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VOL. I. Russia takes 36,000 Hebrews into the army every year, but sees to it that no one becomes au officer. A philological statistician calculates that in the year 2000 there will bo 1,700,000,000 people who speak Eng lish, and that the other European lan guages will be spoken by only 500,000,- 000 people. • * ■ -j. - . - V Mrs. John A. Logan tells a Washing ton interviewer that it seems to her that Americans now abroad evince far more intelligent patriotism and less toadyism than did their fellow countrymen who made foreign tours a few years ago. The largest amount of railroad con • struction during the past year in any one group of States was 1186 miles. This was in the,South Atlantic group, com posed of Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. In the New England group the number of miles of new road is only 109. A wonderful story of growth i3 told in the following figures showing the railway mileage of the United States by decades for the past sixty years: In 1830 23 mile.'. . In 1840 2,818 “ In 1850 9,021 “ In 1860 30,626 “ In 1870 52,922 “ In 1880 93,276 “ In 1890 166,817 “ The Quakers are not dying out after all. A decline in their membership in Great Britain began before the end o: the last century and cdntiuued down to 1860, but since that date they have beau increasing. In 1881 there were 14,931 members and 5041 “ attendors ’ at meeting. Since that year there has been an increase of about a hundred or two every year, and the figures for 189 J were 15,836 members and 6110 “atten dee. ” The President’s salary is paid to him in monthly instalments of $41(50.07. The warrant is brought to the White House by a special messenger from the Treasury Department, and after the President has indorsed it, as he would an ordinary draft, his private secretary deposits it at the'Columbia Bank. When the President is out of town the draft is mailed to him. The same method is pursued in paying the Justices of the Supreme Court. Baron Nordeuskjold’s projected South Pole expedition is receive 1 with favor by Australasian scientists m likely to bring increased revenues by the opening up of new regions for whaling, sealing, etc. The Baron’s expedition is to start during our next summer and bo ready for work during the following Autartic summer. The Autartic regions are al most unknown. Vast areas are unex plored. Biscoe discovered a southern continent, as it was thought, in 1831. [n 1841 Sir Jame3 C. Ross got within twelve degrees of the South Pole. No one has ever wintered in the Autartic Zone. The new expedition will pass the winter there. A remarkable instance of parliamen tary obstruction has occurred iu the lower house of Hungary. After a de bate, extending over live weeks, the House decided by 188 votes to eighty light to close the discussion on the principle of the administrative reform bill. Hereupon twenty members of the opposition each brought in a counter bill, backed iu every case by ten signa tures, which, according to the existing rules of the House, must be disposed ot before the Chamber can go into com mittee on the original measure. The ministry has resorted to the only remedy in its power by decreeing that the House shall sit continuously, without vacations, until the reform bill is passed. An extensive fish-hatching station ha been established by the Government at Green Lake, Maiue, to recruit the native stock of that great fishing State, and the supply in surrounding waters, diminished by the encroachments of the lumbermen and the new accessibility to fishermen. Three hundred acres have been purchased, to be devoted to the objects of the sta tion, and a hatching-house, 58x42 feet, has been erected. A flume is being con structed to convey water from a pond shout one mile and a quarter distant. A reservoir or artificial pond is being built, about three acres iu exteut, and a wharf. A\jout fifty men are employed on the difierent parts of the work. THROUGH DIXIE. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED Forming- an Epitome of Daily Happenings Here and There. The Terry Showcase Company, of Nashville, made au assignment Saturday. The department of agriculture on Friday issued a bulletin which gives a list of the cotton aud woolen factories in North Carolina as 133 in number, and 008 other factories. M. Ribat, French foreign minister, at the unveiling of the statue of General Fuidherl Sunday, said, among other things, that France was conscious of her strength, but was prudent. Henrietta Murrell, a colored woman, was executed at Charlotte Courthouse, Va., Monday, for the murder of two col ored children by burning them to death in a cabin in the absence of their mother. A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of Thurs day says: Governor Buchanan has call ed the election in this congressional dis trict to supply the vacancy caused by the death of L. C. Houk, for Saturday, No vember 21st. The Savannah Daily Times office burn ed Saturday night. The upper part of the building was gutted. Estimated loss on machinery and stock, twelve thousand to fifteen thousand dollars; fully covered by insurance. Thursday morning the long-expected fair inaugurated by the colored people opened its first exhibition at the Chatta nooga driving park. The fair is expected to exhibit the work of the colored peo ple of that section in agricultural and mechanical lines. A disastrous fire finished what recent fires had left of the business part of Oakcliff, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, Fri day morning. As no fire department could reach the flames, $50,000 worth of property was licked up in a twinkling. 8. D. Wester’s warehouse, the largest in Chattanooga, was burned Friday night. The loss is estimated in the neighborhood of $200,000, as the build ing was full of produce, including bacon and lard. The flames, consequently, could not be checked. The Southern and Southwestern Rail way Club, composed of the principal mechanical officials of the railroads of the south, assembled in Nashville Thurs day iu annual session. The object of the annual gathering is the discussion of railway machinery and appliances gener ally. On Thursday Chattanooga’s new cot ton compress was put to work on 150 bales of cotton, the first order it has had since completed. The first hour the com press was timed, turning out sixty bales, and the whole lot wa9 finished in two and one-half hours. Chattanooga expects to handle more cotton this season than five previous years. A Tallahassee, Florida, dispateh states that Secretary of State Crawford refuses to attest the commission of ex-Congress man Davidson, appointed by Governor Fleming to succeed Senator Call. Craw ford is an old time whig, and says the great seal of the state, of which he is a custodian, shall never adorn any certifi cate for Call’s successor, without it is call himself. On Thursday Judge Simontou filed in the United States circuit court, at Charleston, S. C., his decision of the motion made by Attorney General Pope for the dismissal of the injunction re straining the Carolina farmers and all other phosphate companies from entering or mining in the Coosaw territory. The decision denies the motion and says the petitioners must give • eight days’ notice before again making the application.- A Columbia, S. C., dispatch of Thurs day says: Under the auspices of the Good Templars lodge of Columbia, 35,000 petitions for signatures asking the legis lature to enact a law prohibiting the liquor traffic in South Carolina, are being sent out. A bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors got a respectable vote in the legislature of 1889, and it is believed that if backed up by numerously signed petitions the coming legislature will enact a prohibitory law. A Chattanooga dispatch says: The broad of public works and the Chatta nooga Electric Street Railway Company were indicted Thursday by the grand jury for obstructing Oak street, and L. G. Walker, W. T. Pope and C. C. Sny der, of the board of public works, and Sam Divine and C. A. Lyerby, of the railway company, were arrested aud placed under bond for their appearance at circuit court to answer the chagre. The electric road has been fined before for a similar offense. THE SOVEREIGN LODGE Of Odd Fellows Meet in Grand Encampment. The seventy-second grand encampment of the sovereign grand lodge of the Inde dependent Order of Odd Fellows was opened in Masonic Hall iu St. Louis, Mo. Monday. Grand Treasurer, Isaac A Shephard, of Philadelphia, reported tho financial status of the order and commenting upon the figures, said they showed an increase in receipts. lho number of initiations last year is shown to be 68,050. The net increase in the United States and Canada during the oast twelve months is 37,000. The total revenue for 1890-91 is $7,244 227 ihe pecuniary benevolence distributed was $4 000,000. He also referred to the growth in popularity cf the degree of Rebecca, which now numbers 13,000 ladies. TRENTON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2,1891. WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. Showing 1 the Condition of All Crops for Past Week. The weather bureau’s crop bulletin for week ended September 26th says: Over the region east of the Rocky moun tains the week has been warmer than the corresponding w*eek of any previous year of which there is record in this office. This abnormal condition of the tempera ture applies especially to the central val leys and the lake regions, where the av erage daily temperature was from 6 to 10 degrees above normal over a greater por tion of the cotton region and in the New England and middie Atlantic states. This unusually high temperature, with continuous cloar weather has practi cally forced the corn crop to maturity, and this large crop is practically safe from injury from frost. Weather con ditions were unfavorable for fall* farm work, owing to the continued drought and the dryness of the soil in the winter wheat region. The week was unusually dry throughout all agricultural regions east of the Mississippi, and generally over the lower Missouri and upper Mis sissippi valleys. Heavy rains occurred on the Texas coast, in the extreme southern portions of Louisiana and Florida, and generally throughout Rocky Mountain regions, including a greater portion of North and South Dakota. Light showers occurred over Texas and thence north ward over the ludian Territory and por tions of Kansas and Nebraska, but gener ally there was a total absence of rain over the central valleys and thence east ward including the greater portions of cotton and winter wheat belts. GENERAL REMARKS. Virginia—Conditions highly favorable for maturing corn and tobacco. Tobacco is generally safe, the greater part being cm. Rain is needed for wheat, seeding and pastures. North Carolina—Cotton picking under way everywhere; bolls maturing rapidly. Rain needed for seeding wheat and oats, of which an unusually large acreage will be planted. South Carolina—Weather favorable to opening cotton; shedding and opening of immature bolls continues, and the out look is gloomy. Harvesting hay and peavines. Cotton stalks drying up. Alabama —Bright, sunshiny weather has enabled the farmers to pick cotton, the staple being gathered in fair condi tion. Rain is needed for potatoes and peas. Mississippi—The storm of Sunday and Monday in the extreme southern part of the state caused some damage. The drought is seriously injuring fall crops; pastures failing and water scarce. The season favors cotton picking; no top cot ton crop. Louisiana —Showers in the sugar re gion are very beneficial to cane; the top cotton crop is also improved, and bolls are opening. Favorable weather for har vesting prevails in the northern parishes. Sunday’s storm prostrated considerable caue, but no other damage. Arkansas —Hot, dry weather, injured all the late crops and stopped plowing. Cotton is being marketed, the staple is good and picking general: the top crop has been greatly injured by the dry weather. Texas —Rain has retarded picking and lowered the grade of cotton in the south ern portion, while it has improved the late cotton and top cotton in other por tions. The outlook is better than last week. More rain is needed in the north western portion for plowing. Tennessee —All crops are suffering from the dry, hot and sunshiny weather. Late corn and tobacco are injured; wheat sowing suspended; pastures parched; cotton bolls opening badly; hog cholera in Hamblen county; water scarce and the outlook discouraging. Kentucky—A hot, dry week; corn matured and beyond danger from frost; tobacco ripening rapidly, but burning from the dry weather. It will be safe in ten days. Pastures need rain. Wheat sow ing has commenced. BISHOP TURNER, The Colored Divine, Talks Glow ingly of Africa. A Boston, Mass., dispatch says: Bish op Henry McNeil Turner spoke to a large congregation of colored people Monday night in the African Methodist Episcopal church, ou Charles street, on his propos ed trip to Africa, and in advocacy of the migration of 100,000 or 150,000 of the colored race to that continent. His ob servation, he said, had taught him that there was little hope for the oolored race in this country; that the best thing a number of them could do wa3 to go to some other country, set up a government of their own, and demonstrate that they had in them native ability to administer the affairs of state. In Africa he saw such a country. It was rich in gold, sil ver, precious stones and minerals of all descriptions, such as a people starting to govern themselves would need to make them strong and mighty. He solemnly be lieved that the black men and women in America would finally be the instrument to redeem and Christianize Africa and plant on her soil one of the grandest gov ernments the sun ever shone upon. Alliance Organ Withdraws. A Louisville dispatch of Friday says: The Farmers’ Home Journal, for nearly ten years the official organ of the Farm ers’Alliance of Kentucky, has given up its connection with that organization. The rea=on assigned is that the al!i®icc wishes to go into politics. There are two factious in the alliance in Kentucky upon this question of joining the people’s par ty, and at the state meeting at Elizabeth town, November 10th, there will be a sharp contest between the two for the election of state officers, who are op posed to political action by the alliance. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. The Gaiety theater, in Liverpool, was destroyed by fire Friday. Three men were roasted to death by oil igniting in a railroa J accident in North Dakota Monday. The newspapers of Paris greatly praise the tenor of a speech made Sunday by Ribot, minister of foreign affairs. Some shrewd crook has been robbing the letter boxes in Nashville and cashing checks found in business letters. Philadelphia suffered a two-huudred thousand dollar blaze Monday. It was on Water aud North Delaware streets. Reports received by the Italian minis ter of agriculture indicate that the wheat crop of Italy will be very great this year. Later returns from the explosion at the Italian celebration at Newark, place the number of killed at eleven, and wounded at thirty. Over two million dollars in subscrip tions were received by Drexel, Morgan & Cos. Monday to the new Union Pacific notes offered by them Satnrday. The boiler of Berlin’s new saw mill, at Bear Creek, Pa., exploded Thursday morning, completely demolishing the mill and instantly killing three men. Dispatches of Thursday say: The Al sace-Lorraine passport decree, which nominally goes into effect iu October, is already in operation, and the frontier is now open. A masked man entered the jail at Laramie, Wyo., Monday, presented a pistol at the jailer, bound and gagged him, and released Miller, the boy mur derer. Governor Pattisnn, of Pennsylvania, has called the senate in extraordinary session on Tuesday, October 13th, in order to inquire into charges made against the state auditor and treasurer. The first installment of nickel steel plate made in this country for actual use, was delivered Thursday at Cramp’s ship yard. It is the three-inch prosective deck plate for one of the triple-screw cruisers. The funeral of the late William L. Sqptt took place fromJiis late residence in Erie, Pa., Thmlday afternoon. A.mong the most noted of many distin guished persons present was ex-PresideDt Cleveland, Hon. Daniel L. Lamont and Governor Pattison. The North Germd^Pazette of Friday publishes the official result of inauiries made in regard to the wheat of Prussia. According to this report the crop amounts to 18,408,000 double quin tals, against 17,523,000 in 1890. The summer and winter crops together will yield 1,000,000 double quintals over the same crops of 1890. On Friday, a consignment of twenty three carloads of iron buildings left East Berlin, Conn., from the Berlin Bridge Company to the Cmopania Naciaal ue forjas Estaleiros, Rio de Janeiro. The company is extensive shipbuilders, and has heretofore bought supplies in Eng land, but in now able, under the treaty, to obtain better goods at the same rate in the United States. A WHOLESALE HANGING. Ten Negroes to Swing for the Murder of One Man. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch of Friday says: Wednesday and Thursday, in the Laurens court of sessions, were consumed in the trial of Jim Young, Allen Young, Monroe Young, Henderson Young, John Adams, Perry Adams, Lige Atkinson, Tom Atkiuson, John Atkinson and Jack Williams, for the murder of Thorton Nance, in a church row in Hunter town ship near Mountville, on the night of the sth of last August. The prisoners were brought to the courtroom at 11 o’clock Friday morning. Judge Hudson overruled a motion for a new trial. Then they stood up to receive the death sentence. Eight in a line in front of the bar railing and two in the docks behind. It was a remark able scene. Asa body they appeared far above the average negro in intelligence. Lige iAtkinson and the Adams boys are handsome mulattoes. Judge Hudson before sentencing, remarked that he had never before had such an experience. He commented on the habit of the colored people to select religious meetings as a time for deeds of blood. Then he pronounced the sentence. They are all to be hanged on the 23d day of October. The prisoners showed no emotion, but as the judge concluded there was a wail from the au dience. It came from the wife of Perry Adams. She was joined by another, and finally they were taken out by the con stables. The wives, children and parents were grouped in the public square as tho ten condemned men passed back to jail in charge of the deputies. The whole quarters resouudeel with their cries and weeping. The recommendation to mercy made by the jury has no effect upon the laws of the state, and the entire gang will be hanged uuless the governor chooses to interfere. A TIMELY REBUKE. They were walking in the starligb fully three feet apart, when he broke tho silence by saving: “Do you think the stars are watching us?” “Perhaps they are,” she replied, “but it doesn't mutter much; they are not likely to see anything.” ( SOME OF OUR GUNBOATS May be Sent to China as an Ad ditional Precaution. A Washington dispatch of Monday says: A week ago Secretary Tracy, after sum moning a number of American war ves sels in Chinese waters, remarked: “If, however, American missions and Ameri can citizens in China are to rely upon gunboats for their protection, rather than upon the Chinese government, our fleet in those waters must be very largely in creased." Since that utterance events hive so shaped themselves as to indicate the wisdom of preparing to meet an emergency foreseen by Secrotary Tracy. While there is at present no formal alli ance, yet the government of the United States has reached an understanding with the governments of Great Britain, France and Germany by the terms of which, in the event of failure of the Chinese gov ernment to afford adequate guarantees for the protection cf the lives, property and interests of citizens of these four nations, that duty is to be undertaken by the governments of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and France, act ing jointly. CONVICTS FRUSTRATED In a Dastardly Plot to Hang a Jailor. A Birmingham, Alu., dispateh says: W. F. Bentley, John Bentley, W. S. Cagle, Harvey Thomas, James Cross and B. Tetherow nre a gang of robbers, burg lars and train wreckers who now repose in Gadsden jail under sentence to the penitentiary. As soon as they have serv ed out their sentence the United States government is ready for them with an indicement for wrecking a mail car near Springville. Recently they formed a plot to escape, and on Monday morning when Jailer B. F. Milton en tered the corridor and unlocked their cells to turn them out for the day they leaped ou him. Milton managed to throw the outer door keys out of the window and drew Ills kuife with which he cut two of them. But they overcame him, tied a rope around his neck and were in the act of, hanging him when a cityi po liceman appeared. He entered the jail, ordered the men back to their cells and released Milton in the nick of time. WHARF LABORERS STRIKE. Over Eleven Hundred Quit Work at Savannah. A Savannah, Ga., dispatch says: Eleven hundred colored trucksters aud other wharf hands struck Monday morn ing. About one thousand of them were employed by the Ocean Steamship com pany, and the remainder by the Mer chants’ and Miners’ Transportation com pany, operating the line to Baltimore. The strike at the Baltimore wharf was rather unexpected. The management says it will be able to secure all the new bends it wants, and by pushing them will not be delayed beyond a few hours. The Ocean Steamship company manage ment says the same but of course this is all conditioned on the strikers not inducing th* new men into leaving or driving them from their work by force. THE HORSES RAN And the Carriage Upset—Two Ladies Killed. A terrible accident occurred at Mari etta, Ga., Sunday which caused the death of two estimable ladies and the serious injury of another. While Mrs. Merritt, Mrs. Reynolds, Miss Kate Reynolds, her daughter, and Miss Alma Kolheim were returning home from church iu carriage, the horses became unmanageable and ran away upsetting the vehicle and throwiug the occupants to the ground. Miss Reynolds was instantly killed, her neck being broken. Mrs. Merritt lingered only a few hours in an unconscious con dition, while Miss Kohheim was so seri ously injured that her life was dispared of. Mrs. Reynolds the driver escaped unhurt. A TEST CASE To be Made Regarding the Al abama Oyster Law. A Mobile, Ala., dispatch says: The Alabama oyster law—passed at the last session of the legislature, and intended to protect Alabama reefs from being de spoiled by the canning companies of Mississippi—has inflicted so much loss on Mississippi canners that they have vio lated the law with the view of making a test case. George Melville, of the schooner Itaty, a citizen of Mississippi, took a number of oysters in the shell from Alabama reefs last week, and car ried them to Biloxi, Miss. He returned to Mobile Friday, aud was arrested, gave bond, and the case will go to the supreme court. THE NEW COUNTRY. A Bank and Many Stores Con ducted Under Canvas. A dispatch of Saturday from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says: Couriers report that about thirty stores are running in tents at a temperary town near Chandler, and that Colonel William D. Taylor, of Clin ton Mo., has the Bank of Oklahoma in full operation. HIS SPECIALTY. “Oh! yes. lie’s quite a remarkablo man. Able to concentrate his mind on one particular subject, no matter how great tho crowd and confusion around him. llis power of abstraction is simply wonderful.” “What is his special branch of science?” “Kleptomania, I think they call it.” —[Washington Post, THE SONG THAT SILAS SUNO, Neighbor Silas sung a song Every day his whole life long, Sung It gladly ’neath the cloud That hung o’er him like a shroud. Or when sunbeams with their play Gleamed and glorified this way: Like a shower of joy outflung Was the song that Silas sung: Let the howlers howl. And the scowlers scowl, And the growlers growl. And the gruff gang go it; But behind the night There’s a plenty of light, And everything is all right And I know it I Like the battle drum to me Was the song of victory, Like the flute’s exultant strain ’Mid the wounded and the slain. Like the quick blood-stirring fife On the battle-plain of life— Far and free the echoes run Of the song that Silas sung: Let the howlers howl, And the scowlers scowl, And the growlers growl, Aud the gruff gang go it; But behind the night There’s aplenty of light, And everything is all right And I know it I Silas’s soul has taken flight? Passed in music through the night, Through the shadow chill and gray, And gone singing on its way; But the qaint song that was his Cheers the saddened silences; Still glad triumph notes are flung From the song that Silas sung: Let the howlers howl, And the Scowlers scowl, And the growlers growl, And the gruff gang go it; But behind the night There’s a plenty of light, And everything is all right And I know it! — 5. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade. PITH AND POINT. % *• 1 ■■■■ Storm sceuters—Corns, “Mamma,” said Willie, “open your mouth wide, I want to see your voice.” — Bazar. A bigot is a man who is dead sure o! something he doesn’t know anything about.— Puck. “A fool and his money are parted soon”— It’s a fact both true and funny. Some girl in society gets the fool, And his friends divide the monoy, —Truth. “Everything that glitters is not gold” mused the ring fakir as he disposed of the whole lot for five cents.— Jeuoeleri' Circular. Night Clerk—“ How does it seem to be a hotel waitress?” New Girl—“lt seems as if I was maid to opder."—Buf falo Express. Plurnduif—“Does your wife talk in her sleep?” Plane—Don’t know; she always talks me to sleep first.”—Bing hamton Bepublican. “No, sir,” said the shoe manufacturer. “I can’t sell the goods at that price; I’m a shoemaker, not a freebooter.”— Shoe and Leather Reporter. When something has parted a married pair, It sets all the neighbors humming. And the most of them you will hear declare, They know that the thing was coming. —New York Press. He—“Aw, Miss Emily, you seem to have your mind on something.” She—“ Far from it, Mr. Dudely; I was thinking of you.”— Detroit Free Press. Amy—“ls it true that your engage ment with Mr. Hunker is brokeu off?” Mabel (holding up her left hand) —“No; you can see for yourself that I am still ia the ring.”— Pack. Employer—“ Thompson, you are dis charged.” Employe—“But what have I done, sir?” Employer—“ Nothing. Absolutely nothing. That’s what I com plain about.”— Bazar. Spoak gently; it is better far To make a soft reply, Than to have a bigger fellow mar The outlines of your eye. — Commercial Gazette. When a young man first meets an ex perienced coquette he is apt to think how artless she is; before she gets through with him he is pretty sure to think how heartless she is.— Someroille Journal. Bob-tailed Bogs of Alaska. “Every dog in Alaska is bob-tailed,” remarked Mr. Turner, a returned trav eler, as he kicked over a narrow tobog gan sled which had been hauled over thousand of miles of frozen snow. “In the immediate neighborhood of our camp on the Porcupine there were about 150 natives* Everyone had dogs enough to drag him over the country, and every dog was minus his tail. Owing to the soft snow a path must be beaten by snow shoes for the dogs, and they are driven tandem to minimize the labor of sledging. They are hitched so close together that tails would be a nuisance to the dog be hind, so they are eliminated. “It is a terrible hardship on the dogs, too, for the mosquitos fly in clouds there in the spring, driving every living ani mal before them. Even the black bears must lie all day in the water with nothing but their noses sticking out to keep the mosquitos from blinding them. We could not have lived without mosquito netting, for they are so thick and blood thirsty that they will drive a person fran tic in five minutes’ time.”— San Fran titco Chronicle- NO. 23.