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T6^ —PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT— HAMILTON, GEORGIA. In France, the army, to a man, is for General Boulanger. - Not less ..... than $5,000,000 arc invested in special palace cars by the railroad companies of this country. Hie last Rhode Island Legislature had Cigty-seven Republican majority on joint ballot; the present one has eleven. There is only one physician to every 6500 of the population in Russia, and yet the destitution among the members of the profession is alarming. At Harvard College $250 has been subscribed for a cup to be given to the man who, within the next ten years, shall have kicked the highest. The Mikado of Japan really has no more power than the average monarch of Europe, and his duties and privileges are very similar to those of the queen of Great Britain. A new parachutist, W. S. 5 oung, hopes to outstrip his rivals by dropping with his parachute tied up in a sack. He says he will go so high that he will have lime to release the para¬ chute and come down as usual. The common school system is meeting with popular favor in Mexico and regu¬ lations for | rimary compulsory educa¬ tion will soon be completed, while for the training of teachers a normal school lias 1 (‘(‘ii established, and the furniture and apparatus fora normal school for fe¬ male teachers is now being put in place. The women of Chicago iiave estab¬ lished the first College of Practical Arts for women in this country. It is dc signed to give women a practical insight into the avenues of business life, such ns law, railroads, life insurance, general office work, elc. The incorporators of the college nre Mos lames Helen M. Mott, Charles B. bmith and Miss Katharine G. Todd. The New York Nem says (hat the wonderful success which Mr. Ilenry George has achieved during his lectur¬ ing in England, Scotland and Wales has attracted the attention of a great many people who hitherto have given little or no attention to the land question, and his speeches have had an immense amount of influence upon the political situation. The five Central American republics— Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sal¬ vador and Honduras—have taken an¬ other step toward a federal union, by agreeing upon a treaty which provides that any difficulties arising between them shall bo settled by the arbitration of some foreign power; that none of the five shall form foreign alliances without the consent of all, and that delegates from all shall meet annually to consider matters of mutual interest. If tlie city of Chicago takes advantage of the annexation bill of the Illinois Leg¬ islature, she will before 1899 become the fifth city in number of inhabitants in the world; and she can achieve this by tak¬ ing in the adjoining towns of Hyde Park, Lake Jefferson, Calumet, Evans¬ ton and Lake View. All these vllages arc almost a part of Chicago now; and while their incorporation would still make Chicago smaller in territory than Philadelphia, it would give her 100,030 more inhabitants, and would place her next to New York. 8ays the New York Cton/iie trial Ad rath : “The immediate cause of the downfall of Gladstone's ministry four years ago was Mr. Childers' budget, wiili its proposal of an increased tax on beer. There is, therefore, a note of confident menace in the protest of the British brewers against Mr. Goschen's last budget estimate, which raises the beer tax one-fourttenth of a penny per gallon. 1 bis is a point iu which the British taxpayers sensitiveness may be very sorely touched. M ho steals his purse steals tru h, but he who filches from him his ’arf-and-'arf is liable to got into serious difficulties with the voting public. The de-homes from Land's End to the Hebrides were plastered on the former occasion with placards de¬ nouncing with pitiless force the tyrants who taxed the poor man's beer, and passed over the millionnaire’s sherrv.” SOUTHERN ITEMS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SO UTH. AN ITEMIZED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IS GOING ON OF IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Capt. Lucien L. Bass, president of the board of aldermen, of Richmond, Va., died Saturday. The Pullman Palace Car Co., have sent a representative to Raleigh, N. C., and will fight the state tax levy in the courts. United States Senator Joseph E. Brown is so sick at his home in Atlanta, Ga., that some politicians are log-rolling for his successor. E. B. Davenport, senior member of the large importing and grocery house of Davenport & Morris, of Richmond, Va., died Sunday. Bishop Quintard’s beautiful residence, at Suwaaee, Tenn., was burned Saturday night. The bishop’s valuable collection of curiosities w r as totally destroyed. Ed win Harris, late deputy collector of New Orleans, La., has been indicted by the grand jury on ten counts for em¬ bezzlement of sums aggregating nearly $4,000. All the laborers at the government work, on the Warrior river, near Tuska loosa, Ala., -went out on a strike. They demanded an increase of pay and the dis¬ charge of the present foreman. The con¬ tractors refuse to accede to either of their demands. Dispatches report that a severe wind, rain and hail storm, passed over Sunday, a large portion of Western Missouri do¬ ing considerable damage to crops and buildings. Near Warrensburg a church was blown down and two persons dan¬ gerously injured. Martin La Irvctt, a sporting Savannah, man well known in Charleston, Ga., Co¬ lumbia and Greenville, S. C., dropped engaged dead at 3 a. m. Saturday. He was in playing a game of cards when he was suddenly attacked by heart disease, and died in a few hours. A meeting of the Greenville, S. C., Farmers’ Alliance was held there in the courthouse on Saturday. About one hundred representatives were present. Nearly a 1 the sub-alliances in the state were represented. Resolutions were passed adopting cotton bagging to take the place of jute. The Henderson Steel Co., let the con¬ tract for the erection of a thirty ton steel plant, at Birmingham, Ala. The com¬ pany has had a small experimental months, plant and in operation stockholders over have twelve fully sat¬ the become isfied of the success of the Henderson patents which they own. An excellent quality of steel is made from the phos¬ phorous iron ore of the section. One of the most dramatic incidents ever witnessed in a church in Atlanta, Ga., took place on the occasion of the delivery of a sermon by Judge Howard Van Epps on Sunday, who acted as sup¬ ply for Rev. Dr. Morrison of the First Methodist Church. The judge’s subject was the betrayal of Christ, and as he described the scene and the agony of the Savior in the garden of Gethsemaue, a furious storm raged outside, and the learned jurist’s remarks were punctuated of by Hushes of lightning and peals thunder. A dispatch from Arkansas City, Ark., gives tlie details of a terrible cyclone which swept through that city Sunday. The Methodist and Baptist churches and several residences were wrecked, while the roof of the Arkansas elevator, m which is located the Missouri Pacific depot, was blown across the tracks, de¬ molishing a number of loaded freight cars. The only lives lost were those of Kate Walton, aged 15; Ttidy Walton, aged 9. Mrs. Walton, the mother, was badly injured, and another daughter, Lizzie Walton, had a hip dislocated. All are colored. Robert L. Howell, a youn* man 19 tears of age, and Each Aleywine, a night watchman, had a dispute in the round-house of the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad, in Marietta, and the lie passed between them. The dispute was about some potato slips sold by Aleywine to llowell: the latter went off after a pistol and shot Aleywine through kind the heart. There seems to be some of fatality about the watchmen at this shop. Almost exactly three years ago,a negro watchman was murdered while on duty there, and not ihe slightest clew has ever been discovered as ro who did the crime. J. H. Benjamin, editor of the DeLand Neies. shot and instantly killed Cipt. J. W. Douglas, at New Smyrna, Fla.. Thursday. Douglas is a prominent citi zen of Daytonia, and a well-known poli¬ of tician. The shooting was the result .hi old feud renewed by recent attacks bv Benjamin in the columns of his newspaper. Douglas assaulted Benja¬ min, knocking him off the pier into the marsh and jumping on him, choking him and holding his head under the water. Benjamin managed to get hold of his revolver, and placing it against Douglas’ body, fired. The ball entered his heart, and Douglas died almost instantly. A right between the strikers and scab laborers at the Sloss furnaces. Bi ining ham, Ala., was averted Saturday by the timely arrival of Sheriff Smith with a strong posse. The colored coke drawers at the Sloss furnaces struck Friday for an advance of ten cents per oven in wa¬ ges. New men were secured and put to work Saturday morning. A large num¬ ber of strikers appeared on the scene and, attacking the new men, drove them from the ovens. The strikers then surrounded the ovens and refused to let any one work. The new men were mad. and wanted to fight. The company appealed to the sheriff for aid, and soon a strong placed posse arrested six of the ringleaders and them in the county jail. Very few court attendants are attending the Woolf oik trial at Fort Valley, Ga. Many predict a mis¬ trial. Opinions differ as to the evidence heard. Including the mistrial, 293 men men have been examined as talesmen, 227 disqualified, 01 declared competent, and four set aside by con sent. There sre 650 names in the jury boxes. Every had , , been name drawn when the twelfth juror was ac cepted. A majority of the twelve arc church members, two of them Primitive Baptists, eleven h ive blue e} T es, one dark brown. J. M. Frederick is a grand¬ father. Three hours were used in exatn ining two jurors. Just before sunrise on Thursday, as Alfred Prioleau, a negro, was going to his work, passing an unoccupied store near the railroad track, at Ridgeway, S. C,, he was suddenly fired upon by Cor nelius Means, also colored. The weapon used was a double-barrel shot gun. Means was about fifteen feet from his victim, and as Prioleau fell to the ground he rushed upon him and struck him three heavv blows with the butt of the gun, upon ""the forehead," breaking the weapon at the breech. Returning to the house, in front of which he had fired, Means laid by his gun and got his pistol. rhen, standing over the now dead body, ae pointed his pistol downward and fired slice, the ball entering the wooden bridge on which the corpse lay. Means was arrested. The Augusta, Ga., exchange has just compiled the answers of its correspond snt, in reply to crop inquiries in seventeen in counties in Georgia, and five counties South Carolina. Seventy-six corre¬ spondents report the acreage as last year ; forty-seven report a decrease of ten pei cent, and six an increase of five pe$ cent. Seventy-seven report planting as having progressed favorably, sixty-six report that it has not. Only one correspondent with out of 133 reports the plant up good stands. All report bad effect from cool nights, retarding growth and pro¬ ducing lice. The general tenor of all reports is that <the crop is not in good condition. One hundred and eight cor¬ respondents reports the crops from ter days to two weeks late. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—-ACCIDENTS, STRIKES, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. The Bank of Omaha, Neb., has failed, with liabiljtiesiof $75,000; assets nomi¬ nal. Emperor William’s review of the Eng glish fleet off Spithead, has been fixed for August 5. Eighteen miners at Essen, Germany, who were recently on strike, have been sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from two to six months foi rioting. Herr Seigel, editor of the Vaterlaiul. a clerical paper of Munich, Germany, lius been sentenced to six weeks’ imprison¬ ment for libelling tlie late Dowager Queen. The Germans in Switzerland protest against the German official press attacks upon the Swiss government. Meetings have been called in Berne to discuss the matter, and great excitement prevails. The French cabinet considered favor¬ ably the request of the American resi¬ dents for permission to hold a public celebration in Paris July 4. President Carnot has consented to unveil a statue of liberty on that day. A severe tornado Saturday evening wrecked many buildings at Danvers, west of Bloomington, III. A church was destroyed, freight cars blown from the tracks” a tile factory ruined and many barns and dwellings unroofed. Missionary letters to the Anti-Slavery Society, in London, England, say that the Mahdists have made Western Abys¬ sinia a desert. Whole flocks and herds have been destroyed, thousands ol Christians have been thrown into slavery, thousands of others have been butchered and hundreds of the noblest inhabitants have been taken to Mecca as slaves in violation of treaties. On Sunday,Private William Young, of Company C, Fourteenth regiment N. G. P.. committed suicide in his tent at Johnstown, Pa., the scene of the flood, by shooting himself in the head with a rifle. He was a farm laborer. He had been sick for several days, but nothing in his manner indicated that he contem¬ plated taking his life. He was 29 years of age. and leaves a wife and two child¬ ren. In a debate on the educational budget in the Chamber of Deputies at Paris, France, the effort of ex-Premier Ferry to address tlie house caused a great up¬ roar. A member of the right shouted: “Tlie blood of the Touquin dead chokes you!” and many similar cries were heard. De Cassagnac advised the house to sub¬ mit and listen. “We swallow our dis¬ gust!” exclaimed Bourgois, deputy for the department of the Vendee, and order was restored. COTTON. The total expansion in the cotton area for all the states has been for several years small. The changes this season are a little larger than a year ago. A net increase over 1888 of 2.34 per ceut, bring ing up the total to 20.3G9,4S0 acres in 1889. against 19,845.430 in 1888, GREAT LOSSES. WHAT OFFICIAL FIGURES SAT OF JOHNSTOWN'S HORROR. the monetary loss placed at $35,000,000— THE MORTUARY FIGURES PLACED AT 9 , 763 — INSANITY, AND NOT CONTAGION, FEAREH. Notwithstanding have the fact that many messagos been sent from Johnstown, i Pa., indicating that diseases, the result of exposure, were exceedingly common, j the fuct is> that in the tbree i ar „ egt hos pital«, very few cases of any kind exist, and in over ninety per cent of these, the ; individuals are suffering from injuries occurring during and after the flood. Cases of pneumonia are very few, and the report that measles is, to a large ex tent, ing epidemic is false. The water sweep through the valley with enormous force, has carried the soft mud of the river banks to distant and low-lyiDg bot tom lands and lias covered the entire site of Johnstown with a layer of pure sand and gravel, varying in depth from a few inches to a foot. As the consequence of this, all cesspools have not only been thoroughly washed out but afteiwards filled with sand. Every particle of dirt and city filth has been washed away and B would De hard to find, hygemcaRy speaking, a more cleanly spot than the main portion of what was once Johns town. The danger will be the accurau lation of new filth, owing to the large number of strangers living in tents and the out-door life of the survivors. The mental condition of almost every . former resident of Johnstown is one of the gravest character, and the reaction which will set in when the reality of the whole affair is fully comprehended can scarcely fail to produce many cases of permanent or temporary insanity. Most of the faces that one meets, both male and female are those of the most profound melancholy, associated with an almost absolute disregard of the future. A nervous state is further evi¬ denced by a peculiar intonation of words, the persons speaking mechanically, while the voices of many rough looking men are high changed into such tremulous notes of so a pitch as to make one imagine that a child, on the verge of tears, is speak¬ ing. Crying is so rare that a corres¬ pondent of a newspaper says, he saw not a tear on any face in Johnstown, but the women that are left are haggard with pinched features and heavy, dark lines of under their eyes. Indeed, evidence systemic disturbance is so marked in al¬ most every individual who was present at the time of the catastrophe that it is impossible, with the eye alone, to sepa¬ rate the residents from those outside. A lad named Dennie Fisher, whose mother and sisters and brothers had lost their lives in the flood, on Thursday committed suicide while in a fit of de¬ spondency by hurling himself from the top of a building into the water and drowning. Attempts to form statistics of the loss¬ es, show that the number of lives lost foot up to 9,673 and the financial loss is $35,000,000, of which the Pennsylvania Railroad lose $10,000,000. The work of recovering the dead goes on with undiminished vigor, as the workmen become accustomed to their ghastly finds and tlie horrors of the scene become commonplace, they apply themselves more diligently to their duty and labor with a system that produces rapid results. One gang of workmen on Thursday located the day express, which was swept away at Conemaugh. The i ruins of the train lie about one hundred feet from the fourth buttress from the western end of Stone bridge. Parts ol the parlor cars have been found, as well as traces of the passengers. The bag¬ gage of Miss Clara Christman, of Beaure¬ gard, Miss., was found. She was a mis¬ sionary on her way to Brazil for the W Oman’s Foreign Mission Society of the Methodist church. It is evident that many lives were lost on this train, more than at first supposed. The whole train’s fate is still a mystery, at least the passengers have not so far been found and located.. There was a small-sized riot at the labor camp on account of there not being food enough for the men oi utensils to cook it with. Mr. Fiinn,whe is at the head of the labor bureau made a speech to the men and stated that it was impossible to get things down from the railroad, but that they would be obtained as soon as possible. He also stated that they did not want men who expected to live on the fat o the land, and that this was principally a work of charity, even though men did get paid for their work. A few minutes alter black this, as coffee Mr. and Fiinn eating was some drinking hard some crackers and cheese, two workmen came up to him and commenced to complain because they did not have soup and meat. This enraged Mr. Fiinn, and after telling them that he thought he was used tons good eating as they were, he ordered the guards to take themen out of town and not permit them to come back again. This seemed to have the desired effect, and there was no more trouble. The people breathe a little easier now that al: apprehension as to further suf¬ fering with hunger have been dissipated. Seven cars of supplies, brought up Thursday * evening, are ready to be un¬ loaded. The track is not repaired fai enough to bring cars opposite to tbe center of the city, and boats cannot get down to where they are. Tbe mayor i telegraphed provisions the governor the that to last enough tne are on way | people several days. The relief commit tees have been exceedingly busy, and are constantly finding cases of suffering, There is a verv large class who are not applying for relief, but who have lost al] their household goods and all theii clothing. These include good lWed classes oi j people, many of whom principal streets, A wall has been thrown around Johnstown, and no one can enter it unless it is shown that he has business in the city. The Pennsylvania Railroad has been making every effort to keep out crow'ds, but the Baltimore & Ohio Rail¬ road. which opened Thursday, brought in a Hood of people from Somerset Valley. Gen. Hastings heard of it and after a conference of officers it was decided to send company F of the Fourteenth regi¬ ment to Somerset, for the purpose of preventing auy further rush of people that way. Another regiment of soldiers will be ordered out to do guard duty. SERIOUS COMPLICATION. PATRICK EGAN TO RE RECALLED FKO.V TIIE UNITED STATES MISSION AT CHILI. Irish circles in New York are full of the report that miuister to Chili Eagat has been recalled to explain the refer¬ ences to his name in the Chicago trial. John F. Scanlan, who was in Washing¬ ton, stopped there on his way to Chica¬ go, and it is stated that it was on his statement that the recall is to be made. James J. Rogers, the Brooklyn lawyer, whose name is signed to the Clan-na Gael report as one of the executive com¬ mittee, has given an interview to report¬ ers, in which he affects to believe that Dr. Cronin is not dead at all, and that the body found -was never conclusively identified as that of the missing man. He says there was no reason for Cronin’s death, and adds: “The body might have been placed in the catch basin by men interested in helping the enemies ol the Irish people. There are evidently some men deeply bent on bringing out to the public the purposes for which these moneys were expended. If you have noticed the reports of the alleged the Cronin first murder in all the newspapers three days were remarkably alike as if inspired by the same set of men. To me the whole thing looks more and more every day as the clever work ol some smart men interested in making if appear that Crouin was killed. The doctor, I feel convinced, is still living, and has been sent out of the way to help the scheme of an alleged murder, He may not be cognizant of the scheme, but he is all the same being used skill¬ fully to help it.” Rogers is an ardent admirer of Alexander Sullivan, the Chi¬ cago lawyer, accused of complicity in the murder of Cronin, and this is the latest theory that is said to be now talked continually inside the circles of the Clan ua-Gael camps. FRATERNAL GREETINGS. UNION RECOMMENDED BETWEEN CONGRE RATIONALISTS NORTH AND SOUTH. At a meeting of the American Home Missionary Society, held at Saratoga, N. Y., to decide the condition on which Southern white churches that have re¬ cently applied for congregational fellow¬ ship shall be aided by the society, aftei a very earnest discussion of the present and future relations between them and the congregational churches region, the and associa¬ tions already in that members of which are mostly colored, the follow¬ ing resolutions were unanimously adopt¬ ed: “In the full conviction that these churches are in accord with the princi¬ ples of this society, and with those held by the congregational churches which it represents, Resolved. That we heartily welcome them to fellowship. We com¬ mend them to the fraternal sympathy and prayers of all our people, and we request the officers of the society to ex¬ tend them such financial aid as they may need, as promptly as its treasury shall permit. Resolved, That this society rejoices to learn that an effort is being made to unite the Georgia Congregation¬ al Conference and the Georgia Congre¬ gational Association on principles of equal recognition and the and fellowship of all churches of each body, trust that such union shall be accomplished.” the Great satisfaction was expressed at unanimous adoption of these resolutions, as at one time it was feared that there might be a serious split on the casts auestion.”__. SEATTLES’ LOSS. ^ fire broke out 0 n Thursdav in the Pontius buildin „ in Seattle. Washington 'Territory and was raging over a district ftf five or gix blocltSi wltb tremendous £ ur y The wind was from the north, an( j ^ be <}j rec tiou of the fire was along the water on Front street, and from the wa t er front to the big brick block, be tween Columbia and San Francisco streets> To add to the peril, a smart fan bre eze began blowing off the bay, nine the flames, and about the same time a thousand feet of hose was caught in tbe advancing blaze and destroyed. Be f()re tbe fl ame3 were extinguished, nearly ^ , be bus j Dess ])ar t 0 f the place was q estr cyed. J GERMANY ANGRY. The German papers say, that unless the Swiss Bunderath reproves the official concerned in the Wohlgemuth affair, Germany will take reprisals by restrict¬ ing the frontier intercourse with ft eight, postal and passenger service. Wohlge¬ muth is a German police inspector, whe was arrested in Switzerland on the charge of bribing a Swiss to act as agent provocateur, and was expelled from the country. A HERO. Bv the capsizing of a boat in the har nor of Providence, R. I., John Morafi. ..L aged eighteen, James McNiff, ninetefibj and William Hart, sixteen, were drowned. James Hamilton, McNiff aged elgh* |Q§Q teen, was savefl. was a aSslst-' swimmer and declined proffered q n op in favor ol Hamilton _ ..