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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. _____ 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. ! fcr 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. _ 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 Wee ^‘ 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 - , i. . j r 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.