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The Fayetteville News ' VOL. 2. i FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FKIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1889. NO. 13. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION ON CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. news from Evmwwnrcnu—accidents, strikes, ITHEH, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. A dispatch from Fergus Falls, Minn., says that the ground was covered with snow Monday morning at that place. The Italian government has refused to receive Mashan Ellendi, whom the porte wishes to appoiut as Turkish am bassador to Italy. Cholera is still raging in the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates. During the last three months there have been 7,000 deaths from the disease. The bodies of thirty-seven of the men killed in the uxplosiou in Bentelee col liery, at Longton, England, on Wednes day, have been recovered. Up to the recess Tuesday night 627 jurors had been excused in the Crouin case at Chicago, four accepted and sworn in and four temporarily passed. The trial of Father McFadden, charged with having participated in the murder of Inspector Martin at Gwcdore, in Feb- ruary last, began Thursday. "A dispath from Sofia to the Cologne Gazette, says that the Austrian Lander Bank, jointly with the German banks, has loaned the Bulgarian government 25,000,000 francs, of which 10,000,000 is to be paid immediately ar.d the remain der in two installments. There is a great rush of speculators and boomers to Pierre, the new capital of South Dakota. On Friday a large number of speculators from Kansas City. Omaha, Denver, and as far west as the Pacific coast reached the embryo city to invest and to help make.things hum. The finance committee of the World’s Fair, at New York, on Thursday re solved to take, without further delay, the necessary steps to obtain subscrip tions to guarantee $5,000,000, and a sub committee was appointed to prapare the necessary subscription books for that purpose. The threatened strike of the bakers be came general at Newark, N. J., on Wednesday. Five hundred men am now out on strike, and a boycott ha3 been or dered against the boss bakers. Pickets are keeping New York men from going to work and persuading them to go home. The announcement that the steamers had advanced their freight r^tes caused considerable stir on the floor of the pro duce exchange, at New York, on Wednesday. Freight on grain has ad vanced to 51 penci) pur bushel. This is the highest figure reached for this sea son’s crop. Dr. Talmnge, of Brooklyn, N. Y., whose celebrated tabernacle was de stroyed by fire, one week ago, announced on Sunday that the trustees of his church had purchased property 150x200 feet, on the corner of Clinton and Greene avenues, for the erection of a new, taber nacle. The ground will be broken on the 28th inst. The Pope, in an address to some French pilgrims, at Rome, on Sunday, advised the formation of an association which shall be devoted to securing the material welfare of the workmeu by procuring increased facilities for labor, calculating principles of economy and defending the rights and legitimate claims of workmen. The senior class of Harvard college, at Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected a colored mao, Clement Morgan, as class orator. The election was hotly contested but Morgan received a substantial major ity, about 270 men voting. Last year as a competitor for the Boylston prizes he carried his audience by storm and won the first prize. Exports of specie from the port of New York for week ending Saturday, Oct. 19th, amounted to $487,855, of which $32,830 was in gold and $455,025 in silver. Of the total exports, $17,u00 in gold and $454,050 in silver went to Europe and $15,830 in gold and $875 in silver to South America. Imports of specie for the week was $34,234, of which $20,299 was in gold and $7,905 in silver. A strike of moulders at Pittsburg, Pa., was inaugurated Monday. Two weeks ago they made a demand for an advauce ot ten per cent in their wages, but up to a late hour Saturday night, none of the manufacturers had conceded the in crease, and at a meeting it was decided to strike on Monday morning. There are about 1,000 moulders in the city. Empress Frederick, accompanied by her daughters Princess Charlotte, Prin cess Victoria, Princess Sophia and Prin cess Margarette and Prince Bernhard, of Sax-Meincngcu, husband of Princess Charlotte, left Berlin, Germany, on Sat urday, for Venice, on their wny to Ath ens, where Princess Sophia is to bo mar ried on the 27tls inst. to the crown prince of Greece. In an addro3S Monday before the Boys’ and Girls’ National Homo association, in session at Washington, D. C., Alexander Ilogeland, president of the association, slated that, there were $60,000 boy tramps in the United States. He advo cated the establishment of a registration system by which boy tramps might be found and hired to farmers wiiliug to employ them. A disastrous explosion occurred Satur day in a coal mine at Brynut Switch, five miles south of Fort Smith. Ark., in the Choctaw nutiom A miner’s lump came in contact with a keg of powder. The explosion of the powder caused the ex plosion of coal dust which set the mine on fire. Sixteen men were in the mine, tho shaft of which is 500 feet deep. All of them wero taken out more or less in jured. Four were horribly burned, and are not expected to rector. The coffin containing the remains of Ralph Waldo Emerson,at Concord,Mass., whose grave was disturbed last week,and whose skull was erroneously reported to have been curried away, has been placed In a securely bound bov, which has in turn been deposited in a grave composed of blocks of granite cemented together and securely fastened with a granite cov ering. The.generally accepted theory is that the vnndali m was committed to create a sensation. About three weeks ago Dr. E. T. Schneider, of Peleo Island, was taken ill with a disease which proved to be small pox. Wednesduy word came from Pelee that there were nearly one hundred caseq of the disease on the island. The Can adian government has established a quarantine against the island The state board of health at Columbus, Ohio, has issued an order closing all ports along the shores of Lake Erie against Poles Islund. At one o’clock Thursday, the grand jury of Chicago came into court and handed up twelve indictments, elsven of which were for every day crimes. Tho twelfth was a joint bill against Mark Sal- omen, John Graham,Thomas Kavanaugh, Fred Smith, Jeremiah O’Donnell, Alex ander L. Hanks and Joseph Keen. All of these men were already under indict ment for conspiracy to bride the jurymen in the Cronin gase. A terrible wreck occurred on the Bur- liugton and Missouri road,at Gibson,a few miles from Omaha, Nebraska, Wednes day. About fifty passengers were in jured. Two engines were completely demolished, and a chair car and combin ation car were thrown from the tracks and reduced to atoms. The combination coach and chair car were both crowded with passengers, all of whom wore more or less injured. Many‘of the passengers were badly burned in addition to their other injuries, THE COTTON MOVEMENT. A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE NEW ORLEANS EXCHANGE. Tbc New Orleans cotton exchange statement, is ued Monday, makes the net cotton movement across the Ohio, Mis sissippi and Potomac rivers to Northern American and Canadian mills, during the week ending October 19, 24,186 bales, against 30.253 last year, and the total since September 1, 06,253, against 97,- 969. Total American mill takings, north and south, for the first seven weeks of the season, 313,783, against 369,196, of which by northern mills, 252,000,against 307,000. Amount of American crop that lias come in sight during the past seven weeks, 1, 529,475, against 1,305,887 bales. Tbe statement shows that the net rail movement overland, which at the end of the fourth week of September was ahead of last year 4,897 bales,has since lost 35,- 724, and is now 31,320 behind last year. Foreign exports lor seven weeks are 230,861 bales ahead of last year, while the American spinners, take show a de ficit. of 55,415, and Anioiican stocks at delivery' poits and leading interior cen ters are 83.820 bales less than at the close of the corresponding week last season. THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. LEADING IRISHMEN WILL MAKE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE ORDER. It is announced on the authority of a prominent member of the Irish National league, who is a resident of St. Louis, Mo,, that there is n move ment on foot within the league to in crease its numerical strength, and piace it on a firmer basis than it has ever been. In the past year the affairs in Chicago have done much to create a wrong im pression of tbe league, and it bus been affected to a considerable extent. It is denied explicitly that the league has in any way been mixed up with the Clau- na-Gael or Cronin murder. Rev. 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