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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 --> 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. 8 | 10r , s 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*.