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The Rockdale Banner
VOL. XI.
»nie public speaking during a Presi
tfeDtial campa gn costs about a millioa
dollars.
The Balloon Society of London have
given Professor Ealdwin their approval,
stating that his parachute wdl be useful
•for war balloons. a
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Great Britain is becoming more of a
money leading than a shop keeping na
fion. They are building fewer shop3 but
are making more money bags.
lie fastest train services in the world
are in the United States. Next comes
England, next France, next Germany.
After that it is a scramble, with no
choice.
_
The six Kentucky counties of Harlan,
Knott, Bell, Leslie, Lucy and Fietchet
have no c v jarc h within their limits, yet
the S^te gives each year many thousand
dollars to foreign missions.
The South has gained 18,000 miles ot
railroad track within eight years, at a
cost of $750,000,000. The increase of
the crops, iron and other products of
that section has been in equal propor¬
.
tion.
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l.e-s than fifty years ago there was not
a photographic camera in the world; to¬
day there are 15,000 photographic es¬
tablishments, to say nothing of the
thousands of amateur outfits, in the
United States.
The Provincial Bank, of Buenos Ayres,
South America has a capital of $13,
000,000 and $17,000,000 cf deposits. It
does more business than any American
bank and more, even, than the Imperial
Bank of Germany.
The average price pa'd the average
Iowa “schoolmam” by the year is
$212.45. Presuming that her board and
washing costs her about $3 per week and
her clothing and incidentals $53 more,
she will then have a surplus of $0.45 to
huiid up a bank account, which in twen
years of hard work would amount to t,
little more than $120.
The French police have received in
stru tons to discover the authors of an
ingenious political trick, which consists
•of defacing the coins of Napoleon III.
and substituting the name of B ulangci
I., Empereur, with the elate 1888. Sc
far the substitution has been confined to
ten centime pieces, and has been treated
as a political joke.
Mormonism is spreading. The tribe
at Sa t Lake may be disintegrating, but
enly for the benefit of other localities,
flour hundred Mormon fam l ies Lave
^recently settled in Wyoming. Thou¬
sands of Mormons have settled in Idaho.
There are large Mormon colonies in Ari¬
zona and Colorado. Nevada is so over¬
run with them that it has been declared
the Mormons couid soon secure control
t>f the state if they should make a vigor¬
ous efi'ort.
That foreign claim of a torpedo vessel
jlhat can run for hours under water is not
a sound one, asseits the Cincinnati En
yuirer. It is simply a reproduction of a
bte American Experiment in the boat
'Called the ea emaker.” The scheme
’will never be a complete success until a
motor is discovered that needs no fire
»arl makes no smoke. Compressed air
used by the “Peacemaker,” but so
•idle of that can be carried that the
Wmpa gn must be very brief. Perhaps
some day some one will be able to so
, it°re' electricity at to solve the
'problem.
The owner of some hom'ng pigeons
fit Hamtn, in Holland, bet th.it on a fine
a y twelve of his bees would beat a like
■number of carrier pigeons in making
e Stance tone houD between Hamm
find the town of Ehynern. Twelve
P'geons and twelve bees (four drones
*fid eight working bees, all powdered
.^ith fiaulianeously iiour) were taken to Kbynern and
set free. A white drone
home four seconds in advance of
e t -rs t pigeon; tbe remaining three
r3 “ es an d the recond pigeon arrived to
er, and the eight working bees pre¬
setted the ten pigeons by a length.
letter has been received at the
enerai Land Office in Washington from
- e ci'ka, whether Chinaman who has
a
ea u ihis country twelve and
years,
’ Ciare d his intention of becomings
... lz
en, can make au original homestead
^ *7’ answer ha3 been prepared
ln g f fiat under section 2i09 of the
. btd Statutes, a Chinaman not
can
come a citizen, and therefore the
!® tr y m question can not be made. It
18 Mated at tne Land
Pficatio Office that an ap
B ’ has been published, has
teei receded from Chinaman in
W a
31r ^' t0 ma * £e timber culture
.«otr a
li*",? 4 avocation J at , has no been dccisiM made. favoring
CONYERS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1888.
SOUTHERN STRAYS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN¬
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
UOVEMEKTS OF ALLIANCE MEN—RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES—THE COTTON CROP
-FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
Near Jasper, H. M. L. Strickland, a
white brakeman on the Sheffield & Bir¬
mingham Railroad, fell from the top of a
his moving train and tivelve cars passed over
body, crushing it into a shapeless
mass of flesh. Strickland was formerly
marshal of Sheffield.
The Memphis & Charleston and the
Louisville & Nashville Railroads are pre¬
paring to locate extensive yards and build
shops at Sheffield. The Memphis &
Charleston owns sixty acres of land at
Sheffield, which will be occupied by
tracks and sheds. Fully fifteen miles of
track will be laid in tho
The color-blind law which the state
put in force, requiring an examination for
defects of vision by ali railway employes
in that state, had just been declared
constitutional by the United States su¬
preme has been court. urged A great objection which
fact that against this law is tire
the cost of the examinations
forded was considerable, and could be ill af¬
by many of the railroad employes.
The newspapers of the state are working
to secure a reduction of the examination
fees.
FLORIDA.
The United States government has es¬
tablished a baggage fumigation station
at LaVi la junction, near Jacksonville,
under charge of Dr. Julius Wise of the
Marine Hospital service.
Surgeon General Hamilton has written
o Governor Perry, ot Florida, suggest¬
ing the enac'ment of a law by the leg
slatnre for the establishment of a st.ite
noard of heilthand auxiliary boards in
each of the count Us, for the Letter smi
t ry protection of the state
GEORGIA.
While Joseph Whitaker, colorrd, ol
Blackshear, was absent from his home,
his house can slit fire and his four small
children were burned to dcith.
T. S. Foster, of West End, near At-
1 rata, was awakened by burglars on
Thursday, and not receiving a satisfac¬
tory that?’’ answer to the inquiry, “Who is
fired in tbe direction of the noise.
At the sume moment he received a shot
in one of his hips, and will probably die.
W. T. McEnry and E. Jones, both
of Waynesboro, a'tempted to pass
through Augusta to the famous Sandbar
ferry dueling grounds in South Carolina,
to settle a buriness dispute on the field of
honor. Jones reached the spot, selected
the place and waited until night for his
opponent. McEnry was arrested by aD
Augusta policeman, and the meeting was
prevented.
Dr. James 8. Hamilton, of Athens,
died of pneumonia alter a short illness
of one week. He had been in very fee¬
ble health for the last year, and taking a
-evere cold hastened his death. Dr.
Hamilton was one of Athens oldest citi
zei s, and during his life bad amassed
quite a fortune. He was at the time of
his death president of the Princton Fac¬
tory Com any.
NORTH CAROLINA.
W. J. Yates, editor of the Home Dem¬
ocrat for thirty-seven years, died sudden¬
ly at Charlotte, on Thursday.
The fibre factory of the Acme Manufac¬
turing Company, at Wilmington, mill was
burned. The spinning and weaving
and fertilizer factory were saved.
New forgeries were on Thursday
brought to light, in looking over the pa¬
pers of the State National bank, of Ral¬
eigh. They are of the signature of lady, Mrs.
Thomas E. Skinner, a wealthy
and ure attached to drafts on Lorillard
& Co., of New York.
An imposing granite in Raleigh, monument the at
Oakwood cemetery, to
m< mory of tne late Capt. Randolph A.
Sjjotwel!, will be unveiled soon. Sena¬
tor Vance will deliver the memorial
address. Capt. Shotwell was, in 1870,
sent to Albany penitentiary by Judge
Hugh L. Bond,. on charge of kukiuxing
in North Carolina.
State Secretary Polk announces that
tbe time of tbe meeting of the National
Alliance is charged from January 16 to
December 5, at Meridian, Miss. Dele¬
gates were appointed to represent tho
state alliance as follows: S. P. Alexan¬
der, of Mecklenburg; L. L. Polk, Ra¬
leigh; D. M. Pajne, of Robeson; J. C.
Beaman, of Sampson, and Elias Carr, of
Edgecomb.
Ail the prisoners in jail at Troy, Mont¬ by
gomery county, made their escape
cutting through the wall. There were
nine prisoners. Some of them had been
very carelessly put in a room used in old
times for the confinement of debtors.
They cut through the wooden walls of
this, and released the other prisoners. It
appears there was also great carelessness
in pursuing the prisoners after discovery
Of their escape.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
There is a remarkable activity in the
Charleston rice market. Despite the
present activity in rice, the bulk of the
crop has yet to be marketed. The crop
is unusual y late this Beeson, owing to
the freshets, and many of the planters
are holding their rice until it is thor¬
oughly dried.
TEXAS.
The Pena and Rio Grande stage was
robbed near Pena. The robber was a
thick short man. Sergeant Fulmer and
Wi liam G. Wyant, of the United States
army, were among the passengers, as also
Fred W. Fruitt of Langles’ New Orleans.
ARKANSAS.
An East bound passenger train of tbe
Iron Mountain Rnilioad was held up by
train robbers on Sunday two mil s west
of Newport. The passengers were rob¬
bed of about $200.
LOUISIANA.
The New Orleans police closed up
all the keno rooms and arr.sted the pro
pr etors. Faro dealers were not molest
ed.
MISSISSIPPI.
The steamer Phil Armour sank at Wil
ton’s landing, a ihort distance above
Vicksburg. She was engaged in the
Vicksburg and Greenville trade.
TENNKSSEH.
State fell on a German miner, name
unknown, in a mine at Jellico crushing
him to death.
Julius Ochs, tbe treasurer of the Times
chronic Printing Co., died at Chattanooga of
bronchitis. He was 03 years old.
Charles Emory was killed by a train
on east the incorporation East Tennessee line in Road, Chattanooga, near the |
i
He was standing in the middle of the
track as the Lain approached and re
fused to heed the signal of the engineer,
The absence from Knoxville of Ex
Trustee Swan of Knox county, and the
deficit of nearly $25,000 in his accounts,
cominues the sensation. Thote is noth
ing known of fiis whereabouts, although
his fr.ends claim that he will return and
fix everything up.
A lawsuit is to be filed to recover the
land on which the shops of the Alabama
Great Southern Railroad stand in Chat
tanooga. This property was donated to
the railroad on condition that the shops
oi’ said company would be built and
used by the corporation, but the main
shops having been L cated in Binning
ham, the Whiteside i state will seek t>
recover the land, which is now very val
uable.
The East Tennessee, Virginia & Geor
uia company has L a-ed the Knoxville &
Ohio Rr.lroad, which is sixty miles long
and runs from Knoxville iioith to Jellico,
on the Kei tucky border, where it con¬
nects wiih the Loui-viile & Nashville for
Lou sviile and tiie Northwest. The East
Tennessee as rental guaranti es the inter
est on the Knoxville J; Ohio six per cent,
bonds, which aggregate $2,000,0 0. It
operates under u charter granted by the
state of Tennessee under which it is ex¬
empt from taxes, and it has recaved state
aid on several occasions. The line cost
a little over $4,000,000.
A fight commenced at a festival of
colored people out on the Sbelbyville
road near Murfreesboro, which was free¬
ly p rricipated iu by all the attending
merry-makers. Pis'ols were drawn arid
a running fusilade was commenced.
During this skirmish a negro named
Frank Rucker attempted to pay the part
of peace-maker and was slain. Tne
rrowd then repaired to their respective
places of habitation. After the fight
three chambers pistols were found found and
eight which discharged were empty
had been at the time
of the fight. Nine s-hots were fired.
The sheriff thinks he will be able
to find one more pistol, which
will account for the trine shots.
There is pretty g >od evidence against
Alice Siiiford, a- she had a No. 33 pistol
and every chamber was found to be
empty. The negro who was killed was
well known tluoughout the county. He
was considered very influential among
the colored people and was quite a promi¬
nent politician.
VIRGINIA.
At a meeting of the Brotherhood oi
Locomotive Engineers held iu Richmond
on Thursday, P. M. Arthur was re¬
elected chief and Mr. Ingraham secre¬
tary of the insurance order of the broth¬
erhood.
GIFT TO NEGROES.
Daniel Hand, a prominent and wealthy
resident of Guilford, Conn., has given to
the American Mission .ry Ass miation,
of New York City, the sum of $1,000,000
to be held in tru-t by the association,
the interest to be devoted to the educa¬
tion of colored people of the South.
The association is said to have unre¬
stricted charge of the expenditure of the
interest, except that it must be devoted
to the education of such colored people
is are needy and indigent, and such as
by their health, strength and vigor of
body and mind give indications of tffi
siency and usefulness in after life.
Daniel Hand, the donor of this gift, was
t grocer in Charles - on, S. C., before the
War, and being of Northern sentiments,
was forced to fly to the North when the
War broke out,'leaving all his property,
sf about $130,000, in cnarge of George
W Williams, his confi 1 ntial clerk and
i Southerner. Mr. Wil iams used the
property profitably dur.ug the War, and
oy investing in Southern pine lands be
:nm: very rich. Six years ago Judge
Luzon B. Morris, of New II iven, counsel
for Mr. Hand, a 1 vised the latter to seek
i settlement with Mr. Williams. Mr.
Williams went to New Haven and
honorably paid up the original $048,000, sum
interest, amounting to
iendiug on the last installment two years
igo. This amount, with accrued inter
sst > forming the great buik of the sum,
a now returned to the South by Mr.
Sand. Under the terms of the trusts
aot over $ 100 is to be expended ou the
sducation of any one colored person.
tslG THING.
Negotiations are being made with
Alvin Clark, of Boston. Mas*., by the
University of Southern Caliiornia, lccarad
at Li s Angeles, for making a telesco) e
that will have a 42-inch dense, 8 inches
larger in diameter than the great Lick
equatorial. With this gUcs the surface
of the moon will be v Bible as it would
be to tbe naked eye if it were only sixty
mile* away.
THE WORLD OVER.
INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
HIE FIELD OF LABOR—SEETHING! CAUL¬
DRON OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE—FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.—NOTED DEAD.
The treasury of Cleveland, Ohio, is
bankrupt on account of the stealing of
Treasurer Ax worthy.
The schooner Mokoh, of Astoria, Ore
ajou, was wrecked near the entrance of
Tillamook bay, and all hands were lost.
Thirty thousand men employed in
Derbyshire collieries, in England, have
bcem conceded an advance of 10 percent.
ln wages.
A South German paper publishes a
letter from a correspondent aboard the
gunboat Adler, holding the Americans
entirely responsible for the blood shed in
Samoa in August. The correspondent
declares that an American mar of war
delivered firearms to Samoa.
Ex-Queen Natalie, of Servia, declines
to receive the document notifying her of
the divot cc obtained by her husband,
which was brought her by a special mes
tenger to Bucharest, and the decree will
therefore be conveyed ‘ to her through the
foreign office.
H. Clausen & Son Brewing Co., have
6 °l (1 to George Sherman, John R. Kings
ford and Isaac Undermeyer, representa
tives of an English syndicate, all their
property on Eastern Boulevard and For
ty-seventh street New York City, the
Reports by a courier from the Chey
enne Indian reservation, are to the effect
that unless aid is soon extended to them
by the government, great numbers ot
Cheyennes will die of starvition. Fort
Buford and Fort K ogh are constantly
besieged by these bauds of starving In¬
dians.
J. D. Sheehan, member of Parliament
for East Kerry, Ireland, arrested at a
meeting of Lori Kenmore’s tenants foi
advocaring the plan of campa g i, has
been take n to Tralee jail. bail if The he would police
offeied to release him on
promise to keep silent until his trial, but
he ret used to do so.
The Official Journal , of Belgrade, pub¬
lishes a pastoral prepared by Metropoli¬
tan Theodosius, in which he says that in
the exercise of his power as leader of
the Servian church, and by virtue of tho
rights consecrated by precedents, he dis¬
solves the marriage of King Milan and
Queen Natalie, and declares that it is no
longer existent.
The mail pouch which left Boston,
Mass., and arrived in Chicago, III., on
Thursday, over the Michigan Southern
Railroad, was robbed of all the first
class mail matter it contained. The
package consisted of regi-tered letters
and the supposition is that a large
amount of money was secured by the
postal thief.
The sub-prefect and German consul al
Havre, France, have arrived at a friendly
agreement in regard to the outrage at
the German consulate in that city, where
the escutcheon on the front of the build¬
ing was torn from iis place by unknown
persons. The consul now awaits the
German ambassador’s consent to the re¬
placing of the escutcheon.
Patrick Skelly, of Lousiana, was found
in the streets of New York with noarly
$16,900 in his po-sesrion, wandering
around. The doctors who examined
him raid that he was suffering from par¬
tial paraly-i j , and was already softening beginning of the
to show evidence of
brain. He has eaten no solid food foi
some time, but starves himself to increase
h s gains.
At the annual session of the American
Missionary Society, held in Providence,
R. I., three colored men made addresses.
First, Rev. Joseph E. Smith, of Chatta¬
nooga, Tenn., spoke about the evils ol
caste to the colored race. President;
Taylor told of the colored delegate to
the world’s missionary conference in
London, who was for ten days the guest
of Lady Kinnard, and said he never
knew anything of color-caste feeling be¬
fore coming to America, lle thought
this prejudice is deeper than color, that
it is a matter of race. Rev. B. A. Jones,
of Memphis, Tenn., took for his subject,
“Evils to the colored race of secret socie¬
ties.” Rev. J. B. McLean, Paris, Tenn.,
spoke on the evils *o the colored race of
intemoerance
YELLOW FEVER.
Dr. Caldwell, volunteer physician at
Enterprise, Ala., has issued a call for
$1,500 for the immediate relief of suf¬
ferers. There are now sixteen cases un¬
der treatment. The postmaster has re¬
ceived official information of the exis¬
tence of yellow fever iu Baldwin, The
disease appears to be spreading The weather out in
various par s of the state.
is very warm there and showery. Offi¬
cial bulletin in Jacksonvdle: New cases
16, of which 6 are white; deaths 3. To¬
tal cases to date, 4.059. Total deaths,
348. Bishop \V<ed continues to im¬
prove. Tne following was sent to the
Commercial Gazette, at Cincinnati, Ohio,
with the request that it be given to the
Arao iated Pre?s: ‘ Decatur, Ala.—To
the people of the United S ates: We are
supplying 600 destitute white
people and 1.000 color d, and are now
out ©f supplies. We appeal to the char¬
itable people of the whole country for
assistance for the next three weeks. Re¬
mit to John 8. R<-sd, chairman relief
committee, New Decatur. Ala. Andrew
n, Frey, Mayor of New Decatur.” Tnere
were no new cases and no deaihs by yel
lo * fever on Sunday. The sick are doing
weil.
A TERRIBLE CRIME.
At a wedding supper, in Minneapolis,
Minn., a family of eight B hemians,
after swallowing a few mouthfuls of
food, fell on the Ho 'r, exhibiting ali the
symptoms of poisoning. George Martin,
the bridegroom, was one of the victims.
All of the party were very sick and
likely to die. It is believed that a jeal¬
ous rival of Martin poisoned tho food.
Mrs. Martin, the bride, who was oppor¬
tunely absent, from the poisoned feast,
took a dose of arsenic with suicidal in¬
tent. A half empty box of the poison
was found in the house and discovered
in Mr. Martin's room. Various the u-ies
are advanced as to the reason of the
crime. One is that a young man named
Misco, was a jilted lover of Mrs. Martin,
and that he had put the poison in the
flour.
TOO LATE!
A »ad feature connected with the death
of the late Col. Pulsifer, tho Boston edi
tor and capitalist, lias just come to light.
it was generally believed that Col.
Pulsifer committed suicide on account of
his financial troubles. Everything de
pended upon the success of his agents
in London, England, in placing about & a
million and a half dollars in Marietta
North Georgia Railroad bonds, 'The
day before he died he cabled several
times to London, but received no sans
factory auswer, Iu his despair he killed
' .TtUn^h'/^bonds^hid^becJ
, 1° f , , , fortunes ‘J were re-estab-
1
ADIEU DEAR JUTE!
The jute industry in Salem, Mass., s
to be abandoned, and 600 employes wi 1
be thrown out of work. Two nulls are
to be shut down. Each contain about
600 spindles, and the annuiil production
has been about 1,000,000 yards of dot!’,
which has been used principally for bal¬
ing cotton. The material used was Ben¬
gal jute. Early last Spring several car¬
goes of jute were landed there from India,
but during tbe Bummer upward of 7,0( 0
ba'es have been principally shipped N<w from Salem nnd to
< ther ports, York
Charleston, S. C. The opinion was *.f
fered by many that the days of jute are
passed, and that bagging in the future
will be made from straw.
COTTON.
The total receipts of cotton from the
plantations sinco .September 1, 1888, nre
1,401,118 b ile.- ; in 1887 were 1,994,494
bales; iu 1880 were 1,524,738 bales.
Although tbe receipts at the outports tho
past week were 279,707 bales, the actual
movements from plantations in was 294,110
bales. The decrease amount in sight,
as compared with last year, is 562,740
ba'es, the deetease as compared with
1880 is'70,103 biles and the decrease
from 1885 is 124,610 bah s.
NARROW ESCAPE.
Five minutf s before the Czar’s train
arrived at Kutuis, en route from Tiflis to
the Block sea, a Kouban Cossack, dis¬
guised as an officer, was arrested at the
station for having on his person several
handy exposures and some p rison in gel¬
atine capsules. When arrested, the man
attempted to poison himself.
fehe Knew Hiia.
“Yon know the defendant in this esse,
do you?” asked a Kansas lawyer of a
female native of the soil.
“Know which?” she naked.
“The defendant, Jake Lynch.”
“Do I kuow Juke Lynch?”
“Yes.”
“You want to know if I know Jake
Lynch—well, if that ain’t a good an’-” one.
W hy, mister, the Lynch family
“Can’t yon eav yes nr no?”
“Why, Jake Lynch’s mother an’ my
step-dad’s father was once first cousins,
an’-”
“Then you know him ? ’
“Who, Jake Lynch ? Me know Jake
Lynch. You’re a stranger in these parts,
ain’t you ?”
“That has nothing to Jo with the case.
If you know Jake Lynch, say so.”
“If I know him 1 Lem me tell you
that Jake Lynch’s birthday aud mjr
brother Hiram’s is ou tne same day, au’
“You know him, of course, then?”
“Who—Jake Lynch ? Ask Jake if I
know him ! Ask him if ho was ever in
terdooced to Betty Skelton.”
“I don’t care to ask him anything. I
simply want to ask you if Jake Lynch is
known to you personally.” Well, I don’t know what
“Pussonlv ? ‘pussonly,’ but if
yon mean by if yon
want to know if 1 know Joke an’ he
knows me, I r-an t >11 you in mighty few
words. Jake Lynch’s father an’ my
fa her-”
“Now, I want you to say ‘yes or
• n o.”’ wanted if I
“Thought you me to say
knew Jake Lynch.” what I do want.”
“That’s just alone an’ I’ll tell
“Well, then, lemme
you all about it. Jake Lynch was born
in Injeeany an’ I was born in the same
“And of course yon know him ?”
“Who—Jake Lynch? Do I know
Jake Lynch, when the very horse he rid
here on was one he traded rriy naan a
pair of young steers for? Why, mar,,
Jake’s wife was Ann E’izy Skiff', an’ nor
an’ me is the same age to a day, an
»>
“That will do, I see that yon do know
|^. ^ i)
“Know him? Know Jake? Why,
man-’’
“That will do.”
“Why, I was married on a Chewsday
an’ Jake was married the next day, an’
fiis oldest boy an’ my o.dest girl is most
tbe fame age, an’——”
“That will do-”
NO. 36.
WASHINC-TON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF¬
FICIALS ARE DOING.
The Comptroller of Currency has de¬
clared a dividend of five per cent, mak¬
ing in all fifty per cent, upon the claims
of the creditors of the Exchange Nation¬
al Bank, of Norfolk, Ya.
The chief of the bureau of engraving
and printing, in his annual report says
that the production of securities by the
bureau during the fiscal year exceeded
that of any previous history of the bu¬
reau, 38,040,948 sheets being printed; 5,-
888,777 more than in 1887.
Because Led Sackville-Wcst, the
British ambassador at Washington, wrote
a letter to a naturalized citizen at Los
Angeles, Cal., advising him how to vote
in the presidential election, the U. S.
Government lias requested Lord Salis¬
bury to recall Lord Sackville-West.
President Cleveland has modified the
sentence of dismissal in tho case of Lieut.
Col. George A. Forsyth, 4th cavalry,
eouvieted by court-martial of duplicating his
bis pay acc units, so as to provide for
suspension from rank and duty for a
term of throe years on half pay. Tho
disgraced colonel was a trusted member
of Gen. Sheridan’s st II at one time, and
was a brave and reckless soldier during
the Wur.
The following is an accurate and com¬
plete account of all of the governmental
expenditures authorized during tbe past
session, in which the South is interested:
Iu the matter of public buildings, the
following is a complete statement : To
improve and repait the courthouse and
postofficc iu Atlanta, Ga., $120,000;
completion of the courthouse und
poi-toflb o in Augusta, Ga.,
$100,000; purchase of site and commence¬
ment of building at Birmingham, Ala.,
$150,000; completion of building at
Huntsville. Ala., $50,000; continuation
of Savannah, Ga., cour.hou<e und post
office building, $75,000. Protecting the
light station on Sued Island, Ala., from
encroachments of tho sea, $12,000. Pro¬
vision is mide out of the general lights, appro¬
priation for maintaining post Ga,^ to
aid navigation on the Savannah,
river. To continue the primary triangu¬
lation, from Atlanta towards Mobile,
$3 000; resurvey of Mobile bay entrance,
$3,000. T he appropriation of $5,000
made in 1885, for the construction of a
roadway to the National cemetery neni
Marietta, Ga., is made available for ex
pendiiure, notwithstanding the limitation
imposed by tbe original act. Tho ap
piopriatiou lor providing the licatinp»ap
put at us of the Macon, Ga., public budd¬
ing i3 also made available without the
original limitation. Expenditures to be
made in the impiovement of rivers and
harbors during the present fiscal year:
Brunswick harbor, $35,000; Cumberland
sound, $112,500; Altamaha river, $10,
000; Chattahoochee river, $20,o00;
Coosa river, $00,000; Flint river, $20,000,
of which sum $5,000 is to be expended and
between Albany and Montezuma,
$15,000 below Albany; Ocmulgee river,
$15,000; Oconee river, expended $12,500, the n portion river
of which may bo on
between Skull shouls and the Georgia
railroad bridge; Savannah river
between Augusta and Savannah, $21,000;
Jeky! creek, $5,000; Romerly marsh,
$1,033.77. Iu Alabama the following:
Mobile harbor, $250,000; Alabama river,
$20,000; Black Warrior river from Tus¬
caloosa to Daniel’s creek, $100,000; Tal
lapoosi river, $7,5i 0; Warrior river be¬
low Tuscaloosa, $18,000; Tombigbee
river from Wa ker’s bridge to Fulton,
$4,0,0; Tombigbee river from
Fulton to Vienna, $5,000;
Tombigbee river below Vienna, $0,000.
Provision is made out of the general with pro¬
vision for the following surveys should
the view of future improvements, Flint
they be deemed necessary:
river, rock reefs at Albany and above;
Savannah river, above Augusta and be¬
tween Augusta and Anderson ville ;Oconee
river; Ocmu'gee river. In Alabama:
Channel in and along the Coosa River,
from the rapids at Wetumpka already to connect
with the improvements Islands; Warrior com¬
pleted above the Ten
River, from T uscaloosa to Detnopolis for
deepening nnd widening the chinned
with a view to the casv transportation of
coal; Choctawatchee River, for low wa¬
ter navigation.
The Cattle Ranges.
The Scotchmen who put their money
into American cattle companies a few
years ago now wish they bad kept it at
home. Several of there companies have
for some years paid nodivdends. In 1886
only one paid ft dividend. “There are
at prerant,” says the Economist, “nine
companies, with a paid-up capital portion oi of
£3,610,000, upon the ordinary distributed in
which no dividends were
1887. Scotch investors, we should think,
have never touched a mote unsatisfac¬
tory class of e - terprise.” A statement
prepared bv a firm of stock brokers in
Edinburgh shows that at the end of 1887
six of the nine companies earned for¬
ward debit balances amonntiug in all to
£330,014. When these companies
came into existence the ran eh men were
using public lan 1. fcome of these com¬
panies fenced in such land. The sub¬
sequent proceedings of the Land Office
may have reduced the profits of foreign
investors who had counted upon getting Un*
enormous pastures for no jiiug.
doubtedly, however, the chief cause oi
their losses has been the very low price
of range cattle for the Iasi two or three
vears, a price fixed by the Chicago ring,
which has at the sa ne time compelled beef.
consumers to pay the old prices for
DrR’tvo Uieriv-t vear tbe Argentine TU
pub.ic added 5 *>> miles of railroad to the
SOM) whi b bad b en built before. There wil<
tip* venr b- ‘^Ut.OJO immigrants, chiefly from
tee south of Europe. There are over 8000
•sibiic schools, and 230,000 scholars: