Positivist school of phil
osophy, of which Frederic Harrison, in
England, is one o£ the foremost ex
pounders, declared that there was
one field of knowledge that would for
ever remain beyond the reach of the
human mind. This was the constitu
tion of the fixed stars and the ele
ments of which they are composed.
The nearest of these stars being many
thousand of millions of miles from us,
Comte affirmed that the substances
constituting them must ever remain
locked in the secrecy of fathomless
space. So probably they would had
man been able to arm himself with no
more potent apparatus of discover}*
than was known in Comte’s day, or
than would then have been believed
possible. For to the most powerful
telescopes these far away orbs reveal
themselves as little more than shining
dots, betraying none of the secrets of
their structure. But Comte had
scarce 1 y launched his prediction, be
fore astronomers began to hit upon
and perfect the discovery of the now
far-famed spectrum analysis, which
wrenches even from stars deep in the
recesses of illimitable-space the nature
and number of tne elements of which
they are composed. Many of these
elements are the same as those known
to ns on our earth and in our sun ;
but some are strangers to our chemis
try. Comte as a positivist was not
given to modesty—indeed was noted
for dogmatism —but even he under
rated the possible achievements of the
human intellect. In view of his nulli
fied prophecy, it need not be counted
rash to say that before another half
century has flown, the oft-asked ques
tions, “can we communicate with
Mars?” and “can we know whether it
has inhabitants?” may receive an af
firmative answer. For who can tell
with what new apparatus of discovery,
eclipsing any now possessed or
dreamed o:, man mey by that time
Jiave armed liimsell?
Mr. Cleveland EefnseS lo Endorse
the Measure.
HE WRITES A LETTER TO
GENERAL CATCH1NGS
Giving His Reasons for WHhoIding
His Signature*
The new tans' became a law Mon
day night. Its term at the white house
expired at midnight. Mr. Cleveland
failed to sign it. Under the constitu
tion, it having been adopted by both
houses of congress and having remain
ed in the hands of the president for
ten days, it became a law at midnight.
Though Mr. Cleveland intimated in
his letter to Chairman Wilson that he
would veto the bill, he failed to do so.
He likewise failed to sign it, but throws
the responsibility of the law on con
gress. In doing so Mr. Cleveland
writes a letter explaining his position.
This letter is addressed to Mr. Catch-
ings instead of to Chairman Wilson.
He does that for the purpose of getting
his views before the people. Why he
did not address it to Mr. Wilson is
unknown. He abuses the bill, but
says it is better than the McKinley
bill end is a step in the right direc
tion. He wdl not interpose a veto.
Mr. Cleveland’s Letter.
President Cleveland has written the
fallowing letter to -Representative
Hatchings, of Mississippi, in which he
sets forth his views of the new tariff
law and gives his views for not approv
ing the bill:
“Executive Mansion, Washington,
D. C., August 27, 1894.—Hon. T. C.
Catchings—My Dear Sir: Since the
conversation I had with you and Mr.
Clark, of Alabama, a few days ago, in
regard to my action on the tariff bill,
now before me, I have given the sub
ject further and most serious consider
ation. Tne result is, I am more set
tled than ever in the determination to
allow the bill to become a law without
my signature.
'‘When the formation of the legisla
tion, which it was hoped would em
body democratic ideas of tariff reform,
was lately entered upon by the
congress, nothing was further
from my anticipation than a result
which I could not promptly and en
thusiastically endorse. It is, there
fore, with a feeling of the utmost dis
appointment that I submit to a denial
of this privilege.
“I do not claim to be better than
the masses of my party, nor do I wish
to avoid any responsibility which, on
account of the passage of this- law, I
ought to bear as a member of the dem
ocratic organization. Neither will I
permit myself to be separated from
my party to such an extent as might
be implied by my veto of the tariff
legislation, which, though disappoint
ing, is still chargeable to democratic
effort. But there are passages in this
bill which are not in direct line of hon
est tariff reform and it contains incon
sistencies and cruelties which ought
not to appear in tariff laws or laws of
any kind. Besides there were, as you
and I well know, incidents accompa
nying the passage of the bill through
the congress which made every sincere
tariff reformer unhappy; while influ
ences surrounded it in its latter stages
and interfered with its full construc
tion which ought not to be recognized
or tolerated in democratic reform
councils.
“And yet, notwithstanding all its
vicissitudes and all the bad treatment
it received at the hands of pretended
friends, it presents a vast improvement
to existing conditions. It will cer
tainly lighten many a tariff burden
that now rests heavily upon the peo
ple. It is not only a barrier against
the return of mad protection, but it
furnishes a vantage ground from which
must be waged further aggressive op
erations against protected monopoly
and governmental favoritism.
“I take my place with the rank and
file of the democratic party who be
lieve in tariff reform, and who know
what it is; who refuse to accept the
results embodied in this bill as the
close of the war; who are not blinded
to the fact that the livery of democ
racy has been stolen and worn in the
service of republican protection, and
who have marked the deadly light of
treason that has blasted the councils
of the brave in their hour of night.
“The trusts and combinations—the
communion of pelf—whose machina
tions have prevented ns from reaching
the success we deserved, should not be
forgotten or forgiven. We shall re
cover from our astonishment at their
exhibition of power, and if then the
question is forced upon ns whether
they shall submit to the free legislative
will of the people’s representatives, or
shall dictate the laws which the peo
ple must obey, we will accept and set
tle that issue as one involving the in
tegrity and safety of American insti
tutions.
“I love the principles of true de
mocracy because they are founded in
patriotism and upon justice and fair
ness toward all interests. I am proud
of my party organization because it is
conservatively sturdy and persktentin
the enforcement of principles.
Therefore, I do not despair of the ef
forts made by the house of represen
tatives to supplement the bill already
passed by further legislation, and to
have engrafted upon it such modifica
tions as will more nearly meet demo
cratic hopes and aspirations.
“I cannot be mistaken as to the ne
cessity of logical and sensible tariff
reform. The extent to which this is
recognized in the legislation already
secured is one of its encouraging and
redeeming features; but it is vexatious
to recall that while free coal and iron
ore have been denied ns, a recent let
ter of the secretary of the treasury
discloses the fact that both might have
been made free by the annual surren
der of only about $700,000 of unnec
essary revenue.
“I am sure that there is a common
habit of underestimating the import
ance of free raw materials in tariff leg
islation, and of regarding them as only
related to concessions to be made to
onr manufacturers. The truth is, their
influence is so far-reaching that if dis
regarded a complete and beneficent
scheme of tariff reform cannot be in
augurated.
“When we give to our manufactur
ers free raw materials we unshackle
American enterprise and ingenuity,
and these will open the doors of for
eign markets to the reoeption of our
wares and give opportunity for the
continuous and remunerative employ
ment of American labor. With mate
rials cheapened by their freedom from
tariff charges the cost of their product
must be correspondingly cheapened.
Thereupon, justice and fairness to the
consumer would demand that the man
ufacturers be obliged to submit to such
a readjustment and modification of the
tariff upon their finished goods as
would secure to the people the benefits
of the reduced cost of their manufact
ure, and shield the consumer against
the exactions of inordinate profits. It
will thus be seen that free raw materi
al and a just and fearless regulation
and reduction of the tariff to meet the
changed conditions, would carry to
every humble home in the land the
blessings of increased comfort and
cheaper living.
“The millions of our countrymen
who have fought bravely and well for
tariff reform, should be exhorted to
continue the struggle, boldly challeng
ing to open warfare and constantly
guarding against treachery under half
heartedness in their camp.
“Tariff reform will not be settled
until it is honestly and fairly settled in
the interest and to the benefit of a
patient and long-suffering people.
Yours very truly,
“Gbover Cleveland.”
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH.
Her Majesty Prorogues Parliament
for Six Weeks.
Queen Victoria prorogued parlia
ment Saturday. In her speech closing
the session her majesty said among
other things:
“My Lords and Gentlemen : It af
fords me sensible gratification to be
able to dismiss you at the end of a
session which has been little less than
a prolongation of the* previous one,
and it gives me pleasure to reflect that
your labors, if they have been exhaust
ing, have also been fruitful.
“My relations with foreign powers
continue to be friendly and peaceful.
It is, however, a matter of regret that
a variety of questions relating to Af
rica between my government and that
of the French republic still remain un
settled. It is my wish that these be
arranged without unnecessary delay,
and 1 am engaged in friendly negotia
tions looking thereto.
“In concert with the president of
the United States I have taken the
steps necessary to put into effeot the
award of the tribunal of arbitration on
the question of the seal fisheries in
Behring sea, and have assented to an
act of parliament for this purpose sim
ilar to the aot which has been passed
by the congress of the United States.
The governments of the two countries
are also in communication with the
principal foreign powers with a view
to obtaining their adhesion to the reg
ulations prescribed by the award.
“I regret to state that war has
broken out between the empires of
China and Japan. After endeavoring,
in concert with Russia and other pow
ers, to prevent the outbreak of hostil
ities, I have taken steps to preserve a
strict neutrality between the contend
ing parties. I have concluded a treaty
with the emperor of Japan in the
regulation of commercial intercourse
between that country and the United
Kingdom.”
At 2 :40 o’clock the house of com
mons was summoned to the house of
lords. Lord Herschell, the lord chan
cellor, read the queen’s speech, after
which parliament was formally pro
rogued for six weeks.
VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY.
Golina Lake Breaks Through Its Dam
With Disastrous Results.
Advices from Simla. British India,
state that Gohna lake, which for some
time past has threatened t*> break its
bounds and sweep down the valley at
the head of which it lies, has broken
the dam which controlled the waters.
Villages along the valley were swept
out of existence an instant after the
roaring torrent struck them. Ample
warning had been given by the gov
ernment and the inhabitants of the
valley, with all their movable prop
erty, had been removed, so that no
life was lost.
Secretary Carlisle and Attorney Gen
eral Olney were closeted until 6 o’clock
Friday afternoon at the department of
justice, studying over the hard knots
in the tariff bill, with a view to Secre
tary Carlisle issuing a circular letter
of instructions to collectors of customs
explaining its doubtful schedules and
the hidden meaning of the wrongly
punctuated paragraphs. Secretary Car
lisle is especially anxious to find some
law or construction by which he can
admit goods which, under the present
law are dutiable (now" in bond,) but
which come, under the new tariff law,
into the United States free of duty,
without subjecting the owners to the
expense of exporting them and then
re-importing them.
A Levee Caves In.
Late Monday night, the levee at the
head of Pauline street New Orleans,
caved into the river for a distance of
about 250 feet. The levee for years
stood apparently firm and sound, and
was regarded by the levee board as one
of the most substantial that protected
file city from inundation.
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South's Progress and Prosperity.
At New Orleans Councilman Don-
dassa was caught in the act of taking
a bribe from Charles Sherman. The
amount taken was $100. He was
caught by Detective D. C. O’Mally
and Sergeant D. C. Ancoin, and lodged
in the fourth precinct station.
Striking miners at the Whitewell,
Tenn., mines cut the ropes in the main
shaft, necessitating a delay of a month
before the work can resume. The
mines have been idle for three months
and were to have resumed September
1st. There is great excitement there.
A dispatch from Bolivar county,
Mississippi, says the boll worm has
made its appearance in the delta
country and is badly damaging the
growing cotton crop. Planters agree
that if the pest cannot be extinguished
the entire crop in some sections will
be a total loss.
The New Orleans grand jury Tues
day evening returned a joint indict
ment against Councilman Thomas Ha
ley and Peter B. Caulfield, also an in
dictment againt Alderman Frank B.
Thrifflley. The indictments returned
are all in connection with the Louis
ville and Nashville switch privileges.
Secretary Hoke Smith has detailed
Professor Frank W. Clarke, a chemist
in the geological survey, to represent
the interior department as a member
of the board of management of the
government exhibit at the Cotton
States and International exposition,to
be held at Atlanta, Ga., next year.
Dr. Anderson O’Mattey, a physician
of San Antonio, Tex., shot his three-
year-old child accidentally. The
father then put the pistol to the woun
ded child’s head and pulled the trigger.
He said the wound was fatal and he
could not bear to see the little one suf
fer. He is under arsest, and almost,
if not quite insane.
In the face of a general beliel in
the magnificent condition of the
cotton crop, The Garland New* pub
lished in the heart of the cotton
region of Dallas county, Texas, states
that in that section half of the cotton
crop has been destroyed by boll worms,
and if the showers continue, the crop
is likely to°be entirely destroyed.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
The recent rains have been very dis
astrous to crops. Reports from this
agricultural region of the state are to
the effect that cotton is cut off from 25
to 30 per cent, and that all growing
crops in the fields have been damaged
materially. The wet weather contin
ues and the damage will be greater
even than yet reported.
The adjourned meeting of the citi
zens of Selma, Ala., to take action
about the removal of Captain Bridges
and the division headquarters from
Selma met Tuesday afternoon. The
committee submitted the draft of the
petition which is to be presented to
the southern officials and it was ap
proved by the meeting. It will be
signed by all leading citizens and
business men.
The property of the Birmingham
(Ala.) Furnace nnd Manufacturing
Company, consisting of a 100 ton iron
furnace, coal mine and extensive tim
ber lands at and around Rushville,
Alabama, has been sold at auction by
order of court, for $350,000, Fuller
Doggett, of Pittsburg, and associates,
being the purchasers. The furnace
has been idle many months. It will
be repaired and pat in operation at
once.
Meridian, Miss., is at present stirred
up over the trial of the twenty-three
cases against the blind tigers. The
police and law and order league are
determined to suppress the illicit sale
of whisky and beer. The secret sa
loons are being raided and the pro
prietors are being heavily fined. Frank
Hooks, an ex-cuiivict from Louisiana,
is in jail with seven of these charges
hanging over him. When he is prose
cuted-In all the courts his fines will
prove enormous if he is convicted.
In February an international emi
gration society was formed in Bir
mingham, Ala., and it has just closed a
contract with a steamship line for the
transportation of 5,000 negroes prior
to November 1st. The steamer will
leave Philadelphia and touch upon the
Atlantic coast at all prominent ports
as far South as New Orleans. Then it
will go to Liberia, touching at Ha
vana. The Liberian president has
promised each colonist twenty-five
acres of land and tools with which to
till the soil if they will come to Libe
ria and settle.
P. J. Quigley, clerk of Shelby coun
ty, Tenn., and Joseph Thiers, license
inspector for Memphis, have been in
dicted by the grand jury for failure to
perform their official duties. The in
dictments cite over 300 cases of
failure to collect privilege tax
revenue, aggregating a loss to
the public of $80,000. During
the past month over 1,000 indictments
were brought against liquor dealers
and investigation disclosed the fact
that while there are in Memphis some
800 saloons, only about 100 have been
required to pay license fees, and dur
ing the past eight years of Clerk Quig
ley’s administration the public treasu
ry has lost nearly $2,000,000 from this
source.
FOR SOUTHERN ADVANCEMENT.
A Convention of Business Men of the
South at Washington.
Business men from the southern
states met in convention at Washing
ton, D. C., Thursday morning to de
vise methods for the investigation and
development of southern investments
and resources. One of their objects
is to secure the establishment of a
permanent exhibit of southern re
sources in Washington, with an auxil
iary bureau in which the various in
vestments, likely to secure capital, may
be recorded with all particulars and
thus establish a reliable medium be
tween northern capital and the ricB
fields for development in the south.
With a view of making the convention
a success, many of the commercial
bodies in the southern cities appointed
delegates to represent them.
TRADE TOPICS.
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co. ’s review of trade
for the past week say:
“Changes during the past week have
not been definite nor. very important.
As the president’s final decision re
garding the new tariff is assumed, but
not yet certainly known, part of the
hesitation which appears may be at
tributed to the lingering uncertainty
which must terminate. Other con
ditions it not entirely favorable, have
at least not changed for the worst dur
ing the past week. The business so
long delayed by the tariff uncertainties
begins to come forward, so that trans
actions in many departments are lar
ger of late and on the whole larger
than at the time of especial stagnation
last year, but it is still too soon to de
termine how far the satisfaction of
postponed demands will set idle hands
at work, or raise the transactions to
ward the normal volume. But it is a
healthy sign that thus far is gradual,
and not spasmodic or flighty in appear
ance. In all the great industries some
increase in demand for products has
appeared, and the boot and shoe trade
continues to lead the others in recov
ery, as shipments from the east not
only exceed last year’s largely, but
surpass those in August of previous
years. Econoniy appears here in pur
chases of cheaper qualities rather than
in purchases of fewer pairs of cases,
and the demand is largely for speedy
delivery, reflecting untisual reduction
of stocks.
The cotton manufacture, which has
been employing a larger proprotion of
its normal force than most others and
accumulating goods greatly in advance
of current demands, has about 23,000
workers on a strike at Fall River and
New Bedford to resist a proposed re
duction of wages, and the mills have
been closed, with the apparent expect
ation that the difficulty will last some
weeks. A somewhat increased demand
for goods has appeared, bnt, perhaps,
not yet as great as many have antici
pated.
“In the iron nnd steel manufacture,
the demand for finished products in
creases, but is at present not as large
ns the capacity of the works which
have endeavored to resume operations,
so that their competition results in
prices nearly as low as have been reach
ed at any time.
A moderate gain in transactions is
seen at Philadelphia, though finished
products there are weaker, and at New
York, no improvement yet appears,
while at Pittsburg and Cleveland there
is more buying, but at Chicago con
siderable less than of late. Several
more furnaces have gone into opera
tion, notwithstanding the scarcity of
water supply at Connellsville, and con
sequently of coke, and prices of pig-
iron are not further depressed. A
moderate increase is seen in the woolen
mills in operation, and agents who have
offered spring goods, generally at a
reduction of about 12J per cent from
last year’s prices, have taken orders
for considerable quantities, but there
is still a great uncertainty about the
extent and effect of foreign competi
tion in many important classes,"partic
ularly of the bttter grade of goods, and
as this must continue for months, the
adjustment to new conditions must bo
gradual.
“The money market continues to
refleot a legitimate increase of com
mercial demand which comes mainly
from dry goods commission houses,
but it is noted that, although the last
week of August is at hand, the require
ments from the west and south for
crop moving purposes are by no means
of ordinary magnitude.
“The liabilities of firms failing for
the second week of August amounted
to only $1,163,076, and for the last
three weeks to only $7,262,076, of
which $2,663,200 were of manufactur
ing, and $3,787,320 of trading con
cerns,
“The failures this week have been
234 in the United States, against 410
last year, and 29 in Canada, against 20
last year. ”
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn., ini's
report on the industrial condition of the south
for the past week says: The condition of mer
cantile business thruiighont the Southern States
is Very satisfactory. Sales are largely and
steadily increasing, collections are fair, and the
condition of the crop enconrages the h lief that
fail and winter trade will be unusually good.
Money is plenty with but light demau 1. The
general disposition on the part of lumber pro
ducers to reduce their stocks is a favorable
symptom, and will bring needed relief to an
important industry. Tne output of coal and
iron grows larger each week and textile mil s
are running on full timo. There is a general
feeling of increased confidence that promises
well for the future.
Thirty-three new industries were incorpor
ated or established during the week, among
which are the Palmetto Phosphate company, of
Bartow, Fla, capital $100,000; the American
Can and stamping Co., and the B. J. Mont-
g merv Furniture Co., of New Orleans, La,
each with $50,000 capital, a large sugar refin
ery at Franklin, La, ami the Bartlesville Un
derwear Co, of Bamesville, Gs, capital $15,-
000.
Brick works are to be established at Smith-
field, Texas,, a canning factory at Alvin, Texas,
cotton oil mills at Jonesboro, Ark, and Hazle-
hnrst, Miss , an ice f.-.c ory at Graham, Va.,
and a distillery at Ozark, Ark. Flour and
grist mills are reported at Huntsville, Ala,
Long View, Ga, Middlesborongh. Ky, New
Orleans, La, SandersvilL, Miss, Yancey and
Portsmouth, Va., and an electrical plant at
Gatesville, Texas. Textile plants include a
knitting mill at Dunnellon, Fia, a woolen mill
at Sperryville, Va, and a cotton rope factor)* at
Uniontowu, Ala. Paper mil s are to be built
at Marietta, Ga., and Huntington, W. Va., a
tobacco factory at Winston, N. C, a sugar re
finery at Atlanta, Ga, and woodworking plants
at Huntsville, Ala, Ellzey, Fla, Rum-ey, Ky,
Sandt rsville, Miss, Cana, N. C, and Knoxville,
Tenn.
The organization is also reported of a wa‘er
works company with $50,000 capital at Decatur,
Ala, and an increase of $600,000 in the capital
of the water works company at Houston, Tex is.
Enlargements for the week include machine
woiks at Owensboro, Ky, a tannery at Bristol,
Tenn, cotton milk at Henrietta, N. C, and
Welford, 3. C, and an oil mill at Comanche,
Texas. Among the twenty-five new buildings
reported for the week are a $20,000 church at
Louisville, Ky, and one at Raleigh. N. C.; a
court house at Morgan ‘on, Ga.; hotels at P>ne
Bluff. Ark., Jacksonville, Fla, Atlanta, Ga,
and Frankie, N. C.; a 50,000 school budding at
Amite City. La, and others atC. arlestou, S.
C, and Liberty, Texas.
The President at Gray Gables.
President Cleveland arrived at Gray
Gables, Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., at 10:30
o’clock Thursday morning. He will
remain from four to six weeks.
Chairman Wilson Renominated.
A special from Martin burg, W. Va.,
says: Chairman Wilson, of the ways
and means committee, has
nominated for congressr- *
(LATEST DISPATCHES
| GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
j
! A Brief Summary of Daily Happen
ings Throughout the World.
Georgia republicans held thieir state
' convention at Atlanta and decided not
i to put out a state ticket, and not to
i enter or coallesce with the third party.
I The convention endorsed the Cotton
I States and International Exposition.
A Washington special says: Indian
apolis will be the place selected for the
biennial encampment of Knights of
Pythia.s in 1896. This bti« Imen prac
tically decided on, through the with
drawal of the other contestants for the
honor.
The social sensation of the year has
been sprung at New York by the
World, which prints a special cable
dispatch from Paris, announcing the
pendency of proceedings for a separa
tion between William K. Vanderbilt
and his wife.
The glass blowers employed in the
McCoy Window Glass works at Kane,
Pa., have accepted a 20 per cent, re
duction in wages and the works will
start up on September 1st. In the
neighborhood of 500 men are employ
ed at the works.
The Alabama Press Association will
meet in Montgomery on Sept. 12th.
It is expected that the meeting will be
largely attended and the people of the
capital city are prepared to accord to
the editors a cordial and hospitable
reception.
Chattanooga has been officially se
lected as the place of meeting of the
biennial international conference of
the Epworth League. The meeting
will be held in June, 1895, and it is
expected that over 10,000 Epworth
Leaguers from all parts of the world
will be in attendance.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
The Vanderbilt furnaces which have
been lying idle for sometime, are to re
sume. At Mary Lee coal mine a re
duction in wages from 40 cents to 324
cents per ton has been made. The
miners struck, and in a few hours a
compromise of 35 cents was made.
Congressman John C. Kyle was re
nominated by the second Mississippi
district democratic congressional con
vention in session at New Albany. A
resolution was adopted endorsing his
course in opposing the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act,
and demanding the free coinage of
silver.
Inquiry at Peoria, 111., confirms the
report that the whiskey trust will con
test the increase in tax on spirits in
bond, on the ground of illegality^
The argument is advanced that when
the spirits were put in bond at 90 cents
per gallon there was an implied con
tract that the tax would not be in
creased on these goods while they were
in bond.
Smoke from forest fires has settled
over Seattle, "Wash., like a pall. It is
impossible to see clearly more than a
block. Navigation on tho sound is
dangerous nnd steamers have to feel
their way, blowing whistles continual
ly to avoid collisions. Forest fires are
still raging all over the sound conn-
trv, and unless rain soon sets in the
damage to standing timber will be
enormous.
It was stated by a well known mill
man of New Bedford, Mass., Thursday
afternoon that not a mill in New Bed
ford would start np next week, as has
been currently reported. He said that
he considered it doubtful if the mills
started Up inside of a month and
thought it definitely settled that no
move in the direction of opening the
mills would be made inside of two or
three weeks at the most.
A riot occurred at the United Coke
works at Greensburg, Pa., Thursday.
A number of families of new workmen
were moving into the company's
houses. The striking Hungarians and
Slavs, who have recently been evicted
from the same houses, attacked the
new-comers. Much of their furniture
was destroyed and six or seven persons
were quite seriously injured. The ar
rival of Sheriff McCann put a stop to
the battle.
The first official reports of the In
dian cotton crops have just baen is-
suec. The yield, as represented, is
generally satisfactory, especially in
the province of Pundaubj and Oudh.
In the northwestern and central pro
vinces rain has in some cases impeded
the developement of the boll, but a
good average crop is expected, except
in the Bombay and Madras presi
dencies, where the season has been
unfavorable.
It is stated that steps are being tak
en at New York looking to a close
traffic alliance between the Big Four,
Chesapeake and Ohio and the South
ern Railway company. Drexel, Mor
gan A Co. are understood to have the
matter in hand. It is also said that
arrangements are being perfected
whereby the Southern railway and
Chesapeake and Ohio intend to stop
rate cutting and to reduce expense at
common points.
A dispatch from Shanghai to The
morning. Fireman Timothy Collins
first started np the ladder. He had
not climed more than ten feet when
the horrified crowd saw a boy
leap out from the fifth floor.
The boy landed on Collins’ head
and the boy and the fireman went
to the ground together. The boy
was killed almost instantly. Collins
was seriously injured and his recovery
is doubtful. When the flames were
extinguished the firemen found on the
fifth floor the bodies of the watchman
named Herman and a boy. Both were
Herman’s sons.
CYCLONE IN RUSSIA.
A Thousand Lives Lost—Whole Vil
lages Demolished.
A cable dispatch from St. Peters
burg, Russia, says: A terribly disas
trous cyclone swept along the shores
of the sea of Azoff Saturday, doing
immense damage. In some instances
entire villages were swept into the sea.
Many steamers were sunk or driven
ashore and wrecked, and it is believed
that at least one thousand persons
perished. y
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
FEARFUL STORM IN RUSSIA.
Whole Villages Destroyed and Over a
Thousand People Killed.
Further particulars of the great cy
clone which swept across the 6ea of
Azoff have been received from St. Pe
tersburg, Russia. It was a veritable
wind of death. No other name can
describe the cyclone. It will be im
possible for days yet to compute th8
damage done, bnt it is almost certain
that at least 1,000 people have per
ished, some by drowning, others by
being crushed under falling houses and
trees.
The excitement is great among the
American colony in St. Petersburg,
for it is feared that at least two par
ties of American tourists were on the
sea of Azoff at the time the wind did
its deadly work.
At Marianople over 200 people were
killed and nine-tenths of the houses
were destroyed.
At a fishing village named Nogaisk
all the men were out at sea. The town
was destroyed and none of the boats
returned to shore.
At the hour of the latest report not
one of the steamers that tonch at the
port of Berdainsk had arrived. Fears
are expressed that every craft in the
sea has gone to the botlom and that
every passenger is drowned.
When the wind swept over the
northern end of the Azoff it took a new
course, going southerly along the coast
of tho land of the Black Cossacks. In
turn Fish and Achuey were ravaged,
each town being almost totally de
stroyed.
Telegraphic communication with
this district is suspended, and it is
impossible to learn the extent of the
destruction, but at least 1,000 persons
must have died on the two shores.
The storm as nearly as can now be
learned, seemed to suddenly lose its
force near Emrink and passed off with
comparative quiet, southerly, over the
Black sea.
TO BUILD FACTORIES.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
THE A. P. A. IS AFTER HIM WITH
A SHARP STICK.
A Plausible Scheme of the North
Carolina Alliance.
At the annual meeting of the North
Carolina Farmers’ Alliance, held at
Greensborough C. P. Simmons, of
Halifax county, proposed a novel
scheme for building a number of cot
ton factories in the state. His plan is
to open subscription books in each
congressional district, under the man
agement of a special committee for
subscriptions, to be held monthly,
ranging from $1 per month up. When
the total amount of subscriptions is
sufficient to warrant steps being
taken for the erection of
factory, the committee will in
invite propositions from the differ
ent towns and communities for its lo
cation, and the place which offers the
best inducements, in the opinion of
the committee, will secure the factory.
It is proposed that every subscriber
shall be a stockholder, and be entitled
to a vote according to the amount of
his stock, and that the matter shall be
entirely free from all party and politi
cal influence, a purely progressive
manufacturing movement, to be open
to farmers, business men and capital
ists alike. The plan is meeting with
much favor.
DISPENSARY GORE.
Duel to the Death at Blackville,
South Carolina.
At Blackville, Barnwell county, S.
, Solomon Brown, aged 22, son of
le of the most prominent citizens of
e town, and John Gribben, a state
instable, were killed in a row result-
g from dispensary troubles. Grib-
■n had opened a case of clothing con-
gned to Brown under pretense of
arching for contraband whiskey,
lis had occurred several times before
id had already created bitter feeling
•tween Gribben and the Brown fam-
T, one of the most influential in the
them part of the state.
Tuesday afternoon Solomon Brown,
s brothers Isadore and Herman, and
s father, Simon, met the constable,
row ensued in which pistols were
awn and six or seven shots fired,
rihben was fatally shot, dying in ten
inutes, and Solomon Brown was kill-
instantly, Simon, Isadore and
erman Brown are under arrest as ac-
ssories to the killing of Gribben.
. P. Dyches, the Tillmanite coroner,
no tried to hold an inquest, was ar-
sted on the charge of having fired
e shot that killed Solomon Brown,
he affair has caused great excitement
Blackville and feeling is running
TO MORTGAGE THE SOUTHERN.
General Stockholders’ Meeting
Called for That Purpose.
A notice lias been given to the
ockholders of the Southern Railway
ampany that a general meeting will
; held in Richmond, Va., on October
ith, at which there will be submitted
r their approval the proposed mort-
ige to the Central Trust Company,
ustee of $120,000,000 of bonds,
194, with interest at five per cent,
lyable in gold.
At this meeting authorization will
so be asked of the stockholders tc
lecute a mortgage on the East Ten-
sssee, Virginia and Georgia for $4,-
10,000, due 1983, with interest at 5
jr cent, payable in gold. These bondf
•e to be issued in lieu of the equip-
ent and income bonds upon which
te mortgage has been foreclosed.
TO REVENUE COLLECTORS.
Secretary Carlisle Sends Instructions
About Withdrawing Goods.
Secretary Carlisle has decided that
goods now in bond will be entitled to
the privileges of the free list of the
tariff act. The following telegram has
been sent ont in order to afford facili
ties for immediate bonding and with
drawing of goods just arrived:
“To the Collector of Customs, New
York—Vessels with cargo, not dis
charged nor entered for consumption,
may be made vessel warehouses tem
porarily for such goods as shall be en
tered today. “John G. Carlisle.”
The same telegram was sent to the
collectors of customs at Boston, Phila
delphia, Baltimore, Portland, Me.,
San Francisco, Portland, Newport
News, Norfolk, New Orleans and Chi
cago.
Death of a Congressman.
Congressman Shaw died at 8:20
o’clock Monday morning at his horns
All On Account of Some Remarks
that William Made.
Northern republican newspapers that are now
running a side show call®l the A- P. As
oontinue to afflict me with .their spleen because
, I made a few remarks they “do not liko. They
| send me & sample copy with the spleen marked
( all round so that I may not fail to see it and
; read it, and then feel sorry for myself. The
last comes from Boston, “Tho American Citi
zen,” and says: “Bill Arp has made an attack
on the A. P. A. That is his business. He
writos just what will pay him best.' Give him
I $l0and he will writeon theother side. Witbina
| year the politicians of Georgia will be at the
■ feet of the A P. A. begging for votes and The
Atlanta Constitution will jump the fence,” etc.
i Well, I don’t care anything about this, for I am
| too far off for that editor to know my price, but
the same paper says that “Joe Howard will
: write just what he is paid for, irrespective of
his own conviction*.” This is hard on Joe, for
he lives in Boston.
I But it is a waste of time to make any more
war upon the A. P. As—the dog is dead.
. Thousands who were drawn in are drawing out
all over the north and within a year you will
hardly find a man who ever belonged to it.
Republican schemers have got hold of the order
everywhere and its true eharactor has cropped
i out early. It won’t last as long as the alliance
! and ought not, for the alliance had good in-
! tentiona in its infancy and bnt for its going in-
: to politics would have done a great deal of good.
It was smothered by demagogues. And now
' comes the one-third party with Ocala and Omaha
platforms that demand the railway and telc-
i graph and a subtreasnry that will build a-
i pumpkin barn in every naborhood. It is not
| even a sideshow to any party, but is a wood’s
[ colt—a mule colt at tiiat—with no pride of an-
■ cestry- But it can be rid and goes along right
' gently until bucking time comes. A farmer
| who joins the one-third party, expecting to got
’ something, is liko Judge A'dridge’s man who
j was driving a cow and her young calf home,
and they got mixed np with some other cattle
' in the road and the calf mistook an old steer
for its mother and ran off with him. The feller
ran himself nearly tB death trying to seperate
them, bnt he couldont. So he slopped and used
bad lanjpage and wound up with “Go it you
darned little fool—go it—but you’ll find out
what's what when sucking time comes.”
The leader of these secret, oath-bound politi
cal organizations are after oftic ■ cr money, and
somo few of thorn get it. They ride in on tha
mule and then take the bridle off and turn him
out to make his own living. Bishop Haygood,
whom the south honors for his spotless integri
ty of character and his fearless publication of
the truth as ho sees it, says “Liberty dies by
the organization of oatli-bouDd societies. Such
oath-hound leagues not only make men slaves
hut they make them children—wards without
right to think—slaves without right to choose.
A man is forced oftentimes to do what he does
not wish to do and is frozen out if he refuses
obedience.”
There is corruption enough and some to share
in the old parties, but there is no secrecy—no
gags, no grips nor oaths. We know just what
they are doing and can kick and abuse and
even denounce if we want to, and the force of
public opinion soon has its effect. We have
been abusing the national democracy awfully of
late, bnt after ail, there is no other party that a
southern man can go to. If we really advocate
tariff reform, a tariff for revenue only, a tariff
that will cheapjn the necessaries of life, we are
obliged to be democrats. Tho issue is made at
last. It is now protection or no protection.
'1 he infant industries are all grown. Let them
take care of tkemselv s. There are too many
people demanding help from the government.
Bishop HaygooJ says: “Too much government
is nearly as bad as no government and is one of
the worst hindrances to the healthy develop
ment and happy existence of human society.
Those who know human nature in ils strength
and deepness look with deep anxiety at the ten
dency of onr times to pa ternalism in govern
ment. Government begins to ted us what we
may eat and drink. Government inspects our
milk and kerosine oil and our fertilizers. Govern
ment looks after our drainage and sanitary con
dition. We are vaccinated when government
says so. Doctors are now talking of keeping
consumptives in a pestliouso, and it may come
to pass that government will take ns in hand
when we have a bad cold. It is not treason to
our idolized public school system to admit that
our theory and practice in education foster pa
ternalism. In many schools, so far as preserv
ing and developing a child’s individuality is
concerned, it is about as well to number as to
name him. In some schools the pupils are
numbered just as convicts are.”
It is this paternalism that burdens ua
with taxes, both state and national. There
is no business economy at Washington.
What business man would build a postof
fice at Rome that is to cost $75,000, when
he can rent a first rate one for $600 a year?
Who would pay a postmaster $2,000 a year
when lie could get a good one for $1,000. And
it is the same unless extravagance all over the
nation. You vote for my scheme and I’ll vote
for yours is the bargain at Washington—and so
the money goes. State extravagance is not
much better. There is many a scheme being
planned already to prey upon onr state treasury
and more pension billB will be introduced and
more educational facilities asked for- And ail
that we poor taxpayers can do is to abuse our
rulers and hold down the brakes as hard a»pos-
sible. That is our right. It was the right of
the privates during the war to complain at their
officers, bnt they wonldn’t let any outsiders do
it; so we don’t want any advice from the one-
third party or the republicans or the American
Protective As-sociation about democratic fail
ures or democratic corruption. It is the only
party that the south can trust, and if we can’t
reform it from the inside it can’t be done from
the ont. Secession don’t pay. Old Father
Time is a good doctor. I feel more hopeful of
our party than I did a month ago. All that a
man has to do to keep him a democrat is to
look at the leaders of the other parlies and
read their pa pers. But the great republican
party that feeds aud fattens on pensions and
protection and patronage and paternalism and
all the other p’s is the party to be fought.
The others are side-shows and we have to take
them like taking the measles. They are a sort
of vaccination that keeps us from catching tho
smallpox and so they do some good in that way.
It is aliwell enougli to stir the hoys up occa
sionally—to cry bear and see the boys load up
their guns—to ring the fire bell in the dead of
night as a training to the firemen. But we
have had tiiis one-third party about long
enough. The novelty has worn off and
we will have a funeral before long aud bury it
and drop a tear to its memory. So mote it be.
—Bn,L A tip in Atlanta Constitution.
Love yonr enemies, for often yon may
profit by the truth they tell about you.
NORTH GEORGIA
DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY,
At Dahlonega, Georgia,
Spring term begins first Monday in February.
Fall term begins first Monday in September.
FULL LITERARY COURSES.
TUITION FREE
With ample corps of teachers.
THROUGH MILITARY TRAINING
under a U. S. Army Officer detailed by
Secretary of war.
Departments of Business, Short
hand, Typewriting, Telegraphy,
Music and Art.
Under competent and thorough instructors.
YOUNG LADIES have equal advantages.
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