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THE TIMESJOURNAL. IMIil.lSIlKlI vr.RV FRIDAV IlY i. V. 8TOKE8. k. M- UK>W STOKES & CARNES, -AT 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. -- “ 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 . „ . 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*. , --- ! APP ' JIvrMtX1 *- bmkons. «o otheb warnas , or interest from the national capital. | ____ J •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 - 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 " « --W HOLLoALE ,, a 4 , ,, —— JLslCB _ JL ____ ____ MP € , ..... V 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 a * _L*t 8. glLUMb r 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 .... j i 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 , ■ tv , this trade. Jnlorma . 1,1 ’ tii april 12 88 Jv tfelltion ■r --- 11 ■■■ “■ - 9 —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 i ! -W -riT. *12* ” V ■ ‘kg. J * M fg ■J oai\ t/.r Horses and Male;:, Hand. From tti High-Priced.