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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
SMITH & BLASINGAME, Editors <5 Prop’s
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM.
Official Orxran of Crawford County.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Entered at the postoffice at Knoxville,
Ga. t as second-class matter.
The French are practical in some
things, admits the Atlanta Constitution.
They have 30,000 schools in which ex-
Iterieuced teachers train boys in garden¬
ing.
An attempt TTttS recently mane ro Dan¬
ish American silver from Manitoba, which
proved unsuccessful because of the failure
of the bankers to provide their clients
with a sufficient quantity of Dominion
coin.
According to the New York Commer¬
cial Advertiser, Chaplain Parks, who has
recently been on duty aboard the receiv¬
ing ship Vermont, is the first Roman
Catholic chaplain that the United States
Navy has had. lie is said to have had
a far larger attendance at divine service
than any other chaplain who has filled a
similar position.
The Drovers’ Journal states that
“those who are laying out new industrial
towns in the South are very wisely giving
special attention to the houses of wage¬
workers, allowing them more room. Th«
workingmen’s quarters iu Southern cities
•ad towns will not be so crowded as in the
Northern cities, and will be in every re¬
spect more home-like.”
The arid regions of the West com-
prise 800,000,000 acres, of which, asserts
the New York Voice, about 100,000,000
Acre* (equal to about eight acres for every
family in America) can be redeemed by
and made among the most fer¬
tile and valuable lands iu the country.
Of this vast region about one-half is al-
ready in the hands of individual settlers.
The other half is in Federal possession,
A cablegram from Chiua says that a
decree from one of the viceroys imposing
tft tax upon opium has been abandoned
'because of the protests of Great Britain.
The British Government holds a monop¬
oly of the opium crop in India. Under
this opium Ls sold to middlemen at a pro¬
fit of six hundred per cent. It is then
taken to China, but the Chinese are per¬
mitted to impose only a nominal tax
England holds it as a British interest in
India, and insists that it shall be so re¬
ceived in China. The revenue from this
monopoly varies from forty-five to fifty-
four millions of dollars a year, and with¬
out it England could not govern India.
«
The rapid increase of the wealth, busi¬
ness and prosperity of the United States
during the past ten years, says the Boston
Manufacturers' Gazette, is simply marvel¬
ous. According to the published figures,
the total wealth of the country is now
$71,459,000,000, equal to nearly $1000
per capita. This is an increase in ten
years of $18,000,000,000, or 42 percent.
England’s wealth in 1883 is given at
$50,000,000,000. The average of wealth
per head in England is $1545, in Scot¬
land $1215, in Ireland but $565. The
total wealth of France is estimated at
$36,000,000,000. England exacts in
taxes $20 per head of population, while
each individual in the United States pays
but $12.50. America will produces
7,000,000 tons of iron this year, while
England’s greatest production is 8,600,-
900 tons.
The only genuine and reliable canni¬
bals in existence now are the natives of
Solomon Islands, a small group in the
Bouth Pacific. To be sure cannibalism
is pursued in a desultory way elsewhere,
but its devotees would prefer kid, kan¬
garoo, monkey, cockatoo and snakes, and
■cat the human kind only when hungry
from the lack of their usual game. But
the Solomon Islanders will eat a tough
sailor, a hardened trader, or even one of
their own tribe in a mere spirit of wan¬
ton gormandizing when they are far from
starvation and other meat is plenty.
They have just had a barbecue consist¬
ing, with the usual side dishes, of Lars
Nielson, a Norwegian trader, and his
three native assistants. They have eaten
six white men within the past few months
and are really transacting about all of
the genuine eamrib*! business at present
being don»-
THE NAT,0NAL CA?ITAL
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OP TILE nOUSE AND 6 EX ATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OYER MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OCR
COMMON COUNTRY. —NOTES.
The house n>"t at 11 o’clock Saturday,
the understanding being that the first
hour of the session should be for debate
only on the bill for the biil for the ad¬
justment of accounts of laborers, work¬
men and mechanics arising under the
eight-hour law. After a short debate
the bill was passed, The house then
proceeded to the consideration of the bill
amending the alien contract law. The
bill makes was it passed without opposition. It
unlawful for any person or cor¬
poration to aid or encourage the
importation or immigration of
any alien Tuto the United
States under contract or agreement, parole
or special, express or becoming implied, made resiaegt pre¬
vious to such alien a
of the United States. It further amends
the existing law so as to provide ordained that min¬ it
shall not apply to regularly Wade, Mis¬
isters of the gospel. Mr. of
souri. from the committee on labor, then
called up the bill prohibiting public the employ¬ works.
ment of convict labor on
Passed. Also a bill to prevent the pur¬
chase of supplies, the product passed. of convict Mr.
labor by the United States,
Dingley presented the conference report
on the bill to prevent collisions at sea and
it was adopted. The house then ad¬
journed. the Saturday,
In senate, cn Mr. Morgan
meeting pretented resolutions Birmingham, of a Ala., colored against mass
in
the passage of the federal election bill.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the
motion pending question strike being on Mr. paragraph Carlisle’s
to out the wool
(357 to 809) so as to place wool on the
free list. The finance committee reported relating
an amendment aud worsted to paragraph 873, less
to wool yarns worth
than 30 cents a pound, by increasing
from two to two and a half times the
duty per pound on unwashed wool of the
first-class. The debate which ensued
lasted through the remainder of the ses¬
sion, but no action on the paragraph was
reached. After a brief executive session
the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Monday, Mr. Stock-
bridge, of Maryland, moved to suspend
the rules and pass the bill providing for in
the territories. government’s Agreed inspection of Mr. mines Cooper,
the to.
of Indiana, rising to a question of privi¬
lege, stated that one of the charges made
in the resolution offered by him for the
investigation of the commissioner of pen¬
was that the commissioner was
selling stock in a refrigerator office. company to
an vain employe attempted of the pension ascertain the He had
in to names
of the stockholders in the concern. On
Monday he learned, and this knowledge
was borne out by testimony, that one of
the members of the investigation com¬
mittee—Representative stockholders. W. L. Smyser, He of
Ohio—was one of the
(Mr. Cooper), therefore, offered a resolu¬
tion discharging Mr. Smyser from the
committee, and directing the speaker thy to
appoint his successor. After a len
discussion, Mr. Smyser said hat
in order to satisfy the other side of the
house and the country, in duty to him¬
self, he most respectfully service asked the to be
relieved from further on com¬
mittee. The request was granted. The
remainder of the day’s session was de¬
voted to ipotions to suspend the rules
and pass bills on the calendar, but few
of these wore successful, and such meas¬
ures as got through were only of local
importance to western and northwestern
sec tions. At 5:10 o’clok the house ad¬
journed. the Monday. Mr. Sherman
In senate, on he
gave notice of an amendment which
proposed to offer to the tariff bill “look¬
ing toward reciprocity with the Dominion
of Canada in coal, und toward extending
trade relations between Canada and the
United States.” Mr. Blair asked unani¬
mous consent to proceed to consideration
of the house bill for the adjustment Ob¬ of
accounts under the eight hour Aldrich, law. The
jection was made by Mr. the
tariff bill was then taken up,
question being on paragraph 378,
page 88, as to wool aud woolen yarn.
Finally the wool schedule was com¬
pleted, aud schedule L, relating to silk
and silk goods, was then taken up and
the amendments to it by the finance com¬
mittee were agreed to. The conference
report on the bill in relation to the col¬
lisions at sea w r as presented and agreed
to. The Senate then adjourned.
The Breckinridge election case, from
Arkansas, was taken up in the house
Tuesday and discussed at length. The
citse went over until Wednesday, and Mr.
Cannon took the floor in a statement rela¬
tive to the appropriations made by this
session of congress. Mr. Sayers, a mem¬
ber of the appropriations financial situation committee, from re¬
viewed the a
democratic standpoint. The speaker an¬
nounced the appointment of Mr. Flick,
of IoWa, as a member of the Baum inves¬
tigating committee, in place of Mr.
Smyser, of Ohio, resigned. 'Ihe house
then, at 5:45, adjourned. Tuesday, Mr. Evarts
In the senate, on Buffalo
presented a resolution of the
merchants exchange favoring reciprocity but
not only with nations south of us,
also with that on the north. The house
bill in relation to lotteries was reported placed
from the postoffice committee, and
on the calendar with notification by Saw¬
yer that he would ask for its considera¬
tion as soon as the tariff bill passed. Mr.
Quay gave notice that he would ask the
senate Saturday, the 13:b, to consider
the resolutions relative to the dea’h of
Samuel J. Randall. The tariff bill was
then taken up and the sugar schedule eon-
-idered. Mr. Carlisle gave notice that he
would move to strike < ut all paragraphs of¬
relative to sugar bounties. Mr. Hale
fered the reciprocity amendment of
which he hail given notice on the 19th of
Tune and addressed th" senate upon it.
The senate at half past nine o’clock, took
i recess until 8 o’clock.
In the house, on Wednesday, during
the absence of Speaker Reed, on motion
of Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, Mr. Burrows,
of Michigan, was e’eeted speaker pro
tem. On motion of Mr. Blount, of
Georgia, a bill was passed authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Sa¬
vannah river by the Middle Georgia &
Atlantic Radroad Company, The house
then proceeded to the further considera¬
tion of the Clayton-Breckinridge case. of
Among the speakers was Mr. details Kennedy,
Ohio, who drew from the of the
Clayton-Breckinridge case the conclusion
that a federal election law should be en¬
acted. He made a fiery attack upon the
senators who have been opposed to the
Lodge bill. His spe.ch was the sensation
of went the day. and The the Breckinridge house adjourned. case Then
over,
In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. referred Call
offered a resolution, winch was
to the committee on foreign relations,
dechiring that the murder of Genera] F’r-
fundia, on the steamer Acapulco, by the
authorities of Guatemala while uncrer ihe
protection of the flag of the United
States, was an insult to the people of the
United States, and demanded prompt ac¬
tion by the government of the United
States for redress of that injury and for
security against a recurrence of such cases.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the sugar
schedule being under consideration. Mr.
Edmunds addressed the senate. Coming
to the question of reciprocity, Mr. Ed¬
munds recalled the history United and practical States)
operation (injurious to the
of the Canadian reciprocity treaty of
1854. Mr. Morgan addressed the senate
iu support of the amendment heretofore
proposed by him as a substitute for Mr.
Aldrich’s reciprocity amendment. It pro¬
vides for a duty of 3 per cent ad valorem
on corn, wheat, rye, barley, oats, hay,
straw, potatoes, cotton, live domestic
animals, and on asses, mules and horses,
and that when any of such articles are
exported a premium of 3 per cent shall
be paid on their value to the
owner. Mr. Evarts was the next speaker. policy
He had several good words for the
of fostering postal and steamship subsidy
bills, and then went on to speak of the
various reciprocity amendments, and to
criticise them as being objectionable, inter¬ un¬
der the ‘‘favored nation” clause of
national treaties. At the cloaks of Mr.
Evarts’ speech a message from the presi¬
dent in regard to international arbitra¬
tion was presented, read and referred
to to the committee on foreign remainder relations. of the
3Ir. Gray consumed the
time of the session in a peeeh, upon the
general subject of the tariff. Mr. Gray
closed his remarks at 5:30 o’clock, and a
recess was then taken till 8 o'clock p. m,
NOTES.
The president,on^iVednes lay, transmit¬
ted to congress the recommendations ol
the international American conference,
touching international arbitration, to¬
gether with the letter of transmittal from
Secretary Bla ne.
Orders were issued by the navy de¬
partment Wednesday for the United
States steamship Keursage, now at New
York, to proceed at once to Aspinwall. It
is sup]>osed that this action grows out ol
the reports of the railreud strike at that
place.
The president, on Wednesday, nomi¬
nated John W. Ross to be commissioner
of the District of Columbia, to succeed
Mr. Hines, resigned. Mr. Ross is at
present postmaster at Washington, and
his acceptance of the commissionership
will create a vacancy in that office.
With the addition of the new member,
Mr. Flick, of Iowa, to replace committee Smyser, in¬
resigned, the special house against Commis¬
vestigating the resumed charges its labors Wednes¬
sioner Baum, lasted
day afternoon. The session twe
hours, and was devoted to a discussion
of questions of procedure. No testimony
was taken.
The tariff bill will be finally disposed
of by the senate next Monday, aud con¬
sequently everybody is talking of ad¬
journment. Speaker Reed says he
counted on adjournment being had about
October 8th. A majority of the senators
of both parties see no reason why the and ses¬
sion should continue until then, arc
predicting an adjournment about the
25th. It is certain that so soon as the
tariff bill receives the president's in session. signa¬
ture nothing can keep congress
Acting Secretary, Wharton on Wed¬
nesday,sent the following telegram to the
widow of General Barrundia iu Monday reply to
her message to the president desires
evening. “The president telegram me to
say he has received your an¬
nouncing the death of jour husband,
General Barrundia. While deeply sympa¬ he
thizing with you in your affliction,
awaits the official details of the occur¬
rence necessary to determine his actibn
in regard thereto. Tho matter, you may
be assured, will receive the most careful
attention.”. , ____...
A BIG HAUL.
TUB KENTUCKY FEUDS ARE PROBABLY
BROUGHT TO A TERMINATION.
Captain Gaither, who has been in com¬
mand of the troujis, giving protection Kv., to
Judge Lilly’s court at Hazard,
reached Wenchester Sunday with sixteen
prisoners. Among them are B. F. French,
J. C. Eversole and George W. Eversole,
leaders in the French-Eversole feud,
which has caused continuous trouble and
danger in that section for many years.
These leaders will be held without bail
for trial at Wenchester.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’s DOMAIN AND WJIAT
THE clBLE BRINGS.
The town of Kropowski, Russia, has
been destroyed by fire.
The strike of miners at Brussels, Bel¬
gium, ended Wednesday.
There was a slight frost in Baltimore
county, Maryland, on Sunday night.
Henry George addressed ten delegates
to the one-tax convention in New fiork
Tuesday night.
Ccal miners in Belleville, Ill., district
have g : ne on a strike for 2 cents a bushel
for digging coal. Boyle
Memorial exercises of John
O’Reilly were held in Fremont temple,
Boston, Tuesday night.
An explosion occurred Monday in a
mine at Boroslay, in Galicia. Eighty
miners were suffocated.
New York city wjjl ask for a a re-count
of the fell census, claiming that the enumera-
tion short by about 200,009.
The sloop PeTfcl capsized outside of
the harbor of San Diego, California,
Tuesday and six persons were drowned.
The state board of arbitration of New
York,on Tuesday, began its investigation Central
into the causes of the New York
strike.
Since Tuesday last there have been
forty-eight fresh cases of cholera at Eltor,
Egypt. Advices from Mecca are to the
effect that the city is free from cholera.
The trades-union congress opened in
London, Monday. John Burns, socialist
leader, made a motion expressing strikers, and sym¬ it
pathy with the Australian
was adopted.
Five dealers in “original packages” in
Washington, Pa., recently convicted of
selling liquor without license, were on Sat¬
urday fined $500 each aud sentenced from
two to five months in the workhouse.
A Scottsdale, Pa., special says: Union
workers of the Standard coke works, to
the number of 1,000, struck Saturday
against unorganized labor. The furnaces
have been barred and the plants now
abandoned.
The state treasurer of Connecticutt has
formally notified the selectmen of towns
of that state that, the tax usually levied
by the state on towns will not be called
for this year, owing to the flourishing
condition of the state’s finances.
By the explosion of a coal oil lamp,
early Wednesday morning, a house in
Philadelphia was set on fire and Mrs.
Sarah McIntyre, sixty years old; Mamie
McIntyre, ten years old, and Annie Logue,
seventeen years old, were burned to death.
The census office, Saturday, announced
the result af the count of population in
the following cities: St. Louis 460,357,
an increase during the census period of
109,839 or 81.34 per cent; Boston 446-
507, an increase of 88,008 or 23.70 per
cent.
A dispatch of Saturday, from Vieuna,
Austria, says: The Rhine has overflowed
its banks in Von Arlberg district. The
villages of Albach, Ilohen, Eras, Hoechst,
Lustnau and Tuessach are flooded.
Bridges have been swept away and many
persons drowned.
A dispatch of Saturday, from Mel¬
bourne, Australia, says: Special guard const city <•
bles have been enrolled to the
against threatened riots. The city is
without gas, and the suburbs are dimly
lighted. The shipping companies arc
employing non-union men.
A Chicago dispatch says: The great
strike of the journeymen carpenters,
which opened Tuesday morning, head¬ is an
uncertain quantity. At neither the
quarters of the journeymen nor bosses
was it known to what extent the order to
quit work had been obeyed.
A Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch Booley says:
Rhinehardt Schneider, Patrick
and Michael Daly, were instantly killed
Saturday evening by a Lake Shore Ex¬
press. The three men were crossing the
track on a beer wagon, when tho train,
which was running thirty miles an hour,
struck them.
The widow and children of the late
General Barrundia, who was assaulted on
an American steamer by the President Guatemale-
ans, has sent a dispatch against to Har¬
rison, protesting “the outrage at
which they are the unconsolable victims.”
The president lias referred the matter to
Secretary Blaine.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York for week ended August 30th.
amounted to $179,711, of which $104.-
702 was in gold, aud $15,000 silver. All
exports were consigned to South Amer¬
ica. Imports of specie for the week
amounted to $901,334, of which $698,-
107 was gold, and $203,247 silver.
A Vienna dispatch of Wednesday
lays: The Moldau river has flooded a
portion damage of to Prague, the aud has between done much the
country
Boehmerwald and the confluence of the
Moldau and Elbe. Many villages in the
Danube valley are ]>artially special submerged.
Uhe authorities are taking pre¬
cautions.
The strike of the employes at the
Westinghousc works at Pittsburg, Pa.,
was terminated Wednesday by the men
returning to the shops and requesting
rheir old places. This action is the result
if a meeting of the strikers, where it was
decided that, inasmuch as they could not
add out any longer, they had better go
oack to work. The strike affected about
1,200 men.
An expenditure of $100,000 will be
□Hide within the next few months on ea-
-urging the military pest at Ban AnW
additional ■lexas, so that it can accommodate 8e 'iV‘ S dt
companies of troops.
are to be erected two new barrack L-U., ^ I
another guardhouse, a large mess (y?
and additional officers’ quarters,
the improvements are finished, San 5
nio will be the largest in \ nto.
post the ry» Ue ^ I
States. I
A Pittsburg telegram announces that I
combination of window glass a
has been formed, nian U f I
turers which win I
Mol all the factories in the western ac I
northern districts immediately, D j
factories in the United an( j I
the States increaJ- ult; I
mutely. The pending tariff bill
the duties on window glass, and by J'
venting importation will give the cornH
uation a monopoly.
A Chicago dispatch of Saturday sav 5 . I
The carpenters have enlisted the acth Vl
sympathy of of the conference Bricklayers’Union. tiitl
a result the between
will bricklayers demand and of the carpenters, Master Builders' the forme? I I
sociation settlement of the \ s
a carpenters'
strike by arbitration. Should tills here,
fused, a general strike in building trades
at Chicago is not improbable. 8uch aa
event would directly involve 2o,000 work
men.
CROP REPORT.
CONDITION OF THE WEATHER For THJ
PAST WEEK—FINE OUTLOOK.
The agricultural department at Wash,
ington issues the following weather bul-
letin: The week ending August 30th
has been cooler than usual over all the
agricultural districts cast of the Rocky
mountains, the only regions reporting
normal temperature being Florida, south¬
western Texas and eastern Maine. On tho
Pacific coast the week was w.rm, the
average daily temperature being three to
six degrees above normal. Light frosti
occurred in the extreme northwest aud in
the northern portions of the Lake region.
The rainfall was in excesi over the Ohio,
lower Mississippi aud lower Missouri
valleys, northern portions Arkansas, of the east Gulf
and south Atlantic stai es, east¬
ern New York aud in the interior of New
England, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin
and Minnesota. Excessive rains occurred
in Mississippi. Tennt ssee, northern pou
tions of Alabama, Georgia, South Caro-
lina, eastern Kentucky, and westers
North Carolina, where the rainfall gener¬
ally exceeded two inches. Very light
showers occurred in Texas and the south¬
ern portions of Georgia and South Caro¬
lina.
The weather during the past week ia
the wheat aud coru regions of the central
valleys and northwest, was generally fa¬
vorable, and the condition of all cropi
was improved, The corn crop was greatly
improved, although the weather was toe
cool for rapid grow th. In Kentucky corn
and tobacco were greatly improved, with
a prospect of a better crop than was ex¬
pected. In the west gulf states the
weather was generally favorable for cot¬
ton. The crop is opening well in rapidly Arkan¬
sas, and picking has progressed
in Texas. Some damage was caused to
the cotton crop by in Mississippi, Louisiana rains,
aud Tennessee the recent heavy
and id jury from boll worms is reported Louisi¬
from portions of Mississippi and Ala¬
ana. All crops are improved from and
bama eastward to North Carolina
South Carolina, and eotton-pickiug is
progressing rapidly.
THEY MEAN BU8INESS.
CAPITALISTS OF DURHAM, INAUGURATE A
GREAT ENTERPRISE.
The Durham Consolidated Land and
Improvement company w r as organized at
Durham, N. C., Saturday, with $1,000,-
000 capital. The company has bought
the lands of the Durham Land and
Security Company; the West Durham
Land Company; the Enterprise Land and
Trust Company—in all 815 acres, lying
partly within and partly without the city
limits. The company will operate street
cars and extend the lines; will build
telegraph and telephone lines; establish
a system of waterworks and erect a cot¬
ton mill, knitting mill, plug tobacco
factory, roller flour mill and store ware¬
house and hotel at a cost of $60,000 and
a Young Men’s Christian Association
building at a cost of $05,000. These
and other improvements will require completed an
outlay of $600,000 and will be
within eighteen months from date.
A RAILROAD DEAL.
THE CENTRAL AND EAST TENNESSEE GOB
BI.E UP THREE ROADS.
The Central of Georgia and the East
Tennessee have bought up three railways.
The Central, it is understood, after con
sidernblc negotiation, secured the Chatta
nooga. Rome and Columbus railway and
the Chattanooga and Macon. This makes
two more Georgia roads for the West
Point Terminal. The most which important the
deal, however, is the one by West
East Tennessee, also a part of the
Point Terminal, secured the Monon route,
or the Louisville, New Albany and Chi¬
cago. It gives the Terminal a line into
Louisville over the most popular road
running into that city, enabling it to tight
its great rival, the Louisville and Nash
vilk-, on its own ground; and a line i Qt0
Chicago, making a triangular system fr° D
Norfolk to Savannah and Brunswick, ano
from these Georgia ports to Chicago an c
Lake Michi-nn.
A CHRONIC SUMMER GIRL.
“Yes,” said she, dreamily, “I I1,u3 *
confess ” to having seen twenty-three sum¬
mers.
“And the same number of winters, 1
suppose?” I am
“Oh. the winters don’t count,
never engaged in the winter.”—{Terri
Haute Uxnress.