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Tfte courani-flinerlcan. -inai’vanck^ ‘ KITES or iDTEKTISISO- yeftr , rr ! Vrk!JS ?r o &s. ! ?*’ ,j| US! JsS Thru- Inches. ■> <J] , (.0 25 00 Foor inches, J 0 '; “ , ?fi 40 00 Fourth column, TCO 1 40 001 00 00 Half column. I 1} ' ™*; f,o 100 00 One column, 1 j. 1 f nr n rH t Inser l.ocal notices ton cents per line i t!on. For lonn r Mine, lower inns 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. “ ~ ——— 0 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.