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V V The Fayetteville News VOL. 2. FAYETTEVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1889 NO. 10. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. News from everywhere—accidents, strike*, fires, and Happenings of interest. \ l The new loro mayor or Lionaon, Sir Henry Aaron Isaacs, was installed in 'office Saturday. The report of the murder of the mis sionary, Savage, in New Guinea, is de clared to be untrue. The Standard Oil company has ab sorbed the Glebe refinery nt Pittsburg, Pa., and alto the Freedom, Pa., refinery. , The window glass manufacturers of Srmdlay, Ohio, at a recent meeting, ad vanced the price of window glass 15 per cent. The schooner Southwest, iron laden, is missing, and, wilh her crew of nine men, is supposed to have gone down in Lake Erie. Master Workman Powderly says the Knights of Labor are in bettc shape than a yenr ago, the future brighter than ^ver before. Notices have been posted in all fur naces in Mahoning Valley, Ohio, grant ing all employes an unsolicited increase iu wages of ten per cent. A convention of the American Associ ation of Agricultural colleges and ex periment stations began its session at Washington, D. C., Tuesday. The Volcano of Colina, Mexico, is re ported to be in a state of active eruption. Mauy houses have been destroyed, and the woods for many miles around are on fire. News comes from Talequah, that the Cherokee council will employ attorneys to contest the government’s claim to ju risdiction over their lands known ns the "Jherokee strip. The New York Herald says that it is understood that the oil producers associ- stion is to lay a pipe liuijfrom Pittsburg -b the seaboard, in opposition to the Standard Oil company. An exposition in a dynamite factory near the town of Bilboa, iu Spain, on Thursday, demolished the building. Four of the employes were killed and a large number injured. %'ire.on the river in Bedford, just be yond the city limits of Manchester, N.H., Saturday, destroyed the farm buildings of Samuel N, Dunbar. Two children were burned to death.- * A telegram has been received from Zanzibar stating that the report of the mafsaere of Emin Bey relief exposition, under command of Captain Peters, had not been confirmed up to Saturday, 'i^ew.s has been received that the Amer ican ship Cliesebrough, Capt. Ericsoji, from Hiogo to New York, has been lost off the northern coast of Japan. Nine teen of her crew were drowned. Advices from the Pan Handle coun try and regions further north says that heavy bnow now covers the earth and there is every indication that the begin ning of a most severe winter is at hand. The Austrian bark Joseph II, sailed from Providence, It. I., for Rotterdam on Thursday with $100,000 worth of cotton seed oil. This is the first direct foreign cargo that has left this port for the last half cculiify. The official gazeite at the city of Mexico publishes a contract entered into between that government and Francisco Alfaro for the cohsiruction by the latter of a railroad from the Rio-Grande to the Pacific coast. The supreme couit of Indiana has de cided that natural gas is a commercial conlhodity, aud, consequently, the legis lative act of last winter prohibiting the piping of gas out of the. state unconsti tutional. Mrs. Mandia Morgan, who is said to be qn important witness for the prosecu tion in the Cronin ense, wa9 sandbagged in Chicago, III., Saturday night, by an unknown person, and as a result of the blow is now in a dangerous condition. The new state of North Dakota begins busies.? with a bonded indebtedness of $501b000 and a floating indebtedness of about $60,000. With the strictest econ omy there will be a further defiicicncy during the first year of at least $50,000. A call has been issued by the temper ance societies of Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, North and South Dakota, for a conven tion to be held in Omaha ou the 18th of December, for the purpose of organizing the states named in a central prohibition organization. Exports of specie from the port of New York for .week ending Saturday, No'xmber 1), amounted to $342,041, of whiffi $10,420 was in gold and 332,035 in silver. Imjiorts of specie last week amounted to $279.106, of which $177,831 was in gold, and $101,880 in silver. The state geologist of Ohio, says offi cially thut tbe natural gas supply in the now f>-mou9 field in the northwestern part of that state will not last for ten years. In the eastern part of the state the supply has been so nesrly exhausted that the manufactories have bacn com pelled to return to the use of coal. A program has been issued for a cele bration in Baltimore of the anniversary of the hanging of the Chicago anarchists. It is long and violent. It closes: “An archists, the day has arrived for paying homage to your comrades, to brand your enemies, to promulgate your ideas, to advance the struggle, to hasten the victory.” Fire broke out Saturday night in the flour mill of the St. Paul Roller mill, at St. Paul, Minn. Close by is a big eleva- tortor of the same company, which also caught fire. A loss of $i50,000, with insurance of $100,000 is involved in the mill and contents. The fire is thought to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp in the shipping room. The first sod of the Nicarnugiia caual was officially and formally turned ou Oc tober 22, amid the booming of cannon and the cheers of thousands of specta tors. Work was really begun June 3, but owing to some slight misunderstand ing between NicaraugUa and Costa Rica (which has since been amicably arran ged), the formal opening was postponed. The attention of George W. Childs, the editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, has been called to statements pub lished in several papers that he had ex pressed the opinion “that the body of General Grant will be removed from New York.” Mr. Childs denies the report and says that he has never expressed such an opinion or said in any form that General Grant’s body would be so removed. The Unitt d States grand jury in ses sion at Baltimore on Saturday, indicted eighteen of the one hundred and twenty- four Navassa rioters for murder and be fore the fact, the penalty for which is death. Seven are charged as principals and eleven ns having aided and abetted the murderers. Bishop O’Dwyer, nt Limerick, Ireland, has issued a pastoral letter ferbidding- the clergy of the diocese to grant abso lution to any person guilty of boycotting or pursuingthc plan of campaign. The bishop retains to himself alone the right to absolve such persons. MOVEMENTS OF COTTON. ItEI'OHT OF NEW ORLEANS COTTON EX CHANGE KOI! FAST WEEK. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange statement makes the cotton movement over the Ohio and Mississippi and Poto mac rivers to Northern American and Canadian mills, for the week ending No vember 9th, 48,837 bales, against 48,779 last year, and tlic total, since September 1st, 1,188,070, against 239,741 last year; the total American mill takings, North and South, for the first ten weeks of the season, 517,883, against 674,852, of which by Northern, 431,436, against 587,152; the amount of the American cotton crop in sight, 2,070,5S0. The statement shows a partial halt iu heavy- foreign exports, and the exce.-s, which last week was 410,575 bales, is now 369,- 573 over the total to this time last year. It also indicates that tbe Northern mills are still pursuing a hand-to-mouth policy, the deficiency iu their takings for the ten weeks compared with last year hav ing been increased to 125,716 bales. The stocks af the seaports and leading interior towns have increased 189,374 bales during the week, reducing the de ficiency, compared with the close of the corresponding week last year, to 30,542 bales. SUITS FILED TO COMPEL TUB DELIVERY AND PAYMENT OF BONDS UNLAWFULLY ISSUED. The Massachusetts and Southern Con struction compauy has filed suits in the United States* circuit court against the townships of York, Ebenczor, Broad River, Catawba aud Cherokee, in York county; the townships of Giles Creek, Pleasant Hill and Cane Break, in Lan caster county; the state of South Caro lina and the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust compuny, to compel the townships named to deliver aud pay over the bonds issued by these townships to aid in the construction of the Charleston, Cincin nati and Chicago railroad. The state supreme court of South Carolina has de elured tho issuance of such bonds by the I townships unconstitutional. COTTON OIL TlluST. THE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER SEND IN THEIR RESIGNATIONS. 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