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THE TIMESJOURNAL.
IMIil.lSIlKlI vr.RV FRIDAV IlY
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STOKES & CARNES,
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EASTMAN', GEORGIA
Several New England towns have been
celebrating their 2f50th anniversaries.
They think they are pretty old, but how
youthful they mpared with . , ihe ,
are eo
cities of the old world, Take Damas
cur, for instance There is no telling
how old she is, but she was a city nme
teen hundred years before Christ.
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An example of the depreciation of
agricultural * land in England f was af
forded within a fortnigat when a farm
in Lincolnshire was offered for sale.
The highest bid was #10 500, although
the property cost $32,500 eighteen
years ago, and a considerable sum has
since been expended in improvements.
The author of the Spanish authorities
of a prize of $6900 for the host literary
work, written in any of the principal
European languages, in celebration of
Ihe fourth centenary of the discovery ol
America is a stimuli)! to literary effort
juch as is rarely offerel for intornation
«1 competition. Some American ought
to take this prize.
The municipality cf Paris recently
gave a banquet to 15,000 pc pie.
There wero 13,000 provincial mayors,
and the other 200) wero senators,
deputies, town councillors and journal¬
ists. The provisions included COO gal¬
lons of soup, 125 of sauce. COO pounds
of fish, 3400 of beat, GOO ducks, and
1200 geese. There were 1000 waiters
and 40 butlers. They served 80 0 00
plates, 15,000 bottles of claret, 1800 of
Madeira, 4500 of pomard, and 4000 of
champagne.
Every American nation has accepted
the invitation of the United States
to the congress to meet at
Washington, except Sin Domingo,
which is sulking becauto the Sen¬
ate some time ago rejected a treaty
which the Sail Domingans wanted. It
has not been stated, however, that the
idea of tho congress w.li be abandoned
because Sin Domingo doe! not choose
to participate. In fact, observes tire
Hun Francisco Chronicle, were it not for
this refusal, there are miny people who
would not know tint there wu3 any
such country as San Domingo.
It seems that American editors and
publishers are not worse in their deal¬
ings with English authors than English
editors and publishers are sometime!
with American authors. Maurice
Thompson tells of how an English ed'
itor once wrote to him for a short paper,
saying “I will pay you the highest
rate on receipt of the mmtneript.” Mr
Thompson wrote tho paper with great
care and kept it, as lie sayj, within the
limit o£ fovir thousand words set by the
editor. He i• sent tlie manuscript . off «r and i
in duo time two pounds wero sent to
him ns the bighost late of payment!
Surely it would he hard for an English
author to surpass this story.
St. Louis, according to Harper's
Wee'tly, has to thank the late Henry
Shaw for tho possession, - ’ in the ML
souri Botanical Gariens, of the finest
collection of plants and flowers in
America, and the third finost in the bn
world. Mr. Shaw was in his ninetieth
year when lie diod, had been an enthu
siastic botanist and plant collector for
over thirty years, and had devoted hi!
taste and wealth to tho formation and
beautifying of them grounds, They
cover nearly fifty-four acres, and within
them ware tho summer residence and
tomb of Mr. Shaw The gardens were
enriched by statuary and Inn ts, and
were laid out in the formal style that
obtains in foreign parks.
1 'Necessity is the mother of inven¬
tion,” and has led the Russians to de¬
vise an ironclad railway train for the
Czar to rido in when compelled to jour¬
ney to and fro in his dominions. For¬
merly he rode in a contrivance which
resembled a boiler-plated luggage van.
Naturally it was the chief object of the
attention of tho amiable fellows who
make it their husines! to extirpate the
Russian crowned head. Now every ear
in the train is made alike, and if the
Nihilists wish to blow up the Czar they
will bo oblighcd to smash the entire
train into “smithereens.” The precau¬
tion may make it a little more difficult
for the Anarchists to accomplish their
object, but they would not scruple much
about sending a whole train load of peo
pie into eternity, provided the Czar
could be included in tho number.
The designers employed by the Brit¬
ish Admiralty are striving to build a
new type of warship which will com¬
bine the maximum qualitiei of speed,
strength, stability and fighting power.
The Renown, a barbette 'Whip carrying
an armament of 69-ton guns, will be, it
is expected, the closest approximation
to that ideal which has ye been made.
Probably there will have to be a long
series of improved and remodelled Re¬
nowns before the problem can be satis¬
factorily worked out. But the aim is
one which can be commended to Araeri
designers . . employ ed the
can upon new
navy. The New York Tribune consid -
ers that suflieient progresi has been
made to justify the department m set¬
ting its best talent at work in design
ing a vessel, without reference to cost,
which will be at once the fastest, strong¬
est and most powerful battle-ship
afloaL
After destroying a very large selected number
of letters. Mr. Gladstone has
60,040 for preservation, and lias built
f ir them a fireproof room. When his
biographer comes to overhaul them, ho
will find his work half done in advances
It seem- m be a settled fact that a large
body of colored cooausts will be given a
tract of land by the Mexican Government.
GENERAL NEWS.
COXDEXSA TION OF CURIOUS,
A.XV exciting events.
JTZW.'J fkom ryf.hyvbzke —ACCIDENTS, STHIKET
l IRES, and HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
The grrnd total of receipts, up to
Thursday nicjbt, of New York's guaran
tec fund ot $5.000,OOu, ^ amounted , 0
^
*'**)'• a, r~A
The reports of destitution in . Y Aorta
Dakota are said to be greatly exagge-*- annation
ted Pbereii nothing in the
to justify the reports that, a fam nc ix
ists in Dakota.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7,00)
deaths from the disease
Mrs. Annie Price, for years past kn >wn
as the -’only original fat woman, has
just died at her home in New York, of
■ fatty degeneration of the heart s*|.d
J weighed 550
| 0 j, tolt y yj r3 Price
p 0t ,uds.
The emigration comm ssioners at New
.York, on Friday. notified all
L’h’w'iU * bo''^-oUectcd fiom them for
. a ’ | j| , n . ' t , ° j,eie.
.... 1 bia ■ will include - , . children. ,.q,,
A company of manufacturers ami
bankers, of Lynn, .Mass., has purchased for
2,000 acres of land near Chattanooga,
$750,000. Two shoe factories, a tin
ncry. two furnaces, tool works and otic i
plants, will at once be erected.
The exports of spee.e from the p rt of
New York last week amounted to $421.
284. of which $011,050 was in gold and
$J58,234 in silver VII tlie silver went
to Europe, and all the gold to South
America. The imports of specie for the
week amounted to $351,272. of which
#301,805 was in gold ami $49,377 was in
silver.
By the breaking out of molten iron in
the slack of Col brook furnace No. 1, at
Lebanon, P Monday afternoon, five
men were killed, and three severely
burned The men. all of whom w ere la
bore is, were overwhelmed by the rush of
molten metal while at work, and some of
them were burned almost beyond recog¬
nition.
Members of the cotton exchange, ol
New York city, met and passed a resolu¬
tion calling on the hoard of managers to
submit a law, to be voted ou by the ex¬
change, which would repeal the system
of inspecting and classing cotton, and re¬
enact the former system with such
amendments Hnd modifications as expe¬
rience has shown to be desirable.
The gahle wall of a building Templeton's that was
being erected alongside of Scotland,
carpet factory at Glasgow, \\ a
blown down Friday. An immense raa-s
of debris fell on the roof of the weav¬
ing department of the factory, crushing
it in, and burying fifty girls and women
employed in the weaving rooms. It is
probable that forty of those buried are
dead.
K;.rly Thursday morning, the boiler in
the new four-story brick block on South
.Main street, Akron. O., occupied merchants, by
O’Neil & Dyas, dry goods and
exploded. The gutted. building The took fire fire burned
was co mpletely Howard and several
through to street, ihe
other buildings were damaged. dry
principal losers are O’Neil and Dvas,
goods, store and building, $225,000. In
surance $123,000.
A dispatch irom Cape Henry says,
“Passed in at nine o’clock Thursday
morning Navasta? him Alice, Captain Bowling,
fiom for Baltimore, wiih sixty
four of the rioters in the massacre at
Nava-ta, October 14. The brig also lias
the crew, except tEe mate, who was lost
overboard of tiie schooner Tom Wil
Hams, from Feruandina for New York,
which, was wrecked during iho late
storm. ^ The crew was four days in open
wkhout food „
M. Mackenon organizer of the London
expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, has
receivt d the following dispatch received Irom
Zanzibui Letters havo been
from Stanley, dated \ ictoria, August
29th. With him were Emin Hey, Casati
yj arC0) a g,. ( , e ) ( merchant, Esmsn Effendi
Hassao, a Tunisian apothecaiy, l!onn>. Mars
Neison. Jcphson Luke ami
Eight hundred people accompany him
“ yjpwapwa. All well. Stau
to ard were
ley reports Waddell in the bauds of the
Mahadists.
Sixteen workmen were hurried Thurs
dav beneath the ruins of a large three
.ory brick dwelling wffiiel^ they were
N J Every one'cmplo injured. ’ed about Hun- the
place was more or less
dredsof volunteers were' speedily at
WO l k digging awav the debris to effect
the release of the imprisoned workmen, otheis
Richard Con.lick and one or two
will probably not recover. The owner
ef the building is severely condemned,
ns U was a Buddenseiek” affair, and
seemed to have been constructed lor ap¬
pearances only.
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING
PRESIDENT HARRISON ISSUES HIS THANKS
GIVING PROCLAMATION.
The following proclamation setting
apart Thursday,November 28th asa day ot
national thanksgiving was issued by
Presiident Harrison on Friday. By
the president ol the highly l nited favored States.—A people,
proclamation. their A dependence the boun¬
mindful of on
ty of Divinu Providence, should seek a
fitting occasion to testify gratitude and
ascribe praise to Him who is the author
of their many blessings. It behooves us,
then, to look back with thankful hearts
over the past year and bless God for his
infinite metcy in vouchsafing to our land
enduring peace; to our people freedom
from pestilence and famine; to our
husbandmen abundant harvests, and to
them that labor recompense of their toil.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of Ameri
C3, do earnestly recommend that Thurs
day, the twenty-eighth day of this fires
entmonih of November, be set apart as
a day of national thanksgiving an!
prayer, and that the people of our coun¬
try, ceasing fr m the caves and labors of
their working day, shall assemble in
their respective places of w-orship and
give thanks to God, who has prospered
us on our way and made our paths the
paths of peace, bcsech.ng him to bless
the day to our present and future good,
making it truly one of thanksgiving for
each reunited home circle as well as for
the nation at large In witness whereof
1 have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the l nited states to be
hxed Done at the city of Washington,
this first day of November in the year
of our l.ord eighteen hundred and eighty
° ln ?’ ® D ' independence of the
l nited States the one imuurea and four
ieenth. Benjamin Harrison.
MUST BE PAID.
The Indiana legislature last winter
passed a iaw raising the maximum li¬
cense which the city of Indianapolis may
impose for the sale of liquor from $100
to $050. The supreme court Wednesday
affirmed the constitutionality of the iaw.
In another case it di dared that a license
is cot a contract. Indianapolis raised the
license to $250. Liquor sellers who had
taken out license at $100 previous to the
increase, contend that they should not
be compelled to pav the increase of $15C
until the expiration of the $100 license.
The court says their position is wrong.
and tfi ey J mu st pav the additional 3150
HOW IT WAS DONE
A STORY DETAILING THE MANNER JN
WHICH DR. CRONIN WAS KILI ED.
A special dispute from \Vini/q,eg,
Canada, Saturday morning, say a: “As
sistant State', Attorney liuket, of C 'hi
c-u/o cn £°t had liau 11 a lontr long interview iniervitxv witn with nor
Heffer, and from imn receiver* a detailed i
account of the hatchery of Cronin.
Burke took a quet fancy to lleffr, and
communicative with . , , him, . telling ...
was very
him nuiny details about the crime. He
told Heffer that Coughlin, was the main
;lctor in the tra gedy and had engaged
both him and Coonev to participate in
the crimo H „ told Heffer tb at sand
bags while were the third used wielded by two of the assassins
a common base
ball p a t. that he was under the impres
,j on that Cronin was being decoyed to
the cottage under the pretext that he was
going to attend a sick woman, who was
represented to be at the point of death,
Four men were waiting in the cottage
for him. They listened for the sound of
wheels. At last the carriage drove up,
and an instant later the doctor hurried
up the steps and knocked loudly and
!l kt; ly as if he realized that his presence
| Snd the Zr ready To
fR’ike, while one of the others from the
: lnnPr rt »- m called o\U in a loud voice,
“come in.” Tlie door was quickly
-
opened and the doctor strode in. I he
instant he was in one of the as-assins
slammed the door, while the other stiuck
the physician a terrible blow with a sand
bag. The doctor feil heavily to the
flour.” Burke always declined to say
who struck the first blow, and this fact,
Baker thinks, makes it quite clear that it
was Burke himse.f, else he would have
mentioned the name. He always spoke
about the four taking part in the crime
and pounding the doctor at the same
time. The moment the doctor was
down, the whole four rushed on him,
and with sand bags and c^ubs pounded
the life out of him. The poor man
struggled, and moaned awfully. Blood
poured from his mouth, nose and eyes.
Nearly twenty minutes elapsed before he
cease I to gasp. Then the fiends stripped
the blood-stained clothing off of him and
one of them pounded bis face so as to
make it impossible to recognize the body.
Coughlin then hauled the trunk overand
the b idv was crammed into it. Ono of
the quartette went out and brought an
express wagon which had been left in a
convenient place. When they went to
carry the trunk out blood was dripping
from it and ran on the floor, and the
trunk was set down and these leaks
stopped with cotton batting, which was
found in the doctor’s insirument case.
The truuk and its contents were then
taken to the lake, Coughlin driving the
horse There was a boat at Ihe point
expected, and they tried to shove the
trunk out into the water, but it would
not work Anxious to get rid of tlie
body some way, Burke suggested that it
be thrown into the catch-basin The
suggestion was adopted.
THE DEADLY AX.
AN OLD -MAN KILLED, AND IIIB AGED WIFE
KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS.
\ dispatch fr m Hawkinsviile, Ga ,
says; A horrible murder was committed
Sunday night eleven miles from here,just
across Houston county line. Mr. Wil
iim a Miller, an aged farmer, was killed
and bis wife was nearly killed. Mr. and
Mrs, Miller lived alone. They were sit
ling by the fire reading and each had a
small lamp. .Mrs. Miller heard her hits
band say; “Dou’t do that.” Then she
felt herself struck, and was knocked un
conscious. When she regained con
twelve. teiousness she heard the clock stiike
She saw that Mr. Mil ler wm
apparently dead, and she
that
.»
o'clock, when her suffering
that she called for help. Ifer calls
soon answered by the cook, whose house
was forty or fifty yards distant. On the
bed was an ax which had struck the
bio w s aud the mrable top of a bureau
which had been removed fiom its place
to enable the murderers to rifle the draw¬
ers in search of money, which Miller
was supposed to have in the house. It is
supposed raised that Mr. the Miller saw the parties
ns they ax, and asked them
not to stiike. Mis. Miller did not see
them. She was nearest the door, and
was struck first with the nx. She was
knocked senseless, and was probably
thought to be dead. Theu It is supposed
fm.Z
skull was badly smashed. When found
he was still sitting in h.s arm chair, with
hm head and arm hanging over the side
D>e blood had run from his wounds and
““de* P<*>1 on he fl or. Jludcnih
“ust have been instantaneous. Mr Mil
ier was one of fhe most respected Chi¬
*°n. of Houston; a well-to-do farmer,
upwards of sixty years old. E 1. John¬
son and Sam ununkey, two negroes, are
suspected of the murder, as they have
diauDDcared from the neighborhood.
BURNING WIRES.
AN EXHIBITION OF THE POWER OF THE
ELECTRIC CURRENT.
A frightful exhibition of the power of
|[ ie electric current of the street railway
circuit was given at Cincinnati on Satur
day along the line of the Mount Auburn
Street railroad. Tiuir guard wire,
which hangs idove the conducting wire
to protect otiier w ires from coming in
contact with the electric current, broke,
and as p formed a circuit when resting
on the charged wire with one end on
the street the current passed through it.
The result was terrifying. The wire be¬
came white with heat and sparkled and
flamed with the blue and white flashes
of an overcharged conductor. Confusion
reigned on the -treets. The burning
wire consumed aud fell iu pieces. Men
ran and women shrieked. Horses were
frightened and rushed away from the
dreadful light. Wagons and street cars
collided, but fortunately the falling wire
nowhere touched any human being and
no casualties followed.
A SINGULAR REQUEST.
A PRISONER GETS TIRED OF CONFINEMENT
AND BEGS TO BE PUT TO WORK.
A !;or , iar correspondence North Carolina, between
Uover Fowle, of ; aud
| m#n camed James Glov r in
Ed s comb C0UlltT ; jail J bas twb just end ed.
Glo ver wa8 sent nt ed to vears’im
' ns0Bmtnt for assau!t with dtadly
on „ He is restless and of a nervous
(<; a.perament, ' and confinement has &t
mos t C razed him. He wrote to the gov
c stat ing \ his case, and begging ° re
Uef m Si nK . vay . xhe Kovernor w IO te
lba j be wou f d change the sentence to
u ar j ] a ^ or jf Glover so desired. Glover
wrote and prayed Wednesday, for a chango, granted and the
governor, on a com¬
mutation, providing that the commis¬
sioner may work Glover on the public
roads, provided it is done on his personal
application
BANK STATEMENT.
Flowing is a statement of the aaso
ciatod bank- at New York for the week
ending Saturday. November 2d:
lu-, l'wus wei! 5 8.800
decrease 758.206
Sp, Legal m 547.200
Deposits Un.: is dezrei 231,200
decrease 4,299 600
16.200
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1 tie links nov. hold $ ,1. J,4 iO in ex
of 23 per cent rule,
WASHINGTON I>. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AAD UI.< ADriSMIt*. ,
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APP ' JIvrMtX1 *- bmkons. «o otheb warnas ,
or interest from the national capital. |
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•opted ■ eorctarv the cruiser Trm- v Charleston. I-nday, formally *c- J
The collector of custom? at Norfolk,
Ya., has asked the treasury department
for instructions in regard to the practice
Liverpool cotton merchants of send
mg men under contract from that city to
for the purpose of buying and
cotton lor the English trade.
The immigrant inspector for the state of
Virginia reported the matter to the col
lector as a violation of alien contract la
bur, and the collector wants to know
he can do about it. Treasury offi¬
cials are divided in opinion in the mat¬
ter, and it will probably be referred to
the solicitor for settlement.
The following dispatch was sent from
the executive mansion, ou Saturday af¬
ternoon,to Governors Melletta and Miller,
of North and South Dakota, Bismark,
North Dakota fhe last act in tlie
of the two Dakotas as states
in the union was concluded this after¬
noon at the executive mansion by the
president signing ut that moment the
proclamation required by law for the ad
mi-sion of the states. The article on
prohibition, submitted separately in each
state, was adopted in both This is the
first instance in the history of the nation¬
al government that two states North
and South Dakota, entered the union at
the same moment.”
The government directors of the Union
Pacific railroad have reported to the sec¬
retary of the interior that in their judg¬
ment tlie interests of the United Mates
demand early action by congress to se¬
cure payment by the company of its in¬
debtedness to the government. The gen¬
eral plan of settlement first suggested by
the commissioners of railroads, they as¬
sert, has never been successfully attacked
They express their firm conviction that
the interests of the United States de¬
mand the passage of a bill substantially
like that pending when the last congress
adjourned l’he report is signed by
George E. Leighton, John T. Plummer,
Jesse Spalding, Rufus B. Bullock and
James W. Savage.
The order of Postmaster-General
Wanamaker, d jted Wednesday, was
promulgated Thursday, fixing the rates
for the government telegraphic service
during the current fiscal year Tlie
basis for day service is ten cents for ten
words, and a half cent for each addi¬
tional word for distances under 400
miles, with a sliding scale of increase for
distances greater than 400 miles. For
night messages not exceeding twenty
words, fifteen corns for all distances, and
one half cent for oach additional word.
Tlie date, address and signature are ex¬
cluded from count both day and night.
Signal service cypher messages are to be
charged at two and a half cents per
word. With reference to the above or¬
der, President Green, of the Western
Union telegraph, saysi “The rate fixed
by tiie postmaster-general is undoubtedly
below cost, attitude but I am the not prepared will to say
what the of company be
till after the matter lias had tlie consid¬
eration of the executive committee. The
reduction averages about thirty-three
per cent, from the old rate, which was
not a remunerative one.”
The director of the mint has submit
ted to the secretary of tlie treasury his
annual report. Ho says the value of
gold deposited was $48,900. * 13, of which
$31,440,778 consisted of the product of
mines of the United States, a falling off
in gold product of about one million
dollars, as compared with the previous
Silver received aggregated
standard for
'.loo.
standard ounces of counting
278,964 was classified as of
domestic production Profit ou the
coinage of silver dollars during
the year was $9,370,062 and on
subsidary silver coins, $32,987; total
coinage of silver dollars under the Biand
act to November, 1889, was $343,088,
(101. and total profit ou silver coinage to
July 1, 1889, $59,378,234; net profit af¬
ter deducting expenses for distribution
and wastage for eleven years ended June
30, 1880, was $50,349,737. The dnec
tor recommends legislation looking to¬
wards a discontinuance of coinage of $3
and $4 gold pieces and the three-cent
nickel pieces aud withdrawal from circu¬
lation of pieces of those denominations
now outstanding.
STOCKS TUMBLE.
THE COTTON SEED OIL COM1UNE HAVING
CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE.
Calamity seemed to leach its climax
Thursday, for the bulls in the trn-t
stocks, on the slock exchange at New
York. The grief was concentrated in
cotton oil crowd. immediate Everybody was of pre¬
dicting an advance many
points jn cotton.oil certificates, based ou
ilie rosy programme of converting ihe
trust into a corporation, and reducing the
capital from $43,000,000 to $30,000,000.
doubt of the succe-s. But alas for the
frailty of promises and prospects in Wall
street, gadly of the realization. popular Immediately expectation failed the
on
opening of the market (here was on over
whelming pre-sure to sell. The But sale
was 41j, and from that point
a decline instantly set in,
whieb had no check until the
price was hammered down to 30J. This
tumble of five full points meant the a
shrinkage of over $2,000,000 in mar
ket value of the total capital the
of the trust. The scene on
stock exchange baffles description,
The real reason for the most of the de
clino was probably because of the serious
disappointment which some prominent The
insiders felt at the annual report.
showing of earning’s for the last year is
by no means flattering. For the first six
months the net profits were entirely sat
isfactory, but the last six months were
bad. The total net earnings for the
year amount to a little over #1,600,000
which is at least $1,000,000 less than
official I v predicted. Several of the mills
bclungug to the trust have been shut
down on account of proving that several un
piofitable, and it is said
more will probably have to be closed for
the same reason ’The corporation into
which the trust is to be resolved will be
knowD as the Cottou Oil Company of
New Jersey.
A MANIAC'S DEED.
ckaiied through financial Tromi.ES,
KILLS HIS WIFE AND ( I1ILDRF.N
A terrible tragedy occurred Monday
morning in Vergennes township, Ki nt
countv, Mich llaggal Westbrook, a
farmer, took a bsmmer and fractured his
wife's skull, aud theu went to a room
where his three small girls were asleep
and treated them in about tlie same man¬
ner- Westbrook then ran down stairs,
procured his razor, and cut his own
throat. We.-tbrook is dead, and report
says the girls were instantly ki.led, and I
lhat Mrs. Westbrook is mortally
wounded Wistbrook was in financial
difficulty and had become insane.
THE SUPPLY OF COTTON,
The total visible supply of cotton for j
the world is 2,020,691 bales, of which
1,737,091 b iles are American, against I
1.697.786 and 1,479,896 bales respect
ively last year. Receipts at atl interior
towns, 187.870 bales Receipts at plan
tatiens, 320,108 bales. The crop in
right is 2,143,198 bales.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
DIN it CO .*> TIKPORT FOR WEEK ENDING
gATl’HDAY, NOVEMBER *2l).
Q j>„ n a-C o.’s weeklv review says:
Xl M- n U' i 1HS u eell 1 working r =’ closer the ,\ past
week. laLin^, t f t , but lcn
ra j s i n cr steadily to nine, even more being
l>aK ] j n some case®. Prices an* suffering.
*j, ou „jj the genera! level has advanced
scarcely a quarter of one per <■ nt. in two
wee kg." In speculative markets there
h gs been more activity, and except in
k ,, ro dncts and coffee, an advance. .
Tbese changes call for mere money in the
moveraent „f product, and building op
ctat ; ons are a [ s0 unusually active at many j
citjcs liquidation in trust slocks con
, imles ’ particularly p jn cotton oil, which
bas be e heavily sold at a at vere decline,
But ra ji,oad stocks have been stubbornly
held, nud the average in price almost (
exactly as they did a week ago. Arrange
ments'between the Chicago Pacific and and North- the
western and the Union i
rumored sale of the Chicago and Alton
look toward the consolidations of the
rr'reat iw-tems.nud in the end a projected
railway trust of gigantc proportions, lead but
meamvhile popular disfavor may to
interruption by congress or state legisla
tiou. Speculations in breadstuff* lias
advanced, wheat If, and corn 11
cents on sales of twenty-five and ten
million bushels, respectively, but exports
do not increase. Oil lias advanced 3J,
oats j and cotton $■ Coffee has do
c'ined a quarter upon larger crop esti
mates from Brazil. The sugar market is
only nominal and prices of refined art
not well maintained, but the trust stock
has been more firmly supported. Coal
has been stiffened by cooler weather, but
still sell about forty cents below civeutai
prices Iron and sieel in all forms are in
great demand and firmly held with a
shade of an advance in bar iron and nails,
but the feeling is expressed that the im¬
provement lias been too lajiid deemed to be
maintained, and somercaction is
possible Chicago reports money be
coming dr mnndsfbut *110 apprehensions regarding
in clothing and boots and shoes. At
Pittsburg, window glass has advanced
ten per cent, and a rise in coal is ex
pected; iron products are firm Vll
othei points trade is full and active for
season with scarcely an exception. Bus¬
iness failures during last week, number
in United States, 220; Canada, 32, Total,
201, against 225 last week.
CROP BULLETIN
ISSUED FROM THE CIVIL BUREAU FOR TIIE
MONTH OF OCTOBER.
The monthly weather crop bulletin of
the signal bureau for October says: Oc¬
tober lias been cooler than usual in all
agricultural districts ea-t of the Rocky
mountains, except in Dikota. The daily
average temperature for the month in the
winter wheat b tit, including the states
in the Ohio and upper Mississipp, valley,
ranges from four degrees lo eight de¬
grees below normal. About tlie same
thermal conditions prevailed in the mid¬
dle Atlantic stales, Southern New Eng¬
land end along the south Atlantic const,
while in the gulf statei the deficiency in
temperature ranged from about oue de
tre.- to four degrees. There was a slight
excess in temperature in the Rocky
mountain district and thence w stward
to the Pacific coast. The line of killing
frost has extended south to tlie northern
portion of tlie gulf states and the north¬
ern portion of South Carolina and we-t
ward to the western portion of Washing¬
ton territory,central Oregon and northern
Nevada and light frosts occrured as far
south as southern Alabama, central Geor¬
gia and northern Louisiana. Torre h«s
been less rain ttian usual in the central
valleys, and generally thr. ugaout tho
southern states aud New England. Mora
than the usual amount of rain occurred
in California and Oregon, in the middle
Atlantic states and in the central llo -ky
mountain plateau region. The rainfall
was greatest, generally throughout Cali¬
fornia, over the greatest portion of which
tho monthly rainfall exceeded six inches.
About twoincho3 of rain occurred during
the month in the winter wheat region;
extending from tlie lake region and
southern Iowa southward to the gulf
states, and only light showers occurred
in tho northwest, including Minnesota,
Dakota,Nebraska and northwestern Iowa.
The drouth condition which existed in
the central valleys has been succeeded by
timely improved rains, which havo doubtless greatly
the winter wheat crop. Ihe
drouth continued during the month in
the exlending southern from portion Florida of the westaari gulf states,
over
south rn Texas, over which region only
light showers are reported, and the de¬
ficiency of rainfall for the month ranges
from o ic to five inches,but this morning,
(November 1) generous rains are reported
from Texas,northern Louisiana and south¬
ern Alabama, and rains are heavy in
central Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys, and with heavy snows in Nebraska
western Kansas.
MORE MONEY WANTED.
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE SAYS
TIIE APPROPRIATION IS TOO SMALL.
The annual report of the secretary of
agriculture was made Tuesday. The
secretary makes the usual references to
the work of the several scientific and
other divisions of his department and
deals at length with certain plans for tiie
organization of the department, and sug
gests several new features in the interest
of the department of agriculture. The
secretary calls attention to the small ap
propriation for the current fiscal year,
and insists ou adequate appropriations to
enable him to meet what he believes to
be the obligations of the department to
the country. The problem which presen ed
itself to the secretary, that of getting
the results the work done by the
department of more promptly before
the people has been solved, he says,
by the establishment of a new di
vision which furnishes promp ly
to the agricultural and commercial press
a synopsis and of the main points of every
bulletin report published by the de
partment. Farmers institutes are re
ferred to particularly, iu a< the orsc 0 t the
greatest agriculture movements and the strongest history lever of
as for
raisingand upholding the work of the
superior agricultural education repre
sented by our system of agricultural col
leges ami experiment stations. The sec
retary recommends that the department
should be empowered thi- to work. afford a d and
encouragement to
FROZEN TO DEATH
COWBOTS CAUCIIT RT A BLIZZARD AND
SUCCUMB TO TIIE COLD.
One of the resuits of the terrible bhz
zards which swept over western Colora
do and northern New Mexic c Thursday
and Friday of la-t we yr reached
Denver Monday from Folsom,
N. M. Thursday several cow
boys, who were camping near Sierra
Grande with US00 beef ca'tle, were
struck bv the blizzard and became sepa
rated Friday night. One ranch, of them half wan- dead
dered into Head’s home
with cold and hunger. He told his story.
„ D cl a rescuing party w as immediately
sent out, and the frozen bodies of Henry
Miller, Joe Martin and Charlie Jolly
were found lying on the open plains not
f ar ftom Folsom. The other men sue
ceeded in finding their way to the camp
before being overcome with old.
SOL'Illl'-liN N
ITEMS OF JXTEREST FROM VA
RIOTS POINTS IX THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING OX OF
UfTORTANVE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The Few society, at Oxford, G:i. t ^ele
brated its lift
The anniversary an was Mr. If. L>. Dor
ougli, of Wetumpka, Ala.
The \ m iiston organized'a Ala Xr/rs snvs that
“th C v have ‘Sand Trust’ in
Rrmingham. £ The combine has raised
, he |. e o{ Mnd [r0ln 5 „ cenU to $1.25
. lrd
Fire broke out Sunday morning in the j
Schofield building, adjoining Rollings- ;
worth block, on Poplar sireet, Macon,
Ga . and dot oved nearly $100,000
, ,
1 1
A . appointed, Friday, .,
receiver was on
for the firm of Klinek, \ lekentmrg &
Co., for the last half century engaged in .
the grocery business in Charleston, 8. C. t
Liabilities arc about $70,000, and assets j
nominally large.
A Key West special to the Times Un
ion, of Jacksonville, Fla., says: Del l’ino j
Brothers’immense cigar factory, contain- j
ing one million cigars, besides a large
quantity of tobacco, was consumed by
tire Sunday morning.
Charleston’s great earthquake skies festival and
opened Monday with cloudless
charming weather. Public buddings,
private residences and commercial houses
were bedecked with flags and hunting
f rom ono t , n d of the city to the other.
It was reported Saturday that Mrs.
Longstrect, w ife of Gen. James Long
street, was ‘lying at Gainesville, G.i.
The announcement will cast a gloom both
over the many ardent admirers,
north and South, of her illustrious hus¬
band.
Billy Ryau, lessee and manager of the
Casino variety theatre, at Birmingham,
S unknown, C l!Ling"aUt ^000 of
several week’s salary due them
A. Hirsh «fc Co., the largest dry goods
and miliuery house in Birmingham, sheriff Ala.,
was closed on Saturday by the About on
attachments aggregating $43,000.
$20,000 of the attachments are in favor
of clerks in the store and relatives of the
firm The Alabama National bank at
tached $19,000,
News comes from Spartanburg, one of
the best cotton-growing counties of North
Carolina, of a new cotton plant, which,
if it is as claimed, wiil make a wonderful
revolution in the agricultural and cotton
oil interests of the nation T. Ferguson,
an experienced cotton planter, claims to
have a cotton plant which will produce lint.
nothing but cotton seed without the
The Soque Woolen mills at Clarksville,
Ga., which are in the hands of a receiver,
and which will eventually be sold, began
operation Wednesday, to be run under by
one of the creditors,for onemonth,
a grant from the judge of the superior
court. The object is to get tlie property
cleaued up and the machinery clean, so
that the bidders may see just what they
havc -
Thi superior couit of Richmond
county, Ga., has decided against a num¬
ber of prominent citizens who, twenty
years ago, subscribed to the capital stock
of the National Express and Transporta¬
tion company. A test case was made on
Wednesday in case of William II. Howard,
a prominent aud wealthy cotton factor,
and a verdict rendered against him.
This virtually carries the other cases with
it. The verdict is regarded as a great
hardship, although in accordance with
court decisions in these cases in all states
from Maine to Texas.
One of the largest transactions iri land
ever consumated in the South, has re¬
cently been perfected at Jacksonville,
Fla., and made public Friday. All unsold
lands in Florida of the Plant system of
railroads and steamships, of the Florida
Southern railroad, of the Jacksonville,
Tampa & Key West system, including
the Florida Southern railway, aud the
Florida Commercial company, have been
consolidated under the name of the As
eociated Railway Land Department of
Florida. Over six million acres of land
are consolidated under oue management
by the formation of this syndicate.
A PHILANTHROPIST.
TUli WILL OF HENRY STEER Ft, A'AO TIIE
BEQUESTS 11’ CONTAINS.
The will of Henry J. Stcere, one oJ
the wealthiest men in Providence, It. I.,
who died recently gives away directly
in trust tlie sum total of $1,139,000. Air.
Steere was a single gentleman, and was
a 1 his life distinguished fer philuuthrop
ical impulses. He gives $654,500 to in¬
dividuals directly, iu sums ranging from
$100,000 to $1,000 I he amount given
to charitable organizations etc., is $340.
000. The home for the freedmen of Prov
idence received $150,000; Home for Aged
Women, of Providence, $25,000;
Stephen’s cent Congregational church and St.
Episcopal church, Providence,
get $50,000 and $5,000 respectively;
the Charitable Fuel society, of Provi
idence, $5,000, and to the Rhode Island
Historical society is bequeathed $10,
000; The Tabor college, in Iowa, is
given 50,000, and the Roanoke college.
ut Salem, Ya., $25,000. The executor
of the vast property is Alfred Metcalf, ot
Providence, who is only required to give
personal bond to pay the legacies, etc.
A REPORTED BATTLE
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in Kentucky in which six men are
killed.
-
A special to the Louisville Courier.
Journal from Pineville, Ky., says: Nows
reached here that Judge Lewis came up
with Howard and his gang Thursday on,
Martin’s Fork and killed siac of the How.
aid gang without losing a man. Three
of the men killed were named Hall, one
named Whitlock, the other two name*^
not learned. Friends of the judge say
that he is determined, and will never
quit his chase until Howard and his gang
are all killed or driven from the country,
Both parties are being reinforced daily,
and more bloodshed is expected. It is
thought that Howard ha9 gone to Yir
ginia, but is expected to return. Ky., The
be.t citizens of Harlan county, are
joining Judge Lewis, and with such a
determined leader there is no doubt but,
that the law and order party will com.*
out victorious, and break up tho sraisg’
that has been a terror to all eastern Km
tucky for the last twenty-five years.
COTTON IN TENNESSEE
THZ YIELD WILL SOT COME UP TO THE EX¬
PECTATIONS OF TENNESSEE PLANTERS.
The regular monthly crop report fot
outlook the Memphis, is anything Term., district, says: The
but encouraging,
While the weather has been most favor
field, able for the anticipated gathering open cotton in the
yield has. fallen far
short of what was expec.ed. The terri
tory tributary to Memphis and Included
in the report, includes an average of
1,400,000 bales of cotton, one-fifth of the
entire crop of the south. The damaga
sustained from worms, frosts, asj other
causes taken together with the lateness
of the crop throughout the district, i*
greater than at first reported. f' rom
every section of the district injury to the
crop becomes more apparent and the
prospective fall yield, as compared with iast
ye 'r, will far short of what was re
ported c»e month ago.
DO YOU
WEAR CLOTHES?
Because if you do it will interest you to know that our complete FALL and
WINTER Stock of Extra F ne
Suits, Overcoats, Hats,
UNDERWEAR HOSIERY- NECKWEAR AND FURNISHINGS
is now
0 0.1 Shipments continue a sptcial feature with us
Privilege of examining before paying! request!
. S Rules for self-measurement on
Extra sizes a specialty!
We Can Always Fit
ANY MAN, BOY OH CHILD REGARD! EbS OF BUILD OR DIMENSIONS
SOLE AGEiNCY FOR
KNOX'S • FINE - HATS!
DEALERS Who cater to fine trade can get some special JOBS
by writing >o us. advant¬
Our Immense Retail Trade gives us many
ages over the exclusive JOBBER!
1<»I Congress St., Savannah, Crra.
B. H. LEVY & BRO
Schofield’* Iron Works,
Manufaoti'rkrs and Jobbers of
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, COTTON PRESSES,
General Machinery and all Kinds Castings.
Sole Owners anti Manufacturers of
SCHOFIELD’S FAMOUS COTTON PRESS,
To Rack by Hand, Horse, Water or Steam.
Brass Goods, Pipe Finings, Lubricators, Belting, Packing Saws. Etc
General Agents for
Hancock inspirators and Gu'lets Magnolia Cotton Cins.
J S. SCHOFIELD & SON
my31-lyr MACON, GEORGIA
ALTMAYEIi & FLATAU,
tIv 410 Tliiiul IllMI Vi ivl., ITlill M'Wnil UII, (ill "
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WE GARRYfjTlIE LARGEST STOCK Or ANY HOUSE IN
* GEORGIA.
MIDDLE
Sole agents for'Export, Kate t laxtoii, link and < lub House, pure copper
distilled Rve Whiskies, Georgia and North Carolina Corn lVach and Apple
Brandies always on hand.
Imported wines and brandies a specially. uoii-aleoholie.
Sole agents Tor the celebrated Kit E BEER,
Sole agents for Yal Blatz 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 t )rder Book furnished.upon application will in
Send for our prices before piirehnsingclsewhere, u mil vou save money
any line we carry, such as Liquors, 1 ohaccos and f igars.
ALTMAYEII & l-’LATAU,
412 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
niv 24-0mrt
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410 and 421 THIRD STREET, MACON, GA
Successor to StuoSI out! Jtiullurtf.
Is still in tho field, prompt to furnish merchants, millers and
traders with all kinds of Provisions and Produce, Bagging, Ties, To
bacco and Cigars, small groceries, such as can goods. Lowest prices,
i Orders will havejprompl^attention, and sutistadiou guaranteed.
Captain Mallary will insure your life; 1 will insure your pros
J mv3l-6m
perity
1805. ESTABLISHED 1805.
OLD AND RELIABLE
| (CO fiid SteMtaJ
A Large Stock oj,
Kept Constantly
Cheap to the
II. & M. \V A T E R M A N,
Mmtt tiilllltii flSl'ltlCm 4*U
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As W©’T>r 00 Ure our supply dil*ct . lvoni the VV esi m J ‘ . •
’ . . U nrt-nared at all times tofumistl saw mill atm turpentine special- lirnH
... ,, *, ‘ ■' . , -u ]o\VB8t market rates. \V e make a
W1 r l , 1 .i’ orders bv mail will receive prompt
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tv , this trade. Jnlorma . 1,1 ’
tii april 12 88 Jv
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—DEALERS IN—
MACHINERY OF every Hc-cmsriD.
Boilers, - saw - Mills, - Grist - Mills, - Cation - seed - Grinders. - Belting,
Lubricating Oils, Iron Pipe and Fittings,
INSPIRATORS, BRASS FITTINCS, Etc.
SMITH & MAUL AMY,
>1 AC ON, GA.
Jan. 15. 1999. 1> a
.1. M. BATEMAN,
__REP RESENTING
GEO T ROGERS' SONS,
THE OLD RELIABLE WHOLESALE GROCERY HOT SU,
Will call the.Merchmts ofiEASTMAN’ every two weeks.
on popular
isvagejit'for the following celebrated and
This house
brands of Flour: EL\ tT»
- i LEO> A PiTKVT I ATI.M, W HU \ I
W .\1»E H AMPTON *
PARTI DO i»t Dumbest 5-ceot Cigar in the market.
The f«*o«.MlSSUtO LINK Tobacco.
Also agent for lb e
./ June 4-6m 1
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■J oai\ t/.r
Horses and Male;:,
Hand. From tti
High-Priced.