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VOL. I. We can go to Africa to-day easier than we could go to Arizona a decade ago. Superintendent of Census Porter says the question of a permanent census bureau will be brought to the atteution of both houses of Congress as soon as they assemble. The delegates to the Prisou Congress confessed themselves quite unable to understand why England should show a decreasing number of criminals, while in the United States the number is ever on the increase. professor C. A. Young thinks that we may some day be able to signal the in habitants of Mars if we construct singu lar looking objects some fifteen or twenty miles in diameter. He ad nits that the expease of such works is a big obstacle in their way. It will be remembered, observes the Liverpool (BaglauJ) that son) years ago there was a sad lea fashion for the conversion of green stufs into wait is called ensilage. In various parts of ,he country, and especially in some parts of Scotland, expensive silos were built into which the green grass was thrown to be preserved by fermentation. One aears less of ensilage no.v than six years go. The truth is that the silo has gone out of fashion again. Scores of them ire standing idle in Scotland, and the •ystem has mnifestly failed to accliini tize itself. Here is the latest list of the wealthiest women of the United States: Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York, is credited with a iortune of $540,000,000 in her own right; Miss Elizabeth Garrett has $20,000,000; Mrs. Mark Hopkins Searles had $20,000,- 000; Mrs. Edwin Stevens, $15,000,000; Mr3. John C. Green, $10,000,000; Mrs. Cyrus McCormick, $10,000,000; Mrs. John Jacob Astor, $5,000,000; Mrs. John K. Barton, $6,000,000; Mrs. Thomas Scott, $5,000,000 ; Mrs. William Armour, $5,000,000; Mrs. Terry, $20,- 000,000, while Mrs. Terry's baby daugh tei, three years old, distances all comp etitors by having wealth in her own right valued at $50,000,000. 'u_ "■-i" 1 i Says the Bo&ton Trantcript: “We ares nation of nibblers. Our strong point is condiments. We are great on catsups, cucumber pickles, canned peaches anl mince pie, but probably no native Amer ican ever produced an eatable sausage. Now a good sausage is the high-water mark of culiaary civilization. Its repre sents a high degree of nutritiveness and palatability joined with exceeding cheap ness. It is the E pluribus uiu nof foods. Every nation that is really great in cookery has a characteristic and national sausage. Italy has its Bologna, Spain its Vich, Germany its Frankfurt; but America, so far, has but its spurious Frankfurts,manufactured by transplanted Germans.” A delightfully dainty kind of fann ing, more elegantly msthetie, maintains the New York Sun , than growing lilies in Bermuda and almost as profitable as raising checks and bank notes, is that of Mr. Timothy Hopkins, of Meulo Par<, California. In a grove of giant oaks Mr. Hopkins has a live-acre patch of violets of the rarest and most beautiful varieties —double whites, double blues, sky blue, and one variety which is blue with a faint dot of red on one of the petals. The violets are planted two feet apart, and under the cool shade and in leaf mould soil they attain perfection. For six months a year the grower ships an average of fifty bunches of violets daily to San Francisco, and the returns are not far from the same number of dol lars. The difficulties of navigating the Missouri River are confined to two places —the mouth of the Osage aud Grand Rivers, which are about 150 milc3 apart —and the Govei ament is trying to overcome them. At the mouth of the Osage an effort is to be made to confine the channel for about nine miles. The Missouri is very wide there, the waters apreading over low lands, and there has been no distinct channel. The depth of the water has been increased from to 7 feet. Piles 38 feel in length are forced into the sand and clay in five miuutes by the use of a powerful stream of water that is forced through a pipe extending to the point of each pile. T.ie stream clears away the san 1 and clay, and the pile sinks of its own weight. It is believed that after the work has been finished the river will be navigable dur ing nearly all the *e*r exoant w : nta- ALLIANCE TALKS. NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS Reform Press Comment and Items ol Interest to Alliancemen Everywhere. At a recent meeting of the Ulionois fdate Alliance, the Illinois Alliance, pub -1 s ed at Springfield, was consolidated with the Monitor, of St. Louis. * /“v Jk * One sub-Abiance in Alabama has dis banded because ti e “Alliance demands are wrong.” 8 xteen hundrt and have not disbanded because t 1 ey are right. There is a few' so railed members of the Alliance in North Carolina, says the Prourc-sive Farmer, who bitterly oppose the Alliance platform. But for every one of these is several hundred who are as true as steel * * * The Business Aeent is anew paper just started by the North Carolina State Alliance Business Agency. It will be d< vo'ed to the publication of matter di rectly eo> ceroing the agency, and will adhere to the Ocala platform in all its editorial utterances. * :k s|c The Farmers’ Light (Harlem, Ga.) says: 'I he subs dized press and moss l ack po want t<> know why the Alliance does not talk more farming and less politics. The reason is very appa rent: What is the use of talking farming when it cests ten cents to raise cotton, and “the power o( money to oppress” takes it from them at seven cents. * 5k sfc The Alliance Gazette (Hutchinson, Kan ) believes it tirml>, as witue-s: “We uncompromisingly adhere to the opinion that a man or a woman who works twelve h urs a day for six days in the week is entitled t ■ a good living—not a bare sus tenance, but a good living. Not only the necessaties of life but its luxuries as well. When such is not the case some thing is wrong, and the people sh uld know no rest till the wroDg is righted. * ik sk The fallowing r< solutions were adopted by the State Alliance of Washington at its recent organization. Thus another State has fallen into line under the national banner of the order: Resolved. That the State Farmers’ Al liance and Industrial Uuion of Washing ton do most heartily indorse the Ocala demands in full. Resolved, That we adopt the ritual and secret work adopted by the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union of America. The Caucasian (Clinton, N. C.) says: “When the farme-s and other vesalth producers began to complain of the low and falling prices of the products of their labor and to suspect that it was due to a contracted currency, ihe money, power through iis subsidized papers began and has since been repeating the statement that the law of supply and demand alone conti oiled prices. The time was when the farmer would sw llow this, but now he is thinking for himself and knows that the law of suppiy and demand reyulates prices only when the volume of money m circulation is controlled by the same law. ’ *** The Order in Colorado is doing well, especially when the somewhat scattered condition of the people is considered. Farming is not conducted in this state as in many others, wh ch makes organi zation much more difficult. In spite of this the Alliance has steadily increased in members and grown in favor. Its state officets have been efficient and have rcceivtd excellent support from the re form papers, of which there are a number in the s ate. There is haid'y a state in the Union that could receive any more benefit from the final triumph of Alliance principles than Colorado. *** The Cotton Plant (Orangeburg, S. C.) says: “Why should not the farmer take a hand in politics? Stop and think about this and then ask who it is that would keep him out ot politics? In nine cases out of ten it is the class of people who hitherto have been most active in polities and who I ave enjoyed a monopoly of the busicess so long that they begin to look upon it as their special property. B; easy, gentlemen, and if you cau’t be easy, be as oa y as you c m—the farmer is in politics, nd he is in it o stay. All the little, spiteful flings and patronizing ad vice you give only confirms him in his determination to stay. ♦ . * * The Alliance in North Carolina is, as every one knows who reads Alliauce lit erature, doing splendidly. No comment will do lull justice to the operations and methods of the Order in that Stare. The brethren not only know what “the fight ’S about,” but are aole and anxious fo* make it. Since its first organization, the Order in North Carolina has prospered. It has never met with a repulse, and has continually increased inmimberr and im portance. From the beginning it has been exceedingly fortunate in the selec tion of its officers, who have nobly stood for the the Order. The State organ, Ttie Farmer, (Prisident Folk’s paper), has done gal lant service in the cause of refotm. There me many county papers also throughout the State that are able exponents of Al liance principles, and are aiding in the great work. Taken as a whole the Al liance of the State stands at the front an t xamp'e of pluck, consistency and suc cess that is worthy of emulation by all the other States.—Econom st. St * i In discussing the constitutiouality of the sub-treasury plan an opposition paper TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1891. makes use of the following extraordinary legal statement: First, we regard it as unconstitutional, because the constitution nowhere author izes such a thing. Now just here it is proper to state that some have insis ed that we should point < ut that part of the c nslitution that the scheme conus in confl ct with. We beg to remind snob, that a thing doe u’t require to be forbid den by the Federal constitution in order to be unconstitutional; it is only re quired that it can not be fund in the constitution. C mmentiDg on this the National Economist says: If this be true n ne tt nths of the laws on the statute books are void. Are rivers and h übois men tion! and in the constitution? Are subs dies to r ilroads and steamships foun t ? D >e9 it say anything about the N cara ua Canal, pensions to civilims, national ex positions. na ional banks, the purchase of silver, irrigation, geological survey, or expeditions to ihe not th pole? Wheic in this t-acred in trument is found men tion of the force bill, the d> nvuetiz t on . ei.Vei, \v„!i t.ouso g whisk , hi.uuug money torailtoadsand lairs? Ihe fact is nearly all legislation is at the pre-cut time based upon what is not found in the constitution, but its implied powers. Herein lies the trouble. * * * I E A MAN. From the Pi ogre i ive Farmer. Une of the greatest drawbacks to the Alliance is a mck of courage. Not so much of physical com age as moral cour age. Have com age to do right Bea niun. If you are not satisfied that the Alliance is a good thins/, that the Ocala platform is right, withdraw from the or ganization ut once. If you are sati tied that it is right, defend it, stand <>y y ut leader-* and your leform pajeis. Bea man, be a woman. \\ o k lor u- success, talk for it, eneouiage the weak, s cu>e recruits. A dead Aliianceman and adetd member of the church are to be desp s-d. If you will not stand by your ret gfion and your hone t convictions as a citizen, you are a blot on civiliz >tion. Bea man. Don’t fit the politician with two luintmd pounds ot sit much und two ounces of brains warp and bias your mind. Don’t let the editor who is the paid tool of monopoly and plucto cracy, fright n you when he dtcla<s that you are on the wrong track. If you agree with the p ople aud speak through their tiumpet, you are siui] ly one of them. If jour tefo>m ideas do not cor ies;ond wi h theirs in every paiticular, that ought to be emphaiie evidence ili it you art- right. When a bad man opp- sis you, smile and say, “now I kuoiv 1 am rigs.t; I’ll stick.” The professional poli tician or th- partisan editor may not be • ad. He may have s< me good stuff about him, but his teaching has been lad ; he has been in bad company; he has taught false doctrines so long that he can >ee nothing wrong i it. A man Can b-1 eve a bad thing is right so long that he be comes th> ro ighiy convinced that it is right. Hence the world is worse off for such men lo ving lived in it. Don’t measure the situation by what any man may say. Think it out for your-elf. If pour financial condoiou is all ttrat it aught to be, if you a e gett ng good priC's for your labor as a farmer, dou’t complain. Rut it you are i ot, then kick nd howl until you get what you ought :o have. GROWING IN FAVOR. Tbe election < f United States Senators by a diiect vote of the people, as de manded in the (Lala platform, is grow ing in fav< r daily, the latest conveit to that theory being Ex Governor Luce, of Michigan 'lhe Washington Post sys: “Ex-Governor Luce, of Michigan, has come out as an advocate of the in urina tion by the republican state conviction of the republican candidate for the United States senator-hip soon to become vacant. This action is not quite in the line of the precedent estahl shed by Gen etal Palmer m his canvas for the 11 iuo s senaton-hip, but it has a s milai motive,; and that is to bring the influence of 'he people to bear more directly than is now the c se in the choice of Candida es for the highest legislative position in the land. Gov. Luce’s suggestion, like Gen. Palmer’s action, is an evidence of the growing tendency to assimilate t ur po litical methods to those of a simpler Democracy than that which the framers of this government contemplated, for the mode as W'II as the history of its construct ion shows clerly enough that the object in view wns not oniy to istab lisb a government by the pe< pie, but also to guard against its misuse by tin in. liv the Constitution of the United States the selection of United States Senators was not left to the people at 1 ige, but was made a privilege of the several State legislutures. The indications a e that the intention of the makers of the con stitution was to separate the creation of the conservative body, which was to have a reconsideration and veto power over the legislation of the chamber di rectly chosen by and representative < f the p' pular will from i.be dirt ct c ntrol of the people. But the trend of our po litical development in later yea's has been in a contrary direction, and the popular will, which the lathi rs in a measure distrusted, slows a tendency to become in all cases the chief nrbi'er. It is very pos-sible 'hat a close obseiver of curretat events and of the political pro go ss of our time would not be at all surprißt and if United States Senators came by and by to be elected by the people of a State at large, and il even ti.e P esi dent of the United States should he chosen, ns the late Senator M' rton, of Inoiana, always held he ought to b •, by the direct vote of the people of the na tion.” Harvard University has 2313 students this year. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLING3 Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. A committee of the Federation of Labor h >d an interview with President Harrison Tuesday. The Na‘ional Live stole Association was permanently organized at Chicago F.iday. Capital, $50,000 000. Owners of tin plate mills in Wales have decided to cose their mills f. r a fortnight in December and a foitnight in January. Reports of Friday show that the recent storms were dcMmctivc lo lake skipping at Ch'cago. Hafi a dozen schooners were wrecked. A Cincinnati dispatch of Sundav says: The official plurality lor McKinley over Campbell is 21.501. The people’s pariy vote was 23,064. The comptroller of currency has author ized the Manufacturers’ National bank, of Ilarrimon, Tenia , to begin business with a capital of $50,000. The archbishop of Aix, France,charged with writing an insulting let er to ihe minister of public worship, has been found guilty and fined 3,000 Irancs. Advices received Friday from Santos declare ihat port to be infect and with yel low ft ver. All other Brazilian ports are also suspected of being infected with the disease. A Kansas City dispatch of Friday says: Rainmakt r Melbourne has founded the Go- dland Rain-Producing association. Capital, SIOO,OOO. Rain sold to all buy ers. An Indianapolis dispatch says: On Tuesday, Lieutenant Governor Ira J. Chase took the oath as successor to the late Governor Ilovey as chief executive of Indiana A heavy stornr visited Kansas City Sunday morning. The storm was general throughout the state aud was one of the heaviest ever reported in that section at this season of the year. Charles Wnga'ha, paying and receiv ing teller of the branch depository of the Traders’ National bank, was arranged Thursday, at New Orleans as defaulter to the extent of SB,OOO. A dispatch of Saturday to The Loudon Chronicle Irom China, says: “Official information is given that all in demnities to Europeans are now paid, with the exception of those arising out of the TchaDg riot.” A dispatch from Lowell, Mass., says; An attachment for was. on Fri day, placed on funds tielouging t| Dr. S. P. !-mith. the missing supreme Jreas ur* r of the Order of the Rising Suuy who is alleged to have improperly loaned $50,000 of the funds of that order. A Ch eagb dispatch of Friday says tiro National Cordage Company or binding twine trust has purchased the ent re binding twine plant of William Decring tfe Cos., of that ci y, for $250,000. This purchase gives the trust entire cortrol of the binding twine industry in America. The body of William J. Florence, the actor was t mpoiarily laid to re.-t Mon day in the vault at Greenwood cemetery, in New York. The body will remain there until the arrival from Europe of ihe widow of the actor, when it will be con veyed to its final resting place in the family plat. A Minneapolis, Minn., dispatch of Friday says: The lumber season is over. The cut for the year reaches 447,713,252 feet; 207,221,000 shingles ami 07,697.600 laths. This beats all records, and ex ceeds the ou'put of 1800 tty 103,138,800 feet of lumber, 45,003,500 shingles and 17,400,230 laths. A cablc.rnm of Monday from Calcutta, India, says: Discourag ng crop reports are received from the picsidency of Mad ras. ihe cotton crop in districts of Bel lary, Kurneol and Cuddapah, in that presidency, has proved au almost total failure, while in several other districts the grain crops are withering. A St. Petersburg dispatch of Fiiday says: Large contrinution-*for the benefit oft! e famine suffereis continue to be re ceived from many different parts of the • mpire. The ce tral famine commi tee. under the presidency of the czarwitch, will'receive an imperial loan of 50.000.000 alter noon Tmsuuy und dead and to re strict the production of coal for- Decem ber t 0.3,25 ‘,OOO ions. No formal clai p for increased percentage was made by the R< tiling company, but it is generally be!i< ved that si me arangemeut ha 9 been made by which the Reading will be given an increased allotment. Saturday afternoon at Pittsburg, Pa., counsel for Senator Quay entered a civil suit for libel gainst the Pittshurg Post. The damages are laid at SIOO,OOO. Th ; s action was threatened reverM weeks ago, when the editor and proprietor of 'lhe Post were arrested on the charge of amouuted to $745,076, of which $129,- 300 was gold and #615.776 silver. All the gold an i $1,337 of the si 1 v< r went to South America a id $614,429 of the silver went to Europe. Impor s of gpeci • during the week amoun ed to $1,126,654. of which $940,898 wasg Id arid $179,756 in silver. A Philadelphia dispatch of Fiiday suvs: Giaccinto Epifairio, au I aliao, who for the past six years lias carried on a steamsh’p egenoy. a general store and I lyikfirg business among the p nrer class if his coun rymen, at 842 Carpenter street, is believed to have absconded wi h upwards if two liundrid and fifty thousand dollars belonging to his cus tomers. A New York dispa'ch says: Repre sentatives of the coal roads met shortly roubles, without interest, for the relief of the sunken districts. A Washington dispatch of Saturday say 9: A. Iv. Tingle, supervising special agent of the treasury department, in his annual report to the sec etary of the treasury, shows that during the p st fiscal year special agents seized goods to the value of $143,236 and ricovered $225,690 on account of seizures, finis, duties, etc. Exports of specie at the port, of New York during tire week erded Nov. 2l*t criminal libel, for publishing the Bards lev ceitificate of a- posit and commenting editorially thereon. Ex-Senator Ingalls in responding to a call fora speech Friday night at a dinner given by the ladies of the Episcopal church at Atchison, Kan , said that while he was not identified with any religious denomination he had a brother engage 1 in the business. He recognized the fact that the church of Christ was a great conservative force of modern society and he was heartily in sympathy with the work. A Chicago dispatch of Saturday says: Secretary Stone, of the Chicago board of trade, bus addressed a letter io Secretary Blaine, calling attention to the fact that United States vessels passing through Welland canai are charged toll. Cana dian vessels go through American canals on tl e great lakes toll free. The dis crimination is declared to be in violation of the treaty. Secretary Stone wants reciprocity in the matter of tolls. He says the Canadian policy is building up Montreal and Kingston at the expense of American ports. TRADE REVIEW As Reported by l>uu & Cos. for the Past Week. Business failures occurring throughout fhe cmmtry for the week ended Novem ber £0 i>, as repurfed to It. G. Dnn & Cm, i n‘itber lor the United States 252 and or Canada thirty three, or a total of 283, compared with 291 last we k and 260 the eek previous. For the corres ponding wok last year the figures were 274. V tick has happened of late to depress business and shake confid* nee, und jet confidence is not-haken, and th* volume of business is st 11 close to the great' st ever attained. The bank failure at Bos ton caused rcaree'y a ripple of excite ment. 'lhe failure of speculative banks at Ber io has bien industriously used to dt press s'oeks during the past week, but .the average price of shires is higher thru a week ago. This coun try begins to realize that with only sup plies of gr in to keep the millions in Eu rope from starvation, besides men's, cot ton end oil. which o'her countries must have, the Unit'd States is in a stronger position than any other nation, and need not quake ; t every European alarm. Prices are settling downward, with enor mous production, but the fact that such production continues shows that low prices *re not mi? ous. At Pitisbfirg the iron market is weaker. The glassworks are all in opera ion, and cal miners have resumed. At Savannah and Charleston trade is fomewhat de press! and, appa'ently by the very low price of cotton, and money is rather tight. At Jack onville business is very brisk, hut at Richmond dry weather prevents the marketing of tobarco. Manufacturers are active. The most stubborn iron mar ket ever known gives a surprise to many, for in spite of ihe unprecedented pro duc'ion the prospect of some accumula tion of stocks doe* not disturb strong makers, who reckon that it may be well for the country to lav in and hold much larger stocks than heretofore, sothatsud den and violent fluctuations may not be so readily produced. Large sa'es of rails at the west are re ported, 175,000 tons in two weeks, but the markets for other finished products are not materallv altered. A BETTEH TONE. The alarm about the money market has passed, and no disturbance is apprt hended this year. Indus rits are, on the whole, well employed, and it i- espeeially note wort y this week that there is a better t'ne in the branch's of trade which have been most embarrassed. GRAIN RECEIPTS. Receipts ol wheat al western centers continue at the rate of more than a mil lion bushels daily, and exports are also large, bur the price has declined 2£ cents on sales if 28.000,00 ' bushels. Cotton ret eipts continue to exceed last year’s, notwithstanding the reported shortness of the croj s, and, wbi e tl e exports for th crop year thus far are but slightly less than a year ago, the stocks at the priucip 1 ports are 1,200,000 bales, against 600,000 last year at the same date. There was a decline to 806 cents, but the price recovered on Liverpool buving to 8.12, the sales here being 800,* 000 bales for the week. DEVOURED BY WOLVES. Three Children Eeteu Alive by the Hungry Beasts. Word was r etired at St. P .ul, Thurs day night that wolves killid three chil dren of Andrew (Juiick Wednesday at Iron Rolling Miffs, mar New Brighton, ten milts north of St. P ul. During the gnat fires in the pine country in Septem ber gnat droves of wolves were driven south into Ramsey and Ano ka counties, and they have been suOsistmgon sheep in the neighbor hood of the Twin Ciffyst ck y trd at New Brighton. Adnve of 125 wolves wre seen together in that vicinity Monday. Mr. Guiiek’s children wandered from home into the woods at noon and were attacked and devourtd by the beasts. Twenty five men wilhdiounds started out after the wolves, and surrounded them in a swamp and killed eleven ol them. THE CONGO RAILWAY. Over Two Thousand Men Employed In this Important Enterprise. A cablegram of Monday from Brussels says: On July 31st last, 1,719 workmeg were engaged upon the Congo railroad. A little lati r 500 new laborers arrived, and the nolual numb r ernpl yed on Sep tember 15 hwa 2.220. These workmen, who are largely Zanzibari, Krumen and Haussa, are un ler the cha'ge of 200 white men, including fifteen civil engi neers, nine superintenden s of grading, sevt u een boss carpenters, teu keepers of machinery and supplies, twenty-one blacksmiths, three m chinis's, three boss st#necut'e:s, nineteen masons, a number of physi iana, and other heads of depa'tmms. The track has been laid from Mataff to the Map 'zo Valley, and seme distance up the valley toward ihe PalahaUn hi hi nds, and this point once attained, the railroad will encounter few other engineering difficu ties all the way to Stanley po"l. Thrfe locomotives are now on the track, and all the mate rial is tran ported by steam Foundations have been laid for a large bridge across the Mapoza river. Tl e work is making the most fay ra'ile progress. The health of Europeans isexce lent. A DENIAL Of Some of the Reports of the In dianapolis Meeting. A Nashville dispatch states that Presi dent McDowell, of tlie State A liance, L. K. Taylor, editor of fhe Toiler, and Ben Terrell, of Texas, airived there Monday morning from Indmapolis. Pres deut McDowell denies that the third par v movement was endorsed. He says: “The third party, or people’s party, was not mentioned in the meeting at all. I talked with some • f the western ad northern de egates, they fully agree with me that our order cannot take ac tion endoisirg any party. The opinion was unanimous that the Alliance must remain a non-partisan body.” “Then, how did these reports get out?” was asked. “Well, sir,’! replied the president, “I understand that McAll stir, of Missis sippi, wa9 there to give out to the news paper men just such lies as our enemies wanted to put in our mouths. Ne ther McAllister, I all nor Yenmans was in the meeting, nor were they seen about the hall. Hall was not in the city.” AN ACTOR DIES. Billy Florence Succumbs to an Attack of Pneumonia. William J. Ft rence, the actor, died at the Continental hoiel, in Philadelphia, at 8:30 o’c ock Thursday evening. Death came ns a startling surptise to those in atteD 'ancc upon the sick man for the reason that his condition had been con b dcred as improving during the afternoon and early evening. Only Mr. Florence’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Barney Williams, of Brook'yn; his Biser, Ms. Norman Wintd, of Washington, and Dr. Patrick Donm-llan, were with him when he passed away. He had been apparmtly getting better, and his physicians had no idea that tne e> and was so n ar. Mr. Florence was taken ill with pneu monia Saturday evening. He was born at Albany, N. Y., July 26, 1831. His name < riginally was Ct niin. but as he had adopted the stage name of Florence, he legalized his ntrlit n me to ihe latter bv an act of the isseinbly pissed by the New York leerslntnre. BANK BADLY BUSTED As Only $34 Were Left Out of $140,- 000 Deposited. A dispatch of Monday Irom Milford, Mich., says: State Bank Examb er Sher wood clos'd the Milford State bank Sep tember 16th and reported that the bank had failed. “Failed” is a mild woid to use in reference to this institution. The bank was established six ten years, ago as a national bank. The principal promoters were the Wilhelm bro heis and relat ves, with a fine line of director*. One was ex-Governor J. W. B&il, of Flint. The Wilhelms were young m*n who were known as “hustlers,” and they went into all sorti of speculation. They and their relatives owned the controlling jo ck. The bank had deposits as high as $140,- 000. The morning after the bank extm ers had taken charge there were only $34" in cash in the bank. The assets showed $142,709 and ihe liabilities $132,685, bur it is hard to see how the asset 9 can be made to yield over $15,000. Worthless loaus, c azy Kansas boom real estate, patent l girts, speculations and poor per sonal paper represent the balance. A GENUINE BLIZZARD. In the Mountains of Tennessee--Sod Fate of Immigrants. A rumor reached Kuoxvi.le, Tenn., Tuesday of a snow storm in the Chill howee mountains south of the city. A wagon train of immigrants, w< stward bound, were caught in the blizzard The train consbted of six wagons and thiity three people. When the storm btgauall went int" camp except a farmer named Geoige Akers, who with his family went ou up the mountain. It is supposed they lost their way and rolled into the river or ravins, and were frozen to death. Reducing Mortgages. A Topeka, Kan., dispatch of Monday says: Official report of mortgages re corded and released in fifty of the eastern counties of Kansas shows th9t a redue tic iof $302 407 in mortgage indebted ness was raadt: during October For five mont s the net reduction of fann-mort gageindebtednes*. in eastern and central Kansas was $2,300,1)00. The excess of releases on farm property is proportion ately greater than on town property. NO 31