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VOL. 1.
Central and South America are eager
for more railroads. So is Mexico.
T'ue growth of horse racing in the last
ten years is illustrated by tho fact that
iu 1880 the money added to prizes by
the racing associations amounted to
£IBO,OOO. Now it reaches £4,000,000.
The plan of forming an athletic asso
ciation from members of the New York
National Guard is, declares the San
Francisco Chronicle , a gocd one. The
training will be of more service in phys
ical development than the regular drill.
According to Bradstreets the consump
tion of fruit iu the United States, as of
many other products, exceeds that of
any other country. Although large pro
ducers and exporters, we are still depend
ent to a considerable extent upon foreigu
countries for supplies.
The women’s building at the Chicago
fair is to be next door to the United
States Government building. Uncle Sam
will find out, predicts the Boston Tran
script, that Columbia’s daughters mean
to help in the government before Colum
bus has discovered this country another
400 years.
Canine fidelity,- according to a recent
writer, is declining. As careful breed
ing develops the beauty and amiability
of the dog the stronger and more savage
traits of his nature are eliminated; and
though gentler, and a safer pet, the dog
of the future will lack the intensity ol
devotion which marked former typeL
*
The St. Louis Republic soliloquizes
thus: “When one compares the Italians
who land from the emigrant steamship;
with the same men six mouths afterward
as they trudge through with
shovels and picks in hand, rough as they,
may look in their working clothes, the
poverty they have left behind them and
the prospertty they enjoy is plainly evi
dent. The lifting up - power in this
country is something wonderful.”
The farmers have now iu Pennsyl
vania, for two years, been relieved of
the heavy burden of fencing their grow
ing crops to protect them. . Generally
the change gives satisfactiou, states the
New York Independent, though iu the
wooded areas those who have been ac
customed to leave their stock to run at
large, feel it to be a burden placed upou
them that they can no longer do this.
There is little doubt but that fences will
finally disappear in that State on farm
lands.
After calling attention to the fact that
only five per cent., or 18,270, of the total
immigration to this country during the
last fiscal year settled iu the South, the
New Orleans Times-Democrat says: “The
question of foreign immigration, there
fore,can scarcely be regarded as a pressing
problem in this section, since a move
ment of this size is inappreciable in its
effects. There is a considerable immi
gration into the South,but it is from the
North and West, of persons of American
birth, so that this section remains dis
tinctively American in race and nation
ality.”
Missouri’s peach crop last year was es
timated at £10,000,003. This year it is
larger, and judging from the activity of
tho fruit-growers, 'the State in a few
years will rank first as a peach producer.
What is is known as the Ozark belt in
southwestern Missouri is particularly fa
vorable to the growth of this fruit. The
rolling plateaus possesses a rich red soil:
they are free froth winds and are blessed
with abundance of rain. Last year over
three millions of trees were set cut, cov
ering an area of twenty thousand acres.
A still greater number of trees will bt
planted this year.
An insurance man is responsible foi
the following statement: “The com
plete record of fire losses in New York
City for the first seven months of the
current year is about equal to the amount
paid in for insurance. The premiums
for the whole year amount to £5,500,000,
and the losses up to the present date are
a little over £4,500,000. Deduct from
what is left the office expenses, and if
we don’t have another fire in five months
we may skin through without actual loss.
That’s showing we can make.
The real trouble is with the companies
themselves that fight and cut one an
other’s throats iu tue struggle for busi
ness. It is no wonder that the stock
holders are becoming dissatisfied because
of the inadequateness of the dividends.’
State nf tlaiir lettii
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming’ an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
_ Will am A. Spotswool, a veteran of
three wars, died in Mobile, Ala., Mon
day.
F. L. Carroll committed suicide at a
San Fr inc'sco hotel Monday by exploding
a dynami e bomb. The hotel was badly
damaged.
A freight train on the Kentucky Union
railroad was wieckcd at Clay City, Ky.,
Monday. Fireman Thompson Hall wa9
Idled and Engineer Hanna badly injur
ed.
The Staunton, Va., Shoe Company
assigned Saturday morning. Liabilities
about twenty-two thousand dollars,
assets about the same. The want of
ready money was the cause.
A San Fraicisc* dispatch says: The
bark Ho.al Tar, from Australia, anchored
in qu.irant ne Monday morning, report
ing fever and scurvy on board and tl.e
ca tain and first mate both dead.
Bob O.uesby, in charge of a gang of men
putting up lines for the Postal Telegraph
Company in Chattanooga, disappeared
Tu sday with £1,500 he had drawn with
which to pay his force. There are sus
picions of foul p’ay.
A Ilaleigh dispatch says: It is official
ly announced Snturd y that after consul
tation, the leading colored men of North
Carolina have agreed to come together
iu a body in November to confer with a
v ew to understanding how to unify their
s'ength for future action.*
A dispatch of Friday from San An
tonia, Tex., says thit the bandits who
robotd the Southern Pacific express
train at Samuels on Tuesday night se
emed more booty than first rep >rts of
the robbery stated. Instead of £2,000,
as reported, they secured $15,000.
A Birmingham dispatch says: W. H.
David-on, the leader of what remains of
the greenback labor party in Ala
bama, was on Thursday arested by Post
office Inspector Pierce, charged with
embezzlement. Davidson lived at Ha
leysvile, Winston county, where he is
postmaster, and he is accused of embez
zling £563 of pos.toffice funds. -
A Mobil# dispatch of Saturday says:
The war department has just completed
the transfer to Mount Vernon barracks,
Alabama, of thirty-eight Apache prison
ers, men, women and children, mem
bers of the Chiricahwa, Warm Springs
and Mcscalero bands, the remnant of
Geronimo’s hostiles, who have hereto
fore been incarcerated at Fort Wingate,
New Mexico. *
In the Tenneese house of Representa
tives, on Tuesday, an opinion from Attor
uey General Pickle was represented, in
which he declared that the penitentiary
lessees had no authority to sublease con
victs. Thereupon the house. adopted a
resolution instructing the board of prison
inspectors to order all convicts from
branch-prisons, except chose owned and
run by the lessees.
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch says: Late
reports from immediate localitiea devel
op the fact that the cotton crop will not
be as great as was first supposed in that
section though no worms have yet ap
peared. It has been suggested by a Dallas
county farmer that the people hold back
their cotton as long as possible for higher
prices. He advocates the plan originat
ed in South Carolina, and his advice may
be taken. ,
A Savannah dispatch says: The offi
cers and stockholders of the Southbound
railroad and South Carolina commission
made a trip of inspection over the new
road Tuesday from Savannah to Denmark,
the crossing*with the South Carolina rail
road. The road is completed from Sav
annah 110 miles toward Columbia. S. C.
The remaining thirty miles will be com
pleted by October Ist, when the road will
be in operation through to Columbia.
A dispatch from Asheville, N. C., says:
Another horrible accident was probably
avoided on the Richmond and Danville,
rear Marion, Friday night, by a colored
man discovering a fill in the road had
washed away. Knowing the western
bound train was about due, he set out at
the top of his speed to wave it down,
which he did in just eight minutes after
discovering the washout. A sum of
money was given him by the train’s pas
sengers as a reward for his heroic action.
A Birmingham. Ala., says:
At a club meeting Friday, two letters,
written by Hector D. Lane to Commis
sioner Kolb, just after the burning of the
governor in effigy at Athens Inst winter,
will be made public. They denounce
the governor in the strongest terms, and
declare the writer’s sympathy with the
effigy burning. As the governor has just
appointed Lane commissioner on his de
nial of sympathy with the burning, these
letters are rare and racy.
A dispatch of Friday from Florence,
Ala., states that the effect of the cool
weather on the cotton crop is beginning
to be noticed now, and the prospect for
a good crop is more gloomy than j&t any
time during the year. The August crop
is shedding its squares and young bulls
rapidly, which, in addition to the rust
which has made its appearance duiing
the pa=t week, promises to be somewhat
disastrous to the crop. It is estimated
that the crop will be 20 per cent, less
than it was thought to be one week ago
Thk report of ttie Commissioner of Labor
of Massachusetts shows that sixty-six
per cent, of the persons employed in manu
facturing and mechanical industries in that
State earn lass than $1.60 a day. This iUr
eludes both sexes.
TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1891-
crop BULLETIN.
Cold Weather Has Seriously In
jured Cotton.
The weather crop bulletin issued from
the Agricultural Department et Wash
ington for week ended September sth,
says: The week has been cooler than
usual in all districts east of the Rocky
mountains, while to the westward, on
the Pacific coast, the excess in tempera
ture above normal for the week ranged
from 3 to 5 degrees. Frost occurred
during the week from Wisconsin south
westward to Colorado, but it has not
yet reached the principal corn states
with sufficient severity to cause any par
ticular injury to the crops. More than the
usual amount of rainfall occurred in the
northern portion of the cotton region east
of the Mississippi, in southeast Florida,
northeast Michigan, and in limited areas
in the Ohio valley and to the west of the
Mississi ppt. General rams occurred
along the Alleghany range, while light
showers are reported in all other sections
east of the Rocky mountains, except in.
southeast Texas. No rain occurred on
the Pacific coast.
REPORTS FROM THE STATES.
Virginia—All crops advanced, but to
bacco needs dry, warm weather.
North Carolina—Cotton is opening very
slowly; some lust and shedding reporte i.
Tobacco curing is progressing rapidly.
The weather has been too cool for the
best results.
South Carolina—Cotton has been se
riously injured by tjie cool, cloudy
weather and continued heavy rains, the
injury beißg estimated at from 20 to 30
per cent. Nearly five inches of rain fell.
Alabama —There has been no material
change in the condition of the cotton
crop since last report. Rains arrived
rather late for cotton, but benefitted po
tatoes and vegetables.
Mississippi—A cool, but sunshiny week.
Cotton is suffering badly from the com
bined (fforts of drought, rust, worms
and opening of immature bolls, and pro
mises from 2 to 4 per cent, less than a
month ago. Other immature crops are
beginning to suffer permanent injury.
Louisiana —The weather has been un
favorable to cane and cotton, rust and
shedding reported from the northern par
ishes, the cool nights injuring the top
cotton crop. Rice is being harvested
with good yields. Warm rains are need
ed.
Arkansas —The weather has been fa
vorable to all crops save cotton, which
continues to deteriorate. The cool nights
have been injurious, and the condition
of cotton has fallen off from 10 to 25 per
cent.
Texas—Unless general rains fall within 1
ten days the late cotton and the top crop
will be light. The cool weather has
checked the ravages of the boll worm.
Cotton picking is progressing rapidly.
The grounds too dry for plow,ng.
Tennessee—The growth of cotton has
been checked by the cool night 3 . Late
corn and tobacctr are doing well. Fall
plowing has been retarded by the dry
weather. Crops generally are in a prom
ising condition.
It is reported that the cotton crop in
the country surrounding Anniston will
not average much over 50 per cent. It
has been from two to three weeks late
all the year, but until two weeks ago the
prospects for an average yield were good,
but about that time rust was discovered
in spots and it has gradually spread ever
since until now no more than half a crop
is expected.
MORE TRAIN ROBBING.
Masked Highwaymen Make a
Nice Little Haul.
A dispatch from Canon City, Col.,
says: Seven men held up the east-bound
train, No. 4, Tuesday night near Coto
paxi. As soon as it stopped the engi
neer and fireman were deliberately held
up at the point of a rifle. Fireman Auer
was relieved Of his fine gold watch, and
then at the muzzle of seven rifles he was
forced to pick the lock and break in the
doors of the baggage car. Express
messenger, Angel, made a determined
resistance and the fight was a fierce ope,
though it only lasted a few moments.
Then one of the masked men placed the
cold muzzle of the revolver against the
messenger’s temple, and under pressure
of a threat against his life, he opened
the safe door. The highwaymen took
$3 ,600 from the strong box. Horses
were in readiness, and as soon
robbery was accomp'ished they fled.
THIS ONE IN TEXAS.
Telegraphic advices from Samuel,
Tex., a small station on the Southern
Pacific railway, located in a thinly-set
tled section, give a thrilling account of
a daring robbery committed by six mask
ed men at that place shortly after mid
night Tuesday night. All the money
and valuables iu the safe ir, the express
car were seized by the robbers, as well as
several sacks of mail and registered pack
ages from the mail.
The money obtained was
over fifteen thousand dollars. The
train was just pulling out from the sta
tion when six masked men simultaneous
ly mounted the engine, mail and express
ears, two men for each of these positions.
Over forty shots were fired, literally per
forating the baggage and express car
without injuring any one, when an un
expected mode of procedure was adop
ted, that of exploding a dynamite car
trige against a small window in the ex
press car. The express messenger avas
stunned, but he recovered in a few mo
meets, only to be overpowered by the
robbers, and made to give up his safe
key. The train was delayed several
, hours, robbers took thir time iu doing
the job, and with the utmost coolness
and exhibition of great nerve. The
gang escaped and ar* npw in Mexico.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
L’inneapoli-i has rejected St. Paul’s
offer for a union of the two cities.
A New and damaging insect has at
tacked In ets in California, grown for
sugar factories.
The postolli; aat Key port, N. J., was
entered by rob' era Sunday night who got
away with £I,OOO.
The trades union congress, in session
at Newcastle, England, is a large body
and is attracting much attention.
Ihe British bark Fiji, bound from
Hamburg to Melbourne, has been wreck
ed on the rocks off Auscralia. Thirteen
of the crew were drowned.
The London Times, in its financial ar
icle, Tuesday morning, says that a syndi
cate of European cipitalists has offered
to advance the Chilean junta £500,000
with which to meet pressing requirements.
A woman residing in London, Ont.,
assisted by her husband, has been en
gaged in running Chinamen over to
Detroit. The plan adopted was to dress
the heathens in female attire and send
them over.
The immense storage warehouse of R.
C. Layton, at Nos. 63 and 64 South
street New York city, was destroyed by
lire Tuesday, entailing a loss of fully
£2OO, dOO. The building was of brick
and five stories high and was well stocked
with spices and teas.
A dispatch received Saturday at the
Chilean legation in Paris from Santiago
de Chile, says that a provisional govern
ment of Chile has been constituted, and
that it will send a circular letter to the
powers and to all countries appearing
di-posed to recognize the present admia
istiation of Chile.
A letter was published in London
papers Saturday from the minister in
charge of Christ church, Jerusalem, say
ing that, on petition of native trades
men, the sultan has stopped the influx of
Russian Jews, and that he will not per
mit them to land In Pales tine without a
special order.
The steamer City of New York arrived
at Qut nstown Tuesday, having crossed
the Atlantic in five days, twenty-two
hours and fifty min Mes, equaling the
best previous eastwwß passage. She
carried the Japan mails, which left Yoko
homa August 19th, and New Y-ork Sep
tember 2d.
The Washington Post of Monday morn
ing says that advices received
there state that General Hawley, of Con
necticut, has beeu offered the wafsecre
taryship, to succeed Sect eta'y doctor,
and that he is now at Cape May, confer
ring with President Harrison about the
matter.
A dispatch from Alliance, Ohio, says:
The most destructive storm ever known
litre passed over early Mouday morning.
Twelve houses and barns were struck by
lightning, aggregating a loss of £50,000.
The electrical display was bewildering in
its intensity. It is aho reported that a
number of lives w r ere lost.
M. T. Able, of Harrodsburg, Ivy., made
an assignment Saturday. Assets nomi
nally £300,000; liabilities unknown. He
is interested in *J3irmingham and Flor
ence, Ala., and Wichita, Kan., and is
supposed to have property to meet all his
debts, but was forced to the wall by
small creditors demanding immediate
payment.
A dispatch of Saturday from Santa Fe,
New Mexico, says: Frank Chaves, dem
ocratic sheriff of Santa Fe county for the
past five years and ex-officio tax collector,
has tendered his resignation to the board
of county commissioners. He is short
£33,000 collected by him during several
years past, £20,000 being county funds
and £13,000 territory funds.
A Baltimore dispatch says: John
Moore and Charles J. Moore, trading as
Robert Moore <fc Cos., wholesale dealers
in cloth, on Baltimore street, near Han
over street, made an assignment Saturday
for the benefit of the creditors for Carl
Victor, trustee. Ihe bond was for £IOO,-
000. The firm has been in existence
about forty years. The balance sheet,
just taken, shows the firm’s assets to be
approximately $143,000 and liabilities
£7,000, .... _____
CHILE RECOGNIZED
By Minister Egan at the Re
quest Uncle Sam.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: So far as Chile is concerned, the
department of state is much encouraged
by Minister Egan’s cablegram announc
ing the establishing of cordial relations
between himself and the provisional
government. Officials at the depart
ment specially call attention to the fact
that the provisional government in Chile
was not organized until the 4th instant,
and on the same day it was recognized
by the American minister, who had been
instructed by cable to do so. This act
is rot a formal official recognition, but it
is all that can be done by any nation at
this juncture, and iu the line with prece
dents of diplomatic practice.
A Whole Family Suicides.
A cablegram from Paris says that a
whole family, numbering six members,
committed suicide Tuesday in that city.
The father and mother showed the way
by hanging themse+ve 3 , and the others
who were adult children, imitated their
parents
COTTON PICKERS
Ordered Out on a Gigantic
Strike.
A dispatch of Sunday from Houston,
Texas, says: The biggest agricultural
strike in the history of the world is im
minent. If it takes place the matured
cotton will rot in the fields. This is
brought about by the colored farmers’
alliance of the United States. This or
ganization lias been perfected through
colored alliances, and numbers more than
half a million with thousands being
added every day throughout tho southern
states. Colonel R. M. Humprey, general
superintendent of the colored alli
ance, admitted the existence of this or
ganization, saying it had been induced
by the organization some time ago of
planters and merchants in certain sec
tions, notably Memphis and Charleston,
to reduce the price for picking to a very
low standard, and (hat the cotton
pickers had combined to protect them
selves from this dictation, and he thought
they would be able to do so.
CIRCULARS SENT OUT.
It is learned that a secret circular has
been maile 1 at Houston to every sub-alli
ance throughout the cotton belt, fixing
the date when the strike of cotton pick
ers will be simultaneously inaugurated,
and how it shall be conducted. The
headquarters of the Colored National
Ahiance of the United States is located
in Houston. Col. R. M. Humphrey, gen
eral superintendent of the Colored Farm
ers’ Alliance and Cotton Pickers’ League,
has been actively at work in organizing
the colored men for a general strike all
over the south. The following is a copy
of the circular which is being distiibuted
by thousands all through thecotton states:
Whereas, The planters and speculators
above mentioned are firm in th ir de
mand that you pick at starvation wages,
as offered by them, and leave your fami
lies to suffer fearful c nsequenccs, placing
to your account the present low price of
their cotton; and,
Whereas, Above six hundred thousand
pickers already have bound themselves
together in sacred covenant to pick no
cotton for any one, except their own, be
fore about November Ist, at less than £1
per hundred pounds, with board; and
Whereas, Your success depends upoD
your united action.
Now, therefore, I, R. 11. Humphrey, ,
by virtue of the authority in me vested,
do issue this, my solemn proclamation,
iixing the 12th day of September, 1891,
't being Saturday, as the day upon which
ill our people shall cease from, and ab
solutely stop picking cotton, except their
wn, aud shill pick Ro more before
ibout N -vember Ist, unless their just
demand for wages shall be sooner ac
ceded to by the plant;rs and others in
terested.
TENNESSEE’S LEGISLATURE
Meets in Extra Session—lmpor
portant Work to be Done.
The Tennessee legislature assembled in
extra session at Nashville, Monday, with
nearly a full- attendance. Governor
Buchannan’s message was sent in early,
aud read to both houses. It is devoted,
almost exclusively, to the penitentiary
question, and reviews at length the re
cent conflict between free and convict
labor at Briceville. He discusses the
four different systems of prison manage
ment, and shows what would
be done towards adopting either.
A langthy report of the Briceville
trouble is given. The power of the
prison inspectors should be defined and
increased, so that they may say how an I
where convicts shall be worked. He
calls attention to the fact that he has
been criticised for calling out the
militia, while the authority of his pre
decessors was never questioned, although
exercised upon much less important
occasions. He reminds the legislature
that if the lease system is wiped
out arrangements must be made for the
additional burden to the State. The
maintenance of 1,500 convicts will cost
£200,000 per annum; transportation,
£50,000; and the amount paid by the
lessees, £100,000; *a total of £700,000
for two years, and added to this £300,-
060 for anew prison, making a total of
£1,000,000 that must be raised in two
years. If these increased expenditures
are made they must be provided
for by increased taxation, which should
be put upon all property alike.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The legislature, after hearing the gov
ernor’s message read, immediately went
to work. Bills were introduced in the
senate to removo the penitentiary from
Nashville and erect new buildings; to
provide that convicts sentenced to less
ihan five years shall be cared for by
counties; that parties, when convicted of
a felony for the second time, shall be
sentenced to life imprisonment. A res
olution was introduced providing for a
committee to confer with the lessees of
the penitentiary aud see under what
terms the convicts can be secured for the
purj o-e of erecting anew prison.
In the house a bill was introduced ap
propriating £59,000 for the world’s fair;
prohibiting corporations and firms from
issuing scrip to employes. A resolution
was offered citing that the lease system
is considered injurious to the state; that
having 1,200 convicts in the mines de
prives that number of free men of work;
that the wealth created by the develop
ment of the state’s resources goes into
the hands of a few New York million
aires, and resolving that a committee be
appointed to wait on the lessees and ask
them to surrender their lease, and that if
they refuse that they be asked to take the
convicts from the mines and woik them
inside the walls of the main prison.
The Weather Bureau at Washington is
preparing to disseminate weather signals in
remote districts by means of signal flags on
passing railroad trains and a system oi
whistles from the locomotive*.
TRADE REVIEW.
Dun & Cos. Send Out an Encour
aging' Report.
The following is 11. G. Dun & Co.’a
review of trade for the week ending
Sept. 4th: Business improves in all sec
tions. At the south, partly because of
the injury of the cotton crop and the
consequent advance in price. At the west
some ; njury to corn by frosts late in the
week is reported, the extent of which is
not yet known, and if it is a serious loss,
may affect trade to some extent, but at
the latest accounts business was active
and almost everywhere improving.
The wheat crop is out of danger and
and is enormous, undoubtedly the largest
ever grown, and moving with unusuai
rapidit y. The corn crop has been saved
and is very large in mo.-t of the surplus
producing states, and even within the
range of the recent frosts appears to
have been in port beyond injury. Cot
ton has been damaged seriously iu some
states—an Alabama corr espondent thinks
30 per cent, and New Orleans dispatches
lepresent 15 to 25 per cent in Louisiana
and Mississippi. Some allowance may
be made for the usual disposition
to exaggerate the effects of aoy mis
fortune. but the loss of some parts of
the entire crop would not reduce the
year’s supply below the world’s require
ments, while, by causing higher prices,
it might beuefit producers and business
in the cotton growing states. 'lhe fact
is, that there is danger of serious over
production ia cotton, in spite of the
rapid increase in the world’s consumption.
The monetary situation is also decidedly
clearer and more favorable.
J? xports from New York in five weeks
exceeded last year’s nearly 31 per cent.,
and while imports also increased largely,
the balance of trade turns decidedly in
favor of the United States. The injury
to cotton may also hasten the exports of
the product, which foreign operators,
knowing of the large stocks in Europe,
might not have bought so early had the
American been full. Finally, tho treas
ury is now disbursing many millions for
per cent, bonds not extended, and the
announcement by the secretary that it is
now able to pay £25,000,000 cash for
these bonds, if desired, gives assurance
to liberal supplies of money.
REPORTS FROM THE CITIES.
Reports from the various cities express
increased confidence, and show tome
actual gain in the volume of trade. At
all southern points higher cotton stimu
lates trade, and collections are somewhat
better, and at New Orleans there is a
fair .demand for sugar. At most south
ern points money is also easier, and at
New Orleans in ample supply for legiti
mate needs. At the west no complaints
of stringency are noted, though money is
firmer at Chicago.
The great industrhs are doing well,
though strikes of importance are threat
ened in the cotton mills at Fall River
and window-glass works at the west.
A distinct improvement is seen in the
demand for iron and its products, though
prices are unchanged, and also in coal,
while minor metals are firm.
THE DRY GOODS TRADE.
Sales of wool at Boston reached 4,817,-
000 pounds, buyers for worsted and
dress goods manufacturers being espe
cially active. Trade in dry goods is
fairly large, particularly in all wool cassi
meres and dress goods. Cotton commis
sion merchants report trade fairly up to
last year’s, and some record a considera
ble increase.
Failures occurring throughout the
country during the past week number for
the United States 197; Canada, twenty.
Total. 217. against 226 last week.
SUNDAY CLOSING
Favored by the Lady Managers
of the Columbian Exposition.
A Chicago dispatch says: At a meet
ing Saturday of the board of lady mana
gers of the world fair Mrs.
Lucas, of Pennsylvania, again urged the
adoption of her resolution, which was
first presented at a meeting last Novem
ber, declaring in favor of closing the
world’s fair on Sundays. Arguments in
favor of Sunday closing were made by
Bishop Fowler and Miss Frances B. Wil
lard. Stirring addresses on the opposite
side of the question were made by Mrs.
Ragley, of Michigan; Mr;. Dabella Ber
cher Hooker, and Mrs. Trautman, of
New York, who contended that the fair
should be open on Sundays for the bene
fit of the poor, who could net go at other
times. The result of the vot*; was, yeas,
54; nays, 36.
WITHHELD FROM THE PUBLIC
Until it Can be Reported to the
Governor.
A Raleigh dispatch of Monday says:
It has been finally decided by the rail
way commissioners to make no report of
their finding in regard to the late railway
wreck at the Third creek bridge until
the regular annual report to the govern
or. The commissioners at fir3t gave out
that their finding would be given the
public. The present impression of the
commissioners is that it is improper to
make a report to the public before mak
ing a report to the governor. A section
of the commission act provides that the
board shall act upon occasion as arbitra
tors, and a Report now would be pre
judging the ca e e.
Third Party Ticket.
A dispatch from Boston says: The
people’s party held a convention Tuesday
and nominated the following state ticket:
Henry Winn, of Malden, governor; Wil
liam J. Shields, Boston, lieutenant gov
ernor; Joseph D. Catle, Westfield, secre
tary of state; Thomas A. Watson, Bain
tree, treasurer and receiver general; Wil
liam O. Wakefield, Lynn, auditor; Israel
Dtuidrews, Danvers, attorney general.
NO. 20.