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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
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JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor aad Proprietor.
VOL. XltLtfO, ig
VIENNA, GA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
ATKINSON CARRIES THE DAY
BY 25.000 MAJORITY.
Gains ii Mail Counties.
The General Assembly Will Be
Controlled by Democrats.
Summary of the Vote os Cast tii tacit
County of the State.
Beiow ofe the reports Of Wednesday’s
fclectioh ftoni efery oiie Of the l87
bounties in tiie state. A goVerilor;
State house officers and members of the
general assembly were elected. The
three amendments to the constitution
tveire also voted iipou. Ohe Of these
proVides fbr auhfial sessibnsof the ieg-
islatufe; and changes the time of meet
ing frotii the list Wednesday in Qcto-
ber; as at present-; to the last Wednes
day iti July. Another increases the
power of the, legislature tb gfant pen
sions tb disabled eX-Confedefate vete
rans. The other ptovides fof ttVo ad-
ttitiohal jlidges of the siipteme court
bf the state;
Two state house tickets tvete in the
held; composed ns follows;
Democratic—Governor, Williaih Y.
Atkinson; Sebretnry of Stute; Alien
D. Candler; Treasurer, Robert U.
Hardeman; Attorney General, JoReph
M. Terrell; Comptroller General,Wil
liam A. Wright; Commissioner of Ag
riculture, Robert T. Nesbitt.
Populists—Governor, .Tames K.
Hines; Secretary of State, A. L.
Nance; Treasurer, C. M. Jones; At
torney General, J. A. B. Mahaffy;
Comptroller General, W. B. Kemp;
Commissioner of Agriculture, James
Barrett.
THE ELECTION QUIET.
The election throughout the state
passed off quietly, although a heavy
vote was polled.
Mr. Atkinson ran behind his ticket
in many counties in the state. The
populists made eonsiderablo gains for
the legislature. There are forty-four
members in the senate and one hun
dred and seventy-live in the house. Of
this it is estimated that the populists
will have eight to ten members in the
former and thirty-live to forty in the
latter.
All congressional districts gave At
kinson majorities, save the fourth and
tenth.
The latest official figures indicate
that Atkinson carries the state for gov
ernor by over 25,000 majority.
County Majorities for Governor.
The following are the majorities for
governor in each county as compiled
from latest returns;
ATKINSON COUNTIES HINES
100 ., Appling
207 Baker
16 Baldwin
50 Banks
Bartow 200
625 Berrien
2,300 . Bibb
500 Brooks
175 Bryan
216 Bullock
053 Burke 161
35 Butts
714 Calhoun 224
300 Camden
Campbell 14
Carroll 143
206 Catoosa
01 Charlton
2,800 Chatham 141
Chattahoochee 144
275 Chattooga
Cherokee 108
118 Clarke
130 Clay
Clayton 62
252 Clinch
517 Cobb
300 Coffee
200 Colquitt
Columbia......... 006
636 Coweta
210 Crawford
170 Dade
50 Dawson
424 Decatur
450 DeKalb
500 Dodge
213 Dooly
450 Dougherty
3 7
Madison
50 ...
10 ...
300 ...
240 ...
40 ...
. .. Montgomery
300
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
OONbEXSEO FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
150 .
Murray
421 .
"394 .
150
COO .
,Punlding
. 100 1
10 .
100 .
Pierce
!
Pike
. 300 ;
. 125
482 .
511 .
i
125 .
i
128 .
400 .
,622 .
1
1 .
;, .,. Rockdale
l
116 .
400
453 .
;; .... Spalding
276 .
470 .
Sumter
1
76 .
1
: 200
295 .
Tattnall ;
198
477 .
4t .
462 .
Thomas
1
155 .
Towns
!
424 .
Troup
500 ..
.. Twiggs
200 .
.. ..... Union ;
75 .
1
388 .
:: .... Walker
203 ..
96 ..
.: .... Warren
692
104 .
.... Washington
J
107 ..
Webster
40
297 ..
Whitfield
549 ..
Wilcox........
907 ..
Wilkes
95 ..
Worth
50
The State Senate.
i
20
1,000 ...
.. 782
53 ...
343 ...
.. 372
500 ...
Emanuel
. 96
50
Fayette
53
501 ...
.. 308
.... Franklin
.. 250
1,000 .. .
235 ...
. 285
402 ...
Glynn
.. 185
.. 300
.... Gwinnett.. ..
.. 327
254 ...
. . Habersham.
110 . .
Hall
350 ...
.... Haralson.. ..
.. 289
First District—W. W. Osborne (d.)
Second—W. W. Sheppard (d.)
Third—S. R. Harris (d.)
Fourth—J. J. Upchurch (d.)
Fifth—Leon A. Wilson (d.)
Sixth—M. G. McMillan (d.)
Seventh—J. B. Norman, Jr., (d,)
Eighth—C. B. Bush (d.)
Ninth—J. E. Mercer (d.)
Tenth—W. L. Storey (d.)
Eleventh—J. B. Bnssey (d.)
Twelfth—J. E. Harris (d.)
Thirteenth—E. B. Lewis (d.)
Fourteenth—Baldy Ryals (d.)
Fifteenth—G. Iv. Wilcox (d.)
Sixteenth—J. L. Keen (pop.)
Seventeenth—U. P. Wade (d.)
Eighteenth—Bryan Cummings (d.)
Neneteenth—Charles E. MeGrogor
(pop.)
Twentieth—R. W. Roberts (d.)
Twenty-first—W. J. Harrison (d.)
Twenty-second—N. E. Harris (d.)
Twenty-third—B. W. Sauford (d.)
Twenty-fourth—G. P. Munroe (d.)
Twenty-fifth—B. H. Williams (d.)
Twenty-sixth—W. C. Beeks (d.)
Twenty-seventh—W. J. Morton (d.)
Twenty-eighth— W. A. Brougnton (d.)
Twenty-ninth-Caliborne Snead (pop.)
Thirtieth—Dr. N. G. Long (d.)
Thirty-first—W. R. Little (d.)
Thirty-second-—M. G. Boyd (d.)
Thirty-third—Doubtful.
Thirty-fourth—C. H. Branded.)
Thirty-fifth—W. H. Venable (d.)
Thirty-sixth—T. T. Whitley (d.)
Thirty-seventh—E. B. Sharpe (d.)
Thirty-eighth—J. W. MeGarity (pop.)
Thirty-ninth—B. B. Brown (pop.)
Fortieth—W. H. McClure (d.)
Forty-first—T. W. D. Craigo (rep.)
Forty-second—W. H. Lumpkin (d.)
Forty-third—Trammell Star (d.)
Forty-fourth—G. W. M. Tatum (d.)
LATER NEWS.
Thursday the votes in the several
counties of the state were consolidated
at the various county seats. Reports
from these so far as they have been
received show that figures given below
are approximately correct.
There is a considerable difference in
the vote of the different candidates on
the state ticket, and this confuses, in
some measure, the attempt to get- at an
exact majority.
The changes make no difference in
the general result. W. Y. Atkinson
was elected governor and with him
the entire statehonse ticket. The
populists will have five or six members
of the senate and about fifty-five mem
bers of the house. The latest returns
show the defeat of Dr. Whitely, the
democratic candidate for senator in
the district comprising Douglas, Cow
eta, Meriwether and Campbell.
The only amendment to the consti
tution which has a chance is that regu
lating invalid pensions. The summer
session and the supreme court amend
ments have hardly escaped defeat.
AN INDEPENDENT STATE TICKET
Short anil Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
A special cable to The New York
Herald from Shanghai says that the
emperor of Chiiia will very likely be
dethroned in favor of Prince Knnk’s
Sen, ;?Ill who treat with the Japanese.
A dispatch to the London Central
News from Hamburg, says that Dr.
Oertel, of the hygiene institute, of
that City, has died from Asiatic chol
era, resulting froth an experiment with
water taken from the RiVer Vistula.
The steamer Knickerbocker, of the
Cromwell line, from New York, Sep
tember 22, concerning the safety ol
which considerable anxiety has been
manifested, arrived at New Orleans
Monday morning. She was about two
days over due.
The state of Connecticut has ordered
a monument erected to the members
of the Fifth Connecticut regiment
buried in the national cemetery at
New Berne, N. C; it will be dedi
cated by the Cofanectieut Veterans’
Association October 25th.
Cable dispatches state that the for
eign residents of Pelting are subjected
to constant insult by the natives and a
number of them have been assaulted
on the streets. Among the persons
who have thus becil maltreated are
several British subjects, including the
interjiretor of the British legation and
Dr. Dtigeon.
The news from the Arkansas State
Asylum at an early hour Wednesday
morning confirmed the first reports
concerning the damage done that in
stitution by the tornado which caused
devastation and death in Little Rock.
All the male department and the an
nex was razed to the ground, four
doors falling in a mass.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the
Central Ncien, received Wednesday
morning, states that great consterna
tion prevails amoDg 1he Chinese in
Kirin, a province of Manchuria, in
consequence of the Japanese troops
landing near Hanchur. The govern
ment has levied a heavy tax on the
merchants for war purposes.
The farmers’ national congress, com
posed of delegates from forty states,
began its annual session at Parkers
burg, W. Va., Tuesday. About two
hundred delegates were present at the
opening session and many others ar
rived during the day. The prelimi
nary organization was formed and
Governor MacCorkle,of West Virginia,
delivered an address of welcome.
Two hundred men in the Loenst
Point tin works at Baltimore, Md.,
have been thrown out of work and the
mill shut down indefinitely. Mr.
James E. Ingraiua, president of the
company, offered the men a reduced
scale of wages to offset the reduced
tariff on tin plate which went into
effect the first of the mont h. The sub
mitted schedule called for 20 per cent
reduction and the men refused to ac
cept it.
The minority delegates to the New
York state constitutional convention
have issued an address to the people,
giving their reasons for declining tc
vote for the address recently issued by
the majority delegates. The address
which is quite lengthy, is a protest
against the work of the convention,
which the minority claim was entirely
shaped in the interest of the republican
party as agreed upon by the republican
members of the caucus.
Four persons were roasted alive and
two others badly burned at the resi
dence of B. B. Pierce, in the town of
Wilmot, Wis. Mr. Pierce’s family
consisted of his wife, three sons, aged
twenty-fiye, twenty-nine and thirty-
four years, and a daughter aged eight
een years. All slept up stairs. One
of the young men first noticed the
fire and leaped down stairs, He then
returned to arouse the rest of the fami
ly, but perished with his brothers
and sister. The father and mother
escaped with severe burns.
Forty student in the Gullians medi
cal school in Constantinople were re
cently arrested on the charge of con
spiring against the government. In
their possession were found documents
that were printed in Liverpool, Mar
seilles, Geneva and other cities, prov
ing the existence of a widespread secret
society. Thirty of the imprisoned
students were subsequently released.
The persons arrested declare that their
movement was not aimed against the
sultan, but only against a corrupt min
istry.
A safe in the fireproof vaults of the
State bank at Mediapolis, la., was
blown almost to atoms Tuesday morn
ing by a tremendous charge of nitro
glycerine. The cracksmen forced the
vault looks without difficulty. The
safe contained §5,000 in gold coin,
§800 in paper currency, §400 in silver
coin and §2,600 in school district
school bonds, payable to bearer. The
paper money was torn into bits and
the coin was battered and bent and
WASHINGTON NOTES
NEWS CONCERNING TIIE VARI
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
Sayings and Doings Of the President
ami Members of the Cabinet.
FIVE FOUND DEAD.
Fatal Wreck of a Freight Train in
Illinois.
At 2:30 o’clock Sttnday morning a
freight train bound fof Chicago was
wrecked' on the Chicago and North
western railway at Grover’s crossing.
When the wrecking crew reached the
spot the voice of a man was heard cell
ing for help. His hand protruded
from beneath the debris. A car was
loaded with green planks and it was Commander C. J. Train has been ap-
removed as rapidly as possible, the re- pointed by the secretary of the navy
suit being the discovery of five dead as the representative of that depart-
bodies, one man badly injured and a ment on the board of commissioners
boy seriously bruised and shaken up. for the Cotton States and Iuternat-
ional exposition. Captain train for
TTTT? U A TXT ; years was in command at the navy
LJAEj OlUlbJlO 1-0.Ill* college at Newport, Pi. I. The Smith
sonian institute has sent out two rep
resentatives to secure exhibits for the
exposition.
An international question involving
the United States and Germany has
been raised by that feature of the new
tariff law which inspired the most
domestic trouble—the sugar schedule.
The German government, through its
ambassador, Baron von Laurma
Jeltsch, has made a strong protest to
the secretary of state against that
clause of the act w'hich imposes au ad
ditional duty of one-tenth of a oent
per potind on sugars imported from
those governments which pay an ex
port bounty on the article to their
producers.
JAPS NEED THE CASH
And Will Endeavor to Negotiate
Foreign Loan.
According to a Yokohoma dispatch
the Japan government has decided to
float a foreign loan, presumably for
the purpose of prosecuting the war
against China, and a bill authorizin
such action will be introduced in the
imperial diet without delay. The
amount of the loan to be contracted
not known.
FLORIDA GETS THE WORST OF
THE RECENT HURRICANE.
Much Damage Done at Many Points In
the Peninsula.
New York Will Have Two Democratic
Tiekets Out.
The Brooklyn Eagle makes the fol
lowing announcement:
“There will be an independent dem
ocratic state ticket in the field. It is vuvj ii€io „ C1J
Dot only probable, but it is virtually ■ scattered to the four winds. Nineteen
certain that it will be headed by the j bonds have been recovered intact, the
name of Charles S. Fairchild, formerly rest being destroyed or stolen,
attorney general of the itatiof New ... . ., .
York, and more lately the secretary of ! Fbe thirteenth annual convention
the treasury in President Cleveland’s ° f the ^ atl0 “ al Fnneral directors of
first administration. , America met in session at St. Loms
Wednesday. More than three hun-
A Jacksonville special says: Com
munication with south Florida is being
restored and special dispatches are
pouring in relative to the damage done
by the Wist Indian cyclone which
raged in the state Tuesday' and
Wednesday. The dispatches all tell
the same story of houses wrecked and
crops destroyed, but no loss of life is
reported.
At Tampa several large cigar fac
tories were wrecked. The large three-
story brick factory of Seideriberg k
Cd. was destioyed. The factory of C.
A. Joyce was demolished, as were also
the factories of Ybor & Manrara; Theo-
dOro Perez & Co. aud O’Halloran.
The First Presbyterian church and the
palatial Tampa Bay hotel Were badly
damaged. Several smaller structures
were also demolished. The total loss
on buildings at Tampa is estimated at
§50; 000.
A dispatch from Fernandina says
that the schooner Edward Stewart,
which was loaded and was lying at an
chor, was blown across the river, pull-
her anchors with her, and is now
lying on a mud flat in about five feet
of water. The small boats were blown
away and numbers are now lying high
and dry up in the marshes, together
with the floating dock, which was at
the foot of Center street. During the
storm at Fernandina the British
steamships, Boston City and Elmville,
collided aud were badly damaged.
A dispatch from Palatka announces
reat damage at that place to river
craft. The steamer Princess was sunk
between Palatka and Pieolata. She
valued at §12,000. The steamer
Edith was driven ashore. The steamer
De Barty was driven against the draw
bridge and wrecked. The steam yacht
Maude was sunk near Crescent City.
At St. Augustine no lives were lost,
but Several houses were wrecked and
the losses will fun into the thousands.
Nearly all the windows in the city were
blown in and the bouses flooded with
water. The Ponce de Leon hotel was
damaged in this way. The loss on the
hotel’s fUrnituro is heavy. The waves
dashed over the sea Wall and made
rivers on the streets. Many wharves
were blown away.
Between Green Cove SpringB and
Palatka, on tho St. John’s river,
twelve wharves have completely disap
peared.
Between Jacksonville aud St. Au
gustine not a telegraph pole was left
standing.
The damage to the orange growers
is incalculable. Dispatches say that
in the large groves the ground is com
pletely covered with green oranges.
The loss will be fully 20 per cent.
Dispatches indicate that the storm
was as severe in the interior of tho
state as on the coast. It struck Tampa
and then traveled northeast from Jack
sonville and St. Augustine. At Ocala
and Orlando, interior points, several
sea gulls and sea eels were found after
the storm passed over.
It is safe to say that the storm has
cost Florida more than a million dol
lars, but no lives have been lost unless
at Key West, Titusville, Jupiter or
other east coast points.
TRADE TOPICS.
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the wo
man’s rights presidential candidate in
1892, who, by a recent decision of the
Virginia court of appeals, is privileged
to practice law in that state, has ar
rived in Kichmond to attend to some
legal business.
The democrats of Congressman Wil
son’s district purpose giving him a tri
umphal reception upon his return from
Europe. The details of the affair are
Notification has been given to this { DOW bein S arranged by the secretary
government in an informal way of the 1 democratic national congres-
fatificatioii by the Chinese government i siona * committee, and the chairman of
of the new treaty between the United ; ^ be district committee.
150 Harris..
150 Hart..
20.) Heard.
200 Henry..
1,117 Houston
530 Trwin..
Jackson
... 117
533 ....
Jasper
.... Jefferson
25
80
Jones
.... Laurens
... 200
144 ...
Lee
.... Liberty
... 634
... Lincoln
... 660
618 ....
.... Lowndes
75 ....
Lumpkin...
. . McDuffie
... 500
100
... McIntosh . .. .
363 ....
“Nominations for lieutenant gover
nor and judge of the court of appeals
will also be made. The whole ticket
will comprise, in the words of one who
is active jin the work, ’men of com
manding ability, of exalted character,
of devoted democracy and unquestion
able hostility of corruption, to slavery,
to political degradation, to the bru
tality of machinism, to the brainless
ness of bossism and to the sale of
law.’ ”
dred delegates from twenty-nine dif
ferent states in the union were in at
tendance. The convention is one of
the greatest assemblages of funeral di
rectors ever held in this country. The
convention has for its object the pas
sage of a law in every state creating
a board of examiners which shall have
power to issue license to embalmers,
and to refuse license to parties not ed
ucated in the art.
Bradstreet’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
Bradstreet’s report of business for
the past week says: “The feature of
general trade throughout the c-ouutry
is found in moderate reactions within
the week, more particularly in the
volume of purchases of staples in the
west, where trade has been quite act
ive, and at eastern points; in the
course of prices the week failing to
show any upward movement of note in
this line and in the check the business
south, together with damage to the
rice and orange crops.
Less satisfactory reports come from
some of the more important distribut
ing points south, owing to the effect of
the storm. Augnsta reports the out
look not so bright, and refers to the
low price of cotton and its effect upon
the purchasing power of producers.
Geneaal business has been unsettled
also at Savannah and at Jacksonville,
and rice and orange crops have suffer
ed. There has been no material gain
in business at New Orleans, importa
tion of fruits apd receipts of bulk
grain being light. There has been a
fair business in hardware at Chatta
nooga, but other lines report less ac
tivity. Nashville says iron pipe mills
are unable to keep up with orders, but
pig iron in that market is quieter.
Business is practically unchanged at
Ch arleston, Memphis and Birming
ham. ”
The County $60,000 in Debt. i The Lucania is Swift.
The October county court, which Tbe steamship Lucania, from Liver-
convened at Chattanooga Monday P°°l and Queenstown, arrived at N ew
morning with the recently elected y ° rk Fllda y afternoon. The time of
Judge Walker, republican, in the chair, passage was five days, seven hours and
will make a desperate effort to drag fort y minutes, the fastest on record,
Hamilton county out of the deep well beating her former and last run ol tive
of debt into which it has fallen, by ^ays, eight hours and thirty-eight
borrowing §60,000. thepresentamouut minutes by fifty minutes. Daj,-s runs,
of the county’s indebtedness 531, 542, 541, 5_9, 552 and 87 to San-
—— dy Hook lightship. Total distance,
A hood way to deliver yourself from 2,782 miles. Average spOed, 21,77
evil associates is to go with good ones, miles per hour.-
KILLED WIFE AND CHILDREN.
A Dastardly Crime Committed by a
Georgian in Mexico.
A dispatch from Victoria, Mexico,
says: An American family, consisting
of husband and wife and their three
children, from Georgia, took up their
residence on a plantation abont forty
miles from this city. The man’s name
was Frank Holman. Word has been
received that, while crazy from tho
effects of Mexican intoxicants, he
killed his wife and two children. Af
ter committing the deed he made his
escape from this section. The crime
was witnessed by the younger child,
who reported it to the authorities.
Holman is said to have left Georgia on
account of some pfinje he eommittyi}
there.
States and Cbinaj Which was negotiat
ed by Secretary Gresham and the
Chinese minister, Yang Yu, and rati
fied by the senate on the part of the
United States. Only for tho formal
exchange of ratifications between the
depnrtirieut of state and the minister is
to be transacted to make the treaty
the law governing the relations of the
two powers; and this ceremony will
doubtless take place within the month.
The grand jury of the District of
Columbia have returned indictments
against Henry 0. Havemeyer and John
E. Searles, of the sugar trust-; abll
Allen L. Seymour, of the stock bro
kerage firm of Seymour & Young, for
refusing to answer questions pnt to
them by the senate sugar trust inves
tigating committee. The grand jury
also brought in an indictment against
Air. MacCartney, of the firm of Car-
son & MacCartney; this last, however,
merely being to perfect a previous re
port. All of the cases will come up
for argument on .demurrers on October
12th.
Southern War Claims.
Deputy Comptroller Mansur, of the
treasury department, has just render
ed a decision of especial interest in the
south. It relates to the claims of
churches, school buildings and the
ownefs of structures of that character
for their use by the federal troops as
quarters and barracks during the war.
There are, as is well known, a large
number of claims pending before con
gress and in the departments
for payment for the use of build
ings Of this character, which were
Used by the federal authorities during
the war, sometimes for storage pur
poses, sometimes as quarters for
troops. These claims had been rejected
by certain officers of the treasury, but
Comptroller Mansur has rendered a
decision in regard to buildings in cer
tain of the border states, authorizing
payment for their use. This decision
relates more especially to bnildings in
Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri,bnt
it is hoped that it may open the way
to a recognition of the claims from
states further Bonth, many of which
have been pending in congress for
years, without favorable action,
The Debt Statement,
The debt statement issued Monday
afternoon shows a net increase in the
public debt less cash in the treasury
during September of §8,512.700, The
interest bearing debt increased §140,
the non-interest bearing debt increased
§824,181 and the cash in the treasury
decreased §7,220,337. The balances
of the seteral classes of debt at the
close of business September 29th were!
Interest bearin'? debt, §635.042,810;
debt on which interest has ceased
since maturity, §1,830,030; debt
bearing no interest, §380,094,496.
Total, §3,017,566,336. The certifi
cates and treasury notes offset by an
equal amount of cash (in the treasury)
outstanding at the end of the month
were §612,436,470, a decrease of §2,-
914,102. The totfl cash in the treas
ury was §774,135,928. The gold re
serve was §58,875,317. Net cash bal
ance §61,044,402. In the month there
was an increase in gold and bars of
§2,779,887. The total at the close be
ing §123,665,756. Of silver there was
a decrease of §3,352,977. Of the sur
plus there was in national bank de
positories §16,365,598, against §17,-
330,879 at the end of the previous
month.
PRIVILEGED TO QUIT,
Rut Must Not Combine to Influence or
Injure Others.
In a long decision read by Justice
Harlan and prepared by him, the
United States circuit court of appeals
at Chicago reversed, in part, the fa
mous decision of Judge Jenkins in the
case of P. M. Arthur and others,
against the Northern Pacific railroad,
in which Judge Jenkins decided that
men had no right to combine for a
strike under certain conditions, chief
among which was when there
was intent to injure the property or
business of the road. Although the
case is reversed in part and the cause
remanded with directions to strike out
certain portions of Judge Jenkins’
opinion, the effect of the decision is to
prevent all strikes unless they be ab
solutely peaceable. The order, while
prepared by Justice Harlan, was also
participated in by Judges Woods and
Bnnn.
The Connecticut Elections.
Election returns have been received
from 144 of the 146 Connecticut towns
that voted last Monday. The republi
cans have carried 91 of those town-,
against seventy-five carrie I last year
<mt of the same towns, a gain of six
teen. The democrats carry twenty-
seven this year, against, forty-four a
year ago, n loss of seventeen end twen
ty-six are divided, ttgginsi twenty tive
a ve-ar ago.
The property of the Oyster Canning
and Cultivating Company, at Bruns
wick, Ga., including oyster farms,
steamboats, shells, plant and machin
ery, were sold Tuesday by Sheriff Ber
rie, and were bid in by John C. Leh
man and F, D. Aiken for §10,200.
The property cost more than §23,000 :
Greenwood is the best railroad cen
ter in upper Carolina, and there is yet
another road talked of to pass through
that city, running from some point on
the Carolina coast to Knoxville, Tenn
Influential men are discussing the feas
ibility of the plan, and it is not im
probable that the line will be bnilt
eventually.
A Chicago dispatch says; Phil D.
Armour, when shown the report from
Brunswick, Ga., that he had offered
one million dollars for the Jekyl Island
club bouse and island, characterized
the story as ridiculous. He had never
heard of Jekyl Island, did not have a
million dollars to invest in anything,
and if he had he wonld not invest it in
Jekyl Island.
One of Chattanooga’s largest indus
tries may be removed to St. Lonis.
It is the Chattanooga Plow Company,
which does au immense business
South America and keeps a force of
300 hands at work the year round.
Negotiations are now pending between
Sf. Louis parties and Newell Sanders,
president of the company, for the re
moval of the plant to East St. Lonis.
Fifteen thousand dollars’ worth of
lumber, together with a commissury
and contents and two immense dry
kilns belonging to the Letcher Lum
ber Company, which has large mills
just tfCst of Anniston, Ala., have been
destroyed by fire. It was with the
greatest difficulty that the saw mills
and planing mills were saved. The
fire was the fiercest in the history of
Anniston and several people were in
jured though not dangerously.
The partially completed Florence
(Ala.) Northern railroad has been sold
at auction for §25,000. Neely, Smith
<fe Co., of Chattanooga, were the pur
chasers. The same firm were the con
tractors who bnilt the road, and held a
mortgage against it of nearly the
amonnt they paid for it. Thirty miles
of the road has been graded. When
completed it will extend from Flor
ence to Linden, TenD., a distance of
about eighty miles, through a rich
mineral section.
A special meeting of the board of
trade of Y'icksburg, Miss., was held
Tuesday iu the interest of the anti
option convention, which will be held
about November 15th. Mnch interest
and even enthusiasm was manifested.
Assurances were received from the
cotton exchange that its members
unanimously endorse anti-option.
Committees of arrangements have
been appointed by the two bodies
whose members are sanguine of bring
ing about a moDster demonstration in
favor of anti-option, The author of
the bill, Congressman Hatch, will be
a special invited guest.
INJUNCTION GRANTED
Restraining the Board from Canvass
ing Election Returns.
A special from Jacksonville, Fla.,
says: There has developed a new
phase to the election matter in this
county. The circuit court has granted
a temporary injunction restraining the
canvassing board from canvassing the
returns on Tuesday’s election, on ac
count of the alleged illegal acts,of the
inspectors. The bill on which the in
junction was obtained is on the theo
ry that the election in the county
is invalid. The bill claims that the
acts of the inspectors iu refusing to
open polls in four of the city wards,
because of the persence of deputy
sheriffs stationed there to watch the
vote, invalidates the election. The
faction "denied representation alleged
that fraud was intended and the sheriff
placed deputies in the polling places
to prevent it. The inspectors claimed
that the deputies were there in viola
tion of the law, and, npon the refusal
of the deputies to withdraw, closed the
polls, thus disfranchising abont 2,000
voters. The bill alleges that if these
men had been a'lowed to vote the
Fletcher faction wonld have elected
its ticket. The case will likely go to
the supreme court.
CYCLONE IN LITTLE ROCK.
Whole Blocks Demolished and a Num
ber of People Killed.
A terrible cyclone struck Little
Rook, Ark., at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday
night and devastated the business por
tion of the city. Several people are
known to have been killed and injured.
The main portion of the business cen
ter, bounded on the south by Third
street, on the north by the river front,
on the west by Center street, is prac
tically mined gnd the damage incalcu
lable. The total property loss will
probably approximate a half million
dollar*,
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Brief Summary of Daily Happen
ings Throughout the World.
M. Pingualt, a prominent sugar bro
ker in Paris has been arrested charged
with embezzling the sum of 144,000
pounds, which, it is clamed, was due to
Baron Hirsch, the complainant, as the
result of recent speculations in sugar.
The North Carolina crop report,
just issued, says the storm has not
damaged cotton seriously, and that
the injury to other crops is small.
The returns show that 62 per cent, of
the cotton is unpicked today. Cotton
opened with great rapidity.
The managers of the American tin
plate factory at Elwood, Ind., are
making arrangements to complete all
repairs this week, and, in addition to
this, they have five extra mills ready
to start up with the rest of the plant
next week. The Elwood window glass
factory, the last m the city to consume
operations, started up Thursday morn
ing with a full force of 300 hands.
A dispatch from Port Louis to a
news agency in London received
Thursday, repeats the denial previous
ly made that a blockade of the ports
of Madagascar had been proclaimed.
The dispatch adds that the reports
arose through the misconstruction of
the steps taken by the French war
ships along the coast to prevent the
landing of arms and ammunition for
the Hovas.
Congressman Joseph AVheeler has
been in Florence, Ala., for several
days conferring with the Business
League in regard to the proposed re
moval of the government office from
that place. A vigorous protest has
been entered by the towns of the Ten
nessee valley against the sacrificing of
the interests of river towns by remov
ing the river improvement headquar
ters to a point not on the river.
Under a warrant issued by the trial
justice at Easley, 8. C., bis constable,
8. N. Wyatt, seized under the dispen
sary law, a ten-gallon cask of whisky.
One Couch was at the same time ar
rested and charged with retailing and
concealing contraband whisky. This
is the first case iu the county under the
dispensary law, the constitutionality
of which is now under consideration
by the supreme court.
The shipping and Telegraph News
of London says it learns that a steamer
has been chartered near home to con
vey munitions of war to China. The
freight to be paid on the cargo will
exceed the value of the vessel, and the
venture is insured at three guineas per
hundred-weight. The owners wil!
make a small fortune if the steamer
evades capture under the foreign en
listment act.
It has jnst leaked out that a syndi
cate of wealthy capitalists from Louis
ville and Nashville have purchased or,
at any rate, secured an option on some
45,000 acres of land, chiefly woodland,
it is stated, on and near the line of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, in
Escambia county, south Alabama.
Their plan is to cut the property up
into eighty-acre farms and settle it
with westerners who are practical and
experienced fruit farmers.
A dispatch from Boston,Mass., says:
J. J. Corbett has issued a statement to
the public in which he says that his
contracts will prevent him from fight
ing any one before July 1st next. He
says he will immediately post §10,000
with David Blanchard, of Boston, as a
gnarantee of good faith and that he
will meet all comers for one week after
July 1st next. He declares that he
will fight one man every night durin
that week and then retire permanently
from the ring.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Local republicans state that the rank
and file of the party will not acquiesce
in the decision of the state executive
committee not to hold a state conven
tion. They will shortly call a conven
tion to consider tho political situation
and see whether it is advisable to pnt
out a state ticket. They declaie that
the decision of the committee was for
the purpose of allowing the state chair
man to retain his office for two years
more.
WILL HILL DECLINE?
He Neither Affirms or Denies a Rumor
to That Effect.
It was reported in Ithaca, N. Y.,
Wednesday afternoon that a demo-
atic politician there had received a
dispatch, saying Hill had decided to
decline the nomination for governor.
Senator Hill was seen later at the Ho
tel Normandie by a reporter and aske.l
if there was any truth in the report.
He answered, “I have absolutely noth
ing to say.
Corbett "Will Fight Fitz.
The New Y'ork Evening Telegram
prints the following:
“James J. Corbett has changed his
mind about fighting ‘Bob’ Fitzsim
mons for the championship of the
world. He has overcome his objec
tion to meeting a middle-weight, and
has announced his intention of cover
ing Fitzsimmons’ money now held by
the sporting editor of the Herald, and
he will be in the city to make the
match one week from tomorrow.
FLORIDA ELECTION.
A RED-HOT BATTLE OF BALLOTS
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
Spirited Contests Will be the Order
of the Day.
The Czar Will Die.
The Kreuz Zeitnng, of Berlin, which
usually obtains accurate nows of the
Russian court, learns that the czar is
in a far worse state of health than has
been officially admitted and that his
death may be expected within a few
eeks.
Consternation Among Chinese.
A dispatch from Shanghai states that
great consternation prevails among the
Chinese iu Kirin, a province of Man
churia, iu consequence of the Japanese
troops landing near Hanchur. The
government has levied a heavy tax on
the merchants for war purposes.
A New Yobk dog whose eyesight is
affected is daily seen wearing a pair of
spectacles.
The wind bloweth where it list-
etb,” but the Igrge straw hgt is a fa
vorite mark.
A Jacksonville dispatch says: Every
officer elected in Duval at Tuesday’s
election will have a contest on his
hands, for the Fletcher people pro
pose to fight every inch of ground
gained by their opponents. An at
tempt will be made to count the vote
in the third ward, where the polls
were open only a part of the day and
where the majority is said to be 6 for
Hartridge. But the state law dis
tinctly says that all polling places
shall be open continuously from 8
o’clock a. m. ujjtil sundown. 8o the
returning board will be forced to throw
out any returns from the wards which
were closed during any portion of the
day.
SHERIFF BROWARD SUSPENDED.
Governor Mitchell has suspended
Sheriff Broward from office, presum
ably because he appointed deputy
sheriffs to guard the polls and watch
the vote. But the law is very explicit
in its language abont the compulsory
presence of at least one deputy at the
polls during the voting. Heretofore,
however, these officers have acted as
peace officers, outside the booths. The
question turns on the meaning of the
word “at,” and in this connection it
is noted that tho language of the law
with reference to tho inspectors is that
.they shall be “at” the polls. Of course
it was never contemplated that they
should stay outside. The governor
has appointed Hon. E. J. Triay sheriff
ad interim. Triay is now state in
spector of illuminating oils.
AN ANTI-CALL LEGISLATURE.
Returns received from Lake, Nassau
and Volusia counties, where there are
also splits in the democratic party,
indicate thav the anti-commission,
anti-Call wing of the party has been
victorious in all three, but later infor
mation may change this result as an
nounced from Lake county. It is very
certain, however, that no railroad
commission law will be passed by the
legislature which was elected.
Early iu the morning, in consequence
of fraud having been threatened by
the faction holding the inspector ap
pointing power, three deputy sheriffs
walked-into each polling place and sig
nified their intention of remaining. The
inspectors all over the city thereupon
closed the voting booths, awaiting in
structions from the leaders. A compro
mise was effected in several of the out
lying wards in a short time,and voting
was resumed, but in the fourth, fifth,
and sixth wards, three of the most
populous wards of the city, not a vote
was cast, owing to a failure to agree
upon any arrangement. In conse
quence of this tangle out of a qualified
vote of 5,000 in Duval county only a
small proportion was polled.
Governor Mitchell ordered Adjutant
General Houston to Jacksonville, and
all day the state troops were held un
der arms at their quarters, but were
not needed, as n t a drop of blood
shed was due to the political struggle.
The main issues of the factional fight
were a railroad commission and the al
leged attempt of railroad corporations
to capture the next legislature, and
nowhere is the bitterness so developed
as in Duval county. Throughout the
state Liddon, for supreme court jus
tice, has met with practically no oppo
sition. The pojiulist cast a very small
rote for their ticket.
ANTI-CALL MEN ELECTED.
A Pensacola special says: Three
state senators were elected to fill nnex-
pired terms. Sixteen senators were
elected who will hold over and have a
voice as to Gall’s successor in 1897.
Special interest centers in the effort to
defeat the regular nominees in five
districts who are known to be aggress
ively opposed to Call, to-wit: W. D.
Chipley, of Escambia; John E. Hart-
ridge, of Duval; Charles Dougherty, of
Volusia; W. U. Thompson, of Nassau,
and Frank Adams, of Hamilton. Sen
ator Call openly urged opposition to
the regular nominees in these districts
and the feeling has never been higher
in Florida than in this contest. W. D.
Chipley, in this district, has been
elected by an estimated vote of nearly
4 to 1, having seventeen out of twenty
precincts.
A Rich Find.
A special from Calverts, Ala., states
that a few days ago, while E. B. Shep
ard, who lives near that place, was
having a fence placed around his or
chard, a negro named Lewis Johnston,
in digging a posthole, struck a box
which, on being opened, was found to
contain §1,100 in ten and twenty-dol*
lar gold pioces.
A bad bass singer is a bad base bawl
affair.
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