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OFFICE 3 WHITEHEAD HOUSE
Conyers, Ga.,
PIEDMONT EXPOSITION.
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES
ABOUT THE GREAT SHOW.
After Paying All Expenses 810,000 Is Left
In The Treasury—Privileges ( old Too
Low—Advertising Less Than 8400.
The Piedmont Exposition was organ¬
ized one hundred and fourteen days ago
in the Atlanta Constitution office. The
name was suggested by Clark Howell, of
tiie staff. Perhaps thirty gentlemen were
present when the company was organ¬
ized. It was stated that President Cleve¬
land had said to Senator Colquitt and
Mr. Grady that he would visit the Expo¬
sition about the 17tli of October. Charles
A. Collier was elected president.
WHAT THE EXPOSITION COST.
The Exposition cost very nearly two
hundred thousand dollars. The follow¬
ing are the items roughly estimated:
The land. 197 acres $ 42,000
Tho main building. 30,000
The agricultural building...... 18,0JO
The The poultry building.......... 1,800
cattle building............ 3,500
The grand stand.............. 9,000
The club house............... 3.500
The racing stables............ 3,000
The restaurant................ 1,800
The public comfort building.... 1.500
Dairy........................ For 750
walks, small buildings, poul¬
try coops and incidentals .. 5,000
Work on grouuds........ .. 30,000
Total for ground and im¬
provements............. $149,850
EXPENSES IN GETTING READY.
Preliminary expenses, including rent,
aries stationery, of officers, engraving, advertising, sal¬
$12,000. traveling expenses, etc., the
It should be stated that
total advertising bills for the entire consider¬ Ex¬
position from its inception are
ably less than four hundred dollars.
THE RUNNING EXPENSES OF THE EXPO¬
SITION.
Tho following arc the running being expen¬
ses, most of the items accurate,
but a few being estimated:
Premium list paid............ $ 9,000
Racing purses................ 6,000 1,000
Bicycle races................. 1,000
Balloon ascensions............
Fireworks.................... 6,500
Salaries and expenses of guards,
clerks, ticket keepers, police¬ inci¬
men, firemen and other
dentals ......■ ’ • •.......... 8,000
For other incidentals.......... 6,000
Total for running expenses $ 37,500
Grand total for expense account:
For buildings and grounds.....$149,850 12,000
Preliminary expenses 37,500
Current expenses....
Total $199,850
WHERE TIIE MONEY CAME FROM.
The first money received by the Expo¬
sition was the $15,000 granted by the
City Council. It was provided that this
money should be paid on a building
which should remain the property of the
city, and Mr. Collier and Mr. Lowry ex¬
ecuted bonds that this should be done.
Every dollar of the fifteen thousand has
been invested in the main building, and
tho title to that amount remains with the
city. The building has been inmred for
$25,000, fifteen thousand of which has
been assigned to the city, so that the
city’s investment is safe. The following
is about the total ot the income:
From the city $ 15,000
From first mortgage purchase 42,000
bonds......................
From second mortgage bonds.. 10,000
From the Exposition G’ompany 0,500
subscription................ dona¬
From Exposition company, 3,000
tions.......................
From exposition............4,250 “popular subscription” to
From Driving club subscription 26,500
From railroad subscriptions.... 7,000
From W. & A. railroad on fire¬
works account 2,000
Total from bonds, donations.....$116,250 subscrip¬
tions find
INCOME FROM TIIE EXPOSITION.
The following is the approximate itself. Most m- of
come from the Exposition
the items are definite but a few are es¬
timated :
From sale of privileges........ $ 6,000
From floor space and entry fees 2,500
From sale of exhibitors’ tickets 2.000
From receipts at the gate...... 69,846
From percentage on the Rich¬
mond and Danville transfer
tickets............... ■.-•••• 5,0(0
From admission coupons sold by
railroads and not reported, es¬ 5,000
timated.............. included -•••;•
From source's not in 2,500
above......................
Total income from Exposition.. $92,846
Total incrome from other sources 116,250
$209,096
Total expenses....... ..... 199,530
Profit $9,746
This is simply the profit of the Expo
s o »«"oi“orr;.
invested in the property.
the sale of privileges.
Privile es on the ground, while they
netted about six thousand dollars, were
sold, it is claimc 1 by the managers, cn
tireiv too low. The popcorn man paid
*50 for his privilege, and cleared $109 a
tlr privilege for $375, and
times that much wa» cleared: two
5 brought profits;’ $700; there was no
estimating ifo-ir a lunch stand
that tented for $59 sold $900 in one day,
and so on through the list. The privi¬
leges should have brought the Exposition
$13,000, and would have then left more
than a hundred per cent profit for tho
buyers.
THE WORLD OYER,
EPITOME OF THE INTERESTING
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Tlio Irish Troublrs—Labor Agitation Fvcry
whcrc—iYbnt is Doing North, Fast;
West aud Across the .Seas.
A threshing engine belonging to Jobr.
Glass, at work about ten miles southeast
of Elleudale, Dakota, exploded, killing
two men outright and wounded three.
A dispatch received in London, from
Balmoral castle, announces that the Prin¬
cess Beatrice, wife of Prince Henry of
Battenberg, has been delivered of a
daughter.
The French steamer lIindoostan,Capt.
Lett, which arrived at Marseilles from
New Y'ork, took fire and was entirely
burned. She had 3,000 tons of merchan¬
dise aboard, all of which was destroyed.
Masked highwaymen halted a stage
coach near Redding, Cal., and when the
stage horses became frightened and start¬
ed to run, one of the robbers filed,killing
a passenger named Henderson. The rob¬
bers escaped.
A venire of seventeen jurors for civil
eases, called in the third district court at
Salt Lake City, Utah, were all Mormons.
Twelve of the number refused to take the
oath required of jurors by the Tucker
Edmunds law.
A battery of six steam boilers, in Law¬
rence Iron works, at Ironton, Ohio, ex¬
ploded, killing Thomas and Mike Dwyer
and two others, and wounding twenty
persons, Portions of boilers were blown
half a mile away.
F. R. Morse has been indicted by the
United States grand jury, at Cincinnati,
Ohio, for misuse of the mails in connec¬
tion with the St. Andrews Bay, Florida,
land scheme. He pleaded not guilty, and
was released on $1,000 bond.
Charles II. Plummer, a wealthy lum¬
ber man, of East Saginaw, Mich., oilers
to give to each of the families of the po¬
lice officers murdered at the Haymarket
square riot in Chicago, Ill., forty acres of
good farming land, conditioned only on
their occupying the same, and will also
give each family enough lumber to build
a house upon.
A man died suddenly in London, Eng¬
land, and the police took charge of his
body. On searching the clothing of the
dead man the fact was discovered that he
was an American, and was connected
with a dynamite conspiracy. It has
transpired that police patrolling building on the
river in front of the Parliament
was recently resumed.
William Hitchman, who, during Boss
Tweed’s regime in New York, was one
of the arch-boodler’s faithful lieutenants,
has been taken to the insane asylum. It
was claimed that Hitchman’s son-in-law
had refused to provide for- the old man.
Hitchman was speaker of tl\e Assembly
of 1870—’71, and was at that time reputed
to be worth $500,000. He is seventy
years old.
Alexander Newman and William An¬
drews, at Kingston, Ontario, pleaded
guilty to setting fire to the Salvation Ar¬
my barracks and Third Methodist church.
Both laid the blame upon liquor. New¬
man is suspected of firing other build¬
ings. For some days, incendiary fires
have been numerous. Once before, the
Salvation barracks were destroyed, and
Newman was strongly suspected of being
the fire-bug.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
• The suicide of Henry Bcrhayon, broth¬
er-in-law of J. Milton Bowers, now un¬
der sentence of death at San Fran¬
cisco, Cal. for poisoning resulted in his wife
two years ago, has a sensa
tionaL development. Berhayon left a
1. tfccr addressed to the coroner, declines the con
tents of which that official to
reveal; but it is stated, on confession good author
ltv, that the letter is a full and
that Berhayon acknowledged that he ad
ministered the poison to bis sister for the
purpose of obtaining the insurance on
her life, and exonerated Bowers from
any connection with the crime. The let
ter lias been placed in the hands of the
police, and efforts are being made to es
tablish the truth of the statement. Du
ring the trial of Bowers, who was a
practicing physician in that city, the
evidence againt him was circumstan
tial, and Berhayon was one of the pnn
cipal witnesses for the prosecution. Bow
er.s was found guilty of murder in the
first degree and sentenced to be hanged.
The case was appealed pending. to the supreme
court, where it is now
UNEASY LONDONERS.
Several thousand of the London unem¬
ployed with a red flag at their head, march¬
ed in procession on Sunday from 1 rafal
garsquare to Westminster Abbey, and al¬
though no invitation had been extended,
twelve hundred of the crowd were ad¬
mitted. The flag was left in charge of
the vergers, Inside the abbey many of
the unexpected visitors remained covered,
and indulged in whistling, while others
mountcd th(J pedeitalf , of the various
Canon Brothers then preached a the sermon.
} n his discourse he argued that pun
j s hment of the lawbreaker was necessary
for ,h e good of the community. This
was received with cries of “0h, oh . and
‘-bosh!” The preacher earnestly appealed
f or order, and exhorted his hearers t«» try
and uproot .He evil and plant good the in
stead . A t the close of his remarks,
mo b hissed and marched out of the ab
bey cdidly cheered by their comrades
.
j n waiting outside.
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
READABLE ITEMS CAREFULLY
GATHERED HITHER AND YON.
Social, Temperance ami Keligiuns Move¬
ments—Fires, Deaths and Suicides—Uall
road Operations and Improvements.
Memphis, Tenn., is a a med ova the
spread of diphtheria, and the board of
health has issued an .address to the peo¬
ple advising precautionary measures.
Chief Engineer McCullough, of the
Mallory line steamer Comal, was held at
Galveston, Tex., in $5,000’bail for caus
iug the death of John 11. Graham, a coal
passer.
Natural gas was found at Bawling
Green, Ky., at a depth of 249 feet, and
the town is wild with excitement. It is
said to be in inexhaustible quantities inch of
200 pounds pressure to the square
It is regarded as the starting point of a
big boom for that section.
Mr. Walker, Woolfolk’s lawyer, says
that his client’s trial for murdering his
entire family, will probably occur in a
few weeks, although as yet the grand
jury has not considered his case. Wool
folk is now taking things easy in Fulton
county, Ga., jail.
Arrangements are being made for a
week’s festivities at Austin, Tex., next
May to celebrate tire completion of the
new slate house, the largest structure of
the kind in the country outside of Wash¬
ington. Distinguished citizens from the
states and Mexico will be invited to par¬
ticipate.
The safe of the Oxanna hotel at Annis¬
ton, Ala., was robbed of $400. Mr.
Davidson, the proprietor, left the office
to show some guests to their room, leav¬
ing several unknown parties sitting
around the fire and the safe unlocked.
When he returned, the parties and the
money were gone.
Judge J. Frazier, of Nashville, Tenn.,
died at the residence of his son, J. B.
Frazier, in that city, of pneumonia. He
contracted a severe cold on the occasion
of President Cleveland’s visit to Chatta¬
nooga, which resulted in his death. He
was ciimiual judge of t e Nashville dis¬
trict in 1867.
Notwithstanding a heavy rain prevailed
at the time of sale, Col. Adair sold in
less than two hours fifty-four lots for
$15,000 at Tallapoosa, Ga. . The bidding
was sharp and quick, and had the weather
been fair enough, the sales* would have
reached $50,0. 0. Nearly every state in
the Union was represented there, and
many of them purchased lots.
The officials of the Cincinnati, South¬
ern & Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus
Railroads, decided to build a new depot
near the Stanton house. Work will be¬
gin on the building November 10th.
The Cincinnati Southern is now paying
$4 000 per month for the use of the
union depot, and has determined to be¬
come independent of that depot. The
material has already been ordered.
Attachments aggregating $2,700 were of
.taken out against the clothing Ala., house and
Mr. Lipstine, at Birmingham,
the stoic was closed by the sheriff. Lip¬
stine resides at Hopkinsville, Ky., where
lie also has a store. He opened a large
clothing house in Birmingham abqut one
Is year ago. The bank of Hopkinsville
the largest creditor, holding .claims
amounting to $17,000. Tho other credi¬
tors are wholesale clothing merchants in
the East.
As Louis Wright, an Augusta Railroad negro,
was crossing the Port Royal
trestle near the Savannah River bridge in
Augusta, Ga., lie fell to the ground. A
heavy timber, which he struck in falling,
fell upon his body and injured him in
such a manner that he died a few minutes
thereafter. The trestle at the point
from which lie fell was forty feet high,
but there was a sand-bed underneath, and
but for the timber falling upon him, he
would have sustained no injuries.
A serious fire took place at Spences,
Roan county, W. Ya. There was notli
to fight the fire with but buckets, and
water being scarce and the winds high,
two-thirds of the town was destroyed, iu
the Capital church, Central ho
tel, post-office, Masonic hall, Cleavinger
house, school house, court house, jail and
several small dwellings* and stores. A
tire also occurred at Petroleum, IV. Va.,
destroying S. Woodward’s valuable oil
plant and considerable oil. The loss is
heavy.
Jesse Truss, a twelve year old negro
. ma ,-j c an a i m0 st successful nttempt
f 0 wreek the Easly City dummy train Oil
t j le bridge over Village creek atBirming
y nm ’ A | n He placed two such heavy pieces that
of ir 0II on the track in a way
fh W ould certainly have thrown the
train off had not the engineer discovered
t p em time to stop. He confessed
placing the iron on the bridge, and said
he wanted to wreck the train because
he was once put off for not paying his
fare. • _____.
PROHIBITION CAMPAIGN.
As agreed on, the prohibitionists of At
lanta, Ga., and their opponents made nc
agitation on the question until the Expo
siiion closed; but the fight commenced
the Suuday alter, by Rev. Bam Jones
making an address at DeGives Opera
Houser The young men opposed 500 strong, to pro¬ and
hibition, formed a league enlisted the la¬
the prohibitionists have
dies and the children. It bids fair to be
the most exciting municipal fight that
Atlanta has ever passed through.
> cxt Thing to It.
Guest (to landlord—I , <<T say. land'ord L nth
have you got sueh a thing as an encyclo
p . dm about the homei
Laudloid No, s • -’ but
- ,
-there is a gentleman from Boston in the .
readiug^-room.”— Bazar.
NO. 36.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
riCTURES OF THE DOINGS AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
i
The Department!) Getting Down to Business
Agnin—Tiie Nntion’s Finances--Appoint»
ments ami Removals—Personals.
Ills SLAVE MARRIAGE WAS LEGAL.
Benjamin Anderson and Rena Howard,
two former slaves, were living together
as man and wife at the time of the pas¬
sage of the law legalizing such unions in
I860. Anderson got tired of Rena, how¬
ever, and the other day was indicted by
the grand jury for bigamy in marrying
Henrietta Coleman, September 26, 1886.
PROHIBITION CASES.
Samuel 4 V. Packard, of Chicago, of
counsel for the Kansas and Iowa prohi¬
bitionists, submitted in the United States
Supreme Court a motion that four Iowa
prohibition cases standing on the docket
of the court be abandoned. The deci¬
sion of the court will probably be an¬
nounced soon.
EXPERIMENTS WITn SNAKE POISON.
The Reptile Division of the Smithson¬
ian Institution commenced a scries of ex¬
periments with snake poison,with a view
to discovering some antidote for rattle¬
snake bites, as well as the amount of the
poison necessary to cause death. Four
large rattlesnakes from the Blue Ridge
Mountains have been secured, and a
number of rabbits and pigeons are held
in durance to be experimented upon.
A PROTEST.
The District Commissioners have re¬
ceived a protest from Alvey A. Adec,
Second Assistant Secretary of State, and
others, against the issuance of new liquor
licenses to the proprietors of Fifteenth of saloons and on
the northwest corner
L streets. The two saloons are owned
by two brothers, the door of one opening
on Fifteenth and the other on L street.
The saloons are a source of annoyance to
the residents of the neighborhood, being
tho resort of idle and noisy people, and
violating the new regulations of the
Commissioners.
THE ANARCHIST CASE.
Long before the hour set for tho hear¬
ing of an application for a writ of error
in the Chicago Anarchist cases, the con¬
ference room of the United States Su¬
preme Court in the basement of the Cap¬
itol was uncomfortably crowded with
lawyers and newspaper men who were
waiting to hear tho proceedings. John
Randolph Tucker, Gen. Pryor, Gen. B.
F. Butler, Capt. Black, and all of ths
other counsel for the condemned prison¬
ers were present and in whispered neither con¬
sultation, but at half past ten
Justice Harlan nor the record in the cases
had arrived. Five minutes later, how¬
ever, two men came in carrying
with difficulty a large blue tin-covered
trunk corded with half inch rope
whiqji contained the voluminous rec¬
ord and underthe weight of staggered. which
the bearers quite visibly
Chief Justice Waite read the formal
order in the case which provides for a
hearing of the argument upon the anar*
chists’ petition for a writ pf error. At
torney-General Hunt, of Illinois, who
was present in the court room, asked
whether the court desired to hear argu¬
ment in behalf of the state. The chief
justice replied notify that him the that court hearing merely
wished to a
would be given in order that he might
lake such action in behalf of the state
'a he should think best.
RATHER PROFANE.
George Venable, a well-known young
man ot Columbus, Ga., was charged m
the mayor’s court recently with disturb¬
ing public worship. He arose in the
Salvation Army on a Sunday night and
offered the following prayer:
“Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name; I
Send us down a jug of rum,
And we’ll get there all the same.
Mayor Grimes fined him $25, and bound
him over under a bond of $200 for dis¬
turbing public worship.
ENGLISHMEN ARRESTED.
Sir Wilfred Blunt and Mr. Roche, a
poor law guardian, were arrested at
Woodford, * Ireland, --- and taken
to jail under a strong escort. At the
station they were met by Messrs.
Rowlands and Sheeliy, members of Par
liament, who led the procession and band
which followed the prisoners to the court
house. Both prisoners were remanded
for a hearing; Sir Wilfred Blunt re¬
futed to give bail, and was again
sent to jail. It has created a great com¬
motion in England.
A Mortifying Fluke.
Caller (to Mrs. Wabash, of Chicago)—
“Were you at the dinner party given by
Mrs. Breezy last week:”
Mrs. Wabash—“Yes.”
Caller—“It was a success, of course)
Her dinne.rs always arc.”
Mrs. Wabash—“Ye —es. Everything nine
was very nice, but there were only
kinds of pie. Airs. Breezy explained her.”— JS/eio that
the baker had disappointed
York Sun.
She Was in There.
“Bub,” said a patrolman to a boy on
Brush street, “I am looking for a crazy
woman. Have you-” where she is. She
“A cs, sir, I know s
right iu that house!”
“Ah ! Then she went in there, el^”
“Yes, sir, and she’s my mother.”
“AY hate” morning,and
“She asked pa for $4 this
he said she must be crazy .”—Free Press.