SOUTHERN NEWS.
[items of interest from va
rious points in THE SOUTH.
U CONDENSED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IS 001X0 ON OP
IKPOBTANCK IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The courthouse at Warren ton, Va., was
’burned Friday night.
A Confederate monument was unveiled
: in Suffolk, Va., Thursday.
The Detnopolis, Ala., oil mill burned
Friday; loss $125,000, insuiauce $75,-
000. 1
Chief Justice W. N. II. Smith, of
North Carolina supreme court, died at
Raleigh, Thursday.
' Colonel L. F. Livingston addressed
;the Richmond count!', Ga., alliance, Snt-
|urday, on the general condition of the
farmer.
The Early county, Ga., alliance ha-
■determined to establish a cotton seed oil
taiill and fertilizer factory in Blakely tc
be in operation by September, 1890.
William Nathan Larrell Smith, ckiet
justice of the supreme court of North
‘Carolina, and one of the ablest men in
the state, died at his home in Ilaleigh on
Friday.
Joseph Plummer, aged 88, died neat
Sanford, Kv., Thursday.. Two mouths
ago he had ^ stroke of paralysis, and it
is said went without food fpr forty days,
his weight declining. .fcpm' 225.to 186
pounds.
James T. Gill’s livery stable an Clarks
ville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire Fri
day, and in jt fifteen fine horses were
burned, among them the famous trotter,
Single Wood, valued at $7,000.*, jTba
total loss will be $40,000, with !no_insur-
ance. , * v '
A number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, Col., on Saturday-from Reno
county, Kan., to locate government lands
in South Santa Fe for a colony of 200
Mcnnonites, Who propose settling on the
lino of the Atchison,' 'l opcka anil Santa
Fee road. It is the first , colony of the
kind to locate in the territory.
Dispatches of Thursday from Vernon,
Ala., say tbat Summers, the merchant
who was robbed there Tuesday night,
declares that the robber was not Burrow.
Summers has known Rube all his life,
and although the men wore masks, he’
could tell nis visitors were not the fa
mous outlaw and his pal. ,
At a meeting in New Orleans, of the
chamber of commerce and industry of
Louisiana, Thursday night, there was a
spirited contest over the question of
preference as between New York and
Chicago for the site of the world’s expo
sition of 1892. A resolution was finally,
adopted favoring Chicago.
Fire in New Orleans, Friday night,
destroyed all the buildings on the square
bounded by St. Andrew, Franklin, Lib
erty and Josephine streets, except one,
the German Lutheran church. This
same square suffered a similar fate ten
jre.arsago, when the only building left
standing was the same little church.
News was received from Reidsvillo, N.
C.. Thursday, that the grand jury had
returned a true bill against Mrs. Cora
May Harris, for the murder of her hus
band, a merchant of that place, by poi
soning him. The woman is of one of
the best families in the state, a relative
of ex-Governor Seales, and the case
premises to be a celebrated one.
The United State3 grand jury, after a
two weeks’ session at Jackson, Mist.,
were finally discharged Saturday. They
returned forty-one indictments, divided
as follows: _ Timber depredations, nine
teen; postoffice robberies, five; passing
counterfeit money, one; unlawful retail
ing, five; illicit distilliug,' eight; per
jury, two; intimidating witness, one.
The third bi-enuial session of the Uni
ted Syod of the Evangelist Lutheran
church, South, convened in Wilmington,
N. C., Thursday. This body embraces
eight district synods, and has a commu
nicant membership of about forty thou-
.sand. One of the important matters to
be considered by the synod is the estab
lishment of a Southern theological sem
inary.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: A spe
cial train on the Illinois Central branch
from Aberdeen, .Miss., collided north ol
Canton with a switch engine Thursday,
resulting iu the death of Patrick Red
mond, engineer of tlie switch engine;
Tom Loftin, fireman of the switch en
gine. Jim Smith, D. Iialsey and V.
Thomas, and several other persons were
injured.
The annual meetings of tho following
roads, composing the Atlantic coast line,
will be held at Richmond, Va., next
Monday: Richmond and Petersburg;
Petersburg, Wilmington and Weldon:
Northeastern, Cheraw and Salisbury;
Cheraw and Danville; Wilmington, Co
lumbia and Augusta; Central of the South
Carolina, and Albermarle and Raleigh.
Tho alliance men of Franklin, Haber
sham and Rabun counties, Ga., have
formed a joint stock company for the
purpose of buying goods and selling pro
duce for the members of the alliance.
Share* arc placed 1 at $5 each, and the
capital stock, is to be at least $15,000.
Only members of the alliance can be
shareholders. This stock company is tc
be worked through the alliance exchange
of Georgia.
Dr. R. A. Gerrard was jailed at Chat
tanooga, Tenn., on Friday, charged with
bigamy, having ten wives living, accord
ing to tho statement of wife No. 10,
whom he married in that city. Several
of his numerous wives are expected to
arrive from different points of the com
pass in a few days. He admits that he
has several wives living, but claims that
he does not know .how many he has, his
memory on thisjpoint befog defective.
MO VEMENTS OF THE PRESIDEN1
AND HIS ADVISERS.
ANOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHEB MATTES®
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The state department of agriculture W \ QTTT'Vf/NTA\f r\ n
of Alabama has completed its November ** AOIIlli vXHJiVj U»
report, based on reports from all sections
of the state. The report is lull of inter
est. particularly as it shows but eighty-
six per cent of the cotton crop has been
made in the state. The average has been
reduced by the almost total failure of the
crop in some cotton-producing counties
of north Alabama. The corn crops is
above a full one, Uie report showing ar
average of 105.
The board of directors of the prisou
congress met'at Nashville, Tenn., Satur.
day, and attended to the routine busi
ness, nearly every member of this board
was present. f Rev. Frances Waylaud,
D. D., LL. D., of Yale college, is presi
dent of the board of directors. In the
board are Rufus B. Bu.lock, of Atlanta,
Ga.; B. H.‘ Dawson, of Montgomery,
Ala.; Ben E. McCulloch, of Huntsvlle,
Texas, and William J. Hicks, of Ra
leigh, N. C.
The Virginia Methodist conference
mot at Richmond Va., Monday and elec
ted the following delegates to a genera!
conference to bo held at St. Louis in
May, 1890: Clerical delegates—Rev. Dr.
J. E. Edwards, Dr. R. ill. Sledd, P. A.
Peterson, Paul Whitehead, J. J. Laff _rfy,
A. G. Brown, Rev. J. Lowell Garland.
Lay Delegates—Governor E. E. Jackson,
Maryland; Prof. W. W. Smith, Ran
dolph, Macon collego; Mo'-srs. J. Pet
tyjohn, Lynchburg; Capt. E. V. White,
Norfolk, and Major R. W. Peatross, -Dan
ville, Va.
Thc-Southern Surgical and Gynecolog
ical association, which has been in ses
sion at Nashville the past week, lias
adjourned, after selecting., the following
officers: President, George J. Etigle-
uiann, of St. Louis; first vice-president,
Hfldra, of Galveston,Texas; second
vice-president, Dr. Duncan Eve, of
Nashville. Judicial council—Dr. Hitn-
• ter McGuire, of Richmond, Va., for five
., fears; Dr. Bedford Brown,of Alexandria,
Va., for one year; secretary, W. E. B.''
Davis, M. D„ Birmingham, Ala.; treas
urer, Hardin P. Cochrane, M. D., Birm
ingham, Ala. The next meeting will be
held jn Atlanta, Ga.
A GENERAL FIGHT-
SEVERAL MEN KILLED IN THE FRENCH-
KVEItSOI.E FUED IN KENTUCKY.
A Courier- Journal special from Hazard.
Kv., says: The circuit court convened
here last Monday. Judge Lillcy,
tho rsgulnr judge, not be’mg present, the
bar elected Captain W. L. Huelst, of
Wolf county, to preside. Everything
started off serenely, with apparently no
danger of trouble between the warring
factions. George Eversole, leader
of tho Eversole faction, came in
to town Monday evening before
the court with fifteen armed men.
But as most of them were under bond to
appear at this term of court, nothing was
thought of it. The Eversole party kept
increasing in numbers until it reached
thirty well-armed men. There were only
a few of the French party in town. It
soon became apparent, that there would
be trouble. French was aw r arc of the
war-like preparations and placed himself
with a strong force in easy reach of the
town so as to be able to relieve his
friends in the event of trouble. Thurs
day evening Wesley Whittaker, of the
Eversole faction, fired upon Henry Dav
idson, one of the French party. ' Whit
taker had barricaded himself iu a small
log house on the opposite side of the
street. Davidson was soon joined by
others. Whittaker, in the meantime, had
also been joined by several of his friends,
and a lively fight took place between
four men of the French party and the
Eversoles. The court which was in ses
sion, stampeded. The fight lasted about
fifteen miuute3. When the smoko
cleared away, it was found that Camp
bell, of tho Eversole party, had been
killed. This fight took place
about four o’clock in the after
noon. The parties rested on their
arms till dark, when the fight was re
newed witli increased fierceness. Tho
French party had been reinforced by the
Davidson boys, Jessie Morgan, brother
of E. C. Morgan, who was killed by the
Eversoles, and others. B. F. Frencli
himself came into town about 12 o’clock
with reinforcements to the relief of his
beleaguered friends. At daybreak the
fight raged with new fmy. The Ever
sole party was stationed in the court
house and J. C. Eversole’s old fort.
The battle lasted about an hour and when
the Eversole party retreated, leaving their
dead, Ed Campbell and John McKniglit,
killed. Several were wounded on tire
Eversole side. The court broke up with
out ceremony, the judge leaviug for
home as quickly as-possible.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND GRAND RALLY
AT SACRAMENTO, CAL.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., devoted most of Sat
urday’s session to the election of officers
and routine business. J. II. Brigham, of
Ohio, was elected master; Ilirain Haw
kins, of Alabama, overseer; Mortimer
Whitehead, of New Jersey, lecturer; A.
J. Ross, of Texas, chaplain; E. W. Dav
is, of California, steward; O. E. llall, of
Nebraska, assistant steward; F. N. Mc
Dowell, of New York, treasurer; John
Trimble, of Washington,D. C. secretary;
Ava E. Page, of Missouri, gate-keeper;
Mrs. Edna Brigham,of Ohio, ceres; Mrs.
M. J. Thompson, of Illinois, pomana;
Mrs. Joe Bailey, of Mississippi, flora;
Mrs. Laura C. Douglass, of Massachu
setts,ladies’assistant steward; L. Rhone,
of Pennsylvania, holdover; J. J. Wood
man, of Michigan; X. X. Chartlers, of
Virginia; J. H. Brigham, of Ohio; ex-
officio executive committee.
The statement is out that congress will
investigate the civil service commission,
add preparations for the investigation
are now being made.
Surgeqn Posey has reported to Sur
geon-General Hamilton, of the marine
hospital service, that two new cases of
yellow fever have been developed at Kev
West, Fla.
A letter received at Washington from
Caracas, dated November 5th, states that
on October 26th, the statues of Guzman
Blanco, in that city, were pulled down
And dragged through the streets in
pieoes. Similar statues in other cities
met a like fate.
The president Monday afternoon gave
a special reception to a number of gen
tlemen, representing the various business
interests of tho country, who requested
that ho incorporate in his message to con
gress a recommendation for the enact
ment of an equitable national bankruptcy
law.
_ First Comptroller Matthews has de
cided that a United States marshal who
undertakes to serve a government sub
poena upon a witness at a distant point
nnd fails to find him, is not entitled to
the actual expenses of the trip, notwith
standing .they ■ were incurred only iu
going to tlie place indicated in the writ*
also, that he is not entitled to the actual
expenses for travel to another place to
arrpst a person whom he fails to find; also,
that he is not entitled to mileage for his
return after conveying a criminal to a
place designated for his confinement.
John W. Mason, commissioner of in
ternal revenue, has submitted to the sec
retary of the treasury reports of opera
tions of the internal revenue service for
the fiscal year ended Juno 30, 1889. Ag
gregate receipts for last fiscal year $130,-
394,434, <Xr $6,567,953 more than the re
ceipts tho previous year. The receipts
for the first three months of the fi-cal
year aggregated $34,634,520, an increase
of $3,470,80(7 as compared with the re
ceipts for tho corresponding period
of the last fiscal year. Toe com
missioner saya if this ratio of increase is
maintained tlie receipts of tho present
fiscal year will amount to over $112,000,-
000. He dors not, however, think such
to be the case, and estimates collections
for thq current year at 35,000,000.
As a result of several conferences of
Attorney General Miller, Secretary Win-
dam and Solicitor Hepburn in regard to
the Case of the twenty-five English glass-
bio werq, employed at the works of
Chambers,' McKee & Co., of Jeannette,
Pa.j the first named on Saturday referred
all the papers iu the case to United
States District Attorney Lyons, at Pitts
burg, with instructions to proceed
against the firm named, and those officers
of the local assembly of glassblowers,
who were instrumental in bringing the
English laborers to this country, provi
ded he is satisfied that suits can be main
tained against them under the provisions
of the alien contract labor law. Solicitor
Hepburn has given an opinion to {h«
secretary of the treasury that the depart
ment has ample authority to send the
imported glassblowers back to England.
On Monday Secretary Windom’s at
tention was called to the report that lie
had decided to withdraw $47,000,000 of
publio funds, now on deposit with na
tional banks. The secretary said that it
certainly was not his purpose to mako
any euch wholesale witudrawal, but that
the question of a withdrawal of a’pnrtion
of tiie fund in depository banks lias been
under consideration for some time, and
he fully recognized the necessity of call
ing in such a portion as could be with
drawn from the banks without serious
inconvenience to the trade and commer
cial interests as early as practicable.
He said also, in answer to a direct in
quiry on the subject, that tho govern
ment for many years past has had on
deposit with bauks through which its
cut rent business is transacted, from ten to
twenty million dollars, and that he saw
no good reason why this policy should
be changed.
WILL CONSOLIDATE.
ONE OF- THE LARGEST AND STRONGEST
CORPORATIONS IN AMERICA.
It i3 reported at Birmingham, Ala., on
good authority that the Tcnnejsee’Co il,
Iron and Railroad company and tlie De-
bardeleben Coal and Iron company of
Alabama, will soon consolidate. The
consolidated coinpauy would be probably
the richest coal and iron corporation iu
America. Thu combined property of the
two companies will consist of fifteen
blast furnaces in Tennessee and Alabama;
about one hundred miles of railroad;
coal mines with a total daily output of
eight thousand tons; coke ovens and ore
mines enough to supply all the furnaces;
and about one hundred thousand acres of
the best mineral lands in the south.
BANK. STATEMENT.
The following is a statement of lh«
associated banks fpr the week ending
Saturday:
Jiesorvt) Increase $1,810,723
Loans decrease., 1,614,000
Hpecie Increase 1,670,000
Legal tenders decrease 160,800
Deposits decrease 2,108 900
Circulation increase l'>,900
The banks now hold $549,450 in ex
cess of 25 per cent. rule.
The skeletons of three miners who went
into the Wolf Mountains to prospact for the
Lost Cabin gold mines in 1886, have been
found in Carbon County, Wyoming. f .
THE WEEK’S BUSINESS
A8 SST FORTIt BY R. G. DUN * CO., OI*
NEW YORK.
According to R. G. Dunn & Co. busi
ness continues healthy, confident and un
precedented in volume. Long ago il
was held that a year’s results would turn
upon the crops, and it is now certain that
the yield has been on tho whole about the
largest ever known. The question
whether the wheat yield is twenty 01
thirty million bushels below the maxi
mum is not important. The cotton crop
will much exceed auy previous one, il
the latest official figures are correct. Tin
corn crop will exceed any preceding bj
one hundred to two huudred million
bushels. The oat crop is also the largesl
ever known, and the shortage in potatoei
and fruit is, immensely ovci shadowed bj
the gain in meats. Exports of provis
ions and cattle in October were $12,604,,
857 in value.against $0,535,277 last year-
a gain of 60J per emt, and while the
breadstuffs movement was $145,000 shori
of last year’s, the increase in cotton has
been immense. The capacity of iron
furnaces in blast November 1st was much
the greatest ever recorced, no less than
than 105, 765 tons weekly, against 151,-
059 October 1st, a gain of nearly 10 pot
cent Ijpr the month; and against 141,064
November 1st, 1888, a gain of 17.5 pet
cent for ttio year. It appears, too, that
several other furnaces of large capacity
are about to begin woric. Weekly pro
duction is now greater than that of Great
Britain, and clos.e to the greatest ever re
corded in that couutry, being at the rate
of about 8,300,000 tons yearly, after ths
allowance for difference between capac
ity and actual output. Yet no excess ol
production has been perceived, and
prices are firm at the recent advance, an
actual but small sale of rails at $3.1
being reported, bar iron being strong
at $1.96, nails in fair demand at $2.1C
and plate, structural and sheet mills full
of orders. Ohe point of doubt is whethei
the warrants system may not operate fot
the time, to conceal an excess output
over real consumption, and thus prepart
for a disastrous reaction, later. The coal
business is still (foil, with individual sel
lers cutting prices as before. Copper has
risen to 12 j bid for lake, though the pro
duction'is large. Lead is dull, and tin
wenker at 21J cents. The cotton branch
of the dry goods trade is active. Receipti
of raw cotton again exceed last years,but
the excess of exports for the week has
been over 50,000 bales, and tlie price is
unchanged, with speculative sales ol
600,0fl0 bales. Woolen goods arc now
moving fairly, and at concessions in
price. Speculation in products has been
more active, with some advance in prices.
Operators who were buying at Chicago
were selling at New York, and sales
were over ten million bushels Friday.
Corn is but a quarter stronger, pork un
changed, with but slight advance in lard,
petroleum only a shade higher, and oats
one cent higher. Coffee has been ad
vanced again five-eighth of a cent, witih
speculative sales of 250,000 bags, but
distribution is dull. There are more than
the usual uniformity in accounts from
all parts of the country. Reports are nil
favorable as to the volume of business,
and in the main as to collections. Busi
ness failures occurring throughout the
country during tho la3t week, number
for the United States 225; Canada, 20.
Total 265, against 267 last week.
SUSTAINED THE SHERIFF
IN THE KILLING OF TIIE HAWES RIOTERS,
AT BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
The legality of the killing of the ten
men who fell at the attack on the jail,
at Birmingham, Ala., during the Hawes
riot last December, was finally settled
Saturday. The suit of D. C. Juskins
against Sheriff J. S. Smith, which has
been on trial for two weeks, was
decided in favor of the sheriff. Jus-
kins sued for $100,000 damages for tlie
death of lvis son, who was in the mob
and was killed during the attack on the
jail. A number of similar suits were
brought, and it was agreed to make tho
Juskins" suit a test ease. The best legal
talent in the state was employed, nnd the
trial lasted eleven days nnd a half. The
remaining suits against the sheriff will be
lismissed.
A NEW ORDER
TO BF. FOUNDED BV MISS KATE DKEXEI
— AN AMERICAN SI6TERHOOD.
It has been authoritatively stated at
Pittsburg tbat Miss Kate Drexel, known
in religion ns Sister Catherine, will not
remain in the Order of Mercy. She is
merely making her novitiate in that or
der so that she may become a nun and
found a new order. The sisterhood she
will institute, it is stated, will be dis
tinctly American, and it will have for
its object missionary work and charitable
work among the Indians. The members
of the now order will be expected to do
all kinds of domestic work, in addition
to educating Indians. The name has not
yet been decided upon.
TO SAIL SUNDAY.
A SQUADRON OF FOUR AMERICAN SHIES
THAT WILL SAIL FOR KCROCK.
Amid the booming of cannon, dipping
of flags, waving of hundreds of hats and
handkerchiefs, and cheers from as many
throats, Admiral John G. Walker and
his squadron, comprising the ships Chi
cago, Boston, Atlanta and Yorktown,
with bunting flying and in all the gay
panoply of war, sailed majestic illy down
North river, Nsvr York, shortly before
noon Monday. Admiral Walker’s orders
direct him to temuin in Boston not later
than the end of the week, and it is ex
pected that next Sunday morning the
fleefl-wiff sail for Europe.
G, 1
Has opened a Branch Store at
No. 97 S. BROAD ST.
Where lie keeps a full line of
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
LIQUORS
All orders received here or at the old
Store/
167 WEST PETERS STREET
Shall have prompt attention.
I make Corn Whisky, Peach and
Apple Brandy a Specialty, *
My Prices of Corn Whiskies arc:
Spring goods of 1885—4 yrs. old. $2 05
“ , “ 1886—3 “
'• " 1887-2 “
“ “ 1888—1
Sour Mash....*
j Gallon Jugs, 10 cts. All others at lp
conts per gallon, -
. 1 85
. 1 75.
. 1 65
. 1 45
I have Corn
Whiskies & Bran
dies made in the
mountains of N,
Georgia-not made
by steam, but in
old : fashioned cop
per stills.
Give me a sample order
or call and examine
my goods.
Mr. J. M. Wilson, who is and old cit
izen of Fayette, will be glad to v^ait on
you at
No. 97 S. Broad Street,
ATLANTA, GA.
BJ. STEWART.
