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VOL. I. County Directory. SUPERIOR COURT. N. L. Hutchins, Judge; R. B. Rns jell, Solicitor Genera], The superior hurt meets the first Mondays in March pd September. \| COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. VJ. D. Spence, J. T. Lamkin, S. L. flintofi, James S. Dobbins, James T. Jordan. Rejbilar quarterly sessions first Monday lk March, Juue and De cember. \ JUSTICE COURTS. Ben Smiths —J. T. Wood, J. P. ; J. A. Hawthorne, N. P. Court third Sat urday. Berkshire —W T illinm M. Jordan, J. , ‘J. R. Cain, N. P. Court third aturday. • Bar Creek —C. D. Jacobs, J. P.; J T. Mcllvany, N. P. Court first Sat urday. Cates— T. A. Pate, J. P., A. ,T. |SVebb, N. P. ; court second Saturday. T. J. Kilgore, J. P., J. M. ■to*. N. P.; court third Saturday, '- nuTH—Q. H. Barker, ,). P., A. H. Bv • Bee, N. P.; court Thursday before n iourth Saturday. Harbins —A. J. Bowen, J. P.; Robt. Ethridge, N. P.; court Saturday before second Sunday. Hoo Mt.—C. S. Maffett, o. P., J. R. Roberts, N. P.; eourt fourth Saturday. Goodwins— ,T. T. Barter, J. P., C. P. Jackson, N. P.; court Friday beforo fourth Saturday, Lawrenckville —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. Pinckneyville —A. J. Martin, J.P., J.w. 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. .T. Mason, N. P. ; court Friday be fore the third Saturday. Sugar E. Cloud, J. P., J. A. Higgins, N/p. Scoter*. Friday be fore the thii4 Saturday. i NTY OFFICERS. / Ordinary— R* R. Whitwortfb. ■ Clerk Superior Court —D. T. Cain. SawiEl'—T. A. Hasslctt; Deputy Sheriff W. J. Tribble. Tax Collector —S. C. Martin; Tax Receiver, D. C. Hawthorne. Treasurer —A. W. Moore. Surveyor —R. -N. Maffet. e < Coroner —J. T. Hadaway. * city government. Mayor —S. J. Winn. Treasurer —,T. D. Spence. Clerk—J. M. Mills. Marshal— A. N. Robinson. ■Buuuyal and dei'ahtuur of mails. S^BMuuvai. —0., C. A X. (East bound) Ml' ;49 a. m., 6 :25 p. m. West bound p. ra. " Departure—7:4o o. m., 8:30 a. m., 6:00 p. m. Sunday Mail —Arrives 8:49 a. m., G :25 p. m. Leave Office—B :50 a. m., 0:00 p. m. The time given in the foregoing is Eastern Time, which is 33 minutes faster than sun time. * FOREIGN ORDERS. Money orders will be 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 is 3 cents. No note for over $4.99 issued. EDUCATIONAL. County School Commissioner—W. T. Tanner. Board of Education —S. T. McEl roy, Chairman ; L. F. McDonald, M. E. Ewing, J. F. Espy, T. L. Hnrris; meets subject to call of County School Commissioner. CHURCHES. Methodist —Rev.\W. A. Parks, P. C. Services first and third Sundays. Baptist— llev. 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. ; Mies Cora Holland, third vice Pres.; T. M. Hol land, Sec. ; W. J. Peeples, Trcaß. ; Miss Annie Winn, organist; meets every Friday night. X. O. O. F. —NO. 21. Officebe —W. M. Langley, N. G. ; T. B. Powell, V. G.; 8.8. 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, B. S. N. G.; L. F. Mc- Donald, H. S. N. G.; W. T. Tanner, B. S. V. G. ; L. E. Winn, L. S. Y. G.; T. D. Collins, E. 8. S.; C. J. Born, L. S. S. ; W. A. Davis, Chap. • KNIGHTS OF HONOB. Officeks —C.H. Brand P. D.; B. J. Bagwell, Die.; L.M. Brand, Vice Dio.; M. A. Born, Asss’t. Vice Die.; J. P. Byrd, Reporter; E. K. Bainey, Finan. ltep.; J. L. Moon, Chaplain; D. T. Cain, Treas. ;J. H. Shackleford, Sen tinel ;W. A. Dr,vis Guide. Meets Semi monthly —first and third Friday nights—at Odd-Fellows Hall. MASONIC. Lodge No. 131 (Lawrenceville) — Officers: Jas. D. Spenco, W. M.; S. A. Havgood, S. W.; J. M. Patterson, J. W. ; J. K. Jackson, S. D. ; S. A. Townley, J. D. ; W. H. Patterson, Tyler; meets first Tuesday in each month. Mt. Vebnon Chapteb No. 39, B. \ ■ ■L M.—J. D. Spence, H. P. ;J. T. K. ; W. L. Vaughan, S.; S. Bfrgood, C. H.; B. L. Patterson, SHu J. M. Patterson, B. A. C.; L. Master Ist A.; W. J. IH, MasUV 2d V.: A. T. Patterson, B 9H r Sd V. ;J. w. Mitchell, Sec. on Friday before tin; third Sat of each month. Ac nay of plowing "hen tin-ground ■o wet will make many days of hard The News. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS CONDENSED FROM OCR MOST IMPORTANT DISPATCHES. Short and Crisp Items of General Interest to Our Readers. At Be-gen Point, N. J., Carr & Hob sou, limited, Company’s agricultural implement factory was burned Monday morning. Loss $250,000. The big strike of the miners at Spring Y’alley, 111., has ended by an agreement between the coal company and the strikers aB to terms, -The men will resume work at once. A Washington special of Saturday says: The gold reserve has increased by $1132,959, bringing it up to $53,- 112,902, the highest it has been since August 3d. A steady gain has been in progress since August Bth. It is rumored andgenerally believed in Clinton, Mass., that the Lancaster mills, employing between 3/000 4,000 hands, and one of the largest gingham mills in the world, is to inaugurate a general cut down of 10 per cent on September 1. Governor Atgeld, of Illinois, has re ceived a letter from the committee of the Pullman citizens asking assistance in feeding 1,600 families who are un able to get work there. The Pullman company, it is alleged, is importing men from all over the country, and turning many old hands out on the streets. The Japanese legation at London has not received any news from Japnn tending to confirm the report that an imperial decree has been issued author izing the raising of a Japanese loan of $50,000,000. It was stated at the legation that in the event of a loan be ing required it would bo entirely raised in Japan ; that it would not he placed upon any of the European mar kets. The populists of the city of New York have determined to nominate their own city and county ticket and have asked organized lnbojr to enter the field of politics and unite l forces under their standard. The populists of the state will also hold a convention and put a state ticket in the field. The state convention has been called to meet in Saratoga, September 11th. A special from Acosta, Washington, says that Saturday morning, while making a landing through the surf at Joe creek, fifteen miles north of Gray’s Harbor, the whale boat and crew of nine men of tho United States coast survey steamer McArthur, was capsized and five men are missing. At present the full particulars cannot be ascertained owing to the difficulty of getting news from the locality. The full rigged ship, General Knox, of Boston, loaded with a full cargo of general merchandise, including mostly inflammable materials, was burned al most to tho water's edge at her dock, at New York, early Saturday morning. The loss is expected to reach $200,000. A large part of the cargo was case oil. Ten engines and two harbor fire boats (equal to five engines each), could make no impression on the fire, until nothing remained but the charred hulk. An investigation into the manage ment of the Childs-Drexel Union Print ers’ home in Colorado Springs, Col., is being conducted by the visiting committee. An inmate notified Super intendent Schumann of charges of con spiracy with threats of ill treatment. The notification thus filed was sent by Mr. Schumann to President Prescott, of the International Typographical Union, at Indianapolis, Ind., demand ing and investigation, which was at once instituted. The recent shipment of Texas cattle into Linn and Anderson counties, Kansas, and tho discovery that they were infected with Texas fever is caus ing much fear among the stock men of eastern Kansas. The infected cattle were shipped in by the Missouri, Kan sas and Texas Railroad Company. The attorney general, in directing the at torneys of those counties to investigate and bring suits, says the prosecution should be filed against the men who shipped them in and not against the railroad company. Fall River, Mass., was in a whirl of excitement Friday on aecouut of the meetings of the two strongest labor unions to determine whataction should be taken Monday morning when the entdown in wages was to go into ef fect. By a vote of 750 to 450 the weavers decided to take a vacation of four weeks. By a vote of 409 to 300 the spinners’ union voted to accept the reduction under protest and to lend every possible assistance to their brethren in New Bedford who recently voted to strike. At a conference at Baltimore Satur day between Governor Brown, Attor ney General Poe and counsel for the 104 imprisoned Coxeyites, it was agreed that the governor should par don all except Christopher Columbus Jones and “Marshall” McKee, who will be held for the purpose of testing the right of the state to take the “army” from their encampment and imprison them without trial. Jones and McKee refused to accept the par don offered by the governor condi tioned upon their leaving the stnte. The report of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company for the year ending June 3Uth bliows gross earnings of $18,974,337, a decrease of $3,469,302; expenses, $11,863,785, a decrease of $2,518,858; net earnings, $7,110,552, a deciease of $910,444 ; to tal fixed charges, $5,665,636, an in crease of $174,840; loss on other roads, $104,713, a decrease of $259,- 045, and surplus, $1,552,491, a de crease of $970,068. The surplus is accounted .or by the fact that the company paid no dividends in 1894. Tho quarterly dividends paid the stockholders in the mills in Fall River, Mass., did not average quite 1} per cent the last three months. Returns show a decrease of $40,650 in the last quarter. Seven corporations have passed dividends and between seven and eleven paid dividends from sur plus accounts rather than Irom the ■■timings of tho past nine months. Many of the mills are taking advan tage of the easy money market to re new the machinery and motive plaqts. Christopher Colnmbna Jones and Marshal McKee were roleksed from the house of correction at Baltimore, Mon day, through Governor Brown’s par don. These men were in charge of Coxey’s forceH at llyattsville when the raid was made by the Baltimore police, and were with others sentenced to three months for vagrancy. Jones and MeKce intended to fight tile govern ment in the courts, but later decided to accept their unconditional pardons and left for Hvnttsvi.le to wind up Coxey’s camp. The remaining Coxey ites will be pardoned and sent out of the state in a day or two. HALLS OF CONGRESS DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE. What Our National Law-Makers aro Doing for the Country. As a number leaves of abseneo were granted to members aLd the attend ance upon the house Thursday showed the general departure of representa tives from the city only a small bit of routino business was transacted and then tho conference report on the gen eral deficiency appropriation bill was laid before the body. The item under discussion is that appropriating $1 ,- 000,000 to pay a judgment in favor of the Southern Pacific railroad company for transportation of troops, mails and merchandise for the United States. Two hours and a half are accorded for discussion, when a vote will be taken. There was hardly a quorum of the house of representatives left in Wash ington for Friday’s session, as the members are anxious to get away and are leaving on every train. Mr. Reed will see the session through. Messrs. Payne, of New- York, Cogswell, Mass., and Cannon, of Illinois, will also re main to submit somo republican fig ures on the appropriations and some observations on the tariff. Most of the democratic leaders are remaining in order to make a quorum in case of an unexpected emergency on turiff. Lees than fifty members were pres ent when the house met at noon Mon day. There wero the usual indica tions that congress was on the eve of adjournment. Members were crowd ing eagerly about the arena in front of the speaker’s desk with requests for a unanimous consent for passage of bills of local interest to them. Mr. Say ers, chairmau of the appropriations committee, secured unanimous con sent for the consideration of a bill ap propriating $9,000 for an additional force for collection of internal reve nue and $5,000 for carrying into effect the arbitrations convention between the United States and Venezuela, sign ed at Caracas in January last. It was passed without objection. The house then adjourned at 12 :50 until Tuesday. Iu the house, Tuesday, Mr. Boatner endeavored to secure the immediate consideration of Senator Hill’s anti anurehist bill, but Mr. Warner, of New York, objected so strenuously that the bill went over. The consid eration of Mr. Hoar's anti-lottery bill was prevented by objection from Mr. Davey, of Louisiana. Tho house then adjourned until Thursday. THE SENATE. The senate at Thursday’s session passed the bill for the exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists, which had been agreed to in conference com mittee on a like bill heretofore passed. In the senate, Friday, Mr. Harris offered a resolution that the vacancy in the finance committeo be filled by the selection of White, of California. Some objection was made, and after a spirited discussion the resolution went over until Saturday. Mr. Hnrris then offered a resolution, which also went over, that there shall be no furthei tariff legislation this session. In the senate, Saturday, the resolu tion of Mr. Harris, providing for the appointment of Senator White as a member of the finance committee in place of Senator Vance, deceased, was laid before the senate and agreed to without a division. Mr. Murphy’s res olution, declaring it to be the judg ment of the senate in view of Secretary Carlisle’s letter to Senator Harris, as to the effect upon the revenues of the passage of a free sugar bill, that no further tariff legislation should be passed at this session of congress, was then laid before the senate. At the request of Mr. Gorman, however, it was passed over temporarily. In the senate, Monday, Mr. Harris, from the finance committee, reported back to the senate the sugar bill amended so as to provide jx duty of forty per cent fiat on all sugars. The committee did, not report back any of the amendments and several senators who had previously given notice of amendments reserved them, notably Mr. Quay, who brought forward his McKinley act entire as an amendment, and Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, who pro posed the McKinley duty on the free coal bill was reported back amended so as to provide for reciprocal free coal. The iron ore bill was re ported back without amendment. The barbed wire fencing bill was amended so as to make barbed wire free, the house making free only the material from which it was made. The senate agreed that when it adjourned it would be until Wednesday. The finance committee decided to re port these bills at a meeting Monday morning by a strict party vote, Mr. White (democrat, Californio,) acting with the committee for the first time. The bill went to the calendar and can now be called up by a majority vote only. POWDER HOUSES BLOWN UP. Three People Hurled Into Eternity. Shock Felt Twenty Miles Away. Saturday night four powder houses ol the Speer Hardware company, locat ed two miles from Fort Smith, Ark., on the Poteau river, exploded. The pow der houses are total wrecks. A small cabin near by, the home of Mrs. Cook, was blown to splinters. Mrs. Cook, her daughter and an infant,were hurled into eternity. The powder house contained 1,200 pounds of dy namite and 300 kegs of powder. The sb«k was felt at Van Buren, Alma, Gxpsnwood, Jenny Lind, Haokett, Kvanaugh and many places nearly Meuty miles away. iAWRENCEVILLE. (iEORCiIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24,\8i)4. LATEST DISPATCHES GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS. A Brief Summary of Dally Happen ings Throughout the World. A special from Statesville, N. C., says the Southern Railway Company lias bought the Western North Caro lina railway for $500,000. Five moro mills shut down at Fall River, Mass., Tuesday, on account of the strike, and there is a decrease of fully 1,500 looms in (lie mills yet run ning. The California democratic state con vention was called to order at San Francisco at noon Tuesday by Chair man Popper, of the state central com mittee. After making a thorough investiga tion of the conditions existing among the employes of tho Pullman compnny who participated in tho recent boycott and strike, Governor Altgeld has is sued an appeal to tho people of Illinois or relief. A dispatch from Shanghai says that the court of inquiry has established tho fact that the Japanese war ship Naniwa ordered the destruction of the drowning men from the Chinese trans port Kow Shing, which was sunk liy the Japanese. Tho sixth Texas stnte democratic convention, adjourned from Corsicana, met at Dallas Tuesday. At adjourn ment the 1262 d roll call had been reached without a break in the vote, which was as follows: Burke 37, Poin dexter 32, Abbott 12, Hardy 10. Henry Dangerfleld, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Alexandria, Va., suicided by shooting himself. He had been a hj’pochondriac for some time. Dangerfleld was about fifty years old and a man of considerable wealth and owned “Springfield,” a fine estate in Franklin county, Va. A Chicago special says : Officials of tho American Railway Union and local labor leaders are much pleased with the methods of the national strike com mittee so far. Several of them have expressed themselves as satisfied that both sides of the question will receive a fair and impartial hearing. The Big Four freight depot at Cin cinnati burned Tuesday afternoon. The building was two squares long and was valued, with its contents and Wagner sleepers and coaches, at $500,- 000. Owing to tho material of which tho structure was built the flames could not be checked. A row of frame buildings opposite the depot caught fire several times, but the incipient blaze was extinguished in every case. About twenty of the Wagner sleepers and chair cars were destroyed. Henry Harman, of Logan county, Va., was showing to hip friends a rifle with which he proposed to square things with a neighbor, who, in a quarrel recently, had shot his (Har man’s) hand off. Harman dropped the rifle and it went off, lodging a bul let in his brain. William Workman started through the woods for a doc tor. He passed some men who were felling trees, und one of the trees fell on him, crushing him to death. Har man died from his wound. The affairs of the Second National bank of Altoona, Pa., where Bank Ex aminer Miller committed suicide, are furnishing a new crop of ‘BOOBBIIOOB. Mayberry Miller, one of the clerks, haß been arrested, charged with fasi fying the books of the bank. Tues day Harry Clabangh, assistant cashier, was also arrested on a similar charge and Tuesday night a dispatch was re ceived from a Pittsburg detective agency saying that Gardner, the ab sconding cashier, was seen in Pitts burg and asking for authority for his arrest. A fire started at an early hour Tues day morning in the four-story build ing at Nos. 367 and 378 Shelby street, Memphis, Teun., occupied by the Mansfield Drug Company, and within lees than an hour’s time nearly $250,- 000 worth of property was destroyed. The fire started among chemicals and oils in the rear of tho Mansfield build ing and spread so rapidly that the fire men soon lost control of it. Among the heaviest losers are the Mansfield Drug Company, Fader & Co., whole sale grocers, and A. B. Treadwell A- Co., wholesale grocers ami cotton factors. Thomas Hnrris, of Ellensburgb, Pa., returned from Mount Clemens, where he had been for his health. He found his home closed, and, after considera ble troulde, broke in. He found the dead and decomposed body of his wife on the bed and by her side slept their two children, aged two aud four years, respectively. The woman died last Thursday with hemorrhages and the bed was saturated with blood. The neighbors supposed that the family was away. The children are in a pre carious condition from lack of food and breathing the contaminated at mosphere so long. A serious riot between striking lab orers, their sympathizers and a gang of Italians who had taken their places, was narrowly averted at Chicago, Tuesday morning by the quick inter ference of the police. At Archer ave nue the Rock Island and Lake Shore railroads are beginning the work of clevatiDg their tracks. When the Italian laborers assembled for work a mob of 1,500 luen, women and boys gathered in half an hour. They blocked the traekH aud drove the lab orers from their work, throwing «tones, coupling pins and other mis siles at the fleeing foreigners. WHEN IT WILL TAKE EFFECT. Importers Get Information from the Treasury Department. A Washington special says: Doubt still exists in the minds of many im porters as to the assessment of duty on goods arriving in this country prior to or the day the tariff bill becomes effective, but not formally entered until after the bill has become a law. In reference to this'eon fusion it is ex plained at th*v treasury department that the not go into effect un til the day arfc-r the president’s signa ture is affixeA,r the law becomes op erative throAh the expiration of the ten days’ Jim* ’ .... TRADE TOPICS. Hrarlst root's Report of Business for the Past Week. Bradstreet’s review of trade for tho past week says: “The special telegraphic and mail advices summarizing interviews with more than five hundred leading whole sale dealers and manufacturers at forty-seven cities throughout the country as to the present effect, if any, of the prospective tariff settlement, and tho outlook as to the effect of tho senate tariff bill, should it become a law, indicate relatively less enthusi asm at largo eastern centers, except at New York and Baltimore; almost uni form satisfaction throughout the southern states and similar advices from tho central and northwestern •states, except where serious crop dam age has takeu place. 11l tho fur west little interest is manifested in tariff legislation, notably at Denver and Helena, where silver attracts more at tention. Portland fears the result in the reduction of the tariff on lumber, but at Bau Francisco an improve ment in demand is expected and con siderable freight is offering for ship ment to Chinn. “A feature is found in declarations from manufacturers of woolen goods, glassware, pottery and iron and steel at various centers of production, that wages w ill probably be reduced. “Aside from the probable improve ment due to tho ending of the uncer tainty in business, neither Boston, Providence, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Newark nor Rochester mer chants interviewed express noteworthy enthusiasm as to the trade prospect. While no gain is reported in trade circles at southern cities, several thous and coal strikers have gone back to work in the Birmingham district, sev eral southern railways are calling for more coal and southern iron works aro shipping more iron than a your ago. It is reported that Atlanta hardware jobbers based recent prices on the Wilson hill, and the prospective pas sage of the senate bill and will make a difference in profits in consequence. Little Rock expects eastern cotton manufacturers to buy more freely now, and three lending Texas cities, in view of the exc-elleut crop prospects in that state and prospectively tho largest cotton crop on record, regard the bus iness ontlook very favorably. Tho proposed obango.in the sugar sched ule exerts material depression iu Wmis ip.na. “The region west of Pennsylvania and east of the Mississippi river re ports almost uniformly favorable trade conditions, with gains in demand and in industrial activity, except in Indi nna and Illinois pottery industries,anil nmong Indiana clothing manufactu rers, who report that they expect to reduce wages. “Money at nearly all leading finan cial centers has hardened. Demand for shipment west to move and carry the crops has begun to exert an appre ciable influence.” EVANS WAS NOMINATED Far Governor of South Carolina by the Reformers. Three hundred and twonty delegates met at Columbia, 8. C., Thursday, to nominate the reform ticket. Tho con vention is overwhelmingly in favor of John Gary Evans, he having 262 delegates. The convention was called to order at 12:10 by Chairman Sligh. W. Gibbes Whaley, of Charleston, was elected temporary chairman of the convention and R. L. Gunter, of Ai ken, was made secretory. Mr. Klugh,of Abbeville, moved that as there were no contests, tho commit tee on credentials be dispensed with. This was adopted. M. 11. Cooper, of Colleton, was elected permanent chair man. Mr. James, of Sumter, offered a resolution that a separate box be placed at polls on the dispensary ques tion. This was rejected. W. D. Ev ans, president of tho State Alliance, offered a platform substantially reiter ating the Ocula demands. Tho plat form was adopted as a whole. Mr. Colcock moved to proceed to the nom ination ot governor and lieutenant governor. Mr. Marehant, of Pickens, moved that an entire ticket bo nomi nated by ballot. This gave rise to the fight of the day. It was finally decided to proceed to nominate governor and lieutenant gov ernor. John Gary Evans, Win. H. Ellerbe and J. E. Tindall, were put in nomination. W. D. Evans nominated Ellerbe, John Gary Evans received 252 votes, Ellerbe 44, Tindall 14. The nomination of Evans was then made unanimous. Timmerman was nomi nated lieutenant governor by acclama tion. CHINA WINS ONE. Luck Finally Changes in llor Favor. , Tim London Timex lias received tin following dispatch from Shanghai, dated August 21st: “General Tio, commander of the Tien-Tsin division of the Chinese forces, telegraphs ns follows: “i’ho Chinese on Friday attacked the Japan ese forces at Ping-Yang driving them back with a heavy loss, a distance of eleven miles to Chnng-Ho. The Chi nese made a second attack on Satur day and drove the Japanese from Chung-Ho, which is now in Chinese hands. The Japanese again lost heav ily in Saturday's fighting. Another great battle is expected.today. “ ‘Admiral Freemantle, the British commander, has established the head quarters of his fleet provisionally at Chee-Foo, where the British, Russian and Italian ministers now are. The Chinese fleet is enjoying full possession of the gulf of Pe-chi-ii.’ “The Japanese are re embarking largo numbers of troops at Fuesan, Nothing is known regarding tin ir des tination. “The Chinese forces w hich occupied Yashan have evacuated that place and have reached eastward in the direction of Seoul. The force, which is under General Yeh, who was falsely reported to have been killed in a reoent battle, has been augmented by the adhesion of number of sympathizing Coreaus. “The Chinese forces are converging on Ping-Yang. The telegraph line ut the latter point remains in the posses sion of the Chinese. “Niue thousand Japanese troops have left Seoul and marcjieil i(i the di fectiou of Fing-Y»ug.” SOLTUERX SPECIALS -V NOTING Till! MOST INTERESTING Ot (Y'RGKNFICS OF THE DAY. Aik! Preprinting an Epitome of til© South’s Progress ami Prosperity. A special from Knoxville, Tonn., pays: Tho hdlo of the Louisville Southern railway to the Southern Railway Compauy for $1,000,000 was confirmed at Tate Spring Saturday by Judge 11. H, Lurton, of the United States circuit court. Work has been resumed at the Pratt mints in Bloc ton, Alabama, giving 3,000 men employment pfter four mouths of idlcuesß on account of tho Strike. The other mines of th«? Ten nessee coal and railxoad companies will also resume work at once. The State National bank, of Vernon, Texas, has been closed by Bank Ex aminer Johnson. The exact reason cannot be obtained, but it is thought to bo due to poor collections and the payment of bonded indebtedness duo by the suspension of the bauk last year. Tho Tennessee River, Asheville and Coosa railroad was sold at auction at Birmingham, Ala., for $14,000. The road was bid in by James Little for J. E. Zlints, trustee for the bondholders. The line runs from Whitney to Ashe ville, a distance of four and a half miles. Tho road will now be com pleted from Asheville to Anderson. Articles incorporating the Southern Railway Company in Kentucky have been filed in the county clerk’s office at Louisville. Tho incorporators are Samuel Spencer, Charles H. Coster, Francis Lynde Stetson, of New York; Alex B. Anderson, of Raleigh, N. C. ; William A. Ewen. K. Do\>bs Frey, of New York; T. W. Bullitt, of Louis ville; W. M. Baldwin, Jr., of Wash ington. The capital stock is fixed at $1,000,000, and the indebtedness must not exceed $10,000,000. GOV. TURNEY RENOMINATED. Tennesseo Democrats Hold Their Stato Convention. The Tennesseo democratic state con vention in session at Nashville, ad journed after unanimously reiumiimit iug Governor Peter Turney. Tho platform indorses the president and congress in connection with the repeal of the federal election laws, recognizes in Mr. Cleveland a wise, patriotic and honest leader, and commends him to tho peoplo without reference to differ ences of opinion on political and eeonomio questions, heartily endorsing his administration. The platform de clares in favor of a federal tax on in comes, in favor of the repeal of tho teu per cent, tax on state bank issue, favors arbitration between labor ami oapital. The financial plank is ns follows: “We believe that the steady decline in the prices of all products nnd the steady depreciation of money during the past twenty years is largely dno to the de monetization of silver by the republi can congress of 1873. We are in fa vor of the bimetallic standard as it ex isted before that time, and tho coinage by the United States, without reference to tho policy of other nations, both gold ami silver in such mnuner mi will maintain both metals in circulation at a parity. ” ATLANTA’S BILL SIGNED And Her $200,000 Appropriation Is a Certainty. The bill appropriating $200,000 for the Cotton States and International Exposition was signed Suturday at Gray Gables. President Cleveland telegraphed Private Secretary Tliur ber tiiat he hHil signed it and to so in form Chairman Sayres. It was the first bill signed by the president at Buzzard’s Bay, though he took sev eral others with him. The appropria tion is now safe beyond j eradventure. The government building enu bo moved from Chicago to Atlanta and tho government can make a magnifi cent exhibit at the Cotton States Ex position. With the experience gained last year anil the material displayed at Chicago, tho government authorities are in a position to make an exhibit at Atlanta which will be an exposition in itself. CONEY’S LATEST. An Edict Issued for Another Com monweal Move In December. A dispatch from Massillon, 0., says: Coxey announces that the proposed labor day and commonweal demonstra tion iu Washington has been aban doned, and that the next attack on capital will be made in December, when congress reassembles. Frison stripe uniform has been adopted for the army, and Brown is now wearing it. Referendum has been added to the basic principles of the movement, and the whole enterpriae has been re organized with new constitution and by-laws. The word “Christ” has been dropped from the title out of deference to feelings of “misunderstanding.” WHEN IT WILL TAKE EFFECT. Importers Got Information from tlu Treasury Department. A Washington special says: Doubt still exists in tho minds of many im porters as to the assessment of duty on goods arriving iu this country prior to or the day the tariff bill becomes effective, but not formally entered until after tho bill has become a law. In reference to this confusion it is ex plnine 1 nt the treasury department that tho bill will not go into effect un til the day after tho president’s signa ture is affixed or the law becomes op erative through tbc expiration of tho ten Jays’ limit. Watson for Congress. Tho populist convention for the 10th congressional district met at Thomson, Ga., Tues lay and nomi nated 1 homes E. Watson to again op pose Major Black for congress. Reso lutions were passed calling for a free ballot and a fair count. Know Nettling of It. Ihe officials at tliu Japanese lega tion in London say that tiny have heard nothing to the i ff i t that seven Chinese vessels were sunk by the Jap anese- fleet ou August lt)ll( pr lltil. The report.is di-ct edited, naunMEN Greeu ilenim is a new fabric. A silk dust imported from Taris has a full collarette or deep lace. Amelie Rives Cbarfler,'the Virginia author, is planning a trip to tho Holy Land. Mrs. Astor, tho rich American wo man, who now lives’ll* England, has a SBO,OOO dinner set. Silk waists have, in all shades and colors never beforo been so particu larly successful as this year. A sister of Thomas Carlyle is living in Toronto, Canada, the widow of a train dispatcher named Manning. "Health, recreation and lovely in spiration” are the chief benefits of riding a bicycle, according to Miss Fnuioia Willard. < Tho will of Elizabeth Anthony, Brayton Hitolnook b npiaftt 'u $1 >0 I to tho Union Theological Saaiinnry, Schenectady, N. Y. The BarouJls Bur let’. Contis, pos sesses one of the finest colfeotiott of turquoises in the world, tho smallest beiug valued at from $108) to $1203, Mrs. Rebeooa T. 11 ijiiusoij; of, West Newton, Mass., is to defray the ex- i peases of the creation of a new scien tific building at Tufts College, Mas sachusetts. , ■ A grand,laughtor of John 0. Cal houn has jurft- made a success iu France, playing iu French witli'ii French com pany tho role of UcVruiono iu Racine’s “Andromaqne.” t ♦ A new hnthing sijit is a blouse red-' ingote of blue serge, held at the waist with a sash of white serge, and rev rs of white opening over a plastron stripod with blue. Mrs. Catharine Salisbury, a niskor of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith, who was killed by a mob at Carthage, 111., June 27, 1844, is still living near Fountain Green, 111. . A school for women students of medicine has boen founded in Russia. A ukase lias been issued allowing women to not as assistants to physi cians iu tho railroajd districts. Large and very, riqh buttons aro coming into favor. Homo of the but tons are set with jowtjlH, others are of stamped metal oxidizbd and burnished and others are riveted jet on steel. The Woodford praw-Uudior Wnau| whioh is givon annually at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., was award ed this year to a woman, for tho first time in tho history of the university. It appears that out of 801) young ladies employed iu the Havings Bank Department of tho English Postofßae only about a dozen, or H per cent, leave during the your to get married. Miss Melle S. Titus, the first woman to apply for admission to the bar in New York City during the last twenty years, passed a successful examination before the Supreme Court of that city. Miss Annie Thomson Nettleton has resigned her position in Vassar Col lege to become presiding officer ol Guilford cottage at the Woman’s Col lege of the Western Reserve Uni versity. Miss Hilen Gould is living vory quietly at Irvington on Hudson. Late in the soason she wili spend a week or two at Rexbury, N. Y., where she is buildit*; a church, as a memorial for her parents. The Civil Service Commission at Washington lias admitto l women to the examination to fill the position of assistant iu the department of vege table pathology iu the Department of Agriculture. The most fashionahlo way of treat ing diamonds now is what is called tho double-cut brilliant. It is also the most expensive. The old style of out- j ting was in single-cut brilliants of thirty-oight facets. One of the cleverest conductors of a periodical in the world is Lady Clementina Hay, daughter of the Marquise of Tweodale, who publishes and edits a magazine called City Spar rows. She is fifteen years of ago. Marie Antoinette fichus of chiffon, dotted and plain muslin, net or lace, i either block or white, are one of tho fashionable accessories of summer dress, and tho very chick ones are knotted iu the back with falling ends. Miss Anne Whitney, the sculptor, has completed a bust of Keats in mar ble, which is to be placed iu the parish church of Hampstead, London, as a memorial from the American and Eng lish lovers of the poet. This bust is pronounced a triumph of artistic genius. There are some 309 young women in attendance on Cornell College, Ithaca, N. Y., but it appears that those “co-eils,” as they are called, are extremely unpopular with tho male students,'who do not recognize them as their sooial equal, and ignore them us much as possible. A movement has been orgauizod re cently in Chicago to build a station house for women and children where they may be detained until their oases can be heard in court, where they may be tried without association with male criminals, aud where they may have competent female care. Lillian Tomn, a Cornish girl, has taken a first in the law tripos at Cam bridge, England. She hud studied three years on tho continent, where Bhe entered Girtou in 1830, aud iu the iutercollegiate examinations she was first in the first class on each occasion. She is pretty, vivacious and particu larly fine in her dress. Marguerite McDonald, a nineteen •year-old girl who was given the posi tion of station ageut at Warrior Run, ou the Lehigh Valley Road, when her brother vacated it a year ago, finds herself a heroine iu the Wilkesbarre (Penn.) district. By her quickwitted i action she prevented a serious collision between passenger trains. Mabel retoy Haskell, a beautifu and accomplished young woman o Boston, made a charming impressiou in her recent lecture before the Col lege Club, of that city. She described her trip last summer to Iceland from Edinburgh, via the Faroe Islands, au.l give many interesting details of tue scenery and Vegetation, as wall as th social Ule of the far-off Northern isle. NO. 43. HILL ART’S LETTER. THE MAJOR COMMENTS ON MISS RUTHERFORD’S BOOK. A Tribute to Ills Friend, Colonel Mal colm Johnston. ijolneidmioos are romet men very surprising, mysteriona, and bordering on the supernatural. lHuppife that utmost every oi.e baa at times Ih>«i o >n.‘routed with Home reality that had lonsc before appuard in a dream or a vision, or in to m- perplexing way. 0 i yesterday SuOS ltutheiford'a last bonk, “American Authors,* wuh before me. I had Jus. finiahod reading her pleasant sketch of my old friend, Richard Malcolm Johnston, and wn looking a' Ids pio turo—the genial, kindlv face that neither age nor wrinkles nor crows* &|»t can doprive of its charm—when it occurred to me that it had been mors th >n a year since wo had exchanged let toi s. -While I guß d and pondered on tho pic ture the mornings mail was laid upon my table iimj the topmost letter was from Dick. It Huwned to come oh a matter of course. It was tl»; tight tiling to happen and it happened. JVgr old Dick! How much pleasure ho has Mvpn us nil! How many -ou hern boys has he tftujht, beginning at the university and then at Rcekbv and for twenty iears past at Pen Lucy, near Baltimore. llow many characters has he • molded? How many sincere friend# ho has made who lore him in iifw and will mourn ldra when dead. If anybody deserves a monument, if da flit ancoeesful. poiMC-ontious teacher wl»o nas made it his life work And thjs reminds • me that Dick is a lloman Catholic iiivrPd is rrlj 1 " good friend Randall* who wrote “My Mary laud.” that thrilling war lyric that Oliver Wen* dell Holmes said was the bust poem produced on cither side during the late war. But the Ataerican Protective Association will retire them to pover-y if they can. And Father Ryan, who wrote the “Conquered Banner}* was a Ro man Catholic pi'/cat. Miss Rather ford Hays of him: “He was honored by Trot* stunts—lovod by n itivo Americans and outside i f race and l ived was reap-cted by all for his true man hood.”, , Tho American Protective Association cannot harm Mm now. When the chaplain of tho state 1 rlson fled from the pestilence In 18*14, Father Ryan took his place and minlliterod day ami night to the suiTerlng. This book of Mins Rutherford'# is a treawro in the house. It deals kindly and truthfully with the bring nnd,the dead, Not even Geo. W. (‘able nor Mrs. Stowe can justly complain of her gentle criticisms. Her galaxy of south ern writers cannot be found so extensive and so starry in nfty other book. She says truth fully that prior to the late war there wer • as many gifted,'writers at, tho south os at the not tii. bnt tltefte were no publishing houses for books and bnt few literary inagaßmesto encour uge talent. Diit the south has always excelled hvscholarship, in statesmanship, rn oratory. sFor dead poets did not live long enough to write many books, but the quality of their po enm was unsurpassed save by throe or four northern writers. Loid Byron declared tlfat “My Life is Like a Hummer Rose*’ ffia finest poem of tho century. We owe it. to JolXn Forsyth that this poem was iver pttblifjj'^fa Viet-r Huso said that Hoe was the pi’ of American liloralr.ro. What !I\vn:’ r | rod and I.aider and ih.au would I'lV—.,l",’ I had they lived to th. allotted I siunii-e from th,i» Tli’ft*. of i nine have l eeea him in the / wdcentl]! “Brushing the tlow from off the up* ' or skirting tho glade# around Atlier *)*’«*n of flower#. What a shttgglinp ftr Jgf 1 vi»d and how pitifully poor he Rutherford's book in instructive, , of No and refining. It should h»ln«r&, (ls am) ; ready book of reference. Mont aro to * poor lo afford encyclodeti wore not, w i Would not find any *. . . north that is foi'hful to Honthooi ’ -R’Ksor publisher# may bo ever >yy kindly ilikvjjMjd jiUMbßiium may ou i ioi iyu iwumj' mispv/oxgu Itlit iJicy do not Know u*. Home of tliem 1 kiio.» | who would ] tit you iu if you will pay for your picture, say *SO, utid in Botno of them ponderous vt-lumas scores arc omitted who could not pay and hundreds inserted who could and did aud whoso names will go down to posterity “Unwept, uuhonored and unknown.** Tho south has not many friends anywhere, ami it becomes us to treasure those wo hare. It is uuuziuK how wo survive tho slanders of our foes and prosper under oppression. i have a son and a son-in-law in England who were called th re ou business, and now they Hro kept hot iu defending the south flora thu Ida Wells slander.-*- They feel like they are hold responsible and are under the ban of public opinion. The Euglish people are shamefully ignorant of our manner! aud cus toms aud uro as full of prejudices as bur north ern friends were before the war- At a dining one evening a lad of ten years asked my son it he had any boys in America. “Yos.” said he, T have four.” “Are they black?” said the boy. A negro is a rare sight in London, and bonce there is no colored line either in cars nor hotels nor churches and the English people cannot understand why then should beany distinction here. Negro men intermarry with white servant girls over there and nothing is said or thought about it, but white mon do pot marry negro girls. But it is impossible for any of the Anglo-Saxon people to understand the social situation until they are brought face to * face with it. Take a quiet, unpretending vil*l j lage of 3,0U0 inhabitants up north and sudden-l i ly pour into it 1,000 or 1,500 n grocs and see 1 bow soon they would draw the color line. They won't eveu stand a small percentage of Chinese j —a people who com rail no outrages and are in dustrion* aud cleanly in their habits. It look* like | our English neighbors ate hunting forexotus*! I to belittle aud abuse our nation and our govern ! incut. My sou encloses me a chapter from a j lute iiwue of The London Echo, and it reads aa 1 bad as some of the utterances of Herr Most j and other anarchists. “Thu signs of tin times indicate that before the atm rises on the Ist of January, 1900, the j great American nation will groan and writhe ! in an agony of revolution ami the Greets of all 1 her great cities will l>o slippery with blood—a hundred drops of blood for oaoh gem that j flushes on the necks of rich and parpered wo men and ten drops of blood for each tear that has washed tho faces of the poor. It the north every election is carried by boodle; in the south 0 every election is carried by buckshot* ijWtKVf sad that?) Politics is so rotten that it stinks. Everybody knows it and nobody cares. America is no longer a republic. It is a plutooi»3/« The president is merely tho creation of bank dTio ors, railroad kings and j coal barons, and it in tho same with tho gov | ernora or the st itea. The poor whine about lb ir poverty and gnaw-their crusts of bread, I.at can always be counted on to vote for the rich, ami idoe-tenths of them would shoulder their muskets and laydown their lives iu de fense of the right of the rich to rob them. A nation *uoh as this, in which one million plu tocrats tyrannize over sixty millions slaves will bo oi tln*r overthrown bv a foreign foe or drowned in its own blood or dio of gangrene. The various labor organizations neither think together, vote together nor work together, and they have no money to 1 uy votes, law makers mi 1 judge*. Soldiers and police shoot down laboring people and are cheered on in their bloodv work by raononolista and editors and tho clergy. But the day will soon come when there will be a horrible dauce of death lighted up by burning hpuacs an 1 to the music of cries and groans and dynamite bombs. Uicli idlers am iso themselves at Newport and luxedo; poor workers toil ceaselessly in tho darkness of the mine and tho din of the mill. Young men and women dawdle over icoif champagne and oyster patties; old men *mi women pick rotten food out of garbtge cans. Lap dots «r® driven through Central park to take the a-T; children die «f overwork in, llithy gauot« Piety m the white house enj >ying the fruits of bribery —infidelity in tip tenement house enduring the punishment of nprigbtnea*. These are the signs of the times in America today—aigiH that point to calamities too dreadful to imagine, but which nothing can avert.” No ai d the accuyaed fiend who wrote all that dees not want i* averted. He is feeding his readers ou vt-noa) and malice and hate because it ~f ty s. May tho good Lord deliver ns from all such citizen*. Such stuff as that ought not to be allowed to be printed in a civilized coun try that wo are at peace with. But maybe it will scare their pauper* and vagrants so bad they will quit coming. Maybe so.— Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. Alabama’s Official Vote. A Montgomery epeciel says: Official returns from all but three small coun ties in Alabama gives the total vote for Oates and the democratic ticket at 106,292, and for Kolb and the popu lists 80,378. The three remaining couuties will add about 3,000 to the vote and leave the democratic majority in the neighborhood of 26,00 Q(