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THE TIMES-JOUfiNAL — ITJIU-HKI) EVERY FBIDAY BY — i. v. WORK*. *. a. CASXXS. . CARNES, ' STOKES & ■-AT 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. 55“ t * isvrvVvTvs* *1 nf caa nmi. hand book? in l'-Kkeretown W Va - a M 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. - 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. -- 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, - 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, | 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. 1 BANK u \ r,i <e S e _ rAT r Tr aMaNT ,, E.. . , . j Hated banks at New York for the w«k i . ^ j ~ j ’’ « 45 414.100 V 1!"! I" 11" m:-a--.... ............... z.«85,5,«i , j _. ai re»«e.............. 1,563.loo i> ; > • ; ............ 1,C25 2T5 ' Th*l WlteMle^tliiai T^Wks itts now now hold hffidja.«,630 ^ss than 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 * st mis 11 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.