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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.
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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.
At a meeting of the board of trustees j
of tho American cotton oil trust held at
New York on Monday the resignations '
of J. II. Flagler, as president, and Jay I
Moss, as treasurer of the board, were i
read and accepted.
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CONSISTING OF
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ALSO
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