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1. V. STOCKS. K. M CA*KU.
STOKES & CARNES,
-AT
EASTMAN, GEORGIA
The Manufacture»' ficcord believes tba\
the whole country is “entering upon s
great speculative period of advancing
prices, when we will probably see th<
most active times ever known in th<
financial „ . , and , speculative , history . . of tue
country. The South will take a very
prominent part in these matters.”
The latest European estimate of the
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world s supply is 180,000,000 bushels
short, and that the European crop this
year is 222,000,000 bushels below the
average. If these figures are correct
there ought almost certainly to be a mar¬
ket for the w hole of our great surplus.
The announcement that the United
States contains more crematories than all
the rest of the world does not mean that
cremation in this country is superseding
burial. There are only about fifty cre¬
matories extant, all told, of which the
United States is saiil to have over thirty
so that many years are likely to elapse
before the gravedigger loses his oecupa
tion.
Canon Farrar’s visit to this country f.
few years ago apparently impressed him
pleasantly, since he has sent his son here
to complete his education. The young
man, who is said not to resemble the
typical Englishman in appearance, will
take a scientific course at Lehigh Univer¬
sity, and will afterward take his degree
of civil engineer at the Rensselaer Poly¬
technic Institute of Troy, New York.
Four Maudara natives are about to ap
pear at the German Court as Ambassador!
from their African Sultan, who are saic
to be marvels of intelligence, and witk
a moral standard extraordinarily high.
Though they will dress in their own cos¬
tume, the etiquette of the German court
cannot be foregone, and so the regulai
dress coat will be worn over the African
costume.
The people of the United States lost
millions of dollars yearly by the destruc¬
tion by fire of flimsily constructed build¬
ings. Moreover they pay out hundreds
of thousands of dollars in the support of
fire departments. Fire and Water states
also that the value of the fire apparatus
und the building devoted exclusively to
purposes of fire protection amounts to
the large sum of $38,644,755.
The editor of the Popular Science
Monthly, in considering the idea of co¬
operative management of all industries,
remarks: “Society is becoming every
day more closely knit iu the bonds of a
common sympathy; the self-respect of the
average man is daily increasing and pub
opinion is becoming at onc-e more
rational and more humane. What we
have chiefly to contend with to-day is
not the idleness or extravagance of a
few, but a general lack of knowledge as
to the best methods of social co-opera¬
tion.”
Mr. Edmund Yates writes to the New
York Tribune that French sentiment is
now nearly entinct in Alsace. But in
Lorraine everything is different; the
people still detest the Germans iu theii
heart and do everything in their powei
to disconcert them. “Metz is as French
a city as Orleans or Rouen, iu spite ol
the desperate efforts of the German
authorities to convert its inhabitants.
Everything is stagnant there, and there
are whole streets of empty houses, for all
the French who were able to leave have
gone, and the only Germans who settle
there are officials, The officers of tlie
army cannot help themselves.
At a dinner not long ago, Wilkie Col¬
lins related instances proving how im¬
possible it was to introduce into a novel
descriptions of places aud things wholly
imaginary. In one of his works he de¬
scribed a house which he had never seen
and which was entirely the offspring of
his imagination. A few days after the
publication a man called upon him to
protest upon the introduction of his house
into his novel. Strange to say the pages
of the novel contained a perfect descrip¬
tion of the man's property. At another
time he used as one of his characters a
man who was so exact about his eating
that he weighed every morsel that en¬
tered his stomach. Mr. Collins had in
reality never heard of such a mau, H e
was greatly suprised one week after the
apjiearance of his bock by the visit of an
utter stranger, who w ished to know by
what right Mr. Collins made him ridicu
lousrn . . print . by mentioning one of ,, his . pe
culiarities.
Professor N. S. Shaler, of Harvard,
after a careful consideration of the much
neglected condition of the common roads
iu this country, makes the following sug¬
gestion in Scribner: “I would in the first
place suggest that in the Federal Depart¬
ment of Agriculture there should be a
commissioner of roads, having at his
command sufficient means to prepare and
print as public documents accounts of the
condition of roadways in this country,
with essays on the method of their con¬
struction. Ear;.*. State should likewise
have a commissioner of public ways,
whose duty should be to advance cduca
tion iu this class of questions iu every
possible mauuer. To him the town ami
,-t.uDty road ,'omniuion.r, .horfd be re
quired to report. He should cause to In
constructed a map showing the loeatio.
and stlte condition of ail the roadn avs in the
8-tate. These These wavs ways he he should should dassifv cL if j •* a.
regards their condition. Our country
folk wallow in the mire of their ways,
j>av excessive tolls, endure, iu a word, s
grinding ...... taxatmn, generation .. after gen
eration. without appreciating the bur
den which rests upon them."
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contemplating retirement from the "
pulpit.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS FOISTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT Or WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Ex-Governor Perry, of Florida, is dy¬
ing at Bandera. Texas.
There was a light frost in middle and
north Alabama Tuesday night,
A receiver was, on Monday, appointed
for the South Carolina railroad.
There was frost at Port Gibson and
JacksoD, Miss., on Sunday night, the
ear jj egt , n y ear8
The Clipper saw mills, nt New Orleans,
together with a large lot of lumber,
turned Tuesday morning. Loss $30,000;
fall} insured.
■JSa^SKffs'&ia: Va ed by the chancery
^ wag again pa8tpon
judge, Thursday. of
'I he Merrick Wrecking company, of
Norfolk, is at work caving the cargo
the Amy Dera, which was abandoned by
her officers and crew.
jj'lhc trial of Edward Brown, charged
with the assassination of Colonel Huger
J. Page, late editor of the Marion 'Junta.
lit (jitter, was begun at Charlotte, N. C.,
Friday; iu McDowell superior court.
Bobbers intercepted a boy mail rider
between Leakeville aud Palestine, Miss.,
Monday,and after rifling the mail pouch,
containing two registered the boy letters, aud gave de¬
the parted. empty pouch to
The North Carolina synod of thc Pres¬
byterian church convened in annual ses¬
sion in Charlotte on Tuesday,with about
ono hundred delegates and preachers
I resent. The synod will be in session
one week.
The general Assembly of the Knights
of Labor will be held in Atlanta on the
12th of November, and the executive
comm.tteeof the order, now in session at
St. Louis, ate arranging business for the
assembly.
An agreement was reached between
the striking miners at Coalburg, near and
Birmingham, Ala,, on Wednesday,
the miners will leturn to work. It isre
ported that the terms of the operators
were accepted.
Cotton men at Savannah, Ga., say that
indications point to an attempt by New
Yotk parties to corner Octoocr cotton.
It is reported that all the friegqt room of
from there to New Y’ork for the rest
the month has been engaged, or, iu the
language of the street, “swept clean.”
The property of Hillman, the electric
health resort, at Washington, Ga., was
sold on Tuesday at auction and was
bought by Mr. James Benson for $8,000.
There are about 150 acres of land. Mr.
Benson is one of the persons whoso
health was restored by it. lie says it
will he kept up as a resort.
Coke iron was made in Anniston, Ala.,
for the first time on Friday. Thc two
furnaces have been in course of construc¬
tion for two years, and are among t >e
largest and best in thc country. The ton¬
nage of iron, when both furnaces arc in
blast, will be more than that of thc cot¬
ton crop of the whole south.
A special committee was on Tuesday
appointed by the chamber of commerce
to take steps looking to the control of
the South Carolina railway interests of
Charleston, B. C. No definite plan of ac¬
tion was adopted, but w ith the co-opera¬
tion of local capitalists can be bought and
operated, especially in the interests of
that port.
A dispatch from Flemingsburg, hundred thousand Ky.,
save: At l«nst livo
pounds of tobacco in this county has
been enlirely destroyed by the frost of
the last three nights. The auditor’s re¬
port places tlie average crop of the coun¬
ty at 4,700,000 pounds, aud this year the
crop was above that figure. About half
of the crop hud been housed and cured.
The report that thc various Alliances,
Wheels, etc., would lie called on to pe¬
tition the legislatures of their respective
States to suspend the collection of debts
for six months has been denied by
Col. L. F. Livingston, President of the
State Alliance of Georgia, who says:
“The Farmers’ Alliance has never will,” adopt¬
ed such a resolution, and never
The Tennessee conference, now in ses¬
sion at Murrreesboro, Tenn., has a pecu¬
liar question before them. In passing
the characters of the preachers, the
charge ntu made against Brother Hag¬
gard that lie had been engaged marrying to two of
women at the same time, one
them within a week after writing a letter
to the other pledging his undying love.
The case was referred to a committee for
trial.
Last June the town of Livingston,
Sumter county, Ala., was almost entirely
destroyed by fire one night, causing
heavy loss to the business men. Recently
evidence w as discovered tending to show
that the fire was of incendiary origin,
and citizens of Livingston sent detective
Robins, of Birmingham, who went clown
Thursday and arrested Andrew Moore,
Andrew Ivy and Dunham Jones, charg¬
ing them with the crime.
The New Y'ork and New Orleans Coal
and Iron Company have recently pur¬
chased 64,000 acres of coal, iron and
timber lands in Tennessee. Expert min¬
ing engineers say that on the property
are 1,250,000,000 tons of red fossil ore
and 300,000,000 tons of brown hematite,
six workable veins of coal, varying from
three to eleven feet in thickness, and es¬
timated to contain 537,000,000 tons of
coal, or enough to last the entire United
States for five years.
A telegram was received at Savannah,
Ga., Monday afternoon, stating that the
British steamship Amy Dora, Captain J.
J. Thompson, which cleared there for
Genoa in the latter part of September,
j has gone ashore on the Virginia shore,
A hole was stove in her hull aud she
filled with water. She was attempting
(o put jn at Newport Ncws for coal.
She has aboard 4,700 bales of upland
cotton, weighing 2,846,968 pounds, and
valued at $238,318, shipped by various
Savannah firms.
The New Y’ork Sun s cotton review of
Friday; Futures declined 8 to 11 points
under an unexpectedly weak report from
Liverpool instead of the advance which
the bulla expected. On this decline
there was a brisk demand to cover con
tracts, and as the day wore on the com
paratively small crop movement gave
strength to values. An exceptional
feature was the further development of
October cotton, which caused this month
to close dearer. Cotton on spot was
steady but quiet.
The Sous," <rreat fertilizer factorv of G Ober
& established in 1857, at Locust
foiut, Baltimore, burned Thursday. It
rtJ'jSoSSHS winds tbT»ra«Iriren'yite building
spread to another Urge
completely gutting it. Fudy $.60,000
worth of damage had been done to the
b ''; d ‘ n ^' be < ' rc
nuder control which a number of the
firm says cost $200,090, and $60,000
worth of stock.
One of thc best records in continuous
horseback . . . nding ... that w . have ever been
chronicled wras made recently by Lieu
tenant Assiff. who rode from Lubry, in
southern Russia, to Paris, a distance of
1630 miles, in thirty days. He rode two
hor5es alternately, one English, the other
Russian.
WASHINGTON, 0. G.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDES!
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Edward D. Olmstead was on Thurs¬
day appointed postmaster at New Dcca
tur, Ala.
The President on Thursday appointee New
Edward D. Olmstead, postmaster at
Decatur, Ala.
E. O. Leech has been appointed C., direct vice
or of the mint at Columbia, S.
Dr. J. P. Kimball, resigned.
The government dry dock, just opened
at the navy yard in Norfolk, Va„ is 530
feet over all, and will hold 8,0l'0,000
gallons of water. It has cost $500,000.
Assistant Secretary of the Interioi
Bussey, r n Wednesday, rescinded the
order of Commissioner Tanner, provid¬ be
ing that no disability pension shall
less than four dollras per month.
The members of the 51st CoDgress are
beginning to make their appearance in
Washington, and the political gossips
are at work upon their slates in connec
tion with the organization of the House
of Representatives.
Secretary Tracy issued an order Thurs
to the contractor of the Petrel to deliver
vessel at the Norfolk, Va.. navy yard for
acceptance. Her electric light plant will
will be placed aboard, and then she
be complete and ready for service.
The state department, at Washington,
is in recept of a report of the recent riot
at Navassia, Jamaica. The laborers
charge that the bosses and managers at
tacked them with firearms because they
refused to work after being improperly
feated, that they captured 6ome of the
guns and returned the fire.
The surgeon-general of the marine hos
pital service, received a telegram Thurs
day morning from Dr. Posey, at Jank
sonville, Fla., saying that the state board
of health reports several cases of yellow
fever at Key Vest. Ihe surgeon say
there is no need of apprehension, and
that every precaution has been taken to
prevent the spread of the disease.
1 he present term of the United State.
Supreme Court will be confronted with a
docket of 1,325 cases, and it > s es
mated, diligently as court than may during sit, l ca the
dispose of not more 400
term. Virginia coupon cases will be
called immediately, as will also be the
case of Cross and While against the
state of North Carolina. This latter is
a criminal case which, in pursuance of a
previous order of the court, has been
advanced on the docket.
A statement prepared the at the treasury
department shows that total amount
of standard silver dollars in the treasury,
against which certificates mav be issued
is $5 176 171. Of a total'coinage of
$341,199, 650, silver dollars, there is in
the treasury $282,829,333, against which
there are in circulation $277,753,102 of
certificates. The amount of standard
dollars in circulation is $38,370,377, and
thc count of silver certificates in the
treasury is $2,082,205.
Cotton returns of the first of October,
to the department of agriculture, show a
large plant grow th, active opening of
bolls, the fibre in good condition, and
generally fine weather for picking, yet
the plant is everywhere reported late,
and fears are expressed that frost may has
seriously shorten the crop. The crop
been injured more by moisture than
drouth, though some soils and localities
have been too dry in September. Worms
have wrought considerable
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percentages North Carolina were ITj" '
ginia a8. 1dorida g, 88, A
ohna Sl’ Geoigia 87, a
ma ®7, Mississippi 79 Louisiana 83,
rexii8 78, Arkansas 83 , lennessee 8-.
This makes, as a general percentage, 81.4
of a full crop. Prospects on the hrst of
October, compared with 87.9 per cent.
last October.
BURNING COTTON.
TWO COMPRESSES AND 4,000 BALES OS
COTTON BURNED IN SAVANNAH, CtA.
The lower hydraulic and the Tyler
cotton compress, with their sheds and
4,000 bales of cotton were burned Wed¬
nesday morning, at Savannah, Ga.
The tire was discovered in Ihe lower
press on Bay street at 2 o’clock.
Everything was very dry and the fire
swept from yard to yard rapidly. The
wharf frontage was over five hundred feet
and the depth to Bay street three was about
two hundred eat» fifty. For hours
all of that space, two acres and a half,
was ablaze. Thr- e ve-scls, the Napier,
the Cypress and the Carlton, nil British
steamships, were lying at tlio wharves in
front of the burning buildings and yards.
All of the cotton, 4,000 bales, on the
wharves took fire and were completely
destroyed. The presses are valued at
something like $75,000 and the build¬
ings arc protected. is The $400,000. total loss on the
cotton and presses
A BIG SCHEME,
CONSOLIDATION THAT WILL REVOLUTION¬
IZE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
A gigantic railway consolidation that
will connect the two oceans and revolu
tionize the international railway traffic,
has just been revealed at Chicago, Ill.
Contracts have been signed whereby the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad is to enter into
an agreement with the consolidated
Wisconsin Central and Northern Pacific
lines, connecting the oceans. The Atcll
i on, Topeka & Santa Fe system is in the
deal, reaching Mexico and southern Cal¬
ifornia. Chicago will be made the centre
for operrating the three great line*. The
Northern Pacific will be extended from
Paget’s smind and built into Alaska,
making a continuous line from New
Y'ork city to Sitka.
TO COLONIZE THE NEGROES
the BILL for that purpose passed BY
the Mexican legislature.
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Advices from Mexico say ihe bill tc
grant a concession to Henry C. Ferguson
and William H. Eilis, two colored
from Texas, who propose to colonize
lands in Oaxaca. Guerrero, VeraCruz,
Michoacan and San Luis Potasi with Ne
groes from Texas and other American
states, has passed the lower house ol
congress and has gone to the senate.
It is believed it will be passed and he
signed by the president. It is expected
th at 2,000 Negroes from Texas will move
to Mexico and raise cotton on these
euhivmion/^ill folTcw
WILL BUlLD ••«*•.
A C0MpAJtT onGANIZED „ charleston,
s r0B that FURfose.
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There was forwarded to the secretary
0 f state at Columbia, S. C., on Tuesday,
the declaration f r the charter of “the
South Caro.ina Naval Construction and
Ship owners" Association,” of Charles
ton, capital stock $100,000, in shares of
| 50 each. The nanus of the incorpo
ratois will be published later. The ob
jecis and pjrposes of the new enterprise
are, briefly, to establish in Charleston a
ship yard lor the bui.ding of a fleet of
cairytng v> ssels, combining with this the
marine insurance.
GENERAL NEWS.
C'OA LEE SA TION OF CLRIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FBOM EVBEYWHEBE—-ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
I IKES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
in A slight shock of earthquake was felt
Cornwall, England, Sunday.
Five more bodies were recovered from
the debris in a creek at Johnstown, Pa.,
on Tuesday.
A terrific storm prevailed feared several on Lake vessels Hu
ron have Monday. It ia
gone down.
The triennial national congress of Con¬
gregational churches met in Worcester,
Mas-., on Wednesday.
A fire in Pittsburg, Pa., on Monday
night, destroyed Oliver Crothers’ mill,
on Tenth street. Loss $250,001).
The old board of directors of the
Western Union telegraph without company was
re-lected Wednesday opposition.
According to the latest estimate, the
new French chamber of deputies will
have 365 republican and 210 opposition
members.
An anonymous writer has returned
$650 conscience money to Secretary Win
dom. The letter was postmarked St.
Joseph, Mo.
The regents offered ex-Queen Natalie
a large sum of money, provided she
would accept their proposed conditions
and depart from Servia.
Up t0 the recess Tuesday night 627
jurors had been excused iu the Cronin
case at Chicago, four accepted and sworn
in and four temporarily passed,
T k e magnificent store and residence of
Clem Studebaker, in Evansville, Ind.
w hich cost $200,000, was almost de¬
str0 yed by fire Wednesday morning,
Sister Martha Elden died Tuesday at
the CO nvent of Mount St. Josephus,
Frederick, Md. She was ninety-four
y ears deg and had been in the sisterhood
6CV enty-six years. j,
General Faulkner, the convicted
Danville bank wiecker, of Buffalo, N.
y ’ Wedneada y gave bail in $20,000
tQ await the re8ult of thc ap . )e al of his
case nQW pending .
Ret * on Mondav f rom towns that
a3tmore than two .,- hirda of the 8tute
vote of Connecticut last year, show that
the vote on the prohibitory amendment
. g about lh t0 one ainst it
A ...... dispath from Brainerd, _ . , Minn., ... an
Bounces that the requisite number of s,g
natures to ratify the sale of the lands oi
the Hille Lacs Indians have been ole
tamed. Ihe sale embraces 3,000,001
atrt s of land in Minnesota.
Judge Day, at Auburn, N. 5.,
h lis decided that the electrical
execution law is constitutional,
an( l remands Kemmler, under a deal i
j sentence by electricity, to the custody ol
j the warden of Auburn prison,
\ James Morgan, an Indiana farmer, who
lately advertised that he would give
$5,000 to any woman who w-ould marry
him, has been accommodated. Miss
j Hetty S. Wilson, aged forty-seven, has
accepted the offer. Morgan is eiglity
* wo years old.
The Boston Safe Deposit and Trust
; company, as trustee for holders of $3,
| 000,000 of bonds on which interest has
j been defaulted, has entered suit for fore
j closure in the United States court at
j ! Telegraph Boston, against the American Rapid
I company,
An estimate has been made by the audi
< tor 0 f the Pensylvania railroad of the
j i og303 incurred shows during that the $1,500,000 Johnstown will
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buildings shatter d
visited the island of Sardinia,
thirty persons were killed. In the
, province of Caglari 240 houses were de
B t ro yed. Sixteen injured, persons were killed and
! blm(Jmls were
! ^ 8tor It is at reported banquet, that William ....... by himself Warldorff to „
| > a given
i Mayor Grant, on Wednesday night, de¬
clared that the World's Fair at New
York, must be a success, and that if
necessary lie would foot the entire bill,
estimated at $20,000,000, himself.
' Edward Spellman, of I’eoria, Ill., who will
is to be a witness in the Cronin case,
produce the missing books of Clan-na
Gael camp No. 20. These hooks, it is
stated, will show beyond question that e
secret committee to try Dr. Cronin was
appointed by Senior Guardian Beggs.
At Terre Haute, Ind., Axtelc, the
great trotter, was sold to Colonel Con¬
ley, of Chicago, for $105,000. Colonel
Conley is supposed to represent a syndi¬
cate. Andy Walsh, of Hartford, and John
Madden, of Lexington offered $101,000,
but it was refuser!, This is the highest
price ever paid for any horse.
The Daily Setts, of London, prints a
letter from Crete, which confirms the re¬
port that Cliakir Pasha, the governor,
allowed Turkish troops t > pillage and
persecute Christians after gaining their
confidence by promises of protection.
The imprisoned letter gives a list describes of killed, banished
and and the atroc¬
ities in detail.
YV. R. Robinson & Co., oil dealers, of
Providence, R. I., made an assignment
Thursday to J. Swift, of New Bedford.
The firm was established in 1829, and
has an oil refinery in New Bedford, and
an office in Providence. The firm’s in
debtedness is placed at from $250,000 to
$300,000.
Two thousand women w orkers in Lon
don, England, held a meeting Thursday,
at which they resolved to organize foi
the purpose of improving Bedford their presided, condi¬
tion. The Bishop of
and among the well "known persons pres
ent were Lady Sanhurst, the Rev. Messrs.
Price, Hughes and Clifford, and Messrs.
Burns, Tiliett, Mann and Champion, la¬
bor agitators.
A wreck occurred on the Cleveland,
Wheeling and Lorain railroad, two mile:
west of Bridgeport, Ohio, Friday morn
ing between an engine and caboose car
lying about one hundred laborers. One
: t ra j a wflS going north and a freight with
a caboose coming south. A gcreral
smash-up was the result. Four men.
avho-e names could not be learne 1, were
killed and twelve were fatally injured.
THANKSGIVING IN GEORGIA a
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the 1 _ iTH instant, d sig
Thursday,
nated by governor Gordon.
The following . proclamat T".. ion was issued . .
hy , Governor Gordon, at Atlanta, Ga., on
Wednesday, in comp imce with the re
9 ues i of ll ‘ e fc tate Ftrme.s Alliance and
. J? the
State Farmers’ Alliance and of
'io*™ iST'S!’ pfSSwtal
designating fo Thursday, '^giving the 17th Aimigh.; instant,
' to
God for abundant harvests; for H.s
and lovitg kindness, and for the
innumerable blessings the people
Georgia have received from His bound
ful hand. I would earnestly cad upon
<‘U the citizens of this state to unite m
those Ihis special who th^ksgiTing Lave been service; ble^ed and with to
abundance, I would recommend that they
signalize the day tiy generous gilts to the
poor and alhicted among tnem. Given
under my hand and the sea ot tue exec
“ t! ve d D*U“ B* en L or'’’ 1“ ^ ’
’$89 J Gordmi, Go Tern
ANOTHER CALL.
A GRAND RALLY OF ALLIANCES TO BE
HELD AT 8T. LOUIS IN DECEMBER.
Hon. H. G. Sledge, chairman of ibt
national cotton committee of i lie harm
er»’Alliance, with the other members of
the executive committee at Atlanta, Ua.,
cn Tuesday, promulgated a paptr
stronger than any yet drafted against
jute. The paper was signed hr hiins« If
and Hon. L E. L vingston and Hon. U.
F. Kolb, and was mailed to the president j
of every wbc-cl, union and alliance in
the cotton statis, and to the farmers and j
ir,burets'union throughout the country,
t.nd is as follows: TV hereas, Recent in
formation of a reliable nature has
reached us, that a jute combination has
been renewed, upon a more extens ve
>cale than formerly, denominated the
American Manufacturing company, in
manufacturers which | erhaps all principal jute bagging
five interested, by which
they propose to force on the cotton pro
ducer for the year 1890 their outputs;
and, Whereas, It is absolutely necessary
that whatever should be done to prevent
the same must, to be efficient, be done at
the earliest possible day; therefore wo,
the undersigned, most earnestly request
the presidents of each state alliance to
have a decided expression from sub-alli
ances, wheels and unions, in favor of the
exclusive use of cotton bagging for the
year 1890, and report the same to a con
ventiou at St. Louis ou December 7th
next, at 10 a. m. Said convention to bo
composed of wheel the presidents of each
state alliance, or union, or such
representatives as they ntay select, and
one or more delegates from each cotton
exchange in the United Stales, tc. take
into consideration and settle the question
of tare on cotton covered-bales, and to
establish a standard cotton bagging.
We earnestly request the Hon. Evau
J, nes, president of the Farmers’ and La¬
borers’ union of America, to invite each
cotton exchange in the United States to
send properly accredited delegates to
said convention. And in the event
that the cotton exchanges refuse or
neglect to delegates participate in said convention,
then the representing the pro¬
ducers shall proceed to fix the tare aud
prescribe a standard cotton bugging, to
which a'l alliaucenten will uncompro
mizingly adhere. This action is neces¬
sary, that manufacturers of cotton bag¬
ging may be enabled to supply the de¬
mands at reasonable prices. Let sub
alliances take action immediately. L.
F. Livingston, President S. F. A.; K.
G. Sledge, Chmn. Nat. Con. Com.; It.
F. Kolb, Ag. Comr. Alabama.
THE VETERAN PREACHERS
PASS RESOLUTIONS OP REGRET AT TUB
RESIGNATION OP CORPORAL TANNER.
The YeU-ratis’ Associn’ion of Ministers
of the Genesee Methodist Conference,
numbering about fifty members, held its
annual meeting in Loekport, N. Y r ., on
Thursday, anti adopted the following have
resolution; Resolved, That we resigna¬
heard with sincere regret of the
tion as commissioner of pensions him of
Corporal James Tanner, forced from
by the influence of politicians, and that
we depreciate the subordination of the
pension department to political administered wire¬
pullers, so that it cannot be
by a man who, like Corporal Tanner, has
the true interest of the soldiers at heart,
and we call upon the President of the
United States to place the granting who of
pensions in the hands of those will
administer it in the interest oi the coun
try, and to bestow upon Corporal who, Tanner
such recognition as befits a man in
every position, 1ms shown himself the
true friend of the soldier,
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NEW OFFICERS ELECTED.
WHO WILL MANAGE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
AFFAIRS FOR THE NEXT THREE TEAKS.
The grand encampment Knights Tem¬
plar of the United States, in secret ses¬
sion at Washington, D. C., on Thursday,
elected the following officers to serve for
the next three years: Very Eminent Sir
J. P. S. Gobin, of Pennsylvania, most
eminent grand master; Very Eminent Sir
Hugh McCurdy, of Michigan, deputy
grand master; Very Eminent Sir Warren
Lome Thomas, of Eminent Kentucky, Reuben grand
generalissimo; Lloyd, Very grand Sir
Hedlin of California, rap
tain general; Very Eminent Sir Henry
Bales Stoddard, of Texas, grand senior
warden; Very Eminent Sir Nicholas Van
Siytk, of Rhode Island, grand junior
warden; Very Eminent Sir II. Wales
Lines, of Connecticut, grand treasurer;
Very Eminent Sir William B. Isaacs, of
Virginia, grand recorder. The next
conclave will be held iu Denver.
A DEADLY GAS PIPE.
disastrous and fatal result of a
GAS DISPLAY.
A second accident in the history of tlie
Kokomo gas belt occurred at Jerome, fif
teen miles east of Kokomo, Ind., on
Monday night, in which Chusa Mormon
was instantly killed; Frank Little had a
leg broken, necessitating amputation; fractured,
Hiram Overman had his skull
and John Hogue probably fatally burned,
while a number of others who were in
close proximity were more or less injured.
A large crowd had gathered at this well,
which is the strongest one in the state,
to witness the gas display. Sixty feet
of four-inch pipe was laid from the well
terminating in a vertical elbow, four feet
in height. ~ The young man who applied
the torch foolishly turned this elbow
down to lie on the ground, and just as
the gas ignited the tremendous force
flung sixty feet of pipe around, striking
and burning everything w ithin its reach,
ALLIANCES IN ALABAMA.
both white and colored alliances
BEING ORGANIZED AND BOOMING.
4 , The , 2l Thirteen lo "’ ln S colored 1S , Farmers Greenville, Alh
:
-inces have thus far been organized in
B ut f r county, alone,and before the
c.ose of t the year smuliar organizations
will be formed in ev.-ry township. The
membership .snot large,but it is rapidly
‘ l Y reas ; [ ! :2r ' aud blds t j..! )e str °ng.
Ihe white and , colored . Alliances are
UQ ited in their war agtun.«t trusts, and in
promotion of the doctrine that farmers
should establish co-operative stores and
manufactures, and publish their schools, o n
newspapers, conduct their own
:md have a hand in everything m Be «
concerns them as citizens or affects them
personal.y^or collectively. A manufac
taring and commercial company, under
the auspices of the Farmers Alliance, u as
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Tut EXCHA> Gg3 -
Jh board of trade of j ack?on , Miss.,
on Tueaday " night = adopted F the follow! action g:
Resolvcd Th we de precate the
"ities h t0 n exchanges in the var.oua
in declining to a"ree to the equal4
; z ; n £ „ 0 f taie ru l e s proposed in the bag, thti
convention in New Orleans;
/^ e the (fforts of the New Or
lean Uon CIchaD ge to have the tare
ratrt generally that'compelled adopted, and regret the
necessltv them tc- decline
^ adop "t sa ; d tare rates, and that we
STOW our purpose so far as we can.
labor fot ,he accomplishment of the 4
set forth by said bagging convention.
THE LEGISLATURE.
BILLS FASSED BY THE SENATE AND HOUftl
OF REPRESENTATIVES.
a bill to repealthe act creating a board
of co E missioned of roads and revenue
forth » county of Emanuel; to amend the
act authorizing the sale of the arsenal
lot j n Savannah; to prohibit lotteries,
gift enterprises and games of chance,and
to provide a misdemeanor penalty for the
violation of the law; to incorporate the
Farmers’Banking and Storage company
e f Jackson county; to prohibit child la¬
p or . to authorize' the Atlanta Gaslight
compauy to use electric lights as well as
g f ;l s and to issue bonds; to prohibit hunt
ug on the lands of auother without con
sent in Telfair countv; to prohibit the
catching of fish with seins or nets in Tei
fair antf Montgomery ; to make the or
dinary c f Gordon county a member of
t i, e board of commissioners of roads and
revenues for that county; a resolution
to-h ive the portraits of distinguished cit
j zeu3 j„ the old capitol cleaned, reno
vated and hung in the new capitol.
Fifty dollars appropriated; a bill giving
landlords special liens on the crops ol
renters superior to all other liens except
those for taxes; to change the time ol
holding the superior court of Crawford
f rom the third Monday in April to the
third Monday in March; to amend the
a ct for the forclosure of liens; to author
j ze t he governor to issue bonds of the
stato t0 pay off the debt falling due in
October, 1890; to amend the act estab
Jishing a board of pharmaceutic exam
j ut . rS
A bill to incorporate the town of IU1
tou, in Early county, one-half mile in
every dirtetion from Hilton’s storehouse;
to incorporate the town ef Trenton; to
incorporate the Empire incorporate Mills Tele¬
graph Germania company; Bank to of flavannah; the
Savings
to authorize the mayor and council of
Savannah to establish and control harbor
lines in the Savannah river, at the cross
tide above the city to the sea, to prevent
the building of piers and bulkheads so
as to prevent the shoaling of the river; to
amend section 509 of the code, by in¬
serting thirty days instead of ten days;
to amend the act establishing public
schools in Carrollton, by increasing the
number of school trustees; to require the
registration of voters in McIntosh county;
three mile prohibition bill for the Bay
town Methodist and Baptist churches,
except in Sharon, an incorporated town.
A bill to amend the charter of Colquitt
in Wilcox county, and provide for the
election of a mayor and aldermen; a
fence law for certain portions of Thomas
county; to incorporate the Brooks Al¬
liance Banking company; to amend the
charter of Macon so as to authorize the
collection of $50,000 per annum on li¬
censes and business; to prohibit the sale
of liquor within five miles of Towltown
Methodist and Christian churches iu De¬
catur county; to repeal an act to provide
two weeks sessions of Marion county su¬
perior court; to authorize the holding of
an election in Terrell county t v determine
whether bonds shall be issued; to estab¬
lish authorize public schools in Dawson commissioners county;
to the county
or the ordinaries, where there are no
such commissioners, to hire convicts to
other counties; to incorporate thc town
of Shady Dale, in Jasper county; to
amend the act prohibiting the sale of
cigarettes to minors by inserting before
Ihe word “tobacco” the word “cigarette;”
to provide superior for the drawing and of juries fish in
the courts; agame law
for Bullock county; to require the regis¬
(ration of voters in Bullock county; to
prohibit the sate and of liquor near Bock
Spring Williams’Cove, Academy Walker Cove church, in
Me county; to
incorporate the Stevenson, Bund Moun¬
tain & Dalton Railroad; to prohibit the
sale of liquor near St. Mary's masonic
institute and the Chickamauga Baptist
church in Walker county.
A four mile prohibition law Also for Poped four
chapel prohibition iu Wilkes bill county. Independence a
mile for
church in Wilkes. A bill to incorporate
the llawkinsville and Florida Souther*
Railroad company; U incorporate of Eu
terprise Street Railroad company Sa¬
vannah; to amend thc charter of the
Empire and Dublin Railroad company.
A 2£ mile prohibition church bill Clarke for Moore’s
Grove Baptist in the Satilla county. River
A bill to incorporate
Transportation company. A resolution
for the relief of Baldy Brails, former tax
collector of Dodge county. A bill to
authorize the mayor aud council of Lin
colnton to issue municipal bonds for the
purpose of raising money to build an
academy; to relieve Eugene Begnin, of
Baldwin, on account of a surety on a for
feited bond, of I nrncr; to establish a
school district in Lumpkin county; to
authorize the mayor and council of Fa
vannah to establish harbor lines; to
provide a punishment guardian for any executor, who
administrator, or trustee
t ], a j| f ra uclul ently convert tiust property
to his own use; to amend the tax act of
1888-89; to provide for the establish
men t of the line between Georgia and
Alabama; to authorize the mayor and
council of Athens 1o levy a tax io pave
(be g i d ewalks of that city.
GALLANT KNIGHTS,
MEETINO OF THE GRAND CONCLAVE OF
KNIOFITS TEMPLAR IN WASHINGTON.
On Tuesday, the city of Washington
wore a holiday garb. The days of chiv
a i r y ) with all their pomp and display,
geemed revived. It was the opening
dav 0 f the grand triennial conclave of
Knights-Templar of tlie United States,
Long columns of soldiery, with their
„ 0 rgeous plumes and uniforms, gallop
i Dg> mounted equerries, fluttering and ban
berS) martial music, the shrill com
manding trumpet calls, and throngs
of admiring spectatois, made*
the scene grandly imposing. decora¬
Along Pennsylvania avenue the
tor had been lavish in the use of bunting
and from every window and house front
flags, banners and the cross of the Temp¬
lars were in the crisp October air. A
moderate estimate would |.lace the num¬
ber of visitors in the city at ahout50,000,
and the number of knights has been es¬
timated at from 15,000 to 20,000, cou
P™ 200 commanderies ® from a’j
= .
section ofjtbecointrw- f countr v
an IMPORTANT DISCOVERY u v t K Y
successful, tests of a process for iib*
moving phosphorus from ikon
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Four successful tests were made Birrninf- on
ham, Wednesday, Ala.,'of at ihe furnaces in
J a chemical process for re
movj al phosphorus from iron ami
converting -° into Bessemer pig P j* Every *
test was rOQOUnccd e succe
by c h e miots and practical steel men en
g'ged to witness them. The process bm
Sfn^ed ^Sd^ho Uffi'ht'em'
eiir.co.ioI coo.erlio’g tS ore7J“
fifty cen°’a ton* ' 1 The su«e,Tof'th P ° n! ' V
per'iments in ir have and cause financial ! no circles little excite"
ment ,n
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Valuable Find in a Cave.
A ,, large cave sparkling .. with ... gold, „ sfl
ver and sapphires, ha» been Discovered in
the Lincoln mine at San Pedro, New
Mexico, which has long produced ore of
great value. The cave ls about 100 feet
long by fifty wide, and the sides are
thiokiy studded witn thr- precious metals
«.nd stones, while bowlders of carbon are
were found scattered on the floor. The
company only recently refused $250,000
for this mine.
FAHSION.
it is our pleasure to announce our usual SPRING and SUMMER
.1 1 f 1
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Geilt$% mr \OllUiN . I*0>S ,, , 2111(1 . C !lllUlH . lt .
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Furnishings, Underwear, Neckwear, Hats
Hosiery &c.,
We do not exaggerate when we sav 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 SHORT gentlemen a specialty.
Can, by virtue of heavy purchases, and extraordinary facilities, obtain
BIG TRADES in SUPERIOR Clothing. We have some job lots that
cannot fail to prove profitable investments for COUN TRY DEALERS
The Clothing Palace 106 Congress Street
jan. 11-lyr sJavannah- Ca
Schofield’s I ron Works,
Manufacturers and 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 for
Hancock inspirators and Gullets Magnolia Cotton tins.
J S. SCHOFIELD & SON
my31-lyr MACON, GEORGIA.
ALTMAYER & FLATAU,
412 Third St., Macon, Ga.
-YV HOLES AI .E
,/.V/> CIGARS,
WE CARRY .THE LARGEST STOCK OF ANY HOUSE IN
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
So!e agents forTExport, Kate Claxton, Baker and Club House, pure copper
distilled Rye Whiskies, Georgia and North Carolina Corn, l’eaeh and Apple
Brandies always oil hand.
Imported wines and brandies a 73 pecialty. EER, non-alcoholic.
Sole agents for the celebrated RICE
Sole agents for Val Blatz Milwaukee Beer, by the dozen or cask.
solicited, and a liberal discount given to the trade. Orders promptly filled,
packed anil shipped, according to directions.
Price List and Order Book furnished upon application. will in
Send for our prices before purcliasingelm Tobaccos Wli-ao, and Cigars. ami von save money
any line we carry, such as Liquors,
ALTMAYER & FLATAU,
412 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
my 24-Gino
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t: i\ JJ a amma. _I* J
419 and 421 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
Successor So Small and Aiallartf,
Is still in the field, prompt to furnish merchants, millers and
traders with all kinds of I’rovisions and Produce, Bagging, Ties, To¬
bacco and Cigars, small groceries, such as satistaction can goods, guaranteed. lowest prices.
Orders will have^rompt attention, and
Captain Mallary will insure your life; 1 will insure your pros
perity. rnySl-Um
1805. BSTABL XSHCH1ID J 805.
OLD AND RELIABLE
Ml and fmi $ 1
A Large Stock
Kept Constantly on
Cheap to the
II. & M. W A T E R MAN,
Hawki tt set lie, Ga
A procure our supply direct from the West in car load lots
s we furnish mill and. ltnp<n mu
We prepared at all times to saw me
are lowest market rates. \V e make a special¬
with first-class mules at ti.e l prompt
ty in this trade. Information or orders by mail w. receive
.Mention. ______£P ] l1
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—DEALERS IN—
IMlJYCU-ILTIEURvir OF EVERY KIND.
uQi STSi S3W n/llllSj ~ ufISt ” IVlIIISi ~ LuIlUll epprf OOCll _ CrinilPK UlIllUdlUCIllllgj - Rp 1111.
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1 LubriCaX.n^ i iKrlmi'tnO’ » frOH PlDG cinCi Fittings,
INSPIRATORS, BRASS FITTINCS, Etc.
SMITH & MALLARY,
Jan. 15, 1880. lv MACON, GA.
,J. M. BATEMAN,
__REPRESENTING
GEO T ROGERS’ SONS,
THE OLD reliable wholesale grocery house,
9 GrLl*
Will call the Merchants of EASTMAN every two weeks.
on popular
house is agent for the following celebrated and
This
brands of Flour:
HAMPTO.Y, LEONA PATEXT, WHITE VELVET.
WADE
The PARTIDO is the best 5-cent Cigar in the market.
Also agjent for the famous MISSING LINK Tobacco.
June 4 - 6 m
• -crERY STAhrYi
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Horses and Mules,
Hand. From the
High-Priced.