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m S3 i L vy'S *.. A KLLAVIUE PUBUSHUG CO. Thoestinmlod population ol'tlio State* to-day is about (15,000,000 The farmer< last year furnished fourths of all the exportations shipped from this country. ‘ The consular repirt on tho condition of Brazil says that the population con- sists of 4,000,000 whites and 4,000,000 me/.tizocs. Five vears ago there wero five girls’ school, ill Yokohama am) Tokio, .Japan. ll """“' *“' i ,.il all «Umuo»lml well patronized. Opt of 870 females who went into imeiness for the.u-«Ives flftt Lade tear- G»on- £5 ing .to- ami shops .83 business imlures inside of seven months. They’re, all -angels, but thev-are not ail business bU8ine38 men mC • _ ;- ? There , is a man m Hamilton County, Ohio, who has run for a county office twenty-one successive times aud been de- r? *72 t n : t“. b '” i “ to look a little blue anu that five, or six more defeats will lead him to pause and consider. “I w!H kj 11 any man In tUi* r,„m (or ten cents, exc aimed Pete H&mmii, as he entered a saloon in Deadftood, Da— kota, but the crowd turned loose and shot Peter fuil of holes for nothing at at all. A liberal spirit is seldom prop- erly J rewarded in these cold day's. •- It has been discovered that at least a portion of the “Great American Desert” is underlaid by a stratum of water which-may be reached by boring from 100 to 200 feet, lhe wells ffow so bountifully that one of them will water thoroughly five or Six acres of land. <■ -....... — » 1 - * »■ es : . The action of Judge Arfiold, of Phila delphia, in refusing naturalization papers to a Hungarian because the latter avowed himself an infidel isa reminder, observes the New • York Telegram,' that the days are not so far off when Univer-alists ■were refused the,right to testify in court because tllejf'stohd'in no'feafiof bell. Mediaeval superstitions, linger in Aus¬ tria. * 'The'Bufgomasfer'hf ZuraRi, in Galicia, has just instituted a jjrOsecution before the Criminal Court of Solotwina against a man named «Jean Kowalesink for having “by his malicious sorceries and incantations caused a hailstorm to del Estate-tho fields ’of illiraki.” The damages aio laid at 6000 florins. The To'atco Plan,*, of Durham, N. C., tells how Colonel R. F. Webb, a Mexi¬ can veteran of that town, who saw Pro¬ fessor Morse and his daughter plant the first telegraph pole, the other day sat in his office in the Stirring little N6rth Carolina town and sold tobacco by cable over id London, sending the message and receiving the answer without stirring from his seat At Charleston; W. Va., a company.of young ladies, thirty-five in number, have organized, elected officers, chosen uni¬ forms, consisting of blue dresses, trimmed in white, and hold regular drill meetings every Wednesday evening. The arms used are wooden muskets, made in exact imitation of the regulation article, and the girls are said to be making re¬ markable progress in the manual of arms. ____ The habit of taking morphia is in¬ creasing.in France to a dangerous ex¬ tent, according to the. New York Post. Among some wealthier circles it has be¬ come quite a fashionable custom, and the most inveterate “morphia maniacs” habitually carry about with them a tiny phial of fhe drug and a small syringe concealed, in a cigarette case, a scent bottle,, yvork-case, or some other dainty' trifle. A whole sfealmboat' load of ivory has lately come down the Qongo River, in Africa; from regions where the native know, little of its value; fo the European trading-centre established by Stanley, the explorer. This is good news to- the manufacturers' of ivory, hut better still to those who hate cruelty. For one great object of the African slavcdiunters is to probure the huriian cattle that carry the ivory to the coast These dolorous pre¬ cessions of dying wretches wearing great yokes of logs about their necks, besides the freight they lug, will now be less necessary to trade. It is calculated that every tusk (worth $500 in London) has cost at least one human life to get it to the sea coast. Our present Congress can boast of the longest session on record. When tho two’ Bouses of Congress met at noon on Monday, October 1, the had , be- session come the longest by twenty-four hours in American history. The longest pre- ceding session was that of 1850, tboyear of the-Missouri Compromise, which was adjourned at noon of ’ September 30. Constructively, says the New 1 ork Olserver, the session of 1808, following tlie impeachment proceedings against President Johnson, was longer, the ad- journment sine die having taken place November 10, but, as a matter of fact, ongress took a six weeks’ recess from inly 27 and never afterward had a quorum or attempted to transact any busies*. G'l 111 It; ft IPARI VV UIlLD 1A U > ftK. INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED DOWN IN READABLE Z3_L STYLE THE FIEI.D OF LABOR—SEETHING CAPL- DHON Of EUROPEAN INl'HIGUE—FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC.—^OTEd DEAD. Gen. Harrison is a blood relation of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi. u l’l Kurs th at this interesting piece of ■ * The IMtea BUM ateamtr Atl.nl.. now preparing tor a scant New York will be sent for a cruise around the world b y of tko Pahifia. The cruise 1 -las* three or four years. has closed *1 £ *’ ^ , he proprietors, I. Scovillc untr Leaving mow OpLu* ' b * n8 * tl »£ ed c ^ ,\ ^’ y e ,:^ , alUed ’ ,he llabl1 " ties tlL8 Wlb w ill reach r, «eh • j00 0 ® 0 - - A* “ l0 papsl consistory in December, a number of bishop* will he created, no “ inati o n of cardinals has been * M„fr„ h ,hSS. experienced in the creation of the French cardinals. ; _< The principal bank of Osceola, Iowa, closed on Thursday, and is in the hands hi,* "him jipoS *io°ff L'k“mS there is.$30,000 in the vaults. It is ru- mored that the president has been spcc- ulating in wheat. Boston, Alass., has something of a sensation in the shape of a man who chasea g‘ T }^ d threatens to stab them with a stiletto. He is a light comi>lex- ioned man, with a smooth face, and wears a Scotch cape over his shoulders, 'Under this cape he carries the dagger, which he tries to use. An explosion occurred at IJristol, Eng- ..la u d on W e <^e|day onboard the schoon¬ er United, which was loaded wfth pe¬ troleum. The vessel w r as wrecked and three men Who were at work on board were killed. The force of the explosion was building so great as to wreck the windows in the near the .scene of the explo sion. .. * Negotiations for the sale of the con¬ trolling interest in the vast plant of the Connelisville Coke and Iron Co. to the H. C. Trick Coke Co., were consum¬ mated at Ujiiontown, Pn., on Wednes¬ day. - The plant is the largest. in the ConneHsvilte coke regions, and embraces 9,000 acres-of coal land, 1,800. coke ovens and.many miles of-railroad trapk. Gen. nurrison tendered Elijah Ilnl- fotd, Managing editor of the prbi-te Indianapo¬ lis Journal, the position of tafy. He was for a few private secretary to the late Senator Morton. He shares withHon.Wm.McKinley,of Ohio,the dis¬ tinction of having contributed a consid¬ erable Jliafe in the- construction of the national platform, upon which the late campaign was fought and wod. Jake and Joe Tobier, colored, were executed in the county’jail on Wednes¬ day at Wichita, - Kan., by the United States authorities, Deputy Marshal Howard superintending. At the scaf¬ fold, in answer to the question whether they had anything to sav, both replied “No,” emphatically. The crime for which they were executed was the killing of Cass and Godykuntz, near the Sac and Fox agency,.in August, 1885. Patrick Durkin, a baggagemaster, liv¬ ing in Erie, Pa., had both eyes burned out and his face horribly disfigured by his wife dashing a teacupful of vitriol in his face at the tea table. The woman fled and was brought back by her a policc- man, and when Durkin heard voice, sightless and suffering as he was, he despite the ' officer, sprang on her, and nearly killed her. She was jailed, and Durkin sent to the hospital. At the closing session of the national grange, held at Topeka.'Cal. elected Jos, grand H. Brigham, of Ohio, ’was ‘ master and Leonard Rhone, of Pennsyl¬ vania, was selected to fill the vacancy on the executive committee. A resolution urging that United States Senators he elected directly by the people was passed, as was also a resolution adjourned, advocating pure food. The grange leaving the matter of the selection of the next meeting place to the executive commit¬ tee. The Ossermtore Romanoe states ttiat it is unable to either confirm or deny the report that the Pope is to leave Rome in the event of war. It thinks, however, that he would leave, though regretfully, if the Italian government further con¬ tracted the iron circle that confines him aud deprived him of all freedom iu re¬ spect to his actsand communication with the Catholic world, or if his holiness had reason to consider that Rome was no longer a sure residence, either from a material or personal standpoint. The town Of Leavenworth, Ind., situ¬ ated on the Ohio River, and at the foot of a high cliff of rocks, is in great dan- ger of destruction by reason of the fall¬ ing of immense rocks from the cliff. The residents are in a high state of ex¬ citement, and many, realizing the-ir dan- ger, have rooyed- their families and goods of our of the line of danger, The cause the sudden danger is said to be the re¬ sult of the recent frosts and constant heavy rains, which has carried the loose earth from-about the rocks. <* During the progress of the suit, brought against the Rock Island Co., by E Randall, an operator in the tele- graph office, Manager Wood, of the Western Union Telegraph Co was ora dered to produce p in court at Kansas a cnpy 0 f the “black list,” wb ich he refused to do. The operator wa s in the employ of the railway corn- pa ny, and lie sued for discharged $25,000. damages, f j°‘“' alleging that he was ° r effectually be wflg urfab j e to procure employ- be men t. It is likely that a test case will made of the matter. The trouble with the local rail way switchmen at Indianapolis, Ind., wfitch ^^^^i^Thuwlay. rlecliued hold further ' The sujerin- confer- tel)dents to cnPe concerning the demands of the man, ud three-fourths of tho employes in the R the city, closed work. Some yards about the little delay resulted to passenger KLI.AVII.Li; GEORGIA. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 29.1888. tnun< tlw Rtrikera „ blockading the belt '’ line and some of the qrp-lngl with freight cars, but 'the trucks were soon cleared. The trouble is tho result of a demand by the men for $73 per month of 20 days, and 10 hours a day; also the addition of one man to each switch en¬ gine crew. This demand the company decline to entertain. In the yards of the Beit Railway company wostot the city, a gineers party or strikers draw compelled their three loco¬ en¬ to the fires of motives. Charles Eyck and Eva Henrcithcr wen £ S”? .p nt Satitrd., in bujing fun.1 t,,ro ,or two rooms that Eyck had rented Lovcr tlnd sweetheart workod togethol lavm « tho carpets Saturday night, fv l< _ P irt ' ,d }L was to meet al “ ^ Eyck did not appear at the »pp 0 inted time, and Eva hastened to the rooms tc see what could have detained her lover. He h’”l not been seen about the house, and his door was locked. Eva knocked repeatedly, but got no answer. There Then the jauitor forced tho door open. on the floor, with his throat cut from ear e.™i work ever since the Coney Island res- taurauts closed for the season. SOUTHERN NEWS. A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN- INGS STRUNG TOGETHER. MOVEMENTS OF ALLIANCE MEW—RAIL¬ ROAD CASUALTIES—-THE COTTON CROP —FLOODS—ACCIBENT8—CROP KETUBN8. ALABAMA. The family of William Morgan, a white farmer, of Summerfield, Ala., were poisoned, and some ot them may die. servant) They.ate food immediately prepared by fled. a ne¬ gro who Near Warsaw, Sumter county, Ala. Henry Jones, colored, .and his w ife, went to a church festival. They left theii three children, aged one, threo and six years, locked in the house, and when they returned about eleven o’clock, they found the house in ashes and the thre« child ran burned to a c.risn. FLORIDA. The cornerstone of the Florida Inter national and Semi-Tropical Exposition was laid at Ocala, Fla., with imposing ceremonies. The program was as fol. lows: Prayer by ReV. C. B.I Wilmer; laying of the cornerstone with Masonic eeremonies, under direction o{ Hon. Ibury W. Long, as Deputy'GraniVTSTas- ter. Surgeon-Geueral Hamilton Thursday received the following telegram on Fla.: from Surgeon Ross, at Fernandina, One new case of yellow- fever repoited for the twenty-four hours ended 6 p. m. A careful unalysis of the status shows four cases of yellow fever under treatment in Fernandina. On no day since my arrival here has the total number of-cases under treatment been so small as ye-terd-ay. The yellow fcvoi has about exhausted.” MARYLAND. A disastrous fire broke out on Thursday night, and swept away almost the entire business portion Md. of Permoc- The fire kee City, Worcester Go., broke out in the office of Dr. J 4 C. Smith, and spread very quickly, entirely destroying two hotels and six w-are- houses, together with their contents. The loss is estimated at nearly one mil¬ lion dollars. No> lives are known to h^ve been lost. MISSISSIPPI. Felix H. Van Ardo, a prominent drug¬ gist, was assassinated at Osyka,Miss. of lumber, assassin, hiding behind a pile emptied both barrels of a gun with buckshot into Van Ardo’s breast, killing him instantly. SOUTH CATtOLINA. The hoard of survey at Charleston, S, C., of the steamship Sandringham, hai ordered that thirty bales of cotton dam¬ aged by fire and twelve hundred bales damaged by water to be sold and all the rest to be reloaded. The vessel has been pronounced safe and sea-worthy. TENNESSEE. Henry F. Woodall, Tenh., a very accidentally prominent citizen of Nashville, shot himself through hik the heart and on Thursday. He took gun went into the garden to kill a (rabbit thi: his wife had seen. In a few mordents report of the gun was heard. A negro boy who works on the place went to the gar¬ den to’see if the rabbit had been killed. On reaching tho fence the boy discovered Mr. Woodall lying on the ground; a stream of blood flowing from his left , side. From’the location of the gun, the body and the condition-of the fence, it is supposed that Mr. Woodall had crawled through this opening in tho fence, and was attempting to got his gun through after him, when the hammer caught on the wire, and in this way caused his death. VIRULVfA. The official returns of the vote of Vir¬ ginia, are: Cleveland, 151,977; Harri- son 150,442. Cleveland’s majority 6,535. The vote in 1884, was: Cleveland. 145,497; Blaine, 139,356. Total 284, 858. 'I he Home Savings bank, of Norfolk, Va. suspended on Wednesday. The board rca- - -n assigned for the failure by the of directors, is that reports recently circu¬ lated affecting its credit, produced Savings a run on the bank. The Home bank was founded upon the ruins of the old Freeman’s Savings bank and had among its depositors a number of colored people. The great tobacco exposition and trades display at Danville, Va., opened on Wednesday with an immense crowd in attendance. The parade represented city, the great business and industries of the and was a mile long. The tobacco ex¬ hibition embraces 1,800 samples of all grades of tot scco from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and is a magnificent display of the weed. The colored people took a conspicuous part in the street parade. ____ LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. PoT.v° . V Ka 'p i ® ( b i im J ('«' (or y°f w - O. dll?,:! 2»0 t e d M ^f ’a 0D A 8u c dKi “1 1 ak #y ’ •L 1 h 0 ° i’T U,SS 18 - $10,000; . partially insured. hor the first day in some time, Sure geon Martin has no new cases of yellow fever to report from Gainesville, Fla. The weather cool, but no frost. Two negro women of Granvillle ty, N. C., have’lieen arrested and nre in jail on account of thrashing with a buggy whip, cratlc ticket. a negro - tnan who voted the Demo- It is learned that in Pitt county, N. C., one hundred negio women dressed in men’s stateelectloii clothing, U^d weat to the This polls is in the voted. a matter to be iuvt*tig* ed. Mp*«s Bmith. a hardworking miner ol Brazil' Ind., has just been apprised of the death of 0 relative in Wales, whereby he inherits a fortune aggregating $100,- 000. Htpis sixty years old and without a family. Ttoinas, Rev. Tt. D. the distinguished divine of the Welsh Congregational church, died in Knoxville, Tenn., aged 71. He was a well known scholar and his poet in Wales, and a leading minister of church in America. The Pope has instructed Cardinal Gibbons his to congratulate Mr. Harrison on election to the presidency. The Pope has and sent a letter thanking Cardinal Alarming the English Catholics for their support of him in the pending law question. Lieut. Wissmann will wait on Emperor William to resign his commission in the army, and to state his plans for the Emin relief expedition. He will leave Berlin in three weeks to lead the first column. Dr. Peters will have command of the supporting column. The harbored question regarding the fugitive slaves by the mission station at Alombasa has been settled by Messrs. Alackenzie and Alathews, the British commissioners, to the satisfaction of the natives who have invited Air.* Alackeuzio to a public freedom feast. The arrangement se¬ cures the of 1,500. Dr. Neal Mitchell, President of the Board of Health at Jacksonville, Fla., reports death. one new The case of jellow fever and one just atmosphere Sunday was iii the right state for a heavy frost if the temperature was sufficiently low. The mercury was at fifty. Its av¬ erage descent during the night for the past week has been from 7 to 9 degrees. The formal installation of Bishop John S. Foley as the head of the Detroit dio¬ cese took place Sunday. He offered ra yef a$d the priegls drew up before irn in the order U seniority of ordina¬ tion, each Bendeu his knee and kis^d the ring in recognition of his authority and as evidence of submission. The bishop afterward celebrated pontifical High Mass. aud delivered a masterly sermon. E. AL Stanberry, president of the citi¬ zens’ bank of AIcConnellsville, Ohio, ar rived in Chattanooga, Teiin., Weils, with a re¬ quisition for Lamar W. who was arrested for obtaining a large sum oi money from the banks at McConnellsville and Alalta, Ohio, on fraudulent checks. Tlie total amount of his ill gotten gains is $7,055. Wells was taken to Ohio. He drew checks on the Citizens’ bank of Bev¬ erly, Ohio, which were cashed by the AIcConnellsville aud Malta hanks, when be had no money to draw against. Wells is the son of a wealthy West Virginian. For several days past, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Houston, Texas, have been in session. The en¬ gineers of the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. have a grievance against J. J. and llyau, master mechanic of the road, pur¬ pose- to make a firm stand againSt him. The shopmen working said and under Ryan are with him, it is will stand by him. The Brotherhood appointed a committee who left for New Orleans to consult and arbitrate with the manage¬ ment of the road in reference to the matter. J. L. Onley, of Friendship, Crockett .county, Tenn., last week wrote the fol¬ lowing message to Rev. W. H. Bruton, editor of the State Wheel, of Jackson: “I thought find you nothing were in editing it but a wheel pa¬ per. I rotten De¬ mocracy, and you can take your Democ¬ racy and paper and go to -. I am a wheeler and a Republican.” Bruton showed the card to the Federal authori¬ ties'and a deputy marshal was sent to arrest Onley. He was taken to JackBon on Saturday and tricu before a Unite I States commissioner and held over under a bond of $500. The lowest penalty for such ah offemje is $100 fine and thirty days’ imprisonment. At a meeting of the Central Labor Union held in New York City on Sunday, the Freeman’s Labor Club and Waiters’ Union aak composed admission entirely the of ne- groes, '.d to cen- tral body, but were refused. It argued ' that colored was men should not form separate unions, but rhould be members of the unions with their white fellow workmen, but: tlie r admission in these cases were denied on other grounds. A breeze was started by a motion to petition the Legislature to make eight hours a day’s work, beginning June 1, 1890. It was referred, to the . building trades, but in the discussion of the cause of their same movement in 1886, T. V. Powderly was rated severely for working against them as was alleged. It was decided to renew the boycott against pool beer. The Farmers’ Alliance has taken an im¬ portant and bold step to advance the in¬ terest of its members, who are engaged in growing tobacco. It has been decided to call a convention at Durham, N. C., to take into consideration the tobacco in¬ terests as it relates to the farmers of the tobacco sections of Virginia subordinate and North al¬ Carolina, and to ask each liance in the tobacco section to send del¬ egates. The object of the meetings are to discuss aud formulate some plan for the relief of the tobacco farmers, to con¬ fer on the advisability of establishing tobacco, warehouses for the sale of leaf to formulate a plan to lessen the cost of handling and selling farmers’ tobacco; to discuss the advisability of estab¬ lishing places for the manufacture ol tobacco in nil its branches, and such l other matters in connection with the tobacco interest as may come before the meeting. » Joseph B. Miller, Commissioner of In- ter mil Revenue, in his annual report to the Secretary of tire Treasury, says that the total receipts of tfie fiscal year end- l U g jtmo 30>b, were $124,325,475, ah in- crease of $5,480,174 ovir tho previous year. Tiro estimated receipts for tire rurreitt fiscal year are $125,000,000 pro- vlded no change is made in existing rates of taxation. Tho aggregate amount during of taxes collected from tobacco the year was $5,062,431, an increase ol $554,804 over tho previous year. The export account shows a decrease in all kinds of tobacco, except cigarettes, oi which 40,831,500 more wero exported than last year. The commissioner recoin, mends that the distillation of all kindi of fruit brandy be herealter allowed un- der the law regulating tho distillation oi apple brandy, 'lhe commissioner ex¬ presses the fear that the law relation tc oleomargarine is being evaded, and rcccmim -mis additional legislation to se¬ cure its better enforcement. JUMPED TO DEATH. Tho programme at the Columbus, Ga., Exposition on Thursday, remembered closed with by a tragedy who that witnessed will long it. bo The crowd in those attendance was the largest that has yet passed through the gates many drawn hither to witness the balloon ascension and parachute jump of Prof. Vanoegrut. A high wind prevented nn ascent, but at 4 o’clock lie notified them that ilie wind having subsided he would go up, and at onco proceeded to the inflate the air balloon. ship had In a few moments vast lifted itself from the earlh and tho dar¬ ing man the was air. swinging lie performed from the his trapeze usual rope in wonderful feats as he ascended, and when about half a mile high, and just as he liad pulled himself back on the bar and w as kissing his hand to the eager gazers below, the balloon burst. Women screamed and men the'daring stood paralyzed, dashed ex¬ pecting the earth to see mangled aeronaut but with to a mass, wonderful presence of mind he cut the parachute loose, and descended with lightning rapidity some hundred Vandegrift feet, its vast wings unfolded the and swung it from beneath falling mass of canvas, which came to earth like a wet rag. The crowd greeted the narrow escape with thundering applause, and. the parachute sailed westerly. The relief was but momentary, when the cry arose “lie is going into J the river,” and vast . crowd ,.r of men rushed , ■, to , the a bank an eighth of a mi e away lhe parachute with its priceless burden of mmpnuof i the Chatt,dtodhffffr*f!1lll'i|( V the jetties John and D'rkm near and where C. «• two Hamburg, young men, who had been down the nver duckhunt- ! ing, had anchored their boat to watch the ascent of -the balloon Ashe struck the water he saw them and cried : “Bring your boat here; come quick, for God s sake.” Casting anchor they pulled fo him and both mnng to the,forward end of the boat and catching him and the parachute tried o pull him in, bu the great weight of the three of men the and the parachute sunjr the end boat, whmn fast filled with water. hat the boat was sinking they . him loos,-, and rush, d to the .other erai - to restore the eqmhbnum. he boat, which was now ha filled with . water, floated, away and the unfortunate man sank entangled in a mass of rope about the now saturated parachute, to n«c: the nv more in this life -Ho-was bound to parachute, else lie conla have s*am to the bank. The body was recovered a few hours later. F. 1L Vand.rgnlt the of unfortimate man, was about 24 years ®^ e .’ ‘.. )( 1 ' Bpnuns, West r v Virginia, . . . and , made r ha 1 * first ascent in a balloon and jump with a pnrachrite m August this je.r, sin,re which time he has made forty-six sue- ce ' s u ! ' 111 ' 11,1 J - I’-- UNEARTHING HIM. Great excitement was occasioned Wednesday in the Whitechapel district in London, England, when it was ported that another woman v had been murdered and mutulated, The police immediately formed a cordon around the premises, and an enormous crowd soon gathered, It was learned that another murder had been at- tempted upon ; a woman by a roan but that in this instance, his work had been frustrated. According to the wo¬ man's story, the mat had seized her and struck her once in the throat with a knife. succeeded She had struggled in freeing desperately, herself fr< and had m the man’s grasp, and had screamed help; Her cries had alarmed the man, Le had fled without attempting any violence. Some neighbors, who had heard the woman’s screams, followed murderer for about three hundred yi rus, when he disappeared from their sight. The woman says she is fully able to tify thegnan and gave a description him to the police. The police are ful of soon capturing him. Tlie woman suffered only a slight abrasion of the skin on her throat. THE NATIONAL WEALTH. United States Treasurer Hyatt has sub¬ mitted his annual report of the opera¬ tions of the Treasury, from which some extracts are herewith given:—The net revenues of the government for the year ended June 30, ’88, were 074 aud tlfe net expenditures, $287,924,- 801, the surplus receipts available for the reduction of the public debt being $111,- 341,273, an increase of $7,870,176 the year before. The Treasury balance increased during the year from $69,224,- in¬ 379 to $129,804,242 and total assets, cluding from certificates of deposit m cash, The $022,304,284 t'o $704,029,585. net change of $00,579,863 in the balance 408 was produced and by an decrease increase of of $23,053,- $37,526,- in assets a 394 in liabilities. The new silver vault in the Treasury building having a capaci¬ and ty of one hundred million of dollars, said to be the largest Treasury vault in the world, is being filled at the rate of half a million a day. It will hold the total coinage of three years, but at the end of that period a stilt further storage rook will probably suspended. have to bo provided unless coinage is WINTER GALES. DISASTERS REPORTED ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST. A TERRIBLE SNOW STORM IN NEW ENG¬ LAND—NEW YORK ALSO SUFFERS—A SAVANNAH STEAMER COLLIDES—NOTES. The sloop whose yacht Narngansott couTd be and a schooner, name not as- ceitained, broke -from their moorings near Boston, Mass., during a snow Forest storm on Sunday, and wont ashore near river, the latter lying in a bad nosition. The harbor is full of coasters and several have dragged considerably. The storm did comparatively little damage at Coney Island, N. Y. The tide was unusually Norton's high, and Point tho surf to tho roared eastern fiercely^ point from of the island, off the Oriental hotel, but the chief damage reported was the washing away of some small frame buildings and ana shanties between Norton’s Point West Brighton. Tho Brighton Beach hotel, which formerly was in danger during Winter storms, is now perfectly safe on its new site. The first storm was very severe on and about the shores of Staten Island. The suow which fell throughout tho day was “info'The night.^Tlm ” d b|e f le and TOany £ v Me ls took , h Uer |n tl e coveg ftbou the island, There was a rough ferry-boats sea on the experienced bay, and Staten Island much difficulty in entering their slips at 3t. George. A large three-masted ship, which was anchored oil Tompkinsville, Bragged her anchors and drifted down the bay and narrowly escaped colliding with the United States cruiser Boston, anchored at quarantine. Thu vessel was finally picked up by a tugboat aud towed to a place of safety. A canal boat loaded with coal, while being towed through Kills, foundered 1n a heavy sea close un¬ der the Staten Island shore at Mariner’s harbor. A two-masted schooner with a cargo of bricks from Haverstiaw fol Elizabeth, N. S., was blown ashore cn the veef in the Kills, off Constable Iiook, and went to pieces. Her crew took to the yawl boat and landed safely at the oil dock at Constable Hook. Old “salts” in Sailors’ Snug harbor followed predict by that the storm will be 1 heavy suow storm Wednesday., 0< The storm was terrific in the harbor Portland, Me., and the damage to vessels will be large. The breakwater was washed many ^ich times during tho day, iomt&i « rare i y ever happens. tho rfafi ]it( ^ Undine got in Ul h f , ho 9tom ftnd was almost de'- sh, d. The double-cnder Terry boat , luaWi . t( , u lan on the Bouth } , 0 ,: t|flnd 8ldo ; The waves ran h ^ h e h to - wa6ll hor lower deck, Ur; deadlight £ scene was in g(rild , Cached d 0ver nd over !lKii a | point never touched ,, ef ’ J t i[t t e f grea t storm last WJnte w n tho mon8t r wave8 started buiidiog ^ from Its foundation. Captf Trund (’ 0 he United States life-saving 8tatiol t ed: “No vessel sighted - % La8t ni ^ ht we saw ge v- j running ff T Kh , ltcr , we supposed, J d Help ^pJ-Tarndy any t hill g 0 ff this coast to- ^ . ht „ } L added that it had the w0 gt night had everexperi- d The gravest f apprehensions portion of the are felt {„ the 6a ttty Let. of f The steamer Par- , , - yfid B Cllrtrles ton, ’ 8. C. t from u P 0 , left thero 0 n the 20th of 0ctob e ’ and experience<l ‘ a terrific hur- - 0 ff the ba nk8 of Newfoundland, fa - ch ^ ed two boats ftnd her ^ vesselulso sustained Wlli i er „nni nff mavi 0 - lect noit heast gale, sixty miles south, west of apparent^ Hatteras, she sighted a dismasted vessel, ’ P ? ^„ American, about four hundr ed ^ ^ lst er, and saw leeward people board r im de d to tho of th(j wreck at grcat risk> bui the steamer was unmanageable, and the sea was too high to render assist¬ ance and' kept the ship away. Sa¬ The steamship City of Macon, from vannah, Ga., collided with the steamship Tallahassee, from New York for Savan¬ nah, Saturday night'. Tho Tallahassee was struck on her port side a glancing thir¬ blow just forward of the fore hatch, ty feet from the stern, cutting in three of her plates above and between decks, and about four inches below the watei line,'but the opening was so slight that she made but little water, and the cargo in the lower hold, which consisted ol railroad iron, remained undamaged. The damage to the vessel is estimated at about $5,000. The City of Macon was appar¬ ently not injured, as she continued on her voyage. The American bark Aloro- castle, 'bound from‘Philadelphia coal, for arrived San Francisco with 610 tons of at the Delaware, breakwater Satur¬ day night. The next .morning the bark’s cable parted,and she was driven on to the breakwater, where she went to pieces. The crew were safely landed. A three masted schooner parted her chains, and was beached near the iron pier. The-bark Hannah, from Philadel¬ phia for Limerick, and the sehoonei William D. Alarvel, are repotted A sehcfoiiei ashore in the harbor of Lewes, Del. of about three hundred tons is ashore a! Rehohoth life saving* station. Mttckie Co.’s steamer Newhurg, of Leith, while pn a voyage from Grangemouth to Aar- hurs with coal, foundered in the North Sea. Sixteen persons were drowned, and one was rescued and landed in Nor- way.' ^ '' TrrE - story is going* the- rounds- of a co'wlajy. of. tho Wild ‘West allow, who wont' into a -London restaurant and- ordered’dsfcjafc.’. exceedingly wliicfa.was He looked Jnreugiit. at it him rare. and a moment,, the® drew liia revolver, blazed away at tlie meat. Of course there was a panic, and tho police came about the time that tlie revolver had been emptied. “What on earth do you mean by this conduct ?" asked the answered proprietor. tho “‘What do I mean, pare! ?” the al- cowboy. “Why,” pointing to mo»t raw steak, “I wanted to kilj the blamed thing.” NORTH CAROLINA. L. Edwards, dealer in dry goods, C., cloth’ng and shoes, at Goldsboro, N. formerly of Wilson, N. 0., made au as- signmeut on Thursday. Liabilities $28,000; assets not known. VOL. IV. NO. 10. A FLORIDA CRIME. t Interest in a horrible murder that oc¬ curred near Monticello, Fla., has been intensified by the discovery that one ol the men implicated is a -son of Mary E. Bryan, tho well-known writer of New York. Mrs.' Bryan wns*'-iu Savannah, Ga.,. to look after her son’s interests, ana le(t a few days ago for Thomnsviye, Ga.,. where it is supposed she is still stopping. The story she told is a pathetic one. Just before the election she received a letter urging her to come to Florida, as her son was taking a very active part in politics, and that it was feared that he would get into trouble with the negroes at the polls at Lloyd’s, Jefferson county, where he voted. Her next summons was a dispatch which read: learned “Come at that once.” hen When slio arrivpd, she son was a fugitive, with a suspicion of murder hanging over him. Tho story of Ids crime is tragic in tho extreme. In a fracas in a mill at Lloyd’s station a month ago lile he was stabbed, and nt one time his was despaired of. .Who cut him was uncertain, but a negro named Judsoo Cason was suspected. On election day Lee Houston, John S. Bryan, sou of the authoress, and Arthur Duncan arrested Judson. That night he was taken froml a room in which he was confined! at Lloyds, bound hand and foot; placed in a wagon and carried ' two miles to the Mkcosukie sinks. There he was stub¬ bed to death, at least a dozen ghasiy wounds being inflicted. ' Five or Six heavy stones were then tied-to the body, and it was thrown into the yawning abyss forming the mouth of the sinks. Had it not struck au obstruction it would have disappeared found. in the fathomless struck opening ledge, and never been discovered It on a however, was next morning, and thus brought out the story of the crime. m BOULANGER'8 PLATFQRM, M. Derouledo made a speech St a meeting of the Patriotic League iiFf’aris, France,-on Sunday, lie spoke in* term! of warm praise of Gen. Buuluiiger3 Re¬ ferring to tho accident to the HussiaD imperial train, ho expressed sympathy with tlie Czar and rejoiced over hi* es-‘ eapefTom harm. Tlie speech was greptly applauded, especially the -reference^ to Gen. Boulanger. The Gauloi* says thal the government intends to dissolve bri¬ the Patriotic League. Access to the quetting hall to out-iders was tlie barred the public pollc ce, who prevented ■ propose nrri.vt reception. The guests, on ing,, were merely greeted with shouts of' “Vive Boulanger” and made, “a has Flbquet.” A few arrests were but the ceedings,were, in the main, orderly. At) followed tlie conclusion the meeting, of the_ ’ banquet, Boulaqgdr which Gen. made a speechTii-VUich lie said: “I am more a patriot than a holdieiV I ardently desire peaee, not. tlie pence, -which is dej manded, hut a peace imposed by the a firm and dignified attitude. That is only peace acceptable to French hearts.” ♦ -— T V - GERMAN AFFAIRS. The German Itichstag assembled Oi$ Thursday at Berlin. ' The emperof opened the session in person.- In Lis speech he said the tours he, had recently , made, convinced him that the desire for imperial unity was deeply rooted’ in th$ people. Tho emperor made no refer-* ence to any'military hills or credits African ami touched but briefly upon East affairs. Settlements in Africa are a mat4 ter of interest to Germany. He said itij the task of winning Africa to Christian morality, friendly England and its par¬ ago* liament had .recognized a repressing. century that they must begiu by tne ., trade in negroes and' slave hunting. With reference to foreign relations’ fie fcaid: -‘Our relations with all foreign powers are peaceful. My efforts have been unceasing to strengthen this peace. The alliance with Austria arid’ Italy lias no other object.' To bring without ne¬ cessity, the miseries even of a victorious war upon Germany would be and incompati¬ ble with my Christian faith my du¬ ties towards the German people.” HARD TIMES. When the eccentric .old bachelor; Luther James, died at Ann Harbor, Mich., three months ago, he . left about $250,000 to his nephew, J-. L. Babcock, of Chicago, on condition that tho latte! should marry within five years. Babcock is settling up the estate, and his life is made miserable by the number of letters received from young women who are anxious for love and fortune, He has received offers of mafriage Phila’delphiay-Bafti-f from' ladies in Ohic&go, Detroit; Cincinnati,! more, New Y T ork, Richmond, New Orleans and hundreds of smaller* towns. His mail is grpwing daily and he is e! mo tt., persuaded to forfeit the for*< tune. 1 Y LOANED TOO MUCH. Macon, Ga,, had a sensation on"Wed¬ nesday over the shortage of O. F. Adams,' city his" treasurer, amounting, according to, A own statement, to $18,790.56.. . week ago the finance Hudgins, committee board, Alderman John D. chairman, in examining the books for the last' quar¬ ter ending September 17th, tfjSoDvered $ cash shortage. Adams stated to Mayor Price tlflfi he did hot know how tho shortage occurred. Ad sms has fifeen treasurer about eight years, and haasfceen very accommodating in’ .the office# fre¬ quently loaning money ' to frienefa and would constantly loan”the numermi s cm- ployes of the ’citr government. Jr SHUT DOWN- ? ‘ At a. meeting of .thean ver.cpff, opera¬ tors, held on Monday, it was. unanimVius- - ly decided to shut down all the mines along- definite the period.’This Monpngtjhela will River throw out for of an em¬ in¬ ployment 7,000 miners besides all the river men engaged in taking coal down the river and the mine laborers. The op¬ erators say the shut will be for two months at least, 'they claim they cannot sell coal to overlooked, an ..advantage now, as tha market is and coal is selling for five cents dir bushel, the lowest for many ye: Snow Jh inch deep is reported at Mon tejpy, Mexico., and so cold was the woatli* that Howe’s Girons, which went out tli«, had to build a lire around the elepiumt to prevent the aiiim m ‘ fr g U death. •fe i X-M