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VOL 111.
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The Happenings of a Day Chronicled in
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing l ti e Gist of the News
I roin All Parts of the World.
, T* 1 ® Spokane, Wash., exposition
ftino nun crecto I ‘ l in 1890 at a c ® st
SIOO,OOO, was destroyed by fire Sun
day night. No insurance.
Iho quarantine against Brunswick
raised by Charleston Monday,
and the medical experts stationed by
the health department of Charleston
at all junctions leading to the city
were recalled.
Three thousand railroad coal min
°f K 111 * he Bittsburg, Pa., district
struck Monday against the cut of live
cents per ton in the mining rate. The
strike caused a suspension of work in
twenty-eight pits. Everything quiet.
A ball River, Mass., dispatch of
Monday says: Forty-four out of the
sixty-seven mills in the city are run
niug. They are running on a reduced
scale of wages varying from 9 to 14 2-3
per cent, less than the schedule last
week.
the foreign office at Berlin is in
formed that the Chinese government
is preparing a protest against France’s
new r aggression in Siam, and has given
orders that the Chinese -squadron of
ironclads be ready to sail at a moment’s
notice.
E. F. W atson Paper Company, at
Erie, Pa., running on half time, start
ed Monday morning on full time with
a full force of 900 employes. The
Erie Forge Works, which have been
shut down completely, started up with
a full complement of men.
Fire in the Pullman Company’s lum
ber yards, in the suburbs of Pullman,
111., Monday, spread to the big car
shops of the company and destroyed a
large part of the fine building. The
fire was beyond control and swept by
strong winds, promised to level tho
big shops.
The London Times' Alexandria cor
respondent says the Egyptian cotton
crop is steadily increasing. The crop
reached 52,500,000 cantars (a cantar is
a little over ninety-nine pounds) in the
year ended September 1, as against
4,750,000 cantars in the year ended
September 1, 1892.
Reports from many points in Min
nesota and the Dakotas indicate that
Sunday was tho hottest day in 1893.
In St. Paul the hottest temperature
was reached at 3 o’clock—94 degrees.
At Makato the mergury ran up to 99
in the shade. In Western Minnesota
in the past six weeks many small
streams have run dry.
In the course of interviews with
bank officials and presidents of com
mercial bodies, it is learned that the
trade outlook at Raleigh, N. C., is fine,
that crops are good, that there is plenty
of money to move them and that they
were made more cheaply than ever
before. It is also stated that the farm
ers in that section are nearer out of
debt than they ever were before.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch of Mon
day says: Governor Tillman has ac
cepted the proffered services of Hie
American National Red Cross for work
in behalf of the South Carolina coast
suffered. He has communicated by
wire and mail with Miss Clara Barton,
expressing his thanks and inviting an
early conference with her representa
tive upon the proposed line of work.
The New’ York World, in its Sun
day issue, gives a whole page to the
condition of trade in New r York city,
covering all lines with interviews with
the most prominenC firms in their re
spective branches. Bankers, dry
goods, clothing, cotton, brokers, ho
tel men and general trade was given
space, and hardly without exception
the result is most encouraging.
A New York dispatch of Monday
says: The executive council of the
American Bankers’association has de
termined to hold the deferred nine
teenth annual convention of the asso
ciation at Chicago on Wednesday and
Thursday, October 18tli and 19th.
The committee on arrangements, pa
pers and addresses previously appoint
ed by the executive council will ar
range the program.
The News and Courier published
Monday its annual review of the trade
of Charleston. In summarizing its
review the paper says that under the
circumstances Charleston could not
have done better during the commer
cial year ending August 31st. The
figures show that there has been a
falling off of $8,778,899 in the aggre
gate trade and business of the port as
compared with the returns of the pre
ceding year.
While there arc yet six days before
the opening of the Cherokee strip,
there is already a bread famine in Ar
kansas. Sunday night leavened bread
could not be purchased at any price.
A hasty visit to the groceries wasmado
and all the flour in the city was pur
chased and the supply exhausted, lhe
bakers of Wichita and Winfield have
been called upon, and will hereaftei
aid in meeting the demand that will
increase during coming days.
A special of Monday from Oswego,
Ju,, says the men who held up and
robbed the Frisco eastbound train at
Mound Talley Sunday morning, have
been captured. Their names are
George and Charles MaCune, Charles
Baliut and W. W. A. Curry. The
capture was made at Arkansas City,
Kan., where the outlaws had joined
the multitude of boomers who swarm
about the city waiting for tho opening
of the Cherokee strip. One of the
bandits lias made a confession of the
robbery and has admitted that he
fired the shot which killed Messenger
Chapman.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Tbe Drill of Her Progress ani Pros
perity Eriely NoleH
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
Dr. J. A. Dunwoody, Saturday filed
his report on his action as health offi
cer of Brunswick in the Branham fever
case and also his resignation as health
officer. Dr. Dunwoody exonerates
City. Physician Branham from blame
in bringing Surgeon Branham to
Brunswick.
The Yourtree ore mine and the
Russellville coal mines, of Alabama,
which suspended about two months
ago, will resume operations on full
time. About two thousand men will
be given work. The companies have
contracts enough ahead to run the
mines night and day for six months.
The forecast of the crop returns of
the North Carolina agricultural de
partment for September shows a de
preciation of prospects of 25 per cent,
from the August report. This is
caused by .the recent fearful cyclone
that passed over the state. The dam
age w’as done by severe winds and
floods. Tobacco suffered more than
any other crop. Corn and cotton also
were greatly damaged.
Savannah wired Brunswick Satur
day that she hacl raised the quaran
tine. Brunswickians are grateful that
a sensible sanitary board refused to
heed Dr. Brunner’s advice to keep the
quarantinean. This ended the quaran
tine against Brunswick. Surgeon Ma
gruder is working faithfully to wind
up the government’s affairs at Bruns
wick. When he concludes he will be
gin at the Waycross end and will set
tle all bills against the government.
The Memphis Commercial's crop
report for Mississippi, Tennessee and
Arkansas, published Thursday shows
a reduction in the cotton crop in the
Memphis district below former limits.
The continued drought is playing
havoc with the cotton plant, and un
less it rains within a few days the
damage will be still greater. In addi
tion to the drought and cold nights
the boll-worms have added in reduc
ing the yield. Corn w ill make three
fourths of an average.
G. W. Dye, one of the wealthiest
planters in northeast Georgia, died,
and has left his fortune to a negro
family who attended him for the last
fifty years. Dye was never married.
He owned 10,000 acres of land and
raised a quantity of cotton. He had
no members of his family living with
him, and his attendants were faithful
negroes. To these he left his estate.
His executors are leading men in El
berton. One is a preacher. Dye was
83 years of age.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Tillman Thursday afternoon,
made reply to the decree of United
States Cirt Judge Simonton,imprison
ing his constable, Swann, for seizing
a barrel of whisky at the South Caro
lina depot. Tho governor says the
decree is intended to bring the admin
istration of the dispensary law into
disrepute and to paralyze the state
constables in their efforts to prevent
the importation of contraband liquors
into the state. He says it is so “il
logical, prejudiced and tyrannical that
he feels constrained against his will
to criticise it.”
A Columbia, S. C., special of Satur
day says: The phosphate outlook in
the state is blue, consequent upon
the damage done by the recent torna
do. Governor Tillman states that the
phosphate men proposed to the state
that they be allowed to go back to
work at a royalty of 50 cents per ton
instead of sl, for a term of one year
without limit to the amount of rock
mined. He stated to them that ho
was not willing to accede to such an
agreement for it would be unfair to
the state, even if he had a right to
make such a contract.
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An Iron Trust Organized.
The organization was completed at
Duluth, Minn., Tuesday, of the Lake
[Superior Consolidated Iron company,
a corporation which will have much
the same relation to the Bessemer iron
ore trade of America that the Stand
ard Oil company has to the oil trade.
It will control fully nine-tenths of the
productive,mining capacity for Besse
mer ores of the United States. The
company has made an agreement to
maintain a standard of prices. The
prices will be such as will preclude
the possibility of competition by the
deep, hard ore of the older
ranges.
Everybody should read the paper and
keep up *7llll the times.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1898.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Coiiteei Iron Our Host liporM
TelegrapMc Advices
And Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
The Troy City, N. Y., paper mill,
after two months’suspension, resumed
work Thursday.
The Peabody mills,* at Newburyport,
Mass., started up Thursday morning
with four hundred hands.
Hon. Hamilton Fish, ex-secretary of
state, died at his country residence at
Garrison, N. Y., Thursday.
Pittsburg and Lake Anmdine mine,
at Ishpeming, Mich., which has been
working on two-thirds time, has
placed the miners and surface men on
full time again.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the West Point Terminal
Company was held at New York
Thursday. Mr. Lynch, of New York,
was elected chairman. No business
was transacted and the meeting ad
journed to October 19th.
Reports were received at Arkansas
City, Thursday, that the troops sta
tioned in the Cherokee outlet have
driven out the “sooners” by firing the
grass. It is claimed that many “soon
er” were burned, only those having
horses escaping. A great deal of in
dignation is felt in Arkansas City over
the action of tho troops.
Cashier M. J. Bofferding, of the
Bank of Minneapolis, committed sui
cide Thursday morning by shooting
himself. It is supposed ho took his
life because of sensitiveness over the
recent absconding of Paying Teller
Phil M. Scheig with $15,000 of the
bank’s money. ’President Kirby, of
the bank; declares that Bofferding’s
accounts are perfectly straight.
A cable dispatch of Thursday from
Berlin states that the Rhine has been
proclaimed officially to be infected
with cholera, and bathing in it is for
bidden. All the public baths along its
banks have been ordered closed and
the authorities of all the towns in the
Rhino valley have been instructed to
adopt stringent measures to prevent,
the use of the river water Tor domestic
purposes.
A London dispatch of Saturday
says: Among the subjects scheduled
for consideration at the International
Medical Congress called to assemble in
Rome next month, but the postpone
ment of which to next April has just
been announced, was the cure for con
sumption discovered by Dr. Amick, of
the United States, and which is at
tracting great attention in England
and continental countries.
A New York dispatcli of Thursday
says: The Commercial Cable com
pany and the South American Tele
graph, 37 and 39 Wall street, posted
a notice that the Brazilian government
has suspended all telegraphic confer
munication to and from Brazil iugmie
present. This order however wrß not
interfere with telegrams passing
through Brazil for points beyond. No
explanation for the order is given.
A London cable dispatch of Thurs
day says: The Manchester and Shef
field Bailway Company has given no
tice that on account of the scarcity of
fuel, caused by the miners’strike, they
have suspended the services of fifty
five trains. The Midland Kailway
Company has taken off fourteen trains
for the same reason.. Each company
had already curtailed its train service
in consequence of the coal famine.
A head-end collision between a milk
train on the Chicago, Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne railroad and an eastbound
passenger train on the Pan Handle or
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and
St. Louis railroad, Thursday, killed
twelve persons and injured as many
more. The baggage and smoking car
of the eastbound passenger train was
ground to pieces and from this most of
the killed and injured were taken.
A dispatch of Saturday from Arkan
sas City, Kas., says:. The secretary
of the interior is reported to have dis
covered, too late for the information
to be of practical value, that the ar
rangements for the grand rush in the
Cherokee strip are without warrant of
law. Commissioner Lomoreaux, the
land officer, admits the pre-emption
laws are repealed and that the entries
should be made under homestead law
only.
The London Standard in its issue of
Sunday says that everything points to
a dissolution of parliament next year.
Mr. Gladstone, it says, deludes him
self if he thinks that the constituen
cies will have by then forgotten his
Irish policy. The second home rule
bill is worse than the first, and wo
cannot possibly have a third. The
paper predicts that under the circum
stances Mr. Gladstone can never ob
tain a majority in Great Britain.
A dispatch of Sunday from Fort
Wayne, Ind., says: Fred O’Connor,
the train dispatcher whose forgetful
ness caused the wreck on the Fort
Wayne road, in which a dozen lives
were lost, has not been seen by any of
his friends since. A few minutes be
fore he left the city he sent a message
to the coroner of Cook county re
questing him to release all of the men
held for the accident, us all of them
were entirely innocent, he alone being
to blame.
At G :45 o’clock Sunday morning two
freight trains on the Nickel Plate rail
road crashed into each other, four
miles west of McComb, Ohio. Tho
result was that two engines were wreck
ed, and forty cars were piled on each
other in a mass of debris. Fifty cat
tle lio by the side of the tracks which
are torn up for a distance of 200 yards
and all travel is stopped. John Da
vidson, engineer of the east bound
freight, was instantly killed, and his
fireiftan, J. N. Uplier and Charles
Merritt, of the west bound train, are
dying from terrible injuries.
TRADE REVIEW,
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for
tlie Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Cos. ’s review of trade
for the past week says:
Improvement, has extended from tho
banks to the mills. Tho condition of
great industries has distinctly mended,
though still seriously depressed.
More important by far than any rise
in stock in the fact that more w’orlcs
have resumed during the past week
than have stopped operation, so that
the producing force of the country,
after months of constant decline, has
begun to increase. Dispatches men
tion twenty-ejght textile and thirty
metal works which have resumed,
some only with part force, while
twenty-five textile and nine iron works
havo stopped. It is expected that
most of the Fall river mills will start
soon, the hands assenting to reduced
wages.
The money markets are more
healthy; the premium on currency has
almost vanished; the embarrassments
in domestic exchanges have well nigh
disappeared, and while very little
money is yet available for commercial
or industrial loans, there is some re
lief in that respect also. September
Ist the output of iron furnaces in blast
was only 85,500 tons w’eekly, against
107,042 August Ist, and 181,551 May
Ist; so much less than half the pro
ducing forces were engaged, and yet
the manufactories were so stagnant
that unsold stocks of pig iron -in
, f reased 22,000 tons a week in August.
ia orated that iuiiher redi-.ctious in
the output have been made since Sep
tembe* began. Soft steel has reached
the lowest point on record—s2o at
Pittsburgh, and substantially all rail
mills in the country araj idle, but
there is a somew’hat bett' J for
hardware, wire rods, bayfTeTl wire and
contracts for implements
and supplies are reported at Chicago.
In cotton mills resumption of work
is quite general: the paper business is
doing better, the Troy paper and the
Illinois glass works are starting and
also several shoe factories.
While the money markets havo
M’eatly improved, they are yet far
/Bom the normal condition, and the
are in doubt. The monetary
situation has changed but little, for
there has been an abundance of money,
and only confidence in employing it is
lacking.
Failures for the wrnek have been only
323 in number, against 385 last week
and 430 for the week preceding, and
25 in Canada against 33 for the same
week last year. While one large mert
gago company swells the aggregate of
liabilities for the week, the average of
the other failures was lower than
usual, 262 being for less than $5,000
each, and only four over SIOO,OOO
each.
NEW CAMPS
Of Confederate Veterans as Aiinnunctfu
by General Commanding.
Tho general commanding announces
the fellowship of the following named
camps in the organization of the
United Confederate Veterans, and
their respective numbers, to wit: J.
B. Johnson camp, No. 377, Grand
View, Tex. ; Camp Stewart, No. 378;
Piedmont, Ala. ; Confederate Vete
rans’ Association camp, No. 379,
Farmersville, La. ; Ozark camp, No.
380, Newton, Ala. ; Colonel Garrett
camp. No. 381, Summerfield, Ala. ;
Mecklenburg camp, No. 382, Charlotte,
N. C. ; Friendship camp, No. 383,
Hartzell, Ala. ; Prairie Grove camp,
No. 384, Prairie Grove, Ark. ; J. C.
Miller camp, No. 385, Albertville,
Ala. ; Jeff Davis camp, No. 386, San
Augustine, Tex. ; Leonidas J. Merritt
camp, No. 387, Pittsboro, N. C.
Congress of Religions.
An event of world-wide interest and
one never before accomplished, took
placo at Chicago Monday. It was the
assembling of a parliament of relig
ions, a gathering of representatives of
all the great religious beliefs of the
world. No such immense crowd has
gathered before during all the memor
able series of congresses since the be
ginning of the World’s Fair.
Seventeen Drowned.
Advices of Tuesday from Rotterdam
state that during a lire which occurred
in Florestry, opposite the Rotte quay,
at Rotterdam, Sunday night, twenty
five onlookers who were aboard a
lighter rushed to one side, causing
it to capsize, &nd seventeen were
drowned.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs ol Governmeat and Mine oi
its House and Senate Discusses.
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
The comptroller of currency at
Washington wired Monday evening
to the First National bank at Gads
den, Ala., to resume business.
The president Monday sent the fol
lowing nominations to the senate:
Charles H. J. Taylor, of Kansas, min
ister to Bolivia; Charles B. Aycock,
United States attorney for eastern
district of North Carolina.
The Senate Monday confirmed the
following nominations: Alex Mc-
Donald, of Virginia, minister resident
and consul general to Persia; Charles
H. J. Taylor, of Kansas, minister to
Bolivia; John Goode, of Yirgina, to
be a Chilean claims commissioner.
When tho senate adjourned Satur
day afternoon it was a week nearer
the repeal of the Sherman law. But
nothing happened during the week to
indicate when a vote will be taken.
The chief talk outside of the speeches
on the floor has been with reference to
tho compromise.
Senator Peffer has presented a peti
tion in the senate from citizens of
Kansas in the form of a resolution pro
viding for the issue of treasury notes
to be loaned the different states ac
cording to demand at interest, not ex
ceeding one per cent to bo distributed
among the people of the states and to
be legal tender for all public and pri
vate debts.
The president has practically com
pleted his consideration of tho Hawai
ian question and action may bo ex
pected within a very short period,
probably within three weeks. Ex-
Minister Blount made his official adieu
Monday afternoon and left for his
home in Georgia. His connection
with the Hawaiian question, both
officially and unofficially has ended.
Innumerable dispatches received at
Washington indicate that a general ro
sumption of business in the manufact
uring plants in the north and west has
begun or is in preparation. This ia
particularly marked in the cotton fac
tory section of New England and iron
working plants in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, also in the miscellaneous indus
tries of Philadelphia and New York.
By direction of tho secretary of war,
three hundred hospital tents have
been sent from quartermaster’s depart
ment at St. Louis, to the people left
homeless through the ravages of the
great hurricane on the South Carolina
coast. Secretary Lamont was anxious
to send subsistence as well, but fouud
there was neither money nor stores
available for this purpose.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says: No advices have yet been receiv
ed from the cruisers Yorktown and
Charleston now on tho South Ameri
can coast, one of which the navy de
partment desired to station at Rio de
Janeiro to protect American interests.
Secretary Herbert has given up hope
of hearing from the Yorktown, and
she will doubtless proceed to the Pa
cific station. The Charleston is ex
pected to stop at Ilio and orders have
been sent for her to stop at that port.
Certificate* Not to Be Taxed.
Commissioner Miller sent out a cir
cular recently to the internal revenue
collectors which is causing a good deal
of speculation. It has been under
stood to mean in some quarters that
the circular merely intended to im
pose alO per cent, tax on clearing
house certificates for local circulation.
Commissioner Miller stated Friday
that there was nothing at all of that
nature intended. The circular was is-
merely for the purpose of pre
venting the banks from issuing the
small bank notes that have been put
in circulation lately. That is all there
is to it. The circular does apply,
however, to certified cheeks payable to
bearer and issued for circulation in
tho place of money.
A Batch of Nomination*.
The president sent to the senate,
Friday, the following nomidations:
Theodore Runyon, of New Jersey,
ambassador extraordinary and pleni
potentiary of the United States to
Germany; Albert S. Willis, of Ken
tucky, envoy extraordinary and mi n
ister ■plenipotentiary bf the United
States to the Havaiian islands; Henry
M. Smith, of Virginia, to be minister
resident and counsel general of the
United States to Hayti; Ellis Mills,
of Virginia, to be consul general at
Honolulu; M. S. Carroll, of Maryland,
to be consul general at Dresden, Ger
many. United States Consuls—George
J. Willis, of Georgia, at Port Stanley
and St. Thomas, Canada; John R.
Mobley, of Texas, at Acapulco, Mexico;
Henry R. D. Mac Ever, of New York,
at Denia, Spain; George Keenan, of
Wisconsin, at Kehl, Germany; Henry
C. C. Atwood, of New York, at Calais,
France; Leopold Moore, of New York,
at St. Christopher, W. I. Also nine
teen postmasters, a collector of reve
nue and appraiser—all recess appoint
ments.
Lowry City, Mo., has a 3740 pound
•leer.
A CRY OF DISTRESS.
Governor Tillman Appeals for Aid for
the Storm Stricken Sufferers.
A Columbia, S. C., special Thursday
says: The awful stupendity of tho dis
aster of the storm-swept coast of South
Carolina is at last realized. It proves
to be the calamity of the century. A
death roll of several hundred persons
developes into almost that of thou
sands, while absolute destitution e
tends to 20,000 persons,nineteen-twen
tieths of whom are ignorant negroes.
These awful facts have been ascertained
by Dr. J. W. Babcock, of Columbia, who
spent four days as the special repre
sentative of Governor Tillman at
Beaufort, and vicinity. In point of
fact,the whole truth is not yet known,
as, on account of tho impossibility of
at present making a circuit of the
score or mere of islands that make up
this archipelago, but enough has been
developed to warrant the foregoing
statement as to the death and devasta
tion. All these islands were sub
merged and tho seething waters anni
hilated almost everything, scarcely
leaving a landmark.
TWENTY THOUSAND DESTITUTE.
These 20,000 persons are now con
fronted by tho terrors starvation and
pestilence. These facts hato caused
Governor Tillman to give all his per
sonal attention to the situation and
he is now working with might and
main to procure relief. Thurs
day night he issned a procla
mation to the people of the
United States appealing to them to
make contributions to tlie cause. He
states therein that these people will
havo to be fed by charity for six
months and that it will take $75,000
to furnish them with bread alone. He
calls upon the whole people to aid him
and pledges his official word that their
charity shall not be misapplied.
FARMERS’ NATIONAL CONGRESS
The Delegates for Georgia Appointed
by Gov. Northen.
The farmefs’ national congress will
meet at Savannah, Ga., December 12,
13, 14, 1893. At the request of Hon.
B. F. Clayton, of Indianola, Ind., sec
retary of the congress, Governor Nor
then has appointed the following dele
gates to represent this tffate in the
congress:
From the State at Large— R. B. Bar
ter, Sparta; R. T. Nesbitt, Atlanta.
First District—G. M. Ryals, Savan
nah ; W. A. Wilkins, Waynesboro.
Second District—o. Jj. Hand, Pel
ham ; O. A. Barry, Cuthbert.
Third District—Harper Black, Amer
icas ; Dudley Hughes, Danville.
Fourth District—W. C. Wisdom,
Wisdom’s Store; J. A. Thrash, Jones’
Mills.
Fifth District—Joseph Kjingsbery,
Atlanta; Sam H. Broadnax. Walnut
Grove.
Sixth District—J. H. Mitchell,
Zebulon; It. N. Lamar, Milledgeville.
Seventh District—James H. Har
lan, Calhoun ; Dr. Beasley, Stilesboro.
Eighth District—W. H. Mattox,
Elberton; Henry deJarnette, Eaton
ton.
Ninth District—J. H. Nichols, Na
coochce; James R. Brown, Canton.
Tenth District—George Gilmore,
Warthen; Tom Hardeman, Louisville.
Eleventh District—A. P. Brantley,
Blackshear; R. J. Denmark, Quitman.
THE COTTON CROP.
Report of the Department of Agricul
ture for September.
The September cotton report of the
department of agriculture shows a de
cline from the August condition of the
crop of Tull 7 points, the average be
ing 74.3 this month, as against 80.4
last month.
This is the lowest September condi
tion since 1881, which stood at 70.
The condition in September, 1892,
was 76.8. For the same month in the
years 1891 and 1892 it was 82.7 and
85.8, respectively.
The state averages are: Virginia,
93; North Carolina, 76; South Caro
lina, 63 ; Georgia, 77; Florida, 85;
Alabama, 78 ; Mississippi, 78 ; Louisi
ana, 81; Texas, 63 ; Arkansas, 80;
Tennessee, 67.
The hurricane of August 28th caus
ed much damage to the crop in the
states of North Carolina, South Caro
lina and Georgia, and in a less degree
in the state of Florida.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Report of the Situation for the Past
Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
south for the past week shows a slight revival
in business, and that the signs indicate that
the south is slowly recovering from the effects
of the recent critical period. There have been
to failures of importance, the banks are re
suming payments in the larger cities, and the
coming in of the cotton crop is giving
some animation in business circles. Sev
eral of the larger cotton mill*
which either shut down or ran
on reduced time have resumed in full -orce
The cyclone of the last week hag seriously af
fected the production of sea island cotton and
of naval stores, and the crop will be much re
duced. Cotton will not come to market in
large quantities unless the price advances, aw
the farmers are generally in shape to hold it,
and will not sell for the cost of production
alone.
Twenty-eight new industries were established
or incorporated daring the week, together with
eight enlargementsdf ma aufactoriesand eleven
important new building t. —Tradesman, (Chat
tanooga Tenn;
NO. 27