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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 •