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ScMey Coin Bows.
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ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA.
The flow of Northern and foreign capi
ial into the South and Southwestern aec
tions is increasing.
Tlu» effort to make tobacco a staple
crop in iVrrida is beiwg continued on a
larger acreage and with apparent success.
Herbert Spencer estimates the parlia
mentary or “lobbying” expenses of En
glish railway companies at $260,000 per
annum...... .....
A private 1 soldier says J that desertions
from the army are largely due to the
tyranny of the younger officers and the
drunkenness of the older ones.
During the last ten vears Americans
have contributed $20,000,000 ’ to relieve
suffering caused by disasters and epi
demies. Not such a very bad record,
observes the New York Tribune.
“For every five girls 6 you put into busi
offices, ,, New Yorker, jl ,
ness says a “you
will make three old maids. They will
be appreciated for their work just as boy s
are, but they will lose the influence of
their sex over men.”
The most versatile American has been
discovered at Mosherdale, Hillsdale Coun
ty, Mich. He is a regularly ordained .
preacher, but also practices medicine and
surgery, has proved his ability to gain a
living as a cabinet-maker, and is a skill
ful draughtsman, surveyor and fruit gar
dener.
United States Consul Mason, of Mar
seilles, writes to the State Department
that the effects of general and unre
Btrained absinthe-drinking in France are
now reoegnized as forming a basis of one
of the gravest dangers which threaten
the physical and moral -welfare of the
people of France.
We are constructing some very big
guns lor our new navy. Two have just
been turned out with a muzzle velocity
of 2000 feet per second and a ran<m of
ton miles each. These, says the Nm Or
leans Times-Democrat, would assist ma
terially in keeping the flies off any for
eign man-of-war that dared to approach
our coast with hostile intent.
Five Indians recently appeared as wit
nesses in a land case at Los Angeles, Cal.,
one of whom, Juan Sabera, claimed to be
one hundred and twenty years old, and
Baid he was twelve years of age when the
San Gabriel Mission was founded. An
other one of the quintet was Juan Cal
mila, whose years numbered one hundred
and fifteen. The other members of the
group were Francisco Apache, one hun
dred and five; Ramon Largo, one hun
dred and four, and Harahisjo Cabojon,
who was a mere boy of eighty.
Said a lieutenant on board the British
warship Buzzard: “Were I in charge of
a battery when engaged with either the
Boston or the Atlanta, I would make a
target out of the afterdeck and destroy
the steering gear. The ship losing this
would then be unmanageable and at the
mercy of her antagonist.” It is said
that the confidential photograph books
of nearly every British cruiser contain
plates of every ship in the United States
service. Many of these photographs
were taken by the instantaneous process
while the ships were under way.
An Englishman contributes to a recent
issue of the St. James Gazette an extraor
dinary article on the lack of fighting
qualities of the American. He declares
that there was no real fighting in oui
Civil War, and that at anytime during
the first two years a well equipped divis
ion of 10,000 disciplined troops could
have cleaned out either side within three
months. But when he gets down to the
probable results of a war between the
United States and a European power,
Bays the San Francisco Chronicle he is
,
most amazing. “Hs figures out that if a
war did not result in the South seizing
the opportunity to secede again, then the
cowboys and Indians of the West, both
of whom ‘hate the grangers’ and detest
the Government, would unite aud devas
tate the country. The picture of the
union of ‘Lo’ and the cowboy is a bit of
unconscious British humor which throws
into the shade the best efforts of the
American wits.”
The fisheries of Maine are reported to
be on the (Jgsline*..
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
I NEWS THOM KVMrWHERH—ACCIDENTS, STJUKM,
FIRES, AND MAFFENINOS OF INTENRUT.
The premium on gold in Buenos Ayres
has advanced to 65 per cent.
At ihe the charter election in Guthrie,
Oklahoma, Wednesday, the charter was
curried by 112 majority.
Michael McDonough shot and killed
his wife Wednesday night at Kenton, O.
Lynching is threatened.
Jess Overman, a jealous lover in Peru,
Ind., shot and killed Maggie Smith,
Wednesday night, and then killed him
•elf
A number of naval officials p.t Berlin
1 KeW Germany hare been arrested
| on the charge of wholesale bribery. One
of them has committed suicide,
Four French journalists have been sen
tenced to pay nominal fines for publish
ing the indictment against General Bou
an S er *
I The Rhode Island senate passed a li
;ense bill Wednesday, after inserting a
, ffause prohibiting the keeping of a sa-
1 loon within 400 feet of any school bouse.
| Late news from Indian territory is to
I :he effect that the famous desperado,
3t - Lo P ki > was killed last Sunday by the
1 japlain ot the Creek Indian Light llorse
ximpany
j The stable and carriage storage place
; ff Moses Weill, ou Eist Eleventh street,
New York City, burned Sunday morning
! with one hundred and twenty-five horses
! ind filty carriages; loss $45,000.
I Aoco»rding to the latest statistics care
Johnstown, (X),ri P ll(xl Pa,., Wednesday, ljoar( l yf the injury, at
num
j her of lives lost in the devastated district
was about six thousand.
j by Joseph damp while Larson, aged 14, was overcome
j donia, Saturday cleaning a well near Ma
la., afternoon, and J. A.
boy, Wilson, who was lowered to rescue the
was also overcome. Both died.
The Chicago Johnstown relief commit
: i tee met in the comptrollers office
Wednesday morning, and decided ta
| I send the balance of subscriptions iu their
hands, $25,000, to the Pennsylvania
! authorities.
At Anderson, Ind., Friday evening,
while bathing in White river, Scott Todd
and Charlie Hosier, aged ten and eleven,
were drowned. Sunday evening a man
named Bilby was drowned while trying
to recover the bodies.
j ’ consented The Slandw< ot Lw , aoll) „ , )M
damages for to apologize and to pay £100
I assertiug that Father Cove
np T» of Dunmanway, Ireland, publicly
' “ P1>0 "' ed t0 God '° sten S thwl ll *" d
of the man who killed Inspector Martin,
at G weeu or.
A dispatch from Kansas City says u The
heavy lains of the past few days in Kan
sas, which were welcomed as a sure pre
ventive of hot winds, and as the saver of
the corn crop, seem to have done almost
as much harm as good. The damage to
wheat and oats will be considerable.
At the couit of oyer and terminer at
New York, Tuesday, Charles Giblen aud
Ferdinand Carolin were seutenced to be
hanged on who August 23. This will make
five men are to be executed in the
Tombs on the same day. The other
three are Jamts Nolan, John Lewis aud
Patrick Packerham.
The co-operative brewery stockholders,
of Buffalo, N. Y., have sold their stock
to an English syndicate for $140 per share,
an advance of $i0, $50 being originally
paid for each share. They clear $400,
000 on the plant. It is understood that
the brewery will be used as bottling
works.
A dispatch from Minneapolis says:
Saturday night a gang of strikers over
powered the sheriff and police and forced
a large number of coal dock employes to
throw up their jobs. Six of the mob
leaders were arrested. Major McKay
telegraphed Governor Hoard,asking that
troops be sent there.
The whaling schooner Franklin arrived
at New Bedford, Mass , Monday morning,
with the crew of the steamer Lorenzo D.
Baker, from Port Antonio, La., for Bos
ton, with fruit, before reported overdue.
The steamer was burned at sea. Her
cargo was valued at $10,000, and the
vessel w T as insured for $50,000.
Duport, a Boulangist, member of the
chamber ot deputies at Paris, France,
Wednesday night, attempted to make a
speech at Pont L’Abbe, Finistere. but
was attacked by a mob and stoned. A
number of Duport’s teeth were broken
and his face cut, and he received permis
sion to proceed with his remarks.
While men were removing rock and
coal from the chambers closed at the
Centr.nl Wednesday mine, near Scranton, Pa., on
of the by a cave-in, the lamp of one
laborers ignited the mine gas and
au explosion followed. John Williams
and Robert Roberts were killed and four
others frightfully burned.
A dispatch from Spring Valley, Ill.,
says: The Spring Valley Coal company
has finished serving evictions on all miners
that are living in their houses. About
100 families or 500 people will be thrown
out of house and home in a few days.
They have no place to go to. It is quite
likely that many of the miners will resist
and trouble will result. The sheriff and
i posse will do the evicting.
A cave-in occurred in Hyde, Pa.,
Wednesday morning over a vein of the
Central mine. Over six ucros of ground
school were affected, and the 5th ward public
Fully building dozen was badly dauiuged.
cracked a foundation private residences have
walls and jammod
doors as a result of the cave-in. A large
fissure may be seen in the earth, and iu
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
the center of the affected district the
earth has settled fully ten feet.
Exports of specie from the port of Nets
York last week, amounted to $3,633,003,
of which $3,379,870 was in gold and
$253.133 in silver. Of the total exports, sil
$2,874,285 in gold, and $252,400 in
ver went to Europe, $2,742,643 in gold
going direct to Paris, and $505,585 in
gold and $733 in silver sent to South j
America. Imports of specie for the
week amounted to $156,595, of which
$116,186 was in gold and $40,400 in sil
ver.
Lieutenant O. M. Carter, at Washing
ton L). U., lias ten separate works ot im
provement under his charge in Georgia
and Florida. He asks the insertion of
the following named sums in the next
river and harbor bill: Improvement of
the Savannah river and harbor, $2,500,
000; Savannah river between Savannah
and Augusta, $100,000; Altamaha river,
$50,000; Ocmulgee river,$50,000; Oconee
river, $50,000; Brunswick harbor, $02,-
500; Jekyl creek, $38,590; Cumberland
sound, Georgia and Florid 0 , $1,000,000.
Bob Younger, the Missouri outlaw,
must die in prison. He is in the last
stages of consumption, and prominent
men of Missouri have been trving to se
cure ms pardon, Governw Merriam
said to CoL Bronough and eX-Gpvemor
Marshall, on their presentation of a large
petition: “I may as well Say to you
now once for all, that I have my own per
sonal feeling and prejudice in the mat
ter, and I should not be moved to inter
fere in the case of Bob or any of them,
even if Haywoo l’s wife could come from
the grave and s g.i your petition, or if
Haywood’s surviving daughter should
join in your appeal. ”
Hiram Hoad ley, Jr., formerly and a prom
inent county politician Ohio, a prosperous whose
citizen of Edgerton,
wife was seeking- a divorce, earlv Sunday
morning secreted himselt near the farm
house of his father-in-law, where his wife
wa< staying and killed her with a re
volver as she passed by to milk the cows.
He then shot and instantly killed her
father, who was attracted by the pistol
shots. He pursued ihe mother and a
sister of his wife .also, but they escaping
he returned to where his wife’s body was
and killed himself.
Rev. Father Curley, director of the
Georgetown university, died in Wash
ington, D. C., Wednesday morning. He
was the oldest living priest in the United
States, and, so far as known, in the
world. He was born in the countv Ros
common, Ireland, in 1786. He entered
and Georgetown college iu 1827as anovitiate
has remained at the college ever
since, with the exception of two years
•pent in study from 1827 to 1831. E^or
forty-eight years he was professor of phil
osophy and natural science and during
this time he made a number of valuable
contributions to science.
A land slide on the Northern Pacific
which occurred near Miles City, Mont.,
Saturday, is one of the most extensive
and disastrous in the history of the road.
It happened on a point on the Yellow
Yellowstone stone division, where the truck skirts the
river, with a turbulent
stream on one side and a high alkali bank
on the other. Without warning or appa
rent cause, this bank gave way and j
mass of earth for the distance of five
hundred feet along the track and frotr
three hundred feet away slid down intt
the river, completely burying the rail
road.
A still exploded in Dodge – Colcott’e
chemical works, at the corner of Morgan
J., and Washington Saturday streets, Jersey City, N.
afternoon. A three-story
brick building, 100 by 25 feet, with a
large stock of essential oils and valuable
drugs, was destroyed. The building oc
cupied by Ames – Co.’s spike works,
across scorched. Washington Dodge street, was slightly
– Colcott are a well
known drug firm with offices on Wil
liam street, New York city. Their loss
is estimated at $120,000 on building and
machinery and $200,000 on essential oils
and other stock.
A general strike was inaugurated at
West Superior, Wis., on Saturday, among
the laborers, and over 600 are out. They
demand an increase from $1.50 per day
to $1.75. They visited the St. Paul and
Pacific coal docks, where fourteen men
under were working police at forty cents an hour rate
protection. They over
powered the police and routed the men.
The St. Paul and Pacific and Northwest
ern Fuel company refuse to meet the
fifty concessions by the Lehigh coal heavers of
cents an hour. They claim they can
hire men at forty cents and propose to do
so. One of the leaders has been ar
rested. A company of state militia has
been ordered to the scene of trouble.
A shocking accident occurred Monday
morning on the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad, near Mahoney City, Pa.
Three boys were driving in a buggy from
Mahoney City to Frackville. As they
approached the railroad crossing a pas
senger train passed, closely followed by
a little combination engine. They at
tempted to cross as soon as the passenger
train had passed. The combination
engine struck the buggy, smash
ing it into splinters, killing the
horse and terribly injuring the boys.
One of them was thrown forty feet and
shockingly mangled and instantly killed.
The other two were very badly, and it is
believed, fatally hurt.
FATAL SHARK BITE.
Ed Roe, a young Englishman, while
fifteen swimming in Cumberland sound with
struck other by boys from Fernandina, Fla.
was a shark, which bit off the
calf of one leg. Roe was taken into
beat at but bled a
medical once, to death before
assistance could be obtained.
This is the first instance known of
lhark attacking a
amau in those waters. j
WASHINGTON, D..C/
.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OE INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The state department Wednesday re- 1
ceived from Henry F. Merritt, consul at
Chemnitz, Saxony,a list of subscribers to
the fund tor the relief of the sufferers by
the flood at Johnstown, Pa. It amounted
to 3,785 marks, and 80 pfennings, equal
to $910 American money.
EnimoDS Clark, ex-colonel of the fa
mous Seventh regiment, New York Na
tional Gnard, has declined the appoint
ment as consul to Havre recently mode.
In his letter of declination, Colonel
Clark says that he had fully intended to
accept, but that since the especially appointment his
was made his friends, and
physician, had made such representations decline.
to him that he felt constrained to
Superintendent Bell, of the railway
mail service, said on Wednesday that
there was nothing exceptional in the
case reported from Lynchburg, Va., al
leging that two white postal clerks had
refused to instruct a newly happened appointed
negro clerk. It frequently in
the South that white clerks at first re
fused to insruct negro clerks, but a lit
tle persuasive talk usually convinced
them that they were unreasonable.
dent’s Following is an outline of the presi
trip to Bar Harbor next mouth:
The president will leave Deer Park on
the sixth of August and proceed to New
York by rail, thence to Boaton via Fall
river steamers. He will stay in Boston
one day. That portion of the trip be
tween Boston and Bar Harbor will be
made by rail. It is not certain that Mrs.
Harrison will accompany the president,
but it is probable she will do so.
The attorney general has given the
Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to
the effect that there is no legal objection
to the transit through the United States
territory of the Chinamen recently ar
rived at New Orleans from Cuba, eu route
to China via San Francisco. This opin
ion is in accord with the decision given
by Solicitor Hepburn on the same ques
tion some weeks ago, which was how
ever, not accepted by the Treasury De
partment.
Secretary Noble has issued an order
directing Dr. George Ewing and H. L.
Bruce, of the board of pension appeals,
and Judge Campbell, of the attorney
general’s office interior department, as a
committee to investigate all re-ratings of
pensions by the bureau made within the
last twelve months. It is said that the
civil service commissioner is not satisfied
with the present administration of the
civii service law in the pension office.
Commissioner Roosevelt, it is understood,
will make remonstrance against the
course that has been pursued.
The president appointed the following
collectors of customs: William Gaston
Henderson, of Mississippi, for the dis
trict of Pearl river, Mississippi; N.
Wright Cuney, of Texas, for the district
of Galveston, Texas; Henry DeB. Clay,
of Virginia, for the district of Newport
News, Va. Collectors of Internal rev
enue—James D Brady, of Virginia, for
the second district of Virginia; P. H.
McCaull, of Virginia, for the
second district of Virginia;
Joseph W. Burke, of Texas, lor the
third district of Texas. M. M. Hurley,
of Indiana, to be the third auditor of the
be treasury; deputy J. H. Franklin, of Kansas, to
second auditor of the treasury ;
James J. Dikerson, of Texas, to be mar
shal of the United States for the eastern
district of Texas, Milton C. Elstner, ot
Louisiana, to be attorney of the United
States for the western district of Louisi
ana. To be consuls: Evans Blake, of
Illinois, at Crofield; Henry C. Fisk, ol
Vermont, at St. Johns, Quebec; Jasper
P. Bradley, of West Virginia, at South
ampton; Eugene O. Fechet, of Michi
gan, at Piedras Negras; Archibald J.
Simpson, of Colorado, at Paso del Norte;
Horace E. Pugh, of Indiana, at Newcas
tle, England.
In their reports to the chief !>f engin
eers of operations under the river and
harbor bill, the various officers in charge
make the following recommendations of
appropriations for continuing the work
next year: By Captain William M.
Black, St. Johns River, Florida, $576,-
500; Volusia bar, $500; northwest en
trance Key West harbor, $300,000; Ca
loosahatchie River, $3,600; Pease River,
$10,000; Manatee River, $10,000; Tam
pa $5,400; Bay, $25,000; Withlacoochcc River,
Cedar Keys harbor, $5,000; Se
wanee River, $5,000. By General W. T.
Smith—Inland Water Bay from Chinco
teague Lewes, Bay, Virginia, to Delaware Bay,
at $100,000. By Captain William
H. Bixby—Roanoke River, Va., $60,000;
Pamlico and Tar Rivers, N. C., $15,000;
Contentnia Creek $30,000; Trent River,
$8,500; Neuse River, $60,000; Inland
waterway from Beaufort to New r River,
$35,000; Beaufort harbor, $38,000; New
River, $17,000; Black River, $20,000;
Cape Fear River, $420,000; Yadkin
River, $10,000; harbor at Georgetown,
8. C., $20,000; Wiuyard Bay, $300,000.
By Captain Frederick V. Abbott—Lum
ber River, N. C., $30,000; Mingo Creek,
8. C., $12,000; Clear Creek, $5,000;
Edisto River, $12,385; Salkiehatckie
River, $5,000; Little Pee Dee River,
$50,000; Wateree River, $12,500; Con
garee River, $39,500; Wappoo cut con
necting Stone and Ashley Rivers, $55,
000; Waccamma River, $73,000.
It appears that the whole number of offi
cials now protected by the Civil Service rules
is 27,697, of which number 8212 are in the de
partmental vice, 11,767 service, 2298 are in the customs ser
in the postal service and 5320 in
the ra ilway mail service,
THE CROPS.
OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE CONDITION 0*
THE WEATHER AND GROWING CROPS.
The weather crop bulletin of the sio.
Dal office at Washington, D. C., says that
the week ending July 20th has been
slightly warmer than usual in states west
of the Mississippi River and in Missis
sippi, Maryland, Delaware and portions
of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Alabama,
About normal temperature prevailed in
the South Atlantic States, Ohio and the
upper Mi-sissippi valleys, while the daily
temperature in New Euglaud and the
upper lake region, including northern
portions of Indiana, Illinois and
Ohio, has averaged about three de
grees below the mean for the week.
There has been more than the average
amount of rainfall during the week gen
erally throughout the Northern states.
The rainfall has been in excess in Geor
gia and some portions cf Alabama, South
Carolina and Texas. Over the remaining
portions of the Southern States generous
rains occurred. Seasonable rains from
January 1 to July 20 continue in excesa
from New York southward to Florida
and from Texas northward to the Mis
souri Valley, also in Northern Illinois and
Eastern Wisconsin. Over the greatei
part of the cotton region and the princi
pal corn-producing states, the
rainfall for the season generally
exceeds 80 per cent of the normal.
Throughout the principal corn produc
ing states from Ohio west to Nebraska,
the weather was generally favorable to
the crop, which is reported in exeellenl
condition, but excessive rains cause dam
age to wheat and oats and interrupt har
vesting in some localities. In the south
west, including Texas, Louisiana and
Arkansas, the excess of sunshine and
light showers proved very favorable to
all growing orops, and cotton is report
ed as much improved. Kentucky reports
the tobacco crop improving under the
favorable weather of the week; that the
harvesting of a good crop of oats is in
progress, and that corn was never in'bet
ter condition. In Tenuessee, Mississippi
and Alabama excessive rains have caused
some damage to cotton, which is greatly
in need of culture. In middle Tennessee
wheat was damaged, and tobacco is
growing well. The weather was unfa
vorable for farm work. In the south
Atlantic states and Virginia the weather
was especially favorable for all growing
crops, and the prospects are excellent.
Respecting the Louisiana rice crop, it ia
reported that Mississippi heavy rains river and high wa
ter in the are doing
wonders, especially ior late plantings.
It is conceded the outcome is likely to
be six or seven hundred thousand sacks.
If the present weather continues, the
crop is likely to be the largest ever pro
duced in that state.
ELECTRICITY’S WORK.
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED AND MUCB
DAMAGE DONE BY LIGHTNING.
During a terrific thunderstorm Satur
day, which prevailed throughout the
central and western portion of Massa
dealer chusetts, James H. Kierner, provision
at East Brookfield, was struck by
au electric bolt and instantly killed.
Louis Harper, who kept a restaurant, was
also struck and knocked across the room,
his ear being nearly severed. James
Corcoran, buggagemaster at the Boston
and Albany railroad station, was also
prostrated by the shock. The lightning
badly damaged the switch boards of the
telephone exchange, besides burning out
nearly all the local lines of the New
England Telephone and Telegraph Ex
change Company.... A Pioneer Presi
special from Sturgis, Dakota, says:
Lightning struck the residence of Sam
uel Layster, in Whitewoods, seven miles
west of St. Paul, Min., Saturday night,
during a heavy storm. A son of Lays*
ter, aged twentv-two years, was instantly
killed. The house caught fire and wa<
totally consumed. A young child also
in the house at the time was severely
shocked. In St. Paul the residence of
P. A. Brigham was struck and badly
damaged. Meade, A bolt descended at Fort
one-half mile east of the city,
and struck a school-house occupied by
the government. The building was
badly wrecked. The loss will reach into
the thousands.
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
A special from the flood district,
give near Parkersburg, the following W, Va., Sunday night,
list of drowned. R
is thought that the death list will be
much larger when the districts now cut
off from the outside world are beard
from: Robert Black, Mrs. Black, Mrs.
Thomas Hughes and four children;
Edward Bose, Mrs. Isaac Roberts,
Mrs. Orville West and two chil
dren; J. Bailey, R. Kegier and wife;
Mrs. Lasa Tucker, and a man whose
name cannot be ascertained. The dam
age to property and crops cannot be es
timated at present. Hundred of people
lost all they possessed and many families
are homeless. A later dispatch says the
village of Morristown, W. V., was swept
The entirely away. Great suffering exists.
commissioners of Wood county will
issue au appeal for aid.
FORCED TO MURDER.
The authorities at Warsaw, Ind.,
Thursday, took into custody Mrs. Martha
Danks, charged with murder, and het
husband, Daniel, as accessory. Danks of
recently became a crank on the subject
religion, and it is said thirteen-mouths-old compelled bis wife
to strangle their
child as a sacrifice, claiming that the
Almighty has promised to resurrect the
child ou the third day. When Danks
was arrested ho had been carrying the
dead infant in his arms two