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Schley Canty News.
—PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT—
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA.
The Rural New Yorker announces that
there is an agitation among the small
fruit-growers for the imposition of a
tariff on bananas.
Names selected from Cooper’s works,
Indian and local names, will be given
to 180 state Islands in Lake George, N.
Y. The forestry commission has de
cided that the present names are not
euphonius.
The projected Congo railway in
Africa, 260 miles in length, connecting
navagable waters that are now sepa
rated, is estimated to cost $5,000,000,
of which $1,000,000 are to be subscribed
in the United States. The company is
to have a wide strip of land for road
way, 3000 acies per mile, and 20 per
cent, of the export duty collected on
all material shipped over its road.
The Chicago Sun has discovered that
“in all voluminous statistics published
relative to railway earnings,* banking
operations, mercantile transactions and
manufacturing activity, one underlying
tendency is observed, viz , the lessen
ing of cost and the improvement and
expansion of facilities. Capital is earn
ing less in all organized channels, and
hence the outflow into new fields and
avenues where the rewards are, or
promise to be greater.”
The statistics recently published by a
leading life insurance company contain
many interesting points. Americans
live longer than our foreign born citi
zens. Among foreigners next to the
Americans stand the Irish, English and
Germans, in the order named. Few
Germans or Englishmen die of apo
plexy 7 . Germans furnish the highest
percentage of suicide. Navtive Ameri
cans arc comparatively free from diseases
of the liver. Typhoid fever has the
most victims in the Northwest and the
fewest in the South, but in the latter
section there is a largo mortality from
zymotic diseases arid more liver disease,
but less kidney disease.
It is a curious phenomena of the in
troduction of electric light that it re
sults in an increase of the gas used in
the same localities. A New York elec
trical expert says: ‘ The reason for this
increase in gas consumption where elec
tricity is used for light is that the m*re
brilliant light without aud within pub
lic places causes a greater use of gas in
private houses to secure a lessening of
the contrast. People employed in elec
tric-lighted places will scarcely be satis
fied at their homes with the same light
as they are now, perhaps, and will light
two jets instead of one. Their eyes
having become accustomed to the bril
liancy, they cannot do with the former
single jet.
It is estimated by the Salt Trust that
the annual consumption of salt in the
United States and Canada, including
the amount used in packing, industrial
pursuits aud by cattle, is about one
bushel or 56 pounds per capita, The
population of the Uuited States is now
estimated at sixty-five millions; that of
Canada at five millions, making a total
of seventy millions. Seventy millions
of bushels, at five bushels to the barrel,
equal fourteen millions of barrels, the
amount consumed in these two coun
tries. From this may be deducted for
imported salt produced outside the
Company’s works, say, four millions of
barrels, which leaves the consumption,
for which this Company has already a
market, ten millions of barrels.
The Boston Progress observes: “The el
oquent Patrick Henry said ‘we can only
judge the future by the past.’ Look
at the past. When Egypt went down,
three per cent, of her population owned
ninety-seven per cent, of the wealth.
The people were starved to death. When
Babylon went down,two per cent, of the
population owned all the wealth, The
people were starved to death. When
Persia went down, one per cent, of the
population owned the land. When
Rome went down, 1800 men owned all
the known world. For the past twenty
years the Uuited States has rapidly fol
lowed iu the steps of these old na:ions.
Here are the figures: In lt?50 capitalists
owned thirty-seven and a half per cent,
of the nation’s wealth. In 1870 they
owned sixty-three per cent.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS 1HOM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTERK8T.
Five men lost their lives by a boiler ex
plosion on a farm near CJaroosdale, Ill.,
Mondav
-.00,000,000 marks. .’Z P
Estimates of los3 by the recent tire _ at
Antwerp, Belgium, range from 25,000,
000 to 35,000,000 francs.
1'resijent Harrison on Wednesday re
ceived the resignation of James Tanner
as commissioner of pensions.
The municipal authorities of Paris
guve a banquet Monday night in honor
of Thomas W. Edison, the inventor.
The Aurora Watch company, of Auro
ra, III., made an assignment Monday.
Liabilities, $200,000, estimated assets,
$ 120 , 000 .
The Paris exposition directors an
nounce that it must be closed on October
31st. Many appeals have been made to
continue it longer.
The thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
morning. A severe frost is reported at
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Socialists attempted to hold an open
air meeting at Hamburg, Germany, on
Tuesday night. The police broke up
the meeting and arrested thirteen per
sons.
The entire bench of Judges, District
and Circuit, of Rigs, Russia, have been
arrested for using the German language
after they had been ordered to use Rus
sian.
The Chicago delegation that recently
visited Tampa, Fiu., have made a favora
ble report as to the practicability of using
Tampa to Divert South American trade to
this country.
The rate committee of the Southern
Railroad and Steamship association met
in New York on Wednesday, and decided
that at present no advance in freight
tariffs would be made.
The Irish police have been ordered not
to “shadow” English members ot Par
liament traveling iu Ireland. Annual
returns show 7 that 78,684 persons emi
grated from Irelaud during the past year.
A boiler in the California sash, door
and blind factory at Oakland, exploded
Wednesday, killing four men outright
and injuring several others, two perhaps
fatally. Two others are supposed to be
buried in the ruins.
Wm. P. Higinbotham, president of the
Blue Valley Bank of Manhattan, Kansas,
has been convicted in the District Court
of grand larceny. The case is the out
growth of the suspension of lliginboth
am’s bank Wednesday, when the lodger
showed a deficit of $100,000.
The president, on Monday, made the
following appointments: George for the W.
Lyon, to be surveyor of customs
port of New York; Theodore B. Willis,
to be naval officer of customs in the dis
trict of New York; Ernest Nathan, to be
collector of internal revenue for the first
district of New York.
The Aurora, Ill., Match Company
made an assignment Tuesday for the
benefit of its creditors. The liabilities
are in the neighborhood of $200,000.
Of this amount $15,000 is due to em
ployees. The estimated assets are: Real
estate $80,000, finHhed matches $10,000,
and bills receivable $30,000.
A sharp shock of electricity was felt at
Wilkesbarre, Pa., on Tuesday. Build
ings in Ashley, Kingston, Pitlston and
the surrounding country trembled for
several seconds, vigorously enough to
rattle glassware and crockery, and in
some cases to throw it to the floor. So
far as can be heard from, no property has
been damaged or persons injured.
During Tuesday and Wednesday there and
were great convulsions of nature
subterranean commotions, followed by
tremendous explosions of gas and steam
m the upper geyer basin at Hot Springs,
Ark. All the larger geysers are in fu
rious activity. Scientists explain that
all of this phenomenal outburst is direct
ly traceable to and connected with the
atmospheric and sub marine demonstra
tions of the great storm that prevailed
along tbe Atlantic coast.
Fire broke out on an upper floor of
McArdie’s four-sti'ry rag and junk ware
house at Albany, N. Y., Monday after
noon. Thirty or forty women and girls
were employed in picking rags. Many
of them escaped by the stairways and
fire escape, but some were cut off by a
dense smoke. window One girl fell from a
third-story upon a pile of iron
and was fatally hurt. Another followed
a moment later and was badly injured.
Another was probably fatally burned. It
is reported that oihers were caught in the
building.
FIRST AND LAST.
AN OLD MAN TAKES HIS FIRST RIDE ON A
RAILROAD AND DIES ON BOARD.
Campbell A. Walton rode to his death
on Wednesday. He was an old man of
over eighty years, who lived with his
wife near Castletou .Springs, in Sumner
county, Tenn., and neither of them had
ever been on a railroad train before.
Wednesday morning they rode over to
Gallatin and got ou tiie train bound for
Nashville. He was apparently much
excited over his novel journey,
and iu half and hour from the
time he started, he suddenly fell dead in
his seat, llis death was earned from
heart disease, aud primarily b Ml the ex
citement, journey. it is supposed, oi hi Ol strange
DISASTROUS STORMS
■ WEEPING THE ATLANTIC COAST, DOING
UNTOLD DAMAGE TO PP.OFERTT.
A terrible and disastrous storm swept
along the Atlantic coast Monday, doing
considerable damage. At New York,
the North and East river fronts and the
cellars of warehouses and tenements on
both the east and west sides of the lower
I iirt of the city are in a decided y < ia
°Hc s * ate - Some of the piers are en
water mark have their
I decKS licked by the angry waves.
The Jersey sllore was i nun dated in many
, | pi ace9 0n the East riverfront, buildings
from Fiftieth strc t to Fourteenth street,
are affected by the great rise of water,
. The lower end of Blackwell’s island is
submerged, and the keepers were engaged
early in the morning in removing pa
tients from frame out-buildings on that
portion of the island. It is the general
impression among sea faring men, that
the tide is the highest known for twenty
five years. No vessels arrived at New
York up to noon Tuesday. The storm full
came from the seaward, and was
grown when it struck the coast. Along
the Jersey coast the surf is reported condition the
heaviest ever known, A similar
prevails all along the coast of New Eng
land aud New Jersey. Reports from
Coney island are to the effect that Mon
day night’s storm aud its acco-i panying in the
high tide were the most disastrous The
history of that storm-beaten isle.
Marine railway has been swept away.
The esplanade in front of Manhattan
Beach hotel washed out, and the sea is
flowing into the basement of Manhattan
Beach hotel. A greater part of the
Concerdance is gone.
Reports from Philadelphia say: The
damage to railroad lines entering Atlan
tic City, Cape May, Sea Isle City, Ocean
City, and other coast resorts, by the great
storm is very heavy. The Camden and
Atlantic and West Jersey roads were un
able to get a train in or out of Atlantic
City on Tuesday. The storm carried
away telegraph poles and wires and ail
communication was cut off. Water in the
old Camden and Atlantic excursion
house at Atlantic City is four or five feet
high, and in the meadows it is as high,
se that it is difficult to calculate the dam
age that has been done to railroad prop
erties. Ocean City is almost entirely
under water, and the beach road, which
is floated by every high tide, is
believed to be an entire wreck.
The news from Lewes, Delaware, is that
the tide was the highest since 1867.
Telegraphic communication with the
Breakwater was destroyed, The
schooners Alena Covert, Henry McLarke,
J. F. Becker, Byron M, Maud Seward,
Neuona, Gertrude Summers and four
unknown schooners are ashore. Both
wooden piers have been destroyed.
A FEARFUL EXPLOSION.
TWO HUNDRED TEOPLE KILLED AND 1,000
INJURED IN ANTWERP, BELGIUM.
A dynamite explosion occurred Friday,
at Antwerp, in the Belgium, in a cartridge fac
tory, vicinity of the bourse, killing
200 persons, and injuiing at least 1,000
others, and doing an enormous amount
of damage to property. Portisns of the
bourse were struck by burning fragments
and set on fire, causing a panic in that
Tne building, which w 7 as at the time crowded.
hind cartridge factory was situated be
the docks, upon which millions of
cartridges were being loaded. It was
adjacent to petroleum stores, and
two large Russian petroleum
warehouses were set on fire.
Among the roar of flames there was a
continuous succession of loud reports,
supposed to be from the ignition of
packages of cartridges. Several vessels
were burned. Owing to the intense heat
the firemen were unable to approach the
flames nearer than one hundred yards.
At the moment of the explosion, many
of the workmen jumped into the Scheldt
in their fright and were drowned. A
number of sailors and customs officers
were killed on board ships by flying bul
lets, and ships were riddled by missiles.
It is estimated that 2,000 tons of car
tridges were exploded. The noise was
heard thirty miles away. Human heads
and other parts of bodies w r ere found
half a mile away from the scene of dis
aster. One hundred and thirty whole
corpses lie in the morgues, and charred
heaps of human remains represent an
unknown number of dead. The minis
ter of the interior has visited the scene
of the explosion. The king and queen
have telegraphed, expressing sympathy
with the sufferers. Subscriptions have
been opened for the relief of those re n
dered destitute by the disaster.
THE COTTON REPORT
AS SENT OUT BY THE AGRICULTURAL
DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON.
The cotton report of the statistician
J of September the department of agriculture for
represents the crop as com
paratively late. Too abundant moisture
is generally reported, producing rank
weed and retarding the development of
bolls. Rust lias appeared quite gener
ally on sandy uplands. The gray soils
of the Atlan'ic coast show most rust.
There has been considerable dropping of
forms and of young boils in the areas
| most affected by the extremes of moist
ure a,1< ^ temperature. The general aver
°f condition is 86.6, against 89.3 last
month aud 83.8 in September of last
y ear \ S,,lto averages are as follows;
Virginia, . 62; North Carolina, 79 ; South
Carolina, 87; Georgia, 90: Ilorida, 94;
Alabama, 91; Mississippi, 88 • Louis
’ ana » Texas, 81; Arkansas, 0; Ten
nessee, 80.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS' IN THE SO UTH.
A CONDEXSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The Dawson Nat onal bank, of Daw
son, Ga., has been authorized to begin
business with a capital of $50,000.
The managers of the sugar trust have
declared the legular quarterly dividend
of two aud a half per cent.
Henry C. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has
been appointed collector of customs for
the district of New Orleans, La.
The hotel at Bou Air, a summer resort
eighiy miles from Richmond,Va., on the
Richmond and Danville railroad, was
burned Wednesday. Loss $25,000; par
tially iusured.
The city cpnncil of Danville, Va., has
ordered an election on October 15th, to
vote on a corporate subscription of $150,
000 toward the western extension of the
Atlantic – Danville railroad.
New counterfeit tvvo-dollar treasury
certificates have made their appearance
: n Chattanooga, Tenn. The engraving is
tine, but the paper is poor. All coun
terfeits, so far discovered, are numbered
B 105441741, and bear a picture of Gen
eral Hancock.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation iu the south, Georgia, was
l ranted by the superior court Home of Building
l>v which the Southern
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,
000 .
G. L. Stallings, the chief of police of
Anniston, Ala., publishes in the News ot
that city a card in which he solemnly ob
ligates himself to the Pelham family to
leave the community of Anniston on or
before Monday, September 20th, never to
return. The card is a long one, and is
the outcome of the killing, some time
ago, of William Pelham by Stallings.
The Charleston, S. C., city assessor's
books show that there has been for 1889
an increase of $300,000 over the personal
returns made for H88 in money invested
in materials, machinery, small industries,
factories and other personalty, etc. But
on the other hand there has been a
shrinkage in the returns for stocks of
goods and such bonds and securities as
are subject to municipal taxation, of over
$300,000.
The triennial conclave of the grand
encampment of Knights Templar will
be held in Washington, I). C., next
month, and the event is attract
ing attention all over the United States.
This conclave will be the most important
and at the same time most interesting
ever held on this continent. Tbe attend
ance will be very large, and it is expect
ed that there will be at least from 40,000
to 50,000 Knights formed in line on
Pennsylvania avenue on that grand oc
casion.
A substitute for cotton; in the shape
of chemically prepared ramie fibre, has
been invented by Dr. Panknin. of
Charleston, S. C. The method of its
preparation is, of course, a secret, but it
is estimated that the cost per bale or per
pound will not exceed that for the prep
aration for market of equivalent amounts
of long cotton. Dr. Panknin is in com
munication with business men in New
York who are interested in the discov
ery. Something very interesting in the
way of the development of the industry
may be shortly expected.
At a meeting of the Farmers’ Alliance.
Held at Ellaville, Ga., the following res
olutions were unanimously adopted: Re
solved, Fir.-t, By the Schley county al
liance now in session, that we demand ol
the cotton buyers of Ellaville, an allow
ance ot eight pounds tare on cotton baled
That in cotton bagging. demand Resolved, Second,
if said is not complied
with, w 7 e insist that every member of the
alliance of Schley county do refuse to
patronize said market or any other niar
ket where said demands are refused.”
Adopted September 10th, 1889,
Mr, David Bonuetheau, aged about 75
years, died at the city hospital at Charles
ton, S. C., on Tuesday. He was sc
verely aud from burnt these on Friday injuries night at his home,
theau is died. Bonne
the last of an old Huguenot
family of that name, and for many years
kept a junk shop, aud was a jeweler by
trade. He lived all alone and in a hovel,
but is said to have left a snug sum of
money, the stinted savings of years.
When his house was found burning he
was in the fire and refused to be moved.
He was taken out by force, but fought
to stay with his property.
The annual meeting of the stoekhold
ms of the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis railway, was held in the office
of the company, in Nashville, Teunessee,
on last Wednesday.* The gross earnings
the year were shown to lie $3,000,
lGo.16; operating expenses *1,951,444.-
5J; leaving net earnings, $1,348,720.58.
Gut ol this sum there ha> been paid in
terest and taxes, $868,695.54; improve
ments, surplus, $50.903.30-925,588.90: $418,121.08, leaving
from which four
dividends of 1 1-4 per cent, each upon
the capital stock have been declared
$333,420.58; leaving a balance, ’ $84 r ’
OOS.le. ’
Last year $38,000 was paid in New
v \ork , , for the racing colt King
No such amount of Thomas.
fore for yearl money was ever be
given a ng in New York
or anywhere else in the world. And re
cently a chestnut colt* a half-brother of
tion Amg for Thomas, was sold at public auc
lars $22,000. Surely, so far as dol
and cents are concerned, we do
tilings . .
country. on a magnificent scale in this
A COSTLY BLAZE,
A. LARGE SUGAR Y., REDUCED REFINERY IN BRoos J
N. TO ASHES. 1
day A afternoon very disastrous in the fire broke out 8ai J
plant of the Dick – mammoth Meyers
North Seventh and North Eighth (Jo a
N. Y. The j
in Brooklyn, entire <*«q|J3 es3
lishment, which consisted 'of a
of buildings eight stories in NortlTsev’,] lui^r -, 3
tending about tiOO feet on
street, 300 feet on North E ghth sfrM
and 250 feet along the dock, was reduca
to ashes. It was filled with ^
ble machinery, and the loss very V al
ing machinery is on the bail |J i
ami estimated at - (
♦1,500,000. Within the buildi n g vrer
17,000 barrels of sugar, valued at uLou
half a million dollars, making a tot
loss of al*mt $2,000,000. The filt sol!
house, next door to the refinery
caught fire, and shortly afterwards tta
second by filter the house, hungry adjoining, flames. w^g gJ
upon Almost at
the same time, the machine building!
office were building, attacked. and In a a number short of shell
flames had reached the time thl on!
North Seventh street, where storage house
rels of stored. 8,000bar
sugar were Iu half an
hour all this was burned up,and soon the
entire plant of twelve buildings were in 1
ruins. The capacity of the burnt re
finery was 1,000,000 pounds daily i
About 20,000 barrels of sugar wentupia
smoke.
THE COTTON EXCHANGE
MEET IN NEW' ORLEANS AND DIkm* :yM I
THE BAGGING QUESTION.
The cottou bagging convention M
sembled at New Orleans, La., o*
question Wednesday, promptly and disposed and effectually, the IvJjjna*
a very thorough discussion of the matte*
There were present delegates from tl*
New York and New Orleans, August*
Memphis, Mobile, and Merid!an, MiaB J
Jackson, Miss., Selma, Ala., frj
changes. Besides the delegates
the cotton exchanges, there were prew* 9
the following state commissioners oil
agriculture: .T. W. Henderson,
Georgia; R. F. Kolb, of A abamu; Job «t| I
Hoard, of Tennessee; M. F. Louisian,! Locke,
Arkansas, and T. J. Bird, of
The main point of discussion by
convention was the tare on cottou, anil
the following resolution was unanimous*
adopted: “ That on and after the bcsoldifl firstdl
October, 1880, all cotton shall
net weight weight, allowing jute 24 covered pounds otgroil ini]
for tare on bales cavenil
1G pounds off for tare on cotton
bales. Cotton covering to be of standard Befmtl I
weight, f of pound to yard.* kl
adjourning, the convention decided
arrange cotton. for All a the uniform exchanges classification will appoint] ir|
experts at the earliest who will day meet possible, at New and Ofima ]
the classification. agree
upon
BALTIMORE’S JUBILEE,
IMPOSING MITJTARY AND CIVIC PB8CEfr
6IONS, FEATURES OF THE BAY.
The six days’ celebration of the awi
versary of the defense of Baltiaaor^ it
our second war with Great Britain, Com
menced at Baltimore on Monday. The
events to be celebrated are of national
importance, and the fact that one of
them, the bombardment «f Fort Mc
Henry, inspired that patriotic •otfcerstin
song, “The Star Spangled Banner,” i«
sufficient of itself to give to the Balti
more festival a national interest, whis^l
has of been President recognized in the participate and ^
Harrison
effoits of the war and navy depart
ments to contribute to its succea
Along the thoroughfares of the frontsof qn* 5
of the Chesapeake the frowning
old-time war houses and gracefal arete
aDd pillars of modern palaces of trade
hide their 6ombre colors in festoe** d
hunting and clusters of flags. Never be
fore in the history of Baltimore has tmj 7
thing like it been seen. Scarcely a bus
iness house or dwelling in the central
section but what was outwardly beautified
by the artistic hands of the decorator
Vait throngs of people crowded the
streets, and the military and civic ^
cessions, the parade of the induah*
and trades’ organizations, with thsusandf
of floats, formed an imposing spectacle.
A SERIOUS JOKE.
A NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE PRESENT®
WITH DRUGGED CAKES.
At Pelham, N. C., Friday, W. T.
Stroder and Nannie Lovelace were ora*"
ried. On the way home they were
by two young men who offered to tt e#
the bridal party with small cakes, a™
one offered ihem to the crowd, wbilefhe
other had ouly two cakes and he aa<*
he would treat the bride and gr<>*®
The newly married people ate their
Cakes, and were taken very sick inu^' ^
d lately afterward. The two cakes
drugged very heavilv. two yo° B l>
men left for parts unknowns.
STANLEY HEARD FROM-j
MOVEMENTS OF THE GREAT BXPB*8 erC!
THE WILDS OF AFRICA.
Cable dispatches from Zanwbur
government of Congo state say:
AI. Stanley, on leaving basin of A
Nyanza, endeavored to make his way
ward by passing to the west of ttie -
toria Nyanza. He fuiled, bowev<‘m
this attempt. He then went north"
and reached the eastern shore »
lake. Emin Pasha accompanied awa “
After a long stay on the lake, j
supplies, he marched in the directs
Bombassa. He is expected to reftC »
Ocione . r
eastern coast about the end of •