The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current, September 03, 1897, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextGENERAL NEWS Current Events of the Day Epi¬ tomized. PANIC IN CONSTANTINOPLE. A Genera! Strike of Cloak Tinkers Has Been Ordered—Uniform Divorce Law Formulated—A Town Site Sold Under Court Decree. Window glass has gone up 7 per cent to the public. Knoxville will have a new fire alarm aparatus. Salvador has been forced l>y the slump in silver to adopt a gold stan¬ dard. Col. Pando, of Bolivia, with a force of 600 men, has invaded the Peruvian province of Sandia. The Masonic temple at Rome, Ga., suffered a loss of §8, 000 by fire, caused by an electric wire. The town site at Damascus, Va., was sold under court decree for §4,000, bondholders bidding it in. Tbe little FlatCreek Baptist church, near Kuoxrille, will this week celebrate its hundredth anniversary. The president has appointed Wm. B. Holloway, of Indiana, to be Consul General at St. Petersburg, Russia, the ■commission being dated August 21. At Fayetteville, W. Va., Jerry Brown was hauged for an assault committed on Mrs. Radford last February. Two thousand people witnessed the execu¬ tion. At San Francisco ship charges are still on the increase, and 27s 6d from that port to Europe has been reached. Three vessels have been engaged at this rate. Uniform Law Commission of the American Bar Association has formu¬ lated a divorce bill which it will seek To have enacted by the legislatures of the different states. At Chioago Dr. James C. Ducker, charged with conspiracy to ruin the features of his wife with vitriol, has been held to await the action of tbe grand jury in §3,500 bail. There is considerable agitation among the peasants in the Lazio dis¬ trict of Italy in favor of a redistribu¬ tion of the vast uncultivated estates of the patrician families. Twenty women were killed in Mad¬ rid, Spain, the other day, owing to au accident to an apparatus used for rais¬ ing water at Moncada, province of Valencia, ou the Moncada river. Senor Romero, the Mexican Minis¬ ter, will go to St. Paul tbe latter part of this week as the representative of Mexico at the national gathering of farming organizations in that city. The general, strike of cloak makers of New York city and vicinity, which has been threatened for a long time, has been ordered. More that 5,000 went out last Wednesday afternoon. Tbe Postoffiee Department has near¬ ly completed an elaborate collection of souvenirs of the recent,Universal Pos¬ tal Congress, and they will be shipped in a few days to all the delegates of that body. At Portland, Ore., fire destroyed the large .warehouse of W. P. Fuller & Co. Loss between §50,000 and §75, 000, partly insured. The contents of the warehouse consisted principally of tri color and plate glass. Chief of Police Peter Conlin, of New York city, was retired last week by the police commissioners on his own ap¬ plication. He will receive a pension of §3,000 a year. Acting Inspector John McCullagh will be promoted in Conlin's place. There was a panic at Constantinople, owing to tbe police ebaeiug and arrest¬ ing two Armenians. Nearly all the stores in the quarter where the arrests were made were hurriedly closed and remained shut until the police re¬ assured their proprietors. Consul-General Lee, at Havana, tel graphed the state department that the case of Evnngeiina Cisneros bad been greatly exaggerated and misrepre¬ sented. He added that he could not ascertain at that time if there had been any intention to deport her. Patrick Dolan, district president of the United Mine Workers of America, was arrested in Washington township, Pennsylvania, last week, while leading a body of marchers past the Allison mine of Cook k Sons, near McGovern station. At Great Bend, Kan., the County Recorder has reported the release of over §60,000 in chattel and real estate mortgages since August 1, and half of tbe wheat crop has not yet been threshed. It is predicted by the new year the county will be in better shape than for years and will look back on tbe largest increase of wheat in its history. The celebrated Mira Flores Cotton Mill A Print Works, thirty miles from Mexico City, belonging to Felipe Rob¬ ertson, has been sold for about half a million dollars. Tbe tendency is to get the principal mills under control of a few large corporations. Assistant Secretary Spalding bas de¬ cided that cargoes imported into the United States in Norwegian vessels from any country are not subject, uu der our treaty with Sweden and Nor way, to a discriminating duty of 10 per cent. Savannah, Ga., will soon be a free port, and invite tbe commerce of tbe world without paying the quar¬ antine charges. The council IS to pass an ordinance taking off all port fees. This will mean a deficit of about §7,000 per annum in the city's income. Tbe Agricultural Department at Washington is preparing to make an experiment with a new forage plant, which is thought to be adapted to the semi arid regions of the West. It is the bromus iuermis, a grass which is indigenous to the Russian Steppes. The reports of the United States mine inspectors of Indian Territory and New Mexico show that the total coal product of New Mexico during the last fiscal year was 733,535 tons, value estimated at §1,186,016. The Indian Territory coal output was 1,- 302,378 tons; coke output, 25,440 tous. At St. Louis the entire Chinese colo¬ ny was raided by tbe Federal authori¬ ties, who took 283 of the Celestials to the Uuited States District court, where they were examined as to their right to stay in this country. Four¬ teen will be sent to San Francisco and deported, under tbe Geary exclusion act. Silver broke all records again last week, falling to 23 7-8 pence in Lou¬ don, which is 1-8 penny below tbe pre¬ vious low point, and to 51 j in New York, which is Ic below the pre¬ vious low record. Mexican dollars sold at 39 cents. The value of silver iu the standard silver dollar was 39.66 cents. A new enterprise is on foot at Eldo¬ rado, Ark. It is the erection of a large ginnery and compress under the new cylindrical process. The company has a paid-up capital of §8,000, and it is proposed to have everything in opera¬ tion to handle the fall crop of cotton. Caterpillars have made tbeir ap¬ pearance in the cotton near Opelou¬ sas, La., principally on ex Assessor Sword’s plantation. They are not as yet numerous, but paris green is being used vigorously, and it is hoped that they will be checked before doing much damage. The Cohen Tobacco company, of New York, have an 800-acre tobacco crop near Atapulgus, Decatur county, Georgia. They are making a specialty of Sumatra wrappers, and a Leon county farmer who recently visited this immense tobacco plantation esti mates that the company will clear 000,000 on this year’s crop. Last Wednesday afternoon, with a military parade and Masonic ceremo nies,* Pickett camp. Sons of (confed¬ erate Veterans, Richmond, Va., laid the corner stone of the cottage they propose to erect at Lee camp soldiers’ home. Gov. O’Ferrall was the orator of the occasion. His oration was de¬ voted principally to war history. Grant Erwin, colored, of Bellbnckle, was fatally injured at Wartrace, Teno. He was stealing ft ride under tbe trucks, and when tho train slowed up for the station be jumped out and hit the edge of the platform. He was knocked under the wheels, cutting off both arms and knocking one eye out. He was otherwise badly mangled. During a national fete, which was j held at Moutevidio, August 25, Presi- j dent J. Idiarte Borda was shot and killed by an assassin. Senor -T. Idi arte was elected president of Uruguay for the term extending from March, 1894, to 1898. The fete at which he was assassinated was being held in celebration of tbe independence of Uruguay, which was achieved on Au gust 25, 1825. News has been received that John Brown, a white farmer living at Sorby, lenn., severely beat and choked bis wife; one night last week, nlao ou tbe 1 previous night, nnd threatened to kill her. Intense excitement prevails, as j ; Brown’s "wife is a highly repeated and refined lady, who comes of a promi Dent family. Tbe angry citizens of the community may deal severely with the brute before the sheriff arrives. A telegram from the City of Mwuco says: Notwithstanding the decline in silver, exchange ou London and New York exchange was easy, brokers j»v .‘L. w believed the exchange will gradually rise to 1 50. Business 18 9 Q i«‘ there have been ai ures. ‘ crop this year will be large and will bring good profits for planters, the total value of tbe crop being a little under §15,000,000, as now estimated. W. D. Clark, a young railroad agent at Albertville, Ala , has fallen heir to §500,000. An nncle of bis died re cently at Muscogee, I. T., and willed young Clark bis immense fortune . SPAIN’S The New Prime MUister Will Follow Canovas’s footsteps. CONFIDENCE IN WEYLER. Senor Sagasta, the Liberd Leader, Say» the Situation Is Growng Worse In Cuba, and Has Made a Fresh Declara¬ tion on the Political Situation. Gen. Azcarragua, the Spanish pre¬ mier, at the cabinet council, over which he presided Frday, declared that the government would follow iu the footsteps of the lat> premier, Se¬ nor Canovas. Continung, Gen. Az¬ carragua announced tha the govern¬ ment had full confidence in General Weyler’s political and military Personally, con¬ duct of affairs iu Cubt tbe premier was aware that the lusur rection in Cuba was a •proaebiug an end, and if the Uni' ei ' States made auy demand, which h-‘ hoped would uot be tbe case, be sail' Spain would do her duty. Senor Sagnsfa, the liberal leader, has made a fresh declaration ou political situation. H ‘ says it is grac¬ ing worse daily in Cub' and continues serious in the Philippine Islands. Se nor Sagasta is ready to apply auto mony to Cuba and e>l ,r08Soa the bo lief that tbe liberals wiM assume power earlier than was expec :e< l Referring to the probability Darios, tbe of a risiug in favor of Don pre¬ tender to the SpaDisl throne, Senor Sagasta asserts that tho Carlists arc already preparing for® rising, and are only awaiting a fait - step upon the part of the governmoR or a favorable opportunity to take up arms. BATTLE WITH DESPERADOES. Sheriff Pritchard Me'ts Death in Hi« Wool* A special from (fioudland, N. C., says that Sheriff Prichard, of Mitch¬ ell county, a brothel United States Senator Pritchard, V»s killed in a bat¬ tle with desperados 9 near there I ri day. warrant f the Pritchard had a or ar¬ rest of George K. Airland and a fel low named Monroe, who are known as desperate eharaefot He, Deputy Bla ok and another officer went out to arrest the mer. They ran upon then iu the mountains five miles from Clou 'laud aud there a desperate battle took place. Tbe officers called upon the men to surrender, but they doggedly refused. Tbe party fired upon Pritchard and he fell from his horse mortally wounded with four shots in b>n>. Deputy Bla¬ lock fired upon the party, desperately wounding Garland. A number ol other shots were fired from behind nearby trees. Pritchard dying, At last reports was and is doubtless dead Deputy Blalock was mortally wounded, and it is sa*d cannot live. Monroe and Garland are both wounded, the latter badly, but tin y ure still at Ja-ge. CHASED BY DIRECTIVES. An Iowa Murderer Caffiured in the Klon dyke Reyfion. | The steamer Portlft u d, due from St. Michaels, which arrival at Port Town- 8en( j p'r^lay, jjas on hoard the mur J erpr) William SmithJ who Juneau, was pur sued over the contine nt to to D ve ,u and across Chifooot Pass, over the lakes aud down tl i« rivers, to tli > g 0 jq fields of the Kloiidyke, where hi was taken into custod-- • Smith was*a storekeeper in a town nea r Cedar Rapids, Io;wa. One night lhf! a t ore was bfiroed, And iu the ruins w u3 found tbe eharijed to he body Smith’s pi a woman, who proved d death iu mother, who was burn to the fire. His mother “'as insured for $3,500, uud a demand was made for, the money. Investigation led to tho belief that the fire * as caused by Smith. Pinkerton me Q were put ou the trail, aud after tin longest chase an record, they capt ired .Smith ut Dawson, July 23. Newly Elected Grand *rmy Officers. ^ the Gram j Army encampment at Buffalo, N Y., Cincinti*ti was chosen ^ ^ ' for tbe national en campm eDt> aud j. P . g. Oobin, of Leb Alfred Lyth, of Bard well-Wilkinson post, Buffalo, was unanimously elected senior vice-commander, ^ David McKav, o? Dallas, Tex , veteran of the Seventy-ninth New Highlanders, was elected surgeon general. vice-cotnmander the For junior adjutant-general was instructed to cast the vote of tbe encampment for Fran c j a pj Allen, of Hartfofd. the candi dtteof >be Naval Veterai-s’ association. PEARL DIGUING. Some Are Found That Sell Readily for Twenty-Five Dollars. If one were to descend White river front a point a few miles above Devall s Bluff, Ark., not knowing the pursuit of tbe many men and boys lining the banks on either side, his tlrst impulse would be that be bad found a land of sun worshipetB. These men and boys, in strange attire, sometimes nude, clasp their hands above their bead .or a moment as uttering au iucautatiou, then a leap bead first and a pair of confident feet impart the last good¬ bye to a frowning world as they pass down tbe bed of the river. Maybe the stranger will begin to bubble out in ¬ quiries as the bubbles begin to mark the place where the worshiper last saw the light, but soon tbe surface waters are again in turmoil and two bands hold high the treasures found ou liis aqueous excursion. This is getting to bo quite au industry, as it is so newly discovered, that so many valuable pearls are stored iu tbo shells of the silent little fish which are found in numerous bods all around the river. “Pearl divers” bring in some beauti¬ ful specimens, aud we know there is something made from them from the increasing rate of hunters. Some are found that sell ready for §5, §10 and up to §25. Some more valuable ones bavo been found, and many have been sent to eastern markets, where it is ex¬ pected they will go at a much higher fig ure. Wherever the fruits of labor ripen into ready money, capital always fol¬ lows, so we observe syndicates me being formed to buy up some of tbe waterB aud put to tligbt the hum¬ ble men who expect to got the full value of their owu labor. Not every mussel bas a pearl, nor does every pearl briug a price, but all are after that “pearl of great price.” THE AMERICAN PARTY. Launched rit £t. Louis by Forty Delegates, Rtpr«sentin^ Mm-* States. The new America!) party was launched at St. Louis last week by a committee of between thirty and forty delegates. They represent nine states and one territory and are said to have backing in a largo number of other states. A national committee was elected of ten members, with Col. E. H. Sellers, of Detroit, as chairman, Tbe committee was empowered to en largo itself. A platform of declara¬ tions was adopted and Detroit was selected for the headquarters for the ensuing year. and The platfrorm is a lengthy one, declares for a auafoer d allegt 1 ’ needed reforms. Ou the financial r :estion the platform has this to say; “Since nearly or quite 99 per cent of business transactions of tbo country are accepted with the use of specie, we favor the demonetization of both gold and silver, tbe prohibition for and pay¬ ment in coin in either metal, sub¬ stitution of metallic tokens for our present minor coinB. ” SOUTHERN IRRIGATION CONORESS. Governor Taylor Has Named the East Tennessee Delcgat.s. Tbo Southern Irrigation Congress will meet iu Nashville for a three days’ session on Sept. 13. in accordance with ft request from tbo president of tbo congress, Gov. Taylor bus named tbo followiug delegates to represent Tennesseo in tho convention, from East Tennessee: First Congressional District—Adam Unman, Johnson City, and Andrew Moore, of Newport. fecoud District—1). K. Young, Clinton, aud Jacob Borches, Knox v ‘lle. Third District—William Cleveland, Hweet water, and C. Marchbunku, Chat* tanooga. McPherson, Fourth District—J. L. .Spring City, and S. G. Stratton, Leb anon. Fifth District James Aydelott, Till Inlioma, aud W. if. Fox, Murfrecs boro. Foreign Steam .It p l.'ne. It has beeu definitely settled that the Diedrichsen line will run regular steamers between Galveston, Tax., and Hamburg, Autbwerp aud Amsterdam this season, with sailings from each side every throe weeks. The line will be composed of tbe steamships Oliudo (now en route from Hamburg to Gal¬ veston), Lueuberg and Curitzba. Texan’s Fast. At Waco, fecturer, Tex., J. S. Cannaday, a professional is engaged in a fasting experiment which he says he will protract for 129 days. He has not partaken of nourishment for tea days. He chews tobacco and drinks water, but says he will quit both at the end of sixty days, and thereafter allow nothing to enter his mouth until tbe expiration of the full period of his fast. . m»i Ibe purpose he . explains, | ,« to , afford a demoirntratiou of tbe power of will over the flesh. Mr. Cannaday J came to . Waco r from , .... \ irginia .. four year. ago, and completed fan. education here. He is quite weak, and appears much emaciated, but declares b, has nocrav- - iug for nourishment IMPROVING ts the General Trade situation as Reported by Bradstreet’s. IRON AND COTTON ADVANCING Wheat and Corn for Export In Great Demand—Indications for Good Cottos Crop-All Leading Staples Cont nuc to Rise—The Outlook Bright. Bradstreet’s in his trade review says : The general trade situation continues to improve and aside from the unnecessarily prolonged strike ol safe coal miners there is little in sight to crowd the outlook, Tin) features of the woek are the advauee iu price of almost all leading staples, beginning with au upward movement all along the lino iu iron and steel. Steel bil¬ lets arc now §1.50 above lowest figures, and bars §1.50, rods §3 and plates §1. Bessemer pig iron is up 2;> cents, and foundry a like amount. Southern iron is very strong on a continued active export movement. Where wire mills have not advanced prices they have withdrawn quotations. Some western steel mills are sold up to January 1, which, with the demand for early de¬ liveries from furnaces that has beeu arranged for, are quite significant. Lead, too, and soft coal uro higher, as is wheat, notwithstundsing one or two re-aettous. Bradstreet’s points out that the sta¬ tistical position of wheat is tbo strong¬ est known since the Uuited StatCB he¬ came ft considerable exporter, aud that its price, as well as that for bread, is likely to materially exoeed the pres¬ ent week’s advances. Following that for wheat prices are higher for wheat flour, corn, outs, lard, potatoes, but¬ ter, eggs, beans, cheese, leaf tobacco, wool and live stocks. Advices for leather, hides, lumber and linseed oil are also reported. 3-16 cents, Cotton, which is up re¬ ports the smallest world’s stock for seven years past at this period, an im¬ proved tone and higher prices for the manufactured products- Iu spite of crop damages the tendency of esti¬ mates is towards the largest yield on record, but with probabilities favoring much betier prices than those obtained for the crop of 1894 95, the outturu of which was 9,873,069 bales. Advioes ure being also asked for re ordors oT woolen goods, ai n. ""i ^ut print cloth*, petroleum and eu^ai are unchanged for the week, while pork slightly lower than a week ago. No such general or pronounced upward movement of prions of nearly all load¬ ing staples lias boon witnessed within a week for many years. Wheat exports are of largo volume, aggregating (wheat flour us wheat in¬ cluded) 5,149,053 bushels for the week, as against 5,318,803 bushels last, woek, 3,281,854 bushels last year, 1,871,928 bushels iu this week two years ago, 8,032,000 bushels iu 1895, and 5,092,- 500 bushels iu the corresponding week of 1893. With the exception of last week this week's shipments are the largest since the third woek of Sep¬ tember, 1893. Corn exports show n considerable fulling oil', being 2,682,412 bushels against 2,827,085 bushels last week, 2,610,809 bushels a year ago, 1,124,- 532 bushels iu 1895, 1,119,000 bushels iu 1894 and 1,163,300 bushels in 1893. There were 210 business failures re ported throughout the United Status this week against 221 last week, 320 a y()ur aglJ nI|(1 .j'JO two yeans ago, 192 three years ago and 369 iu the like wu(! j l j u jgg;. MORMON I I.IH.RS. Will <Io Through Alabama, Georgia una South Carolina. Twenty-four Mormon Elders arrived at Chattanooga last week from Utah and registered at headquarters hi that city. They are to be distributed at once throughout Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. There have been more than 200 of these elders sent South this year far. ,, they say that so A«y “ r0 beiD 8 received with better grace than they used to be, and that the faith is growing iu tbo territory mentioned. Secretaiy W.lson C iming South. Many invitations addressed to Sec retary Wilson to uhi, j* 9 * 1 * ‘ county lairs during t ie “IT"" 1 ' «*tumn ar« being received at the Agre cultural departmen , a arge Hon fern them being from he states. 1 ho invita ions ro i ■ tion express a desire to have the See retary inspect in H he «"' tench u I; , . Virions and to have o a •' (J vice ^ uh “ / prflctioEl furoifir niter huou .Secretary is absent from the city. no < > mi e op made, “ ' but it is known that he expecvS ■ fall, and C* during the tt l V PODti j ere<i probable that take he may in » 1 >“« hm r , ; HS to tbe neighboring state*.