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THE
l'UB&ISHED EVEHY SATURDAY BY
l V. 1TOKKS. E M CAENE8
STOKES & CARNES,
-at
EASTMAN, GEORGIA
Five years hence there will hardly bo
a place on this earth, declares the Chi¬
cago Herald, for the robber, murd ercr
or conspirator to set his foot and feel
safe Treaties are being made in (.-very
direction concerning them and their ex¬
tradition.
Dakota, Montana, and Washington
Territory are as big as Great Britain,
the German Empire, the Netherlands
and Switzerland, all of which have 90,
000,000 population, while there are
only 3,000,009 people in the former
territories.
Professor Wil iam Saunders, Horti¬
culturist of the Agricultural Department
at Washin gton, declares that the golden
roil is his first choice f jt a national
flower, the sunflower his second, adding
that both aro characteristic American
plants.
A “Guide to the Churches of Lon¬
don” shows that the number of metro¬
politan houses of worship has increased
between 1883 and 1889 from 928 to
1,016, Altar vestments aro now the
rule in 59 churches as against 37 ii
1883, altar lights in 119 as against 64
in 1883, and the “eastward position ’
in 396 as against 304 In 1883 In the
same period the number of churches in
which the communion is celebrated iu
the evening has decreased from 289 to
272.
As a rule, the average length of Ufa
at the Sandwich Island leper settlement
of Molokai is about four years, at the
end of which time tlio disease generally
attacks some vital organ, Women are
less liable to it than men. One woman
accompanied her husband to Molokai
when lie became a leper, and at his
death became the bride of another leper.
He died and she married another, and
another after his demise, So that she
lias lived with four leper husbands, and
yet remains healthy.
There arc now in use in the United
States more than 5,500 central electrical
stations for light and power, There
are 200,000 arc lights and 2, 500,000 in
candescent lamps, Tiicre were 53 elect
rical railways in operation iu March lad,
and 83 roads in process of const r-ic-ti m.
The increase of capital in electrical in¬
vestments during 1888 was nearly *70,
000,000, These are very significant
figures and they point unmistakably to
the course of future investments and dis
iverias.
The Puritan is tho grandest boat iu
tlie world, asserts the Drover's Journal,
It rnns-Imm New York V, Fall River.
Trrr’T 1 ires i , is
wider than a wido city street, It is
divided up into fifty nine water-tight
compartments The shaft is as I hick as
tiro length of a man’s arm There is
over half an aero of heating surface in
the engines. Tho vessel is steered by
steam The promenade on the upper
deck i-i COO feet long and forty-two feet
above th# water.
The Railway Aye estimates the new
railroad construction in tho first half of
the year at 1522 miles. This not half
ns much as the mileage reported in the
same period last year, when ttie total
construction was 7100 miles, and, of
course, the comparison is still more un¬
favorable with 1887, when tho eon
struetion amounted to over 13,000 miles.
The Age says that the tendency in the
last two years has been toward the
building of numerous short lines, instead
of long competitive linos, which it re¬
gards as a healthy growth. The largest
part of the new track-laying has been iu
tlie South.
It is said that Franco under the re¬
public hat male groat progress in the
practice of popular education, but it
still is far from the front rank Tho
conscription returns for 1835 show that
10.3 vif tho army recruits could neither
read nor write. In the United Slates
barely eight per cent- of the native
xvhito population above the ago of ton
years is unable to write and real. In
1888, the total appropriations from the
national, municipal and departmental
governments in France, answering to
our federal, state and city governments,
amounted to about *29,200,000 for
purposes of primary education. In the
samo year the American expenditures
upon public schools amounted to * 11 .>,-
103,886.
The New York Star says that “thers
is a general desire to celebrate the 400th
anniversary of tho discovery of America
by a World's Fair which will illustrate
the enormous progress America lias
made iu four ceuturies. There is no
serious dispute that it should be held in
this city, its the Metropolis of the nevv
Cootiuent. It it a mere] sentiment
which suggests the enpitai in lieu of ths
industrial and financial centre of ths
Nation, as the proper place. The pub¬
lic-spirited citizens of New York may
be relied upon to contribute handsome¬
ly. The commercial and industrial in
■crests centered here wilt see that all the
money necessary is forthcoming, The
city will undoubtedly make a large ap
propriation. Thc General Govern meat
mar also be depended upon to aid tho
exhibition handsomely, The q v ■* lions
of the means to carry out such an enter¬
prise and qf tho general vv i-h for such
au exhibition are, Indeed, already a«
swered.’’
Av assi ■iation 0
federate soldiers s attempting th<
a fond to erect monument er
graves of 7,000 s Idle -s 1 f tiie Confeder
ate -Army, who died while pris s of
war at (’amp Douglas, in 1 r ed c ami tueago
“and who now lie uum nc
gleeted graves at Oakwqod Cemetery,
near that city.”
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STBIMJ,
fires, and happenings of interest.
j Rev. Dr. Vast, chancellor of presented the l ni
j versilyof Florida, on Thursday Ohio,
to Iltidelburg college, Tiffin, *60,000. a
museum of curiosities valued at
Granny Boston died at Murphy, N.C.,
Tuesday. She was one hundred and
twenty-one years old, a pensioner, and
remembered the battle of Kings moun¬
tain.
The Merchant and Viticulturist, news¬
paper, estimates that the wine prod net of
California will not exceed 12 , 000,000
gallons this year. This is a reduction of
8 , 000,000 gallons from early estimates.
The Georgia legislature passed bill the
Western A Atlantic railroad lease on
Wednesday by a vote of 130 to 39. By
the provisions of the bill the road is
to he leased without restrictions of any
William McClosky, Catholic bishop of
the Louisville diocese, has ordered the
closing of St. Joseph’s college at Bards
town, Ky. The reason is that a fatuity,
such as was desired, could not be made
up for the ensuing year.
One drug house iu Vicksburg, Miss.,
received orders for fifteen tons, or 30,000
pounds of Paris green a few days ago.
This fact demonstrates the extent of the
apprehension felt by cotton planters
concerning the chtton worms in the large
area of country tiibutary to or trading
with that city.
A sharp shock of earthquake occurred
at Los Angelo, Cal., at *5:13 Tuesday
evening i he entire duration of the dis
turbance was about ten seconds The
vibrations were of such force as to stop
clocks and crack ceiling* ike shock
was the most severe experienced there in
many years.
The United States circuit court, at
San Francisco, was officially informed
Tuesday that the charges of murder
against Justice Stephen J. Field had
been dismissed by the Stockton court.
Judge Sawyer accordingly dismissed ttc
habeas corpus proceeding in the easo of
Justice Field.
It is reported from Birmingham, Ala.,
that Jim Snow and George Bunks, two
outlaws, who weie members of the
Simpson gang in the bloody Simpson and
flowten feud in the western part of the
county, were captured Thursday and
lodged iu jail there. There is s reward
of *-400 for the capture of the two men.
The trustees of tlic State Agricultural Raleigh,
and Mechanical college, met at
N. G’., on Saturday iu special session, to
elect a president of ’.hat college. r J he
election resulted in the choiceof Colonel
Alex, Q. Holliday, who is a native of
Virginia, aud for live years has been
president of the Florida agricultural
college.
The carpenters’ strike in Birmingham,
Ala., which lias been in progress for
nearly a week, is virtually ended. An
increase of five cents per hour all around
has been conceded by nearly all the
contractors. The carpenters had the ad¬
vantage of striking at just the right going time,
as more than 2 , 01)0 buildings were
up under contract.
About one hundred negro miners left
Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday for Mex¬
ico. Tlu-y go to work in the coal mines
in one of the interior states of that re¬
public. High wages and liberal iuduee
me nts of various kinds are offered the
negroes Most of the negro mineis at
Iiiimingham arc ex-convicts, and learned
the trade while serving tlx-ir sentence.
Another big railroad deal was made
Thursday at Nashville, Tenn., by which
I3r. William Morrow becomes principal
owner of the Soutli Nashville Street
Railway company, and Mr Wm. Dun
can, the president, retires, Tlic capital
stock of the company is $115,000, and
over half of this controlling interest wne
sold by Durcan to Dr. Morrow.
The annual cotton statement of Mont¬
gomery, Ala., shows that total receipts
for tlie past year, 1888-89, were 108,507,
and for 1887-88 receipts were 107,508.
During tho month of August last year,
receipts were 1,791 bates and for the
same month this year 4,660 bales. Cot¬
ton is opening very rapidly, and com¬
parative high prices will hurry it on the
market.
At Montevallo, Ala., Saturday night,
Further developments are awaited wit!
interest.
Tlie committee of tlie Southern Hail
way and Steamship association, at Atlan¬
ta, Ga., concluded its work on Thursday.
The rates recently adopted by tlie Centra
road of Georgia and the Piedmont Air
Line were considered It was decided tc
adopttho same sc hedule on all the roads
with the exception of tlie marine insurance
clause of the Georgia Central and Savan
nnh fast freight line. The price and on al 1
roads except this will be 1.16, >\
the Georgia Central it will be 108, al
lowing for tlie marine insurance, which
will a'so have to be paid.
The funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Julia Jackson Christian, daugh¬
ter of Stonewall Jackson, who died in
Lexington, \a., on Friday, took place
Sunday morning at the Presbyterian
church at Lexington. The church was
jammed, the entile population of the
place being out. The body was interred
beside her father, General Thomas J,
(Stonewall) Jackson. Many of the bat
tiiv-searri d veterans of tiie (onfedeiiuiy,
with heads bowed nqd in tears, watched
the remains laid to rest. Choice floral
offerings came from many places.
The statement of the business of the
Norfolk aud Western Railroad company
for July. 1889, as compared with the
same month last year, shows the gross
earaincato be *457,530, an increase of
*50,444 ; expenses, * 279 , 522 , an increase
of *28 142: net earnings, *178,208, an
increase of *22,302. For the seven
months ended July 31st the gross earn
ings were *2,985,424,*an increase of
$254,163, as compared with the corrcs
ponding pefiod of 1888; expenses, * 1 ,
925,660, an increase of *252,400; net
earnings, *1,599,764, an increase of
*1,764.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, bills on
Thursday, signed tlie following
which are now laws. An Act—To In¬
corporate the Planters L> an and Back¬
ing company, an i the Amer oon Trust
aud Banking company, of Atlanta, and
An Act—To prohibit the sale of sted
cotton in county of Baldwin and the
county of Harris ftom the loth of August
to 15th of December of each year and to
provide penalties for a violation of the
same, also to prohibit the sale of seed
cotton in the county of Washington from
the 1st day of August to the 24tli day of
December' fn each year, and to provide
penalties for the violation of the same.
John Lawrence saw a light in his uncle's
store ami went inside to see about it.
him] Burglars were inside and opened and fire the on
and when all was over
burglars gone, Lawrence lay dead, shot
through the heart. Il th of the burglars
were < vptured on Sunday. One of them
aas confessed When found they were
ip a tree within fifty feet of where the
nurder w as committed.
Thursday morning, at Monroe, Ga.,
7 aSsrs-Sf
tffidi^sn'd manv theories were of^ sujrgestevL
Several times in the history suddenly Monroe
men have disappeared and
were never bed of. The building is
i. suite old. and at different times in its his
ry it has been occupied bv bad men as
i barroom asd gambling lo use,
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED BY TITE COTTON COMMITTEE OF
THE FAHMEB’b ALLIANCE.
^At a meeting of the national cotton
committee of the Farmers Alliance,
held in Atlanta, Ga , on Wednesday, the
following resolutions were passed; Re¬
solved, That the national cotton commit
miitee recommend that the farmers of
the south sell no cotton during the month
of September, except what may be abso¬
lutely utcessaiy to meet the obligations the
w hich are past due. Resolved, That
national cotton committee instruct the
president of each sub-Alliance, wheel or
union, ( r some person appointed and by him,
to meet the president Alliance secre¬
tary of his county on
the 28: li of September, at the
county seat for the purpose of receivRig
instructions from the national cotton
committee Risolvtd, That each secre¬
tary of every cotton state be charged
with the duty of placing these resolu¬
tions immediately before their respective
county president", and charge all ex¬
penses of printing and postage to the
National Alliance. Resolved, That the
farmers be urged to take special care in
sheltering their cotton from the damag¬
ing weather Resoivtd, That every
newspaper in the South in sympathy with
the farmers is requested to Sledge, publish Chair¬ these
resolutions, (signed) R. Hatcher, Grand
man, Kyle, Texas; A. T.
Cane, La.: W. R. Lacy, Winona, Miss.;
S. 1). Alexander, Charlotte, N. C,; L. 1’.
Featherstonc, Forest City, Ark.; M. L.
Donaldson, Greenville, S. C.; W. J.
Northen, Sparta, Ga.; R. F. Kolb,
Montgomery, Ala.; B. M. Ilord, Secte
tnry, Nashville, Tenn.
EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE
A DISEASE SUPPOSED TO BE TEXAS FEVEB,
BAGINO IN SOUTHEBN KANSAS.
Reliable news of the greatest impor¬
tance to cattlemen in all sections of the
United States comes from the southern
line of Kansas and pasture lands of In¬
dian Territory There lias been for some
time a suspicion among cattle dealers
that herds of native and Texas cattie
which range in the territory were afflicted
with the Texas fever. A man named
William Johnson bus just returned from
a trip to Oklahoma, and passed pastured. through
the country w here the herds are
He says that not only are the natives af¬
flicted but thorough Texans soutli are dying
by hundreds in the pastures of Ar¬
kansas City. The symptoms are exactly
the same as the Texas fever but thorough of
Texans have never been known to die
the disease. lie says cattle arc being
shipped to market from the pastures
where carcasses arc lying in hundreds and
of the same brands of those shipped uud
that they are considered good rough for
dinners’ slock and everything goes.
The cattlemen are becoming much
alarmed. Among the cattle raisers it in
the actual belief that the disease is not
Texas fever, but something even more
serious. It is said the managers of the
Kansas City stock yards will take imme¬
diate action in the matter, and try to
prevent the shipping of raging. cattle front
points where the disease is
HEAVY INVESTMENTS
TO BE MADE IN SOUTHERN MINERAL, AND
timber Lands by rich syndicates.
The Manufacturer's Record, at Haiti
more, Md., learns from aulhoritivc
sources, that a New York syndicate will
make liberal investments in the purchase
of,one or more fully developed extensive they
iron properties in the south, if can
be had at reasonable ini.
Large propeities that J
making aft, good The profits^yMfl
are
rule i f (he Embreevil
ported, ,n I. develop the property 'T^^B|jjJ|j|l|
on
btale tion of at an two early companies, day, and with tjie organiza¬ a capita!
f *1,000,000 .each, with General
W Rosecranp, register of the United
States treasury, president of one, to build
a town at Waynesboro Junction, in the
valley «,f Virginia, aud develop the large
iion properties there.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED
fO MANUFACTURE INK STRAW BAGGING
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
It was announced in Charleston, S. 0.,
on Saturday that a company had been
organized and w ill at once enter upon the
manufacture of cotton bagging from will the
fibre of the pine straw. Tue factory
be ouilt at Summerville, twenty-two
miles from that place. The site is in the
thickest pait of the pine foiest in tiie
state. The company have also been of¬
fered the privilege of gathering covering pine
straw from a tract of territory
thousands of acres, so that the material
for the manufacture of bagging collecting Will cost and
notiiing hut the price of
hauling it. Several bales of cotton cov¬
ered with pine straw bagging were re¬
ceived at Charleston last year and sub¬
jected to the severest test of screw,
hook, fire and water, and stood it even
better than common jute bagging. The
new factory is expected building to commence and
work as soon as the ma¬
chinery are erected.
STATING THEIR WANTS.
THE LEGISLATIVE COMM T E S IlErORT
TO THE MISSISSII'I’I ALLIANCE
At Jackson, Miss., the committee on
memorials and legislation made their re
port to tjie state alliance Saturday and
it was adopted It contains the fol.ow
ing recommendations to the legislator,i: the
That money be appropriated by state
to encourage foreign immigration; that
so much of convict labor as is necessary
Oe employed in running a bagging fac
lory as a state enterprise; that railroads,
banknote., be required to pay ad valo
rein instead of a privilege agricultural tax; urging bu- a
law establishing a state for the teaching of
reau ami providing
agriculture in tiie public schools; that
the next legislature call a constitutional
convention; that a law lie adopted re¬
quiring the inspection on hoof of all beef
ca»tie.
A PENITENTIARY BLAZE.
One of the most exciting cot flagra
tions that has visited Columbus, O., in
years, occurred at the Ohio penitentiary
Tuesday ufternoou. The flames started
in the factory building occupied by the
C' lumbus chair company, and had made
great headway when discovered. Before
; the flames could be got under control,
| the chair factory, Columbus bolt works,
and a large warehouse were total wrecks
The prisoners were locked in their cells
! hut the lights had not been put out, and
j i g rtli t consternation prevailed The
Chair company lose |!5,000, bolt woiks
$ 4 000 , Corner Brash company lose
,
$; 0 000 , and the total Joss will reach
,
$ 1,5 000 .
'THE BLACK DIAMOND
| to make another i>* bkhring attempt sea. at sealing
,
, , , . t,
Ua realty off on^i the sealing craise believe in toey BeLricg have
where ownersi
the legal right to hunt seal This actior.
shows what the pooular feel.ng ,, there
« regard to the l ntted States junsd.e
»R Behring sea and her power or her
policy to enforce it.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIO VS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKER
I IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
George Fawcett Rowe, playwright and
writer,died in New York Thursday night.
The Bank of England has advanced its
rate of discount from three per cent to
four per cent,
An earthquake was experienced on the
Russian frontier Tuesday. In the village
of Khenzorik 129 persons were buried
alive.
Emperor William, of Germany, has
presented his portrait to Lord Salisbury
as a souvenir of his recent visit to Eng¬
land.
The barbers’ national convention, called
to meet in Pittsburg, Pa., next Tuesday,
has been indefinitely postponed The
purpose of union, the meeting was to organize
a national
The jury of the Paris exposition recom¬
mends that a gold medal be awarded to
Boston for its educational exh bits. Sim¬
ilar recemmcndatlons have been made in
favor of Carroll university, and the Uni¬
versity of Virginia.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez¬
zlement in his oftice, shows that the
shortage amounts to *6,009, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap¬
prehended.
Tuesday evening a bomb, fen centime¬
ters in diameter, was thrown from i..Ithe Hie
icar of the chauiDei of doputloo
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of a conceit. The bomb ex
ploded, wounding seriously six gen
derates and a child.
John S. Mackintosh, wool puller of
Milton, Mass., assigned estimated on Tuesday.
His liabilities are to be in the
neighborhood of *100,000. The assign¬
ment was caused by the embarrassment
of Brown, Steese & Clark, and George
Holds.
The shoe factory of A. Coburn, Son &
Co., at Ilopkinson, Mass., was burtud
Tuesday morning. Over three hundred
workmen are deprived of employment.
One store house attached to the fuctory
was also destroyed The loss is est
mated at *250,000, fully insured
At Chicago, II. J. Hui.-kamp, Times procuted odc of
the proprietors Tuesday of for the Janies J. , West and
warrants
his secretary, Charles F. Graham. He
charges them with illegally issuing 1,000
shares of the stock of the Times com
pany.
In accordance with a law recently
passed, the French government, on Sat¬
urday, took formal possession of tire tel¬
ephone stations. The company protested illegal
against the government’s action is
and only submitted to force.
Horace F. Shepard,of Sharon,treasurer
of the Shepard & Morse Lumber Co., of
Boston, Mass., failed and msplean assign¬
ment to Oscar A. Martin, of Straugh
ton, and H. A. Nash, of Boston, L a
bilities |* 00 , 000 , assets light.
Rev. C. A. Nyblndr, of Galesburg, Ill.,
lias instituted suit against thirty charging promi¬
nent citizens of imprisonment that place, and de¬
them with false
famation of character, and asks for *25,
000 damages. Last fall Mr. Nybiadn
was arrested on a serious clnrge. He dis¬ es¬
caped trial because the case was
missed.
A certificate filed in the county
clerk’s office on Saturday, shows that the
gaiiital stock of the Commercial cable
iy. of New York, lias been in
rom ... * 6 000,000 * 10 , 000 , 000 . It
, John W.Mackey,
1 by dilectors
■Coe, Hector IhCustro, A. B.
and DeCastro.
UPeportcd Wiail which from arrived St. I.ouis in that that city the
tram
urday (light over the Vaudalia Road,
was robbed at Terre Haute, Indiana,
while the mail plerks and train hands
were at supper, It is said that one
pouch, containing registered supposed letters, was
taken. Tlic pouch was to
contain about $ 10 , 000 .
The trial of the six men, Burke, Wood¬
ruff, Coughlin, Beggs, O’Sullivan and
Kunze, charged with the murder of Dr.
Cronin, on May 4th, was begun at Chi¬
cago, Qti Tuesday. Probably no case in
the history of the city has attracted such
wide-spread attention as the Cronin
murder case, and the tiiul will be
watched with great interest.
A special from Republic, luge \VP higtnvay- siys
Keimond HoIzUev, tlie
man, who has terrorized Northern \V is
cousin for five months past, robbing
trains, waylaying stage couches and
holding up pedestrians, was captured
there Saturday morning. Ho zhey con¬
fesses to all the stage ai d railroad rob¬
beries.
Counsel for Lazarus Davy and David
E. Harman, of New York, lias obtained
from Judge Barrett,of tlie supremecouit restraining
a writ of injunction railroad
the Mobile and Ohio company
from paying in cash tlie interest due tep
tember 1 st, on its general mort¬
gage bonds, and from pledging or si lliug
any of its bonds for the purpose of pro¬
viding money to make the payment of in¬
terest.
Jt was announced Wednesday that II.
C. prick A Co., the largest coal operators
of the Conncllsvillc, Pa., region, Lad se¬
cured control of the J. M. Shoonmaker
coke plant, which includes 5,000 acres of
coal land, 1,500 coke ovens aud 400 cats.
This wiU give Frick & Co., contiol of
over 9,000 coke ovens in that region.
Begining with Monday the selling
price of coal will be advanced from*l to
$1.35 to furnace, men, *1.50 to dealers
and $1.65 to foundry men.
After being shut down for sixteen
yrars, the Ironton Pig Iron works, with
a capacity of J,200 tons of pig iron p r
day,located a few Niagara miles north of Buffalo,
N. Y., on the river, was started
up on Wednesday by Cincinnati parties,
who have leased the plant for five years,
with tlie privilege of purchase. Tlie re
newel of this enterprise, which originady
cost half a million of dollars, has created
much enthusiasm Buffalo. in manufacturing c'r
clos in
Tlie ease of Deputy Marshal David
Nagle, who shot and killed David 8 .
Terry, was taken up in the United States
circu'it court at San Francisco on
Wednesday, for the purpose of fixing the
time for taking testimony of and jurisdiction hearing
arguments on the question Tm of
of the federal court. Mr. n<*r, one
the attorneys representing the state, an¬
nounced that as both his colleagues had
retired ftom the case, he would follow
their example. This leaves the stale
without counsel in the Nagle case The
hearing was postponed until next week
- William Murtrie Speer, secretary^ of
the World’s Fair committee at New
York, on Thursday received the follow
ing letter from ex-President Cleveland,
dated at Saranac Inn: “I scknOwl
edge pointmint the receipt member of notice of of the my ap
as a com
mittee on permanent organization for the
international exposition of 1892. I shall
be very glad to co-operate as a mernb. r
of such committee with other citizens of
New York to make the exposition a
grand success.”
A disastrous fire and loss of life oc
curred at 8 prin~Oity, Pa., early Satur
day morning. Flames were discovered
in the Amenoan Wood Paper corn
pany s work*. The fimies spread tap dly.
and la-fore they coul i be checked, one of
the large buildings, three stories h gh
and filled with valuable machinery, was
Completely destroyed. A short time fide af- ;
terwards, the wall on the northeast
bulged out, and about thirty teet of it '
fell with a crash. Oliver Monthwer was |
inetantly killed, and William Robinson, i
Charles Seifeit, William SHiacSer and
Henry Seascr were more or 1 ss injured. 1
The loss will reach *90,000; covered by
insurance.
A GOOD REPORT
1
FBOM B. G. DUN * CO., fob week ending |
AUGUST 31
Following is a condensation of R. G.
Dun & Company’s review of trade for the
week ending Saturday, August 31:
“Business in all parts of the country
continues to improve with the stim¬
ulus or large crops. Chicago reports an
immense increase in the receipts of grain
and provisions, with a considerable gain
in the salts of dry goods and clothing.
Milwaukee finds trade improving; at
Detroit and St. Paul the previous im¬
provement is maintiiued; at Omaha
business is very good. The iron business
is expanding, and noted at Philadelphia an
improvement and is in wool, groceries,
iron steel, and their products, aud in
coal, with a good trade in drugs and
chemicals and tobacco. At Boston the
sales of wool are larger, reaching 2 , 100 ,
000 goods pounds for the week, and the dry
trade is large, with prices well
maintained. A heavy demand for export
is observed in leather, both sole aud
splits, and and a good factories home demand, while
boot shoe are well employed
at last year’s prices, aud large building
operations make the lumber trade more
active. The Tennessee Coal and Iron
company gives notice of an advance of
twenty-five cents in its prices for pig
iron, aud the rise in the price of coke at
Pittsburg insures some advance in pig
iron there, while bar, plate aud structu¬
ral iron are in ttrong demand, and the
works better employed than they have
been before for several years. An in¬
crease of wages is reported at several es¬
tablishments, and the building of seve¬ New
ral more furnaces. Expoits from
York for four weeks exceed last year’s
by nearly twenty-two per cent. Stocks
have advanced just *2.50 per share in the
week, and 1 , 200,000 shares have been
sold already at ruing prices. It is an
encouraging fact that the important
failures of recent weeks have not pro¬
duced a large crop of minor disasters, by
many apprehended, 'Flie volume of
trade is still much above that of last
year, and clearings show a gain of 8 J
per cent, outside of New Yotk. In the
speculative markets the general tendency
has been toward lower prices, though
wheat advanced on extravagant reports
of shortness in European crops But
the average of prices lor all commodities
is about one per cent, lower than a week
ago, and even in wheat, later sales indi¬
cate a declining tendency as in other
grain and provisions. Business failures, during
occurring throughout the country
the past seven days, as reported to It. G.
Dun & Co., mercantile agency, by tele¬
graph, and number Canada for the United total States of 211, 189
for 22, or a as
compared with a total of 200 last week,
and corresponding 211 the week week previous of last For the the
year fig¬
ures were 32H, made up of 302 failures in
the United Stales and 24 in the dominion
of Cuuada,
THE WORLD'S EXPOSITION.
GREAT PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOB
THE FORTHCOMING WORLD’S FAIR.
New York has certainly entered heart
aud soul for into great the preliminary international arrange¬ exposi¬
ments our
tion of 1892, and when this mighty city
commits herself unreservedly to any en¬
terprise, the ultimate accomplishment of
the undertaking is practically of guaran¬ Ameri
teed Therefore, the history
ca’s forthcoming world’s fair may be
epitomized iu one word of reliable pro¬
phecy—success. Mayor Grant is being
congratulated by everybody upon the
excellent judgment he has di-played in
appointing the various committees. His
wisdom in the discharge of that duty
reached its climax in his selection of the
finance committee. There probably
never was such a gulaxy of millionaires
associated together on any one board of
management. The combintd wealth of
the twenty five men composing that
finance commit'ee amounts to over
*500,000,000 or an average of $ 20 , 000 ,
000 apiece. The following is extracted
from a report of the first meeting which
was held in the governor’s room in the
city hall on Saturday: The committee
consists of twenty-live members, ap
pointed by the inLyor, with the mayor
and the secretary of the general Of com
mittee members ex-officio. the
twenty seven mcmbeis, only seven were
absent. Mr. Ilavemeycr, Mr. O’Dono
hue, Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Mr.
Huntington are in Europe. Mr. Mills,
Mr. Jesup, Mr. shepherd and and Mr. could Van¬
derbilt were out ot town, not
return in time for the meeting. Those
present were: William L. Bull, Presi¬
dent of the Stock Exchange; Calvin 8 .
Brice, August Belmont, Samuel D. Bab¬
cock, Robert Dunlap, Jay Gould, Henry
B. Hyde, John H. Inman, Eugene McKis- Kelly,
Frederick A. Kurshoedt, John
son, Herman Oelrichs, Oswald Otten
norfer, William lb ckafeller, Chailes
Stewart Smith, William Steinway, J.
Edward Simmo s, Jesse S, ligruan the
rnavor aud the secretary.
A GREAT STRIKE.
A MONSTER MASS MEETING HELD BY
STRIKERS IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
Two ihcutand coal heavers and barge
men have joined tlie already tremendous
ranks of the strikers at London. The
council of the strikers held a meeting
Saturday evening, aud after a long dis
cussion decided to continue the strike.
A monster meeting of strikers was held
in Hyde Park Sunday afternoon Burns,
the socialist agitator and other labor
leaders, made speeches. Resolutions
declaring that the men would continue
the strike until their demunds were fully
conceded, were unanimously adopted
It is estimated tba. 150,00Vpersons took
part in the demonstration. During
progress of the meeting a collection was
taken up for the benefit of the strikers,
Money was received in hats and ojien
parasols, and a large sum was obtained.
Five thousand railway men held a meei-
1D . S »* Darlington _ an d decided to strike
unless shorter hours of labor were
B g 1 _____2. anted. Mass Mhss mec- meetings ng of of dock dock
men and others were held also at South
wark, at ■vhich the stiikers
voted to form a separate Committee for
south Loudon in order to have a better
voice in the conduct of the strike In a
sermon at York, on Sunday,Canon Fiem
jng expressed sympathy with the strik
tri Meetings of svmpathy are being
held throughout the country
A COLLISION,
-
I?i wmen several people are killed
and others dangerously hurt.
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An excursion train to Burlington, Iowa,
from the Horse Breeder’s meeting at Rut
land, Yt.,and a stock train bound south,
C0 Rided Saturday night four miles north
0 f Middleburg. Both engines, one ear
aI1 q a j )ar t of another car of the excur
a ^ on train and ten or twelve stock cars,
loaded with hogs were wrecked and
piled in a heap. The dead are: Conduc
tor Hiram Blodgett, of the excuision
train, and one possenger, whose body is
under the train, and cannot be identified.
The engineers of both trains were dan
gerousiy hurt, and several of the passen
gers on the etock train were seriously in
jtired.
WASHINGTON, 1). 0.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDRN1
AXD HIS ADVISERS.
appointments, decisions, and otheu mattebs
Or INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. I
The State National bank, of Ivnox- I
ville, Tenn., nas been authorized to be
giu business with a capital of * 100 , 000 . '
The bonds purchased by the treasury i
department on Tuesday, reached the un- ;
usually large total of *0,993,000. They
and were all four per cent, registered bond*
were bought at 128.
The total amount of bonds purchased
by the treasuiy in the last three days, is
nearly eleven millions. For these bonds
the government paid about fourteen mil¬
lion dollars. The treasury surplus was
seventy millions ten days ago, but has
decreased to about forty-two millions.
Receipts during of government last month from internal
revenue were SU,-
485,953, showing an increase of *1,307,-
733, as compared with receipts for Julv,
1883 This infcrease was distributed
through all of the 9burccs of revenue
except tlie oleomargarine aud bank tax.
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to the con¬
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York, to small supply notes and silver certifi¬
cates of denominations to banks
ordering * them in sums not less than
1 , 000 .
The Argentine Republic has appointed
three delegates to the International
American congress. They are Don
l?ttf]iio Point, af ptiaimt miuiotcr to Uru
guay ; Don Manueul Quintana, a promi¬
nent lawyer who has never held office,
and Don Ninciente Questa, m'uistcr to
the United States.
Charles It. Flint, of New York,
and llenry C. Davis, of West Virginia,
have been appointed delegates on the
part of the United States to the congress
of American nations, to meet iu Wash¬
ington in October next, in the place o£
ex Governor Pitkin, Whyte, of Orleans. Maryland, and
J. It. C. of Now
The state department has been in¬
formed by the United States minister to
Venezuela of the prevalence of fever at
Caracas, which has been erroneously
termed yellow fever. It is for the most
pait confined to a district where the
drainage is defective, but if taken in
time the-disease yields readily to medical
treatment, aud is in no sense epidemic.
The treasury department was recently
informed that a large number of Cuban
cigar-makers were Coming into Key West
in violation of the contract labor law.
The emigrant agent at Key West was
thereupon asked foi a statement, aud in
response he has reported to the depart¬
ment that these Cubans are constantly
passing'into and there out of the evidence United
States, but that is no of
the existence of contracts for employ¬
ment, which would make their entry il¬
legal.
Postmaster General Wanamakcr and
President Norvin Green had a consulta¬
tion, Saturday, respecting the telegraph
service furnished the government by tlic
Western understood Union Telegraph company. It
is that satisfactory progress
is being made toward an agreement upon
the lines laid down by the post master-gen -
end. The question of rates to be paid by the
government for telegraph service is th •
point at issue, hut by no means the prin¬
cipal Wanamaker’s question, ns contemplate Postmaster-General consid¬
plans a the
erable enlargement of the functions of
post-office department in the direction of
co-ojeration ny’s with the telegraph and compa¬
service to secure a cheaper bet¬
ter
EAST TIME.
A STEAMER MAKES 2,788 MILKS IN F1VS
DAYS AND NINETEEN HOURS.
Tlie steamship City of Paris, which
arriyed at New York Wednesday morn¬
ing, lias broken the record again, beat¬
ing her own best time from Queenstown
by three hours and forty-nine minutes.
Her actual time fiom Queenstown to Lun¬
dy Hook lightship was five days, nine
teen hours aud eighteen minutes. She
left Queestown on last Friday. Hur run
for tire Hist day was 432 miles, for the
second 493, third 502, fourth 506, and
fifth 509. The ran from 2;09 p. in,
(Greenwich time), Tuesday, to 9:27 a.in.
(same time), to Sandy Hook lightship,
was 346 miles. The total distance trav¬
eled was 2,788 miles.
The Hottest Weather Known.
“What is the hottest weather evei
known in tlie United States f” The
question is answered in the bulletin oi
the Kentucky Statistical Weather Her
vice. The h ghest temperature record
ed by the United States Signal Service
was at Phoenix aud Fort McDowell,
Adz,, in .Tune, 1883. The thermometer
marked 119 degi •ees. However, unoffi
eial observers report temperature as
liigli as 128 degrees and 122 degrees at
Mammoth Tank and Humboldt, Cal.
Tlie coldest weather recorded by tlie
service was 69 degrees lrelow zero at
Poplar River, Mon. But this is a warm
place compared with inhabited Word oj vnsk, Si
l>epi« t the coldest > p it on tlie
face of the globe. Tlie thermometer
there lias been as low as 1:0 degrees be
low zero. In view of these figures let
us not complain of a paltry 90 degrees
above zero,—[Louisville Post.
Thf. future of Australia for the next
t,lirt y vears wil1 rest " ith ,1| ‘' engineers,
-
T,lp rp< ’ en t discoveries of underground
rivets in the , most and portions of the
continent have given thog.-words a great
« ralm fjgwfieance. always Tho difficulty the fear that of Aus
lias been the
liiai
fear It now appears ‘fall that tlie volumes
(>{ . whJoll about .nice in five
Arabian Qyer the greater part of the An
continent, covering with tio «ls
tLe , )lainf) w i,; c!l f or four years previous
U have not known more moisture than
juj(r]ifc ]p given in Eng'nod by a g<MKl
f a 0 f dew, find their way through tiie
porous soil into channe’s and chambers
beneath the surface, where, at a depth
of one or two thousand feet, they pro¬
vide an inexhaustible store of tlie most
pie ious commodity known to tho Au
straiian s (Uutter.
The Campbell air ship, an ingenious
combination of gas bags and rotary Ians,
lias gone the way in of the ak flying-machines,
says Dr. Oswald Cincinnati En¬
quirer. Tiie art of flying in a eahn will
no doubt continue to improve with tlie
evolution >4 Yankee inventiveness, but
the ideal of aerial iravigatiou w ill always
encounter tlie horns of an inevitable
dilemma: Wind-resisting strength at
tiie mercy of gravitation; or buoyancy
at tlie mercy of the winds.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Sonoma County, Cal., aud iu view of
this cheap fuel the people of San Fran
cisco see “in their mind's eye” that
city developing into a great ruanufuotui -
ing centre. The San Francisco Cliron
ieie says that if there is abuudam-e of
tiie gas tlie fact “means more to San
Francisco than half a dozen new trans
continental railroads. ’
j 8 £d“
thP Health, appointment according of the Commissioner
of t > an ordinance of
the Citv Council. The duty of the new
female 'sanitary pxilice is to’inspe.-t fac
tones and tenements for tlie protection
of the health of working women. There
will probably be an effort to secure a
body ot the same kind iu New York,
FAHSI0N.
It is our pleasure to announce our usual SPRING and SUMMER
display of Children’s
Gents’, Youths’, Boys’ and
wmm mmm.
Furnishings, Underwear, Neckwear, Hats
Hosiery &c.,
We do not exaggerate when we sav that our present in QUALITY,MA¬ season s ex
Dibit SURPASSES anv stock EVER shown by us,
TERIAL and PERFECTION of FIT.
MAIL ORDERS
Have our most careful attention, and rules for measurement and
other information cheerfullv sent on request.
-C. O. D.
Shipments with privilege of examining before paying.
EXTRA SIZES,
For STOUT, THIN, TALL and SHORT gentlemen a specialty.
Can, bv virtue of heavv purchases, and extraordinary facilities, obtain
BIG TRADES in SUPERIOR Clothing. We COUNTRY have some job DEALERS lots that
cannot fail to prove profitable investments for
■w
The Clothing Palace 106 Congress Street
jan. 11 -lyr Savannah Ca
SuliofieliTs Iron Works,
Manufacturkks ,v\i> Jobbers of
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, COTTON PRESSES,
General Machinery and all Kinds Castings.
Sole Owners and Manufacturers of
SCHOFIELD’S FAMOUS COTTON PRESS,
To Pack by Hand, Horse, Water or Steam
Brass Goods, Pipe Fittings, Lubricators, Belting, Packing. Saws. Etc
General Agents fob
Hancock Inspirators and Gullets Magnolia Cotton Gins.
J. S. SCHOFIELD & SON
my31-lyr MACON, GEORGIA.
ALTMAYER & FLATAU,
412 Third St., Macon, Ga.
-WIK ILESALE
,/.v/> ( Hi.u:S,
WE CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK OF ANY HOUSE IN
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
Sole agents for Export, Kate Cl. * ia rr .-r and Club House, pure and cooper* Applti
distilled ltve Whiskies, Georgia and y 1 z olina Corn, Vouch
Brandies always on hand. sjieciitlty.
Imported wines and brandies a
Sole agents for the celebrated KICK BEER, non-alcoholic.
Sole agents for Val Blalz Milwaukee Beer, by the dozen or cask.
solicited, and a liberal discount given to the trade Orders promptly tilled,
packed and shipped, according to directions.
Price List and Older Book furnished upon application. will in
Send for our prices before purchasing elsewhere, and you save money
any line we carry, such as Liquors, Tobaccos and Cigars
ALTM AYEE & PLATA U,
412 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA
illV 24-fiinO
■j. smii.
419 and 421 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA
Successor to Sttmfl amt • flolftti'ft.
Is still in the held, prompt to furnish merchants, millers and
traders with all kinds of Provisions and Produce, Bagging, 'lies, To¬
bacco and Cigars, small groceries, such as can goods. guaranteed. Lowest prices.
Orders will have prompt attention, and satisfaction
Captain Mallary will insure your life; 1 will instirt your pros
perity. niV'il i>m
18«5. ESTABb ISHBD IS«5.
OLD AND RELIABLE
t/Ot lii fed Stables;!
A Large Stock o { .
Kept Constantly on'
Cheap to the
II . & M . W A T E It M A N,
Iltnr/.i osii/t*. ua
As we procure cur supply tlireef from tlic West m car load lots
we are prepared at all times to furnish saw mill and turpentine firm*
with first class mules at. the lowest market rates W e make a spemal
tv in this trade. Information or orders by mail wt l receive prompt
Mention. aml] >P 12 88 ly
Smith cfe Mallary,
—DEALERS IN—
MACHINERY OF EVERY TCITsTD.
Steam engines,
Boilers, - saw - Mills, - Grist - Mills, - Cotton - seed - Grinders, - Belting,
Lubricating Oils, Iron Pipe and Fittings,
inspirators, BRASS FITTINCS, Etc.
SMITH & MALLARY,
Jan. 15, 1889 lv MACON, GA.
M. BATEMAN,
--REPRESENTING
GEO T ROGERS’ SONS,
THE OLD RELIABLE WHOLESALE GROCERY HOUSE,
Will call on the Merchants of EASTMAN every two weeks.
This house is agent for the following celebrated and popular
brands of Flour:
WADE HAMl*TON, LEOXA PATENT, WHITE VELVET.
The PARTIDO is the best 5-cent Cigar in the market.
Also agent for the famous MISSING LINK Tobacco.
June 4-6m
of,
Horses and Mules,
Hand. From the
High-Priced.