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VOL. 1.
The soldiers’ homes of the country
are said to be overcrowded.
“Even the African colonies are out
distancing Canada in the growth of
population,” exclaims the Brooklyn
Citizen.
California hotel prices are twenty-five
per cent, less than those in the East, and
the hotels themselves are said to be far
niperior in appointments.
A Chicago clergyman lias observed
that the rate of speed of carriages at
funerals is becoming faster, and where
fifteen years ago a walk and only a walk
was regarded as the proper pace, now
trotting is very common.
An Englishman who has been travel
ing in Siberia says that the life of the
Russian exiles there is not so hard as
it has been depicted. They enjoy
society, indulge in fancy dress balls and
have a gcod time generally—but with
limitations.
Says the New York Telegram • “Cali
fornia is fast becoming the fruit growing
section of the United States, and there is
no place on this continent that offers such
inducements to young men of brains and
some money. The money is necessary,
for no man can start from nothing and
hold his own.”
Hog raising is becoming every year
more popular throughout the cotton
growing States, notes the New Orleans
New Delta , and more attention is paid tc
breed and feed. The native razor-bach
is giving way to better stock, and instead
of being wholly compelled to forage for
himself, the great cotton staple is made
to furnish him the best of diet in the
form of cotton seed meal.
The Boston Transcript soliloquizes :
“There was a pretty symool wrapped up
in that incident at the unfurliug of the
enormous United States flag at Spring
field, Mass., the other day—the drop
ping of flowers from its loosening folds
upon the heads of the throng beneath.
One could easily “spread the eagle,” as
the skaters say, on this subject, and one
may at least be allowed to cut a modest
pigeon-wing of exultation as one glances
at the blessings that t’ae Goddess of Lib
erty scatters over us—picking up a te.v
of the flowers strewn by her hand.”
An instance of the bad working of the
jury system, in which the consequences
are important, is alleged in the cas3 of a
man tried in Northern Michigan for cut
tin" off the timber on Government land
n
under cover of a fraudulent homestead
entry. The entry, it is asserted, was
made, not for the purpose of establish
ing a home, but solely to denude the
tract of its valuable _ timber. Althouga
it is said to have beeu snavvn that nearly
a million feet of pine was stripped off,
the jury placed its value at only £1023,
so much less than the real value a3 to
make the offence well worth repeating
and risking the penalty at a jury’s hands.
“Ireland,” says the Toronto Globs, “is
the only country in modem tim33 which
has suffered more than Canada from the
emigration of her children. If we could
count the native Canadians who have
crossed the line from 1862 to 1891, to
gether with the European settlers who
have made this a half-way inn on the
the road to the United States, it would
probably be found that, allowing for the
larger population of Ireland, we have
come out almost as badly as that ‘meat
distressful’ country, whereas by rights
we should have increased and multiplied
83 no other people on the face of tfcia
earth, considering the rude plenty which
every mau enjoys and the illimitable
spaces to be filled.”
“The best protection a yoang woman
can have iu New York City,” said a big
policeman oa the Broadway squad re
cently, *q 3 olle Q f those little silver
crosses that the King's Daughters wear.
I y e noticed that nowadays the profev
B ional masher will first look at the
bosom of a woman’s dress, aud if that
bble cross is dangling from a button
he passes her by without even a
1 are - It’s the same way on street C3rs
°n the street. Tho young woman who
"ears one of those badges has got the
'"bole carload ol men to take care of her
jump oa the fellow that dares to an-
a °y her. The cross is getting to be
oked upon with the same respect and
-ference as a nun’s garb. Asa saTe-
P** beats the average policeman ail
hollow, ”
State of jafie Hems.
THE WIDE WORLD.
general telegraphic and
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
'ihe miners have decided to call out all
men in the Pittsburg, Pa., district.
By the piemature eX pj ( s j on 0 f giant
powder in Montana, iMinn Tuesday,
lour workmen were kj|] L( ]
The Teutonic has arrived at Queens
town, having beaten the fastest previous
record from New York.
Lieutenant Colonel Ilowletto, one of
the few survivors of the British officers
who fought at Waterloo, is dead.
The firm of Irving A. Evans & Cos., ol'
Boston, made an assignment Monday.
Eire, Saturday, destroyed the Iron
Mountain and cotton Belt depot at Bird’s
Point, Mo. •
Theodora Doerfl nger, absconding
treasurer of the school board of Pitts
burg, has been arrested at Omaha.
A cablegram of Saturday states that
there is au extensive outbreak of pleuro
pneumonia in the south of Loudon.
The president has appointed Richard
Herbet, of Ohio, to be United States
counsnl at Antiqua, West Indies.
The grand jury at Denver has brought
indictments againstex-Citv Auditor Ray
mond and James Haley on the charge of
forgery.
About eight thousand miners in Staf
fordshire and Worcestershire have struck
against a reduction of 10 per cent in
wages.
On Monday, Post master General Wana
maker opened proposals for supplying
the proposed increase in the ocean mail
service.
The importation of Welshmen to take
the place of workmen by the St. Louis
Stamping company wiil be brought be
fore the grand jury.
The comptroller of currency, on Sa'ur
day, authorized the lloiston National
bank, of Knoxvile, Tenn., to begin bus
iness with a capital of SIOO,OOO.
A cablegram of Friday that the
printeis in Breslau and Leips c are pre
paring to strike for a nine hours’ day and
an advance of 33 cent in wages.
S. Simon, of Berlin, has sold to the
University of Ch cauo a library of 280,-
000 volumes and 120,000 dissertations in
all languages. The price paid is not
known.
A dispatch from Salem, Mass., says:
The great Seals will contest case in which
Timothy Hopkins, an adopted son, is try
ing to break the will, closed Saturday.
Judge Harman stateel that he should sus
tain the will.
A cablegram of Monday from Madrid,
Spain, says: Floods continue in all direc
tions. Telegraphic communication with
Paris is interrupted. The railroad tun
nel between Vitcher and San Ciena un
dermined by the flood and collapsed,
stopping all railroad traffic between
Madrid and Seville.
Berlin, Getmany, has been treated toa
“Jack the-Ripper” sensation. The body
of a wretched, abandoned woman was
found horribly stabbed in her lodgings
in a squalid quarter of the town Saturday
night. She was horribly slashed and
mutilated. The assassin, who is un
known, escaped.
A Boston, Mass,, telegram of Friday
states that a joint debate has been ar
ranged for October 28, in Tremont tem
pie, between Sam Small, the prohibition
advocate, and Rev. Hugh Montgomery,
of / üburn, on “The Relations of the Re
publican and Prohibition parties to the
Supression of the Liquor Traffic.”
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch of Friday
says: In au interview Hon. Calvin S.
Brice, chairman of the democratic na
tional executive committee, stated that
it was his intention to resigu the chair
manship of the committee after the nom
ination of the presidential candidates.
He did not say who would be his suc
cessor.
Trinity German Lutheran church, at
Baltimore, celebrated its centennial anni
versary Sunday. A large portion of the
church is the same as it was a hun
dn and years ago. Many visiting clergy
men and prominent citizens were
present. Cardinal Gibbous sent a letter
with a copy of his book, “The Faith of
our Fathers.”
A New York dispatch says: The one
hundred and-t wen ty-fifth anniversary oi
American Methodism was celebrated Sun
day with appropriate services in the old
J. hn street Methodist Episcopal church
—the first church of that denomination
established in this country. Many cler
gymen from all parts of the country and
abroad were present.
Su t has been entered iu the United
gtatis court, at Pi tsl urg, Pa., against
the officers of the L usiana L ttiry Com
pany for unlawfully using the mails. It
is a leged that circulars and tickets were
mailed to the city on July 24 o, and that
in ordt rto conceal the crime < nvelopes
of the United States Express Company
w, re used. At Boston, Mass , suit has
also been entered.
A cablegram from St. Petersburg says:
The police have given notice to bankers
that no dealings with or through th,
house of Rothschild will pc permitted in
Russia Bankers corresponding with
tn- Rothschilds in Paris, London or
elsewhere, must seek new
mts The Russian government i‘said to
feel deeply irritated at the Rothschilds
on account of their opposit.on to the re
cent loan, which was successfully nego
tiated without their assistance.
TRENTON, GA„ FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30,1891.
A telegram from Redding, C'al., says:
The tl ird stage robbery in this vicinity
this week occurred Friday night, a Red
ding and Alturas stage being held up this
side of Leighton, six miles !iom Redding,
presumably by the same men who robbed
the stage Monday night. They were
marked and armed with shotguns and
pistols. Wells, Fargo A Co.’s express
boxes and mail was robbed, S2OO being
taken from the box. The driver was
robbed of $5. Officers are after the rob
bers.
A cablegram of Tuesday from Berne,
Switzerland, says: The • fficial report of
the fire which occurred in the town of
Meiringen, in this canton, on Sunday,
shows that the conflagration, which was
greatly increased in destructiveness by
the high wind which prevailed, de
stroyed 120 houses, without counting
large numbers of barns, stables and other
buildings of that description, and ren
dered 784 persons homeless. The En
glish chr.’ch, in addition to nearly every
other edifice of importance. is in ruins.
A Washington dispatch of Sunday
says: The dynamite cruiser Vesuvius,
now at New London, Conn., has been
ordered to Wa-hington for the purpose
of conveying the president, secretary of
the navy, and ether officials to Indian
Head, on the Potomac, to wi ness the
testing of armor plate for naval vessels.
The exact date of the tests has not yet
been fixed, but as the Vesuvius is ordered
to be in Washington not later than the
28th instant, it is expected they will be
made about that time. The Despatch
was on her way to perform this service
when wrecked on Assateague shoals.
Suit was begun in the superior court at
B ston, Mass., Tue-day, by Maria Kull
bury, a storekeeper, of East Boston,
against Rev. Hugh R. O’Dcnnelly, a
Catholic priest of that section, to recover
$5,000 damages for the iuin of plaintiff's
business by a boycott placed on the store
by the priest. Mrs. Kullburv refused to
send her children to a parochial scho •!,
and alleges in her charge that because
she dd so refuse, defendant, from the
altar, “publicly and officially issued an
interdict, forbidding all his parisi ioners
and his coi gregation to irade or deal or
in any way associate with plaintiff.”
BUSINESS OUTLOOK
For Past Week as Reported by Messrs.
R. G. Run & Cos.
Dun’s review of trade for week ended
October 24 says: Business failures occur
ring during the p>ist week number lor
the Unitid States 207, Canada 42; a total
of 249, against 239 la t. week.
Wheu important elections are c’ose at
hand speculation generally waits and
business is apt to be dull. This year’s
speculation in stocks is hesitating, but in
wheat and c tton the pressure of enor
mous supplies causes lower prices, with
much speculative activity. Meanwhile,
g'. uera! business is remarkably active and
increasing iu volurno at the west, im
proving at the south, and distinctly less
dull than it was a week ago at eastern
CitllS.
Collections are improving in nearly all
directions, as the liberal movement of
crops enables farmers to settle their ac
counts, and to make purchases for the
coming season. Money markets are no
w here stringent, at nearly all important
points being quite easy, though with no
ticeable improvement in demand. These
signs plainly promise a strong trade for
the fall and wiutcr. This country, on
account of its heavy exports, is largely a
creditor of other nations, and far less
than usual dependent upon them.
FAVORABLE REPORTS.
Reports from the vuri'iu-s cities are on
tlie whole more favorable. At New Or
leans a bitter feeling is seen with large
receipts of cot f on and fair of rice
and sugar, and money in active demand.
At Savannati trade holds well, cotton re
ceipts reaching 23,000 bales in one day
and at Jacksonville trade is steady, with
bright prospects.
Wheat has fallen 3| cents; corn is
scarce and cents higher for spot, and
oats 1$ cents higher. Cotton receipts
even surpass those of the same week last
year by 53,000 bales, and the price falls
one-sixteenth with sales of 914,000 bales
at New York.
The iron industry looks stronger. Bar
p ate and stru tural mills are fairly em
ployed, but prices are low. Boot and shoe
manufacture shows signs of more active
demand, and shipments are close to lust
year’s. The wool manufac ure shows more
demand for dress, and the stocks of these
are relative and low, while for nun’s
spring goods the orders of clothiers are
iu lair demand, the sudden chauges of
popular fancy in late yearshaving induced
extraordinary caution.
The stock market is hesitating, with
ittle change for the week, the treasury
has put out, including new treasury
notes, £1,500,000 more than it has taken
in during the week. Merchandise ex
pons for the past two weeks have ex
ceeded those of the corresponding weeks
last year, while imports tail far below
those of a year ago, so that the balance
of traue in product strongly favors con
tinued imports of gold. Foreign ex
change bus declined half a cent during
the week, and money at New York has
been easy and cheap.
Endorsed by the Typotheta.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Thu sdny
•ays: The United Typothetae of Anurieg.
now in session here, has adopted the fol
lowing:
“Resolved, That the Uniied Typothettr
of America approves and endotses the
action of the Pittsburg typotlutse in re
sisting the recent demands made by the
Typographical union of that ci'y, and
that we pledge them our hearty support
in every practical form.”
Th s action possib y involves a spread
of the troubles now existing in Pittsburg
and other places.
THROUGH DIXIE.
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NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming' an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
I he annual meeting of the Society of
the Army of Northern Virginia was held
1 uesdiy night iu Richmond.
The planing mid of J. Williams &
Company, of Bowling Green, Ky., burned
Sunday night. Loss, $50,000,
Pine Grove, a village nine miles east
of Ir vington, Ky., was swept by tire
Monday, only one building being left
standing.
1 ire bloke out at the Clifton furnace
at Ironlen, Ala., Saturday, but was ex
tinguished before any considerable dam
age wn3 done to the furnace. The coal
shed and 200,000 bushels of coal were
consumed.
A Laredo, Tex., dispatch of Tuesday
says that the rush of goods through the
port of Laredo into Mexico to avoid the
increa-e of duties on many articles.which
goes into effect on the Ist of November,
is simply immense.
A fire at Springville, Ala., Monday,
de-troyed A. R. McLeudar & Co.’s store,
the postoffice building, J. J. Carson’s
grocery. Cox & Alford's dry goods store,
the Adviincc office, a barbershop and two
vacant buildings. Total loss, $20,000;
insurance, $6,G00.
r ihe Nashville Herald now appears un
der new management, having been pur
chased, together with its entire plant, by
R. A. Ilalley, E. C. Asa, W. I. Cherry
and J. J. Havnie, all well known in
Nashville journalistic circles. The strik
ing feature of Tuesday afiernoon’s is-ue
was the announcement of a subscription
rate of 25 cents a month, including the
Sunday edition.
Eugene Garcia, ex-paying teller of the
Louisiana National bank, appeared before
United States Commissioner Wright, at
New Orl> ans, Monday, to answer the
charge of embezzlement, under the United
States revised statutes, preferred by Pres
ident R. M. Walmsley. Garcia pleaded
not guilty, waived exnmina ion and was
released on a bond of $25,000. The rase
will c me up shortly in the United States
ciicuit court.
A aixpitTcri rroni mirui, rent)., says:
Two freight trains, a' full speed,
ran into eich other at Tardwell Hill,
Term., on the Illinois Central, Thursday.
A car of oil exploded, setting fire to the
train. Three cars of merchandise were
dtstroyed. two engines demolished, the
track on both sidis of wreck burned
for 500 feet, and the woods for a
The loss is estimated at $200,000. jso
lives lost.
Near Queen City, Tex., Saturday, Lee
Green, a negro nineteen years old, shot
wiih a sffi.t gun, and again with a Win
chester, Mrs. Lowe, wife of a prosperous
farmer, instantly killing her while she
was washing. He then threw the body
into a well. He then threw her little
girl, aged seven years,’ in, breaking her
thigh and killing her also. He then took
her little boy, aged four years, and threw
him in after the others.
Information reached Nnoxville, Tenn.,
Monday, of the death of Colonel 11. S.
Lockett, of Bogota, United States of Co
lumbia, South America, on October 12th.
Colonel Lockett was a native of Alabama,
a graduate of West Point, and served in
the confederate army with distinction.
After the war he was for a time profes
sor in the University of Alabama, Uni
versity of Mississippi, and then went to
Eeypt, where he served the khedive for
several years.
A dispatch from Greenville, 8. C.
says: Ten of the negroes convicted of
murder at the last term of court at Lau
rens courthouse, and sentenced to be hung
Friday, the 23d, have had a respite until
their case can be heard before the su
preme court. Henry Duber, another ne
gio implicated in the murder, and arrest
ed since the others were tried and convict
ed, is accused of being the real murderer,
and the con temned men are said to be
only accessories.
A New Orleans dispatch of Monday
says: The announcement is made that
Thomas II Kelley, cashier of Richard
son. Williams & Cos., wholesale goods
house, hs embezzled £20.000. The state
ment is made that. Ke ley is a lottery
fiend, and that his defalcations were in
part, if not wholly, due to that fact. He
acku 'wlcdged, in an interv'ew, that ht
played the lottery. Kelley denied, how
ever, tha: he used any of his employers’
money.
In the superior court at Rome, Ga ,
Monday evening, the case of the State vs.
Sidney Lascelles, alias Walter S. Ben s
ford. was called. This trial is commonly
known 8S the “lord’s” ca e. Beresford
was extradited from New York t > Geor
gia under two charges—cheating and
dwindling and larceny after trust—but
since he was brought here another case
has been preferred, and that is forgery—
signing Walter S. Ber sford’s name to a
check while it is alleged his true name is
Sidney Lascelles.
In an interview with J. C. Morris,
president of the clearing house. Friday
morning, in regard to Cashier Eugene F.
Garcia’s defalcation, ho said: “Mr. Ku
g> tie F. Garcia, paying teller of the Lou
isiana National bank, is a defaulter in
the sum of £190,000. It wr.s first dis
covered on the Bth of October. The full
extent of the defalcation was only dem
onstrated on the 17th. Some packages
had been paid <>u f purposing to contain
£5,000 and £IO,OOO, while they only con
tained £SOO to £1,200. Garcia confessed
that the shortage was from old payments,
errors and mistakes committed by him
within the last fifteen years.
A Tallahassee, Fla., dispatch says:
Friday morniDg Governor Flemming, on
behalf of the state as relators, with Fred
T. Moyers as attorney, presented a peti
tion to the supreme court, praying that
a writ of mandamus be issued to the rec
retary of state to seal and countersign
the commission of R. H. M. Davidson to
be United States senator from Florida
by appointment. The court has ordered
that an alternative writ be issued in the
matter, to return next Thursday. Sec
retary Crawford must, therefore, either
sign the commission that day or to show
cause why he should not obey the order
of the supreme court,
REPARATION DEMANDED
Of Chile for the Murder of Citizens of
the United States.
A cablegram frun Santiago de Chile,
says: The United S ates government on
Monday, through Minister Egan, formally
demanded reparation from the govern
ment of Chile, for the attack recently
made in Valparaiso upon a number of
seamen of tho United States cruiser Bal
timore. The demand is no informal sug
gestion that the government at Washing--
ton expects some kind of satisfaction for
the killing and wounding of the Balti
more’s soldiers; it is a Iriendiy-put noti
fication, given according to direct orders
received from the state department at
Washington, that the United States do
elands an immediate explanation of the
while affair and reparation for injuries
inflicted.
Acting upon the instructions seut to
him from Washington Mr. Egan pre
sented the Chilean junta with a detailed
account of the investigation made by
Captain Schley, of the Baltimore, and by
Vlr. Egan him.-elf. These investigations
had shown that Charles Riggan, one of
the Baltimore’s petty officers, was brutally
assaulted by several Chileans while he
was riding on a street car. Riggan re
sisted, but was dragged from the car and
murdered by a pis ol shot, in the arms of
his companion. Turnbell, another of the
Baltimore’s wounded men, died from his
injuries. He received no le-s tlian
eighteen shot wounds in the back, two
of them penetrating his lung.
After giving a full list of the Balti
more’s crew who were injured bv the
m b, Mr. Egan’s statement culled atten
tion to ihe fact that thirty five of the
cru ser’s crew were, on the day of the
rio’s, arre-ted. unmeessary vi.dnr>
used by tne ponce. u..k .uat they
were detained in custody without due
cause. In conclusion Mr. Egan said that
surgeons of the United Stales warships
expressed the opinion that some of the
wounds inflicted upon the American
sailors were bayonet wounds and that
this clearly showd that the police officers
of Valparaiso, who are armed with bayo
nets, took part in the attack. The
Americans were without arms and prac
tically defenseless.
Egan also particularly called attention
to ihe additional brutality of the police of
Valparasio in using horses to drag the
Americans to prison.
REPARATION DEMANDED.
After making a brief but pointed sum
mary of facts, to which he had been in
structed to call attention, Minister Egan
informed the repretentatives of the junta
that, in the name of the United States,
he demanded reparation for the insults
and injuries complained of.
Mr. Egan, in presenting Chilean junta
with this statement of the assault on the
American sailors, expressed in distinct
terms the feeling of great indignation
which the state department flt Washing
ton feels at the whole affair, and espe
cially at the brutal conduct of the police
of Valparaiso in joining with the mob in
the latter’s attack up n the Baltimore’s
si amm, and in drawing their bayonets
and using them against the unarmed
Americans.
LOTTERY MEN INDICTED.
They Will Appear the Court oi
South Dakota.
A dispatch from Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, says: At noon Friday the grand
jury returned eighteen indiements against
the officers ad directors of h Louisiana
lottery. The evidence was all laid before
the jury in the form of affid-ivits and
kept with the utmost secrecy. The de
partment at Washington brought the
charges before this court for the tesson
that their effort in other states before the
United Sta e3 marshal and his deputies
left for New Orleans to arrest the presi
dent, vice piesideut, secretary, treasurer
and directors of the lottery company.
The grand jury reported eleven sepa
rate indictments, each giving eighteen
counts against the officers of the Louis
iana lottery. Among the lists are Gen
eral Beauregard, Paul Conrad, president,
and Joseph P. Horner, secretary. The
indictments are for the transmission of
the lottery’s advertisements througu the
mails, which s a violation of the lottery
law passed last winter by congtess.
THE STABLES BURNED
And Seventy-Five Mules Roasted—Other
Damage.
Fire broke out at midnight Tuesday,
in the barn of the Evansville, Ind., Street
Car Company, fanned by a strong north
west bre> ze, and destroyed property to
the amount of £75,000. The flames de
stroyed a barn filled with hay and other
Led, so ead to the car sheds, where
twenty-one new cars stood, a> and
to the company’s stables, contain
ing 100 mules. Sevenly-tive burned to
dea.h. A dozen dwelling and several
business houses within a radius of half a
mile took fire, but most were saved.
Hess’s outcher shop and seven dwelling
were destroyed. Lss to the Street Car
Company £50,000; to Hesa £IO,OOO. and
to others $15,000.
NO 27 •
A PROGRAMME ARRANGED
For the National Alliance Meeting: at
Indianapolis.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: The
State Farmers’ alliance met in secret ses
sion Thursday, with eighty-one delegates
present. The following programme for
the meeting of the National alliance was
adopted:
On the first day, Tuesday, November
17th, the address of welcome will be de
livered at Tomlinson hall by Mayor Sul
livan and President Force, of the State
a liance. and the response will be by J.
F. Tillman, uational secretary, and J. F.
Willetts, treasurer of the alliance. The
afternoon will be devoted to an execu
tive session, and in the evening Presi
dent L. L. Polk will deliver his address.
On Wednesday addresses will be made
by the president of the Mutual Beneficial
Association, National Lecturer J. F.
Ailletts, and the afternoon the executive
session will be continued.
In the evening C. W. Macune and
othe s will speak.
Thursday morning Jerry Simpson and
Alonzo Wardell, and in the evening
John P. Stelle and Mrs. Anna L. Driggs.
Friday in the forenoon, addresses will
be made by I H. Turner and B. H. Oli
ver, and in the evening by L. F. Living
ston and H. L. Loucks.
J. H. McDowell and Senator
Peffer will speak, and at night T. V.
Powderly and Ben Terrell,
Monday evening Ignatius Donnelly
will address the council, and on Tuesday,
the last day, William Erwin, Mrs. Lease,
R. M. Humphrey aDd J. W. Weaver will
speak.
THE CREDITORS
Of Moses Ilros., at Montgomery, Ala.,
Hill Start a Bank of their Own.
A Montgomery dispatch of Monday
says: At last the creditors of the late
bink of Moses Bros., think they see their
way clear. Ach irter has been secured,
> nd a trust company, to be known as the
Fidelity Trus' Company, is to be formed
at once. The books of subscr ptions have
been opened. For seveml weeks the
committee has bt en holding conferences
with the Moses Bros., trying to agree
upon the details of the trust company,
but failing at a meeting held Friday
night, the committee agreed to disagree
independent of Moses Bros The cred
itors, availing themselves of the latitude
giveu them under the late decree of
Chancellor Foster in this case, which
empowers the assignees to sell all the
assets at public sale, to be bid in by the
creditors and paid for in claims, propose
to force the sale, buy the assets and go
into a trust company.
FLORIDA AT CHICAGO.
Arrangements Made for an Appropriate
Exhibit at the Great Fair.
Florida’s world’s fair directory, thir
teen in number, chosen at the recent con
vention at Orlando, met in Jacksonville
Thurs lay for organization and conference
W. D. Chipley, of Pensacola was elected
president and George W. Wilson, of
Marion county, secretary. A woiking
committee was also chosen and the state
divided off into sections, apportioned to
each director for organizing com
mittees for receiving funds. A
code of rules for the government of the
directory was adopted and Florida’s
world’s fair commissioners were made
ex officio members of the board. More
important action of the directory waß the
adoption of plans submitted for the state
building, and this will be an exact repro
duction of old Fort Marion at St. Augus
tine, to be built of phosphate arch and
coquina. Moats will contain rice, sugar
cane and cotton fields and the interior
space orat ge, pineapple, guavi, lemon
and cocoanut trrovis. It will cost from
$20,000 to $30,000.
AFTER THE TRUST.
The St. Louis Apothecaries’ Association
to be Prosecuted.
A St. Louts dispatch of Tuesday says:
In accord nice wi h the anti tiust law,
United States District Attorney Reynolds
has decided to commence an active cam
paign against the St. Louis Apothecaries’
association or ‘ drug trust.” Officers of
the trust have notified all wholesale
dealers in the United States that all pat
ronage will be withdrawn from those
houses selling to local druggists who are
not members of the trust, and have ap
pended a list of tho e declining to join.
The result is that a firm outside of the
trust has received notice from a well
known New York house that the latter
cannot fill orders for patent medicine un
til the concern has entered into the “com
bine.” Mr. Reynolds will bring the mat
ter before the grand jury.
MARVELOUS GROWTH
u> the Volume of Business of the
North Carolina Alliance.
A Raleigh and spatch says: Thursday
the annual report of the State Alliance
was issued, shows a wonderful growth in
the business of the order. The co-oper
ative stores have done very little. The
fertilizer trade incteased 50 per cent.,
14,925 tons of alliance fertilizer having
been sold. The gr< ss amount of 6ales
for the past year was $494,000. Th®
state executive committee to transfer the
purchasing debt of the alliance to the
National Union Company, of New York,
upon Nuch terms as they may agree after
the latter company has fully sstisfied
them of its legality, and the alliance
makes a form and demand that the gei eral
assembly at its next session pass a secret
ballot law with a provision which will
secure to voters, who cannot read, aa
opportunity to vote.