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GENERAL NEWS.
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NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE3,
1 IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The Italian government has refused
to iec,ive Mashan Effeudi, w T hom the
portj wishes to appoint us Turkish am
bassador to i aly.
The bodies of thirty-seven of the men
killed in the explosion in Bentelee col
liery, at Longton. England, on Wednes
day, have been recuveted.
Up to the recess Tuesday night G27
jurors had been excused in the Cronin
case at Chicago, four accepted and sworn
in and four temporarily passed.
The trial of Father McFadden, charged
with having participated in the murder
of Inspector Martin at Gwedore, in Feb
ruary last, began Thursday.
By t ie capsizing of the schooner
Laura in East Iiiver, New' York, on
Tuesday, William James Hughes and
Alexander Christie were drowned, and
Captain Eugene McLean and James Law
ler si veely injured.
A dispath from Sofia to the Cologne
Gazette , says that the Austrian Lander
Bank, jointly with the German banks,
has loaned the Bulgarian government
25,000,000 frmes, of which 10,000,000 is
to be paid immediately and the remain
der in two installments.
Theie is a great rush of speculators
and boomers to Pierre, the new capital
of South Dakota. On Friday a large
number of spe ulators from Kansas City,
Omaha, Denver, and as far west as the
Pacific coast reached the embryo city to
invest and to help make things hum.
The finance committee of the World’s
Fair, at New York, on Thursday re
solved to take, without further delay,
the necessary steps to obtain subscrip
tions to guarantee $5,000,000, and a sub
committee w'us appointed to prapare the
necessary subscription books for that
jurpose.
The threatened strike of the bakers be
came general at Newark, N. J., on
Wednesday. Five hundred men are now
out on strike, and a boycott has been or
dered against the boss bakers. Pickets
are keeping New Y T ork men from going
to work and persuading them to go
home.
The announcement that the steamers
lad advanced their freight L.tes caused
considerable stir on the floor of the pro
duce exchange, at New York, on
Wednesday. Freight on grain has ad
vanced to 5£ pence per bushel. This is
the highest figure reached for this sea
son’s crop.
United States government officers have
seized llie distillery ol Freiburg – Work
urn, of Lynchburg, Ohio, upon the
charge of defrauding the Uuited States
by equalizing shortages from shrinkage
in packages before the guager measures
the contents. The whisky seized amounts
to more than a million gallons.
A dispatch from Kansas City, says:
II. D. Gregg, for many years private
secretary of General Stieridan when the
general had his headquarters in Chicago,
III. , and for some time department clerk
at Washington, and later a newspaper
man at Omaha, Neb., w r as sentenced to
the penitentiary Tuesday for horse steul
ing.
, Dr. Talmige, of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
whose celebrated tabernacle was de
stroyed by fire, one week ago, announced
on Sunday that the trustees of his
church had purchased property 150x200
feet, on the corner of Clinton and Greene
avenues, for the erection of a new taber
nacle. The ground will be broken on the
28th inst.
The Pope, in an address to some
French pilgrims, at Rome, on Sunday,
advised the formation of an association
which shall be devoted to securing the
material welfare of the workmen by
procuring increased facilities for labor,
calculating principles of economy and
defending the rights and legitimate
claims of workmen.
The senior class of Harvard college, at
Boston, Mass., on Saturday, elected o
colored man, Clement Morgan, as class
irutor. The election was hotly contested
nut Morgan received a substantial major
ity, about 270 men voting. Last year as
i c> mpetitor for the B >ylston prizes hq
carried his audience by storm and won
the first prize.
The firm of Lissfierger, Solomon –
Brown, wholesale dry goods and cotton
factors, of Waco, Texas, state that the}
are temporarily embarrassed, and on
Tuesday made a sale of their stocks of
goods und store to II B. Clafhn – Co.,
of New York, their principal creditors.
Liabilities are placed at about $950,000,
with assets estimated at $1,200,000.
Exports of specie from the port ot
New York for week ending Saturday,
Oct. 19th, amounted to $487,855, ol
which $02,830 was in gold and $455,025
in silver. Of the total exports, $17,000
in gold anti $454,050 in silver went to
Europe and $15,830 in gold and $875 in
silver to South America. Imports of
spec ie for the week was $34,234, of which
$20,299 was in gold and $7,905 in silver.
A strike of moulders at Pittsburg, Pa.,
was inaugurated Monday. Two weeks
ago they made a demand for an advance
ot ten per cent in their wages, but up to
a late hour Saturday night, none of the
manufacturers had conceded the in
crease, and at a meeting it was decided
to about strike on Monday morning. There are
1,000 moulders in the city.
Empress daughters Frederick, accompanied by
her Princess Charlotte, Prin
cess Victoria. Princess Sophia and Piiu
Sax-Meinengen, cess Margarette und Prince Bernhard, of
husband of Princess
Charlotte, left Berlin, Germany, on Sat
urday, for Venice, on their way to Ath
ens, where Princess Sophia is to be mar
lied on the 27th inst. to the crown prince
of Greece.
The coffin containing the remains of
Ralph Waldo Emerson,at Concord,Mass.,
whose grave was disturbed last week,and
whose skull -was erroneously reported to
have been carried away, has been placed
in a securely bound box, which has in
turn been deposited in a grave composed
of blocks of granite cemented together
and securely fastened with a granite cov
ering. The generally accepted theory is
that the vandalism was committed to
create a sensation.
About three weeks ago Dr. E. T.
Schneider, of Pelee Island, was taken ill
with a disease which proved to be small
pox. Wednesday word came from Pelee
that there were nearly one hundred cases
of the disease on the island. The Can
adian government has established a
quarantine against the island The
state board of health at Columbus, Ohio,
has issued an order closing all ports
along the shores of Lake Erie against
Pelee Island.
At one o’clock Thursday, the grand
jury of Chicago came into court and
banded up twelve indictments, eleven of
which w r ere for every day crimes. The
twelfth was a joint bill against Mark Sal
omen, John Graham,Thomas Kavanaugh,
Fred Smith, Jeremiah O’Donnell, Alex
ander L. Hanks and Joseph Keen. All
of these men were already under indict
ment for conspiracy tobr;de the jurymen
in the Cronin case.
A terrible wreck occurred on the Bur
lington and Missouri road,at Gibson,a few
miles from Omaha, Nebraska, Wednes
day. About fifty passengers were in
jured. Tw r o engines were completely
de nolished, and a chair c r md combin
ation car were th own from the ira’ks
end reduced to atoms. The combination
coach and chair car w r ere both crowded
with i a te igers, all of whom were more
or less injured. Many of the passengers
were badly burned in addition to their
other
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
LEADING IRISHMEN WILL MAKE EFFORTS
TO IMPROVE TI1E ORDER.
It is announced on the authority
of a prominent member of the
Irish National league, who is a resident
of St. Louis, Mo., that there is a move
ment on foot within the league to in
crease its numerical strength, and place
it on a firmer basis than it has ever been.
In the past year the affairs in Chicago
have done much to create a wrong im
pression of the league, and it has been
affected to a considerable extent. It is
denied explicitly that thb league has in
any way been mixed up with the Clan
na-Gael or Cronin murder. Rev. Father
O’Reilly and Colonel John Atkinson, of
Detroit, have gone to England for the
purpose of consulting Mr. Parnell and
his friends on this subject, and Charles
O’Brien, who has just returned from a
conference at Detroit with Father
O’Reilly, left for Lincoln, Nebraska, to
consult with John Fizgerald, president
of the league, and make arrangements
lor a thorough organization in the whole
country.
VANDERBILT’S PARK,
4,000 ACRES IN THE SUBURBS OF a. IK
A r ILLE, N. C., BOUGHT FOR A PARK.
The purchase of 4,000 acres of land,
by G. W. Vanderbilt, the millionaire,
in the suburbs of Asheville, N. C., is a
matter of current notoriety, Mr. Van
derbilt is now 7 at Asheville, and brought
with him from New York city one of
the best-known architects of Gotham,
and a landscape gardener from Europe.
It is now certain that he well make
his large boundary into a park, not
unlike Tuxedo park in New York. The
work of laying off these 4,000 acres com-!
menced Friday, making drives, artificial
lakes, fountains and other natural orna
ments suited to the location. This prop
srty will be made by fur the most mag
nificent ami attractive of its kind to be
found in the south. It will giadually
be made a seclusive resort 1'or northern
millionaires, each of whom will own his
cottage for summer use.
A HARD WINTER,
PREDICTIONS OF A LONG AND HARD
WINTER BY A VETERAN.
N. K. Masten, formerly cashier of the
Nevada bank, of San Francisco, Cal.,
and a lesident of the coast for sixty
years, predicts the longest and coldest
winter the Pacific coast his ever expe
rienced. He said: “I have just come
from California, and it is already be
ginning to get cold. Low ranges of
mountains—in fact, parts of the foothills
that have never been known to heve
snow on them even in the dead of win
ter—are already covered with a white
mantle, and have been for several weeks.
There is one, to me, significant fact, and
that is that the fall geese flight is almost
over now, and not in one year for the
last tifiy has this flight begun until
October 15.”
TOO PUBLIC-SPIRITED.
Emmet V. Rhoades, cashier of the
First National bank of St. Paris, Ohio,
pleaded guilty in the United States
court, to misappropriation of the hank’s
funds, on Thursday. It was shown that
there was no ultimate intention of de
frauding the bank, and the money was
used in a public-spirited effert to advance
the interests of his coramunily. The
minimum sentence, five years in the pen
itentiary was made.
SODTIIEM NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOXX3 ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Florida has received twenty awards
and four gold medals on its exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
Edward A. Perry,ex governor of Flor
ida, died at Kerrville, Texas, on Tues
day, from paralysis, after an illness of
about a week.
Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, one of Geor
gia’s wealthiest and most respected citi
zens, died at his residence m Athens,
Ga., on Sunday, at the age of seventy
one years.
At a special meeting of the board of
directors of the New Orleans board of
t adc, limited, held on Friday, the fol
lowing was unanimously adopted: the
‘‘Resolved, That this board favors
city o^Chicago as the site for the World’s
fair of 1892.”
A special from Ja k on, Tenn., s;yys:
Two Deputy United Mates Marshals ar
rived here Saturday morning having in
custody Bill Matton, the oldest moon
shiner in southern Kentucky. West
Tennessee officers have been searching
for him for the past twenty five years.
A dispatch, on Saturday, from Nash
ville, Tenn., says. Congressman Whitt
horn, of the seventh Tennessee district
and at one time chairman of the commit
tee on naval affairs in the house of rep
resentatives, is lying at the point of
death at his home in Columbia.
Governor Seay of A’t.bama, while in
New York on Tuesday, placed through
Uhlfelder Bros., of Montgomery, tne
new issue of $954,000 state bonds, bear
ing 4 per cent., at one and one-tenth
premium. The bonds were taken by the
New York Security and Trust company,
of which the late secretary of the treas
ury, Fairchild, is president. The bonds
run thiity years.
The Birmingham Age-Herald states that
agents of the Corona coal mines and the
Virginia and Alabama mines at Patton
have just closed a contract w'ith an ex
p rt agent for 00,000 tons of coal, which
is to be shipped to Cuba. The coal will
be shipped by rail to Mobile, and thence
it will be sent in tugs and barges to
Cuba.
A horrible -outrage, committed
upon has just a negro woman by another
S. C. come to light at Charleston,
A negro woman named Re
becca Perkins, on her way from church
Saturday night, was horribly burned by
a rival with a can of vitriol, or concen
trated lye, which was thrown in her
face. The victim’s eyes were burned
out, and her face horribly scarred.
A fatal and disastrous fire occurred at
Dawson, Ga., on Friday, in which two
young sons of Judge J. H. Guerry, and
a colored boy were killed by falling walls.
A warehouse containing 175 bales of cot
ton and a whole block of business houses
with their contents were wholly de
stroyed. The estimated total loss is
about $40,090. The fire is believed to be
the work of an incendiary.
A dispatch from Birmingham on
Wednesday says: The Richmond Ter
minal, Georgia Central, East Tennessee,
Louisville and Nashville, Southern Pa
cific and other south and southwestern
railroads, and the Plant system of rail
roads and steamships, have united in a
movement to make Tampa, Fla., the
shipping point for all freight handled
on these lines.
At Hallett, N. C., on Sunday, a .. mad
Jog sprang upon the 11 year-old son
of T. C. Johnson, and fixed its teeth in
the child’s arm. llis father and mother
ran to his aid and made desperate at
tempts to tear the dog away, but we^e
unsuccessful. Not until the dog’s throat
hold was entirely severed would he relax his
upon the prostrate and fainting
boy. The muscles of the arm were torn
to pieces.
I he office of the Southern Express
about company, atMiilsport, Ala., a small town
ninety miles west of Birmingham,
on the Georgia Pacific railroad, was
robbed Monday. The jobbery was kept
secret by the officials of the company
until Thursday, when a man named
Abercrombie was arresled in Lamar
county, prisoner charged with the robbery. The
is believed lo he a member of
the Rube Burrows band of outlaws and
train robbers.
Danville, Va.,on Tuesday,voted $150,
000 towards the western extension of the
Atlantic and Danville railroad, from
Danville to the coal fields of southwest
\ iiginia. The city has already voted a
like amount to the eastern end of the
une, Danville to Norfolk, and that end
of the road, two hundred miles long,will
soon be opened for business. Bristol,
Tenn., the probable western terminus of
the line, telegraphed greetings and iis
sured Danville that Bristol will also sub
scribe $150,000 to the road.
FARMERS IN DISTRESS.
A THREATENED FAMINE IN NORTH DAKO
TA—APPEALS FOR AID.
A special dispatch from Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, says: There is great dan
ger that the famine among the farmers
of North Dakota last year will repeat it
self this year. Intelligence just received
from Minor county discloses the fact that
a large number of farmers in that section
arc in destitute circumstances. Owing
to the drougth their crops were a total
failure this season. A relief committee
has been appointed to solicit aid aud many
towns throughout the state are respond
ing liberally to the call for assistance.
SCHLEY COUNTY.
Schley County is composed of t«ri;o y cut
off from Sumter, Marion and Ma °*
It was organized counties.
in I 8 CC, and nann – f r one
the old Colonial of
Governors of (; ir S i; Gov.
ornor Schley.
Its location is Southwest-Centra!. Area
iso
square miles. General features, hilly, j nter
sporsed with level plateax. The soil is
fertile all the very
over county, but varies in color,
some places being red clay, some dark brown,
very sticky in wet weather, some pebbly and
some sandy, under-laid with clay subsoil.
Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, oats, peas, pota
toes, pu m kins, melons, rice, wheat, rye, bar.
ly, peanuts and chufas; peaches, pears,prunes
pomegranates, plums, apples, apricots, quin,
ces, cherries, grapes, mulberries, strawberries
raspberries, goose berries, beets, cabbage, eu
cumbers, squashes, tomatoes, turnips and oth
er field, orchard and garden products, grow
here to perfection.
The fence corners, waste places in old field
and forest, abound in all kinds of wild fruit,
such as blackberries, blueberries, gooseberries
whortleberries. May haws, black haws,plums,
cherries, crab apples,persimmons, fox grapes,
Winter grapes, muscadines, chinquepins,
hickory nuts and chestnuts.
Besides the native crab, crowfoot and other
grasses, many of the best varieties of lmport
ed grasses do well here, especially Bavmuaa,
herds, blue and orchard grass.
The no fence law prevails in the county, yet
stock raising is rapidly becoming one of the
leading industries of the county gome of the
finest horses in the South are raised here, and
the rich golden butter and sweet country hams
that arc daily brought to market by the far
mers of Schley, could not be beaten anywhere.
Cotton is the money crop of the county, but
happily the day has past and forevevr gone
when the people of Schley depended on other
sections for their meat and bread. Nearly ev
ery farmer in tin* county makes plenty of corn
and bacon for home consumptions and many
of them make a surplus to sell. No particular
attention is given to poultry raising, yet the
people have all the 7 want for home use and
one man with a horse and wagon keeps busy
the year round hauling chickens and eggs from
Schley county to Americus.
The health of the county is excellent, the av
erage elevation being near two thousand feet
above sea level and drainage is generally good
an epidemic of any diseases, was never known
here.
The farming people of Schley are inteligent
cultivated and refined as any agricultural i>eo
pie in the world. The county is dotted with
school houses and churches, and u half grown
person who cannot read and write is seldom,
if ever met with, and of the negro race most
of them since freedom can read and write.
CENTRA L HOT El.
Under New Management.
The Central Hotel, at Columbus Ga., is
fast becoming a great resort for
thetraveling public.
This hotel has been thoroughly renovated
inside and out and put in first-class order, and
the fare, as well as the accommodations, is all
that could be desired. This hotel is centrally
located, large rooms, well ventilated and fur
nished in modern style. Polite and attentive
servants. The table supplied with all the del
icacies of the season, making it a most popu
lar resort for drummers and the traveling
public generally.
GEORGE W. DAVIS
BARBER
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