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The Irwin County News
Official Orgsin of Irwin County.
A. G. DeLOACH, Editor and Prop’r.
DIRECTORY:
Mayor—A. U. DeLoacb.
Couucilnum —W. B. Dasbier, I. L. Murray.
H. W. Cockrell, E. K. Smithy J. P. Fountain,
Superior Courts—First Monday Hawkins- in April
anoi'tSotOber. C. C. Smith, Jjudge,
viHo.Ga. Geueral-—Tom Easpn. McRae,Ga.
Solicitor D. Paulk, Ir- ,
Clerk Superior Court—J. B,
win villa, Ga. Ruby* Ga.
Sh >riff—Jass« T 'auj , Priescott,
Deputy Sbri.ua—C. L. Irwin-
vide, Ga.; Wm. VauHouten, ibycaraore, Ga.
County Court — Monthly session, second
Monday; Quarterly session, second Monday
iu January, April, July and Outober. J. B.
Clements, Judge, Irvrinville. Gat.
Couuty Court Bailiff—William Rogers, Ir¬
win ville, Ga. Mon¬
County Commissioners’ Court—First
day in '-icli month. M. Henderson. Commis¬
sioner, 0 ilia. Ga.
Ordinary s Court—First Monday in each
month, Dr ue! Tucker, Ordinary, Vic, Ga.
School Commissioner—J. Y. Fletcher, Ru¬
le. Ga.
County Treasurer—W. R. Paulk, Irwin-
Tu:r Recei er—... .T. Mobley, Vic, Ga. Ga.
'f ax Co.lector—J W. Paulk, Ruby, Ga,
{Surveyor—M. Bax .«;s, Miunie,
Coroner—Daniel Hull, Miunie, Ga. Chair¬
Board of Education—Jno. Clements.
man, Irwinvrille, Ga.; Henry T. Fletcher, L. Ir- D.
winville, Ga:,,; L. R. Tucker, Vic, Ga.;
Taylor, Xrwiuville, Ga.; 8. E. Coiaman,
Ocalla, Judaea Ga, Courts— 901 Disfc. G. M., Second
Saturday in each month. Marcus Luke, N.
1. aud cx-offi. ,1. P ; Win. Rogers, Bailiff,
Irwiuville, Ga, Saturday ineaeh
1388 Disc. 6. M., Third
mont.i. iff. V. Hanley,{J. P.; David Troup,
Bailiff. Minnie, Ga.
USd Dist G. M., Tim'd) Wednesday ineaeh
month. C. L It yai, J, I'., Sycamore, Ga.;
A. Joues&P. Royal, Bd ilift's, Sycamore, & Ex- Ga,
9S2 Disc. G. Iff.. D. A Ray, A. P.
c iiicio J. P .. Sycamo re. 1 l a.
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_____LODCt L1RSCTORY.
Sycamore Lodge, iNo 210 F. A; A. M.
Rt.gu.rta communications 2nd and -ith iSatu -
day. W. L. Story, W. M.; J. F. Royal, Sec.
\munieuffion Oeilla Lodge, I’. & A. M.—Regular com-
Thursday, before the util Sunday
111 each month. .J. A., J, Henderson, W. M. ;
V. W. M. Whitley, Sfec’y, Ocilia, Gu.
CHUi.CN DIRECTORY-
sycamore circuit.
• Sycamore—2nd.Sraiday Sunday. and Sunday night.
CycJoaeta—First Grove—3rd Sunday and Saturday
Rmey
before.
' Clemon’i; Chapel—4ih, Sunday aud Satur¬
day Damascus—4th before. Sunday afternoon and 5th
Sunday. Prayer,meeting Sycamore Thurs¬
at every
day night; Sunday school Sunday morning
at lb;30 O’clock,
J. tv. Connors, Pastor.
UNION PRIMITIVE'.BAPTIST.
Brushey Creek—4.h Sunday and Saturday
before.
Sturgeon Creek—2nd Sunday and Satur¬
day .pompe, ‘I.r f? fotoCoFt*.
••
Saiem—Sfd'Sunday W. H. ,mct Harden, i-inurciav Pastor. before.
Eld.
Little Rivur—3rd Sunday and Saturday
lief ore.
Turner’s Meeting House—2c.d Sunday and
Saturday before
Oaky Grove—4th Sundry and Saturday
bitore
Emaus—1st Sunday Bld. J'amjib and Saturday,before GIbbs, Pastor.
xvotricij.
Parties are warned that lots uo of hunting Nos. or fish¬
ing will be t.llowed on land 13,
14, 17, IS, 3.9 and 44, in 3rd district of Irwin
county, Wiley Fletcher.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
h. story,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
jyjAHK ANTHONY,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Sycamore, Georgia.
Will to loe .ted for the present at the Dod¬
son House. Patronage respectfully sol'.cited.
rjv MV. ELIjIS
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Ruby, Georgia.
Calls promptly attended (o at nil hours.
I respectfully solicit a share of the public
patronage Office ia B. H Cockrell’s store.
J-JR. J. F. GARDNER,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON,
Ashbury, Georgia.
Caffs answered promptly day or night.
£3?”Special attention to diseases of women
aud children.
JgBNXON STRANGE, M, D.
SPECIALIST.
Cordellk, Georgia,
Diseases of women, Strictures, Nervous
oiid all private diseases. Strictures dissolv¬
ed out iu 2 to 5 minutes by a smooth curreut
of GalvauGm without pain or detention
from business; aud given to patient iu a vial
of alcohol. Correspondence solicited aud
best references given. Office north-east cor¬
ner Suwanee House.
B. M. FUIZZELLE,
LAWYER,
McRae, Georgia.
Practices in tho Slate and Federal Courts.
Real Estate and Criminal Law Specialties.
W A. AARON,
LAWYER,
Ashburn, Georgia.
Collections and Ejectment suits a Special¬
ty. gfOffice, Room No. 4, Betts Building.
c. W. FCI.WOOO,
LAW, REAL ESTATE & COLLECTIONS,
Tifton, Georgia.
P. ompt attention given to all business.
“Office, Love Building, Room No. 1.
OHN HARRR4.
SHOEMAKER,
Ashbubv, Georgia,
' y prices are low and all work striotly
•G unanteafl.
kS In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., OCTOBER 20, 1893.
AT THE CAPITOL.
A Full Synopsis of What Has Been Dona at
Washington the Past Week.
What Congress has done the past
week, literally speaking, can be told
in one word—NOTHING. We, of
couse allude to what lias beeu dono
towards bringing about a change in
the financial condition of affairs, for
it was for this purpose they were call¬
ed into an extraordinary session. On
the
fiftieh day
Mr. Morgan of Alabama, offered in
the Senate an amendment to the re¬
peal bill. It revives the coinage an
of 1837, and provides for the remis¬
sion of 20 per cent, import duty on
goods imported from countries that
admit standard silver dollars of llie
present weight and fineness as legal
tender for all debts. The repeal bill
was taken up in the afternoon and
Mr.Dolph continued his speech. When
lie got through it would have beeu
hardto tell who was entitled to the floor
there had been so much cross-firing.
It now looks like it was going' to be a
• starve out game in the Senate to bring
the bill to a vote. Compromise has
been talked, but it seems it is no go.
House.—The entire day was spent
in the house in discussing tlio bill to
repeal the federal election law. It
was a one-sided discussion, alt the
speeches being made by democrats in
fayor of the pending bill.
fifty-first day.
Senate—Senator Morgan reported
back from the committee on foreign
relations, without recommendation,
tire bill makiug appropriations to en¬
force the Chinese exclusion act. Sen¬
ator Peffer oflered a resolution to ap¬
point a select committee of three to
consider and report whether any and
what legislation is needed to improve
the banking system of the country.
The resolution went oxter. Senator
Morgan offered a resolution instructing
the judiciary committee to; inquire and
report what provisions of the act of
January 1873 (the free coinage act)’
are now in force. The resolution
weut over. The silver purchase bill
was taken up at 11:30 and Senator
Butler addressed the Senate in oppo-
flition. fit, WAs followed 'By* Senators
Blackburn of Kentucky and Call of
of Florida, both in opposition to the
bill.
House—On motion of Mr. Oates of
Alabama, a joint resolution was passed
authorizing the president to detail an
army officer to act as instructor at the
University of Alabama. Several bills
were reported l’romthe committees and
went on the calendar, and the remain¬
der of the day was spent in the dis¬
cussion of claim and the feder- *
a war
al election repeal bill.
FIFTY-SECOND DAY.
The opening session of the Senate
this morning only lasted fifteen min¬
utes, and (he body then went into ex¬
ecutive session to deal with the nomi¬
nation of Indian agents.
House—A number of bills were re¬
ported iu the house today, but none
were of local interest. The federal
election repeal was discussed as usual
and several members were thus ena¬
bled to create literature to send home
to the “dear people.”
FIFTY-THIRD DAY.
In the Senate today Mr. Blackburn
of Keutueky submitted an amendment
to the bill repealing the silver pur¬
chase clause of the act of 1890, It
strikes out the Voorhees substitute,
leaving the bill as it passed the house,
and then provides for the free coinage
of silver of American production. This
is as Mr. Blackburn says a compro¬
mise measure. The debate on the re¬
peal bill was continued by Senators
Call and Butler. The resolution of¬
fered by Mr. I J eflier was discussed and
referred to the committee on finance.
Mr. Morgan’s resolution was laid be¬
fore the senate and agreed to. Sena¬
tor Teller had the floor when the sen¬
ate adjourned.
uouse.—several hours of uninter¬
rupted debate on the election bill occu.
pied the time in the house today.
FIFTY-FOUTRH DAY.
Tilings are beginning to look some-
what serious in the Senate, for today
Mr. Voorhees gave definite notice that
commencing on Wednesday he would
ask the senate to sit continuously until
a vote was reached on the pending
measure and that he would expect sen¬
ators to maintain a quorum until the
end of the present contest is reached.
The repeal bill was discussed as usual.
House—There was no ohauge of the
order in the house today.
FIFTY-FIFTH DAY.
Senate.—The day in the senate was
spent in discussing the repeal bill and
the debate grew quite personal before
its conclusion. There was nothing
done -
House.—The entire day in the house
was again spent in discussing the elec-
tion repeal bill.
Soldiers on Trial.
Sixteen soldiers are on trUl at
Knoxville, Tenu., charged with the
a “ m * r MT "*>
LATE state items.
Will Lacy, colored, was hanged at'
Japer for a rape committed some si;t
mouths ago.
A brick and tile company at War¬
rior has a single contract which will
require twelve months to fill.
Otto von Koenitz, a German por¬
trait painter living in Huntsville, a<D
cidentally fell from a porch and was
killed.
The Selma Times has information
of Primitive a man 1Q4 Baptist years church old joining Brown’ tlm
at
Station aud being baptized.
Near Gold Hill, an old man named
Broughton threw himself across well^ tne
bed saying he did not feel very
and in a few minutes be was dead.
John Davis, colored, was killed by
a posse who had captured him for en¬
tering the room of J, T. Fanner’s
daughter at Shortville, Henry county.
He undertook to give the party leg
bail, but Winchester bullets overtook
him.
A gin and grist mill belonging to
Bynum & Ashford at Courtland was
burned. Seventy-live bales of ginned
cotton, fifteen bales of seed cotton,
and live tons of seed wore burned. The
owners of the mill lose at least
$5,000. The fire was incendiary.
The Montgomery Advertiser says:
“There are many counties in Alabama
where the sale or giving away of in¬
toxicating liquors of all kinds is aston.i abso-f
lately prohibited, and yet it is
ishing to know that whisky is being;
carried into them in large quantities ’
and is sold almost as openly as before
the prohibition laws wei - e passed.
Nearly every train that goes out of
this city has aboard whiskey shipped
in boxes as merchandise to these places
and it is wondered why the deputy'
marshals and internal revenue collec¬
tors confiscate are not more vigilant and do not
tha goods. One of the pro¬
visions of the internal l’evenue law
demands that all spirituous liquors
shall be shipped as such, and when the
liquor is shipped otherwise tliau
this it is subject to confiscation.
The shipping of liquor in kogs aud
boxes and billing it as merchandise is
sufficient violation of (he law. It is a
wonder that the Federal authorities
have not long ago taken ipognizauce of
this flagrant and frequent violatio i of
the revenue laws, but perhaps ^ley*
have not been able to discover it.”
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To the Colored People.
Bishop Henry M. Turner, of the
Colored Methodist Church, South, baa
just issued a call signed by himself
and “by approval of 300 prominent
and distinguished colored endorsers,” ad¬
dressed to “The people of
the United States iu anguish, greet¬
ing,” for a convention to meet iu Cin¬
cinnati, O., on Nov. 28, at 12 o’clock,
“Said national council is to review and
pass upon our condition truthfully patiently, im¬
partially and to report murdered our by-
knowledge of persons
mobs, lynchers, aud when and what
for, with documentary evidence if
possible, for the use of committees
as will have such matters in hand.”
The address is bused on the “revolt¬
ing, hideous, monstrous, unnatural,
brutal and shocking crimes charged
upon us daily on the one hand, and
reign of mobs, lynchers, tire fiends,
midnight and midday assassins oa the
other, for the purpose of crvstalizing
our sentiments and unifying our en¬
deavors for better conditions in this
country, or as a change of base for
existence.”
The address states that no points of
order (aisers, cheap notoriety seekers
or hot-headed squallers are wanted;
that matters are too solemn. Each
delegate who expects to occupy th8
floor is urged to prepare Ilia speech
in manuscript before leaving home,so
that he cannot be misrepresented or
thwarted.
The address concluded: “Let no
one who uses ardent spirits ever
dream of attending unless he can
promise his God that he will not touch
the accursed cup while the council ia
in session, for it will be no place for
unbalanced men. States, communities
or sections sending delegates,we hope
will see thsy arc amply supplied with
funds to creditably meet their expen¬
ses and to return home like gentle¬
men at the close of (he session.”
Penalty for Silence.
The nows comes from Knoxville,
Tcnn., that on Oct. 1, engineers and
conductors on the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia railway system
Were notified by tile receivers that
there would be a reduction of 10 per
cent in their wages, to take eftect Nov.
1. Both engineers and conductors
have failed to notify the receivers of
their acceptance of the cut, and con-
sequently they have received notice to
the effect that one-third of their num¬
ber will be laid off indefinitely.
Scare at Decatur.
At Decatur, Alabama, there was
considerable excitement the past week
over the report that the strikino- men
out of the Louisville Ss Nashville rail¬
road shops were going to cause troub-
^'es Sthe Sffto^miUtia 111t fromffTnd
ar0 und Birmingham to quell any
that might arise. Ail is *e-
Hit.
GENERAL NEWS.
Current Events of the Day Boiled Down
Into a Few Lines For Busy People,
They are going to play a game of
freeze out in the Senate.
Yellow fever is on the increase at
Brunswick.
The American Keel Yacht outsailed
the English Cutter last Saturday by
eight minutes.
F. L, Greenhagle has been nomina¬
ted by the Republican parly of Massa¬
chusetts, for Governor.
Henry Lack, of Savannah, asserts
that ho can certainly cure any and every
case of yellow fever without the use
of disinfectants or drugs, but he de¬
clines to say what his remedy is.
The destitution along the Gulf coagt
in the track of the late storm is impos¬
sible to estimate. Relief parties are
doing all in their power to relieve dis¬
tress and help is being forwarded
from all directions.
Whilecaps continue to post gins in
many parts of Mississippi and carryout
their threats by burning those who
disobey their mandates. Who are
these outlaws? It does seem like some
of them would be detected.
MisB Sarah Carmichael, a poor, de¬
pendent young lady of Ripley, O.,
advertised for a well-to-do husband
and as a result is now the happy
bride of Arthur Nelson of St. Peter’s,
Minn., a farmer with 500 acres of
rich land. It pays to advertise.
The breach of promise case of Mrs.
Anna D. Van Houten vs. Asa P.
Morse in the Boston courts has ended
and a verdict for $40,000 has been re-
turned. This is the case of which the
Judge ordered that no newspaper re¬
port should be made until the conclu¬
sion of the trial.
Washington’s hop crop this year is
one of the largest and finest ever
known. It is estimated at about 50,-
000 bales. Germany reports the short¬
est hop crop for half a century, and,
while the Washington farmers are not
rejoicing in the German hop growers’
misfortune, they think it is an espe¬
cially fine season for American hops.
Some smart storekeepers at Tacoma,
“Wash., hit on the nappy idea of ad¬
vertising their business by sticking
Ktt)e wafer posters on coins, like la¬
bels on pillboxes. They securedja
sure and wide cii-culation for their ad¬
vertisements and the scheme worked
well until a few days ago, when the
treasury department notified the local
authorities that the practice was ille¬
gal, and it was slopped.
The latest move of the whitecappers
is to post notices that they will kill
any one found picking cotton for less
than a stipulated price which they
name In their notices. A special from
Grenada, Miss., states that a negro at
work “picking cotton on Capt. Curt.
Gay’s place, ten miles of Grenada,
was shot from ambush with buckshot.
He had been guilty of nothing,” so
the dispatch continued to read, “but
gathering cotton and whitecaps is the
only explanation.”
It is claimed that a new national
party is in process of formation. The
Pan-American Convention which met
at St. Louis last week, is now given
out to have only been the prelude to a
series of conventions which are to re¬
sult in the formation of a new party
in the south and west. Free silver
will be the leading issue. At a meet¬
ing of the executive committee the
chances of success in breaking the sol¬
id south were discussed, and Alabama
was the state decided upon to capture.
A convention is to be held in Atlanta,
Ga., in December to perfect plans for
the campaign.
Brave Hannah sneli.
There have been many women war¬
riors in the world, but, it must be ad¬
mitted that there have been very few
whos'e deeds were such as to claim the
admiration of the country for any
great length of time. In the annals
of woman's warfare there are gener¬
ally stories of over-zealousness, lead¬
ing to fanaticism and subsequent
punishment and disgrace. Seldom,
Indeed, has a woman warrior been
gratefully recognized by the govern¬
ment of her country. Within the
memory of our grandparents there
lived in England a woman named
Hannah Snell, who, when but a girl,
took the strange resolution of enlist¬
ing as a soldier. She served as a ma¬
rine on one of the vessels of a fleet
bound for the West Indies, and
showed so much courage that she wa(
repeatedly promoted. Her sex wtu
unknown, and therefore it could
never be claimed that Hannah Snell’i
success was due to partiality or favor¬
itism. Once, when dangerously
Wounded, she extracted the ball her*
self, fearing that she might, be difr
covered and discharged. After long
^ervice home at she Worcester, returned England, to her native wher«
(her adventures soon became spread
abroad. The government, on inves-
gatlon of her really great career,
granted her a pension of £20. Shi
died full of years and laden with hon¬
ors in an inn near V\’apping.-*-Phil»
delDhia I nouirer
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Our salvation does not depend upon
ouv feeble grasp upon Christ,bat upon
his firm hold on us. “The Lord wiW
fopsake bis people*”
$ 1.00 a Year In Advance.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
It takes 4,500,000 men to work the
world’s coal mines.
Uncle Sam furnishes 41 per ceul
of the world’s silver.
Norway men cannot vote unless
they have been vaccinated.
Thirty-five countries have bee* in¬
vaded by the Salvation army.
California has raised 720,000,000
pounds of fruit within the last year.
A single trip of an ocean steamer
requires $7,000 worth of coal.
Kansas hens lay more eggs than
those of any other State in the Union.
Ten thousand people are employed
as telephone operators in this country.
Large beds of oysters, unlike those
of the East, have oeen found in Alas-
ka.
Alaska produced $1,000,000 worth
of gold last year and California $12,-
000 , 000 .
Three hundred and sixty mountains
in the United Slates are 10,000 feet
high.
Over 1,000 series, of Greek coins,
issued by independent cities, are
known to exist.
Tobacco was discovered in Cuba in
1492, but was not introduced into
England until 1655.
A chestnut'tree 212 feet through
and 2,000 years old stands at the foot
of Mt. Etna.
They cut diamonds so small in Hol¬
land that it takes 1,500 of them to
weigh a karat.
A farmer in Mason, Mich., has a
dwarf pear tree that put out two sets
of leaves this season.
More women are employed in Gov.
eminent positions in England than
any where else in the world.
A single sponge has been found on
the coast of Florida with a circumfcr.
ence of 5 feet 6 inches.
The tronomter is a device of Dr.
Quintavd, a Frenchman, for gauging
the trembling of a nervous person.
A steel ship has been constructed in
Cardiff, Wales, with the standing lug¬
ging, as well as the hull, all of steel.
Uncle Sam makes more paper than
auy other country in the world. The
biggest paper mill is at Westbrook,
Maine.
Some .insurance ts ! y’
low the use of none oTSt the old-fash-
ioned sulphur matches in the houses
they insure.
A North Carolina turkey gobbler rc-
e<- .tly scratched up eight potatoes in a
garden and has been sitting on them
tor several weeks.
It. costs more to fertilize an acre of
land in England so that it will grow
good wheat than it does to send the
product of an acre in Dakota over
there.
RICE BIRDS.
They Are Caught in Nets In South
Carolina Rice Fields.
The rice birds are destroying the
rice in South Carolina and are as nu.
meroua as the grasshoppers West. get to be
in the grain fields of the The
Charleston News and Courier says that
reports fromGeorgetowu are to the ef.
feet that the rice birds are more plen.
tiful than ever before known. They
have almost cesaed to be a target foi
shotguns, and are so thick and close
together that they are caught with a
dip net like so many fish. One gen¬
tleman who did go out with his shot¬
gun killed 180 at a single shot. Tbs
regular way now, however, is to get a
boat and a dip net and go among the
ditches in the old rice fields aud dip
up the birds. A gentleman went out
a few nights ago and returned with
1,236 birds. It required a Wagon and
two buekboards to carry them all
home. Quite a considerable sum has
beeu realized by seveial parties who
embarked in the rice bird business.
They can be bought on the plantations
for a mere song, and when taken to
the town are sold for at least 25 cents
a dozen.
Strange Phenomena.
A dispatch from Toledo, O., says
one of the most peculiar phenomena
ever seen in this part of the country
was witnessed by people in the Mau¬
mee valley this morning. The terrific
gale of last night blew the river dry.
From the rapids at Waterville, twent-
ty-two miles above the city, to the
Lake Shore bridge, just above the har¬
bor, people walked across the bottom,
as on dry land. The cause was the
direction fiom which the wind came,
the southwest. It is not uncommon
for the water to drop from four to
eight feet when the wind blows to¬
ward the lake, but never before has
it blown so hard that the river bottom
became visible. There was over twen¬
ty feet of water in the harbor yester¬
day. tied
Many large vessels were up at
the wharves, and soon after the water
began running out they rested upon
the keels. A steamer was making its
regular trip up stream last evening to
Penysbuig, when it was caught half
way to Penysburg and stuck in the
mud.
Oh, mystery or mercy: oesus was
reduceil to a level with the malefaci-
ors. tbut he might be raisod higher
thau the angel*.
VOL.IV, NO. 23.
TBADE IS STAGNANT-
Duo to a Lack of Confidence Rather Than
a Lack of Money.
It. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review
of Trade says;
It i* difficult to t any signs of
improvement. Whiie ihere has been
some addition to the number of man¬
ufacturing establishments and to the
number of hands at work during the
past week, it has become painfully
clear that the orders do not suffice to
keep at full time even the limited
force at present engaged. The busi¬
ness transacted is still far below that
of last year in volume, iu railroad
earnings the decrease being 10.6 per
cent, in spite of the largo World’s Fair
business and in payments throughout
the principal clearing-houses outside
of New York the decrease is 26 per .
cent. Reports from other oities dis¬
close a distinct check on business.
There is on the whole less activity and
less confidence regarding the futuro
than there was a week ago, and this in
many instances is attributable to the
uncertainty regarding the monetary
future which the delay in congress
causes.
While the volume of all kinds of
money in circulation has increased
$21,377,247 during the moDth of Sep¬
tember, and is now greater by almost
$10,000,000 than it was last year, the
embarrassment has now, as it has all
the time been, due to a lack of confi¬
dence rather than to a lack of cursei.
cy. It is observed that while the bank
circulation increased in September
$5,052,317, the amount of bank notes
it\ the treasury has increased $4,657,-
946, and several of the banks which
took out additional circulations have
retired it and sold the bonds deposited.
The stock of money iu Now York
banks has increased rapidly, and the
retirement of clearing-house certifi¬
cates here and at other cities shows a
great improvement in the monetary
situation; yet there is but little in¬
crease perceived in that confidence
upon which commercial or industrial
loans mainly depend.
There is not such encouragement as
might be desired in the industrial re¬
ports for the week. Iu almost every
department orders are louud too small
to keep the restricted working force
■Obt'^potly aftrWorktog-wi employed. Wep*&'hUetfe Many cog jjny.
fitKHj
general reduction in wages also affects
the purchasing power of the millions
who still have work, An in creased
number of establishments is reported
in operation, but the sagging of prices
in print cloths and some other cotton
goods, and iu the most important
products of iron and steel, discloses
greatly retarded business.
The demand for iron products ia on
the whole Jess satisfactory than it wr”
a week ago. In the manufacture;
wool there is still remarkable hesi
tion, aud the demand for consumpt
is much restricted. ,
The wheat movement has been fij
ly laj’ge, and the price has declij
about 2 cents, while corn has decli'
about 1 cent. Cotton is about
higher without distinct reason in c
prospects, and pork products are
somewhat higher, pork 75 cents
barrel. Happily the conditions
far have not diminished the expoi
products, which continue fairly J
Failures continue to decreai
number and importance, thougl /
as much as has been hoped. The
ber reported in the United States
ing the past week has been 320, a;
184 the same week last year, and
ada 45, against 35 last year.
Fight in MIR.Air.
The citicens of Atlanta, Ga.
p.ast week, were treated to :i t-.
performance somewhat out of the us-
ual line. A painter named Tnckei
gave a war dance on the narrow plat¬
form at the top of a telephone pole,
ninety-five feet above ground, at
Mitcheil and Forsyth streets. He car¬
ried up a flask of whisky aud a can of
green paint. With the paint he cov¬
ered himself grten from belt to crown.
Then he sang, yelled and danced, at¬
tracting a great crowd. He swung
himself from the rim of the platform
and dangled there in the air to the
horror of the crowd below.
Two linemen were telephoned for.
They climbed up. One got through the
trap door, when Tucker shut it and
would not let the other up. He ag-
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saulted (he lineman on the platform
aud they had a thrilling fight. Tacker
tried to throw the lineman off,
but the latter finally got in a blow
with his nippers on Tucker’s head,
knocking him senseless. The other
lineman then got up and Tucker was
let down with a roDe and taken to the
police station.
Deceived His Looks.
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, is a
big. burly man who looka like a pros¬
perous dealer in live stock. Shortly
after his arrival in Washington he waa
stopped at the door of the senate chain.,
ber by a new doorkeeper, who i
formed him tnat no one save senator,
were allowed ou the floor. Mr. Allen
smiled sadly, waved his hand and said:
“Very well • I’m a
I don’t lj|
the crodsismM same,” t
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