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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT— 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. -r* 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«- min inslitc ence of th Abrahai lawyers at his home morning, of the fo tional la opponer railroad q U j re d i awyer ^ Minn. vorr inch# 2 ar jjgjj 1 bui i we ie bu :4 bu ' 7 - T ■na, ret 10U t and g in S most > fires tning et of ferri val stings, >ort of Mil UlA l ' w A essman - Laird. This exan., 'bt out 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 ^ lMt 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.