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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
There are already 109'clerks at, work
in the census office at Washington. By
Mai oh there will be 2,000 elerki, and
in June 40 0 .0 enumerators at it.
The number of English women who
do not want to vote is apparently larger,
the New York Mail and Express asserts,
than the number of those who do.
Sine : 1800 the population of Europs
lias just doubled itself. Then the popu¬
lation was 175.000,090; in 1830, 216,
000,000; in 1860. 289,000.000; in 1880,
831,000,00); in 1888, 350,000,000.
The amount of water that fell in
Pennsylvania during the summer of 1889
was something prodigious. The statisti¬
cians of the weather service have calcu¬
lated that if gathered in one place this
rainfall would form a lake 1,000 miles
square and about 35 feet deep.
The homes of the future Jolmstown,
Perm., are likely to lie built on high
ground. The Cambria Iron Company is
to bui.d an inclined plane from the cen¬
tre of the town to the top of the hill,
three-quarters of a mile. Hero 500
acres of land can be laid out in pleasant
building lots.
A remarkable instance of telephonic
communication recently occurred in
Charleston, H C. A young man em¬
ploye 1 in the We item Union Telegraph
office in that city conversed without any
difficulty with his brother who was in
■Omaha, 1500 miles away. The brothers
talked an hour with hardly any pauso
between questions.
Probably tlie greatest land deal ever
made in the South was the recent con¬
solidation of all the most important laud
companies, seven in nl’—about Birming¬
ham, Ala., into ono company, to lie
known as the Bimingham Land
Com patty, with a capital of $30,000,000.
The oigu.ii/. itioti was porfoete l in New
York, an 1 th ■ first chartered at Rich¬
mond, Y i.
The people of the United States use
annually about 2.000,000,000 postage
stamps—a quantity sufficient to girdle
the whole earth at the equator and then
nearly belt the whole earth again. For
those slumps the public contributes into
the treasury of the Postoffice Depart¬
ment about $40,000,000, a neat sum
that is increasing by gigantic strides
each year._
A peculiar indiutry has sprung up
near Albany, N. Y., since 18'3; that of
supplying crushoi stone for asphalt
and macadamized roads. The quarry
from which tho stouo is taken
is operated night and day. One
thousand tons of rock a day are
crushed and 250 cars are used, in trans¬
porting the fragments of rock to all
parts of the country.
Ex-Couimissioaer of Agriculture Ber¬
ing gives some very suggestive facts and
figures. He says that in the twenty
years ending in 1880 the number of
American farms increased from 2,044,
077 to 4,083,907, and that during the
same period tho product of the farms
more than doubled in value,rising from
$1,600,000,000 in 1859 to $3,600,000,
000 iu 1879.
The New York Sun thinks that the
growth of the southern half of our
United States during the past eight
years ins been marvellous. Twenty
thousand miles of railway built, $700,
000,000 spent on internal improvements,
cotton mills increased in number from
180 to 300, manufactured cotton goods
from *21,0JO 0)0 to $50,000,00), cot¬
ton oil mills from 40 to 160, with $12,
000.00) of invested capital. Other in¬
dustries have proportionately grown.
Says the lUst -a Cultivator : “One of
the most exacting monopolies just now
is the trust or combination of manufac¬
turer! who have obtainel control of all
the binding twine iti the country, as
well as of all the Manilla and Silas
hemp of which the twine is made, ad
vanciag prices along the whole line
fully 1CK per cent. Fanners of the
West wi.i find a substitute in flax or
something else, and leave their hemp
mouop 1 sts w ith a stock on hand and
limited demand."
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
frws FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The Swiss government has adopted the
smokeless powder for her army.
The schooner Erie, capsized on Monday
sight, near Port Rowan, Ont., and eight
persons were drowned.
A number of branches of the National
league in the counties of Waterford and
Tipperary, Ireland, have been suppressed.
It is rumored that the German 300,000,000 govern¬
ment will ask a credit for
marks for bronze guns for the new smoke¬
less powder.
The large four-story morocco shop of
Peter Sill & Sons, on Grove street, Sa¬
lem, Mass., burned Friday. Loss $1,000
000, partially insured.
Up to the recess Tuesday night 627
jurors had been excused in the Cronin
ease at Chicago, four accepted aud sworn
in and four temporarily passed.
The Rotterdam, Holland, dock labor¬
ers’ strike was brought to an end on
Wednesday. The modified terms of the
employers were accepted by the men.
Eleven men were killed by an upheaval O.,
of the earth in a quarry near Lima,
on Thursday. The upheaval was fol¬
lowed by the spouting of a subterranean
stream of water 200 feet into the air.
August Belmont, of New York, has
ordered $500,000 in gold for export.
The assay office docs not know where
tbc gold is to be shipped. Belmont &
Co. also refuse any information about it.
A construction train on the Mucky
railroad left the track at a point about
eighteen miles west of Bedford, Ind.,
Thursday afternoon. Ten of twenty
eight men on the train were seriously in¬
jured. Six were dangerously hurt, while
two will die.
There was a fatal collision on the St.
Louis and San Francisco railroad, near
Northview, Mo., oil Saturday. Seven
cars were dumped over an embankment,
The engineer of one train was killed,
and four men dangerously hurt.
Conebauere,, M. P., who w-as released
from Londonderry jail, Saturday, was
received with great enthusiasm on his
arrival at London. A procession, escoxted com¬
posed of thousands of friends,
him to Clerkenwell green, vvhere speeches
of welcome were made.
The grand jury, at Chicago, Ill., on
Saturday, failed to return any indict¬
ments against any of the gamblers of the
;ity, though their attention was particu¬
larly directed to it by Judge Horton.
The Evening News alleges that the polit
cal “pull” of the gamblers prevented it.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says:
The boom iu steel and iron rivals the
memorable advance of 1884. Steel rails
to-day cannot he bought for less than
$33 per ton, and manufacturers are quite
independent on these figures, for it is
confidently believed the price will reach
$35.
Liverpool’s cotton statement for the
past week is as follows: Total sales of the
week 38,000; American, 27,000. Trade
leakings, including forwarded from ship
side, 34,000; actual export, 3,000; total
import, 32,000; American, 22,000; total
stock, 363,000; American, 202,000; total
afloat, 134,000; American, 120,000.
The suicide of a whole family is re¬
ported from Odessa, Russia. A school
teacher named Sause committed suicide,
whereupon his widow became insane
She first threw three of her children out
of a third-story window, and then, tak¬
ing the other two in her arms, jumped
out with them. All were killed.
On ex-Queen Natalie’s visit to Bel¬
grade,her presence was totally ignored by
government officials, but she was re¬
ceived most enthusiastically by crowds
that thronged the streets through which
slie passed. On private residences and
places of business throughout the city
flags were displayed iu her honor.
The strike of the window light glasi
blowers, which began at Baltimore, Md.,
last June, and lies seriously affected
manufacturers and 5,000 employes in
busiuess, most of whom are located iu
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
aud Maryland, was settled on last
Saturday. The demand of the blowers
was for an advance of ten per cent., but
a compromise of 5| per cent, was agreed
upon.
The twenty-fifth annual meeting o)
the National Association of Wool Man¬
ufacturers was held at New Y'ork on
Wednesday. The following officers
were elected for the eusuing year:
President, Wm. Whitman, Boston; Vice
Presidents, John L. Houston. Hartford,
Conn.; A. C. Mi.ler, Utica, N. Y., and
Thomas Dolan, Philadelphia; treasurer,
Benjamin Phipps, Boston, and secretary,
8. N. D. North. Boston.
A frightful wreck occurred on the
Youngstown A Ashtabula division of the
Pennsylvania company’s lines at Haz’e
ton. Ohio, early Thursday morning, by
which Flagman John Fitzgerald was in¬
stantly killed aud Conductor Ben Milnei
ba-ily injured. A freight train going
west broke in t wo going up asteep grade,
and the detached part ran back to en¬
gine 231 going iu the same direction.
The engine was wrecked and several
freight cars were smashed to kindling
wood.
The Iowa supreme court, at Das
Moines, has given a death blow to
the hitherto sacred rights and privileges
of charaviri parties. It lias reversed the
decision of Judge Stewart, in the district
court, in the murder case of the State vs.
Royal Adams. Adams was indicted for
murder iu the first degree, for the acci-
dental shootin of n'hersoj named Har¬
ing. a member a ha rat i party, con
victed of mans .ugLler, a: sentenced to
the penitential : r sc — years and six
months. __
A GOoiy LHC V1NG.
ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTn IN THE COT¬
TON MILL INDUSTRY SET FORTH.
Tiie Tradesman, of Chattanooga, has
instituted tin exhaustive inquiry into the
cotton mill industry of the South, and
has received reports from all leading actual
mills of the southern states. The
number of mills in operation increase is of 339, 232
against 142, in 1880, au The
per cent, since the census year. in
crease in mill consumption of jaw cotton
in the same period has been 253 percent,
South Carolina is the banner state:
132,319 bales were consumed in that!
Georgia ,„„f consumption of increiwed raw cot
0 South Carolina has
O CO © ©5 ncCnsus pir ctn|. of opiuions . .. y- of leading jfi"
manufacturers of the South in their
written reports to the Tradesman, is that
the South possesses advantages over any
other portion of America for cotton man
ufacturein; 1. Proximity to rav mate
rial. 2. Superior climate. 3. Cheaper
power. 4. Lower cost of renting and
living. 5. Lower wage scale. 6. Lesi
liability to strikes. 8. Less expense for
heating mills. 9. Saving on freight. The
Tradesman has received returns
of dividends from twenty-five leading
mills in the South, located in six differ¬
ent states. These dividends run between
extremes of four and twenty-eight per is
per cent, and average of twenty-five
Hi per cent, per annum. These twenty
five fairly represent the whole.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
THE RESIDENCE PORTION OF GRAND
HAVEN, MICHIGAN, BURNED OUT.
A large part, and the best part, of the
residence portion of Grand Haven,
Mich., was wiped out by a great fire
Tuesday morning. Among the buildings
burned are the following: The Cutler
hou-c, one of the best hotels in Michi
gan; the residence of Dwight Butler, a
beautiful place, filled with exquisite fur
niture, valuable pictures and works of
art. The residences of Mrs. Slayt*n, T.
A. D. Parris, George D. Sanford, Capt.
McCullom, A. 8. Kenzie. Three
churches were burned—the First Re
formed, Unitarian and Methodist, Be
sides these there were thirty residences.
No lives were lost. The sweep of fire
included both sides of Main street from
Slayton’s grocery, where the fire origi
nated, to Ackely institute, and everything
in its path was wiped out. The totul
loss is about $500,000, with a fair
amouut of insurance.
ROUTING THE MORMONS.
THE WHITE CAPS DRIVING MORMON ELD
ER8 FROM TENNESSEE.
News came from Wilson county,
Tenn., Thursday, that the Mormon elders
hive beet) driven out of that county by
the White Caps. The elders disap¬
peared some time ago, when the agitation
was hot against them, but a few days ago
returned, believing the storm to have
blown over. Their incendiary utterances
were not forgotten, however, and the
people who warned them proposed to”
make (heir threats good. Forty or fifty
men, masked and robed in white, on
Wednesday night visited the house of
William Barrett, Thomas Smith and Lee
Barrett, where the elders had been;
Searching for them. Some one, however,.
had given warning, aud not an elder was
to be fouud. These men were cautioned
against allowing the elders to ever darken
their doors again, and the elders left the
county.
A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
in which three men are KILLED and
about twenty INJURED.
Two men were instantly killed, an
other fatally injured, and about twenty,
more or less, hurt, at the bottom of the
Calement aud Hecla perpendicular shaft
at Houghton, Mich., ifriday. The us
ual blasts of dynamite were fired Thuis
day evening, but one failed to explode.
On Friday one of the miners accidently
struck the charge with his pick. A deaf¬
ening crash followed, the dynamite shattered ex¬
ploding and sending masses of
rock in deadly showers all around the
spot. Otto Flink and Alfred Erickson,
were killed instantly, their bodies being
frightfully torn and scarred by the flying
nieces niired of rock Nelson Boone was fatally
John Cameron had his right
ann broken in two places by pieces of
stone both legs being cut in many places. in
Twenty-six vldnitv.were miners who were at work
the a’ll more or less injured. under
The accident took place 1,000 feet
the a around. '
THE L. & N. I
ANNUAL MEETING OF stockholders—
ELECTION OF OLD OFFICERS.
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ti 0 -ui«
held at St. Louis, Mo., oa u i 5
Pierident N \*ton aud Direc or • •
Probst, Wm. Mertens, August Belmont
*>l LwXk i °?Ut U h ,n”en coofimU. romion dollar? of
oclv one
stockhoh . , ,, or a woman ownmg _ninrr ff fifty t r-four fon
roadmet'and fleered e
the old officers.
The banded indebtedss is $65,786,660,
an increase of *1,680.0=30; gt ss earnings
$i*L 5)0 398 : earning $:,273 1 310.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
1TEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 13 GOING) ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The Florence, Ala,, bank has been au
thonzed to begin business with a capital
of $50,000.
The property of the North Alabama
Lumber company of Bridgeport, Ala.,
was attached by creditors Thursday,
The directors of the Ladies’ Hermitage
association of Nashville, on Tuesday sent
an invitation to the delegates of the in
ternational congress to visit the home of
Andrew Jackson
^ Humilton C0UntVf Tenn>> five per
cent ' ‘"“tt brid S e
^ ° f
garded b as most satisfactory. f
North> Carolina will pay the P«™pal- . United . ,
$147,000 -on an old claim of the
states government but will leave the
question of interest to the L mted States
supreme court,
The Baltimore Amei'ican announces
iliat the Maryland White Lead company
has been absorbed by the national lead
trust, and that the stock of the company
was turned over to the trust Thursday.
Three men were burned to death at
Winona, Miss., in a fire which destroyed
the restaurant of R. E. Lotus. The men
were Thomas Law try, his son and Paul
Williams.
The corner s - one o{ tlie new mus i c
hall at New 0rleans La was laid Sun
day a ft ernoon witli great ceremony. It
will have a seating capacity of 6,000 in
the auditorium and 1,800 on the stage.
The village of Cambria, Cal., was al¬
most entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday.
The post-office, telegraph and express
™ ere tobdly destroyed. The total
loss is about $125,000; insurance about
$12,000.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, wars
granted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
■was incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,
000 .
A war among the boats on the Chatfa
hooehee was inaugurated at Columbus,
Ga., on Tuesday, and the half rate will
prevail hereafter. Cotton will be trans
ported to Brunswick for fifty-five cents a
bale instead of per hundred pounds as
heretofore. 1 he fight promises to be a
lively one.
Two of the largest first moitgage bond¬
holders, of the South Carolina railway,
at Charleston, S. C., have refused to de¬
posit their bonds with the Union Trust
company, of New Y T ork, or to be content
with the settlement bondholders. proposed by It the is sec¬
ond mortgage ru¬
mored, on very good authority, that a
receiver will be appointed for the road.
The grand jury of the parish of Or¬
leans, La., met Tuesday and investigated
the state bond fraud. The sessiou of the
grand jury lasted four hours, aud nine
indictments were found against some
person or persons charged wiih fraud
and embezzlement. No names are given,
but it seems to be well understood that
ex-treasurer E. A. Burke is a party in
each case.
A letter received at Greensboro, N. C.,
on Wednesday, from Russell A. Alger,
the Michigan millionaire, says that he
intends to visit North Carolina in the
near future with a view of investing
some of his vast accumulated wealth. It
is not known just what line of business
he will interest himself in, but it is be¬
lieved he will place a good deal of money
in the state.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala.,
says : “Six hundred miners at the Coal
berg coal mines of the Sloss Iron and
Steel Company went out on a strike Tues
day morning. The company has been
paying fifty cents per ton for mining
anc j fifty cents at slopes where the vein
was thin. Last week they notified the
men D f a reduction to fifty cents at some
0 y t £, e s i 0 p esi) w here they had been pay
j n g fifty-five, and at a meeting of the
miners a strike against the reduction was
ordered .
The Peabody Normal college at Nash¬
ville. Tenn., opened Wednesday morning
for the session of 1S89-90. There were
262 enrolled students from the following
Alabama >4 Arkansas 9, Flori- .
states:
da, 2, Georgia 10, Louisiana i, Missis
sippi 1, Missouri 1, North Caroliua 15,
Ohio 1, South Carolina 12, Tennessee
142, Texas 12, West Virginia 12 and
Virginia 12. This is the largest number
ever present at the college. Kentucky
is the only Southern state not repre
sented.
The board of trade, on Friday, took
final steps toward making Jacksonville,
Fla., a cotton market, Warehouse fa
cilities have been secured temporarily
and a stock company has been formed
to build a new warehouse. All Farm
ers’Alliance growers will ship their cot
Jacksonville, and ship largely through
t p at p \ 0r t. It is expected that at lea-ti
■ ht thousand bales will be handled
“Tv ., . ,.
of .he commissio-ek held Thorri,,!
Mayor Chip,, ,,as instructed,.o com
municate with the mayors of Montgrm
^ Birmin „ ham< Nashville. New Or
leans. Mobile Savannah, Charleston and
other cities to induce a joint effort to
have tne present route of the foreign del
egates to the International American
Congress so changed as to include all
important cities of the South and Gulf
ports.”
The town of Trenton, Tenn., eighteen
miles south of Chattanooga, on the
Alabama Great Southern Road, is on a
boom, occasioned by the reported clos¬
ing of a big deal by a Northen syndicate
involving the purchase of large tracts of
mineral and town lands, and pledging
the syndicate to spend $600,000 in im¬
provements. Hundreds of people are
there from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee.
Mississippi, and other States laying off
old cornfields, etc., into town lots. The
people are fairly wild, and large amounts
:>f property are changing hands every
day.
MORMONS IN CONFERENCE
URGING THE ADHERENTS OF THE MORMON
FAITH TO SUSTAIN ITS PRINCIPLES.
A dispatch from Salt Lake City says:
The sixtieth general semi-annual confer¬
ence of the Mormon Church began Sat¬
urday. Wilfred Woodruff, president of
church, presided, and George Q. Can¬
non, of the first presidency, -was pres¬
ent. There were also present, five other
high church officials. President Wood¬
ruff, in the opening address, said the
Mormon church had been established by
God, and that no power on earth could
stay its progress. All revelations given
to the saints, including polygamy, came
direct from God, and notwithstanding
the trials and troubles through which the
Mormons had passed, the Lord would
sustain all those who obeyed his princi¬
ples and his revelations. Apostle John
W. Taylor commended the people to give
obeisence to the priesthood. “These
men at the head of the church,” he said,
“have the spirit of revelation and speak
for God. I bear my testimony that
President Woodruff and his counsellors
hand are prophets, seers and revelators. The
of God is over this church, and no
power can destroy it or impede its prog¬
ress.”
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UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN
MANY PEOPLE SUFFERING FOR WANT OF
PROPER CLOTniNG AND SHELTER.
*
With the thermometer about the freez¬
ing point there is a great deal of suffering
at Johnstown, Pa., these nights by peo¬ and
ple who are improperly sheltered
poorly clad. The relief money, which
was intended to supply their necessities,
even if paid at once, will come too late
to be properly applied in providing
against the blasts of winter. Clothing
that was on hand when the commissary
department shut down has been trans¬
feree! to the lied Cross society, by whom
it will be distributed to the needy.
There have been a great many deaths
there within the past week and most o!
them have been superinduced by ail- iht
mentis contracted in the flood. In
Bed Cross hospital there are twenty-twc
cases of typhoid fever.
BANK STATEMENT.
Following is a statement of the week asso¬
ciated banks at New York for the
ending Saturday 5th: $2,603,800
Reserve decrease.......
Loans decrease.......... 1,995,200 36(4
Specie decrease......... 2 , 252 ,
Legal ten del s decrease.. 5,050,400 1,614,100
Deposits Circulation decrease....... 11,600
increase....
The banks now hold $1,6(38,050 less
than 25 per cent, rule calls for. For the
first time since the week following the
May panic of 1884, the statement shows
the reserve held to be less than 25 per
cent, of the deposits required by deposits the na¬
tional banking law. The
amount to $412,273,800, against which
only $1,014,000 is held in reserve. The
deficit is $1,668,050, as the legal re¬
quirement is $103,068,450. The deficit
is almost wholly caused by the drain of
money to the West and South where over
$67,000,000 was shipped last week, and
almost as much went in the week pre¬
ceding.
BRIDE AND GROOM KILLED.
ANOTHER BLOODY CHAPTER IN THE HAT
FIELD-MCCOY VENDETTA.
A dispatch from Jamboree, Pike
county, Ky., says: The old Hatfield
McCoy fued has broken out again, and at
least three more lives have been sacrificed
in the bloody vendetta "which has lasted
over seven years, The shooting occurred
at a mairiage at the farmhouse of Peter
McCoy. His daughter was to become
the wife of John Handy, a relative of the
Hatfield gang, and members of both
factious hod sworn to prevent the union.
Handy had never been connected with
the dispute with the factions and refused
to recognize the leaders. Tuesday night
the bridal party assembled in McCoy’s
house, and just as young Haudy and Miss
McCoy stood before the minister a vol¬
ley was poured through a window which
killed both of them and fatally wound¬
ing, the clergyman. ____
COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT.
SURROUNDED BY OFFICERS AND EIGHT
MEN ARRESTED.
Two gangs of counterfeiters were sur¬
rounded near Paloi, Ind., Satur¬
day, by United States' officers. Eight
men were captured. Several months ago
some spurious silver dollars were put > n
the market, in the vicinity of Indianapo¬
lis. Ind., and Treasury Agent Carter,
after considerable investigation, traced
the stuff to Orange county. A trusted
man was sent to the locality. He inaug¬
urated himself into the confidence of the
men and gradually accumulated evifence
against the unsuspected violators, with
(he above results. There are fifteen men
in all engaged in the making of c unter
feit money.