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VOL. l.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Dispatches of Friday state that'-prairie
fires aie doing great damage in S utli
Dakota.
Thomas Fortune, colored, has received
a verdict for $825 in a suit against a
New York sa'oou ke< per, who ejected
him from the house and assaulted him.
Stuart Robson, the actor, was l. u ried
at New York, Tuesday, to May Waldron,
leading lady of his company, ami a
daughter of William E. Dougherty, a
Chicago journalist.
Between two a> and three thousand l)n"ds
employed in the moqmtte carpet i il s,
Yonkers, N. Y., were thrown out of em
ployment Saturday by 7 the shutting down
of the mills for two weeks.
Miners in West Newt m, l'a., mines
went out on a strike Friday for the rein
statement of three icideis in the late
strike. The company rcluscs to lake the
leaders back. Three bundled men are
out.
The body of Rose Lawless, younge-t
sister of Lord Cloncurry, was found float
ing in a lake near Naas, county Kildare,
Ireland, Tuesday. 11 is a matter of con
jecture as to how the young lady met her
deaih.
The merchants’ exchange of St. Louis
has unanimously endorsed deep water for
Savannah, Ga. The mayor of St. Louis
endorses deep water officially, and the
city council will take similar action at
the next regular meeting.
Hon. Samuel Cbipman. who celebrated
his one hundred and first birthday on
October 18th, died Tuesday at Cornw|llis,
Nova Scotia. He is believed to have
been the oldest Free Ma-on in the world,
having taken his degree in 1813.
The Walton architectural iron works
at Cincinnati, one of the largest manu
factories of the kind in the west, as
signed Monday afrerno'D. The assets
are given by tne secretary as $90,000;
estimated liabilities about the same.
Advices of Friday from Boston, Mass.,
says that a run is being made on the
D’Falippos Italian bank, on North street.
The bank had some money deposited in
the Maveiick bank, bnt is perf ctly sol
vent. The depositors are all Italians.
The court of claims has dismissed the
petition in the case of the state of India
na against the United States, 'this is a
suit to recover 2 per cent of the proceeds
of the sale of public lands in Indiana in
connection with the national or Cumber
land road.
District Attorney Gilchrist is prepar
ing to prosecute leadi >g anarchi-t- who,
during the memorial parade oh Sun
day in t hieag", detained the United
St .tee mail by arbitrarily refits ug to al
low government mail wagons to cross the
line of march.
Fire, Monday afternoon, destroyed the
business portion of Buffalo Gap, South
Dakota, a station on toe Fremont, Elk
horn and Missouri Valley iailroai, fitty
two miles from Hot-Springs. About four
blocks of l usiness house- were destroyed.
Loss, $75,000; insurance, light.
A cable dispatch from Rome, Italy,
says: It was annoumed Saturday that
thi- pope is suffering from cetebral anae
mia, due to old age. His condition
causes giave apprehension. He recently
remarked to the atchbishop of Rheims
that he thought the end was near.
A St. Louis dispatch of Tuesday says:
The engineers and firemen on the b It
line have just deelated a strike. This
will probably spread to other lines, as
Chief Arthur stated that no freight would
be handled by brotherhood men going to
the belt line or the Wiggins Ferry Com
pany.
A New York telegram of Friday says:
Not for years has the supply of drinking
water for the city been so low, nor has
the danger af a genuine water famine
been greater than at pre-ent. Commis
sioner Gilroy says that if there is no
he-ivy rainlall soon the water would only
last fifteen or twenty days more.
Asa result of the democratic victory in
lowa the hope that the prohibition law
will be soon repealed, the Union stock
yards in Bioux City announces that it
will soon begin the construction of a
large brewery there. It i- also asserted
that two breweries, which hive been
idle for several years, will be started up.
A dispatch from Bracebridge, Out.,
says: A hunter and trapper, named
David Allen, residing in Magnetawan
district, s'artid out to exam.ne traps
about a month ago and never returned.
On Monday his body was found in a bear
trap. The trap bad closed upon his
wrists, and he had slowly died of starva
tion.
A dispatch from Brooklyn, N. V., says:
One hundred men were working Satur
day night at the navy yard on the Chi
cago, Miantonomah and Atlauta, and
passes were issued for as many more for
Sunday. Th.s is said to be the iirst time
since the late war that workm n have
been < mploved on war vessels in the
Brooklin navy yard on Sunday.
A. dispatch of Friday from Columbus,
Indsays: There is no more prospect of
rain than there was two months ago. and
every bod v views the situation with
alarm, Wells, streams and ponds are
completely dry in entire sections, anil
eiuce the fifties nothing like this has
been known. In m ny inland towns,
like Charleston, water is being sold.
A dispatch of Friday says: The strike
that has been in progress at the tinplate
department of the St. Louis (Niedring-
State of |atie ffettft
house) Stamping Co.’s mill has been
efficiently declared off by Ivory Lodge
Amalgamated Association of iron and
steel workers, and all men, including im
ported and skilled laborers, havero urned
to work. Messrs. Ni driaghouse ex
press themselves satisfied with the settle
ment.
Two buildings in the business center
of the city of Akron, 0., coPapsed -at
urday afternoon. One building was oc
cupied by Herrick & Sod, crockery, and
the other by 8. B. Lafferty. bakery.
About a dozen people on the streets were
more or less severely hurt. Whoever is
buried in the wreck is beyond human
help. Twenty people were in the store at
the time of the collapse. Loss $75 000.
A Chicago dispatch says: The B iptist
laymen of Chicago have pledged them
selves to raise $120,000 for city mi sions.
This fact was nude known Monday at a
meeting of baptist ministers. One bun
dled thousand dollars of this amount i*
to b set apart as a permanent endowment
un ! . $lO *ooto be used for current ex
penses of present church extension work
in the city, and the remaining $19,000
will be applied to thi establishing of a
central mission station.
A dispatch of Friday frrm Leadville,
Cal., says: A terrific explosion occurred
at the heading to the Rusk Ivanhoe tun
nel Thursday night where nine men were
at work. Bob VVilk nson was torn into
atoms Gus Johnson died in one hour,
and Jack Scott had both eyis torn out.
Three o hers had their legs broken and
were internally injured, while three oth
ers were bad v bruised, but not seriously.
The explosion was caused by one of ihe
men strikb g giant powder in one of the
shafts with his drill.
A cablegram from Paris Gates that the
release from prison of M. Lafargue, socail
-Ist leader, elected a member of the cham
ber of deputies for Lille ou Sunday, was
made the occasion Tuesday night for
great jubilation br the various working
men’s societies. The parades were or
• eily at firs , but soon became so disor
derly that the police had to break up the
processions and disp rse the crowds,
Lafargue has been released only during
the time the chambers are in session,
as during the session of a legislative
body, the person of a legislator is exempt
from process.
PREFERED DEATH TO-DISGRACE
Two Busted Bankers of Berlin Blow
Out Their Brains.
An Associated Press di-patcli to the At
lanta Constitution from Berl n, Germany,
states that a sensation was caused in fi
nancial and social circles in that city Sat -
urday by the collapse of the banking in
stution of Friedlander & Summerfield.
The usual scenes ol excitement among
depositors anxious to secure their money,
occurred around the offices of the firm,
and the effi ct upon the creditors may be
imagined when announced that the i- a t
tng partner of the concern, together with
his son, had committed suicide. The
failure is as-oeiated with the recent sus
pension of Baukers Hitwhfield & Wolff.
As the facts in the case de
veloped, it appeared that the
father and son met in their office in the
bank at an early hour in the morning and
discussed the crisis in their affairs Af
ter talking over the matter, pro and cod,
they concluded that, as they w<re hope
-I<ss y embarrassed, they would die. It
is understood that this resolut on to take
their own lives was due, in a great meas
ure. to the fact that their atnst on a
criminal charge was impending. Hav
ing arrivi and at the decisiou that death was
Dit-fferable to arrest and disgrace, both
father and son shot themselves in the
head, using revolvers.
The firm has been in existence for a long
time, and held a good position in the fi
nancial world. It had a solid reputation
as a steady-giing house. Its customers,
who belonged ct'ieflv to the middle cls-,
were scattered thn ughout the, empire.
The police took charge of the firm’s office,
and have placed seal- upon the safes.
DEATH IN THE MINE.
Six Mon Killed in a Mine Explosion-*
Others Fatally Injured.
The usual Su iday quiet of Nanticoke,
Pa., mining village was disturbed about
4:30 o’clock in the afternoon by the an
nouncement that a teirible explosion of
gas had occurred in No. 1 shaft of the
Su quehanna Coal Company, by which a
number of men were killed, and others
terribly injured. But a short time elapsed
bcfose the news spread throughout the
town, and a large crowd gathered at the
scene, including the Relatives and friends
of the miners’employed in the mine, and
wtiile they waited for news from the shaft
the f.cene ivas hatrowing in the extreme.
It was sofln learned, however, that, ow
ing to the fact that this was Sunday,
there were only fourteen men at work iu
the mine. Of this number six were in
stantly killed and several others so badly
burned and injured that they cannot sur
vive.
Assignments of Bishops.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Thursday
says: The oard of bishops of the Meth
odist Episcopal church has made the
following, among other assignments of
presiding bi-hops to the annual confer
ence for'the next six months: Bishop
Stephen M. Merrill, Atlanta, Ga., Jan
ury I3rh; Anniston, Ala.. January
20th; Huntsville, Ala., January 27th,
an I Columbus, Miss., February 3d.
Bishop William F. Malla’icu, Meridian,
Miss Janua’y oth; New Orleans, Janu
ary 13h; Litilft Rock. Ark., January
20:it; Van Ruren, Ark., January 27th;
Bishop William Nide. Jacksonville, Fla.,
January 13th; Fern-ndiu-, Fla., January
20th; Orangeburg. S. C., February 3d;
Newnan, G., January *‘ th
John M. Walden, Falla Church, \ a.,
March 2nd.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1891-
THROUGH DIXIE.
HEWS OF THE SOUTH BRI&LY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The United States steamship Dolphin
will hereafter perform the dutii s of a
"dispatch boat,” instead of the Despatch,
now in Norfolk navy yard for repairs.
The large dry goods firm of Weiss
Bros at Galveston, Texas, made an as
signment Friday, The assets are about
five hundred thous mds dollars; liabili
ties, $450,090.
The grand jury at Richmond, Va.,
Monday, found two indictments against
W. 8. Dat-hneii, real estate agent, lor
forgiDg the name of W. J. Lowry to two
negotiable notes for $1,600.
A Flnrence, Ala., dispatch says: The
bank of Florence failed Friday morning
to open its doors. The officers refuse to
make a statement, and the assets and lia
bilities cannot be ascertained.
The roundhouse of the Cincinnati
Southern Railway at Lexington, Ky.,
caught fire Saturday morning and was
entirely consumed. It contained five lo
comotives, three of which were ruined.
It will be rebuilt of brick. Loss, $25,-
000.
The Rankin Manufacturing ‘Company,
a wholesale clothing house at Nashville,
Tenn., made an assignment Tues lay
morning for the benefit of creditors
Assets, $193,000; liabilities, .$133,100.
Tight money and bad collections are said
to be the cause.
The Chattanooga Elevator and Grain
company made an assignment Monday
for the benefit of its cr* ditors. The lia
bilities will be about $6,000, and the as
sets were considerably more. Ilavd rim-s
and general failure of collections are the
cause of the disaster.
The court of sessions convened at
Charleston, 8. C., M nday It promises
to be a long and weary term, as there are
upwards of a hundred and forty ca-es on
the solicitor’s docket, including seven
cases for murder, and one already con
victed murder r, Level !e, who slew his
wife two years ago, to be resentenced.
The federal grand jury in session at
San Antonio, Tex., on Tuesday, returned
four indictments agaii st President Paul
Conrad, Vice-President John A. Morris
and thirteen oiher members of the L uisi
ana L ittery Company. They are charged
with using the mails to distribute lottery
advertisements in violatiou of law. War
rants were issued for their arrest.
C< chrane, Fulton & Cos., distillers and
wholesale liqu r deal-rs at Louisville,
Ky., made an assignment Friday to tic
Louisville Trust Company. Lab' itie
and assets canuot be learned within any
satisfactory approximation, but are sup
posed to be about equal, and to reach
nearly half aml lion. The commercial
rating of the c> mpany is $500,000.
A Charlotte, N. C., and spatch -ays: The
jury in the case of the Motz boys fir the
murder of their cousin, Sou slotz, re
turned a verdict of acquittal, Friday
afternoon. This 'rial, which has been
progressing at Snelby for the past week,
has not been excelled in intere-t by any
previous one from the fact of the promT
nence of the parties interested.
A fire, Friday morning, d< stroyed most
of the buildings aid material of the
Bentley Phosphate C- mpany, at Ashley
Junction, S. C., seven miles from Char
leston. The insurance on the plant is
$150,000, of whii h amount sl)2 UOU is on
the acid chamber, which is saved, thus
leaving $58,000 on the burned proper y.
The actual loss is est,mated at between
$40,000 and $50,000.
Quite a sensation was created in
Charfiston Monday by the publication of
a di-patch from Ottawa, announcing a
rise of $2 a tun on Canadian phosphate
rock, and intimating that this rise signi
fied the collapse of the Floiida phosphate
boom. A large amount of cipital is in
vested by Charlestonians in Florida phos
phate enterprises, and these . people do
not credit the statement.
A Nashv lie dispa ch says: The mines
in the Coal creek district are still in a
ferment. Their releasing the convict
does not seem to have satisfied them, and
unless other demands made by th m are
conceded by the operators, a big strike
may occur. Friday the men employe iin
the Thistle mine, which is operated by
the East Tennessee Mining company, de
manded a check weighman to be put on
Saturday morning. The company had no
opportunity to act, and the men w alked
out at once.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., di-patch of
Friday says: Mis. Alice Miller, the
young wife of a railn ader. i- under
arrest for forging four notes < f SSOO each*
and obtaining the money on the same.
One of the notes bore the forge t sigi a
ture of George W. Ochs, manager of the
Tradesman, on which paper Mrs. Miller
had Luen employed previous to her m >r
riage. She was sent to jail in defau tof
SI,OOO bond. The woman is thoug l l to
be mentally unsound, as co reason can
be assigned Ur her scions.
ONE FINGER AND A QUE.
A Powder Mil! Explodes, Blowing
Three Men Into Eternity.
The G ant P -wder works at Ciinp r
Gap, Cai., blew up Saturday, killing
! three men and seriousy wounding one
boy. James Hamilton was n’own to
atoms, nothing being found of him but
! one finger. A. 11. Han, a Ch n .nian,
! was killed, and only his que tound,
Joseph Pepper, a resident of Santa Cruz,
died from injuries, and Bert Hicks, a boy,
had Lis skuit fractured. Many build
ings were shaken down and ruined.
WILL THER2 BE BLOODSHED?
Is tho Question, When the Tennessee
Convicts are Returned.
A dispatch of Saturday from Knoxville
fays: With t ie information from Nash
vi le that the convicts are to be leturned
comes the que-tion, “W’ill there be a
ba tie between the troops or guards and
the convicts?” A knowledge of the sit
uut on and of the past acts warrants the
opinion that theie will be none if string
forces arc sent to protect he convicis. A
small force would be attacked, and there
night be bloodshed in that evi nt. A
mao, whose opinion is worth quoting,
says: “I here w ould have been no trouble
if suffici utiy large loices aud prompt
action liud been taken in the beginning
of the trouble. The miners never in
ttndod to kill any one or to get killed
themselves But they feel so exultant over
their past victories ihat they’will go slid
further, unl< ss very vigorous measures
are taken. A -trong force, however, will
prevmt any possible fight.”
A man in sympathy with the miners,
ami who sustains tin m in their actions,
says there is certain to be a battle if the
cot cts are token bai k. He says they
sra neavily aimed and defy the entire
state to maintain the convicts in the Coal
creek district.
A Nashville dispatch says: Chief of
Pol ce Kilgo reached the city Saturday
morning with fifteen more recaptured
convicts, making 160 that have now been
placed in the. main pri on. After a
lengthy consultation, the state board of
priren inspectors adopted the following
resolution. "Thatsuch of the convicts
who were released from Oliver Spiing ,
Coal Creek and Briceville as have been
recaptu'ed, or who may hereafter be re
captured, may be sem back to such pri
ons when it shall be made to appear to
the satisfaction of * the board that satis
actory provision* for tne safekeeping,
health and comfort of such convicts have
been made.”
A QUESTION OF DOLLARS.
Another dispatch from Nashville says:
There is one question to be rettled be
lore the recaptured convicts will be re
turned to the scene oft Heir recent release,
and in that qu stion the almighiy .dollar
is involved. The leses have formally
dei landed that the state return the con
victs to the Anderson couniy mines and
p wide a mi iiary escort for their protec
ts >o. The state officials have replied
tfiut the convicts may be taken l ack,
but that it shall he by civil escor ,
the lessees to take as many guards as th< y
desire, and make thes%own relec ions.
The explanati on of the tiouble is that if
Governor Buchanan ordeis out a military
cscoi t the stute would h .ve to foot the
expenses, while*the lessres would have
to pity the civil escort* Ti e im n will
not be taken back un* th‘ question is
settled. The state has already paiofcout
$5,137.84 in rewards for convict t and
expe se ©f their return. The lessees re
fused to pay the accounts, and they were
paid by Comptroller Alien, and the ies
seea will be held liable.
STATUS OF THE MAVERICK.
The Receiver Issues a Statement of the
Bank’s Condition.
A Boston and spatch of Monday says:
Receiver Beil lias issued a statement of
the condition of tlie Mavermk National
b uk October 31 s\ R source-, $9 687,-
846, i eluding time loans. $2,749,1)81;
d> mind loans, $3 416,617; bond ac
coun s, $722,947. Liabilities the same
a- lesources, including tie capital of
$400,000; su p us fund. $800,000; ptofit
and loss, $11,000,708; deposits. $2,951.-
992; banks and baukers, $5,200,750.
Tnis stateme t is gratifying, in that it
-how- less than $3,000,000 of individual
deposits outside oi deposits of banks and
bankers at the time of the failure. The
Maverick had a very large business, its
outward mail averaging from six to eight
hundred letters per day, but everything
is found thus far to have been systemat
ic dly conducted and all ac'ountsbd
-uce upon the books. The on y difference
thus fir annou ced is tie i adequite
c llateral behind loans to directors.
There \vaß..no blanket end rsement <>n
fie, as has ben stated. All notes and
eudorsemen's were ] roperly and regularly
male within the fitter of the law. The
comptroller promises a prompt and satis
factory divide a nd. Tne receiver lias
authority under the bank ng law to return
all special deposits, which is presum and
to include deposits of securities within
the safo for s.fi keeping by parties not
indebted to the institu i >n.
TRAIN WRECKERS
Get in tlieir Work on a W. & A. Passen
ger Train.
The Western and Atlantic passenger
train, schtduPd as No. 4, left Atlanta at
7:45 o’clock Sunday night in charge of
Ei ginecr Charh s Barrett and Fireman
John GreeD, and in less than twenty
minutes the eDgit e had turned a sunnr
sault down an embankment, the imil car
had run over the tender, the baggage car
had turned upon its side and the smoker
was balancing irself upon one rail, ready
to turn upon its side, but both the engi
neer and fireman < scaped injury. And a
hundred or mote passengers were thank
ing Providence for their esca c from a
terrible death. When the train pulled
a way Tom the union depot the headlight
was given by engine No. 40, the b st on
the road. Then came th<; mail car, the
express and baggage car f the 6moker, the
first-class i oach aud two sleepers. The
Western and Atlantic truck and the
Georgia Pacific tra k run parallel for
nearly six miles, and ju t west of the
point where the two roads and verne the
A t stern and Atlantic has a reverse curve
This reverse curve is on a steep embank
ment. it was just here the accident
occurred.^A ad that it was due to train
wrecke. there is no doubt whateva^
THE RELEASED CONVICTS.
Status of Affairs in Tennessee From
Latest Reports.
A Nashville di-patch i-ays : If the
riotou* miners in East Tennessee carry
out their threat, and attempt to release
the convicts at Inman and Tracy City
branch pri.-ons they will meet a warm
reception. Adjutant General NormanD
has shipped a large supply of guns and
ammunition to both places, Tracy City
has a force of guards that could defend
the substant al stockade at that point
ag.inst any number. On Wednesday
Supeiintendent of Piisons Wade secured
a picked squad of fifty men from
Murfresboro and Fosterville, and took
them to Inman, which, added to the
guards alr< ady there, makes quite a re
spectable force. There men Hre fighters,
some o! them having seen service
in the confederate army, ar and others in
the regular army. They are friends of
Govern'<r Buchanan’s and Mr. Wade’s,
and will obey instructions. Up to date
about ninety of the released convicts
have been recaptured. Lessee Goodwin
is reported aC saying that the convicts
will not be returned to Bricevilie unless
the state guaranh es them protection.
THE LAW TO BE ENFORCED,
A state law requires that no murderer
or rapist shall ever be allowed outside
the walls of the maiti prison. This law,
it set ms, has not been observed, and the
state board of piison inspectors have
is-ued the following orders to Warden
Blevins:
Whereas, In reply to on iuquirry ad
dressed to you by this board, the infor
mation is given the board that many
prisoners confined in the penitentiary for
the crime of murder and rape have been
taken from the walls of the main piisoD
and sent to the branch prisons of the
state, and
Whereas, This is contrary to the law
and contrary to a former ruling and order
of this bo*rd.
Now, i her* fore, you are directed to
have returned to the main prison at Nash
ville, at once all convicts or t risoners now
at the branch piisons convicted for the
crime of lape aud all those couvicted for
the crime of murder and rentenced to
the penitentiary fov a term of years
exceeding nine years.
Concerning ttie question of returning
the convicts to Briceville, Coal Creek
and Silver Springs, the lessees refuse to
pay the cost of extra guards. They also
decline to pay tl e rewards for captured
convicts and other inc dental expenses.
IN HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY
At Richmond the Remains of Mr.
Davis Mill Best.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va.,
says: The committee represi nting the
Ladies’ Hollywood Memorial Assoc a
tion called on Mis. Jefferson Davis
Thursday with the view of expressing a
desire that the ass>ciat on be allowed the
custody of the remains of Mr. Davis.
Various places of sepulture were talked
of. including the grounds of the white
house of the confederacy. Mrs. Davis
s-id her husband had often expre—ed
his aversion to any public, noi-y thor
oughfare as a place of burial, and had
de-ired a quiet and secluded place for
himself, where hi- whole family might
rest near him. She >-aid she had tinnlly
decided on Hollywood cemetery, but
had not as yet selected the exact spot.
Shu assured the ladies that as soon as
her Bcfiction was made and the inter
ment had taken place she would then
turn over the whole selection to the
Hollywood Memorial Association.
Mrs. Davis has a son (Jo-eph)
buried in Hollywood. It is also tha place
of interment of some eighteen thousand
con e'rrate soldiers. Mrs. Davis ex
t reset and her earn* st desire to make Rich
mond her future home and said it was no
onger a question of anything but means
If -he can make satisfactory fina"C'al
arrang ments she will soon be back to
spend the rest of her days. The site of
the monum< nt to Mr# Davis will be left
in the hands of the Davis Monument
Association.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
Men and Horses Perish in a Burning
Stable.
Mansion’s Jliverv stables, at Denver.
Col., were a most completely destroyed
by fire between 3:30 and 4 o’clock Mon
day morning. Four men, possibly five,
rooming in the upper portion of the
building, were s ffocated, and between
twenty and thirty horses met death. The
bodies have been sent to the coroner's
office for identification. Tbiity-four
horses were burned to death. All fam
ily horses, and valued at S3OO to $750
each. The loss on building and carriages
is $15,000. The names of the men who
lost their lives are: Thomas Bower, Pe
oria, III.; George Richards, Lincoln,
Neb.; David Elmase. residence unknown;
Otto Helbin, St. Louis. It is thought
the remains of two more men are in the
ruins.
THE YOTE OF OHIO.
McKinley’s Plurality is SeL.i-Oflioially
Announced as 21,583.
A Cincinnati dispatch of Saturday
says: The official returns of the election
iD Ohio have not yet been received from
all the counties of the state, but the of
ficial and semi-official vote as sent to the
secretary of state at Columbus, gives
McKinley a majoiity over Campbell of
21,583. Ihe official figures will not vary
209 from this. The republics' s have 53
majority on joint ballot in the legislature,
giving the d< moerats two doub ful dis
tricts. There is no rea-on to doubt that
Sherman will be returne l to the United
States senate, although Foraker will
make a hard fight.
GENERAL PALMER’S ORDER.
the (I. A. R. Must Not Again March
Under a Confederate Flag.
A disi atcu ot Saturday lrom Albany,
N. Y., states that Geneial Palmer, com
nander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, h-s just made public an
order scoring members of the Grand
Army of the Republic for marching in the
parade of confederale veteran* at the re
cent unvcilmg of the G>ady monument
at Atlanta, where the confederate flag
was carrie f and di-piayed. Among other
th ngs the older says:
"We cannot afford to lose sight of the
valor that achieved victory for right.
We can never f rget what the contest
C ist us in blood and treasure. We must
not forget that Icyalty to the country is
oot mere sentiment, but that it r< quires
devotion to principle, and that principle
means tnat the flag which every union
soldier stood ready to defend with his
'ife must now be saluted with honor.
One of the great principles of our organ
zation is to leach the rising generation
loyalty to the country and fidelity to
duty. Union soldiers have repeatedly
said to the soldiers of the south, ‘We
have no desire to arouse sectional ani
mosities or passious eni-eudered by the
war. Give us loyalty and in return we
will give you fraternity.’
"You have demonstrated your fraterni
ty on numerous occasions, but when com
rades joined in the recent ceremonies in
honor of ihe mi mory of a patriotic jour
nalist and philanttuopist, they found
their fraternity confronted with the em
blem of treason, which is evidence tn
you that there still lurks in the hearts of a
few the desire, by the displny of that flag,
to fire the Hearts of the young generation
-outh to rebelism.”
The order closes with the following
paragraph;
"With these words of admonition, I
have sufficient co fi lence in your honor
and fidelity to the principles of the order
to feel that there will be no further par
ticipation in sny demonstration or parade
where the emblem of treason is carried
or displayed. Let the cause which tri
umphed in war be mainta ned in com
pleteness of its victory and the fullness of
its significance.”
NOVEMBER COTTON.
Returns to the Agricultural Depart*
ment for the Month.
A Washington dispaUh of Tuesday
says: Cotton returns of the department
of agriculture for November is not fav- r
nb'e for a high rate of yield, the latene-s
of the crop, extremes of temperature, ex
cess of rainfall, followed by drought,
causing enfeebled vitality afid loss of
foilage and fruit, have been unfavorable
for a large crop. On the northern bor
der of the belt killing frost- occurred on
tne 20th; in some places ss early as the
23d. West of the Missis-ippi there ha
been some improvement during the past
mouth. The reason has been very fa
vorable for picking. The qualty is al
nv st everywhere reporter! high, and the
fabric is of good color and unusu dly free
from trash. The yield ns avc aged from
county estimates averages 179 pounds
per acre, distributed by states as f dtows:
Virginia, 151; North Carolina. 178;
South Carolina, 100; Georgia, 155; Flor
ida, 120; Alabama, 155; Mississippi, 190;
L uiisiana, 200; Tex s, 195; Arkansas,
210; Tennessee, 170. As killing Irosts
have not yet be n. general in the
southern and western sections of the belt
it is pos-ible, wi h favorable weather
following, that current expectations may
be slightly ex eeded.
PLENTY OP CORN.
Statistical returns for November make
the corn crop one of the laigest in volume,
with a rate of yield slightly above an
average of 26 bushels per acre Tne con
dition h; s not been very high at any
period of its growth, but it has been qu te
uniform, with no record of more tha i 10
per cent of disabilities from all causes,
fihe highest rate of yield, as estimated,
appears in New England, from 35 to 40
bushels per acre; in the south the range
is from 11 in FI rida to 25 in Maryland.
Much of the crop is yet in stock, and its
condition aud rate of yield may he some
what better knowm after garnering and
marketing. Yet it is evident the prod
uct will not bole-s than 2 000,000
bushels, or 31 bu-hels per unit of popula
tion.
PARNELL’S SUCCESSOR
Is a Political Opponent of the Great
Irish Leader.
A cable dispatch from Cork, Ireland,
of Saturday says: Marin Flavin, the
McCarthyite candidate for the seat
in parliament for Cork ei>y, 1< ft vacant
by the death of Charles Stewart Parnell,-
has been elected by a plurality of 1,512
votes of the Parnellite eand date,
Mr. John E. Rdm nd. The result of
the count is as follows: Flavin, Mc-
Carthyite, 8,669; Redmond, Parnellite,
2,175; Sarsfleid, unionis , 1,161 At the
last election for Cork city, Mr. Parnell
was elected with Mr. Maurice Healv, who
also represents Cork city, without oppo
sition. An enormous crowd of e<c ted
people surrounded tne ball while the
votes were being counted and largo
crowds ol p dice had all they could do
to keep order.
John E Rt dmond, the defeated can
didate, afier the result had been an
nounced, delivere 1 an add i ess before a
meeting of ParnellitiS. lie and dared
th t though a’majority of the e'ectors of
Cork had refused to support his Candi
da y was de’ermined to continue the
struggle for acknowledgement by the
people of Ir-land for the justice of the
p ilicy pursued l y tne Parnell.'es. Wil
liam Reamond denounced i ru-sts and at
tributed his defeat to the tactics ol
pi lasts who h'.d been employed to coerce
voters.
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