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Spring Place Jimplecute.
Carter c to Ucartscll, Putolisliers,
VOLUME XV.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED CP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPI TAG
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
Saturday’s statement of the condi¬
tion of tho treasury shewed available
cash balance §19,297,960; gold re¬
serve, §107,259,003.
The United States battle ship At¬
lanta Los sailed from Santiago de
Cuba for Key West, where she will
pursue her work of looking after filli
bustering expeditions and probably
relieve the Raleigh of thftt task on tho
Florida coast.
The marine hospital service has been
advised of the arrival at Reedy Island,
Delaware river, of tho British steam¬
ship Ealing, St. Lucia, with a cargo of
logwood. There was one death from
yellow fever on hoard en route and
two seamen stricken are now convales¬
cent. The steamer will be disinfected
and detained at quarantine until all
danger is past.
The July returns for cotton, as given
out by the department of agriculture,
moke the avernge condition 82.3
against 81 in June, an improvement
of 1.3 points. Tho condition July 1,
1894, was 89.0, and the same date in
1893, 82.7 per cent. The averages of
the states are as follows: Virginia,100;
North Carolina, 79; South Carolina,
84; Georgia, 88; Florida, 93; Ala¬
bama, 83; Mississippi, 86; Louisiana,
77; Texas, 87-6; Arkansas, 93; Ten¬
nessee, 92.
Secretary Herbert says he has a
cablegram from Captain .Sumner, com¬
manding the Columbia, at Southamp¬
ton, stating that tho vessel in the dry
dock appeared to be straining and
that ho ordered the water admitted.
Upon floating the vessel all evidences
of straining disappeared and tho Colum¬
bia is uninjured. When the purport
of the cablegram became known about
the navy department, ns it rapidly did,
tbe gravity of the matter became ex¬
aggerated and rumors were circulated
that tho famous cruiser had been ma¬
liciously injured in the docks and that
a surreptitious attempt had been made
to ruin her.
The state department ie in receipt
of a report from Jesse W. Sparks, con
sul at Piedgras Negros, on the colony
of negroes brought from Alabama and
Georgia last February to Tlahualila,
Mexico. It appears that W. II. Ellis,
ft colored man, under contruct with
the owners of a large tract of land
near Tlahualila, imported the negroes
to farm the land. Some of the emi¬
grants have since made their way to
Piedras Negras and complain of bad
treatment. Reports have appeared in
some American newspapers tbat some
of the colonists escaped from tho farm,
were pursued by Ellis, and thirty-two
were shot down, while tho survivors
were captured, taken back to the
colony and subjected to harsh pun¬
ishment. The consul’s investigation
has shown this story to be almost en
tirely without foundation. Forty
three of the colonists did leave the col¬
ony. Twenty of them returned in
safety.
An Emphatic Dental.
Mr. Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish
minister at Washington, has received
no intimation that his government de¬
sired an explanation of the Figaro
Eustis interview in Paris. Ambassa¬
dor Enstis’ denial of the alleged in¬
terview is accepted in official circles as
conclusive. This denial has been ac¬
centuated by tho following cable mes¬
sage sent from Paris by a personal
friend of the ambassador to the Wash¬
ington bureau of the Philadelphia
Ledger : “There is no truth what¬
ever in the reported interview pub¬
lished in the Figaro with Ambassador
Eustis. He never uttered what is at¬
tributed to him and did not discuss
with any person the subjects treated
in the publication. The fullest and
most emphatic denial is given the en¬
tire story by the ambassador.”
Receipts and Disbursements Heavy,
have Treasury receipts and expenditures
both been running so far this
month. Tho former have attained the
aggregate of $10,979,000, or nearly
$1,250,000 a day. Sundays and holi¬
days excluded, and the expenditures
foot up $23,318,000, making the de¬
ficit $12,338,000. Since July 1st the
general treasury balance, according to
the printed daily statement, has de¬
clined $2,000,000, standing at $191,-
61a, 000. From this there is to be de¬
ducted $6,527,016 for bonds and inter¬
est paid. The gold reserve has de¬
clined from $107,557,000 to $107,213,
000. The amount of treasury notes
and United States notes redeemed in
gold and reissued is $533,189. It is
not believed that the deficit will be
veTy much increased for the mouth
over the figures it has now reached,
and it may be reduced.
Will Build Warships.
It is the belief among the officials at
Washington that the Japanese will use
a large part of the war indemnity
which China is to pay her for the pur¬
pose of materially increasing her navy.
The financial resources of Japan will
he very abundant during the coining
SPUING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY. GA.. SATURDAY. JULY 20, 1895.
year, as she will receive over 8100,
000,000 before next May and thereafter
about $20,000,000 a year for five yoars.
This will be drawn entirely from China
and will be in addition to Japan's
usual Receipts from customs and inter¬
nal revenue.
The authorities there have already
indicated their purpose of using a con¬
siderable part of the funds on new
ships. A Japanese naval expert visit¬
ed this country some time since and
went to the various American ship
yards. Mr. lvurino, the minister at
Washington, also visited the Cramp
yards. As a result of the talk there
seemed little doubt that one or more
large ships would be ordered by Ja¬
pan. The government was certainly
disposed that way and it is believed
that if tho delay has occurred in clos¬
ing the contract it must bo due to the
conditions imposed by tho American
builders.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Bradstreets’ Weekly Report of Trade
Conditions.
Bradsireet’s review of trade for the
past week says; At tho closo of tho
second week in July the condition of
trade generally remains practically
unchanged, although commercial and
industrial activity at many points
continues more conspicuous than usual
at tho midsummer season. Prices
generally continue strong, exceptions
being found among tho cereals, hog
products, coffee and lead, while, as
significant as anything else, are tho
exceptionally favorable outlook for
trade in tbe fall and the encouraging
promise for tho wheat and corn crops
throughout the central, western and
northwestern states.
Bessemer pig iron is higher again,
§14 being asked at Pittsburg and $15
expected in the near future. Steel bil¬
lets are also higher, as arc galvanized
and black sheets, hides and manufac¬
tured goods generally. Heavy re¬
ceipts ( f cattle and hogs, good crop
reports and reduced purchases of wheat
abroad will explain reactions in the
commodities referred to, while sugar,
print firm at cloths last and week’s cotton quotations. have remainej| New
business in dry goods is quiet, but
prices are steady, and dress woolens
are firm on the higher price of raw
wool.
Bank clearings throughout the coun
try this week present tho largest total
since tho period of the panic in 1893,
$1,146,000,000, 30 per cent larger than
in the second week of July, 1894, and
14 per cent larger than in the second
week of July, 1893.
June railwny earnings show con
tinned improvement in the largest gain
for any month within two years.
The only notable falling off in June
is that in earnings of the southern
reads, caused by tho coal miners’ strike
on the Norfolk and Western railroad.
There were 266 failures in business
in the United States this week, as com¬
pared with 197 last week, 229 in the
second week of July, 1894, and 393 in
a like week in 1893.
Among eastern cities there is a
change for the better at Pittsburg,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Provi¬
dence. Manufacturers of woolens and
jewelry report a better demand, while
all forms of iron and steel are in
active request, these features result¬
ing in the stimulation of business in
other lines. With a few exceptions
gonetal trade is quiet, and summer
dullness prevails throughout the south.
Tho exception is with respect to iron
mills, which are running full timo.
This is conspicuous at Chattanooga
and beginning to be so at Birmingham.
At Atlanta sales of hardware m ■■
larger, but tlioBe of dry goods, shoes
and groceries are smaller. New Or¬
leans reports only a fair volume of
business—less than was expected.
FALL OF THE BA8TILE.
Tho Anniversary Celebrated In Paris
by Great Throngs of People.
A Paris cablegram says: Sunday
was the one hundred and sixth anni¬
versary of the fall of the Bastile, and
falling on Sunday the holiday was more
generally observed than usual. All the
public buildings and many private
residences were decorated and] tho
day was celebrated in the most
fervid manner, Tens of thous
ands of persons strolled about the
streets, while thousands of others vis¬
ited the various resorts in the vicinity
of tho city. Many Parisians went in
carriages or on bicycles to Long
Champa in the afternoon to witness a
review of troops. In tho evening the
city was brilliantly illuminated. Tbe
open-air resorts were crowded with
dancers and onlookers and the merri¬
ment promised to last all night.
HANGED THE BABIES.
Then Mrs. Lena Rosesner, of Pittsburg,
Made Way With Herself.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Mrs. Lena Roses
ner hanged herself to a closet door af¬
ter she had hung up two of her child¬
ren in another room. She sent her
eldest daughter, aged 9, to visit a rel¬
ative. Then she hung her daughter,
Ella, aged 3, to tho bed-post. After
that she tied a towel about the neck of
her baby and hung it up on the post
of its crib. After that she hung her¬
self. When discovered all were dead
except the baby and it was chewing
the towel with which it was tied up.
“Tell the Truth."
EN GLISIF ELECTIONS
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CONSERVATIVES HAVE THINGS
TIIEIR OWN WAY.
Speaker Gully Will Probably Lose His
Job—Many Surprises.
A London cable dispatch says: The
Unionists started in the first day of
the elections for members of the new
parliament, by returning twenty-eight
men to the house without opposition,
while the liberals returned only throe,
the Parnellite faction of the Irish
party also scoring three. The con
servative organs hail these results as a
good omen,and rightly,too. Thesucces a
of unionists at the polls in aetual con
tests cannot anywhere nearly corre
spend with this showing, but there is
an undoubted significance, in the fact
that the liberals have permitted jugd
ment to go against them by default in
so large a number of constituencies at
the very beginning of the conflict.
The remainder of the oonstituen
cics in which there is no
opposition now show only fifteen
where there is no unionist standing,
against 115 where there is no candi
date representing the liberal party.
This state of things ia very reasonably
regarded as the result of conviction
on the part of the liberals that tho
contest ia hopeless in these particular
divisions or districts. Hitherto the
liberals have contested theBO seats with
tbe notion that there was a remote
chance of bagging one here and there,
but on this occasion they seem to have
concluded that it would be a waste of
timo and energy to make the attempt.
Consequently they have abandoned the
campaign in these district® and the
libcral executive committee has do
cided to concentrate its efforts in con
testing for the doubtful scats in the
consciousness that they will have
enough to do to capture the share
which the last general election allotted
to them. If they do this they will be
extremely lucky, and, indeed, nobody
believes that they expect it.
The worst of all the misfortunes that
have overtaken the liberals and home
rulers in this campaign, or in fact since
tho retirement of Mr, Gladstone, has
been the disclosures made by Mr.
Timothy M, Iiealy concerning the re¬
lations of the liberal whips with the
anti-Parnellite leaders. Every liberal
and every McCarthyite deplores these
revelations, and the feeling is wide¬
spread that all of the power which the
priesthood usually exerts over tho Irish
electors, or all of the power which they
are capable of exerting, will fall very
far abort of counteracting the baneful
influence of Mr. Healy’s disclosures.
THE FLOOR COLLAPSED
And tbe Audience Fell Through in a
Struggling Heap.
A frightful accident terminated the
Elk festivities at Atlantic City, N. J.,
Wednesday night, in which a lartn
number of persons sustained terrible
injuries, from which some will die.
It was at 9:30 o’clock when Grand
Exalted Ruler of the Buffalo Body,
Meade D. Dotwiler, of Harrisburg,
had finished his address at the opening
of the social session of the Elks, in
tho Inlet Casino, and was about to in¬
troduce James J. Armstrong, of New
York, when a cracking sound was
heard.
A moment later the floor, upon
which were almost a thousand people,
slowly opened, and the mass of
humanity was precipitated to tho first
floor, a distance of twenty-five feet.
Men, women and children plunged into
the hole and upon one another. Tho
cries, shrieks and groans were deafen¬
ing and the direst confusion reigned.
An alarm was immediately sent out,
and all the physicians in town re¬
sponded. The work of extricating tho
injured proceeded rapidly, and by 12
o’clock they had all been removed to
tho hospitals or their hotels.
The president has appointed Wm,
H. Anderson, of Kentucky, to be reg¬
ister of tho land office at Enid, Okla.,
io succeed R. W. Patterson, of Geor¬
gia, deceased; Charles F. Carpenter
io be chief engineer and Edward Dor¬
sey and Henry O. Stavton to bo first
assistant engineers in the revenue cut¬
ter service.
GLADSTONE’S MESSAGE.
“Give Ireland Her .Just and Constitu¬
tional Claims.”
The Westminister Gazette (London)
a fow days ago asked Mr. Gladstone
to write a message to the people to bo
displayed upon magic lantern slides
together with cartoons and election
nows at tho National Liberal Club.
Mr. Gladstone complied with the re¬
quest by sending the following:
“Above all other present purposes
vindicate the rights of tho house of
commons as the organ of the nation
and establish the honor of England as
well as consolidate tho strongth of tho
empire by conceding tho just and con¬
stitutional claims of Ireland.”
Free Delivery for Tampa.
Postmaster General Wilson has
issued an order establishing on Sep¬
tember 1st next, a free delivery ser¬
vice at Tampa, Fla., with five letter
carriers.
A CHALLENGE.
Bimetallists Want a Discussion WI«\
Sound Money Men.
The following letter has been sent
from the office of the American Bi¬
metallic League in Washington City:
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mittee Fairchild, Sound Chairman Com¬
Club, 62 on William Currenoy Reform
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FOSTER RETURNS.
-?e Was Counselor in the Clilneso-Jap
aneso Peace Negotiations.
John W. Foster has arrivocl at his
Lome in ho-setvecj Washington city from China,
as_gpunselor to the
peace envoys in the negotia¬
tions to end the Chineso- Japanese war.
Mr. Foster has been nbsont from
Washington on this mission nearly
seven months, having started on De¬
cember 22d, last. Until the day ho
left Shanghai for homo, after having
accompanied Lord Li to Formosa to
transfer that island to the Japanese in
accordance with the provisions of the
treaty of Shimonoseki, Mr. Foster
was engaged nlmost night and day in
the labors of his office, and he comes
back somewhat fatigued and ready for
a summer’s rest.
In conversation with a press re¬
porter, Mr. Foster was asked for his
opinion of the prospects of permanent
peace with Chinn and Japan as the re¬
sult of the treaty of Shimonoseki. Ho
replied:
“There is good reason, to expect
permanent peace between the two em¬
pires. The terms demanded by Japan
may, under tho circumstances, be re¬
garded as reasonable, especially in view
of tho retrocession of the Liao-Tung
peninsula. Tho troaty has been ob¬
served and carried out by China with
scrupulous good faith. Her conduct
in this respect has created a vory fa¬
vorable impression in .Japan.”
The secretary of state has issued a
commission to another new tobacco
Tobacco manufacturing Warehouse company, The Florence
and Prize Compa¬
ny. The capital stock is $3,000, di¬
vided into 60 shares, with the privi
lego of increasing the capital stock to
$ 6 , 000 .
HOW ABOUT WHITNEY?
His Availability as a Presidential Can
didate Being Discussed.
The f friot enforcement of the excise
law iu New York and the generally
obnoxious methods of the reform
party in that city under Mayor Strong
are taken as un indication by some of
the democratic leaders that New York
will ngaiu go strongly democratic at
tho next elections, and thus have ft
strong influence upon the democratic
nomination for president in 1896.
Speaking of this possibility, the
Evening News says : “The sentiment
in the state of New York in favor of
sending a delegation instructed to
vote for William Collins Whitney for
president of the United States is grow¬
ing every day. It is not believed that
Mr. Hill will attempt to get the dele¬
gation. Senator HilJ, while as strong
iu the state of New York today as he
ever was, has, his friends say, given
up the idoa that he can secure tho
democratic nomination for the presi¬
dency iu 1896, and will willingly go
into the battle in the interest of the
man who is rocognized us the strongest
leader in Ihe democratic party today.”
An Explosion Kills Five People.
An explosion occurred Sunday in a
powder magazine at Tivoli, Italy,
eighteon miles northeast of Rome.
Five persons were killed and several
injured. The cause of the explosion
is unknown.
Si a Year In Advance
BUYING TIIE BONDS
OF THE GEORGIA SOUTHERN
AND FLORIDA RAILWAY.
Heavy Purchases of the Certificates
Being Mudo at Baltimore.
The steady buying of Georgia South¬
ern and Florida bonds at Baltimore
the last few days has attracted consid¬
erable attention in financial circles.
Although only $20,000 were sold Sat¬
urday, they rose to 101 for the last
lot, which was $4,000—a gain for the
day of J, and 3$ inside of two weeks.
At the close of the market 1021 was
bid with none offered. There has
been a rather irrogular advance in
those certificates ever since the South¬
ern railway acquired a controlling in¬
terest in tho railroad, the buyers ex¬
pecting that the new securities to
lie issued will occupy a position
relatively Georgia as good as those of tho
Pacific, Columbia and Green¬
ville and Western North Carolina
rnilroads, all of which roads are
owned by the Southern, subject to the
mortgage bonds. A number of large
financial institutions have been buying
tlie Georgia Southern and Florida
certificates with a view of exchanging
them for the new 5 per cent, fifty year
gold bonds to be Issued about the
middle of August under the plan of
reorganization. At tbe head of tho
syndicate is the Maryland Trust Com¬
pany, which is in close connec¬
tion with tho Southern railway
management and recently arranged
the financing of the Charlotte and Co¬
lumbia extended 5 per cent bonds. The
syndicate expeefs to retain the new
bondspas an investment, or to sell them
whctiffliey advance in value. The new
mortgage is $4,000,000 upon the 285
miles of road from Macon, Ga., to
Palatka, Fla. The syndicate which will
issue the new bonds has purchased in
the neighborhood of $2,000,000 of tho
certificates.
THE CROP REPORT.
Moro Fruit Titan Ever Known—Cot¬
ton Making Good Headway.
it -According to the weekly orop report
begins to look as if the peach orop
this year will be the largest ever gath¬
ered. The trees are fairly drooping
under the weight of their lusoions
burden and every orehard in the state
will yield an abundant crop. This is
good nows. The same conditions that
produce a heavy fruit orop produce
good health. The two go hand in
hand.
Melons aro rolling into marketevery
day and the crop is a very fine offe.
Cotton is doing well and tho indica¬
tions are that the farmers of Georgia
will have a prosperous year.
“The week just ended,” says the re¬
port, “was the wettest since the be¬
ginning of the season, the rainfall be¬
ing in the shape of showers attended
with warm sunshine. The temperature
conditions were about normal, though
in a few localities tho nights ware
cooler than was good for cotton. All
crops are growing very rapidly,cotton
especially. The oorn crop continues
very already promising, a good harvest being
assured in some of the south¬
ern counties. Peaches and melons are
abundant, the first named crop bid¬
ding fair to turn out the heaviest ever
known in the state. Wet weather has
delayed the ‘laying by’ of crops in tho
northern districts, where some injury
is also reported to grain in the field
and shock. Several severe local storms
occurred during the weok, causing
much damage by breaking down fruit
trees, prostrating corn and oats where
not harvested,”
SAM SMALL ON THE STAND.
He Tells About the Publication of the
Alleged Libel.
A large crowd was in attendance
when court opened at Norfolk, Va.,
Tuesday morning in the Massey-Pilot
case. Tho defenso called to the stand,
Mr. Sam W. Small, one of the defend¬
ants in the case. He was examined by
Mr. Heath, narrating his newspaper
experience,and saying that at the timo
of the publication of the Massey
Book Company article, he believe tho
statements to bo true, and believed
that there was evidence that would es¬
tablish the truth of the statements in
said article. In the course of his con¬
nection with the Pilot he received let¬
ters cabling his attention to school
matters, and, having knowledge of the
transaction of tho American Book
company, ho was led to believe that
tho school book matter was worth
looking into. Mr. Byrd prepared on
article and sent it to the witness.
When it reached the Pilot office, he
(Small) pruned it till ho thought it
would pass muster and then he pub¬
lished it.
Questioned by Mr. Neely, of coun¬
sel for plaintiff, Mr. Small admitted
that he had not retracted in his news¬
paper the things he had published,
'""I win'd) he had afterwards learned
were not true.
That is the most perfect government
under which a wrong to the humblest
is an affront to all.
N UMBER 25.
If You
ARE GOING TO
m , Kansas, Arkansas,
ebraska, Louisiana,
Colorado, Utah, California,
Oregon, Washington, Mex¬
ico, New Mexico or Arizona,
And will send me a postal card or let¬
ter stating where you are going,
when you are going, 'where
you will start from, how
many there are in your
party, what freight and
baggage you have,
I will writo you of call at your
house and furnish you with
the fullest information regard¬
ing routes, lowest rates of all
classes, besides maps, descriptive anti
illustrated land pamphlets, resort
books, Hot Springs guides, etc.
Cheap farming lands in Mis¬
souri, Arkansas, Kansas and
Tfcxas.
A. A. GALLAGHER,
SOUTHERN PASSENGER *AGENT,
Missouri Pacific R’w’y
and IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
103 Read House,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
(JIIARLES N. KINO,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
J 9 J. BATES,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Speoial attention to collections and
criminal practice.
Y, L. WATTS,
Attorney-At-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Prompt attention to all business.
L. HENRY,
Attorney-at-Law,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Will practice in the courts of this and
adjoining counties.
J # S. FANN,
Dentist,
DALTON, GA.
Solicits vonr patronage
JJcNELLY & SRARTSILL,
General Job
CLEVELAND, TENN.
Mail orders will receive prompt atten¬
tion. Send for prices and
samples of work.
rfHOMAS J. BRYANT,
Livery Stable,
DALTON, GA.
I have bought the entire Livery
business of Calaway & Longest, and
solicit your patronage.
^ P. BAGWELL, M. D.,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Offers his professional services to the
people of this section and solicits a
share of tho patronage.
W. ANDERSON,
Physician and Surgeon,
SPRING PLACE, GA.
Professional services offered to tha
people of this section. Calls oheer
iully answered day and night.
J. A, PRICE, M. D.,
SUM.
Will practice his prj
and surrounding eouw
Will be at the Tern!
first Tuesdays in eac9
purpose of examiniJ
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of country where proi
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