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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
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TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Faff Where They May.”
JOHN E. HO WELL, Ed tor aad Proprietor,
VOL. XTIL NO. 13
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16. 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
The Fall River manufacturers at a
meeting Wednesday adopted a resolu
tion agreeing to open their mills Mon
day, October loth, for the purpose of
allowing all who are so disposed to go
to work at the cut rate of wages.
The big establishment of the Cleve
land Foundry Company at Cleveland,
O., burned Wednesday night, entailing
a loss of $100,000. The works of the
Favorite Desk and Seating Company
were also destroyed; Iosb $15,000.
By an explosion in the Luke Fidler
mine shaft at Shamokin,Pa., Tuesday,
one man was killed and four others
are in the mine with no avenue of es
cape. The shaft is on fire. Fifty-five
other workmen were taken out alive.
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 Tudor Iron works, at East St.
Louis, Mo., were partially destroyed
by fire Tuesday morning. The loss
on the machinery is $50,000 and on
the building $10,000. Nearly three
hundred men are thrown out of em
ployment.
Mayor John Fitzpatrick, or New
Orleans, has filed his answer in the
civil district court in the impeach
ment proceedings taken by the Citi
zens’ Protective Association. The
mayor makes general and specific de
nials of all the allegations made by
the committee.
The Italian government has declined
to spend an additional $350,000 to com
plete the warships which have long
been in course of construction. An
other cruiser, the Cristoforo Columbo,
has been ordered to Chee Foo. Among
her officers is the duke oil Abruzzi,
nephew of King Humbert.
A dispatch from Berlin to the Lon
don Telegraph says that Professor
Leydon has again been summoned by
wire to attend the cznr and will start
at once for Livadia and remain sorno
time. According to the Cracow news
papers pymmia has been established
and none of the official reports con
cerning the patient’s condition tally
with the facts.
The University Press, (Cambridge,
Mass.) John Wilson & Son, has as
signed for the benefit of creditors.
The concern is one of the oldest and
largest printing houses in Cambridge,
having been established in 1830, and
was believed to be very strong finan
cially. The company employs nearly
350 persons. The assets and liabili
ties are not yet known.
Various rumors are in circulation in
Shanghai, China, the most prominent
being that 40,000 Japanese troops have
landed near Shan-Hai-Kwan, on the
boundary between the Chinese prov
inces of Mauchuria and Chi-Li, at the
eastern end of the great wall which
traverses China. The telegraph wires
have been cut, thus hindering com
munication with that district.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the
Central News says that, although the
Chinese government has plenty of men
at its disposal, there is a total lack of
modern arms for their use. This defi
ciency, the dispatch asserts, the Ger
mans are endeavoring to supply. Many
of the Chinese soldiers recently sent
to the front have been armed only
with jingals and bows and arrow's.
The Unson foundry and Pullman
Car Wheel Company, of Pullman, 111.,
has filed articles of surrender of char
ter. The capital stock is $500,000,
divided into 5,000 shares, of which
Geo. M. Pullman owned 4,993. On
September 29th the directors decided
on closing up. The assets of the com
pany were sold and the proceeds di
vided among the stockholders and the
charter surrendered.
A special from New Castle, Wash.,
says that a dust explosion occurred in
brest thirty-five of the fifth level of the
Oregon Improvement Company’s mine
Wednesday with a result that one
miner is dead, and ten seriously
burned, two probably fatally. The
explosion occurred at an early hour
when the second shift changed for the
third shift, and all miners being in the
gang accounts for the small fatality.
The twentieth annual convention of
the American association of bankers
convened at Baltimore Wednesday
morning. Every section of the union
was represented. Secretary Giese, o‘
the association, says that the crowd’s
check for $150,000,000 would be cash
ed. Addresses of welcomo were made
by the Hon. John P. Poe and Enoch
Pratt, chairman of the Baltimore clear
ing house. Mayor Latrobe also made
an address of welcome.
Letters from Paris say that, owing
to the Grained relations between Eng
land and France and the excited state
of the latter nntion, the American col
ony in Paris is very much annoyed by
the proceedings of the natives when
ever anyone speaks English in their
hearing. In the cafes and restaurants
the waiters show their resentment by
grumbling and careless service, and in
some the proprietors have even refused
to allow English-speaking patrons to
be served.
A strike was begun by 12,000 coat
makers at New York Tuesday morning
and, as a result, the workshops of 175
large manufacturers in the dry goods
district, and the smaller workrooms of
1,000 contractors, or “sweaters,”
whose places are scattered all over the
lower east side, are idle, The strike
is for the purpose of abolishing the
piece work system, the enforcement of
weekly wages, a 25 per cent, increase
of wages, a nine hours work day, and
the employment of Union men and
women.
Colonel Isaac N. Stevens, formerly
chairman of the republican state cen
tral committee of Colorado, has gone
over to the populist party. In a
speech, severing his connection, he
said: “Now firmly convinced that
the republican party is unalterably op
posed to the free coinage of silver,
and firmly convinced that the party in
this state jr, dominated by a secret.
oath-bound organization which threat
ens the rights of personal liberty and
the perpetuity of our institutions, I
can act no longer with that party.”
COTTON IS SHORT.
A Decline of Over Three Points From
September.-
Retnrns io the statistical division of
the department of agriculture for the
month of October, make cotton show a
decline of 3.2 points from its Septem
ber condition, which was 85.9, as
against 82.7 for the present month.
The condition of cotton in June was
88.3, in July 89.fi, rising to 91.8 in
August.
The lessened prospective yield in
the states of North Carolina and South
Carolina is due, in part, to the storm
which occurred in the latter part of
September. For the most part, how
ever, the decline in the condition
through the cotton belt is due to con
tinued rains that began about the mid
dle of August and extended into Sep
tember. There is much of shedding,
rot and just reported, as a conse-
qnence and in addition no little loss
from insect ravages, particularly the
boll worm.
Texas is the only exception to tha
general falling off in condition, that
state having gained four points, not
withstanding the excessive rainfall in
some parts of the state. The percent
ages by states are as follows:
wirginia, 89; North Carolina, 81.3;
South Carolina, 79; Georgia, 79; Flor
ida, 71.9; Alabama, 81; Mississippi,
80; Louisiana, 89; Texas, 88; Arkan
sas, 79; Tennessee, 79; Missouri, 90.
The state averages for September
were: Virginia, 100; North Carolina,
88; South Carolina, 80; Georgia, 84;
Florida, 82 ; Alabama, 8fi ; Mississippi,
85; Louisiana, 91; Texa=, 84; Arkan
sas, 89 ; Tennessee, 84; Missouri, 93.
The indicated yield in hundredths
of bales per acre by states is as fol
lows: ATrginia, 48.5; North Carolina,
33.4; South Carolina, 35; Georgia,
37; Florida, 26.3; Alabama, 30. '7;
Mississippi, 35; Louisiana, 43.2; Texas,
40; Arkansas, 29.5 ; Tennessee, 29.4;
general average, 34.7. The indica
tions as to yield arc merely prelimi
nary and subject to future revision.
SUSPENDING OFFICERS.
Governor Tillman AVants to Discip
line Mutinous Companies.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Tillman has issued a special
order in reference to the military
companies who refused to go to Dar
lington at the time of the dispensary
disturbance. The commissioned offi
cers of the following commands are
suspended, beginning April 1st
last: German Fusiliers, Mont
gomery Guards, Irish \ r olun-
teers, Palmetto Guards, Sumter
Guards, Carolina Biflep, Company
B of the Washington Light Infantry,
German artillery, all of Charleston,
the Gordon Volunteers, Orangeburg;
the Gordon Light Infantry, AVinns-
boro; the Catawba Rifles, Lancaster;
the Governor’s Guards, Columbia; tbe
Zouaves and Richland A r olunteers, Co
lumbia; the Jenkins Rifles, York-
ville. Exceptions are made in
the case of Captains Alston, of
the Richland A 7 oluuteers; Ander
son, of the Columbia Rifles, and Cogs
well, of the Washington Light Infant
ry. The suspension also includes the
staff officers of the fourth brigade,
General T. A. Hugnnin commanding.
It is further ordered: “That the non
commissioned officers and men com
posing the above named companies are
forbidden to exercise any of the func
tions of militiamen until further or
ders from the commander-in-chief.”
TYPOS MEET.
The International Union in Annual
Session in Louisville.
The forty-second annual convention
of the International Typographical
Union opened nt Louisville, Ky., Mon
day morniug at Odd Fellows’ Hall.
W. B. Prescott, president of the
Union, called the convention to order.
Mayor Taylor delivered an address of
welcome to the visitors. Col. K. M.
Kelly, editor of the Commercial wel
comed the typos on behalf of the press
and H. A. Boles, president of the local
typographical union, on behalf of the
local printers.
The union, by a vote of 75 to 25, le-
fused to extend the terms of the officers
from one year to two years, as recom
mended by the president. It also re
fused to change the annual meetings
to biennial meetings, as recommended
by the president and committee on
laws. A number of minor changes in
laws of the union were made. The ses
sion will continue several days.
A PRINTER’S LUCK.
He Fails Heir to a Cool Three Million
Dollars.
Through the agency of the Cincin
nati, Hamilton and Dayton railway
and its connections, a Cincinnati bank
has furnished Samuel Benjamin $1,-
500 to take himself, his wife, son and
two daughters to Australia and back
to secure an estate of $3,000,000 left
him by an uncle. The bank secured
legal evidence of the existence of the
bequest from Australian executors be
fore advancing the money. Benjamin
is a native of Kussia, and is a printer.
TOBACCO FACTORIES BURN.
$25,000 Worth of the Weed Goes I p
in Smoke.
Fire which started Tuesday night in
A. G. Fuller & Co.’s tobacco factory,
it Danville, Ya., threatened to be one
pf the most disastrous the city ever
had, as a high wind was blowing, but
Fuller’s frame factory and M. Neal’s
brick tobacco factory were the only
buildings burned. Fuller’s loss is
$20,000. Neal’s factory had 150,000
pounds of scrap tobacco on storage,
most of which belonged to Dibrell
Brothers. The loss is $5,000, insur
ance $3,50(1
Henry of Navarro King of the Turf.
The great special race for $5,000, at
one mile and a furlong, settling the
supremacy of the turf, was run at
Morris Park, N. Y., Saturday. Henry
of Navarre won, Clifford was second,
and Domino was- third, beaten off.
This marks Henry as the best horse in
America, literally the king of the turf.
Judeaism Rejected.
The house of magnates, of Buda
Pesth, Hungary, rejected by a vote of
109 to 103, the government bill pro
viding for the legal j-geogni^iog of the
Jewish (religion,
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
Returns so far from the primary elec
tions held in Louisiana Friday indicate
the nomination of Ogden in the fourth,
and Robertson in the sixth district for
congress.
The first receipts of new sugar at
New Orleans, sixty barrels, from Alas-
nen’s Glenwood plantation, Assump
tion parish, sold at the sugar exchange
Tuesday by Murphy & Farwell to A.
K. Seago & Co. for 3»c. The sugar
was classed yellow clarified.
The Tennessee grand lodge Knights
of Honor met at Nashville, AVednes-
dav. The grand officers and more
than sixty representatives were pres
ent. The grand treasurer’s report
showed a balance of $5,280 in the
treasury. There are now 119 lodges
with a membership of 6,180, a loss of
581, due to hard times.
A North Carolina company obtained
a charter from the secretary of state
for the purpose of acquiring, owning
and operating gold mines in Halifax
county, that state. The company is
a strong one and the capital is $500,000.
The company has bought property in
Halifax county and will develop mines
thereon. Thus far assays made are
said to show the ore to be exception
ally rich.
A dispatch from Fort Monroe, A 7 a.,
says: The schooner Henry Lippett,
Captain Howes,with coal from George
town, while anchored in the roads, was
run into by the schooner Red AVing
AVednesday night and sunk. Captain
Howard, the mate and the steward
took to the rigging and were rescued
at midnight by the crew of the Bay
Line steamer Alabama. Five of the
crew took to the boats and have not
been heard' from.
The Birmingham, Ala., Typographi
cal Union has adopted a resolution to
the effect that, whereas the general as
sembly appropriates about $30,000 an
nually for public printing, nearly all
of which is sent to other states natur
ally to the detriment of the home
printers, that it would be wise for the
legislature to establish a state printing
and do its own work, thereby giving
employment to Alabama printers and
keeping the money in the state.
AMENDMENT FAILS.
There AVillbeNo Additions to the Su
preme Bench.
The amendment to the state consti
tution to increase the number of su
preme court judges was lost by a ma
jority of 1,952 votes.
The ameudment to pension the dis
abled and indigent confederate vet
erans was carried by a majority of
22,560.
The amendment to change the ses
sion of the state legislature to the
summer, was lost by a majority of
27,718.
These figures are from the official
consolidation at the capital, Thursday
"morning, with five counties left out.
The governor and the secretary of
state consolidated the votes for state
senators, representatives, and the vote
on the amendments. The vote for
governor and state house officers will
be consolidated by the legislature.
Five counties —^Colquitt, Early,
McIntosh, Echols and Twiggs—either
did not send in returns, or, by mis
take, enclosed them in envelopes ad
dressed to the legislature, and can not
he opened as yet. The official votes
from three counties—Early, Twiggs
and Colquitt—on the amendment to
increase the judges is known, however.
These three counties decrease tbe ma
jority against this amendment to
1,603. The two counties not heard
from, Echols and McIntosh, did not
have a total vote of quite a thousand
for Nortnen and Peek in 1892, and
the returns from these counties cannot
possibly change the result as to any of
the three amendments.
THE OFFICIAL VOTE.
The official vote on the supreme
court amendment was as follows:
For the amendment, 56,327; against
the amendment, 58,279; majority
against, 1,952.
The official vote on the pension
amendment was as follows:
For the amendment, 68,759 ; against
the amendment, 46.193 ; majority for,
22,566.
The official vote on the legislative
amendment was as follows:
For the amendment, 42,252 ; against
the amendment, 69,970; majority
against amendment, 27,718.
IX THE CANDIDATES’ CIRCUITS.
Taking the vote on the supreme
court amendment in the circuits of
some of the aspirants for seats on the
bench, some interesting facts are
shown, chief among which is that
Judge George F. Gober’s circuit was
largely instrumental in defeating the
measure.
In the Atlanta circuit, where Judge
Marshal J. Clarke and Hon. A. J.
Cobb, reside, the majority for the
amendment was as follows:
Fulton county, 2,544.
In the Augusta circuit, where Alajor
Joseph Ganahl resides, the majority
was as follows:
Burke county, 2,321, and Richmond
2,864, for the amendment; and Co
lumbia, 513; McDuffie, 445, against
the amendment. Total for the amend
ment, 4,227.
In the Blue Ridge, Judge Gober’s
district, every county went against the
amendment, as follows:
Cherokee, 1,479; Cobb, 1,035; Daw
son, 491; Fannin, 597; Forsyth, 1,391:
Gilmer, 283; Milton, 503; Pickens,
624. Tctii against the amendment.
6,421.
In other words, it was Judge Gober’a
district that piled up heavy majori
ties against theameadment and caused
its defeat.
BMzzard Threatened in the Northwest.
North Dakota, portions of South
Dakota, and the northern border of
Minnesota, are buried under a heavy
fall of snow. The storm, which, in
some localities, has developed into a
blizzard, began Sunday morning, and
every indication points to a repetition
of the blizzard of fourteen years ago.
CORBET T AND FITZ
Meet In New York and Arrange for a
Slugging Match.
James J. Corbett and Robert Fitz
simmons met in the New York Herald
office Thursday morning for the pur
pose of arranging a match.
Captain Glori, who appeared for
Fitzsimmons, when asked by Corbett
to show the color of his money, dis
played $1,000 to bind the match.
Corbett then showed $10,000, and
told Glori to cover it when he pleased,
but there would he no light until after
July 1, as he would not cancel his prof
itable theatrical engagements.
This was a disappointment, but
Fitzsimmons and Glori agreed, and the
work of drawing up the articles be
gan.
In answer to the question if willing
to fight after July 1, Fitzsimmons re
plied :
“I will fight him any time.”
It was finally agreed to battle some
time after July 1st next, at the Florida
athletic club, Jacksonville, the club to
fix the date of the fight.
FIXING THK PURSE.
Having yielded on the question of
the date, then the club was the next
problem.
The first offer was $25,000, by
Scholl, of the Olympic, of New Or
leans, which was increased to $30,000
by AYilliatas, of the Auditorium Club
of the same city.
This was raised to $41,000 by “Cir
cular Joe” A 7 endig, for the Florida
Athletic Club of Jacksonville.
AA’illiams said $33,000 was his limit.
Scholl mentioned $50,000, ’ which
called forth smiles. Corbett said the
bid was wild, and the money must be
shown. Scholl produced $5,000,which
Corbett said was not enough to post
for $50,000.
Fitzsimmons evidently wanted to
fight before the Olympic, while Corbett
preferred Florida.
litzsimmons finally said: “Well, I
will yield every point in order to make
a match. I will sign with the Florida
Athletic Club.”
The articles will be precisely the
same as those signed by Corbett and
Sullivan, with the excejition of the
dates upon which the deposits are to
be made. The articles were not signed
by either Corbett or Fitzsimmons, but
they were each furnished with a copy,
as was the Florida Athletic Club.
The nrticles will be signed outside of
the state and will be mailed to the
sporting editor of the Herald. It is
a misdemeanor to sign articles of
agreement for a prize fight in New
Y’ork state.
WASHINGTON NOTES
NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
Savings and Doings of the President
and Members of the Cabinet.
BURIED UNDER WALLS.
The Sad Fate of Brave Firemen at
Detroit.
Fire at Detroit, Mich., Friday
morning completely gutted Keenan &
Jahn’s furniture store at Nos. 213,
215 and 217 AVoodward avenue, entail
ing a loss of $60,000 on stock and
$25,000 on the building. The fire
started in the boiler room and shot np
the freight elevator shaft, gaining
such a headway thnt the firemen were
unable to save any portion of the
building or contents.
The floors of the building fell in at
9:15 o’clock and the front and rear
walls immediately collapsed. The
men of engine company No. 9, chemi
cal No. 1 and truck No. 2 were work
ing in the windows and doors on the
ground floor in front. In the roar the
men of engine company No. 8 were
playing on the fire from a bridge that
spanned the alley. The men were
working close to the rear walls
and when they collapsed they
were completely imbedded in
the debris. Every man in the
company, except the captain, was more
or less injured and Frederick A. Bus
sey, a spectator, who was standing be
neath the bridge, was killed. The
work of rescue was immediately be
gun and in fifteen minutes the men
who had been working in tbe alley
were taken out. The firemen working
on the front of the building did not
fare so well, however. AVhen the first
crack of the falling floors was heard,
the men started to run, but the walls
came down on them so swiftly that all
were buried under tons of brick and
mortar. The walls did not fall out
side of the middle of the side walk and
the last brick had scarcely touched
the walk before the work of rescue in
front began.
HURRICANE IN NEW YORK.
Great Damage Results and a Number
of Lives Lost.
A New York special of AVednesday
says: The gulf storm which broke up
on tbis section shortly after midnight
has done great damage on sea and on
land. The tracks of the New Jersey
Southern railroad, between Sea Bright
and Highland Beach, N. J., have been
covered with sand and washed up by
the waves.
The fishing smack Lonise was driven
ashore at Highland Beach, and is a to
tal loss. Her crew of ten men was
taken off by the life saving crew.
At Sea Bright and vicinity, a number
of buildings were unroofed.
At Long Island City the big iron
tank belonging to the East River Gas
Company was blown down to within
five feet of its foundation. The tank waB
200 feet high and 185 feet wide.
The police wires were all blown
down, and small boats all along the
shore from Long Island City to Bow
ery bay beach were broken and thrown
upon the beach.
BUILDING BLOWN DOWN.
A large, seven-story brick building
in the course of erection at No. 74
Mnnroe street, collapsed on a tiny,
brick-front tenement and a dwelling
house which flanked it on either 6ide.
There were nearly twenty persons in
the tenement house and ten in a rear
extension to the house ou the Gther
side of the collapsed building. Both
were crushed, and by 8 o’clock four
bodies had been taken from the ruins,
two of them mutilated almost beyond
recognition, and at least fifteen per
sons are under treatment for severe
injuries received.
Carlisle Won’t Run.
A Washington special says: Secre
tary Carlisle authorizes the absolute
denial of the report from Frankfort,
Ky., that he would be a candidate for
the senate. It is understood that at
the end of this administration the sec
retary yrill open a law office in New
York,
Secretary Carlisle has appointed
George Fort, of Georgia, chief of the
division of national banks in the office
of the treasurer of the United States,
vice Baker, resigned.
Tuesday Secretary Carlisle received
from Acting Attorney General Max
well an opinion in which he' holds that
the word “wool,” as used in the wool
en schedule of the new tariff act, refers
to the hair of sheep only, and that the
new and lower duties on goods made
of the hair of the other animals went
into effect on the signing of the act.
Ever since the decision was reached
by the California circuit court that
Antonio Ezeta, the ex-vice president
of Salvador, was a political offender,
and therefore conld not be extradited,
the officials at Washington have been
expecting to hear of some movement
against either Guatemala or Salvador
from Alexico. According to advices
which have reached the state depart
ment, Ezeta has been in Alexico ever
since his liberation, but what his move
ments have been is not known.
The Souvenir Half Dollars.
The Chicago souvenir coin of the
great world’s fair is to become a cur
rent half dollar. It was at one time
supposed that these coins would com
mand fancy prices as souvenirs. This
expectation was not realized. The
whole issue authorized by congress
would have been turned over to the
world's fair managers but for their vi
olation of the agreement, which was
made a condition of the gift in respect
to opening the fair on Sunday. Owing
to this breach of the agreement, $1,-
695,980 in souvenir halves remained in
the treasury at the close of the fair.
A demand having recently sprung up
for them at their face value, Secretary
Carlisle has issued- an order to the
subtreasuries directing them to pay
out on demand the souvenir coins at
the same ratio as -the legalized half
dollar of the United States, namely, at
par with gold.
Vincent Bounced.
S. S. ATncent, United States mar
shal for the district of \A 7 est ATrginia,
at the request of the attorney-genera),
has resigned and D. Garden has been
appointed to the vacancy. Air. A’iu-
cent was appointed in 1893. In Sep
tember last Yinccnt and several depu
ties were present at a political meet
ing at Wayne, W. A 7 a. At the conclu
sion of the address, which did not
please him, Yineent arose to reply,
whereupon many of the audience left
the hall. This seemed to have an
gered Vincent and an altercation arose,
which culminated in an affray, during
which one man was killed and three
others wounded. The marshall and
his deputies were arrested and are un
der bond to await the action of the
grand jury. Complaints have been
made to the attorney general that
twice before A 7 incent or his deputies
had been guilty of creating disturban
ces at political meetings at Biuefield
and Huntington.
Canal Board Appointed.
That great project which has excited
so much interest in New York, Balti
more, Philadelphia and the great ports
on the South Atlantic coast, to unite
Chesapeake Bay with the Delaware by
a canal, and thus supply the most im
portant line in an internal water-way
route from Florida to Long Island
Sound, received an impetus Tuesday
by the appointment of ah export board
of commissioners to select the line
of the canal. In the last river
and harbor appropriate bill, pro
vision was made for this work.
The members of the board, as an
nounced by Secretary Lamont, are:
General Casey, chief of engineers;
Colonel Craighill, now in charge of
the river and harbor works at Balti
more ; Captain George Dewey, of the
navy, a member of the lighthouse
board; Mends-Cohen, of Baltimore,
ex-president of the Society of Civil
Engineers, and J. Alexander Porter,
of Savannah, a civil engineer of wide
reputation and of excellent standing.
The board is expected to go to work
speedily in order to comply with the
requirements that its report be made
to congress at the short session.
General Schofield’s Report.
Major General Schofield, general-
in-chief of the army, has made to the
secretary of war his report on the op
erations of the army during the past
year. The report is of peculiar in
terest, both on account of the fact that
in it General Schofield, who has been
at the head of the army since the
death of General Sheridan, announces
his retirement next year, and from the
fact that it is principally devoted to
the discussion of the necessity of
srengthening the military arm of
the government to cope with inter
nal disorder as well as with possible
danger from without, particular refer
ence being made to the Debs strike.
General Schofield is a politician as
well as a soldier, and at considerable
length he discusses this subject from a
political as well as from a military
point of view. He says the prompt
and vigorous action of the troops in
all cases, and the great- forbearance
manifested by them when subjected to
all sorts of insults and indignities, de
signed to provoke retaliation, were
worthy of the very highest commen
dation.
OLIVER AV. HOLMES DEAD.
His Life AVas One of Good Deeds and
Full of Honors.
A Boston,Mass., special says: Oliver
Wendell Holmes is dead. Witnont the
semblance of a struggle or a pain he
passed away as he has lived, peacefully
and beautifully. The end came at
12:10 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the
venerable poet’s town house, 296 Bea
con street. He was surrounded by his
children, and visibly conscious of their
presence up to within a few minutes
of the last, though unable to speak.
Then he closed his eyes wearily and
seemed to fall asleep, as indeed In* did
—the sleep of death, at which th-
whole world will mourn. His death
was due to exhaustion following n se
vere attack of asthina :
TRADE TOPICS.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s Report of Business
for the Past AVeek.
R. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of
trade for the past week says:
“The lowest prices ever known for
wheat and cotton necessarily imply
somewhat restricted resumption of
other products. AVith the chief money
crops of the west and south sinking in
value, it is not strange that purchases
of manufactured products are smaller
than was expected. AVheat has touch
ed the lowest point ever known for op
tions, and cotton the lowest ever known
in any form with the present classifi
cation, and the accumulation of stocks
in both products is discouraging to
purchasers for an advance. Producers
are compelled to sell at j r’ces below
the ordinary cost of raising crops, and
in some western states there is also a
lamentable failure of the corn crop.
Under the circumstances it would be
very strange if the demand for manu
factured products should be quite as
large as in other years.
“Cotton is one-eighth of a cent low
er, the cash price being the lowest
known for forty-five years, and con
sidering the difference in classifica
tion, it is perhaps lower than at any
time in 1849, and estimates that the
crop is more than 10,000,009 bales are
more commonly credited now than
estimates of 8,500,000 were two months
ago. AVith favorable weather the
yield seems likely to net larger than
ever known.
“Cotton jtrint cloths are a shade
stronger, as the news from Fall River
regarding the duration of tho strike is
less encouraging, but for other goods
the market is low, as might be expect
ed in view of the heavy decline in the
raw material.
“The condition of industries is in
some respects more satisfactory. Evi
dently there is a larger demand for
iron products than there was a month
ago, though the increase in output has
been somewhat greater than the in
crease in the demand, so that prices
steadily tend downward.
“Bessemer pig iron is selling at $10.-
90 at Pittsburg and bar iron at 95 cents,
with steel bars at $1.05, while a con
tract to suppress the principal western
competitor in nail manufacture is ex
pected to hold the price at $1 for wire
and 85 cents for cut nails. The struct
ural iron market is fairly active at the
west, without ehange at the east, and
while the coke output has now become
the heaviest ever known, 149,775 tens
for the week, the price is declining and
steps are being taken to limit the sup
ply. The volume of domestic trade in
dicated by the exchanges at the princi
pal clearing houses is 11.8 per cent
larger than a year ago, but in compar
ison with 1892 shows a decrease of 22.8
per cent.
“In the money market more com
mercial paper is coming into sight,
though on the whole the market is by
no means encouraging and good single-
named paper has been placed at 3 per
cent, the lowest rate on record.
“Commercial failure in third quar
ter of 1894 have involved liabilities of
$29,361,196 exclusive of bauking in
stitutions and railroads, against $82,-
469,821 reported a year ago for the
same quarter, and for nine months of
1894 the liabilities have been $131,-
094,502, against $251,334,265 last
year. The raannfactoring liabilities
were $12,331,892, against $23,605,865
reported a year ago, and in trading
$14,131,280 for the quarter, against
$38,814,176 a year ago. For the month
of September the liabilities have been
smaller than in any other month this
year,only $6,897,124,of which $2,904,-
373 were of manufacturing and $3,-
650,092 of trading concerns.
“The failures for the past week have
been 219 in the United States, against
320 last year, and thirty-nine in Can
ada, against forty-five last year.”
ENGLISH TROOPS FOR CHINA.
Preparations for Sending 10,#00 Sol
diers to the Empire.
A cable dispatch from London says:
It can be stated on authority that the
developments of the past week in east
ern affairs will lead to concerted action
on the part of the Europeau powers.
On Alone!ay last, Air. N. R. O’Connor,
the British minister at Peking, warned
the foreign office by cable that the
condition of affairs in China was such
that tho government was not able to
guarantee protection to the foreign
residents at the treaty ports, and the
missionaries in the interior of the
country. The minister in the same
dispatch stated that the Chinese impe
rial council was disorganized, and that
the collapse of the government was not
looked upon as an impossibility, and
advised that instant action be taken
for the protection of lives and prop
erty of British subjects in China.
The substance of this dispatch was
at once communicated by Lori Rose
bery to the governments of France,
Russia and Germany, with the sugges
tion that the powers co-operate in in
creasing the guards at the treaty ports
and in measures for the protection of
the missionaries.
AVhen the cabinet met on Thursday,
friendly responses from all three of
the powers named had been received,
and these so thoroughly cleared up the
situation as to enable the ministers to
give the premier and the earl of Kim
berly, secretary of state for foreign
affairs, a free hand to take whatever
steps in the matter they might con
sider necessary. No question of inter
vention between Japan and China has
arisen, however.
It is reported that preparations are
being made to send 10,000 troops to
occupy the leading treaty ports, and
if the present intention is carried out,
parliament on reassembling will be
asked to grant a credit of £4,000,000
to cover the expenses of the expedi
tion.
The offers of mediation between
China and Japan are all widely diver
gent. The truth of the matter is that
it is the general belief in official cir
cles that the members of the cabinet
are unanimously against any foreign
interference, and, so far as Great
Britain is concerned, favor allowing
the Japanese to reap the full fruits of
their victory, unless, of course, they
seek to injure the commercial interests
of Europe.
Carlisle for the Senate.
A special from Frankfort says: The
Daily Capital, official democratic pa
per of Kentucky, will announce Sec
retary Carlisle as a candidate for
United States senator
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Brief Summary of Daily Happen
ings Throughout the AVorld.
Governor Turney, of Tennessee, has
offered a reward of $200 for the con
viction of the persons who wrecked
the AVashington limited near Bristol,
a few days ago.
A Paris newspaper announces that a
number of government and municipal
officials in the city have received let
ters from anarchists in London con
taining violent threats against these
officials, and also defending Caesario
Santo, the murderer of President Car
not.
After a three-days’ trial at Memphis,
AIo., AV. E. Daniel, the informer in
the Santa Fe hold-up case, was bound
over to the grand jury in $1,500, which
bond he gave. During the progress
of the trial it was brought out that
Link Overfield, one of the principals,
had plauned the robbery over three
years ago.
Chinamen have recently been ariest-
ed at El Paso, Texas, who presented
forged certificates. The forged docu
ments were printed at Las Crnces, New
Alexico; they were procured by Sam
AVest and another Chicago crook. It
is believed that the same gang have
furnished these certificates to the Pa
cific coast Chinamen.
At a largely attended meeting of the
Pensacola, Fla., Chamber of Com
merce, attended by representatives of
the various labor and other organiza
tions, a resolution was unanimously
adopted declaring in favor of making
Pensacola a free port, and expressing
a desire to have the quarantine station
placed under control of the marino
hospital service.
Communication has been re-estab
lished with all points on the Florida
coast visited by the storm which raged
Monday night and Tuesday morning,
and dispatches tell woeful tales of the
destruction caused by the wind and
water. Apalachicola and Cedar Key
were directly in the storm’s path, and
the damage at those places is almost
incalculable.
A Pensacola, Fla., special says: The
Norwegian bark, Jabes, arrived at
quarantine Thursday night with the
crew of a bark loaded with mahogany
wrecked in the gulf and whose name
has not yet been ascertained. The
Norwegian bark. Thomas G. Polk, was
spoken October 9th, in latitude 27.6
north, longitude 80.42 west, with
mainmast gone and only parts of fore
most mizzen-mast standing. She sig
nalled that they were all well and no
assistance was needed.
A dispatch received at the foreign
office in London from the British cou-
sul at Lourenzo Marquez, says the
Kaffirs have entered the outskirts of
that jjort, burned a number of houses
and murdered seventeen persons. An
other dispatch from Lourenzo Alar-
quez, on Delagoa bay, says the Portu
guese there are hemmed in by 30,000
Kaffir natives. The town is strongly
barricaded. The natives looted tho
suburbs of the town and burned many
houses.
Four men were killed, two were fa
tally injured and several others pain
fully burned by a disastrous boiler
explosion that occurred at the Henry
Clay colliery at Shamokiu, Penn.,
Thnrsday morning. The entire steam
supplying plant of the mine, consist
ing of thirty-six boilers, was totally
demolished, aud in addition to the
monetary loss which will aggregate
$30,000, the Henry Clay, Big Mount
ain, Sterling and Peerless collieries
will be unable to resume operations
for at least a month.
Charles AV. Garland, a prominent
republican politician, has been ar
rested at Guthrie, Oklahoma, on a
charge of perjury in a land case. For
a month or more from one to three
residents of the territory have been
arrested daily on the same charge.
Fully 200 indictments are now pend
ing in the United States court for the
same crime, and about fifty persons
have been sentenced to the peniten
tiary, all for committing perjury in
attempting to secure a homestead un
der the present land laws.
At the concluding session of the
American Bankers’ Association at Bal
timore, Thnrsday, the Baltimore plan
of settling the curreucy question was
adopted. A committee of nine was
appointed to lay the plan before con
gress. The committee comprises
Charles C. Homer, of Baltimore;
Horace AVhite, of New York; Joseph
C. Hendricks, of New Y’ork ; Skipwith
AVilmer, of Baltimore; B. J. Lowry,
of Atlanta, Ga.; A. B. Hepburn, of
New Yoik; Charles Parsons, of St.
Louis; G. L. Christian, of Richmond,
A 7 a., and AV. T. Baker, of Chicago.
INVADE CHINESE SOIL.
A Report That the Japs Have Cap
tured Che Foo.
A cable dispatch from Yokohama
says: It is reported that the Japan-
ese have captured Che Foo, which is
a treaty port of China on the north
coast of the Shang Tung promontory.
It has a good harbor, an active trade
and a population estimated to number
about 30,000.
The AVestminister Gazette (London)
also publishes a dispatch from Yoko
hama which says that the Japanese
have captured Chee Foo. The gov
ernment, however, has received no in
formation confirming this report. A
dispatch from Hong-Kong says that
the Alin river at Foo-Chow has been
closed to shipping. The British war
ship Undauuted has been ordered to
Nagasaki, and the gunboat Firebrand
to New-Ch vaug.
ITALY TRYING TO ARBITRATE.
The Italian minister at Pekin has
addressed a note to China, at the re
quest of his government, inviting
pourparlers with Japan in an endeavor
to bring about an end of the war, and
tendering his own offices iq order to
complete such an arrangement.
The general of the Jesuits has sent a
memorial to the pope, asking the lat
ter to use his influence with the Euro
pean powers in order to terminate the
war.
GROAVTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past AVeek.
The report on the indnstriil condition of the
.-onth lor the past week says: Each week brings
more sa’isfactory infoimatiou as to the condi
tional Southern manufacturers. The number
reported for this week is larger than for three
mouth- past, and (lie number of changes and
improvements is also large. Textile mills are
doing well; some of them report that prices are
low, bnt none that they cannot work at a profit-
The iron output continues large and is steadily
atisorbed by the trade. Lumbermen are in
better shape than during the Hpring and sum
mer, but there is sell room for improvement.
Crops are large and have been made on a cash
basis.
Fifty-one uew industries were established or
incorporated during the week, among which
are : the American Smelting Co., of Wheeling,
IV. Ya., capital $',000,000; the Real Estale,
Mining and .Manufacturing Co., of Borne, Ga.,
capital $203,000 . the Lombard Iron Works and
Supply Co., of Augusta, Ga , capital $100,000.
and the rebuilding of the Tanners’and Dyers'
Extract Co., of Charleston. W. Ya., at a cost
of $100,000. The Coketon Lumber Co., capital
$103,003. has been chartered at Coketon, W.
Ya.; the Sherwood Lime and Lumber Co., with
the same capital, at Sherwood, Tenn.; the San
ta Fe Coal and Manufac nring Co., capital
$60,000, at Bockdale, Texas, and machine
shops to cost $50,tO3 are to he bnilt at Atlanta,
Ga. A $20,003 curtein pole factory wilt be
built at Staunton, Ya.; a $25,030 tobacco facto
ry at Calhoun,.La.; a $20,000 orange hoi fac
tory at Windermere, Fla.; a$10,000 coal mining
company has been chartered at Winona, W A r a.,
and an $8,000 ice factory at DeLand, Fia.
There is also reported an agricultural imple
ments factory at Dayton, Tenn , canning facto
ries at. Memphis. Tenn.. Greenville, Texas, and
Wellsbnrg, \V. Ya.; electricd plants at Green-
vino, Miss., and Americas, G-„ and flonr and
grist mills at E Imouton, Ky , Henry and Win
ston, N. C., Bellbuckle, Tenn., Berryville and
Houston, Va. Cotton mills are reported at
Henrietta, N. O., Bock Hill, S. C,, and Waco,
T xas; a cotton halting mill at Charlotte, N- C-,
and knitting mill at Birmingham, Ala. Ibe
woodworking plants for the week arc at Augus
ta, Ga., Ha tiesburg, Miss., Shreveport, La..
Dickson and Lewisburg, Tenn., Corsicana and
Longview, Texas, Elwood and Portsmouth, Ya.
Waterworks are to be built at Temple, Texas,
aud Bedford Springs, Va. 1 he cn argements
lor the week, as reparted to tho Tradesman, in-
e'ude flouring mills at Morganton, W. Ya.;
sugar nulls at Iberville, La.; cotton mills at
Forest City aud King’s Mountain, N. C.. and
.woodworking plants nt Kedron, Ark., Bcels-
boro, N. C., and Norfolk, Va.
Among new buildings are a $60,000asylum at
Louisville, Ivy.; business houses at Lake Charles.
La.. Soutn Pittsburg,Tenn., aud Dallas, Tixas;
churches at Carrol ton, La., and Fort Worth,
'Texas; hotels at Fort Meade, Fia.. Drennon
Springs and Louisville, Ky., and a $50,000 gov
ernment building at Parkersburg, W. Ya.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
DISPENSARIES WILL OPEN.
South Carolina’s Supreme Court
Passes Upon the Question Again.
A Columbia special says: For the
second time Governor Tillman’s liquor
law came out of the hands of the su
preme court Alonday evening, on this
occasion completely rehabilitated.
“The city council of Aiken against
Holly & George” was the title of the
case in which Justices Pope and Gary,
Tilmanites, sustain the dispensary,
reversing the decision, pronouncing it
unconstitutional delivered by the court
last April, when Samuel McGowan,
anti-Tillmanite, was a member. Me-
Iver, adhering to his previous opinion,
dissents now.
It will be remembered that the April
decision was upon an act passed in
1892. On August 1st Gary, elected
over McGowan last December, suc
ceeded him, and a week previous Gov
ernor Tillman proclaimed in force the
act of 1893, which he had suspended
in Ajiril.
Since the proclamation the dispen
saries have been running on full time
and constables have been seizing con
traband spirits. AVhen the dispensary
at Aiken was reopened the city coun
cil at once arrested George, the dis
penser, and Holly, a member of the
county board of control, for violation
of a city ordinance against the sale of
liquor.
The state carried the case before
Circuit Judge Aldrich, who sustained
the city council, and then the state
appealed to the supreme court. A
special session of the latter was im
mediately convened.
WRECK ON THE SOUTHERN.
Many Seriously Injured—Coaches De
stroyed by Fire.
A most disastrous wreck occurred on
the Southern railway three miles from
Bristol, Tenn., at 2 o’clock p. m. Sun
day. The AVashington and Chatta
nooga vestibule southbound train was
rounding a sharp enrve, when the en
gine flew the track, followed by the
mail, express, dining car, three pas
senger coaches and the sleeper, all of
which, save the sleeper, took fire and
were consumed in a short time. Thir
teen people were seriously injured,and
one or two of them may die.
Yellow Fever in Mexico.
There is much excitement among
the people of the state of Campeche,
Mexico, and the island of Carmen over
yellow fever, which is causing large
numbers of deaths. The navigation
bark Dolly has lost three of her crew,
and on shore deaths are numerous.
THE PROPER CHARGE.
Stillingfleet—AVhat would you do
with a tailor who never has your
trousers done at the time he has con
tracted to deliver them?
AVinebiddle—Sue him for breeches
of promise.
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Spring term begins first Monday in February.
Fall term begins first Monday in September.
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under a U. S. Army Officer detailed by
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Music and Art.
Under competent and thorough Instructors.
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