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TH E ' VIENNA PROG It ,ES8. — - -J - J -mw .L, ■■■■ ■ " ■ - —* eg——- ■ - - ■ TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” t JOHN E. HO WELL, Editor and Proprietor, vor, xur. no. i<>. VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1891. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 1 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. ” i 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. c 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. NORTH GEORGIA ^cultural College, DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, At Dahlonega, Georgia. Spring term begins first Monday In February. Fall term begins first Monday in September. FULL LITERARY COURSES. TUITION FREE ;) With ample corps of teachers. THROUGH MILITARY TRAINING under a 17. S. Army Officer detailed by Secretary of war. Departments of Business, Short hand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Music and Art. Under compttent and thorough instructors. YOUKG LADIES have equal advantages. CHEAPEST DOILEGE18 THE SOUTH For catalogues and full'Information ad dress Secretary or Treasurer Gf 3o*rd Trustees,