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VOL. I.
Gewal (My Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
N. L. Hutchins, Judge; R. B. Bus
sell, Solicitor General. The superior
court meets the first Mondays in March
and September.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
J. D. Spence, J. T. Lamkin, S. L.
Hinton, James S. Dobbins, James T.
Jordan. Regular quarterly sessions
first Monday in March, June and De
cember.
JUSTICE COURTS.
Ben Smiths —J. T. Wood, J. P. ; J.
A. Hawthorne, N. P. Court third Sat
urday.
Berkshire —William M. Jordan, J.
P.; J. R. Cain, N. P. Court third
Saturday.
Bay Creek— C. D. Jacobs, J. P.; J
T. McHvany, N. P. Court first Sat
urday. JL
Cates —T. A. Pate, J. P.,
Webb, N. P. ; court second
Cains— T. J. Kilgore, J. P., J. M.
Pool, N. P.; court third Saturday.
Duluth— G. H. Barker, J. P„ A. H.
Spence, N. P.; court Thursday before
the fourth Saturday.
Harbins — A. J. Bowen, J. P.; Robt.
Ethridge, N. P.; court Saturday before
second Sunday.
Mt. —C. S. Maffett, J. P., J. R.
N. P.; court fourth Saturday.
■PbwiNS —J. T. Baxter, J. P., C.
P. "Jiekson, N. P.; court Friday before
fourth Saturday,
Lawrenceville —W. M. Langley, J.
P., J. M. Mills, N. P.; court first Fri
day.
Martins —J. R. Baxter, J. P., J. F.
Wilson, N. P.; court fourth Saturday.
Pinckneyvillk —A. J. Martin, J. P.,
J.W T . Haynie, N. P.; court Wednesday
before third Saturday.
Pucketts— W. S. Hannah, J. P., C.
B. Pool, N. P.; court second Saturday.
Rockbridge —J. A. Johnson, J. P.,
E. J. JJason, N. P. ; court Friday be
fore the third Saturday.
Sugar Hill— J. E. Cloud, J. P., J.
A. Higgins, N. P. ; court Friday be
fore the third Saturday.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
B. Whitworth.
k ■ Sideeior Coi'RT —D. T. Cain.
A. Hasslett; Deputy
bherift W. J. Xribble
Tax Collector _ b ' C . Martin; Tax
Receiver, D. C. Hawthorne.
Treasurer —A. W. Moore.
Surveyor —R. N. Maffet.
Coroner— J. T. Hadaway. \
CITY GOVERNMENT. '
Mayor —S. J. Winn.
Treasurer —J. D. Spence.
Clerk— J. M. Mills.
Marshal— A. N. Robinson.
ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
ABeival —G,, C. &N. (East bound)
—8:49 a. m., 6:25 p. m. West bound
6:25 p. m.
Departure—7:4o a. m., 8:30 a. m.,
6:00 p. m.
Sunday Mail —Arrives 8:49 a. m.,
6:25 p. m.
Leave Office —B:so a. m., 6:00p. m.
The time given in the foregoing is
Eastern Time, which is 3"4 minutes
faster than sun time.
FOREIGN ORDERS.
Money orders will bo issued from
Lawrenceville postoffice on any coun
try in the world. For cost of issuing
apply to postmaster.
POSTAL NOTES.
The fee on a postal note iB 3 cents.
No note for over $4.99 issued.
EDUCATIONAL.
County School Commissioner — W.
T. Tanner.
Board of Education— S. T. McEl
roj, Chairman ; L. F. McDonald, M.
E. Ewing, J. F. Espy, T. L. Harris;
meets subject to call of County School
Commissioner.
CHURCHES.
Methodist —Kev. W. A. Parks, P.
C. Services first and third Sundays.
Baptist— Rev. J. B. S. Davis, P. C.
Services second Sunday and Saturday
before in each month.
Presbyterian— Rev. Chalmers Fra
ser, P. C. Services fourth Sunday in
each month.
epworth league.
R. W. Peeples, Pres. ; Miss Anna
Born, first vice Pres.; Miss Annie
Winn, second vice Pres. ; Miss Cora
Holland, third vice Pres.; T. M. Hol
land, Sec. ; W. J. Peeples, Treas. ;
Miss Annie Winn, organist; meets
every Friday night.
i. o. o. f. —no. 21.
Offioere—W. M. Langley, N. G.;
T. R. Powell, V. G.; R.B. Whitworth,
Sec. ; L. Brand, P. Sec. ; J. H. Shackle
ford, Treas; W. E. Brown, Ward.; C.
H, Brand, Cond.; S. P. McDaniel, S.
S. G; A. N. Robinson, O. S. G.; T.
A. Haslett, R. S. N. G.; L. F. Mc-
Donald, H. S. N. G.; W. T. Tanner,
R S. V. G. ; L. E. Winn,
h. S. Y. G.; T. D. Collins, R. S. S.:
C. J. Born, L. S. S. ; W. A. Davis,
Chap.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
Officers — C.H. Brand P. D. ; R. J.
Bagwell, Die.; L.M. Brand, Vice Die.;
M. A. Born, Asss’t. Vice Die. ; J. P.
Byrd, Reporter; E. K. Rainey, F inan.
Rep.; J. L. Moon, Chaplain; D. T.
Cain, Treas. ;J. H. Shackleford, Sen
tinel ; W. A. Davis Guide. Meets Semi
monthly-first and third Friday
nights—at Odd-Fellows Hall.
MASONIC.
Lodge No. 131 (Lawrenceville)—
Officers: Jas. D. Spence, W. M.; S.
A. Haygood, S. W.; J. M. Patterson,
<T. W. ; J. K. Jackson, S. D. ; S. A.
Townley, J. D. ; W. H. Patterson,
Tyler; meets first Tuesday in each
month.
Mt. Vernon Chapter No. 39, R. v
A. . M.—J. D. Spence, H. P. ;J. T.
K. ; W. L. Vaughan, S.; S.
C. H.; B. L. Patterson,
ISSBKjjt- M. Patterson, R. A. C.; L.
Y:§S:':|KBley, Master Ist V.; W. J.
HBIgM aster 2d V. . A. '1 Putt.-r-oii,
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The of the
tariff did not
accomplish first
meeting Tuesday. Yoor
hees, of the and
Chairman house eon
ft !-
illness. Senate -r as also al -
sent. Thtju^j^^^Vpurely infor
to
in lstls, was intro-
BHH! the senate Monday by Sena
tor Gordon. It provides for the ad
mission of foreign exhibits to the
United States free of duty, and for the
preparation of medals for competitors
at the United Stateß mint. This is the
bill intended to supplement the bill
appropriating $200,000 to the exposi
tion.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
for the fiscal year, 1895, reported to
the senate Monday from the committee
on appropriations, aggregates $35,-
061,685, being an increase of $2,538,-
301 over the bill as it passed the house
and $95,683 over the estimates on
which it was based. One of the prin
cipal items of this increase is $200,-
000 for the government exhibit at the
Cotton States and International expo
sition at Atlanta, Ga.
In view of the disturbed and threat
ening state of affairs in the relations
between China and Japan, the state
department has intimated to Charles
Denby, the United States minister to
China, now in Michigan, that he bad
better return to h s post. Though
this is necessary, it is rather hard
upon the minister, who has taken leave
from his duties for the first time in
nine years, and has been home only
three weeks, whereas his leave was for
sixty days.
The bill providing for a pension of
SSO a month for General James Long
street, the confederate commander, on
account of wounds received in the
Mexican war while he was serving as a
major and paymaster in the United
States army, was introduced in the
senate Wednesday. General Longstreet
receives a pension of sl2 a month un
der the general pension act for the re
lief of Mexican war veterans. He asks
that this be increased, because of his
advanced age, wonnds received and to
tal disability.
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio,
and General H. V. Boynton, who are
members of the executive committee
of the army of the Cumberland or
ganization, decided Wednesday to
postpone for one year the reunion
which was to have been held at the
Cbattanoogabattlefield September 19th
and 20th. The dedication of tho field,
which has been acquired for a govern
ment park, has been postponed until
September, 1895, to give time for the
erection of monuments by states
whose troops fought there, and it is
thought best to hold the reunion at
the same time.
A delegation representing GOO of
Kelley’s cotnmonwealers, accompanied
.by Colonel Tracey, commissioner of
charities, waited on the district com
missioners Wednesday and asked to be
sent home. The men stated briefly
that they had been deluded into com
ing here and that they were now at
the point of starvation. They sug
gested that a freight train be run as
far west as Denver, or even farther,
and that the men be allowed to drop
off as they arrived in the places where
their homes were. The commissioners
promised they wonhl do all in their
power for the sufferers.
Cost Uncle Sam $3,400.
In the deficiency bill there is ap
propriated to Major J. C. C. Black and
Thomas E. AVatson, of Georgia, $1,700
each to pay the expenses of the contest
brought by Mr. Watson for Mr.
Black’s seat. Major Black’s bill pre
sented to the committee was for $2,500
fees and expenses of his lawyers. The
account as filed with the committee, is
in gross, and does not contain any
statement of the amount each re
ceived. The committee cut down the
account and allowed $1,700. Tom
Watson’s bill is for $1,700, the total
amount of which was allowed. His
bill is itemized and shows SSOO goes to
McKniglit & Guerry, AVashington law
yers; John T. West and B. M. Gross
receive fees of SSOO each and SIOO each
for expenses in coming to Washington
to argue the case before the committee
on elections.
May Involve European Nations.
It is believed at Washington by the
state department officials that if the
war between China and Japan drags
along for any length of time Russia
and Great Britain and possibly France,
may be drawn into it. All three
countries have possessions in Asia.
France is not at all friendly to China,
and would probably side with the Jap
anese in the trouble. She would prob
ably be assisted by Russia, who even
now, state department officials believe,
has secretly assured Japan of her sup
port in the controversy.. Great Brit
ain is on the most intimate terms with
China, and would probably side with
that empire, especially if Russia and
France were to assist her antagonist. A
European war would follow, and the
greatost diplomacy would have to be ex
ercised by the United Staaes in taking
care of its interests all over the world,
It is also believed that if Japan and
Russia have made any agreement in
regard to this matter it is that the lat
ter country be given a seaport in Co
rea, which could be made the terminus
of her transcontinental railroad. Rus
sia is extremely anxious to acquire a
port on the Pacific which would not be
closed by ice six months in the year,
as is the present terminus of the road.
It is to her interest, therefore, to side
with Japan, and it is believed that,
notwithstanding her repeated aud at
the same time ostentatious attempts at
mediation, she is secretly supporting
the mikado in the stand he has taken.
China Orders Torpedo Boats.
A special cable dispatch from Berlin
says: The Chinese government has
ordered the construction of four tor
TKI.IURTi |«\\S
FSiiort and
Interest to Our Readers.
There were seventy-nine fresh cases
of cholera at St. Petersburg Sunday
and forty-nine deaths. The epidemic
is abating somewhat.
The Michigan republican state con
vention met at Grand Rapids with 929
delegates in attendance and 5,000 peo
ple in the audience. Governor Rich
was renominated on the first ballot.
It is officially announced that in
consequence of the prevalence of chol
era the mobilizing of the reserves and
the customary autumn military ma
neuvers in the vicinity of St. Peters
burg, Russia, will not take place this
year.
A special of Sunday from AVausaw,
Wis., says: News from the country is
to the effect that forest fires are run
ning in all directions, and destroying
much property. All day long tho sun
has been obscured by dense smoke,
but this city is in no immediate dan
ger.
Twenty-five hundred men went to
work at tho Illinois Steel company’s
plant at Chicago Monday. The works
have been close down since the rail
road strike began. One thousand
more workmen will be given employ
ment by this company before the end
of the week.
Pawnee Bill’s wild west show, which
has been nt Antwerp, Belgium, singe
the exhibition opened, was seized
Monday for debt. The cowboys were
watching for the bailiffs and fled when
tho first officer appeared. Most of
them took the first train that would
carry them over the frontier.
The Italian government has received
information from Africa that a battle
was fought Tuesday between a force of
Mahdists 300 strong and a detachment
of Italian troops near Ivassala. The
Mahdists were defeated and the Italians
took possession of Ivassala, which they
occupy. The Italian loss was slight.
The Chinese embassy at London
has received no confirmation of the
report of a naval engagement on tho
30th ultimo. Some of the dispatches
reporting tho engagement are dated
Tien-Tsin, via Shanghai. The embas
sy officials say that telegraphic com
munication with Tien-Tsin is inter
rupted.
J. B. Sutler, a well-known man of
Little Rock, Ark., for many years a
banker, Sunday school superintend
ent, populist leader and editor, is said
to be a defaulter to the state board of
missions of the Little Rock confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, of which he was assist
ant treasurer. The exact amount oL
his shortage is not known. Arfflj
The strike at Gladstone,
which 400 men were involved,
practically come to an end. A ma
jority of the men applied for Vork and
signed contracts witSIUMI railroad
companies and rendßHM&ciww|f||
■ -■ . .
sumod,
business in the grain anucoal ttX -
from that point. : :
A London cable dispatch soys
Winehelsen, presiding at a mjTiß ,
agricultural '
. i., ,
to : ti
ers partly supported the
This, he said, promised a strong party
in the house of commons, independent
of ordinary party lines and caring
solely for the farming interests.
Notices were served Monday by
Samuel B. Foster, attorney in fact for
several railroads, of damages claimed
against the city of Chicago and the
county of Cook for loss of property
during the American Railway Union
strike. The notices were served on
the mayor, city clerk, the corporation
counsel, the city attorney and on the
president of the county board, the
county clerk aud the county attorney.
The members of the Southern Rail
way and Steamship Association say
that the recent meetings have resulted
in securing a most satisfactory agree
ment for the maintenance of rates.
The essential feature is the provision
that when any line has evidence that a
company is giving a rebate or cutting
rates, it can. on presentation of evi
dence to the commissioner, demand a
general reduction in tho rates, all
round, to meet the case.
A cable dispatch from Shanghai
says: The statement that war has
been declared between Japan and
China is generally accepted here as
correct. A Japanese victory, wherein
a Chinese transport was sunk, was
gained Wednesday. The Chinese loss
of life was very great. The Chinese
transport sunk belonged to the fleet of
eleven steamers which sailed from
Taku, Friday, July 20th, with 12,000
troops.
Proceedings against Debs et ah, in
the United States circuit court at Chi
cago Saturday, under the bill filed July
2d, in behalf of railroads represented
in the General Managers’ Association,
were brought to a sudden and tempo
rary close by an order from Judge
AYoods. Debs and others appealed
from the chancery proceedings to the
United States circuit court of appeals,
in which proceedings in the injunction
was issued by Judges AVoods aud Gross
cup. The appeal has been granted
and Judge Woods’ order checks fur
ther movements, but does not inter
fere in any way with the matters o/
contempt.
CHINA BUYING PROVISIONS,
The Government Making Preparation
for an Extensive War.
Advicss from London state that En
glish vessels now in port unable to se
cure charters will be loaded with flour
at the owners’ risk and sent to China.
An order has been placed with a can
ning conqjiany. for 15,000 tons of can
ned beef, for the same market. The
Rio Janffiro, which sailed a few days
ago, toojr out a large cargo of flour, as
did tis two proceeding steamers.
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LAWRENCEVI f.LE. G EOR< JI A, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1894.
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Brief Summary of Daily Happen
ings Throughout the World.
William Eggert and Cenrad Eggert,
composing the firm of William Egg
ert & Co., tobacco merchants at New
York, assigned to Theodore Rohrborg,
with preferences aggregating $45,000.
An immense warehouse at Hamburg,
Germany, containing stores of cotton,
wine, piece goods, furs and feathers,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
will largely exceed a million marks.
Advices from Corea say the Japan
ese nre preparing to withdraw a part
of their troops from Seoul, and rein
force their army in front of Yasham
with a view of renewing their attacks
upon that place.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: The
American Protective Association has
issued a circular condemning County
Judge Whiteside, candidate for re
election, and L. J. Sharp, democratic
candidate for sheriff. The Association
is fighting them bitterly.
Judge Joseph Holt, who was judge
advocate general of the army, and at
one time acted as secretary of war,
died at his residence in Washington
City Wednesday. His death was duo
indirectly to a fall sustained a few days
ago, but to which he paid little atten
tion.
The first district congressional con
vention of Texas met at Houston
Wednesday and renominnted J. C.
Hutcheson, to succeed himself. Ben
Campbell, Hutcheson’s law partner,
bitterly opposed the resolutions en
dorsing Cleveland but despite Hutche
son’s hatred of Cleveland, a qualified
endorsement of the administration was
passed.
The Russian newspapers nre unani
mous in saying that, whatever the re
sult of the war between China and Ja
pan, Russia will not tolerate any di
munition of Corean territory nor alien
ation of Corean independence. Rus
sia, it is declared, will not permit any
interference upon tho part of Great
Britain or any other power, if such in
terference endangers Russian interests.
A dispatch from Halletsville, Texas,
says: The tenth congressional district
convention is hopelessly deadlocked.
Seven hundred and two ballots have
been taken%and all are the fame—
Gresham, the present congressman,
30; Lane, 23. Both sides sav they
will give way to no dark horse. Lane’s
fnction wents tho candidates to go bo
foia the people again in primaries.
Cleveland will be nkfcost unanimously
endorsed. H
The lowa democrnti<r*state conven
tion met atDesMouies and nominated
&|e following ticket by acclamation :
Vecreta^aH^Vstate, H. F. Dale, of
I’olk fjsgipir, John W. SiWield, of
L. W. White, of
supreme judges, long term,
John Cieggert, of Gordo; short
term, Edward W. amchell, of Fre
; attorney-general, J. D. F.
of Cherokee; railroad com-
W. L. Barker, of Oseola.
Hlhe executive committee of the
■kern Interstate aud Industrial
• .vHinmigration AsKociitlion met at
AA’ednesday. There was
attendance of the members rep-
HHBjng nil till- southern states, and,
Bint! were i) number of proiui-
Iron. I men present p present-
leading roads of the south and
west. A constitution and by-laws was
adopted, and there was a general in
terchange of ideas on immigration.
Vice President Wickes, of the Pull
man company, announces that the
works will be started up at onco. Mr.
AVickes said that about 800 men have
promised to return to work, and tho
repair department aud one or two oth
ers will bo opened, and the official ex
pects to have the entire plant in full
blast within a short time. Applica
tions have been received from about
1,000 of the old employes. This num
ber ■ includes 600 special policemen,
who have been guarding the works.
Tie notice of the fedederal clerk of
the Indianapolis courts to the various
railroad companies in Indiana to ap
pear and pay the costs of the several
injunctions issued at their demand
against the strikers, has developed the
fact that the roads intend to resist the
payment of the costs. They would
be charged for copies of restraining
orders, but say that these were part of
a proceeding for the benefit and pro
tection of the United States, and that
no part of the expense can be lawfully
charged to them.
The North Carolina populist state
convention met at Raleigh Wednesday,
about four hundred delegates being
present. It was called to order by
Marion Butler, president of tho Na
tional Farmers’ Alliance. The plat
form adopted unanimously declares for
free coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1. It
denounces the repeal of silver coinage,
reaffirming the state and national pop
ulist platforms, denounces the refusal
to use the silver as well as gold dollars,
favors the abolition of national banks
and the issue of treasury notes.
THE GOLD 1$ MISSING.
A Keg Containing $50,000 Mysteri
ously Disappears.
A dispatch received in Wall street,
New York, Tuesday, from Paris, re
ported the loss of a keg containing
$50,000 in gold, which was part of an
umount of $2,500,000, shipped from
New York on La Touraine July 21st.
The firms shipping the gold that day
were Lazard & Frerer, $2,000,000, and
Hiedelbaek, Ickleheimer & Co., $500,-
000. According to the dispatch the
gold was taken from the $2,000,000
lot, as only thirty-nine kegs, each con
taining $50,000, reached Paris on that
consignment. The gold is suspected
to have been lost or stolen between
Havre and Paris.
Movement of Specie.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for the jpest week were $5,-
864,081, of which $5,314,040 were
gold, and $550,0#1 silver. Of these
amounts $5,800,000 gold and $533,794
silver went to Europe and $14,040
gold and. -SlillL—
TRADE TOPICS.
Report of Business for the Past Week
by Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & Co. ’s review of trade
Tor the past week says: 1 ‘The heavy
outgo of gold, the fall of the treasury
reserve and the price of wheat to tho
lowest point on record and the increas
ing uncertainty about the tariff have
entirely overshadowed other influences.
In some branches there has been more
activity, but in others less, because
events early this week led many to in
fer that no change of tariff would be
made. The internal revenue receipts
ou whiskey suddenly dropped more
than half, and sales of wool greatly in
creased. But tho uncertainty is not
removed, and much of the business
done seems to be in the nature of
insurance against possibilities. All
the year it has been argued that
gold exports have practically end
ed, but the outgo this week has
been $5,300,000, making the net outgo
for the month about $10,000,000. Of
all explanations given only one fits tho
facts. With wheat at the lowest point
ever known and moving from the
farms very froely, while imports nre
still restricted by doubts about future
duties, gold could not go out if thero
were the ordinary confidence in the
future of enterprises here. But much
was done to prevent that confidence by
legislation hostile to lenders in west
ern and southern states, and many
millions have doubtless been called in
by foreign loau companies and taken
away. Still more has been done by
the strikers, the depression of manu
factures, the loss of railroad earnings,
and the rapid decrease of treasury bal
ances. Texti e industries have been
perceptibly stimulated, according to
dealers, by disagreements which many
suppose may prevent a change of the
tariff, and there has been more buying
of cotton goods, with slightly higher
prices for a few, notwithstanding the
close of some important mills. The
stock of such goods is, on the whole,
quite large.
“In woolens, thegoods famine which
clothiers prepared for themselves by
deferring orders, is suAh that impera
tive necessities now keep most of the
mills at work, and purchases of wool
for immediate use are large. But there
is no chance for the better ns respects
orders running into the future, and,
indeed, some concerns have withdrawn
spring samples on which very low
prices had been fixed and make no ef
fort for trade at present. Sales of wool
have been greatly swelled by specula
tion in the belief that wool is not
likely to decline in any event, but may
advance sharply if tariff' cliangea fail.
“Failures for three weeks of July
compare well, of course, with the panic
period last year, commercial liabilities
being $6,317,096, of which $3,588,938
were of manufacturing and $2,483,011
of trading conc:rus. Commercial
loans are expand ng but little, and
great caution still maintains soundness.
For the week tho failures have been
249 in the United States, against 386
last year, and 39 in Canada, against 23
last year.
A WHOLE TOWN DESTROYED.
The City of Phillips, Wis., Wiped Out
by Forest Fires.
Thirty-nine buildings out of seven
hundred stand amid smoke and ashes
on the site of what was a few days ago
the flourishing city of Phillips, the
county seat of Prince county, Wiscon
sin, and ono of the wealthiest and
most prosperous of all the towns in
the timber regions of the state, and
3,000 persons are homeless and except
those who have been offered shelter in
the neighboring towns, whose people
will themselves pass a sleepless night
through the fear that the fierce fires
raging in tho forests on all sides will
sweep away their homes at any hour.
At leaat thirteen persons are known
to have lost their lives. All the dead
were drowned in Elk Lake while trying
to escape from the fire, except an un
known man, whose body wns found in
the ruins of the house of F. W. Sackett,
editor of the Phillips Times.
Tho property loss can not at this
time be accurately estimated, but it
will reach at least $1,250,000. The
immense plant of the John It. Davis
Lumber company is a total loss,
amounting to between $500,000 and
SOOO,OOO. On this property there is
an insurance equal to at least four
fifths of the value of the plant. Of
the rest of the city about half of the
property was insured. Many of the
poorer people carried no insurance on
their homes, and they have lost every
thing.
There were many fine business
blocks and private residences in the
city, and every one was burned to the
ground. Many of the residences oost
upward of $3,000 and were handsome
for a city of this size.
WAR FORMALLY DECLARED.
Japan Apologizes to England for De
stroying One of Her Ships.
The Exchange Telegraph company,
at London, says that war between China
and Japan was formally declared at
noon Wednesday by Japan. The Jap
anese minister informed tho earl of
Kimberly, secretary of state for for
eign affairs, that a state of war existed
between China and Japan. Lord Kim
berly, immediately upon receipt of the
notice from the Japanese government
that war had been declared, wired all
the British representatives abroad to
warn the captains of merchant ships
of the fact in order that they might
form their cargoes and act accordingly.
Any contraband of war comprised in
cargoes will be handled at the risk of
owners or charterers of the vessels.
The Japanese government has instruct
ed its minister in London to apologize
to Great Britain for firing upon and
sinking the transport Kow Sliuug,
while she was flying the British (lag,
and to inform Great Britain that the
commander of the Japanese cruiser
did not know the Kow Shting was a
British vessel until after tho fight.
Wellman’s Expedition Safe.
Carl Siewer, the Norwegian arctic
enthusiast of London, has received a
telegram from the captain of the Er
ling, a Norwegian sealer, which ar
rived at the island of Tomslj, report
ing that he had seen the Ihignvold
Jarl in latitude 84, north, and all were
weil on board. The Ragnvold Jarl
fiusiyauiuiihtiiiiutii
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THK MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY
And Presenting nil Epitome of the
South's Progress and Prosperity.
Mayo college, the leading education
nl institution of northeast Texas, at
Cooper, Delta county, was destroyed
by tiro Monday morning. Loss is
SIOO,OOO. The cause is supposed to
be incendiarism.
The fifth annual convention of the
League of Southern Building and Loan
Associations ndjourned at Chattanooga
Friday evening. The league was in
session four dnyH nt Lookout moun
tain and was the most largely attended
convention yet held.
The North Carolina Steel and Tron
Company’s property at Greensboro
lias been purchased by a syndicate,
represented by Gov. Black, of Penn
sylvania, and Mr. A. A. Arthur, of
Tennessee. It will hereafter be known
as the Greensboro Iron aud Steel Com
pany.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Monday Eugene B. Gary succeeded
Associate Justice Samuel McGowan,
making the composition of the su
preme court two Tillmanites and one
“conservative.” In view of thischange
the Tillman administration has already
begun steps to test the constitution
ality of the dispensary act of 1893.
Cotton men say that the Texas crop
will average ten days earlier than last
season, nnd that the Texas commercial
crop, which includes the Indian Ter
ritory cotton, will be 2,500,000 bales.
Up to date Houston hns received 100
bales of new cotton, and Saturday In
man & Co. purchased ut different
points 250 bales of this year's crop.
Several prominent farmers around
Bridgeport, in Jack Hon county, Ala.,
have been notified that a new and pe
culiar boycott is about to be placed on
them. Hickory switches, accompanied
by notices, to different farmers have
been left at convenient places where
they might reach the party to whom
addressed.
Naval stores factors, at Savannah,
Ga., who have been holding spirits of
turpentine until the market could be
put at figures which would at feast
equal the cost of production have
combined with some large buyer,
whose name is at present withheld,
and a sale of 25,000 barrels is reported
to have been made a day or two ago at
28 cents a gallon. This fixes the mar
ket price.
Receiver Comer has returned from
New York. He says that little progress
has been made on the Central’s reor
ganization plan, as the heat has driven
all the financiers and lawyers out of
the city aud up to the mountains or
the seashore. He positively denies all
reports that the Southern railway is to
control the Central aud reiterates his
statement that it is to be operated as
an independent line.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says?
C. A. Benscoter has been appointed
assistant general passenger agent of
the Southern railway, in charge of the
western system. Mr. Benscoter came
to Knoxville from Pennsylvania in
1886 as chief rate clerk in the office of
Colonel Wrenn He was afterwards
made assistant to geperal passenger
agent, and then division passenger
agent without change of duties.
At Macon, Ga., Judge Speer signed
the consent decree for the sale of the
Macon aud Northern road. The only
particular in which he changed the
consent decree was in reference to the
minimum price. The decree, as drawn
by flie lawyers, fixed $250,000 as the
minimum price, but Judge Speer
changed this and fixed the minimum
price at $1,070,000. The sale will take
place on the first Tuesday in October
next.
The railway commissioners of North
Carolina at a meeting in ltaleigh, as
sessed tho North Carolina railway for
taxation, fixing the value atsl,Blo,ooo,
the same as last year. This is on its
capital stock and property. Its road
bed is as yet exempt from taxation.
The commission turned over to the
state treasurer its assessment of all
railway, steamship and telegraph prop
erty, the amount being $24,500,000.
The shortage of General W. 8. Fer
guson, ex-secretary and treasurer of
the Mississippi levee board, the in
solvency of his bondsmen, his absence
with no apparent effort to secure his
return, the heavy taxes imposed for
levee purposes and the large indebted
ness of the board, have prompted the
taxpayers to call a convention, to be
held in Greenville, August 15th. Del
egates from every precinct in the fonr
counties comprising the Mississippi
levee district are invited to attend.
WILL I’AY COUPONS.
Announcement by the Southern Rail
way Company.
The receivers of the Georgia Pacific
Railroad Gonopauy at New York an
nounce that the coupons from tho 5
per cent equipment bonds of the com
pany due August Ist, will be paid at
the Central Trust Company.
Tho Southern Railway Company
announces that, the coupons from the
first mortgage 4 per cent bonds of the
Washington, Ohio and Western Rail
road Company, duo August Ist, will
be paid at the office of Drexel, Mor
gan & Co.
Also, at the same time and place,the
coupons, due Juiy Ist, on the consoli
dated mortgage 6 per cent bonds o'
the Richmond and Dauville Roilroad
Company with interest thereon to Au
gust Ist. •
The New Cable Finished.
Tho final splice of the Anglo-Ameri
can Telegraph Company’s new cable
was made at Heart’s Content, New
foundland, at 11 o’clock Friday morn
ing, Greenwich time, and the laying
of the largest cable across the Atlantic
was then successfully completed.
A Scorching Wave.
Saturday whs the hottest day New
York city has experienced in thirteen
years. The record is held by 1881,
HALLS OE CONGRESS
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
Wliat Our National Law-Makers are
Doing for the Country.
The committee on patents, to which
Saturday’s session in the house wns
accorded by the committee on rules,
was unfortunate, in that the first bill
presented by Chairman Covert met
with such opposition, that after a brief
discussion, the house voted to adjourn.
Before adjournment, however, a joint
resolution was passod extending until
August 14th the provisions of the ap
propriation bills for the year ending
June 30, 1894. The joint resolutions
under which the several departments
are now operating will expire on Tues
day and six of the appropriation bills
aro still in congress. An unusually
long list of private bills was passed,
including those which had been acted
upon favorably at the Friday night
pension session.
After the reading of the journal in
tbo house, Monday, Mr. Tolbert, of
South Carolina,tried to learn from the
speaker whether or not the committee
on coinage, weights and measures, and
on banking and cnrroncy, had a right
to pigeon-liolo his resolution directing
them to report a bill for the free coin
age of silver ..t the ratio of 10 to 1,
and a bill providing a new financial
system. Ho was not successful.
Tho speaker referred him to
the rules for information desired.
Mr. Boutelle presented a resolution
recognizing tlie new republic of Ha
waii on the part of the congress of the
United Stntes and supported it in a
brief speech. Ho offered it ns a ques
tion of privilege, but the speaker ruled
thnt it wns not such, and it went to tho
committee on foreign affairs. The
committee on military affairs were
given tho morning hour for the pre
sentation of business for considera
tion.
The house wns two hours in a dead
lock Tuesday over the river and har
bor bill, aud it is intimated that it
may either fail altogether, or its
further consideration be postponed till
next winter. Mr. Hatch presented
the conference report on the aggri
ctiltural appropriation bill, showing
an agreement on all items except the,
senate amendment, appropriating sl,-
000,000 for tho extinction of the llus I
sinn thistle.
The house, at Wednesday’s session,
agreed to the confereuee report on the
amendment mnde by the senate to tho
agricultural appropriation bill, appro
priating one million dollars for
tho extinction of the Russian this
tle in tho northeast. Tho senato re
cedes from its amendment, thus aban
doning tho appropriation. At 12:30
tho contested case of Moore versus
Fuustou, from the second district of
Kansas, was taken up. A majority of
the committee reported in favor of
unseating Funston, republican, and
giving the seat to Moore. It was
agreed that the case should be debated
four hours, and the voto on the
resolution seating Moore be taken be
fore adjournment.
TIIK sexatk.
Vice President Stevenson resumed
bis duties as president of tho senate
Monday. A number of bills wore
passed ; also tho house joint resolution
continuing tho general appropriations
up to and including August 14th,1894.
In connection with this joint resolu
tion, it was stated by Mr. Cockrell,
chairman of the committee on appro
priations, that, of the thirteen general
appropriation bills, eight had been
agreed to in conference and sont to
the president. Ho did not know
whether they had been signed yet or
not. Of the remaining five, three were
in conference.
In the senate, Tuesday, the confer
ence report on the Indian appropria
tion bill was presented and adopted
and a further conference ordered on
the amendments that had not been
agreed to by the conferees. At Ip.
m. the senate proceeded to tho consid
eration of the sundry civil appropria
tion bill.
In the senate, Wednesday, Mr.
Chandler offered a resolution, which
went over, instructing the senate com
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges of bribery against senators to
inquire into the facts connected with
the organization and history of tho
Dominion Coal Company, of Nova
Scotia, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether such company was formed or
is being conducted by reason of any
ossurauce that the tariff duty on coal
shall be repealed by congress, and if
so to ascertain who gave such assur
ances, whether or not any officer of
the government, or any member of
congress is or was interested in such
company, aud what action, if any, has
beeu taken by any person in fulfill
ment of such assurances.
CHINA’S INNING.
The Japs Attack Yaslian anil arc Re
pulsed With Heavy Losses.
Advices from Yashan state that the
Chinese are strongly entrenched there,
aud repeated attempts have beeu made
by the Japanese troops to dislodge
them. In every instance, however,
the attacking forces, after hard-fought
engagements, were repulsed with heavy
losses. A portion of the Chinese sol
diers engaged in these battles were the
best troops of the Northern army of
Viceroy Li Huug Chang. The Chinese
losses were small.
The North China News confirms the
report of fighting at Yashan. It says
that the Japanese brought up for the
attack every available mau, almost de
nuding Seoul of troops. The success
ful defense made by the Chiuese was
directed by European officers. A let
ter from Hun Kow says that the out
break of hostilities has revived all tho
native fanaticism of the Chiuese. For
eigners are insulted openly and vio
lence is feared.
A Girl's College Burned.
Unknowu persons set tire to the
Presbyterian female college, at Win
chester, Tenn., Monday night, and it
was entirely e<»usumed. The bnildim.
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NO. 40.
THE BILL PASSED
AND ATLANTA GETS $200,000
FOR HER EXPOSITION.
No Opposition Expected From tlta
House on the Measure.
The appropriation bill for the Cot
ton States and International exposition
passed the senate in the committee of
the whole Tuesday afternoon without
a single objection or even a question be
ing asked on either side of the chamber.
The sundry civil bill was under discus
sion the entire day and at 4 :45 o’clock
the exposition clause was reached. It
was tho last in the bill. The full text
of the clause was as follows:
“Cotton States and International"
Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga., Section
3—That the expense of the selection,
purchase, preparation, transportation,
care and return of articles and mate
rials to comprise an exhibit illustra
tive of the functions of the govern
ment of tho United States, to be made
at tho Cotton States aud International
exposition to be held in tho city of
Atlanta, in the stßte of Georgia, in
the year eighteen hundred and nine
ty-five, of which not oxceeding
$5,000 may be expended for olorieal ser
vices, $150,000 to be disbursed by the
board created by section 16 of the act
approved April 25, 1890, entitled ‘An
act to provide for celebrating the 400th
anniversary of the
America by Christopher by
holding an international exhibition of
arts, industries, manufactures and tho
products of the soil, mine and tho sea
in the ckkof Chicago, in the stato of
the jurisdiction, powers
of the said board are hereby
States and International
exposition under all the provisions
of law which governed tho gov
ernment exhibit at tho World’s Co
lumbian exposition ; provided thnt the
foregoing sum shall be apportioned
among the several departments of tho
Smithsonian institution and tho fish
commission by tho secretary of tho
treasury, and such apportion shall Vie
made final and shall ho so made by
him as not to create a deficiency and
shall cover every expenditure on tho
part of tho United States, including
tho return of such exhibits except as
main building erol ,, J OP myself a oamli
ment exhibit at tlid^'i 1 ’ I '.
exposition and its transportation, fr£ v
so much of tho material thereof asr'
be available, and tho re-erection iji
tho site selected for tho said Cotton
States and International exposition,
including the purchase of such new
material as may he found nec
essary, $50,000, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, to bo dis
bursed by the secretary of tho treas
ury ; provided that if it be found im
practicable to take down, transport
and re-erect said building for the sum
herein appropriated, then the secre
tary of the treasury shall cause a new
building to bo erected upon said site of
the Cotton States aud International
exposition for the government exhibit
at a cost not to exceed $50,000, for
which purpose the amount herein ap
propriated shall be applicable.
“Provided further, That the United
States shall not be in any manner re
sponsible for the conduct or manage
ment of said exhibition, nor shall it be
liable in any manner for any sum on
account of the erection of any build
ings for the Cotton States and Inter
national exposition or for the expenses
incident to, or growing out of said ex
position. ”
THE DISPENSARIES OPEN.
Tillman's State Bars Are Again 111
Full Blast.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
The state bars ore now doing business
at the old stands all over the state and
the state wholesale dispensary here is
bard at work filling orders to the re
tail shops. The reopening has beon
accompanied with not the slightest ex
citement and so far the liquor situa
tion in this city has not been changed
in the least. Saloon keepers, or what
tho govornor calls “four-eyed tigers,”
have been selling whisky as usual and
there was no pretense of concealment.
Official and non-official fluids are be
ing “dispensed” with equal freedom,
but the sales of the latter have been
nominal. How long thiß condition
will prevail nobody knows. Not a
whisky constable is in the city. The
governor is absent on his campaign
tour and there is nothing to annoy the
“tigers.” Some of them say that they
will close up shop Saturday night, but
this is taken with a grain of salt.
Others boldly assert that the govern
or’s sole idea in reopening the official
bars is to dispose of and realize on hia
stock on hand and that he will make
no effort to rigidly enforce the restric
tive features of the act of 1893, until
it has been declared valid by the state
or federal courts.
SLEW FOUR PEOPLE.
An Enraged Husband’s Diabolical
Deed.
Wednesday night John Craig drove
from Los Angeles, Cal., to Glendale,
five miles distant,where his wife, from
whom he was divorced three months
ago, was stopping with her brother,
George Hunter. Arriving there, he
deliberately shot and killed both. He
then returned to Los Angeles, went to
the house of his father-in-law, William
Hunter, and killed him. Stepping
over his dead body, he walked to the
dining room and killed his mother-in
law. He then fired two shots into his
own head, but failed to kill himself.
The trouble was over a settlement of
community property.
REFORMERS IN NEW ORLEANS.
The City’s Politics to Be Purged by the
Protective League.
A New Orleans special says : There
is a prospect for genuine reform in
municipal polities. The executive com
mittee of the Citizens’ Protective
League have formulated a plan of ac
tion against certain city officials^