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THE TIMES-JOUfiNAL
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EASTMAN. GEORGIA
i The year 1889 will go down into his¬
tory ta an unprecedented season of
storms, flood, and disaster in the
United State*.
In the course of recent excavations in
the Nile valley, inscriptions in Cypriote
or Old World Greek characters havo
bees discovered. As some of these in¬
scriptions date at least as far back as
2000 B. C. it seems to follow that the
Homeric poems might have been com¬
mitted to writing by Algeaa Greeks at
the supposed date of their composition.
At last the government of India has
been moved to activity on the question
of tbe segregation of lepers. It is pro¬
posed to give the district magistrates
power to order the arrest of any leper
who is found begging or wandering
about without any means of subsist
ence. Such lepers will be detained in
retreat for life, and provision will be
mado for the segregation of the sexes.
A satisfactory pr.vate trial of the
pneumatic guns of the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius was made recently, The
story doesn’t take long in the telling,
but, in the opinion of the New Y'ork
IIraid, it contains a moral that will be
heard even abovo the thunderous salutes
of the recont British naval review at
Spithead. There are sanguine officers
who can hear it say, “The big ironclad
must go.”
The latest trust has been formed in
North Dakota. Its objects are horso
stealing on new and improved principles
which do not bring the perpetrators
within reach of Judge Lynch, The
scheme Is to stake out some old, ured
up horses as decoys and in this way
gather a fine bunch of animals, drive
them a few hundred milei and dispose
of them to strangers. It is a pretty
plan, but the horse-breeders and cow
boys of Dakota maybe counted on to
soon get the bearings of tlieso frauds.
“Tlie progress that electricity has
made in this country is wonderful,” said
an expert electrician, “There are now
in use In the United States more ihan
5650 central electric stations for light
anil power, There are 210,000 arc
lights and 2,600,000 incandescent
lamps. There were 59 electrical rail¬
ways In operation up to July 1, and at
present there are 80 additional roads in
process of construction, The increase
of capital in electrical investments dur¬
ing the year 1888 was nearly $70, 00 J, -
009.”
The Historical Socioty in Pennsyl¬
vania possesses an authentic list in man¬
uscript of the French officers who came
to the aid of the Amoricans during the
revolutionary war. Among them was
the Vicomtc de Fontangcs, major-gener¬
al at the siege of Savannah, who com¬
manded a legion of colored troops from
St. Domingo. Their officers were Cap¬
tains Andie, Rigaud, Beauvais and
Beauregard, all men of color, who after¬
ward became generals under the repub¬
lic, and also Henry Christophe, who
later was King of Haytl.
The journey around the Congo cata¬
racts, which now takes between three
and four weeks, will bo mado in two
days by the trains of the Congo rail¬
road, which is now in course of con¬
struction. The locomotives will weigh
30 tons each, and the speed at first will
be about 11 miles per hour, Trains
will bo ruu only during daylight. There
will be three intermediate stations on
the 225 miles of track. • The railroad is
rxpected to pay expenses from the start,
as the outlay for carrier service over its
route already exceeds $150,000 a year.
The men who write the songs that ap¬
peal to tho people generally
straugo histories. John Howard Payne
is perhaps, tho best example—a man
who hardly knew what domestic life
was, yet writing the song which ap¬
peals most strongly to the homo in¬
stincts. A song almost equally popular
is “There is a happy laud, far, far
away.” The author is Andrew Young,
who is still alive, though past eighty.
He wrote tho words to accompany an
old Indian air, and though song pub¬
lishers have made fortunes out of his
work, he never received a penny for it.
Tho rush of European laborers to
Brazil, which began Immediately after
the abolition of slavery b.- Dom Pedro,
is still maintained in such proportions
as to command tho serious consideration
of statesmen and social economists in
the countries affected, itaiiaus have
been thronging into Brazil at tho rate orf
50,000 a month. English and Irish
working folk havo for the past six
months been making their way thither
in frequent parties of from 1000 to
1500 each. The Germans are now
taking their innings, and are not only
settling there numerously, but are dri
«»* the - import trade. «■> All f this ■;»•• state of
affairs has been fostered and stimulated
by Government appropriations “for en
couraging immigration," amounting
this year to some $6,000,000. The
effect is seen in the opening of banks >
the building already of nearly a thou
sand miles of new'radroads, the de
velopment of ... o ur it
commerce an:
dustries, and such a general promotion
of public interests as never was dreamed
,of in the old days.
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hand book? in l'-Kkeretown W Va -
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which had been stolen from him in
Pniladelphia Idutdit v£v hS. twentv vea>s fXr ago He
w his r»
seated it ti him when be was quite
voung. ieoovery. He feels quite jubilant over the
general news.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
. AND EXCITING EVENTS.
KtWS rBO* KTERV WHKM— XCClDEfTS, STEIIEJp
nines, iso Eurrmsui or ixiibest.
to .ec -ive Mashan Lffendi, whom the
port : wishes to appoint as Turkish am
bassa lor to ! alv
The bodies of thirty-seven of the men _
killed in the explosion in Bentdee col
Ty. at Longton, Eng and, on NVednes
< ay, iave been recovered,
jurors Up to the recess Tuesday night 627
had been excused in the Cronin
case in and at Chicago, four accepted and sworn
four temporarily passed.
The trial of Father McFadden, charged
with hiving participated in the murder
of Inspector Martin at Gwedore, in ♦--b
ruary last, begun Thursday.
By t ie capsizing of the schooner
I. mra in East River, New A’ork, on
Tuesday, William James Hughes and
Alexander Christie were drowned, and
Captain ler Eugene McLean and James Law¬
Kverely injured.
Gazette, A dispath from Sofia to the Cologne
says that the Austrian Lander
Bank, jointly with the German banks,
has loaned the Bulgarian government
25,000,000 francs, of which 10,000,000 is
to be paid immediately and the remain¬
der in two installments.
There is a great rush of speculators
and boomers to Pierre, the new capital
of South Dakota. On Friday a large
number of speculators from Kansas City.
Omaha, Denver, and as far west, city as the
Pacific coast reached the embryo to
invest and to help make things hum.
The finance committee of the World’s
Fair, at New York, on Thursday re¬
solved to take, without further delay,
the necessary steps to obtain subscrip¬
tions to guarantee $3,000,000, and a sub¬
committee wus appointed to prapare the
necessary subscription books for that
purpose.
The threatened strike of the bakers be¬
came general at Newark, N. J., on
Wednesday. Five hundred men are now
out on strike, and a boycott has been or¬
dered against the boss bakers. Pickets
are keeping and New persuading Y’ork men them from going
to work to go
home.
The announcement that the steamers
had advanced their freight rates caused
considerable stir on the floor of the pro¬
duce exchange, at New York, on
Wednesday. Freight on grain inis ad¬
vanced to 5J pence per bushel. This is
the highest figure reached for this sea¬
son’s crop.
United States government officers have
seized the distillery of Freiburg & Work
um, of Lynchburg, Ohio, United upon tlie
charge of defrauding shortages the shrinkage States
by equalizing from
in packages before the guager measures
the contents. The i^hisky seized amounts
to more than a million gallons.
A dispatch from tnany Kansas City, says:
U. D. Gregg, for years private
secretary of General Sheridan when the
general had his headquarters in Chicago,
111., and for some time department clerk
at Washington, and later a newspaper
man at Omaha, Neb,, was sentenced to
the penitentiary Tuesday for horse steal
ing.
Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, N. Y’.,
whose celebrate 1 tabernacle was de¬
stroyed by fire, ono w eek ago, announced
on Sunday that the trustees of his
church had purchased property 450x200
feet, ou the corner of Clinton and Greene
ivenuea, for the erection of a new taber¬
nacle. The ground will be broken on the
38th inst.
The Pope, in an address to some
French pilgrims, at Rome, on Sunday,
advised the formation of an association
which sliHll be devoted to securing the
material welfare of the workmen by
procuring increased facilities for labor,
calculating principles of economy and
defending the rights and legitimate
claims of workmen.
The senior class of Harvard college, at
Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected n
solored man, Clement Morgan, as class
srator. The election was hotly contested
out Morgan received a substantial major¬
ity, about 270 men voting. Last year as
a c mpetitor for the Boylston prizes hq
carried his audience by storm and won
the first prize.
The firm of Lissberger, Solomon &
Brown, wholesale dry goods and cotton
factors, of Waco, Texas, state that they
are temporarily embarrassed, and on
T uesday made a sale of their stocks of
goods aud itorc to II B. Claflm & Co.,
of New Y'ork, their principal about creditors. $930,000,
Liabilities are placed at
with assets estimated at $1,200,000.
Exports of specie from ending the Saturday, port ol
New Y'ork for week
Oct. 19th, amounted to $487,855, of
ivhich $32,830 was in gold aud $455,025
in silver. Of the total exports, $17,000
in gold and $454,650 in silver went to
Europe and $15,830 in gold and $873 in
silver to South America. $34,234, Imports which ol
specie for the week was of
$26,299 was in gold and $7,965 in silver.
A strike of moulders at Pittsburg, Pa.,
was inaugurated Monday. Two weeks
ago they made a demand for an advance
ot ten per cent in their wages, but up to
a late hour Saturday night, none of the
manufacturers had conceded the in¬
crease. and at a meeting it was decided
to strike on Monday morning. There are
about 1,000 moulders iu the city.
Empress Frederick, accompanied by
her daughters Princess Charlotte, Prin¬
cess Victoria, Princess Sophia and Prin¬
cess Margarettc and Prince Bernhard, of
Sax-Meinengen, husband of Princess
Charlotte, left Berlin, Germany, on Sat¬
urday, for Venice, on their way to Ath¬
ens, where Princess 27th Sophia the is to be prince mar¬
ried on the inst. to crown
of Greece.
The coffin containing the remains of
Ralph Waldo Emerson,at Concord,Mass.,
whose grave was disturbed last week, and
whose gkuU was crrone0 usIy has reported placed to
hare been carried away, been
in a securely bound box, which has in
turn been deposited in a grave composed together
of blocks of granite cemented
and securely fastened with n granite cov¬
ering. Thu generally accepted theory is
that the vandalism was committed to
rreate a sensation.
About three weeks ago Dr. E. T.
Schneider, of Pelee Island, was taken ill
with a disease which proved to be small
pox. Wednesday word came from Pelee
that there were nearly one hundred cases
quarantine against the is.&nd The
state board of health a Columbus, Ohio,
has issued an order dosing all ports
along the shores of Lake Erie against
At one o’clock Thursday, the grand and
jury of Chicago came into court
handed up twelve indie-tin, nts. eh-v-i of
which were L,r every day crimes.
twelfth was a joint bill against Mark
omen,John Graham,Thomas Kavanaugh,
Fred Smith, Jeremiah O'Donnell, A ex
ander L. Hanks and Joseph Keen. Ad
of these men were already under indict
ment for conspiracy tobr.de the
ia the Cronin case.
A terrible wreck occurred on the Bur
liugtim and .Missouri road, it Gibson.a few
ra le* from Omaha, Nebraska, Weane
day. About fifty pa-seagers were
Two engim- were
demolished, snd a chair c r and c« mbit!
ation car were th own from the rak«
tnd reduced to atoms. The combination
ci aeli and chair car were both crowded
with ;a reisers, all of whom were more
or less injured. Many of the passengers
were badly burned in addition to their
other injur,e».
TRADE REVIEW
FOH W EEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER
19, BY DUNN & CO.
R- O- Dunn & Cm s weekly review of
r » d te *®T S: As before, Hr money mar
ket 18 the one P° mt of i ‘ nll '-'tJ- Hates
are higher, „; but perhaps the an prehension
hag mewljltt The country
sti „ calu for moncy , r „, 1Vj but reports
f rom a n interior points show that the
supply is ample for commercial needs.
Thu volume of trade continues large;
bank clearings exceed la»t years’, and
railroad earning are encouraging. The
iron trade is healthy, southern furnaces
seeming to have well sold up, and
though an offer of Lehigh valley brand
No. 1 at $0.50 is reported, the quotation
for pig is $17 to $18. B:r iron is not
firm as other forms, and a surprisingly
heavy demand for plates and structural
forms is for steel rather than iron. Rails
are quoted thriving, at $31.50. the Cotton trade manufact¬ goods
ure is and in
satisfactory. Flint cloths selling at 34c
ford's. There was a further decline of
a sixteenth in raw cotton, and sales at
New Y'ork were 540,000 bales for the
week. Receipts and exports both con¬
tinue ti exceed last year’s largely.
Speculation for higher prices in wheat
has not been active, for the lust govern¬
ment report and heavy northwestern re¬
ceipts, with scanty exports, combine
to depress prices, which I,a e fallen 2£
cents for the week, with sales of 31.000,
000 bushels, against 20,000,000 last
week, Friday alone. Corn has declined
$, and oats LA "cents, while pork products,
though still sustained by the clique, are
a little lower. Coffee lias yielded a
quarter. The stock market resists tight
money stubbornly, but has yielded at an
average ot §1 per share on active rail¬
road stocks, with some recovery, how¬
ever, on Friday. It is the theory of
some western managers, that an advance
in prices, just before the meeting of the
legislatures in the granger states, would
be most unfortunate. But the more gen¬
erally controlling influence is the con¬
viction that western competition threat¬
ens mischief, and is not restrained by
the interstate act or by the good sense of
managers, while for the present, mone¬
tary uncertainties are also felt. Business
United failures during last week number for the
States 182, Canada 41.
UNDER BOYCOTT.
THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCES OF S'tflH CAR¬
OLINA ON THE WA! -PATH
A dispatch , Id Ch estnn, S. ^
in u
says: Ihe wa waged by t le Funnel*
Alliance in this stele 'gamut the jut
bagging trrnt is I,ceomuig senous, and
gradually involving side issues of a s one
want ft era us fousiiu?&s cliaracer. 1 lit
alliance ... ,s ex en.irng the ,, , boj c , . , no 4
only to the manufacturers and dealers ol
jute bagging but also to newspaper
towns ami cities. I he Greenville JSeics.
one of e *.u the a* five daily i *i newspapers pub* i
lished in this state, has been boycotted editoi
by a local alliance, because the
wrote s inctliing that didn’t please the
alliance men. The city of Greenville,
the third largest (ityiu the state, is suf
fi ring a Stagnate n of business. The
city of Spartanburg, the fouith largest
city in the stale, has also been boycotted
by the Spartanburg County Alliance, _
who, on Saturday-, published the follow
ing official notice: “Whereas, we, the
members of the Fanners’ Alliance, rep
resenting 234 bales of cotton, which was
properly graded by an
her of the alliance, long
and offered for in
market on Friday and
fiyniy tlM there believing is deliberete from all
a
the cotton ouyers and cotton lmllsto
cripple our order, and to defeat our or
dor and to defeat our co-operative plan
of grading and selling oik own cotton,
therefore be it resolved; That wo take
our cotton o.f this-market, and sell it in
some other market, and recommend that
membets of the alliance heretofore, as
far as possible, keep their cotton away
from Spartanburg market,” The city of
Charleston, has boycotted the metropolis by the of the Conn- suite,
been Sumter
ty Alliance, whose members are forbid
den to send any cotton to Charleston.
In many sections the farmers are holding
back their cotton, and, as a consequence,
thcra are complaints of dull business.
Ihe boycott war promises to assume
large dimension;.--------
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
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leading irishmen will make EFFORTS
to improve the order.
It is announced on the authority
of a prominent member of fh e
Irish National league, who is a resident
of St. Louis, Mo., that there is a rflovc
merit on foot within the league to in
crease its numerical strength, and place
it on a firmer basis than it 1ms ever been,
In the past year the affairs in Chicago
have done much to create a wrong im¬
pression of the leugue, and it has Leon
affected to a considerable extent. It is
denied explicitly that the league has in
any way been mixed up with the Clan
na-Gael or Cronin murder. Rev. Father
O’Reilly and Colonel John Atkinson, of
Detroit, have gone to England for the
purpose of consulting Mr. Parnell and
his friends on this subject, and Charles
O’Brien who has just "returned from a
conference at Detroit with Father
O’Reilly left for Lincoln, Nebraska, to
consult with John Fizgcrald, president
of the league, and make arrangements
for a thorough organization in the whole
country.
VANDERBILT'S PARK.
4,000 ACRES IN THE SUBURBS OP ASHE¬
VILLE, N. C., BOUGHT FOR A PARK.
The purchase of 4,000 acres of land,
by G. W. Vanderbilt, the millionaiic,
in the suburbs of Asheville, N. C., is a
matter of current notoriety. Mr. A an
derbilt is now at Asheville, and brought
with him from New Y'ork city one of
the best-known architect of Gotham,
and a landscape gardener from Europe,
It is now certain that he well make
bis large boundary into a park, not
unlike Tuxedo park in New Y'ork. The
work of laying off these 4.000 acres com
menced Friday, making drives, artificial
lakes, fountains and oilier natural oma
ments suited to the location. This prop
;rty will be made by f ir the most mag
nificent and attractive of its kind to be
found in the south. It will gradually
be made a seclusive resort for northern
millionaires, each of whom will own his
cottage for summer use.
PENITENTIARY MATERIAL.
a GANG OF DOT DE-pERAixiES Drscov
erkd in Kansas city.
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A large number of art-... incendiary
. Sris have occurred in Katre s City re
cently, i.ed the po.ice b->\ ju-t u.scov
sred that the incendiaries are a bind . f
;eh ol boys, ranging in age from eleven
• to fifteen years. They were reguh-ny "Cap
organized, an t cdied themselves
mm Kid’s PeK"
bouo i by blood-curdli_ of th- g "rder, us and to n all -
r, veal the secret?
their written , bins ■ rdere wereearn, >..ned don^cordmg in bb o 1 from th_ to
»rms of the young d. speTad es. One of
their number h.s confessed that he
Members of tbe ™
ur man, fires. The leaders ^ve been
irrested.
SOL III I‘ It N \ F] \\ S
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM FA
El 0 US POINTS IN THE SO U Til.
A CGMDEXSED ACCOUNT Or WHAT 18 GOIXJ OX Ol
IJIPOT.TASCE IS THE SOCTHEaX STATES.
Florida has received twenty awards
ar.d four gold medals on its exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
Edward A. Perry.ex-governor of Flor¬
ida, died at Kerrville, Texas, on Tues¬
day, from paralysis, after an illness of
about a week.
Mr. Ferdinand Pliinizy, one of Ocor
gin's wealthiest and most respected citi
zens > d Rd at his residence in Athens,
Oh., on Sunday, at the age of seventy
ono years.
At a special meeting of the board of
directors of the New Orleans board of
t a le, limited, held on Fliday, the fol
lowing was unanimously adopted;
“Resolved, That this board favors the
city of.Cuicsgo as the Bite for the World s
R' r 1892.
A special from Ja'k on, Tenn., says:
Two Deputy United Mates Marshals ar¬
rived here Saturday morning having in
custody Bill Nlatton, the oldest moon¬
shiner in southern Kentucky. AVe.-t
Tennessee officers have been searching
for him for the past twemy five years.
A dispatch, on Saturday, from Nash¬
ville, Tenn., says. Congressman Whitt
liorn, of the seventh Tennessee district
and at one time chairman of tbe cununit
tec on naval affairs in the house of rep¬
resentatives, is lying at the point of
death at his home in Columbia.
Governor Seay of Alabama, while in
New Y'ork on Tuesday, placed through
Ublfeldei 1 Bros., of Montgomery, tbe
new issue of $934,000 state bonds, bear
ing 4 per cent., at one and one-tenth
premium. The bonds were taken by the
New Y’ork Security and Trust company,
of which the late secretary of the treas¬
ury, Fairchild, is president. The bonds
run tliiity years.
The Birmingham Age-Herald stales that
agents of the Corona coal mines anti the
Virginia and Alabama mines at Patton
have just closed a contract with an ex
p it agent fur 60,000 tons of coal, which
is to be shipped to Cuba. The coal will
be shipped by rail to Mobile, and thence
it will be sent in tugs and barges to
Cuba.
A horrible outrage, committed
upon a nfigro woman by another
has just come to light at Charleston,
S. C. A negro woman named Re¬
becca Perkins, on her way from church
Saturday night, was horribly burned by
a rival with a can of vitriol, or concen¬
trated lye, which was thrown in her
face. The victim’s eyes were burned
out, and her face horribly scarred.
A fatal and disastrous fire occurred at
Da G (>n Friday in which two
* ° Judg0 j" jy Q.ierry, and
boy J were killed bv ' falling walls,
wllr , hou COBtail)illg 17 5 bales of cot
and , whole block , , of business , • houses ,
. ton , , , ,
a
j , their contents were wholly de
, The estimatcd tot al lms is
„ boBt t40 000 . The fire is believed to be
the work of an incendiary,
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A dispatch . from Birmingham on
Wednesday says: Ihe Richmond ier
minal, Georgia Central, East Tennessee,
Louisville and Nashville, Southern Pu
effic and other south mid southwestern
railroads, and the Plant system of rail
roads and steamships, have united m a
movement to make Jnnipa, FJn., the
shipping point for all freight handled
on these lines.
At Hallett, N. C., on Sunday, a miid
dog sprang upon tlie 11 year-old sou
of T. C. Johnson, and fixed its teeth in
the child’s arm. His father npd mother
ids aid and made desperate at
to tear the dog away, but were
Not until the dog’s throat
would be relax his
upon the prostrate and fainting
boy. The muscles of the arm were torn
to pieces.
-ghe 0 flj ce 0 f the Southern Express
company, at Mi deport, Ala., a small town
about ninety miles west of Birmingham,
ot , the Georgia Pacific railroad, was
robbed Monday. The icbbery was kept
secret by the officials of the coin piny
until Thursday, when a man named
Abercrombie was arrested m Lamar
county, charged with the robbery. 'I he of
prisoner is believed to be a member
t i ie xtube Burrows baud of outlaws and
train robbers.
DanvilK . t Va.,on Tuesday,voted $150,
towards tbe western extension of the
D inviHc railroad, from
p mvilie to the eoal j^ds of southwest
Virginia. The city has already voted a
pjjy amount to the eastern end of the
iine, Danville to Norfolk, and that end
0 f Gle road) p w0 hundred miles long,will Bristol,
soon be opened for business. terminus of
Tenn., tbe probable western
j pne, telegraphed greetings and as
gured Danville that Bristol will also sub
j gcrit)c | [5 o,oOO to the road,
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THE AMOUNT NEEDED
to OtTROVE the iuvers and harbor*
of tiie south.
General Casey, chief of engineers at
Washington, submitted D. C., in his annual esti
mates to the secretary of war,
makes the following recommendations
for appropriations principal improvements for continuing work
on the under his
charge during the year ending June 80,
1891. Potomac river flats, Washington,
D. C., $1,000,000; James river, below
Richmond, $400,000; Great Kanawha
river, $500,000; Cape Fear river, North
Carolina, $310,000; Coosa river, Johns Georgia river,
and Alabama, $225,000; St.
below Jacksonville, $300,000; Black
Warrior river, Alabama. $300,000; Cum¬
berland liver,above and belowNashvil.e,
$500,000; Tennessee river, above and
below Chattanooga, $1,030,000; Missis¬
sippi river, Minneapolis to lies Moines
rapids, $1,000,000; Mississippi river
from Des Moines to Illinois river, $300,
tlOO; Mississippi river, from Illinois to
Ohio river,$000,000; Norfolk harbor and
approaches, $100,000; Charleston, S. C.,
harbor, $750,000; Winyaw bay, 8. C.,
£300.000; Cumberland sound, Georgia
an< j Florida, $500,000: Savannah harbor,
sy 0.000; entrance to Key West harbor,
$100,000; Mobile harbor, $500,(00. The
total amount recommended by General
Casey for fiver and harbor improvements appropriated
is $30.186,300.Total amount bill for the
by the river and harbor yeat
ending June 30, 1890, was $22,397,617.
The Mississippi river commission rec
ommends appropriations for the fiscal
year 1890-91 as lollows: Continuing
'surveys, $150,000; from mouth to the
Ohio river, $4,000,000; improvements at
’ Greenville, Vicksburg,
Hickman, Ky., and New Orleans,
j and Natchez, Miss., of Red and
j La.. $1,086,250; rectification ,
Atchafalya rivers, $50,000. Tote!, $5,-i
586,250. The Missouri river commission
I ask the following appropriations: Sala
; ries, surveys, etc , $150,000; general lin
■ provtments, $1,000,000: special work at
Sioux City, Omaha, Pifittsmi Uth, . e- ^
braska C it j, St. J s ph, Atchison, -ha
mi and Arrow Rock, $l,37o,000; river
above and below Sioux C.ty, $00,009.
Total, $2,760,000.
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25 per cent rule cal.|K>r.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
ANI) HIS ADVISERS.
»rr ji>t :est< decisions, and other mattees
ON LSTEUEST EBOW T1IE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The President on Thursday Pennsylvania, appointed
Oliver C. liosbyshell, of to
be superintendent of th ■ mint of the
Un ted States, vice-Daniel Fox, resigned.
The President, on Saturday, appointed chief of
Commodore Francis M. Ramsey,
the bureau of navigation of the Navy
Department.
The President, on Saturday, Illinois, appointed
General Green 11. Raum, of to
be commissioner of pensions General
Raum will enter upon the official dis¬
charge of liis duties at once.
department A statement ptepared at the post-office
shows the gross receipts at
tliiity of the larger post-offices during
the quarter ending September 30, 1889.
to be 9.6 per cent, greater than for the
corresponding period last year.
The district commissioners on Thurs¬
day appointed George Hazleton, former¬
ly Republican member to Congress from
Wisconsin, to be attorney for Ihe Dis¬
trict of Columbia, to succeed A. G.
Riddle, who recently resigned, to take
effect the first of December next.
Acting Secretary B.itcheilor, on Fri¬
day, directed a suspension of the work
of constructing the court house and
postoffice at Savannah, Ga., until it can
be ascertained whether congress will au¬
thorize the selection of another site and
increase limit of cost of both site and
building. The present site was selected
in January, 188b, but is unsuitable for
the purpose. The limit of cost is $200, -
000, and is not considered sufficient.
The department’s action is based upon
the petition signed by the governor of
the state, members of the legislature,
state and city officials, and a large num¬
ber of citizens. The acting secretary
also took similar action in regard to the
proposed public building at Statesville,
N. C., because of a representation by
the mayor, aldermen and merchants of
that city that the site selected by the last
administration is unsatisfactory to the
business community.
Tbe annual report for the fiscal year
1888-59 of the commissioner of pensions,
has been submitted to the secretary of
the interior, and is now in the hands of
the public printer. There were at the
close of the year 487,925 pensioners.
There were added to the rolls during the
year the names of 51,921 new.pensioners pensions
and the names of 1,754 whose
have been previously dropped, were re¬
stored to the roils, making an aggregate
of 53,675 pensioners added during the
year. 10,507 pensioners were dropped
from the rolls for various causes, leaving 37.108
a Let increase to the rolls of
names. The amount paid for pensions The
during the year was $88,875,113.28.
total amount disbursed by agents for all
purposes was $81,131,908.44. The
amount paid as fees lo attorneys $1,303,-
583.47. In the aggregate, 1,348,164
pension claims have been filed since 1801
and in the same period 789,121 have
been allowed. The amount dirbursed on
account of pensions since 1801 has been
$1,052,218,413. The issue of certificates
during the year shows a grand total of
145,258, Of this number 51,921 were
original certificates. The report shows
that at the close of the year there were
pending and unallowed 479,000 claims
of all classes.
HURLED TO DEATH.
A TERRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON AN
INCLINE CABLE BOAD.
A frightful catastrophe occurred at
Cincinnati Tuesday on one of Mount
Auburn inclined planes which lies at the
head of Main street aud reaches to the
height of between 250 and 350 feet in a
space of perhaps 2,000 feet or less. Two
cars are employed, one on each track.
They are drawn by two steel wire cables
that are wound up on a drum at the top
of the hill by an engine located there,
and nine passengers had entered a car
at the foot of the plane, and a number
were on tbe other cur at the top. The
passage of tbe ascending car was all
vlglit until it had reached the top, when
(ho machinery refused to work and the
engineer could not stop it. The car IV IS
drawn against the bumper, the cables
snapped in two and the car ran back¬
wards down the incline at lightning
speed. The crash at the foot of
the plane was frightful in the extreme.
The iron gate that formed the lower end
of the truck on which tlie car tested,
was thrown sixty feet down the street.
The top of the car was lying almost as
far in the gutter, ihe truck itself, and
floor and seats of the car formed a shape¬
less wreck, mingled with the bleeding
and mangled bodies of nine passengers.
The list of dead, so far as known, is as
follows: Judge W. M. Dickson, Mrs.
Caleb Ives, Miss Lillian Oscamp, Michael
Kneiss, Joseph Hochstetter. The
wounded are: Charles McFadden, both
legs broken; Joseph McFadden, Mrs.
Hochstetter, and Mrs. Joseph McFadden,
outs and internal injuries.
A NEW SECURITY.;
FIG IRON LISTED ON TIIF. NEW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE.
A new security has recently been listed
on the New York Stock Exchange which
bids fair to be popular with all classes
of traders; from the reckless speculator The
to the most conservative investor.
i-tock ticker now records along with the
mu.titudinuus railroad shares and trust
stocks, the word “warrants.” This new
character on the price current means a
certificate for so many tons of pig iron,
stacked In a storage yard somewhere in
the United States, and deliverable on de¬
mand to tbe owner of said warrant.
These vvarrauts or certificates, are guar¬
anteed by a responsible trust company of
New York. In other words, staid old
pig iron, which heretofore has been un¬
available as a speculative commodity,has
at last wheeled into line, and hereafter
will be as easily handled by the traders
on change, as a barret of oil, a budiel of
grain, a bale of of cotton, a block of bonds,
or a share stock. A company has
been formed by strong capitalists to
further this end. The purpose of this
corporation is to take care of all the iron
that may be made in the United States
subject to the running requirement of
the iron trade.
ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE
AGAINST TIIE JCRY BRIBERS IN TIIE CRO
KIN MURDER CASE.
The Chicago Journal, of Friday, says
that additional evidence has been se
ctjre q a g ;i i nst p. W. Smith, one of the
men UEd er indictment for conspiracy to
t be jurors in the Cronin case. The
g ! 0 ry is to the effect that two men vol
uatjri i y * 0 ught ag interview with State's
jvttornev Longeneeker Thuisdav night,
and revealed to him the fact that Smith
bad approached them with the sugges
tion they could make money by acting as
jurors in the Cronin ease. Tney
summoned le P Ued tk3t as the venireraen. ? bad nc i To e this J. en ^ they
said Smith replied that he would so fix it
they would be summoned; that if
they would so frame their answers as to
holdout be accepted on the jury, and would thej
for acquittal, they would be
paid $1,000 each. The men referred to
are a
of Englewood.
*
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,
About a dozen persons are now con
stantly at work among the once hidden
archives of the Vatican, employed by
the German, Austrian, French, and
English governments in studying tho
histories of their respective countries.
Watch-springs, piano - strings and
similar articles have been successfully
tempered by electricity. The steel is
wound on a spool, placed in an oil
bath, and by the electric current kept
at tho exact degree of redness necessary
for the temper required.
In engraving on glass by electricity
tho p ate to be engraved is covered with
a concentrated solution of nitrate of
potash, aud put in connection with one
of the poles of the battery, and tho de¬
sign is traced out with a fine platinum
point connected with tho other pole.
That swallows are disappearing from
France is shown by a report laid before
the Zoological society, which also re¬
veals the cause of this decrease, and in¬
dicates the remedy. The authors of the
death of mtllioiis of these pretty birds
are the ladie3, who wear the feathers,
wings and even the bodies of swallows
in their hats and bonnets.
Tho Breton peasants make all their
butter from sour milk. The milk, as
drawn from the*cow, is emptied into a
large earthenware jar, and allowed to
remain, in tho summer, till it is sour.
Iu winter it is continually warmed at a
moderate firo till it has turned. Tho
whole contents of theso jars are emptied
into a churn worked by hand or horse
gear. The bu.ter from this, if proper¬
ly handled, is as sweet as that made
from cream in the usual manner.
Electrical science, beside filling the
place of hangman, has lately b’en em¬
ployed for another beneficent purpose—
the elimination, namely, of wrinkles
from tho faces of ladies of a mature
age. The inventor, Dr. Yernoy, says
that tho process ot “electrolysis” is only
disagreeable, no: painful; that by its
means new life can be given to tho most
cracked epidermis, and tho ruts and
ravages left by time effectually smoothed
out.
Dr. Peyrand, a consulting physician
at Vichy, claims to have discovered an
efficient method lor treating rabies. By
injecting rabbits with the essence of tho
fieri) called “tansy,” lie produced what
fie calls hydrophobic intoxication, or
something very similar, and with virus
thus obtained he mingle 1 10 per cent,
of chloral. He injected several animals
which had hydrophobia with this pro¬
phylactic, rlur and was successful in curing
out of six.
Heat is transmitted in three ways—
by conduction, as when tlie end of a
short rod of iron is placed in a firo and
the opposite end becomes warmed—this
is conducted heat, by conviction—by
means of currents—such as tho warm¬
ing of a mass of water in a boiler, fur¬
nace or saucepan; and by radiation, as
that diffused from a piece of hot metal
or an open fire. Radiant heat is trans¬
mitted like sound or light, in straight
lines in every direction, and its intensi¬
ty diminishes inversely as tho square of
the distance from its centre or point of
radiation.
Mr. C. A. Alexander of Wilkes
County, Penn., has for several years
been experimenting with an improved
cotton plant. Cotton usually has a
very dense foliage from its solid un¬
broken leaves, which” shad a the stalk
and the ground beneath it. But tlie
plant which Mr. Alexander found grow¬
ing in his field had leaves with fivo
divisions, liko the thumb and fingers,
lie finds by experiment that the im¬
proved cotton is of stronger, thriftier/
growth than the old, anil from tk.e
openness of its foliage sunlight is v.d
mitted to tho buds, and tho bolls: of
cotton are much lets subject to mihtew.
How Salmon are Canned.
At Mettakahtla, Alaska, we witnessed
tho operations of a largo cannery,
which, ns the superintendent informed
us, puts up 35,000 cans of salmon for a
full day's work. The fish are all caught
by Indians in seiues, and all the other
work—the cleaning and salting of the
fish, making the cans, filling them, sol¬
dering them, cooking, labeling, making
the boxes from lumber wrought f.om
below cut of proper size, boxing, etc.,
—is done by Chinamen. Wo saw prob¬
ably 8000 or 10,000 salmon, weighing
from three to 15 pounds each, lying in
the fish house and in boats, just caught
and awaiting the processes that were to
prepare them for commerce and con
sumption. One set of Chinamen cuts
off their heads, tails and fins, rips them
open and removes the entrails, and
throws them into tanks of water; an¬
other set p ace3 them on an inclined
plane w-ith sides to it and contracting
into a narrow trough in which are revolv¬
ing knives which cut them into pieces,
and at tiie end of the trough they are,
after having been salted, put into the
cans, which are brought to hand by ma¬
chinery. The cans are then scaled, and
several dozens of them are taken up at
once in round iron crates and lifted by
machinery and dropped into a tank of
hot water, called the tester, because if
any air is emitted from the cans when
heated, making bubbles in the water,
those cans are taken out as being im¬
perfectly soldered and ara resealed.
After this test the cans, by similar ma¬
chinery, are place 1 in other tanks of
boiling water and kept there an hour
Then they are hoisted out, placed
round tables, oa
still held together in tjj e
iron orates, and the top of each, c* is
struck with n
a mallet havi ng a P* jinted
piece of iron in its head, mat ring a
small hole in the can, through which
jet of hot a
water spurta into *h air,
that the Chinaman e so
porforr aing this
process, which is called !**" icking, has
to be wary ot getting a i dcd- The
hole in the can made by th e p ricking ig
then sealed, placel or km pt for an hour
in an oven or retort with the tempera
ture at 240 degrees, and then the cans
are ready for labeling. Jngton tiar^^
ping and aatiag.— WAtf
r
FAHSI0N.
It is our pleasure to announce our usual SPRING and SUMMER
display of
Gents’, Youths’, Boys’ amt Children’s
wmm i&ssftic,
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 bv 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.
-O. O. ».
Shipments with privilege of examining before paying.
EXTRA SIZES,
For STOUT, THIN, TALL aiul SHORT gentlemen a specialty.
Ci by virtue of heavy purchases, and extraordinary facilities, obtain
RIG TRADES iiuSUl’ERlOR Clothing. We have some job lots that
cannot fail to prove profitable investments for COUNTRY DEALERS
The Clothing Palace 106 Congress Street. Cs
Jan. 11-lyr Savannah
Schofield’s Iron Works,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, COTTON PRESSES,
General Machinery and all Kinds Castings.
Solo 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 Cins.
J S. SCHOFIELD & SON
my31-lyr MACON, GEOROIA.
ALTMAYER k FLATAU,
412 Third St., Macon, Ga.
-WHOLES A LE
./.V/J CIGARS,
WE CLAREYf L TOE LARGEST STOCK OF ANY HOUSE IN
MIDDLE GEORGIA.
Sole agents forJExport, Kate Claxton, Baker and Club House, pure copper
flistiiled Rye Whiskies, Georgia and North Carolina Corn, 1’eaeh and Appla
Brandies always oil hand.
Imported wines and brandies RICE a BEER, specialty. lion-aleoholie.
Sole agents for the celebrated
Sole agents for Val lilatz Milwaukee Beer, by the dozen or cask.
solicited, and a liberal discount given to the trade. Orders promptly filled,
packed and shipped, according to directions.
Price List and Order Book furnished upon application. and will Id
Send for our prices before pureh.-isirigtdsewh-re, Tobaccos and Mgars. you save money
any line we carry, such as Liquors, <
ALTMAYER & FLATAU,
412 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
my 24-Hinrt
jl a. ggai&Mi
419 and 421 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
Successor to Sum it aud • Mallary ,
Is still in Hie field, prompt to furnish merchants, millers and
traders with all kinds of Provisions and Produce, Bagging, Lowest Ties, To¬
bacco and Cigars, small groceries, such as can goods. prices.
Orders will have prompt attention, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Captain Mallary will insure your life; I will insure your^ pros¬
perity.
1805 . BSTABLISSED 1805 .
OLD AND RELIABLE
Sak ®ai ftii
A Large Stock
Kept Constantly on
Cheap to the
w/!A r.
II. & M. YV A T E It M A N,
Ha Utkins vi Ue, tea.
«^ ^SS31i.iSS'2.tak , f load lots
trm
wilh first-class 1 mules at the lowest market rates. Vi e make a special¬
ty in this traie. Information or orders by n, ^' '', , | 2 r ^ e J l ^ e pr0Inpt
tteiition. r
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Smith « 5 fc MaUary,
—DEALERS IN—
OF EVERY Kiisro.
Boilers, - saw -! Mills, - Grist - Mills, - Cotton - seed - Grinders, - Belting,
Lubricating ails, Iron Pipe and Fittings,
inspirators, brass fittincs, Etc.
SMITH & MALLARY,
If M ACON, GA.
Jan. 15, 1889.
j. M. BATEMAN,
__REI’RESENTIXG
GEO T ROGERS’ SONS,
the old reliable wholesale grocery house,
Will call the Merchants of EASTMAN every two weeks.
on
This house i 9 agent for the following celebrated and popular
brands ot 1* lour:
HAMPTON', LEONA PATENT, WHITE VELVET.
WARE market.
The P ARTHX) is the best 5-ceot Cigar in the
Also agent for the famous MISSING LINK Tobacco.
June 4-6m
m
! i
Horses and Mules.
Hand. From the
High-Priced.