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THE CRAWFORD COUNTY CORRESPONDENT.
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James M Richardson.- Proprietors
W Russell Branham, i
THANKSGIVING DAY!
With grateful heart* let all give thank*.
All lands, all stations, and all ranks:
And the cry comes up along the way,
For what shall we give thanks to-day?
For peace and plenty, busy mills,
“The cattle on a thousand hills,”
For bursting barns, wherein is stored
The golden grain, a precious hoard;
, Give thanks 1
For orchards bearing roey fruit.
For yielding pod and toothsome root,
And all that God declared was good
In hill or dale, or field or wood:
Give thanks 1
For water bright an I sweeet and clear,
A million fountains far and near.
For gracious streamlet?, lakes, aud rill*
That flow from everlasting hills:
Give thanks!
For summer dews and tiratly frost.
The sun’s bright beams, not one ray lost.
For willing hands to sow the see.)
And reap the harvest, great iudeod:
Give thanks!
For hearth and hone—love’s altar Area—
For loving children, thoughtful sires;
For ten ler mothers, gentle wives.
Who fill our hoarts an l bless our lives:
Give thanks?
For heaven’s care, life’? journey through,
For health and strength to dare and do,
For ears to hear, for eyas to se)
Earth’s teauteous things oa lan I m i sea:
Give thanks!
-M. A. Kidder.
BESSIE’S THANKSGIVING.
BT KATE M. CLEARY.
MOST diffident
and modest
knock it was.
Perhaps because
<3@m it was so very
diffident, so very
modest, irritated
all the more the
peculiarly alert
nerves of Mr.
God trey Kirke.
“Oh, come in,
0 come in 1" he
cried.
An elderly woman entered the room.
She had n small, pale withered face; a
kind face, though, pleasant, gentle.
* She was dressed in a worn dark gown.
The net fichu, crossed over her slender
shoulders, was clasped by an old-fash
ioned medallion.
“To-morrow will be Tliaoksgiving
eve," she said; “I wished to know if I
might prepare for the day after.”
An originally handsome apartment,
this in which the old man sat, and it
bad been handsomely furnished. Kow
both the room and its belongings bore
the mark of creeping poverty, or ex
treme peuuriousnest. The master of tne
house, seated by the center taole, seemc 1
to share the character of the room. He,
too, bad been handsome once. Kow
be was expressive only of age and in
digence, from the threadbare collar of
his limp dressin'-gown to the tips of his
thin and shabby slippers.
’'Prepare what I" he growled.
“Why a turkey, sir; or a pie, or—or
a bit of cranberry-jauce, sir—”
He looked so fierce, her words died in
her throat.
“Turkey! And where do you sup¬
pose I can get the money to spend on
turkey! And pie! To make us all sick,
and bring doctors and doctors’ bills
down on me! And,” with a sniff of
“cranberry sauce—the skinny
stuff! No, Mr*. Dotty. A bit of bacon
and some bread will bs good enough for
poor folks like us—good enough.”
His housekeeper, for that was the un
enviable position Mrs. Dotty occupied in
Godfrey Kirke’s household, resolved to
make one last appeal.
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“OH, COHR ut. COME in!” HE CRIED
But I thought perhaps oa account of
the child,” she began. .
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fft ask for her, did II right 1
to adopt her. What
* to make such a poor
If by marrying Tom Bar¬
thea cc bas to die here,
v* her girl! Eh! She's an
I tell you; that's ail. An ex
Rv Lord help murmured us, but he's the gottiag
rss thsa ever!" dosrnrightdtt- wesson,
with • bang that sras
xctfui, t 1 ** slammed the door behind
httte thing. Of
wss a clad is ill
shout u She wss an
sorrowful. dslicste fsntarss hod a
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5 ?srisf.r«r?ji tjtz
“Yes; and I—heard."
“Oh, don’t—don’t mind, deart” said
Mrs. Dotty, soothingly, putting a hand
thst looked like wrinkled ivory on the
girl’s arm. “He is just a cross, soured,
lonely old man.”
• *1 do mind t” Bessie passionately cried.
“Oh, I do! I sha’n't stay here! I aha’n’t
be an expense to him any longer. I will
go away somewhere!”
She broke down in a fit of bitter
weeping.
“Xow, Miss Bessie, dear, you mustn’t
cry that way; you really mustn’t. I
loved your mother before you, and I love
you.”
But the poor, little, old comforter was
almost crying herself.
Years before, the Kirkes were the
people of wealth and position in that
part of the country. But one trouble
after another had come upon the house.
First, the wife of the master died.
Maud, the daughter, married a man
whose only crime was poverty. He was
a frail, scholarly man, quite unfitted for
a fierce struggle against advene fortune.
He fell ill and died. A year later hie
wife followed him, leaving their child
to its grandfather, Godfrey Kirke. To
the latter had come the Anal blow when
htt only son Robert, hie hope and pride,
had run away to sea. Then in the
house, which since the death of the mis¬
tress bad been a cheerless arid dreary
place, began a rigid reign of miserliuejs
aud consequent misery.
Bessie broke from her friend and ran
upstairs and into her own little bare
room. There was no fire in the grate,
though the day was cold with the pene¬
trating damp of a wind from off the
ocean.' She went to the window and
stood there looking out across the flat
brown marshes, to where the waters
tossed, greenish and turbulent.
“A horrid day,” she said, with a
shiver, “but it can’t be worse out than
in.”
She put on a short old Astrahan
jacket, a little felt hat and a pair of
much-mended cloth gloves. Then ahe
went quickly down and out.
The dusk, the dreary November dusk,
was filling the room wnen the old man,
plodding over his accounts, laid down
his pencil and rang the bell. Mrs.
Dotty responded. Mr. Kirke kept but
one other servant (if Mr*. Dotty could
correctly be termed a servant), and ah*
absolutely refused to enter the protest¬
ing presence of her master,
"Tea!"
“Yes, sir.”
The meek housekeeper withdrew.
Ten minutes later she drought in a tray
on which were tea, bread, butter, two
cups, two saucers ami two4»late*. Mr.
Kirke poured out his tea, shook a little
of the sugar he was about to use back in
the old aiiver bowl, added carefully a
few drops of milk and cut a slice of
bread.
“Butter has gone up three cents in the
last week,” be said. “I can't afford to
use butter."
So he munched his bread dry, with a
sense of exaltation in bis sell-imposed
penance. lie would not open the
poorhouse-door for himself by using but¬
ter. But, somehow, toe rank tea tasted
ranker than usual. Surely the bread
was sour. And the gloom outside the
small circle that the lamplight illumined
seemed singularly douse. What was
wrocgl What was missing? Wha* was
differeat? He paused, htt hand falling
by htt side. The child—as be and Mrs.
Dotty had always cailod her—the child
was not here. She used to slip in so
quietly, take her seat, and when her
meager supper was over, glide away just
as softly. Yea, little as he noticed her,
she was generally there. He rang the
beli sharply.
“Where is she?” heaskei Mrs. Dotty,
when she popped in her mild old head.
There was no need to pirticularize. searching Mrs.
Dotty cast a swift, leak
arout d.
“isn’t ah* here!"
Without waiting for a reply, she
turned and ran up the stairs to Bessie's
room. There she knocked. No
answer. She opened the door, went in.
The room was empty.
Hastily she descended the stair*.
“Shs is mjt in, sir.”
“Where is thef”
“I don't know, sir.”
Impatiently Godfrey Kirke pushed hi*
chair back from the table.
“You ought to know, it’s your busi¬
ness to know. But it doesn't matter—
it doesn't matter in the least.”
Down to Hanna in the kitchen went
j Mrs. Dotty.
I “Did you Miss Bossier
“Yes’m. Pawin' westward a couple
• of hours ago—yes’m.''
“Ob!”
j Bessie Mrs. had Dotty probably breathed a to relieved Bose Dever's sigh.
gone
The Devers lived almost a mile
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would most likely stay these over night,
tnn Voirtt'k* lfr_ Ctrk#‘« hull
1
“Ho, sir. why she went out!”
“Do you know
“I suspect, sir."
“Well, speak up.” conversation
“8he overheard our to¬
day.” itr
“What of
“Nothing of it,” with a vert angry
flash from very faded eye«, “except that
she vowsd she would be an expense to
you do longer.”
* “She did, ehr
“She did.”
“Well,” grimly. “I hope shs won't!”
The child had a sulky it. Shs wss
probably at the house of
Shs would return when her tantrum hod
off. All tha bs toll himself.
Stilt hs sot in his lonely room till long
after mid sight, listening, listening.
When hs finally want to bed it wss to
roll sad moan ttiUdaylight, 1a tbs vagus
before Thanksgiving
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• fog. a yhdl.
ROBERTA, GA M f|V > « r tt ~4A j CC ■>fi, \m.
smoky, blinding fog, began to creep up
from the Atlautio.
“If you don’t mind,” said Mrs. Dotty,
making her appearance with a shawl over
her head, “I’ll just run over to Devers’
and see what is keeping Mist Bessie."
“DoI” he answered.
She had spoken as if the distance were
not worth considering, but it was quite a
journey for her. When she returned ahe
looked white and scared.
“She isn’t there —hasn't been.”
“Hark!” said Godfrey Kirke, holding
up one lean hand.
“That is onlv the carrier with the
flour.”
“Ask him if he has seen her!”
Mrs. Dotty went into the hall. Almost
instantly she returned.
“He has not. He says there is the
body of a young woman at the town
morgue.”
“What!”
Godfrey Kirke leaped from his chair.
“He says that the body of a young girl
was found in the East Branch to-day.”
Godfrey Kirke sank back in his seat.
Mr?. Dotty smiled a hard little smile to
herself as she closed the door and went
away. Sue knew how many friends
Bessie had. She shrewdly suspected if
she were not found at one place she
would be at another; and she was malici¬
ously and pleasantly conscious that she
had given the hard-hoarted old man a
genuine scare. where she had left
Long the latter sat
him. Thinking. For the first time in
years he was thinking, sadly,.seriously,
solemnly. Th&n'sgiving-eve! In his
wife’s time the honse used to be gay and
cheerful on that night, so filled with com¬
fort and bright anticipations, so odorous
with the homely fragrance of good things
in the kitchen, so delightfully merry with
the brisk bustle attendant on the mor¬
row’s festivity. Now it was desolate,
dreary, darksome with depressing and
unutterable gloom. Whose fault was it!
His' decided Golfrey Kirke, as savagely
relentless to himself in this moment as
he would have been to another. His!
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HE BAD TRB WKAPOK IS HtS RAND.
when his devoted wife bad drooped and
died under his ever-increasing arrogance,
dictation. Hist when Maud married the
first mao who offered himself, to escape
from her father * pretty rule. HU! when
Robert ran away to escape the narrow
obligations and unjust restrictions laid
upon him. His! whon the child his
dead daughter had left him could no
longer endure hU brutality, or accept
from him the scant support he so grud
gingly gave. Htt fault—all htt! In
those lonely hour* the whole relentless
truth dawned upon him, as such truths
will dawn, in most bitter brilliance. He
dropped htt heed on htt hands with a
groan. looked around the dim, shabby
He
room. He looked at the dying fire in
the grate. He wondered o! what use
would be to him now his twenty-thou¬
sand in bonds, htt eight hundred acres
of meadow land, the money ne had out
at interest. He rose in a dazed kind of
way, a shadowy purpose taking definite¬
ness in htt mind. He wished be had
been better to Besse; he wished—but
what was the use of wishing now? There
could be but one satisfactory answer to
all htt self-condemnation. A shot from
the revolver in the drawer yonder.that be
had alwaya kept la readiness for possible
burgisn. H e rose. He moved toward
the table. Htt figure cast a fantastic
shadow on the wall. The tears were
streaming down htt cheeks. There
might be thanksgiving for bis death,
though there could never have been any
for htt life.
Hark!
He had the weapon ia htt hand. He
started nervously. Wm that Bessie’s
voice! He tamed, dropping the revolver
with a clatter. Yes, there she wee, no*,
three fort away, fresh, fair, damp, emil
Nt thing,” she said,
“It it the queerest
coming toward him as she spoke, “I
felt—badly—yesterday, and I went over
QHr. IS? and ȣ.jou she wanted me to stay 7 over
a note. At km
she seat the boy with it, but he last it,
and only told her so this afternoon. As
•no* si I hnew^that I started horn*
alone— although Dicky *ras no Mtter. He
“Ys»r said Godfrey Kirke. was
Iktcsuir with an unusual degree of in
--... “And to-night, when , I urns almost .
here, (Kelsons’ i* <?»«*• *«• ■**■» *"?
you know,, I got lost .. the teg.
Her gramUather regarded her in
ML What mods be pais rbeaks
so bright! What ■ MM
gray eyas!
he^ A f^d who sms
end-uml brought
Hors bs hi”
tbsboU
“ B shmtt"
“Fmbsrl* ineoek other'.
Than they clasped
•Tm from tbs for good.
father. And I chanced to find my little
niece Bessie lost out there in the fog. A
young lady, I vow! And I was think¬
ing of her as a mere baby yet! Just
think! She tells me Charlie Kelson
wants her—”
“No? Well, Charlie is a fine fellow.
Ho can have her—a year from to-day.”
So now you know why the Kirke
homestead is dazzling with lights and
flowers, and why it resounds with laugh¬
ter this Thanksgiving; why old Godfrey
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“robsht!” "father!”
wears a brsnn-new suit, and s flower in
his buttonhole; why Robert, in his
rightful place, looked so proui and
pleased; why dear, busy little Mrs.Dotty
beams benignly; why Bessie, gowned in
snowy, shining silk, thinks this is a
lovely old world after all; why Charlie
Kelson is so bltssedly content, and why
in each and every heart reigns supreme
Thanksgiving.—The Ledger.
Thankaglvln; Roast Pig.
Take a choice fat pig six weeks little old,
not younger, though it may be a
older. Have it carefully killed and
dressed, and thoroughly washed. Trim
out carefully with a sharp, narrow-bladed
knife the inside of the mouth and ears,
cv.t out the tongue and chop off the end
of the snout. Rub the pig well with a
l mixture of salt, pepper and pounded
- sage, and sprinkle it rather liberally with
red pepper, and a dash outside, too.
Make a rich stuffiQg of bread crumbs
—corn bread stuffing is de rigeur for
pig, though you can put half of one ami
half of the other inside of Mr. Piggy if
somebody insists on loaf bread stuffing.
If you use corn bread, have a thick, rich
pone of bread baked, and crumble it as
| soon as it is coot enough to handle, sea-
1 son |{ highly with black and red pepper,
1 sage, thyme, savory marjoram, minced
onion—just euough to flavor it, and
plenty of fresh butter; moisten it well
with stock, cream, or even hot water.
Stuff the pig well and sew it up closely.
If you have a tin roaster and open tire,
the pig will be roasted by that much
better. If you have not, put the pig in
a long pan and set it in the oven, and
j begins leave the stove cook, door gradually open until cloung the the pig
to
poor, ao that the cooking wilt not be
done too fast. The pig must be well
dredged with flour when put in the |>an.
Mix some flour and butter together in a
plate, and pour about a quart of hot
water in the pan with the pig when it is
put on the fire. Have a larding-tnop in
the plate of flour and butter, and mop
the pig frequently with the mixture
while it U roasting.
If a roaster is used, set it about two
feet from the fire at first, but continue
to move it nearer and nearer as the pig
cooks. Baste it frequently with the
water in the pan bet ween whiles of mop.
piog with flour and butter.
To be sure the pig is done, thrust a
akewer through the thickest part of him;
»f no pink or reddish juice oozes out it
is done, and ought to be a rich brown
all over. When the pig is done |>our
the gravy in a saucepan auil cook it
sufficiently. This will not be necessary
if the pig was cooked in the stove oven.
The pig's liver may be boiled in well
salted water, pounded up, and added to
the gravy, which should bs very savory
and plentiful.
The pig should be invariably served
with baked sweet «otatoes and plenty of
good pickle and sauce, either mushroom
or green pepper catsup, for despite his
toothsome new, roast pig is not very safe
eating without plenty of red peppsr.—
Good Housekeeper.
An Informal Ripest.
“I suppose,” said Mr#. Brown, “you
would like me to wear a new dress at
n,;, Thanksgiving dinner you are uoing
to g i Te J -
."Can't afford it,” growled old Brown,
. tjLM „ yo „ h JT e the turkey well
dressed you will pas* muster."—Judge.
The Thanksgiving Turkey.
As Taanksgiring Day wails* down this way
]"!» strutting turasy is ill at
« l as »< as tbs turtay of Job,” says bs;
’Tonga mad untit to sat, you ear.
And a turkey imasr d I ttma ru be.
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Caave for Thantrgirimr.
andsy-school Twseher - •• WiUie,
bad anything during the week
^ M sMctaOy tassxful fort”
vtTi!ls«_“Yes’m, Johnny Podgets
sprained his wrist and I licxed him for
t ^ ^ yesterday.”—Burlington
Tree Press
A Thesfht Fsr iheSeaten
H( m , store of blastings ibare ly b
By Upon ah thagMasm tea poor a snare. that gifts proas*
havebowa b* Em
Will thanksgiving
Tommy’s Dream on Thanksgiving Mgk
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THE CHEAT STRIKE ENDED,
And Mills at Homestead Hare Begun
Operations Once Mora
A Large Number of the Strikers are
Given their Old Plaees.
The great Homestead strike, or lock¬
out, was brough to an end Sunday morn¬
ing at a meeting which was presided
over by Richard Hotchkis?, the new
chairman of tbe strikers’ advisory board.
Secretary Killga.ion, Vice President Cor
ney and Treasurer Madden, national i fl¬
eers of the Amalgamated Association,
were present. The lockout had reached
its 144th day. Its history is known the
w >rld over. 1 he vote that opened the
Horn' stead Steel works to Amalgam¬
ate! men stood 101 ayes to 91
nays. The meeting was a red hot
one all the way through and at
one time looked ns if Burgess Hollings
hcad would have to assert his official au¬
thority to prevent a serious conflict.
Charges aud counter charges were the
order of the dsy. News paper reporters
were excluded, but the infornnti >n is re¬
liable that those wishing to dee sre the
mill open barely su receded in carrying
their point.
Now that the agony is over, the men
are not backward about expressing their
opin ous of the men who have posed as
leaders, confidently promisi g victory
when they knew for a certuinty that the
battle was hopidcss’y d, lost According to
Superintendent Wo. than eight of tbe Homestead nine
work?, not more or hun¬
dred of the employees will be able to se¬
cure emp'oyment.
The fact that the men would return to
work ha* put the people of than the town in
a happier frame of m ud at any
time during the lockout. Business men
especiady feel that the town will soon re¬
sume its former activity. There were
six hundred applications for work du¬
ring the day. Although many were
turned away because their positions had
been taken by new men, they have good
reason to believe that in a short time
nearly an the men will be back again.
The mill y«rd i’ full of old iron
and scraps ami it ?eems to
be no secret that the comp toy is as well
pleased as the nieu that declared the strike off. has, to
a certain extent, been Sev
eral am ilgsmated men are known to have
applied for tin ir ol I p sitions and so far
a? leam d none were refu ed. Men
charged with rioting h-ive been given
plants notwithstanding the company's
former dec! -rqtion. foreman The di-charge company has
notified tbe to only
incnin.x tent men to make room for tbe
oh! m n The incompetent list wa» found
to If large, judging from the number of
old men !>ei >: l a'ten back.
DISASTROUS STORMS
Sweep Over .Several Western Slates
Doing Considerable Damage.
A Chic-go special says: The iff ct of
Ike stenn of Friday and Friday u gbt i?
evident in the iuterruptiou of telegraphic
communication with the w<st
Hero in Chicago the wird blew at the
rate of forty to fifty miles per b< ur at
time? thr ugh the night. Neither of
the telegraph cun panic? has wires work
ing Himix to St. Paul. Miunea|»o is, Duluth,
City, or Kansas point?. Communi¬
cations wiris Ksus s City is irregular,
and at time? cut off al’ogetlier. The
storm extended from Illinois west to the
Rocky mountains, *< u ! h to the Indian
Territory and norhto the Canadian lioe.
All tt-Ii-oraphic communications within
this district is ahsolutiy cut off, and it is
impi ?? bie to more than conjecture ihe
amount of damage done.
lU'KHICAliK AT BAI.TIUOKR.
A Baltimore dispatch says: A hurri¬
cane of unusual violence swept up Ches¬
apeake havoc bay nt buildings noon Friday, and played
with along the watet
front of tbe harber and with vessels
moored thereiu. Tbe wind reached the
velocity harbor of sixty miles an hour. Tbs
was well tilled with vessels of
every class, acd a gn at deal of damage
was done to them. An immense grain
elevator, railroad, belonging to tbe Northern
Central in Canton, was consid¬
erably damag.-d, the wind shaking the
great building until wide cracks appeared
in tbe walls. No estimate of the loss by
the hurricane is given, but it will neces¬
sarily be large.
THE STORM IX INDIANA.
Dispatches from English, lod., state
that • tornado of forty-eight hours* du¬
ration iocreased in force early Friday
morning and wrecked nearly every win¬
dow and chimney in tbe town. The
fronts of revere! business bouses were
blown in and there were several narrow
escapee from death. Two hundred huge
forest trees were uprooted.
AFTERNOON PAPERS
Organize the “ Southern • Afteraaen
Press Association.”
Representative* of practically all after¬
noon papers in the south, met at Savao
n ah Saturday, and Association. organised the The Soutbern
Aftern on Press papers
represented were at follows: The Slates,
New Orleans; tbe Tribune, Galveston;
the News, Chanonsoga; the Sentinel,
Knoxville; the New*, Macon; the Journal,
Atlanta; tbe Mobile; Metropolis, the Journal, Jacksonville; Mont¬
The News, Memphis; the
gomery; tbe Scimetsr,
News,’ Augusta; the Press, Savannah; Richmond; the
New?, Baltimore; tbs Butte.
The Ledger. Norfolk; t*>* Times, Loutt
viiie; the Public Ledger. Memphis. It
tt the intention of each paper ia tbe as¬
sociation to net as locality its news where representative it i* pub¬
lor the city *r.d
lished.
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ADVISORY BOARD DISBANDED.
Increased >amber si Application* tor
Wart st tbe Mill*.
A special of Tuesday from Homestead.
P* says: The official existence of tbs
strikers' fan#? is advisory board was end¬
ed at a meetiag held Monday night.
Applications for reinstatement in tits
mill* continue in increased numbers
The Steal? to be iBriiMd to bs
comiderate acd it is now thought proba
strikers We that will a much be larger ployed proportion than it of the
re-? m wn*
thought possible.
A SHORT COTTON CROP.
Six Million Bales Is the Figure Ar
rived At?
The Charleston News and Courier ha?
had an (xhaustive examination made of
the condition of the cot bn crop of the
aou'b, ex' < nding over the entire
belr, and on Saturday publish'd show the that fg'
suit of its work. The rt ports
tbe crop is short far beyond the caicnia
tion of a!! experts, who have shows thus that fat fig
ured on it. It further tbe
greater part of the crop has been picked
and rushed to msrkct and that the late
top crop will amount to practically noth¬
ing. From these reports, which come
from tbe commissioners • f agriculture of
the vari- us states, and from trustworthy
newspa.s-r*, it appear? the crop will
scarcely exceed ? x million bales.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun say#!
“Cotton fields in this and adjoining sec¬
tions are almost en irely bare. It is a
conservative g-atement to say that fully
nine-tenths r.f the crop has bren picked
andmaikelel. A few of the large and
more wealthy planter? have their cotton
in diffe.cnl warehouses awaiting a further
advance, which is confidently expected.
Sunil faim rs have, with scarcely an ex
cepthm, tkfiigh' disposed of thei- fully crops, and it
is sife to ?ay seven-tenths
of rite < r p h i? been sold. The yield in
some sections is conceded to be 50 per
cent leas than that of last year; in others,
about A5 per c-n’. The average de
create in yield may be put at 38 pet
cent.”
The Memphis Appeal isya: “It is e ti
mattd by conservative men that the crop
in the Memph s territory, west Tennes
see. Arkansas and Mississippi will be
fully 40 per cent less than that of last
year. large This showing is due not only to a
decrease of acreage, but to various
o:her causes, sraong wh'cli may be men¬
tion tbe disastrous fl iods which prevail¬
ed in the spring n ATkausii? nul Missis¬
sippi. Tbe floods pievenled the farmers
putting in any coCon on their best lands.
Cold, wet w-tstber La? been prevailing
throughout ibis section for the last two
weeks and complain s are general among
printers that ibe dnniage to the cotton is
general ther, from. The top crop will
prove an aim >st tot*’, f i!ure, owing to
ibis weather, as immature boils are re¬
ported to Ite decaying. I( is probable
that from 50 to GO per rent of tbe crop
in this territory has been marketed.”
E. Craighead,correspondent at Mobile,
telegraphs that the cotton crop o f Ala¬
bama i« placid at 850.000 hairs. Lending
members of th ■ Mobile cotton exchange
estimate the crop short by 40 per cent,
and that half of tbe crop ins been sold.
Other r parts from the cotton belt
agree thst the crop is from 34 to 40 per
cent abort and tha’ the • u k of the crop
gathered has ulrea ’y been marketed.
Secre ary Hester’s weekly New Orleans
cotton statement shows a *rill greater
drop in tbe movement of cotton during
the past week, tiic di fireticy days compared
yearling wi’h seven conc*|K.nd.us hale?, of litis la^t
upward of 140,000
makes the dec ease for the first eight on
day* of November 329,308 bate* from la-t
vesr.
EDITOR OCHS TALKS.
Me Replies to Statements ionrernlng
the Southern Associated Press.
The New York Recorder, iu its issue
of Saturday, printed the following from
Chattanooga, Tenn.:
“The publication is ihe New Vote Times that
tbe proprietor of Tim ('hatuu.-ogsTinus It dis¬
gruntled and will likely withdraw is without from the tbe
Honihem Aa*oci*t«l Prre,
slightest foundation. persistently ite
•'I have for the past ten dsy?
slined to receive the reports of the Xew lor It
dsv Awo. istsd The Honthern Pnaw, though Auocuted tend red Pres? to me has every
no
member more loyal than myself.
"There wss every effort made to create a inn
ttnous spirit in the Southern Associated Pres?,
bat it tm ed of iis purpree- The t>>nthern As¬
sociated Pres? ha* in i s membership every daily
newspaper of North and Houlh Gtrotina,Florida.
Georgia, East Tennessee, Alabama, M a-ra-ippi
and I,om4.»na that has heretofore teorive?) tiro
New Vert Associated Press to ws, paying there¬
for Sisnooo per annum.
"Tire Son:lorn Aaroriated Tre»# have, by of con -
tract, control in th* »t«t * mentioned, ali
news of Ihe Uuited Pro.ee, and the Western As¬
sociated Pros?, and throu.Ii these two organi
saiicta, tire two principal f *t > i,n news agen
crej. The proprietor* and publishers of sou b
<ro daily their nowspap relations r» had with every the uuprjrtenity Nn York As¬ to
runlmoe
sociated Pr as, aaj on terms they oonid th-ui
* elves dictate, ami they choae to decline a'(
oTir.nree. It is soppe-t that >ker know what
tiny are The atom, all b.-iog successful bn? ins*
uiea. members of tire Soo berc Aws'iat
cd Press bear no iil wilt to the Xew York
baaocratsd meat that Press, incudes, bn! witn joined acccp’ions the
more
hardly worth menuooitu'. every daily new .pa¬
per irons Seattle to B*rg»r. and from the lakes
•o the gnir, to put s atop to arrangements which
enabled seven New Tors dritrr? to control tbe
new* of tbe conotry and ciact whatever pay
they dsmat.ded.
"Tha door tt open to ilro New York Associa¬
ted hr**e to come in on equal term? with the
mod fry. red. Tne Somber.i Assoeiand I’tc?e
hope* that its former X'ew York thrir City aa-ociates
may soon real ze the folly of . Hurts to
stop tbs progressive move, ihst for a w,.Drier,
was no* commerced years ago.”
(SigncJ) ADol.ro 8. Ocas.
Chairman Kx. Corn. Somb. Asa. Press
THE INAUGURATION.
It Will he Conducted oa the Plan of
Eight Veers Ago.
A tYsshinginn dispatch of \Yvda<s?l»y
•aya: L n ling democrat* of the district,
after a conauiiati. u with Senator G«r
h»ve decided to recommend that
the plan adopted eight rerun ago,
when Cleveland was Wetted, be
fallowed on the occasion of he
aeeocd inauguration. Ths plan in
•abstsnee, is the .election by the uational
democratic committee of fifty citl
■ent < f the District of Columbia to take
charge of the ceremonies outside of the
capital. A (Meting Tuesday aight pre¬
pared such a lint, headed by t'o!. James
G. Barret, who preaided over the inau
gnrtl otamities eight year* ago. The
Hat was sent to Chairman Hamiy, of ths
national democratic e? m<nittt«. for ap
-.__ ___
■ itaiseippi's Ft rare*.
A Jsckson. ilies.. specie, of Sunday
•ay?: Return* in the secretary of state’s
office from all the cona’ies. rxcspt Coho
atm, give Oieve-stui 33.965. Weaver 10,
MO. Harrison 1.573, B dwell $10. Oeve
land's plurality over Weaver, 29,715;
Carreiand belated 1 ? majority will over all, Ceveland 27.432
The couaty place e
phiraHty at about
VOL. I. NO. il.
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
,
Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
A San AntoDio special of Saturday
says: Encsrnacion Gazzi, brother of the
famous filibuster, Catrino Gairia, has been
released on f'2,000 bail. GarZS is the
Mexican who was captured at Key West.
Fla , tome weeks ago.
At the annual meeting of the Confed¬
erate Survivor’s Association of South Car¬
olina at Columbia, officers were elected
and a resolution was adopted requesting organize
the counties of the state to
county associations with tbe purpose lat¬
er of terming camps of the United states
veterans similar • to those existing
throughout the south.
The Philadelphia furnace at Florence,
Ala., was lighted Saturday nighf. This
furnace is the property of the Florence
Cotton and Iron Company, owned aPd
controlled by Philadelphians. It is tbe
largest and beat equipped furnace in the
south. The furnace has just completed
«xtensive repairs. A new era of pros¬
perity has been inaugurated in Florence.
On Saturday eighteen thousand pounds
of dynamite and other lush grade Houston explo¬
sives were sent to Fort S m
target range, two miles east of San An¬
tonio, Tex is, where General Dryenforth’s
rain-making experiments are to be made.
It is expected that a train of explosives the
three miles long will be laid for
first test. The weather is clear, and the
barometer shows no indication of rain.
A tpecial of Friday to The Los An¬
geles, Cal., Express states that there is
much excitement and alarm caused in
northeastern Arizona by the threats of a
band of Kavajoes under Chief Black
Horse of going to p ar against the whites.
A ropiest has been sent to the troops, but
General McCook thinks that the troops
arc not necessary and believes a little ex¬
ercise of caution will prevent a hostile
outbreak.
The census office has made a pro limi
nary repnrt on the manufacturing during indus¬ the
tries of San Antonio, Tex.,
past decade. In 1890 the number of in¬
dustries reported at San Antonio was 25;
number of establishments reported, 43:
with invested capital of f 1,548,362. Num¬
ber of hands employed, 907; reciivinc
$615,125 in wages. The cost of mate
rial? used was $831,185 and the value of
tbe product $2,13?, 266
The steamer Rosa Lee. from Astport,
burned at the wharf morning, at Mtmpnis, Tenn., officer
early Monday An
awaktm-d the p.s-enceis and all above
the dock and thirty below got out safely.
It is thought that four laborers, who
were in a state of intoxication, were
burned to death. Tbe steamer cost $70.
000, and was in the cotton trade. • The
less is complete. Insurance, $27,000.
Her manifest consisted of 897 bale* of
cotton and 2,009 sacks of cotton seed.
The outgoing Western and Atlantic
passenger train leaving Atlanta at
11 o’clock Sunday night was wreck¬
a short distance from tbo city. The
wreck was a bad one, smashing cars and
tearing up the track. Fortunately no
was killed. Engineer Squires wss
found to be pretty badly hurt, as was al¬
liis fireman. One or two of the pas¬
were bruised up. The disaster
was due to train wreckers. An iron
band was found fastened about one of
rails. It was near the spot where a
was wrecked a year ago in tbs
way.
A Columbia. 8. C, dispatch says: It
was ascertained Sunday that steps are
being taken to abolish the historic South
college, an institution which ia
alma mater of a host of distingutted
that the state has produced. The col¬
lege is dear to thousands of South Caro¬
and this announcment will be re¬
with untold regret, and there
undoubtedly be a hard struggle to
: a it. The superintendent of educa¬
in his aunual report to be submitted
the general assembly, recommends that
college be closed and that the build¬
be converted into a normal learned college that
te r both sexes. It is also a
in accordance with this recommen¬
has been prepared and will be in¬
troduce in the legislature.
IMPORTANT DECISION
Affecting Southern. Railroad? by the
Iiiter-lnte Commerce Commission.
A Washington special of Saturday
say*: The interstate commerce cotnmis
sion ha?, in an opinion l»v Commissioner
Visr-y, announce I its decision in the
cases brought l»y the Geetgia railroad
commission agaro-t th Cincinnati. com-j New.
Orleans and Tex** Pacific Railway
pans, the Lr-uisville tied other Xashrilk' railroad Rai!| anC
way company and i
areiunsbip tines, sewn cases au-l in £li, shorter; in .
solving rat e? f -?_Luc "ffaVKM r
hauls from i'”""
mar Noith : nt?. Atlantic sr.d '.''roitlra^^^H pert* to potnt^W
cth<=i sho?l
southern territory. The long and
haul clause of the inteistate com mere!
law tt construed by the commission il
the light of more than five years* heretofc-1 opersl
tion of the law and decisions J
rendered by tbe commission and »’
courts. ^
SETTLING TILDEN’S WILL.
The Trsstee? Sute?m«n and Cobh* Relative? to Terms. of the T«|
M
A New York special of Friday r-^H
The tru*’w« of Samuel ) Ti!den atu^Hj
that a wfilemrii’ iu ;»<? n thi-ir.
relatives will hs« icon • ".te? arrived „ ? and -?■: -•?•• urirtH ?n.H|
; ••
idea, establishing * Idu-vi y and leadiH
room in the city for the »■*!■.cation
young m p. to Ire'k-r wn as “The titdS
Trust.'' is now actually iu eight, anl
needs on*y official endorsement. Uod?l
the agreeittin . one-thirlol the origin?! room*
nmOGBt for library and reading
purposes is released. Tin- Mira wiil ag¬
gregate- $2,006,000. the annual iiHerrst
on which wilt i. $.'-<> 000 T he tt«te*.e»
accept.?! ihe compromise nod pr |> we i«
use the inter. »t i the at«r t? i evatrm
piafed by tire will.