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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. --- 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.