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About The Oconee enterprise. (Watkinsville, Oconee County, Ga.) 1887-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1889)
The Oconee Enterprise. VOLUME III. Under the sceptre of tho Czar of Rus¬ sia live thirty-eight different nationalities, each speaking its own language, which is -Ic 2 “ign to all others. ’S ■ According to tho Prairie Farmer * ’the Farmers’ Alliance is actively at work in tho West and South fighting obnoxious trusts and other monopolies." : ‘Flm New York Herald states that < < race nud religious prejudices are making po¬ litical conditions in Canada that appear to threaten the disruption or the Domin¬ ion.” The Chilian Government has engaged many railway engineers from this coun¬ try for the building of its new roads— some 2500 miles in- length—from coast cities to the interior parts. A project is being considered for add¬ ing 250,000 acres to the irrigated area in Egypt, the water being taken from a point so high up on the Nile that the canals shall never run dry. The Prince of Thurn and Taxis has taken his place among the comparatively limited number of royal patentees - . This enterprising potentate has invented ycl another method of making paper. Miss E. A. Southworth, who has been made assistant mycologist at Washington, is said to be the first woman to receive ar appointment to a scientific post at Wash ington. Her specialty is fungoid growths. . ____ York As a New World correspondent, looking from the vantage ground of the T Isthmus of Panama itself, sums it up that 20,000 lives and $200,000,000 have been thrown away on the grand DeLes seps fiasco. Jerusalem seems now to be a rapidly growing city. This is due to the great number of Jews who are flocking there yearly. They now - number 30,000 more than the Moslem and Christian population combined. The reduction of the death rate for England and Wales from 20.5 to 18.8, has been effected between 1881 and 1887 by tho progress of sanitary science, means a saviug per annum of $38,175, 000. This, it seems, is the money worth of that amount of human life, at an aver age value of $795 per life. The year 1889 is the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the penny post in England. It was in 1839 that a coru mitteo of the House of Commons reported favorably upon Sir Rowland Hill’s scheme for the establishment of cheap postage. The bill received a majority of 100 votes and became a law on August 17, 1839 . The death of Mrs. Hayes leaves but five women living whose husbands wero at any time Presidents of the United States. These are Mrs. Tyler,Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs. Cleve¬ land. There arc two other women still alive who also acted as mistresses of the Presidential mansion—Mrs. Harriot Lane Johnson and Mrs. McElroy. fh - The English company who are work¬ ing the Nacoocheo mine in Georgia took out the other day a nugget of gold weigh¬ ing 1300 pennyweights, and valued at $2500. Not long ago they took one nug get-that weighed thirty pennyweights, and another of 507 pennyweights. Such finds as these, muses the New York Sun , are calculated to make a fellow feel rich streaks run up and down his back. The determination of the Argentine Government to withdraw its fractional paper currency from circulation and to replace it with an equal amount of coin will open the way, announces the New York Mail and Express, for the resump¬ tion of specie payments, and thus do much to relievo the fevered and un¬ healthy condition of financial affairs in the chief nud most rapidly growing re¬ public of South America. The Oriental Congress which is to take place in Stockholm, in September, willJbe of unusual interest. Five hundred foreign* menrbcTX have announced their intention to take part iu the proceedings. Deputa¬ tions, single members from Persia, Arabia, India, Egypt, Japan, China, etc., will at¬ tend, and many renowned savants of the (ar East are expected. King Oscar is honorary President. Several fetes will bo given in honor of the strangers. The German Empire does not pay its high employes on an exfravigant scale. Prince Bismarck receives $13,500 a year and a residence. Tho Foreign Secretary gets $12,500 including free quarters. The State Secretary $9000 including free quarters. Tho State Secretary of the Imperial Court of Justice, $6000, and n house. Tho State Secretary of tho Im¬ perial Treasury, $5000 ami a house. The State Postmaster-General, $6000 and n house. Tho Minister of War, $9000 with a house, fuel and rations for night -torses, and tho Chief of tho Admiralty «•«'«.*» - GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS,, NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STabCBS, FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. Snow storms and rains prevail through¬ out Switzerland. Mountain passes are partly blocked. Abraham Finkbone, a prisoner in Read¬ ing, Pa., jail, committed suicide Thurs¬ day by liauging himself in his cell, day Bethlehem, issued Pa., iron company Thurs¬ a notice of an increase in wages of puddlers from $3.25 to $3.80 per day. Twenty-seven storekeepers and gaugers were appointed Wednesday to take tho places of democrats in California and Kentucky. A machine gun exploded on board the France, training frigate Courens, at Hyeres, killed Wednesday. Eight persons were and seventeen injured. Andrew C. Drumm, who has full charge of the cattle commission business of A. A- Drumm & Co., of Kansas City, has disappeared and $15,000 with him. The Peter Schoenhafen Browing com¬ pany, of Chicago, has been incorporated with a capital of $3,000,000—one-half taken in Chicago; tho other half in Lon¬ don. Eight thousand bunches of overripe bananas were seized by the Now York board of health Thursday. Tbe fruit was on the steamer Alps, of the Italy line. Eleven houses were burned at Fenn ville, Mich., Wednesday night, involving a loSs of $35,000. A tramp caused the conflagration, jniledi and ho was arrested and t ull According to tho latest statistics care ffon^-A’Jrt'u^Pa.,. y compiled by the board of injury, at Wednesday, tho num her of lives lost in the devastated district wag about six tbou9ttnd . the The postoffice department has received Milwaukee, resignation of Postmaster administration Paul, of whose of of¬ fice was recently severely criticised by the civil service commission. Three young ladies—Misses Flanagan, McCabe and Farrell ? were drowned Tues¬ day night while trying to cross Menomi¬ nee river at Ishpening, Michigan. Their bodies have not been recovered. Ex-Treasurer Henry F. Royce, late ol the Wiilimantic Savings institute, w« arrested Thursday in Wiilimantic, Conn., $15,000 on a new charge of embezzlement ol from the institute and making false entries. W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers, doing business at 244 Purchase street, Boston,have failed. Liabilities $225,000. The cause of the failure is the general condition of the leather business for tho past three years. John. Hroneli, one of the Chicago an¬ archists confined at the prison, made a desperate Wednesday. attempt During to commit suicide working hours he severed the arteries in his arm with a saddle knife. Twenty thousand dollars was paid out by Treasurer Thompson, at Johnstown, Pa., from 12 o’clock till 4 on Friday. Work is in shape to be pushed right along now, and the money will soon be in the hands of the people. Acting Secretary Batchelor has issued an order suspending payment on all bills against the Treasury Department for tel¬ egraphing during the current fiscal year on account of the question of fixing rates not beiug settled. The New York Herald says the cotton crop of Texas is worth $84,000,000, and that reports of the corn, cottou aud wheat crops have been underestimated. Such cotton was never seen, and wheat and oats are up to the average. Twin children,belonging to the wife of one of the lockedout mini r , died at Spring Valley, Ill., Tuesday moniiug.and physi¬ cians who attendod them, pronouuccd it a clear case of starvation. Tho mother had but little food in tho house, and was unable to provide sufficient nourishment for them. Beginning August 5th, and lasting to August 13th, a great encampment of Knights of Pythias will be held at Spring Fountain Park, Ind. It will be com¬ posed of the entire Indiana brigade of uniform rank, including sixty divisions, and many from Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. Exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $689,437, ol which $163,586 was in gold consigned to South America, nud $525,851 silver con¬ signed to Europe. Imports of specie for the week amounted to $25,218, of which $11,588 was in gold and $13,710 in sil¬ ver. The assessors appointed by Governor Gordon, of Georgia, to estimate the value of the Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Railroad, made their report Friday. The road valued their property at $1,025,003. worth The assessors, however, find it to be $1,809,997, a difference of $184,094 iu favor of the state. Tito grand national monument, in of the pilgrims, was dedicated at 1'lymoiith, Mass., on Thursday. The Sons and Daughters of Plymouth were there in great numbers, also visitors from far and near. Tho dedicatory exercises were carried out by tho Masonic grand lodge, according to tho ritual of their order, and wero very interesting. A committee, consisting of William Onahau, of Chicago, chairman, and Henry J. SpannhoKt, of St, Louis, ami Daniel If. Rudd, of Cincinnati, Wednes¬ day issued a call for a general congress of the Catholic laity of the United States to be hold iu the city of Baltimore No¬ vember lltli and 12th, 1889, to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the estab¬ lishment of the Catholic hierarchy of tho United States. Thu debt .statement i.-isned at Wash¬ ington, D. C., Thursday, shows an in crease of debt during the month of July to be $1,017,311.51; total interest bear¬ ing debt $895,301,886 00; total debt of all kinds $1,010,777,309.01; total debt, less available credit, $1,077,003,032.90; legal tender certificates notes outstanding $340, 081,010; ing of deposit'>utalaud¬ $17,075,000; gold certificates out- WATKINSVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1889. 090.47; total cash In treasury $634,728, 023.44. The ice trust, at Indianapolis, Ind., which, since the beginning of the sea son, has kept prices up to 140 per cent, more than was charged last year, has collapsed. Tho break resulted from an higher. attempt by the trust to force prices still One of the dealers refused to agree to the proposition and withdrew from the compact. He had previously purchased a large supply city, of lake ice, sufficient for the whole he states, and he has reduced prices n early 50 per cent., so that the public will now get the benefit of some desperate rate cutting. A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo., says: On Saturday night, ns the Wabash express boarded pulled out of Harlem, it was manded by two road agonts, who com¬ the passengers, at the muzzle of two revolvers, to “hold up their hands.” One of the men “went through” the pas¬ sengers, his one by one, while the other,with revolver in his extended arm, kept a watchful lookout for signs of opposition. In this way, the plunderer secured all the booty he could in his haste, and the robbers had escaped. The pnssengeis found they had been relieved of $175 in cash and two gold watches. A Chicago dispatch says: A terrible epidemic of bloody flux has appeared at Warsaw. It came on last Monday in a light form and resembled dysentery-, but on phase, Wednesday it assumed a more serious and now fifteen people have died. Four deaths occurred Thursday and four Friday, dren. the victims being mostly chil¬ Cue hundred and eighty cases are ror-stricken now reported. The people are ter¬ and do not know what to make of the scourge. The disease has also appeared at Hamilton, and it is said to exist in epidemic form at Canton and Yalioka, Mo. THEY WANT ALL OF THEM. ENGLISH CAPITALISTS SEEKING TO BUY OUT AMERICAN COTTON INDUSTRIES. A letter, mailed in New York Satur¬ day, addressed to the president and board of directors of every cotton mill in Fall River, Mass, says: “Gentlemen: It is our desire to secure control of the entire cotton River and manufacturing elsewhere, and property in Fall we address you for the purpose of obtaining your views as to the probability of your share¬ holders, or a majority, being willing to sell or poll their stock on a basis of mu¬ tual advantage. We are pleased to in¬ form you that tho Central Trust Com¬ pany of New York, has consented to act as trustee in behalf of both parties. Should the matter meet with your favor able consideration, we will confer with you personally in regard to details. Very respectfully, George F. Mellen, Emerson C. McMillan, H. B. Wilson, Committee.” The syndicate, which has been formed, represents principally foreign capital, and that already the amount subscribed is more than sufficient to buy the cotton industry of Americs. ’Ibis is reaily what is aimed at, aud the operations will not. be confined to Fall River, but extend to Lowell, Lawrence, New Bedford, and tho best mills in tho country. The Fall River mills have a capital exceeding $20,000,000, and an investment probably of $30,000,000 or more. Just how the negotiations will be instituted will in¬ terest outsiders, as these mills are owned by thousands of stockholders. The di¬ rectors have power to sell the mills, and, beyond a few hundred shares probably, little stock could be bought at anything like the prevailing prices. SEALING SCHOONER SEIZED. A BRITISH SEALING SCHOONER CAPTURED BY AMERICANS. A dispatch from San Francisco says: The steamer Dora arrived from Behring sea detailed Monday night aud brought the first news of tho capture of ;lie British Sealer, Black Diamond, by the United States revenue cutter, Richard Rush, on July 11th. The Rush over¬ took the Black Diamond and ordered her to heave to. The captain of Black Diamond refused to do this. Thereupon the commander of the Rush ordered the lowering of the ports and the running out of guns, which caused the schooner to heave to. Captain Shepard and Lieutenant Tuttle boarded’the English craft and asked for her pa] e s. The offi¬ cers of the Black Diamond offered no armed resistance, but refused to deliver tho ship’s papers. Captain Shepard at onco broke open the cabin and forced the hinges of the strong box and the captain’s chest, thereby securing the pa¬ pers. A search of the vessel disclosed 103 seal sk,ins which had been taken in Behring sea. Captain Shepard placed non-Commi6sioned officer Rush in charge of the Black Diamond and ordered tho vessel to be taken to Sitka to await further instructions. SOUTH CAROLINA FRUITS. A WONDERFUL PLENTY—PEACHES FIF¬ TEEN CENTS A URATE, ETC. The abundance of fruit this year seems to be general throughout the whole state of South Carolina. In Columbia fruit is actually a “glut” on the market. Farmers of bring into that city wagon loads melons for which they are un¬ able to find a market at any price. Can¬ taloupes of tho finest quality sell for a song; the nutmeg variety is sold at fif¬ teen or twenty cents a dozen. One ol the fruit commission merchants had a a number of crates of peaches in front of his store marked "fifteen cents a crate;” they were fresh and of good quality. Country watermelons sell for five or ten cents. In fact there is a superabundance of all kinds of fruits. A COTTON TRUST. SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS APPROACHED BT AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE. A format proposition has been made to many syndicate leading Southern cotton mills by a of English and Eastern capital¬ ists view for of the purchase of their plants »th a tral combining in interests in one cen¬ trust company, Aho same manner that cotton seed oil nrflls have heretofore combined. in tho hands Tho oLifarions letters of proposal mill are now owners in Columbus, Ga^s No steps have been taken, l knowing the fiT - SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IS GOING ON OP IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The fire in Pratt mines, Ala., which bad been burning six days, was extin¬ guished Saturday. Gen. J. R. Lewis, the newly appointed of postmaster the at Atlanta, Ga., took charge office Thursday. W. H. lleywaTd, one of the richest and times, most prominent rice planters of the olden died at Charleston, 8. C., Tues¬ day, aged seventy-two years. The first lot of “anti-trust” cotton bagging in for the season was received quite Voldosta, Ga., Saturday. It attracted a crowd to inspect this new cover¬ ing which the Farmers’ Alliance has re¬ solved to use. The largest gathering of farmers seen in Charlotte, N. C., in many years, greeted Harry Tracy, the alliance lectur¬ er fair Wednesday. Mr. Tracy spoke at the least grounds, and it is estimated that at 2,500 farmers heard him. Much enthusiasm was manifested. Saturday night, at Raleigh, N. C., Theodore Couusil, a young man wh( poisoned his wife with “rough on rats,’ was captured in the woods near Wii liamstown, Martin county, A largt number of men had pursued him evei since the verdict of the coroner’s jury had fixed the murder upon him. ne is in jail and is endeavoring to appear in¬ sane. His friends claim that he is crazy. A storm broke over Richmond, Va., on Thursday night, during which the city railway city limits stables, in located End, just without the West were struck by lightning. spread The building took fire, the flames rapidly, and before aid ar riyed the entire structure was consumec and sixty mules and horses were burned up. Seven street cars were also de stroyed. The loss is estimated at $24, 000; insurance $40,500, all in foreigr companies. A fierce quarrel broke out betweer the Smiths and Slushers, near Pineville, Ky., over a hog worth $2. Smith's home was attacked Saturday last by tht Slushers and a volley poured into the bouse which put holes through the dooi and broke several windows. Smith re¬ taliated by putting a guard, armed with Winchesters, on the Slushers’ road tq Flat Lick, the nearest village. Both sides are now well armed and are watch¬ ing for each other. ‘ - At a house on East Lanvale street, Baltimore, Md., a few sharp words and a hasty u-e of a revolver and an appa¬ rently happy young dead, couple, husband and wife, were lying each shot directly through the heart. The house was broken in and there stretched upon the floor were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Dolan. As there were powder marks on the man’s shirt and as the pistol was near his body, he is supposed to have done the shooting. The belief is becoming very general throughout North Carolina that Gover¬ nor Fowle will request Dr. Grissom to resign the superin tendency of the asylum at Raleigh. officially The governor has no power to act in the matter, but it is plain that tho asylum’s usefulness is at an end if Grissom does not resign, and the people expect the the governor to make the request in name of the people of the state, and for the good of the insti¬ tution. Martha Yorit, an old woman, was on Tuesday placed charged in jail in Randolph county, N. C., with murdering her grandchild, a boy eleven years old. While delirious the child said repeatedly that his grandma mother had beaten him to death. The child’s testified that its grand¬ ma was the murderer. There had leei; a quarrel in the family, aud it is said tin old switches woman whipped the boy with hick¬ ory until she fainted from ex haustion. The affair is creating excite¬ ment among the citizens. A dispatch from Tuscaloosa, Ala., re¬ ports the mysterious death at noon Mon¬ day of Arthur Fitts, superintendent ol the Tuscaloosa cotton mills, nud son ol J. Fitts, a prominent banker. lie was seen last walking back and forth on the grounds of the mills, and finally disap¬ peared under an old building. A pistol shot was heard, and an employe found Fitts lying on ihe ground with au ugly wound behind his right ear, and the pis¬ tol with one chamber empty at his feet. There is nettling to determine wRetherit is a case of suicide or murder. A collision occurred on the Virginia Midland Railroad Sunday morning at Burley’s, Va., fourteen miles north ol Charlottesville, between two freight trains. Fireman Ford A. Fox, of the southbound train, was killed Instantly, aud Engineer Charles Davis, of the northbound freight, seriously the injured. Engineer Ernest Hayes, of south bound Donald, freight, missing, and Brakeman and M, A. Mc¬ be under are the Fireman are supposed to McClain, wreck. Kelly and Brakeman both of Alexandria, are also badly injured. THEY OBJECT. NORTH CAROLINIANS DON’T LIKE TOO MUCH INDI AN AMONGST TUKM. The people living in the territory oc¬ cupied Indians by the eastern baud of Cherokee which live in Jackson, Macon, Graham and Cherokee counties, North Carolina, tiro greatly excited over the announcement that Geronimo ami his band of Indians are to bt' located on a reservation in Swain county. Tho Cherokee, oppose the plan, and tho sen¬ timent of the white settlers is strongly opposed to it. The people realize that the government has this baud on its hands and must do something with it, aud these Indians are now, and will bo in the future 1 , treated as prisoners of war, with an armed military guard over them. In that cast- they can’t see the need for quite Vr so much land. There are 425 of band, 75 beiug children of school ‘go. From 6,000 to 10,000 acres of laud looks like a pretty big allotment, the peo pie sny^ It is J .....-unfortiVfttcthmy (hr the ports U rhv 7 for -^ iau RUSHING WATERS. GREAT FRESHET IS VIRGINIA— HOUSES AND STREETS FLOOD ED—UNTOLD DAMAGE. Keports river from Richmond, Yu., gay that the James is seventeen feet above the ordinary low watermark, and rising four inches per hour. The wharves at Rocketts are all under water and adja cent streets, houses and cellars and the gas works are inundated. A number of business houses had to suspend trade and move their effects in consequence of Schoekoc creek backing up water from the river and overflowing their premises, Indications point to a freshet equal to the greatest for years. Reports through out the state, though meagre, lead to the belief that ail the streams are swollen, At Fredericksburg the lower portion of the city is submerged from high water in the Rappahanock, and merchants aBd citizens are moving their effects to places of safety, At Danville, Thursday morning, there was more water in Dan river than was ever known before. Factories and small dwellings ed, and the on the river be banks were flood loss will about $ to, 000, exclusive of the damage to the railroad.-. Travel on the Danville and New River road is suspended. Two bridges and one long trestle have been carried away, and the wires are all down. Cars on the Atlantic and Danville track are complete ly submerged and hidden from view. are out of their banks. Much damage has been done. The rainy spell which has teen almost continuous in that loc:.l ity for over two months, has destroyed much of the hay crop, and wheat is now sprouting in tbe shocks. The outlook is g.oomy for farmers. Reports from Pail adelphia say: Waters in the Schuylkill nver Thursday attained the highest point reached in this city for twenty years, in volvingdestruction $10,000 $20,000. to property Park estimated drives at from to were submerged, the boathouses the flooded, river and some of streets near backs were under water to the depth of be tween .four and five feet, doing consid erable damage. TROUBLE IN M’RAE, GA. ORE ALAS KILLED ASD TWO OTHERS SE¬ VERELY WOUNDED. th a. d s 1 a °u fier b.ee'hng , 5N»to» .^-;>-Shot l of in r J e $J. e evening man was thPmwtnffie , . !h!t & t™* 8 1:5 tr k tw^ sons r wLthftCl“kTa?bc2Sb^v " t' tl„ l Pi 9 rk t t.Vc-, ^ * r,7fU irp« * aiu C f t ,°^ D * * nd •*' thought the matter was ended. But few sturtied by ,t the P rapid ’ firing ^7 of °“ pistols. e f T fl of ™ falr * prominent citizens dehed , each other with but a few feet of dirt intervening — three Lsn casters, father and two sons on the one side, and t.m three McRaes, Edward. r n . antra the .-the, ? K * W ™^ R hen r °t| iers cloud ap - G ol " ,n on smoke had cleared away it was founu ?f’ M t r b E hJl l d fr MC M ^ 0 3 3 * 4 * ' T W S - W 1 d '^Thi and his son Wright jn the ^SSL ieo 'c — deep f 18 the ” d regret t0 ”' on » every thl. side that this tragedy occurred. A BIG GRAB. THE BOOK-KEEPER OP A BANK GETS RICH VERY SUDDENLY. There was a big sensation in Wheeling, W. Va. f Friday morning,when it became ! known that Harry Seyboid, a very popu- 1 iar young man, individual book-keeper of the bank of Wheeling had been ar rested for embezzling $27,000 from the bank. On the 10th of April, a package containing bank by $27,000 was deposited in the and a placed prominent business man, was in the vault to be counted after business hours, After the bank had closed, the man who had deposited the package went to get it and found it missing. The ab sence of the package was kept quiet for a time, being as it appeared evident that some bolvt employe found had taken it. Harry Sev freely. was Suspicion to be spending money very at once rested on him and he was arrested. He was taken before Justice Arkle and charged with the theft. At first Seyboid denied the an chargo, officer but ha after finally close eonfe-sed examination to have by taken the money. Seyboid has been in the employ of the bank for the past -even years, and lus books have always been found correct at each examination. Ue gave as a reason for taking the pack¬ age that the temptation was too strong. THE CITIZENS ARE MAD. BRUNSWICK INDIGNANT OVER THE EAI.SI-. REPORT OF A YELLOW KEY Bit CASK. Tho Athertiser and Times Ot Brunswick, Ga., both appeared Thursday containing strongly worded editorials condemning Savannah' action in regard to qunrantinc ing Brunswick on account of the fever minors. Further investigation proved wild that false rumors weie started by a drummer w ho left lu re some days ago, and without any regard to truth circula¬ ted the report that a man named Night¬ ingale bad died of yellow fever. A dispatch from Washington of states that owing lo the prevalence Brunswick, rumors < f suspicious cases of fever at On,, the marine hospital bureau ordered S: nitary Inspector l'osey invtstigatiou. to proceed to ihat following place aud make an Ihe telegram from Dr. Posey, dated at Brunswick, Ga., was received a* the marine hospital bureau Thursday: The cause of tho death of B. Nightingale, which occurred July 24th, wnslumor i* *icuwjualarhd fever, confirmed by au nUiv '".-Mrs V ’’u Dun woody, of ft Bur. cases vet ’ TRADE PROSPECTS. ENCOURAGING REPORTS OP GOOD CROPS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. R- ■ *■ Hun <fc Co.’s review of trade for the week ending August 3d, sayg; “The country ttood begins to feel the stimulus ol crops. New Spring wheat began earlier to arrive than at Chicago last on the first, ten days year. The St. Louis corn corner ha3 no effect, and an abund act departments yield is expected and business in all is gaining. The North western Miller estimates the wheat yield ity, -t 500,000.000 bui-hcis of excellent qual and the mills at Minneapolis are ac t ve with water plenty. St. Paul natu rally reports an improvement in trade, and .Milwaukee also in all branches. At Omaha the assurance of crops above the average makes business excellent. In the iron regions a distinct increase in demand is felt, and orders for one hun dred new locomotives were placed dur ing the week. The eertaintv of large traffic also has its effect upon railroad negotiations, toward which have made progress peace. The volume of trade continues to exceed last year’s, at New York, 12 {ter cent, and outside 12$ per cent., banks. according to clearings through Exports for July, from New York, 14$ per cent. larger than last ve.tr, with import, 5J per cent, larger, and these figures would point to an ex cess of about 11,000,000 imports over prevents better apprehension. decline The prospect is for a of 2J cents in wheat during the week, though corn, oats and cotton for immediate delivery are frac tionally higher. Pork products have all declined a little, and hogs 20 cents per 100 pounds. The speculative move ment in these products has not been large, the sales* of wheat retching 18, 000.000 bushels for the week, of corn 7,000,000 and of cotton 191,000 bales, But coffee is three-quarters stronger, with sales of 326,000 tags. In oil oulv 3,700,009 barrels have been sold, and the price is about one cent lower.” FREEMASONS GO TO LAW. IOWA MASON'S ASK FOR AN INJUNCTION AGAINST THE GRAND LODGE. Action A special from Ctdur Rapids, la., says; was begun Mon iay in the district st Graves and Henry Bonn, ;t, plaintiffs a«l g ran( j officers of the Iowa consistory of that branch of the Scottish rite of Ma ronry, commool temporary r known as the Cereneau, ordtred a A injunction against tLe ™ !od of Iowa Ancient Free and Acceptedr, “training them f the r ' m last putting into effect the legislation ol session of the Grand lodge refer ric t0 Cmneatt bodies and which c m ma “ dtd Mas. ns to leave the con sUt0 ry of L o{ that rite under punish raent of cxpu : s ; OQ . The petition states that as thebo iv represented bv the plain t[& does EOt c 3 nft . r a b;iR lodge decree and the grand lodge or its subordinate lodgtS higher do not confer the twenty-nine -diction degrees, the Errand lod^e its'action has no whatever and is j;j ifof e . r ■ their* r v,,. r . r .- consistories' . • £ individual and Masonic relations an 1 hurtful of their ;1S good and reputable citizens. , ~Th,, srsr hJ*i , !a ,1m. f. i for a perpetual injunction will be during the Oct,,; term of court at Marion. A PHENOMENON, 45 ALABAMA WELL WHICH GOES TI1ROUGH THE PROCESS OP BREA! RING. The Texas and Pacific Company sank a£ »rea well some years ago near Eagle d ‘ at Ala., in order to obtain ar tes i an water. The well was abandoned when it ha I been bored 600 feet, but the tubing is still intact in it. For twelve toars °-‘.'h day a furi us gust of air runhes into the tubing, and toe next twelve hours an equal,y strong gust rus hes out. The well is supposed to Penetrate i’.no some large subterranean cavern which contains a large body of ' vater - This water having connection, hy an underground {a-sage, with ihe or the Pacific Ocean. tu ^ e e ^ s ^owu in this cavern, a \ acu um is underground, which is a ^ lc lUr ru>i j n ^ through this welI< {Uk1 * cemyerseiy, w eo the tide comes U P- iur torwJ out t * lr °uga the , same opeu-g. ______________ THE FLOODS. -- BKID0ES ami railroads destroyed other serious damages. A dispatch from Danville, Va., says: IdofaH in this*seetion.*'V'au river"is'^tp to h Mi water mark, and is still rising, The bridge at Cascade, on the Danvdle aml New River road, has been washed awav, The'Atlantic and abo bridges over Sandy Creek, and Danville track is submerged for several miles, and much damage has been done. Several wash outs tv reported on the Virginia Mid land toad between Danville and Lynch burg, and trains have been stopped. by Tiaius for Hiehmond Washington are running by the At w ;v of and thence Untie Coast Liue. Tho crops of corn and tobacco on the lowlands are flooded and scriously damaged. DISASTER IN OHIO. AT LEAST A DOZEN KILLED BY A RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A pushev,runutng wild,returning Hamilton, from Conncrsville, Ohio, to collided with a passenger tram. The latter wa running at a very high speed. The p'nee is remote from telegraph stations, and definite news is hard to obtaiu. li is known, however, that it was a bad smash-up. Fireman Lee and Baggage m.ister Shields were killed outright. Engineer Dougherty was badly hurt, and a Mr. Brannan, fireman, was severely hurt. It is believed that the numb t of killed wtnHycgnded will tu weat«> twelve NUMBER SUNSHINE LAND They cam* In sight of a lovely shore, Yellow as gold la the morning light; The sun’s own oolor at noon it wore, And it faded not at the fall of night; Clear weather or cloudy, ’twasallasone; The happy hills seemed bathed with the sun; Its secret the sailors could not understand, But they called this country Sunshine Land. What was the secret? A simple thing, 1 will make you smile when once you know Touched by the tender finger of spring, A million blossoms were all aglow; Bo many, so many, so many and bright, They covered the hills with a mantle of light; And the wild bee hummed and the glad breeze fanned, Throngn the honeyed fields of Sunshine Land. U 0Ter the ^ we two were hound, What port,dear child, would we choose for onrs? 5Ve would sail, and sail till at last we found This fairy land of.. million flowers, Yet, darling, we’d find, if at home we stayed, Of many small joys our pleasures are made, More near than we think, very close at hand, Lie the golden fields of Sunshine Land, —Edith M. Thomas. PITH AND POINT. Time is money. Some car conductors ,W* beat time ^“ tlt ' s “ 0 ‘ s0 llard t0 rear-admirals, JVeW iaTk * Vfirs - The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at £ & e same time .—Torre Haute Express. A Pullman porter is not necessarily dishonest because he is in the habit of goin*- 000 through the sleepers.— Neu> Tori Netes. A tailor being asked if the close of the year made him sad said yes. until the clothes of the year are paid for .—Texas S if tin 9 s - “I love you well,’' the stamp exclaimed, “Dear envelope so true; In fact, it’s evident to all That I am stuck on you.” —New York Sun. Sirs. Jones—“Your baby is very small for its age, don’t you think?” Mrs. Brown—“Yes, the poor darling was fed on milk which was condensed—that’s whv the baby is so too.” Clerk—“Mr. Daybook, I would like leave of absence this afternoon to attend the funeral of a cousin.” 3D. ^Daybook Jotat ~ Nets x A St. Louis paper declares that no man who claims to be a gentleman, will re verse his cuffs. We are waiting patient Iv to see larust.-j Chicago will gei oen for this cruel Unneapdis W Tribune. Her, is the reason score. Are made a nuisance wTPwwi nh Folks Handel it as though it was :' A wood-pfie they ~£>»t«delphta.State. were Chopm ned . „ anxious,despairing ^ble-“What „ . look an awfully Mrs. Good- wor > ^ *“•** Mrs. Dabble—“Yes, I guess she ' s stopped doing her girl.’*—New own work York and S one lo keeping a Of the size of her hand you may judge by her glove; For ^ there is needed no art: ** ^ aevet ^ ^ depthof th9 Of a maid by t£e sighs of her heart, “Well, sir, what are your fc? prospects? gSVSh ? ?’m i 1 * *° ** father '“- laW ’ ~ T ' me , - Heaviest Corpse on Earth. Elmira, N. Y., recently had one of the heaviest corpses ever heard of in that of John L. Lawes, who carried 640 pounds of human flesh over to the majority. Mr. Lawes was a very fat man. Lawes was forty years of age. It is only within the past three years that ho has acquired this mountain of flesh. Ho used be blacksmith, ... and , slight, .. , . to a was a delicate thing of two or three hundred pounds. Then he began to gam from five to ten pounds every week, until he had progressed to a dime museum magnitude, His appetite increased with his avoirdu p 0 is. Two or three pounds of beefsteak was the merest “snack” to him. Toward the cnd 0 f his life he spent most of his time eating. jj e g 0t so f a ^ that of late he could neither lie down nor walk., and he re* quired COQSt ant attendance tender the circumstances it would seem ^ {f j eat ii must have been a relief, the hu3e man was c f the happiest, beg( . natured disposition in the world. He positively enjoyed showing his iin rnense proportions to adminug beholders. _ New York World. - Americans Becoming Dark-haired and Bine-eyed. «• Topiuard has been making a.statist tical inqtury into the colors of the eyes »wl h«ir i» France, and from his 180, 000 observations he deduces many mter esting results, one of the most curious being that where the race is formed from a mixture of blondes ami brunettes the hereditary bloude color comes out in tho eyes, and the brunette element reappears in the hair. To this tendency probably j s to lie attributed the rarity of a combi nation of light hair with dark eyes. 6ev era { observers have asserted that the American people, who are pre-eminently ,, mixed race, are becoming a dark haired and blue-eyed nation, and if this be true such a development must he ow¬ ing to the working of the law formulated by M. Topinard. Seeing Under Water. A leas for seeing when under water iit described by its discoverer as producing an effect which ja both astonishing and delightful. It gives distinct vimmi of objects twentvvor offended thirty feet off, the eye’s loss sight when under water being lieause V an entirely different focus is p The spectacles which provid wa’ ‘ .. \ v I , P ’ s t t ■ 1 I. '
