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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. Father
O’Reilly and Colonel John Atkinson, of
Detroit, have gone to England for the
purpose of consulting Mr. Parnell and
his friends on this subject, ifnd Charles
O’Brien, who has just returned from a
conference at Detroit with Father
O’Reilly, left for Lincoln, Nebraska, to
consult with John Fizgerald, president
of the league, and make arrangements
lor a thorougli organization in the whole
country.
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