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VOL. 1. Hebrew is again becoming a living language in Palestine. The London Telegraph advocates that murderers condemned to electrical exe cution be chloroformed. The assessed valuation of real prop erty in New York City, as announced by its municipal authorities, is $T,4(54,247,- 820; an increase from last year of $05,- 957,813. Mail matter dropped in a box in Paris is delivered in Berlin within an hour and a half, and sometimes within thirty five minutes. It i3 sent by means of pneumatic tubes. Chicago, first and last, ha3 expended more than $6,000,000 in purchasing lands on the outskirts of that city for her system of parks. There are twenty nine of them in all, containing two thou sand acres. “It is a fact,” said a Philadelphia ■ bookseller, “that the books of contem porary wits rarely have a purfiaufcit sale. The’funny book of ten years ago is al most as unsaleable as a theological work of the same period.” The Turkish army is reported to be in excellent condition. Nearly 600,000 re peating rifles are in the hands of the in fantry. The artillery is furnished main ly by Krupp, and forty-nine regiments of cavalry, mostly raised in Asia, have recently been added. Truly we are an enterprising people, exclaims the New York Tribune. A California man is already taking steps to erect a hotel on the shore of the new and mysterious lake which has appeared in Southern California, and will soon be sending out circulars announcing good bathing, boating and fishing. Lieutenant Finley, of the United States Signal Service, who claims the •credit of originating the idea of tor nado insurance, suggests the applica ’tiou of the same principle to the protec tion of farmers in California against loss by northers. He also proposes spraying trees and vine3 to prevent blight from these winds. The Home Journal has ransacked the New York libraries for remedies for sea sickness. The result as tabulated seems to indicate that the inau or woman who is not a born sailor has the alternative of staying at Lome or getting his frame shaken to pieces with mal de mar. The combined remedies are awful to contem plate, aud the admission that their effect is doubtful is not calculated to encour age their general trial.; • Bad as is Idaho’s case, remarks the New York Post, the condition of Nevada is far worse. The population of that sage-brush tract, according to the new census, is only 45,761. As there were 82,266 inhabitants in 1880, there has been a loss of more than one-fourth during the decade. Between 1870 and 1880 there was a slow growth from 42,- 491 to 62,266, but the total is already back nearly as low as in 1870, and there is no telling but it may coutinue to fall until it sinks to the. 6357 of 1860. The curious fault is fouud with the mastless ships of the new navy, observes the Philadelphia Reoord, that they afford the crews no opportunity for exercise— the seamen have nothing to climb; they feel cooped up, and are showing a spirit of discontent. It is questionable whether such taue devices as horizontal bars und other mere gymnastic appliances would avail to restore the spirits of the men. The Darwinians may seize upon this fact ap additional proof of the simian descent of the human species. The scheme of Felix Adler and others in New York to help the laboring people by inducing men and women of educa tion to meet them in the tenement dis tricts cannot fail to do good, maintains the San Francisco Chronicle. Incident ally, these workers also may be able to stimulate the work of building model tenements in which the poor can secure well-lighted and wholesome rooms for the same rental that is now exacted for dark and ill-ventilated apartments. Jacob A. Reis, a NewYork reporter, last year stirred charitable New York by his graphic pictures of misery and vice iu the tenement quarter, and it is to be hoped that Luis new society may push on the reform that aims to give toiling thou sands comfort and decency in their ‘homes. State of Haile Ite. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. The German Catholic Knights of America met in its thirty-sixth annual convention in Louisville, Ky., Monday. Fire late Friday afternoon completely destroyed the furniture factory of Stille & Dubimeir,at Cincinnati. Loss SBO,OOO. The suspension of the British Bank of Australia was announced Monday. The liabilities are SBOO,OOO. half of which is owing to creditors in England. The Pocock can factory at St. Louis, Mo., was struck by lightning Tuesday, setting fire to the building, and the loss to it and the adjacent buildings was $20,000. A cablegram of Tuesday from Cincin nati says: Governor Campbell is quite ill at Columbus, and his friends fear that he will not be able to do any active cam paigning this year. Saranca Lake club house, seventeen miles from Saranac lake village, N. Y., was burned Sunday. Twenty-five guests lost nearly all their personal effects. The origin of the fire is unknown. A Vienna, Austria, cablegram says: A cloudburst occurred at Kollman, at midnight Tuesday night. The water loosened an avalanche. Forty persons were drowned. The railway was destroyed for many miles. An express train on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad ran into a north bound freight at Egg Harbor, N. J., Fri day evening and both trains were badly wrecked. A dozen or more passengers on the express were injured, some fatally. A Chicago dispatch says: The national board of control of the world’s fair on Friday, passed a resolution doubling its membership. The resolution was to the effect that alternate members be made active members with all the powers en joyed by the charter members of the board. A Philadelphia dispatch says: Charles Lauren, ex-cashier of the suspended Key stone National bank, who was indicted with the bank’s fugitive president, Gideon W. Marsh, for conspiracy in the misapplication of the bank’s funds, Mon day afternoon pleaded guilty in the United States court. The will of the late George Jones, of the New York Times , was filed for pro. bate Monday. His entire estate is kept in bis family. His forty-six shares of Times stock are placed in such a position that his son, Gilbert, his son-in-law, Henry L. Dyer, and his daughter, Mary Dyer, will have entire control of it, A Little Rock, Ark., dispatch says: J. L. Biy was arrested Monday afternoon on a warrant sworn out by State Treas urer Morrill, charging him with the lar ceny of SIOO,OOO state scrip. Bay is a clerk employed by the bondsmen to in vestigate the books of the defaulting ex-Treasurer Woodruff. A great sensa tion has been caused by the arrest. A London cablegram says: There was a serious railway accident in Wales Sun day night. A passenger train crashed into a volunteer special which was sta tionary on the track at a point between Pout-y-Pridd and Cardiff. Fourteen persons were injured, and some of them so seriously that they will probably die. The rear of the special train was com pletely wrecked. A cablegram of Tuesday from Calcutta, India, recites that the execution of the Manipur princes has created a profound sensation throughout India. The news paper press of India printed in the na tive language, strongly condemns the so called “hurried order” issued for the ex ecution, which, the native press declares, was hastened, lest English public opinion should undergo a change in favor of the condemned princes, after the publication of their defense. A Baltimore dispatch says: The final action of the Maryland Farmers’ Alli ance convention before its adjournment Thursday was the declaration, which was put in the form of a resolution, that the Farmers’ Alliance of the s’ate of Maryland is in no way antagonistic to United States Senator Gorman, and that any publication that the farmers were opposed to the distinguished senator of the state was without warrant and had no foundation in fact. A New York dispatch says: Judge O’Biien, on Tuesday, heard the argument and reserved decision upon the motions to c ntimie the injunction obtaiued by A. Myers, Bros. & (Jo,, of Savannah, Ga.j against the Merchants’ National bank restraining them, Abraham Backer and Backer’s assignee, Benjamin F. Einstein, from disposing of certaiu southern secur ities, consisting of stocks and bonds of the Savannah and Atlantic Railroad Com pany and the Muscogee Real Estate Com pany and notes. At aim eting of the South’ rn Railway and Steamship Association at New York, Thursday, the agreement of last year was renewed. The old board of officers was re-elect'd as follows: Senator Joseph E. B'own, of Georgia, president; Thomas 11. Caibr, commissioner; Charles A. Sindall, secretary; John Screven, of Georgia, aud E. K. Sibley, of New York, arbitrators. The executive board and rate committee will meet at White Sulphur Spriugs, Va., the 28th instant. A cablegram from Pekin, China, says that is evident from the action taken by the powers that they intend to compel China to protect foreigners residing within her borders. Representatives of i several powers iu that city addressed a fresh joint note to the Chinese gove u- TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,1891. ment Thur-day in relation to the outrages perpetrated by Chinese mobs upon mis sions and missionaries and others in Yang Tse Kiaug valley, demanding that China take immediate steps to protect the lives and property of foreigners. A London cablegram of Friday says: Owing to the depression in the iron trade, operations at many of the principal iron works in Cumberland district have been suspended for some time past and the in ability of workmen to procure empploy meut is causing most acute distress. Six thousand men have been thrown out of employment by the stopping of works and a large number of them have earned nothing for a year. Many families have struggled along, hoping for better times, but the hope of work again starting up has been abandoned now and the outlook for the coming winter is of the gloomiest nature. STATE ALLIANCES IN ANNUAL CONVENTION AT VARIOUS POINTS. Meetings in Alabama, North Carolina and Tennessee. The North Carolina State Farmcs’ Alli ance met in annual session at Morehead City, Tuesday. The committee on cre dentials reported ninety-two counties rep resented. president Carr’s annual address was a carefully prepared and able docu ment. H# reviewed the history of the state organization, advocated minor changes io the state constitution, outlined the policy of the organization and closed with a storng presentation of the duty of membership. The report of the state secretary shows a membership over one hundred thousand. President Polk de livered a public address in the mammoth ballroom of the Atlantic hotel. It was a powerful speech, and one of the happiest efforts of his life. His audience was com posed not only of alliancemen but wealthy pleasure-seekers and professional men, and the members of the South ern Dental Association, which was aUo in session at Morehead. IN TENNESSEE. The third annual meeting of the Tennessee Farmers’ and Laborers’ union opened at Nashville, with 150 enthusias tic delegates present, representing eighty four counties. NearLy all the prominent alliancemen in the state were present. Governor Buchanan, who is ex-president of the order, delivered an address of welcome. President J. H. McDowell delivered his annual address, and ap pointed the usual committees. THE ACTION OK ALABAMA. The Alabama State Alliance met at Woolfolk, Tuesday. Every county in the state was represented and every officer fireseut, with several hundred visitors rom the different sections. The only business transacted the first day was the passage of a resolution endorsing the Ocala platform, which was done with lit tle discussion and no opposition. A re solution was introduced endorsing the call of the national alliance for a confer ence of labor organizations in Washing ton in February. The resolution also pledged the alliance of Alabama to abide by the decision of that conference. The latter clause provoked many speeches, all of which were opposed to it. The speakers argued against a third party in Alabama and against binding the alliance to the result of a conference which might adopt such a course. The vote in favor of striking out the clause was unanimous, even the delegates from Geneva, the one county whose alliance has declarea for a third party, giving its vote against the pledge. The resolution, as amended, was endorsed and the call for a confer ence without anypledge to abide by its discision was unanimously passed. THE PEOPLE’S PARTY. A Topeka dispatch says: Tuesday was a great day for the people’s party. The call'for a meeting of the state central committee brought over one hundred leading members of that party to confer and prepare for the local fall campaign. The feeling prevails that if the vote of the party polled last November is not maintained next November, the alliance would from that time on lose strength and power, not only lose its strength in Kansas, but all over the union. One member said that the whole country was looking td Kansas t 6 keep the people’s party movement to the frsnt, for if it should show a falling off this year it would be impossible to regain lost . ground next year, when a hot presiden tial contest was appealing to the voters to return to their old parties. A propo sition is being considered to raise a fund of by assessments to establish a daily paper at Topeka. TEXAS' FIVE AMENDMENTS Were Favorably Decided at the Polls. A San Antonio dispatch says: The amendments to the constitution upon which the people of Texas veted Tues day were five in number. The first pro vides for the registration of voters in pities of 10,000 Inhabitants and over, and empowers the legislsture to make changes in the ballow laws. The second authorizes the legislature to take 1 per cent of the permanent school fund and place it to the credit of the school fqnd. The third provides that the legal rate of Interest shall not bo more thau 10 per cent per annum, and in contract", where the rate is not stated, it shad be 6 per cent. The Farmers’ alliance is at the bottom of this. The fourth gives more extended facilities for adopting and en forcing local prohibition. The fifth pro vides for the creation of additional courts * and criminal appeals. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED ' Forming- an Epitome of Daily Happening-s Here and There. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, on Monday, commuted the death sen tences of David Jacobs and Mrs. Mary Johnson, who poisoned the woman’s hus band, to imprisonment for life. Mr. H. W. Patton, who undertook the exploration to determine the source of the desert lake in California, reports that the lake will be permanent, aod that, the waters will make rich lands heretofore worthless for planting. A Jackson, Miss., dispatch says: George carried DeSoto, Tate, Lee, Clay and Benton counties Saturday, which gives him a majority of the legislature with & dozen other certain counties yet to act. Walthall’s election is also settled. The annual exhibition of the South Carolina State Horticultural Society be gan at Greenville, Friday. The exhibits far surpass those of any previous year, and were pronounced by competent judges to excel anything heretofore ex hibited sout h. A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch states that on Tuesday the sub-lessees of the prisoners now at Briceville made application to the board of prison in spectors to have the order for the removal of the convicts from Briceville rescinded. The board, however, refused to modify their order, and the matter will possibly be taken to the courts. A telegram of Sunday from Gaines ville, Fla., says that the man shot near Bronson, Saturday, and supposed to be Harmon Murray, the negro desperado, has turned out to be Jesse Burton, the negro who shot Deputy Sheriff Carson, at Branford, Fla., about six months ago. He was a desperate character, only sec ond to Murray in crime and bloodshed. A special of Sunday from Cullman, Ala., says a few days ago Monroe Eyans and his son John were arrested at Bailey ton, in that county, charged with shoot ing Pierce Mooney last May. On Satur day they were taken before a local jus tice of the peace, who declined to try them, but bound tnem over without bail. They were put uuder guard at a neigh bor’s house over night. About midnight they were taken from the house and hung to a tree. A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says: Colonel Dudley who was chloro formed and robbed at Gayoso hotel last Thursday, returned from Monte ,Sano, Ala., Tuesday morning for the purpose of identifying, if possible, the prisoner held by the Memphis police as a sus pect. Colonel Frilfcr, after looking at the man, stated positively that.he was not the person who perpetrated*Jhe out rage, anu the prisoner, who 1° Dr. J. E. Clemens, a reputable young physician of this city, was released. The employes in the machine shops of -of the South Carolina railway, at Charles ton, quit work Monday, leaving only two men at work in the entire establish ment. The strike was caused by the re fusal of the railroad to increase the wages 25 cents a day. The present pay is $2.50 to $2.75 a day. The strike is inaugurated under the International As sociation of Machinists, and the strikers hope to obtain the support of the Broth erhood of Locomotive Engineers and other unions. A DECISIVE PROTEST. Citizens Threaten to Mob the Mayor and Council. The mayor aud city council of Kansas City barely escaped vengeance, Tuesday night, at the bauds of a crowd of 800 taxpayers. The excitement arose over a proposition of the city council to pur chase the plant of the Consolidated Elec tric Light and Power company for $340,- 000. There was much public indigna tion over the proposition, it bbing be lieved by many that improper induce ments had been offered to members of the council to pass an ordinance author izing the purchase. The indignation culminated Tuesday night, when a mass meeting of taxpayers was hold to protest against the proposed purchase. Several intemperate speeches were made, and a committee of fifteen was appointed to call at the council chamber and present a protest before the ordinance could be pass ed. The crowd, by its own motion, joined the committee and the march to the city hall was taken up. As the march pro ceeded the excitement grew until the inutterings of the crowd became more loud and bitter and finally culminated in shouts of “Lynch them!” and Hang them!” Thecrowid had worked itself up to a high pitch of indignation, when ths city hall was reached. In the meantime the council had been iufomed of the progress of the mob, and a hasty adjourn ment was taken. The last alderman had barely beat a rapid retreat when the ad vance guard of the mob rushed into the chamber, only to be disappointed at Slid ing it empty. The crowd resolved itself into a mass meeting again and more speeches were made, the mayor and city council being denominated as cowards and thieyes. Finally the mob dispersed without doing any damage. Major It. Hirst of the Kansas Live Stocii C(>murssio:i, >ays lie thln-cs it is a con servative estimate to say that t ie people of Kansas will seii wit Jin the next year #K' 000,000 wm tli of Stoeic and taroi products raised this year—that is, that that much of Kansas grain and stooge will go outside of the State, besides what is used by the people of tbe State themselves. MILLIONS IN SMOKE. One Day’s Record of Disastrous Fires. On Tuesday Jacksonville, Fla., had one of the biggest fires in her history. The fire broke out in the three-story crockery house of R. D. Knight, in the center of the business portion of the city. The heat ignited the Hubbard block, the largest bnilding in the city, four stories high, and containing the Hubbard hard ware store, Western Union Telegraph office, Southern Savings and Trust Com pany, Jacksonville Light infantry armory and the telephone central office. Thence it jumyed across the street to the Semi nole Club bouse, three stories high, and commuuicated to the Smith building and the Mattier building. Iu the Smith building a large amount of dynamite had been stored. This exploded and started fires blocks away to the northwest. The sound was not heard, but the effects of the explosion was seen fifty miles away. In the city the effect was stunning. Men fell in the streets and many were injured. Plate glass for four and five squares was shattered, uud the sidewalks covered with broken glass. The firemen could have stopped the fire at this point, but for the explosion. That rendered them about helpless. Residences, stores and hotels broke into flames, and the fire became a terrible conflagration, and was not stopped until after daylight in the middle of the square, bounded by Church, Ashley, Laura and Main streets. The burnt district covers about ten blocks 'u area, six long and two wide, embracing some of the finest blocks and best dwellings in the city. A heavy wind was the cause of the fire spreading so much. The city has a desolate look; many families are camping out in the park, as the weather is warm, and they haven’t had time to engage new quartets. This is the heaviest blow in this line Jacksonville has ever sustained. An estimate of the loss and insurance is as follows: Total losses about eight hun dred and fifty thousand dollars. Total insurance $493,805. A CAN FACTORY DESTROYED. The Pocock can factory, in St. Louis, sn extensive establishment, on the corner of Franklin and Second streets, was burned Tuesday morning, and two or three other smaller adjoining concerns were gutted. The total loss is about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Pocock’s loss is about one hundred thous and dollars, with an insurance of $78,000. The other property was well insured. SAFE WORKS BCRN. The Damon Iron And Safe Works in Cambridge, Muss., burned Tuesday. Edward Kendall & Cos., machinists, oc cupied part of the Damon bqilding, and they also were burned out. The entire loss* of the Damon Safe and lion Com pany will appioximate $200,000, on which there is but partial insurance. In the Kendall shop $20,000 worth of pat terns were destroyed, and the stock and machinery ruined were valued at $60,- 000. There is $50,000 insurance. Pittman & Co’s mattrass factory, on Congress street, was also burned out dur ing the afternoon. The building was brick, six stories high. It was complete ly gutted. Loss $200,000 IN WACO, TEXAS. The dry goods and hose furnishing es tablishments of Goldstein & Migel und Currys & Orand, in Waco, Texas, were totally "burned Tuesday night. Loss, $275,000; insurance a little over 50 per . DEATH OF MRS. POLK, The Venerable Widow of Our Republic’s Tenth President. A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says: Surrounded by a few loving friauds and relatives, Mrs. Jas. K. Polk, relict of the tenth President of the United States, de parted this life at 7:30 o’clock Friday morning, peacefully and quietly, in full possession of her mental faculties. Mrs. Polk had been in perfect health until last Wednesday evening, when, on returning from a short drive, she wa3 taken sudden ly ill, from which she never rallied. Had she lived until tbfe 4th of September next she would have been eighteen years be yond the allotted time of three score and ten. The cause of her death was simply exhaustion resulting from old age. The bells throughout vae city arc mournfully tolling, and sympathy and regret are heard from the masses of the people as they gaze upon the bulletins announcing the demise of the honored and beloved lady who spent her years among the people she loved so well, and who respected her as one of the noblest of her sex. YELLOW JACK Making Fearful Headway in Vera Cruz. The Ward line passenger steamer, City of Washington, arrived at New York Monday morning from Mexican ports and Havana, aud, as a precautionary measure, was detained for thorough inspection and fumigation by the health officer at quarantine. The steamer left Yera Cruz early in August, and then yellow fever was prevaleut to an alarming extent in that city. The hospitals were filled, and though the health authorities were striving to check the spread of the disease, their efforts were appa rently unavailing. Their first attempts were to isolate the patients a soon as the malady made its appearance, but the dis ease spread so rapidly that it was impos sible to cope with it. Many deaths have occurred during the last six weeks, and it was a common sight, officers of the ves sel say, to see a string of funerals half a mile long, stretching from the gates of the city to the cemetery, each fuueral party waiting patiently for a chance to bury its dead. NO. 17. THE JUMP IN WHEAT Causes Pandemonium in the New York Stock Exchange. Dispatches from New York report that the dealings of the produce ex change were again at fever heat with the beginning of trade Monday morning. There was an attempt to run a further radical bull movement on top of the re markable advance of Saturday, and it was successful for a short time. December wheat option, in which there was the most active trading, ran up 1$ cents to $1 .18, and September made $1.15. There was great nervousness aud a feel ing that affairs had been strained. Soon there came along heavy selling orders on foreign account, and local longs became anxious. They began throwing overboard large lines, and prices were soon forced down, December going off to $1.14 and September to $1.125. From these figures there were fitful reactions and much calmer feeling. However, there was evidently fear of taking either the long or the short side, and brokers in operating demanded large margins. A peculiar feature of the dealings Monday was that at no time were prices alike, there being a difference of fully two cents per bushel at the same mo ment in various parts of the pit. The radical advance has a bad look in its driving exporters out of the market, who for the day are remarkably indifferent. In fact, they are attempting to resell their wheat. Selling orders in part came along from the fact that Russia was trying urgently for markets for its wheat, especially upon the continent, in order to be ahead of the order forbidding expor tation, which goes into effect August 27th. “GUILTY OF MURDER” Is the Jury’s Verdict in the Baker Case. A dispatch from Abingdon, Va., says: The jury, Friday morning, in the case of Dr. Baker, charged with the killing of his wife by poison, brought in a verdict of “guilty of murder in the first degree.” The trial which has just ended will go down in history as one of the most sen sational ever known in Virginia, if not in the south. The circumstances of the crime are fresh in the public memory. Dr. Baker was one of the most highly respected citizens of the beautiful and ( historic town of Abingdon. Me was a phy sician of high rank, a gentleman of un usual intelligence and leader iu his com munity. It was thus that Dr. Baker stood in the public estimation when the awful shadow fell across his life that blighted his reputation and will now send him to the gallows. Dr. Baker’s wife died under circumstances which in dicated poison. Dr. Baker was suspect ed of the crime, was arrested and im prisoned. It was charged that he had a partner in the crime, and that partner a woman, who wished to dispose of her husband so that she could marry. She was Mrs. Loula Gilmer, wife of an other prominent citizen of Abingdon, a woman who stood high iu social circles and whose character is supposed to have been spotless. The two parties to the crime are well-known throughout Vir ginia and many portions of the south.. Their arrest and trial created a profound sensation. Mrs. Gilmer turned stated evidence in the trial and It was on he* te timonv that Dr. Baker was convicted. A ROW EMINENT Unless China Interposes in the Murder of Foreigners. A cablegram from Shanghai, China, says: There is no disguising the fact that a most serious state of affairs, po litically, exists in this country at the present moment, and the combined fleets of the powers may be called upon at any time to take effective action. Danger clouds have been teen on the horizon for months past. Smouldering fires, caused by the agitation existing against for eigners and others, among the populace, have repeatedly broken out into flame, but, apparently, without, until quite recently, revealing the strength of the volcano which is threatening a most dis astrous outbreak. Internal affairs, undoubtedly, are in ward, and the actual cause of the dis plays of ill-feeling against foreigners are the only outward signs of the movement in progress. In this City, at present, a state of great excitement prevails at an increased and still increasing tension be tween the Chinese government and min isters of foreign powers. From all ap pearances the former are obstinate in their refusal to redress the injury done to foreigners during the recent riots. Some people say that the government dares not take this step demanded in common jus tice to the powers for fear of incurring a storm of popular disapproval. In any case there is no doubt as to the obsti nacy of the refusal to light the wrongs inflicted upon foreigu residents of Chinu. SPURGEON CONVALESCENT. He Says the Lord’s People Would Not Let Him Die. A Londou ablegratn of Friday says: Mr Spurgeon is able to sit up for a brief period daily. His friends now seriously hope that he will be able to reoccupy his pulpit. His weakness is still very great and his progress is necessarily very slow. The delirium has ceased. He him self says that the Lord’s people would r.ot let him die; that their prayers kept him alive. His physicians state that hie disease retains a hold that threatens to [withstand every remedy. The best pro gnostication at present is that it will be wauy months before lie will be able tc preach.