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MILES & STIFF 29 Marietta Street, ATXiAM'TuaL, Or A.. High Grade Pianos and Organs. FULL LIKE SHEET MUSIC. Term* and Prices Right, far*Send for Catalogue. 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 pjll 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 matter - 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. as 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- 1 r Is (hr only Piano manufactured in the South. Buy it and keep your money at' noMK. Made and add by MILES & STIFF, ATLANTA. OA. 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.