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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 _ 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. ________________ 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: