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Ti'.e Egyptian Government has noli.
6ed tiis French Government that the
latter’s refusal to accept the conversion
scheme will cost Egypt yearly $1,033,
030 .
The Trans vial (Africa) Volksraad is
reported to have placed $ .00,000 on the
estimates for the current year, for the
purpose of endowing the first University
of the Republic.
The Emperor of Austria reads 14
newspapers a day, each of which is
printed in a different dialect. They are
Ghe lcad.ng papers of the chief towns of
ihe Austro-Hungarian Emr>ire,
The ocean freight of this country fo:
the last fiscal year amounted to $200,-
500,000, and foreign ships carried all but
$20,000,009 of it. The latter, carried
6y ships of our own, was mostly coasting
trade. “Fine thing!” remarks the Gin
tinnati Enquirer.
* —rY
TVe have 15,009,000 more people than
France, and so much more land that
ihere is no comparison between the two
countries. A'et France has 5,000,000
proprietors of small farms and 2 000,000
proprietors of real estate in towns and
•cities, whereas in the United States,
■laments the Atlanta Constitution, wa
have not altogether more than 3,003,
000 landed proprietors.
'Says the New York Sun: An Italian
savant, Dr. Malincoaico of Naples, pre
tends to have discovered something bet
ter yet than the elixir of Professor
lirown-Sequard. He has just discover
ed the microbe of oi l age, aud lie is
now engaged in thinking about the best
way to kill him. When one thinks of
the length of time that this hoary-hea 1
cd old microbe has been in concealment,
the value of Dr. Mai inconico’s discovery
jean be easily appreciated.
'The Swiss government distributes a
sum of nearly $300,000 each year as
premiums for bulls iu the 24 cantons of
Switzerland, and, according to a return
which has just been published,there are
18,391 bulls in these cantons. The
amount of premiums allotted to each
...... is prop r n vrtinne rtione 1 l tot.ie to the further further
strm given bv the Canton itself, and the
premiums are not pai l over until it is
nroved P that the auima’s to which they
rdcd , , aVG . beea US6d , £ , ° r *
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getting stock.
The United States F.sh Commission
distributed during the fiscal year 100,
OOO yearling fish of the Mississippi Val
ley, 228,030 brook trout eggs, 11,000
one-year-old brook trout, 1G8, 000 rain
bow trout and 60,000 one-year oils,
X60,000 Loch Levcn trout egg«, 5,000
000 California salmon fry, 750,003 At
lantic salmon fry, 136,003 German
r.arp, 10,003 gold fiffi, 5030 red-ered
perch, 20,000,030 codfish, 8,000,000
pollock, 195,000 white fish eggs, 50,
000,009 wall-eye pike aud 101,768,000
ill ad fry.
Tho new French law of nationality
■declares that a Frenchman’s son born in
the United States is a citizen of France.
The federal constitution declares that
■every person bora in the United States
and subject to its jurisdiction is an
American citizen. Under this law the
eon born in the United States of French
parents is an American citizen, provided
the parents are resident here and not
oiercly sojourners—visitors or travellers,
jlud a3 au American citiz u ho would be
•entitled to protection in France, not
withstanding the conflicting law of that
• country._
The arrangements of the Census
iBureaa are on an immense scale, al
ithough now only one-tenth of what they
will be a year hence. Ono hundred
"typewriters are now at work; next
"March 2,000 clerks will be kept busy,
next June 40, 000 enumerators will be
scouring the country, fifty female type
writers will bo clicking away next week.
The typewriter is to eutirely exclude
pen copy. Mr. Porter expecting there
by to save up wards of $2),000. Over
% hundred thousand applications for
employment have already been received,
»nd the communications arc answered
as promptly as possible. Twenty-five
topographers and ten stenographers are
at work, and 250,003 envelopes ar*
used each mon'li.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS ,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPFENINGS OF INTEREST,
The Swiss government has adopted the
smokeless powder lor her army.
The recent fire in the temple of heaven,
in China, was of incendiary origin. Sev
eral arrests have been made.
The schooner Erie capsized on Monday
eight, near Port Rowan, Ont., and eight
persons were drowned.
A number of branches <»f the National
league in the counties of Waterford and
Tipperary, Ireland, have been suppressed.
It is rumore'd that the German govern
ment will ask a credit for 300,000,000
marks for bronze guns for the new smoke
less powder.
Up to the recess Tuesday night 627
jurors had been excused in the Cronin
case in and at Chicago, four accepted passed. and sworn
four temporarily
The Rotterdam, Holland, dock labor
ers’ strike was brought to an end on
Wednesday. The modified terms of the
employers were accepted by the men.
The firm of Gibson, Parish – Co., of
Chicago, III., account was forced of the to embezzlement apply for a
receiver on
of $39,000 by Harry F. Clifford, their
bookkeeper. * 1
Eleven nlen were killed by an Upheaval
of the earth in a quarry near Lima, O.,
on lowed Thursday. by The upheaval was fob
the spouting feet of a subterranean
stream of water 200 into the air.
7 ugUs A f, Ilelmont, , . of - __ New , N r ork, , , has
ordered $o00 000 m gold for export.
ajsa t y office does not know where
he gold is to be shipped. Belmont –
Co. also refuse any information about it.
General Samuel I). Sturgis, U. S. A.,
died at his home in St. Paul, Minn., on
Sunday. Point, He graduated from West
in 1846, along with George B.
McClellan, Stonewall Jackson,Stonemau,
Pickett and many other famous soldiers.
A construction train on the M icky
railroad left the track at a point about
eighteen miles west of Bedford, Iud.,
Thursday afternoon. Ten of twenty
eight men on the train were seriously in
iured. Six were dangerously hurt, while
two will die.
Shipping circles at Baltimore were
somewhat disturbed on Moudav. at a
yellow fever flag displayed on the British
steamer rived Recta, Captain Lowe, which ar
in ballast from St. Lucia. West
Indies, to load for London. She is at
quarantine with three seamen sick.
Action has been commenced bv Attor
ney General Tabor against the assembly
ceiling ® contractor, John Sr.nith, in the
______ supreme court ot Oneida county, New
York, to recover $250,563. The Albany
county sheriff on Monday arrested
Smith, ’ who gave ° bail in $50,000. ’
c “' 8 P atck trom London says:
^ be deficiency ,,, . in cotton stock strength
e ns the corner which has now assumed a
serious aspect. It is reported that the
chief operator in the corner has made
arr;ln g eiI1 cnts to send the bulk of cotton
tendered him to Havre, and thus starve
Liverpool market.
At a meeting of the creditois of Gib
son, Parish – Co., of Chicago, Parish
stated that Clifford, the absconding
book keeper of the firm had carried off
between $40,000 aud $100,000 of the
firm’s assets, and he was inclined to think
the latter figure nearer the correct one
than the former.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says:
The boom in steel and iron rivals the
memorable advance of 1884. Steel rails
to-day cannot be bought for less than
$33 per ton, and manufacturers are quite
independent believed on these figures, for it is
confidently the price will reach
$35.
Leon Leonardi, Italian private banker,
at 41 Park street, New York, disap
peared lurch. on Monday, They leaving principally his clients in
the were of the
laboring class. Nothing was left in the
bank except the safe and all the furni
ture of Leonardi’s residence xvas sold,
llis depositors number 800 or 900.
• J. K. Tallier, leader of the gang who
robbed the train on the Sonora railroad,
near Nogales, Ariz., a year ago last May,
and who killed Conductor Atkinson and
Fireman Forbes, and who was subse
quently convicted of the crime and sen
tenced to deatlg was shot early Monday
morlnng "by Mexican authorities at Gu
avama8.
The suicide of a whole family is re
ported from Odessa, Russia. A schocl
teacher named Sause committed suicide,
whereupon his widow became insane
She first threw three of her children out
of a third-story window, and then, tak
ing the other two in her arms, jumped
out with them. All were killed.
On ex-Queen Natalie’s visit to Bel
grade,her presence was totally ignored b./
government officials, but slie was re
ceived most enthusiastically by crowds
that passed. thronged the priyate streets residences through which and
she On
places of business throughout the city
flags were displayed in. her honor.
1 he tin plate and shcet.iron workers of
Boston, Mass., and vicinity, have de
cided to fcavo the Knights of Labor and
organize immediate an cavise independent of withdrawal union. is said The
to
be-the support given by district
30 aud general offices to the cigarmakers’
local assembly. A mass meeting the will be
held Tuesday membership to act upon question of
applying for in the amalga
mated building trades couucil.
A frightful Ashtabula wreck pccurred division on the
Youngstown – of the
Pennsylvania company’s tines at Haz'c-
stantly killed and Conductor Ben Milner
badly injured. A freight train going
west broke in two going up a steep grade,
and the detached part ran back to en
gine 231 going*in the same direction.
The eugiue was wrecked and saveral
freight cars were smashed to kindling
wcod
DISCUSSING THE TARE.
SOME RESOLUTIONS OP VAST IMPORTANCE
TO COTTON GROWERS.
The National Cotton committee and
the Tare committee of the National Al
liance held a secret s< ssion at Atlanta,
Ga., Monday night. It is rumored that
the joint committees are preparing some
instructions which will be wide-reaching
in their effect. These are instructions to
sll the primaries, wheels uud unions, ad
vising and instructing them to ho'd,
meetings ar.d petition the governors of
each of the cotton states to call the leg
islatures in extra ses-ion to suspend the
processes of the courls for the collection
of debts for six months, The object of
this action, they say, is “to thwart aiid
prevent the robbery planned and deter
mined against them.’’ The tare question
was discussed by the committee, and af
ter a careful consideration the following
resolutions The association were of adopted: the American “Where^i,
Cotton
exchange met in New Orleans on the 11th
j I rious instant, (Commissioners and in conjunction of agriculture with the aud va
I representatives of the farming interests,
dld “commend that cotton be sold by
net weight And as a Mhereas, solution ot the tare
question; Ihe acaon
takeu b ? tbe ISe w 0r ean9 H t0Q ® X
change in favor f of { assisting the , farmers to
g = e t £ paid f or the 8 pounds more cotton that
ac cotton _ wrap )ed bale contains than
the j J ute . covered bale is highly appreci
ated by the committee and the determi
riation of said exchange to continue to
contend for the cause, in spite of the fact
that many leading exchanges had de
serted it, is e*fiec ally commendable, and
will be co-oporated in by the interests we
represent; and. Whereas, The justice
aild equity of the farmer’s claim on the
tare question is based on the one fact,
which stands boldly out undisputed and
indisputable, that every cotton-wrapped
bale actually contains eight pounds more
of lint cotton than it would if covered
with jute; therefore, it is hereby Re
solved, That the action had by the
Shreveport Cotton exchange be adopted
the present emergency, and every far
nier is hereby instructed when
offering for sale cotton wrapped _ in cot
ton bagging, to demand payment for
eight pounds more cotton than the act-
11:11 g r08S weight of such bale. Resolved
second; That this action is intended to
s ^ede and bike U1Stn the place ot all pr<v
actlOU im( f lon9 m r f^ nl
to the tare question. . In shall
1 no case a
balc . , , cotton . be s ? id ™ b J ect *° a dock , ,
of sixteen pounds for cotton bagging, or
twenty-lour pounds for jute bagging as
agreed upon m New Orleans, unless the
cotton be sold at a half cent per pound
advance of the current price at that
time and place. R. J. Sledge, Chairman,
.' Ml L Donaldson Smith Carolina
W LNorthen, Georgia; R. F. Kolb,’
Alabama; W. L. Lacey, Mississippi; A.
p Hatcher, Louisiana; Oswald Wilson,
Florida; S. B. Alexander, North Caro
lina; B. M. Hord, Tennessee; L. P.
Feathcrstone. Arkansas,
A HUGE COMBINE.
TENNESSEE AND ALABAMA- CAPITALISTS TO
UNITE IN A BIG SCHEME.
A number of prominent Tennessee and
Alabama capitalists have for several day.i
beeu iu consultation in Nashville, Tenn.,
with a view to organizing a mining and'
manufacturing company, which will be
the largest iu the south, exceeding even
the Tennessee Coal and Iron company.
The gentlemen interested left for Ala
bama Friday, to effect a corporate organ
ization of the company. The deal is the
most important which has occurred in
that section. The plan embraces ttie con
solidation of the LaGrange, JEtna, and
Warner Furnace companies, the Roane
Iron company, of Chattanooga, the
Wayne County Iron company, and other
properties, bix furnaces, now in opera
tion, are involved in the deal, and many
thousand acres of fine ore lands in Hick
man, Stewart and Wayne counties. The
main object is to manufacture charcoal,
iron and steel on a big scale, and to es
tablish a steel rail mill. The ultimate
object is reported to be the consolida
tion of aULthe charcoal furnaces in Ten
nessee and Alabama in a tremendous
combination. It is said that the amount
of bonds to be issued with first instal
ment will be $3,000,000, and $6,000,000
r»f atorks
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
THE RESIDENCE PORTION OF GRAND
UAVEN, MICHIGAN, BURNED OUT.
A large part, aud the best part, of the
residence portion of • Grand Haven,
Mich., was wiped out by a great fire
Tuesday morning. Among the buildings
burned are the following: The Cutler
hou e, one of the best hotels in Michi
gan; the residence of Dwight-Butler, a
beautiful place, filled with exquisite fur
niture, valuable pictures and works , of
art. The residences of Mrs. Slayton, T.
A. D. Parris, George D. Sanford, • Capt.
McCullom, A. S. Kenzre.' Three
churches were burned—the First ■ Re
formed, Unitarian and Methodist. Be
sides these there were thirty residences.
No lives were lost. The sweep of fire
included both sides of Main street from
Slayton’s grocery, wlure the fire origi
nated, to Ackely institute, and everything
iu its path was wiped out. The total
loss is about $500,000, with a fair
amount of insurance.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE S0 UTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOIN i ON OF
IMFOHTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATE?.
The Florence, Ala., bank has been i
au
thorized to begin business with a capital
of $50,000.
The property of the North Alabama
Lumber company of Bridgeport, Ala.,
was attached by creditors Thursday.
The Atlantic and Danville railroad was
formaly opened Monday between Dan
ville, Va., aud Milton, N. C., by ekx
excursion of business men.
The directors of the Ladies’ Hermitage
association of Nashville, on Tuesday sent
an invitation to the delegates of the in
ternational congress to visit the home of
Andrew Jackson.
The Hamilton county, Tenn., five per
cent, twenty year bridge bonds on Tues
day sold to Forster. Leech – Co., of
Chicago, for 104 plus. The sale is re
garded as most satisfactory.
North Carolina will pay Hie principal—
$147,000 -on an old claim of the Uuited
Stab's government, but will leave the
question of interest to the United States
supreme cou:t.
The lialtimore American announces
that the Maryland White Lead company
has been absorbed by the national lead
trust, and that the stock of the company
was turned over to the trust Thursday.
The village of Cambria, Cal., was al
most entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday.
The post-office, telegraph and express
offices were totally destroyed. The total
loss is about $125,000; insurance about
$12,000.
One of the largest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, was
granted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Building
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,
900.
A war among the boats on the Chatta
hoochee Tuesday, was inaugurated at Columbus,
Ga., on and the half rate -null
prevail hereafter. Cotton will be trans
ported to Brunswick for fifty-five cents a
bale instead of per hundred pounds as
heretofore. The fight premises to be a
lively one.
The grand jury of the parish of Or
leans, La,,, met Tuesday and investigated
the state bond fraaid. The session of the
grand jury lasted four hours, and nine
indictments were found against some
person or persons charged with fraud
and embezzlement. No mames are given,
but it seems to be well understood that
ex-treasurer E. A. Burke is a party in
each case.
A letter received at Greensboro, N. C.,
on Wednesday, Michigan from Russell A. Alger,
the millionaire, says that he
intends to visit North Carolina in the
near future with a view of investing
some of his vast accumulated wealth. It
is not known just what line of business
he will interest himself in, but it is be
lieved he will place a good deal of money
in the state.
Governor Fowle, of North Carolina, in
reply to the letter from the secretary of
war, suggesting the removal of the In
dians at Mount Vernon barracks to the
mountain sections of North Carolina, ex
presses disapproval of the proposition, as
that section is in process of rapid settle
ment by the whites, and suggests that
the Indians be located on the abandoned
lands of Vermont.
Monday closed the Danville Ya., to
bacco year. The sales of leaf tobacco on the
warehouse floors for the year were 28,-
803,363 pounds, a decrease from last
year’s sales of two and a half millions.
The average price waa»$8.75 per hundred.
The decrease in the sales was due to a
short crop. The sales of the manufac
tured $5,807,000 product since January were
pounds, an increase over the
same time last year of nearly two million
pounds.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala.,
says: “Six hundred miners at the Coal
berg coal mines of the Sloss Iron and
Steel Company went out on a strike flies
day morning. The company has been
paying fifty cents per ton for mining
and fifty cents at slopes where the vein
was thin. Last week they notified the
men of a reduction to fifty cents at some
ot the slopes*, where they had beeu oay
iiig nrty-Iive, and at a meeting of the
miners a strike against the reduction was
ordered.
The Peabody Norma! college at Nash
ville, Tenn., opened Wednesday morning
for the session of 1889-90. There were
262 enrolled students from the following
states: Alabama 24, Arkansas 9, Flori
da, 2, Georgia 10, Louisiana 7, Missis
sippi 1, Missouri 1, North Carolina 15,
Ohio 1, South Carolina 12, Tennessee
142, Texas 12, West Virginia 12 and
Virginia 12. This is the largest number
is ever present i;t the college. Kentucky
the only Southern state not repre
sented.
A Pensacola, Fla., special to the Jack
sonville Times- Union says: At a meeting
of the city commissioners held Thursday,
muniettfe Major Chipley was instructed to com
with the mayors of Montgom
leans, ery, Birmingham, Mobile, Savannah, Nashville, N^w.’Or
other cities Charleston and
to induce a joint effort to
have the present route of the foreign, del
egates to the International American
import–nt Congress so changed as to include all
cities of the South aud Gull
ports.”
■WILLIAM J. FRY. a vmi-irnown younz
man In Allegheny, Penn., committed suicide
recently by plunging a lead pencil repeat
edly into his breast directly over the heart.
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
THE CENTRAL AND »OUTH AMERICAN DEl,.
EOATES TO BE SHOWN AROUND.
A train of Pullman cars, which, in it
appointments and arrangements for 3
n«y.is believed to be without jour
in the history of railroading, a will precedent
Washington, D. C., Tnursday, }eav«
on bear
ing representatives of American nations
to the international conference to be held
next month at the national capital. The
party, a3 guests of the government, art
to be taken over a large section of the
United States, in order that they may
see and appreciate, to some extent the
vast resources of this country. Congress
at tnry its of last state session, invite authorized delegates the secre’
to from all
South and Central American nations to a
convention to be held in Washington
November 14tb, for the purpose
cial of discu-fiog and financial reciprocal, comnier
of the countries inteVIltS’
and appropriated $125,000 reprssen–r for
the ex
penses of the convention. Under this
authority, and as preliminary to the
convention, the state department i–glu*
ized this tour of commercial and mauu
facturing cities of the Uuited States
with the prime object of showing the
visitors the country. the great natural resourefs of
The Pennsylvania Railroad
company agreed to undertake the task ol
arranging aud carrying on the details for
this unprecedented trip. It is unique in
at least two respects, namely, in that
there will be no change of cars through
out and this the entire will be distance the first known of 5,046 instance mife^
where railways have permitted an entire
train, with its own engine, crew, etc., to
pass from other roads over their lines.
The train will pass over the main lines ol
thirty different railway corporations
passing through the states of Maryland
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut!,
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wi».
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Missouri and Kentucky, twenty in all.
A crew of twenty-six men will be re
quired to run the train which, as it
stands, tepresents a cost of $150,000.
CHICAGO’S PLUCK.
HER BUSINESS MEN DONATING LIBERALLT
TO THE WORLD’S FAIR PROJECT.
Friday was a red-letter day in the sub
scription department of the Chicago,
Ill., world’s fait project. F. J. Lehman,
drew a check tor $50,000; John V. Far
well followed suit to the extent of $25,
000, and James H. Walker, Carson Pierie,
Scott – Co., and Man del Bros, each,
put themselves down for a similar
amount. Seigel, Cooper – Co., Morgan
than, La’oold – Co., C. W. – E. Tar
dridge, and Schlcasinger – Mayer, be
tween them, put up $50,000. This,
with the subscription of $100,000 by
Marshall Field, makes a total of $300,
000 subscribed by the dry-goods $100,000 mer
chants. It is expected secured that from ether
additional will be
houses in the same line within a day or
two.
NEWS FROM MEXICO.
VISITED BY TERRIBLE STORMS—CROPS
RUINED—MUCH SUFFERING.
A dispatch from Mexico says: The
main force of the storm that visited Ca
jio country within the past few days has
abated, although iu its track desolation
is apparent on all sides. The second crop
of corn, which was very large, is a par
tial loss. This will entail great suffering
among the laboring classes. Trains ou
the Mexican railroad are again running
regularly. The town of Celaya still re
mains inundated. Inhabitants living in
the lower streets have been removed to
the old San Franciscan convent for safe
ty. Fields in the vicinity of Leon are
all under water. It is estimated that the
loss of crops in Bajio country will he
over $500,000.
ON A BOOM.
qq lc new e ;ty directory, of Dallas,
Texas, just completed, shows that the
c j ty ) ias over 60,000 people. In
Dallas had a population of 17,000, 1885 m 6
]883 it had grown to 21,830, in
had 40,000, since which time the city
[ 1U s gained more than 13,000.
Chinamen in New York.
The Chinese quarter iu Mott street ,
offers a very interesting sight on Sunday ^
afternoons. Brooklyn, All the luundrynien h' 0111 j
of Connecticut, Jersey City, and even the fcah- j i
come here on
bath and make that day a time of h'* -
tivity. Dressed in rich silk govin?, iU1
smoking the ever present pi]' e - bl0 - f
lounge on the stoops, promenade li<j* 1(ir > tt j
front of tlieir houses, or visit the i
stores -a>ite the in Excise the neighborhood, law, have convenR' which,^ 11 !
a
side door open, to indulge in tm
ductive milk punch or the festive C(K ,, |
tail, “allee samee like Melichn be nia “. ;
Chinamen, although it may not gt“ j
orally known, fond of Anieia.i ^
are very
mixed drinks, milk punches, gin c "' 1
tails and brandy smashes Paving
call. I was talking to a bartender d
lisp uses liquid refreshments in one
he saloons contiguous to I^ott sto >
and could he informed me that 1 Without a ..Chin#™ ‘ .
stand more liquor ordinary ' ^
consequences than two fie i
any other nationality He Said
seen n Chinaman stand up to the
and drink fifteen milk pimcheB being y 1 ,
hour and a half, the drinks „
afterwards at short interval*, walked and out that the straigh “(j‘ n • %
as
lord.—[New York Graphic.