— PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK AT—
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA.
The agricultural interests of the
South are rapidly organizing and are
buying much cheaper through their
combinations.
The Louisville Courier- Journal holds
that “(here should be no American Ex
position in 1592 unless it excels in mag
nificence any previous exposition here
or in Europe.”
The father of the Earl of Fife, who
recently married the Prince of Wales’
daughter, died of drink, Old Fife, it
has been wittily observed, went on too
many tools.
Mexico would like to have a commer
cial treaty with the United States, but
is too proud, thinks the New York
Tdegram, to take the initiative since
Grant-Romero treaty was rejected.
It is quite likely that a worthy statue
©f Christopher Columbus will be set up
in New York city before the opening
of the International exposition of 1892,
at which Columbus will be otherwise
honored.
One hundred and eight American
artists have received medals and honora
ble mentions at the Paris exhibition this
year. Woo says that art does not
flourish in America exclaims the Chicago
Herald.
President Harrison has been urged, it
is said, by many of the most distin
guished friends of higher education in
the country to recommend to Congress
the cstabl.shment and maintenance in
Washington of a National University.
Oklahoma war the last of the territo
rial possession! of the United States that
will be settled by assault on a day
fixed, opiner the New York Commercial
Adeertisrr. The experiment has proved
ruinously disastrous to everybody but
the lawyers.
.Connecticut spends $1000 yearly in
hatching shad, but it is beginning to
be suspected that the investment ir not
a paying one. L ist year 8, 000, 000
young shad were hatched, but the fish
commissioners, who have just held a
meeting in New Haven, report that tho
supply is decreasing.
Governor Alger of Michigan, who
has recently visited Alaska, says: “I
learned at Sitka, that Alaska has a total
population of 32,000, of which 16.000
arc Esquimaux, 12.000 Indians an l
three or four thousand white persons.
In Ihe interior the country is not in
habitable on account of the mosquitoes,
which often drive bears and other wild
beasts to the coast during the summer
in mths. Its only value to the govern
ment is its mineral resources and its
fisheries. ”
It is evident, observes the New York
A r ews, that the prison system of the
United States is defective*, Tho in
crease iu crime bean testimony to that
fact. Excluding juvenile delinquents
aud inmates of reformatory institutions,
there were 2<)) prisoners to every mil
lion of population in 1859. The cen
sus of i860 showed that tho percent
age had increased t > 607. In 1870 it
was 853, an l in 1881 it ha l increased
to 116 ) The lafcert statistic!, though
only fragmentary, indicate that the cen
sus next year will show a still more
rapid increase in t .is percentage. This
is a serious matter.
The g.fts to colleges an 1 universities
during the la>t c inincncemeut season
were of an especially liberal character.
They reached in the aggregate nearly
$3,000,090, and were distributed
among some fifty institutions. Of this
sum Y ile College is said to have re
ceived about $.300,000, and during the
past three years the gifts to the same
institution arc reported, to have reached
at least $790,000. It will tberefi ro
surprise the public to know that the in
stitution sttd ... . ed for funds, and
is cripp
that iti future financ.ai outlook is not
so bright a! its friend! would desire,
Professor Henry P. Wright i* quote i as
Baying '.hat tho college needs additions
in every department, and that it grows
relatively poorer as the classes b grow
larger.
Foatv-miyb Unitana® missionaries havs
recently sailed from this country for foreign
thuds—Turkey, Julia. Chin* and Japan.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND .EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS 1 ROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!,
1 IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Snow began falling on Mount Wash
ington. N. H., Thursday morning.
Twenty students have been arrested at
Kieff, Russia, on the charge of being
uihilists.
Cholera has made its appearanco in
Bagdad, aud the disease is spreading in
Western Persia.
r ihe Bontsin sugar rpfinery, in Bor
deaux, France, burned Tuesday. Loss
1,250,000 francs.
Interic fever is epidemic among sol
ditrs in the garrison at Cairo, Egypt.
Several deaths from the disease occur
daiiy.
Charles F. Scott, of West "Virginia,
has been appointed pardon clerk of the
department of justice, vice Judge Bote
let, resigned.
The thermometer registered forty-two
degrees at St. Paul, Minn., Thursday
morning. A severe frost is reported at
Cheyenne, Wyoming.
A brutal prize tight occurred at the
saloon of Dailey Brothers at St. Louis,
Mo., on Tuesday, resulting in the death
of one of the principals.
A large number of suits for damages
have been begun at Antwerp in connec
tion with the recent disast om explosion
in Corvillain’s cartridge factory.
Mrs. Hiram Snell, of Malad, Idaho, has
given birth to eixtets, three hoys and
three girls. They weigh eight pounds
altogether. All are bright and hearty,
and promise to live.
Judge Sawyer, in the United States
circuit court at San Francisco, on Mon
day rendered a decision in the habeas
corpus case of Deputy Marshall David
Nagle, aud discharged Nagle from cus
body.
A letter signed “Jack the Ripper,”
has been received at the news agency in
London, England, in which ihe writer
states that in about a week another mur
der will be added to the list of White
chapel horrors.
All employes at the Bellnir, Ohio,steel
works, 400 in number, struck Thursday
brothers evening because of the refusal of three
named Dewalson to join the
Amalgamated association, aud the man
agement’s refusal to discharge them.
The will of the late Elias Loomis, of
New Haven, Conn., bequeaths the bulk
of bis estate, which it valued at from
$250,000 to $300,000 to Yale university,
to be known as the “Loomis fund.”
This is the second largest gift ever made
to Yhile.
At Fermoy, Ireland, on Tuesday, Fa
ther O’Dwyer was sentenced to five
months’ imprisonment, and several com
panions to various 1erms, for ollenses
under the crimes act. Alter sentence
v\ns pronounced, the prisoneis sang,
“God save Kelanii.”
F. L. Jordan has been appointed su
perintendent of the bureau of engraving
and printing. Jordan has been a plate
printer in the bureau for thirteen ye ns,
and was active in the movement, which
resulted iu the discontinuance of steam
The secretary of war has decided to
accept the offer of the Indian Rights’
association to purchase a tract of land in
North Carolina for Geronimo’s band of
Indians now confined at Mt. Vernon
barracks, and to establish them there iu
more civilized mode of life.
District Attorney Pritchett, at Omaha,
Neb , on Wednesday, tiled a petition
signed by Attorney-General HIiHer, ask
ing that the alleged sale by the Union
Pacific railway of its telegraph system
between Omaha and Ogden to the West
ern Union, be set aside ns a fraud against
the government.
William Watkins, chief of police of
Parsons, a mining town, three miles from
Wilkesbarre, Pa., while on watch for
burglars inrly Tuesday morning, fell
asleep on the edge of a platform of the
Delaware and Hudson railroad depot at
that place with his head leaning forward.
He was struck by a passing train aud di
stantly killed.
Robert Laughlin, superintendent of
the Saginaw, Tit-cola and Huron rail
way, tendered his resignation on Satur
day. Realizing the change contemplated
w ould result in tie eketiou of auother
auditor and an expose of his hooks,
Rice confessed to a defalcation of $8,000.
He gives no explanation of his con
duct, only admitting that he needed
money and took it, expecting to return it
ia future.
A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says:
The captain, four sailors and uue passen
ger of a Spanish vessel, which was cap
lured by the natives have of Riff, on the coast
of Morocco, been canicd into she
interior of the country, it being the ob
ject of their captors to sell them into
slavery. The Spanish government will
make an immediate demand on the sultan
of Morocco that the prisoners be restored
to liberty.
Au important railroad decision was
rendered at Pittsburg, Pa., on Wednes
<j a y ( by Ew ing in the common
i pleas court. L. D. R. Reese was expelled
from a train of the Pennsylvania railroad
because he refused to pay ten cents extra
for cash tare, the money to be refunded
at any office of the company on preseu
taiion of a reei ipt. The judge held that
; t!ie ten ccnts <' xr *a was wrong and so in
! strutted the jury. Reese obtained a
| verdict for $250.
Three thousand men assembled outside
of Victoria dock, at London, Wednesday
morning, aud demanded the dismissal
of the men taken on during the strike,
before they returned to work. The di
rectors of the company refused to grant
the demand. The men already at work
are guarded by policemen. The direc
to s of tin dock companies have sent a
protest to Cardinal Manning and the
i.ord Mayor, asking them to use their
iniluence in the interest of peace.
A cable message has been received at
the department of state from Consul Al
len, at King-ton, Jamaica, saying that in the a
tiot occurred at Navassa, an island
C'arribbean sea, in which a number of
Americans were killed. Consul Allen
says, that at his request, a British war
sh'rp had left Jamaica for the scene, im
mediately upon receipt of the news of
the trouble. Navassa is under nopsriic
ular jurisdiction, but is regarded as
under the protection of the United
| States.
CROP BULLETIN.
Issued from the signal service bu
reau AT WASHINGTON.
The weather bulletin for the week end
ing September 14th, says: It has been
warmer than usual over the corn and cot
ton regions aud genera ly on the Atlantic
coast, the daily excess of temperature in
central valleys hanging from three de
grees lantic to nine degrees, while on the At
coast about the normal tempera
ture prevailed. It was colder than usual
fiom Dakota westward to the Pacific
• coast. There has been loss than the usual
amount of rain during the w r eek gener
ally throughout the principal agricultu
ral districts, including the corn and cot
ton regions. An excess of rainfall oc
cutred on the Atlantic coast, from Mas
sachusetts southward to North Carolina,
aud excessive rains also occurred over
limited areas iu t–e northwest, including
northern Missouri, eastern Kansas, east
ern Dakota, western Minnesota and
south-eastern Iowa. In the remaining
states of the upper Mississippi and Mis
souri valleys well distributed showers
are reported, while no rain occurred iu
the lower region of the Ohio valley,
and western Pennsylvania, lower Michigan,
over the greater portion of Tennes
see and reported Mississippi. Ouly light showers
aie over the east aud west por
tion of the cotton region.
SETTLED AT LAST.
THE STRIKERS AT LONDON. ENGLAND,
AGREE TO RESUME WORK.
The master lightermen conceded the
terms demanded by their men, and thus
the last ob-tacle to a full resumption of
of work by the strikers at London,
England, is removed, Ihe men re
sinned work Monday. Burns, at a
meeting of the strikers, proposed a vote
giatitude for colonial assistance that
had enabled the men to achieve victory.
The action of the colonial Workmen, he
3nid, was the first step toward the form
ition of the laborers’ universal federa
tion. The motion was carried unani
mously. Burns and Tillete, represent
atives of the strikers, Saturday, on
behalf of the men, signed the agreement
entered into between themselves and the
directors of the dpek companies for a
settlement of the strike.
TROUBLE AHEAD.
EXCITEMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA OVEB
TAB LYNCHING OF AN INNOCENT MAN.
The excitement in Burke county N.
on account of the lynching there
Tuesday uight of Frank Stuck, a highly
respected and popular Union county
farmer, who was suspected of murdering
a man named Parker, and who is now
believed to be innocent, grows more in
tense each day, and indications pluinly
po nt to serious trouble ahead, The
citizens of Union county have called a
mass meeting and propose organize to express
their indignation pnd a plan to
have the lynchers brought to justice,
although they realize they will have a
rough time of ir, as it appears to be the
policy of the lynchers to swing up every
man who undertakes to interfere with
them.
WORK OF THE STORM.
CltEWS OF ABANDONED VESSELS BEING
PICKED UP AT SEA.
A dispatch from Lewis, Del., says:
The bark Sorriderin, previously reported
as having lost her second metc and stew
ard oveiboard duriug the storm on the
11th instant,.picked up twelve of the crew
of the Norwegian bark Fteya,250 miles ofi
Cape Henry. They had been twenty
hours in an open boat. On the 12th, she
took live men off the water-logger) schoon
er, Carrie Ilall Luster, Captain Howland.
Monday night, in the same vicinity, the
Sorriderin pissed a vessel bottom up.
Those on board were id able to distin
guish abandoned the name of ihe wr»eked vessel.
An four-masted schooner was
also passed.
FRAUD IN LOUISIANA.
STATE OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE THE
FRAUDULENT ISSUE OF BONDS.
Investigation leans, by state officials at New
Oi and parties hugely interested in
state securities, continue to develop new
cases of fraud every day. It now ap
piurs that forgiry lias been added to the
fraudulent floating of bonds of tho state
thi ough the criminal carelessness of tho
state’s servant!*, $303,000 of con
solidaled bonds, upon which in
terest payments have ju3t been stopped,
have been surreptitiously put upon the
marker, instead of being cancelled. Ilow
tbe blank lonns got outof the possession
of their ptoper custodian, who filled them
and affixed the signatures of the gover
nor and slate, triasuicr, may only he dis
closed thruu.h the criminal courts.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN TUE SO UTS.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN TIDE SOUTHERN STATES.
Macon, Ga., had a $100,000 fire on
Wednesday night.
Governor Lee has appointed delegates
from Virginia to the National Farmers’
congiess to be held at Montgomery,
Ala., November 13th.
J. C. Dillenger, a printer, twenty-four
years old and unmariied, committed sui
cide at Birmingham, Ala., on Wednes
day afternoon Liy taking morphine.
Governor Buckner, on Monday, issued
a proclamation to the people of Harlan
county, calling upon them to aid the
state* troops in enforcing the law in that
part of Kentucky.
Great preparations are being made at
Atlanta, Ga., for holding the Piedmont
Exposition, which opens October 7thand
c oses November 2d. The railroads have
made a general rate of ore fare for the
round trip, and one cent a mile for spe
cial days.
Thursday, near Purcellville, Va., a
party of five persons were lording a
swollen stream in a wagon when two
young ladies, Miss Susie Cator, of
Georgetown, and Miss Ella Atwell, of
Alexandria, became Heightened and
jumped from the wagon into the stream
and both drowned.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to auy corporation in the south, was
^runtid by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
and Loau 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 .
A freight train on the Central Rail
road of Georgia, w T as wrecked on Mon
day night, imar Atlanta Ga. The en
gineer and fireman and a young man
named Parker, were crushed and scalded
to death. The engine and train was
completely caused demolish'd. The wreck was
by some miscreant placing a
cross-tie on the rails.
The merchants and cotton exchanges
of Memphis, Tenn., are receiving daily
protests against the adoption of the rec
ommendation of the cotton convention
recently held in New Orleans to tare
cotton wrapped in jute twenty-four
pounds, and that in bagging sixteen
pounds. Indications are that the rule
will not be adopted by the M mphis ex
change.
President Harrison, on Tuesday,
granted a pardon to Edward L. Fontain,
of the southern district of Mississippi,
sentenced to one year’s imprisonment lor
breaking into the post-office at Brook
haven. Also, to Thomas Hale, of Ten
ncss'e, sentenced April 11th, 1888, to
three y cars’ imprisonment for obstruct
ing a deputy United States marshal and
deputy United States collector.
The Southern Freight association,
which includes all prominent Southern
lines, went to pieces at St. Louis, Mo., on
Thursday, and will probably never meet
again as an association. The Cairo Short
Line gave uotice of withdrawal, and
other lines showed no desire to keep up
the organization. The association fixed
Southern freight rates, and from this on
a pursued go-as-you-please by policy will probably be
all lines.
At San Francisco, on Tuesday, Mrs.
Annie Gaba was sitting at a table in her
house with her baby in her arms and two
other small children near her, the baby
suddenly upset a coal oil lamp, which
exploded in the mother’s lap, and all
four persons were soon enveloped in
flames. The mother and baby died in a
short time. The other two children were
die. fearfully burned, and are expected to
Governor Lee, of Virginia, has received
an official communication from II. H.
Hart, third auditor of the treasury de
the partment, Washington, decision informing him of
recent of accounting officers
of the treasury, “respecting certain mon
eys advanced by the United States gov
ernment to Francis S. Pierrepont, gover
nor of Virginia in 18G5,” and demands
payment, d he total amount is $16,923.
The new dry dock jwst completed at
the Norfolk, Va., navy yard, was for
mal iy opened Thursday morning, in the
presence of a large gathering, among the
number being j rominent representatives
of the army, navy, and business men of
New York and other cities. Among the
naval officers present, were Rear Admi
ral Joueit ard Commodore White, chief
of the bureau of yards an* docks, navy
department.
SAYS IT IS NONSENSE.
AN ENGLISH ELECTRICIAN CONDEMNS EX
ECUTION BY ELECTRICITY.
In a diicussion before the British asso
ciation, at London, England, on the sub
ject of electricity, W. H. Precce, chid
electrician of the post-office department,
said that the act recent y passed by the
New York legislature, providing for the
execution of condemned criminals by
electricity, would have to be rescinded.
He claimed that it was impossible to get
a current of sufficient intensity to kill a
man with certainty. He had experi
mented with an enormous current, and
tried with a spark twenty inches long to
kill a pig, but could not. He knew ol
several iistances of persons taking
shocks, aud at the time supposed to havd
been killed, but were afterwards quitd
well. He said that the sensational re
ple ports published in newspapers about peo
being killed by sparks from e!e trie
wires had, upon investigation, toon
fouud to be nonsense.
TO GEORGIA FARMERS.
A JOINT LETTER CONTAINING VALUABLE
SUGGESTIONS “TO COTTON KAISERS.
Commissioner J. T. Henderson and
President of the Alliauee, L. P. Liviru,
stone, of Georgia, are back from Hew
Orleans, and issue the folio winrr j 0 j nt
letter to the cotton raisers ot Georgia °
which will be read with great interest by
those to whom it is addressed, and by
thousands of others: “The action taken
at Hew Orieans on the 11th insf. by the
convention composed of delegates from
the cotton exchanges of the United
priced States Agreeing that all cotton should be
and sold net. and fixing the tare
at twenty-four pounds on each bale cov
ered in jute, and sixteeu pounds on each
bale covered in cotton standard baa<rin<r
action three-fourths’ is to become pounds per yard, by'theit
after the first day of operative on and
avail October, which will
to every farmer selliug cotton on and
after that date, covered iu cotton bag
ging. fourteen pounds per bale over the
present tare allowed, and this, at ten
cents $1.40 per pound, makes a net gain of
per bale. Also, cotton covered
with jute, a gain of six pounds per hale,
at 10 cents, or a gain of CO cents per
bale. This, on a crop of 7,500,000 bales
estimated gain crop of $2,800,000 for 1889, is $<3,100,00o',
or a on 2,C00,000
biles covered in cotton, and $0,800,000
on 5,500,000 bales covered iu jute. Now,
will not all cotton producers fall into
line at ouce, and back up this liberal and
just action on the part of the cotton ex
changes? From October 1st, no maa
need complain of less on cotton covered
in cotton, and all using jute can thank
this noble body of men lor the gain of
GO cents per bale on cotton thus cov
ered. J. T. Henderson,
Commi sioner of Agiiculture.
L. F. Livingston,
President Georgia Farmer’s Alliance.”
A LIVELY CHASE.
CITIZENS OF A KANSAS TOWN PURSUING
TUE COUNTY TREASURER.
Bitter feeling between citizens of Ra
venna and Eminence, Kansas, over the
unsettled county seat question, was re
newed Saturday by the removal by W.
T. Williams, treasurer of the county, of
the records of his office from Ravenna
to Eminence. The guard of Ravenna
citizens who had been detailed to watch
the treasurer to prevent this
removal, were at the time in
attendance upon the judicial
district convention, and Williams
loaded the records of his office into a
wagon and was about to drive off, when
the alarm was given. The guards hur
ried from the convention and, arming
themselves, they started in pursuit. On
the way they mistook another wagon for
the treasurer’s and followed the wrong
trail. They fired several shots at ihe
supposed fugitive, who finally escaped.
In the meantime Williams had reached
Eminence and put the records in a place
of safety. The citizens of Eminence
havo armed themselves in anticipation of
an attempt by the Ravenna people to
capture the records and return them to
their citv.
DISASTROUS FLOODS.
THIRTY THOUSAND PEOPLE LOSE THEIH
LIVES IN JAPAN,
A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal.,
on Gaelic Wednesday, says: The steamship
drowned places the total number of per
sons iu the floods in August in
the city of Wukniaimi and in the districts
of Minami-Muro, Higashi-Muro, Nishi*
Muro ui.d Hidaki, Japan, at 10,000,
and the number receiving rebel at
20,048. The river Kinokun swelled from
12 to 18 feet above its normal level and
the embankments at the village of Iwah
ashi were washed away. Imrnediately
the village and about forty-eight other
hamlets were cova - ed by the raging
waters. On the morning of August 19th
an enormous mass of earth tell from a
mountain wai, stopping near the village of Tennoko- of
the course of the river
the same name, which, being already
swollen greatly, submerged the village
and drowned nearly all the inhabitants.
A number of villagers took refuge in
their tents when the river began rising,
but when the landslide occurred aboul
fiftY persons were buried alive,
SPREADING RAILS
CAUSE THE WRECK OF A PASSENGER
TRAIN KILLING SEVERAL PEOPLE.
An east bound St. Louis and S in Fran
cisco passenger train was derailed lieai
Leon, Butler county, Kan., on Thursday,
by the spreading of rails. Three passen
ger coaches rolled down a fifteen-foot
embaukmcn'. It. M. Bcruis was instantly
killed; Isaac Dean aud Mrs. Mutseka,
both of Wichita, wete fatally cru-hed by
tho weight of the car. Mrs. John Mitch
ell, of Fort Smith, Ark., had one arm
and one leg broken. Mrs. It A. llodges,
of Arkansas City, had an arm and seve
ral ribs broken, and may die. It. I*.
Lathrop, leg broken of Kansas City, had his right
in two places and received in
ternal injuries. About ten more were
slightly injured.
ROBBING UNCLE SAM.
MONTANA’S EX-SECRETARY ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT.
William Webb was arrested at Helena,
Mont., on Tuesday, charged with em
bezzling the funds of the United States
while acting as secretary of the territory.
Webb was appointed secretary of Mon
tana in 1885 by President Cleveland, and
held the office until removed by Presi
dent Harrison lust April. An examina
tion of bis books show a deficit of
over $4,000.
