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FARMERS’ COLUMN.
interesting news about cot -
TON, RICE, CORN, ETC.
The World’s Visible .Supply of Cotton—'Troa*
bte From ibe Recent Freshets—Report of
the United States Signal Office.
Augusta’s idea.
A well-known Beech Island, S. C.,
farmer took the first bale of the season
to his Augusta, Ga., factors. The cotton
men of Augusta generally are of the opin
ion that the receipts this year will greatly
exceed those of the past few years. In
fact, they ail seem confident that the re
ceipts wili not be less thau 200,000 bales.
Last year’s receiDts were only about 145,
000, while those of the previous year
were about 103,000.
RICE CROP DISASTER.
An earthquake does not cause greatei
local interest in Savannah, Ga., than a
threatened disaster to the rice crop. For
some days the planters were in suspense
awaiting the freshet’s arrival. For a
week they have been in far greater sus¬
pense waiting for it to subside. At first,
nearly every planter said that if the crop
was submerged it would be ruined. Then,
after they had lain awake a few nights
bered thinking over the matter, they remem
that an August freshet was a new
experience. What it would do they
could not tell. The probable result,
though, would be a total loss. Nine
thousand and some odd acres were under
water for several day T s. Iu 1881 when
the memorable storm came, salt water
was backed up the river for 10 miles
above the city, and the rice crop was
ruined. In 1854, a September gale caused
such havoc that the foreign and coastwise
shipments of rice from the port the
f(mowing year amounted to only $214,
000 against $700,000 the preceding year,
In 1853 2,996 barrels of rice were shipped
from Savannah. From the way the plan
ters feel now that is quite as much as will
be grown next year along the Savannah.
The planters are discouraged, and many
of them talk about giving up, but by
next Spring they will probably decide to
try it once more. If the crop proves a
total loss along to Savannah, it will be a
severe blow to that city. The first esti
mates, which put the probable loss at
$350,000, may be exaggerated, and it
may turn out even yet to be too small.
VISIBLE SUPPLY OF COTTON.
The visible supply of cotton of the
world, as made up by cable and telegraph,
is as follows:
1887, 1886.
Total East India, Brazil,
etc., bales......... 616,100 401,800
Total American..... 728,390 801,588
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Total visible supply. .1,344,490 1,293,388
The above figures indicate an increase in
the cotton in sight of 51,102 bales as
compared with the same date of 1886,
an increase of 14,672 bales as compared
with the corresponding date of 1885, and
a decrease of 348,320 bales as compared
1884.
weather crop bulletin.
During r, • the week, according the _
to U.
8. Signal office reports the daily average
temperature was from 2 to 3 degrees be
low the normal in the stafes on the At*
lantic coast. a ® been decidedly
warmer than usual , in . the central valleys,
tie ai y excess ranging rom 3 to 4 de
* reG ?’ war ai \ o ir L. jraska e Tf® 1 .? he 11 daily / r .° m Texas
nor ^ e average
Ian ged from 5 to j degrees. In
California the daily average temperature
^ as 0 egrees >elow the normal.
le average emperature for the season,
lrom Jamiary 1 to August 13, has been
genera iy in excess from the Alleghames
rr ar ° 6 Loc y Mountains, the
daily average excess in this region rang
lng.iom 7. o 4 degrees. The rainfall
has been slightly_ m excess m ^ thedrought
regtoa of Northern niinois, Southern
V\ isconsin, Southern Michigan, Northern
Indiana and Eastern Iowa; slight ex
cesses are also reported from Northwest¬
ern Missouri, Eastern Kansas, Nebraska
and Southern Minnesota, and general
rains are reported in the drought
region from Missouri and Iowa east
ard to Ohio. In all other sections
he rainfall was less than usual, except in
he eastern Virginia, portion of the cotton portions region.
Eastern and southern
»f Louisiana and Mississippi, where the
ainfall for the week was slightly in ex
:ess. The large seasonal deficient in
ainfall previously reported in the west
irn portion born of the cotton region and in
he belt from Ohio westward to Iowa
jjd Missouri g<>4tjnii*« ilthQugfi
rains have decreased tins deficiency in the
northern portion of the corn belt. Dur¬
ing the past four weeks less than 25 per
cent, of the usual rainfall has occurred in
Southern and Central Illinois, Western
Kentucky, Southern Missouri and
Northern Arkansas. The weather has
been generally favorable for all crops in
in the states on the Atlantic coast, from
Georgia northward to New England, and
reports from Mississippi, Arkansas and
Alabama indicate that the weather for the
week bas been favorable for the cotton
cr0 P> although this crop needs more rain
in portions of Tennessee and Arkansas.
Cess than 50 per cent, of the usual
amount of rain was reported in the to
bacco region of Kentucky and West
Tennessee during the past Virginia four weeks.
Luring tbe same period in of over
75 P er cen t. of the usual amount ram
occurred, and in North Carolina, Penn¬
sylvania and Connecticut the rainfall
the month has been largely in excess.
AUNT AMANDA
An Old Colored Woman In Indmnn, Wares n
Railroad Train From Disaster.
Amanda Barker, an aged of negress, was
walking . along the , track the Cincin
na L» Hamilton & Indianapolis Railioad,
near Glenwood, Indiana, on her way to ;*
farmhouse, where she was to work dur
big Lie day. She had just passed Glen
w ood > a ! onel J dismal s V[ yt between In '
dianapolis . and Connersville, fiequented
onl J occasionally by the farmers living
around, when, on turning a sharp curve
lbe road, she was horrified to see
sonlc distance ahead the smoldering le
mains (d wb at had a short while before
been a stout, substantial bridge, con
meeting embankments (5.)0 feet apait
and spanning a chasm ninety-live
Feet deep. Hie bridge had evi
dently been burning during the
entire night, for the superstructuie
was eu Lrely eaten away by the tire, and
only a few weak timbeis and the thice
sf° ne piers were left to tell the tale. 1 lie
°^ d woman could not collect herself lor
several moments, but it suddenly dawned
U P 0U ber that a train generally passed
Lint point some time in the early morn
i n »- She had no idea what time it was,
or wb en the tram was due, but she knew
tbat ifc was a fttst one and never stopped
at Glenwood. She turned her steps
backward, intending to flag the train at
Lie station, but had got scarcely a hun¬
dred yards when she beard the shrill
scream of the whistle, as she thought,
directly ahead of her. It was the east
bound lightning express, due at Glen
wood at forty-five minutes past five
o’clock. She tried as hard as she could
to get around the bend which obstructed
the and train tugging from view, all the at time tearing old
away an
brown apron which she wore.
which she used as signal flag.
Raising the improvised waved flag high frantically, above
her head, she it
standing in the center of the track,
where her presence could not go uuno
ticed. For a while it seemed to her that
no one saw her, but she kept her position
determined to stop the train or die in the
track. At last the engineer saw her and
reversed his engine, .? ’ bringing it to a stand
still a , ew / yard ia f ront of the old woman.
A „ th( pll8senge ° rs were around
t j n short while, and
w Jhen they saw how narrow their escape
bad been, they could scarcely speak.
a large purse was made up for their ben
efactress, but she positively refused to
take any money, and said she was to>
bappy to touch anything, that money
wou id on iy ma ke her feel bad again,
Wh , ;n every one on the train was en
g ra tulating themselves on their escape,
woman became so happy that she
burst into tears, and was so joyful fora
w bp e tha; she hugged several of the
ladies and gentlemen and danced an old
f as bi 0 ned jig. An effort will be made
to p J resen t old “Aunt Amanda” with
8om thing substantial, if the names of all
t be r passengers ° can be secured.
ABOUT TOBACCO
'
A a meeting .. of . the committees from the .
vari ous leaf tobacco markets to rake ac
Lon against the im-ieadmg report of the
United States Agricultural Bureau re
g ardln g,the tobacco a^eage, was held in
Louisville Ky The meeting addressed
amGmonal to Commissioner Column, at
Washington, asking that he urnish the
tobacco trade with statistics upon which
** founded his report. If these be found
inaccurate or wanting, or if he refuses to
furnish information, rt decided to
for redreiw to p «* ldent Cleveland,
STRIKES.
IniportRnt of „ Trilde
lieera Quit Work In Mexico.
At a meeting iu of the Builders’ Trade
League, Augusta, Ga., composed of
carpenters, bricklayers and painters, the
following resolutions were adopted:
“No* union man is allowed, under any
circumstances, to work with a non-union
man. No journeyman shall act as fore¬
man in any way for less than twentv-fivc
cents per day in advance of any other
man on the same job. No union man
shall work or handle anv building mate¬
rials, or work on buildings where anv
material is used that, is manufactured or
sold by any company that does not rec
ognize 58 hours as a week’s work. If it
be found by any one of the several unions
represented by this board of delegates to
be advisable to refuse to work or handle
any building material of any kind on ac
count of convict labor, or tke refusal of
,l,c manufacturers to recognue the 58
hour system, all the unions shall mute in
the same. 1 here, shall bo no general
strike of any union tor wages, without
serving the general contractors with 15
davs’ notice.” The league is not vet thor
oughlv established throughout Geor
dig but efforts are being made to do so.
The engineers of the first and second
divisions of the Mexican Central R iilroad
struck. The cause of the strike is sup
posed to be the discharge divisions of one of their
number. These extend from
the city of Mexico to Calera, over
1,200 miles long. The freight con
doctors of the Memphis & Charleston
Railroad notified the superintendent that
they could no longer afford to work for
$75 per month, and naked for an increase
of $10. Not hearing from him, they quit
work and no freight trains are now run
•mng.
MAN’S INHUMANITY.
Emigrants From (•erinnny Hold Into Hlar
ery In Yucatan.
Eruest ...Y, Schoeltz, who has just put J in
an v. appearance at An Sal.le, u ,i M eh., , tells , ,, a
startling hfs story Snd of personal outrage. s,Til
With wife one son, Schoeltz
ed from Germany for the United States.
Their ship touched at a Yucatan port and
Schoeltz and his family, together with a
number of other emigrants, were sold in
to slavery. They remained in the inter
ior of the country eighteen months and
then again escaped to Campache, only to bo
taken into custody and subjected
to the most inhuman treatment. They
were compelled to work in the broiling
sun, without covering to their bodies,
His wife was driven into the field to work,
three days after the birth ol a child,
They were provided with but two pounds
of cornmeal a day, and this continued
nearly two years and a half. When
his wife fell ill and was sent to
aho pita!. The husband was allowed to
visit ner occasionally, and while making
j (mo 0 f these visits he fell iu with a Ger
| man sailor, who acre d to carry his farni
I |y to Logons, whence they were sent to
the United States, his’ by the German consul,
Schoeltz and wife show upon their
persons the effect of the inhuman treat
meat given them.
THE THISTEE IH IIERE.
The Scotch yacht Thistle arrived at
New York. Capt. Burr reports a pleasant
passage, except three days of rough
weather and three without a puff of wind;
thereat of the time th'-y had a light
breeze. The Thistle is certainly a pretty
model and her appearance docs not belie
her cleims to epeed. It will take about
two weeks to clean her up, set her toj>
mast and bend her racing sails. The b»*st
day’s run was made August 2d, when,
w ith all sails set, including her spin
naker she reeled off*247 miles in a heavy
breeze, with a cross sea which is consul
ered remarkable for so small a craft under
' ,il.
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FATAL SEARCH.
Several cowboys left Holbrook’s, New
Mexico, some days ago in search of a
raan named Blevins, who had been miss
ing for several days. They were rein
forced by four other cowboys who joined
in the search. The next day they reached
the residence of Tewkslx rry, in Tonto
basin. After making inquiry about the
missing man they turned to ride away,
w ben a volley was fired from the house,
killing John Paine and J. R. Gillespie
a nd severely wounding G. F. Tucker,
j^ker died before they reached the
ranche.
CURRENT NOTES.
what is going om r.v the new
AND OLD WORLDS.
Pen I’holographleti of Inl«e-<«linK Events In
Europe, \«in, Vlricu, tlir Dominion*, and
llie Island* ot the Men.
Jake Sharp, the well-known briber of
New York, is dying in the Ludlow street
jail.
Rev. Sam Jones preached at Round
Lake, N. Y., to audiences literally pack¬
ing the great auditorium.
Five fatal accidents to Alpine tourists
are reported from Zurich, Switzerland,
making eighteen deaths in the Alps
within a month.
The order of Hibernians of Brooklyn,
N. Y., voted down a proposition for Dr.
McGlynu, the excommunicated priest, to
lecture before them.
John j OJCe » well-known liigliway
m was sentenced in New York to
twenty-four J J yearsami nine months in the
Stllte )ris0 „ ut h » r(1 labor,
Gen. ^ lerron, the I reach , ... .
minis er
l var ’, has « on 1 J° the A ,p8 l ° f sta " 1,sh
^finitely the defense of the southeastern
frontier and to organize a new Alpine
corps.
Russia decidedly objects to Prince Fer¬
dinand occupying the Bulgarian throne.
France tacitly backs up Russia, by de¬
clining to have any official relations with
the prince.
Chas. Page, who swindled the Jacques
Cartier Bank,of Montreal out of $25,000,
was arrested at Versailles, Quebec, about
eighteen miles from the border line. All
the money was found in his possession,
A cyclone ravaged a great part of the
southern France. It was the severest in
the department of Ardenes, where a num¬
ber of houses were destroyed and several
persons were killed. The storm w as se¬
vere at Bordeaux.
When the United States Labor Conven
tion met at Syracuse, N Y. the first o(
fiend act was to exclude all socialistic
(lel " t( ,„ Henry 4 George “ s„,l Dr. Mr
n Gl , Vn '“ w<!re P rom,nel,t , m the dcllbera . i;i -
-
tions of the convention.
In London, England, three churches persons
"ere killed and a number of
and bouses were struck by lightning. Iu
th e country, also, there was much de
»Auction of property and many persons
are reported to have been killed,
The murderers of James 1J. Duvall, a
Southern man, was sentenced each to ten
years’ imprisonment at Santa Rosa, Mex
ico. A man in the court room made a
very insulting remark about the dead
man and Americans generally, and he
got ten years’ imprisonment as well,
Two Canadian steamers, the Hastings
and the Kathleen, were seized by the
custom-house officers at Charlotte, N.W
The seizure was made on the ground inspected that
neither of the boats bad been
by United States inspectors. 'The for¬
feiture is $500, and the boats were al¬
lowed to return to Toronto upon giving
bonds to the amount of $1,000.
A young man employed on the railioad
at Kings Creek, W. Va., and who calls
himself S. M. Traber, has been trying to
capture Miss Nellie Gould, eldest daugh¬
ter of Jay Gould. Recently, Traber se¬
cured a notice in a western paper an
nouncmg . his engagement to marry Miss
Gould. Jay Gould, in a card, denounces
the report as a canard and Ira her as a
bait crazy crank.
A passenger train on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway, at Bay
ard Station, twelve miles <a-t of Alii
ance, was wrecked by the track spread
ing and the rear sleeper was thrown from
the track. The porter on the sleeper, O.
Werner, was instantly killed. J. L. Ma
loney, a Catholic priest of Detroit,
Mich., George D. Lawson, of Washing
ton, D. C., W. II. McCoy, a flagman on
the train, and several others were seri
injured.
RAILROAD WRECK.
The Chicago limited express, which was
20 minutes behind, and running fast,
jumped the track at a **Y,” within the
city limits at Washington, D. C\, and
plunged into the signal tower, killing
tie* engineer and wounding 16 die. people,
” •-.•eral so severely that they may
Pin* City, Washington Territory, livMg
claims to have the smallest
woman. She is 27 years old, twenty*
nine inches tall, and weighs thirty-thre*
pound*.