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„,uopoiitan as the
<* i os. At the hotel in Sydney
me other week there wore thirteen dif¬
ferent nationalities represented at one
table.
Five years hence there will hardly be
a place on this earth, declares the Chi¬
cago Herald, for the robber, murderer
or conspirator to set his foot and feel
safe. Treaties are being made in every
direction concerning them an 1 their ex¬
tradition.
Dakota, Montana, and Washington
Territory are as big as Great Britain,
the German Empire, the Netherlands
and Switzerland, all of which have 90,
000,000 population, while there are
only 1,000,090 people in the former
territories.
A “Guide to the Churches of Lon¬ J
don” shows that the number of metro¬ ;
politan houses of worship has increased ;
between 1883 and 1889 from 928 to
.1,010. A bar vest ments are now the
rule in 59 churches a. against 37 ia I
18S3, altar lights in 119 as against 04 j
in 1883, and the “eastward position’’
in 390 as against 304 in 1883. In tha |
same period the number of churches in
which the communion is celebrated in
tho evening has decreased from 289 to
272.
Professor Orton, Ohio State geologist
has for years urged on the people tho
need of using natural gas economically.
But, on the contrary,it has been wasted
so that not over one-twelfth has been
utilized and the rest allowed to escape.
A contemporary shows that over one
fourth of all the gas omsunr.vl in Pitts- j
burg factories is also wasted, either j
through ° defective apparatus 1£ or the care- j |
less of operatives, i.us showing .
ness j
would not be so b& 1 if the supply were j
inexhaustible; but already the pressure !
is greatly diminished in tho wells and
not a few are entirely exhausted. 1 ro- j
fessor Orton believes tha supply will be 1
of comparatively short duration. j
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It is said that France under the ro- ;
pubi c has made great progress in the
practice of popular education, but it
stili is far from the front rank. Tha ■
conscription returns for 1885 show that
10.3 of tha army recruits could neither
read nor write. In the United States
barely tight per cent, of tho native
white population above the age of ten
years ' is unable to write and read.
1888, 0 the , total , appropriations . . from tho ,
national, municipal and departmental
governments ia Fiance, answering to
our federal, state and city governments,
amounted to about. $29,200,0)0 for
purposes of primary education. In the
same year the American expenditures
upon 11 public schools amounted to $115,-
103,880.
The New York Shir says that “there
isa general desire to celebrate the 400th
anniversary of the discovery of America
by a World’s Fair which will illustrate
the enormous progress America has
made in four centuries. There is no
serious dispute that n should be held in
this city, as the Metropolis of tha new
Continent. It is a mere' sentiment
which suggests the capital ia lieu of the
industrial and financial centre of the
Natiou, as the proper place. The pub
lic-spiritoJ ciltoa, of X™ To* m»j
be relied upon to contribute handsome
ly. The commercial and industrial in
tcrests centered here will see that all the
. forthcoming. , , Tne
money necessary is
city will undoubtedly make a large ap
propriation. The General Government
may also be depended upon to aid the
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k ot the means to carry out such an enter
■ " prise and of the general wish for such
an exhibition arc, indeed, already J an
*wejv(l.”
.IKES,
.•right and
.rsday night,
ussia, was de
/• The los3 is
s of window formed glass,
jckery have a
of England has advanced its
count lrom three per cent to
cent.
earthquake was experienced on the
.ssian frontier Tuesday. In the village
jf Khenzorik 129 persons were buried
alive.
Emperor William, of Germany, has
presented his portrait to Lord Salisbury
as a souvenir of his recent visit to Eng¬
land.
The barbers’ national convention, called
to meet in Pittsburg, Pa., next Tuesday,
has been indefinitely postponed, The
purpose national of union, the meet.ng was to organize
a
The schedule showing liabilities of the
insolvent wool firm of Brown, Stoese &
Clark, of Boston, Muss., was filed in the
insolvency court on Monday morning.
It shows liabilities of $1,180,009.
A combination of eastern coal capitalists
Ills formed to buy all the lands
along the Monongahela River, including
franchises, landing, boats, good will,
etc., and control the river coal business.
The German police have unearthed a
socialist society whose organization ex¬
tends throughout the province of Gali¬
cia. Many lawyers, students aud ladies
connected with the society have been
arrested.
The jury of the Paris exposition recom¬
mends that a gold medal be awarded to
Boston for its educational exhibits. Sim¬
ilar recommendations have been made in
favor of Carroll university, and the Uui
versity of Virginia.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant charged postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is with embez¬
zlement in his office, shows that the
shortage reach amounts to $0,000, and been may
more. Denny lias not yet sp¬
prehunded.
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 conceit. The bomb ex¬
ploded, wounding seriously six gen¬
darmes and a child.
John S. Mackintosh, wool puller of
Milton, Mass., assigned on Tuesday.
His liabilities are estimated to be in the
neighborhood caused of $100,000. by the embarrassment The assign
meut was
of Brown, Steese A Clark, and George
Holds.
The shoe factory of A. Coburn, Son &
Co., at ] Hopkinson, morning. Over Mass., three was hundred burned
q- ueS( av
workmen are deprived of employment.
(>ne storu bouse attached to the factory
was alto destroyed. I he toss is esti
ma ted at $250,000, fully insured.
At Chicago, II. J. Iluiskamp, procured one of
the proprietors of the Times,
warrants I uesday for James J. \V est and
chnrge8 them with illegally issuing 1,000
gfiares of the stock of the Times com
party.
Rev. C. A. Nvbladr, of Galesburg, Id.,
lias instituted suit against thirty promi¬
nent citizens of that place, charging
them with false imprisonment and asks for and $25,- de
f a ,nation of character,
COO damages. Last full Mr. Nybladn
was arrested on a s> rious charge. P a es¬
caped trial because the case \vu. dis¬
missed.
It is reported from St. Louis that the
f llf ,t mail tram which arrived in that city
Saturday night over the Vandalia Road,
"" robbcd .ft T \ rre Haute, Indiana,
while the mail clerks , and tram hands
wcre at SU p per . It is said that one
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was supposed to
conti,ia aboKt S10 ’ 000 -
ff^Couuhfin^BeggsTo’Sulll , w ,
rvl van and
Kunze, charged with the murder of Dr.
Cronin, on May 4th, was begun at Chi
engo, on Tuesday. Probably no case in
tho history of the city has attracted such
wide-spiead attention as the Cronin
murder ease, and the trial will be
watched with great interest.
The entire plant of the Union Fur
nace company, of Rockford, Ill., was
wiped out of existence Monday night by
the most disastrous fire that ever oc
eurred in that vicinity. It broke out in
the finl-Uing room, and in three hours
the buildings, two large four story
structures, were in ashes. Not a thing
was saved. The company will lose
nearly $100,000. on which there is only
$40,000 insurance.
It was announced Wednesday that H.
C. Frick & Co., the largest coal operators
coke plant> which includes 5,000 acres of
coal land, 1.500 coke ovens and 400 care.
This will give 1 rick & Co., contiol of
over 9,000 coke ovens m that region,
with Monday the selling
price ofcoal will be advanced frcmfl to
SI.35 to furnace men, $1.50 to dealers
and * 165 to foundry mcn ‘
After brine* Injton shut down for sixteen
jeara, the Pig ton work... »iti
a capacity of 1,200 tons of pig iron per
dav,located a few miles north of Buffalo,
NL Y.. on the Niagara river, was started
up on Wednesday by Cincinnati jmrties,
j have leased the plant for five ywtrs,
ith the privilege of purchase. The re
jewal of this enterprise, which originally
cost half a million of dollars, has created
much enthusiasm in manufacturing cir¬
cles in Buffalo.
Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, tele¬
graphed Genet'.l Manager Devlin on
Monday to discharge all employes of the
Spring Valley coal company at Spring
Valley, III., who were not absolutely
needed to run the mine, and to prepare
for a general shut down for six months
or a year. This moans a practical de¬
population of the town. Many of the
miners have already left. The Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad has closed
down its Spring Valley branch, and dis¬
charged ah the men at their end of the
line.
People residing in the section bounded
by Parish, Brown, West ^College Philadelphia, avenue
and Twenty-eighth streets
Pa., were .afraid Jo retire Monday night
for ,ear that their dwellings would be
swallowed up and that they would be
killed. A succession of fhc most start¬
ling cave in of streets, breaking of
sewers, pnd bursting ox water pipes,
feigned in that district on Monday as a
result of the recent rains. It is estima¬
ted that $100,000 Tvorth of damage has
been caused thus far.
The great strike in Loudon, which
was inaugurated several days ago, is
gaining new adherents hourly. Eight
thousand sailors and fireman and two
thousand five hundred dockmen at the
Isle of Dogs, where several large docks
are located, have gone out. The author¬
ities are holding military in readiness to
suppress an outbreak should it occur.
The coal porters at Kings Cross have
also joined in the strike. A conference
took place on Monday between the dock
mauagers and delegates from the striking
laborers, but it was without result.
The statement of the business of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad company
for July, 1889, as compared with the
same month last year, shows the gross
earnings to be $457,530, an increase of
$50-,444; expenses, $279,522, an increase
of $28, 142: net earnings, $178,20S, u'n
increase of $22,302. E’or the seven
mouths ended July 31st the gross earn¬
ings were $2,985,424, an increase of
$254,103, as compared with the corres¬
ponding period of 1888; expenses, $1,
925,600, an increase of $252,400; net
earnings, $1,599,704, an increase of
$1,704.
The case of Deputy Marshal David
Nagle, who shot and killed David S.
Terry, was taken up in the United States
circuit court at San Francisco on
Wednesday, for the purpose of fixing the
time for taking testimony and hearing
arguments on tne question of jurisdiction
of the federal court. Mr. Turner, one of
the attorneys representing the state, an¬
nounced that as both his colleagues had
retired from the case, ho would follow
their example. This leaves the state
without counsel in the Nagle case. The
hearing was postponed until next week.
William Murtric Speer, secretary of
the, World’s Fair committee at New
York, on Thursday received the follow¬
ing letter from ex-President Cleveland,
dated at Saranac Inn: “I acknowl¬
edge the receipt of notice of my ap
pointmint as a member of the com¬
mittee on permanent organization for the
international exposition of 1892. I shall
be very glad to co-operate as a member
of such committee with other citizens of
New York to make the exposition a
crand success.”
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED BY THE COTTON COMMITTEE OF
TI1E FARMER'S ALLIANCE.
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At a meeting of the national cotton
committee of the Farmers’ Alliance,
held in Atlanta, Ga , on Wednesday, the
following resolutions were passed: Re¬
solved, That the national cotton commit
mittee recommend that the farmers of
the soutii sell no cotton during the month
of September, except what may be abso¬
lutely nccessaiv to meet the obligations
which arc past due. Resolved, That the
national cotton committee instruct the
president of each sub-Alliance, wheel or
union, or some person appointed by him,
to meet the president and secre¬
tary •-n his county Alliance on
the CO of September, at the
county seat for the purpose of receivfcig
instructions from the national cotton
committee. Resolved, That each secre¬
tary of every cotton state be charged
with the duty of placing these resolu¬
tions immediately before their respective
county presidents, and charge all ex¬
penses of printing and posttge to the
National Alliance. Resolved. That the
farmers be urged to take special care in
sheltering their cotton from the damag¬
ing weather. Resolved, That every
newspaper in the South in sympathy with
the farmers is requested to publish Chair¬ these
resolutions. (Signed) R. Sledge, Grand
man, Kyle, Texas; A. T. Hatcher,
Cane, La.: TV. R. Lacy. Winona, Miss.;
S. D. Alexander, Charlotte, N. C.; L. P.
Featherstone, Forest City, Ark.; M. L.
Donaldson, Greenville, S. C.; W. J.
Northen, Sparta. Ga.; R. F. Kolb,
Montgomery, Ala.: B. M. Hord, Secre¬
tary, Nashville, Tenn.
A TRAMP AUCTION.
Four tramps, arrested at Moberly,
Mo., for vagrancy, were put up at public
auction, Monday, from the c> urt house
steps. The sale had been duiy _ adver
used according to law, and there was a
large crowd present. The bidding was
not very spirited. Two of the tramps
went to farmers for $2 a head, and an¬
other was bid in for 75 cents. The
fourth tramp could find no purchasers, who
an«i he returned to jaiL The three
were sold must serve their purchasers for
four months.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
R10 US POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
I2IPGKTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Ilev. Dr. Yast, chancellor of the Uni¬
versity of Florida, on Thursday presented
to Htidelburg college, Tiffin, Ohio, a
museum of curiosities valued at $00,000.
Granny Boston died at Murphy, hundred N.C., and
Tuesday. She was one and
twenty-one years old, a pensioner,
remembered the battle of Kings moun¬
tain. r.,vi-i:
The Merchant aud Viticulturist, news¬
paper, estimates that the w T ine product of
California will not exceed 12,000,000
gallons this year. This is a reduction of
8,000,000 gallons from early estimates.
Mrs. TV. E. Christian, only daughter
of General Stonewall Jackson, is lying
very low with typhoid fever at her home
in Charlotte, N. C. Her case on Thurs
dap night was reported hopeless.
The Georgia legislature parsed the
Western & Atlantic railroad lease bill on
Wednesday by a vote of bill 130 the to' 19. road By is
the provisions of the
to be leased without restrictions of any
Sort. _ -
William McClosky, Catholic Dishop of
the Louisville diocese, has ordered the
closing of St. Joseph’s college at Bards
town, Ky. The reason is that a faculty,
such as was desired, could not be made
up for the ensuing year.
One drug house in Vicksburg, Miss.,
received orders for fifteen tons, or 30,000
pounds of Paris green a few days ago.
This fact demonstrates the extent of the
apprehension felt by cotton planters
concerning the cotton worms in the large
area of country tributary to or trading
with that city.
A sharp shock of earthquake occurred
at Los Angeles, Cal., at 0:13 Tuesday
evening. The entire duration of the dis¬
turbance was about ten seconds. The
vibrations were of such force as to stop
clocks and crack ceilings, 'the shock
was the most severo experienced there in
many years.
The United States circuit court, at
San Francisco, was officially informed
Tuesday that the charges of murder
against Justice Stephen J. Field had
becu dismissed by the Stockton court.
Judge Sawyer accordingly dismissed the
habeas corpus proceeding in the case of
Justice Field.
It is reported from Birmingham, Ala.,
that Jim Snow and George Banks, two
outlaws, who were members of the
Simpson gang in the bloody Simpson aud
Howten feud in the western part of the
county, were captured Thursday and
lodged in jail there. There is a reward
of $400 for the capture of the two txion.
The carpenters’ strike in Birmingham,
Ala., which has been in progress for
nearly a week, is virtually ended. An
increase of five cents per hour all around
has been conceded by nearly all the
contractors. The carpenters had the ad¬
vantage of striking at just the right time,
as more than 2,000 buildings were going
up under contract.
About one hundred negro miners left
Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday for Mex¬
ico. They go to work in the coal mines
in one of the interior states of that re¬
public. High wages and liberal induce¬
ments of various kinds are offered the
negroes. Most of the negro miners at
Birmingham are ex-convicts, and learned
the trade while serving their sentence.
Reports were rejejyed at Charleston.
S. C., fioin the Ashehoo rice fields, on
Monday, find by F. TV. planters, Wagoner, that Jh B.
Means btHer big har¬
vesting had been commenced. It is es¬
timated that the fields in that vicinity
will yield from fifty to sixty bushels per
acre. Reports from the entire rice re¬
gion of the state confirm this statement.
Another big railroad deal was made
Thursday at Nashville, Tenn., by which
Dr. William Morrow becomes principal
owner of the South Nashville Street
Railway company, and Mr. TT m. Dun¬
can, the president, retires. The capital
stock of the company is $115,000, and
over half of this controlling interest was
3 old by Duncan to Dr. Morrow.
A wholesale poisoning occurred at
Chattanooga, Tenn.,on Monday, through
the use of impure tainted meat. A col¬
ored woman named Wildham keeps a
boarding house, and has ten men board
ers. One hour after d.nner, all the
boarders, including the woman and her
daughter, were taken violently ill, and ;
all have been unconscious since. The j
<rirl aud two of the boarders will die.
Thursday morning, at Monroe, Ga., j
while workmen were tearing away an old !
barroom, a human skeleton was un- j
earthed in the cellar. Excitement ran
high, and many theories were suggested.
Several times in the history of Monroe
men have disappeared suddenly and
were never heard of. The building is
quite old, and at different times in its his¬
tory it has been occupied by bad men as
a barroom and gambling house.
St. Augustine, Fla., was in a fever of
excitement Wednesday, over the discov¬
ery of a hidden Spanish treasure in an old
house, corner of Bridge and Marine
streets, An old colored man dug up
near the foundation of the chimney fiftv
two Spanish coins in a rusty metallic
pot about ten inches deep and two in¬
ches across the mouth. The coins ire
very old, the latest being dated 18 )6,
and several of them antedating 1760.
Further developments are awaited with
interest.
The committee of the Southern Rail¬
way and Steamship association, at Atlan¬
ta, Ga., concluded its work on Thursday.
The rates recently adopted by the Central
road of Georgia and the Piedmont Atr-
Line were considered. It was decided to!
adopt the same schedule' on all the roads,
with the exception of the marine insurance
clause of the Georgia Central and Savan¬
nah fast freight line. The price on ail
roads except this will be 1.16, and by
the Georgia Central it will be 1.08, al¬
lowing for the marine insurance, which
will also have to be pud.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, on
Thuisdav, signed the following bills
which are now laws. An Act—To in¬
corporate the Planters Loan aud Bank¬
ing company, and the American Trust
and Banking company, of Atlanta, and
An Act—To prohibit the sale of seed
cotton in county of Baldwin and the
county of Harris iromthe 15th of August
to 15th of December of each year aud to
provide penalties for a violation of the
same, also to prohibit the sale of seed
cotton inthe county of Washington from
the 1st day of August to the 24th day of
December in each year, and to provide
penalties for the violation of the satu;.
TERRIBLE CLOUD-BURSTS,
north Carolina, scffees untold dam¬
ages—the Latest disaster, .,*•
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Cloudbursts in North Carolina this
jpear are proving more disastrous than
ever known before in the history of the
stu r .C. So far eight have been reported
sine-2 doul. May first, and great damage has
been The latest di-aster caused
by cloud bursts occurred in Richmond
county Monday night, and the town of
Rockingham, on the C. C. railroad sus¬
tains the heaviest loss. The cloud burst
half a mile above the town, right over the
Peclee river,and instantly the stream was
swollen out of its banks, and went dash¬
ing down upon the town, cairyingnearly
everything before it. Several small
cabins on the low bottoms were
washed away and the ocupnnts "were
compalled to flee for their lives.
Five miles of the C. C. Railroad is
washed out completely, and ali tele¬
graphic communications are cut off by
the terrible floods. The reports at a late
hour Monday night says that great dam¬
age has been done the Roberdel, Great
Falls, Peedee and Midway cotton mills.
Some cotton factories are said to be
washed completely away, or so near it
that they are totally ruined. It is feared
that many pieople have been drowned.
No estimate of the los3 or further parties
ulaxs can be learned at present.
A DAY OF CASUALTIES.
EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN ONE DAY ON
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROADS.
Monday will probably go down as the
most un.ucky day for tramps and drunken
men ever known in North Carolina. So
far as reported, eight men *xvere on that
day run over anu kil'ed on railroads.
During the early morning Joe Caldwell,
oolov-i.d, -wno run river lnsi#nttj
killed on the Richmond & Danville road.
S. C. Tanner aud Robert Haider, both
white, were in the ^afternoon run over
and killed on the Air-Line, near Salis¬
bury. They were lying upon the track
and were both crushed to pieces. Three
negroes, whose names could not be
learned, were found, during the night,
cut to peices on the railroad' near High
Point. The train had passed over them,
but it is believed that they were mur¬
dered and placed on the track. A tele¬
gram says tw T o white men were run over
on the North Carolina railroad near
Durham Monday night, and terribly
mutilated. They were killed instantly.
EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE.
A DISEASE SUPPOSED TO BE TEXAS FEVER,
RAGING IN SOUTHERN KANSAS.
Reliable news oi the greatest impor¬
tance to cattlemen in all sections of the
United States comes from tke southern
line of Kansas and pasture lands of In¬
dian Territory. There has been for some
time a suspicion among cattle dealers
that herds of native and Texas cattle
which range ia the territory were afflicted
with the Texas fever. A man named
William Johnson has just returned from
a trip to Oklahoma, and herds passed through
tiie country where the are pastured.
He says that not only are the natives af¬
flicted but thorough Texans are dying
by hundreds in the pastures south of Ar¬
kansas City. The symptoms are exactly
the same as the Texas fever but thorough
Texans have never been known to die of
the disease. He says cattle are being
shipped to market from the pastures
where carcasses are lying in hundreds and
Of the same brands of those shipped and
that they are considered good rough for
canners’ stock and everything becoming goes.
Tho cattlemen are much
alarmed. Among the cattle raisers it is
the actual belief that the disease is not
Texas fever, but something even more
serious. It is said the managers of the
Kansas City stock yards will take imme¬
diate action in the matter, and try to
prevent the shipping of cattle from
points where the disease is raging.
FAST TIME.
A STEAMER MAKES 2,788 MILES IN FIVB
DATS AND NINETEEN HOURS.
The steamship City of Paris, which
arrived at New York Wednesday morn¬
ing, has broken the record again, beat¬
ing her own best time from Queenstown
by three hours and forty-nine minutes.
Her actual time from Queenstown to San¬
dy Hook lightship was five days, nine¬
teen hours and eighteen minutes. She
left Queestown on last Friday. Her run
for the first day was 432 miles, for the
second 493, third 502, fourth 506, and
fifth 509. The run from 2:09 p. m.
(Greenwich time), Tuesday, to 9:27 a.m.
(same time), to Sandy Hook lightship,
was 340 miles. The total distance trav¬
eled was 2,788 miles.