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Tlie shipyards on the great lakes are
busy building thirty-five steamers of 67,-
330 tons, largely of steel. Among them
are three of the new “whale-back” steam
ers, at Duluth, Minn.
The practice of cramping the feet by
Chinese women is said to be of very an
cient origin. It was known as early as 1
the tenth century, and therefore the idea
that it is of recent date and due to the
efforts of the Chinese women to rival the
Chicago girl is a mistake.
The Indians of the Five Nations take
great interest in news from the surround
ing States, as well as within the borders
of their own nations. Ten weekly news
papers are published within the territo
ry, and a number of daily newspapers
from the States are taken by the Indians.
To the great tracts of land recently ac
quired for settlement from the Creeks
and Seminoles in Oklahoma, from the
Bioux in Dakota, and from the Crows in
Montana must now be added the large
areas just surrendered by the Chippewas
In Minnesota, who arc to concentrate
upon the White Earth and Red Lake res
ervations in that State.
Garner Robinson forty years ago was
a poor boy among the crofters on the
Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scot
land. He shipped aboard a whaler and
was wrecked on the coast of Japan. He
was rescued by Commodore Perry’s expe
dition and became an Americau seaman.
He served in the Union Navy during the
war and then went to Manitoba. He is
Bow owner of miles of wheat fields neat
Winnipeg, on the Canadian Pacific.
Robinson is a bearded giant, weighing
210 pounds.
The seizure of the telephone system in
Prance by the postal authorities has al
ready borne fruit in a forty per cent, re
duction of the annual rental, and a drop
of one-half in the charge for using the
instrument at pay stations. It was the
rapacity of the private owners which
caused the transfer to the Government.
There are corporations in this country,
enjoying charter privileges granted on
the theory that they are ministering to
the public comfort at the lowest practic
able rate of compensation, who in the
opinion of the Washington Star, might
take a profitable warning from happenings
across the sea. j
If the poor inmates rf insane asylums
were capable of gratitude, the New York
Bun thinks they would undoubtedly
name oL Dr- A. G. Chase.
This hurSßlpvactitioner has invent?U a
system of complex mirrors and shafts
leading to the attic or top story of the
asylum of Norristown, Penn., by which
an inspector stationed there is enabled to
observe minutely every act and motion
of the patients and attendants in the
•wards of the first and second floors, so
as to prevent the abuse of patients. The
trustees have adopted this sort of mute
detectives and expect from their use a
prompt cessation of the brutalities which
have hitherto been practised with impu
nity in the asylum.
According to a foreign publication,
“it is quite likely that we may witness
this year the unusual though not unpre
cedented spectacle of an export of pota
toes from Europe, and even from the
United Kingdom, to America. The chief
sources of supply for the United States
are the New England States, and in all
these except Maine the crop is undoubt
edly a failure. Even in Maine it is be
lieved that the yield will be very poor,
although the accounts are not yet quite
conclusive. The production of that State
is, however, larger than that of any other
in the Union, and if the adverse esti
mates now current should be confirmed,
there can be no doubt that imports from
side of the Alantic will be required.’’
There is no doubt of the energy with
which the Mormon propaganda is being
carried on in Europe. Nearly every
steamer brings recruits for the New Zion,
in charge of the elders whose eloquence
has ensnared the converts. It does not
take much oratorical skill, observes the
San Francisco OAronirle, to induce peo
ple who can save nothing by the hardest
work and the strictest economy to emi
grate to a land that is pictured as a mod
ern Canaan, flowing with milk and
honey. The darker side of the picture
is hidden, and is only revealed when the
converts are safely landed in Utah. The
latest party of these dupes came from
Thuringian and numbered 110, more than
half of them young girls. Nothing could
be done to stop them at Castle Garden,
and the authorities were forced to allow
them to go to tuek fate.
A. Pennsylvania fanner wants the Gov
ernor to set apart a “sparrow day,” when
a wholesale onslaught may be made on
five obnoxious birds.
According to an official statement, the
contributions for the relief of the Johns
town sufferers aggregate $3,500,000.
What a magnificent exhibit of national
benevolence.
In Guelph, Ontario, the other day,
every man, woman and child so far as
could be ascertained, suffered for about
four hours with headache, and the local
physicians are looking wise and talking
about fissures in the earth and the escape
of natural gases.
The Hartford Times reports a great
stenographic feat: “Mrs. Isabella B.
Barrows, of Boston, wrote a verbatim
report of a speech made in German bv
Carl Schurz, which she turned into Eng
lish while her pen was flying across the
paper, in stenographic characters.”
Legacies to the amount of S9OOO, left
by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott to
be expended upon public improvements,
have amounted by investment for nearly
a century to about SIIO,OOO. Of this,
11100,000 will be devoted to the erection
of a large public bath in Philadelphia,
while the remaining SIO,OOO will be laid
aside for another hundred years.
An Imperial Chinese decree has been
issued directing that the two ends of the
Peking-Hankow Railway shall be begun
simultaneously. In the opinion of the
Emperor, the extension of the railway
system is essential to the prosperity and
influence of China. At the same time
His Majesty recognizes the existence of
popular distrust and suspicion, and, in
order that they may be dispelled, calls
upon the viceroys of the various provinces
to issue proclamations explanatory of the
invocation. He earnestly enjoins upon
all the subjects the desirability of work
ing together to attain success.
A paper published in India tells about
the ingenuity of the thieves of that coun
try in secreting stolen Valuables. The
base of the epiglottis is oue of their
curious hiding places. A leaden bullet
three-quarters of an inch in diameter,
fastened to a string, is allowed to slip
down the throat to a certain depth*
where it remains for half an hour or
more. This operation is repeated until
a pouch is formed in the throat in which
the thieves secrets small articles of
jewelry, money, etc. Twenty prisoners
in a Calcutta jail recently were found to
be provided with this singular receptacle
for stolen goods. The detectives of
India must be Uncommonly alert to have
developed a ruse of this kind.
Mr. James M. Swank, in his “Report
on the Mineral Resources Of the United
States” for 1888, states that throughout
the world there are mined every year more
than 50,000,000 tons of iron ore and more
than 450,000,000 tons of coal. Of the
iron ore Great Britain contributes about
twenty per cent., the United States
twenty-four per cent, and Germany
twentv-onc per cent., these three coun
tries thus furnishing about seventy-four
per cent, of the total amount produced.
The same three countries furnish together
over eighty-two per cent, of ail the coal
raised, Great Britain having produced
last year about 169,000,000 tons, America
about 129,000,000 tons and Uermany
about 90,000,000 tons.
Real estate agents have got the science
of advertising down pretty tine in Cali
fornia. The great specialty of Califor
nia is its climate and the healthfulncss
thereof. In order to advertise San
Leandro the San Francisco papers con
tain advertisements of an undertaker who
wishes to sell out. He says that he has a
complete outfit for an undertaking busi
ness, including hearse, coffins of the very
finest description that have never been
used and are as good as new, and all the
rest of the ghastly paraphernalia of the
business. He announces his willingness
to sell very much below wholesale prices
charged in the city, because really the
town of San Leandro is so frightfully
healthy that nobody ever dies there and
consequently there is no room for an un
dertaker.
Dr. Ogle, an English statistician,
while admitting to the full extent al
leged the movement, in England and the
United States, toward the towns and
cities, denies that it is attended by a de
population of the rural districts. He has
found that the rural population in Eng
land did not decrease between 1851 and
1881 by more than one per cent., a rate
quite within the limit of allowance for
error. The author believes that the
rural population is only stationary, and is
ample, with the modern improvements
In farming, for the tillage of the land,
while only its increase and surplus pour
into the town*; but the continuous mi.
gration of the most vigorous and ener
getie to the manufacturing district*, and
• higher mortality there, may be produc
ing a gradual deterioration.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST I'ROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
k CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS OOINO ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The courthouse at Warrenton, Va.,wae
burned Friday night.
A Confederate monument was unveiled
in Suffolk, Va., Thursday.
The Demopolis, Ala., oil mill burned
Friday; loss $125,000, insuiaace $75,-
000.
Chief Justice W. N. 11. Smith, of
North Carolina supremo court, died at
Raleigh, Thursday.
Colonel L. F. Livingston addressed
the Richmond county, Ga., alliance, Sat
urday, on the general condition of the
farmer.
The Early county, Ga., alliance has
determined to establish a cotton seed oil
mill and fertilizer factory in Biakeiy to
be in operation by September, 1890.
William Nathan Larrell Smith, chief
justice of the supreme court of North
Carolina, and one of the ablest men in
the state, died at his home in Raleigh on
Friday.
Joseph Plummer, aged 88, died near
Sanford, Ky., Thursday. Two months
ago he had a stroke of paralysi o , and it
is said went without food for forty days,
his weight declining from 225 to 125
pounds.
James T. Gill’s livory stable an Clarks
ville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire Fri
day, and in it fifteen fine horses were
burned, amoDg them tho famous trotter,
Single Wood, valued at SI,OOO. Tho
total loss will be $40,000, with no insur
ance,
A number of gentlemen arrive! at
Denver* Col., oh Saturday from Reno
County, Kah.,to locate government lands
in South Santa Fe for a colony of 200
MfennouitcS, who propose settling on the
line of the Atchiaon, 1 opeka and Santa
Fee road. It is the first colony of the
kind to locate in the territory.
Dispatches of Thursday from Vernon,
Ala., say that Summers, the merchant
who was robbed there Tuesdaj night,
declares that the robber was not Burrow.
Summers has known Rube all bit life,
and although the men wore masks, he
could (ell his visitors Were not the fa
inous outlaw and his pal.
At a meeting in New Orleans* bf the
chamber of Comffietce and industry ot
Louisiana, Thursday night, there was a
spirited (contest over the question of
preference as between Nets’ York and
Chicago for the site of the world’s expo
sition of 1892. A resolution was finally
adopted fuvoring Chicago.
Fire in New Orleans, Friday hight*
destroyed all the buildings on the square
bouuded by St Andrew, Franklin, Lib
erty and Josephine streets, except one,
the German Lutheran church. Thii
same square suffered a similar fate ten
years ago, when the only building left
standing was the same little church.
News was received from Reldiville, N.
C., Thursday, that tho grand jury had
returned A true bill against Mrs. Cora
May Harris, for tho murder Of her bus
baud, a merchant of that place, by poi
soning him. The woman is of one ol
the best families in the state* a relative
of ex-Governor Scales, and the case
promises to be a celebrated one.
The United States grand jury, after a
two weeks’ session at Jackson, Mia*.,
were finally discharged Saturday. They
returned forty one indictments, divided
as follows: Timber depredations, nine
teen; p istoffice robberies, five; passing
counterfe t money, one; unlawful retail
tug, five; illicit distilling, eight; per
jury, two; intimidating witness, one.
The third biennial setsion of the Uni
ted Syod of the Evangelist Lutheran
church, South, convened in Wilmington,
N. C., Thursday. This body embraces
eight district synods, and has a commu
nicant rncmbciship of about forty thou
sand. One of the important matters tc
be considered by the synod is the estab
lishment of a Southern theological sem
inary.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: A spe
cial train on the Illinois Central brand
from Aberdeen, Miss., collided north oi
Canton with a switch engine Thursday,
resulting in the death of Patrick Red
mond, engineer of the switch engine;
Tom Loftin, fireman of the switch en
gine. Jim Smith, D. Halsey and V.
Thomas, and several other persons were
injured.
The annual meetings of the following
roads, composing the Atlantic coast line,
will be held at Richmond, Va., next
Monday: Richmond and Petersburg;
Petersburg, Wilmington and Weldon;
Northeastern, Cheraw and Salisbury;
Cheraw and Danville; Wilmington, Co
lumbia anil Augusta; Central of the South
Carolina, and Albermarle and Raleigh.
The alliance men of Franklin, Haber
sham and Rabun counties, Ga., have
formed a joint stock company for the
purpose of buying goods and selling pro
duce for the members of the alliance.
Share* arc placed at $5 each, and the
capital stock is to be at least $15,000.
Only members of the alliance cao be
shareholders. This stock company is to
be worked through the alliance exchange
of Georgia.
Dr. R. A. Gerrard was jailed at Chat
tanooga, Tenn., on Friday, charged with
bigamy, having ten wives living, accord
ing to the sta'ement of wife No. 10,
whom he married in that city. Several
of his numerous wives are expected to
arrive from different points of the com
pass in a few days. He admits that he
has several wives living, but claims that
he does not know how many he has, his
memory on this point beffig defective.
The state department of agriculture
oi Alabama has completed its November
report, based on reports from all sections
of the state. The report is lull of inter
est, particularly as it shows but eighty
six per cent of the cotton crop has been
made in the state. The average has been
reduced by the almost total failure of the
crop in some cotton-producing counties
of north Alabama. The corn crops is
above a full one, the report showing an
average of 10-5.
The board of directors of the prisdn
congress met at Nashville, Tenu., Satur
day, and attended to the,routine busi
ness. nearly every member,'of this boars
was present. Rev. Frances Wayland,
D. D., LL. D., of Yale college, is presi
dent of the board of directors. In the
board are Rufus B. Bu.lock, of Atlanta,
Ga.; B. 11. Dawson, of Montgomery,
Ala.; Ben E. McCulloch, of Huntsvlle,
Texas, and William J. llicks, of Ra
leigh, N. C.
The Virginia Methodist conference
met at Richmond Va., Monday and elec
ted the following delegates to a general
confercuce to be held at St. Louis in
May, 1890: Clerical delegates —Rev. Dr.
J. E. Edwards, Dr. R. M. Sledd, P. A.
Peterson, Paul Whitehead, J. J. Lufl.-rty,
A. G. Brown, Rev. J. Lowell Garland.
Lay Delegates—Governor E. E. Jackson,
Maryland; Prof. W. W. Smith, Ran
dolph, Macon college; Me srs. J. Pet
tyjohn, Lynchburg; Capt. E. V. White,
Norfolk, and Major R. W. Peatross, Dan
ville, Va.
The Southern Surgical and Gynecolog
ical association, which has been in ses
sion at Nashville the past week, has
adjourned, after selecting the following
officers: President, George J. Engle
mann, of St. Louis; first vke-president,
B. C. Hadra, of Galveston,Texas; second
vice-piesidcnt, Dr. Duncan Eve, of
Nashville. Judicial council —Dr. Hun
ter McGuire, of Richmond, Va., for five
years; Dr. Bedford Brown,of Alexandria,
Va., for one year; secretary, W. E. B.
Davis, M. D., Birmingham, Ala.; treas
urer, Hardin P. Cochrane, M. D., Birm
ingham, Ala. The next meeting will be
held in Atlanta, Ga.
MOVEMENT OF COTTON
WEfIKLY STATEMENT OF THfe Nfcw OR
LEANS CO'ITON EXCHANGE.
The New Orle m Cotton Exchange
statement, is ued Saturday, makes the
overland movement of cotton across the
Ohio, Miss ss ppi aud Potonnc rive sto
Northern, American and Canadian mils
for the week ending November 16th, in
clusive, 58,648 bale”, against 71,718 last
year, and total since September Ist 241,-
726, against 304,749. Total American
mill taking North and Sou h for first
eleven weeks of season, 623,031, against
805,573. The total amount of American
crop now in sight 3,038,441, against
2,700,388. Northern mills are behind in
the taking for eleven weeks 181,280
bales, while the movement for foreign
recount is on a libiral scale. Total for
eign exports show nu exce s to date
oVer the total bf the c ose of the corre
sponding week of 48,094. The ifeport
shows that the amount of the crop mar-}
keted passed the three million mark Fri
day, the excess over last yrar now be
ing 220,093 bales. Stocks at seaports
and leading interior towns have in
creased 32,638 bales during the past week,
and nre now 883,967 bales* against 915, -
959 balfes at the close of the correspond
ing week iast year.
A REVOLUTION.
THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL
OF THE ARMV.
The following dispatch from Rio Ja
neiro was received at New York Friday:
“A revolution has broken out here. Bra
zilian armies in couirol. The ministry
has resigned. Minister shot. Attempt
to establish republic,” Other dispatches
from Rio Janeiro received at London
concerning the revolutionary outbreak
assert that a movement in favor of a re
publican form of government has re
cently been strongly fomented, and is
the sole cause of the uprising. Up to
the present hour, however, there is little
information of tangible character. The
announcement is made in cipher cables
already at hand that the Brazilian minis
ters have tendered their resignations and
the situation is controlled by the army
A still later dispatch from Rio de Ja
nicro reports that a republic has been
proclaimed with Benor da Funseca as
president. Imperial ministers have been
placed under arrest and are kept in close
confinement. The provisional govern
ment has guaranteed protection to mem
bers of the imperial family.
CRERAR’S WILL.
HIS LIBERAL BEQTKBTS TO CHURCHES AMD
LITERARY SOCIETIES.
The will of the late John Crerar, of
Chicago, was admitted to probate Thurs
day in the county court. The will dis
poses of personal property scheduled
at $3,500,000, and real estate valued at
$50,000. Crerar was a bachelor, and
the last member of his branch of the
family in the male line. To a large num
ber of cousins he leaves bequests of
$20,000,110,000 and $5,000 respectively,
and those of the firgt, second and third
degree, and other sums are civea to
churches, hospitals, charities, historical,
scientific and literary societiis and to
personal friends, the whole aggregating
a million snd a quarter dollars, The re
mainder of the estate, estimated to be
worth about $2,250,000, is set apart for
the erection and maintenance of a pub
lic library in the city of Chicago, to be
known as the “John Crerar Library.”
Poisoned hash.
OVER A HUNDRED WEST POINT CADETS
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.
A report reached Newburg, N. Y.,
Thursday, that half the corps of cadets
at West Point, upwards of 150, had re
ported at hospital ill from poisoning. It
turns out that the illness occurred a few
days ago; that it was not poisoning, but
trouble of the bowels, and the attack
was general with all connected with the
mess hall—drivers, gardeners, waiters,
etc., faring as badly as the cadets. Even
these who had not tasted food at the
mess were as badly afflicted as the others,
The surgeon had his hands full of bu-i
--ness for a time, but all recovered. The
superintendent has appointed a commis
sion to investigate the cause.
COPPER TUMBLES.
A London cable to the New York stcck
exchange, on Thursday, indicated a sud
den break of nearly two pounds :n the
foreign copper market. G. 31. B. metv,
which had been taken in large quantities
on Wednesday at 47 pounds 1 a a steady
markat, closed weak 'J itirsii. y at 43
pounds 8 shillings rjpot. and 45.18 fu
tures.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACC.DENTS, STEKH,
JIBES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
The boom iq the pig iron market it
Scotland has collapsed.
Seventeen deaths have resulted in Ber
lin from explosion in powder at Hatiau.
A heavy storm prevailed at Blooming
ton, 111., Monday. The snow attainin',
a depth of eight inches.
Capital Hotel, at Dallas, Texas, was
destroyed by fiie TLu sday. Loss $50,-
000; insurance $30,000.
The German consul at Hong Kong tel
egraphed that a typhoon has ravaged tin
country between Hong Kong and baig n.
Brazilian securities fell at the London
Stock exchange, on Monday, five pet
cent. It is difficult to effect transactions
in these securities.
One thousand mother-of-pearl button
makers at Vienna have struck for short
hours and higher wages. The strike is
likely to become general.
A fast mail train was placed on the
Atlantic Coast-Line Monday. It will
leave Washington at 4.15 a. m. and ar
rive at Jacksonville, Fla., on the follow
ing afternoon at 6.30.
Coal miners of four pool-* in the Mo
nongahela Valley met at Monongahela
City, Thursday,and decided to strike fot
an advance of one-half a cent per bushel
for the price of mining.
The first regular shipment of the new
cropof California oranges passed through
the port of Nongftles Thursday. The
quality this season is fine, and the crop is
an unusually large one.
Diphtheria has become so prevalent
at Elkhart, Ind., that all schools hav
been closed. Several deaths have oc
curred. The authoritits are taking
strong measures to stamp it out.
The Liverpool chamber of commerce
has petitioned Lord Salisbury to endeav
or to procure the rescinding of the action
of the collector at Norfolk, Va., regard
ing the employment of English classifi
ers of cotton in violation of the laboi
act.
The extensive new vitrious china
works of Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, a!
East Liverpool, pear Pittsburg, whs en
tirely destroyed by fire Monday. Total
loss is about a quarter of a inlMion dol
ats. Insurance SBO,OOO.
The prosperity of the cotton mills ol
Fall River, Mass., during the past six
months, and, in fact, during the entire
year, is without parallel in the history of
Fell River .nniMnring Never has
there been a year when the dividend)
paid were so Urge Us this.
A dispatch from Roseburg, Oregon,
says: A lone highwayman held up a
Coos Bay stage Thursday, broke open
letters and registered pounchesand rifled
them cf their contents, then handed
them back to the driver, thanked him
J>olitfely and bade him “God spSed.”
The latest papers froia GautCmala,
bearing date of October 27th, tell of the
immediate downfall of the riotous out
break which, it was thought at the time,
might result in a revolution. Three
leaders were snot, the others surren
dered, and all is qtiict.
A. W. Morris & Bros., proprietors of
J. A. Converse, plaster and cordage
works, Montreal, Canada, have been
compelled to seek the indulgenceof then
creditors. The fi-m is an Old One, hav
ing been in existence for about eighty
years. It is impossible to estimate the
liabilities, but they will reach, if not ex
ceed $1,100,000.
Exports of specie from the port oi
New York last week amounted to $822,-
072, or which <24,400 was gold and
$298,572 in silver. Ail the gold went
to South America, $297,832 in silver
went to Europe, and $740 in silver went
to South America. Imports of specie
last week amounted to $178,832, oi
tvhk-h $136,730 was gold and $52,102
silver;
Ihe natural Sequence ol the position
taken by the Catholic congress was a
miss meeting at Baltimore Saturday
night under the auspices of the Catholic
church, in favor of high license. It wag
attended by persons of all shades of re
ligious opinion, and the proceeding! ol
the meet ng were highly interesting.
Resolutions in favor of high license were
adopted.
Jhe sixty-third annual report of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company,
*or the vear ended September 30, 1889.
shows that the gross tamings for 1889
wire $21,303,001, an increase over 1888
of $009,510. The expenses in 1889 were
$14,810,844, an increase over 1888 of
$010,283. The net earnings in 1889
were $6,492,157, an increase over 1888
of $339,227.
The committee appointed at the meet
in*; of the governors of the thirteen orig
inal states, held in Philadelphia in April,
1888, and of which Governor Green, of
New Jersey, wa3 chairman, has issued an
invitation to the governors of all the
states and territories to meet in person,
or by representation, on the 3econd Tues
day in December, 1889, at the Ebbitt
house, Washington, D. C.
Pcirrepont Morgan, of Drexel, Morgan
& Cos.; John King, president of the Erie
road; M. E. Ingalls, president, and H.
AY. Fuller, general passenger agent of
the Chesapeake and Ohio, and a number
of other New Yotk capitalists, left Rich
mond, A'a., Friday on a tour of inspec
tion of the Chesapeake and Ohio road.
The trip will be extended to Cincinnati,
the western terminus of the road.
Reimund Holzbay, *‘Black Bart,” on
trial for the murdt r of Banker Fleisch
boiu, of Belleville, 111., and the robbery
of the Gogebic stage, took the stand in
his own defence [Saturday and made a
confession. He admitted that he robbed
the Milwaukee and Northern train six
months ago; that he held up the Wiscon
sin Central at Cadott, Wis., a month
later; and that he waylaid the Gogebic
stage and shot Banker Fleischboin
A good sire counts largely in the stock,
but he can't do everything. Good dami
are needed to maka the stock as it should
be. Thriftiness in both parents is alst
necessary ii the best stock is expected, _
THE WEEK’B BUSINEBB
AS SXT FORTH BY B. G. VVS & CO., OF
NEW YORK.
According to R. G. Dunn & Cos. busi
ness continues healthy, confideut and un
precedented in volume. Long ago il
was held that a year’s results would turn
upon the crops, and it is now certain that
the yield has been on the whole about the
largest ever known. The question
whether the wheat yield is twenty oi
thirty million bushels below the maxi*
mum is not important. The cotton crop
will much exceed any previous one, il
the latest official figures are correct. TL<
corn crop wi l exceed any preceding by
one hundred to two hundred million
bushels. The oat crop is also the largesl
ever known, and the shortage in potatoei
and fruit is immensely ovei shadowed by
the gain in meats. Exports of pr-ivis
ions and cattle in October were $12,604,,
857 in value.against $6,535,277 last year
a gain of OUj per ctn f , aud while the
breadstiiffs movement was $145,000 short
of last year’s, the increase in cotton hat
been immense. The capacity of iron
furn sees in blast November Ist was much
the greatest ever recoreed, no less than
than 165, 705 tons weekly, against 151,-
059 October Ist, a gain of nearly 10 pet
cent for the month; and against 141,064
November Ist,- 1888, a gain of 17.5 pet
cent for the year. It appears, too, that
several other furnaces of lurge capacity
are about to begin wora. Weekly pro
duction is now greater than that of Great
Britain, and close to the greatest ever re
corded in that country, being at the rate
of about 8,300,000 tons yearly, after the
allowance for difference between capac
ity and actual output. Yet no excess of
production has been perceived, and
prices are firm at the recent advance, an
actual but small sale of rails at SBS
being reported, bar iron being strong
at $1.96, nails in fair demand at $2.10
and plate, structural aud sheet mills full
of orders. One point of doubt iswhethei
the warrants system may not operate fot
the time, to conceal an excess of output
over real consumption, and thus prepart
for a disastrous reaction later. The coal
business is still dull, with individual sel
lers cutting prices as before. Copper has
risen to 12£ bid for lake, though thepro
(Suction is large. Lead is dull, and tin
weaker at 21* cents. The cotton branch
of the dry goods trade is active. Receipts
of raw cotton again exceed last years,but
rhe excess of exports for the week has
been over 50,000 bales, and the price is
unchanged, w;th speculative sales Of
000,0fl0 bales. Woolen goods are now
moving fairly, and at concessions in
price. Speculation in products hag been
more active, with some advance in prices.
Operators who were buying at Chicago
were gelling at New York, and sales
were over ton million bushels Friday.
Corn is but a quarter stronger, pork un
changed, with but slight advance in lard,
petroleum only a shade higher, and oats
One cent higher. Coffee has been ad
vanced again five-eighth of a cent, with
speculative sales of 250,000 bags, but
distribution is dull. There are more than
the usual uniformity in accounts from
all parts of the country. Reports are all
favorable as to the volume of business,
anrl in the main as to collections. Busi
ness failures occurring throughout the
country during the Ikst week, number
for the United States 225; Canada, 20.
Total 265, against 267 last week.
SOUTHERN ACTIVITY.
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW ENGLAND CAPI
TALISTS INVESTING In the south.
The past week has been one of activity
in the organization of enterprises in lh
south. Florence Ala., has led with an
investment by Philadelphia and New
England capitalists, including a $500,-
000 cotton mill; a flirnace to cost $200,-
000, to be built by Philadelphia parties
and to be known as the '‘Philadelphia
furnace,” and a $300,000 Loan and Bank
ing company, while $1,000,000 in cash
has been invested in stock and land of
two local improvement companies in
Florence by these northern capitalists.
In Florida a contract has been made for
constructing 800 miles of canal to furnish
a water way nearly the entire length of
the state. At Bessemer, Ala., two new
furnaces, to cost $400,000, are to be
built. At Brierfleld, Ala., iron works
are to be reorganized with $500,-
000 of bonds and $700,000 of pre
ferred stock. At Rome, Ga., a $125,000
furnace is to be built. A steel plate mill
is to be built in West Virginia; a $200,-
000 clothing factory in Baltimore and
extensive fertilizer works at Norfolk, Va.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
ELECTION OF OFFICEBS AND GRAND RALLV
AT SACRAMENTO, CAL,
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., devoted most of Sat
urday’s session to the election of oificeri
and routine business. J. H. Brigham, of
Ohio, was elected master; Hiram Haw
kins, of Alabama, overseer; Mortimer
Whitehead, of New Jeisey, lecturer; A.
J. Ross, of Texas, chaplain; E. W. Dav
is, of California, steward; O. E. Hall, of
Nebraska, assistant steward; F. N. Mc-
Dowell, of New York, treasurer; John
Trimble, of Washington,D. C. secretary;
Ava E. Page, of Missouri, gate-keeper;
Mn. Edna Brigham,of Ohio, ceres; Mrs.
M. J. Thompson, of Illinois, pomana;
Mrs. Joe Bailey, of Mississippi, flora;
Mrs. Laura C. Dongles*, of Massachu*
setts,ladies’ assistant steward; L. Rhone,
of Pennsylvania, holdover; J. J. Wood
man, of Alichigan; X. X. Chartlers, ol
Virginia; J. H. Brigham, of Ohio; ex
officio executive committee.
CAGED AT LAST.
AFTER A YEAR’S FREEDOM NINETEEN
MURDERERS ARRESTED.
John Jaekson was arrested in Wichita,
Kansa, Wednesday morning, 6n a charge
of murder, aad brought to Topeka. He
was one of twenty-nine wbo| in July,
1888, murdered Sheriff Cross end posse
of Stevens county ia the neutral strip.
The murderers were not arrested at the
time because of a legal technicality, no
court, it was claimed, having jurisdiction
over the neutral strip. Advices from
Wichita Thursday night were that eigh
teen otbeiß were placed under arreat.
WASHINGTON, D. Qj
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND EIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The statement is out that oongresswill
investigate the civil service commission,,
gnd preparations for the investigation
are now being made.
Surgeon Posey hns reported to Sur
geon-General Hamilton, of the mariue
hospital service, that two new cases of
yellow fever have been developed at Key
West, Fla.
A letter leceived at Washington from
Caracas, dated November sth, statea that
on October 26th, the statues of Guzman
Blanco, in that city, were pulled down
and dragged through the streets in
pieces. Similar statues in other cities
met a like fate.
The president Monday afternoon gav
a special reception to a number of gen
tlemen, representipg the various business
inteiests of the country, who requested
that he incorporate in his message to con
gress a ricommendution for the enact
ment of an equitable national bankruptcy
law.
i
First Comptroller Matthews has de
cided that a United States marshal who
undertakes to serve a government sub
pcena upon a witness at a distant point
and fails to find him, is not tniitled td
the actual expenses of the trip, notwith
standing they were incurred only in
going to the place indicated in the writ;
also, that he is not entitled to the actual
expenses for travel to another place to
arrest a person whom he fails to find; also,
that he is not entitled to mileage for his
return after conveying a criminal to a
place designated for his c mfinement.
John W. Mason, commissioner of in
ternal revenue, has submitted to the sec
retary of the treasury reports of opera
tions of the internal revenue service for
the fiscal year ended June 36, 1889. Ag
gregate receipts for last fiscal year $130,-
394,484, or $6,567,953 more than the re
ceipts the previous year. The receipts
for the first three months of the fiscal
year aggregated $34,634,526, on increase
of $3,470,807 as compared with the re
ceipts for the corresponding period
of the last fiscal year. The com
missioner says if this ratio of increase is
maintained the receipts of the present
fiscal year will amount to over $112,000,-
000. He docs not, however, think such
to be the case, and estimates collections
for the current year at 35,000,000.
Asa result of several conferences of :
Attorney General Miller, Secretary Win
dom and Solicitor Hepburn in regard to
the case of the twenty-five English glass
blowers, employed at the works ot
Chambers, McKee & Cos., of Jeannette,
Pa., the first named on Saturday referred
all the papers in the case to United
States District Attorney Lyons, at Pitts
burg, with instructions to proceed
against the firm named, and those officers
of the local assembly of glassblowers,
who were instrumental in bringing the
English laborers to this country, provi
ded he is satisfied that suits can be main
tained against them under the provisions
of the alien contract labor law. Solicitor
Hepburn has given an opinion to the
secretary of the treasury that the depart
ment hns ample authority to send the
imported glassblowers back to England.
On Monday Secretary Windora’s at
tention waa called to the report that he
had decided to withdraw $47,000,000 of
public funds, now on deposit with na
tional banks. The secretary said that it
certainly was not his purpose to make
any such wholesale witndrawal, but that
the question of a withdrawal of a portion
of the fund in depository banks has been
under consideration for some time, and
he fully recognized the necessity of call
ing in such a portion as could be with
drawn from the banks without serious
inconvenience to the trade and commer
cial interests as early as practicable.
He said also, in answer to a direct in
quiry on the subject, that the govern
ment for many years past has had on
deposit with banks through which its
current business is transacted, from ten to
twenty million dollars, and that he saw
no good reason why this policy should
iu) rhanfred.
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IN HOT WATER.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD SWAMPED
WITH LITIGATION.
Another suit for foreclosure was filed
Thuisday in the United States court at
Charleston against the South Carolina
railroad. The complainants in this suit
ore H. P. Walker and other holders of
the original first mortgage bonds of the
old road, whose securities were not con
verted in the reorganization. There are
now three suits for foreclosure pending
in the courts against the road. The first
being the suiLof the first mortgage con
solidated bonds known as the Bound
suit, and under which ex-Governor
Chamberlain was appointed receiver, and
the second in behalf of the second mort
gage (new) bondholders, and the third
in behalf of the first mortgage (old)
bondholders.
HE WAS REINSTATED,
Rev. L. Barrow, a theological student
in the U. S. Grant university at Chatta
nooga, Tenu., was editor of the Lookout,
the college paper. Chancellor Speno.
demanded that one-half space of the pa
per be devoted to the other branch of tto
university at Athens, which Barrow crit
icised severely, and was suspended for
writing this editorial. The Lookout
then stopped publication. Chancellor
DeWitt, of the Chancery court, on Fri
day granted a mandamus compelling the
trustees of the Univers.ty to reinstate
him.
REDUCED rates.
The Monon route railway announces
that, beginning with December it wU
reduc >■ rates between Clucagd a..d Jack
sonville, Fia:, mam g the I0 „ u ?
fr m Chicago to Jacksonville $39. **A Q ‘
$22 for one way ticket-* llee rates
will apply to the InUar.ap'is *na Cin
cinnati, end Hamilton aud D -jtoo tall
way, also via Bergin, Ky.