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HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
England has over $1,000,000 invested
in the manufacture of idols for heathen
countries .
Chicago now claims to cover more
ground than any other city in the
Union.
Higher rates and an increasing de¬
mand for money are reported all over
the West.
Dr. Felix Oswald, writing in the
North American Review, predicts that in
the near futuic arbor festivals will be
too papular to be limited to a single
day in the year.
Fifteen per cent, of the deaths in a
commune in Normandy, are due to
cancer of flie stomach, a fact which has
convinced the doctors that the disease
is contagious, and is propagated by
water.
Every once in a while something comes
up that seems to justify the famous re¬
mark of the English engineer that coal
would never be cheap until it
became four lime! as dear, since
only then won d a cheap substitute be
invented.
Tiie city of Buffalo, N. V., has now
the distinction of possessing more as¬
phalt pavements than any city in the
world, the area of asphalt here being
1,000,248 square yards, extending ovc r
a length of fifty-one miles, ot more than
the c mbined area of all the asphalt
roadways in Europe.
It is said that Cut man County, Ala.,
is the only level, arable and fertile tract
of land in the Southern Sta’ei iu which
there are virtually no colored peop e.
Tn a census population of more than
15,000, including an area of over 1,500
square miles, there aro only fourteju
colored pc >plo.
Congress appropriates only $10,000
for the preservation of the forests of the
nation, while Jt is estimated that $6, -
000,000 worth of lumber is ycnr.y
stolen from the public domain, The
valuo of the wood consumed in the
United States eacli year is estimated at
$60,000,000,000.
The Duke of Portland ; s said to have
been registered in the black book of tho
English royal family. It is rumored
that lie was given a broad hint concern¬
ing his desirability as suitor for tho
hand of the Princess Louise, now be¬
trothed to the Earl of Fife, but. having
the unenviable career of the Marquis of
Lome before him, he was not to be
caught, llenco his decline in royal
favor, and tho slighting of his bride.
The dullest city iu North America has
been discovered at last, announces the
Chicago New. It is not St. Louis, as
most people had supposed, but Victoria,
British Columbia, A letter writteu
from there contaius the following:
4 4 Business men come down to their of
ficos here at 1 p. m. and leave at 4 p.
in. After that hour the town is com¬
pletely deserted. 1 thought Alexan¬
dria, Va., was dead, but it is positively
gay in comparison with this place.
There grass grows in the streets, but
here crops mature in the thoroughfares.”
Tho Atlanta Constitution says:
“Pretty Mrs. May brick, the charming
southerner, who is to be tried at Liver¬
pool for poisoning her husband, has
captured the hearts of the cold-blooded
Britons. The statement is made in the
New York Star that Mrs. Maybrick’*
lawyers have received seveu letter! from
men who aro willing to marry the lady
in the event of her acquittal. Cue is
from a minister in Scotland, a man of
high family. Tho Star says that this
instance recalls the case of Madeline
Smith, the heroine of the famous Scotch
poLoaing case thirty years ago. She
was asked by, twenty-seven men to
marry them if she was acquitted. She
was found not guilty and married a
clergyman, and has been a happy woman
ever since. Jud why perfect strangers
should fall in love with these alleged
Borgias is a mystery. So fur as Mrs.
Maybrick is concerned, it is only just to
>ay that the evidence against her is by
no means conclusive. Still, her sudden
popularity is ratKy surprising.”
GENERAL NEWS.
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CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FBOM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!,
KIBE8, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
A grand being arranged ,
excursion is
for the Central and South American
delegates to the international American
congress.
The English, Scotch and American .
colleges in Rome have united in sending
to the Catholic university at Washing
ton, D. C., a marble bust of St. Thomas
Aquinas.
The ship John A. Brills, Rio Janeiro
to Philadelphia, is detained at quaran
tine at Lewes, Del., on account of hav
iug had yellow fever on board during
passage.
John Lees & Son, cotton spinners,
who operate the Dover Mills at 1,717
Bodine street, Philadelphia, Pa., made
an assignment Tuesdey. The firm’s lia¬
bilities amount to about $36,000, and
assets 125,000.
Tuesday A cyclone passed over Winthrop, Mo.,
afternoon. The rain fell in tor¬
rents, and the wind blew a gale, accom¬
panied by a heavy thunder. Corn and
other crops were seriously injuried.
An investigation of the accounts of W
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, fnd., who is charged with embez¬
zlement in his office, shows that the
shortage amounts to $6,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap¬
prehended.
Tuesday evening a bomb, ten centime¬
ters in diameter, was thrown from the
rear of the chamber of deputies into the
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of a concert The bomb ex¬
ploded, wounding child. seriously six gen¬
darmes and a
Twenty Arabs, of' both sexes, who
came on the steamer La Normandie, are
detained at Castle Garden, in New York,
until the Turkish consul can be con¬
sulted. It is said there are 70,000 Arabs
waiting to come passed to this through. country provided
the twenty are
An independent German company has
been formed at London, England, with
a capital of 300,000,000 francs to com¬
plete the Simplon tunnel. The company
lias acquired two Swiss railroads from
Lucerne. Italy will give 15,000,000
francs to possess one end of the tunnel.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.,
says: Great excitement exists among
the cotton farmers of five or more count¬
ies in this state over the appearance, in
the last few days, of cotton worms. They
have appeared in the cotton lands of
Pulaski, Jefferson, Clark and two other
counties, as far as heard from.
It is reported from St. Louis that the
fast mail train which arrived in that city
Saturday night over the Vandnlia Road,
was robbed at Terre Haute, Indiana,
while the mail clerks and train hands
were at supper. It is said that one
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was supposed to
contain about $10,000.
A gasoline engine at the oil refinery
of A. D. Miller, in Alleghany, Pa., ex¬
ploded early Wednesday morning. The
plant took tire immediately and was
rapidly destroyed. watchman The engineer blown is
missing, and the was
many feet and badly burned und bruised.
Loss at least $225,000.
Special reports to the New England
Homestead from all of the seed leaf to¬
bacco growing districts of the United
States, indicate a fair yield of good aver¬
age quality. The farmers have generally
sold out their old crops, and the pros
peets for reasonably good prices is excel¬
lent.
The great strike of dock laborers
London, England, is spreading. commercial One
thousand men, employed on Wednes¬
docks, joined the strikers on
day. The socialists are trying to lead
the movement, and the red flag is being
displayed. Thirty thousand dock men
marched through the city, but made no
untoward demonstrations.
There was an explosion of fire damp
in No. 2 colliery of of the Delaware and
Hudson Canal company,at Scranton, Pa.,
Thursdav morning, by which five men,
Audrew' Nichols, the superintendent, John
Richard Mason, foreman, and Lav
ern, Samuel Williams and Johu Jones
were seriously and perhaps fatally
burned.
A lieutenant with a small detail of
soldiers from Sully. Dak., has just com¬
pleted a trip along the edge of the Sioux
reservation and reports everything quiet, good
with not a “boomer” in sight. The
effect of the assured opening of 11,000,
000 acres to settlement can already be
felt, and a wonderful increase in all
classes of business is plainly noticeable.
The British bark Ouawav, Philadel¬ Captain
Anderson, which sailed from
phia June 5, for Bilboa. with a crew
of fifteen men and 124,000 gallons of
crude petroleum, valued at $8,956. is be¬
lieved to have been lost, as nothing has
been beard of her since she passed wife and out
Dele ware capes. The captain 1 ®
two children accompanied him.
Governor Hill, at Albanv, N. Y„ on
Wednesday beard an appeal by Lawyer
llowe for Executive clemency for Charles
Gilbin, Janu s Nolan and John Lewis,
three of the five murderers, who are
e waiting execution on Friday morning,
i',., uorernor said he would grant Gilbin
a w«.'. respite until October 23d, and would
The Minister of Finance a, St. I tUrs ,
burg. Russia, intends to tax Protop an,
ohurehes in the Balt.c provinces. These
churches have hitherto been exempt from
taxation. This is one of a senes of re
foims, by which the government intends
to thoroughly Russianize old Baltic G«-
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the surprising fact that Lun\» was a
sound man physically. He was getting
well, and it was only a question of time
when he would have been restored to
full vigor. His death is attributed di¬
rectly to blood poisoning resulting from
an operation performed just a few days
before his demise.
The Keystone Furnsce Company, at
Reading Pa., which operates two large
furnaces there, with a capacity of 440
tons per week, made an assignment for
the benefit of its creditois. The assets
of the company consist of two furnaces
assigned, and some laud, probably worth
altogether $200,000. Mortgages are re¬
corded against the compuuy amountigg
to $180,(100, and floating obligations,
which amount to between $60,000 and
$80,000.
The corner stone of the Indiana Sol¬
diers’and Sailors’ monument was laid
Thursday evening at Indianapolis, Ind.,
with imposing ceremonies, in the pre¬
sence of the president of the United
States. Men of prominence in the United
States and thousands of veteran soldiers
and sailors were present. The exercises
began with a procession in which 8, COO
men belonging to state Grand Army or¬
ganizations. state military and local civic
organizations, took part.
INDIGNANT AMERICANS
CLAIM THEY WERE CRUELLY
TREATED BY GERMANS.
E. C. Hill, widely known among flor¬
ists, and president of the national floral
association, has just returned to Rich¬
mond, Ind., his home, from a trip to
Europe, and reports that while en route
from Belfort to Basle, in company with
Robert George, of Painesviile, the train
was stopped at the neutral line
between France and Alsace-Lorraine,,
and he and his companion were
arrested as spies. They and their bag¬
gage w'as searched, their passports dis¬
regarded and they were not permitted to
cross the line. Mr. Hill says the Ger¬
man officers were- obstinate and brutal
in their treatment. They were denied
the privilege of continuing their journey
although there wa3 nothing whatever to
support the suspicion against them, and
they were compelled to hire a French
peasant to take them back to Belfort.
Their treatment will be reported to the
state department.
THE TUNNEL COMPLETED,
A HEW THROUGH LINE FROM THE SOUTH
TO CINCINNATI.
The Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and
Louisville Railroad was fully completed
Wednesday from Knoxville, Tenn., to
and through the great tunnel at Cumber¬
land Gap, 3,750 feet long, where it con¬
nects with the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad and Norfolk and Western Rail¬
road. The Knoxville, Cumberland Gap
and Louisville Railroad, with the ex¬
tension, the Marietta and North Georgia
Railway to Knoxville, will form a new
and important through line from Atlanta
to Cincinnati and Norfolk. The Ma
rietti and North Georgia Railway, and
the Anox.'Tle, Cumberland Gap and
Loui ville ■ ill open a vast territory yet
unde -i pel, bu. known to be one of
the iclies sections in the South,
abounding t marble, iron ores, coking
coal and v&luab. hard wood timber.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GEORGIA
A PHENOM1NAL INCREASE IN THE VALUE
OF PROPERTY.
The tax returns ior 1883 showed that
property had increased throughout Geor
g> $18,000 000 Every year since that
time the returns have shown an increase,
Jut never has he a m0U at for th e year
1883 been equaled. I hi. year, how
ever, the hig^ record water established. mark will be The passed
and a new in¬
crease of 1883, which for many years,
was ssssg;ixffsrrs; quoted as something phenomenal
|i<j OQh 000 worth of improvements di
^jg vear - come solely from the tax Should
f lea • ^ railroads out .
heV be included, the statement would
^ tlm Q* or gi a „ $25,000,000 richer
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
VXMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS FOINTS IN THE SOUTH.
CONDENSE!) ACCOUNT Of WHAT IS GOINO ON OV
IMPOIiTiNCE IN IKE SOUTHERN STATES.
The cigarmakers at Jacksonville, Fla.,
are on strike.
The first trip of the new electric Cars
in Atlanta, Ga,, took place Thursday.
A large f undry will be erected in
Athens,Ga., in a few week a . The industry
will be a large one, and will be a great
addition to the city.
Prof. Perry, the aeronaut, whose ter¬
rible fall from a balloon at Mount Holly,
N. C., was reported several days ago,
(lied ac Charlotte, Tuesday.
During a thunderstorm in Richmond,
Vi.j Thursday night, a sixteen-year-old
di. ighter of W. E. Whitman was struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
The chief of the secret service of the
treasury department is informed that a
$2 United States silver certificate, act of
August 4th, 1886, department series,
1886, check letter (J, has just made its
appearance in the West.
Col. Adolph Brandt, a prominent at¬
torney of Atlanta, Ga., andf a distin¬
guished member of the Independent chancel¬ Or¬
der of Odd Fellows, and grand died sud¬
lor of the Knights of Georgia, Ga.,
denly of apoplexy at Roma, on
Wednesday.
Mrs. John P. Richardson, of Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn., arrived at New York a few
days ago, and, upon opening her bag
gage, fouud she had been robbed of
$5,000 worth of jewelry, probably the on
the railroad. There is no clue to
robber.
Considerable interest has been aroused
in Nashville, Tenn., by the near ap¬
proach of the time for leasing the four¬
teen hundred convicts in the state bidders prison,
especially as there is a dearth of
in prospect. The minimum price is
$100,000 per annum.
The Farmers’ Alliance exchange of
Florida,on Wednesday,took the first step
toward making Jacksonville a home
market for Florida-raised cotton. For
many years Florida’s product has been
aeDt to Savannah, Brunswick and other
points, but Jacksonville will now handle
the crop.
The largest sale of tobacco ever made
at auction in one day in the United
States, and probably in the world, was
made at Louisville, Ky., on Thursday.
The total number of hogsheads sold was
1,002. This amounts to about a million
and a half pounds, worth in the hogs¬
head over $100,000.
The petition for federal aid in opening
theOcmulgee river from Abbeville, Ga.,
to Macon, has about eighty Abbeville, names
of business men in and about
and others, among them the name of
Nat Statham, who was pilot on the
steamer North Carolina when she ran up
to Macon about the year 1830.
A report from Raleigh, N. C., says
that Dr. Eugene Griscom will tender his
resignation as superintendent of the
North Carolina insane asylum. The res¬
ignation of Dr. Griscom will end one of
the greatest sensations in the state.
Nine-tenths of the people and newspa¬
pers have clamored for it for weeks.
A heavy hailstorm visited Columbus,
Ga., Thursday afiernoon. The stones
were as large as partridge eggs, Trees
were blown down in various parts of the
city, and considerable damage was done
to a number of new buildings in course
of erection. No serious casualities are
reported. The sun was shining bright¬
ly during the storm.
A special from Charleston, W. Va.,
says: Frank Morris, John Heil, James
O’Brien and Brodie Morris, miners, were
caught beneath a fail of slate in the
miues of the Cannelton Coal Company,
in Fayette county, W. Ya,, Wednesday
night and instantly killed. Several
others were wounded and others had
narrow escapes.
At a meeting of district assembly 105,
Knights of Labor, held in Atlanta, Ga.,
on Wednesday, it was resolved “that
the Knights of Labor express to our
representatives in the State Legislature
the earnest desire of the Knights Childs of La¬
bor that the bill known as the la¬
bor bill and the arbitration bill, and the
bill known as the ten hour bill, all do
pass, and to that end request our repre¬
sentatives to support, vote for and do all
in their power to have the bills passed.”
A NOVEL RACE.
FOUR LARGE STEAMERS TO RACE ACROSS
THE ATLANTIC.
Great interest is taken in the sailing of
four big steamships, which left New
York for Europe Wednesday. The big
racers, “Teutonic,” of the White Star
line; “City of New York,” of the In¬
man; “Saale,’’ of the North German
Lloyd, and the “City of Rome,” of the
Anchor line, all had a fair number of sa¬
loon passengers, and all were eagerly dis¬
cussing the merits of the several vessels.
The Teutonic and City of New York
were the favorites for the great race.
The Inman Line people predict that the
City of New York will not only make a
faster run than the Teutonic, but wiih
good weather and no accidents she will
cross in six days, Numerous bets were
made before the departure of the racers,
which will be settled in Liverpool. The
boats left within an half hour of each
other.
Since August 3, 1887, this Govern¬
ment has purchased bonds to the amount
of $163,382,850, and thereby saved
$34,413,892 to the people,
A RAILROAD HORROR.
A TRAIN WRECKED—SEVERAL PEOPLE
KILLED AND MANY INJURED.
A terrible wreck occured on the
Knoxville, Cumberland Gap and Louis
ville railroad at Flat Gap creek, twenty
two miles from Knoxville, Tenn., Thurs¬
day morning. The train was the first to
go over the new of road, and carried jt
select excursion the city council,
board chamber of public works, representatives and the
of the of commerce very
flower of the business and professional
men of Knoxville. Two cars left the
track at the crossing, and the rear car
went down the trestle. Only one man
in the car was uninjured. It was im¬
possible to secure medical aid for a long
time, and when the train reached Knox¬
ville, scanty attention was rendered.
Many had to be brought back the on flat
cars, and the last part of journey
was made in a driving rain. Three men
died from injuries, and others cannot
live. The dead are: Judge George
Andrews, the most prominent lawyer in
East Tennessee; S. T. Powers, leading
merchant and former president of the
East Tennessee Fire Insurance company •
Alexander Reeder, a leading politician.
The injured are: Alex A. Arthur, pres¬
ident chamber of commerce, Isham
Young, president, and Peter Kern, f
member of the board of public works,
John T. Herd, editor of the Sentinel . W.
W. Woodruff, leading wholesale mer¬
chant, Charles Seymour, attorney, and
Alexander Wilson, assistant chief en
gineer of the Knoxville, Cumberland
Gap and Louisville road, County
Judge Maloney, Aldermen Barry
and HockiDgs, General H. J. Schubert,
of the governor’s staff; A. Alberts,
w'holcsale merchant ; Rev. R.
J. Cook, professor U. S. Grant Univer¬
sity; City Physician West, Judge H. H.
Iagersoll, H.B. Witsell, W. B. Samuels,
C. Abbie, Capt. H. H. Taylor, S. Mc
Kelden, Ed. Barker, J. F. Kinsell, John t
B. Hall, Phillip Samuels, aged ten; of the R.
Sehmidt, W. A. Parker, and one
train crew. Out of fifty-six persons injured. on
the train forty-one were doctors
There was a great dearth of at
Knoxville, and many of the injured had
to wait several hours for attendance. It *
is feared that this fact, together with the
drenching rain, will render the after
effects very serious. It is believed that
the wreck can be attributed to the eon
dition of the road. Two years ago
Knoxville subscribed $225,000 toward
the construction of the road, and the
contract proper expired on Friday. It
was to show the city authorities that the
road was completed that the excursion
was given. __
ADVISING FARMERS
VO HURRY THEIR COTTON TO MARKET IN
ORDER TO GET GOOD PRICES.
Lehman, Durr & Co., cotton factors,
at Montgomery, Ala., have issued a cir¬
cular in which they say: “The general
cotton crop of the country the present
year, 1889, promises to be the largest
ever produced in the United States, but
on account of there being of the stocks
now carried by spinners so mucht poor
Gotton, they (the spinners) •will picking be com¬
pelled to buy of the first this
year in order to get a better grade with
which to work off their old stock,, so
that for a time at least, there will be a
good demand for new crop and at high
prices. It looks reasonable to us that
cotton will bring higher prices from now
until the first of October than at any
other time during the season, and if this
be true, then it behooves the producers
to pick and to get to market every bale
they can between this and the first of
October in order to avail themselves of
the high prices likely to prevail.”
HEAVY FAILURE.
A COTTON GOODS COMPANY OF RHODE
ISLAND SUSPENDS.
The Wauregan cotton goods company, i I
of Providence, R. I., on Wednesday, de- '
cided to suspend payment and allow
their goods to go to protest. The com- I
patiy has two mills at present in opera- J
tion—one at Wauregan, near Plainfield,
Conn., capitalized at $600,000, with 1,* I
400 looms, employing 1,000 hands; the
other, the Nottingham mills,, in Provi¬ J
dence, capitalized at $300,000;. with 23,- I
000 spindles, 556 looms, and employs
600 hands. Treasurer Taft is also secre- ■
tary and treasurer of Ponemah mills, in 1
Connecticut, that has a capital of $1,500,- j
000. The company’s liabilities are placed
at one million. Assets, according to the
company’s figures, are two million. The ,,
failure is directly due to that of Lewis
Bros. The Nottingham mill w r ili also
suspend. The Thornton worsted milli
went under Wednesday. Their trouble
is caused by the failure of Brown, SteeL
& Clark, wool dealers, of Dedham, ^
Mass.
Makers of Fans and Baskets.
Fiesole, near Florence, Italy, contains
only between 2,000 and 3,000 inhabi¬
tants, all engaged apparently in making
- traw baskets and fans. Women with
these wares to sell beset you on every
i le, run after every carriage and offer
: ieir help goods buying. so cheap that you can fan scarce¬ 10
ly A pretty at , k
cents does not seem dear to an American,
nor a basket of intricate work at 20
cents. AH the inhabitants of the plate
who do not plait straw’ beg, and I am
afraid get almost as much as their in¬
Chronicle._____ dustrious neighbors.—[San Francisco q
Both the Russians and the British, as
they push farthey and fartler into Asia,
pay great attention to arboriculture,
planting trees, shrubs and flowers where
ever they form a settlement. The result
s that Central Asia is being reforested.