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BRITAIN REFUSES TO TAKE PART IN NEGOTIATIONS. SALISBURY MAKES FINAL REPLY. Says India’s Mints Cannot Be Reopened. Bimetallism Is Thus Turned Down and Silver is Sidetracked. A London cable dispatch says: Lord Salisbury, Wednesday night, sent to Ambassador Hay the reply of the Brit¬ ish government to the proposals of the American bimetallist special commis¬ sion, headed by Senator Wolcott. It is a diplomatically worded note. His lordship says that the govern¬ ment of Great Britain is not able to re-open the India mints at present. He regrets the inability to accede to the proposals of the American com¬ missioners. Great Britain having as great an interest as the United States and France in securing a stable par exchange for gold and silver and au enlarged use of silver. In these circumstances, continues Lord Salisbury, the British govern¬ ment does not see the desirability of an international monetary conference, but will be pleased to consider any other practical suggestions from the United States. Lord Salisbury incloses with tho note a copy of the statement of Sir J. Westland, head of the financial de¬ partment of India, which was under discussion at the meeting of the cabi¬ net council last Saturday which takes strong grounds against the reopening of the India mints. Ambassador Andrew White came from Berlin last Saturday. He has avoided publicity, but hns had several conferences with Senator Wolcott. In the course of au interview with the correspondent of the Associated Press, Mr. White said that Germany’s action as to bimetallism will depend upon England’s. NO RECEIVER APPOINTED For the Southern B. ami B. Association of Huntsville, Ala. The case of Mrs. M. L. Straton et al. vs. the Southern Building and Loan Association of Huntsville, Ala., asking for a receiver to wind up the company’s business was dismissed by Judge Bruce in the United States court. The bill alleged the association to be insolvent and to have practiced continued frauds upon its stockholders among whom were the plaintinffs. Attorney for the defense adduced evi¬ dence showing the assets of the South¬ ern to be over a million dollars. On convening court Judge Bruce asked the plaintiff’s Attorneys how much more time the case would con¬ tinue if heard to the end. They said 1 they wanted three more days. Judge Bruce then announced that in the two days devoted to the case he had found the allegations in the bill to be groundless. He then dismissed the case without argument. BRITONS ARE JEALOUS. They Say That TVe Are Distancing Them In Iron Industries. The Pall Mall Gazette Wednesday afternoon, in tho course of a long ar¬ ticle on American competition in tho iron and steel industries, says: “Today we find the United States not only challenging our supremacy in neutral markets, but even obtaining a foothold in England. “The causes which are giving the United States such a favorable recep¬ tion are permanent and everything points to the United States remaining the cheapest steel-producing country in the world. ” OFFERED TO UNCLE SAM. Bethlehem Iron Works Would Sell Their Plant To the Government. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Will¬ iam Wharton, one of tho largest stock¬ holders of the Bethlehem Iron Com¬ pany, confirmed the report that the company has made an offer to sell its plant to the government. Mr. Wharton said he understood the Carnegie company had also made the similar offer, but doubted whether either of the propositious would ever amount to anything. DALTON TRIALS RESUMED. Captain Peeples Faces Charge of Pnr- chasing Stolen Tobacco. The car conspiracy trials at Dalton, Ga., were resumed last Tuesday, when Captain T. J. Peeples was arraigned for receiving 8 boxes, 220 pounds, of stolon tobacco from the Bohannon gang. witnesses the had' i The only two state to sustain the alleged transaction be¬ tween the gang of train robbers and Captain Peeples was Walter Bohan¬ non, chief of the car pirates, and a negro. time the defense * When the came for no evidence was introduced but the' .statement of T. J. Peeples, who denied the charges in toto. SELMA ALMOST DEPOPULATED. Eleven Thousand Hollars Worth of Rail¬ road Tickets Sold In One Hay. On account of the official announce¬ ment of yellow fever in Selma, Ala., the town is practically deserted. About $11,000 worth of tickets were sold over the Southern last Sunday morn¬ ing. white population but Out of 2,500 300 remain to face the dangers of the -epidemic. JUDGE ROASTED LAWYERS. Sensation Developed in tlie Car Robbery Trials at. Dalton. Court convened nt Dalton, Ga., Thursday, morning with a large attend- mice. Wat Harris concluded the ar¬ gument for the defendant, Captain T. J. Peeples, in a speech which contin¬ ued for an hour and a half. During his speech he intimated that Captain T. J. trial. Peeples had been warned “singled” out the for After being by court Mr. Harris repeated the word and was fined. The jury rendered a verdict of not guilty. Tho case of Mack Cannon was called and tho hardest and most sensational attempt that has been made to have a case continued was presented, but the court overruled the objection and in¬ structed everybody interested in this case to get ready for trial, In the in- termission that followed John H. Ben¬ der accepted the opportunity to enter a plea of not guilty. Col. McCamy introduced an affida¬ vit signed by several well-known citi¬ zens that they did not believe any de¬ fendant charged with receiving stolen goods could obtain a fair and impar¬ tial trial in Whitfield county, owing to the excited condition of the people and jurors by the gravity of the offen¬ ses and publications in certain news¬ papers, etc. Following this affidavit Judge A. W. Fite said: “I want to say in the outset in these cases, gentlemen, that there is no excitement so far as this court knows except what is gotten up in the particular case on trial, and all this excitement is the talk of lawyers. “I want to say right now if any law¬ yer in the trial of this or any other case wants to tempt the court to fine him for the purpose of influencing the jury either way, it will be a pretty dear undertaking. I want you all to un¬ derstand that now. I am going to confine the counsel to the facts on trial in any case that comes up, and I warn you all now, I am not going to put up with any side issues or grand stand plays, for the purpose of effecting the jury either way by either. If I have to fine any lawyer in this case it is not going to he a fine of ten dollars. I am going to run this court in decency and in order if I have to put every lawyer in jail and try to run it by myself and the jury. I mean that. ” “I have heard of lawyers saying, ‘Why don’t you get fined in the case?’ ‘Why don’t you do something to pro¬ voke the court and get the jury prej¬ udiced in favor of the defendant?’ I know it is a reflection on the intelli¬ gence of the jury to think that they will do a tiling of that kind and at the same time I don’t want to lose the time. I just want the thing done fair¬ ly and squarely, and I am going to do my part straight and squarely from the shoulder and put the responsibil¬ ity on the jury without regard to any¬ body, white or black. I have no favors to grant to anybody in this courthousa and I have no enemies to punish in this courthouse. This case is ready for trial. ” The grand jury was discharged after being highly complimented by Judge Fite. t i 4 Well done, thou good and faithful servants,’ I might say to you. You have done your duty without fear or favor.” Ninety odd bills were found by the jury. TO FORM SYNDICATE. President and Bussell Sage to Confer ori Union Pacific Matter. The New World York of Thursday morning contained the following: “Russell Sage created a sensation in Wall street by announcing he had beeif invited by President McKinley to form a syndicate in Union Pacific railway on tho basis of satisfying the full government claim in the Union Pacific. “Air. Sage invited subscriptions to a plan to be hereafter brought out by him for the foregoing object. The payment of the government’s claim in full is understood to he the first con¬ dition in this plan. Air. Sage’s rep¬ resentatives announced that, he had received subscriptions for over $75,- 000,000 within two hours of his an¬ nouncement. “It was announced that he would continue to receive subscriptions until his plan was subscribed at least three times over. As in the bond transac¬ tion, Mr. Sage thinks there is unlimit¬ ed capital available for the settlement of tlie Pacific road debts without loss to the government and without blind pools. DEBTS WILL BE RAID. Tennessee Methodists In Conference If ear a Bit of Good News. For years past a heavy debt has hung over the board of missions of the Alethodist Episcopal church, sou’m, with headquarters in Nashville. About two years ago Rev. Dr. Henry C. Alorrison, one of the missionary, secretaries, inaugurated a movement to pay off this debt, and Wednesday he had the satisfaction of announcing to the conference that subscriptions have been received to the amount of $150,000, which will wipe out every cent of the debt. NASHVILLE IS SAFE. Heavy Frost In the City Has Made the People Feel Reassured. There is no yellow fever in Nash¬ ville, nor are there any suspicious cases. Reports to the contrary have no basis. The hoards of health, state and city, know of no suspicious cases, and no jihysician ha3 reported suspicious cases. There was frost in Nashville and surrounding country Saturday morn¬ ing. Investigation shows no basis for rumors concerning the city. THROUGH GEORGIA. The demand among investors for the issue of $35,000 of 4| per cent gold bonds, to be issued by the city of Amerieus, reflects favorably upon the financial credit of the town. Dozens of letters of inquiry have been re¬ ceived lately and the bonds will sell for a good sum. Mr. _ F. TT W. , Beardsiy, , , ot , New „ Voile, . has bought the limbless cotton owned i.y Mr. I. A. J ackson, growing on the farm ot Mr. A. ,1. Stewart near At- lanta. Mr. Beardsiy paid a large amount for the cotton, and will organ- ize a company with perhaps a million do ars capital. What will be done with the cotton is not known and he does not care to say at present, Senator Bacon lias been interview¬ ing President McKinley regarding a pardon for Lewis Bedwine. Mr. Por¬ ter, secretary to the president, said that no assurances had been given by the president as yet, as to whether he would take up Redwino’s case or not. Senator Bacon will continue to push the matter, as very little time is left to save the young fellow’s citizenship. Tlie Gwinnett county fair at Law- renceville closed one of the most re¬ markable exhibits ever displayed. The promoters are highly pleased with the success of the fair and have called a meeting for December to discuss the advisability of having another fair next year. It is proposed that a stock com¬ pany be organized with ample capital to build racetracks, houses and do such other things as will be attractive. * * * Major W. II. Smyth, Atlanta’s new¬ ly-appointed postmaster, has made bond to the United States government and is now ready to step into the office to which the president appointed him. The bond has been mailed to the prop¬ er official and is said to be as strong as any one could desire. Some time ago there was a report to the effect that Major Smyth would be unable to give the bond required of the postmaster of Atlanta and for that reason would be unable to qualify for the office. The apparent danger of Atlanta’s water system on account of the appear¬ ance main of electrolysis on the pipes is the topic of discussion in city hall circles. Some take a conservative view, believing the pipes are not in imminent danger. Others, who claim to be well informed on the subject, state it is only a matter of time until the whole system is ruined, unless a material change is made by the street railway companies, whereby the elec¬ tric current could be transferred from the ground. * * * The legislature will have important work to do at this session, which bids fair to become historic, both because of the great questions settled and re¬ forms instituted and because of the careers which will be unfolded for a galaxy of bright men who are coming to the front. It is generally believed that the politics of the next state cam¬ paign will take shape during the ses¬ sion. Leading men from every county will be present, and during the next 50 days alignments will be made and the warders of the growing hour will be bodied forth in the combinations and affiliations made among the 219 politi¬ cal falters of the general assembly. * * + At the meeting of the joint peniten¬ tiary committees of the house and sen¬ ate at Atlanta, Monday, the Hall bill was reported as the majority present¬ ment of the sub-committee which has had the question of convict reform un¬ der consideration for the past thirty days. The minority presented the following: “We are of the opinion that the powers conferred on the prison commission to be created under the bill reported are too broad, and that the legislature should, as far as possi¬ ble, assume the settlement of the ques¬ tion on some definite plan.” Thus the fight on the convict question was fully launched. T * The annual report of Attorney Gen¬ eral J. M. Terrell to Governor Atkin¬ son has been completed' and is now in the hands of the state printer. The report is one of the most complete ever made from this department and con¬ tains a great amount of valuable infor¬ mation relative to cases in which the state has been involved and their dis¬ position. Some important recommen¬ dations are made anil the report is an interesting document, Mention is made of suits brought against certain railroads in favor of the state for the collection of penalties imposed by the railroad commission for violation or failure to comply with its rules and orders. There are a number of such cases. The history of the famous Northeastern railroad case, together with the present status of it, is given fully- , •J: * * The Blalock committee is said to have its eye on the treasury depart¬ ment and the comptroller-general’s office, with a view to taking from them important functions with the accom¬ panying perquisites and establishing a new department, with an officer to be known as insurance commissioner and state bank examiner. Under the law at present the comptroller-general is insurance commissioner, and as com¬ pensation for that extra service, in ad¬ dition to his salary of $2,000 a year, he receives a part of the insurance fees, amounting to several thousand dollars a year. There have been several ef¬ forts to take these perquisites away from the comptroller-general, but with poor success, The treasurer is ex-offi- cio bank examiner, and for this service receives $1,200 in addition to his sal¬ ary of $2,000 as treasurer, the money being paid pro rata by the state banks. BY MAIL OR EXPRESS. Oflftcinls of n IiCa<]tn{E Company Comment on the Itecent Lorn. From the Now York Herald. Recent press dispatches, reporting the mysterious disappearance of a large sum of money in transit through the mails from a banking house in Chicago to one of its western corres¬ pondents, prompted an inquiry as to the cause for such an amount being intrustetl to the postal service, and, when approao hed OI1 the H u.l,ject, a prom in eu t official of one of the leading express compauies stated that the last year had witnessed a radical change jn thfl tl . an9poration of nioneys , which formerly had all been forwarded by £ M but were uow 1)eh asnt instances by mail, the aggregate postage ftud registry fees representing a difference as compared with express rates that tempted many to depart from the old method and adopt the new. The official added further that fre¬ quent tram robberies had compelled the express companies to go to great expense in equipping their through ears with stationary combination safes, which as recent “hold-ups” had prov- e n, afford security against any at¬ tempts on the part of road agents to get at the contents, but that even should they succeed in the majority of cases little would now be obtained for their paius on account of the diversion of the moneys from express to the mails, and it would not be unnatural to expect that “Uncle Sam” would soon have his hands full looking after the protection of the valuable parcels in his care, as train robbers will, of course, go where the money it, and it is now in the mail instead of the ex¬ press car. Inquiry as to what steps the express companies would take to regain the traffic elicited the reply that they had expended all the revenues from this source in the past in surrounding the money with every possible protection and running down and punishing theives, and that they would simply wait until such losses as the one re¬ ferred to and the attention of train robbers to this new channel for trans¬ porting moneys proved it to be neither a successful nor profitable experiment. GIRL’S OWN SCHEME. Sensational Sequel to the Heathcock “Assault,” at Chiekamauga Park. A Chattanooga, Tenn., special says: A sensation that has set the people of that section agog with excitement de¬ veloped at Chickamauga park Friday. Several months ago tho whole of north Georgia, as well as Chattanooga, was aroused over what was at the time reported to be a brutal attempt by an unknown man with red hair and bine eyes to assault the seveuteen-year-ohl daughter of James Heathcock, an em¬ ploye of the park commissioners. Ten or fifteen men, in a measure answering the description of the “brute,’’were arrested and taken before the Heathcock women, and a lynching was only averted because they pro¬ nounced each man “not the guilty one.” The girl became a mother a few days ago and Heathcock, the father, was much surprised, he having along with the public been misled by the story of the criminal assault. He began an in¬ vestigation and uow states that there was no criminal assault, but that the girl had been beaten into insensibility by the mother on the occasion when she was found insensible by one of the guards, and that the story of the crim¬ inal assault was concocted in order to save the girl’s reputation. There was a standing reward for the arrest of the “fiend,” which has now been with¬ drawn when the facts as stated became known. AGED COUPLE MURDERED. Their Home Burned Down Upon Their Remains-Robbery the Object. Interest in the progress of the fever in Biloxi was swallowed up in the ex¬ citement of a most horrible murder and arson, committed Friday morning upon a most estimable couple of elder¬ ly people living out on Back Bay, about three or four miles from the city. Word was received in the city about 4 a. m. that the Parkhurst property had been burned and that Mr. J. L. Park¬ hurst and his wife had been consumed in the flames. A man named Gibson, his wife and one Volkes are under ar¬ rest. The autopsy showed that the couple had been murdered for the pur¬ pose of robbery, and evidence showed that they had been killed before they retired. SPAIN MAKES THREATS. Will Search Vessels Unless Fillibusterlng; , Is Stopped. A Madrid newspaper publishes with reserve the announcement that the reply of the Spanish government to the note of the United States, pre¬ sented by General Stewart L. Wood¬ ford, the American minister at Madrid, declares that if the United States does not stop the sailing of filibustering ex¬ peditions from American ports, Spain will re-establish the right to search vessels anchoring in Cuban waters. SOLDIERS FOR KLONDIKE. Military Post Created In Alaska In Ka- dius of 100 Miles of St. Michaels. The secretary of war has issued an order creating a military reservation in that part of Alaska lying within a radius of 100 miles of St. Michaels. The purpose is to confer upon Lieu¬ tenant Colonel llaudall the necessary legal authority to preserve order and protect property in this section of the country, both of which are believed to be jeopardized by the large number of lawless characters gathered near the mouth of the Yukon. sxQsattj 1 ■i • , 1 AH** P ^ 111 a2J? ™ * * .1 r ~ s TZE&20, To Catch small Pig*. Put a hoop in the mouth of a sack. Fasten this to a stick or rod four or five feet long. This device can be slipped over the pigs without any dif¬ ficulty. A Practical Wheelbarrow. In market gardening there is much work that can be done with a wheel¬ barrow. While resting my aching arms one day I concluded that the wheel of the ordinary harrow was not bearing its share of the burden, so I made one in which the axle was placed up nearer the body of the barrow, the MABKET OABDENEKS’ BAliROW. wheel extending inside. A cap was fitted over this, inside the body, and I found that wheeling was then much easier. The new harrow weighed forty-nine pounds. With 239 pounds of sand there is a weight of fifty-six pounds on the handles, while with the ordinary harrow the weight is ninety- nine pounds. The handles are 5 long, l jxl j inches at front and smaller toward the back. The wheel is 22 inches diameter with a 2-inch tire. The barrow frame is 19 inches at front, 2 feet at back; the body is 3 feet by 13 inches, while the legs are 2 feet 10 inches from the front.—It. Bingham, of New Jersey, in American Agricul¬ turist. Hutch Kelted Cattle. Mr. Orson D. Mann, one of the editors of the Scientific American, is justly proud of the handsome herd of Dutch belted cattle which are much ad¬ mired by the lovers of fine stock who visit his place, Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J. At the New Jersey State Fair out of thirteen head ex¬ hibited seven took first prizes and to two were awarded second. At the live stock exhibition held in Madison Square Garden in 1895 thirteen prizes were awarded for the herd and separ¬ ate animals composing it. A herd of sixteen Dutch belted cattle, it will be ■remembered by breeders, was awarded the highest per cent, of prizes ob¬ tained by any cattle exhibit at the World’s Fair, when there were prob¬ ably more cattle of various breeds gathered together than ever before. “Tfie Dutch belted or blanket breed of cows,” said Mr. Munn, “are natives of Holland and are a distinct family from the Holsteins, with which many confound them. Comparatively few have as yet been imported into this country, althbugli the breed antedates the seventeenth century. In Holland they are owned and controlled by tjie nobility. In color they are very black, with a continuous pure white belt around their body, which makes a strikingly beautiful contrast. Their form is usually very fine and their constitutions most hardy, enabling them to stand sudden changes in cli¬ mate and to thrive on any variety of fodder. As milk producers they are excellent.” Our Hoj; Pays the Bills. The hog grows cheapest on the pas¬ ture and beside the field that grows his grains. He is most profitable as a subordinate department, because he cannot consume the coarse fodders of the farm. He furnishes tho best mar¬ ket in which to sell the by-products of the mill and dairy. He assimilates more of the most concentrated feed stuffs than any other animal on the farm. Quicker returns come from him than from horses, cattle or sheep. He pays the rents in European countries, lifts the mortgages in the Northern States, and in conjunction with the cow he will redeem the wornout cotton tobacco fields of the South. Avoid permanent residences for the hog; move him about, so that his environ¬ ments may be clean and uncontamin¬ ated by germs that develop rapidly where they have suitable media. Avoid close breeding, as it intensifies predis- positibn to disease. Select your breed¬ ing from good milkers, as this is the best indication of fecundity. No agricultural people thrive who buy grain or meats and pay for them with the price of other farm products. We compete now, through improved and cheapening transportation, with all the world. The farmer is most in¬ dependent who finds at least suste¬ nance for his family from his fields, flocks and herds.—Professor Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. Demand for .Safe Horses. The hue and cry that on account of the electric car and the bicycle and horseless carriage, the noble horse was doomed to go out of use in the cities, has about died away, and still the horse is in demand. The liverymen and kaclunen may have felt the effect of the change in the new method of individual trans¬ portation in the cities; yet the horse is still in demand for the saddle and for family carriages and buggies, and this demand will increase just in pro¬ portion to’the common use of the elec¬ tric car and the wheel. Already ladies who do not like the wheel have taken to the saddle to get the exercise and the airing that the wheelist has found so beneficial from her spin in the country. This habit will soon increase until there will soon be a demand for safe saddle horses for ladies. The bustle and careless movement of cars and wheels on the streets require for ttie safety of those in carriages that their horses should he accustomed to these things as well as to the sudden noises which they are apt to hear in the city. The horse to be used in the city for family safety, either under the saddle or in the carriage, must be trained for city life. The horses, there¬ fore, which will be in special demand in the cities must be trained for the purpose. This will require seleotiou in the breeding, and especial care in handling from their first years until they are prepared for use. The number of accidents which have happenedin the last few years through the frightened horse and the accom¬ panying runaway has become alarming, and calls for a remedy. This must be found in the proper training of the horses to be used. Tba horse breeders who wish to secure good prices for the horses they would sell in the home market, will do well to take note of the kind of horse in demand. Buyers for this kind of a horse are always plenty, and they do not hesitate to give high prices, when they can be assured that the horse they purchase has the sense and the train¬ ing he needs to be perfectly safe in tha cities. Good saddle horses and stylish and safe carriage horses will always bring high prices and can be as easily raised need as others. in The^little extra care they training will be well paid for when they are sold.—Farm News. The Corn Harvest. Harvesting the corn crop is being made easier every year by improve¬ ments in labor-saving machinery and devices. Large commercial crops are cut, tied and left in straight rows by the improved corn harvester, while the bundles placed in shocks or stooks of; 12 to 20 bundles to cure are then drawn to the barn and run through the shredder. Farmers who cannot afford the latest and improved machinery, or who have small areas of corn, cut by sled, as illustrated below, or by hand cutter. The armfuls thus cut have to bo tied in bundles, various materials being used for that purpose, some us¬ ing two or three cornstalks, others a small handful of long, strong straw, swamp grass or willows. But whether cut by improved machinery or by hand cutter, the large bundles, shocks or stooks have to be securely fastened to withstand the fall wind and storms. To make a corn cutter, as por¬ trayed herewith, make a platform with runners six feet long and two inches thick; the higher the runners the higher it will cut; eight-inch plank should mortise three crosspieces of Cf £ B D % HOMEMADE COEN CUTTER, two by four into top of runners. Nail boards on cross ties to make a plat¬ form 30 inches wide and nearly six feet long. Get a good steel knife* and make it very sharp, say 22 inches long and five inches wide. Bevel the edge from the bottom or underside. Have a rod made with au eye in the centre and curved, in order to fasten either end to a runner and hitch a horse in the centre. This rod should be of one-half inch round iron, and long enough to work nicely, as shown at a. Bore a hole in platform or runner, and put in a stake about six inches high (b) even across with the base of rod (c). Another stake of the same size, hut twenty inches high, on the right side of platform near the edge, and 21 inches from the front of platform (d). Take a rod of five-eighth-inch iron 67 inches long and weld a piece of flat iron one- half inch thick and eight inches long to the end of it, bolt the flat piece to platform (13 inches from centre to back of platform) and bend the rod forward 17 inches above the platform, as in e. Bend the rod so as to have it extend out over the edge of the platform, over and back of the knife (k), then bend the rod in so as to extend about two inches over the platform at the centre two by four cross brace (f). From there bend the rod out to g. Be sure to have it carry tho same height all the time. The bends in the rod are made in order to bring in the corn and lay it across the platform without the help of a man. In this way the danger of standing over the knife is averted. Nail a small stick something like a lath from top of stake d to the outside run¬ ner a few inches ahead of the knife. Bolt the knife to platform about 26 inches from back part of platform with two bolts, and have the knife slant back considerably. I put a scrap piece of two-inch plank under the platform at c and li, to make the platform more solid where the large rod and knife were bolted fast. The large rod from g to e should be with bends 50 inches long. Directly across it is 48 inches, thus using two inches for bends. The large rod is outside of stake d about five inches. Hitch on a quiet horse, hang the lines on d and ride on rear of platform, and when a large pile of corn is cut and laid across the sled, stop and shock it up.—Farm and. Home.