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TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
file News of the World Condensed Into
Ply aid Pointed Paratrajhs.
Interesting and Instructive to Ait
Classes of Readers.
Bishop Brown, of the African Metho¬
dist Episcopal church, died in Washing¬
ton Thursday.
The foot and mouth disease has bro¬
ken out in the Berlin cattle market
and all removals have been prohibited of
cattle.
Notice has been received at Eagle the
Pass. Texas, for the removal of
Mexican import duty on corn, corn meal
and beans.
Snow fell for several hours in Iowa
Thursday, and indications point to Snow one
of the worst storms of the season.
also fell at Kansas City.
The Beaupiic Mercantile Company, at
St. Paul, Minn., failed Thursday. The
assets of the company are estimated at
$168,658 and the liabilities, $517,286.
A special general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in Ireland convened
in Belfast, has passed unanimously reso
lution^, condemning the home rule bill.
Numerous Austrian, Swiss and Ger¬
man Catholics have petitioned conference the pope
that he call an international to
take steps to abolish gambling at Monte
Carlo.
A bill extending the right of suffrage
to wo men in municipal elections, was de¬
feated by the lower house of the Michi¬
gan legislature Thursday by a vote of 38
to 39.
The statement of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for the month of February
shows earnings of $1,846,112, a decrease
of $88,566; expenses, $1,474,783, a de¬
crease of $31,772.
Thursday morning fire broke out in the
Wheeler opera house at Toledo, O., and
in a short time the whole building was a
mass of flames. The loss will be at least
$100,000; fully covered by insurance.
A London cablegram states that the
captain of the steamship Teutonic re¬
ported at Queenstown Tuesday that
she had taken a long southerly steamship course,
but had seen nothing of the
Naronic.
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Pacific Mail 8teamship Wednesday, Company Ed¬
held in New York City elected director
ward Lauterbach was a
to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Mr. Jay Gould.
A destructive fire occurred Tuesday at
Bootle, near Liverpool, Eng. Two cot¬
ton Warehouses belonging to the Deene
Company were burned. Loss about one
hundred thousand pounds. The cotton
in the warehouses belonged to Townsend,
Woolley & Co.
Judge Brown, in the United States
district court at New York, Tuesday,
issued an order for the sale of the steam¬
ship Vigilance, of the United States and
Brazil Steamship Comyany, to satisfy
claim of seamen for wages. Other vessels
of the line may also have to be sold.
A Monterey, Mex., special says: the Con¬
struction began Tuesday on exten¬
sion of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf
railroad from Trevino towards Sierra
Mojada, the great silver ore producing
region of the state of Coa'nuila. Several
thousand tons of steel rails for the new
line has arrived at Tampico.
Dispatches of Wednesday from Guth¬
rie, Oklahoma, state that the Cherokee
strip is being invaded by boomers. Hun¬
dreds of them are encamped along the of
line of the Santa Fe road. A troop
cavalry have been stationed within
twelve miles south of Arkansas City,
which ia twelve miles from the Kansas
line.
Turn Hall, a building covering half a
block, at Patterson, N. J., was totally
destroyed by fire Thursday morning.
The loss is roughly estimated at $75,000.
Four firemen were injured and it :s be
lieved two will die. They were caught
’ in the building when the walls collapsed,
aud it' was with removed the greatest difficulty
that they were from the debris.
The Missouri house of representatives,
on Tuesday, passed the senate bill for
the appointment by the government of
an excise commission to have absolute
control of the issue of dramshop license,
It was passed by a strict party vote as ii
takes the licensing power out of the
hands of the republican collector will at the St.
Louis. Governor Stone approve
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Mrs. Annie Potter, of Kansas City,
Kas., in a formal card to the public Sat
urday announced herself as an independ
ent candidate for mayor of that city, She
is the wife of Eli Potter, a prominent in
surance agent. Her candidacy is the out
come of a meeting of thirty and women, entif all
of whom have registered are esnvaJ
tied to vote. A house to house u
is to be urged to register and vote.
A special of Tuesday from Buffalo, NJ
Y. says: Edward A. Kingston, a drugJ
gist and his brother, James Kingston,
an employe of the Wagnei Palace Car
Company, are under arrest charged with
smuggling drags from Canada, The
custom house inspectors have been aware
for 6ome time that large quantities of
drugs were smuggled handling and them. Kingston They was
suspected of were^
caught in the act.
A special from Havana says: Thl
time fixed for the redemption of thl
bank bills of nominal issued expired value on of March #4,508,8(1' lltlj 1
Notes
were not; presented for redemption valJfs! ad
according to the law have now n*
whatever. It is supposed that by L
the greater part of these notes have b*
BULLOCH TIMES. -
VOL. I.
lost or destroyed in various ways and
that very few individual holders failed
to present whatever bills they had for
redemption.
The Carnegie Steel company recently
gave an order to Whitworth & Co., of
Manchester, Eng., for an enormous piece
of their armor plate machinery. The
massive proof machinery will have a ca¬
pacity of 16,000 tons pressure and will
cost over $1,000,000. It is claimed that
the machinery will give the Carnegie
company advantages over the world in
the manufacture of war fixtures. An
armor plate weighing 300,000 tons can
easily be worked in one piece.
TRADE REVIEW.
Bradstreet and Dunn k Co.’s Report
for tbe Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Business during the past
week has been affected by severe weather
and even more by the stringency and un¬
certainty in the money markets. Rates
for money have mounted from 5 1-2 on
call to 61 per cent, and for two days
ruled above 10 per cent, but extreme
pressure was abated without any measure
of relief, and on the announcement that
the treasury department will not issue
bonds but would use the bullions reserv¬
ed In maintaining gold payments, with¬
drawals of money for west and aouth
nearly ceased. Gold to the amount of
$1,000,000 was offered to the treasury in
exchange for legal tender by the bank of
Denver and as much by one bank at Chi¬
cago, and rates here fell to six per
cent.
There was some liquidation ia stocks
but none of importance in products, and it
is evident that the restraint of exports by
speculation in the chief staples is an im¬
portant cause of the monetary strin¬
gency and of the loss of gold by the
treasury. increase is in the wholesale
A fair seen
trade at St. Louis with a bright promise Little
for spring. Trade is satisfactory at
Rock, improving at Memphis and quiet
at other points in Tennessee, shrinking
with tight money at Columbus, but
fairly good at Atlanta; better with in¬
creased shipments of lumber at Mobile
and fair at New Orleans, with sugar firm
but rice is lower.
Business failures during last week
number for the United States, 193; Can¬
ada, 31; total, 225. *
WHAT BRADSTREET SAYS.
Bradstreet’s report for the week says:
Orders for cotton goods at eastern and
other centers of production consumed are larger. and
More cotton is being
prices are steady. Jobbers are taking the
larger quantities of goods, and orders.
country dealers are placing heavy River
The increased capacity at Fall pieces. But re¬
sults in a surplus of 5,000
prints are active. At the south, Charles¬
ton reports trade dull, as interior dealers
are permitting stocks to run down. Bus¬
iness is not particularly active at Nash¬
ville, Memphis, Richmond, Atlanta, Bir¬
mingham or New Orleans and collections,
while fair at a few points, are generally
slow.
Farmers are actively engaged and in in Geor¬ field
work in western Tennessee, food
gia they have raised so much larger
crops that grocers’ sales have been affec¬
ted at Atlanta and elsewhere, although
at Birmingham trade in this line has im¬
proved. The slow movement of cottou
mikes trade dull iu Louisiana, where the
sugar acreage is to be increased.
TO IMPEACH THE JUDGE.
Aaother Sensation Sprang in the Ten¬
nessee Legislature.
A Nashville special says: Shelby
county furnished another sensation in
the shape of impeachment criminal proceedings
against the judge of the court,
Julius J. Dubose. Hon. John R. Good¬
win presented a memorial to the house,
signed by 3,000 citizens of Memphis, be abol- ask¬
ing the court of that county to
isheri or that some means for ridding
{jj e community of Judge Dubose be
a d op t e d. Mr. Babb, of Shelby, then of
f ere( j s resolution of charges impeachment of the accom
panied by lengthy most
g er i 0U9 nature.
There are twelve articles and thirty
five or more specific charges. The judge
j 9 charged with unjundicial, tyrannical
and brutal treatment of lawyers and cit
izens, with arbitrary and unconstitution
al abuse and prostitution of the powers
and functions of the judicial office; with
unfair and partial administration of jus
rice with prostituting the power of his
office to personal and political ends;
with defying and nullifying the
writ of habeas corpus; with appointing
unqualified and unfit persons to the office
of attorney general pro tern.; with dis
«g«d of the righto of citizens; with
lowering the dignity of the bench and
sparing the popular respect for the ju
dietary. A special committee consider was ap- the
P°^ted by the speaker to
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A MISSING HEIR
lFor Whom a Fortune of a Million Dol¬
lars is Awaiting.
A fortune of over a million dollars,
of stocks and bonds and San
IFrancisco real estate, awaits Michael
O’Reilly, if alive, or his heirs, if he is
All this is left by his ^bachelor
brother, John. In 1854 John and Mich¬
ael O’Reilly settled in San Francisco,
coming from Dongerey Ireland. John
secured employment and in a short time
had accumulated considerable money,
but Michael drifted into the army and
fought through the Indian war j of 1874.
The last heard of him was in Chicago in
1875, when be app
now a millionaire, for money and wm re
* usc< *- The missing man is supp
b# about sixty years of age if a e.
STATESBORO. GA. THURSDAY, MARCH 23,1893.
THEODGHODT THE SOOTH
Notes ot Her Protress and Prosperity
Briefly Ejitoinizefl
And Important Happenings from Bay
to Day Tersely Told.
The town of Guyhandotte.W. Va., ten
miles east of Huntingdon, was visited by
a destructive fire Tuesday. The loss is
$10,000, fully covered by insurance. The
fire was incendiary.
Governor Turney, of Tennessee,
Wednesday, appointed Frank Armstrong
Moses, of Knoxville, to be coal oil in¬
spector. Dr. W. R. Niblett was ap¬
pointed inspector at Harriman.
The Alabama association holds its an¬
nual session in Montgomery on July 5th
to 7th, and have accepted the commercial hospitable
invitation and industrial of Montgomery’s association their guests.
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A special from Hempstead, Texas, to
the Galveston News says the Waiter
county court house burned Wednesday.
Loss, $20,000; insurance, $9,000. The
records are safe in a fireproof building
adjoining and were saved.
A Nashville dispatch of Monday says: the
It is authoritatively given out that
state will make an effort to have all the
Coal Creek cases now pending in the
courts at Clinton transferred to the fed¬
eral court at Knoxville and to bring up
all cases that may occur hereafter in that
court.
A Knoxville special of Saturday investigat¬ says:
The Tennessee legislature is
ing the committee reports of the fearful
condition of affairs among the convicts
at Coal Creek. They are in a most dis¬
eased and fifthy condition and many of
them or so poorly fed that they are starv¬
ing to death.
The California state legislature Satur¬
day evening passed through both houses
a resolution to submit to the people the a
constitutional amendment removing
capital to San Jose, providing the latter
city shall deed to the state ten acres of
land and a bonus of $1,000,000. The
action, though hasty, appears to hate
been earnest.
The heirs of Sam Houston, “Father of
Texas,” entered suit Saturday against the
holders of a block of ground^jfrontiug the
market, one of the most valusftfie blocks
in Houston worth $600,000. The suit
also included accrued rentals of $300,
000 or more. The son, ex-Senator Tem¬
ple Houston, is managing the case for the
heirs, some twenty in number.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says: Comptroller Hepburn states thrt
the Alabama National Bank of Mobile,
Ala., has been placed in the hands of
Examiner Campbell at the request of its
board of directors. A meeting of its
stockholders will be held oa March 21st,
and if acceptable propositions will be
submitted that the bank be reopened.
A Bellevicw, Texas, special of Monday
says: Otto Sanders has a wife and five
children—three by a deceased and two
by his present wife. While returning
from work and missing his wife and her
two children, he instituted a search and
found them in a well on the premises. moth¬
The children were dead, and their
er, who had thrown them into the well,
then jumped in herself will die. No
cause is known.
The California general assembly refus¬
ed to reconsider the vote whereby the
constitutional amendment removing the
state capitol from Sacramento to San
Jose was adopted. The amendment has
already been adopted by tbe senate and
now goes to the people to be voted upon.
The adoption of the amendment by the
legislature was a surprise to the whole
state, as the question has not been men¬
tioned this session.
The directors of the Tenessee Coal and
Iron Railway Company held a meeting in
New York City Tuesday afternoon. They
decided to adopt the Talbot open hearth
steel process, a patent downed by the
Metal Refining Company, of Chattanoo¬
ga, on which they have an option good
until April 4tb. Secretary J. Bowron
said the company proposed to be in the
south in the manufacture of steel what
Carnegie is in the north.
A Charleston news special of Monday
says: General T. A. Huguenin, the con
federate commander of Fort Sumter, has
issued orders to every company of tbe
Fourth brigade to send a detachment
fully uniformed and with draped colors, the
to the great memorial meeting on
12th of April to be held in honor of Gen¬
eral Beauregard, to whose great genius
and courage is due the success of Charles¬
ton. The Lafayotte artillery has been
ordered to fire a salute of seventeen guns
at sundown the same evening.
Judge Bryant, of the United States
circuit court, at Galveston, Texas, Tues¬
day, made a decree confirming the sale
of the Waco and Northwestern railway
toE. H. R. Green, who hid $1,375,000
for the property when cried off by the
master in chancery at Waco December
28th last. Green asked to be released
from the bid because he understood that
notes for land sales and for the cash in
tlje receiver’s hands were to be included
in the transfer, but the judge decided
that these were not included and ordered
a deed made to Green.
At a meeting of the board of directors
ot the Jefferson Davis Monument asso¬
ciation, held at Richmond, Va., Thurs¬
day evening, the president was author¬
ized and instructed to proceed to New he
Orleans to make such arrangements as
shall deem necessary and proper to re
move the remains of Mr. Davis from that
city to Richmond, and determine the
route by which they shall be removed.
He waa further authorized and instructed
to confer with General John B. Gordon,
commander of the United Confederate
Veterans, and John Glynn, commander of
the Louisiana division of the Confederate
Veterans, with respect to the funeral es¬
cort from New Orleans to Richmond.
Tuesday night every street car opera¬
tive employed by the Sioux exception City, la.. of
Railway Company, with the and
a possible half do/.eD, was discharged
new men put in their places. The com¬
pany charges all the men discharged with
dishonesty. It is claimed that the com¬
pany has been robbed of as high as three
thousand dollars a month, and that many
employes have taken from fifty dollars to
seventy dollars a month in addition to
tlieii salaries.
A terrible accident occurred on the
New York, On tario and Western railroad
near Muunsville, N. Y., a few miles
south of Oneida. Wednesday cveuing.
An oil tank train broke in two while go
ing up a grade, the latter half of the
train crashing into an engine which was
close behind. A terriftic explosion fol
lowed, setting fire to the oil tanks. The
tireman and engineer of the engine were
instantly killed, as was also the head
brakeman of tbe train.
A bill entitled “an act to prevent gam¬
bling in grain, beef, pork, lard or pro¬
visions by corporations, brokers or
others,” was introduced in the Illinois
general assembly, in February, by Rep¬
resentative William A. Kent, of the
eleventh district. So unobtrusive was
the debut of the measure the intelligence
of its real import did not reach the
board of trade until last Saturday, when
it created quite a stir. Should the bill
become a law the board will have to
close its doors and several thousand peo¬
ple who now find occupation and profit find
in other its walls will be compelled to
pursuits in life.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday says:
The Gingalez workmen at the world’s
fair have gone on a strike against their
employers, who have charge of the Cey¬
lon exhibit. The men were hired in
Ceylon for 30 rupees per month which is
about $7 in American money. They
thought 30 rupees was a big thing until
they gained an idea of what workmen
receive in this country They have been
here only two weeks, but they followed
the proper programme and struck. They
then appointed a committee to see what
the boss was going to do about it They
were offered 40 rupees and are thinking
it over.
THE PACKWOOD MURDERERS.
Marion Clinton Confesses and Impli¬
cates two Others.
A special of Thursday from DeLand.
Fla., says, Marion Clinton, one of the
long suspected Packwood murderers, has
made a voluntary confession of the crime
and implicated two others—Irwin Jen¬
kins, the suspected negro or half breed,
and Will McRse. Jenkins and McRae
are both in jail and Clinton is under
guard. Clinton is about twenty years of
age and his home is about two miles from
the Packwood house. He is ignorant signs
and uneducated and his face shows
of a guilty conscience’s ravages during
the past year. Will McRae comes from
a good family, being a son of Dr. Mc¬
Rae, of Sanford. He has been a resi¬
dent in the Packwood neighborhood visitor for
several years and was a frequent
at the Packwood house. He is about
thirty years old. He lived on a grove
about one mile from the Packwood place.
The grand jury found true bills against
all three for murder.
WAS THE MONEY STOLEN
For the Loss of Which Hemingway is
Serving Time in the Penitentiary!
A Jackson, Miss., special says: It is
now two and a half years since William
Hemingway was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for the term of five years
for the failure to pay over to his succes¬
sor as state treasurer, $315,612 which the
books of his office showed was due the
state. Hemingway could give missing. no expla¬
nation why the money was An
attempt to explain the mystery attending
the disappearance of this money was
made Friday by C. F. Hemingway, a
brother of the late treasurer, and for sev¬
eral years bookkeeper in the treasurer’s
office. Hemingway declares that the
money waa stolen by a man who cleaned
the safe timer, March, 1888, and who ac¬
quired and made a record of the treasu¬
rer’s safe combination then in use and
never afterward changed during Colonel
Hemingway’s incumbency of the office.
A GRAVE CHARGE
Brought by Governor McKinney
Against the Idaho Legislature.
Governor McKinney, of Idaho, ad¬
dressed a letter Thursday to the district
attorney at Boise City, in which he says
that during the recent session of the
Idaho legislature, members of all three
political parties were frequently bribed,
and that members of all parties were in¬
fluenced in a corrupt manner. He say*
prosecution should be commenced, and
declares that the state board will furnish
information which will enable the dis¬
trict attorney to begin proceedings
against some of the guilty legislators.
SHEPARD TO HERBERT.
The Colonel Dines the New Secretary
of the Navy.
Secretary of the Navy Herbert was en¬
tertained at a dinner Wednesday night
by Col. Shepard, dinner. There It were twenty- private
six guests at the was
and there were no means of reporting
the cordial, speeches, hopeful but and the enthusiastic general tenor about was
the new secretary of tbe navy.
NO. 4 :!.
CLOSING BAYS OF CONGRESS
Tbe Senate a Eilraortieary Session
Confirmafiou ot the Cabinet.
Notes and Gossip in and About the
National Capital*
THE SENATE.
The senate reassembled Monday and
discussed for nearly an hour the resolu¬
tions offered last week by Mr. Mandcr
son intended to limit the action of the
senate in the present extraordinary ses
sion to executive matters or to matters
requiring co-operation on the part of the
house. Mr. Gorman favored that policy,
but preferred to have it take the form of
unanimous consent rather than of a reso
lution. Objection to unanimous consent
came from the democratic side of the
chamber and the most strenuous oppo
sition to the resolution came also from
that side. The question finally went
over without any decision and the senate
adjourned until Wednesday. session
The senate held a short
Wednesday, lasting not longer than
thirty minutes. Meeting at noon and
disposing of some morning business, an
executive session was ordered, and, while
in executive session, a recess was taken
till half past 3 o’clock so as to give time
to the republican caucus to complete its
party assignments to committee places.
When the senate reassembled, Mr. Gor¬
man, acting for the democratic majority,
offered a resolution declaring the consti¬
tution of the standing and select com
mittees, and that resolution was agreed
to, the senate then adjourned till Thurs¬
day. A communication was in presented
from the interior department answei
to a resolution in last session
inquiring as to whether permis- the
sion for Sundey concerts in
pension office had been given. The com¬
munication states that such permission
bad been applied for and had been ex¬
pressly refused, and that the building
had not been used on Sundays for such
purposes. The credentials of Mr. Beck¬
with, appointed as senator from the state
of Wyoming were presented by Mr.
Vance and were laid on the table to be
referred to the committee appointed. on privileges The vice
and elections when
president laid before the senate the reso¬
lution of the Massachusetts legislature,
favoring the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands. After they were read, the sug¬
gestion was made by Mr. Sherman that
they should have been presented in ex¬
ecutive session. They were laid on the
table and then the senate proceeded of to
take up executive business, a list nom¬
inations baviDg been previously received
from the president of the United States.
The only business transacted by the
senate Thursday was the presentation of of
various memorials from the legislature the
North Dakota, and a reference of res¬
olution for the appointment of a clerk to
the committee on national banks (at $1,-
440 per annum). Then Mr. Gorman
moved an adjournment, and the senate,
at 12:12, adjourned until Monday at
noon.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
William McAdoo, of New Jersey, who
has been nominated by the president is to
be assistant secretary of the navy, a
consistent old line democrat. He served
several terms in congress on the naval
committee, where he did excellent work.
The president Wednesday sent the fol¬
lowing nominations to the senare: Wm.
McAdoo, of New Jersey, to be assistant
secretary of the navy; Ed ware B. Whit¬
ney, of New York, sssistani attorney
general, vice Abraham C. Parker re¬
signed.
The collectors of customs, commission¬
ers of immigration, internal revenue col¬
lectors and other treasury officials locat¬
ed throughout thecountry are taking tbe
president at his word that they are to be
allowed to serve out their terms of four
years. Only two resignations of this
class have so far been received—that of
Colonel Weber and Collector Hendricks,
both of New York.
Secretary Smith has ordered the tern
porary suspension of all homestead en¬
tries in Clark county, Ala. This order
is issued by representations made by
Governor Jones, to the effect that en¬
tries were being made of salt springs and
saline lands in violation of section 6 of
the act admitting Alabama into the
union. A thorough investigation will
be made and the lands will remain in
suspension until all the facts are ascer¬
tained.
Postmaster General Bissell is credited
with the announcement that no local
business men need apply for postoffices
under his administration. He objects to
commissioning local business men as
postmasters, for reason that the actual
duties are performed by irresponsible,and
often incompetent clerks and substitutes.
A postmaster under Mr. Bissell must
promise to devote his entire time to
the work, and personally keep strict office
hours.
Senators Wolcott and Teller, of Colo¬
rado, called Thursday morning and in¬
terviewed Secretary Carlis'e in regard The to
the light-weight gold at Denver.
secretary pointed out the statutes to them, and
regulatiug bis action in the premises
the government officers at Denver were
telegraphed not to accept Aiaht-weight
gold except by weight, When light¬
weight is proffered the government and
the parties rffering it reins ) to sell it by
weight, it is returned to tWn with th>
word “light” stamped aero 1 its face, th
same ed as the the word face “eounterjftit” of bad f jote. is stamp
across a
Postmaster General isell stated
Thursday that whenever tb Ire is a con-
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test for any postoffice, the person who
held the office under Mr. Clev’eland’d
former administration is not to be con¬
sidered. He further stated that the foil
power of this rule applied to the fourth
class postmasters, and he, and not the
president, was responsible for it. The
statement leaves open the prospect of re¬
appointment of postmasters who held
office under Mr. Cleveland before when,
there is no other applicant for office, but
bolds strictly to the rule that as between
two applicants he who has not before
held office shall be the one selected.
The change that has come over the
lenate was patent to the most experienced the body
observer Thursday. As soon as
had adjourned after its brief session the
army of office-seekers, who have been
thronging the corridors for days past,
found entrance and opportunity to see
their senators. And all found their way
to the democratic side of the chamber
with the result that nearly every senator
seated there was soon surrounded by a
group of self-defense wistful-eyed flee men or the was
obliged tiring in of the committee to to On re¬
rooms rooms.
the other aide of the chamber the repub¬
lican senators sat at their ease, and were
unmolested, amused observers of the
scene.
Mr. Blomit Well Fiaei.
Ex-Congressman Blount is to be a spe¬
cial confidential agent of the treasury
department. It is a position ot much
importance, requiring a man of ability
and diplomacy to fill it. The position ia
rr ot down in the blue book. No
p ppropriation is made directly by
congress for such an office, but
it pays well, the salary coming
out of the contingent fund of the treas¬
ury. Mr. Blount will receive $10,000 an¬
nually and his duties will be entirely of
a confidential character with the secreta¬
ry of the treasury. Much of his time will
be, spent in New York and much of it
probably in European will money be in centers, Wash¬
though his headquarters
ington. Mr. Blount’s name will not. bo
sent to the senate for confirmation. That
is not necessary. Indeed, no "ffic.al an¬
nouncement will bo made of if.
VISIBLE COTTON SUPPLY.
Bradstreet Compiles a Statement Gaik*
ered from Correspondents.
Bradstreet has issued a special cotton
review based upon the report of nearly fol¬
2,000 correspondents, of which tbe
lowing is an abstract: Reports from
1,975 correspondents in ten southern
states of stocks of cotton at 1,494 towns
on March 1st, enable Bradstreet to mak*
an unusually visible comprehensive supply of cotton statement lying
of the
back of the usual visible supply points,
waiting to come forward, and be
in tbe crop of tbe season of 1892 3. Of
1,494 reported towns reported, of 900, or 60 per band. cent,
only stocks cotton on
At 954 towns our correspondents aav no¬ of
stocks were held over on March 1st,
which towns, however, 239 reported
stocks held on March 1, 9812. The total
stock held March 1, 1893, was 341,755
bales, against 508,039 bales last year,
an apparent decrease, according to the*
correspondents, of over show 32 per cent. curiou*
Decreases by states some
differences. Florida shows the heaviest
decrease of any, while Louisiana show*
the smallest. The adjoining state of
Mississippi also shows only a moderate
falling off. The small decrease in Lou¬
isiana, however, is, by reference to the
detailed reports of stocks, due to the
heavy increase in stocks held at Monroe.
The cause of this exceptional increase is
the holding for better prices. Texas,
with one-quarter of the total stock re*
ported, shows a decrease of 39 per cent
The average for the entire cotton belt, 1
will be seeD, is considerably below tbi‘
The result of an enumeration of stoc'
at nearly 1,500 interior southern town
shows the total held of 342,000 bale
about one-third less than that reporter
held a year ago. This, under ordinary
circumstances, might be taken to indi¬
cate that, as far as the leading towns ot
the south are concerned, the amount held
and likely to figure in tbe count of th*
crop is only two-thirds of that held last
year. ___
EXHIBITS FOR THE FAIR
Beiug Rushed in Rapidly—Over 100,»
000 Packages Already on Hand.
A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says;
The work of getting exhibits into tb*
world’s fair building and putting tbe big;
show in readiness is being done. Direc-l
tor General Davis has issued a rush or¬
der, telling exhibitors to hustte their
displays to Jackson park' at once. A*
soon as the great flood of exhibits work¬ begin
to come into the park the forces of
men will" be greatly increased and th*
work will go on Bteadily night and day.
When asked if everything would be in
readiness by May 1st, Mr. Davis said:
“Over 100,000 packages have been re¬
ceived here already. Most of these sre
foreign, but when the displays begin to
come they will CQme in a hurry. The
capacity of the installation plant has not
been tried in the least. We are for th*
exhibits to get there, and the faster th*
better. It is a big force of men and con¬
tinuous work can by*May put the fair in shape.
It will be ready 1st.”
REDWINE SHORT $103,148.
The Grand Jury Indicts Him for
Embezzlement.
At Atlanta, Thursday, the United
States grand jury found a bill of indict¬
ment against Lewis Redwine for embez¬
zlement. He may be tried at tbe present
tern of the court. If the case is not
heard at this term it will go over until
next fall. Redwine’s shortage, as shown
by tbe fiiures secured by the United
States gnud jury, is $103,148.78.