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TKV AN AD. IN THE TIMES!
A Bto An. Will
Sell Youk Hoods:
It attracts new customers and holds
the o!d ones, goods if People don't will forget you
and yotir you constantly
“jog tlieir memory.”
A Little An. Will
Bring back your stray animal,
find a purchaser for your house and lot,
horse and buggy, or anything else.
TKV AN AD. IN THE TIMES
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THE COBSIIIV’S FMIT
Government Reports Say Crops
Are Better Than In Years.
BOMB SECTIONS ARB BLIGHTED.
| Tkrcr.jsli the Southern and Some of the
Western States the Fields Will Be Great
Enough to Ovcroomo Shortage In Other
Sections And Bring the Crop Above the
Average For Several Years.
Washington, Aug. 14—The official
returns for August show that tho pros
pecflvo fruit crop of the country, taken
as a whole, is much larger than for
MJpral Apples.—The years. The Crop report met with follows: no serl
ous obstacles to development during
July. The influences upon which the
proper maturity of tho crop naturally
depends have been so favorable that a
very general increase in the Index
figures has resulted. There are, how¬
ever, some very important states in
which the crop promised is less than
half tho normal product
This is the case iu Maine, Now Hamp¬
shire, sin, Vermont, percentages Michigan aud Wiscon¬
the ranging from 28 iu
Michigan to 49 in Vermont. Massa¬
chusetts, Iowa New York, Pennsylvania SO and
show conditions between and
00, or indicated products at, or slightly
above, On one-half tho normal. 10
Jersey, the Maryland, other hand, states^-New
olina, Arkansas, Virginia, North West Car¬
Tennessee, Vir¬
ginia, Kentucky, Iudiaua, Missouri, Ne¬
braska, Colorado and tlpe Pacific Coast
states, excluding states not commer¬
cially important—have a condition of
tO or over, and of theso six—New Jer¬
sey, Kentucky, Colorado—are Arkansas, Indiana,Mis¬
souri and above 90, Ken¬
tucky with conditions gofhg to 101. Ohio and Illinois,
73 and 72 respectively,
stand between the high and the low.
The ciop is reported generally short in
the* northern, but abundaut iu the
southern portions of these states.
The general average condition is 71,3,
against 41 last year.
Peaches.—The average condition of
peaches Aug. 1 is 83.3, against 22.3 iu
1894. The prospective yield has de
dined heavily in Delaware, where
about ouc third the normal crop is uow
iMpouivd. New Jersey has also suf¬
fered, the percentage falling 12 points
and resting now at 61. Conditions are
high in Connecticut and Georgia, re¬
spectively 0- and 104, Maryland hopes
for a I wo-third crop aud Virginia some¬
indicated thing under that. A Very short crop is
for Ohio aad for Michigan
About half the normal product. On the
coast Conditions approximate
the general average for the country.
Much complaint of dropping aud rot¬
ting js mado, tho latter especially in
the soiith.
Th© Foreign Crops.
Washington, Aug, 14—Tho condi¬
tion of tho crops of Europe is reviewod
in the report of the European ageut of
the agricultural department for August.
It shows fair crops iu most of the
countries except Groat Britain.
OREGON* STATESMEN.
r Opinions on t(ia Financial Question
Two to One, For Silver.
Portland, Aug. 14 —Napoleon Da¬
vis, secretary of tho Democratic state
central committee, has received 87 re
spouses to tho letter addressed early
last the July to each of the 62 members of
committee, requesting their views
on the proposition to have the Demo
cratic party of Oregon take some offi¬
cial action regarding silver.
Thirty-six Of the writers express an
opinion concerning the sentiment in
their counties as to silver and of theso
24 express the belief that the voters
there are in favor of the free coinage of
silver, while |2 are just as certain that T
the sentiment iu their counties 3
against the froe coinage of silver.
A BOILER EXPLODES.
Throe tlri’s TVore Lost and Four Persons
Wero Seriously Injured.
Morgantown, W. Va., Aug. u —
John Blair and sons were threshing
when the boiler of the machine explod¬
ed, killing three men aud injuring four
others.
The killed are: John Spotsnage. Cur¬
tain Ammons and John Blair. The in¬
jured are Ross Blair, John Spotsnage,
Jr., Leroy Wads and William Am
toous.
Curtin Ammons was struck by a
pieces. sfieco of the boiler and literally torn to
His legs and feet were found
tunler the barn. All Blair’s clothing
wts torn froni him except his shoes.
Williams Made a Failure.
San Francisco, Aug. 14 —Thomas
II. Williams, president of the Califor¬
nia Jockey York club, who went to Chicago
aud New a few weeks ago to se¬
cure backing for the Bay district race
track, is said to have failed in his mis¬
sion and as a result a local paper makes
tho assertion that tho track will soon
be abandoned.
Crisis Averted In Japan.
New York, Aug. 14.—A special to
Tno World .'rom Tokio says: By impe¬
rial command Count Ito, the premier,
has resumed his duties. He accepts
elevation to the title of marquis offered
him by the emperor. A rupture is thus
everted, e#6‘tain members but the personal greatly relations strained. of
are
/
Stage Held Up In Oregon.
RosEBCiia, Aug. 14s— The Coos Bay
lioselurg stage was held up by a lone
short highwayman dnriitg from where the night it only a
dlstanc-e was stop
pen a week ago. Tho rcj^ier only so
cured £ 10 , although the four passengers
on board had over $500 in money,
which they doncoaled.
Mnrderrrg Mobbed In Washington State.
Ellen,sbubg, Aug. 14.— Samuel Vin
Ron and his son Charles wore taken out
of tlw county jail by a mob early in the
morning aud hanged to a tree. The
two men became involved in a saloon
row last Sunday night and murdered
Michael KYopfa J and Joseph N. BefJ
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Vol. IV.
KANSAS A CORNFIELD.
Xh« Crop E'er This Y«ar Will Bo on
Enormous Quo.
Chicago, Aug. 18. — “The bigness of
our corn crop beggars, the arithmetic,”
said Frank P. McLennan, editor of the
Topeka State Journal, in an interview
here. '‘Instead of saying the state of
Kansas now, yon should use tho
synonym ‘cornfield’ for ‘state.’
“You will understand in a measure
the corn figures of Kansas when I say
to you that tho crops will be more than
a quarter of a billiou bushels. It will
exceed threo hundred millions. poumfs It will
give five bushels, or 400 to every
man, woman and child in the United
States aud leave enough to send several
shiploads to Russia.
“In Kansas, it is customary to say
early in the summer, ‘one more good
rain will insure the corn.’ Since we
began to use that stereotyped July, expres¬
sion about the fourth of Another—the we have
had one rain after last
provided one a few by days terrestrial ago—ail rainmaker coming as who if
a
had discovered the real way to find
pure growing sola, the yellow grains qf the cob
maize. These rain's boat a' 1
tho Kearney's black bottles referred t >
in the morning papers.
Tho corn crop of 1895 has been saved
from more than its nine chances to
curl up aad breathe hot winds of death.
mouthed It is everlastingly evil demon, saved. who in The parol past
years of
iias Kansas, blasted the hopes and the corn
has not this season crossed the
southern border of the state, except in
two or threo small spots where the hot
breeze left a sample, but declined to
deliver the goods.
“Nothiug but a regular Illinois oy
clouo which might blow the cornstalks
out of the ground could hurt the crop,
and that would only givo it to the ad¬
joining counties and states and terri¬
tory. The corn is practically ‘made.’
Much of it matured very early, and
frosts have no chance for anything which
more than killing the leaves
have conveyed tho nourishment to the
ear—now able to hear find also trumpet
for itself.”
THREE KILLED; FIVE HURT.
Hie Report of a Fearful Boiler Explosion
Wrecking a Mill Fiant.
Jacksonville, Flu, Aug. 12.—A re¬
port has been received here of a fright¬
ful boiler explosion in which three per¬
sons lost their lives and five others were
frightfully injured.
The explosion occurred atB. P. Byrd’s
steam mill and cotton ginning plant,
situated four milos south of Moiiticello.
Fla. The plant was completely
wrecked and the buildings look like
they had boon bombarded With cannon.
The dead are:
Alien Brooks, Prince Hall and Amos
Cross.
: The injured are:
Jim Reagan, Charles Harrison, Cindy
Johnson, aud Nancy Johnson. .
NEGROES IN QUARANTINE.
Half of the Returned Emigrants Are
Down With Smallpox.
San Antonio, Tex., Aug. 13. —Of the
240 negroes confined in the government
quarantine camp at Eagles Pass, 120 are
afflicted with smallpox. The doaths av¬
erage about four daily. The balance of
the 1,500 rations furnished by tho Unit¬
ed States, government to Consul Sparks
for the uso of the refugees has boon
turned over to Dr. Evans, state quaran¬
tine officer of the quarantine camp, for
uso there, it being found impracticable
to forward them to the starving negroes
in Mexico.
JACKSON’S FUNERAL,
Tho Associate Justice Laid to Rest In
Tennessee—Many Iu Attendauoe.
Nashville, Aug. 12. —The funeral of
Justice Howell Edmund Jackson oc¬
curred at Belle Moado, the famous
house of his brother, General W. H
Jackson, six miles west of this city, in
the presence of many distinguished
men from a distance and a very large
concourse of personal friends. The ser¬
vices were conducted by Rev. J. H.
McNeilly of the Presbyterian church
aud Rev. R. Linn Cave of tho Chris¬
tian church.
May Have Information Free.
Atlanta, Aug. 13.—Information re¬
ceived here by the officials of the expo¬
sition indicate that au enterprise call¬
ing itself -‘The Exposition Information
Bureau, Atlanta,” is placing iu papers
about the country advertisements offer¬
ing to furnish information for a con¬
sideration. No department of the ex¬
position charges for information. The
department of publicity aud promotion
and the department of public comfort
are glad to furnish information free of
charge.
England Has Another Appeal.
Chadron, Neb., Aug. 13.—Edward
Clegg, Coleman Nickolds and Henry
Cartstenson, British bicyole tourists,
were arrested here for fast riding and
wore fined $t and costs each, a total of
$5.70 each. Although abundantly sup
plied with mouey they refused to pay
their fines and were committed to hard
work on the streets. They would not
work, however, but instead sat down
under a load of hay. They will claim
the protection of the English govern¬
ment.
Been Officially Notified,
Anniston, Ala., Aug. 12.—The man¬
ager of the Anniston Pipe and Foundry
company of this city has been advised
of the acceptance of his company’s -bid
to furnish pipe Tokio, for tho water system of
the city of Japan. The order is
tho largest ever received by an Ameri¬
can company and calls for 36,000 tons,
which, placing it at the lowest possible
estimate, will amount to $500,000. To
socure the order this company had to
bid against the entire world.
Had Tholr Pay Increase J.
Ben wood, W. Va, Ang. 13.—Two
thousand employes of the Riverside
Tube works have been notified of an in
crease of 10 per cent in their wages.
This is the second increase of iik«
amount in three months.
BULLOCH TIMES.
Statesboro, Bulloch County. Georgia, Thursday, Aug. 15,1895.
P EDI
A Japanese Army Train Wreck¬
ed in a Storm.
MANY OF THE MEN WERE QAHGHT.
Th* Southwest Provinces Suffered Fearful
Iiu Id Projporty mu l Thousand* of Live*
Wore Lost—Corea’* |^*fus*a Statesman
Seeks an Asylum In the United Stats*.
Be Has Hut Little to Say.
Victoria, B. C-, Aug. 14. — The
steamer Empress of Japau arrived with
advices from Yokohama up to Aug. 3.
The number of deaths reported in the
railway accident of July 23 was greatly
exaggerated. Only 10 soldiers wero
killed and IS were more or loss serious¬
ly injured. Tho statement that tho
train was blown off the track into the
sea is also discredited. It is believed
that some of tho rails were displaced
by the waves which were driven by the
tempest to a groat hoight, and that tho
cars consequently ran over tho edge of
au tho embaukmeut aud Tho wore plunged into tho
deep water. effects of
storm wore disastrous in all southwest
proviaoes of Japan. Thousands of
house* were destroyed and hum Ires of
fishing bouts aud other small crafts
werg sunk, and at least 100 lives nro
known to have beon lost.
Throe steamships wore driven ashore
and few of their crews and passongors
escaped alive. Railway accidents have
been numerous in consequence of tho
heavy floods, aud soveral villages on
tho seacoast hava been literally destroy¬
ed. The lists of deaths, as stated by
authorities, will exceed 3,000.
Tti* Being** Corean Minister.
Prince Yang ho Pak, the refugee Co¬
roan minister of tho interior who fled
from Seoul a month ago to avoid arrest
at the instigation of tho queen, arrived
on tho steamor Empress of Japan. He
sought au asylum in Japan, but an at¬
tempt was to have been made to cause
his arrest on tho charge of plotting
against the life of the queen, and to
prevent any complications he was ad¬
vised to leave. The United aud States ho
regarded os tho beet asylum, to this
country he 1ms come. Ho pretended to
know no English when an Associated
Pre.ss correspondent approached him.
and later, when au interpreter had
been procured, did not care to talk,
merely saying:
“I am au exilo from my country and
am coming to tho United States after a
stay of two weeks in Japan, How
long I will remain iu tho United States
I cannot say. I am unjustly forced out
of Corea, but what the future will
bring Prince forth no one cau say."
Pak is about 40, small, but has
an intellectual face. This is his second
exile, having returned to Coroa a year
ago, Aug. 2, after 10 years' stay in
Japan.
Tho night after the ompross of Japan
left Hong Kong, a bad explosion of gas
ocourrod in her coal bunkers. Oua coal
ed. passer was of Killed and lour badly oxpoctod burn¬
One tho lattor is not
to live,
THE SAILING SPORT.
The Crach Sehonttor* In a Raoe at Cow**,
Isle of Wight.
Cowes, Aug. 14 —In a nice, whole
sail, westerly breeze, Mr. R. S. Palmer's
crack American sohoouer-cruisor, Yam
pa, and Mr. Frederick Wills’ English
cruiser schooner, Amphitrito, started in
a race for a prizo of 100 pounds over
tlio old queen's course of 50 miles,
The contest grew out of the fact that
when Yampa won Lord Ivoagh's 209
guinea cup on Weduosday last, over
tho same eourso, Amphitrite being soo
ond, Mr. Willis protested against the
cup being uwaruod to Yampa on the
ground that tho latter carried nine men
in her crew ia excess of the number al¬
lowed by the rules governing tho con¬
test.
Yampa allowed Amphitrito 7 min¬
utes 41 seaonds. At the start at tO
o'olock, the American schooner had tho
weather berth, but in the beat to tho
first mark, Lymiugton aud rounded Spit, it Amphitrito
drew ahead With a lead
of 12 minutes.
Amphitrito won easily without her
time allowance. She was sailed by
Captain Gomez of the Meteor.
Niagara Had an Accident.
Ryde, Aug. IT—In the regatta of
the Royal Viotoria Yacht club, Iuyoni,
Luna, Audrey, Niagara, Vinita and
Isolde started in the raco for the 20
raters over a 25-milo course. When
Niagara had the load on her competi¬
tors off Ryde her stay sail carriod away
and she Was compelled to retire from with
the race. Audrey won the race
isoldo second and Inyoni third.
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Another Boiler Explosion.
Albany, Aug. 14.—By the explosion
of t large boiler iq tho paper mill and
postal card manufactory ot Woolworth
aud Go., at Castleton, N. James Y., ton miles
from here, one man, Lawton,
the watchman, was killed and another,
the engineer, believed was so badly injured that
it is he will die.
Collision at a Ferry,
London, Aug. 14.—A special dispatoh
received here from Tunis says that a
coilisiou has taken place near Galetta
between a number of barges loaded
with iron with aud people. a ferryboat, Some which of the was lat¬
crowded
ter's passengers were killed and many
were drowned.
Z tilth City Chrlstcnad.
Chicago, Aug. 14. —Th e Zenith City,
the largest steamor eter launched on
the chain oj northorn lakos, was chris¬
tened at 3;30 p. it,, with bottle the usual cer¬
emonies of breaking a of cham¬
pagne Over her bows and the clapping
of hands that followed.
No Trouble to Sell.
New York, Aug. 14.—The subscrip¬
tion list for Mobile and Montgomery
bonds, which A-fre opened at the office
of dl.wly. Kahn, To r ^ am-.orj x. „oi Bppll-yi for both
SMUaSl 1 *""*' “
THROUGH THE SOUTH.
tint Storl.s of Hiippeoing* >«i»l
Conri) of th# Week
tho TWO Oarollaa*.
Secretary of State Coke, of North.
Carolina, i 9 suffering from a serious at
tack at pneumonia and bronchitis.
Officers and moonshiners had a fiorco
battlb fu Surrey county, N. C. Four o'
the offenders were arrested, two being
females.
Eleven swindling pf the 18 defendants, Companies, charged
with insurance N,
on pry limitary trial at Beaufort, C.,
have boon held in bonds of <200 each.
Georgo Parham, aged )8, was killed
by a boiler explosion at Parham’s saw
mill, near Alleuville, N. O , and Will
iam R. and John Parham wore serious¬
ly injured
At Columbia, 3. C„ Henry Young
and Joe Jones, two negro laborers, were
killed by the cay lug in of an embank¬
ment from t ae base of which they'sS>e*e
digging dirt.
R.M. Johnson, a painter of Beunetts
ville, S. 0., has had, beon arrested for-BOun
terfoitiug. He term only Albany, a short N. time Y.,
ago, completed offsnso. a at
for a like
Judge Simonton has released from
jail R. M. Wright, one of the South
Carolina di ;peusary constables r seu
fenced to jail iu Greenville for con¬
tempt The release of Wright was due
to his daughter’s appoal to tho court in
behalf of her father.
The South Carolina railroad commis¬
sion has notified tho various railroad
managements that rates upon cotton
shipments must be reduced. Fertili¬
zers will also have to be transported at
considerably lower rates.
While Frank Grant and several oth¬
er* were digging a grave near Harde
villa, S. C. , a thunderstorm Came np.
Lightning work the struck Grant, killing him who iustaut was at
in grave,
ly. Three others who were near by
wore stuuned,
PriucQ Graham, Jasou Blake, Bill
Fraser, Bill Blake and Cato Graham,
five negroes, are in jail at Hampton, S.
O.. charged with tho murder of Mr. E
Ii. Mcars, a wealthy citizen of Snebolle,
S. C. Soiuo of the men have coutessed
and state that robbery was their object.
A Raloigh special says: The mem¬
bers of a church in Davidson county,
N. C., notified a whisky distiller that
he must remove bis still from anywhere
noar their church. Ho declined to do
so uuless they furnished transportation and
They brought nine teams landed
his outfit 20 miles away.
The proposition to abandon the state
fair this year in South Carolina on ac¬
count of tho exposition at Atlanta, Ga.,
w@&yotod down in a meeting of the
South Carolina State Agricultural and
Mechanical society, and tho fair is
promised roads Will on give condition, cheap rate*. that tho rail¬
Florlda In Brief.
Sunday dosing Qf saloons is now be¬
ing strictly enforced in Jacksonville,
Fla.
Peter Goalsby, one of the oldest citi¬
zens of Grahamviile, Fla,, is dead. He
was 80 years old.
Clay county (Fla.,) expeots an iuflrx
of from 800 to 1,000 people soon, as the
result of au immigration soneme work¬
ed up by the leading citizens.
Governor Mitohell of Florida, in a re¬
cent interview, said ho did not think
President Cleveland the most available
man for the next Democratic nominee.
There have just been thrown open for
entry 41,200 acres pf Flmdda lands sit¬
uated in Alachua, Levy, Lafayette, Rosa 8t.
Johns, Suwanee and Santa oouh
ties.
While suffering caused from temporary ab¬
erration, by Illness A- U. Han¬
cock, blew a merchant fils brains. of Mogn Hi leaves t Dora, Fla., wife
out a
aud daughter.
A special from 8um te rville. Fla.,says:
The little island gftdwn as Tropio, jr.,
is Rterallv ovorrafl with rats. Every
vestige weed, of vegetation, been except destroyed the care¬
less has by
them.
that A special Senator from Pensacola, W. D. Chi Fla., ploy says has
State
brought suit against The Daily Times
of that place for defamation of charac
ter, placing the damages a,t fc $25,Odd
Mr. Chipley U prominent Florida
politics.
Sam Highsmich, Lewis, the slayer of Tax Collec John
tor and his Fla, nephew,
Davis, at Lemon City, thfee weeks
ago, has bOen captuted He shot and near perhaps the scent
of the crime. fa¬
tally wounded one of his captors «amed
McGregor.
Alexis M. Miohaelson, an ex-member
of tho Florida Jacksonville, legislature, and an ar?e al ttor
noy at law iu was stod
at Montgomery, Ala., in compliance
witira telegram from Sheriff Bowden,
of Jacksonville, charging him with
forging tho name of Colonel Frank
Pope, of that city, for $75.
Alabama Shaft Not**,
N. B. Phillips, tax collector of Dale
county, Ala , is dead.
There is a movement on foot to build
an electric railway in Alabama from
Tuskegee to Cheraw.
Robert Barnes, treasurer of Sumter
county, Ala., committed suicide by
shooting himself through the hears.
Bad health was the cause of the act.
The firm of Watkins & Hardaway of
Birmingham, Ala., have been awarded
the contract for the building of the
Montgomery and Tallassee railroad.
The road will be pushed through at
once.
Governor Oates, of Alabama, Cincinnati in an
interview with tho En¬
quirer’s correspondent believe at Montgomery,
says he docs not be President
Cleveland Will a candidate intimates for a
third terra. He further that
ho'doos the not believe the president coma
got nomination, Again.
..Ocorcla Gleaning*.
The convention Georgia agricultural Cumberland society Island. is
in at
The Lexihgton Light Infantry is just th®
name of a new military Ga. company
organized at Lexington,
Dr. X. M. McIntosh, Georgia penitentiary, principal phy^i- has
cian of the
mln“aL. , U« D bko'aMoStoi *
THROUGH TUB SOUTH.
Business Looks Up In AU Lines
of Trade Circles.
MORE 00TT0N HILLS ARE STARTED
Th* Lumber Dasla.ii G*t* a Ul; Boom by
the Order l'or a Huudrad Million P«et
by a St. LouL Firm—Hardware
1* Much Improved—Many Enlargements
Art ALo Ueportsd.
Chattanooga, Aug. 13.— -The Trades¬
man, in its review of southern iudustrl
al matters for the week ending Aug,
12, reports a continuance of tho satis¬
factory condition of business, with in¬
creased activity and improved outlook
In lumber,
The iron industries all ovor the south
are busy, many being compelled to de
dine orders f or early dolivery; the iron
production of the south is considerably
increased.
A feature of the lumber market was
the placing of an order for 100,090,000
feet of pine by a St. Louis company
with a Mississippi manufacturer, aud
is regarded as significant of the activity
in the future.
Southern hardware housos report
bettor business. The activity in new
textile industries iu the south, accord¬
ing to all reports received by The
Tradesman, shows no signs of abate¬
ment, the number of important ootton
manufacturing companies organize 1
during the week being considerably
larger than usual.
The following concerns have ad¬
vanced the wages of employes!
Glaniorga Lynchburg, i Pipe and Foundry Watt com¬ Iron
pany, Va., tho
and Steel syndicate, Middlosborough,
Ky., advance of 10 per cont, and tho
LaBolle iron Works, Wheeling, W.
Va., 10 per cent advauoe.
Among the new industries reported
for the week ending Aug. 13, the most
important are two cotton compresses at
Newport, Ark., to cost <80,000 and $00,
000; a 100 barrel flouring mill at Fred¬
ericksburg, Va., foundry and machine
shops at Morrillton, Ark., and iron
works at Birmingham, Ala. A <50,007
piano mauu acturing company has been
chartered at Charleston, S C., a $50,000
cotton oil company at Clarksville, Tex ,
a $500,000 cotton mill company at Me
ridiau, Mi53., a $109,000 cotton mill
will be erected at Raleigh, N. C., and
one to cost $25,000 at Newport News,
Va. An $80,000 water, light and ico
company has just been incorporated at
Weatherford, Tex , a $200,000 lumber
comp.,uy at Morgantown, W. Va., and
onu with $12(1,000 capital at Whitfield,
Fla.
Tho Tradesman reports among the
enlargements for tho week a (louring
mill at Port Republic, Va., cotton mills
at Stanley Creok and Union, S. C., and
woodworking plants at Hartman, Miss.,
and Florence, Ala,
Tho list of new buildings for the
week include a bank building at Gal¬
veston, Tex., to cost $53,500, a $10,003
church at Raleigh, N. C., a $20,003
depot at Lynchburg, Va, a $13,002
hotel at Cle 1 urne, Tex., a $50,009 oflits
building at Galveston, Tex., a peniten¬
tiary for Tennesseo to cost $300,090 an l
a $35,000 school building at Rustou, La.
A DESPERATE DARKEY.
He Fired Upon a Crowd of People ns They
Were Leaving a Steamer.
St. Louis, Aug. 13.—An enraged ne¬
gro fired a fusilade of bullets into a
crowd of passengers and members of
the crow of tho steamor City of St,
Louis as they came down the gang¬
plank o&The wTarf boat just after she landed
at the between 7 and 8 o'clock.
Two white men and two negroes were
wounded, one fatally, but none of the
passengers were hurt.
The shooting was the outcome of a
fight between the negro, whose name is
unknown, aud Lou Davis, cotorod, cap
tain of tho watch, while tho steamer
was lying at Cairo Sunday, and iu
which the negro was badly worsted aud
driven from the boat. Exasperated at
his dofeat and burning with revenge,
he boarded a train and arrived here
during the night.
Early in tho morning he concealed
himself behind a pile of freight on the
levee, and when tho steamer arrived
and her passenger* and crew were
moving down the staging to the shore,
he opened fire with the above result.
During the terror and excitement
among the r issengers and crew, caused
by the sudden and deadly attack, the
would be murderer escaped and has not
been captured at this writing. Davis
will die.
NOW LET IT DROP.
Th* sill,ins Itatio of Gold and Mlvor Set
ties the Itonftiiii Question.
Denver, Aug. 13.—The Rocky Moun¬
tain News says, editorially:
“Leading authorities state that the
product ratio this year between silver
aud gold wih be 16 ounces of the one to
1 ounce of the other. We have every
reason to believe that this is correct,
aud that the silver bonanza may safely
be dropped i>» all future discussions of
tho financial problem. It has had its
day.” __________
A Woman Shut and Killed.
Atlanta, Aug. 13.— John Carroll, a
young man wcllknown in Atlanta, shot
and killed Maggie Cochran, a woman of
ill repute, with whom he had been liv¬
ing. Carroll claims that the shooting
was accidental. The woman stated,
just before she died, that Carroll killed
her because she refused a request ho
had made of her, a few minutes pre¬
vious to the shooting. Carroll is in
custody.__
FlcdtioB In the Tenth Georgia.
Atlanta, Aug. 13 —Governor Atkin¬
son has ordered an election to be held
iu the Tenth congressional district of
Georgia for representative to fill the
vacancy in the Fifty-fourth congress
occasioned by the resignation of Hon.
J C. C. Black. The election will be
held Oct. 2, next.
f pain Will Tjt tli« Mora Claim.
Madrid, Aug. 13.—At a meeting of
tho cabiuot ministers it was decided to
pay the Mora claim in a lump sum in
September without interest.
No. 12.
Light «< tglit UypiwtLia.
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You may be bold uud bud, “Coin,"
but littlo boys cau’t hypnotize this
young lady.
GOLD STANDARD IN CHILE.
Convinced the Silver Standard In a Fail¬
ure—To Staud With Other Nations*
In spite of tho warning of ailvdrite
statesmen (ho prosperous republic of
Chile has abandoned the cheap silver
basis for her currency and lias adopted
tho gold standard. Chile is one of tho
most enlightened and progressive of tho
SoutTi American countries, ami her ac¬
tion is an evidence that slio has found
tho silver standard to bo a failure uwl
wishes to l>e in accord with tho major
it.y of the great commercial nations with
which sho trades. As all her outstand¬
ing loans, both principal and interest,
are payable in gold the change in the
standard will causo but little confusion,
and financial interests are already ad¬
justed to the new basis.
While Chile adopts (ho gold standard
of value, the same as iu this country,
sho wjn continffo the use of silver, and
the banks will lie authorized to issue
paper currency somewhat on the plan of
our national bunk system. Only as much
silver will be coined us can be main¬
tained at a parity with gold. The result
of the change will lie to give the busi¬
ness interests of the country a stable
financial system, which will dontless be
of great advantage to it in its competi¬
tion with silver standard countries.
It is now in order for our silverites to
denounce the horrible crime of 1H95, by
which the wicked goldbugs secretly de¬
stroyed tho prosperity of Chile.
SILVER AND PRICES.
Wages, Industrials and Farm Products Ad
VRuce While Silver Declines,
Wo venture to put in the form of a
brief table some facts given by The
Financial Chronicle a8 to (ho connection
between tho price of silver aud the
prices of staple commodities. They
make au effective answer to tho constant
assertion of the silver inflationists that
“low” silver gavo tjiy low values to all
products and that there could be no re¬
covery except through, higher prices for
silver:
Price of April 1. June 14.
Silver....... ......BSt.p;.
Cotton....... ••••*/»*»» ...... 6%o. 7«.
Wheat....... ......flC^n. 80<!.
It will be seen that, while there was
no material chango in silver, and what
change there was was slightly down¬
ward, cotton advanced a little ovpr 19
por cent aud wheat a little over 32 per
cent.
These changes, as wo all know, have
been accompanied by increased activity
iu trade and manufactures and an ad¬
vance In wages. So that we have, ps
The Chronicle aptly romnrku, “very
substantial gains to the factory, to the
foundry, to the wage earner and to the
farmer, without an atom of help from
silver.”—Now York Times.
“Free Coinage Dissected.”
The sound currency committee of the
Reform club has just issued a' short
pamphlet entitled “Free Coinage Dis¬
sected. 1 1 It puts the case against free
coinage in the clearest possible light,
aud the language is so simple and the
sentences so short that no ordinary me-'
clianio or farmer need have any difficulty
iu understanding the diseussiou. Ex
Congressman John Do Witt Warner, the
author of the pamphlet, dissects in turn
each of the principal claims of the froe
coinage advocates.
Many excellent answers to “Coin's
Financial School” have been written,
but heretofore there has been no firs t
class pamphlet to put into the hands (f
the millions who have not read “Coin’s
Financial School," but who are inter¬
ested iu the currency discussion, and
who will be glad to get in this con¬
densed form not only the principal ob¬
jections to “Coin ’.s” book, but to the
whole question of free coinage at 10 to 1.
The pamphlet is well adapted for gen¬
eral distribution and merits a wide cir¬
culation by the friends of honest money
iu all sections of the country. It is No.
10 of “Sound Currency,” and cau be ob¬
tained by sending 5 cents to the Reform
club, 52 William street, New York city.
„ silver craze Waning. ,
That the people are returning to their
senses, and that, therefore, the silver
craze is waning is evident from the hu
morons way iu which the Indiana edi
tors disposed of tho subject aWmtioii a few days
ago at thHip their ntate association Thev limy
adopted the fdlowmg resolutions :
WUvr.a.-, Thi;r« ajm-.-are to bo i large and
oT'ul: ‘.K
tvm, ami otv’U <mc ms t think th.’t nil t-mt
tb«’ part of tiu latter, ami an «\ich and ad
doubtless concur in t it is, *rc,
Roso!v«*l, Th ;t *M..t1isii£ 1 iipii! ’
hay day that does m-t haw to lx
% and < in tK‘donif tomorrow
tat if one does not r. ally have to cross a
swolI< :i : -.V‘ UUi at onco, if tho hri‘U f oKparmiii£
Is .'shaky iiiul if in besichtfi need of the repair and i is falling being and re¬
paired, promise and of being in ^rre sm-h tm s nditi‘>n that
ft aivc\- shod before
iiujy be furded or uins d dry
tiranc-hcH To 1 can’,^ 1 umkr' tt^nvo
in the shady gr«vc on tho • ido of tho
A German inventor luvs dev tel a way
to burn coal dust successful’v. * The cost
. 20 cent ,, lesarthan „ (hat inhere , the .
is per
coal itself is burned. Tho method re¬
ported to is similar to that employed in
using petroleum as fuel A jet, of com
pressed air blows the dust into a spo
daily prepared conical burner. A steady
stream of burning coal dust is the result,
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BIMKTAIL1STS MEET.
Conference of Leaders Come to
Order In Washington.
MORE PRESENT THAN EXPECTED.
I
They Are Democrat* and Meet to Device
Ways end Meant to Beep (be Party In
teat VViiUe tile Carreney Agitation It on
In llile Country—A IVuuiber o t Southern
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Statesmen Frasat.
Washington, Aug. 14---The oprridors
of tho Metropolitan hotel were crowded
early iu the day yvlth delegates of the
conference of silver Democrats called
for tho purpose of agreeing upon a line
of policy to be pursued in the interest
silver in the Democratic party. While
the call for tho conference issued by
Senators Harris, Turpie and Jones, did
not spocify the hour, the jsuoeting was
postponed until noon. The forenoon
was spent iu a general exchange of
views and iu formulating plans for the
mooting.
There was a rather larger attendance
than had been counted upon .and tjpo
hotel was crowded with delegates and
silver sympathizers.
Tho leaders of tho movement were
anxious intended to correct the impression that
it was that the meeting should
be a mass eouvoutlQn. They appeared
to think that this idea bad boon scat¬
tered broadcast by the gold men with
tho View of making had it apper in the end
that tho meeting beon a failure.*
There were consequently numerous re¬
quests that the newspapers should moke
it clear that it never intended the gath¬
ering should bo more than a conference
among leaders of the silver sentiment
in tho Democratic party.
Among those who appeared early at
tho hotel Daniel wore Senators Jones of Ar¬
kansas, and Harris, and ex-Sen¬
ators Jarvis of North Carolina, Walsh
of Georgia, Hpn. Casey 1 Young of Ten¬
nessee who hap conducted tho corres¬
pondence behalf of concerning the senatorial the conferences committee.
on
Representatives Cox of Tennessee,Otoy
of Virginia, Livingston of Georgia, Mc¬
Neill of Arkansas, and Brookshire of
iudiana. %
Secretary of State Henriohsen figure of Illi¬
nois, was a prominent in the
hotel lobby from early mOrning. sought No
man proseut was more generally
than he.
There was an exceptionally large del¬
egation from Missouri, including Gov¬
ernor Stone, Secretary of State Steph¬ bank
ens, Judge and Hill, W. M. Allen, Ruby, railroad a
president, George a
unm. —
Mr. Josephus Daniels, of North Caro¬
lina, wae oiie of the busiest of thus*
present. oiuoy Newell, secretary ot
the state Democratic committee of
CuIorSTfo; W?®*- five
from that state.
“We don’t need a big delegation hero
said. to toll tho people how we stand,” ha
J. F. Saulsbury of Delaware was tho
solitary representative of that state.
Mr. F. W. Carmack of the Memph¬
is Won Commercial-Appeal, field of Virginia, Allen State "W- Senator Clark
of Indiana, John S. Beard of Florida
ami Congressman Elect Lockhart of
North Carolina were also some of the
delegates WhA arrived early.
Mr. Casey Young, in reply to ques¬
tions, said that Ills correspondence tLe in¬
dicated that about two-thirds of
states of tho Union would be represent¬
ed and ho confirmed the statement that
the conference meeting was of Intended to be simply
a Democratic leaders to
shape the party policy on the silver
question as far as possible.
The meeting was called to order at 12
o'clock by Senator Harris, who moved
that Beuator Jones be called to the
chair as temporary chairman, which
motion carried unanimously.
George M. Lo° r one Of Illinois, was
chosen secretary. fneetiug began behind
The closed
doors with instructions to the door¬
keepers to admit only those who had
been iuviced. When the roll was called
representatives answered from 22 states,
but names were given to the secretary
from only 19. Virginia headed the list
in point of members, with 15 delegates,
while Illinois and Missouri reported 14
each.
; Other states represented were: In
Alabama, 4; Ohio, 1; Georgia, 2;
_ ifha, 1; Delaware, 1; Maryland North 3 j Ken¬
tucky, 1; Mississippi, Ij Dakota,
1; West Virginia, 2; Arkansas, 3; Colo¬
rado, 3; South Carolina, 1; North Caro¬
lina, 3; Florida, 4, headed by Senator
Call, aud Tennessee, 4.
Senator Jones made a. brief speech on
taking the chair, confining himself to
thankiug the conference for the honor
conferred upon him and expressing the
hope that the proceedings would be
harmonious and productive of good .re¬
sults.
Senator Daniel offered a resolution
providing for the appointment by the
chair of a committee to prepare a pro
gram aud resolutions, which was car
ried and the committee announced m
follows:
* Senator Carmack, J. W. Tennessee; Daniel, J. Virginia; F. E.
W. John.
ston, Alabama; Patrick Walsh, Geor
: A W. Clark, Indiana; W. H. Hein
rickseu. Illinois; ex-Senator T. J. J w.
. North Carolina; Governor'
j stone and H. M. Hill, of Mfesou
r i ; J. S, Beard, Florida; A. Woodson,
Kentucky; Olney Newell, Colorado; W.
Is'ovlcv, North Dakota; S. S. Yodor,
M- Araxylail(i t W* S. StO©»*
dale, Mississippi; J. F. Trentlen, South
Carolina; J. J. Cornwall. J* K, W, Va.; SUaa
Ilarc, Yoxas; Senator Jon88 ( At*
fcaUS&S
Fenngylvsni-rns Protest.
Philadedpiiia, Aug. 14.—At a meet-'
iug of the Pennsylvania Society for HI
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, ns
were adopted condemning tho
introduction into this country of train
taken fighting- the Legal proposed step*
will be to prevent
( JU q fl g hts at the Atlanta exposition,
Broke Ifer Tbit {toeord.
Southampton, Ang. M —The Ameri
cau li=9 steamer St Louis arrived at
this port at 3 o’clook p. m. and has
broken her best eastern record.