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Sclley Cony News.
—FWBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT—
ELLAYILLE, GEORGIA.
Idaho and Wyoming are crying for
admission to the Union.
Chicago now claims to cover more
ground than any other city in the
Union.
Higher rates and an increasing de
mand for money are reported all over
the West.
Dr. Felix Oswald, writing in the
North American Review, predicts that in
the near future arbor festivals will be
too popular to be limited to a single
day in the year.
Fifteen per cent, of the deaths in a
commune in Normandy, are due to
cancer of the stomach, a fact which has
Sonvinced the doctors that the disease
Is contagious, and is propagated by
Water.
Every once in a while something comes
|p that seems to justify the famous re
mark of the Euglish engineer that coal
WoHld never be cheap until it
became four times as dear, since
only then would a cheap substitute be
invented.
The city of Buffalo, N. Y-, has now
tho distinction of possessing more as
phalt pavemonts than any city in the
world, the area of asphalt here being
1,000,248 square yards, extending ove r
a length of fifty-one miles, oi more than
the combined area of all the asphalt
roadways in Europe.
It is said that Cullman County, Ala.,
is the only level, arable and fertile tract
of land in the Southern States in which
there are virtually no colored peope.
In a census population of more than
15,000, including an area of over 1,500
square miles, there are only fourteen
colored people.
Congress appropriates only $10,000
for the preservation of the forests of the
nation, while it is estimated that $6,
000,000 worth of lumber is year.y
stolen from the public domain. The
value of the wood consumed in the
United States each year is estimated at
$60,000,000,000.
The Duke of Portland >s said to have
been registered in the black book of the
English royal family. It is rumored
that he was given a broad hint concern
ing his desirability as suitor for tho
hand of the Princess Louise, now be
trothed to the Earl of Fife, but having
the unenviable career of the Mvrquis of
Lome before him, he was not to be
laught. Hence bis decline in royal
*avor, and the slighting of his bride.
The dullest city iu North America has
ifceen discovered at last, announces the
Chicago News. It is not St. Louis, as
arnst people had supposed, but Victoria,
British Columbia, A letter written
from there contains the following:
4 ‘Business men come down to their of
fices here at 1 p. m. and leave at 4 p.
m. After that hour the town is com
pletely deserted. I thought Alexan
dria, Va., was dead, but it is positively
gay iu comparison with this place.
There grass grows in the streets, but
here crops mature in the thoroughfares.”
The Atlanta Constitution says:
“Pretty Mrs. Maybrick, the charming
eoutherner, who is to be tried at Liver
pool for poisoning her husband, has
captured the hearts of the cold-blooded
Britons. The statement is made iu the
New York Star that Mrs. Maybrick’s
lawyers have received seven letters from
men who are willing to marry the lady
in the event of her acquittal, One is
from a minister in Scotland, a man of
high family. The Star says that this
instance recalls tho case of Madeline
Smith, the heroine of the famous Scotch
poisoning case thirty years ago. She
itas asked by twenty-seven men to
Tfcarry them if she was acquitted. She
pas found not guilty and married a
flergyman, and has been a happy woman
^cr since. Just why perfect strangers
liiould fall in love with these alleged
Borgias is a mystery. So far as Mrs.
jiaybriclc is concerned, it is only just to
■Jay that the evidence against her is by
no means conclusive. Still, her sudden
popularity is rather surprising.”
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STP.IKE3,
I IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
A hurricane raged at the port of Bue
damage nos Ayres Saturday, which did great
to shipping.
The town of Dubno, Russia, was de
stroyed by fire Monday. The loss is
enormous.
The manufacturers of window' glass,
table glass and crockery have formed a
“tiust.”
An earthquake was experienced on the
Russian frontier Tuesday. In the village
of Khenzorik 129 persons were buried
alive.
Emperor William, of Germany, has
presented his portrait to Lord Salisbury
as a souvenir of his recent visit to Eng
land.
The barbers’ national convention, called
to meet in Pittsburg, Pa., next Tuesday,
has been indefinitely postponed, The
purpose of the meeting was to organize
a national union,
The fine passenger steamer, Common
wealth , . was , burned to the , water’s , , edge ,
in less than three-quarters of an hour at
Cincinnati, loss Ohio Sunday night. Ihe
is about $30,000.
The schedule showing liabilities of the
insolvent wool firm of Brown, Steese –
Clark, of Boston, Mass., was filed in tho
It insolvency court on Monday morning,
shows liabilities of $1,180,000.
A combination of eastern capitalists
has formed to buy all the coal lands
along the Monongahela River, including
franchises, landing, boats, good will,
etc., and control the river coal busiuess.
The German police have unearthed a
socialist society whose organization ex
tends throughout the province of Gali
cia. Many lawyers, students and ladies
connected with the society have been
arrested.
The jury of the Paris exposition recom
mends that a gold medal be awarded to
Boston for its educational exhibits. Sim
ilar recemmendations have been made in
favor of Carroll university, and the Uni
versity of Virginia.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez
zlement in bis office, shows that the
shortage amounts to $6,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
ters Tuesday evening a bomb, ten centime
in diameter, was thrown from the
rear of the chamber of deputies into the
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of a conceit. The bomb ex
ploded, wounding seriously six gen
darmes and a child.
Dispatches from Egypt say that famine
prevails at Khartoom, Kassala, Tokar
and other river towns. The survivors
are said to be feeding upon the bodies of
tbe dead. About twenty deaths from
starvation daily are reported at Tokar.
John S. Mackintosh, wool puller of
Milton, Mass., assigned on Tuesday.
His liabilities are estimated to be in the
neighborhood of $100,000. The assign
ment was caused by the embarrassment
of Brown, Steese – Clark, and George
Holds.
The shoo factory of A. Coburn, Son –
Co., at Hopkinsou, Mass., was burned
Tuesday morning. Over three hundred
workmen are deprived of employment.
One store house attached to the factory
was also destroyed, The loss is esti
mated at $250,000, fully insured.
the At Chicago, II. J. Huiskamp, one of
proprietors of the Times, procured
warrants his Tuesday for James J. West and
secretary, Charles F. Graham. He
charges them with illegally issuing 1,000
shares of the stock of the Times com
pauy.
It is reported from St. Louis that the
fast mail train which arrived iu that city
Saturday night over the Vandalia Road,
was iobbed at Terie Ilaute, Indiana,
while the mail clerks and train hands
were at supper. It is said that one
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was supposed to
contain about
The J. H. Mahler company, of St.
Paul, Miun., one of the largest carriage
and wagon houses in the West, made a
voluntary assignment Saturday, The
statement of assets and liabilities has not
yet been filed, but from the magnitude
of the company’s operations, the liabili
ties will probably not fall short of $500,
000 .
The Sterne Chittenden building, at )
Columbus, O., was burned Sunday,
The principal losers are Candy Bros.,
restauranteurs, $15,000; A. N. Hill <fc
Co., Wall clothing, $9,000; Patterson Merrill
Paper Co., $15,000; Theo.
haber, hatter, $8,000, building, $45,000;
Sterne Chittenden's heirs $15,000, and
several others $2,000 or less.
The trial of the six men, Burke, Wood
ruff, Coughlin, Beggs, O’Sullivan and
Knnze, charged with the murder of Dr.
Cronin, on May 4th, was begun at Chi
cago, on Tuesday. Probably no case in
the history of the city has attracted such
wide-spread attention as the Cronin
murder case, and the trial will be
watched with great interest.
The spring lake reservoir, near Fisk
ville, in the southwest corner of Crans
ton, about fifteen miles from Providence,
R. I., which supplies the whole row of
mill villages along Pawtucket River,
buist Sunday afternoon. Three persons
were drowned, and some damage done to
property. The reservoir covered eigh
teen acres and contained about 35,000,
000 gallons of water.
The immense packing hou«e of Swift
– Co., at Kansas City, was almost de
stroyed by fire on Sunday. During the
tire Master Mechanic Tate fell from the
roof of the building while attempting to
descend by a rope, and was instantly
killed. The total loss on the building,
machinery and stock is placed at $150,
000, with $100,000 insurance, placed
with forty-two companies.
Margaret W. Yapp, of White Bear,
Minn., brought suit iu the district court
at St. Paul, on Saturday, against the St.
Paul Globe for $10,000 damages for libel.
The alleged libelous articles are two tel
egrams printed in the Globe on August
10 and 19, headed “Mrs. Yapp swore
falsely,” spectively. and “Unworthy of belief,” re
Both articles accuse Mis.
Yapp of being guilty of perjury.
The entire plant of the Union Fur
nace company, of Rockford, Ill., was
wiped out of existence Monday night by
the most disastrous tire that ever oc
curred in that vicinity. It broke out in
tbe fini-hing room, and in three hours
the buildings, two large four story
structures, were in aslies. Not a thing
was saved. The company will lose
nearly $100,000, on which there is only
$40,000 insurance.
It was announced Wednesday that H.
C Frick – Co., the largest coal operator
of the Conncllsville, Pa., regdon, tm l *e
cured control of the J. M. Slioomn ker
coke plant whic h includes 5,000 aero* ot
coal land> 1 500 coke oveM !Uld 400 c.uk.
Ting will give Frick – Co., control ol
over 9,000 coke ovens in that region,
Begining with Monday the selling
price of coal will be advanced from $1 to
$1.35 to furnace men, $1.50 to dealers
and $1.65 to foundry men.
After being shut down for sixteen
years, the Ironton Pig Iron works, with
a day,located capacity of 1,200 tons of pig iron per
a few miles north of Buffalo,
N. Y.* on the Niagara river, was started
up who on have Wednesday by Cincinnati parties,
leased the plant for five years,
with the privilege of purchase. The re
newal of this enterprise, which originally
cost half a million of dollars, has created
much enthusiasm in manufacturing cir
cles iu
Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, tele
graphed General Manager Devlin on
Monday to discharge all employes of the
Spring Valley coal company at Spring
Valley, Ill., who were not absolutely
needed to run the mine, and to prepare
for a general shut down for six months
or a year. This means a practical de
population of the town. Manv_ of the
miners have already left. The Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad has closed
down its Spring Valley branch, and dis
line. charged all the men at their end of the
by People residing in the section bounded
Parish, Brown, West ^College avenue
and Twenty-eighth streets Philadelphia,
Pa., were afraid to retire Monday night
for fear that their dwellings would be
swallowed up and that they would be
killed. A succession of the most start
ling cave in of streets, breaking of
sewers, and bursting of water pipes,
reigned in that district on Monday as a
result of the recent rains. It is estima
ted that $100,000 worth of damage has
been caused thus far.
The great strike in London, which
was gaining inaugurated several days ago, is
new adherents hourly. Eight
thousand sailors and fireman and two
thousand five hundred dockmen at the
Isle of Dogs, where several large docks
are located, have gone out. The author
ities are holding military in readiness to
suppress an outbreak should it occur.
The coal porters at Kings Cross have
also joined in the strike. A conference
took place on Monday between the dock
managers and delegates from the striking
laborers, but it was without result.
The statement of the business of the
Norfolk and Western Railroad company
for July, 1889, as compared with the
same mouth last year, shows the gross
earnings $50,444; to be $457,530, an increase of
expenses, $279,522, an increase
of $28, 142: net earnings, $178,208, an
increase of $22,302. For the seven
months ended July 31st the gross earn
ings were $2,985,424, an increase of
$254,163, as compared with the corres
ponding period of 1888; expenses, $1,
925,660, an increase of $252,400; net
earnings, $1,599,764, an increase of
$1,764.
The case of Deputy Marshal David
Nagle, who shot and killed David S.
Terry, was taken up in the United States
circuit court at Sau Francisco on
Wednesday, for the purpose of fixing the
time for taking testimony and hearing
arguments on the question of jurisdiction
of the federal court. Mr. Turner, one of
the attorneys representing the state, au
nouneed that as both his colleagues had
retired from the case, he would follow
their . example. This leaves the
state
without counsel m _ the Nagle case. The
Bearing was postponed until next week.
a CHINAMAN IN TROUBLE.
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THE CHINESE CONSUL GENERAL AT SAN
FRANCISCO TO ACCOUNT FOR $300,000.
The San Francisco Chronicle states that
Chiang Tseng, Chinese consul-general
stationed iu that city, is to be made de
fendant in a suit for accounting in tbe
United States court there, on complaint of
Moy Bock King, contractor, from Port
land, Oregon. The consul-general had
charge of the distribution of the mon
eys paid by the United States govern
ment to recompense the sufferers by the
recent fires at Rock Spring, Seattle,
Urkn, Truckee, Redding and other
claimed points, that amounting to $490,000. It is
the unexpended balance of
$300,000 is unaccounted for, and that the
f acts have been laid before the emperor
of China.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Theodore Carant, the c
violinist, dropped dead S >% w
Orleans.
A carpenter’s strike is in progress in
Birmingham, Ala. No prospects for a
settlement are at present in sight.
Tuesday. Grauny Boston died at Murphy, N.C.,
She was one hundred and
twenty-one years old, a pensioner, and
remembered the battle of Kings moun
tain.
The Merchant and Viticulturist , news
paper, California estimates will that the wine product of
not exceed 12,000,000
gallons this year. This is a reduction of
8,000,000 gallons from early estimates.
lawyer Alphonse V. Phillips, a prominent
and notary public, of New Or
leans, went to Colorado about two
months ago. It has been ascertained
that he has squandered $100,000 of other
people’s money.
The Georgia legislature passed the
Western – Atlantic railroad lease bill on
the AVednesday by a vote of 130 to 19. By
provisions of the bill the road is
to be leased without restrictions of any
sort.
William McClosky, Catholic bishop of
the Louisville diocese, has ordered the
closing of St. Joseph’s college at Bards
town, Ivy. The reason is that a faculty,
such as was desired, could not be made
up for the ensuing year.
One drug house in Vicksburg, Miss.,
received orders for fifteen tons, or 30,00U
pounds of Paris green a few days ago.
This fact demonstrates the extent of the
apprehension felt by cotton planters
concerning the cotton worms in the large
area of country tributary to or trading
with that city.
A sharp shock of earthquake occurred
at Los Angeles, Cal., at 6:13 Tuesday
evening. The entire duration of the dis
turbance was about ten seconds. The
vibrations were of such force as to stop
clocks and crack ceilings. The shock
was the most severe experienced there in
many years.
The United States circuit court, at
San Francisco, was officially informed
Tuesday that the charges of murder
against Justice Stephen J. Field had
been dismissed by the Stockton court.
Judge Sawyer accordingly dismissed the
habeas corpus proceeding in the case of
Justice Field.
A joint stock company is being formed
at Tallulah, Ga., to build a $100,00G
hotel, to be located near the grand
chasm, north of the Blue Ridge and
Atlantic railroad,and an elevator will be
put down to the falls from the Grand
view park, thence a cable line narrow
gauge road will reach all the grand
points at Tallulah.
About one hundred negro miners left
Birmingham, Ala., ou Tuesday for Mex
ico. They go to work in the coal mines
in one of the interior states of that re
public. High wages and liberal induce
ments of various kinds are offered the
negroes. Most of the negro miners at
Birmingham the are ex-convicts, and learned
trade while serving their sentence.
Reports were received at Charleston,
S. C., from the Ashehoo rice fields, ou
Monday, by F. W. Wagener, E. B.
Means and other big planters, that har
vesting had been commenced. It is es
timated that the fkdds in that vicinity
will yield from fifty to sixty bushets per
acre. Reports from the entire rice re
gion of the state confirm this statement.
Little Mamie Parker, fourteen years
old, died Sunday afternoon at Nashville,
Tenn., from the effects of medicine ad
ministered to her by her little cousin,
Bessie Woods. They were playing doc
tor with each other, with Bessie pretend
ing to be the physician. She made her
little cousin take ten pills, which resulted
in her death in a short time.
The annual statement of the shipments
of watermelons from the melon region of
South Carolina is out. The area planted
is 8,000 acres and the shipments 1,880
car loads, or about three million melons
against 785 car loads last year, and 759
in 1887. Of these New York took 522;
Philadelphia 298; Baltimore 267, and
Boston 68 car loads.
A wholesale poisoning occurred at
Chattauooga, Tenn.,on Monday, through
the use of impure tainted meat. A col
ored woman named Wildham keeps a
boarding house, and has ten men board
ers. One hour after dinner, all the
boarders, including the woman and her
daughter, were taken violently ill, and
all have been unconscious since. The
girl and two of the boarders will die.
St. Augustine, Fla., was iu a fever of
excitement Wednesday, over the discov
ery of a hidden Spanish treasure in an old
house, corner of Bridge and Marine
streets. An old colored man dug up
near the foundation or the chimney fifty
two Spanish coins in a rusty metallic
pot about ten inches deep and two in
ches across the mouth. The coins are
very old, the latest being dated 1806,
and several of them antedating 1760.
Further developments arc awaited with
interest.
An unusual number of deaths by
drowning tho are reported from summer re
sorts ou Atlantic coast. Comment
ing limes on this fact the Trenton (N. J.)
says: “ There seems to be even
a larger quota than usual of smart
swimmers this season. The life-guards
men who go out to save them from
able drowning thereby risk much more valu
lives than tho ones they design to
rescue.”
REVIEW OF TRADE
FOU "WEEK ENDING AUGUST S4ta,
COMPILED BY DUN A 00.
view Following is R. G. Du n – Co »g
of trade for the week ending
gust 24. The monetarv pro-.sure
which so many warnings have been
operated during the week to modiiv
improvement in the general trade d“
excellent crop prospects. The 8USDei
sion of important bills, resulting Tro .
comes the recent just failures when of there commission hou*!
were bri^hh ?
prospects for manufacturers than
previous times in mild weather and
production last Winter. With UVI!r
sight, if the mills could orders
all liabilities could go on, it
soon be met but j 1
this be in fact, commercial it shows the extent’of pres.
sure money
From all quarters improvement in b U
ness is reported with fine prospers f
the Fall trade consequent 0 «
crops. At Chicago the upon larw
actual
tions are about equal to last year’s ij
clothing, a little larger in boots and shoes
and 18 per cent, larger in dry
The grocery trado improves at
points, excepting as to sugar, for
:lie demand has been much affected
the operations of the trust, and raw
Jo lorn r. Coffee is in better
–c higher, and the serious injury to
caused eastern potato crop by wet weather has
a sharp advance. Butter and
eggs are also higher, and cotton 3_ig c
for spoor, notwithstanding a decline of
|c in print cloths. Splendid crop pros
pccts begin to have their legitimate ef.
feet upon prices of breadstuff* and
visions. Hogs have declined this
20 cents per 100 pounds, lard 12
and pork half dollar per barrel.
and corn J cent each, latter with sales of
9,000,000 bushels, and wheat Las
cliued 1£ cents, with sales only 7$
lion bushels here. The
movement in wheat has been defeated
by liberal receipts from the farmer, and
when the farmers market freely early in
the season, the prospect for the Fall
trade is excellent, and monetary pressure
is not usually of long duration. The
iron and steel business appears still more
encouraging to most producers and deal
ers, and some furnaces have this week
been added to producing force. Happily
the foreign trade at present threatens no
decline, and while imports have
been 28 per cent, larger than in August
last year there has also been an increase
of 22 per cent, in exports from New
York. Business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun 4
Co. Mercantile agency, by telegraph,
number for the United* States 190, and
for Canada 16, or total of 206 as com
pared with total of 211 last week and 213
week previous to last. For the corre
sponding week of last year figures were
214, made up of 187 iu the United States
and 27 in Canada.
THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION,
GREAT PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOB
THE FORTHCOMING WORLD’S FAIR.
New York has certainly entered heart I
and soul into the preliminary arrange-1 exposi-1
ments for our great international
tion of 1892, and when this mighty city I
commits herself unreservedly to any en-1
terprise, the ultimate accomplishment of I
the undertaking is practically guaran*!
teed. Therefore, the history of Arnett I
ca’s forthcoming world’s fair may be I
phecy—success. epitomized in one Mayor word of Grant reliable is being pro- J I
congratulated by everybody upon the I
excellent judgment he has displayed in I
appointing the various committees. His I
wisdom in the discharge of that duty
reached its climax in his selection of the
finance committee. There probably
never was such a galaxy of millionaires
associated together on any one board of
management. The combined wealth of
the twenty-five men composing that
finance committee amounts to over!
$500,000,000 or an average of $20,000,
000 apiece. The following is extracted
from a report of the first meeting which
was held in the governor’s room in th»
city hall on Saturday: The committee
consists of twenty-five members, ap
pointed by the muyor, with the mayor
and the secretary of the general com
mittee members ex-ofticio. Of the
twenty-seven members, only seven were
absent. Mr. Havemeyer, Mr. O’Douo
hue, Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Mr.
Huntington are in Europe. Mr. Mills,
Mr. Jesup, Mr. shepherd and Mr. Van
derbilt were out of town, and could not
return in time for the meeting. Those
present were: William L. Bull, Presi
dent of the Stock Exchange; Calvin S.
Brice, August Belmont, Samuel D. Bab
cock, Robert Dunlap, Jay Gould, Henry
B. llydc, John H. Inman, Eugene Kelly,
Frederick A. Kurslioedt, John McKes
son, Herman Oelricns, Oswald Ottea
norfer, William Rockafeller, Charles
Stewart Smith, William Steinvvay, J*
Edward Simmons, Jesse Seligman, the
mayor and the secretary.
A PENITENTIARY BLAZE
One of the most exciting conflagra
tions that has visited Columbus, O., in
years, Tuesday occurred afternoon. at the Ohio penitentiary started
The flames
in the factory building occupied by the
Columbus chair company, and had made
great headway wheu discovered. Before
the flames could be got under control,
the chair factory, Columbus bolt works,
and a large warehouse were total wrecks.
The prisoners were locked in their cells,
but the lights had not been put out, and
great consternation prevailed. The
Chair company lose $15,000, bolt woiks
$4,000, Corner Brush company los*
$10,000, and the total loss will reach
$95,000.