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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. - 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.