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THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Items Collected From Every
Quarter of the Globe.
Short Southern Stories.
John Fitch, a negro, was-lynched at
Birmingham, Ala. He was charged
with attempting an assault.
North Georgia goldfields are looking
Up. The Paulding county mines are
being developed and promise well.
General Adolph Meyer lias boon re
nominated for congress by the Demo
crats of the First .Louisiana district.
The Georgia chapter of the Daughters
of the Confederacy will meet in annual
convention in Macon on Oct. 15 and 10.
. The Georgia and Alabama road earned
gross for August SBO,BBB, an increase of
$40,977, and net $27,815, increase $27,-
680.
At Portland, Me., John R. Gentry
paced the fastest mile ever made in har
ness, and placed the world’s record at
2:00} A
Torn Delk, a desperate character in
jail at Atlanta, attempted to saw out,
but was discovered aud his tools were
taken from him.
The North Carolina bank statement
for the past quarter shows 28 national,
41 state, 17 private and six savings
banks. Total, 92.
The application of C. M. Ohislom,
convicted in Georgia of counterfeiting,
for restoration to rights of citizenship,
has been denied by tile president.
The Petersburg and Asylum railway
was sold at Petersburg, Va., the At
lantic Coast Line becoming the pur
chaser. The price paid was $29,000.
Citizens of Nashville have decided to
erect a bronze statue to Cornelius Van
derbilt, the founder of Vanderbilt uni
versity. The contract will be let at
$4,000.
Ladies of Ocala, Fla., have formed a
Bryan silver club with Mrs. Marie Ditto
as president The object is to raise
funds for the national Democratic com
mittee.
The marshal at Rochelle, Ga., A. J.
Eastman, was shot while trying to ar
rest an aro. The wound is in the
neck anti may prove fatal. The negro
escaped.
The storehouse aud stock of goods,
valued at $12,000, belonging to D. H.
Johnson, located at Leomont, Accomac
comity, Va., has been destroyed by fire;
insurance, $2,009.
The fast train from Atlanta ami the
Picayune from Augusta collided on the
main line of the Georgia railroad at
Mesina, Ga, Engineer BUI Murrow aud
the fireman were injured.
The Third United States artillery,
stationed at St. Angustme, Fla., is to bo
transferred to the Pacific coast, and the
Fiftii artillery, is to come from the Pa
cific coast to St. Augustine.
At New Orleans the jeans pants fac
tory of A. Kory & Cos. was totally de
stroyed by fire and the buildings on
both sides of it were badly damaged.
The entire loss is nearly $50,000.
Hon Charles E. Hooker of Jackson,
Miss., has been invited to make Demo
cratic speeches in the east, under the
auspices of the national Democratic
committee, aud will do so.
In a letter to Governor Culberson of
Texas, Prince Bismarck says the inde
pendent action of the United States in
favor of bimetallism would aid in bring
ing about an international agreement.
The Savannah Catholic Knights of
America have placed upon the wall of
their place of meeting, in the Catholic
Library hall, an xcellont lifesize crayon
portrait of the late Vicar General Oaf
ferty.
Great preparations are being made in
Atlanta for the opening of the Georgia
School of Technology, which takes place
on Sept. 30. The school will open this
year under brighter prospects than ever
before.
A vessel named “Unique,” said to
have been built in Canada, is now in
the Mississippi, bound south, aud is
suspected of having on board a cargo of
arms and ammunition for the Cuban
insurgents.
Alabama negroes are planning to help
the Cubans. It is expected to enlist
1,000 in the cause. A big secrot meet
ing wjts held Friday at Mobile and sev
eral hundred negro volunteers were en
rolled, it is said.
The receivers Of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad report for the year
ending Juno 30 gross earnings of sl,-
848,538, an increase of $146,266; expen
ses $30,531, and net earnings $287,283,
an increase of $115,735.
At Bowling Green, Fla., the irate
father of a schoolboy, who had been
whipped by the teacher, met the peda
gogue on the street and cursed him,
whereupon the wielder of the ferule had
him arrested, and tne judge nned him
$5 and costs.
J. B. Castilla has been arrested at
Key West, He is al eged to have been
the head man in a recent filibustering
expedition, carried to Cuba, by the
Three Friends, now detained in Florida.
The arrest was made by the United
States marshal.
The president has pardoned J. W.
Phillips, convicted in Alabama of illicit
distilling and sentenced April last to 15
months imprisonment and SIOO fine.
The prisoner is iiqan advanced stage of
consumption and on this account the
pardon is granted.
At Slaydett’s crossing, a hamlet be
tween Lamar, Miss., and Grand Junc
tion, Temt., in tire former state. Walter
Brown, a young negro, was shot to
death and then burned. His crime was
a murderous assault upon Mrs. Slaydeu,
postmistress, aged 73 years.
W. A. Goldin. Populist candidate for
sheriff of Haralson county, Ga., has
been arrested, charged with an at
tempted criminal assault on the wife of
J. J. Pope, Populist nominee for the
legislature. Goldin says that he is the
innocent victim of a plot meant to de
feat him.
Joaquin Fortune, president of the Cu
ban club of Jacksonville, Fla., has writ
ten to Clara Barton, asking that the
Red society of the United States
send a representative to Cuba in behalf
of the Cuban army, inasmuch as the
Spanish Red Cross attends exclusively
to the Spanish army.
Joseph N. Wolfson, a prominent law
yer, has been arrested for aiding in
fleecing the Union National bank of
New Orleans out of $36,000. The sys
tem pursued in this robbery was differ
ent from the others, checks being drawn
for large amounts and much smaller
sums being charged up by the individual
bookkeeper.
The steamer Three Friends has been
libeled at Jacksonville, Fla., by United
States District Attorney Frank Clark
for violating the navigation laws by go
ing into foreign waters without sur
rendering to the collector of the port
her coastwise license and taking out
papers that would permit her to enter a
foreign port.
Marshal Stevens, manager of the Man
chester Ship canal, with C. C. Harvey,
a large cotton spinner, and James L.
Hall, a'prominent grain merchant, of
the same city, are in Savannah, discuss
ing with capitalists and leading rail
road men the practicability of establish
ing a freight and passenger steamship
line to Manchester from that port.
Notes from Nortfi. fast. West amt Abroad.
Peter Gallagher, Indian agent at
Warm Springs, Or., is dead.
George P. Tyler, former president of
the Norfolk aud Western Railroad com
pany, is dead, aged 74 years.
Mr. Alexandre Ribot, ex-president of
France, who has been touring in this
country, has sailed for home.
Governor W. O. Bradley of Kentucky
has left for St. Louis to take part in the
Republican campaign in Missouri.
Tire postoflice department has issued
an order prohibiting the use of the mails
to the bucketshop operators of Chicago
Failures fro the week nave been 315 in
the United states, against 216 last year,
aud 39 in Canada, against 50 last year.
Captain General Blanco, the Spanish
governor of the Phil ipine islands, lias
disappeared, and it is supposeil he has
been murdered.
A free silver meeting at Orestes, Iml.,
broke up in a riot in which 20 peoplo
were more or less injured, three, it is
feared, fatally.
Frank Ives, the billiard champion,
was defeated at Boston in a 14 inch balk
line game by George Carter, ex-cham
pion of New England.
John Boyd Thacher has declined the
Democratic nomination for governor of
New York, because he could not indorse
the platform adopted at Buffalo.
The governor of Pennsylvania has
pardonajl John Bardsley, ex-city treas
urer of Philadelphia, serving a term in
the penitentiary for embezzlement.
By an explosion of gas in the Phila
delphia and Reading company’s Middle
creek colliery near Tremout, Pa., five
men were burned and otherwise hurt.
The officials of the Democratic and
Silver Club association are issuing a cir
cular of information in regard to the
club convcntiou to be held in St. Louis
ou Oct. 3.
Betting ou election results continues
slow in the principal cities of the United
States. Odds of 2to I are offered on
McKinley, but few large bets have beeu
recorded.
The body of Edson Keith of the big
wholesale millinery firm of Edson
Keith & Cos. was found in the lake at
Chicago. He committed suicide while
temporarily insane.
It has been decided that Corbett ami
Sharkey will do battle before the Eureka
Athletic club of Sau Francisco, for a
purse of $12,(K)0, on a date yet to be set.
Both men are now training.
Charles Pfeifer, living at Briglitwood,
a suburb of Indianapolis, cut his wife’s
throat, his 'baby’s throat, and tlica
hanged himself. All are dead. Pfeifer
was an operator on the Big Four.
The delegation sent to Mexico by
United States labor societies to study
the wage question and cost of living
have arrived at their destination and
are having every facility accorded them.
The czar of Russia has just signed an
imperial order decreeing that the colors
of the national flag shall henceforth be
white, bine aud red, placed horizontally
above one another in the order named.
Robert Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, has
beeu arrested in New York on an in
dictment found by the grand jury last
week, accusing him of agreeing to en
gage in a prizefight with James J.
Corbett.
A correspondent in Pinar del Rio de
clares that Antonio Maceo’s rebel band
are completely overrunning western
Cuba, burning settlements, assassinat
ing all pacificos and ill treating helpless
women.
It is reported in the city of Havana
that United States General
Lee will retire. The reasons given
are that of late the relations between
the consulate aiid the palace have been
quite strained.
Major McKinley has received a finely
polished and embellished stump of a
tree. It is intended for use in deliver
ing his front doer addresses. The
-Stump was sent by Jesse Grover, sheriff
of Knoxville, Tenn.
The strike of 250 miners, employed at
the mines of the Missouri aud I linois
Coal company, at Rentchler, Wilder
tnan and Freeberg, Ills., has been de
clared off, the company raising the
men’s wages from 38 cents to 39 cents
per ton.
A cable dispatch received from Con
stantinople announces the death there
of Oaliias Bey, who l'ecently married
the widow of P. T. Barnum. Mine.
Cailias is now on the ocean, having been
notified last week of the serious illness
of her husband.
Austin B. Crary, known as “Hey
Rube,” for many years with Barnum’s
circus aud recently with the zoological
garden, at Cincinnati, has beeu com
mitted to an‘insane asylum. After act
ing as a crazy man for 30 years, he
finally became crazy.
Four thousand persons were pjesant
at a massmeeting in Liverpool to pro
test against the rule of the Sultan of
Turkey and the massacres of Armeni
ans in the Turkish empire. Mr. Glad
stone, the principal speaker, met a most
enthusiastic greeting.
Awards of the 11,000-ton battleships,
for which proposals were opened last
Saturday, have just been announced by
Acting Secretary McAdoo. The New
port News company %vas given No. 7;
the Cramps No. 8, and th 9 Scotts, of
Sau Francisco, No. 9.
Colonel William O in, secretary of
state for Massachusetts, has just ren
dered a decision to the effect that in the
Bay State the names of electors of the
Pa mer- Buckner ticket cannot go on the
ballot under their title of “National
Democratic” candidates.
Six hundred persons were killed in
the recent disturbances at Euguin. in
the Diabokir district of Armenia. The
Kurds attacked the Armenian quarter
of the town, pillaged aud burned the
houses and killed as many of the inhab
itants as they could find.
E. G. Blunt, who was Ultimately as
sociated with John Brown in conduct
ing the underground railway in Kan
sas, aud was also an active scout in the
civil war, is dead. He wa one of the
early settlers of Kansas, having gone
there in the spring of 1855.
Antonio Cuaze, a young Swiss, living
on a ranch 12 miles from Aspen, Colo.,
shot aud killed his wife aud her mother,
Mrs. Mary Quinn. Cuaze was arrested.
He says that the insults and taunts of
the women made him mad aud that the
shooting was entirely unpremeditated.
Eire at Oswego, N. Y., destroyed the
entire plants of the Silver Metal com
pany and the Seliger-Toothill Novelty
company, together with the 3-storv
block of Timothy Donovan and the
houses of Patrick Murray and William
Grant. The loss will aggregate SIOO,OOO.
The steamer Doric, just arrived from
the Orient, brings news that the city of
Kobe, Japan was wiped out by fire on
Aug. 26, and that floods, storms and
earthquakes caused the loss of 2,500
lives and the destruction of millions of
dollars' worth of property in northern
Japan.
Grand Master Workman J. R. Sover
eign of the Knights of Labor has estab
lished in Chicago a national labor bu
reau in the interest of Bryan and Wat
sou. He will be assisted by a number
of prominent labor leaders, and will pay
special attention to the Campaign in
Chicago.
The civil service commission is in
formed by the treasury department that
it lias discontinued the services of Wil
liam Springer and John Terney, deputy
collectors of customs at Port Huron,
Mich., who were charged by the civil
service commission with having re- •
ceived political contributions from gov
ernment employes.
Dr. John C. Sackville, aged 82 years,
a skilled surgeon and eminent physi
cian, was struck by a Baltimore and
Ohio train, at Washington, Pa., and in
stantly killed. Dr. Sackville was a
cousin of Lord Sackville-West, formerly
English ambassador to Washington, aud
a brother-in-law to the English poet,
Robert Carr Foster.
The Missouri military academy, situ
ated ten miles northeast of Mexico, Mo.,
has been burned to the ground, causing
a loss of $75,000 to the building and a
heavy loss in personal effects. Insur
ance, $35,009. One hundred students
were in the building when the fire broke
out and while no lives were 1 st, many
of them had narrow escapes and received
injuries more or less serious.
The activity of the headquarters of
the various presidential nominees in
sending out public, documents and
other literature has somewhat em
barrassed the postoffice department by
overtaxing its mail bag facilities.
The result is an order issued to post
masters throughout the country direct
ing all surplus mail equipment to be
promptly forwarded to regular depos
itors.
POPULIST OPPORTUNITY.
Now Is tlic Time For t;ie People To Use
the Seasoned Lever.
It is to 1 arc gretteil- that some of our
old time pioneers, who for 10, 15 and
20 years have been bi..xing out the path
way for just this ; i.iug that all have
striven to produce, si. uld now consider
it in their line of duty r i v.ithh -U sup
port from the Bryan ticket to join the
Socialist Labor party. Time may prove
them in the right. But it is a strang
conclusion to think ti at to Le right
necessarily requires one to maintain a
hopeless minority relation in a move
ment.
In the United States laws are mad
by will of the majority as expreed at
the ballot box. For 20 years the op
ponents of a gold basis plutocracy hav
centered their fire and directed their
energies under a common tanner apart
fr'-m both the old parties. We have
strivelTto force a combination of the
monopoly forces under one leadership.
In this the pr< sent campaign marks onr
success. To now withdraw at the cru
cial time when every vote is required
to test the stability of free institutions
is to certify a preference for continua
tion of oppressive rule aud gives the lie
to professed efforts to culminate in vic
tory the desires for which we have been
laboring.
We are accustomed to quoting Lin
coln ns a worthy example. Let all such
procure the September number of Mc-
Clure’s Magazine from auy newsstand
and read Lincoln’s great speech deliv
ered at Bloomington, Ills., May 29,
1856, before the first convention of the
Republican party in that state. This
speech has never before been reported.
Compare utterances with those of onr
young leader today. There was more
compromise in Lincoln's utterances than
in the speeches made each day by Mr.
Bryan. Lincoln boldly announced it not
the purpose of the Republican party to
interfere where slavery was already an
institution, but merely to prevent its ex
tension into free territories. Did the
Republican party in elevating him to
the presidency gain more or less than
its original objects?
The People’s Party has forced one
great party to cast its Jonahs overboard.
Wo are taking for granted the majority
of that party are honest and in line
with the demands as laid down in their
platform as the Populists are who for
mulated the St. Louis platform. The
forces in the Democratic ranks who are
striving to hold Sewall on the ticket xire
no more in earnest for success aud yet
quite as much as are the Populists who,
so hardened to minority service, cannot
longer train with their party aud help
seal the vantage gained by years of
struggle and sacrifice. It is not the
easiest task in times like these under
conditions not of our own shaping to be
consistent. Nor have we yet to learn
wherein even the sacred Scriptures teach
consistency as a rule in life. Had we
die shaping of environments, consistent
practice would be more possible. The
Free Soil party did not elect a president.
The autislavery and liberty parties were
only factors in the growth of the party
of Lincoln.
Under the arrangements made to suit
existing ballot, laws in the different
states earnest Populists can maintain
their party organization and hold their
machinery in readiness for whatever
emergency the future has in store.
This is a year when men should be
governed by reason and patriotism. We
condemn selfishness in onr neighbor, yet
the unselfishness that seme are betray
ing proclaims a willingness, yea, a de
sire. to trudge alone another 4,8,
y. s, 20 years :
don’t want auy rrf m; v. ;.a
]ly to exercise tl . < s-;lvts cf fir::
citizenship and k ’... For cue, v.-o have
D' a on the kick n -e years btf. .re our
majority—kicking for an opportunity
to kick out the Ccv.Js \ hoso operations
in law tell your boy and my boy Le h;;~
no business on this earth. There is an
opening now to give them a knockout
kick. To that point we hnstaSdiny
our reserve forces and will r.ot throw
down a Populist lever cifh.- v just at the
time it is seasoned for the test to go
sprout anew one and wait for it to ma
ture.—Parkersburg (W. Va.; Tribune.
Cleveland and Carlinle.
The telegram of Mr. Cleveland to the
bondocrats of Louisville on the occasion
of the notification of the bolters that
they had been nominated was most nat
ural. Mr. Cleveland duriDg his last ad
ministration has been so busy in bond
deals that it is natural he should mis
take bondocrats for Democrats. But it
is a little odd that Mr. Carlisle in his
communication should call the goldbng
bondocrats “the old fashioned Demo
crats, ” when he declared in 1878 that
this bondccratic "conspiracy which
seems to have been formed here and in
Europe to destroy by legislation and
otherwise from three-sevenths to one
half of the metallic money of the world
is the most gigantic crime of this or auy
other age. ” Will Carlisle have the same
faith in Cleveland after the 4th of
March as he now ha- if he dees not get
a fat place in New Fork for His services
as secretary? It is to be hoped that the
Morgans and the Belmonts will retain
both Cleveland and Carlisle as long as
they live for their faithful service to
them.—Silver Knight
Who Are Americans?
It is as important now as it was in
1776 to inquire, Who are Americans?
History repeats its; If. There were in
1776 m< :i born in America who were
not Americans.
The poet, addressing Americans,
asked;
I- them a man with 735 so and ad
Who never t ■ 7 — .... If hath said.
This is lay own, my native land?
It was found in 1770 that something
more than being born in America was
required to make a man an American.
Benedict Arnold was an American
born.
George Washington was an American
born.
To know who are Americans yea
must try them.
When Washington said, “Put none
but Americans ou guard tonight.” be
meant more than birth.
There arc thin s which try men s
souls, their mat: tood. thoir couvlciluus,
their courage.
History repeats itself—such times oc
curred in 177 3, again in IS"3.
The same question is up for debate.
Can the United States, with a popcia
tion of 70,0.00,000, stand alone in 1890,
as the colonies swore, with 3,000,000,
in 1776, that they could stand alone,
free aud independent, in spite of Eng
land?
The battle is on.—Railway Times.
Tlie Pen and the Sword.
In his speech to the Ohio gold stand
ard editors who went on free railroad
passes to visit him Tuesday last Major
McKinley said:
“This is a year for press and pen.
The sword has been sheathed. The only
force now needed is the force of reason,
and the'only power to be invoked is
that of intelligence and patriotism. ”
That is a sound maxim in reference
to the conduct of campaigns, but are
the majorsond his friends living up to
the spirit of it. Is it “app ng only
to the force of reason” when rich rail
road president or the mast, r of a mg
manufactory notifies his poor wage
slaves that they will he discharged ii
they don't talk and vote for McKinley
aud gold? It is true that for a railroad
president, like Mr. Ives for instance, to
call for his pen aud write a notice to
his workmen which threatens them
with discharge aud possible starvation
if they don t vote the way ho wants
them to is a case where "the pen is in
deed mightit r than the sword," for a
railroad president's pen when used in
that way is a mighty sight more effect
ive weapon to bring about the enslave
ment of the workers than any sword b.
could possibly wield in this day and age
of the world.—Journal of the Knights,
of Labor.
A Pretty Eish For Ecseert.
Choose some large even sized apples,
wipe them and remove the core, but not
the skin. Lay them in a steamier and
steam thorn until they are tender
through. Lift them out earefully and
arrange on a glass d:sn. Frost them
with sugar several times, pile red cur
rant jelly around them and place a lit
tle dab on the top of each. Serve cold.
Custard may be used instead of the cur
rant jelly, but always drop a tiny mor
sel of something bright colored on the
top of the apples.
When the Fruit J.r Is Not Light.
If your freshly filled jar of fruit ei
ades juice when turned upside down,
try the virtues of a little putty, pressed
firmly in between the rubber and cover
to as to till the crevice that makes the
trouble. This will sometimes save re
heating the fruit and putting it up
again.