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THE VIENNA PROGRESS TEEMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIII. NO. 14 VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1894. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. GEORGIA IN BRIEF. NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE OVER THE STATE An<l Condensed Into Pithy and Inter esting Paragraphs. The people of Savannah are at pres ent enjoying the street car war. Two rides for a penny is the status of affairs now. * » * Sam Jones, Georgia’s own and only, has blossomed out as a Tennessee edi tor. Rev. B. F. Haynes, editor of the Tennessee Methodist, has secured Mr. Jones as co-editor. * * » The telephone line between Macon and Atlanta will be in operation within ibe next two weeks. The long line is to be extended to Chattanooga, and from thence to Washington, Philadel phia and New York. The price of conversation over the line will be placed at such a price as to be within the reach of all. • * • The time is up for the depositing with the reorganization committee ot the Georgia Southern and Florida rail road the bonds on that property. Nearly $3,000,000 of the bonds in all have been deposited, which is all but about $4,000,000 of the issue, and it is not believed that these will offer any strenous oposition to the reorganiza tion movement. » * * The colored exhibit at the Atlanta exposition will be housed in a large commodious building that will be one of the most attractive and imposing structures on the grounds. It was at first intended by the officials of the ex position to remodel the present ma chinery hall. This idea, however, has been abandoned and the proposition now is to erect a new building and one that will be large enough to accommo date the proposed exhibit of the negro race. * * * Mr. Georgo E. Hunt, the newly ap pointed director of the weather bureau for Georgia is expected to reach At lanta in a few days. He is now in Washington city for the purpose of receiving definite instruction from headquarters. Director Morrill will remain in charge until his successor arrives and is duly installed. He will tiien leave for Washington city to as sume the responsible duties of the new position to which he has been called. After many months negotiating for a site for Augusta’s proposed reseTvior and new water works, the city has fin ally purchased the land that has been always desired for that purpose. Judge Roney has granted an order which con firms the sale and perfects the titles. The tract contains sixty-six acres, and was bought for $6,600, or $100 an acre. The work of building the reservoir, or; in other words, extending or improv ing the present water works system, will not be commenced until some time next year, under the administration of the new mayor. Secretai-y Carlisle has referred to the attorney general the opinion of Solicitor Reeves that Floyd county, Ga., can issue bonds to be used as cur rency. While Mr. Carlisle has ex pressed no decided opinion, it is be lieved among treasury officials that the opinion of Mr. Reeves will be reversed by the attorney general. Treasury officials who are near to Mr. Carlisle say the decision is absurd, and whether or not it is reversed by the attorney general the tieasury department will fight any issue of one, two, five and ten dollar bonds by a county to be used as currency. The opinion of Mr. Reeves has caused much criticism in the department, but until the attorney general renders a decision nothing definite will be done. An attractive feature of the Atlanta exposition will be a chime of bells, which will be one of the finest ever heard in the United States. The man agement has received from the Buck eye Bell Foundry, owned by Van Du- sen & Tift, a proposition to furnish them with a finer chime than the one at the World’s Fair. The matter was discussed by the executive committee and President Collier and Mr. Brad ford L. Gilbert, the architect, were authorized to prepare a place for the chime, which will consist of from ten to thirteen bells. Mr. Gilbert has se lected for this purpose one of the tow ers of the great manufacturers’ and liberal arts building. The tower will be extended to about double its height in the original design, and thus the chimes will be suspended 100 feet above the "round. ■Whose Money Is It? There is in the state treasury $19,- 031.03, which does not, as yet, belon to the state, but which will be the property of Georgia within the next few years, if it is not called for before that time. In 1891 the United States government paid to the stare of Geor gia $83,031.03, the sum coming to the state under the law refunding to each state the direct tax levied during the war to keep up the government troops. There were many claimants to this fund, and when they had established their claims it was found that the money thev received amounted to $64,000. This left $19,031.03 still in the treasury. Under the law it m»st be kept there for six years in case of any claimant calling for it. If it is not called for in this time, which will be in 1897, it will become the proper ty of the state. When that time ar rives the legislature can take the fund in hand and dispose of it as it sees fit. To Discuss Five-Cent Cotton. A call has been issued by John O. Waddell, president of the State Agri cultural Society, to discuss five-cent cotton. “I have issued the call,” said Col. Waddell, “after conference with sev eral prominent members of the society. AVe believe that the time has arrived for organized action among the farm ers to see if something cannot be done to get rid of 5-cent cotton. Our peo ple cannot stand it, and we are going to discuss the matter snd see if there is not a remedy. “I want it distinctly understood that it is not our purpose to suggest the holding of cotton to the injury of creditors, and this is made plain in the call. We simply want to see if there is not some way to secure advances of cash on cotton, so that cotton can be held while, at the same time, the busi- nefs world will get the benefit of the money that it represents by having the same put in circulation.” The call is as follows: “Office of President of the Georgia State Agricultural Society, Atlanta, Ga., October 17.—To the Members of the Executive Committee, Gentlemen : At the suggestion of, and after a full conference with some of the promi nent bankers and business men of this state, I am constrained to ask as maDy of the numbers of the executive com mittee ns can do so to meet in the city of Macon on Wednesday, October 24th, to consider the present ruinous price of cotton and to take some steps, if possible, to remedy and avert im pending disaster. “A brief suggestion as to the plans indicated: “Money is plentiful and at low interest in the banks. These banks and commission merchants, who are onr friends, can be induced to ad vance a reasonable amount on cotton, and thus allow the farmer to hold his cotton another year, and, at the same time, enable him to pay his obliga tions to nearly the full amount of his cotton. At present prices it is impos sible to more than pay the cost of cul tivation, picking, ginning and for guano, leaving the farmer nothing with which to meet other just obliga tions. If the plans and suggestions which you may promulgate shall be adopted by the other cotton states we believe good results will follow. “There can be no doubt that the cotton acreage will, of necessity, be greatly reduced another year, the crop reduced in consequence and the cotton carried over command better prices. “We desire to be distinctly under stood as not advising the holding of cotton to the injury of creditors, nor would we willingly injure one spoke in the wheel of commerce. Believing that the best interests of debtor and creditor will be subserved if advances can be secured on cotton, and hold it over, thus stopping the large daily re ceipts, we respectfully ask you to meet and consider the subjects suggested at the time and place indicated, at Ma con, Ga., fair grounds, Wednesday, October 24th, at 2 o’clock p. m. Re spectfully, • John O. WaddeLl, President.” Curious Arab Wedding Custom. Among the Arabs a curious custom prevails at all weddings. After vari ous) ceremonies the bridegroom is led iu the evening into a large, dimly- righted room. Here, huddled on the floor on one side, he finds the female relatives and friends of the bride, all of the same height and size, all wear- : precisely similar clothing and closely veiled. One of these is the bride, and it falls upon him to find out which it is. If he has been wise he lias bribed some of the spectators to give him a sign to guide him, but if not he attempts to seize the veiled figure whom he suspects to be his bride. If possible she slips from his grasp and runs away, with him in hot pursuit. An exciting chase fol lows, until lie succeeds in catching her, when he tears the veil from her face. If it turns out that he has chosen correctly and that she is the bride, the game is ended, but if nob lie must try again, after the captured girl has had time to arrange her dis ordered dress and take her place once more among her companions. Again lie makes a selection, and, after an other long chase, succeeds in unveil- a second maiden, possibly only to find lie has caught the same girl again. Many hours are consumed in this way, and it is often daylight be fore the unlucky bridegroom secures his bride.—-[Chicago Herald. How to Avoid Seasickness. BRTEF TELEGRA3IS. A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT DISPATCHES. Short and Crisp Morsels of General Interest to Our Readers. Persons intending to take an ocean voyage should, for several weeks be fore embarking, take daily exercise in the open air to get the general system in a good condition. To the same end they should eat only a moderate quantity of plain food, es pecially avoiding what is heavy or greasy. They should select a state room as near the middle of the ship as possible. Some tourists are never sick as long as they lie on tlieir backs and keep their eyes closed. The passenger who is seasick should remain in his berth until 9 or 10 o’clock in the morning, and have the steward bring him what little food he takes. lie should not go to the table in the cabin until all symptoms of seasickness have left him,as the very sight and odor of the rich food will surely make him worse. AATien t-lie patient begins to go to the table he should avoid pastry, fat meats and all rich food; after eating lie should lie flat on his back for half an hour, or until digestion is well begun, when he may go on deck and walk or sit in a steamer chair, but lie should not lean over the stern or side of the ship.—[St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Curious Form of Gold. A curious form of gold, which is completely soluble in water with basic acetate of cerium is described in a German publication. The solu tions are a strong violet-red color, but when diluted, carmine-red. Tiie intensity of the color is so great that a solution containing l-50CM)O0th of gold is still distinctly rose-red, Such solutions are obtained by precipita tion of a dilute solution of a cerous salt mixed with gold by means of potash or soda lye and solution of the black precipitate formed in hot dilute acetic acid, or by boiling mixed solutions of cerous acetate, gold chloride, sodium hydrate in the proper proportions. From the red solution sodium acetate precipitates a violet-red precipitate which con tains all the gold and some of the basic cerous acetate. On drying the precipitate, bronze colored glittering mass is obtained, which is soluble in water.—[New York Sun. MOUSTACHE FIRST. She—Do you think of me as much as you did? Ckolly—No, not quite. I’m rais- g a moustache now.—[Life. Advices received at Berlin from Walfish Bay, southwest Africa, say that the rebellious Damaraland chief, Witbooi, has surrendered and express sd his willingness to submit to a Ger man protectorate over his territory. O. A. Larrazola, attorney for Vic tor L. Ochoa, one of the leaders of the Mexican revolution of last winter, who was arrested a few days ago at Ft Stockton, Texas, went before the fed eral court and demanded that Ochoa be produced in court. At Milwaukee, Monday, Judge Jen kins dismissed the petition of Ives et ai., to have T. J. Oakes dismissed as the Northern Pacific receiver, and confirms Special Master Cary’s report exonerating Oakes from making any money out of the road illegally. A dispatch from Ogdensburg, N. Y. says: Petitions for the nomination of General N. M. Cnrtis, for representa five in congress, are being circulated in all of the accessible towns of the county, and are being signed by re publicans and democrats indiscrimi nately. The steamer Moyune, recently pur chased in England by the Japanese government, has arrived at Yokohama, having made the passage from Cardiff in thirty-three days, steaming the dis tance without stopping. Although Chinese warships were on the lookout for her, she had no difficulty in elud ing them. The famous hat trimmings ease, in which importers of millinery seek to secure a return of money collected for duties on certain styles of ribbons im der the McKinley tariff law, came up before Judge Dallas iD the United States circuit court at Philadelphia Monday and was continued until Jan. 8th, next. A squad of police visited the Tech nological institute at St. Petersburg, Russia, and, proceeding to the dormi tory, arrested thirty of the students, who had retired. The students are charged with being engaged in a nihil ist conspiracy against the government. The visit of the police was a complete surprise to the authorities of the insti tution, as well as to the students. A strike of the weavers at the Hath away and Aeuahnet mills at New Bed ford, Mass., is threatened. When settlement of the recent strike, which involved all the mills in the city, was reached, one of the conditions was that the mills were to conform to the de mands of the weavers’ particulars law. All of them have done so to the satis faction of the weavers except these corporations, Alexander, the eighteen-year-old king of Servia, arrived at Potsdam, Germany, Wednesday evening from Buda-Pesth on a visit to Emperor Wil liam. Great preparations had been made for his reception, and it was generally understood that this meant that the visit had political significance. The railway station was beautifully, decorated and a guard of honor was drawn up on the platform. A fire occurred in the yards of the Thayer Lumber company, at Mus kegon, Mich., Wednesday morn ing, which caused the loss of a few thousand dollars. During its progress a pile of lumber forty feet high top- tied over and caught Assistant Fire Chief John Ellens. His back, arms, legs, skull and chest were broken, and his body was frightlv burned. He died in ten ininues after being taken out of the wreck. The federal grand jury at Chicago Wednesday afternoon reported a true bill against ex-Governor John L. Bev eridge, president; F. D. Arnold, vice president and Samuel M. Biddison, secretary of the State Mutual Life In surance Company. The indictment charges the defendants with using the mails to further a business of a lottery. It is alleged that the concern is in its essence a lottery. The officers were arrested some time ago, and gave bail before Commissioner Hayne. A special from Harrisburg, Pa. says: Iron and steel mills in this locality are enjoying an era of unprecedented pros perity. At the Pennsylvania Steel Works the production of rails and Bessemer steel the past week was the heaviest of years. The three furnaces in blast averaged nearly three hundred tons daily. For three days the Besse mer mill averaged 120 blooms every twenty-four hours. The rail mill made 1,000 tous of rails during the week,the largest production in its history. CHINA WANTS PEACE, But the Victorious Japs Refuse all Overtures. The Central News (London) claims to have the highest authority for the statement that overtures looking to a declaration of peace between China and Japan were made a few days ago but that Japan rejected the proposals, considering them inadequate. According to the Central News, however, there is every reason to be lieve that the proposals were eminently satisfactory to China, and that her representatives signified a willingness of their governments to acquiesce in them. THE JAPANESE PARLIAMENT MEETS. The Japanese parliament, which was convoked for a seven days’ session, to consider war measures, met at Hiro shima Mouday. Count Kusumoto was elected president andM. Skimada vice- president. THE PALACE DIVIDED. The imperial palace at Pekin is said to be divided by two factions, con tending, the one for peace, the other for war. The war party consists of the Emperor, the Imperial Tutor Ung- Tungho, and Olohopu, director of the board of war. On the side of peace are the Empress Dowager, Prince Kung and Li Hung Chang. TRADE TOPICS. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for Hie Past Week. B. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: Business is still waiting for the development of retail trade. There is a little better demand in some industries, bat not so good iu others. Wholesale dealers in nearly all branches are halting because retail business does not yet show distinctly what it is to he. Lower prices for the great farm staples and lower wages in some establishments hinder purchases for consumption, while political interest and uncertainty also have some retarding influence. Mean while largo imports and small exports of merchandise with inadequate employ ment for money here are raising the rates of foreign exchange, so that pos sibilities of gold exports sometimes affect the stock market. The halting attitude for the money is disturbing to those who have looked for continued gain, though rightly considered it is the natural consequence of conditions which were to be expected at this season “Reports from the different cities show, as they did a week ago, that while extreme low prices for cotton and wheat are checking retail chases in the west and south, there is nevertheless a gradual gain. Monetary movements indicate that tho expected expansion of interior trade has not been wholly realized, and the demand for currency from this city has mate rially slackened. The demand for commercial loans is weaker, and 3 per cent is quoted for prime four months' paper. Foreign imports for two week have been $6,900,000, of 56 per cent larger than last year, while in exports of domestic products a decrease of 11 per cent appears for two weeks in Oc tober. Yet custom receipts for the two weeks are only $280,000 larger than last year, and internal revenue $1,280,000 smaller. “The iron industry records a larger production in September than in any other month this year, but as prices are gradually weakening because of in sufficient demand for finished products, some works are preparing to close or shorten time. The demand for cotton goods has materially slackened, and prices have been irregular, although resumption of work at Fall Biver and New Bed ford with only five per cent lower wa ges indicates confidence in the future. The woolen mills still have numerous belated orders for fall goods, but the demand for spring does not increase, though in nearly all the lower-priced products domestic makers appear able to command most of the business that exists. “Failures for the week ending Octo ber 4th show liabilities of $1,714,276, of which $805,885 are of manufactur ing and $892,391 are of trading con cerns. The final report for Septem ber shows liabilities of only $7,307,- 124, of which $3,254,373 are of manu facturing and $3,710, 092 of tradin concerns. The failures of this week have been 231 in the United States, against 293 last year, and forty-three in Canada, against forty-two last year. A RICH HAUL. FROM WASHIXGTOX. NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Sayings and Doings of the Official Heads of the Government. Highwaymen Rob an Express Train and get Nearly $200,000. The north-bound express between Richmond, Va., and Washington, leav- Rickmond at 7 o’clock Friday night, was held up by a gang of rob bers at Aquia creek. As the train rolled into the station two masked men leaped upon the engine, covered the engineer and fireman with revol vers and forced them to leave the loco motive. In the meantime a number of confederates in the daring deed were engaged iu uncoupling the ex press car and driving therefrom the passengers. This done the engino pulled up the road about a mile, bear- only the express ear. The safe was rifled. It is believed that the robbers se cured in the neighborhood of $180,- 000, as an unusually large amount of money went out of Richmond Friday evening, to say nothing of the through currency. When the men secured their awag they started the locomotive off at a rapid rate of speed, alighting themselves. On towards Washington rumbled the engine with no one at the throttle until it reached Guantico, which place is only thirty miles this side of the national capital. As soon as the other train officials realized what had happened, the news of the fiying locomotive was telegraph ed ahead and a number of cars were rolled upon the track at Gnantico to stop the engine and probably prevent oss of life as well as property. The engine crashed into the cars demolish- them and playing havoc with itself. The messengers, according to reports received, were not hurt. They were B. F. Crutchfield and H. Murray, both of Richmond. The safe in the express car was not blown open. One of the messengers was carried up the load and commanded to open the casket of treasure which he did in compliance to the dictates of half a dozen pistols. There were seven robbers in the gang. The express messenger said that the safe contained $150,000. The robbers secured this and all of the express packages containing money. It is thought this amount will foot up to about $180,000. TO COIN A BRITISH DOLLAR. The Government Sanctions it and it Will Be Put out in 1895. At a meeting of the directors of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, held at London, the chair man announced that the government had given their sanction to the coinage of a British dollar for circulation in Straits settlement and Hong Long. The fall in the price of silver, - he said, had affected the eastern trade and les sened the export of the Mexican dollar to sncli an extent as to threaten the eastern colonies with a total absence of currency. The Czar Dying. It is announced at St. Petersburg that the condition of the czar has per ceptibly changed for the worse. His symptoms of general debility and weakness of the heart are more pro nounced. Ready to Move Forward. The New York Herald's special ca ble dispatch from Shanghai, Wednes day morning, says: “Fifteen thousand Japanese troops, under Field Marshal Oyama, are encamped across Regent’s Sward promontory, to the north of Port Arthur apd wither. sight of the uaval stronghold. They are waiting for a favorable moment to move for ward, whiie outsicA: the port the Japan ese cruisers are ready to intercept all retreat seaward. Secretary Carlisle has asked Attor ney General Olney for an opinion on the constitutional question involved in carrying out the dispensary law in South Carolina, in cases where tho disputes occur between the United States and the state officers of South Carolina, on the occasion of liquor being held in United States bonded warehouse, being seized for violation of state police ordinances. Without issuing a direct order Sec retary Smith has allowed it to be un derstood that all employes of the inte rior department may go home to vote at the coming elections. There are a number of employes in the interior de partment who intend to avail them selves of this privilege. The superin tendent of the railway mail service has issued an order allowing all postal clerks to go and vote who can get away without serious detriment to the service. Secretary Carlisle has referred to the attorney general the opinion of Solicitor Beeves that Floyd county, Ga., can issue bonds to be used as cur rency. While Mr. Carlisle has ex pressed no decided opinion, it is be lieved among treasury officials that the opinion of Mr. Beeves will be reversed by the attorney general. Treasury officials who arc near to Mr. Carlisle say the decision is absurd, and whether or not it is reversed by the attorney general the treasury department will fight any issue of one, two, five and ten dollar bonds by a county to be used as currency. The opinion of Mr. Beeves has caused much criticism in the department, but until the attorney general renders a decision nothing definite will he done. Vincent Bounced. S. S. Vincent, United States mar shal for the district of West Virginia, at the request of the attorney-general, has resigned and D. Garden has been appointed to the vacancy. Mr. Vin cent was appointed in 1893. In Sep tember last Vincent and several depu ties were present at a political meet ing at Wayne, W. Va. At the conclu sion of the address, which did not please him, Vincent 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 Vincent or his deputies had been guilty of creating disturban ces at political meetings at Bluefield and Huntington. Expenditures and Receipts. Official figures obtained from the treasury books show that up to last Monday the expenditures for the fiscal year have exceeded the receipts $9,- 500,000. For the corresponding pe riod of 1893 the expenditures exceeded the receipts $22,500,000. The annual report of the commissioner of customs to the secretary of the treasury con tains the statement that the “under mentioned districts and ports reported no transactions” during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894. In the appended list are the follow ing: Annapolis, Md. ; Apalachicola, Fla.; Atlanta, Ga.; Beaufort, S. C.; Brunswick, Ga.; Chattanooga, TenD.; Cherrystone, Va.; eastern Maryland; Fernandina, Fla,; St. Augustine, Fla., St. Mark’s, Fla.; St. Mary’s Ga.; Georgetown, S, C.; Stonington, Conn.; Natchez, Miss.; Newport News, Va. ; Pamlico, N. C. ; Pearl Biver, Miss.: Pensacola, Fla.; Petersburg, Va.; Richmond, Va.; Rappahannock, Va., and Tecke, La. All the ports named have a collector, and many of them deputy collectors and clerks. The collectors either receive a stated salary or fee compensation. THESE GOT GOLD. Bold Bandits Hold Up a Train In California. The Coastbound overland train, due at Sacramento, Cal., Friday night,was held up by two masked men about six miles below the city. The robbers, armed with revolvers, compelled the engineer and fireman to accompany them to the express car, where Mes senger Page was told that if he did not open the doors the engineer and fireman would be shot. Page, how ever, at first attempted resistance and fired twice, but, fearing that the trainmen would be killed, he let the bandits in the car, wher* they secured four bags of gold, con taining about $1,500. The robber 1 then uncoupled the engine and afte: running it toward the city a short di- tance, reversed it and jumped <71! making their escape. TSie engine r*i into the uncoupled train but as th steam had run low, no damage wa? done. STAMP STEALERS Make THE LATEST BY WIRE Big Haul From the Bureau of Engraving. A Washington special says: The stamp robbery at the bureau of en graving and printing, discovered a lew i days ago, turns out to he much larger i than at first supposed. Instead of one j Brief Mention of Daily Happenings package containing 50.000 2-ceni GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS. tamps, it is now believed that over 200,000, and possibly 250,000 stamps of various denominations are missing. Postmasters in all parts of the country, it is thought, have received fewer stamps than they ordered, and failed to notify the department of the deficien cy. When their quarterly reports ar e made up these shortages may be found. It will take two weeks to discover the full extent of the robbery. When it is known that Thursday’s shipments of stamps were served to 1,800 postmast ers, some idea of the enormity of the task of ascertaining what offices have received short packages, is had. The stealing has been going on for thirty days, and seems to have been the re suit of a plot. William B. Smith, formerly of Plain- field, N. J., and George W. Longstreet, who were employed in the stamp de partment of the bureau of engraving and printing, are under arrest and the detectives are looking for William A Beach, who was until recently em ployed in a billiard room in a hotel iu the city, and a man, whose name is believed to he Simmerslitz. Both men left Washington Thursday for the pur pose of selling stamps. Friday Smith made a proposition to the police authorities to turn state’s evidence and make a full confession i ; they would sign a paper guaranteiug him full protection. He said he would implicate govornment employes much higher than himself. He was told that such protection could not he granted. Smith then told the author ities that he knew where Beach was, but would go to jail before he would tell his whereabouts. The authorities are at a loss to know what to make of Smith’s offer, as he has told so ma, y conflictin'! stories since his arrest. Throughout the World. FIRED UPON TIIE MOB. Three iften Killed ill an Attempt to Save a Rapist’s Life. In the criminal court at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, Wednesday, Jasper Dolby, the negro who assaulted Mrs. Mary C. Bird, of Parrott’s station, a week ago, confessed the crime and was sentenced to the peniteutiory for twen ty years. There was every prospect of a bloody fight as a great mob was in town bent on lynekiug Dolby, and the sheriff had two companies of state militia present to help him protect the prisoner. A special grand jury was called. Dolby was indicted aud his trial and sentence followed promptly. The county officers hoped by this means to quiet the mob anil avert a fight. As darkness came on, however, a crowd of 1,500 people surrounded the jail and had battered down the doors when they were fired upon by the guard iu the fight which followed three men werekilled and ten wounded. A $120,000,000 MORTGAGE Fled at Knoxville, Tenn., by the South ern Railway Co. The first consolidated mortgage deed of the Southern Railway Company was filed at Knoxville, Tuesday. It includes all the road-bed, buildings and equip ments of the road, in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the District of 'Columbia. The mortgage is for $120,000,000, in favor of the Central Trust Company, of New York. Gold bonds to run one hundred years, at 5 per cent, are to he issued. The mortgage will be regis tered in 176 counties through which the road runs. It contains over 50,000 words, and Deputy Registrar J. L. Faulkner will require two weeks to copy it. No mortgage for as large an amount was ever before filed in Ten- SOUTHERN FLASHES. A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING HAPPENINGS, And Presenting an Epitome of tho South’s Progress and Prosperity. A new electric light plant with eight large dynamos is being erected in Mer idian, Miss. The old one was burned down several months since, leaving the city in almost total darkness. The general life insurance agents of North and South Carolina met at Raleigh Wednesday to form an associa tion. There has been an association of general agents and solicitors, hut it was thought best to have a separate organization. The postoffice at New Albany, Ky., was robbed Thursday. While Post master Schindler was at dinner a thief slipped into his private office and took $4,000 worth of stamps and $500 in cash from the safe. The robbery was not discovered until Mr. Schindler’s retnrn. There is no clue to the thief. Contrary to expectations of manu facturers, and much to the surprise of the pnblic iu general, the striking weavers at Fall Biver continue to manifest a decided opposition to re suming work under the terms offered some weeks ago. Though there are hardly 30,000 out of 56,000 looms in operation the idleness seems to run in streaks. Thursday morning a strike was de clared iu the cigar factory of Gonza lez & Moera, at Ybor City, Fla., and all hands went out. The factories say the strike is due to an anarchistic ele ment which prevails in certain factor ies, but the men claim to have a griev ance in the rate of compensation and say that they will demand New York and Chicago prices. The postmaster general lias declared the Co-operative Loan and Investment Company, of Mississippi, with head quarters in Jackson a lottery, and the' same has been refused the use of the United States mails, and newspapers carrying the advertisement of such lottery have been notified that publi- | cations containing such advertisements | ah saved, as he threw them in a pile of There is great aud growing discon tent throughout the whole cotton pro ducing region of Mississippi over tho arbitrary and unreasonable manipula tions of the cotton oil trust which dic tates and enforces the price of cotton seed. Tho house of bishops of the Episco pal church met at New York Wednes day night with fifty-nine bishops for the election of a missionary bishop for the diocese of Olympia, Washington. The day was occnpied with prelimin aries. I he first consolidated mortgage deed of the Southern Railway Company has been filed at Knoxville, Tenn. Tho mortgage is for $120,000,000, in favor of the Central Trust Company, of New York. No mortgage for as large an amount was ever before made in Ten nessee. The new naval dry dock at Port Boyal, S. C., is expected to be com pleted within a month. In anticipa tion of this, the bureau of yards and docks has contracted with Rittenhonse, Moore & Co., of Mobile, Ala., to dredge out the channel necessary to open the dock to our large, new battle ships. The United Mine Workers of Ala bama held their annual meeting at Birmingham and elected the following officers: John G. Smith, president; William Malley, secretary and treas urer; J. B. Atkins, vice-president; John Stitch, W. G. Cantley, Dick Hooper and H. B. Hamper, executive hoard. The express officials at Richmond, Va., now think that theQuantico train robbers did not get over five thousand dollars. Mr. Murray, who handled the pouches and cut them open for the robbers, says he is satisfied from feel ing of them that the amouut did not exceed this. He says the bonds were A Bank Goes Under. The Buffalo County, Neb., National bank closed its doors Friday. The closing was caused by a $19,000 judg ment against the Sands clothiDg house, in which the bank was interested, and a couple of directors demanding their deposits. The Sands clothing house was closed at the same time, but no other business houses have been affect ed so far as known. The assets and liabilities are not yet known. The Short Day Discussed. THE DECISION REVERSED, And O’Brien Can Be Tried for Em' bezzlement. A Chattanooga dispatch says: Last spring the county circuit court quashed the indictment against M. J. O’Brien, ex-supreme court chancellor of the Catholic Knights of America, for the embezzlement of $75,000 from that order. Tho decision of the court was based on the Tennessee statute which denies legal redress to corpora tions not having an abstract of charter granted in the state. Tuesday the Tennessee supreme court, sitting at Knoxville, reversed this decision and made O’Brien liable to criminal prosecution pending the examination of authorities cited by Mr. O’Brien’s counsel. AN INSANE MOTHER’S DEED. She Sets Fire to the House and Holds Her Children in the I-dames. Mrs. Jennie Harrigan and her three children perished by fire iu a barn upon their farm iu the outskirts of Elizabeth, N. J., Monday. The resi dence was also burned. The husband and father was absent at the time of the calamity. The general belief is that Mrs. Harrigan became suddenly insane and set the house on fire, and that she then took her children and went into the barn, and, locking the door, set it on fire. As the flames be gan to close around them, the mother gathered the children about her and held them there until they were over come. The eldest of the children was six years of age and the youngest four teen months. A Solid Company This. It is stated that the report of the Friday morning’s session of the In | American Cotton Oil Company, for the ternational Typographical Union >* j fiscal year ending August 31, 1894, to Louisville was principally devoted t- a discussion of the short day question. The original motion was that aflei September 1st, nine hours would con stitute a day’s work. It was finalL decided that the motion he referred t. referendum. A Paper Mill Combination. The Raleigh, N.C., Paper Company, whose mills are at the falls of Nense, has purchased the plant of the South Fork paper mills, at Lincointon, and it will be at once brought here, making the Raleigh mills.among the largest in the south. be submitted at the stockholders’ an nual meeting at New York on Novem ber 1, 1894, will show that the com pany, daring the year, paid oft - about $250,000 of its bonds, all of its inter est charges, 6 per cent, dividend on its preferred stock, and earned in ad dition a small surplus on its common stock. ^jn - Spilt at Fall River. The weavers, at a meeting iu Fall River, Saturday, voted 875 to 75 not to return to work. The carders voted to go to work 290 to 94. are not mailable matter. A Baltimore dispatch says: Dr. John D. Kremien, recently adjudged guilty of murder in the second degree for poisoning John Forres, alias Her man Hanbureh, formerly of Philadel- aphia, has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. Kremien, who was Forres’ physician, was arrested when he presented the forged will to the orphans’ court, pur porting to give lnm Forres’ estate val ued at $6,500. A sensation was caused at Omaha, Nel)., by the publication of an affida vit by J. E. Coleman, proof reader of the last state senate committee on en rolled bills. He swore that during the session Thomos J. Majors, the [ resident of the senate, and lieutenant governor, approached him several rimes, asking him to steal several hills, •mong them the maximum freight bill, in order to prevent its becominga law. The Odd Fellows’ Home and Nation al Sanitarium at Gainesville, Fla., was formally opened by the board of trus tees Wednesday for the reception of -ick Odd Fellows and Daughters of Rehekah of the entire world. The home was built at a cost of $18,000 ind is fitted up with all conveniences or the comfort of its inmates. Appli cations have been received from all >ver the United States and Canada for he entrance of sick and afflicted mem bers of the order. Depositions taken at Cincinnati in the case of Dr. Amick vs. Beeves, de velop some remarkable facts. It was shown that the Amick Chemical com pany,of Cincinnati, has supplied forty thousand doctors with Dr. Amick’s chemical treatment for consumption, is much as $1,000 worth of sample medicine being distributed daily. Each patient receives a trial outfit and m inhaler. The company offered as evidence its files, containing thousands >f reports from physicians of cures levering every stage and phase of the iisease. HAD FORTY PASSES. Debs’ First Lieutenant, Mr. Howard, Traveled Like a Lord. A Chicago dispatch says: George W. Howard, vice president of the American Railway Union, and widely known as the first lieutenant of Delis in the great strike last July, recently lost a pocketbook containing forty annual passes, and he advertised for them. The passes were over all the leading railroads, and among them was a Pullman pass. The passes were subsequently found and safely re turned. The news of Howard’s loss was a great shock to laboring men. They recalled that Mr. Howard often scored labor leaders who were so faithless to their trusts as to receive subsidies from railway managers in the shape of free tickets. He was especially severe on Labor Commissioner Carroll D, Wright for having a Pullman pass. A BANDIT BAGGED. stuft - the robbers discarded. A rumor to the effect that the head quarters of the western system of the Southern Railway will be removed from Washington to Knoxville, has gained circulation in the latter city. It is believed to have some founda tion as Knoxville was headquarters for the old East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia system which is npw tho wes tern system of the Southern. He Was Heavily Armed aud Had Much Boodle. A Richmond, Va., dispatch says: Governor O’Ferall has received a tele gram stating ihat a man supposed to be one of the daring bandits who held up and robbed an express car of $50,000, on a train just south of the Potomac river, last Friday, was cap tured at Cumberland, Md., Wednes day. A pistol, eartridges, and $1,050 were found upon his persoD, and the authorities are certain that he is one of the robbers. LUMBERMEN ORGANIZE. Saw-Mill Owners Hold a Convention at Brunswick and Elect Officers. The lumbermen of Geoegia and Florida met in convention at Bruns wick, Ga., Monday. Hon. J. W. Ben nett delivered the address of welcome on behalf of the city. The object of the meeting was to organize for the purpose of restoring the price of lum ber to living rates. No industry is more demoralized than the lumber business, owing to the unprecedented ly low price that has prevailed for the past two years. HARDIN AND ELROD ACQUITTED. Finale of the Sensational Express Rob bery Case in Nashville. At Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday, a verdict of not guilty, as to all the de fendants was rendered by the jury in the case of Charles Hardin, Charlton Elrod, Charles Taylor and James Nor ris, who have been on trial for two weeks on the charge of embezzling $35,000 from the Adams Express Com pany. Hardin was indicted as the principal and the others as accessories before the fact. A large number of witnesses were examined. Watching John Bull. A dispatch to The London Times from Berlin says that troubles at Lou- renzo Marquez, Delagoa Bay, create the greatest concern in Berlin. It is assumed that England intends to seize the occasion to extend her possessions northward along the const of the In dian ocean, anil, possibly, to attempt to acquire the whole region belonging to Portugal. Pleaded Guilty of Embezzlement. Cashier Buchanan, of the Sonora, Texas, hank, pleaded guilty Friday morniDg in the United States court of embezzlement from the United States postoffice and was sentenced to eight- teen months in the penitentiary. He, with his brother, the president of the hank, and his deputy postmaster, raised $3,000 on fictitious postoffice money orders. SLIGHTLY ABSENT-MINDED. A well-known Oxford professor of mathematics is so completely ab sorbed in Ids profession that lie is be coming more and more absent-minded everyday. One day "icently he re marked to one of the students: ••Something very stupid happened to im- the other morning—I believe I am becoming a little absent mind ed.” “What is it?” “You see.! wanted to take my wife out for a drive and give her some fresh air, and, when I came to think over it, I remembered that I never bad a wife.” Fight the devil at every point. If he sees that he cannot make you com mit a big sin, lie will try you with lit tle “no harms.” DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, At Dah/onega, Georgia. Spring term begin! first Monday in February. Fall term begins first Monday in September. FULL LITERARY COURSES. TUITION FREE With smpls corps of teachers. THROUGH MILITARY TRAINING under a U. S. Army Officer detailed bfi Secretary of war. Departments of Business, Short hand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Music and Art. Under competent and thorough instructors. YOUNG LADIES hare equal advantages. CHEAPEST COLLEGE i« the SOUTH For catalogues and fall information ad dress Secretary or Treasurer of Board