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ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA.
German authorities are going to place
a commemorative tablet at the spot
where the first German soldier was killed
in the war of 1870.
Out of thirteen clergymen interviewed
In Cincinnati on the project of preaching
sermons for little children, twelve de
cidedly opposed it.
Austria is as cosmopolitan as the
United S ates. At the hotel in Sydney
the other week there were thirteen dif
ferent nationalities represented at one
table.
Five years hence there will hardly be
a place on this earth, declares the Chi
cago Herald , for the robber, murderer
or conspirator to set his foot and feel
safe. Treaties are being made in every
direction concerning them and their ex
tradition.
Dakota, Montana, aud Washington
Territory are as big as Great Br.tain,
the German Empire, the Netherlands
and Switzerland, all of which have 90,
000,000 population, while there are
only 1,000,000 people in the former
territories.
A “Guide to the Churches of Lon
don” shows that the number of metro
politan houses of worship lias increased
between 18S3 and 1889 from 928 to
1,016. Altar vestments are now the
rule in 59 chutches as against 37 in
18S.5, altar lights in 119 as against 04
in 1883, an l the “eastward position’’
in 396 as against 304 in 1883. In the
same period the number of churches in
which the communion is celebrated in
the evening lias decreased from 289 to
272.
Professor Orton. Ohio State geologist
has for years urge 1 ou the people the
need of using natural gas economically.
But, on the contrary, it has been wasted
so that not over one-twelfth has been
utilized and the rest allowed to escape,
A contemporary shows that over one
fourth of all tho gas consumed iu Pitts
burg factories is also wasted, either
through defective apparatus or the care
lessness of operatives. Ttm showing
would not be so bad if the supply were
inexhaustible; but already the pressure
is greatly diminished in the wells aud
not a few are entirely exhausted, Pro
fessor Orton believes the supply will ba
of comparatively short duration.
It is said that France under the re
public has male great progress in the
practice of popular education, but it
still is far from tho front rank. The
conscription returns for 1833 show that
10.3 of the army recruits could neither
read nor write. Iu the United States
barely tight per cent, of the native
white population above the age of ten
years is unable to write and read. Ia
18S8, the total appropriations from the
national, municipal and departmental
governments in France, answering to
our federal, state and city governments,
amounted to about $29,200,030 for
purposes of primary education. Iu the
same year the American expenditures
upon public schools amounted to $115,-
103,886.__
The New York Star says that “there
is a general desire to celebrate the 400 th
anniversary of the discovery of America
by a World’s Fair which will illustrate
the enormous progress America has
made in four centuries. There is no
serious dispute that it should be held in
this city, as the Metropolis of the new
Continent. It is a mere,' sentiment
which suggests the capital in lieu of tho
industrial and financial centre of tho
Nation, as the proper place. The pub
lic-spirited citizens of New York may
be relied upon to contribute handsome
ly. The commercial aud industrial in
terests centered here will see that all the
money necessary is forthcoming. The
city will undoubtedly make a largo ap
propriation. Tho General Government
may also be depended upon to aid the
exhibition handsomely. The questions
of the means to carry out such an enter
prise and of the general wish for such
an exhibition are, indeed, already an
swered.”
| Great Britain has $500,000,000 in
vested in our railways.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS;
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS
AND EXCITING EVENTS;
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES/
FIRES, AND HArPENINUS OF INTEREST.
ico. Heavy floods prevail at Tctecala, Jaex*
Several lives have been lost.
The Jewish schoolmasters of Odessa,
Russia, have been forbidden to teacb.
Shocks of earthquake were felt
day. throughout western France on Thurs
At Blackburn, England, 3,000 looms
have been stopped, owing to the depres
sion in trade.
The third bridge across the Ohio River
leading from Cincinnati into Kentucky,
was opened Monday for public travel.
The furnace of Peacock – Thomas, at
Lancaster, Pa., started up Wednesday
afternoon,after three months’ suspension.
L. S. Brooks’ bank at Lennox, Iowa,
has closed its doors, No one knows
anything of the affairs of the institution
yet.
The Protestant Alliance has resolved
strenuously to oppose the government’s
sity proposal to establish a Catholic Univer
in Ireland.
The thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
morning. Cheyenne, A severe frost is reported at
Wyoming.
Pottstown, Pa., iron company, at
Pottstown, Pa., on Wednesday, an
nounced an increase in the wages of pud
dlers from $3.25 to $3.50 per ton.
Lord Scotland will be sworn in as
lord lieutenant of Ireland on October
lst. lie will make his state entry into
Dubliu by December 3rd.
Serious iloOds prevail in the district
families surrounding Tampico, Mexico, Many
have taken refuge on the high
ground, their houses being flooded.
Ohio, Mrs.George died Coons,of Little Sandusky,
doctors on Wednesday of what the
pronounce Asiatic cholera. The
people there are greatly excited, and
matiy are leaving the village.
The Catholic cathedral at Harbor
Grace, N. F., was discovered to be oil
fire Monday morning, and was burned to
the ground. The loss is placed at $150,
000, on which there is no insurance.
The children of Mrs. Maybrick have
been adopted by a lady and gentleman of
London, with the approval of the rela
tives on both sides of the family. The
children will assume the name of their
foster parents.
An explosion occurred Thursday in the
iron stone pit of Maurice Wood Colliery,
Midlothean, Germany, which threatens
disastrous consequences, Two dead
bodies have already been recovered.
Sixty-two miners are entombed.
The convention for the improvement
of western waterways began its eighth
meeting at Cincinnati, on Wednesday,
there was a very large attendance from
river points from New Orleans to Pitts
burg and Cairo to Davenport, It was
estimated that fully 150 delegates were
present.
The North German Gazette maintains
that the London strike is closely cou
nee'.ed with the Socialist movement, and
asserts that the manifesto culling for a
general strike in London was telegraphed
to the Socialist paper, Volls Tribune ,two
days before it was issued in London.
At a conference of avindow glass man
ufacturers and representatives of the
Workers’ Association, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
on Wednesday, the manufacturers offered
to compromise by paying last year’s wa
ges. This was rejected, and negotiations
are now off, and a long and determined
struggle is anticipated.
The Anti-Alcohol Congress held at
Paris, France, passed a resolution to the
effect that the Governments of the world
ought to be asked to place prohibition
duties ou alcohol, and to exempt tea,
coffee, etc., from customs dues. Statis
tics show that the consumption of alco
hol doubled in France between 1875 and
1885.
Fire in Laird, Norton A Co.’s lumber
yard at Winona, Minn., on Thursday,
destroyed 22,000,000 feet of lumber,
7,000,000 shingles, a three-story brick
warehouse and contents, consisting of
doors, sash glass, etc., together with
sheds, tramways aud other property,
making a total loss of $314,000; insu
rance $175,000.
A meeting of importers of Florida
oranges was held at New York on Tues
day. The object of the meeting was to
form an association to unite with the
glowers and stop the consignment of
Florida oranges to irresponsible parties
who undersell legitimate dealers. Rep
rcsentatives were present from Philadel
Jacksonville, phia. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Boston and
Fla.
The first of the bear failures, which
has been expected on Wall street, New
York, to follow the recent advance in
be stock market, was announced Tues-
4ay. The operator who was forced to
the wall was T. B. Musgrave, of Mus
grave – Co. He was one of the most
prominent members of the stock ex
change, having been a member since
1869. His liJbili tics are estimated at
$ 100 , 000 .
The new employes of the Allegheny
Bessemer steel works, at Pittsburg, Pa.,
who took the place of the strikers last
spring, struck Monday against the new
scale presented by the firm. On Satur
day the firm offered a scale to the em
ployes, by the acceptance of which the
firm claimed more money could be made
by the workers. The scale was presented
the men, but they refused to accept it
and struck. About five hundred men are
out.
The Pratt Lumber company, at Little
Rock, Ark., has passed into the hands and of
a receiver. The company own op
erate five mills, and has done an immense
busiuess, though in the last year wrangle there
have been many losses. A
among the directors resulted in a receiv
ership, The liabilities are placed in the
neighborhood of $70,000, and assets are
about $120,000, five mills, a stock of
lumber, horses, mules and probably 5,000
acres of timber.
A GOOD REPORT
FROM R. 6. DUN * CO., FOR WEEK ENDING
AUGUST 31.
Following is a condensation of R. G.
Dun – Company’s review of trade for the
week ending Saturday, August 31:
“Business in all parts of the country
continues to improve with the stim
ulus of large crops. Chicago reports an
immense increase in the receipts of grain
and provisions, with a considerable gain
in the sales of dry goods and clothing.
Milwaukee finds trade improving; at
Detroit and St. £pul the previous im
proyemeht business Is is maintiinecl; at Omaha
very good. The iron business
js expanding, is and nottfd at in Philadelphia wool, groceries, an
improvement fron and anff and in
steel, their roducts,
coal, with a good trad in' drugs and
chemicals sales of wool and tobacco. larger, reaching A| Boston 2,100,- the
are
000 pounds for the week, and the dry
goods trade is large, with prices well
maintained, observed A heavy demand for export
is in leather, both sole and
splits,, kucfshoS and a good home demand, Well while
boot factories arc employed
at last year’s prices', r 5d large building
a
operations make the lumber trade more
active. The Tennessee Coal and Iron
company gives notice of an advance of
twenty-five cents in its prices for pig
irpn, Pittsburg and the insures rise in the price of coke at
some advance in pig
iron there, while bar, plate and structu
ral iron are in strong demand, and the
works better employed than they have
been before for several years. An in
crease of wages is reported at several es
tablishments, and the building of seve
ral more furnaoes. Exports from New
York for four weeks exceed last year’s
by nearly twenty-two per cent. Stocks
have advanced just $2.50 per share in the
week, and 1,200,000 shares have been
sold already at ri-ing prices. It is an
encouraging fact that the important
failures of receut weeks haye not pro
duced a large crop of minor disasters, by
many apprehended. The volume of
trade is still much above that of last
year, and clearings show a gain of 8J
per cent, outside of New York. In the
speculative markets the general tendency
has been toward lower prices, though
wheat advanced on extravagant reports
of shortness in European crops. But
the average of prices lor all commodities
is about one per cent, lower than a week
ago, and even in wheat, later sales indi
grain cate a declining tendency as in other
and provisions. Business failures,
occurring throughout the country during
the past seven days, as reported to R.
Dun <fc Co., mercantile agency, by tele
graph, number for the United* States 189
and for Canada 22, or a total of 211, as
compared with a total of 206 last -week,
and 211 the week previous, For the
corresponding week of last year the fig
ures were 226, made up of 202 failures in
the United States and 24 in the dominion
of Canada.
THE CATERPILLAR,
reports of agricultural bureaux
from different states.
The dreaded catarpillar or boll worm
seems to be getting in his work.
A dozen or more counties in Georgia
report the presence of the worm, and~in
some the damage has been great while
in others the crop has been but slightly
injured. In Louisiana complaints of cotton
worms have been general. No damage
is reported. It is almost too late. The
cotton crop is'reported extra good. In
Texas caterpillars have appeared in a few
localities, but the crop i9 generally too
far advanced to be materially damaged
by them. In a number of counties iu
north Texas, however, the boll worm
has been very destructive, and the yield
cut short. Worms have appeared gen
erally throughout Mississippi. In the
northeastern or jirairio section great
damage is reported. In the extreme
northern and scvalhern portions they
have appeared only in spots. There is
yet time for great damage
where poison is not used,
^n ous Alabama all the the caterpillars state. In are the numer- middle
over
and western part of the state the farmers
are using poison freely. In north Ala
bama the crop is young, and is being
seriously injured. Not more than
half a crop can be made.
Reports from South Carolina say: Cot
ton portions caterpillars have appeared in many
of the state. The injuries are
not yet very serious, but fUars are enter
tained that the loss on the late cotton
crop will be one- half.
KILLED BY THE ELIXIR.
Al, #11 lO MAN SUBMITS TO AN INJECTION
OF THE FLUID AND DIES.
At Dayton, Ohio, Samuel C. Sho
walter, aged sixty-nine, voluntarily
submitted to an injection of the
elixir of life three weeks ago, hoping
for relief from rheumatism, and died on
Monday from tho effects of the treat
ment. made, Immediately his after the injection
was limbs began to swell and
liis whole system was permeated with
blood poison. Gangrene set in in his
l*ody, it being putrid flesh chipped off in
flakes as largp us a man’s hand, and ho
became a horrible object before death
relieved him yf his sufferings.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM YA
R10 US POINTS IN THE S 0 U TH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OE WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPOBTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
In the criminal court of Birmingham,
Ala., Monday, the cases against John and
Jule Wvly, charged with complicity in
the Hawes murders, were nol prossed.
There was no evidence against them.
Caterpillars have appeared near Pen
dleton, Anderson county, S. C. As the
planters of that section have had no pre
vious acquaintance with the pests and
Paris green, they are very much alarmed.
Dan Lament, Cleveland’s private the sec
retary, has consented to accept presi- and
dency of the Tennessee Coal, Iron
Railway company, the largest in the
south, at a salary of ten thousand dollars
a year.
A special from Fort Worth, Texas,
says that the re-union of ex-confederate
and federal soldiers begun Thursday.
Thousands of people were present. There
was a big barbecue, speech-making, and
remarkable good feeling a’l around.
The Ctntiai Railroad of Georgia and
the Savannah fast freight line announce
that freight will now be carried from
Ajlanta, Boston, New York and Philadelphia to
45. (la., for 1.08; 90; 80; GO; 55;
All these rates include marine in
surance. fir
storied ... ... AA*fc*>-' -4
An incendiary fire was in the
Palace hotel, at Tokiah, Cal., on Tues
day, destroying it, together with Wells,
Fargo Union – Co.'s express office, the Western
and Odd telegraph office, Reed’s theatre
Fellows hall. The loss will be
very heavy.
At Jacksonville, Ala., there was a un
ique reunion on Saturday last. Colored
men nvho served in the Confederate army
in various capacities as teamsters,servants,
cooks, day etc., had a confederate reunion.
The was celebrated with a barbecue,
speeches and baseball.
A charter was issued Tuesday to the
Lancaster Manufacturing Company of
Lancaster, S. C. Of the stock, more
than 50 per cent, has been subscribed and
25 per cent, paid in. The company will
manufacture spokes, handles, doors,
sashes, etc., and repair machinery.
The courthouse of Moore county, N.
C., at Carthage, together with all th* 1
county records, was completely destroyed
by fire Thursday. There is a general
belief that the fire was of incendiary
origin. The loss falls heavily upon the
county, and will, of course, cause litiga
tion.
The damaged leaves of the iron Pal
metto tree, forming the Mexican monu
ment in the State House yard, at Colum
bia, S. C\, are being taken down, for
shipment to Charleston, where repairs
will be made. The leaves were injured
by the tornado and storms several years
years ago.
Leaf tobacco sales in the Danville,
Ya., market, for August, were 2,817,000
pounds. Sales for the first eleven months
of the tobacco year were 27,172,000
pounds. This is a decrease of 2,000,000
pounds as compared with the same pe
riod last year.
The upper reservoir of the waterworks
company at Charleston, S. C., gave way
millions Tuesday, and precipitated about seven
rounding gallons of water on the sur
land, Fortunately the east
embankment, which gave way, fronts the
marsh, and hence there was no serious
destruction of property or loss of life.
Mrs. Polk, the venerable widow of
President James K. Polk, celebrated her
eighty-sixth birthday on Wednesday, at
Nashville, Teno. A number of friends
called upon her to renew the assurance
of esteem and remembrance, and greet
one whose existence is a iink between a
historic past and a stirring present.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, was
a ranted by the superior‘court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Gu.,
was business incorporated, with authority to do
The authorized in Georgia or any other state.
capital stock is $20,000 -
000 .
On Tuesday the caboose of a freight
train which left Aecotink, Ya., eighteen
miles from Washington, on the Virginia
railroad, left the truck and rolled down
an Rainey embankment, instantly killing T. A.
Ashton Rainey, brothers, and
well-known cattle raisers of Warren ton,
Va. Conductor Faulkner, of Alexan
dria, Ya., was seriously hurt.
The compilation of volumes of war
records, comprising operations about
eluding Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tenn., in
the battle of Missionary Ridge, !
is progressing rapidly. Two volumes of
the Cliickamauga battle have been com- j
federate pleted, containing both union and con- !
reports, and some advance cop- I
ies will be printed for use at the ap
proaching reunion of the society of army
of the Cumberland at Chattanooga.
'1 he celebrated Hickory Level plant \
tion, near Albany, Ga., was sold Tue>
day at public sale. It was one of the
finest farms of the cotton belt of the
south, and has been considered one of
J he best properties in Dougherty count v.
have Twenty sold years ago the property would'
being forced for $100,000 easily. The sale
a one, the 400 acres brought
only $14,000, and was bought by Mrs
Joseph Beall, of New York.
William Murtrie Speer, secretary of
the World’s Fair committee at New
York, on Thursday received the follow
ing dated letter from ex-President Cleveland
at Saranac Inn: “I acknowl
edge the receipt of notice of mv an-'
pointmmt as a member of the com
mittee on permanent organization for the
international exposition of 1892. I shall
A GREAT STRIKE.
A MONSTER MASS MEETING HEI D ^
STRIKERS IN LONDON, ENGLAND.
Two thousand coal heavers and bar*
men ranks have of the joined strikers the already at London, tremendmt tv*
council of the strikers held a meetin
Saturday evening, and after a loner ttrik^ j” 8
cussion decided to continue the
A in monster HydePark meeting Sunday of strikers was h£
afternoon. Burn,
the socialist agitator, and other wi
leaders, made speeches. Resoluti *
declaring that the men would ons
the strike until their demands continu
conceded, unanimously were adopte/ full
were
It is estimated that 150,000 persons took
part in the demonstration. Durino- qf
progress taken of for the the meeting benefit of a collection wl
up the strikers
M#ney was and received in hats and open
parasols, a- large sum was obtained
Five thousand railway men held a meet
ing at Darlington and decided to strike
unless shorter hours of labor were
granted. and Mass meetings of South" dock
men others were held also at
wart, at which the strikers
voted to form a separate committee f or
south Jiondon in order to have a belter
voice in the conduct of the strike. i n a
sermon at York, on Sunday, Canon Flem
ing expressed sympathy of Tjith the strife,
ers. Meetings tbe'cotfulTy. sympathy are b e i D?
held throughout n
There was a slight break London, in the rank*
Of t<•.e employers, at Thursday
morning, Cwil l?wiih§t who the are strikers. trying to Five wharf: their
ingeis agreed id ijiQ work men’s is terms,
upon their wharves now going other on
to the full capacity; At the
wharves the men have congregated in
barge numbers, ready to go to work at a
moment's notice, the wharfingers being,
so it is reported, ready to make terms
with the strikers. John Burns declares
’.hat the dockmen have given the dock
eortpanies a crushing blow “between
wind and water.” Australia has sent
.24,000 to aid the strikers.
A MILLIONAIRE’S WILL.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE REQUESTS BY WIL
LIAM THAW, THE DEAD RAILROAD KING.
The will of William Thaw, the dead
millionaire railroad king, was probated
at Pittsburg, Pa., on Monday. It occu*l
pies thirty-six pages of foolscap, type- "the
written and was made July 5th of
present year. His estate, except his
coal lands, is divided into sixteen equal
parts. The coal lands are to be held
until all of his minor children becoms
of age, when they are expected to be
worth $13,000,000. His wife gets three
sixteehth9 of the estate, his ten children remain-l
one-sixteenth each and from the
ing three-sixteenths are to be paid sr
large number of public and private be
quests. Among the larger public lega
cies are as follows: Western University
of Pennsylvania, $100,000; Presbyteriaa
Board of Home Missions, $20,000; for
eign $20,000; college board, $50,000;
other Presbyterian boards, $30,000;
American board, $5,000. The Pittsburg
hospitals gets an aggregate of $100,000,
both Protestant and Catholic instutiom
being remembered. All debts of de
pendent. friends are cancelled.
A COMPANY ORGANIZED
TO MANUFACTURE PINE STRAW BAGGISfl
IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
It was announced in Charleston, S. C.,
on Saturday that a company had beea
organized aud will at once enter upon the
manufacture of cotton bagging from the
fibre of the pine straw. Tae factory will
be ouilt at Sumrfierville, twenty-two
miles from that place. The site is in the
thickest part of the pine forest iu the
state. The company have also been of
fered the privilege of galhering pine
straw from a tract of territory covering
thousands of acres, so that the material
for the manufacture of bagging will cost,
nothing but the price of collecting nnd|
ered hauling it. Several bales of cotton cov- re-1
with pine straw bagging were
ceived at Charleston last year and sub
jected to the severest test of screw,!
hook, fire and water, and stood it even!
better than common jute bagging. Tifi
new factory is expected to commence! mfr!
work as soon as the building and
chinery are erected.
A COLLISION,
IN WniCH SEVERAL PEOPLE ARE KILLSV,
AND OTHERS DANGEROUSLY HURT.
An excursion train to Burlington,Iowa, Rut
from the Horse Breeder’s meeting at
land, Vt.,and a stock train bound south,
collided Saturday night four miles north
of Middleburg. Both engines, one cal
and a part of another car of the excur
sion train and ten or twelve stock cars,
loaded with hogs, were wrecked anu
piled in a heap. The dead are: Conduc
tor Hiram Blodgett, of the excursion
train, and one passenger, whose identified. body »
under the train, and cannot be
The engineers of both trains were 3au
gerously hurt, and several of seriously the passen- in'
gers on the stock train were
jured.
A TOWN DESTROYED.
A special from Great Falls, M-ont.,
says: News has just been received tb»
Barker was almost totally destroyed by
firo Monday. The fire started in to*
miners’ three doors below Zeigl® r *
house camp the vail®/
and swept from there up of
burning all the eastern portion name
camp. It is supposed that a man 1° 8
Ellis, hjs wife arid four children
their lives. There aro also three ® c
missing. Barker is the business cent®
of the enure Barker district and is nbou
sixty-five mijes sqjitheast of Great I lb