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Siey Cony lows.
—PWflLISHED EVXHY WHEK AT—
ELLAVILLE. GEORGIA.
Nearly , T , oc> S3,000,000 nnn acres of ou. 1-nd
are owned by men who owe allegiance to
other governments.
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Lind speculators are giving it owl
that during the next twelve months
there will be sti unusual amount of rail
road construction.
Brazil, as well as the United States
and the Argentine Republic, is now re
ceiving very large accessions of immi
grants from Europe. The inflow of
European immigrants in the South
American Empire last year numbered
over one hundred and thirty thousand.
Who would believe, exclaims the New
York Sun, that the once dreaded veloci
pede would within a few yean give
birth to more than 75,000 bicycles, and
that the League of American Wheelmen
counts alone 12,000 members, 10,000 of
whom live in New York and the sur
rounding suburbs.
The United States among all the na
tions stand alone asserts the New Yoik
Commercial Advertiser, in making no
provision for a personnel large enough
to man an efficient war fleet, and in
neglecting to provide for the organiza
tion aud training of the coast-defending
force absolutely necessary for the pro
tection of our commercial harbors.
There are said to be more milc 3 of
railway in the Australian Colonies in
proportion to the population than in any
other country in the world, with the
single exception of tho United States.
The total cost of construction of the
Australas an railways is estimated at
£85,503,210, the average cost per mile
for several years being about £10,103.
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The Sioux reservation comprises 23,
010,040 acres, of which it is proposed
to open 11,001,000 acres for settlement,
upon which there are 23,000 Indians.
Of this number 10,749 are male, and of
these 0000 are adults. To carry out the
provisions of tho Dawes bill, under
which the Commission acted in relation
to the disposal of these lands, the con
sent of 4000 of these Indians had to be
obtained.
Stanley is not yet out of the wilds of
Africa, and his nearest approach to civ
ilized companionship is a oomfortable
hob-nobbing with his old friend Tippoo
Tib. But over in Eng’and Stanley’s
agent is going the rounds making ap
pointments for the explorer in next sea
son’s lecture field. This, observes the
Comm rciai Advertiser, is what a New
York produce exchange man would call
Speculating in futures.
b Can wife her husbaad for pin
a sue
Jjioncy, which subsequently to the mar
riage he contracted to pay her? This
–ery question came up in Iowa Court,
and was decided in the negative on tho
ground that such contracts, requiring a
ifegal investigation of family affairs,
would be productive of great evils. It
seems to follow that in Iowa, if a wife
wants to make sure of pin money, she
must have it specified in an ante-nup
tial contract.
The shipbuilders la Great Britain
have never been so busy as they are at
present, and they are so hard pressed
that many of them are absolutely refus
ing all orders for new vessels. The
Clyde shipbuilders have some 150 ves
sels of an aggregate tonnage of 300,000,
on hand, and yet the output of new
work during the past few weeks has
been considerably less than the contracts
secured. Ou the Mersey the same state
of affairs exists, aud from Stockton it is
reported that the good old times when
a beggar on Tees-side was almost as
rare as a rainbow arc rapidly returning.
Oa the banks of the Tyne there are 80
vessels building, while at Bunderland
on-the-Wear some sixty or seventy are
in course of construction. The most
jignifieant fact about this remarkable re
rival in tho shipbuilding industry is
Ihe large number of vessels building f or
foreign countries. There are at the
present time on tho stocks in
Britain ships representing 80,000 tons
for Germany, 17,000 for Portugal,
J00 each for France, Norway and the
British colonies, 9,000 for South Amer
ica and 7,000 for Belgium.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SO UTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
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The fsx returns of Fultoncounty, Ga.,
f or 1889, show an increase of $5,000,000
over 1888.
A fatal disease is reported as prevail
mg among horses at Montgomery, Ala.,
and vicinity. It is called “Albuminaria.”
At a me c'tino-of capitalists in Charlotte,
N. ’ Thursday night, it was decided to
ii p cotton oil refinery at once. It
ill b a located e ther in Charleston or
Columbia, S. C.
______________ tlic great tunnel „t
Cumberland Gap, which unites the states
of Kentucky and Tennessee with Vir
ginia, was knocked in at 6 o’clock
Thursday afternoon, with appropriate
ceremonies,
J. F. ghillis, who opened a music
store in Birmingham as’ Ain -i few weeks
ago, went in debt deep as he could
and skipped. His shop is in the hands
of the sheriff under attachments sworn
out by numerous creditors.
The r. n steamer , Annie, . . an excursion . boat ,
running between Mobile, Ala., and the
eastern shore of Mobile bay, was burned
Tuesday morning at her wharf at Point
f ear -^, J be ^ l<; 19 believed to have been
In the focal option election at Rome,
Ga., on Tuesday, the anti-prohibitionists
wcr« successful b, uesrly six hundred
majority. The contest was very bitter
and exciting and great interest was
manifested as to the result. Ihe prohi
bitionists will contest the election on the
ground of illegal voting.
J* Wade R J Purcell, ow between at Mount Andy Vernon, Baker ky„ and
Monday morning, Constable Proctor at
temptvd lo arrest Purcell when the latter
filed at Proctor. The ball took effect in
the back part of the neck and ranging
downward. Proctor fired a shot into
Purcell’s bowels. Pioctor is badly
wounded and Purcell will die.
Reports from the rice distric ts of North
Carolina says: The rice crop is later
than usual, fully two weeks behind.
The fields are full of water and the riv
ers continued are uncomfortably full also. The
rains have greatly alarmed the
planters. there Unless the rains soon cease,
will almost certainly be an over
flow of the rivers and a consequent de
struction of the rice crops.
A commission was issued from the Sec
retary of State’s office', at Anderson, S.
C., on Wednesday, for the Anderson
Warehouse Manufacturing Company.
The capital of the company is to be
$2,000. with the light of increase to
$100,000. Its purposes are the erection
Hnd maintenance of warehouses,the man
ufacture and compressing of cotton, and
the sawing of lumber.
Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed
post-master and Col. A. E. Buck, a
prominent republican leader, were burn
ed in effigy at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday
night. The burning was the result of
tho appointment, by Postmaster Lewis,
of a colored man to a position in the
office registry department of the Atlanta post
to work in the same room with a
young lady, daughter of the super-
Messrs. Rathbono – Beidler, two
Western lumbermen, who visited
Charleston, S. C., recently with a view
to investing in timber lands, re
turned to Chicago, carrying w.th them,
it is said, the titles to twenty thousand
acres of land, all lying along the Suntee
River, near the confluence of the Conga
ree and Wateree rivers. They are wooded
lands, and contain some of the finest cy
press timber in the country.
A circular letter was received Tuesday
by the Charleston, S. C., News and Cou
rier from the D. A. Tompkins Company,
of Churlotte, N. C., stating that a meet
ing would be held in Charlotte imme
diately, composed of the representatives
of the independent cotton seed oil mills
in North and South Carolina and Geor
gia, the object Charlotte being to secure the es
tablishment at of the proposed
Cotton Oil Refinery.
Information was received Sunday from
the sheriff of Bolivar county, Miss., that
Weissingei who killed the editor at
Rosedale, and who had escaped, took
refuge at Concordia, where, surrounded
by friends,he defied arrest. The sherifl
was powerless and said that an effort to
arrest the fugitive would most probably
result in bloodshed. Governor Lowery
replied that the sheriff should make the
effort to capture Weissiuger and if una
ble to do this, to call for troops.
Chancellor Gibson, of the state court at
Knoxville, Tenn., on Tuesday, ordered
tho sale of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railway if certain claims,
amounting sixty days. to Claims $33,000. be not paid within
were for damages
and debts due before the road went into
the hands of a receiver in 1882. The
pit-sent owners hold title from the special
master of the United States court, aud
claim full title and exemption from all
previous indebtedness. The case will be
appealed.
A dispatch received Tuesday from
Birmingham, Ala., says: A man sup
posed to be Dick Tate, the defaulting
state treasurer of Kentucky, has beeu
unvoted at Seottsboro, Ala. When ar
rested he gave the name of F. Living
stone, but refused absolutely to talk
further. The arrest was make by E. T.
Blackwell, of South Pittsburgh, Term.,
and John Davis, of California, both pro
fessional detectives. Th man’s appear
ance corresponds with the pictures and
descriptions of Tate,
A party under of representative of Major Georgia Gless
farmers, charge
ner, commissioner of immigration, will
leave Atlanta, Ga., on August 31st, and J
will spend two weeks in visiting state |
and district fairs, experimental farms,
agricultural colleges, stock, d iry and
fruit farms of the northwest. They will ;
also investigate the products, methods !
and machinery of that section, that they t
may compare them with theirs and adopt the
such of them as are adapted to
Southern States.
A dispatch the from Tuscaloosa, Ala., rc
ports mysterious death at noon Mon
day of Arthur Fitts, superintendent of
the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, and son of
J. Fitts, a prominent banker. He was
seen last walking back and forth on the
grounds of the mill 9 , and finally Uisap-
1 pcared under an old building. A pistol
Jot wag Wa and nn eranluyo foun^
1 Fitts lying oa u tfionnd u 1.11 an ugly
I wound behind his right ear, and the pis
j wltb °ne chamber empty at hjs feet,
! There is nothing to determine whether it
1 “ Regarding * the sea or island mur^r. Cotton crop,
a dispatch from Gainesville, Fla., says:
“Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
liave slightly increased the acreage,
j Present condition: Plant lame, and
With ary won tner me yieia promises
be greater than that of last year, although
the excessive rainfall, which has extended
j through all tWp nf thp crop' Sratos has des
! troyed the bottom in Florida.
Caterpillars ] have appeared on Edisto
an( Helena islands and the chances
damage,* Mth^glTt hly
particular harm up to the present time.”
For scvcrnl (laJS , last there hare bco „
rumors to the effect that a new ferry line
between Charleston and Sullivan’s Island
direct was to be started at tnce. The
j report Charleston was that there were parties in
: who owned a steamboat cao
able of carrying from 120 to 200 people
and who were anxious to get it employed
in some kind of work. It is said that
Ihe owners made a proposition to run the
steamer between Charleston and Sulli
van’s Island, making a trip from the city
every hour during the day from 7 a. m.
till 10.30 p. m., with extra night trips
after the last named hour, as occasion
,mieht domand, for the sum of $75 pel
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THEY WANT ALL OF THEM *
ENGLISH CAPITALISTS SEEKINO TO BUY
OUT AMERICAN COTCON INDUSTRIES.
A letter, mailed in New York Satur
day, addressed to the president and board
of directors of every cotton mill in Fall
River, Mass., says: ‘•Gentlemen: It is
our desire to secure control of the entire
cotton River and manufacturing elsewhere, property in Fall
and we address you
for the purpose of obtaining your views
as to the probability of your share
holders, or a majority, being willing to
•ell or poll their stock on a basis of mu
tual advantage. We are pleased to in
form you that the Central Trust Com
pany of New York, has consented to act
as trustee in behalf of both parties,
Should the matter meet with your favor
able consideration, we will confer with
you personally in regard to details. Very
respectfully, George F. MelleD, Emerson
0. McMillan, H. B. Wilson, Committee.’’
The syndicate, which has been formed,
represents and that principally foreign capital,
is already the amount subscribed
more than sufficient to buy the cotton
industry of America. 'lhis is really
what is aimed at, and the operations will
®ot be confined to Fail River, but extend
to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and
the best mills in the country. The Fall
River mills have a capital exceeding
$80,000,000, $30,000,000 and an investment probably
of or more. Just how the
negotiations will b# instituted will in
terest by outsiders, as these mills are owned
thousands of stockholders. The di
rectors have power to sell the mills, and,
beyond a few hundred shares probably,
little stock could be bought at anything
like the prevailing prices.
A CHILD’S BONES
FOUND UNDER TUE HEARTH OF A MAN’S
HOUSE AFTER EIGHT YEARS’ 6F.ARCII.
Dave Btllew and wife were arrested
den’s Wednesday, in a secluded part of Wal
Chattanooga, Ridge, about twenty-five miles from
H. De Tenn., by Detective W.
Officer aver, T. J. of Asheville, N. C., and
haring murdered Howard, on a charge of
child Asheville, their five-year-old
In September, near 1881, eight years ago.
Bellew and his wife
lived near Asheville, N. C., and they
annouuct j d that their five-year-old child
had mysteriously disappeared. Armed
men searched the country round about
for months with no success. Iu the
spring following Bellew left and went to
Texas. Bellew had built aud owned the
house in which he lived at Asheville,
and sold his place ou leaving. A short
time ago, having to make some improve
ments, the hearth in the sitting room of
the cottage was torn up, and the bones,
together ify with clothing enough to ident
the body of the lost child, were dis
covered.
PINE STRAW BAGGING.
Capitalists are at Wilmington, N. C.,
for the purpose of incorporating the
American Fine Fibre company, with
ample capital to produce pine fibre bag
ging for covering cotton bales on a very
large scale. Great improvements have
beeu made of late in this new industry,
and the promoters are now shipping pine
bagging daily into various sections of the
cotton belt for the purpose of introduc
ing the new product, which, it is
claimed, will solve the bagging question
lor ihe cotton planters of the South, and
relieve tnem of the exactions of the jute
combination.
GENERAL iNEVYS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS ntOM EVERYWEEBE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The Connellsville, Pa., coke stake .
is
spreading, and the strike will be general
In a few days.
The national editorial association _ will
hold its next session in Detroit, on the
27th of August.
The Centralia Cotton mill, at Provi
dence, R. I., was gutted by fire WedneS
day. Damage $35,000.
The ghah of Persia has presented
President Carnot, of France, with his
p iclure set. with Virilliants.
lhrec yomg men „ er e drowned near
n Franc i sc0t Monday, by'being washed
f rom a ro ck by a large wave.
The strike in the Connellsville, Pa.,
WednesdT . and1.40?K.UU* . un ^ e ceueral on
Cardinal Gibbons Gibbons has has b^en b^ep summoned spm
.
j important papers from irom BoS itome.
Frank Collom, the Minneapolis forger,
was refused bail Thursday. He had re
. cently bought $100,000 life insurance.
1 Mrs President rresiacni na Ha rison risou was wassummuucu summoned
! j teVIfr^ScottLo^d L ’ who^s 1 ver^illat J *
The constitutional convention of Da
| kpta distributed fixed the the public capital institutions at Bismarck, among and
| j the^prluc.pal The Cincinnati towns saloon in the new keepers state. who
recently defied the law appeared in
| court, and through counsel, asked for
fitness. The courts dismissed the
1 sults -
j Sheriff O., E has C been Swain, found of to be Paulding short
county, in
his accounts to the amount of something
over $2,000, and his bondsmen asked to
be released.
j Gen. Boulanger hich° has issued a declara
j tj on j a w he says the accusations
aga i us t him are infamous slanders, and
h e re ]j C3 oa the French people as
so j e judge.
According to the latest statistics care
fully compiled by the board of injury, at
Johnstown, Pa., Wednesday, the num
her of iiyes lost in the devastated district
was about six thousand.
The hirrh court of the order of Forest
has granted the demand of the loyal
courts of America to establish a sub
sidiary hi<di court in that country
^ , ^ oll!81on ,,.7 °ceurred the .. Richmond ,
on „
– „ f Nichols
and Scottsville, \ lrginia, resulting in the
w r ^ ckl “g of two engines, and the killing
of ( - onductor J ames Duval.
It; is re ported that prisoners confined
in Fort Sau J,inn de Alloa, at Vera
thm, N. M., revolted against the offi
muls- Troops on duty at the fort shot
twenty of the prisoners and quelled the
uprising.
The Dubiiif court has refused the ap
plication of a writ of habeas corpus in
the case of Charles Conybeare, member
of parliament,who was sentenced to three
months imprisonment for conspiring to
oppose the law.
The Topeka (Kansas) Sugar works. + he
largest in the state, located four miles
west of Topeka, were almost totally
burned Tuesday morning. The loss is
estimated at $70,000; insurance $40,000.
The entire plant cost $114,000 a’year
ago.
It is reported that the wool firm of
Brown, Stees – Clark, of Boston, Mass.,
is financially embarrassed. The firm is
composed of Gideon P. Brown, who is
treasurer of the Biverside and Oswego
Mill company, Edward Stees and Amaza
Clark.
The French heirs of Stephen Giiard
are about to bring suit in Uhiladelphia
for the recovery of $13,000,000 worth of
property. They claim that the trustees
have violated the provisions of the will,
A part of the property in dispute consists
of 208,000 acres of land iu Louisana.
At Piinceton, Ky., Tuesday evening,
John Hutchison shot and fatally
wounded two brothers, George and Al
bert Lewis. One of Hutchison’s stray
shots struck Frank Dunn, inflicting a
fatal wound. Ail the parties were farm
ers of considerable prominence.
The coke firms, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
of Schoonraak'r – Co , McClure – Co.
and Cochran – Co., three of the largest
outside of the Flick company, advanced
the wages of theii employes six and a
quarter cents per ton. The strikers de
manded uniform wages, and will proba
bly accept the increase offered.
The Chicago Evening Journal reports
an estimate of 150 to 175 cases of typhoid
fever on Cottage Grove avenue between
Thirty-fifth and Forty sixth streets. The
epidemic is attributed to the pollution
of city water caused by the recent heavy
rains carrying sewerage out to the source
of supply iu the lake.
The Gentiles of Salt Lake City, Utah,
are greatly elated over the result of
Tuesday’s election. The vote gave them
a majority of 41 in the city, which it is
clunned insures a Gentile city govern
ment elected next February. Six Gentiles were
to the house of representatives
and to the council, giving them eight
out of 36 members.
Fire broke out in the book store of
Benrer, Batgley – Co., in the Trentman
block at Fort Wayne, Ind., Thursday
evening. The stock was an entire loss,
reaching $40,000. Stern, Mautner –
Fredlick, clothing, on stock, $15,000:
Louis Wolfe – Co., druggists, damage
to stock by water, $20,000. All losses
fully covered by insurance.
A mob of strikers assaulted a number
of Hungarians who returned to work at
the Carrie Blast furnace, near Pittsburu
Pa., Wednesday morning and dro?e
them away. One of the Hungarians was
beaten so badly that he will probably
die. A sheriffs posse then interfered
and in a free fight that followed, Deputy
Sheriff Sweeny was probably fatally
shot. The strikers were finally driven
off.
The finding of the dead bodies of Olli?
Jones, his wife and two otticr persons
was reported Thursday from Corvallis, a r
small town in ltter Koot \ alley, j n
western Montana. A young girl who had
been shot in the hip was also found on
Rig Gole mouutain. All of the dead had
been shot in the l ack. No further cf?
tails comd be obtained as .Corvallis
without telegraphic facilities. Jones
»as married three weeks ago and
a 0 18 rftuc le *
Notwithstanding that favorable -1
ports are still sent out from the re
beatb Johnstown, Pa., board of
deal there doc! j 8 a
f eat f ^ckness there. The
; 0!S are 80 bus J they cannot attend
to ctdls upon them. Typhoid fever
malar!al fcver ’ and a geSuinf
case of scurvey were reported to the
Red Cross hospital durine the oast two
weeks. The case of scurvy was caused
by salt pork diet which the contractors'
men has to subsist on.
The juiy in the case of Mrs. Maybriek,'
who has been on trial at Liverpool, Eng.
land, for the murder of her husband
brought in a verdict of guilty on Wednes
day. ® Mw. ( ‘ jwas ' ' tbereupoa ^ aea.
, ,.
« 1 intense J;® e ®’ and thousands waited the
^ riutehom court and how ed
JjT^Jsnnt he ar) p. Rr ,d frenneJ Hoodna
and there were
cr j e8 0 f “Shame!” The crowd threat
ened the t0 attack interft;re the judge J - s carriag but
lice d . steps are being
t n s tav ‘" the exerution ’ furthpr mpii
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TROUBLE IN M’RAE, GA.
ONifi MAN KILLED AND TWO OTHERS SE
VERELY AVUTTNDED.
Saturday night wa3 a tragic evening in
tbe town of McRae, Ga. One of her citi
zens abdomen, bleeding from a severe stab in the
another lying stiff in death
from a pistol shot through the bowels,
and 8tiU another deeding from a shot in
f b ei“g ? le *'. dls Jr WWe ib uted the a disturbance evening mail arose w« in
J he P? stofilce between Mr. Wash Lanca#.
ter, ms two sons, Wright and John, and
a young man named Clark. The result
wa8 that Clark was beaten pretty badly.
Clark was taken out of town, and all
thought the matter was ended. But few
minutes had elapsed when every one wa<
startled by the rapid firing of pistols,
Six of Talfair’s prominent citizens
defied each other with but a few
feet of dirt intervening — three Lan
casters, father and two sons on the om
side, and the three McRaes, Edward,
John and Frank, two brothers and t
cousin on the other. When the cloud ol
smoke had cleared away it was found
that Mr. Ed McRae had been seriously
cu t i Q the left side, and that Mr. Wash
Lancaster had been shot in the abdomen
and bis son Wright in the leg. Then
are section ?° more of the prominent families in thii
country than the Lancas
tors or McRaes. Each have held officel
^ trust and honor in this county, and
dee P ” the re ff ret on evei 7 side that thif
tragedy occurred,
A TRAIN HELD UP
WHILE ROBBERS COLLECT EXORBITANT
FARE AT THE MUZZLE OF REVOLVERS.
The Rio Grande western train No. 3,
known as Modcre, was held up near Cre
vasse, Col., Tuesday night, by train
robbers. Two of them boarded the bag
S climbed a g e ca r at Thompson Springs. revol- They
ov*r the engine, pointed
vers at the heads of the engineer aud
fireman, train. and compelled them to stop the
They forced the fireman to at
tempt to chop through the door of the
e *P r ®“ car > aild m « d e the engineer bring
a ba ? to hold the leader. Messenger
" dds was rea dy w ith a magazine shot
§ un and tw0 self-cocking revolvers. The
kr <; Dia a waa unable to chop through the
boiler-iron door, so the robbers fired a
d( shots through the car. Messenger
Willis lay on the floor and was not hurt.
They gave this up and joined two other
robbers back in the other car. Four
went drawn, through the train with their hundred revol
vers and gathered nine
dollars and twenty watches. A posse
and two deputy United States maishals
went out Wednesday morning from Salt
Lake with blood hounds in persuitofthe
robbers.
RICH LAND COMPANIES.
THE STOCKHOLDERS OF TnE ELYTON LAND
COMPANY REFUSE TO SELL OUT.
The stockholders of the Elyton Land
Company Tuesday, met in Birmingham, Ala., saleo! on
and refused to ratify the
the company’s property to the Binning 1
ham Land company for $3,560,000. July
13 tho directors of the Elyton Land
company gave the men who were ar
ranging the consolidation of all the land
companies iu the city an option on the
company’s property for $3,500,000, the
option subject to the action decided of the
stockholders. The stockholders
the price was too low, and refused to ac
cept it. This action will cause a reor
ganization of the Birmingham Land
company, but the consolidation will g°
through, all the companies in absorbed. the city
except tho Elyton being
This will give the city the two richest
land companies in tho United States.