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THE VIENNA
TERMS, $1. Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May."
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JOHN E HOWELL, Mor and Proprietor.
vol. xirr. no. is
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The army worm has cost this conn- FROM WASHINGTON.
try more than the Revolutionary War,
T .e great canned goods center ot
industry of the world is Baltimore,
hid.
We use seventy-five pounds
R”gar,to every ponnd of salt in
United States.
The population of Italy is very
rlense, there being 270 people to every
square mile of territory.
T’jo islet of Massowa, in the Red
Sen, where Italy is sending its An
archists, is one of the hottest places
in the world, and escape from it in
that sterile region would be very diffi
cult.
The only school in the United States
for the teaching of the art of letter
writing is said to be at Chautauqua,
N. Y. The instructress, Mies Frances
B. Calloway, has pupils ranging from
the Texas cowboy to the aristocratic
society woman, and in age from four
teen to seventy.
A Cleveland (Ohio) dry goods mer-
cnant is proposing to jiay his salesmen
a commission on the goods sold by
each instead of a fixed salary. He
says that the most of them would
profit by the arrangement., and ho
expects no serious opposition to the
plan on the part of the employes. He
will pay six per cent.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Edward Atkinson, the statistician,
testified beforo the Royal British Com-
misE^on on Agriculture that one client
of his in this country had received
one single order for 25,000 steam
plows for the Argentine Ropublio.
lie said that there were enough good
wlieat lands on the Paraguay and
Parana Pavers to feed the whole
world.
The British postolfice has recently
introduced a new system of notation
for its date stamps. The letters from
A to M are used to represent the hours
and also of twelve intervals of five
minutes Each; thus A A means 1.05,
.•' A B 1.10, and so on. A. m. and p. m.
nro expressed by A and P after an
asterisk; thusMOA means 12.15 a. m.
The war between China and Japan,
though not of vital interest to Ameri
cans, will yet bo watched with keen
inf&eet by all our military leaders,
remarks the New York Times. There
has been no great war since the intro
duction of what wo believe to be im
provements in tho mode of warfare,
and it remains to bo tested whether
the greater advance has been made in
weapons of attack, suoli as guns,
smokeless powder and torpedoes, or
in means of defense, suoh as armor
plates, new turrets, and possibly
'bullet-proof coats for soldiers, and
this war may teach us many things.
It appears that England is the great
est railway-traveling country on earth.
In 1880, tho extent of lines in Eng
land being then about 18,033 miles;
the number of passengers was nearly
601.000. 000. In 1890, by which time
tho railway lines had increased by
about 4375 miles, the number of travel
ers had grown to nearly 818,000,000.
No other country in the world oopjes
near these figures. Even the railroads
in the Unitod States, whioh measure
the enormous length of 158,750 miles,
carried in 1890, only rather more than
620.000. 000 passengers. In Germany,
in 1880, 215,000,000 persons traveled
on 20,758 miles of railway; in 1890 the
number of passengers was over 426,•
000,000. •
Edward Bellamy shudders whenever
he hears the name of "Looking
Backward." If you wish to make a
friend of Franois Bret Harte don’t
mention "IhaJIoathen Chinee. ” Will
Carleton wonders hew people can read
"Over the Hills to the Poor House,”
which ho considers one of tiie poorest
poems he ever wrote. Mrs. F. Hodg
son Burnett does not wish to hear
"Little Lord Fauntleroy" praised in
her immediate vicinity. Charles
Heber Glarko has taken a very strong
aversion to liis onco famous nom da
plume of “Max Adler.” But no one
recognizes him ns anyone else. "The
Opening of a Chestnut Burr,” by E.
r. Roe, was considered by him to be
an inferior work.
Judge Cole has dismissed the peti
tion for habeas corpus in the case of
Smith, the stamp robber, and remand
ed him to jail for trial.
The program of the pcstoffice offi-
rials is to prevent the correspondence
of bond investment companies from
being carried through the mails and
the postmaster general will order crim
inal proceedings instituted in every
case brought to his attention.
The presidential party, including
the president and family, Mrs. Perrin,
Miss Rose Cleveland and the three de
tectives who have been at Buzzard’s
Bay, Mass., all summer, left that place
for New York Tuesday by special
train, with a director’s car attached
for their personal use.
While the Indian officials at one
time showed a desire to appoint civil
ians as Indian agents in place of army
officers, where army officers have been
relieved, it has now been determined
to fill such vacancies with army offi
cers. The war department has been
asked to designate army officers to fill
vacancies in each case.
The secretary of the interior has re
quested the secretary of war to send
troops into the Indian territory to sup
press lawless bands which have been
operating there and in the adjacent
country. Acconqianying the request
was a communication which was re
ceived from the Indian territory, de
tailing a deplorable condition of affairs
there.
According to Commodore Chadwick,
chief of tho bureau of naval equip
ment, the coal bills of the navy are
iteadily increasing, owing to the great
er consumption of coal by modern ves
sels. The annuul report of the bureau
shows that there will be a deficiency of
§30,000 in the appropriation for equip
ment, owing to the fact that §191,291
more was expended for coal in the
past year than in the year previous.
President Cleveland and family ar
rived at Washington Thursday night
over the Pennsylvania railroad. Pri
vate Secretary Thurber had two car
riages in waiting for the party, and
they were driven to the executive man
sion, which has been thoroughly reno-
nated during their absence. Two pri
vate detectives walked, one on each
side of the president, guarding him
closely, to prevent any such advance
as that made by the crank at Dr. Bry
ant’s house in New York.
At the present ratio existing be"
tween the treasury receipts and ex"
penditures, the indications point to a
deficit for the month of October of
seven millions in ordinary expenses
and of five millions in interest or a
total of $12,000,000 for the month
over and above receipts. This will
bring the excess of expenditures over
receipts for the current fiscal year to
about §13,000,000. For the same
period of last year the excess was
$29,000,000.
Several days ago, at Washington, a
baby died of smallpox and from this
source has spruDg five others. The
child’s father is an employe in the pen
sion office, and he communicated the
disease to Judge E. M. Rucker, of the
law department of the pension bureau,
and William Owens, a messenger in
the same bureau. Judge Rucker lives
at a boarding house containing twenty-
six guests. Some have become fright
ened and left, while others are quar
antined.
The postoffice department was noti
fied Tuesday from Wilmington, N. C.,
of the theft of many thousands of
stamps, but as yet nothing is known as
to where they were taken from. The
dispatch from Wilmington said that
the thieves tried to ship them by ex
press to New York, but a postoffice de
tective seized the stamps as govern
ment property. The names of the par
ties implicated have been ascertained,
and warrants issued for their arrest.
It is expected that the robbers will be
apprehended within twenty-four hours.
Orders have been issued to the
Montgomery, directing that the vessel
reach Mobile, Ala., on the 20th of
November. She will afterwards cruise
in the waters of the gulf for the pur
pose of testing coal mined in the south
ern states. The department intends
to make Key West a coaling sta
tion sufficiently large to accomodate
the ships cruising in its vicin
ity. Coaling in the Caribbean
sea is expensive, and it is Secretary
Herbert’s intention hereafter to have
our ships take coal as far as possible at
Key West. He has notified the south
ern coal companies that a test of all
coal that may be delivered free at
Mobile, Pensacola or Key West, in
quantities not less than one hundred
tons, will be made by the Montgomery.
They fire Subject to Tax.
Secretary Carlisle has made public
the decision of the attorney-general on
the question as to whether counties
have the right to issue interest-bearing
bonds of small denominations for gen
eral circulation. The attorney-general
says:
. “I have yours of the 17th instant, in
which yon request my opinion on the
Our pestiferous friend, the bioycle,
continues to grow in favor, and it is
being put to very practical uses, notes
the Chicago Record. In the German
army estimates for' the present year • question whether the proposed issue of
the sum of §25,000 is included for the i interest-bearing bonds by the county
supply of bicycles to the infantry, j commissioners of Floyd county, Ga.,
J : will be m conflict with the banking
! laws of the United States. You en
close the opinion of the soliei|or to the
. effect that such issue, if made, will not
I conflict with the banking laws of the
Two wheek are assigned to each bat
talion and an instruction has been is
sued dealing with the bicycle service.
These machines are to be used for
communications between columns on
the march and for communications
between advanced guards. When
troops are in quarters bicyclists are to
fulfill the functions of orderlies, es
pecially where mounted orderlies are
wanting; they will also relieve the
cavalry from relay and intelligence
duties. In great fortresses all the
duties hitherto devolving on oavalry
as message-bearers are to be trans
ferred to bicyclists. In the military
service of our own country the bi
cycle has already begun to figure con
spicuously with admirable results.
United States, and, for the reasons
given by the solicitor, I concur in that
conclusion.
“As to the question whether such
bonds, if is',tied, will be subjeot to
taxation under sections 19 and 20 of
the act of February 18, 1875, does not
arise upon any facts now existing and
is one upon which my opinion is not
asked. I express no opinion respect
ing it.”
The decision does not pass upon the
question whether such bonds, if issued,
will be subject to the 10 per cent, tax
on currency. It is understood, how
ever, that Secretary Carlisle holds
that they will be subject to this taxa
tion in like manner as the issue of
state banks, and that in this opinion
he has the support of the law officers
of the government.
TRADE TOPICS.
If. G. Dun & Co.’s Report of Business
for the Past Week.
“Cotton below 6 cents and wheat be
low 55 cents, each lower than ever,
since present classifications were known
with the exports of gold, instead of
products at such low prices in October
are the salient features in business this
week. Distribution of goods to con
sumers goes on fairy at gains at near
ly all points in comparison with last
year, but not yet at a rate to sustain
the present volume of manufacturing
production, so that prices weaken a lit
tle. With many features of encour
agement, business has not yet answer-
ered expectations and it is evident that
the loss of part of the corn crop, and
the unnaturally low prices of other
great staples, affect the buying power
of millions.
"Domestic exports from New York
in two weeks of October were 18 per
cent, less in value than last year, while
the increase in the value of imports
has been 27 per cent. Much of the
decrease in exports is in price, but in
August and September the quantity of
wheat decreased over a third. Pro
visions and cotton gained, but oil de
creased, and in minor products exports
in September declined 16 per cent.
The increase in imports exclusive of
sugar was over 35 per cent, in Sep
tember, and in two weeks of October
at New York over 43 per cent. With
this heavy increase in purchase and
a decrease in sales of products
abroad, the market for foreign
exchange is in position to be quick
ly affected by withdrawals of capital of
apprehensions regarding the future
peace of Europe. It appears that three
trust companies here now hold over
$40,000,000 idle money and that east
ern mill loans are beiug taken from
New York by New England banks,
while the northwestern demand for
money is unusually small. The treas
ury is again falling backward in re
serve, and large imports yield a little
less revenue than last year, while in
ternal revenue for the past three
weeks is $4,600,000 smaller than a year
ago.
“The dry goods business and textile
industries were especially favored by
the demand in August and September.
Wholesale and then retail stocks have
been replenished, and business waits
for retail sales, whieh are as yet lower
than was expected. In cotton goods
the new business has been narrow and
resumption by the Fall River mills has
depressed prices to some extent.”
The iron and stell business makes
a better showing this week, Bessemer
pig having stiffened to $10.90 at Pitts
burg, and at Chicago and New York
further structural and bridge orders
have been placed, but bar iron has fal
len to 90 cents for common and $1 for
steel at Pittsburg, which are prices
below those current in Great Britain.
There is a good demand for sheets and
some good bridge contracts are re
ported.
Failures in October thus far have
been moderate in strictly commercial
lines, the liabilities amounting to $3,-
821,937, of which $1,793,636 were of
manufacturing and $1,996,636 of trad
ing concerns. Some failures of bank
ing, investment and loan concerns, not
here included, have not proved of gen
eral importance. During the past
week the failures have been 253 in the
United States against 341 last year,
and forty-three in Canada against
twenty-nine last year. ”
NEW YORK COPS INDICTED.
The Grand Jury Return True Bills
for Bribery.
The New York grand jury found in
dictments for bribery against ex-Police
Captain Michael Doherty, his former
wardmsn, John Hock and Bernard
Meehan, and cx-Sergeants of Police
George C. Lieberg, Hugh Clark, Felix
McKennan, James W. Jordan and
Charles J. Parkerson, all of whom
were dismissed from the force several
weeks ago.
It can be stated with certainty that
the cases of ex-Police Captains Gross,
Stephenson and Devery have not yet
been taken up, but that they will be
considered without further delay.
The cas9 of Captain Schmittberger
is as yet undecided. It is a question
whether or not the grand jury will
consider it before action is taken by
the police commissioners. The fol
lowing prisoners have been released on
bill: Ex-Wardman Bernard Meehan,
ex-Wardman John Hock, ex-Sergeant
Hugh Clark, ex-Sergeant Felix Mc
Kenna, ex-Sergeant Charles Parkerson
and ex-Sergeant J. W. Jordan.
SMALLPOX AT THE CAPITAL.
Clerirs of the Interior Department
Ordered to Be Vaccinated.
Secretary Smith issued general or
ders Thnrsdny that everybody in the
interior department shall be vaccinat
ed forthwith, in view of the prevalence
of smallpox in Washington city. The
secretary was inoculated with vaccine
two days ago, and determined, if pos
sible, that no new cases shall break
out in the interior department. '1 he
rooms in the interior department oc
cupied by Judge Rucker, one of the
smallpox patients, have been disinfect
ed and the clerks employed there were
sent to their homes.
The Women AYill Vote.
The registration of women in Den
ver is almost as large as that of men.
The total number of names entered on
the books which are now closed is 61,-
500. The registration in the county
will exceed 70,000. Should 70 per
cent of these registered votes bo cast
at the next election, it will be consid
erably more than twice as great as it
was two years ago, when the total
vote was 22,975.
A Big Damage Suit.
A damage suit for §50,000 against
the Mobile and Ohio railroad has been
filed in the circuit clerk’s office at Mer
idian, Miss., the plaintiffs being the
heirs of William Roberts, who was
killed in September by an extra train
of that road.
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.
A COMBINE WANTED
WHEREBY FARMERS MAY DIC
TATE THE PRICE OF COTTON.
Letter from John Roddey to Southern
Cotton Planters.
The Columbia, S. C,, State prints
the following from John T. Roddey,
member of the New York cotton ex
change and a son of a wealthy South
Carolinian. He has for some time
been advocating some concerted action
by southern farmers:
To the thinking farmers of the sonth
—For the past two years I have made
cotton commissions my business, and
daily have I witnessed the downward
tendency of your product. If you will
think for a moment, yon will realize
the fact that though you are the pro
ducers of this country and should be
the most independent, yet you nre the
most dependent people in America.
“Why? Because there are combi
nations on nearly everything you use.
The manufacturers of the north com
bine on everything and say what it
shall bring, while you sell your prod
uct for whatever they are willing to
pay you. Why cannot you protect
your cotton in the same way?
“I should like, if it meets your ap
proval, to organize a trust compauy
called the Southern Farmers’ Trust
Company, for the purpose of protect
ing your product from the depressing
influences of speculators, spinners and
capitalists, and provide a means by
which you can name the price for your
product, instead of having the price
dictated to you, as is now the case. I
feel satisfied this can be done by form
ing a trust, which would be able to
handle most of the cotton you grow.
“Let the capital stock be $50,000,-
000 to $100,000,000, subscribed en
tirely by the farmers of the south and
divided into as many shares as may be
necessary and small enough for every
cotton planter to subscribe. Let each
farmer take stock to his utmost capac
ity and support the trust in every pos
sible way.
“In case you receive 10 cents for
your cotton, instead of 5 cents, which
you are now receiving, you save on a
crop of 8,000,000 bales about $200,-
000,000, at least twice as much as the
capital stock of the trust company. In
case speculators should become fright
ened even at the mention of the trust
and advance the price of cotton, so
much the better for you, but very like
ly they would attempt at first to bluff
you.
“I think it is now time to act.
What benefits the farmer or laborer
unquestionably benefits all classes. If
such a plan should meet your ap
proval, I would be more than glad to
meet a representative cotton grower
from each state or alliance, either in
New York or in some southern city, to 5
see if something cannot be done to
bring about some benefit to the south.
Something must be done or your lands
will not be worth cultivating.
John T. Roddey.”
A SHIP RUN DOWN.
Cut in Twain by the Steamer Paris
During a Stonn.
The steamer Paris, from New York,
which arrived at Southampton Wednes
day night, reports having encountered
terrific weather with mountainous seas,
which swept over her deck. On the
morning of October 24, at 1:36 o’clock,
during the height of a storm, she came
into collision, 80 miles from the Scilly
islands, with a bark or full rigged
ship, the name of which it was impos
sible to learn. The officers of the
Paris believe the sailing vessel was cut
completely in two. The Paris stood
by for five hours until daybreak, with
her boats in readiness to rescue any
of the crew of the unfortunate vessel
that might bo seen, but saw no trace
of the ship. The vessel was struck
amidships, and it is thought must have
foundered immediately, all hands on
board going down with her.
THE DYING CZAR.
His Condition Pronounced Hopeless
By the Doctors.
The latest dispatches received at
the Russian embassy at London, state
that the condition of the czar is ex
tremely critical. The news of bis
condition has cast a gloom over St.
Petersburg, Berlin, Cologne, Athens
and other continental cities. A dis-
pa ch to The Globe from Paris says
that private advices received at the
French capital indicate that the con
dition of the czar is hopeless and that
the end is near. This news has caused
a most profound sensation everywhere.
Last A’ear’s Cotton.
For several months tho statistician
of the United States department of ag
riculture has been conducting an inves
tigation regarding the acreage and
product of cotton for the year 1893.
His estimates are as follows: Acres
planted in 1893, 19,525; number of
bales harvested, 7,493,000.
A Paper Mill Combination.
The Raleigh, N.C., Paper Company,
whose mills are at the falls of Nense,
has purchased the plant of the Sonth
Fork paper mills, at Lincolnton, and
it will be at once brought here, making
tho Raleigh mills among the largest in
the south.
For Equal Rights.
The annual convention of the Ken
tucky Equal Rights Association con
vened at Lexington Wednesday morn
ing with twenty-eight women delegates
present. Miss Laura Clay presided
over the chair.
A Whole Family Cremated.
At an early hour Saturday morning
the house of Silas Jones, Knoxville,.
Ip,, was destroyed by fire, and Mrs,
•Jones and her two children, a boy and
a eirl. were cremated.
The Stamp Robbers Caught.
William A. Beach and H. Clay'Sin-
sabaugh, who are charged with being
accomplices in the recent stamp rob
bery in Washington, were arrested at
Columbia, S. C., Monday night.
In choosing reading matter select
that kind which treats of life as it is
rather than what it is imagined to be
under morbid conditions.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Our Readers.
No hatter what he says he is, that
man is a Christian who plants shade
trees along the road.
Tuesday night four men robbed the
postoffice and every store in the vil
lage of Watova, Ark., a station on the
Kansas and Arkansas Valley railroad.
It is generally reported in Yokohama
that the second Japanese army, num
bering 25,000, have begun military op
erations for the capture of Port Ar
thur.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Tien-Tsin, says that the Chinese
officials report that a battle occurred
near Yi-Chow Monday and that the
Japanese were repulsed southward,
with a loss of three thousand men on
each side.
The Central Hotel a frame structure
and one of the land marks of Baton,
New Mexico, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday night. James Lepont, James
McCool and A. L. Kennedy,' railroad
men who boarded at the hotel, perished
in the flames.
Y. W. Johnson, cashier and confi
dential man for Warren Springer, the
Chicago millionaire, is missing, and
with him $5,000 of Mr. Springer’s
cash. Johnson drew the money from
the bank to meet the pay roll. He
has left many creditors.
Stern & Company, of New York,
wholesale men’s furnishing goods,
failed Wednesday and the sheriff closed
them up on executions for $46,693.
The liabilities are returned at $250,-
000; the assets are not known. They
claim to have a large stock on hand.
The Cologne Gazette prints a dis
patch from St. Petersburg, saying
that, immediately upon the arrival
of Princess Alix at Livadia, the final
ceremonies of her reception into the
orthodox church will take'place, and
her marriage to the czarowitz will then
at once be quietly celebrated.
Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, the United
States ambassador to Great Britain,
addressed 1,200 of his fellow citizens
at Dover, Del., Tuesday night upon
the issue of the campaign. It was the
first of the three political addresses—
from a democratic standpoint, which
Mr. Bayard will deliver in his native
state.
The residence of Casimer Werk, in
Westwpod, O., seven miles from Cin
cinnati was burned Tuesday morning.
Mr. Werk, deeming the house fire
proof, 6hut the room up and waited
for the fire to burn out, refusing to
admit the firemen. Instead,the whole
house was soon destroyed and nothing
saved.
Inquiries made at the Chinese lega
tion at London regarding the re
port from Tien-Tsin saying that
negotiations for peace between China
and Japan were in progress at Seoul,
the capital of Corea, show that they
do not believe it probable that such
negotiations would be conducted at
Seoul.
Ex-Police Judge Charles E. Morris,
a prominent attorney- of Springfield,
Ohio, is a forger and defaulter to the
extent of $20,000, and has left the
country, it is supposed for Canada.
The Citizens’ Building and Loan As
sociation, of which he was the attor
ney, and a number of estates that he
represented, are the losers.
Switchmen from the principal cities
of the United States met in Kansas
City Tuesday to form a national switch
men’s association to succeed the Switch
men’s Mutual Aid Association,, which
disbanded during the recent American
Railway Union strike. Representatives
of the switchmen of Jersey City, New
York, Buffalo, Omaha, St. Louis and
other cities were in attendance.
A dispatch received from Peterhead,
a seaport about twenty-five miles from
Aberdeen, Scotland, announces that
the Swedish schooner Alene, loaded
with gunpowder, which was at anchor
near Peterhead, has been blown up.
ft is added that within two minutes
after the explosion nothing was to be
seen on the surface of the water. but
splinters from the schooner. All her
crew perished. .
News was received at Fort Smith,
Ark., by deputy United States mar
shals that the Cook gang of robbers
who have been balding up trains and
looting towns in the Indian Territory,
raided Gibson station Wednesday. -
They looted all the shops, escaping
with considerable booty. The band
then raided the cotton fields in the
vicinity and robbed .the pickers at
work. They, are being hotly pursued
by Indian police and a strong posse of
deputy marshals.
President L. C. Weir, of the Adams
Express company, was seen Wednes
day and questioned regarding the re
covery of the express pouch at Calver-
ton, Ya. He stated that the contents
included some bills of lading for cot
ton and several thousand dollars worth
of railroad receivers’ certificates. The
loss on these will be very small, but
would cause considerable trouble to
customers and the company in replac
ing them. Everything was recovered.
Charles J, Searcy, the Acquia Creek
train robber, has made, a confession
which was taken, down,.put into type
writing and is now in th& hands of the
proper authorities. There were but
two men concerned in the robbery,
Morgaufield and Searey. They - had
known each other before and had:
talked of a scheme of that sort, but-
Searcy for some time refused to go
into it. They finally'inet in Washing
ton and there agreed to rob a trian,
but fixed on no/partieular one.
Deeds of-violence which character
ized the recent great railroad strike
were repeated at Chicago Tuesday
night at Grand Crossing and Sonth
Chicago by a gang of hoodlums. An
Illinois Central suburban train was
boarded by a crowd of toughs, who
abused the crew, calling them “scabs.”
They were finally ejected. When the
train reached Wildwood the depot was
burning and while the trainmen devoted
themselves to extinguishing the flames
the miscreants set fire to a train of box
cars on a side track.
TIIE L ATEST BY WIRE
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
Brief Mention of Daily Happenings
Throughout the World. ! -
Boys, it may seem a little paradoxi
cal that instead of being paid for beiug
good, you ought to be good for nothing.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says:
The Southern Railway Company has
let the contract for five hundred hop
per bottom coal cars. It was secured
by the Southern Car works, of Le
noir City. The contract represents
$250,000.
While the cruiser Arethuse was test
ing her engines at Brest, France, pre
paratory to sailing for the east, in or
der to reinforce the French squadron
in Chinese waters, a boiler explosion
took place on board, killing six men
and badly scalding twenty others.
The St. Petersburg correspondent
of the Central News Company says:
“Several persons have been arrested
here for discussing in public places a
theory that the czar’s malady is due to
poison. A private meeting of students
was surprised by the police Thursday
while discussing the situation, and all
present were arrested.
The trial of the Tillman liquor
spies for murder commenced at Dar
lington, S. C., Thursday, and the
court-room was crowded. Most of the
state’s witnesses were examined and
the facts support the verdicts of the
coroner’s jury and the military court
of inquiry rendered immediately after
the murders were committed.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
Governor-elect Oates has gratified the
friends of Captain Harvey Jones
greatly by announcing that the gen
tleman would be the chief secretary in
his office upon his inauguration. Cap
tain Jones is one of the best known
men in the state. He is at present
recording secretary in Governor Jones’
office.
General J. Whiting, of Mobile, Ala.,
has been re-appointed major general
upon the governor’s stall'; his commis
sion having expired on October 1st.
General Whiting is an old soldier,
having seen arduous service as colonel
of the First Alabama. It will be re
membered that he was the governor’s
mainstay in preserving order in Bir
mingham during the recent strike
trouble.
The Hotel Normandie, at Montreal,
Canada, was gutted by fire early Thurs
day morning. The fire, which started
in the kitchen, spread with great rap
idity and soon had all the avenues of
escape cut off. There were a large
number of guests in the hotel and
nearly all had to be taken out through
the windows by firemen on the lad
ders. The smoke was so dense that
many were overcome by it and at least
a score' were rescued in an unconscious
condition.
Jacob Scblos8, a New York photo
grapher, has begun suit in the United
States circuit court against the W. D.
Boyce Company, publishers of the
Chicago Blade, for $275,000 damages.
The Blade, in a recent issue, published
April 7th, a porfaait on which Schloss
has a copyright, and the suit is for in
fringement. As the' statutes allow the
owner cJ a copyright $1 damages for
each copy of the publication contain
ing the infringement, and thus the
amount of damage is put at $275,000.
At its late session the legislature of
Louisiana made an appropriation for
the purpose of making the positions
held by the troops from that state dur
ing the terrible three days’ battle at
Gettysburg. Five veteran confederate
soldiers have been selected from the
Army of Northern Virginia and com
manded by Governor Foster, of Louis
iana, (o visit the battlefield and: co
operate with the official federal Get
tysburg field command in its purpose
of making history. A cordial invita
tion has been extended by Colonel
John B. Bachelder, of the war depart
ment for the Louisiana committee to
meet him at Gettysburg early in No
vember for consultation and the loca
tion of positions of the confederate
troops in the course of historic action.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania
has halted the Standard Oil Company
in its process of absorbing the inde
pendent oil refineries in th$ country.
A deal ha_s been made. to buy out the
Producers and' Refiners’ Oil Company.
John J. Carter, of Franklin, Pa., a
stock-holder, objected and secured an
injunction in the Venago eounty
courts, by which the deal was stopped.
MoAday the supreme conrt, without
discussing the question involved, made
the injunction permanent.
A special from Princeton, 111., says:
The five defendants, including Mayor
Laner, who were given penitentiary
sentences in the Spring Yallev Pinker
ton conspiracy case’have been granted
new trials by Judge Sharp. As a re
sult a high state of excitement prevails
and both the defendants and the action
•of the judge are openly denounced. It
is considered that the judge unduly
favored ihe defendants during the
trial. It has been impossible to make
a verdict stand in the court against
any Spring Valley and Ladd conspira
tors, store looters and rioters.
A Chicago dispatch says: William
Preston Harrison and his brother,
Carter P. Harrison, who have been in
control of the Times newspaper since
the assassination of their father, have
just learned much to their surprise
and regret that the millionaire lawyer,
Adolph Kraus, who was corporation
counsel under the last brief term of
the late Mayor Harrison, had obtained
control of' a majority of the stock.
The brothers will, retire from the edit
orial and. business management of the
Tim^, but will retain a considerable
holding of' the stock in tbe paper.r.,..
PREPARATIONS COMPLETE
SOUTHERN FLASHES
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity,
For the Slugging Match Between Fitz
simmons and Corbett.
The articles ot agreement to govern
the coming heavy weight champion
ship battle between James J. Corbett
and Robert Fitzsimmons have been,
signed by both men, and the president
of the Florida Athletic club, under
whose auspices the contest will take
place, will affix his signature to them
at once.
There appears to be no obstacle now
in the way of the battle taking place,
nnd all those interested are, in conse
quence, thoroughly satisfied.
A .Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says
Walter A Montgomery, the new nom
inee of the fusionists for associate jus
tice has been notified that the repub
licans had agreed to his nomination
which the pojiulists had so earnestly
pressed.
Hector D. Lane, commissioner of
agriculture of Alabama, has issued
call for a meeting of southern cotton
growers, to convene at Montgomery,
Ala., November 13th, to discuss the
causes leading to the present depressed
condition of the cotton market.
Captain Robert B. Pegram, formerly
in the United States and Confederate
navies, died at Norfolk Wednesday
morning, aged 83. He was in the ex
pedition to Japan in 1852 and in 1855
commanded American forces which
united with the English in operating
against pirates in Chinese waters.
The application for the appointment
of a receiver for the Lookout Mount
ain properties at Chattanoogu will
probably be heard by Chancellor Me
Connell. It now seems that all parties
will consent to the receivership plan
although it is expected that, most of
the indebtedness will be paid off with
in sixty days. ,
A wedding recently occurred near
Murphy, N. C., that is puzzlin
great many people. Last spring Mr.
Steve Miller’s wife died, leaving him
with several small children. Last
Sunday he married his mother in-law,
which now makes him his own father-
in-law and a grandfather to his own
children.
The Capitol Fertilizer Company’s
building at Jackson, Miss., was totally
destroyed by fire Wednesday night.
Insurance on building, $2,800. There
was $9,000 worth of stock in the build
ing, one-llalf of which was destroyed,
the other half being non-combustible.
There was no insurance on the stock
The company will at once rebuild.
The thirty-fourth annual state fair
of North Carolina opened at Raleigh
Tuesday under most auspicious cir
cumstances with perfect weather and
by far the largest and most meritorious
exhibits ever made iu North Carolina.
Governor Carr formally opened the
fair after an introduction by Julian S.
Carr, president of the State Agricul
tural Society. Afterwards Dr. J. L.
M. Curry delivered an able address.
The Rome railroad, of Georgia,
known to the railroad world as the
“Riverside route,” haB changed hands.
It is now the property of the Nash
ville. Chattanooga and St. Louis, and
after the 1st of November will be op
erated by this sy tern under full control.
The Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis has bought nearly every dollar
of the stock of the road and comes into
absolute control of the property, there
being only seven shares out of the 2,-
500 that do not belong.
A sensation iu political circles in
Kentucky has been created by the
democrats at Winchester, endorsing
the democratic ticket in the eisrlith
district of Kentucky and the county of
Clark, drawing up resolutions calling
upon the members of the next-legisla
ture from Elliott and Carter counties
to vote, ior Breckinridge for United
States senator. Captain B. A. J racy,
iu introducing Breckinridge, presented
him ns the “next United States senator
from Kentucky.”
For several months negotiations have
been pending at Meridian, Miss.,
looking to tbe location of a large iron
manufacturing concern ~ frhich em
braces, consolidated, the Ivans Manu
facturing .Company, of New Orleans,
nnd the Hudnut Iron Company, of Big
Bapids, Mich., which will be known as
the Interstate Iron Works Company,'
capitalized at $50,000. Tins' new en-'
terprise will manufacture compress
pulleys, rojie, lead, dredges, etc., and
will give employment to a large force
of skilled labor.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Tho Industrial Situation as Reported
for tiie Past Week. . .
The report on the industrial condition of the
south for the past week says: The output of
pig iron continues on a large rcale, and prices
are fairly well maintatted. 'While no large
transactiorfe are reported,. the aggregate of.
medium and small orders is sufficient.-to pre
vent accumulation of stocks in the yards. The
t-'outnern coal operators arc doing a- satisfac
tory amount of business. The lumber market
i3 slowing improv.ng as to prices, and 'the good
effects of associations of manufacturers, ara
beginning tr be seen. Low priced gotten ,fs
preventing aa increase in the volume of mer
cantile business. Money is easy, tut collections
are somewhat slow. : _
Thirty-eight new industries were incorporated
or established during the week, prominent
among which are: The lioanoke Bapids Power
Co., of Norjh Carolina, -capital- $2,000 000; a
$200,000 brewery'at Jacksonville; Fia.;a 500:
barrel il luring mill, 200 barrel corn mill/eleva
tor,etc!. at'Honston, Tea., and a $100 000 fer
tilizer factory at Spartanburg, S. C. Car works
with $100,000 cipital are, reported- at Fort
Worth, Texas; a $30,000 medicine .company
at Hillsboro, Texas; a $25,000 lumber company
at Stuttgart, Ark.; one witl; $20,000 capital-at
Taylor, Tex-; cot Ion mills at Carroll ton, Ga.,
and Morganton, N. C., and a'$10,000 tannery at
Bnford, Ga. v
' Brick works are to be established at Kinston,
N. C., an electrical plant at Greenup, Ky., fl nr
and grist mills at Huntlind sud K-ttle ’Mills,
Tenn.. and foundries and machine sliop- vt
Elberton. Ga., Alexandria. La., and Hunting-
ton W. Ya ; ice factories will he built at Jack
sonville and Lakeland, Fla, and Patterson, La.;
oil mills at Alexander City, Ala, and Morriiton,
Ark., and woodworking plants at Glendon and
Jemison, Ala., Tamp:, Fla.. Tal aponsa, Ga.,
High Point and Flat Bock, N. G., Hstfiesbnrg,
Miss., Jackson Tenn. - Taylor, . Tex., and
Moundsville, W,. Va.
Waterworks are to be built at Abbevillo, .Au
gusta and Dawson, Ga., Lexington,' Ky., and
Brenham,-Texas,. „, .- *
- -The hew buildings for the week, as reported,
include a $30,000 business house at Dainviile,
Va ; .one to cost $19,000 at Lou sville. Ky-, and
o' hers at Tampa. Fla., Winchester, Ky.. and
Huntington, W. Va ; a market liopse at Talla
hassee, Fla; residences at uouisvill-, Kv-,
and Asheville, N. C., and a warehouse a" Loms-
Ky.—Trad-sman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Carl Browne Again in Trouble.
Carl Browne, the Coxeyite, who
tried to make a speech from the steps
of the sub-treasury, is now in police
headquarters at New York, a prisoner.
Browne applied to the authorities for
permission to lead a C’oxey parade
through Wall street. A permit was
refused. He, however, attempted to
carry out his program in spite of op
position, and was promptly arrested.
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
HE TELLS HOW HIS HU?.2BLE PAS
TOR WAS “IMPOSED” UPON
And Talks of Society, in General and
Church-Society in Particular^ :
In every community that* dfos. population
targe enough to divide there are circles of soci
ety. circles of politics, circles of secret asaooia-
lions and circles of the church. The firsthand
last.named especially embrace ’trie w^ves imd
daughters of the coMmunitv. _ ^omen make up
society and are more particular than men-nbwfc
who they admit into their circle- These circles
are graded like the pupils of a public school—
graded according to wealth or education or oc
cupation. The div din" lines are not'fixed nor
well de fined,for sometimes a poor woman who is
smart and well mannered and of good family is
admitted into a higher circle. I know a very
bright and beautiful lady who oice was 'rich,
but is now a milliner, and yet- she ia never
omitted, never slighted by the charmed circle
as it is cabled. She mingles freely with those
above her and those below her. ThiB is the trib
ute that all classes pay to refinement and good
breeding. A good woman who has been well
raised and has a good education can live iu a
place that is higher than the aristocracy of
wealth. She has more social influence in the
chutch or out of it than all tho swells whose
diamonds are iheir chief passport, and when
slie dies she has more mourner* at her funeral.
But I was luminating about the church soci
ety—the good will and charity that prevails in
church circles among all its member*. If they
don’t mingle together on wet k days they do on
Sundays, for the eharity the church teaches
brings all its members on a level.
Among Christians (T don’t mean pretenders
or hypocrites) there is no aristocracy. A soul
is a soul and tho humblest on earth will take
the highest place in heaven. I am not going
to preach, n sermon. These thoughts were pro-
v» ked by a littlo episode that happened in our
church last week- f)ur. preacher and his sister
went to keeping house. They d;d°nt have much
to start on, and we were behind with his salary.
Our country churches are always behind. For
forty years I have been hunting* for a churchy
that was not behind. So it was whispered
ai onn'd that orir preacher had to borrow money
lo buy a co king stovo and lie dident have no
more furniture than Elisha had in his littlo
room that the Shunamito woman.ti.cd up for
him by tho wall. He is a feort of Half yankee—
born north and educated routli, and liis sister
has been teaching school up there. He is smart
and handsome and humble and tho most devo
ted man in Ills calling I ever saw. Tho poorest
people in tho town and vicinity know him, tor
he has been to see them, and everybo lv loves
him just because he loves everybody. He owes
a balance on his education and has gono in
lebt for some books, but we didenfc know it.
All of a sudden wo fiqpiul out that he was dis
tressed financially. We told him, when he cam.)
that if the Lord would keep him humble we
ould keep him poor. But at last our church
people became aroused. Tho ladies improyis d
a donation party and tho men liusri. d around
and raised his back pay and so last Friday even
ing tho good things began to roll into the prea- h-
house. Tiie ladies of the town sent flour
and coffco and tea and rice and oatmeal and
sugar and 53 rup and cannd goods and some
fiirnitiue and everything else marly and tho
ountry members sent chickens and turkeys
and lots of potatoes and pickles and jellies and
all sorts of good things even down k popcorn
and persimmons from the children. I never
saw tiie like for two people.. Wfe arc' afraid he
will quit preaching and • pen a family groceiy.
When the first load came he told the drayman
it was a mistake—he liadent ordered any sccli
things and lie must tal e them -back. But tho
drayman t-mi/ed a smile and said; “I is gwine
to leave em here anyhow—dat’s what dey tole
me,” and leave them he did. Soon another
lead came and then another and there was
nobody’s name on anything. The poor man
was bewildered. He had just bought a twenty-
five pound sack of flour and hero were 250
-pounds more. “What did hd F'aj r* I asked of
a drayman. “He never said nothin’, Lut ho
looked sorter imposed on.” That night our
people began to drop in on tho parsonago una
wares and by 8 o’clock the home was full of
men, women children. They found a hearty
welcome, though they wero not- asked to take a
eat, f6r seats w( re* scarce. Everybody v as
happy, for they had done a good deed, and
deeds always make us happy. J ho ladies slip
ped a purse of $20 in the sisters’s hand and the
jen another purse of $80 in the preacher’s
hand, which was enough to piy his,back salary,
and then we bade them good-night with good
wishes, and all went home, where tlieio were
chairs enough to go round. 'J hat’s the way to
do the preachers. It lifts him up and renews
his zeal and increases his faith. I’ll bet there
n’t another preacher in ihe state who dares to
be like ours in one respect. He dares to play
baseball with the boys and is by far the best
player in the town, for ho was captain of a
team in college and likes the sport. “No v
boys, said he, “I will bo glad to play with
you, but you must .promise not to use an oa'.h
nor an unkind -of ungentl’emanly expression
during the game*” And they promised.
After the game was<*yer lie thanked them and
invited them.so cordially to come out to prayer
meeting thatSlight that they went. His gentle
influence over our town- boys is always for
their good. They respoct him and admire him
and go to preaching more then' has been their
custom. And Paul said unto Timothy: “My
son, magnify thine office.” Our preacher dig
nifies his offico and dignifies the pul
pit .and inspires reverence for the sa
cred place. Our preacher can beat any
body marrying anybody except himself thnfc
~ ever heard. But he is young yet and' will find
help-mate in the. sweet by and by if not be
fore. Preachers.and doctors have lo be mar
ried’to bo a grand stfdfeis. Saving life and
saving. Fouls are tho highest callings in tho
world, and if people dident get nnrried there
wofildenfc be. aoy fit tb'b*e sav -d. Ev;-ry unmar-
riedt*nan who has fra-sed' five meridian of life
la 'a comparative 'riribjve,;. He is incomplete.
HeT&a’smp?cp.and Has to be watched.: David
Bennett riliil may get. fo be president, but he is
incomplete, 'fc’o'was Buchanan and Fillmore.
I he''first lady- of the land should be a presi
dent’s wife—not' his niece. But a preacher
should be very ; careful in h s choice for the poor
woman will bo. .criticised as much as her hus
band, and woii’t have- any chance to fight back
.iu the prilpit ^ »-SUc sliouldent be a leader of so-
cfeVy—that -i»,-of. its fashions and frivolities.
But she-sbquTd'be Social, cheerful and bright.
-Nobody lik^k a ffteek and sad-eyed woman. I
know krinfnipter in a distant city who married
a very -fashionable^ woman and it hurt his in
fluence in the cRuccb,
But still a minister’s wife may cmil©
Once or twice in-a while,
And still be. a woman without guile.
— Bill Aep in Atlanta Constitution.
Cheer others on this earth if you*
wish to lay claim on a bright hereafter,',-
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