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THE TiMES iOUR^AL,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
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EASTMAN, GEORGIA
Oklahoma Territory is to be divide!
into twelve counties. Now look out
lor county-seat warfare.
The agricultural interests of t j ie
South are rapidly organizing and are
buying much cheaper through their
combinations. j
Cuba does not now control the sugar
market of the world, about three-quart¬
ers of the world’s sugar being made
from b-ct3 in Europe.
A quarter of a million is to be askel
from Congress for a monument in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, to commem
oiate the Constitution.
The Louisville Courier-Journal holds
that “.here should be no American Ex¬
position in 1892 unless it excels in mag¬
nificence nnv prcvioui exposition hero
or in Europe.”
The father of the Earl of Fife, who
recently married the Prince of Wales’
daughter, died of drink. Old Fife, it
has been wittily observed, went on too
many toots.
It is quite likely that a worthy statue
of Christopher Columbus will bo set up
in New Yoik city before the opening
of the International exposition of 1892,
at which Columbus will be otherwise
honored.
Oae hundred and eight American
nrtint) have received medals and honora¬
ble mentions at the Paris exhibition this
year. AY’uo says that art does not
flourish in America exclaims the Chicago
Herahl.
President Harrison lias been urged, it
is said, by many of the most distin¬
guished friends of higher education in
the country to recommend to Congrcs s
the cstabl.slimcnt and maintonanco iu
Washington of a National University.
Oklahoma wat tho last of the territo¬
rial po.-messiom of the United States that
will be settled by assault on a day
fixe), opinei the New York Commercial
Advert n:r. Llie experiment has proved
ruinously disastrous to every body but
the lawyers.
The Philadelphia l'ab'ie ledger gays:
“The e trusts are becoming dangerously
numeroui and some of them aggressive
to foolhardiness. But the tide of pub¬
lic sentiment is already rising againff
tin before it ebbs i. will sweep
them out of existence.”
Connecticut spe, ids $1000 yearly in
hatching slral, but it is beginning to
be suspected that tho investment is not
a paying one. List year 8,000,000
young shad were hatched, but the full
commissioners, who have just held a
meeting in New Haven, report that tho
supply is decreasing.
Governor Alger of Michigan, who
has recently visited Alaska, says: “1
learned at Sitka, that Alnska has a total
population of 32,000, of which J 6, 000
are Esquimaux, 12,000 Indians an l
tlirco or four thousnn 1 white persons.
In the interior the country is not in¬
habitable on account of the mosquitoes,
which often drive bears and other wild
beasts to 11V - coast during the summer
m mtlis Its only value to the govern¬
ment is its mineral resources nud its
fisheries.
People wonder at the readmes) with
which Americans make themselves at
homo in Mexico and Central America.
They seem to have no trouble in ac¬
quiring tho Spanish language, nnd
plunge in'o business without delay.
The fact is, states the Atlanta Constitu¬
tion, when a man ha) u chance to speak
it every day, Spanish is picked up with¬
out any trouble. The Confederate
General Henderson went to Mexico after
tho war. He studied tho hinguago only
three months, and was then ready to
practice law. That was quick work.
It is evident, observes the New York I
Neica, that the prison system of the
United Stfltes is defective. The in¬
crease in criiuo bear* testimony to that
fact. Excluding juvenile delinquent*
and inmates of reformatory institutions,
there were 20) prisoners to every mil¬
lion of population in 1850. The en
sus of 1'tiO showed that the percent¬
age had increased to 607. In 1870 it
was 853, and iu 188) it had increased
to 1109. Tit' lateit statistic), though
only fragmentary, indicate that the cen¬
sus next year will show a still mere
rapid increase iu t ns p'rcentago. Tiii*
is a serious matter.
Tl.c g Its to colleges an 1 universities
during the la-t o niniencement season
were of an esjeciallv liberal character.
They reached in the aggregate nearly
$5,000,090, and wer distributed
among some fifty institutions. Of this
sum Yale College is said to have re
ceived about , $o00,000, and 1 during y the
jast three years the gifts to the same
institution are reported to have reached
«t least $700,009 It will therefore
surprise the public to know that the iu
sti tut ion is still crippled for funds, and
(hat its future financial outlook is not
so bright a) its friend) would desire.
Professor Henry P. Wright i) quoted a*
saying tiiat the college needs additions
in every department, ana tha. it . grows
relatively poorer as tho classes grow
larger.
It is to bo presumed ti nt London
Justice has made its computatu n with
accuracy when it says that all the pv D.O
now living in the world, or about l,4tk),
IW.OOO, nld tod standing room -witli
in the limits of a field ten miles lare,
and, bv aid of a toleph- me, uid be sd
dressed by a single speakei
It is proposed to reopen the Paris E*
GENERAL SEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS THOM EYEBTWHERE—ACCIDENT,, STBIEHI,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The king of Holland has again weak¬
ened and his condition is serious.
It is reported that the new German
army bill will involve the expenditure of
206,000,000 marks.
six eotton milu at Blackburn , En g
land, have been closed, owing to the
depressed state of trade.
President Harrison on Wednesday re
ceived the resignation of James Tanner
as commissioner of pensions.
Forest fires destroyed the Central Pa¬
cific railroad bridge, at Upper Cascades,
Cal., Friday, together with one mile of
snow sheds.
has Charles F. Scott, of West Virginia, the
been appointed pardon clerk of
department of justice, vice Judge Bote
ler, resigned.
The Johnstown, Pa., distributing
committee have $1,500,000 on hand, and
there is considerable worry over the
Butter of its disposal.
The thermometer registered iorty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
morning. A severe frost is reported at
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The heaviest rainfall in the country
has been in New York. For twenty-four the
hours, ending at 8 a. m. Friday,
rainfall wus 2.46 inches.
Socialists attempted to hold an open
air meeting at Hamburg, Germany, on
Tuesday night. The prime broke up
the meeting and arrested thirteen per¬
sons.
The entire bench of Judges, Distiict
and Circuit, of Rigs, Russia, have been
arrested for using the German language
After they had been ordered to u-e Rus¬
sian.
The rate committee of the Southern
Railroad and Steamship association met
in New York on 'Wednesday, nud decided
that ut present no advunce in freight
tariff* would he made.
A dispatch from Laramie, Wis., says:
The first snow fall of the season fc.l here
ou Satuiday. Storm seems over large
portion of Amie plains. Leadvillc, Col.,
also reports a light fall of snow.
Duncan Campbell, Jr., of the firm of
Duncan, Campbell A Son, of Montreal,
Canada, dealers in tailors’ trimmings,has
disappeared, and it is found that paper
to tiff amount of $10,000 was forged by
him.
A boiler in the California fash, door
anil blind factory at Oakland, exploded outright
Wednesday, killing four men
and injuring several others, two peihups
fatally. Two others are supposed to be
buried in the ruins.
A number of merchants have signed
a memorial addrtssed to Prince Bis¬
marck, in which charges of impoliteness made
and general mismanagement United are
against Mr. Edwards, States
consul at Berlin, Germany.
Judge Sawyer, in the United States
circuit court ut San Francisco, ou Mon-
3ny rendered a decision in t lio habeas
corpus case if Dt puty Marshall David
Nagle, and discharged Nagle from cus
body.
Win. P. Iliginboth’iin, president of Ihe
Blue Valley Bank of Manhattan, Kansas,
has been couvicted in the District Court
of grand larceny. The case is the out¬
growth iff the suspension of Higinboth- ledger
tim's bank Wednesday, when the
showed a deficit of $100,000,
The President,on Saturday, appointed United
Charles S. Johnson, of Nebtaska,
States attorney for the district of
Alaska. E. G. Haywood, of North
Carolina, has been appointed the chief first of
the judiciary division of
comptroller’s office, vice J. A. Johnson,
resigned.
It was understood, from advices re¬
ceived in Rochester, N. Y., on Saturday,
that the big strike iu the Pennsylvania t^e
soft coal region is settled, and men
will resume work Monday. The strike
was confined to the Connellsvillc district,
but over 8,000 men have been idle for
two weeks on account of it.
The portraits of General Grant, Sher
man tinil Sheridan, which were painted the
by direction of George \V. Childs for
military academy, will he formally October trans
feired to that institution on 3.
General Horace Porter will represent Mr.
Childs upon the occasion and will deliver
an appropriate address iu presenting the
portraits. of New
Exports of specie at the port
York for tlm past week amounted to
$457,440, iff which $141,080 wi s gold,
and $318,360, silver. Of the total ex
ports, $2,000 in gold and $313,360 in
silver went to Europe, and $142,000 in
gold and no silver to South America.
Imports of specie for the week amounted
to $7,205, of which $5,000 was in gold,
and $2,205 in silver.
During Tuesday nud i\ e Inesday there
weie great convulsions of nature and
subterranean commotions, followed by
tremendous explosions of gas and steam
in the upp; r geyer basin at Hot Springs, fu
Atk All the larger geysers are in
nous activity Scientists explain that
all of this phenomenal outburst is direct
ly traceable to and connected w ith the
atmospheric and sub marine demonstra¬
tions of the great storm that prevailed
tlong the Atlantic coast.
The strike of the western window
glass workers at l’iltsburg. Pa., was
iiwctieally settled at a conference of
workmen and a committee of manufae
turers. Saturday. Thc manufacturers
cimi-i dtd the 5 per cent, advance de¬
manded bv the employe*. The matter
will be pre'ented to a general meeting of
manufacturers, and if the committee's
action ie ratified, a general resumption
will take place next week. The settle
ment affects sixty-one factories in the
west, employing about 5,000 men and
boys.
During a roar of la.ugliter iu night the ara
demy of music last Tuesday at
Reading, Pa., at the Whitcomb eccentricities in “ of Tbo the
character of Joshua
Old Homestead,” a lady in the audiene
was seen to throw up ner hands aud fall
back in her seat in a state of hysterics,
8 >’e was earned home unconscious
It was later learned, that in a spell ot
laughter she had swallowed a silver plate
containing two teeth. The lady lingered
m *S™> : until Wednesday, when she
died. At the post mortem examination
^ ^ ^ in her wind-pipe.
^ SERIOUS JOKE.
A newly married couple presented
WITH DRUGGED CAKES.
At Piiham, N. C., Friday, W. T.
Stroder and Nannie Lovelace were mar
rie j. On the way home they wore met
by two young men who offered to treat
the bridal party with small cakes, and
one offered them to the crowd, while the
0 jber had only two cakts and he *aul
h would treat the bride and groom.
The newly married people ate the:r
cakes, snd were taken very sick imme
diateiv afterward. The two cake* were
drugged very heavily . The two young
m -i left for parts unknown,
A FATAL THUNDERBOLT.
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White Sundav school services were be
ing held in a small frame church near
Columbia Citv, Ind.. lightning struck
the spire, and coursed down through the
roof striking and instantly killing twe
girls, J^to^tgyd 17, who were sitting lo
•' their cjnss. Otbei
DISASTROUS STORMS
• WEEPING THE ATLANTIC COAST, DOINd
UNTOLD DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
A ter-ible and disastrous storm swept
a.ong the Atlantic coast Monday, doing
considerable damage. At New York,
the North and East river fronts and the
cellars of warehouses and tenements on
both the east and west sides of the lower
I art of th_- city are in a decidedly cha¬
otic state. Some of the piers are en¬
tirely covered by the tide, and some that
are usually twelve feet above
high water mark have their
decas licked by the inundated angry waves.
The Jersey shore was in many
places. On the East riverfront, buiidings
ir in Fiftieth stre t to Fourteenth street,
are affected by the great rise of water.
The lower end of Blackwell’s island is
submerged, and the keepers were engaged
early in the morning in removing pa¬
tients from frame out-buildings on that
portion of the island. It is '.he general
impression among sea faiiug men, that
the tide is the highest known for twenty
live years. No vessels arrived at New
York up to noon Tuesday. The storm
came from the seaward, and was full
grown when it struck the coast. Along
he Jersey coast the surf is reported the
heaviest ever know'D, A similar Condition
prevails all along the coast of New’ Eng¬
land and New Jersey. Reports from
Coney island are to the effect that Mon¬
day night's storm and its accon panying in the
high tide were the most disastrous
history ol that storm-beaten isle. The
Marine railway his been swept away.
Ihe esplanade in front of Manhattan
Beach hotel washed out, and the sea is
flowing into the base ment of Manhattan
Bench hotel. A greater part of the
Concordance is gone.
Reports from Philadelphia say: The
damage to railroad lines entering Atlan¬
tic City, Cape May, Sea Isle City, Ocean
City, and other coast resorts, by the great
storm is very heavy. The Camden and
Atlantic and West Jetsey roads were un¬
able to get a train in or out of Atlantic
City on Tuesday. 'Ihe stonn carried
away telegraph poles and wires and all
communication was cut off. Water in the
old Camden and Atlantic excursion
house at Atlantic City is four or five feet
high, and in the meadows it is as high,
se that it is difficu t to calculate the dam¬
age that has been done to railroad |>r»p
erties. Ocean City is almost entirely
under water,’ and the beach road, which
is floated liy every high tide, ii
believed to be an entire wreck.
The news from Lewes, I> law are, is that
the tide was the highest since 1867.
Telegraphic communication with the
Breakwater was destroyed The
schooners Alena Covert, Henry McLarke,
J. F. Becker, Byron M, Maud Seward,
Neuona, Gertrude Summers and Jour
unknown schooners are a-horc. Both
wooden piers have been destroyed.
A COSTLY BLAZE.
A LARGE SUGAR REFINERY IN BROOKLYN,
N. V., REDUCED TO ASHES.
A veny disastrous fire broke out Satur
dav afternoon in the mammoth sugtti
plant of the Dick & Meyers Co., on
North Seventh and Norlh Eighth streets,
in Brooklyn N Y. The entire estab
liriiment, which consisted of ti collection
of buildings eight stories in h' igbtli, ex
tending about COO feet on North Seventh
street, 800 feet ou North E ghth street,
and 250 feet along the dock, was reduced
to ashes. It was filled with very valua
ble machinery, and the loss on the build
ing and machinery is estimated ut about
$1,500,000. Within the
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second filter house, adjoining, was Almost
upon by the hungry flames. at
the same time, the machine building, sheds
office building, and a number of
were attacked. In a short time the
flames had reached the storage house on
North Seventh street, where 8.0 0 jar
rels of sugar were st. ri-il. In half an
hour all this was burned up,and soon the
entire plant of twelve buildings were in
ruins. The capacity of the burnt re
finery wus 1,000,000 pounds e ally.
About 20,000 barrels of sugar wentupin
smoke.
A LIVELY CHASE.
CITIZENS OF A KANSAS TOWN PURSUING
THE COUNTY TREASURER.
Bitter feeling between citizens of Ra
venna and Eminence, Kansas, over the
unsettled county seat question, removal was re¬
newed Saturday by the by W.
T. Williams, treasurer of the county, of
the records of his office from Ravenna
to Eminence, The guard of Itavenna
citizens who had been detailed to watch
the treasurer to prevent this
removal, were at the time in
attendance upon the judicial
district convention. arid Williams
loaded the records of his office into a
wagon and was about to drive off, when
the alarm was given. The guards arming hur¬
ried from the convention aud,
themselves, they started in pursuit. On
the way they mistook another wagon for
the treasurer’s ami followed tue wrong
trail. They * fired several shots at the
supposed fugitive, who finally cscapi-d.
In the meantime Williams had reached
Eminence and put the records in a place
of safety. The citizens of Eminence
have armed themselves in anticipation of
an attempt by the Ravenna people to
capture the records and return them to
their citv
THE COTTON REPORT
AS SENT OUT BY TIIK AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON.
jbe cotton report of the statistician
0 f the department of agriculture fot
September represents the crop as corn
I paratively late. Too abundant moisture
I is generally reported, producing rank
! weed and retarding the development o,
! bolls. Rust has appeared The quite gener- soil*
j ally on sandy uplands. gray
j of the Atlan’ic coast show most rust
; There has been considerable dropping ol
forms and of young bolls in ihe areal
i most affected by the extremes iff moist
| ure and temperature. The*renera aver
, age of condition i- 80 0, against bJ.S la-t
month and 83.8 in September of last
| year. State averages a e «» follows
j Virginia, 62; North CarTina 79; South
Carolina, 8*; Georgia, .*); ti ncu, J4
i Alabama, M; Mississippi, 88: Louts
■ jana, 91; Texas, 81; Arkansas, 00; Ten
uessee. 80.
AN EXCITING SCENE.
A SMALL FIRE IN CHICAGO S EXPOSITION
BUILDING CAUSES A PANIC.
Cn Saturday night, between 8.000
ju ooq | eople ru-hed j ell mill out
^ (be exp sition building at Chicago,
[j] falling over each other down stairs
Jm j j uul , , ,g through windows in their
i lUrrv to escape an imaginary holocaust
pj re bad started in one of the big b otks
ar the ceutr of the huge structure the crash
and the glare iff ihe fl imes an 1
of uia’e g.sss caused a panii Men, wo
men and children joined in ihe mad
scramble for exits, _ regular and impro
vised, which f, rtunateiv were cumere-us
enough to prevent a y f > •• crushing,
Within five mi utes the excited tnous
»nds were safe outside, the flames ex
tinguished and one fourth of the expo
sition interior in ru.j*. The damage to
the building itself escaped. Slight Probably and the
gallery wholly
sorriiEM iSEws.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
1110US FOISTS IN TUE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OE WHAT IS GOING ON OF
lSIFOBTASCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
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The Cincinnati Soulhern Railroad Ma
chine shops, at Chattanooga, Teun.,
were burned Friday. Estimated loss
$25,000. "
Governor Lee has appointed delegates
frt in Virginia to the National F. rmera’
congress to be held at Montgomery, "
Ala., November 13th.
The hotel at Butt Air, a summer resort
eighty miles lrom Richmond,’'-., on the
Ricbmond and Dffbville ra.. ,ad, was
burned Wednesday I < ss §25 ' 000• ’ Bar- 1
tiiiliv iavureil '
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Jacksonville, Fla., will build a $100,
000 co ton factory, The shares in the
stock have all been takeu, and the com¬
pany will organize nud begin operations
at as early a day as possible.
On Friday night a freight and passen¬
ger train collided in the Baltimoie and
Potomac railroad tunnel, near the navy
dozen yard, Washington, 1). C., and ten or a
lives were lost.
Dr. J. W. Owen, over eighty years of
age, a prominent physician well known died
throughout Virginia and Maryland,
at his tcsideuce, in Stephen* City, Vu.,
Sunday.
Governor Buckner, on Monday, issued
a proclamation to the people of Harlan
county, calling upon them to aid the
state troops in enloicing the law in that
part of Kentucky.
New counterfeit two-dollar treasury
certiticatis have made their appearance
in Chattanooga, Tenu. The engraving is
fine, but llie paper is poor. All coun¬
terfeits, so far discovered, are numbered
B 105441741, and bear a picture of Gen¬
eral Hancock.
Kenwood Cotton mills, near Lowell,
Gaston county, N. C,, were burned Fri¬
day. They had been shut down tor
weeks. Loss is sixty-thousand dollars,
with $51,000 insurance. The mills were
new and had six thousand spindles.
Dispntchi s to the Dallas News from ail
sections of north and northeastern and
northwestern Texas indicate general
damage to crops and property and delay
of tiaffic from floods, occasioned by
tains, which have fallen incessantly in
that territory during the past week.
A one thousand dollar verdict was
found against the Richmond ur,3 Dan¬
ville railway company in the city court
at Atlanta, Ga., on Wednesday. The
plaintiff was llarty C. Beck, who sued
tor ten thousand dollars damages for be¬
ing ejected from a train in August, 1880.
At Fernand in a, Fla., Wednesday, fire
destroyed the city jail, and one negro
pr.soner, named Henry Baker, perished is
in Ihe flames. The origin of the fire
unknown, but it is suspected himself that and the
prisoner accidentally set pipe.
bedding on fire while lighting his
The Louisville & Nashville Railway
company, on Friday, _ let contracts for
forty-seven miles of road, from Cumber
lundGap to Princess Flat, \a., where
connection is made with the Norfolk and
Western, giving a through line f.oin
Louisville to Norfolk,
Oneof the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, Georgia, was
praiitid by the superior court of Building
by which the Southern Homo
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Up.,
w as incorporated, with authority to do
Georgia or any othtr state.
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of the murder of the McCoy
brothers, and sentenced to imprisonment found
f or jjf e . Kllerson Mounts was
guilty of murder of Elflora McCoy, and
sentenced to be hanged December 8.
«. L. Stallings, the chief of police of
Anniston, Ala., publishes in the News of
that city a card in which lie solemnly ob
|j, r . ltts himself to the Pelham family to
[ tuve the community of Anniston on oi
before Monday, September 20th, never to
rcturn The card is a long one, and F
(be outcome of the killing, sometime
;i g 0) 0 f William Pelham by Stallings.
The triennial conclave of the grand
encampment of Knights Templar will
be held in Washington, 1). C., next
month, and the event is attract¬
ing attention all over the United States.
1 liis conclave will lie the most iuipoitant
and at the same time most interesting
ever held on this continent. The attend¬
ance will be very large, and it is expect¬
ed that there will be at least from 40,000
to 50,000 Knights formed in 1 no on
Pennsylvania avenue on that grand oc¬
casion.
A substitute tor cotton, in the shape
of chemically prepared ramie fibte, has
been invented by I)r. Pankniu, of
Charleston, S. C. The method of its
preparation estimated is, that of the course, cost a secret, bale but it
is will exceed per or per
pound not that for the prep¬
aration for market of equivalent amounts
of longcotton. Dr. Pnuknin is in com¬
munication with business men in New
York who ere interested in the discov¬
ery. Something very interesting ju the
way of the deve!o|iment of the industry
may be shortly expected.
At a meeting of the Farmers' Alliance,
held at Ellaville, Ga., the following res¬
olutions were unanimously adopted : Re¬
solved, First, By the Schley county al
iiitiice now iu session, that we demand ol
tb»‘ cotton buyers of E lavillc, an allow¬
ance o! eight pounds tare Resolved, on cotton Second, baled
in cotton bagging. demand complied
That if said is not
ith, insist .... that every mem , er of , the ,
w we
alliance of Schley couut y do ret use to
patronize said market or any other mar
ket whi re said demands are refused.”
Adopted September 10th, 1889,
The am uni meeting of the stoekhold
irsif the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railway, was held in the office
of the company, in Nashville, Tennessee,
on last Widmsday. The gross earnings
for the year were show n to be $3,000,-
165.10; operatirg-expenses $1,951,444 -
59; leaving nit earnings, $1,348,720.58.
Out of this stun there ha- been [aid in
tercst and taxes, $868,695.54; improve
mepfc*, $50,903.30— 925,5S8.6j9: leaving
surplus, $418,121.68, fiom which four
dividends of i 1-4 per cer.t. each upon
the capital stock have been declared,
$383,426.58; leaving a balance, $84,.
095.10.
ANOTHER VICTIM.
A MUTILATED HUMAN BODY FOUND »
WHITECHAPEL, LONDON.
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Tuesday m rning, a policeman found
the body of a fallen Wuman lying at the
corner of the railway arch on Cattle
street, Whitechapel. At examination
of the remains showed that the head and
arms had been cut off and carried away.
The murder is the worst of the whole
series oi Whitechapel murders. The
manner in which the limbs had been
severed from the body shows that the
murderer was possesses) of s me surgical
skili. The mo-t intense excitement
again prevai.s in W hitechspel.
A NEW JOHNSTOWN.
The new directory of Johnstown,
Pa., and the surrounding boroughs con
tains the names of over five hundred
business and professional men. thirty-six It also
show* that there are now
grocery atom and fifty-one Ml-aona open
THE COTTON EXCHANGES
MEET IN 5£W ORLEANS AND DISPOSE OF
TUE BAGGING QUESTION.
The cotton bagging convention as
sembled ut New Oileans, La., <-n
Wednesday, and disposed of the bagging
questioa promptly and effectually, after
a very thorough discussion of the mutter,
There were present delegates from the
y e w York anil New Orleans, Augusta,
Jfemphis Jackson,’ Mobile, Meridian, Miss.,
Miss., an i Selmi, A'a., ex
changes. Besides the delegates from
the cotton exchanges, there were present
the following state commissioners cl
agriculture:’ R. F. J. Kolb, W. of A’abama; Henderson, John of
Georgia:; Tennessee; M. i. Locke, ol
Hoard, of
Arkansas, aud T. J. bird, of Louisiana
The mam point of discussion by the
convention was the tare on cotton, and
the following resolution was unanimously
adopted: “lhat on and after the first ol
October, 1S89, all cotton shall be sold at
net weight, allowing 24 covered pound’ bales of gross and
wet g ht for tare on jute covered
10 pounds off for tare on cotton
bales. Cotton covering to be of standard
weight, J of pound to yard.” Before
adjourning, the convention decided to
arrange fo°r a uniform classification for
cotton. AU the excliauges will appoint
experts who will meet at New Orleans
at the earliest day possible, and agree
upon the classification.
CROP BULLETIN.
ISSUED FROM TUE SIGNAL SERVICE BU¬
REAU AT WASHINGTON.
The weather bulletin for the w eek end¬
ing September 14th, says: It has been
warmer than usual over the corn and cot¬
ton tegions and genera.ly on the Atlantic
coast, the daily excess of temperature in
central valleys hanging from three de
l tees to nine degrees, while on the At
lautic e-oast about the normal tempera¬
ture prevailed. It was colder than usual
f;om Dakota westward to the Pacific
coast. There has been less than the usual
amount of rain during the week gener¬
ally throughout the principal agricultu¬ anti
ral districts, including the corn cot¬
ton regions. An excess of rainfall oc¬
culted on the Atlantic coys', from -Mas¬
sachusetts southward to Noith Carolina,
and excessive tains also occurred over
limited areas in the northwest, including
northern Missouri, eastern Kansas, east¬ and
ern Dakota, western Minnesota
south-eastern Iowa. In the remaining
states of the upper distributed M ssissippi and showers Mis
sourt val’eys well occurred
re reported, while no rain in
the lowe r region of the Ohio valley,
western Pennsylvania, lower Michigan,
and over the greater portion iff Tennes¬
see anil Mississippi. Only light showers
aie reported over ihe cast and west por¬
tion of the cotton region.
THE DYING TRUST.
EFFORTS OF TIIK JUTE TRUST TO DISPOSE
OF THEIR BAGGING.
It is officially announced at Raleigh,
N. C., that the jute trust has made a
proposition to the Farmers’ Alliances
that, if they will again use jute bagging,
it will again be sold at 8j cents on time,
and that the jute trust will pay Ihe farm¬
ers $2 uu re per ton for their cotton seed
than is offered at any of the cotton seed
oil mills. This is regarded by the Alii
ance as an indication that the trust D in
bad straits. The jute trust is shipping
its bagging to cotton points all over the
state, with or without orders, and in
some places it has been offered at two
cents per yard. The trust sends bagging
in quantities, and at two points Wednes¬
day arrived addressed to parties who
have no existence. In other cases it is
arriving addressed to merchants who re¬
fuse to touch it. No sales of trust bag
ging are being made in the state, anil in
some large markets merchants have not
purchased a pound of it. The fight
against the bagging trust is now hotter
than ever.
S- S, COX DEAD.
A LONG AM) EVENTFUL LIFE BRIEFLT
SKETCHED.
Congressman S. S. Cox died at New
York on Tuesday evening. He was born
at Zanesville, O , September death. 30, 1824, lie
being 05 years of age at his
graduated at Brown college in 1846, be¬
came a lawyer and editor, anil in 1855
became secretary of legation to Peru.
Tho following year he was elected to
congress from Ohio, and re-elected for
three consecutive terms, serving in all
eight years In 1866 lie removed to
New York, -and two years later was
elected to congress from that city, and
re-elected in 1870. President Uleve
land appointed him minister to Turkey,
which post he resigned aftir filling it
creditably for two years, and on his re¬
turn to this country wus re-elected to
cousrrcss
SETTLED AT LAST.
THE 6THIKKRS AT LONDON. ENGLAND,
AGREE TO RESUME WORK.
The master lightermen conceded the
terms demanded by their men, and thus
llie last ob-tiicle to a full rtsumption of
)f work by the strikers at London,
England, is removed. The men re¬
sumed work Monday. Burns, at a
meeting of the strikers, proposed a vote that
gratitude for colonial assistance
had enabled the men to achieve victory.
1 he action of the colonial workmen, he
*. id, was the first step toward the forrn
i'ion of the laborers’ universal federa¬
tion. The motion was carried unani¬
mously. Burns and Tillete. represent
i'ives of the strikers, Saturday, on
behalf of the men, signed the agreement
fntcre <j j„t 0 between themselves and the
director) of the dock companies for a
settlement of the strike.
TROUBLE AHEAD.
excitement IN NORTH CAROLINA OVER
TAB LYNCHING OF AN INNOCENT MAN.
The excitement in Burke county, N.
C., on account of the lynching there
Tuesday night of Frank St ok, a highly
respected and popular suspected Union county
farmer, who was iff murdering
a man named Parker, and who is now
believed to be innoe n‘, grows more in
t ensc each day, and indications plainly
pQ i t to serious trouble ahead The
citizens of Union county hive called a
mass meeting and propose to express
their indignation and organize a plan to
have the lynchers brought wdl to have jus’lpe,
although they realize they a
rough time of ir, as it appears to be the
policy of the lynchers to swing up U'O’
man who undertakes to 2 terfere with
them,
WORK OF THE STORM.
-
crews of abandoned VESSELS BEING
PICKED UP AT S’EA.
A dispatch from Lewis, Del., says:
The bark Sorridexin, previously rep >rted
as having lost her second mste an ; stew
ard - .vetboard during the storm cu. the
11th instant, picked up twelvetof the-cr.. w
of the Norwegian bark Freys,250 miles o 1
Cape Henry. They hud bem‘ t ^ tn V
hours in an open boat. On the luth, she
took five men off the water-logged schoon
er. Came Hail Luster, Captain Howland,
Monday night, in the lame vicinity, the
Sorriderin passed a vissel bottom up.
Those on board were u-able to dtstin
guish the name of the wricked vessel,
An abandoned four-masted schooner was
aisojwised.
mi'. U'.Gi.sL.vrriiii.
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BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE
OK REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill to abolish the county c )urt of
Jefferson county; to amend the acteu
larging tli -juris liciimi of the city court
of Savannah s > as to permit the judge to
pr ctice law as u conveyancer uudtr cer
tain eiremu-t n e ; to incorporate the
Southbound lb i 1 road company; to incor
porate the town of Mineral Bluff; to
amend the eliarter of 31 aeon so as to pro
vide for the improvement of tin streets
,nd sewus An act to repeal an act tix
ing ihc salaries of the treasurers of bum
it ,s rand Sum ter Randolph ls eonctuned. counUes A at bill |300 to incor- so ar
potato the Georgia Equitable I munviM
eompany; to p.ovide compensation at the
rate of $2 per day for managers and
jlerks of elections in McDunie county; to
incorporate the Carrollton Street railway
company; to renew the charter of the
Tur Ic liver and Buffalo Canal company;
to abol'sh all exemptions from jury duty
)j far ns felons t i inis are concerned,
except physics and npothccarits,
statehouse clerks, grist millers,
telegraph qperatots, railroad engineers,
conduc tors and station agents, employees
of the lunatic asylum, pilots and men
over sixty and minors—amended to i\
c> pt firemen and train hands; to order an
election on the question of free schools in
Perry; a bill to prohibit the sale of li¬
quor within the 7S8tb district of Heard
county, . lying east of Chattahoochee
riv r; to amend an ac t incorporating the the
Waycross Air-Lino; to prohibit -the Baptist sale
of liquor in three miles of
church at the fork of Broad river, in
Madison county ; to incorporate the Bel¬
ton, 11 mer and Carnesville railroad; to
incorporate the Washington and l.in
colutou railroad; to author ze the town
of Madison to establish a system of pub¬
lic schools; to amend the charter of Elli
jay, in Gilmer countv; to amend the
charter ot the Underwriter’s Mutual In¬
surance company ; to establish a system
of public school-* in I) iwson ; to incorpo¬
rate the Germania Savings bank; t > in
lorpi rate the Georgia Fidelity insurance
company.
A bill to make a “no fence” law in
certain portions of the county of Thom¬
as; to [iruhit.it the sale of liquors in cer¬
tain portions of Walker county; to pro¬
vide for the registration of voters the in
Clarke county; to empower city
council of Athens to pave certain streets
of said city; t.i incorporate the lirooks
Alliance Banking company; to amend
the charter of the Macon Savings Bank;
to prohibit the sale of liquors within five
miles of a church in Decatur county; to
prohibit giving persons minors from cigarettes, selling, providing tobacco
or to
or cigarette papers; to establish of a system
of sewerage in the town Way
cro;s; to and incorporate the Georgia
Surety Investment company;
to establish a board of commissioners of
roads and revenue for Bryan county—al¬
so, a bill to provide for the registration
if voters in Bryan county; a bill to re
luce the corporate limitsYif the town of
SheHmtm, in Randolph county, from a
mile to a half mile radius; to repeal the
act repealing the act creating a board of
commissioners of roads and revenue
for the county of Clay; a bill to empower
the mayor and aldermen of Hawkinsville
to grant, the Empire and Dublin railroad
rite right to pass through ilie town, and
to change the time of electing the mayor
and aldermen; to amend the charter of
theThoniasvilIi Street Railroad company,
increasing Ihe stock from $10,0.0 to
, 25,0t)t); to amend the act creating a
board of commissioners of roads and
revenue for Carroll county; a bill to re
incorpor.te the town of r I In masville un¬
der the name of the City iff Thomnsville.
nil.LS SIGNED IIV THE GOVERNOR.
Ihe following bills have, been signed
by Governor Gordon, and arc now laws:
An act to create a board of commission¬
ers of roads and revenues for the county
of Hancock, approved October 5. 1886
An act fo encourage and authorize the
constiuclii Georgia, n of telegraph lines certain iu the
state of and conferring
privileges amend and powers section on 10 of the owners. in¬
An act to an act
corporating the town of Eastman. An
act to amend sections 10 and 18 of tho
act inc rporating the t -wti of Chauncy.
An act to amend an act incorporating the the
town of Chauncy. An act to extend
corporate limits of the town of Eastman,
in Ihe county iff Dodge. An act to in
vi st Milton Hitch, a minor of (lie county
of Brooks, with all the rights and privi
lcgis of an adult. An ret to establish a
system of public schools authorize in the the city estab¬ of
Conyers. An act to
lishment of a system of public schools in
the town of I) catur. An act to require
the owners of horses, mules, cows, kinds, hog-,
sheep, goats and cattle of all to
prevent the same front running ut large,
whether inclosed or uninclosed, in the
961 G. M. t Schley county. An act to
incorpoiatc the Melon Belt Railroad
company of Brooks county. An act to
prevent 1lie sa’e or manufacture of spir
ituiiui or malt liquors within three miles
of Mt. Olivet Methodist Church in Banks
ccuntj An act to provide for the
transfer of misdemeanor cases, which ate
now pending, or which may hereafter
arise, in the superior court of Stewart
county to the county court of said
county. An act to amend section VII of
an act approved December 8th, 1888, en¬
titled an act, to create a board i f com¬
missioner of roads and revenues in the
county of Stewart, so ns to increase the
pay of the e'erk of said boaid. An act
to provide the payments of the insolvent
criminal costs in the c!i rk and sheriff 1 f
the superior court of the county ot Co¬
lumbia, when there is no fund, or suffi¬
cient fund, arising from fines and for
feituris. An act to require the owners
ot norseg, mules, cows, kinds sneep, from running nogs ana
other stock of nil at
large upon the lands of another in the
first district, and a portion of the second
and ninth districts of Dooly county.
HORRIBLE, IF TRUE.
INMATES OF NASnVILLE CITY HOSPITAL
CLAIM THAT THEY ARE STARVING.
A dispatch, of Saturday, from Nash
ville, Tenn., savs: Investigations made
h^^ofS complaints aX^ytJi started 8
tai liere Ihe from
the neighbors, who weie subjected tc
piteous appeals daily from the inmates,
“for God’s sake to send them something
t0 ^ ^i-m from starving to death.”
q- wo j lu ,j unta b ave died the past week,
and another who is now dying, and whe
reaped from Uc hospital, J tei.s a terrible
,,t e o{ MlfferJn „ an( n( .g! cct , and says
that the inmate* are starving to death,
and that the way the hospital is man
aged is a sbararx Not o: ly the neigh-
1, ra, tut patients and visitors corrobate
the story, and considerable excitement
exists.
STANLEY HEARD FROM
>K>VEMENT6 of the great explorer in
TUE WILDS OF AFRICA.
Cable di.-patches of Con from Zanzibar to the
_ 0Tern inent go state say: ‘'Henry
q fttaniev, on leaving basin of Albert
NVasza, endeavored to make hi* way up
, var j b v passing to the west of the Vic
Ny a nza. He failed, however, in
; bj s attempt. He then went northward,
, in( j , ea tie j the eastern shore of the
; a jj e Emin Pasha accompanied him.
\fter a long stay on the lake, awaiting
marched in the direction of
p^bassa He is expected to reach the
tikit ern coast about the end of October.”
FAHSION.
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It is our pleasure to announce our usual SPUING and SUMMER
display of Children"**
(3eiltS% YOUtllS , Boys’ and
WM'&
Furnishings, Underwear, Neckwear, Hats
Hosiery &c.,
We do not exaggerate when we say that our present season's ex¬
hibit SURPASSES anv stock EVER shown by us, in QUALITY,MA¬
TERIAL and PERFECTION of FIT.
MAIL ORDERS
Have our most careful attention, and rules for measurement and
other information cheerfully sent on request.
-C. O. D.
Shipments with privilege of examining before paying.
EXTRA SIZES,
For STOUT, THIN, TALL and SIR HIT gentlemen a specialty.
Ooixntry Mercliants
Can, by virtue of heavy purchases, and extraordinary facilities, obtain
BIG TRADES in SUPERIOR Clothing. We have some job DEALERS lots that
cannot fail to prove profitable investments for COUNTRY
The Clothing Palace 106 Congress Street
jnn. ll-lyr Savannah Ga
Schofield's Iron Works,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, COTTON PRESSES,
General Machinery and all Kinds Castings.
Sole Owners anil 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 for
Hancock Inspirators and Gullets Magnolia Cotton Cins.
J S. SCHOFIELD & SON
my31-lyr MACON, GEORGIA
ALTMAYER & FFATAL,
412 Third St., Macon, Ga.
--WTI( XLESALE
JLaicjAOioBrs, Tobaccos*
CMM*1RS<
WE CARRY THE LARGEST STOCK OF ANY HOUSE IN
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
Sole agents for Export, Kate ( laxton. iiak mil < lith House, pmv coppor
distilled Rye Whiskies, Georgia anil North < aroltita Corn, l’eaelt and Apple
Iframlies always on hand.
Imported wines and brandies a REEK, specialty. non-alcoholic.
Sole agents for the celebrated RICE
Sole agents for Val Blutz Milwaukee J’.eer, by the dozen or cask.
JUGK
solicited, anil a liberal discount given to the trade. Orders promptly filled,
packed anil shipped, according to directions. application.
Brice List and Order Book furnished upon
Si ml for our prices before purchasing elsewhere, ami you will save money In
any line we carry, such as Liquors, Tobaccos and Cigars.
ALTMAYER & F.LATAU,
412 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
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419 AM* 421 THIRD » STREET, MACON, GA.
Successor to Smut S tut ft mfButturfp,
Is still in the field, prompt to furnish merchant*;, millers and
traders with all kinds of Provisions and Produce, Ragging, Tics, To¬
bacco and Cigars, small groceries, such as can goods. Lowest prices.
Orders will have prompt attention, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Captain Mallary will insure your life; 1 will insure your pros
penty. my31-(im
1805. ESTABLISHEO 1 S«5.
0IJ» AND RELIABLE
CO) and feed »w -- «. 1 _
A Large Stock ou
Kept Constantly on
Cheap to the
■J v-our, n r SSFemll -
H . & M. V A T E U M A N,
Huirkinscittc, (*a
A* we procure our supply direct from tin* W oG m cur lotol lots
we arc pi ■|>:trei! ut till times to furnish saw mill and We turpentine make Hpecial- firms
with first-class mules at the lowest market rates. a
tyia thin trade. Informal km or orders by mail will receive prompt
attention. april 12 8.8 ly_
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Bmitli Mallary,
—DEALERS in
lYEA-CIiXYVBR/ir OF every kind.
Steam engines,
Boilers, Mills, Grist Mills, Cotton seed j Grinders, n 1 J H Belting, U’
saw - - -
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Lubricating Oils, Iron Pipe and Fittings,
INSPIRATORS, BRASS FITTINCS, Etc.
SMITH & MALLARY,
Jan. 15, 1889. ly M At ON, *• A,
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--REPRESENTING
GEO T ROGERS’ SONS,
THE OLD RELIABLE WHOLESALE GROCERY HOUSE,
ant the Merchants of EASTMAN every two week 3.
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Tl.ja house is agent for the following celebrated and popular
, l is , ,c of J r-i l0ur _.
- ,ran ' '
WADE HAMPTON, LEONA PATENT, WHITE VELVET.
The PARTIDO is the best 5-cent Cigar in the market.
Also agent for the famous MISSING LINE Tobacco.
June 4-6m
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Hand- From the
KigluPiiced.