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THE (’LEY EE AM) PROGRESS. ‘-•tfifc - ■ By JXO. Jt. a LEX. DETOTF.D TO THE MIXING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL J OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTIT-EAST GEORGIA. TERMS-. One Dollar Per Tear, VOL. IV. CLEVELAND. Will TE COUNTY. ( If, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER J5, 189'). NO. 4G . CAPITAL NOTES. GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON BRIEF PARAGRAPHS. Doings of Dio Chiefs anil Hoads of tho Various Departments. Secretary Olnoy has received nu in timation of tho willingness of Franoo to rcleaso John L. Waller from prison as an act of graciousnoss to tho United States, but as an acceptance of thiB might prevent this government from subsequently demanding an indemnity for his imprisonment, a condition a clerk or chief of tho station or ho 1 may bo discharged and some other j person appointed, but ns soon as ho be comes tho clerk in the station he is in cluded in the classified servico and pro tected by it. | Tho civil service commissioners say that if the new plan works ns well ns nn- ' tioipntod by them and tho postmaster genera), that it will result in placing a j largo number of postoffioos under tho ! civil service rules. CHICAGO AT ATLANTA. Illinois Receives a Royal Welcome from Old Georgia. 1 Illinois and Georgia joined banners ' at Atlanta Monday and the two states | will henceforth have a common scnli- * meat. Their citizens mingled at the BOILER EXPLODED. BUILDING WRECKED AND MANY LIVES LOST. Fearful Collapse of The Journal Building at Detroit. At about 1) o’clock Wednesday morning tho boilers in tho Journal . . building, at Detroit, Mich., exploded | lm8 largely disappeared. Autici TRADES TOPI OS. Previously Reported Advances In Prices llnve Boom Gheeked. Bradstrect’s repwt onbmsiness con ditions for tho pnSPwcoltBays: “Tho interruption of-geuoral trade throughout tho, .qpuntry iuoidout to the election has "been temphasized by unusnally mild weather w hioh ohocks demand for eldtlifcg, aeavy woight textiles and othomjleaSouablo goods, Except for iron, s^fil and»ottou, the larger portion of advances to priooB of eommodities reported? since March which Waller, it* is understood, does j exposition and talked of everything not agree to, 'the prospects are that . under the sun that conduces to good tedious diplomatic negotiations are tellowqjiip. the last recourse. The attorney general of Tennessee and Mr. C. G. Matthews, of Tho Mom- phis Commercial-Appeal, arrived in Washington Sunday morning and on Monday had an interview with Secre tary Olney regarding the arrangements for the extradition of Ward, the fugi tive Memphis forgor, who is under arrest by the authorities of Honduras. Although tho United States has no extradition treaty with that country, the authorities seized Ward and held him to await the arrival of tho neces sary papers. Word has reached Washington that George Wallace Jones, of Iowa, tho oldest retired United States sonator living,, and the contemporary of James Monroe, John Quincy Adams ami An drew Jackson, is about completing his long-expected autobiography ami will have it ready for the press in a few weak*. Tho announcement will ho re ceived throughout tho country with lively iuterest, for the epochs covered aro so far back ns to be fresh and new to renders of today,and Jones is known to possess a greater f'-nd of personal reminiscences o' publio men .and things of national ndVe in tho long ago than anybody else now surviving. Secretary.. SJorton’s Report. Secretary Morton is.now engaged in can products. He has given sjTOotal attention to this question .during the paid year, and bn$, "tbroiwh. the consu lar service tnld tn qtju'r.wayji, obtuiuodT - mm They talked of tho trials of war; they talked of the blessings of pence and they talked of tho sunshino tho future will bring. It was the grandest celebration that has yet beau experienced on tho grounds of tho Cotton States,and In ternational Exposition. Early in tho morning the famous First, regiment from Illinois formed in line and took up tho lino of march to the exposition grou mis. Governor Altgeld himself was in tho saddle and was at thu head of the parade. Ho even took upon himself the oomninud of Dto ( nrndo at limes, Joj, being a precise man, whenever lie saw tli6 line gp ting irregular in its farmatien during the ‘Course of tKe pal ode he would turn in his saddle and give orders for them to “close up.” Governor Altgeld seemed to lmvo his heart in tho day’s business. He went about it as a man of oonvictiousSnid sober judgment. Tho parade to the grounds was <by far tho most imposing (list lias yet been seen during the course of the ex position. Tho first regiment of Illi nois showed up splendidly. They wore in their uniforms of gray and thoir baud of eighty pices made stir ring music all aloug the way. The day was bleak aud cold, but tlioro were great crowds along tho lino of march tq gaze at tlyui wherever the preparation of bis. annual report, they went. Thyy wore cheered all It is understood that lie ‘will dwetl^lW p4®S*h, (lie line and fvere the feast'of length upon tho qngstipn of the ox- tho.day. The! procession Ip/t tho city* tension of foreign markets for Amori/* *»»*' llVeTalook ». id. and- mtrrobod oilt.to —A—rr *»-- — .Ihe’grcnnda. „»It was on6 of t’he long est paphdea seen in Atjautiyjn mqpy' wqpks. '( > . f • A , After the 'exe^ctrfgiof t *llli,pois fifty tips .eeldlcrjitap-* in review-Vi.-, with terriflo force. A portion of tho building, about 40 feet wide, immedi ately collapsed, burying scores of peo ple iu tho ruins. Four dond and several injured woro soon taken out. A great many girls and women were employod in tho building. Thero wero probably a hundred or moro persons in the wrecked porti >n. Tho following is a list of the dead as far as can be ascer tained at present: Two unknown men, two unknown girls, John S. Derby, Lizzie Tupley nnd lleury Larvier. The list or injured is a long one,' nnd it is probable that some of those most seriously hurt will die. Shortly after i) o’olook tho ruin hrokn out in flamo and tho stifling smoke seriously impeded the firemen in their work of roscuo. It is posi tively known that at'tho timo of tho collapse, tho stereotypora engaged on the 11 ft lx floor were Michaol Word, AHliur Lynch, James (Ross, all three of whom went down in tho wreck. In tho third story was tho Habliin Electrotype Foundry, in whioh thero were some half dozen men. In the top story was tho Journal’s stereo typing department, whero four or five men woro busy. As near as can he lenrnod thero woro from 25 to 80 at work in tho building exclusive of those who may have boq^ injured while passing on the street. Twenty .Six Dead. / Twenty-six dead bodies have al ready been-tukon from the iuins'of the Journal building, and tho search still goes on. Later dispntohoa. are to tho effect thnt there ere yet twenty mias- fhg, swelling tho probabio list of^lcad forty or fSrly-livq.; beaiflos thoso, nineteen persons wero' sSriousIy in jured, two of them fatally, *' Tho d^iul tints far taken from' the -JiiisJaregisTBllowBi, Adblph Sohrie- ber, Jr^JIihu Cordon, Kittle Leon- M/tii-ly %* Duiul.h 'fit arde Ml* Kona.Morgan, JAtHtvPreUep*’' ftiqne^jkptiye; tion of this information, and among other points will indicate the import ation of catering to the foreigu de mands, pointing out that in no partic ular product is this country free from competition. Need Confederate Records. According to Commander Bush, su perintendent of the naval war records, the first volume of thin publication has provod to ba so popular that the do- mand of the publio for it cannot be met after congress is supplied, even though people are willing to pay for tho publication. He recommends that the issue be increased. In his report to Secrelnry Herbert tho eommauder says tho second volume is now in thu hands of tho printer nnd two more volumes will ba issued during tbo year. The onliro ] ublieation will make be tween twenty and thirty volumes, nnd iu view of the enormous work of this compilation it is recommended that the office be reorganized and a bonrd created, composed of one naval officer and two civilians, tho latter to insure im| nrtial judgment of the manuscripts to be included ami insure a uniform lino of policy. Many pnpers of value havo been ob tained during the past year. Tho re ports of Ilia Union commanders nre full and fnirly complete, but it is re gretted thnt the Confederate records are not equally so. Great difficulty has been experienced iu collecting tlio latter, partly owing to the fact that a largo part of the Confederate archives were burned at tho close of tho war, and it is hoped thnt tho publication of tho first volume will bring additional material to the department. Civil Service Extended. Tho president Friday approved an amendment to tho civil service rules which will result iu bringing many postil asters nnd their employes within tho classified service. The addition is ns follows: “And whenever, by order of the postmaster general, auv postofliee shall be consolidated with and made a part of another postofliee whero free deliv ery is established, all the employes of tho office thus cousolidatee whoso names appear on tho roster of said office approved by the poBtoffico de partment and including the postmaster thereof, shall from the date of said order be employed of said free deliv ery office and the persons holding on the date of said order tho position of postmaster at the offico thus consoli dated with said free delivery offico mny he assigned to any position there' in nnd given any appropriate designa tion under Die classification act which the postmaster general may direct.’’ It is the intention of the postofliee department to consolidate many offices throughout tho country. This consol idntion will not necessarily do away with the offices hut will establish them as stations of some central point. Tho poetoffico department inteuds to make experiments in this direction It is probnble that presidential offices ns well as fonrth-clasa offices will bo included in the consolidation. The order does not mean, however, that when any office is consolidated with another that it will be Served as a free delivery office or station. Tt will receive and distribute its mulls ns present, The postmaster may become The review of the bond was a grand nnd glorious display of Chicago’s mili tary. Tho regiment was then marohed home. Illinois day will not soon fade from tho memories of those who wit nessed it at the Atlanta exposition. The exercises of tho day in the audito rium were full of interest. COTTON CROI* SHORT. Reports to the Department of Agri culture for I Ills Mouth. Tho cotton roturu to tlio department of agriculture nt Washington for tin- month of November shows an average of 155.0 pounds per acre, distributed by states ns follows: Virginia, ID!); North Carolina, 108; South Carolina, 111; Georgia, 152; Florida, 14.8; Al abama, 185; Mississippi, ICO; Louisi ana, 177; Texas, 161; Arkansas, 18*3; Tennessee, 181; all other states and territories, 20 k A largo majority of tho correspond ents oomplain of a short yiod, many reporting “a half crop,” poorest ill thirty years or something similar. The lry weather, which had principally destroyed tho top crop in many lo calities and injured it everywhere, lias boon favorable for picking so that tho fibre is generally reported clean nnd in good condition. The dnniugo from drought is not confined to particular statc-H, none be ing free from it. President ThomnH Estrada Palma, the head of the Cuban revolutionary party, will viait Washington within the next few days. It is expected that, his visit will result in a moro definite ine of policy regarding wl.at Cubans will suggest upon congress ns the most lesirnble course for tho United .State', to adopt. -Mr. I’alma is not only president of tho American branch of ihe Cuban organization, but ho lias eeently received u commission from he. insurgent government in Cuba, constituting him their official repre- utative in the United States. I-OUR MEN KILLED. Low Water In a Locomotive Causes a Fatal Explosion. A special from Warwick, N. Y., says. The Lehigh and Hudson sn- gino No. 13 blew up Sunday with ter rific force and killed four men. ’Ihe dead are Herbert Iieetncr, fireman; William Cooper, engineer; Martin O’Neill, conductor, and James L. Sloan, brakeman. The forco of tho explosion win so great that tho boiler was thrown from the trucks, but the latter remained, on the rails. Tho victims of tho accident were hurled in all directions, their clothing stripped from their bodies and the tattered garments fell in branches of trees along the tracks, where they remained hanging. Tanneries Shut Down. ’ihe Fayetto Shaw- Leather Company, of Boston, Mass., haH sent orders to the four big tanneries which it oper ates in Wisconsin lo shnt down for sixty days nnd take out no bather or put in no hides during that time. The Fayette Shaw tanneries employed about 500 men at this season of the year, eorge II. Soule, George Shaw, Willie Ilnwes, James Boss, William W. Dun lap, Henry Lnrivero, unknown boy, supposed to lio John Bowman; Carrie Bauer, llattio Hillier, Minnie Liese.E. L. Riogor,unidentified man, Walter P. Snxby, Mioliael Ward and Ernest Parkis. Tho causo of tho disaster has been definitely ascertained ns a boilor ex plosion, but what caused tho explosion is Btill a mystery. Thomas Thomp son, tho ongineor, was painfully in jured. Ho said ho conUl assign no reason for tho explosion. City In spector McGregor says ho inspected thu boilers last August and found Diem to bo up to tho requirements. Home of the employes in tho building assert that tip) boilers wero old and known to bo unsafe. Tho scenes around the wreckage wero heartrending. Parents, broth ers, sisters, wives and friends of the entombed victims stood anxiously by aud ns a dcuil and mnngled body was brought into tho open air a shriok would go up by those who wero near nnd deur that would ponetrato that entire section of tho city. THOUSAND’S SLAIN. Bloodthirsty Turks Make Many Ar menians Victim*. Tt is stated at Constantinople that Buliri Pasha, who was dismissed from a governorship owing to his ill treat ment of Armenians, on tho represent ntions of tlio British ambassador, Kir Phillip Currie, nnd who, on Saturday last, was deooratod by tho Hnltan with the grand cordon of Die Osmnni Eh order, is to lie appointed to command the Turkish troops going to Zoitoun, Tho unrulier of victims of tho Bai- burt massacre is now reported to bo 1,500, and it is estimated that Die total number of Armenians, men, wo men nnd children killed during all tlio most recent massacres exceeds 10,000, and that Die total is constantly being added to. Consul Hnmpson announces Dint be has found trusty persons to distribute the funds collected for the relief of the suffering Armenians of the Sassoon district, and, therefore, the relief work there interrupted by the forced retirement of tho American mission aries whoso lives wero in danger will be resumed. It is estimated tlint during tho past week or ten days three hundred Ar menians lmvo been < xiled, without trial, from this city, arid the police aro still engaged in making arrests. Dun raven’s Complaint. Tho Field,.- published iu LondoD, gives a four-column statement from Lord Dunravou relative to the contest for the American cap. Lord Danraven says ho does not think that tho De fender sailed on her load water line length. Tho burden of his complaint is that Die Valkyrie was crowded cud handicapped by tbo excursion boats. pations of a oontinuaiiua of advance in prices and demand this year, tlio out growth of tho notivity jAwo ami throo months ago, have mot with disappoint ment. But there is liftlo rensoii for tho reaction in.jftttlcment by many who discuss buBiififfis ciffiditioUB. The sontimont of traders generally is that tho outlook premises ffei nctivo spring trade nnd with that holiday season will prove satisfactory. “Bank olearipgs throughout tlio United States for the wfcek aggregated $1,221,000,000, a gain df 3.C per cent over the proceeding weeji. The fall ing off daring tho weok In comparison with the like total in 1802, when the volumerof business WRH,yeny h6avy, is less than 5 per emit. It 1h to -^noh ex hibits ns this, together with grontly inereaaed railway earnings, (ho heavi est iron and ateol production on reoord, widespread advances of wages and I riecB for cotton nnd ,cotton goods promising prospeiity dfiring tho com ing season that thoso Hhould.look who havo felt only disappointment in tho falling away of demanfi sinoe Septem ber. “The featuro of the business wook umoug tnrger eastern cities ia an im proved- demand for textiles with in creased strength in iron, at Pittsburg after the rcoont ronotio?, At cities in tho oontrnl western a moderate volume of linsiuoss is *i material -change, ’most numerous from' fair business ieproporti in shoos nnd rubbers,.* weulher condition* Sl|i a largor* volmna of Kansas City tho oppfisi tft the couecquoiiou wnatlifer last month, received - -yfr Minnuapolil is quiot-,'' .weather. MOll LIBERATES PURVIS. He Hnd Just Hern Resenteneed to Ilnug. The jail nt Purvis, Miss., wns broken in Monday morning nt 12:25 by a mob nnd Will Purvis, tho nlleged murderer and whitoenpper, wns liberated. Tho mob that, released Purvis wns composed of about one hundred mon armed with Winchester rifles ami pro vided with keys. They surrounded the courthouse, in which wore tho jail guards, aud while they were hold at bay. others of tho mob rawed off tho combination and opened the heavy doors. Purvis wns taken out and left the scene in a buggy, while a portion of the mob remained on guard two hours to provont the sheriff’s giving nil alarm until tlio prisoner was well out of tho way. Purvis is a young negro who was oonvieted in Marion county two years ago, for lioing a whitecnp and murder ing a companion who squealed oil Die gang. Ho was sontenord to bang, but through Die carelessness of the sheriff fell through the trap of thu scaffold to the ground unharmed, Iho rope hiv- ing slipped off his neck. The sheriff refus 'd lo hang the mail, and put him back in jail, where ho lias since re in silled. Only a weok ago the mpreine o mrt decided that Die prisoner sli m'd bo resellleneed. The supreme com I mined December 12Di as tlio date of I'urris’s "Xseution. '1 lie failure of the last ef fort ill his behalf created consider.iblu exeiti men t. BOOKER TO HEN. Open Letter from Booker Washington to Senator Tillman. Booker T. Washington, who was the orator in behalf of the uogro“rnoo on the opening day of tho Atlauta exposi tion, has written* to Senator Tillman, of Son 111 Carolina, an onon letter in* behalf of the negroes of* that -state. The letter was inspired by this slafo- ment contained in a letter of James Oreelman it) tho Naw York World: “An appalling faot that may not lie obvious at a first glance is that tho oourse proposed moans tho end of ne gro eduoation and negro progress iu South Carolina. This is openly ad mitted by Senator Tillman aud liis friends.” Washington says bo appeals to the a magnanimous and gener- ROLLING MILLS CLOSE DOWN. Fifteen It mid red .Mon Thrown Out of Work at Birmingham. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch sayH: Tho Birmingham and Gate City rolling mills will close down for an indefinite period, laying off moro than 1,500 men. Tho only reason givon by tho local managers is as follows: “At a mooting of the bnr iron manufactu rers of the distriot it was decided; in order to regulate or equalize tho sup ply and demand, to closo down tem porarily. This action is in sympathy with tho manufacturers north of tho Ohio river who have closed their plaids, and is in accordance with tlio articles of agreement of tho Manufacturers’ Association. ” TIE IN KENTUCKY. Leg’sluturo on Joint Ballot Evenly Balanced Between tho Parties. Tho Louisville Evening Post sajs tho gouoral assembly of Kentucky will bo a tie when it meets, and tho eloo- tiou of a successor to Scuator Black burn is a matter of oonjeoture, tho democrats having 08 votcB nnd one domoorntio populist vote, making 09. Tho republioans will havo 08 and ono republicau nllianco veto, making a totul of 60. Tho republioans claim that Lieutenant-Governor Worthing ton will havo tho deoisivo vote, thus insuring them tho sonatorship. This is nu orror, ns tho lieutenant- governor ns presiding officer of tho senate caunot votu iu joint bnllot. ADVENTISTS SET FREE. For Months They Worked In Chains by tlio Sldo of Tcnnossoo Felons. Tho colobrated Rhea county, Tonn., Advoutiat trials wero closed nt Daytou last Tfiiu'rsffhy, and rosultod in noquit- tnlg in evorjj, onse. Theso people re- (it»d Jtn emplqy cojtnsql, but ex Con- ifrussutnu Snodgrass slid Judge tjowis- Sheptiofd /eluhtdofcd to defend them* Theso sovonth'’ day Snbbnth kooperB linvo been imprisoned nnd worked on tbo ohningong side by sido with felous of tbo country. The charge against them wns oreating a nnisanoo by open ly and notoriously working on Sunday to tbo hart of tbo publio morals. etVifR fteinnud on tbo whole the prospoot favors nu notive spring 4rade. Mercantile aol- leotions are improved ami in a number of instances longstanding nooountaaro boing paid.” DR. BATTEY DEAD. As a Surgeon Hla Fame was World- Wide. . Dr. Robert Battey died at his homo near Rome, Ga., Friday afternoon. Dr. Battey was ono of tbo most dis tinguished surgeons in tbo south. He was the originator of what is known ns the Battey operation that is now performed by tho groat surgeons all over the oouutry. Ilis sanitarium in Romo has been visited by patients from every stato in the south, and ns a successful praotitioner his reputation has extondod to the remotest boun daries of tho country. Dr. Battey was born in Augusts, Ga., November 2Gth, 1828. Ho re ceived his medical dogreo from tho University of Pennsylvania and from Jefferson medical oollege in 1857. During tho civil war lie served as n surgeon in Dio Confederate army, at first in tho field uud later in oharge of various hospitals. From 1878 to 1875 Dr. Battey was professor of obstotrica in tho Atlanta medical college, and from 1873 to 1870 ho edited tho Atlanta Medical Journal. Ho was president of tho Georgia Medical Asrooiation in 187G. Dr. Battey wrote sevoral books and paporH on surgery uud diseases of women, many of whioh havo beon copied in foreign languages. If ever a man was a martyr to Ilia profession or sailing, thnt man was Dr. Robert Battoy. For nearly half a century ho has labored assiduously for the relief of human suffering, do- voting every moment that ho was not ongaged in tho aotivo work of his pro fession, in studying, reading and in vestigating. Railr ad Deal Pending. Tho Lookout Mountain, or Broad Guage railway, will shortly, it is semi officially stated, go into the hands of the Southern railway, which will op- j erato the lino for the benefit of visi- | tors to the mountain as on adjunct to ! its own lines. The purchase has not i yet been consummated. _ oi'UeiU _ r ._ teinent that be n» actuate' by a desire that tho stato in attempting to rid itself of ono bnrdon will not take up one ten timos more grievous. ACCIDENT ON THE L. AND N. Reports Bay Many Lives Were Lost In a Collision. A special from Nashville reooived at 2 o’olook Monday morning says; Tlioro has boen on nocidont on thu Louisville and Nashville road near Franklin, eighteen miles south of NuHlivillo. Many reports are in circulation, and it is Btnted that both engineers and sovo- ral passengers have beon killed. It is impossible to learn tonight any thing except that a Now Orleans train and n freight train ran into each other four lnilos south of Franklin, and that inauy lives were lost, including five passengers. A COSTLY FIRE. Three Quarters of n Million Goes Up In Hmolco In Now York City. Fire started in the building at tho corner of Bleeckor street anil Broad way, New York, at 9 o'clock Tuesday night. Tho fire wns n disastrous one and tho loss is estimated at about $750,000. Tho entire block between Broadway nnd Crosby street was laid in ruins and tho building of tho Man hattan Havings Bank on tho opposite side of tho street, supposed to be fire proof, was entirely destroyed. Some 25 firemen wore seriously injured. The flro burned florcoly till 1 a. m., when it wan gotton urnlor control by tho firemen. STRIKERS ENJOIN ED From Interfering With the Great Northern’s Property or T'rai The atriko situation on tho Grcnt Northern has taken a new turn. United Htatea Judge Hanford has issued an injunction restraining tlio Htrikers from interfering in auv manner with tlio property of the company or Die running of trains. This places tin- question iu a different light aud would indicate that the people of tho railroad preferred a atriko. No moro men have gone unt. The American Railway Union continues to hold nightly aes- siotis anil has appointed strike commit tees. KICH GEORGIAMERCIIANT DEAD Christopher Gray Pusses Away at Ilia Homo In Brooklyn, N -Christopher Gray, cue of tho oldest wholesale and retail dry goods mor- and Augusta, iu dead at the advanced ago of seventy-five. Mr. Gray came to this country from Ireland in I860 and went south and established tho business which has grown to such large proportions. Good for North Carolina. L. W. Holt bus given a contract for 500,000 brick for a $300,000 cotton factory to be built nt Fayetteville, N. 0. Tho deed for tho si to is signed nnd the faotory is praoticnlly com moncod. A large bleaohiug mill will also bo established. A Great Battle to Be Waged Between Now and i8p5 TI1E PEOPLE’S MONEY—tlio col ns go -if both gold amt silver, without discrimina tion, which meant tho free coinage of liot i ns opposed to tlio policy of contractual, which has been dictated by England nnd ndnptoa In Washington, and which levies tribute on every product of tlio farm, on valuations of all kinds audon alt compensa tions for labor. THE GREAT ISSUE NOW Is tho doubt# standard against tho single slandnril—tho a"0 n f both gold nnd silver as standard money metals against keeping tlio currency of the country on tlio gold basts. wards making it boyond potadventure that registration books should nlways bo opon to publio inspection, but the matter of regulatiug suoh details was left to tho legislature. The ordinanoo to pormit tlio stato to iisuo bonds in ordor to loan money lo oomitios to got them on a cash basis was killed. ALLEN G. THURMAN DYING. Physicians Say tin Cun Only Live a Few Days Longer. A special from Columbus, O., says: Last Friday ex-Sonator Allan G. Thur man fell from a sofa iu his library and suffered injury to bis left hip which was very painful at tho time, hut his physicians fouud no bones brokon, and though he suffered soverely on Satur day, ho was better on Sunday, and it was believed that his strong constitution would enable him to withstand tho shook. Tuesday ho was so much bet ter that he wished to go to the polls to vote, but at the ndvioo of his physi-1 chantH in Brooklyn, N. Y., Savannah cian ho did not do so. Wednesday ho ” ' ’ ‘ ~ ’ ’ wes much worse, and Friday lie fell into a stupor from which it *is alto gether likely tbut. ho will not rooovor. His son, Allen W. Thurman, says that thero is littlo ground to hope that lio will live moro than a few dayB. and his death may occur at any time. Klectric Patent Invalid. The United States supremo court Monday decided tho important case of tlio Consolidated Electric Light Com pany against the McKeesport Light Company in favor of the defendant. The court holds the Sawyer-Mann patent invalid. Tho decision ^ub handed down by Jn&tiOe Brown, Men are never so easily deceived as while they nre endeavoring to deceive etberfti WERNER OFFICE UNIONIZED. Tlio Great Ohio Publishing Company to Employ Union Printers. The Werner Printing Company, of Akron, Ohio, bus juBfc enterod into an agreement with tho American Federa tion of Labor by which tho firm will employ hereafter no printers but those who nre members of tho Inter national Typographical Union. Tho firm has been employing non-union men in its composing rooms for a long while, aud the announcement is i groat victory for union labor. Chickamuuga a Military Post. Tt hus leaked out from a high official source that tho government will ©stub liwli a military post for both infantry aud cavalry troops at Chiokamauga park. But tho plans of the war de partment are being joalously guarded until after tho approaching session of congress, from which a liberal appro priation will be asked. Assignment of a I.cadvlllo Rank. Tho Leadvillo, Col., Baviugs and Doposit lmnk has closed its doors aud made an assignment owing to a scar city of ready money. The assignment overs tho personal property of P. W. Broeno, president, as well as all tho bank’s cbuttolfl. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORRECTED WEEKLY. Groceries. IlonBled coffeo 22.10 w 100 lb omob. Green —Ghoico 21^; fair 20c; prime 19c. Sugar- Standard granulated Co; off granulated New Orleans whito 4%o; (lo. yellow Syrup—New Orleans opon kettle 25(&80o}imxod 1‘2V?(^20o; BUgarhoiJBO 20@8f>c. Teas— Black 30@G5o; green 20(3500, IUco-Head Go; choice b l / % c. Halt—dairy, Hacks, $1.35; do. bb!B. $2-25; ice cream 00c; oommon 70c. Choose— Full croam 11(311%°* Matches—05b 50c; 2004 $1.80@SI.75; 800b $2.75. Soda—Boxes Oo; Crackers Soda B^o; cream 7c; ginger Himpfi 8o. Gandy—Common stick G3i”; fancy 12(3'.2%. OvstorH — F. W. $1.80; L. W. $1.80. Powder—Rifle $3.Tr. Shot—$1*30. Flour, Grain and Meal. Flour, find patent, $4.70; second patent $4.25; straight $3.70; fancy $3.00; extra fami ly $3.35. Corn, whito 45c; mixed 44c. Oats, J Whito 83c; mixed 30c. Hyo, J Georgia 75o. Barley. Georgia rahed 85o. Hay, J No. 1 timothy, largo halos $1; small billon 05c. j No. 3 timothy, email balon 90c. Meal, ; lain 1 48c; bolted 40c. Wheat bran, largo Hacks 75c. j mnall sacks 77%o. ShortH $1.05. Block Meal, $1 Cotton Hoed Meal 85o por 100 llm. Hulls, $0. per ton. Peas, 75o per bu. Grits $2.80. Country Produce. Eggs 16017c- Buttor—Western Creamery, j ?Q(g)22%c; fancy Tenu. 15018c, choice 12%. Georgia IO0J2%o. Live poultry—Tur- ; keys lOallWu # lb; hens 25(327%o; spring j chickens, J3%h152%; ducks 18020c. Dressed 1 poultry—Turkey b 15016c; ducks 120 A, chickens 10@12%o. Irish potatoes— j Hurbank $3.0002.50 W bb<; 60a6)c W bn. TenncsBce by. 40050c. Sweet potatoes l 40@45o bu. Ilonoy—Htrained 8010c; iu Iho comb lO012%c. Onions 75c bu; bbls. $‘3. j Cabbage lal%o. Provisions. Clear rib Hides, boxed 5%'*; ice-cured bellies I 9c- Sugar-Cured hann 10%012%c; California , fic. Breakfast bacon 10%. ba»(l—pest quality 0JJ£c; second quality 0%o; compound 5%c. Cotton. . i#ooal warkot clottod w-uk; mUWUug AND J! A VINO A CIRCULATION OF MORE TUAN 150,000, ' chiefly among the fanners of tlio country, and going to morn homes than Sny weekly newspaper published on tho fnco of tho earth, is TUB LEADING CHAMPION OF THE PEOPLE In all the great contests In which they are enguged against the exac tions ol monopoly. 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