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VO UME 19 BLAKELY. — i—O—o—o—o—o—o—o—o— French Prunes, Ma¬ laga Grapes, New Raisins, Bananas, Or: anges, Cocoanuts, Brunswick Brand Breakfast Strips, Ful- —ton Market Corn Beef w Schumacher’s Graham Flour aud Oat Meal. BLAKELY. GRIFFIN. allows interest on DEPOSITS Discounts paper. Long or short time loans on real estate. Buy and sell ex¬ change. Make collections on all points. Real estate loans on the monthly install¬ ment plan and loans on all good securities at low rates. B. R. BLAKELY, R. H. DRAKE, President. Cashier. GRIFFIN. man Points About the 'Metropolis of Middle Georgia.} (Iriffln is the comity seat of Spalding Coun- r, Georgia, nad is situated iu the centre o beat portion of the great Umpire State of South, where all of its wom'erfal ard •ied industries meet and are carried on h greatest success, and is thus ablo to of iu ducements to all classes sinking a homo nd a profitable career. These are the rea¬ lm tt growth that lias about doubled population since the hist census. It. has ample and increasing railroad fac.iii- the second point in importance on the nt nd railroad between the capital of the rate, forty miles distant, oml its principal i aport, 250 miles away; an independent ue to i 'hattunosgu and the West by way of he Savannah, Grillln and North Alabama uilroad; the principal city on the Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad, one hundred miles long, built- largely through its own en¬ terprise. and soon to be extended to Athens ud the systems of the Northuest direct .connecting with the great Bast Ten nsssee, Virginia and Georgia railroad system mother road graded and soon to be built; II bringing iu trade and carrying out goods ml manufactures. Griffin’s record for the past half d cade proves it one of the most pi ugressi verities in South. ; t it has built’ two large cotton factories .presenting $250,000, and shipping goods over the world. It has put up a large iron and bra ss fnnn y, a fertilizer factory, a cotton seed oi aill, a sash and blind factory, an ice factory, ottliug works, a broom factory, a mat tress =3Cton r. «y various smaller ciitrrpi-ise s._ __ _ . __ It bus put in an electric light plant by' which the streets are brilliantly li ght e d . It has opened up the finest and largest granite quarry in the State, for building, ballasting and macadamizing purposes, ft has secured a cotton compress with a, all capacity for its large and increasing re eipts of this Southern taple. It has established a system of graded pub’ schools, wit* a seven years curriculum, w-oad to none. DtaTof four, with combined resources of million dollars. it has built two handsome new churches, Baking a total of ten. It has budt several handg mi locks and many beautiful residences, the uilding record of 1889 alone being over 150,000. It has attracted around its borders fruit rowers from uearly every State in the Union nd Canada, until it is surrounded on every de by ochards and vineyards, and has be- ome the largest and best fruit section in the tate, a single ear load of its peaches netting 1,280 in the height of the season. It has doubled its wine making capacity aking by both French and German meth ods It has been exempt from cyclones; floods nd epidemicis, and by reason of its topo raphy will never be subject to them. With all these and other evidences of a ive and growing town, witi# a healthful and '.leusant climate summer and winter, a sospitable and cultured people and a soi capable of producing any product of the tem perate or semi-tropic zone, Griffin offers every inducement and a hearty we me to new citizens. Griffin srs one pr ing need, and that is a npw llAHi.uOO hotel to accommodate tran¬ sient visitors and guests who would make it , resort summer and winter. Send stamp for sample copy of the News a an Hon and descriptive pamphlet of Griffis I ilOOTWES - T. UB..IJ i jfK i T s Ts t GRIFFIN GEORGIA TUESDAY MORNING. NO EMBERS 1890. D EEI TORI. The Exchange on Wall Street Thronged With People. The Condition of the Market the Question. Only One Failure is AniiSunced—Advices from Lo .hdii arc Assuring—*The Failure . of the Bur lag Brothers Ha* no Effcrton the Marl.i f In This Country—Other Late Telegraphic News. New York, Nov. 17.—A. pouring rain did not prevent a great crowd of curi¬ osity seekers from gathering about the Wall and Broad street entrances to the Stock Exchange. There seemed-to he a general expecta¬ tion of a panic. Long before 10 o’clock, the galleries were filled with men and women three or four deep. Brokers were on tiptoe of expectation, anil their talks with one strangely enough, were carried on in a low tone. When the hands of the clock pointed to 1C . and the chairman brought down his and gavol, rush for there the was boards a tremendous whose stocks roar declined last Satur day. No one seemed - to know whether this was to be a day Of panic or of recovery.’ At the first stroke of the. gavel, there was a rush for the chairman’s desk, and there was almost perfect silence on the floor. When' he announced the failure of Mills, Robeson & Smith, bankers and brokers, not a murmur was heard. Ev¬ ery bodp knew the announcement was coming. Mr. Mitchell’s r,,, had announcement a auieting effect on the market, and news from London in the next five minutes helped In fact, to tone when up the things business considerably of the day had gotten fairly under way, the status of the great London firms had little or nothing to do with the panic. The Old Showman Very Sick. Bridgeport, Conn., Nov. 17.—P. T. Barnurn the great circus man, is believed to be on bin death bed, with a severe at¬ tack'd influenza. For one of Mr. Bar- num’s advanced years it will seem mar¬ velous if a recovers. Lynched by- a nob, Birmingham, Nov. 17.—Henry Smith, colored, identified as the criminal as¬ sailant of old Mrs. Mary Calhoun, near Bessemer, one day last week, was cap¬ tured Saturday night. Mrs. Calhoun identified the negro, and he was taken out by a mob and Monday lynched. His body was still hanging morning. Gordon and Calhoun. Atlanta, Nov. 17.—The contest for the United States senatorship is at fever heat. Perhaps it can be truthfully such said that not since the war has a bitter contest been had as is developing between the present aspirants. bent The election, friends of Mr. Calhoun are on his and the supporters of Gen. Gordon are deter¬ mined that the old war- veteran shall be the man. Alliancemen from all over the state are continually arriving in the city in, the interest of Gordon, and truly the contest is getting rife with all sorts of conjectures. Gordon seems to have the inside 4 however. ANOTHER MURDER. The Devilish Coward Shoots His Wife and Escapes. Birmingham, Nov, 17.—At Woodlawn, near this city, Henry Saunders shot and killed his wife, because she tlireatend to have a woman with whom lie was inti- inat<? arrested. The woman was* with Saunders when the shooting occurred, deed. and goaded him to the desperate Saunders then fled with his mistress, and 1ms not as yet been apprehended. WEEKLY COTTON REVIEW. The Comparative Reports Show u Targe ty Increased Number of Bales. New Orleans, Nov. 17.—Secretary Hester’s weekly New Orleans Cotton Ex¬ change statement, just issued, shows an¬ other weed of over 400,000 bales brought into sight, marketed carrying 391,000 the amount the 3,000,000 of mis crop past mark. ■The week’s total, while slightlv hales under last week, is larger by 37,799 than for the Northern corresponding spinners seven have days of last year. eontiued in the market shipped freely, and, includm, 69,957 tales to them overland they liavo taken 120,185 tales; an excess , over this week last year of 22,414, bring¬ ing their total for the season thus far to 163,260 hales .more than for the corres¬ ponding seventy-five days of the past year. of tiie brought into sight Amount crop against " during 865,215 the for past the corresponding w c ek w aa 4 0 4, 04 4, total -thus seven days of last year, making a far to \da Nm date of 3.890,613, against 3,063,754, an icrease over last year of 326,859. The movement since Sept. 1 shows: Receipts at all United States ports 2,667,- 420, against 2,465,691 last year; overland, across (he Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers to northern mills and Canada 285,- 701. against 235,728; interior stocks in excess of those held at close of the last commercial year 306,412, against 230,500; southern mill takings 131,080, against 131,835; foreign ex[>orts thus far for sea¬ son 1,679,930, against 1,548,036 last year, increase of 131,304. This indicates a loss during the past close seven days in the week excess of 7,861, as shown The at total the of last takings of American mills, north and south, so far this season, have been 817,- 208, against 653,948 last year. These in¬ clude 631,590 by northen spinners, against 518,330. The stocks at seaboard and leading southern interior centers are now 37,829 larger Allan at this date last year, includ¬ ing Btocks left over at the ports and in¬ terior tow ns from the last crop, and the number of bales brought into sight thus far from the present crop 3,127,217 supply to date the is 3,462,456, against for same period last year. He Went the Laudanum Route. Atlanla, Nor. 17.—P. H. McGrath, traveling salesman for a firm in St. Louis, committed suicide in this city l{tst Sunday night. His wife and children, who live at 701 Peachtree, were at once notified. McGrath had taken a room at a hotel on Decatur street, where he ; ended r his days by ' taking ,ndSced laudanum. Wmto9U It ; “ “ ot kn °*“ Wh 8t -I ANOTHER BOLD ATTEMPT. Til. (irorflt Railroad Hoarded .Again 1 >y Bobber*. Atlanta, Nov. 17.—Another daring attempt to rob the mail and express cars on this road was made Sunday morning before day, near Camack, in Warren county. Mr. C. clerk, thus E. Turner, the postal speaks “I of it: division the was at work in my of car, the other when end the of sudden the firing of pistols in three in car rung out loud and rapid shots. I rushed into the express division and asked Output what on door earth was up. He was standing with in the with his hack to me, and a pistol ‘Why,’ in his said hand. he, scoundrel has “ ‘the been at bis work again, hut 1 fixed him this time.’ Corput then told me that he had been sitting on his safe, when lie felt the cool air rush in on him. and looking up, was face to face witli a man who held a pistol in his hand, ready to blow his brains out, to all appearances. He said he instantly ahbed his pistol and fired at the man who returned the shot, sending a bullet through his cap, and he showed me the hole of the bullet. He said when he fired again the man fell on Ids knees - in the door and crawled backwards out of the car almost as quickly as it takes to tell it. “The train was moving at the rate of about thirty miles an hour, and Corput thinks the fellow fell olf.the car steps He didn’t get any money. “Corp u t slioived iue blood, onthe floor and bullet holes in the car. He says the fellow was a handsome man, well dressed aud with a dark moustache.” The robber or robbers did not succeed' in getting either money or mail matter. OPELIKA’S GREAT FAIR. - Graatl Attraction*, and Thousand of Peo¬ ple Kxf»<*cted. Opelika, Nov. 77.—Everything is ready for Opelika’s great lair which opened on Monday the 170t. It promises to he a magnificent success. The race track and buildings have been put in an excellent condition. • Many of the fine horses and stock of the Columbus and Montgomery exhibition will be brought here. Among many other attractive feature the “Little World” and “Wild West” shows will lie here the entire week. Many exhibits have already ar¬ rived. Tiie railroads have reduced rates to one cent per mile and arranged the roads con¬ venient schedules on all sc visitors can return the same day. Ac¬ comodations are ample and all are cor¬ dially invited to see the greatest fair evei held in East Alabama. A HOT CONTEST Looked flor iu I lie Nomination United Staten Senator. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 17.—Both houses of the legislature night, have agreed 18th, for to meet in caucus Tuesday candidate the purpose of nominating a senatorial for United States senator. The fight is the most fiercely contested in this state for many years, and the friends of every candidate are straining every point. and Commissioner As it now stands Kolb are Governor iifthe lead. Seay Seay’s friends are confident that ho will be nominated. He will go into the caucus, they say, with fewer votes will probably develop than Kolb, but his strength is mani¬ on every ballot. Great interest fested by all parties. DeciHion on Custom?. Washington, Nov. 17.—Assistant Sec¬ retary Spalding has informed a firm of Boston importers that no allowance can be made for damage to any imported merchandise, not excepting potatoes, imported into the United States on after the 1st of August. 1896, but that the importer thereof inay,^. within ten days after entry into the United States, any portion included in any invoice and be relieved from payment of duty on any portion so abandoned; provided, 10 that this portion shall amount to per cent, of the total value or quantity of the in¬ voice, and that such remaining portion shall portion be sep¬ in arated from the the presence of customs qfticers. A Little Unpleasantness. New Orleans, Nov. 17.—G, W. Pierce, the proprietor O’Neal, of the showman, Lafayette Hotel, and Martin a who was rooming there, had a row early in the morning, which resulted in the hotel keeper getting both eyes blacked by the actor. Pierce was by also slightly cut uhder the left eye the actor. During the scuffle O’Neal lost a valuable gold chain and locket, which was wrenched from his vest. O’Neal was ar¬ rested, charged by Pierce with assault and battery. Inauguration Day, Montgomery, Ala., Nov, 17.—The Daily Advertiser, in Governor speaking Seay of inaugu¬ ration day, says; the first day of December into office on 1885, and on the same date in 1888, and being elected for two years his present term of office December, does not and expire consequently until the first day of the inauguration of Governor-elect Jones will take place on that day. rations are already being made to it an occasion long to be remembered. . Fatal Cutting Affray. Adel, Ga., Nov. 17.— Nnws has reached this place of a fatal cutting fray, which happened near. Lenox day night, between George Kirby John Hesters, resulting in the death of the latter from a stab in Hie heart. Kir¬ by has eluded capture, aqd his bouts are unknown at present. Both parties are well known throughout section, gretted. and the killing is very much re¬ ___._ Want* to Yell alt he Know*. Chica ao, Nov. 17.—It is said van, the iceman, who complicity is serving a sentence in Joilie. for in murder of Dr. Cronin, has intimated a number of friends who have called upon him that be is anxious to tell all knows about the murder, aud thinks has already suffered enough for of others. Alabama's Democratic Majority. Montgomery, Nov. 17.—The vote for governor was counted in presence of the two houses of the lature, and was as follows: Jones, ocrat, 139,912; Green Long, backer, Republican, 1,885. Coulston, cratic majority, 96,137. , The Result of a Spree. Washington, D, C., Nov. Hess, an elderly German, was dead in his room at a hotel here. had been asphyxiated and by gas. bed, in dmnk^ U stupOTb' , went to l£ht forgetting to gas after he bad turned it on. POSTIL SCHEME. i Wanamakcr May Urge the Postal j Telegraph System. 1 WUr Keep it Before Public Lawmakers. Mr. Wanamaker Nurses tin- Hcbctac with Increased Fondness—9»»me Expressions _from Commercial Bodies—Any GoilLl ts- Against Hie Measure—Will the Govern- rnent Unlit! Uhm of it*Own? Washdkiton, Nov. IT.—It is stated that, in his annual report, Postmaster General Wanamaker wifi urge the neces¬ sity of postal telegraphy. • This is due. perhaps, to the strong ex¬ pressions of public approval which came from commercial bodies all over the country, when the hearings were hud before the house posfuffice committee during the last session. These bodies, b/ resolution and otherwise, seemed to make plain that the time had some for the postofllee department to take hold. It is thought that the facts brought out in the suits of the Western Union against the government have also had something to do w i tl r Wnw am a k sr s z ea l for postal telegraphy. show that the If he can congress charges heretofore made have been ex- a be toi i! donate, made ...... I . by and J postal that _ a system, 1st big saving nn trinrr it will w;ould tl»A11 do 1 <1 a much to commend the idea to legisla- It is said that Mr. Gould’s alleged Reading raid on the postmaster general’s Mr. Wanar stock w-fts a vicious drive at maker fornot giving up the notion- After the arguments made telegraphy, by Dr. Mervin Green against could postal understand the Little Wizard not why a sensible pjiblie official should per¬ sist in advocating the system. Be that as it may, the one thing cer¬ tain is that the postmaster determined general than has come up kee; smiling, the more going, aud he ever to keep agitation The will press the subject on congress. system he proposes does not contemplate fines, the government buying existing why Mr. which may be another reason Gould is so bitterly upposed to it. Mr. Wanamaker’s idea is for the govern ment to start in by doing a contract bus iness with existing lines, or new ones, that are willing to accept the terms pro¬ posed. Thfui, after a fair trial, the ques¬ tion of state or private ownership can be settled. Over 7.000 More Hale, than Last Year. .Savannah, Nov. 17,—Cotton exports from the United State* during October last aggregated 918,044 bales valued at $40,834,112, against 909,874 bales valued at $45,848,540 in October, 1889. Exports of the October principal articles valued of at provisions $11,340,- during against $9,904,010 were in October, 1889.' 574, A Bit of New* from Michigan. Saginaw, Nov. 17.—The hoard of county canvassers, which lias been in session all the week, threw out the en¬ tire vote on congressman in the eleventh ward in this city. This elects Youmans, Democrat, in the said eighth district, by 75 plurality. It is that Congressman Bliss will-contest, on the ground the that the ward’s vote was counted for other officers. \ ftepent Invention Adopted, San Antonio, Nov. 17.—The Southern Pacific company has inaugurated an Texas, in- novaion in track repairing in The old-fashioned fish plate being is being re¬ moved alid in its stead is substi¬ tuted what is known as the angle bar, a recent invention in railway construction, the use of which reduces the chances of accident to the minimum by preventing rails. Tiie the spread and “creep’ of angle bar will he placed on the entire Atlantic system. DAILY MARKET UEfOItTS Naval Stores. Satmouh. Ga., Nov. 17,—Turpentine Ann 37o. BwStu, firm at $1.-A3. 'lien ami Bagging. Atlanta, Nov. 17.—Arrow ties,_$L45. 9U».,i g Bagging fitfhtWi »!»■ T ' w; 2tt>, Grain ami Ha.v. Atlanta. Nov. 17 -Coni-choice white. 60 c; No. 2 niixrd. ________, Stride. Oa^s - No. 2 mixed. small 4916c. baL» Bay ■Timothy No. 1, large hates, hoc; too. New York Futures. Opening ami York. closing uuoialUms of cotton futures ia New —. Nsw Yoaa, ... „ Nov. IT. ,, Opeufng, -Closing. November.. B.EVtS .. l)eceu __jmber.............. t.HOfy 9.30®. 9.42®.., . January................ 9 4026..... February............ 9.56®,.,... 9 50®..... 9.51®.... 9.57®.... March.................. *-*J®..... 9.66®. April......... t ......... 9.73®..... 9.76® May.................. June..................»•*»*..... . 9.88®. July.................... ,9 90|5 .... . 9.91® August.......,...w 10.95®..... ( ...10.96®. — Spot cotton quiet and steady. Suh-s 96,700. dling % Liverpool Futures. Opening and closing quotations of cotton fu tures in Liverpool. LivKiteooL. Nov. 17. Opening. Closing. Novendier...............v 5.15 5 1J 6.13 5.11 Deoemtwr and January... 5.14 5 la January and February— 5 18 5.15 February and March...... 5.20 5.17 March and April,.......... 5.23 5 90 April and May........... 5.23 5 « 5.26 5 *4 June and July............. 5.30 5.27 July..............-....... 5,28 5.29 August............. ..... 3 35 5.27 August aud Sej'temlier. 5 23 5 27 Closed weak. ‘Spots—niMdltug uplands Sales 8,000; receipts StyJCW. Chicago Market. CmcAoo. Ills., Nov. 17. Wheat. opening. Closing. November........... 93 December........... ... If a v ........ Corn. November........... Mv ................ Oats. November.,.......... .... —: U.v _. . , ..... 43ti Porit December ............ ....11.50 JlfltlfllT.............. 11 U Msy ............... ... 12.30 urn LsriL December . . .. ..... SS ............. 1 565 M* •A'A-Vt THE NORTH POLE. Xmiim’Ii FroyMMMM to Perform tfc«* llmiartloo* New York, Nov. 17.— Dr. Nansen, who ciossed Greenland a couple of yearn lias been writing further details of plans for reaching the North Pok, w hich he will start to carry out in the ipring of 1892. Ho Ho says says he he expects exp to be to lias* through Behring strait in lie his anticipates little difficulty the in getting small vessel as far west ns Saw Hitlerian Islands. He believes that August or the beginning of September push¬ will lie the most favorable time for ing north, He intends to use a small captive balloon, in which lie can ascend a hundred feet or ao, for the purpose of studying the condition of thing* for a large distance around him. He Jaopes to get into loose ice and make the journey rapidly, id least as far north a* Bennet Island’ When lie reaches the permanent ice cap he will simply look for the hest •place to enter it, ana will then wait tor the wind to carry lain whither it will. He thinks the ehanees are pole, good that he will Is- carried acio-s tiie oMery near it, and Greenland. into the sea between Sspits- bergen and If it is summer when he arrives there, he thinks he will irotahly get into open water latitude i0 degrees north. If it is winter, how¬ ever, iie is likely Greenland to drift south^jong and out the east coast of fame somewhere the following summer. If the ice floes crush his sliip, Dr. Nansen think* there is an excellent chance that he will get through will all right. Ilis party, in that event, live on an ice lloe in¬ stead of in the cabin on inode shipboard. of double They will liave warm tents a thickness of canvas or similar stuff, well filled with reindeer hair. Such garments will lie very warm and also several very light. ships’ It is well known that parties, including the Hanso wew and part of the crew from the American ex¬ ploring vessel Polarist, drifted hundreds of miles on the ice and finally reached a place of safety. OLD OCEAN TEMPERATURE. How Itiloromtion is ObtAlndi, and IU Great Advantages. New York. Nov, 17.— During liners the have past summer, oft’utora on the ocean given, much information about the sur¬ face temperature of tiie ocean. Steamers lmve taken series of tempera¬ tures during and their have .rapid forwarded paasage* them across at the ocean, once to Washington, where the informa¬ tion has been immediately printed on the pilot charts for the use of mariners. Many people may be curious to know how it can particularly benefit sailors to learn the temjierature of the ocean’s sur¬ face. As a matter of fact, the naviga¬ tors of the trans-Atlantic liners pick their route very For largely by if the they surface find temperature. instance, that an incoming vessel reports a tem¬ perature of 80 degree* in alsiut latitude 40 degrees north, they know that the easterly Gulf stream current is in that latitude, and they will lie careful on re¬ turning to thus Europe strike not Labrador to go further north, and tho cur¬ rent, which will be against them. They are anxious to keep on their journey east in the Gulf stream, so long as it will help them, and they therefore aim to cross the Grand Banks of Newfoundland just where the Gulf stream current of twenty or twenty-five miles a day will lie with llie vessel instead of against her. Of course, every little helps in making a big record, which is what all the ocean ilyers are constantly striving for. The Gulf Htream on the eastern pas¬ sage also slightly diminishes the cost of a trip, if a steamer gets into it on tiie Grand Banks, Tho large steamer* hum about 3S50 worth of coal an hour, and the help the Gulf stream gives a vessel in one day may amount to about 8150. Last summer the northern limit of the Gulf stream than is agid usual. to have lieen considerably higher BETRAYED AND DESERTED. A Pitiful Story of a Man’* Pcrfhly mul IVoruuiFft ShmiK*. Nashville, Term., Nov. scarcely 17.— An at¬ tractive age,alighted young woman, 17 years of from the Northwestern and train attracted when it pulled attention into the by union her evident depot, embarrassment. When approached, she gave her name us Lauru Brennan of Memphis, and, after some hesitation told a pitiful Nashville tale of the perfidy ids home. of a man 8he claiming with as sister, where claimed to live her the While alone with him one evening he assaulted her, and induced by threata' domjielled leave her silence. He her to Memphis with but him, after ostensibly getting to her visit the bis family la-re, her his on of train, he informed of intention taking her to Chattanooga, where claimed to have work. She nositi’ refused to accompany him, and fearing exposure, he abandoned her tat ween Memphis aud Nashville, and when she arrived here she was without money or friends. Miss Brennan was furnished with a pass to Memphis and has left home. A BAND OF NEGRO ROBBERS. Tol** Jiii’kiMm, ii fhiBiul ltul»« Burrow*, Ornw^Mi^nR Ala., Nov. of TUI»v<-». 17.—A black Birmingham, captured Rube, Burrows ha - t nea tiiis city and lodged in jail here, wanted name is Total Jackson, and he is for burglary, highway robbery and con¬ spiracy to rob and murder. Jackson had organized a hand of negro robbers aud they had planned to rob and murder railroad contractor who was going witlffSt.OOO to pay off id* men. Several negroes who bad lieen asked to join the tatul declined to do so, and gave the officers information which to Jackson's arrest To the negroes wanted to join him, Jackson declared inherited the spirit of Rube Burrows, the dead train robber, and if they would follow ldin they could steal toads money ami never be caught. He and band have been robbing freight cars the railroad yards robberies. and committing The eral highway they think, have enough evidence, convict him in half a dozen cases. Will Be Watched W»h lotere®, Jersey City, Nov. have lieen completed for this laying city and pneumatic tubes between Newark, for tho purpose of small packages aud mail matter these two and intermediate point*. tubes will be tvrenty-four the inches practical in ter, This will be first in a big scheme for long distance matic tube service. In cam the between Jersey City and Newark a success, the tubes will at once lengthened side M New far as York Ph i l s d sl pfrt other. a on one and on ' FOBEIGH IfS. Excitement Over the Loan of the Herpeut. The Affair Brings Shame Upon the Admiralty. lvoj.lf fiMfitfimM ui fit** Naval Aull*i*rl- Upi^i'ruU'iMir Kih Ii T«ll* th« I.} tit|>h Uniter May ix» Obtiln«t Arab* IVnNNtiftf in the Hl*t« Tmfllf, •»<! t?i« UnftnnV a UtUr. London. Not. 17.—The excitement caused by the loiw of the cruiser Serpent and tier officers and crew, lias tieen in* crenM-d by the discovery that quite • large number of men deserted the ship uAt betoqe she sailed, and arc now ittt; prisoned a waiting trial. This convincing evidence that the bailors believed Ui* vessel unfit to stand a sea voyage has aroused a storm of indignation against the naval authorities for ]M>ruiitting the tl>e trip to lie made without having au offi- 1 cial survey to determine tiie seaworthi¬ ness of the cruiser. The commotion at Dev on port con¬ tinues being possible day and night, the no rest or sleep for families and friends of the missing men, who seem to cling desperately to the hojKi that by tome miracle the first accounts of the al¬ most total annihilation of tho crew may turn out to have been exaggerated. The newslioys are pounced fairly upon by crowds of dockers, who tear the special editions of tiie paper from them in their eagerness to learn the particulars. The statement of Admiral Dowell that he considered the Serpent a safe veasel is received with astonishment in the face of his recent official utterances, iu which he condemned tiie whole class of vessels loriunaui imauimu mtxstna uesuneu w bring discredit and shame upon the ad¬ miralty. Profeiutor Koch's Ciiiuumpitan Cure. Berlin, Nov. 17.—Professor Koch's article in The Medizinischo Wocbenblatt is entitled, “Further Communications as to the Cure of Tuberculosis, and Experi¬ ments Made by Dr. Libbertz and Staff Surgeon Pruhl in Relation Thereto.” In the article Professor Koch says that he is unable to indicate how the lymph matter is derived and prepared, the work of development being as yet un¬ finished, He announces, however, that the curative matter is now obtainable at the office of Dr. Libbertz, No. 28 Luene- berger street. Berlin. It appears in color and composition as a brown transparent liquid, and is so prepared ration by as contact to lie proof with the against air deterio¬ other¬ or wise. It is intended to be used u a. hypodermic less syringe. injection, applied by a valve- I —- I The Slave Trade In Zanzibar. * London, Nov. 17.—Advices from Zan¬ zibar state that the sultan’s decree abol¬ letter, ishing the the Arabs slave trade is almost a dead under the persisting of in the traffic British very eyes the authorities. A cruiser, the Cossack, pursued and captured a slave dhow which had lieen loaded In <qien day and run out of Zanzitair under cover of darkness. The Arab crew made some resistance, and one was shot and the others driven into the sea. The slaves were liberated. klavln Will Fight Corbett. London, Nov. 17, —Frank P. Flavin,, the Australian champion, has signified his willingness to fight dim Corbett of Han America Francisco for El .000 either side, in England or | a A SERIOUS AFFAIR. The Kocklens Conduct u t u Mt-unlceti Kan Makes Trouble. UlDDlck, Fla., Nov. 17.—George San¬ ders, a white man, came near precipi¬ tating a most little serious and fatal outbreak iu ( pur quiet town. He was drunk, and tair-rooui. was flourishing Finally a revolver around in a he shot at Ned Ro¬ ney, a clerk, which, fortunately, was harmless. T. It. Williams and John Fri¬ day, who were standing near, then rushed at handers, arid after a desperate struggle, succeeded in disarming him. A negro w ho came in ju*t as the scuf- He began, and had no idea of the cause j of it, rushed across the street to Sanders’s store, and told Ui# brother Bob that two white men w ere trying to kill G« ieorge. Boh seized ins . aud _ started Hag- gua to ard's store. Ue liegan firing right and left at random. Two shots hit Williams, and he fell, mortally wounded. An- otbe struck a youug negro, and he frii dead. Htill another hit John Friday, but did not make a serious wound. The hurt shot struck a negro woman, who came in a rear door, having liad no intimation of what was going on. Bhe is not liadly hurt. During tiie his firing, George ganders ca)ied the from door, captors when and nisiiedoutof front a chadrge of bird- shot from an unknown assailant was lodged in hi* scalp and face, making Skinful flesh wounds. A mii ute later, Sanders, (laving exhausted his am- niiion, turned to go out of the store, but some one in the rear—nobody knowa who—fired a charge of buckshot at him. It lodged in his siae, abdomen and loins, and he fell to tiie ground in a dead faint. About this time the whoie imputation was in the streets. Homebody got the telegraph operator Ocala at for the railroad station Handers to wire heard to of it, and lielp, threatened but George the life of tiie operator if he sent any more mexsages. Tiie young man left his in¬ strument and went home. Williams, the first man shot by Bob Sander*, died. lingered He Until 1 o’clock, when he was a very prominent citi¬ zen of the county. Qf the two Sanders brothers, George is a merchant and Bob a railroad contractor. After dark. Deputy Sheriff Sellers ar¬ rived from Ocala with a posse of twenty- two men. He arrested Georg* Sanders, and Ocala. subsequently Bob lodged there him charge in jail of at was sent in a physician,' with a sheriff’s guard. He will probably die within twentv-foor hours. l Quiet Quiet was was at at lari lari restored, sheriff and posse returned to Ocala. Macon, Ga., Nov. 17.—W. B. Carhart, dealer in shoes, has assigned to J. W. NU1 PARAGRAPH 1C ALLY tut* from IMv*r» Miutinw i Oftr ________________ The Memphis Avalanche has I $55,000. John Brown's raid Nov. 16, 1859. ' The Iowa Piohibitionhds i Jagg to congress. A strike among the cost min Ala., is feared. “A million and a i the watchword of"__ $ev. Mr. Myers of Reading. PlL, says The fruit growers last an Saturday. important nu A greet meeting of Ce was held In Atlanta 1 Vindicate Gordon. This ha* been a bad month I lit’ little dealers so frost. far, although I or no It is now thought that will be made United gSl from South Carolina. m H. J. Eidaon has fled to Ga. refused to to marry him. The people of Alabama are determined ■i® liave their road law looked into by the legislature of that state. The Masonic lodge in Athena, Ga., la only one Ita charter in the stats from of England. Georgia that The farmer* may not hi mortage* at the late < they settled a job lot of] The highest smokestai rania (300 feeg is bring! Beaver Falls work* of Carnegie, Co. ,32a; and Pennsylvania. ’ The Boston board of education isf to abolish flogging ia the pubiio i About 20.000 pupils are “ year in Massachusetts. jority Pawling, recorder Democrat, had Keg* bat two ~ for over can, In Montgomery county, poll of 25,000 votes, and a prospect. Tiie latest returns of the election the Republicans give the Democrats the the or, and rest of the ticket, legislature. the lndependdnts Radical TheHt. journal LouisGlobs-I, of the marks; “We read] west, were 1882,1 in order to w in in poet (uud to fiimiJn tumble over.” Anar n At l u gusto's cotton re 2,200 bates, i , , 1 Is now 129,519 bales, s g a tn s t to this date last year. It is a pretty superstition 1 riage should take place wh hand on the clock; is after it has passed tits hai on the way to 18 o’clock. The North Alabama ence meets iu annual i day, church the 19th intt., Birn i diet hi in session about a week. The Ancient Order of Birmingham liave issued to Messrs. Dillon and this tom country, to visit T An attractive young and blue-eved, claim’ ter of a prominent lanta, lias lieen making < to blackmail hotel men < It is a fact without aj, political Democratic ’history of this country t one t a candidate for i on the 4th inst. That < Clunie of California. 4 . William E. Russel, govern Massachusetts, to only 33 yaa same age that Robert E. Pi when first chosen governor < vania, Tver man Hour, rise gram* by the f is only only 30 30 years y« of age. The Democrats now ©f legislature—3 7 on joint ballot in the . in the senate house. This ' election of a succeed Moody, i Representative appeal D wRt to a seat in the nextt that be has jority, and thinks 1 satisfaction of any, A special from By Whisky, with or oo whisk just .£UL question already ly ( have it us _ fiery ss the )anting town? the question now is, The new legislature of stands, on joint ballot, 704 L, and 28 Republicans, divided as I Senate, 23 Democrats and 8F house, 79 Democrats and ' " ’ There an- 11 Alliance senate and 88 in the house. ’ j taLJi