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THE TiMES iOUR^AL, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ---AT- 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. __ 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 -II 111!--. >-■ 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. - 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 ' - 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. - 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. ----— 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. ! 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. • •• 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. 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