The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current, July 30, 1897, Image 7
Kudyard Kipling is probably the first poet to have one of his works form an item in a government’s cable bill. His “Our Lady of the Snows” was cabled at twenty-five cents a word from London to Ottawa at government expense. Even with this the Canucks were not satisfied. In Austria a law has just been passed making it a punishable offeuee for parents to take young children into bed with them. This arbitrary interference with the “liberty of the subject” has been rendered necessary bv the large number of deaths of in¬ fants by being overlaid. The houseboat.plan has been turned to good account in the Fen country in England. According to the latest English papers a boat has been fitted up as a church in the parish of Holme, in the diocese of Ely, and is moved along the canals and thus spiritual consolation is brought within the reach of those who could only with great difficulty get to the parish church. A writer in the New York Herald, signing himself “Lawyer,” comment¬ ing upon the overcrowded condition of the legal profession, says that hun¬ dreds of lawyers in this country are actually starving to death for the want of practice, and that something should be done at once to check the constantly increasing stream of talent that is pouring into the ranks of the profession. The British population was by the last census over thirty-nine millions, and must at the present time be fully forty millions. The population of France was by the last census under thirty-nine millions. The white people in the French colonies have not ap preciably grown in numbers, but the white people iu the British colonies now number from twelve to thirteen millions. Thus, the white population under the British Queen at home and abroad is not less than fifty-two mil¬ lions. _ It is rather odd that so many American newspapers will persist in referring to the reigning sultan of Turkey as “Abdul.” They would better call him “Abd” and be done "with it, for “Abd” means “servant,” while “Abd-ul” signifies “servant of.” .The true designation of the Sultan is Alid-ul-Hamid, or the “Servant of the Praiseworthy One.” In like manner Abd-nl-Aziz meant the Servant of the Holy One. Both names are extremely pious in etymology, and American newspaper writers should abstain from tampering with them. The producing and exporting oi coffee is becoming a large business in Liberia, Africa. The coffee exported in 1896 amounted to 3,000,000 pounds. Farmers, merchants and people gen¬ erally have turned their attention to coffee growing, While no American ships touch at any Liberian port, yet more than one-fifteenth of the coffee produced is shipped to the United States via Liverpool. If ships from the United States touched at Mon ravia, Bassa and Cape Palmas, half oi the imports would be American and in turn the exports would go to the United States. The San Francisco Chronicle de¬ clares that New York is so far in the lead in the matter of foreign com¬ merce that no other American city at¬ tempts to dispute her position, but occasionally some one is rash enough to maintain that Philadelphia is the greatest manufacturing centre in the United States, Tlmre was a time when this was true, but the New York papers are now pointing out that the census of 1890 exhibited the fact that the value of the manufactured pro¬ ducts of New York city was $777,221,- 721, while in the same year the manufactories of Philadelphia only turned out products worth 8577,234, 446. The statistics of the census. when examined closely by would-be rivals, afford very little hope that the metropolis will ever be overtaken ii the race for precedence. New York has first place, 1 ’ and is likely to hold i: * permanently. _ From present maica tions there is as little prospect of i> rival American city surpassing New York as there is of some provincial r>*overtaking London. WEEKLY REVIEW Of Trade as Reported by Brad streets. JULY THE BUSIEST MONTH. The Widespread Confidence That There Will be a Marked Revival in General Trade in tha Fall Continues to Grow— Reports Are Very Encouraging. Bradstreet’s weekly review of trade eays: The widespread confidence that there will be a marked revival in gen eral trade in the fall continues to grow and with it material evidence that it is well founded. Chicago job bers in olothing, dry goods and Bhoes, and manufacturers elsewhere of pianos, organs, wagons and farm implements report that fall business has begun, which is much earlier than usual. The distribution of general merchandise from St. Louis is less active though trade there is favorable. Like ac counts received from Pittsburg, not withstanding dullness in iron and steel; Savannah, in spite of this being the busy seasons on plantations; Omaha, Milwaukee, Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul, where merchants are feeling the influence of a prospectively large crop of wheat, and from Galveston and other points in Texas on the fa¬ vorable crop outlook and confidence in all increased movement of mer¬ chandise next fall. Demand for sup plies for shipment to the Klondyke gold region has made July the busiest instead of the dullest mouth of the commercial year at feeattle and has an influence on sales of staples at Ta coma, Portland and San Francisco. The world’s wheat crop outlook continues to favor the United States much as it did eighteen years ago. The outlook is that Russia, alone of all other other wheat exporters, will be able to compete with the United States. The advance of more than cents a bushel, compared with a year ago, is in the face of a domestic wheat crop probably 1,000,000,01(0 bushels larger than last year. And the pros peots for a continued higher level for quotations owing to increased demand from importing countries explain why tho American farmer is to secure Ins proportion of the advance of the coming era of prosperity. That he is alive to the situation is indicated by a ten deucy to hold back wheat already harvested, notwithstanding higher quotations. „ Unfavorable fenturer in olude the continuance Jof the strike of the bituminous coal miners in the western and southern states which now begins to threaten the continued activity of industries de¬ pendent upon thas variety of fuel, the present stagnation of the Bessemer pin iren and steel billet markets with prices as low as ever known, the shut ting down of Neiv England cotton mill machinery to reduce output and get rid of stock on hand and the unsatis factory condition of the w-oolen goods market on account of the relatively low prices of the products compared with the prices for raw material. Exports of wheat (flour included ns wheat) from Montreal and both coasts of the United States this week, amount to 1,978,828 bushels, an increase of about 456,000 bushels compared with last week, for which shipments from the ports of New York and Baltimore are largely responsible. The corres ponding total in the like week last year was 3,037,000 bushels: in the week two years ago, 1,205,000; three years ago, 3,888,000 bushels, and iu the corresponding period in 1893, it was 4,363.000 bushels. Exports of Indian corn amount to 2,298,379 bushels this week, contrasted with 2,723,000 bushels last week, 1, 980,000 bushels in the week a year ago, 770,000 bushels two years ago, 256,000 bushels three years ago and as compared with 1,587,000 bushels in the like week of 1893. There are 220 business failures re ported throughout the United States this week as compared with 247 last week, 280 in the week a year ago, 239 in the week two years ago, 237 three years ago and 489 in the correspond ing period in 1893. There were twenty-one business failures reported from the Dominion of Canada this week, against 38 last week. FLOODS IN TINNESOTA. Water Rose So Fast People Were Rescued in Boats. A special from Ada, Minn., says: The worst floods in the history of this section are now on here. LoDg con tinned raills amounting to 5 inches coming at a time when the ground was thoroughly soaked have flooded half oi Norman county The water rose unprecedentedly- Fields where the grain was wavmg 4 feet high are now under water covering the heads of the wheat. The water rose to fast that the people were rescued in boats. The damage is especially severe on farmers who had trouble last rear from floods. MAN’S (REED FOR GOLD. Mines That lay Handsomely Are De¬ serted ioj the Klondike Region. Among thoarrivals at San Francisco from Alaska an the steamer Bertha j was Dr. C. F. Dickenson, of Kodiak Island, wbichiies as the head of Cook’s inlet. He sue the gold excitement ; over thd territory of Alaska is j something unprecedented, and that i the people at flocking to the Klon- 1 dike region ii i way that threatens to depopulate tniiy of the trading posts and coast tow 3 , “When I lit Kodiak two weeks ago,” said Mr Dickenson, “the peo¬ ple were leavi g all that section of the country and flicking in the direction of Klondike. In a way the situation is appalling, Dr many of the indus tries are left practically without the means of opeptions. Mines that are paying handsupely at Cook’s inlet have been dflrted. In my opinion there are just* al'ook’s good placer diggings the to be found inlet as in Klondike regia. There is not a foot of ground in ai that country that does not contain gofl in more or less ap preciablequantties. The great trouble has been that people have not had either the confrge or opportunity, I do not know which, to thoroughly prospect the country. I think that in another monii the oountry about Cook’s inlet wjll be practically de- for serted. There! is room there thousands of aim and there is cer taiuly no better dace in the world for a poor man.”! _II nlNISTERI ARE RETICENT. The Gold Discovers May Cause Interna* tlonal Dispij es as to Boundary. A te j egram f, m Ottawa, Ont., says: q-^e attention ’ the monetary com m j a8 j yu has been called to claims tbs' tho uew goJd , tddg a re in American territory. The ministers ore reticent. It jg regare( j t he act providing for the appointment of a bouudary commi6sion wag b tho light of a treaty and any ao tidh n opposition to that COI1 ^ention wovul be taken as relm quigbment tbfi treaties. The gov ernment has no fears as to the decision Bg regard8 the mainland, but admit that Bome 0 f tie islands on the coast ma y be subject for arbitration. This dep6nd g w hethir the boundary fol j owg {^0 indentations of the coast or whether the 8 i x rotile coast line is to be C0UB i dered lron J u ne gtretched from headland to headland of the coast line, As regards fit are proceedings this statement j B m8d( , that for tweuty-two rs Canada la been anxious to have b oulK i ftr y clearly and finally apt tled and nnSf^blo. Jgfj and amicable proposition to this will be seri ougly considered, CAPTAIN GENERAL '* EYLER Shows Neither Mercy Nor Quarter—In¬ quisitorial Torture Daily Occurences. The correspondent of tho London Daily Chronicle in Sagua La Grande, province of Santa Clara, Cuba, writes to his paper a terrible account of the condition of affairs in the island, Both the government troops and the insurgents, he says, are suffering hor ribly from famine and the ravages of smallpox and yeliow fever, while butcheries of prisoners after inquisi torial tortures are of daily occurrence, ,f the victims be suspected of with holding,information, Captain Weyler, the General corre spondent says, has shown neither mercy nor quarter, and has turned the campaign in Cuba into a near ap proach to that of duke of Alva in Hol land iu the sixteenth century, A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION, L’ghtnlng Strikes a Magarine Containing Twenty Tons of RowJer. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., during the prevalence of a heavy rain and thun Jer storm last Friday afternoon the powder magazine at the Empire mine, operated by the Lehigh and Wilkes barre Coal Company, was struck by lightning. great A terrific explosion was go nearly that it shook the foundation of every dwelling in Wilkesbarre. Thero w-ere about twenty tons of powder stored in the building. No one was in the place at thp time but John Hig gins, who was driving by just as the explosion occurred was instantly killed by flying debris. , Charged W.th Killing Deputies. At Trinidad, Ool., six men and two women are under arrest for the mnr der of Deputiea William Green and William Kelly, who were iu search of cattle thieves, in 1895. Officers are in pursuit of two more men who are implicated, Kxport* of Gold. Lazard Freres, New York shipped ggOO.OOO in gold to Enrope Saturday, ft was not taken from the sub-treas ury. Peabody Co. of Boston, Kidder, & shipped $.500,000 in gold to Europe on Tuesday. 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