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VOL. 11.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Being Done in Congressional
Hails for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
.Thursday.— The house went into com
mittee- of the whole—Mr. Blount, of
Georgia ,in the chair—upon the tin plate
bill. The bUI engrossed the time of the
house. during almost its entire session.
Notwithstanding the importance of the
bill, liitie attention was paid to the de
bate. The exodus to Chicago had begun,
and the return from Minneapolis was
slow. The hall was practically d< sorted
thpi utihout the session. Mr. Bunting, of
New York, spoke for over an hour in
favor of the hill. Messrs. E. B. Taylor,
of Ohio, and DalzeP, of Pennsylvania,
each occupied near ly as much time in
opposing it. Messrs. Atkinson, O’Neill
and Huff, of Pennsylvania, each spoke
briefly against the hill, and Mr. Hemp
hill, of South Carolina, addressed him
self to tire financial question, and urged
congress to enact legislation which would
relieve the people of the south from bur
densome legislation, under which they
were now suffering. Without action on
the bill the house adjourned.
Friday.— The conferees of the river
and harbor hill reported a disagreement.
The house adopted a resolution to insist
on the. disagreement, and the bill was
again sent to the conference. The pri
vate claim bill, known as the Sibley bill,
was then taken up After a short time
spent in filibustering upon it, the house
came to the point, when no quorum
voted, and, in order to escape from the
stifling atmosphere of the chamber, took
a r.ecess until 8 o’clock, the evening ses
sion to be for the consideration of pri
vate I'.ension bil’s. The house failed to
break its usual Friday night’s record.
Various efforts were made by the champ
ions of private pension bills to bring
their measures before the house, but each
effort was unavailing, aud the house ad
journed.
Saturday.— The house appropriation
committee on Saturday completed tHb
last of the appropriation bills. Just be
fore adjournment the general deficiency
was reported. The amount appropri
ated by the bill is $4,780,535, of which
amount $910,000 is for the census bureau
duiiug tire next ji-cal year. During the
present session of ©nflgfi jS appropriations
nave*been made to supply deficiencies in
appropriations for the support of the gov
ernment during the current and prior fiscal
years as follows: Act of March 8, 1892,
census, Indians, etc, $428,004; act of
March 13,1892, urgent deficiency,sl.22B,-
030; act of March 18, 1892, department
of agriculture, $100,000; act of March,
1892, public printer, ttc., $479,041; act
of June, 1892, pensions, $708,832; mak
ing a total of $9,985,273. The census
act of March, 1889, limited the cost of
Inking the census to $0,400,000, exclu
sive of the cost of printing. There has
been already appropriated toward the
work, exclusive of printing, $7 825,000,
aud the sum appropriated in the bill re
ported is SOOO,OOO.
THE SENATE.
Thursday.- Nearly all the senators
who attended the Minneapolis conven'ion
were in their places iu the senate Thurs
day morning, but the tirst action of the
body ws to provide for adjournment till
Monday. Mr. Morrill addressed the sen
ate in opposition to the bill for the free
coinage of gold and silver. Mr.. S'ewart
took the floor as soon as Mr. Morrill left
it. Taking up and replying to some of
Mr. Morrell’s statements he said that the
utterance of such nonesense would be
come, he should think, “damnable iter
ation,” after a time. The press in com
mercial cities was,he declared,subsidized
and spoke only the language of the gold
power, which wai itself an “arrogant
moloch.” The bill went over without
action. Thehouse’bill detining options in
futures and imposing special taxes
on dealers therein was laid be
fore the senate, and Mr. Wash
burn moved its reference to the judiciary
committee. It had been expected that
the reference of this bill would provoke
a somewhat bitter controversy, but that
expectation was not realized. After a
—
short discussion it was referred to the
judiciary committee. .Conference report
on the river and harbor bill was made by
Mr. Frye, who stated that an agreement
Iliad been reached on all but two amend
:ments—which were for a boat railway
•aroun 1 the dalles of Columbia river and
fora canal in the state of Washington, to
connect the waters of Lake Washington
with those of Puget sound. After a long
discussion the senate insisted on its
amendments and agreed to a further con
ference, aod then the senate adjourned
till Monday. Messrs. Frye, Dolph and
Itansom were appointed conferees on the
river and harbor bill.
Monday. —The senate was in session
for four and a quarter hours Monday.
Although the attendance was very small,
part of the time was given to the consid
eration of bills on the calendar, a part, to
executive business and the chief portion
to a speech by Mr. Call in support of the
resolution heretofore offered by him for
an investigation of railroad corporations
and their interference in politics and elec
tions. Senators Chandler and Gal
linger expressed their gratification, that
the investigation if authoriz' and at all, as
they hoped it would be. would take in the
state of New Hampshire, the former as
sorting that it would prove that Florida
was not the only state where the evil ex
isted, and the latter expressing the con
viction that it would onjy prove the
fal-ity of representations made by certain
p rsons in that regard. No action was
tak n on the resolution and the senate
a j .turned to Wednesday. In the busi
ness transacted that was of general inter
ist was the concurrence in the house
amendment to the senate joint resolution
authorizing the president to proclaim a
gentral holiday commemorating thefour
hu idredth anniversary of the discovery
of America. It was to substitute the 21 t
for the 12th of October.
NOTES.
The senate judiciary committee, to
which the anti-option bill was referred
last TLuisd iy, held its first session for
weeks Monday, and after considering the
measure for two hours, adjourned until
m xt Thu sday, when it? consideration is
to be taken up again and pushed ho com
pletion. It is expected now that the bill
will te certainly reported next week.
In the senate. Thursday, Washburn, of
Minnesota, who has a bill similar to the
Hatch anti-option measure, moved ihat
the Hatch bill be taken from the tible
aud sent to the judiciary committee.
This was done. Washburn is confident
his bill will pass. Other senators, equally
well informed, say that it will not pass.
A poll of the senate will be necessary to
decide this question.
’rtic Appropriation Rill.
The history of the first session of the
fifty-second congress is practically made,
and it is probable that from now on to
the end of the session the efforts of both
branches will be confined principally to
the settlement of disputed poiuts in the
appropriation bills. These measures
are really much farther advanced than
the simple statement of their parlia
mentary status would indicate to the un
practiced eye. By an extraordinary dis
play of energy the house has succeeded
in passing every one of these bills ex
cept the general deficiency bill, aud is
transferring them to the senate with such
rapidity as to tax severely the working
capacity of the commitfce on appropria
tions of that body, conseqently it appears
from the record that the senate is far be
hind the house in passing upon these im
portant measures.
No Reciprocity With CituaA.
In a state paper sent to the senate
Monday an answer to the resolution of
Februrry 24th last calliug for informa
tion relative to reciprocity negotiations
with Canada, the president sounds the
death knell of that project amd plants a
mile post in American history by delib
erately in effect recommending that con
gress proceed to retaliate upon the do
" 'mt f. • jja.jjiHWitttqt denials of the
rights of American citizens, guaranteed
by the treaty of Washington in con
nection with the navigation of
Canadian canals. The failure of the
reciprocity negotiations is due to
the position taken by the Canadian rep
resentatives at their recent conference in
Washington with Secretary Blaine and
John W. Foster, which, in effect, was
that it would be “impossible for the Can
adian government, in view of its present
political relations and obligations, to ex
tend to American goods preferential
treatment over those of other countries.
As Canada was part of the British em
pire they did not consider it competent
for the dominion government to enter
into any commercial arrangement with
the United States from the benefits of
which Great Britain and its colonies
should be excluded.”
BIG WARRANTS
Issued by Governor Nortbeu for School
and Pension Funds.
Georgia’s state treasurer, <m Saturday,
received from Governor Northcn twe
warrants covering disbursements of ovei
half the state’s revenue for the year. One
for $910,504.10 covers the school drafts
for the past year, and another for $400,-
003 covers the amount paid out on wid
ows’ pensions. A third for $22,415 cov
ers amounts paid out recently to redeem
past due bou is which had not been pres
ented to the treasurer until a short time
ago.
It should be said in this connection
that the $910,504 is not all the school
fund. The $200,000 poll tax, which
goes into the school fund is paid by
county tax collectors to the county school
boards and does not pass through the
state treasury. The school fund for the
year just closed was over one million,one
hundred thousand dollar*.
BURIAL OF GEN. STACKHOUSE.
His Remains Sent to Little Rock, S.
C., for Interment.
The congressional committees charged
with the duty of conveying the remains
of the late General Stackhouse, of South
Carolina, to the piace of interment, left
Washington for the south over the Atlan
tic Coast Line, at 10:57 o’clock Wednes
day morning. There were no servict sat
the late residence of the deceased. The
party consisted of Senators Butler, Kyle
and Gallinger and Representatives Till
man, Lanbam, McKeighan, Lewis, Shell,
Jolley and Waugh and the son nud pri
vate secretary of the deceas'd. The
arrangements were in charge of Door
keeper Turner. On reaching Marion, S.
C., the remains were taken thence in a
hearse across the country twenty miles
to Little Rock, where the iuteimeut was
made.
A Threatened Strike.
There is likely to be trouble between
the Lehigh Valley railroad and its switch
men. On May 21st they cut wages ami
reduced salaries between five and six
dollars per month. Grand Master Swee
ney, of the Switchmen’s Brotherhood has
held a conference to try and reach an
amicable settlement. The men say they
will use arbitration aa far as possible. If
a settlement cannot bo reached by that
means a strike will surely follow.
TRENTON, G‘\. FRIDAY, JUNE 25,1892.
NEWS IN GENERAL
Happenings of the Day Culled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The committee appointed at the Minne
apolis convention to notify President
Harrison of his nomination, met in Wash
ington Monday at noon and discharged
that duty.
On Thursday the republicans of die
seventh Kansas district nominated Chester
I. Long for congress. The seventh is
Jerry Simpson’s district and Long is from
Medicine Lodge, Simpson’s home.
H. M. Loticks, of Huron, South Dako
ta, vice-president of the National Alli
ance, has gone to Washington to tike
charge of the affairs of the organization,
the death of L. L. Polk having vacated
the office of president.
A dispatch from Portlaud, Ore.. is to
the effect that in the municipal election
Monday the fusion ticket, composed of
democrats and republicans was success
eessful in defeating the straight republi
can ticket with the exception of t vo
councilmen.
A dispatch from New York says: Gold
coin aggregating $3,700,000 wa< on Fri
day ordered from the subtreasury for ship
ment to Europe at once, making the total
to go $3,350,000, and the total for the
week $7,100,000. ft all goes to Bremen
by the steamship A Her.
Dispatches of Friday from Mankato,
Minn., state that the latest developments
realize the graves* fears as to the cyclone.
The death loss will amount to at least
thirty, and seventeen bodies have been
recovered thus far, with laige territory to
hear from. The cyclone was one of the
worst that has ever visited the north
west. The greatest loss was about Wells
and Minnesota Lake.
A dispatch from Galesburg, 111., says:
Four men were killed and twenty-fife
more or less injured in an accident ca
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad Sunday morning. A construc
tion train on the Keitbsburg branch ren
into a drove of cattle three miles north
of Gladeston, and was ditched. The
engineer was killed and his body buried
under the wreck. The other victii .s
were Italian laborers. *
A cablegram Of Tiiesday mrni St.
Petersburg, Russia, states that drought
prevails in Poltava, government of south
Russia, and crops are blighting. A
daily spectacle is that of priests carrying
sacred icon?, followed by throngs of
peasants prot eeding to the fields. Here
the icons arc elevated and surrounded
by kneeling groups of peasants. Pray
ers are then offered for rain. Sheep and
cattle are perishing for want of fodder.
A New YotfVvdispatch of Thursday
says: Several ot%he committee of muon
printers who went to Minneapolis in re
gard to the matter of transforming the
Tribune composing room from a “rat” to
a union office, returned to the city
Wednesday. They say the matters in
dispute between Held and the ptubers
have been satisfactorily adjusted,lJlnd
that a union foreman and union composi
tors will be put at work in
office.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday
says: The City bank has demanded pay
ment from the Danville and Terminal
companies of the time loan of SIOO,OOO,
now over due, and has notified the re
ceiver that if it is not paid the securities
as collateral will be sold at auction im
mediately. Receiver Iluidekoper says he
has no authority from the court to pay
the loan, and it is expected that the se
curities will have to be sold. This action
by the City bank is expected to force a
receivership for the Terminal company,
which is endorser of the Danville loans.
A London special says: “Complaints
are made of the delay in the distribution
of the new Virginia bonds, and it is as
serted that there has been a quarrel among
the Olcott committee.” In regard to the
above it vras stated in New York Tues
day by George Ellis, secretary of the
Olcott committee, that the delay in the
distribution of the new Virginia bonds
was due to the fact that they were not
yet engraved. The oid ones were beiug
sent out, it is said, just as fast as they
could be verified. There were $23,0 0,-
000 to be sent and not more than half a
million could be forwarded daily. It
was emphatically denied that there was
any quarrel among the Olcott committee.
AN EX-CONGRESSMAN KILLED
While on His way to the Chicago Con
vention.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says: Ex
Congressman Morgan was shot and killed
in a”crowded train Saturday morning by
Henry Forster, an attorney of Memphis.
Morgan beat Ft rster with his cane some
timengo. S-turday ihey met for the first
time since that < ccaSton. B th at once
pulled pistols and began firing, with the
result that Morgan was killed. P.nde
tnonium reigned in the car. Many of the
pissengers were ladies, and they weie
terri Iv frightened.
Millions ror Pensions.
A Washington dispatch says; The pen
sion appropriation bill was reported to
the senate Monday from the committee
on appropriation. It carries a total of
$146,737,350, which is an increase of
sll, 912,284 over the hou-e bill and
$827,200 less than the estimates. The
bill as reported exceeds that of last year
by $11,622,565. The principal increase
over the house bill is $11,007,634 for
army and navy pensions.
THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED
And Forty-three Men Hurled to Their
Death.
A Cincinnati dispatch says: One of
the most fearful accidents in the history
of this vicinity was that of the fall
Wednesday of a bridge which was in
course of construction over Licking river,
between Covington aud Newport, Ivy.
Forty-five workmen were on the struc
ture. So far as is known only two es
caped unhurt. Others were either killed
by the‘crushing of iron and timbers or
were drowned in the water. The cause
of the accident is surmised to be the
weakening of the wooden false work.
The high river had washed out the earth
about the supports, and it is cl dined that
one of the contractors said a day or two
ago that he was afraid the structure
would not stand under the weight of the
heavy material, Wednesday a force of
forty-three men were engng and in putting
in place the heavy irofc work on the main
span. Sudd- nly there was a cracking
sound of breaking timbers, a swaying of
the structure and the headlong plunge of
the whole mass iuto the muddy waters of
Licking river fifty feet below. It was
almost like the foundering of a shin.
Very few forms were to be seen strug
gling on the surface, the others were
drowned or crushed by the material. In
a short time the river was lined with
rescuing parties on both sides. The
bodies of the following were recovered:
Richard Gorman, Covington; Thomas
Burke, Ohio; William Hartner, Jeffer
sonville, Ind.; John O’Neal, Covington;
diaries Sehampor, Robert Baird, Cleve
land; Thomas Downing, Newport; Dick
Spooner, Newport; Fred Brent, Cincin
nati; Charles Deveneck, Newport; James
Johnson, George Burg-*, N. AV. Burton,
Dennis Harlow, B. F. Phelps, C. F.
Paffenbach,B. Thomas, Pittsburg. Those
missing are;
Frank Muir, Charles Farro, William
Barton, William Alvis, Harry Kramt-r,
G. E. Sheehan, B. Krantz, Ed Nolan,
Ed Sullivan, Dan Brinkley, Pat Murray,
J. J. Murray.
Audrew Baird, Cleveland; William
Wilson, inspector; John Phillips, New
port; Eirner Barber, W. D. Robe, Henry
Oliver were fatally injured.
Three of the men were only slightly
hurt aud two escaped without a scratch.
The bridge was being built by a Cleve
land, 0., syndicate which has in view
the building and operating of the Belt
electric line of street cars in Covington
and Newport, in connection with the
Cincinnati line. It crossed the river at
Twc-Rli Street, ■Ooritipto:., bA ~ to be.
used for vehicles and foot travel as well.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Developi&uit in the
Week Ending Jmi4lStli v
The Tradejnan, ( hat tano, iJh. Tenuessee, in
its review of the industrial situation iu the
Soudi for the week citing June 18th, states
that the rej%ts received from its correspond
ents througityt the Southern States arc gene
ra ly encouraging. The eontir nation of the
agreement to consolidate the large mining in
dustries in Tennessee and Alabama lias been
announced during the week, tin furnaces and
mines throughout the South are mostly iu full
operation, and the active development of the
textile industry, before reported, continuesmia
scale.
nic jr caused by the re
cent ■KS'l'i " lie Mississippi val cy
isjw generally known. The first feeling of
seems to have passed away, and
there is a general belief that increas 'd prices
for cotton will do much to offset the pecuniary
losses which have been sustained.
Fifty-eight new industries are reported as es
tablhhed or incorporited during the week, to
gether with four enlargements of manufacto
ries, and eleven important new buildings.
Among the new industries reported are a $150,-
000 brewery at- Birmingham, Ala., brick and tile
works to cost #05,000 at Columbia, 8.T3., and
others at Houston, Tex., and Keyser, W. Va.,
canneries at Mil brook, W. C., Memphis, Tenn.,
and Petersburg, Va., a $50,000 cotton compress
at Mineola, Tex., and cotton gms at Gold Hill,
Ala., J.ackson, Ga., and Bethel and Lancaster,
Tex. Electric lighting plants will be estab
lished at Cleveland, Tenn., and Front Royal,
Va.. a SIO,OOO excelsior factory at Bessemer,
Ala., a 200 ban el fiouring mill at Decatur, Tex.,
and one at Milibrook, S. C., a harness factory at
Atlanta, Ga., and an ice factory at Eastman,
Gi. A lock factory is reported at Florence,
Ala., engine works at Knoxville, Tenn., and
machine shops at Atlanta, Ga., and Hart-ell’s,
A!a. Iron mines are to be op.-ned at Row
el, Ala., Oxford, N. C. and Rosney, Va., a
brown stone quarry near Chattanooga, Tenn.,
a phosphate c unpany with #3,000,000 lias beeu
chartered at Ocala, Fla,, and a rice mill of 200
barrels daily capacity will be built at Westlake,
La., a s4oo,ooocotton and woolen mill at Maul
ble Falls, Texas, and new cotton mills at tj
lumbus, Ga., Shelby, N- C., Gaff ney City,
Memphis, Tenn., and Houston, Texas, a twi- -
factory at. Nashville, Tenn., a furnitii**/ fac
tory at Loudon, T< nn , and alum Jr com
pany at Elizabeth City, N. C. A* plajJng mill
will be built at Cordele, Ga., saw uijP at War
ren, Ark., Blythe,Miss.. Dyersburgwa Loudon,
Tenn., Hill Grove, Va., and Uoaeton, West
Virginia. saw and shingle mills at
New Orleans, Louisiana, and Pittsburg'
Texas, and spoke works ar Buford, Oa. Water
works are to be built at Deland, Fla., Collier
ville and Milan, Tenn. Among the enlarge
ments reported for the week are fire brick
works at Cleveland, Tenn., cotton mi l- at Co
lumbia, Tenn., a manufacturing company at
Charleston, 8. C. t and a lumb rmill at Gifford,
Ark. The new buildings reported include a
business house at Roanoke, Va., college and
school buildings at Athens, Tenn.. Sco tsboro,
Ala., Seguin, Tt-xas, an l Louisville, Ky., the
Ins' toe st $75,000- A S2OO.OtK) court house
will he built at P.raiden To ui, Fls., a $25,000
hotol at Llano, Tex., nn I one at Buford. Ga.,
iud a warehouse at New Orleans. La.
England at Chicago.
A London cablegram says: On the
supplementary vote in the house of com
mofis Tuesday, granting £IO,OOO to the
royal world’s fair commission, A. C.
Morton (liberal), member for Peter
borough, asked if in ending exhib
iiois were satisfied wth the arrange
ments made by the commission, fir
John Gorst, financial secretary to the
treasury, replied that the vote was in
<rei'S.d to £60,000, In order to give free
space-ani render the exhibit worthy the
United Kingdom. Mr. Morton said he
hoped the govi rnment would do its utter
most to mke the British section a great
uccess. Th vote was agnel to by the
house.
IN OHIO
The Democracy Hold Their State Con
vention.
The democratic state convention ol
Ohio was called to order in Columbus,
Wednesday. Allen W. Thurman was
defeated for delegate at large. On a
second test vote Frank Hurd was sent
under. In the platform adopted, it is
declared that “the federal government,
under the last democratic administration,
was so wisely, ec momically end patriot
ically administered, as to commend the
party to the confidence and support of
the American people, and to entitle it, in
the interests of good government to a
return to power. An < ffort was
m&de in the convention to have
the election of de'.ega’es precede
the adoption of the pb'tform, which
would make the policy of the conven ion
subservient to the men. This was defeat
< and and the platform was first adopted.
The section relating to the Chicago con
vention declared “that confiding in the
careful judgment of the national dcino
cratic convention about to assemble in
Chicago, we hereby pledge our earnest
and eordial support to its nominees for
president and vice president, hoping to
see a glorious and lasting victory as the
result of its intelligent actiou.” As to
the tariff and silver, the platfoig
declared: “We are opposed to all
class legislation, and believe in
a tariff levied for the sole purpose
of producing revet tie sufficient to defray
the legitimate expenses of the govern
ment economically administered, and we
protest against the policy of so-called
protection, illustrated by tlie McKinley
bill, as championed by the republican
party, and in the interest of agriculture
and labor, we demand reform of the
present tariff and reduction of unneces
sary burdensome taxation. The demo
cratic party has always favored the use
of both go and and silver as money, aud
restQred to the people the si ver dollar
of our fathers, which the republican con
gress demonetised in 1873. Denouncing
the Sherman act of 1890 as false in prin
ciple and dangerous in practice, and be
lieving that both gold and silver should
circulate as money with a parity main
tained and with equal rights and equal
value, we submit to the wisdom of the
democratic party about to assemble in
national convention, to declare a method
by which that end may be reached.
The selection of delegates at large was
reached, and was an interesting feature
of the convention. The speakers were
cheered as well as the names whom they
prcocutca no foHo tra; A . Wi
Franklin county; L. T. Neal, Ross;
Calvin S. Brice, Allen; Robert Blee,
Cuyahoga; John A McMahon, Mont
gomery, and James E. Campbell, Butler.
Brice, Campbell, Neai and Biee were de
clared nominated.
STATUS OF TRADE.
Duu & Co’s Report on Business for
the Past Week.
The review of trade for the week ended
June 17th, published by R. G. Dun &
Cos., says: Hot weather and hot politics
together have affected business at many
points, but there is, nevertheless an im
provement both in actual trade and in
prospect. One obvious cause is the swift
improvement of the crop outlook. After
weeks of soaking, grain has now just the
weather for most rapid growth. Floods
still make some trouble iu the lower Mis
sissippi valley, but elsewhere throughout
the west and northwest excellent farm
prospects stimulate trade.
At the east the demand fofc manufact
ured productg is large for the se ison, and
the settlement of many labor controver
sies, especially in the building trades,
while the fear of the long strike in west
ern iron works also stimulates purchases
of iron and steel products.
The political movements have much
encouraged conservative men with re
gard to the monetary future. The iron
output June Ist was 175,174 tons weeklv,
only 2,712 tuus less than May Ist, while
the unsold stock has decreased 26,427
tons. In spite of some increase at the
south, the output is now 18,728 tons less
than the greatest ever attained on March
Ist, or about 9 per cent, but it is 28,000
aAto greater than a yea! ago. At Pitts-
Mjurg the demand for Ijnished iron is good,
the prospects of wage difficulties stimu
lating, workers demanding last year’s
scale, and maufacturers are reducing.
Hardware is very active.
IMPROVED TRADE AT THE SOUTH.
Improved trade is noted at Louisville
and Nashville, and business holds on well
for the season *t Savannah, a decrease in
the production of naval stores being con
templated. High water mark makes
business dull at New Orleans, but sugar
is quiet and steady and money plenty,
with little demand Better weather and
a decrease of only 12 per cent in cotton
acreage, according to the most reliable
report, have caused a fall of five-six
teenths in that price, with sales of 813,-
000 bale*, receipts and exports bung
larger than last year. Cotton spinners
are taking more cotton than a year ago,
and unsold stocks of goods are compara
tively small. Exports of products con
tinue heavy for the half of June, 23J per
cent larger from New York than last
year, with a moderate increase in im
ports. Money is everywhere abundant
and unusually cheap, and complaints of
collections fewer than usual. Business
failures occurring throughout the country
during last week number, for the United
States, 153; Cauada, 26; total, 179.
- The annual report of the New York Cot
ton Exchange states the number of bales of
cot:ou sol 1 on “future” rleals during the
year at 32.487,800.. or over three times the
amount of the entire crop. Members of the
exchange now hold 375,1)00 bales, or more
than half the entire stock in the ports of the
United States.
GEORGIA CROP FIGURES.
Astonishing Comparisons as Between
the Crops of 1860 and 1802.
In an old report of ttie comptroller gen
eral’s office, has been found an interesting
item in the list of hestate’s productions in
1800. They will be especially interesting
when compared with the figures for the
past year. For example, take the follow
ing items qf production in Georgia:
1869. 1891.
Cotton, ba’es 69T,935 1,200,000
Wheat, bushels 2,500,702 2,323,000
tPoru, bushels 30,313,819 37,829,000
Oats, bushels 1,215,027 7,238,000
To those who have looked on the agri
culture of the f present as totally inferior
to that of ante-bellum days, this compar
ison will be a revelation. Without the
evidence of the agricultural department’s
official report no one would have believ
ed that the wheat crop of 1891 was very
nearly rqual to that of 1860. All along
the Western and Atlantic railroad are
large stone depots now never full, but
once filled with grain.
At Kingston in 1857 there were thir
teen wheat buyers. It should be remem
bered, however, that the area of improv
ed land has increased, and there are now
three railroads where there was one in
1860. Consequently the wheat crop is
not so conspicuous as it was thirty
years ago. Tne cotton crop of 1860 was
measured by four hundred-pound bales,
and that of 1891 by bales of 500 pounds.
Reducing all to five hundred-pounl bales
the comparison would be 558,348 against
1,200,000. The oat crop of 1860 seems
very small and It must have been a fail
ure, for that of 1850 was about 8,000,000
bushels.
An interesting comparison is the num
ber of farm animals:
1880. 1892.
Horses -..130,771 104,409
Mules 101,069 157.257
Milch cows ..299,688 354,583
Oxen 706,191 569,200
Bheop 512,618 383,017
Bwiue 2,036,116 1,691.275
Georgia was woefully short in all these
things in the rep >rt of 1870, and had not
regained her position by 1880, but the
above figures fhow that agriculture bas
about regained the j> dnt it left in 1860,
so far as live stock is concerned, and has
far passed it in the general volume and
value of all products. The wool crop of
1891 was, on the whole, much larger
than that of 1860, while the cotton crop
was more than double. The farm pro
ducts have increased in fully as
oronoi tin a-. the population.
THF, RICHMOND TERMINAL
Will Probably be the Next to Go into
the Receivers’ Hands.
A New York dispatch says: The Rich
mond and West Point Terminal Railway
and Warehouse Company, through John
A Rutherford, its second vice president,
lute Tuesday afternoon coufesred judge
ment to Frederick Iluidekoper and Reu
ben Foster, receivers of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad company, for $181,906
due on five notes dated March 4th, Bth,
16th, 80th and May 2, 1892. The company,
has also confessed judgement for $30,1151
to William P. Clyde, for money loaned
on March 30, 1892, and for $15,065 to
John C. Maben. for advance of March
29, 1892. Iluidekoper and Foster are
the two receivers of the Richmond and
Dawdle, appointed n few days ago by
Judge Bond. Maben and Clyde were
two of the three who ap: lied to Judge
Bond for the appointment of receivers
for tee Danville company. It is generally
understood that this action is pait of a
plan to put the Richmond Terminal com
pany in the hands of a receiver, and an
application for a receiver for that com
natiy is expected to follow soon.
PREPARING FOR CHICAGO.
Senators and Representatives Moving
Around Lively.
A Washington dispatch snys: There
were many signs of the coming exodus
to Chicago visible about the cap'tol
Wednesday. Senators and representa
tives were picking out their trains an(£
arranging little parties to travel together.
Senators Carlisle, Faulkner, Mills, Pasco,
Vilas, Irby, Joues of Arkansas, Ransom,
Bryan and Gorman will start at once for
the wigwam on the lake. Later in the
week members of the house will follow,
and so far as known the following repre
sentatives will go to Chicago: Messrs.
Patton, Allen, Snow, Bynum, Smith,
Bunting, Warner, Wilson of .West Vir
ginia, Mitchell, Geary, McCreary, Mc-
Millin, Buckner, Brawley, Cobb, Dock-
Lynch, McKinney and Ooburn.
One of the marvels of the recent elec
trical exposition at Frankfurt was a six
foot electricsearch light of 20,000 candle
power. Schuckertt, the Nuremberg elec
trician, astonished Europe in its construc
tion. Schuckertt is now at work on a
larger light for the V'orld's Fair at Chic
ago. It will be seven aud one-half feet,
and of at least 52,000 candle power. The
Frankfurt light could be eeen plainly at
Bingen on the Rhine, forty-five miles
away. It is expected that the search
light at the World's Fair can be seen at
least sixty miles away. Electrical
Engineer Sargent is making plans for a
tower 300 feet high, on which the big
light will be mounted. At a height of
100 feet above the ground will be two
■ix-foot search light ,< and the three will
suffice to illumina* the skies for miles
around Jackson .k. Brilliant feats are
accomplished th these search light*.
Sheets of F .a can be projected with par
allel, f Merging or diverging rays.
Wh; the rays are thrown out parallel a
clearly defined sheet of flame seems to
be suspended in the darkness. By chang
ing the reflector the rays are brought to
a locus at long distance from the central
station. These lights, turned ou the
buildings and alternately shot into th*
heavens or out across the lake, will pro*
duce brilliant electrical effects.
NO. 17.