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VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1891.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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Mexico, ■with 7200 schools, can’1
quite be called an unprogressire coun
try, maintains the New York Recorder.
Our successful dairy farmers an
placing more and more dependence
upon the silo, declares the New Eng
land Farmer.
After a thorough review of recent
experiments the New York Sun’s ver
dict is that “artificial rain making is
not a very great success anywhere. ”
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Meat is said to be shipped into Salt
Lake City, Utah, more than a thousand
miles west of its point of slaughter
and in the heart of the range country,
and where sheep are at their cheapest.
In an interview in an English
weekly paper Ben Davies, the great
Welsh tenor, says: “From the musi
cal point of view I must confess that
the American people are considerably
in advance of us.”
TIIE CZAR DEAD.
PASSES AWAY AT LI Y ADI A SUR-
KOl'SDED BY HIS FAMILY.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS..
THE NEW CZ VP.
Recent experiments in England
would seem to the New York World to
indicate that in the not distant future
each farm house will havo its electric
lights, the electricity' therefor being
furnished by a little wind-mill.
Nothing, in the estimation of the
New York Independent, could more
conclusively show that the Chinaman
is indeed an “outside” barbarian than
the fact that in the recent combats in
Seoul the Chinese tired upon a Japan
ese ambulance carrying men who wore
the Geneva cross. They killed a doc
tor and some hospital attendants.
Sir John Lubbock, in arguing in
behalf of international arbitration,
made the following statement: “One-
third of the national income of Great
Britain is Bpent in paying for past in
come, another third is spent in getting
ready for future wars, and only oue-
tliird remains to discharge present ob
ligations and set forward the nation
in the way of progress.” The waste
fulness of war is apparent.
The AYorcester (Mass.) Spy has the
following : Many Northwestern farm
ers have become thoroughly tired of
enduring the trials to which their un
certain climate subjects them, and are
turning their oye3 toward the South
ns'tha land of promise. A large num
ber of Nevada stockfarmersand dairy
men are preparing to move to North
Carolina and purchase farms in locali
ties suited to their avocations.
The New York Tribune observes:
“Cromwell died 236 years ago con
scious of the renown which awaited
him, but probably not foreseeing all
its manifestations. If he could have
had a forecast that the flag at Atlantic
Highlands, N. J., would be set at
—--half-iCast 23G years afterward, to com
memorate his exeqny, it would very
likely have lent a spirit of peace to
his going forth which the occasion
actually lacked, notwithstanding that
he carried his crown of achievement
into the still kingdom with him and
held his subject realm in the hollow
of his hand till the last. It was really
a complimentary demonstration m
honor of the memory of the great
usurper, and whoever engineered it
ought to have a medal of hippo
potamus hide.”
Australian fresh meats are begin
ning to seek new outlets on the con
tinent of Europe and in provinces ol
the United Kingdom. That far ofl
island continent has made such rapid
progress in the last few years in the
export of meats in refrigerators that
English dealers begin to fear the
home markets will bo glutted! For
this reason, according to the American
Agriculturist, they insist that in ordei
to avoid serious loss new markets must
be found for their frozen meat in
dustry. There is more or less preju
dice on the part of consumers against
frozen meats, and this is another
feature with which the trade is obliged
to contend, yet the exports from
Australia have increased enormously
during the last few years. Including
beef, mutton and other meats not
preserved by being salted, the United
Kingdom imported in 1893 a total ol
67,800,000 pounds from the country
named against 43,800.000 pounds in
1S92 and 22,400,000 pounds in 1890.
Czarowltch Nicholas II Now Succeeds
to the Throne.
A special from Livadia states that
the czar died at 3 o’clock Thursday
afternoon. The death of the czar was
fnrther^confirmed by dispatches from
Livadia to the Westminster Gazette,
(London) which paper appeared on
the streets with turned column rules.
FLOT TO KILL THE CZAROWITCH.
According to a special dispatch re
ceived from St. Petersburg a conspir
acy rgainst the life of the cznrowitch
has been discovered there. It is added [ body will be conveyed aboard the im-
lliat, for several days past, the police i>eria! yacht, Polar Star, to Odessa. It
have been actively engaged in arrest- will be escorted by the whole Black
ing nihilists. Among those arrested sea fleet, which has orders to assemble
are several students. The police have at once ofl' Yalta. From Odessa the
also obtained possession of incriminat- j body will be taken on a special train
to St. Petersburg, and will be placed
in the cathedral of Sts. Peter and
Paul. The final ceremonies will he
held probably in about two weeks.
THE NEW CZAR, NICHOLAS II.
Now all Europe is asking about Al
exander’s successor. There is even
i more contradiction in the reports about
| him than in those about his father. It
1 is alleged that he is open hearted, lib-
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Our Readers.
documents.
THE STORY OF HIS LIFE.
Alexander III, the dead Czar of
Russia, was the son of the assassinated
Alexander II, who was the son of Nico
las I, who was the brother of his pre
decessor Alexander I and son of Crazy
Paul, who was the son of licentious
Catharine whose husband was the
stupid and brutal Peter III. Beyond
Governor Waite, of Colorado, spoke
to a crowd of 10,000 people on the lake
front, in Chicago, Snnday, in behalf J of Phil Kearney
of the populist candidates.
An asylum for the insane at Joen-
koeping, Sweden, has been destroyed
by fire. Fifteen of ihe inmates of the
institution were burned to death.
Captain Dreyfus, an officer in the
French army, has been arrested for
treason, it being alleged that he has
sold plans of frontier forts to the Ital
ian war office.
As a result of the crusade against
the bucket Ehops inaugurated at Pitts
burg, Pa., two of these concerns have
already gone out of business and oth
ers are expected to follow.
Three persons were killed and a
dozen were injured at Foster, Pa., on
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern railroad Wednesday. The accident
was caused by an open switch.
The Weavers of Osborn mill No. 2,
minister at Washington, received the
following telegram Wedutsday morn
ing from the foreign office at St. Pe
tersburg, concerning the condition of
the czar. “Yesterday the expectora
tion with blood continued; chills;
temperature 100; pulse 90; rather
weak; breathing difficult; little appe
tite ; great weakness; oedema consid
erably increased. ”
The charges publicly made by De
partment Commander Watrous, of the
Grand Army of the Republic of Mil
waukee, with reference to the conduct
post, of Richmond,
Vn., in misdirecting the funds contri
buted by the veterans to defray the
expenses of decorating gravesof Union
soldiers in the south, have resulted in
investigation being institued by
THE LATEST BY WIRE (FRO M WASHINGTON
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO TIIE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Brief Mention of Dally Happenings
Throughout the World.
Four men held up a Btreet ear in
Chicago Thursday and robbed the pas
sengers.
The directors of the Pennsylvania
railroad declared a semi-annual divi
dend of 24 per cent.
Charles Wilkinson, a social leader in
_ Huntington, W. Ya., and assistant
Commander in Chief Lawler, as direct- cashier of the First National bank, is
charggd with stealing $10, ■' 09 from the
bank.''”
ed by the national encampment.
William Reardon, in criminal court
at Pittsburg, Pa., Tuesday, raised a
point of law which amounts to a legal
sensation. He was defending a man
charged with perjury, for falsely
swearing to the age of the woman he
married, and Mr. Reardon moved to
quash the indictment on the gronud
that there was no such offense under
the law, as the marriage license act
was not in force and no license was
required to be taken out by parties
who desired to he married.
A dispatch from Muskogee, I. T.,
Two men were killed Thursday and
one man fatally injured by falling
from the seventh story of a building in
St. Louis. A plank in the scaffolding
fell.
Mrs. Thomas H. Wicks, wife of the
second vice president of the Pullman
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Hearts of the Government.
Judge Cole has dismissed the peti
tion for habeas corpus in the ease of
Smith, the stamp robber, and remand
ed him to jail for trial.
Bids for the erection of the Rome,
Ga., public building were opened at
the treasury department Wednesday.
E. F. Dodson, of Minneapolis, Minn.,
was the lowest bidder at $24,606.
James P. Willett was appointed
postmaster of Washington Tuesday by
President Cleveland. He is a member
of a well known firm of hatters and a
life-long resident of Washington. He
has been one of the leaders of the dis
trict democracy.
B. F. Remingtonn, inspector of pub
lic buildings has just completed
: Falace Car company, has filed a bill examination of the Chattanooga cus-
at Fall River, Mass., struck Wednes- I “ ys: Ch f rl< ? Beck wifh twenty In-
Onv in wanes and ■ 'Ban deputy sheriffs, has captured hv,
ALEXANDER III, AUTOCRAT OF RUSSIA, WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED THURSDAY.
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A Telephone in Church.
Supporters of the telephone system
in Birmingham can now be placed in
communication with Christ Chureh in
that city, and practically take part in
the service. The telephone wire runs
right into the pulpit, and the listen
ers at the other end of the system can
hear the tolling of the bell, the pray-
tlie responses, the singing and
j » sermon. Even casual coughing
long the congregation can be dis-
uguisbed. There are many classes
persons on whom this new depor-
reat boon. The sick
eral and progressive, and with equal
force that he is too stupid to have any
marked characteristics and will be
ruled by his counsellors and priests.
It is agreed, however, that he is very
devoted to his mother, temperate aud
chaste aud studious, and so it is takeu
for granted that, so far as he is influ
enced at all, it will be chiefly by his
mother and wife.
It is understood that Czar Nicholas
II will be proclaimed at once; that the
Grand Duke George, Alexander Ill’s
second son, now ill in the Caucasus,
will be declared the heir, and that the
troops and state officials will take the
oath of loyalty and allegiance on Sat
urday.
this the genealogy is subject to ques
tion, but of the seven imperial person
ages here noted Peter III was de
throned and imprisoned and finally
murdered by order of his wife. Cath
arine died in a fit brought on by exces
ses, Crazy Paul was murdered by a
cable of his nobles, Nicholas died of
chagrin, and Alexander II was blown
iuto eternity by a nihilist bomb. The
family has always been eccentric.
Nominally the imperial line begins
with Michael Feodorovitch Romauoff,
whom the Russian nobles made czar in
1613 in sheer desperation over the pro
longed civil wars.
Alexander III. was a man of remark
able physical force, lie stood 6 feet
4 inches in his stockings, and it is told
him that he could take a silver coin
of the size of a dollar and double it
between his thumbs and forefingers.
When, in 1888, his train was wrecked
and a number of persons were killed,
it is said he saved those who were in
the same compartment with him from
injury and perhaps death by support
ing a portion of the fallen roof with
his shoulders till assistance came.
A MODEL FAMILY MAN.
Of his children the czar, as a model
family man, was very fond, and many'
stories are told of the methods he used
to adopt to give them pleasure. He
was very fond of amateur theatricals,
and was never happier than when get
ting up play's in which his children
were to figure as actors. Like Chailes
Dickens, he got an amazing amount
of employment out of the details of
improvising play, wardrobe, curtain
and every accessory out of ordinary
materials and in the face of serious
difficulties. In religiou he was a thor
ough bigot. He never once doubted
that he was the Lord’s anointed, rul
ing all Bussia and her subject prov- ^
inces by divine right, and that Jews, ; our immunity from disease and pe6ti-
Stundists, Mennonites aud others who i lence, for the harvests that have re
did not implicitly obey his directions
were in rebellion against God and de
serving of little consideration. The
Romauons have always been given to
a sort of brutal devotion, and tbe nat-
DAY OF THANKS.
The President’s Proclamation Names
November 29th.
President Cleveland issued the fol
lowing proclamstion Wednesday:
“The American people should grate
fully reuder thanksgiving and praise
to the Supreme Ruler of the universe,
who has watched over them with kind
ness and fostering care during the
year that has passed; they should also
with humility and faith supplicate the
father of all mercies for continued
blessings according to their needs, and
they should, by deeds of charity, seek
the favor of the giver of every good
and perfect gift. Therefore, I, Grover
Cleveland, president of the United
States, do hereby appoint and set
apart Thursday, the 29th day of No
vember, instant, as a day of thanks
giving and prayer to be kept and ob
served by all the people of the land.
“On that day let onr ordinary work
and business bo suspended and let us
meet in onr accustomed places of wor
ship and give thanks to Almighty God
for our preservation as a nation, for
ural bent of Alexander's mind was in
tensified by the teachings of his tutor,
M. Pobiedonotsoff, in later years the
much feared chief of the holy synod of
the Russian church.
He was also au uutiriug worker, got
down to his desk as a rule by 8 a. m.,
and went resolutely through official
papers till 1 p. m. 'Then he had a
light lunch aud took recreation and
read till a 6 o’clock dinner. He often
wrote severe comments on the mar
gins or papers presented to him, and
these were glazed over to preserve
them in the royal archives.
He was a man of unflinching cour
age. He proved this in the last war
between Russia and Turkey, and
though during his entire reign he was
: n constant expectation of being mur
dered he never hesitated to show him-
t > _e confers a
'' p% ^Hnd bedridden, who have long been
prevented from attending any place
of worship, can now be present, if not ’ self to his people when he thought the
in the flesh, in the hearing. — 'lew [ occasion demanded it, and he often-
York Telegram. j times was accounted even rash in his
manner of doing this. For instance,
on several occasions when members of
his household died and notably when
his-English nurse passed away, he at
tended the funeral services like any
common persoD, following the hearse
on foot.
THE BODY TO BE EMBALMED.
The body will be embalmed at Liva
dia and will be exposed in the palace
chapel for a day or two. According
to the tentative arrangements mads the
His Tomb a Miniature Church.
Dr. Woodward, of Sun Prairie,
Wis., has ordered a monument for
himself at Madison. It is to be a
miniature church in granite. It will
be erected on private property Heal
ths doctor’s residence, and he will be
buried there when he dies.—Chicago
Herald,
warded onr husbandry, for a renewal
of national prosperity and for every
ndvance in virtue and intelligence
that have marked our growth as a peo
ple.
“And with our thanksgiving let us
pray that these blessings may be
multiplied into us that our national
conscience may be quickened to a bet
ter recognition of the power and good
ness of God and that in our national
life we may clearer see and closer fol
low the path of righteousness.
“And in our places of worship and
praise, as well as in the happy reun
ions of kindred and friends on that
day, let us invoke divine approval by
generously remembering the poor and
needy. Surely He who has given ns
comfort and plenty will look upon onr
relief of the destitute and onr minis
trations of charity as the work of
hearts truly grateful and as proofs of
the sincerity of onr thanksgiving.
“Witness my hand and seal of the
United States, which I have caused to
be hereunto affixed.
“Done in the city of Washington on
the 1st day of November, in the year
of onr Lord 1894, and of the inde
day against a reduction in wages and
an attempt to have them run six and
eight looms on wide and fine goods.
The steamer Tormes struck Crow
Rock, near Milford Haven, Wednes
day night* Twenty-one men, includ
ing the captain and officers, were
drowned. Seven of the crew were
saved.
A reduction of 20 per cent, went
into effect Thursday at the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company’s shops at
Weatherly, Fa. The men were given
the alternative of accepting it or re
maining idle.
The judges of the Seine sssizes at
Paris without a jury pronounced con
demnation in default upon Henri
Eocheforte, sentencing him to three
months’ imprisonment for having pub
lished an article in The Iutransigeant
insulting the judiciary.
The statement is made at police
headquarters at New York that the
grand jury had found indictments
against Police Captain Stephenson and
Wnrdmen Glennon, Burns and Smith,
upon evidence brought out before the
Lexow committee. The specific
charge, it is said, is blackmail,
Honore Mercier, ex-premier of Que
bec, died at Montreal Tuesday morn
ing. The end had been expected any
time during the preceding twenty-
four bouts and all hope of recovery
was given up weeks ago. Mr. Mercier
had been suffering from a complication
of diseases for years past, diabetes
predominating.
The auditor has concluded the ex
amination of the affairs of the Normal
Park Loan Association at Sprinfield,
111., of which the late F. W. Porter
was secretary, Porter also having been
the auditor of the Rock Island rail
road. The examination developed the
fact that Porter was a defaulter to the
sum of $23,000.
Two dynamite bombs, filled with
scrap iron, were exploded outside of
two of the police stations in Milan
Wednesday evening. The fronts of
the buildings were wrecked, hut fortu
nately, no one was hurt. It is sup
posed the outrages were committed in
consequence of the recent suppression
of revolutionary societies.
A special from Iron Mouutain,
Mich., says: The work of rescuing
the imprisoned miners at the Pewabie
was accomplished between 6 and 7
o’clock Monday morning, and they
were hoisted to the surface without a
mark, after having been entombed for
more than forty-three hours. There is
great rejoicing in the community.
The superior court Tuesday took up
a novel case at Raleigh, N. C., that of
a girl against Raleigh for $10,000
damages for the loss of an eye. This
was due to the fall of a skyrocket dur
ing the celebration of the city centen
nial two years ago. The girl was a
ejiectator, and while sitting on the
steps of a church, a rocket fell aud
strnck her.
Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, corre
sponding secretary of theW. C. T. U.,
died at Chicago Monday. Mrs.Wood-
bridge was known as Miss Willard’s
right arm, and her death is the direct
result of overwork. The disease from
which she died is termed embolism.
Her health was exceedingly good up
to a few days ago, and she died before
her friends realized that she was reallv
sick.
United States Senator Gibson was
made the victim of a decided snub at
a democratic mass meeting at his home
at Easton, Md. The meeting was
completely captured by the auti-Gib-
sonites, and though the senator was
present, he kept his seat in the audi
ence, and was not even invited to the
platform. To make the slight more
pronounced, the meeting elected anti-
Gibson officers.
The Spanish cabinet resigned Tues
day because the ministers could Dot
agree as to several measures to be in
troduced in the coming session of the
cortes, most notably the proposal to
restore the tariff. Queen Regent Chris
tiana accepted the resignations, but is
understood to have requested Senor
Sagasta to form a new cabinet. Shonld
he consent, several of his late col
leagues will join him.
A dispatch to the Central News from I
Tien-Tsiu says: The Peking Mercury j
learns that the emperor is intensely
angry with the existing condition cif j
things and determines to investigate i
affairs personally. Accordingly, he is
summoning the viceroys, governors
and other officials before' him. It i- !
asserted that he intends to learn why a
small country like Japan cannot he
exterminated.
Charles Morganfield, the alleged
train robber, is making a fight at Cin
of the Cook gang of outlaws. The
men under arrest are Joseph Johnson,
Moses Price, Dick Reynolds, Jim
Bates and Lon Perry. The capture
was made midway between Wagoner
and Muskogee. Tbe rest of the gang
are in hiding near Wagoner, and the
Indian police, sheriffs nod deputy
United (States marshals are scouring
the swamps. It is believed the remain
ing outlaws will soon be under arrest.
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
The carriage factory of J. Thomp
son A Bro,, at New Orleans, was burn
ed Tuesday morning. Loss, $25,000;
insurance, $20,000. Other property
was damaged.
The Brandt Furniture company of
Memphis, Tenu., through L, D. Har
ris, made an assignment Wednesday.
Liabilities about $40,000; stock and
other assets $50,000. The creditors
are mostly foreign.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says;
Governor-elect Oates hnR gratified the
ffiends of Captain Harvey Jones
greatly by announcing that the gen
tleman would be the chief secretary in
his office upon his inauguration. Cap
tain Jone3 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 staff; 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.
All the union bricklayers in Jack
sonville, Fla., struck Tuesday for $3
per day for nine hours’ work. They
have l een working ten hours at pri
vate terms. Contractors on a number
of prominent buildings nre not dis
turbed in the least, being sanguine
that they can fill the men’s places with
ease. There was no trouble in con
nection with the strike, and none is
expected.
The complainant in the litigation
against the Lookont Mountain Consol
idated Company applied to the chan
cery court at Chattanooga, Tuesday
morning for a decree declaring the
suit recently instituted a general cred
itor’s bill, aud for an order on all
creditors to file their claims in the
cause. They also moved for the ap
pointment of a receiver by the court
and presented au amended bill in which
additional complainants asked to be
allowed to become parties to the orig
inal bill.
A Columbia, S. C., special of Tues
day says: The anti-Tillman papers
have published a report that Governor
Tillman had instructed the county
chairmen to drive voters away from
the polls next Tuesday, aud if neces
sary in doing so, to cali upon sheriffs
and constables. It was further stated
that in Darlington county especially,
and other counties, that Tillmanite
military companies would be available
to assist in thi3 scheme. Dr. Samps
Pope, the independent candidate for
governor, in reference to this report
issued a stirring manifesto to the voters
of the state.
CAPRIVI’S RESIGNATION
Caused a Shook of Astonislimen
Throughout Europe.
A cable dispatch from Berlin says:
Europe has not yet recovered from the
shock of surprise at Chancellor Capri-
vi’s resignation, which was entirely
unexpected. Count Yon Cuprivi hat
been heard to say, “I am disgusted.”
Friday he had a very lively explana
tion with the Emperor, who, having
heard at Liebenburg of the Cologne
Gazette's attack on Count Eulenbnig,
had telegraphed inquiries made as t
its source of inspiration, which w
traced to C’aprivi.
upon ordered Caprivi to ask Eni
burg’s pardon. On his refusing, tbe
Emperor dismissed him abrantlv.
of divorce at Chicago, alleging cruelty.
She says Wicks has repeatedly beaten,
struck and kicked her.
On account of lack of mucilage on
them the third assistant postmaster
general has ordered the destruction of
thousands of the first issue of postage
stamps turned out by the bureau of
engraving and printing.
The West Winfield bank, at West
Winfield, N. Y., was entered by bur
glars Wednesday night. The outer
door of the safe was blown open, but
the inside safe containing the money
and other securities was not opened.
The loss is less than $1,000.
Twenty boys celebrating hol'oweeu
halted in front of Mr. Haywood’s
home in Independence, Mo., at mid
night. Haywood raised a window and
fired both barrels of a shot gun into
the crowd and the result was that five
boys were dangerously wounded.
The United States steamer Petrel
sailed from Nagasaki Wednesday for
Che Foo, leaving no American warship
in Japanese waters. Tbe Baltimore
and Charleston, the two largest cruis
ers of the American squadron, nre at
Cheinulgo; the Monocaey is nt Tieu-
Tsin and the Concord at Shanghai.
Che Foo, the destination of the Pet
rel, is on the Shantung promontory, a
short distance from the great Chinese
arsenal at Wei-hai-Wei.
The board of convict managers of
Alabama met at Montgomery Thurs
day to determine what course they
should pursue in the matter of renew
ing the convict least s. Bids had been
advertised for and some good offers
were made, but in view of the fact
that the meeting of the general assem
bly was so close nt hand it was con
sidered best to await the action of that
body before any further Bteps should
be taken by the commission.
The Bissell accommodation train
leaving Pittsburg, Pa., on the Balti
more and Ohio at 9:25 o’clock p. m.,
collided with the rear of the Baltimore
express train No. 10, standing on the
main track near Rankin station,
twelve miles out, Thursday night.
Engineer P. C. Brainard, of the accom
modation, was instantly killed and his
fireman, Frank Cunningham was, per
haps, fatally injured. None of the pas
sengers on either train were injured.
The bolting Nebraska democrats won
a great victory at Omaha Thursday,
and as a result the nominees of the
convention known as the “rump” will
appear on the official ballot as straight
democrats. This was the determina
tion of the county clerk and a suit in
the district court to compel the doing
of this was decided in his favor. Since
the bnttle ground is Omaha this is re
garded as a great victory for that ele
ment.
A special cabinet council was held
at Paris Thursday to consider the case
of Captain Albert Dreyfus, who is now
tinder nrrest and cohfined in the mili
tary prison on a charge of high treason
in having sold information in regard
to the plans of the frontier fortifica
tions to agents of Italian government,
and having also divulged the plans for
mobilizing the French army in the
event of war. It is the general opin
ion that Captain Dreyfus will be shot
after the formality of a courtmartial
has been gone through with.
The case of John Greenongh agaiust
the Alabama Great Southern Railroad
company, asking for an injunction to
restrain the company from electing as
directors of said road men who are al
leged to be non stockholders, which
was docketed to come up for hearing
before Judge Bruce, United States
court, at Birmingham Thursday, has
been postponed until December 3d.
Meanwhile the restraining order issued
by Judge Bruce at the recent stock
holders’ meeting of the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad company holds
good.
A SHIP WRECKED.
And Seventy-Eight Souls go Down
on the Deep.
A special from Auckland, New Zea
land, says: Further particulars in re
gard to the wreck of the Union line
steamship Wairarapa, Captain McIn
tosh, bound from Sydney, N. S. W.,
for this port, which was wrecked on
Sunday night off Great Barrier Island,
on the northeast coast of New Zealand,
show that Captain McIntosh, 58 pas
sengers and 20 of the steamship’s crew
were drowned.
Notified of a Reduction.
The following notice was posted
Thursday morning in the iron works
mills at Fall River: “Notice is here-
The Kaiser tlie/e- by given that a reduction will be made
in wages of operatives employed by
this corporation to take effect Monday,
November 5th. At the same time, to
accommodate our method of ]>ayment
under the particulars bill, weaving will
be paid for by the pound, instead of
by the piece.”
pendence of the United States, the ' inEati a f inst the i dams Ex Pf BS
one hundred and nineteenth I Company to recover the money taken
from him at the time he was arrested.
It is claimed that the express company
cannot identify the money as ever
an-
one hundred and nineteenth.
(Signed) “Grover Cleveland.
“By the-President:
"W. Q. Gbesham, Secretary of State. ” | j— 7o
Cash for Depositors.
The comptroller of the eurrency has
declared a third dividend of 5 per cent
in favor of the creditors of the First
Rational ban£ of Palatka, Fla.
field’s attorneys say they are armed i
with abundant proof that their client
was not engaged in the robbery.
Prince Cantaeuzeue, {he Russian ;
Snow Falling in Nebraska.
A heavy snow began falling at Hay
Springs, Neb., Sunday morning, and
continued with little interruption dur
ing the day. The weather is much
colder. Stock on the range, especially •
on that part devastated last week by
prairie fires, will suffer to some extend
Tfie Empress Suicided.
A special to the New York Herald i
from Shanghai says that the young
empress of China committed suicide.
She was rebuked by the emperor, who
slapped her face, whereupon she took j work done among
poison.
Stolen Political Letters.
It has been discovered that during
the past week, while Chairman MGraw,
in charge of Mr. Wilson’s canvass,
was absent in Wheeling, the demo-
■eratic headquarters at Grafton, W.
Va., were broken into and a number
of letters from political correspondents
were stolen. One of these letters,
containing campaign secrets as to the
the miners, was
published in a Wheeling paper.
tom house, and in his report to the
treasury department he will condemn
the work of the contractors, being a
New Orleans firm, in unmeasured
terms.
The president, Wednesday, ap
pointed William M. Campbell, of St.
Paul, to be United States marshal for
the district of Minnesota, to succeed
J. Adam Bede, resigned. Mr. Camp
bell held the office duriug Mr. Cleve
land’s first administration. Mr. Bede
is the man who resigned because he
was unable to keep out of active poli
ties.
The clerks in the interior depart
ment were at work Wednesday morn
ing about as usual, with the exception
of Judge Hall’s force and a few divis
ions from the land office. No new cases
of smallpox have developed. All the
patients are rapidly improving at the
hospital. Secreturv Hoke Smith aud
many of his employes are suffering
considerably from vaccination.
Another death and an additional
ease have have resulted from the small
pox epidemic which began in the law
division of the interior department,
and the marine hospital service is in
vestigating a report that still another
death traceable to the same source has
occurred. William Owens, a young
man employed in the census office as a
messenger, died Tuesday morning from
the disease at the pest house.
The contract for dredging and im
proving the Harlem river, New York,
will be awarded to Rittenhouae R.
Moore, of Mobile, Ala., by the war de
partment. When proposals for doing
the work were opened, the bid pf Mr
Moore was found to be considerably
lower than those of his competitors,
the next lowest being that of a New
York firm. This is probably the first
time that a firm so far south has suc
ceeded in securing such a large con
tract in New York.
Secretary Herbert has ordered the
cruiser Montgomery to report at Mo
bile November Stb. The secretary
will leave Washington on the 16th,and
represent the government on the ves
sel at Mobile when the city of Mont
gomery presents a silver service to the
vessel. After the ceremony at Mobile
the Montgomery will spend a month in
the gulf testing the coal from southern
mines. She will visit New Orleans,
Galveston, Pensacola and Key West,
making Mobile bay her headquarters.
Secretary Carlisle will not make any
political speeches during the present
campaign. The secretary had a con
ference with the president Monday
morning in regard to the matter. The
secretary told the president that he
had received a very large number of
invitations to speak in different sec
tions of the country, and would very
much like to accept as many of them
as he could fill, hut there were a num
ber of important questions pending in
his department that imperatively de
manded his presence in Washington
for some weeks to come.
Tlie Debt Statement.
The debt statement issued Thursday
afternoon shows a net increase in the
public debt, less cash in the treasury,
during October of $13,680,853.
The interest bearing debt increased
$50, the non-interest bearing debt in
creased $1,101,230, and the cash in
the treasury decreased $12,579,573.58.
The balance of the several classes of
debt at the close of business Oc
tober 31st were: Interest bearing
debt, $635,042,960; debt on which in
terest has ceased since maturity,
$1,828,280; debt bearing no interest,
$381,796,476; total, $1,018,667,616.
The certificates and treasury notes off
set by an equal amount of cash in the
treasury outstanding at the end of the
month were $607,486,421, a decrease
of $4,950,049; the total cash in the
treasury was $754,546,011; the gold re
serve was $61,361,826 net cash balance
$45,978,319. In tbe month there was
an increase of gold coin and bars of
$1,948,138. The total at tbe close was
$125,613,895. Of silver there was a
decrease of $3,795,639. Of the sur
plus there was in national bank depos
itories $16,406,247, against $16,365,-
598 at the end of the preceding month.
Stopping a Runaway.
It is asserted that in Russia a horse
that is addicted to the habit of run
ning away has a thin cord with a
running noose around his neck at the
neck strap, and the end is tied to the
dash-board.. “At Rome,” says this
informant, “I saw in the Corso a
phaeton with two spirited horses
bolt. They were driven by a lady,
and I expected to see instant de
struction. But the lady coolly grasped
a thin cord and within thirty yards
the horses came to a full stop. I
afterward met the lady at Nice and
expressed surprise at the skill with ,
which she stopped the runaways.
She treated it as a trifle, and toid me i
accidents from runaway horses are 1
unknown in Russia, as no one but a
lunatic would drive without the
cord. When a horse bolts he always
takes the bit in his teeth, and tbe
skill of the driver is useless. The
moment the pressure comes on the
windpipe the horse knows he has met
his master.”—[Farm Stock and
Home.
When yon pray, “Thy kingdom
ome,” live such a life as to welcome
ij; should it come.
FIVE CENT COTTON
Discussed by Georgia Farmers at a
Convention.
An enthusiastic meeting of rejire-
sentative farmers from every section
of Georgia was held on the fair grounds
at Macon Wednesday morning to discuss
the ruinous price of cotton. Colonel
Waddell was in the chair and Mr. J.
McBryan was made secretary.
A letter from W. F. Alexander, of
Augusta, was read, giving his views on
the question.
The following paper, offered by Col
onel Tom Lyon, of Bartow, was unani
mously adopted.
COLONEL LYON’S RESOLUTION.
The present ruinous price of cotton
affects injuriously not only the farmers
who produce it but stagnates business
of every kind and paralyses efforts in
all legitimate industries. Hence the
duty is imperative upon ns to use all
honorable means to avert impending
disasters. Withont attempting to dis
cuss the various political reasons as
signed as the source for the present
fearful depression, we desire to resist
the results as we find them.
In the multitude of remedies sug
gested, we have seen none that so
strongly recommends itself as the pa
per submitted by the president of the
Georgia State Agricultural society,
Colonel John O. Waddell, in his call
for the meeting. We adopt the sali
ent points in that call and commend
them to the farmers of the cotton
growing states, and request .the dele
gates appointed from Georgia to at
tend the cotton growers convention at
Montgomery, Ala., on November 13,
to urge the suggestion ns the proper
and just solution of this vital question.
PRESIDENT HUNNICUTT’S -RESOLUTION.
The following resolution was offered
by Dr. J. B. Hunnicutt, of the state
Ticnltnrnl college: .
“That the delegates to Montgomery
be requested to do all that they can to
stop the shipments of cotton from the
farms, thus reducing the heavy re
ceipts which have a tendency to create
a wrong impression about the amount
of the present crop.”
TRADE TOPICS.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s Report of Business
for the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade
for the past week says: “Engrossing
political excitement in many of the
states causes, a natural slackening in
some kinds of business. But, on the
whole, business indications are rather
more favorable than they were last
week. Gold exports have ceased, while
a number of mills have gone into oper
ation, and the demand for products, if
not equal to that of prosperous years,
is better than it has been most of the
time this yenr. The prices of farm
products do not improve much, and
there are still some strikes to resist
reduction of wages, so that the pur
chasing power of .the people cannot
have materially increased, but there is
a more hopeful spirit which prompts
greater activity. On the other hand,
the record of past transactions are
somewhat less favorable of late. It is
interesting that, in spite of the low
price of the principal southern crop,
manufacturers and wholesale dealers
report rather more improvement in
trade with the south than with any
other section.
“In iron and steel the' west shows
weakness, while eastern markets show
more encouragement. Nothing of
consequence is doing in rails,
the deliveries for the year to Octo
ber let being only 510,000 tons, much
below ordinary requirements for re
newals. In structural works some
moderate contracts are reported, but
bar iron is extremely dull, and it is
stated that the low prices reported last
week—95 cents for iron and, $1 for
steel—have been shaded in .sprue trans
actions. There is a decline in wire
nails, $1.90 being quoted for' galvan
ized barbed and $22.50 for wire rods.
The best feature is that the heavy in
crease in the output of pig does not
yet seem to overload the market, and
there are rather less signs of pressure
to sell them of late.”
Turkish Bedrooms.
Turkish bedrooms are models of
simplicity, the beds though luxurious
ly soft and furnished with heavily
embroidered pillows, being made
upon the floor, from whence they are
swept up early in the morning by
lave girls the moment their occu
pants’ eyes are open, and stowed
away in closets, while the visitor is
left to dress himself in a room from
which all traces of night occupation
have disappeared as if by the wave of
magic hand. This does not apply
to all parts of modern Turkey. There
are progressive Mussulmans who in
dulge in brass bedsteads and French
dressing tables.
The mother in a woman makes her
beautiful.
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