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VOL I|.
Two hundred and forty-three cities
and towns of Massacliuseets have free
libraries.
Employing the most primitive meth
ods, Paris has the cleanest streets at
the least expense of any city in
Europe.
By anew iaw in force in the Swiss
Tyrol a heavy fine is imposed on any
one discovered selling edelweiss, the
famous flower of the high Alps so
much sought by tourists.
According to tho calculation of the
United States General Land Office,
after all deductions and forfeitures
have been made, 155,000,000 acres
will be required to satisfy the grants
made by Uncle Sam to railways up to
1880. '
According to foreign papers, while
the Duchess of Sanfelicc was walking
along the Via Fireuze in Rome, Italy,
recently, the cord holding her neck
lace of pearls broke, and the gems,
valued at $50,000, rolled into the
BCww. An alarm was sent to the
Department of Streets, and laborers
tfrere instructed to search for the
pearls, the Via Fireuze in the mean
time being closed. The hunt was
successful, and all but four of the
jewels were found.
In Germany some time ago the So
cialist party in certain industries
adopted a system of boycott on a large
scale. The members of tho party
were instructed only to buy articles
manufactured by Socialists. For the
identification of these articles they
were provided with a certain mark.
The report of the result of the first
year’s enforcement of the boycott in
the hat industry has now been pub
lished. It would appear that 800,000
hats with the mark of the Socialists
have been sold.
Says the Philadelphia Lodger: Ac
cording to the statement compiled for
the Virginia Historical Society by R.
T. Barton of Winchester, Washing
tun’s first election to the Virginia
House of Burgesses cost the future
father of his country $195 to get first
in the hearts of his countrymen who
could vote at that election, and the
chief items of expense were a “hogs
head and a barrel of punch, thirty
five gallons of wine, forty-three gal
lons of strong cider aud a dinner for
his friends.”
Secretary Foster says that Garfield’s
speeches, which many people have
considered models of classic elegance,
were rarely written out, and frequent
ly the orator’s best thoughts came to
him after he began to speak. But
before the delivery of a speech of un
usual inportance it was Mr. Garfield’s
custom to call half a dozen friends
about him, aud discuss the subject
fully in all its bearings. The sugges
tions and arguments then advanced
he would incorporate in his oration,
which, as completed, represented tho
opinion of several minds, but tho
form and expression of one. Accord
ing to Harper’s ’Weekly, Garfield
lacked the statesman’s gift of remem
bering faces, and Mr. Foster says
that after all his years in congress
he did not know more than fifty men
personally.
The newest horror is not Deeming
nor the Paris Anarchists. In the
opinion of the New York Sun it is
considerably worse than either. An
esteemed scientific contemporary says
that genuine sky-signs can now be in
stalled for the enterprising advertiser.
By a simple arrangement of mirrors,
reflecting-glasses and lights, a 6ort of
gigantic magic lantern can be set up,
by which images can be thrown upon
the clouds. You will be able to ad
vertise your wares, in letters a hun
dred feet long, on the skies, so that
they will be visible over a-dozen coun
tries. As if this truly awful pros
pect were not enough, we are told
that these sky-signs can be made
luminous, so will blaze away
all night I Heine, in one of las
rhapsodies, said that he would like t
snatch a burning pine from its Nor
way mountains and write with it the
name of “Agues” in letters of fire on
the skies. But lie would probably uot
have cared to adorn the firraameii}
with a blazing description of some
body’s patent trousers-stretaher.
State of IB a lie ItHctiHjL
PROHIBITIONISTS
Hold Their National Convention at
Cincinnati.
DELKOATEB FROM EVERT STATE IN THE
UNION IN ATTENDANCE—PROCEED
INGS OF THE CONVENTION.
The National prohibition convention
met it Cincinnati Wednesday. Chair
man Dickie, of the national committee,
called the meoting to order, and intro
duced Dr. J. G. Evans, of Bedding col
lege, 111., who opened the convention
with prayer, in the course of which he
entreated that rum be driven from the
country and that the saloon cease to exist.
A number of belated delegates sought
seats after the* prayer, and the Silver
Lake quartet, of New York state, ren
dered a temperance selection whife order
was being restored. They received an
encore. Rev. Dr. Lockwood, of Cin
cinnati, then on behalf of the city
and the state of Ohio, welcomed
the delegates. Professor Dickie res
ponded to the addresses. He
closed by naming ex-Qovernor Bt., John
as temporary chairman. Wild cheering
and the waving of flags and handker
chiefs greeted the mention of the name
of ex-Governor St. John. The shouting
was renewed again and again as the noted
Kansan stepped forward and assumed the
gavel and addressed the convention. His
closing words, “What is the pleasure of
the convention?” elicited the prompt re
sponse from numerous voices: “We want
-Bt. John for president.” The name of
A. F. Wolfenbarger, of Nebraska, for
secretary, and a list of assistant secreta
ries and sergeauts-at-arms selected by the
national committee met no opposition.
THE FIRST DISCUSSION.
The first fight in the convention oc
curred over the question of adopting the
temporary rules prepared by the national
committee. these provided that oniy
delegates present should be entitled to
vote. This would have deprived a num
ber of far-off states, especially tho e in the
extreme sou.h, a part of their represent
ation in the temporary organization, as
all their delegates could not come on ac
count of the expense. Mr. J. B. Cranfill,
of Texas, took the lead in behalf of these
delegates. He said that if that rule were
adopted it would.leave the control of the
convention in states around Cincinnati.
It would cost $3,500 to send the thirty-fivo
delegates of Texas to Cincinnati, and they
coaiu not afford it. The temporary rules
would pro.bably be the permanent rules.
He moved that each delegation have the
right to cast its full vote whether all the
delegates were present or not. After a
lively tilt Mr. Cranfill carried his
amendment on a rising vote, and then
the rules with this amendment were
adopted. The roll of states was called
for the announcement of committee
membership, and then the convention
adjourned until 4 o’clock, after giving
directions to the committee to proceed at
once to the work assigned them. The
most interest centered in the member
ship of the platform committee and tho
New Nation committee.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the afternoon session the committee
on credentials reported 972- delegates
present, Louisiana and South Carolina,
being the only states not represented.
The presentation of the report of the
committee on permanent organization
recommending Colonel Ritter, of In
dianapolis, for permanent chairman and
Sam Small for permanent secretary and
reinstating the rule voted down in the
morning giving states’ votes only for
delegates present, was the signal
for a fight. Mr. Small presented
a minority report recommending that
each state delegation be permitted to cast
the full vote to which it is entitled. He
made a vigorous speech in favor of the
minority report and protested against
depriving these states of their full vote as
monumental injustice. The minority re
port was defeated by a vote of 350 to 72,
and the majority report was adopted, so
that absent delegates will have no vote.
The convention then adjourned until 8
o’clock p. m. The national
executive committee was selected: Chair
man, Dickie; vice chairman, John P. St.
John, of Kansas; secretary, W. C. War
dell, New York; treasurer, Samuel D.
Hastings, Wisconsin; additional members,
Helen Gougar, Indiana; J. H. Tate. Te
nnessee; A. A. S:even9, Pennsylvania.
Notwithstanding the gossip that the
headquarters would be changed to Chi
cago, the committee then chose New
York for another four years. . Song and
prayer by Rev. David Tatum, a Quaker
preacher, of Chicago, opened the even
ing session. Colonel Ritter, of Indiana,
who was selected for permanent chair
man, was escorted to the platform to
succeed Governor St. John as presiding
officer. Speech-oinking took up the time
of the evening section.
SECOND DAT.
The southern question broke out before
the prohibition convention had been in
session five minutes Thursday, the cause
being a speech made by Mrs. Gougar at
Wednesday night’s meeting, which was
largely made ot a story about the sale of
a negro child at a slavery auction block,
the 'application being made from slavery
,to drink. The speech caused indigna ion
on the part of a number of southerners,
and at the first opportunity Thursday
Mr. W. W. Gibbs, of Virginia, was on
his feet and offered the following resolu
tion: “Whereas The prohibition party
jg not a sectional party, but a national
party; whereas, The issues of tho late
ci.il war are settled, and sc tied forever;
therefore resolved. That R is the sense of
th c convention that speakers who are ac
corded the honor of addressing the con
vention be requested to refraiu from un-
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1892.
ntcessary reference to illustrations that
could be considered reflective on partici
pan s on the last struggle.
After considerable wrangling, Chair
man Dickie, of the national committee,
then introduced Dr. Evans, of Abingdon,
111., who presented a plea for contribu
tions to enable the national committee to
prosecute i;s work. They needed mnney,
he said, not for “block* of five,” but to
keep up the contest against the liquor
traffic. Thousand-dollar subscriptions
were made by The Voice, the prohibition
orgiu, and W. F. Ward well, of New
York, secretary of the national prohibi
tion executive committee. Through sev.
eral individuals the state of Pensylvanis
gave $1,200; Virginia, $1,00j; Illinois,
$1,000; Minnesoti and Tennessee, 8800
ach; Massachuseo's, Colorado, Ken
tucky, California, Wisconsin and New
Jersey, Inoo each. There were severs!
individual subscriptions of S3OO each.
New York state gave SI,OOO to the na
tional committee aud raised a considera
ble amount in addition for state work.
Gathering of subscribtions was vigorously
pushed and enough small subscriptions
were final y received to swell the total
amount to $20,000, or $3,000 more than
four years ago. The convention adjourn
< and until 2 o’clock, just as the platform
committee succeeded at la->t in tempora
rily gettiag by the silver plank.
When the convention reassembled at
2 o’clock, two reports from tho platform
co nmittee were submitted. That of the
maj irity was adopted, after being amend
ed in two particulars, aud after a great
deal of excited discussion. The platform
savs:
The liquor traffic is a foe to civilization, the
arch enemy of popular government and a pub
ic nuisance. It is the citadel of tho forces that
corrupt politics, promote poverty and orime,
degrade the nation’s liomi life, thwait the wilt
of the people and will deliver our oouutry into
he hands of r tpacious class interests. Alt laws
hat unde ■ the guise of r gulatiou legalize and
protect this traffic or mike the government
* are in its ill-gorten gains, are vioious in prin
ciple and powerless as a remedy.
We declare anew for the entire suppression
of the manufacture, sale and importation, ex
portation and transportation of alcoholic liquors
as a beverage by federal and state legislation,
and the full powers of the government should
os exerted to secure this result. Any party that
f iils to recognize the dominant nature of this
is-ue in American politics is undeserving the
support of the people.
2- No citizeu should bo denied the right to
vote on account of sex, and equal labor should
receive equal wages without regard to sex.
3. The money of the oou itry, composed of
gold, silver and paper, should be uwued by tho
general government only, and in no sufficient
quanti ies to meet tho demands of business and
give full opportunity for the employment of la
bor. To this end an increase in ho volume of
is demanded, and *
i oration should be allowed to make any profit
through its issue. It should be made legal
tender for the payment of all debts, public and
private. Its volume should be fixed at a defi
nite sum p r capita an I made to increase with
our increase in population.
4. VVe favor froe and unlimited ooinage of
t-dlver and gold.
(This fourth plank was stricken out by the
convention by a vote of 596 to 335-)
Tariff should be levied only as defense
against for- ign governments which levy tariff
upon or bar out our products from their mar
kets, the revenue being incidental. The resi
due of tho means eces.ary to an economical
administration of should be
raised by levying the burden on what the peo
ple possess, instead of what we consume.
Then follow declarations in favor of
government control of railroads, telegraph
and other public corporations, and strin
gent imm gration and naturalization laws,
asraist alien ownership of lands
United States, favoring a legal day of
rest, arbitration, libeial pensions
public schools with the English language
alone,against margin speculation aud mob
law, and the arraignment of both old
parties for a long catalogue of sins. To
this was added from the minority report
the following:
Recognizing and declaring that the prohibi
tion of the liquor traffic has becomo the domi
nant issue in national politics, we invite to fu 1
party fellowship all diose who, on this one
dominant issue are with us, agreod in the full
belief that this party can and wi 1 remove seo
tional differences, promote national unity and
insure the best welfare of our entire land.
This ad litional plank was at once voted
down along with the balance of the mi
nority platform, but its failure came near
causing a large number of delegates to
abandon the convention and it was recon
sidered and added to the pla’form as
adopted. Discussion upon it developed
great heat and confusion, and there
seemed dauger of another schism. Then
the following resolution, offered by Rev.
R. G. Evans, of Abingdon, 111., was car
ried :
Resolved, That we favor a liberal ap
propriation by the federal government
for the world’s Columbian exposition, but
only on condition that the sale of intoxi
cating liquors on the grounds be prohib
ited, and that the exposition be kept
closed on Sunday.
NIGHT SESSION.
Immediately after the opening prayer
at the night session, the nominating
speeches promptly began. Ex-Governor
John P. St. John, at the request of the
California delegation, was given the floor
first to place before the convention the
name of General John Bidwell, of Cali
fornia. Speeches seconding Bidweii
continued until New York was reached,
when W. Jennings Demurest was placed
in nomination. L. B. Logan, of Ohio,
put in nomination Gideon T. Stewart.
Though only three candidates were
named for the first place, innumerable
nominal in" and seconding speeches
lasted until nearly midnight. On the
first ballot, at two minutes to midnight,
General John Bidwell, of California, was
nominated t > head the national prohibi
tion ticket. The totals, before any
changes or corrections were made, stood
882 for Bidwell, 184 for Stewart, 142 for
Demorest aud three for Bascom, 487 being
necessary to a choice.
It is stated that the Thomson-Boostos
Electric Company has 1080 patents on
Us electrical apparatus.
NEWS IN GENERAL
Happenings <tf the Day Called from Onr
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUH
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The ship Peter Stewart struck off Che
boyne Point, N. S., Monday, and drown
ed three persons.
The national convention of representa
tives of the colored race assembled at
Cincinnati Monday morning at 11 o'clock.
In a balloon ascension in Boston, Mon
day, the elements were unpropitious.
The balloon fell into the bay. Two men
were killed and one is dying.
The president has decided to appoint
Colonel Robert "Williams, senior assist
ant adjutant general, to be adjutant gen
eral of the army, vice Gen. J. C. Kellon,
retired.
Four men were killed while at work
Thursday afternoon laying a stone abut
ment to a railroad bridge at Providence,
R. I. The bank above them caved in,
completely burying them.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
states that W. J. Campbell has refused
to accept the chairmanship of the repub
lican national committee, giving as a
reason therefor that his private business
interests are too great to give them up.
A telegram from Lima, 0., says: A
tornado passed through this sec
tion at 1 o’clock Saturday morning. At
Foraker several houses were blown over
and three barns were unroofed. The
cyclone did $50,000 damage near Bluff
ton.
A London cablegram of Tuesday says:
The hull of the City of Chicago has been
further damaged by pounding, and it is
feared that her fate is sealed. Four tugs
attempted to haul her off at high water,
but they failed. Her cargo is being taken
out as rapidly as possible.
A St. Louis dispatch of Saturday says:
The first day of the Amalgamated asso
ciation scale was marked here by a shut
down of the Helmbacker forge and roll
ing mill, whose proprietors refuse to sign
the scale, stating that they cannot run at
a profit at the prices named in the scale.
A cablegram of Thursday says: The
ste mier Spaarndam from from Rotterdam
June 20th, passed the after part of a sail
ing vessel. Only the white rail was to
was cut down by the.Trave June 22d.
The Sealers’ Association of British Co
lumbia, received Sunday a lengthy dis
patch from Ottawa, reporting the seizure
of the British steamer Coqullon at Post
Etches. The matter has bffln placed in
the governor general’s lianjs and imme
diate steps will be taten to have the ves
sel released* *
The furniture manufacturing
establishment of the P. Hanson Hess
Manufacturing company at Baltimore,
was completely gutted by fire Saturday
night. Loss on the stock is estimated at
$150,000; insurance SIOO,OOO. The
building, which is badly damaged, is
veiled is fully insured.
. Lgram of Monday says:
Tjjrhull of the City of Chicago has been
examined by a diver, who reports that
the steamer is firmly caught on the jagged
rocks, aid is in a much damaged condi
tion. The steamers sent by the Inman
line from Liverpool are preparing for an
attempt to pull the Chicago into deep
water.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: The
United States Express Company has re
covered $14,183 of the $45,000 stolen by
Edwin J. Ryan, a Washington employe,
three weeks ago. When arrested in
Denver he had in his possession $43,433
and had spent $lB7, leaving $41,380,
which, as s'ated he had placed in the
vault of the State Deposit Company in
Pittsburg.
An Omaha dispatch says: The national
committee of the peoples’ party met Tues
day afternoon and organized by electing
the following executive committee: B.E.
Taubeneck, of Illinois, chairman; J. H.
Turner, of Georgia, secretary; J. H.
Davis, of Texa9, George Washburn, of
Massachusetts, V. O. Strickler, of Ne
biaska, I. Donnelly, of Minnesota, G. F.
Geither, of Alabama, and M. C.
Rankin, of Indiana.
Having won their suit against New
York parties who offered a years
old reprint of Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary as premium for subscribers to
a paper, G. & C. Merriam Cos. are push
ing other suits of a like nature—a Kansas
concern being one of the latest. They
will prosecute in every case where mis
leading announcements are made, and
claim they are taking such action in jus
tice alike to themselves and the public.
Independence day was more generally
observed in Washington city than ever
before. Mercantile business was almost
entirely suspended, the executive depart
ments and municipal and private offices
were all closed, and everybody who
could do so took holiday. *The Sous of
the American Revolution and Sons of
the Revolution held joint patriotic exer
cis-es appropriate to the occasion.
A cablegram of Tuesday from St.
Petersburg, Russia, states that the Cas
pian steamship company has been ordered
to suspend its service because of the
prevalence of cholora at ports on the
Caspian sea, and the government has
converted the company’s vessels into hos
pitals for the reception of cholera pa
tients. Newspapers of St. Petersburg
and Moscow have been forbidden to pub
lish news concerning cholera that is not
obtained from a verified report by the
government officials.
A letter from Grover Cleveland was
received Monday by Notman E. Mack,
chairman of tho sub committee appointed
by lion. A. L. Wilsou, chairman of the
committee to notify Cleveland and Ste
venson of their nomination, stating that
the 20th instant would be a good day.
Mr. Mack will call his committee to
gether a day or two before that date in
New York for the purpose of conferring
with William C. Whitney and Mayor
Hugh Grant, in whose hands the matter
of making arrangements for the notifica
tion has been placed.
Dispatches of Tuesday from Lima,
Ohio, state that reports from last Satur
day night’s storm, which have been de
layed by prostrated wires, show that it
was cyclonic in force. The dead are:
Nancy Glearings, killed near Van Wert;
Mrs. John Gloam, Otterville, Ohio, and
John Wilkly, Allen county. Fifty-one
houses and barns were destroyed. For
miles within the belt there is neither
tree, fence, house, barn nor crop stand
ing. The total list of injured is large.
There are several inland towns in the
path of the cyclone that have not yet
been heard from.
DUN’S TRADE REPORT.
Unprecedented Prosperity Shown for
the Past Year.
It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Bu-intss failures occurring
throughout the country, during the week
number for the United States, 171, and
Canada, 2G; total, 197. The fiscal year,
never matched in the whole history of the
country, in the volume of industrial pro
duction, in the magnitude of of domestic
exchanges, or in foreign trade has just
closed. Imports for the year have been
about $833,000,000; the increase at New
York in June over last year being about
eighteen per cent. Exports from New
York in June gained 15.4 per cent, and
the aggregate lor the year has
been about $1,027,000,000. Railroad
earnings have been the largest in
any year thus far, and the clearings in
June the largest ever known outside of
Now York. Failures for half the year
have been 5,503, against 6,074 in 1891,
and the liabilities, $62,000,000, against
$92,000,000, and on the whole about tho
smallest for five years.
In spite of low prices, additional works
are going into operation, even in iron
manufacture, and yet more in woolen
and cotton. Moreover the crops of this
year promise to be very satisfactory,
and tno new half year begins with ex
cellent prospects. Excessive rains
h ive again set back grain, to a limited
extent, principally in the low lands,
but the wheat receipts at west
ern points have been 1,883,000
bushels iu three days, and Atlantic ex
ports 959,000 bushels, showing that the
old supplies are not exhausted and prices
are one-eighth lower than a wfeek ago.
Corn is a cent higher in spite of the large
receipts and very light exports, the fear
being that a part of the corn may be de
stroyed by wet weather or so delayed that
frost will catch'it before maturity. Oats
are also a cent higher. Speculation has
been light in grain, but pork products
have advanced sharply; pork, $1 per bar
rel; lard, 42c per 100 pounds, and hogs,
35c.
Speculation in cotton has been active
with sales of 420,000 bales here resulting
in a decline of a sixteenth, though the
receipts are getting light, but the crop
prospects are good and the stock insight
is enormous. The hardware tn.de is
large, thoug i at low prices, and in other
brauches of business is fair for the sea
son. At Baltimore good orders for
clothing are noted and an eaily season
for shoes expected, though the packing
season is expected to be light. Eastern
shipments Of boots aud shoes gain every
week on all the past records, and for the
year are nearly 6 per cent, ahead of last
year and only 1 per cent, below those of
1890. Woolen mills are rather more ac
tive than usual for the sensoD, and cotton
manufacture has rarely been in better
shape as to stocks unsold.
Speculation in stocks has been languid
for holders expected a great public de
mand for investment of unprecedented
dividends and interest payments on July
Ist, but it has not yet appeared. Money
is abundant at all financial centers with
but moderate demand, and collections
generally good, except where wet weai li
gand bad roads check distrioution and
settlements. Rarely has the country be
gan anew fiscal year with more satisfac
tory commercial prospects, and there is
1 .ss financial apprehension than is usual
in a presidential yiar.
The public debt statement issued Fri
day, shows during June the interest and
non-interest bearing debt increased sl,-
140,412; certificates and treasury notes
offset by an equal amount of cash iu the
treasury decrea ed $13,836,413; total
cash in the treasury July Ist, $785,487,-
984; net cash balance in the treasury,
s2B,662,377,increased during the month,
$686,490; certificates outstanding, gold,
$146,598,929; silver, $331,614,305; cur
rency, $30,320,000; treasury notes of
1870, $103,712,071.
A BANK CLOSED.
The Cashier’s Mind as Well as the B Jolts
in an Unsatisfactory Condition.
The Goshen National bank at Middle
town, N. Y., did not open Monday morn
ing. Cashier William M. Murray has
manifested mental disturbances for some
weeks and had absented himself from
home since Wednesday. The national
bauk examiner at a recent examination
directed the officers’ attention to the un
satisfactory condition of the books and
that many loans were bad. Murray is
county treasurer of Orauge county. It Is
said that the public funds are in a trust
company in New York. It is hard to get
at the tacts, as the directors met in secret
session. It is supposed that the surplus
is gone and that the capital is impaired.
NO. 19.
THIRD PARTY CONVENTION.
Weaver and Field for President aud
Vice-President.
The national convention of the people’s
party was called to order at Omaha, Neb. r
Saturday July 2nd, with 1,366 delegates
present. C. H. Ellington, of Georgia,
was made temporary chairman. When
permanent organization was effected H.
L. Louck, of South Dakota, was selected
as chairman. Tho platform adopted was
a very extensive one in its scope, re-iter
ating all demands heretofore promulgated
by the alliance and people’s party,besides
many new planks were added. The
reading of the platform elicited much ap
plause and was overwhelmingly adopted.
WEAVER NOMINATED.
On the call of the states for presiden
tial candidates, Alabama placed in nomi
nation General James B. Weaver, of
Iowa; Illinois presented the name of
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota. One or
two others were presented, but were
afterward withdrawn. From the begin
ning Weaver led ail his competitors. The
final Vote stood: Weaver, 995; Kyle, 275;
Page, 1; Norton, 1.
FIELD FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
In the race for the vice presidential
nomination, Ben Terrell, of Texas, re
ceived-554, and General James Field, the
one-legged confederate veteran of Vir
ginia, received 573 votes, giving the
nomination to General Field. The con
vention then adjourned.
TROUBLE PREDICTED
When the Carnegles Attempt to Start
Their Works.
A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says:
Affairs at Homestead have assumed
an ugly phase and serious trouble is ap
prehended. Tuesday H. C. Frick, chair
man of the Carnegie steel compiny, ap
pealed to Sheriff McCleary for protection
and asked that 100 deputies be sent out
to the works at Homestead as soon as
possible to protect the steel works. Mem
bers of the Amalgamated Association
were confident that the firm intends to
make a test of strength within a very
short time, for it c- uld not well wait a
year to break down the strictness of the
watch. It was stated that Manager
Potter and about twenty of his superin
tendents are away in different cities pre
sumably searching for 260 skilled work
ers, without whom it would be impossi
ble to start the mill. This is accepted as
a further indication of thy management’s
desire to try aud start the milt at once.
TAILORS WALK OUT
One Thousand of Them Dissatisfied with
“Task” Work.
One thousand coat tailors in Baltimore
went on a strike Thursday morning in an
effort to free themselvos from “task”
work. Heretofore each tailor has been
allotted a certain amount of work by the
contractors to be done in a day. Some
times to finish this, it is claimed, they
had to work fourteen to sixteen hours.
The men want to work ten hours a day
with reasonable wages and weekly pay
day.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
(irorerint.
Coffee—Roasted —Arbnckle’s 19.60 $ 100 lb.
cases,Lion 19-60 c; Levering’s 19.600. Green—Ex
tra choice 20c; choice good 19c; fair 18c; com
mon Sugar—Granulated sc; off granu
lated —e; powdered 5%c; cut loaf s>£e■ white
extra C New Orleans yellow clarified
yellow extra 0 4c. .Syrup—New
Orleans choice 48@50; prime 35@40c; common
30@85c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@38c imi
tation 22(<J25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40@60c. Nutmegs 66(S 70c. Cloves 3fi#3oc.
Cinnamon 10@12yjc. Allspice 10@llc. Jamai
ca ginger 18c. Singapore pepper 14c; Mace
SI.OO. Rico fair good 6%c; common
5%®6c; imported Japan 6 @7e
t—Hawley’s dairy $1 50; Virginia 70c.
Cheese—Full cream, Cheddars ——c; fiats
12c; White fish, half bbls.s4 00; [Atils 60c
Soaps—Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs $8 00a 3 75;
turpentine, 60 bars, 60 lbs, $225 a250 ;
Candles —Paraflne Pic; star lOWc. Matches—
400s $4 00; :100s $3 00*3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s,
5 gross $3 75. Soda—Kegs, bulk sc; do 1 lb pkgs
cases, 1 lb sJ£c, do 1 aud yjlbs Bc, do%lb
6*<£c. Crackers —XXX soda XXX butter
XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior
7c; lemon cream 9c; XXXginger snaps 9c; corn
hills 9c. Candy—Assorted stick French
mixed I2 l / % c. Canned goods—Condensed milk
s6ooaß 00; imitation mackerel $3 95*4 00; sal
mon $6 00a7 50: F. W. oysters $1 75a ; L.W.
$125; corn $2 50 * 3 50; tomatoes $l6O.
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4>£c; lump
sc; nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $5 00.
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 00a 1 10; qnarts
$1 50al 80. Powder—Rifle, kegs $5 50; kegs
$3 00; % kegs $1 65. Shot $1 70 per sack.
Flenr. 4>miii and Meal.
Flour —First patent $5 75: second patent
$5.25 ; extra fancy $4.75 : fancy $4 50; lamiiy
$3 50@$4 00. Com—No. 1 white 68c.
No. 2 white 68c; mixed 66c. Oats—
Mixed 45a-c; white 47c; Kansas rust
proof 53c. Hay—Choice timothy, large bales,
$1.00; No. 1 timothy, large bales, 95c; choice
timothy, small bales, 97}-£o;No. 1 timothy, small
bales. 98c; No. 2 timothy. small bales, 92c.
Meal—Plain 67c ; bolted 60e. Wheat bran
Large sacks SI.OO small- sacks 1-00 Cotton
seed meal—sl 10 per cwt. Steam feed—sl.3s
per cwt. Grits—Pearl $3.50.
Countrv Produce.
Eggs Butter—Western creamery
20*22^0 ; choice Tennessee 16a20c; other grades
10al2Vc. Live poultry-Turkeys per
lb; hens 30c, young chickens
large 2Ca2sc ; Bmall spring 10al5c. Dressed
poultry—Turkeys 18a20c; ducks 15at8c; chick
ens 15a16. Irish potatoes, 2.00<®2.50 per bbl.
sweet potatoes SI.OOaI. 10 per t 4 Honey--Strain
ed 8al0c; in the comb Al2c. Onions
$2 50 per bbl. Cabbage—G*- A Florida l%@2c.
per lb. Louisiana IW. \7
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P '^tjitioai.
Clear rib sid-,,-Uhxed 7}{c\ ice-cured bel
lies B>£c. Bug ydSured hams 11 %&13c, according
to brand average; California 83<36%0;
breakfast bacon !o>4. Lard—Pure leaf —c;
leaf 7%; refined none.
Cotton.
Market firm. —Middling 7c.