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The army of the United States consists
of 2167 commissioned officers, and a lit
tle over 20,000 real private soldier*, ex
clusive of those performing civilian du
ties. In other terms, one-teuth of the
military forces consists of its officers.
Chief of Police Crowley, of Shu Fran
cisco, Who has been at the head of the
Police Department for eighteen years,
says the Chinese there commit more
crimes in proportion to their number
than any other race, and are the most
difficult of detection.
The American Humane Society oilers
two prizes, each of $250, for the best es
says on the question whether vivisection
should be permitted in the interests of
humanity, and, if so, with what restric
tions. Essays arc to be sent to George
T. Angell, No. 19 Milk street, Boston,
before January 1.
By far the most expensive coffee
brought to this market comes from
Blue Mountain, Jamaica. The whole
product of the region is small and only
a few thousand bags reach New York.
It is usually bought by Delmonico at a
very high figure. At the same time, de
clares a New York paper, the Delmonico
coffee does not contribute to the restau
rant’s reputation. Quite as good coffee
is served at half a dozen less famous
places.
New York city put up 6722 new build
ings last year, at a cost of $75,912,810.
Boston followed with 4431 buildings
costing $32,400,000. Philadelphia came
third with 11,950 buildings costing $26,-
000,000; Brooklyn fourth, with 4500
buildings costing $25,679,400, and Chi
cago fifth,* with 4931 buildings costing
$25,065,500. The next city to Chicago
was Denver, where 2741 new buildings
cost $10,807,277. The amount of new
buildings in no other city readied $lO,-
000,000, although St. Louis came pretty
near that figure, and Minneapolis, St.
Paul and Pittsburg stood each at about
$8,000,000.
Interest in the reported discovery that
Icpiosy is not an incurable diseaso will
not be confined to the medical fraternity.
There is no scourgo with which humanity
is afflicted that is regarded with deeper
feelings of horror. Fortunatoly its scope
is restricted, but the sufferings of its vic
tims arouse the universal sympathy of
mankind. If Dr. Lot*, who has chargo
of the unfortunates at Molokai, is correct
in his opinions, .it is possible, thinks the
New York Star, that in time leprosy may
be entirely stamped out. The world will
rejoice to know that such conclusions
have a sure foundation in successful ex
periments ofmedical treatment.
The news that the Government census
showed 2000 less Indiaus at Rosebud
agency than rations were being issued
caused no surprise in South Dakota, as
there is a prevailing opinion among most
of the squaw men and others in a position
to know, that a correct census of the In
dians at the different agencies will show
a wonderful shortage of Indians com
pared with the number that draw rations.
“There is no doubt,” says a Pierre special,
“that the Indians are rapidly passing
away. It is appaling to note the num
ber of young Indians who are in the lasi
stages of consumption. It seems that
last winter the grip got hold of them,
the result of which is that nearly half of
fhe Indians at the agency arp hopeless
consumptives. Another season or two
of grip like last winter and the Indian
race will be no more in South Dakota.
Within the last three or four years s
well-defined movement in several of the
States, notably in Ohio, has begun to se
cure a two-cent-per-mile rate on railroads,
but so far the movement has not culmi
nated in any direct legislation to that ef
fect. The regulation adopted by the
trunk-line passenger agents in New V ork
recently permits a two-cent-per-mile
rate for ten or more persons traveling on
one ticket on any road of the association.
This is asserted by the Chicago Time * to
be “a long step toward the concession de
manded by those who believe in a general
two-ceDt rate, and judging by the ex
perience of Hungary such a reduction
would inure to the benefit of the rail
roads as well as to the people. Street-car
roads in Chicago appear to be doing a
good business, and it is possible on some
of these roads to ride for less than one
cent per mile. The lower the fare on the
railroads the more people will travel
upon them, and more frequently, and in
tiiis way reduction in fares benefits all
concerned.”
On the haris of the official indications
of a 410.000,000 bushels wheat crop,the
portable surplus is estimated at 75,-
000,000 —40,000,000 from the Atlantic,
and 35,000,000 from the Patific.
To the list of poisons may be added,
is a source of occasional danger, the fra
grant nutmeg. At least one fatal case
has occurred, where a hoy of eight, hav
ng eaten two nutmegs, fell into a coina
ge condition and died within twelve
hours.
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Physicians say that cases of nervous
orostration are less frequent since low
seels have come into fashion. They al
low the whole weight of the body to rest
on the feet, remove the tension to which
be muscles nre subjected by high heels,
trid keep the calf oi the leg in it* uqr
nal condition.
Tho shipbuilding industry on the
American lakes is active, and Cleveland
:luims to lead the way, Since January 1
die vessels built number seventh-eight
steamers, the gross tonnage being 03,-
322, nnd cighteeivbarges aud sailing
ships of 15,315 tons. Last year the ves
sels built on tho great lakes measured
107,080 tons.
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Soon we shall be in a position to defj
fate. Says the IlbustrnledAmeriran: “A
company has been formed to build tubu
lar steel passenger cars which shall not
give way under any shock to which they
may be subjected. The cars will not tel
escope in a collision, and if rolled down
an embankment the passengers will ho
only bruised. It is proposed that a train
of such cars shall be practically a continu
ous ■ teel projected which canrrbt be seri
ously damaged in ordinary ciroum
gtanccs.
Cholera seems to be making the cir
cuit of the globe with great rapidity. H
has appeared in various parts of Europe
and Ims now reached South Africa'. In
Arabia it is worse-than has been known
in many years, while many cases are re
ported in India. It is sure to spread from
Japan to Corea and China, and perhaps
may be carried to Australia. There was
never a more imperative demand for sci
entific quarantine, which will keep the
disense within its original limits, and this
year, declare the San Francisco Chronicle,
will prove pretty conclusively how suc
cessful are modern methpds of checking
its spread.
ProfessoT "Wiggins, the notorious Ca
nadian meteorologist, advances another
novel theory, lie ullgea that tornadoes
and kindred storms nre generated by the
efforts of accumulated electricity in the
clouds to release itself. It is his belief,
therefore, that tornadoes will not prevail
in any locality with a considerable net
work of overhead v.-ires, for these wires
will give the electricity a smooth and
easy vent. It is to bo feared, tho Troy
Times suggesls, the professor is working
in the interests of the electric service
companies. Else he would take account
of the municipal storms of which over
. head wires aro so frequently tho cause.
Compared with those what would nu oc
casional tornado be?
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Tho Chicago Tribune is led to make
some comparisons between the salaries
paid to the American end the British
judges. There is a wide disparity. The
Lord Chancellor of England gets $50,-
000 per annum while in office, aud when
he goes out with his party he gets $20,-
000 per annum. The Irish Lord Chan
cellor gets $40,000 in and $20,000 pet
annum on going out. Three Lords of Ap
peal-Supremo Court Judges—are paid
$30,000 per annum., The Lord Qliief
Justice receives $40,000; the MasteV of
the Kells, chief of the chancery division,
$30,000; tho other Chancery Judges,
$25,000 each. The Quoen's Bench Judges
aro paid $25,000 each. Tho county
judges get salaries ranging from SBOOO
to $20,000. The Irish judges are paid
$17,000 to $25,000 per annum, or more
than three times the salaries of onr Su
preme Court judges.
lowa has passed anew tramp law, and
it is a stringent one. It regards the
tramp as a pest and is designed for his
extermination. Here is its definition of
the nuisanco! “Any male person sixteen
years of age or over who is physically
able to perform manual labor and is a
vagrant, who is wandering about prac
ti ig common bagging, or is wandering
about having no visible calling or busi
ness to maintain himself and unable to
show reasonable efforts and in good faith
to secure employment shall bo deemed a
tramp.” Every such person arrested aad
convicted is to be sent to jail and put at
hard work. Any one who refuses to
work is to be put in solitary confinement
and fed on bread and water only. The
law further provides that no tramp shall
have in jail “any tobacco, intoxicating
liquors, eporting or illustrated news
papers, cards or any other article of
amusement or pastime.” It is only
necessary, in the opinion of the New
f'ork Herald, to enforce this law to make
lowa an unpopular State with tramps.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
rIEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WUAT IS BKtXO DONE IX THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS KoH THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE CHEAT ORGANIZATION. I.EOIBLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
A number of prominent AlliaDccmcn
have leased the Southern Mercury, the
State organ of the Farmers’ Htate Alliance
of Texas. They propose to put ample
I capital behind the enterpriae aud make it
n strong Alliance publishing house. They
will employ an able editorial corps and
make the Mercury one of the best reform
papers in the land.
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A few weeks ago the Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Cniou of New Mexico
met in the city of Albuquerque, for the
purpose of completing a constitution and
by-laws for the territorial organization,
placing efficient and energetic lecturers
in the field, and attending to such other
busini as as may come before it. Presi
dent Polk und National Lecturer Ben
Tot roil were present. Thus the good
work goes grandly on. —The Southern
Mercury.
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The condition in Wall street for the
pa* two weeks is a living and practical
demonstration of the necessity for' tho
sub-treasury plan. The only thing that
saves the country from a panic when the
exploiting class let out credit paper as a
circulating medium to supply the defi
ciency of money to move the crops, and
let ft out much slower than needed, in
order to produce a stringency that will
reduce prices, the only tiling that pre
vents a panic as a result of this pressure
is money furnished New York hankers
from the United States Treasury. When
the debt is paid we will l>e compelled to
have the sub-treasury plan or a panic.—
hotumal Economist.
The Democratic convention of the sixth
congressional district of Louisiana adopt
ed the following resolutions:
We demand the abolition of national
banks at as early a day as practicable,
and in lieu of national bank notes the
Government shall issue legal tender treas
ury notes in sufficient volume to do the
business 0/ tho country on a cash basin,
anti all fridney so issued shall be a legal
tender for all debts, both public aud
private.
We fndotte the sub-treasury or ware
house plan ns a means of relief to the
agriculturalist within the scope of the
federal constitution, and urge tho nom
inee of this convention to advocate such
legislation as may permit graduated sales
of our products.
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Oo Tuesday Col. Livingston, president
of the Georgia State Alliance, spoke at
Kaleigh, N. C. He devoted himself to a
description of the sub-treasury bill, and
a-serted that he would vote for no
man,uot even his own father, who did not
support that measure, He declared that
the farmers must and will not give up
their plan for sub-treasuries, and that if
they are not given a better bill than the
one now before congress, they will push
that one right through, no matter how
great the fight. He (Tilled on all classes
to aid the farmers in their struggle, say
ing it was not-between farmers and the
lawyers nnd merchant*, but between the
money power and the people, and that
the lawyers and wholesale merchants of
Georgia are now seeing this, und falling
right into line with the alliance.
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New Albany (Mits.) Gazette gives this
good advice: ‘ The idea that the Alli
ance is of short duration is a thing of the
past The key-note lias been struck at
last, and today all eyes are turned in the
nroper direction for relief. NoA r , if the
brotherhood will but hold out faithful
nnd make each meeting what it should
lie, more interesting than the one before,
sUceess is inevitable. Then we would
urge the impoitauce upon our sub-alli
ances of making your meetings interest
ing. Meet and discuss matters of
general interest. Don’t stay at home
and say they never transact any busi
ness of importance, hut attend every
ineetiug, and say we will make our meet
ings interesting. Is it not strange that
farmers (Alliance men) will say “they”
in speaking of their own order? It seems
that many of the brethren fail to appre
ciate ihc importance of the position they
occupy. They each have a duly to uni
form. There is no room for drones and
dead-heads. What we want, aud what
the emergency demands, is that each
member do his w hole duty, aud victory
is ours.”
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Looking Toward t'nton.
President Polk has addressed the fol
lowing letter to 11. L. I.oucks, Esq ,
president of the Farmers’ Natioual Alli
ance:
“ I he time for action—prompt, united,
derisive action on the part of the farmers
of the whole country, is absolutely and
imperatively demanded. No argument
could emphasize this truth so deeply and
indelibly as it has been impressed by the
alarming and constantly augmenting de
pression of our great agricultural inter
ests. It is written on the lintels of al
most every farmer's home in this land.
Impelled by the force of its demand,
farmers of localities. States and sections
have combinod in various formsof organi
zation. Differing only in name or form,
these various organizations are actu
ated by some common purpose, and are
guided by one common principle—the
elevation and betterment of the agricul
tural interests of the country. But con
fronting them all is the stern truth that
the greatest evils under which they 60 un
justly suffer, and of which they so justly
complain, are national In their character,
and that they cannot be corrected by lo
cal* State or sectional remedies. ’ Na
tional legislation which discriminate*
against or oppresses agriculture in New
York, ludiana or Kansas, affects equally
that interest in Virginia, Georgia or I exas.
Hence, to meet the demands of the situa
tion the farmers of the United Stales
mus form one grand, compact national
organization. They must make com
mon cause against a common danger.
Impelled by these considerations, and
iu conTotmay to the aims and principles
of the grant order which T have the honor
.to I beg to extend.to you, and
i
through you to the brotherhood of your or
der, a most cordial aud fraternal invitation
to meet w.th our Supreme Council at its
regular nnnual session at Ocala, Fla., or
Tuesday, the 2d day of December, 1890.
Permit me to suggest that properly ac
credited delegates, representing your en
tire order, or the separate States compos
ing it, vested with such powers as would
give them full authority to act in the
premises, und meeting in conference with
representatives similarly empowered of
the other organizations, would greatly
facilitate the determination of the great
and vital question—whether any plan can
be devised 'or secants** frwteruitjr ant?
unity of action between the farmers
of the country. The National Farmers’
Alliance and Industrial Union now em
braces thirty-five of the States of the
Union, all of which will be represented
in our meeting, and I beg to assure you
that the representatives of your Order
will be welcomed by that body with the
most cordial considerations of fraternal
regard nnd respect. A letter of like im
port has this day been mailed to the
chief officers of the PaLonsof Hus
bandry, the Farmers’ National League,
the Patrons of Industry, and the Farm
ers’ Mutual Benefit Association. "Will
you kindiy indicate at your earliest con
venience whether this proposition meets
your approval, antt wnctncr your order
will be represented? Any information
or service I may lie able to render is freely
at your command.
The Alabama .Selma) Mirror says: “In
the light of the present manipulation- of
the price of cotton, the intention of the
sub-treasury bill to prevent such an oc
currence is clearly manifest. With some
such relief afforded to the farmers they
could have held their cotton crop
until the manufacturers would pay th
value of the staple instead of being forced
to sell to speculators at a loss of sl9 per
hale. The sub-treasury bill has received
no recognition at the hands of ('ongress,
but the farm rs cau now see the necessity
if demanding some protection against
the [ resent financial policy of the patty
in -power.
TRADE REVIEW.
DUN * CO.'S WEEKLY STATEMENT OF TTIh
CONDITION OF BUSINESS.
The weekly circular of I). G. Dun & Cos.
says: Business in all branches shows an im- '
improvent and speculation in breadstuffs
is stronger, but the stock market has
been liquidating and quotations have de
clined. The street is no longer a barom
eter and the industries and trade of the
couutry pay no attention to the stock
exchange. The prices of Commodities
area shade stronger than a week ago,
grain and oil having advanced with many
kinds of manufactured products, but the
general advance since Oct. Ist is not a
quarter of 1 per cent as yet, The move
ment of commodities is very heavy. The
money market is nowhere a source of em
barrassment, and the feeling of confidence
everywhere increases.
Southern reports are generally bright,
the movement of cotton being remarka
bly early aud large. Great industries are
gaining. In spite of the enormous out
put of pig-iron the tone is stronger, and
at Philadelphia mill iron is 25 cents
higher. Breadst uff's had been advancing
in spite of small exports, which full fur
below last year’s as yet. Wheat has risen
3J cents for the week on sales of 20,000,-
000 bushels at New York, and coni nearly
2 cents on sales of 10,009,000 bushels
Oil has risen 2 cents, with iusigniticant
dealings, and coffee fa a quarter lower,
the present range of prices being decor
ously described as “strained.” Foreign
trade is fairly satisfactory, for while ex
ports of grain are restricted, cotton
moves largely, though the value of ex
por s last week showed a decline in com
parison with last year. The number of
failures fur the week in the United States
is 180, compared with 182 for the same
time last war.
THE LOTTERY FIGHT.
WILT, rnOBABLY BE EXTENDED TO THE
EXPRESS COMPANIES.
A dispatch of Wednesday, from Spring
field, 111., says: Attorney General Hunt
has received from Assistant Attorney
General Vance, of Louisiana, a letter
stating that the lottery company, being
now forbidden the use of the United
States mails, advertise they wid use the
express companies as a medium of trans
mitting moneys, and tickets, and circu
lars announcing the result of drawings
can be lmd from express agents through
whom the tickets were procured. In
short, express companies are made agents
of the lottery. He asks if this can be
prevented and punished under the crimi
nal code of Illinois. Attorney General
Hunt, in his repiv, says if an express
company undertakes, through its agents,
to set as agent of a lottery, it will violate
provisions of the state statutes, and be
iinble to the penalty imposed. He
further adds that, should auy case of
violation come to his notice, he will call
the attention of the prosecuting attorney
in the county in which occurs to it, and
do all lie can to aid in suppressing the
lottery business.
THE TRIAL CONTINUED
NOTWITHSTANDING THAT DILLON AND
o’BHIEX HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY.
A Dublin dispatch says: When the
magistrate's court at Tipperary reassem
bled Saturday morning, Crown Prosecu
tor Ronan stated that the crown had de
cided to prosecute the charges of con
spiracy against* all the defendants, not
withstanding the fact that Messrs. Dillon
and O’Brien had, of their own volition,
abandoned their defense and left the
country. The courts, ho said, had de
cided that under the circumstances such
as had arisen in the present ease, it was
not necessary to stop the proceedings.
THE CABIN BOUGHT.
THE LOC. HOUSE WHERE LINCOLN LIVED TO
BE EXIBITED AT CHICAGO.
A committee from Chicago, in the in
terest of the World's Fair, has visitqd
Washington county, Ky., and purchased
of Keni'v Reed the log cabin in which
Abraham Lincoln lived as a boy and
where hi father was married to Nancy
Hanks. The price paid was SI,OOO, and
it will be torn doiyn and erected on a
prominent site at th World’s Fair.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM'S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS. .
The Jews in Sebastapol have been or
dered to leave that city.
Pillow & llersey’s rolliug mill, in Mon
treal, was destroyed by fire Saturday.
Six men were injured Wednesday by a
boiler explosion at Muskegon, Mieli.
A dispatch from London says that the
new tariff bill will destroy Birmingham’s
button trade.
Secretary Halford says the question of
calling an extra session of congress has
not yet been decided.
Fire in the Academy of Music, at Pitts
burg, Thursday, damaged the structure
to the extent of SIO,OOO.
The strike of the silk ribbon weavers
at the mill of Johnson, Cowdin & Cos.,
Patterson, A'. J., has been settled.
The first picking of the Egyptian cot
ton crop has beeu finished. The quality
of the cotton is reported to be very good.
The population of Brooklyn, N. Y., as
announced by the census bureau Thurs
day is 804,377, au increase of 237,714 or
41.9.7 per cent.
Win. Peters, supposed to have been
the largest man in the country, weighing
over 409 pounds, died in Lukin town
ship, 111., Saturday.
The Servian government, finding the
presence of ex King Milan in the country
intolerable, has resolved to ask the sknpt
sebina to pass a bill providing lor his ex
pulsion.
The locomotive and machine works of
Atfarai & Price, on the northwest out
outskirts of Nashville, were destroyed by
fire Friday night. They estimate their
loss at about $20,000.
At the session of the Christian Con
ference, fit Marion, Ind., Friday, the
southern wing of the chiirclg which
the -Cincinnati convention,
held in 1854, was restored.
Wm. H. Schneber, who robbed the First
National bank of Columbus, Ind., of
$300,000, fled to Canada, and was
brought back, lias been sentenced to
twelve years in prison and a fine of SSOO.
The census bu>eau. on Wednesday, an
nounced the population of the state of
Nebraska to be 1,056,793; increase 607,-
413, or 135.17 per cent. New Jersey
1,441,017; increase 309,001, or 27.40 per
cent.
The rate war between the Ohio and
Mississippi railway and its connections
east and west and the Big Four and its
connections, ended Friday night by a
compact satisfactory to both parties.
Rates will be restored.
The Indianapolis Car and Manufactur
ing Company, a concern employing 800
hands, was on Friday plnced in the hands
of a receiver. The purchasing agent of
the company claims that it is insolvent,
having debts amounting to $650,000.
Captain Peter Foster, the oldest mem
ber of the Grnnd Army of the Republic
in the United States, died in Mouut
Pleasant, la., Friday night. He was
ninety-five years of age and fought in the
war of 1812, the Mexican war -and the
civil war.
The United States court at Little Rock,
Ark., has been instructed by the judge to
bring in an indictment against Captain
Coffee, of Chicago, for sending ’a chal
lenge to Horace Allis, of Little Rock.
Coffee sent, a challenge to A Ilf-, and he
turned it over to the officers of the law.
By a tire which broke out in the Put
nam European hotel, at Adams and La-
Salle streets, Chicago, early Sunday
morning, four lives were lost and a score
of pei sons had narrow escapes. The fire
was caused by the explosion of a kero
sene tamp, which had been left burning
in one of the hallways.
A Washington dispatch of Thursday
says: Internal Revenue Commissioner
Mason has informed several collectors
that the section of the new tariff bity,
relative to the fortification of wines with
brandy, free of tax, will be practically
inoperative before December 1-t, because
the new stamps cannot be secured until
then.
The census bureau, on Friday, an
nounced the following populations: Lit
tle Rock, Ark . , 22,469; increase, 9,858;
per cent, 91.23. Baton Rouge, La.,
10,397; increase, 3,200; per cent, 44.46.
New Orleans, La., 241,995: increase,
25.905; per cent, 11.99. Knoxville,
Teun., 22,447; increase, 12,754; per cent,
131 .56 ; state of New York. 5,981,934;
increase, 899,003: percent. 17.09.
The supreme court of Michigan, on
Saturday, rendered a decision in a case
where a restaurauter refused to entertain
a colored man. In the court below in a
suit for damages the negro was debated,
but the supreme court says the court
erred, as the ueavo is a citizen under the
constitution and cannot be discriminated
against, and says the only question that
should have been considered in the lower
court was one of damages.
A San Diego, Cal., dispatch of Friday
says: News has been received from Ros
ario mine, seventy miles inland from Ma
zatlau, of a terrible explosion which oc
curred there in the latter part of Sep
tember. An American named McGee,
who came from Napa, Cal., was working
with nine Mexicans in a sixty-foot level
near the magazine," which contained sev
eral hundred pounds of dynamite. This
exploded in some way, and the ten men
were blown to atoms.
Actiug Indian Commissioner Belthas,
at Washington, has issued a letter of in
structions to Indian agents, in which ht
says that the department is informed that
a company is preparing to obtain Indians
from some of the reservations to join the
Wild West Shows in Europe. Ageuts are
instructed to promptly refuse any appli
cations lor this purpose, as it is now
against the policy of the interior depart
ment to graiit permits for such purposes
Under anv circumstances whatever.
ADVERTISE WITH
US. IT WILL PAY
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TUB
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Guadalupe county is said to be th
banner Alliance county of Texas.
Free delivery service has been ordered
for Durham and Greensboro, N. C., os
the Ist of November.
Hon. Isaac Stone, formerly United
States minister to Japan, died in Deland,
Fla,, Thursday night.
A receiver was appointed by Judge D.
M. Roberts, at Eastman, Ga., on Satur
day, for the Empire Lumber Company.
Estimated liabilities $200,000; assets
$150,000.
George Adams, agent of a European
government premium laud lottery scheme,
was, on Tuesday, arrested in Birmingham,
Ala., for mailing matter in violation oi
the anti-lottery law.
During the first nine months of 1896
3782 miles of new railroad were con
structed by 212 different companies, ac
cording to the Railway Age. The largest
amount of mileage constructed in any
one state was in Georgia—323 miles.
While sis persons on horseback were
passing over an unfinished bridge neai
Webster Spring, W. Va., Saturday, the
structure gave way and alt were precipi
tated into Elk river, forty feet below.
Five of the six persons were wounded,
two fatally.
On Saturday, Airs. H. L. Whiteside,
mother of Yernon Whiteside, the de
faulting city auditor of Chattanooga,
Tenn,, seut a letter to the mayor inform
ing him that she was ready and wiling
to pay any amount the, ex-city auditor
owed the city. The shortage amounts to
$25,000.
The owners of the ACtna coal mine 9,
near Chattanooga, have decided to use
convict labor. The miners employed by
the company went out on a strike some
timo siuce and considerable trouble has
resulted Fifty convicts were sent from
the main prison at Nashville to the mines
on Thursday.
The San Antonio, Texas, Street Rail
way Company began operating its system
with electricity Wednesday. This system
is one of the most extensive and best
equipped in the w r hole south. It em
braces forty miles of track, while fran
chises have been secured and work begun
on twenty additional miles.
A Ra’eigh dispatch says: Secretary
Beddingtield, of the State Farmers’ Alli
ance, sends to each congressional nomi
nee what is known as a “demand card.”
On this are the demands of the Alliance,
and the nominee is asked to sign the card
and return it, ihus showing that he con
siders the demand just aud proper.
A Greenville dispatch of Friday says:
The board of Mississippi levee commis
sioners have let the contracts for the work
of closing the breaks in the levee, caused
by the disastrous overflow of last spring.
The work let will cost about $135,000.
The board will have ample funds on hand
to rebuild the levees in broken places and
to build them above the high-water mark
of this year.
A dispatch of Thursday, from Rome,
Ga., says: The search of Mr. McKee
and Deputy Marshal Brown for Mis. .Mc-
Kee has so far beeu fruitlesV They have
been absent from Rome since last Thurs
day, and no news from them. It is sup
posed their long, absence and silence is an
indication of good results, for Brown and
McKee w T ould have returned if they were
not on track of her. Witnesses were be
fore the grand jury, aud a bll has been
drawn against Mrs. McKee by the solic
itor general.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
POWDER MILLS BLOWN UP DEALING
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
A workman in one of the packing mills
connected with the “Upper” yards, was
receiving a can of hexagonal jwwder to
be shipped for the use of the United
Sta'es government, when in some way a
spark communicated to the can, and it
blew up. Instantly the packing mill
exploded, and other mills in the upper
yards, seven or eight in number, followed
at intervals of less than ono second from
the concussion. The shock was simply
terrific, and was felt even in Philadelphia,
thirty-five miles away, and in New
Jersey and elsewhere. At the
“Upper” yards, where the explosion oc
curred, are some fifty houses, inhabited
by employe* of tho powder mills, clus
tered, and they are all wrecked. The
office of the Dupont company is a com
plete wreck, and the six mills are in ruins.
All buildings within a radius of half a
mile are damaged, and the concussion
even broke windows in some parts of
Wilmington, four or five miles away.
About fifty families are rendered home
less by the disaster. Following is a par
tial list of the killed: Martin Dolan,
James Dolan, William McGarvy, John
Hartygan, William Dennison, John Dietz,
John ilurlike, Patrick Dougherty, Wil
liam GreeD, John Newell, Rose Dough
erty. Several others are missing, and
many more are seriously injured. The
dead were all employes of the company
and were in and about the mills that ex
ploded.
CAROLINA SWAMP LANDS.
A DEAL IN WHICH 100,000 ACRES ARE IN
VOLVED.
The state board of education met at
Raleigh, N. C., and received a proposi
tion to buy swamp lands in Hyde county,
known as Hyde park, and containing
almost 100.000 acres. The lands were
taken twenty years ago by a com [any of
northern capitalists, which failed, and
they reverted to the board. '1 he propo
sition to purchase is made by the Wilm
ington, N. C., improvement company,
which oilers 45 cents per acre. The
board wiU probably accept the offer, and
sixty days have been given to examine
into questions as to the title.
•SUBSCRIBE NOW
STILL AT WORK.
nine weeks of Mississippi's convention
AND THE END NOT YET.
A Jackson dispatch says: The niuth
week of the Mississippi constitutional
convention closed Saturday evening, and
it now appears that its work cannot be
properly finished before November 10th.
The judiciary article is still under con
sideration, aud while the vote was decis
ive that supreme cout judges shall con
tinue to be appointed by the governor,
subject to confirmation by the senate,
the friends of the elective system will
make a fight for the election of criminal
judges aud chancellors.
AN HARBOR WANTED
SND A COMPANY ORGANIZED WITH sl,-
500,000 TO BUILD IT.
A San Antonio dispatch of Wednes
day says: Another enterprise has beeu
formulated and work is soon to begin,
looking to tlie securing of a deep-water
harbor ou the Texas wharf at Padre is
land . The harbor will be secured by the
building of a viaduct sea wall, the esti
mated cost of which will be $1,500,000.
The syndicate is composed of local aud
eastern capitalists, and is backed by un
limited capital.
Metals Costlier Than Gold.
Compared with some of the metals gold
is a cheap commodity. It is worth $240
h pound, troy; platinum $l3O, and silver
about 312. Nickel is quoted at about 60
cents and pure aluminum at $8 to $9 per
troy pound. But barium sells for $975 a
pound, aud calcium is worth SI,BOO
pound. Cerium is higher; its cost is
$l6O an ounce, or $1,920 a pound.
Chromium brings S2OO. cobalt falls to
about half the price of silver, while didy
mium is the same price as cerium, anti
erbium $lO cheaper by the ounce than
calcium, or just $1,680 per pound. The
wealth of the Vanderbilts amounts to
nearly $200,000,0000. With this sum
they could purchase 328 tons of gald
and' have something left over, but they
couldn’t buy two tons of gallium, that
rare metal being worth $ >,250 an ounce.
Mrs. Fenwick Miller, a well-known
London journalist and lecturer, was late
ly asked by a correspondent whether she
really thought that women could, if they
diked, do all that men can do. She re
plied as follows: “Speaking for myself,
there is at least one thing that many men
have done and now jdo which I know 1
should never have the courage to do. 1
have studied medicine, contested elec
tions, written polAioal leaders—all ‘like
a man’—but though I iiave never in my
life worn on my head a tress of hair
which had not grown there, I am sure i
never, never should have the courage to
go about with a bald head.” It would
probably depend, however, on whether
the “bald head” were her own or some
body else’ts.
rpAX ASSESSMENT FOR THE YEAR 1890—
JL Bartow County Commissioner's Court,
September :d, 1890. B.v virtue of the recommen
dation of the grand Jury, at January.term, ]fco,
of Bartow Superior Court, It is ordered that
there be collected by the tax collector of Bartow
county, on the digest of lso, the following tax
for county purposes for 1890.
First, twenty (20 1 cents on the one hnndreddol
lars to pay the legal indebtediuss of Bartow
county, pa*at. due, which accrued since the first
day of June, 1890, to pay the necessary court ex
penses of said county for said year, including
salary for city judge, and for the building and
repairing of bridges ond other public works and
building not mentioned In this order, expenses
of commissioners’ CDUrt, coroner’s fees, expenses
of lunatics, and any other lawful charge against
the county.
Second, sixteen (16) cents on the one hundred
dollars to pay jurors and the necessary court
expenses.
Third, three (3) cents on the one hundred dol
lars to pay commissioner of pauper farm and
support of paupers.
Fonrth, two (2) cents on the ono hundred dol
lars to pay baliffs’ fees, non-resident witnesses,
fuel, stationery, etc.
Fifth, four (4) cents on the one hundred dollars
to pay jailer's fees and the support of inmates.
These items making forty-five cents on the one
hundred dollars for county purposes for afore
said year 1890.
It is further ordered that this order be pub
lished as the law directs, and that the tax collec
tor be furnished with a copy thereof.
Granted September 3d, 1890.
w. l. Leconte.
.1. L. IRK K.
W. J. HICKS,
U. H. DODD.
F. M. FORD,
County Commissioners.
A trneextract horn tho minutes.
J. 1.. I RICK, Clerk,
Letters Dismission.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
Whereas, Benjamin T. Schooler, administrator
of Mary A. Schooler, to the court in
his petition, duly filed and entered on record,
that he has fully administemt Mary A. Schooler s
estate: This is therefore to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if
any they can, why said administrator should not
be discharged from his administration, and re
ceive letters of dismission on the first Monday in
January 1891.
G. W. HENDRICKS* Ordinary,
Letters of Dismissiou.
(1 EORGIA, BARTOW COUNTY.—Ordinary's
„JT Office, July 3<>tb, 1890. — 1\ L. Mood, admin
istrator of Daniel R. Thomas, represents that he
has fully discharged the duties of his suid trust,
aud prays for letters of dismission. This is,
therefore, to notify all concerned, to -bow cause,
if any they can, on or before the first Monday in
November next, why said administrator should
not be discharged ‘rom said trust.
G, W. HEN DKICKS, Ordinary.
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
Whereas, I>. P, Brandon, administrator of
Dora Hay, represents to the court in his petition,
duly filed ami ente e<t on rocord, that he has
fully administered Dora Hays estate. This is
therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said administrator should not be discharged
from his administration, und receive letter* of
dismission on the first Monday in January, 1891.
G. W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary,
Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, Bartow County.
Whereas, I>. P. Brandon, administrator of
James C. Hay, represents tu the court in bis pe
tition, duly filed and entered on record, that he
has fully administered J. C. Hay’s estate: This
is Therefore to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can.
why said administrator should not be discharged
from his administration, and receive letters of
dismission on the first Monday in January, 1891.
G. W. HENDRICKS, Ordinary.
Letters !of Administration.
GEORGIA, BARTOW COUNTY.— Ordinary’s
Office, Sept. 3,1899.—Mi5. Georgia Tumlm
having, in proper form applied fo me for perma
nent letters of administration on the estate of
George H. Tuir.iin. late of said county, deceased,
thie is to cite all and singulur creditors and next,
of kiu of George II Tumlin. to b** and appear
at ray office within the time allowed by law. end
show cause. If any they cau. why permanent ad
ministration should not be granted to Mrs.
Georgia Tumlin on George H Tumlin'e estate.
Witness my baud and oilieial signature, this 2*
day of September, 189#
vi W. HENDRICKS. Ordinary.