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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
There ate about 5,000,000 owners ol
farms in the United States. About
1 , 000,000 of the farms have been ac¬
quired since 1880.
Land speculators arc giv.ng it out
that during* the next twelve months
then- will lie an unusual amount of rail¬
road construction.
Brazil, as well as the United States
and the Argentine Republic, is now re¬
ceiving very large accessions of immi¬
grants from Europe. The inflow of
European immigrants in the South
American Empire last year numbered
over one hundred and thirty thousand.
Who would believe, exclaims the New
York tun, that the once dreaded veloci¬
pede wou.d within a few years give
birth to more than 75,000 bicycles, and
that, the League of Am trican Wheelmen
counts alone 12,000 members, 10,000 of
whom live la N.:W York and the sur¬
rounding suburbs.
The United States among all the na¬
tions stand alone assorts the New Yo. k
Ci-inmrrciil Advertiser, in making no
provision for a personnel large enough
to man an efficient war flee;, and in
neglecting to provide for the organiza¬
tion and training of the coast-defending
force absolutely r.e e sury for the pro
teetion of our f/iininorci-il harbors.
Therc are said to bo more miles of
railway in the Australian Colonies in
proportion to the population than in any
other country in the world, with the
single except,on of the United States.
The to ul cost of construction of the
Australiis an railways is estimated at
£85,003,210, the average cost per mile
for several icurs being about .£ 10 , 102 .
The S oux reservation comprises 22,
010,040 acres, of which it is proposed
to open 11 004,004 acres for settlement,
upon wh.eh there are 23,000 Indians.
Of this number 10,749 are male, and of
these 6000 are adults. To carry out the
provisions of tho Dawes bill, under
which the Commission acted in relation
to the disposal of those lands, tho con¬
sent of 4(100 of these Indians had to be
obtained.
r Stanley is not yet out of tho wilds of
Africa, and his nearest approach to civ¬
ilized companionship is a comfortable
hob-nobbing with his old friend Tippoo
Tib. But over in England Stanley’s
agent is going the rounds making ap¬
pointments for tho explorer in next sea
BOn’s lecture field. This, observes the
fcoinm >reial Advertiser, is what a New
York produce exchange man would call
speculating in futures.
Can a wife sue her husband for pin
money, which subsequently to tho mar
riugo he contracted to pay her? This
very question came up in Iowa Court,
and was decided in the negative on the
ground that such contracts, requiring a
legal investigation of family affairs,
would bo productive of great evils. It
seems to follow that in Iowa, if a wife
wants to make sure of pin money, she
must have it specified in an ante-nup¬
tial coutraot.
The shipbuilders m Great Britain
have never been so busy as they are at
present, and they are so hard pressed
that many of them are absolutely relus
iuo C,% all orders for new vessels. Tho
.Upbuild,, have «*. 150
Sels of aa aggregate tonnage of 300,000,
on hand and yet the output of new
work u durum 8 the past 1 few weeks has
been considerably less than the contracts
ecured. On the Mersey the same state
f affairs exists, and from Stockton it is
reported that the good old times when
a beggar on Tees-side was almost as
rare a s a rainbow are rapidlv returning.
On the banks of the Tyne there are SO
vessels building, while at Sunderland*
on-the- Wear some sixty or seventy are
In course of cou>truction. The most
significant fact about this remarkable re¬
vival in the shipbuilding industry is
the large number of vessels building for
foreign countries. Tiiere are at the
present time on the stocks in Great
Britain ships representing 80,000 tons
for Germany, 17,000 for Portugal, 10,
000 each for France, Norway and the
British colonies, 9,000 for South Amer¬
ica and 7,000 for Belgium.
The San Fancisco Post states that
$ 1 , 000,000 lias been subscribed for the
proposed cal le between Honolulu and
San Francisco, and that the work of
laying the cable will begiu within
eighteen ° months.
The tonnage of Great Britain has
Irebled in the last twenty-five years, and
there are not British sailors enough to
man it. Still out of a total of 26,862
Bailors sliippel Ltye.tr for British vessels in
NewYor.c there were 16,740
Lnglisb ,, .. . sailors, .. against . , 1n 11,122 199 f fir- , ir
eiguers.
In the French navy the life of t
wooden or composite ship is placed at
eighteen years, and that of iron ships at
thirty; torpedo vessels and boats are
considered efficient only for fifteen years.
Under those conditions the French fleet
of 378 vessels was valued in January,
1888, at $61,181,000.
The Panama Canal was the greatest
project ever undertaken by the hand of
man. The Pyramids of Egypt and the
Chinese Wall sink into insignificance.
Preparations, machinery and all things
considered, it is perhaps one-third com¬
pleted, and its books show a debt of
some $350,000, 000. At this rate its
whole cost would bo over $ 1 , 000 , 000 ,
000 —an amount of money of which the
mind is absolutely incapable of forming
areal conception.
It appears 1 1 that the recent robbery of
I aymaster L rr ham , . by highwaymen ,
near
.
BoLmonville, in Arizona, has led to the
inquiry whether greater precautions
cannot be taken to prevent the recur¬
rence of such a performance. The ar¬
rest of the greater part of those con¬
cerned in it has shown that they were
principally cattlemen of thb neighbor¬
hood. One department commander has
ordered that hereafter every escort as¬
signed to a Paymaster shall be under
tlie command of a commissioned otli
ccr.
They have just discovered in France
that the now famous name of Eiffel
was nothing but a nickname until 1880.
The family uame of the celebrated en¬
gineer who projected the big tower at
the exposition was Bonickhausen up tc
niue years ago, as is shown by liis birth
certificate, in which he is inscribed ni
Alexandre Gustave, born on December
16, 1832, at Dijon, son of Frnncois-Al
exandro Bonickhnusen, alias Eiffel. In
1880 tho engineer took legal steps to be
authorized to drop his family name,
which lie considered as too cumbersome
for a Frenchman and took in its stead
tho nickname under which his father
and grandfather had been known for
uearly a century.
Atlanta’s industrial journal, Dixie, has
compiled some remarkable statistics,
showing the recent progress of the
South. The aggregate increase in real
estate values in Texas, Alabama,
Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida,
North Carolina and South Carolina,
since 1880, is $794,914,992. Georgia
shows an increase of 1,875 schools since
18S0, South Carolina 683, Florida
A 969, „ A Arkansas . , _ Iexas 2 ~3o, V r
,
ginia 2,264, North Carolina 1,607 and
Alabama 954 making a total increase of
14,861 in the last eight years. There
are now in these States 50,289 schools,
maintained at an annual expense of $9, -
702,261. The increase of tillable land
for the same period is 11,273,577 acres
—an area twenty per cent larger than
the State of Georgia. The total de¬
crease of the debt of the eight States is
$49,472,513.
The opinion ha» been expressed that
be ore very many years the horse will
Lava lK«. .
mal. “The eficce of the Water street
car motor law,” remarks the New
York World, ' “wffl probably ^ bo to
strengthen wliat A litt.e belief there may
be in this prophecy. Steam has already
done much to supplant the horse as the
servant of man, and is on the road to
doing much more in that direction.
Electricity is also being made a substi
tute in some respects, Should all the
street car lines m the cuy unuer nn(1 „ r the me
operations of the new law gradually dis
pense with the use of horses it would
diminish the number of those animals
here by more than fifty per cent. The
day of road wagons driven by stored
power is not far off in all probability,
»ud farms steam , has , begun to .
even on
replace horse power. But, without
looking «. f»r ahead, it «» be seo. tha.
the discontinuance of the uBe cf
for street cars will visibly affect the
market of stock-raisers.”
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS I-BOM EYEBYWHEBE—ACCIDENTS, 8TBIKE3,
#
EIBES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEBEST.
Snow storms and rains prevail through¬
out Switzerland. Mountain passes are
partly blocked.
,n 8 » Pa -’ committed suicide Tburs
by h a n gJ „g h.mseif m his cell
day Bethlehem, Pa., iron company Thurs- in
issued a notice of an increase
wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80
per day.
Twenty-seven storekeepers and gaugers
were appointed Wednesday to take the
i places of democrats in California and
Kentucky.
A machine gun exploded on board the
training frigate Courens, at Hyeres,
France, Wednesday. Eight persons
were killed and seventeen injured.
Andrew C. Drumm, who has full charge
of the cattle commission business of A.
A. Drumm & Co., of Kansas City, has
disappeared and $15,000 with him.
The Peter Schoenhafen Brewing com
pany, of Chicago, has been incorporated
with a capital of $ 3 , 000 , 000 -oue-half
taken in Chicago; the other half in Lon
f j on
Eight thousand bunches of overripe -i
, bananas seized by the New York it
were
bouui of health Thursday. The fruit
was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy
lll( "
Eleven lious s were burned at Fenn
ville, Mich.. Wednesday night, involving
a loss of $35,000. A tramp caused the
conflagration, and ho was arrested and
jauta. y.;j.. f j
According to the latest statistics care
fully compiled by the board of injury, at
Johnstown, loir, Pa , Wednesday, the num
her of lives in the devastated district
was about six thousand.
The pcstoffice department has received
the resignation of j’ostmasier Paul, of
Milwaukee, whose administration of of
lice was recently severely criticised by
the civil service commission.
Three young ladies—Misses Flanagan,
McCabe and Farrell, were drowned Tues¬
day night while trying to cross Menomi¬
nee river at Ishpeuing, Michigan. Their
bodies have not been recovered.
Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royce, late ol
the Willimantic Savings institute, was
arrested Thursday in Willrmantic, Conn.,
on a new charge of embezzlement ol
$15,000 from the institute and making
fulse entries.
W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers,
doing business at 244 Purchase street,
Boston,bave failed. Liabilities $225,000.
The cause of the failure is the general
condition of the leather business for the
past three years.
John Hronek. one of the Chicago an¬
archists confined at the prison, made a
desperate attempt to commit suicide
Wednesday. During working hours he
severed the arteries in his arm with a
saddle knife.
Twenty thousand dollars was paid out
by Treasurer Thompson, at Johnstown,
Pa., from 12 o’clock till 4 on Friday.
Work is in shape to be pushed right along
now, and the money will soon be in the
hands of the people.
Acting Secretary Batchelor has issued
an order suspending payment on all bilk
against tba Treasury Depturn... for «rt
The New York Herald says the cotton
crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, andi
that reports of the corn, cotton and wheat
erops have been underestimated. Such
jotton was never seen, and wheat and
oats are up to the average.
Twin children,belonging to the wife of
oneo { the loekedout mint r , died at Spring
Valiev, 111., Tuesday uioruing.aud physi
cians who attended them, pronounced mother it
a clear case of starvation. The
had but little food in the house, aud was
un able to provide sufficient nourishment
for them.
Beginning August 5th, and lasting to
August 12th, a great encampment of
Knights of Pythias will be held at Spring
Fountain Park, Ind. It will be com¬
posed of the entire Indiana brigade of
uniform rank, including sixty divisions,
and many from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Kentucky and Missouri.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York last week amounted to $689,437, of
g* ♦££ gS&fSSSSS of specie for
signed to amounted Europe. Imports $25,218, of which
the week to
$ 11,588 was iu gold aud $13,710 in sil
ver.
The assessors appointed bv Governor
Q or( j on of Georgia, to estimate the
va ]ue of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air
Line K"J| oa * 1 "Xomv^at
^iuuD,yuts. ne assessors, nowever, nna
it to be worth $1,809,997, a difference of
$ 184,094 in favor of the state.
The grand national monument, in
^ th n rims was dedicated at
p lvmouthj on Thursday. The
' j Daughters of Plymouth
g 0 ns an great*numbers, were
there m also visitors from
far and near. The dedicatory exercises
were carried out bv the Masonic crand
i 0 dge, according to the ritual of their
' order, and were very interesting.
| A . committee . . consisting of -inn- Wiluam ,
Onahan, of l “{‘’‘’S 1 ’. C V 1 ,' r “ 3n ’ an \
,
„ bS of ’cin°cmna.i WaCs
day issued a cal for a general congress
of the Catholic laity of the l mted states
Leld in the city of Baltimore No-
vemoer llth and 12tn, 1389, to celebrate
the centennial anniveisary of the estab¬
lishment of the Catholic hierarchy of the
United States.
The debt statement issued at Wash¬
ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in
crease of debt during the month of July
to be $1,017,311.51; total intere.-t bear¬ of
ing debt $895,391,886 96; total debt
all kinds $1,646,777,309.91; total debt,
less available credit, $1,077,663,932.96;
legal tender notes outstanding $346,
t 3 ; $118,541.409; fractional’ siiver certificates
$39,5577125; in currency $634,723,- $6,916,-
690.47; total cash treasury
023.44.
The ice trust, at Indianapolis, Ind.,
which, since the beginning of the sea
SOD) has kept prices tip to 140 per cent,
more than was charged lust year, has
collapsed. The break resulted from an
attempt by the trust to force prices still
higher. Cue of the dealers refused to
agree to the proposition mid withdrew
Irom the compact. He fiad previously ice,
purchased a large supply city, of lake
eient for the whole he states
and he has re uce P rice n r - 0 P
«o that the public wil _ now get the
benefit of some desperate rate cuttmg.
^ dispatch from Kansas City, Mo.,
On Saturday night as he Wabash
express pulled out of Harlem who it was
boarded by two road agents, com
manded the passengers, at the muzzle ol
two revolvers, to “hold up their hands.’’
One of the men “went through” other,with the pas
scn ooe bv 0 while the
hi s revolver in'his extended arm, kept a
watchful lookom for signs of opposition. secured all
In this wav, the pilunderer
the booty lie could in his haste, and the
robbers had escaped. The passengeis
found they had been relieved of $175 in
cash and two gold °. watches.
A . Chicago „ . dispatch , says; A , terrible , .,,
epidemic of bloody flux has appeared at
Warsaw. It cume on last Monday in a
light form and resembled dysentery, but
on Wednesday it assumed a more serious
phase, and now fifteen people have died.
Four deaths occurred Thursday and four
Friday, the victims being mostly chil
dren. One hundred and eighty cases
are now repotted. The people are ter
ror-stricken and do not know what to
make of the scourge. The disease has
also appeared at Hamilton, and it is said
to exist in epidemic form at Canton and
Kahoka, Mo.
THEY WANT ALL OF THEM.
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS SEEKING TO BUY
OUT AMERICAN COTTON INDUSTRIES.
A letter,, mailed in New York Satur¬
day, addressed to the president and board
of directors of every cotton mill in Fall
River, Mass., says: ‘"Gentlemen: It is
our desire to secure control of the entire
cotton manufacturing property in Fall
River and elsewhere, and we address you
for the purpose of ootaimng your views
as to the probability of your share¬
holders, or a majority, being willing to
sell or poll their stock- ©tu a basis of mu¬
tual advantage. We are pleased to in¬
form you that the Central Trust Com¬
pany of New York, has consented to act
as trustee in behalf of both parties,
Should the matter meet with your favor
able consideration, we will confer with
you personally in regard to details. Very
respectfully, George F. Mellon, Emerson
C. McMillan, H. B. Wilson,. Committee.”
The syndicate, which h*s been formed,
^presents principally foreign capital,
,“u
to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and
the best mills in the country. The Fall
River mills have a capital exceeding
$ 20 . 000 , 000 , and an investment probably
©f $30,000,000 or more- Just how the
negotiations will be instituted will in
terest outsiders, as these mills are owned
by thousands of stockholders. The di
rectors have power to sell the mills, and,
beyond a few hundred shares probably, anything
little stock could be bought at
the prevailing prices,
FREEMASONS GO TO LAW.
IOWA MASONS ASK FOR AN INJUNCTIOJt
AGAINST THE GRAND LODGE.
A special from Cedar Rapids, Ta., says ,
Action was begun Monday in the district
court at Mtrion that will startle Masonic
circles more than anything else, perhaps,
of late years. Judge Preston, of the
eighteenth judicial distret, oa the peti
tion of C. E. Baines, af Burlington, J. G.
SE2&*d
that branch of the Scot tish rite of Ma«
sonry, commonly known as the Cereneau,
ordered a temporary injunction against
the grand lodge of Iowa Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, restraining legislation them of
from putting into effect the
the last session of the Grand lodge refer
mMd^d C SerMawi8%o n ieaTe 1 cl
th e
sistory of Iowa of that rite under punish
ment of expulsion. The petition by states
that as the body represented lodge the degree plain
tiffs does not confer a blue
and the grand lodge or its subordinate
lodges do not confer the twenty-nine
j higher degrees, the grand lodge has no
jurisdiction whatever and its action is
illegal, arbitrary, oppressive, presenp
j tive of their individual consistories and
Masonic relations and hurtful of their
! standing as good and reputable citizens.
I This is the hrst time a Masonic body has
led t0 the state courts and the ae
tion of the supreme court to which it will
j
for a j* rp<;Ulal injunction will beduring
^ October term of court at Marion,
TRADE PROSPECTS.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS OF GOOD CROPS
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for
the week endiDg August 3d, says: “The
country begins to feel the stimulus ol
uood crops. New Spring wheat began
to arrive at Chicago on the first, ten days
earlier than last year. The St. Louis
corn corner has no effect, and an abuud
ant yield is expected and business in all
departments is gaining. The North -
western Miller estimates the wheat yield
at 500,000,000 bushels of excellent qual¬
ity, and the mills at Minneapolis are ac*
t ve with water plenty. St. Paul natu¬
rally reports an improvement in trad„e,
and Milwaukee also in all branches. Af
Omaha the assurance of crops above the
average makes business excellent. In
the iron regions a distinct increase in
demand is felt, and orders for one hun¬
dred new locomotives were placed dur¬
ing the week. The certainty of large
traffic also has its effect upon railroad
negotiations, which have made progress Trade
toward peace. The volume of
continues to exceed last year’s, at New
York, 12 per cent, and outside 12$ per
cent., according to clearings through
banks. Exports for July, from New York,
appear 14$ per cent, larger than last
year, with imports 51 per cent, larger,
and these figures would point to an ex¬
cess of about 11 , 000,000 imports over
exports, and yet large offerings of bills
against products to be moved hereafter
prevents apprehension, The prospect is
better for a decline of 2 § cents in wheat
during the week, though corn, oats and
cotton for immediate delivery are frac¬
tionally higher. Pork products have
all declined a little, and lions 20 cents
per 100 pounds. The speculative move¬
ment in these products has not been
large, the sales of wheat retching 18,
000,000 bushels for the week, of corn
7,000,000 and of cotton 191,000 bales.
But coffee is three-quarters stronger,
with sr.les of 326,000 hags. In oil only
1 and the
oriee is about one cent lower
TROUBLE IN M RAE, GA.
ONE MAN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS SE¬
VERELY WOUNDED.
Saturday night wasa tragic evening in
the town of McRae, Ga. One of her citi¬
zens bleeding from a severe stab in the
abdomen, another lying stiff’ in death
from a pistol shot through the bowels,
and still another bleeding from a shot in
the leg. While the evebing mail was
being distributed a disturbance arose in
the posfioffice between Mr. Wash Lancas¬
ter, his two sons, Wright and John, and
a young man named Clark. The result
was that Clark was beaten pretty badly.
Clark was taken out of town, afid all
thought the matter was ended. But few
minutes had elapsed when every one was
startled by the rapid firing of pistols.
Six of Talfnir’s prominent citizens
defied each other with but a few
feet of dirt intervening — three Lan¬
casters, father and two sons on the one
side, and the three McRaes, Edward,
John and Frank, two brothers and a
cousin on the other. When the cloud ol
smoke had cleared away it was found
that Mr. Ed McRae had been seriously
cut in the left side, and that Mr. Wash
Lancaster had' been shot in the abdomen
and his son Wright in the leg. There
are no more prominent families in this
section of the country than the Lancas¬
ters or McRaes. Each have held offices
of trust and honor in this county, and
deep is the regret on every side that this
tragedy occurred.
Ax BIG GRAB.
THE BOOK-KEEPER OF A BANK GETS RICH
VERY SUDDENLY.
There was a big morning,when sensation in Wheeling, it became
W. Va., Friday
known that Harry Seybold, a very popu¬
lar young man, individual book-keeper
of thj bank of Wheeling, had been ar¬
rested for embezzling $27,000' from the
bank. On the 10th of April, a package
containing $27,0Cfo was deposited in the
bank by a prominent business man,
and was placed in the vault
to be counted after business hours.
After the bank had closed, the man
who had deposited the package went to
get it and found it missing. The ab¬
sence of the package was kept quiet for
a time, being as it appeared evident Sey¬ that
some employe had taken it. Harry
bold was found to be spending rested money
very freely. Suspicion at once on
him and he was arrested. He was taken
before Justice Arkle and charged with
.-the theft. At first Seybold denied the
charge, but after close examination by
an officer he finally confessed to have
taken the money. Seybold has been in
the employ of the bank for the past
seven years, and his books have always
been found correct at each examination.
He gave as a reason for taking the pack¬
age that the temptation was too strong.
DISASTER IN OHIO.
AT LEAST A DOZEN KILLED BY A RAILROAD
ACCIDENT.
A pusher,running wild,returning from
Connersville, Ohio, to Hamilton, collided
with a passeuger train. The latter was
running at a very high speed. The
place is remote from telegraph stations,
and definite news is hard to obtain. It
is known, however, that it was a bad
smash-up. Fireman Lee and Baggage
master Shields were killed outright.
Engineer Dougherty was badly hurt, and
a Mr. Brannan, fireman, was number severely
hurt. It is believed that the of
killed and wounded will not be greater
than twelve or fourteen.