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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & BECK,
Attorneys at Law.
(OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE.)
JACKSON, - - OA
M. M. MILLS,
Counsellor & Attorney at Law .
Will practice in all the courts. Money
loaned on r al estate at low rate of inter
st. Long time granted with small pay
ments. Money obtained at once without
delay.
(office in court house.)
Dr. 0. H. Cantrell,
DENTIST.
JACKSON, - - GEORGIA.
Up Btairs over J. W. Bun’s Rock
Corner.
J. W. LEE, M. D.
JACKSON, GA.
Will practice medicine in its various
branches.
Office at J. W. Lee & Son’s drug store.
Residence first house west of Mrs.
Brady’s.
HOTELS.
DEMPSEY HOUSE.
Mrs. i E. Wilkinson, Proprietor,
Board reasonable aud table supplied
with the best the market affords.
(CORNER rUBLIC 6QUARE)
ALMAND * HOUSE
First-Class Board at Low
Bates.
MRS. T. B. MOORE, Prop’r.
STOP AT THE
Morrison House.
EVERY THUS G NEW AND FIRST
CLASS.
Conveniently Located,
Free Haek to Depot.
MRS. E. MORRISON, Proprietor.
W. B. YANCEY,
SURGEON DENTIST.
JACKSON, GA.
Respectfully solicits the patronage of
Ihc i e ple of Jackson and Butts county.
Office up stairs in Watkins Building,
room formerly occupied by Dr. Key.
SATISFAO HON GUARANTEED.
Pure, llnhi nil. Perfect.
Authentic living testimonials from dis
tinguis ted generals and etatesmeu in fa
vor of II iwkea’ New Crystalized Lenses
over all others.
Our Next IT.l T . S. Senator Says:
Mu. A. K. Hawkes -Doar Sir: The
pmtiscopio glasses \ou furnished me
kotr.c time since give excellent, satisfac
tion. T have tested them by use and
must sa they are umqtialed in clearness
and brilliancy by any that I have ever
worn. Respectfully,
Jons B. Gordon,
Ex-Governor of State of Georgia.
Itusluess Mail’s Clear Vision*
New Y rk City, April 4, 1888.
Mr. A. K. Hawkes —Dear Sir: Your
patent eye glasses revived some timo
since, aud am very much gratified at the
wonderful change that has come over my
eytsight since I have disc rded my old
glasses and am no'V wearing yours.
Alexander Agar,
Secretary Statioucrs Board of Trade of
New Y<>rk City.
All eyes fitted and t e fit gua-anteed by
W. L CARMICHAEL,
J ACKt’ON. - GEORGIA.
POLITICIANS IN STRIPES.
Jersey City Election Inspectors Sent to
the Penitentiary.
A dispatch trom Jersey City, N. J.,
says: Ihe Hudson county courtroom was
crowded Ttnsdav morni g with politi
cians, official-* and convicted election
inspecto s who had beeu ordered to ap
pear in the court, their convictions hav -
ing been affirmed by the court of errors.
When Judge Lippincott opened court
twenty prisoners answered to their names.
Twelve of them have e ghteen months to
serve in the state prison and got
niuc men hs in the peniten iary. Four
failed to appear. Judge Lippincott told
the prisoners that as their conviction had
been i-ffiuued bv the higher court there was
no alternative but for the sheriff to convey
them forthwith to prison, to which they
had been sentenced. The court also an
nounced that if the convicted inspectors
who were ab>eutdid not- appear in court
at once a bench warrant would be issued
for their arrest. The sheriff then t >ok
charge of the party, tome of the prison
ers have been for years active ward poll*
ticians in Hudson‘county and their fanal
commitment as convicts toserve'out their
terms is a severe blow to their fiends
Many of the prisoners are married and
have respectable families. Every effort
was made to save them from beffig forced
to don the convic.’s garb.
>'o Lotteries.
A New Orleai s dispatch of Tuesday
says: The general assembly has passed a
bill whereby the lo teries will not be
allowed in the state after December 31,
1893.
piiiife
VAN WINKLE
Gin and Machinery Cos.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
M A N UFACTU RERS.
The best system ior elevating cotton and distributing same direct to gins
Many gold medals have been awarded to us. Write for
Catalogue and lor what you WANT.
Van Winkle Gin and Machinery Cos.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WE AGAIN OFFER 10 THE I'KAoE THE CELEBRATED
GULLET MAGNOLIA GINS,
Feeders and Condencers.
The GULLET GIN produces the Finest Sample shown in the
market, and will generally bring from 1-8 to 14 cent per pound
more thanany other cotton.
tHe ©lark Hardware ©@.
Atlanta Ga.,
JAC KSON
Real Estate id Mi Apacy.
D. J. THAXTON, Manager.
SUCCESSOR TO
H. O. Benton & Cos.
Farm Lands, Business Lots and
Residence Lots For Sale.
FREE OF CHARGE.
We Advertise Property in
the MIDDLE GEORGIA AR
GUS without cost to the
owner.
We are the only Real Estate Agents in Jackson, and have in our hands quite a
number of valuable and desirable farms iu Butts and other counties for sale on the
best of terms.
Also City Property, Residence and
Business Lots.
If JOU have land te sell, put it into our liands and we will Sod yon a buyer. It
yoif have housea to rent we will fled you a renter. If you wish to buy . h.me ell
on us and we will furnish team and driver.
WE ASK ONLY A TRIAL.
Jackson, Ga., June 9, 1892.
JACKSON, GA., FRIDAY. JULY 1, 1892.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DAT BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Friday. —Tl.e third party was in full
force in the house Friday morning and
voted solidly against a motion made by
McMiilin, of Tennes c ee, that when the
house adjourned for the dav it be to meet
on Monday. When the vote showed a
majority for the motion, Watson, of
Georgia, raised the point of no quorum.
McMiilin then asked unanimous consent
that a recess be taken until 8 o’clock, but
Kilgore objecting, the house adjourned
till Saturday.
Saturday. —The house met and ad
journed, no quorum being present. The
session lasted on y a minute and a half.
Monday. —Until the democrats are able
to muster a quorum in their ranks, they
may meet with many stumbling blocks in
their way to fiual adjournment. The re
publicans are not in the path, but they
are not over zealous in removing obsta
cles. which the third party may see fit to
place there. And the third party is
rather incensed over tne refusal of the
democrats to allow them time to dis
cuss—they don’t demand a vote —on the
sub-treasury bill. It is not strong
enough in itself to obstruct busi
nes<, but it is strong enough,
seconded by republican indiffer
ence and democratic absenteeism to de
lay legislation until it is permitted time
to discuss the measure, which is the key
stone of its political arch. Monday, un
der the lead of Messrs. Watson, of Geor
gii, and Davis, of Kansas, it practically
stopped tne wheels of legislation. Tele
grams sent out by the sergeant-at-arms
demanding the return of absentees seem
to be productive of some little fruit, but
still when the house met at 11 o’clock
there was no quorum present. Before
the reading of Friday’s journal, Mr. Da
vis, of Kansas, raised the point of no
quorum. Mr. Belknap, of Michigan,
moved a call of the hou-e, which was or
dered—73 to 17.
Tuesday. — Although the leaves of ab
sence have been revoked, the members of
the house are si >w in returning to Wa-h
--iugton, and there are but few over a quo
rum in the city, consequently Tuesday
was an off day in the house.
TIIE SENATE.
Monday. —The house bill amendatory
of the census act (as to genera).and spe
cial schedules of industries) was reported
in the senate Monday by Hale trora the
committee on the eleventh census and
passed: The legislative, i xecut ve and
judicial appropriation bill was reported
by Mr. Allison, who gave notice that ne
would call it up at the close of the morn
ing business. Ihe house amendments to
the senate bill as the circuit court of
appeals were not concurred in and a con
ference was asked. Mr. Hale offered the
following preamble and resolution, and
said that he v ould call it ip Tuesday:
“Whereas, At no time lus so large a
proporii nof the American people been
employed at so high wag s, and
the purchasing of the necessities
and comforts of life so low
prices as in the year 1892, and;
whereas, The balance of trade has never
been so large in favor of the United Sta’es
as in the last year; and, Whereas, These
conditions exist and are largely due to
the republican policy of protection;”
therefore, Resolved, That the committee
on finance be and hereby is directed to
inquire into the effect of the policy of
‘tariff for revenue only’ up >n the labor
and industries of the United States and
to report on the same to the senate.”
Mr. Cockerell suggested that the resolu
tion should be called up Tuesday for the
purpose of allowing Mr. Hale to make
some remarks on it and not for action,
and the suggestion was tacitly assented
to. Mr. Stewart offered a substitute for
his free silver coinage bill, one providing
that the owner of silver bullion may de
posit the same at any mint of the United
States to be coined for his benefit. The
coins are to be legal tender for all debts
and dues, public and private. Foreign
silver coin and bullion derived from
it by melting are exc uded,
and the silver act of 1890 is re
pealed. The substitute was laid on the
table and ordered to be printed. The
senate then proceeded to the considera
tion of the legislative, executive and ju
dicial appropriation bill. All committee
amendments were agreed to without
question, except that reinstating the
Utah commission, abolished by the house
bill, which was reserved for action. It
was then open to general amendment
Mr. P att moved to insert an item for
nine marshals at $2 500 each for the cir
cuit court of appeals. After a lengthy
discusson a vote was take on Sir. Platt’s
amendment and resulted —yeas, 24; oay9,
14. As them was no quorum voting the
roll was called and forty five senators,
a quorum, responded. On the vote be
ing again taken the result was yeas, 26;
nays, ”ls—still no quorum. As no pro
gress could be made the matter went over
till Tuesday. The president’s message in I
reply to the resolution of April 6th, with
copies ot commercial agreements made
with other countries and with a state
ment that the negotiations with Mexicc
were a reciprocal comme r cial agreement,
was laid before the senate and ordered to
be printed. A further conference was
ordered on the military academy bill and
Messrs. Cullom, Stewart and Call were
continued as conferees. After a short ex
ecutive session the senate at 5:30 o’clock
adjourned. .
Tuesday —The presidential campaign
was fairly started in the senate Tuesday
on a basis of Mr. Hale’s resolution assert
ing the great benefits resul ing to the
people of the United States from the re
, üblican policy of protection, and ques
tioning the possible effect of the demo
cratic policy of “tariff for revenue only.’
Mr. Haie gave a history, from his point ol
view, of the recent Chicago convention,
so far as the tariff plank of the platform
is concerned; stating that it wa9 framed
so as to suit the candidates, and declar
ino- the issue between the two parties had
thus been made up, and the fignt
would be waged oa that issue until
decided by the suffrages of the people
Dext November. Mr. Vest, on the part
of democracy, acc pted tne challenge and
had much to say as to the operation of
the McKinley act in increasing the cost
of div goods and hardware, in reducing
wages and in causing strikes and labot
troubles. He also commented upon the
choie of the new coairman of the re
publican na.ional cjiuuuttee as being iu
line with the policy of enc uragiug mo
nopolies. Alter that the resolution was
laid a-ide tll Wedutsday with
out action, the confeteuco re
ports on the Indian and army
appropriation oil Is were presen ed ami
a- reed to. The latter bill has still, now
ever, one question open and undisposed
of. It is as to the payment for govern
ment transportation on non-bonded por
tions of the Union and Southern Pacific
railroads. The agricultur and appropriation
bill was passed and consideration of the
legislative appropriation bill resumed.
The abolition or continuance of the Utah
commission was a subject of discussion on
the legislative bill; snd that question went
over without being decided.
NOTES.
General Gordon succeeded in having
the agricultural app'onriation hi 1
amended in the senate on Friday so that
the sum of $5,000 was added to the ap
propriation for experimenting in grasses
for the southern states.
The honse appropriation committee
Tu sd y ordered a favorable report on the
joint re>olution extending the appropria
tions for the support of the government
until July 15, made necessary by the
probable failure of any of the annual ap
propriation bills to become, a law
by the beoin ing of the fiscal year.
The committee also directed all the
members of the committee having charge
of the appropriation bills to ask the
house for nonconcurrence and a confer
ence on all such bills as soon as they came
from the senate. An adverse renort was
ordered by the committee on all j -int
resolutions and petitions for the relief of
Mississippi and Alabama flood sufferers.
Tile Anti-Option Rill Again.
The senate judiciary committee failed
to make the < xpected report on the anti
option bill Monday. A maj >rity of the
committee is opposed to the bill as it
passed the house, but a substitute is
pending before the committee which
modifies the house bill in several particu
lars, and which it is piobable will be re
ported to the senate. The advocates of
the bill claim that the senate will pass it,
but the leaders of the lobby against it
claim to have made a careful canva-s of
the senate, imd that the opponents are in
the majority. Much inteiest is manifest
ed in the contest on account of the effect
its defeat or passage wilt have upon the
grein and cotton markets. The farmers
of the Country aie sending iu petitions by
the thousand in favor of its adoption,
while the exchanges are protesting.
The Week in Congress.
A Washington dispatcu of Sunday
says: Proceedings in both branches of
congress this week will doubtless be
eff cted by the fact that the fiscal year
expires Thursday. Not a single regu'ar
annual appropriation bill has, as yet, be
come a law, and resort must be had to
the expedi> nt of extending the appro
priations by means of a joint resolution
for certain fixed periods in order to pre
vent the total stoppage of the machinery
of th<• government. Th s d< vice for
meeting the failure of congress to
provide the necessary appropriations for
the public service before the expiration
of seven months of the session available
for the purpose is always resorted to with
great reluctance by congressional mana
gets, and so it is probable that every ef
fort will be made to hasten the action of
the conference committee and secure the
enactment of several bills before the end
of the fiscal year so as to narrow the
i pplication of the extension of the reso
lution to the smallest possible limits. In
the senate the agricultural appropriation
bill has been practically completed and a
formal vote wdl probably be taken at once
—on the single amendment remaining un
acted upon—one relating to the monthly
crop report of the agricultural depart
ment. Probably the legislative bill will
follow in regular order. The pension
and postoffice appropriation bills are
readv and the first named, at least, will
doubtless be sent to conference with-
in a day or two. By the time
these bills are disposed of the sun
dry civil fortification and general defi
ciency appropriation bills will be ready
for action and meanwhile the conference
committees will be at work and it is ex
pected that the District of Columbia, the
diplomatic and consular and probably
the naval appropriation bll will be
agreed upon in conference and finally
passed so far as the senate is concerned
before the end of the week. The anti
option bill may also cut some
figure in the proceedings, if it
emerges from the judiciary com
mittee as it is generally expected.
Work in the house for the week is
shrouded in a mist of uncertainty. Much
depends upon the response to urgent tel
egrams sent out Saturday to absent
memoers, demanding, rather than
asking, their return to their posts
of duty. The general deficiency bill
is unfinished business, the yeas and nays
having been oidtred on its final pas
sage. °lf a quorum appears, it will be
passed, and then District of Columbia
j business will be in order. Owing to the
absence of Shively, of Indiana (in charge
of the measure), no agreement has been
arrived at as to the length of the debate
upon the tin plate bill, and it may con-
I tinue throughout this week, but there is
a possibility that it may be postponed
till next week.
A BANK CLOSED.
The Cashier’s Mind as Well as the Books
in an Unsatisfactory Condition.
The Goshen JNaiioual Dank at Middle
town, N. Y., did not open Monday morn
ing. Cashier William M. Murray hai
manifested mental aisiurbances for some
weeks and had absented himself from
home since Wednesday. The nati *na?
bank examiner at a recent examination
directed the officers’ attention to the un
satisfactory condition of the books and
that many loans *ere bad. Murray it
county treasurer of Orange couuty. It is
said that the public funds are in a trust
company in New York. It is hard to get
at the lacts, as the directors met in secret
session. It is supposed that. the smrplui
i is gone and that the capital is impaired.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happeßings of the Day Colled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT 18 TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The First National bank, of Erie,Kas.,
was closed Saturday by the bank exam
iner.
The convention of the silver league at
Reno, Nev., adopted resolutions sending
delegates to the Omaha ind Montana
conventions.
The eleventh international convention
of Christian Endeavor will be held in
Madison Square garden, New York city,
July 7th to 10th.
A cablegram of Sunday from St. Pe
tersburg, Russia, says: A totd of 164
caes of cholera are reported at Baku
during one week, with seventy deaths
from the disease.
T. Clarke Oliver, the marine painter,
died at Amesbury, Mass., Friday, aged
68. Some of his works are widely known,
particularly the “Kearsage,” copies of
which have been made in steel.
A Boston dispatch says: Hon. J. G
Blaine arrived Friday afternoon on his
way home after the burial of his son. He
was accompanied by his wife, and Miss
Harriet B aine. He departed on the 7
o’clock train for Bar Harbor.
Dispatches from the City of Mexico
state that the first series of elections for
the presidency was held Saturday. Quiet
prevailed throughout the country. '1 hi re
was no opposition to the Diaz ticket. Toe
final decision will be given July fid.
At the Nevada state silver conven
tion held at Reno Friday three
presidential electors were nominated,and
during the session George Mcße idy, an
ex-congressman and the democratic nom
inee for congress, fell dead at the close of
his speech.
A Chicago dispatch of Fridry says:
The committee to notify Grover Cleve
land of his nomination will visit Buz
zard’s Bay to perform that duty ab ut
July 11th. The committee will then
proceed to Bloomington, 111., and notify
General Stevenson.
A special of Sunday to the Washing
ton Post from D nvor, Col., says: Edwin
J. Ryan, who absconded from this city
with $30,000 of the United States Ex
press Company’s money, been ar
rested in that city. The stolen money
has been recovered.
George M. Breidner was arrested Tues
day charged with embezzling $34,000
from the firm of Wetz, Beidler & Cos.,
dry goods merchant- at Baltimore. Breid
ner was the head bookkeeper for the firm
when his accouuts showed a shortage.
The republican state committee was in
session in New York Tuesday and re
elected Wm. Brookfield chairman of the
state commi tee, and elected Charles W.
Hacketr, of Utica, chairman of the exec
utive committee in place of Gen. James
W. Husted.
At Boston, Mass., Sunday night, the
passengers of two electric caisiD different
sections of the city became panic stricken
by the cars taking fire and jumped into
the street while the cars wire running at
highspeed. Thirteen persons were in
jured, thee of them seriously.
A Paris cablegram of Friday says: A
clerk named Greiner, employed in the
office of the keeper of the general nation
al archives has confessed that in return
for bribes paid him by Germany and
Italy, he has supplied the authorities of
those countries plans of the coast defense
of France.
A New York dispatch of Friday gives
the tot'il visible supply of cotton for the
world at 3,527.888, of which 2,869,188 is
amount against 2 485,953 and l 861,553
respectively Dst year. Receipts at all in
terior towns 8.447, receipts of plantation
8,629. Crop in sight 8,901,177.
A Chicago dispatch says: Two thous
and homes at Ravenswood and Gross
Park were suddenly invaded with water
Friday night. The territory b unded by
Roscoe boulevard, Jackson street, West
ern avenue and the Chicago liver were
converted into a vast lake within two
hours.
A cablegram of Tuesday says: The
recall by the United States government
of Captain Borup has had a good effect
at Paris. M. Ribot has written a note to
M. Naguet saying that all is settled in
such a manner that it is not necessary to
ask any questions in the chamber of dep
uties.
A telegram from Seattle, Wash., says:
The entire s*ock and building of Scwaba
cher Bros. & Cos., on° of the largest mer
chandise dealers on Puget Sound, were
destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The
loss on the building is SBO,OOO. Th:
firm carried a stock worth $320,000, of
which nothing was saved.
A special cable dispatch of Saturday to
the New York Herald from Valparaso
announces the death of Senior Don Man
uel Antonio Matta from appoplexy. Pres
ident MoDtt has decreed him a pubi c
funeral in the full honors, since Mat a
was minister of foreign affairs at the time
of the Baltimore embroglio.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Tuesday
says: The Amalgama ed Association has
abolished the rule requiring two weeks’
shut down in July f-r repairs. This ac
tion is favorable to the manufacturers,
and, it is expected, will result in the im
mediate signing of the scale at Joliet,
Irondale, St. L-uis and Kansas City.
Advices of Tuesday from O tawa,
Ont., state that at Saturday’s meeting of
the Dominion cabinet, the threatened re
taliation by the United States govern
ment in the matter of canal tolls was
discussed and a proposal forwarded to
the United Slates government offering to
concede much of President Harrison’s
claims.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: Captain James L. Taylor, ex-gen
eral passenger agent of the Richmond and
Danville, has been appointed honorary
commissioner of the world’s fair in Eu
rope. Colonel Taylor’s residence in the
future will be in London. He will like
wise be the general European agent of
the great Pennsylvania Central railroad
system.
Dispatches of Tuesday from Oklahoma
City state that ah organized effort is be*
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NUMBER 26.
ing made by the white residents of the
town of Noiman to drive all of the
negroes out of that place. Warnings
have been sent to the negioes advising
them to leave in the next ten days or to
suffer the consequent es. It is feared
serious trouble will result.
Dispatches of Tuesday fr m Burling
ton, la., state that the Mississippi river
is rising steadily at the rn*e of hslf ;*n
men au hour. Jill Is have been compelled
to elose and piles of lumber, as well as
buildings, have bad to be anchored.
The river about the city is twenty miles
wide, having spread out over the low
lands of lowa and Illinois to that extent.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Ihe res
olutions introduced by Frederick \V.
Long, at the mcctiusr of Typographical
Union No. 2, a week ago, were ta tied at
a special nvcting Sunday. They de
nounced the action of the committee of
Typographical Union No. G, of New
York, in endorsing the candidacy of
White-law Reid for vice president, and
Cttl'ed upon the republican party to with
draw his name.
The Indiana republican state conven
tion met at Fort Wavue Tuesday. Gov.
Chase was renominated on the first bal
lot. The platform embraces thirteen
planks. The only reference to tariff or
silver is found in the first sentence, which
says: “The republicans of Indiana here
by approve the declaration adopted by
the republican national convention at
Minneapolis.” The liquor question is
entirely ignored.
A Baltimore dispatch says an order was
signed by Judge Boud Tuesday author
izing the receivers of the Richmond and
Danville company to issue receivers’ cer
tificates to an amount not exceeding
$lOO,OOO. The money will be us. dto
pay the operating expenses of the Rich
mond and Danville piior lo the appoint
ment of the receiveis, and car rentals and
interest obligations of the leased lines.
The receivers expect to pay out about
seven hundred thousand dollars during
July.
A cablegram of Sunday states that de
tectives have started from I’ ris for Lon
don to arrest the anarchists, Fiancai- and
Meunnier. It is now proved that these
men were the perpetrators of the explo
sion at Very’s restaurant, in Paris. April
25 h last, Very having delivered Rava
chol up to the police. Both men were
arrested at the -inie of the expb’sion, but
were subsequently released from a lack
of proof An a- arcliist named Bricon,
who is now in jab, furnished proof of
their complicity in the explosion.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Review of Trado for the Past Week by
Dun & Co*
re n Sr 00. ’s weekly review of
trade savs: In wheat s > g eat a change
of condition appears that men begin to
question whether the yield this year will
n >tclo>ely approximate the unprec dent
ed crop of 1891. For other grain and
cotton the outlook is decidedly better,
and there is reason now to hope for a
highly satisfactory re ult from the year’s
ttg.icul'ure. In consequence there is a
stronger trade throughout the country,
especially at the western centers of dis
tribution. Improvement is hss marked
at the south, owing to the very low price
of cot'on and continued high water in
caue regions. One point of anxiety in
regard to the wage dispute in iron manu
iacture operatis for the present to cause
increased trade, while in other great in
dustries the situation is clearly more
favorable than usual.
Iron manufacturers desire a revision of
the wage scale on the ground that im
proved machinery has enabled labor to
produce GG per cent, more thau in for
mer years, and has reduced prices so far
that the two-ceut basis is no longer just.
There is a little more ground for the
hope that a prolonged strike may be
avoided and meanwhile, demand for all
forms of m nufactured iron and steel
distinctly imp ovrs.
Boot and snoe manufacture is entering
upon a seson expe cted to be one of un
precedented activity, but the year’s ship
ments arc already within 2 per cent of
the greatest ever known and gaining
ivery week. 'I here is a fairly laige bus
iness in low grade woolens, and ‘ales of
wool are better than usual for the season.
REPORTS FROM TRADE CENTERS.
At Pittsburg there are better prospects
of a wage settlement, but finished iron is
moving fairly. At Louisville trade is
satisfactory and improving, but business
at Memphis is inactive, and at New Or
leans dull on account of high w ter. At
Savaunah trade is above the aver ge iu
all branches and prospects are favorable.
In cotton no change iu price appears,
though transactions have been quite
large —590,000 bales for the week, and
the week's receipts h ive been larger than
a year ago. Last week’s exports of gold
haye caused nether tiouble nor alarm,
and shipments this week are smaller than
most expec ed.
Gold exports were qu : te independent
of merchandise balances, for the enorm
ous produce exports in May are follow
ed by an increase of 25 per cent in
exports from New York in June
thus far, indicating an aggregate
for the fiscal year not fur from
$1,030,000,000. Confidence in the mon
etary fu’ure has been much strengthened
by political events, and silver has de
clined to 40 18d per ounce. In every
part of the country money is in abundant
supply, and the demand at nearly all
points is only moderate, collections being
generally quite satisfactory for the sea
son.
Business failures occurrng throughout
the country during the last seven days, as
reported to R. G. Dun & Cos., number
176. For the corresponding week of
lst year there were 203 failures in the
United States.
The “Catherine” Conspiracy Cases.
'lhe trial of what a; ) t> rmed th.-
“Catherine conspiracy cases” begun iu
tbe United State- district court at Mo
bile, Ala., Thursday. In September,
1890, Grinviiie Burnett, colored, was
appointed postmaster at Catherine, Ala.
The white citizens objected to him, and
urged him nut to take the office, but he
qualified in December, 1890. On the
13th of that month he resigned, and it
is alleged that the resignation was caused
by force and intimidation on the part
of twenty or more white men, a number
of whom were indicted fox conspiracy.