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VOL. 111.
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
% Happenings of a Day CiironicleH in
Brief and Coneise Paragraphs
And Containing: tlie Gist of the News
From All Parts of the World.
TheTremorit and Suffolk and Lowell
carpet mills at Lowell, Mass., have
started up on full time.
The Hamilton Woolen company, at
Amesbury, Mass., started up on full
time Tuesday. All the hands will now
find steady work, although at a reduc
tion of wages.
The Lancaster gingham mills at
Clinton, Mass., resumed full time
Tuesday with an average reduction in
wages of 14 per cent. The Everett
and Pemberton mills at Lawrence also
started up.
Three deaths were officially reported
by Brunswick’s health board Tuesday
—Miss Rpsa Nisi, the infant of Blount
Bowen and Mrs. Emma Willis, all
white. Fifteen new cases of yellow
fever were reported jpid five patients
were discharged.
A Washington special says: The
Pelmetto trademark case from South
Carolina, Governor Tillman against
the commissioner of patents, was de
cided Tuesday by Justice Bradley in
the district supreme court in favor of
Governor Tillman.
The Farhnrn street at Oma
ha, Neb., , was completely destroyed
by fire Monday night and was a total
loss. Estimated loss, $272,000. Six
persons, five of them firemen, were in
jured by the falling walls and one
fireman is missing.
Leopold Peck and Henry Sondheim,
of the firm of Hardman, Peck A Cos.,
piano manufacturers at New York,
made an assjgnnent Monday to Joseph
Ullman, with preference to the Mer
cantile and Second National banks
and William Kraus, for all debts due
them. •
R. A. Tompkins, tax collector at
Russel Mlle, Ala., who was recently
found to be several thousand dollars
short, is missing. Several days since
he was arrested for embezzlement, but
the suits were withdrawn „on certain
conditions. It is believed that he has
left for parts unkaowfi.
A Raleigh dispatch says: There is
now no doubt from reports received by
the state agricultural department
Tuesday that North Carolina’s cotton
crop will be picked by October 20th.
Three-fourths of the cotton is now
open on most farms. Such early and
general opening was never before
known in North Carolina.
Surgeon Murray arrived at Jesup
Tuesday morning from Brunswick and
visited the suspicious cases reported
Monday. He declares them to be yel
low fever. They are in four parts of
the town. The town is almost depop
ulated by the white citizens. A strong,
cordon *has been placed around the*
city. Not one will be permitted to leave
unless by wav of Camp Detentson.
Surgeon General Wyman Monday
ordered Surgeon DeSaussUre to Way
cross and Waresboro to inspect cases of
sickness at these places which had been
reported to him. Dr. DeSaussure ar
rived at Way cross Tuesday morning
and went direct to Waresboro. He
found that there were no suspicious
cases there. Dr. DeSaussure returned
to Waycross in the afternoon and after
inspection pronounced the city all
right and free from any suspicious
sickness.
The cotton crop report of South
Carolina, published Tuesday, says:
Cotton is opening rapidly and with
good weather the crop will be all
gathered by November Ist. Some
damage from water, dropping off wet
leaves and staining the staple, is re
ported in the west counties. Abbeville
county reports cotton nearly half
gathered. There will be no late crop
or very little in many counties. Esti
mates still give cotton at about one
half a crop.
Invitations were extended Monday
by the Port Royal Shipping Company
to President Cleveland, Vice Presi
dent Stevenson members of the cabi
net, governors, senators of Georgia
and South Carolina and to exchanges,
newspapers, mayors and prominent
business men throughout the south
west to attend a celebration at Port
Royal, S. C., October 9th in honor of
the inauguration of direct trade with
Europe from that port. Governor
Tillman, of South Carolina will pre
side.
A Nashville, Tenn., special says:
Adjutant General John A. Fite and
Captain H. C. Ward left the city
Tuesday night for Clinton, where they
will pay the state troops $6,000 for
their services during the past two
months. The troops will then he dis
banded and discharged. Since the
first outbreak of the miners a little
over two years ago, the resultant and
similar troubles have cost the state
$213,000, the expenses of the present
year footing up above $75,000. Be
sides this, the lessees of the peniten
tiary owe the state over SIOO,OOO.
A Knoxville special says: Sixteen of
the state’s soldiers charged with the
Drummond lynching slept in Knox
State of Wdk ffettfe
county jail Tuesday night. General
D. A. Carpenter, acting for Adjutant
General Fite, went to Clinton Monday
morning and took with him from
Camp Carpenter a company of about
forty soldiers. He asked the sheriff
to pick out the men he could identify
who had been indicted. The sheriff
could only identify four. General
Carpenter then took the list of those
for whom indictments had been made
and called the men out and turned
them over to Sheriff Rutherford. The
indictments called for eighteen men.
The state asked that the case be put
off oil account of its witnesses not be
ing ready. At the request of the sol
dier’s attorneys, Judge Hicks allowed
them to be removed to Knox county
jail, Sheriff Rutherford stating that
the Anderson county jail could not ac
commodate them and was not safe.
SHIPPERSON’S ESTIMATE
01 tie Amosnt ot tie Cotton Crop tor
tie Season ot 1893.
He Says it Will Be About 6,800,000
Bales With an Average Season.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
says: Alfred B. Shepperson, author
of “Cotton Facts,” has furnished the
Southern Associated Press with the
following opinionasto this year’s cot
ton crop. Mr. Shepperson is neither
a buyer nor a seller of cotton, but
possesses unusually good facilities for
accurate information covering the en
tire cotton belt. In his estimate of
the yield Mr. Shepperson says: “The
old ootton has now been about all
marketed and it is probable that the
commercial, crop of this year will hot
differ appreciably from the actual
yield. I estimated the actual yield
of cotton last season at 6,400,000:
the difference between that and
the commercial crop being made up
from cotton from previous crop. Com
pared with last season’s yield the pres
ent indications point to the following
gains, viz: 366,000 bales in Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana, being 20
per cent.; 200,000 bales in Arkansas,
being 33 per cent. ; 240,000 baleß in
the two Carolines, Georgia and Flor
ida, being 15 per cent. The total of
the gains is 800,000 bales. The yield
in Texas is estimated at 1,750,000, be
ing a loss of 400,000 bales. This de
ducted from the estimated gains will
leave a net gain of 40ty000 bales upon
last year’s yield of 6,400,000 bales.
Tennessee will probably make about
the same crop as last season. Some
correspondents, whose facilities for ob
taining information are excellent and
whose standing arc of the highest,
do not think the gain in Alabama,Mis
sissippi and Louisiana will be over 15
per cent, and the gain in the Carolinas
over 10 per cent, while I am informed
that the commissioner of agriculture
of Georgia estimates the yield of
Georgia will not exceed that of last
year. The receipts at* the ports for
the week just ended were 20,000 bales
more than the corresponding week last
year, and- it is probable that this
week’s receipts will be liberal. Early
receipts are no indication of the extent
of the crop, dor a small crop may ma
ture quickly and be promptly mar
keted.
YELLOW FEVER AT JESUP.
Five Cases Reported and the Totto is
in a Panicky Condition.
A Special to the Savannah Morting
Neats from Jesnp says: At a regular
meeting of the council here Monday
afternoon, Mayor Steele reported that
he had placed a strong guard ajound
the Warren residence and that no one
would be permitted to communicate
with it. The quarantine restrictions
against Brunswick are being made
more rigid, and extra inspector! have
been placed on duty.
Mayor Steele made a personal inspec
tion of the majority of the Louses
Monday morning and found every
thing in good sanitary condition. Five
suspicious cases being reportedby Dr.
Tutten, Mayor Steele forwarded the
following telegram to Surgeon General
Wyman &t Washington:
‘ ‘All contagious cities have quaran
tined against us. One case is pro
nonned yellow fever by Surge*n Mur
ray.
“Five cases reported here are re
ported suspicions by local physicians,
but are eonvalesent. The town is
panicky.”
Will Not Strike.
Grand Master Sargent, oithe Broth
erhood of Locomotive Fijsman, is in
receipt of a telegram freb the fire
man’s committee at Cinchnati, stat
ing that the vote of the Bg Four em
ployes was adverse to fl strike, and
that the trouble that been im
pending is now settled. No particu
lars of the settlement hfl'e been sent
to him further than thf no strike has
been declared.
Bismarek’sdook.
Prince Bismarck s said to have
sold his memorial tot South German
publisher for 50,00 marks, on con
dition they be publ/hed immediately
after his death.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6,1893.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Government and Routine of
fte House and Senate Discussed.
Notes of luterest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
Private Secretary Thurber, by the
president’s direction, has written
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, that the
president will probably be unable to be
present at the World’s fair on Octobei
9th, Chicago day.
The president has approved the join-.
Resolution of congress empowering the
national board of commissioners of the
Chickamauga and Chattanooga national
park to authorize the states’ board, or
organizations o© building monuments
in the park, to use materials in the park
agreeable to the regulations it may
adopt.
Secretary Smith Saturday appoint
ed Josephus Daniels, of North Caro
lina, chief clerk of the interior depart
ment. Mr. Daniels, who is the jires
ent appointment clerk of the depart
ment is also the editor and proprietor
of The North Carolinian, at Raleigh,
and has several times been elected
state printer of North Carolina. Mr.
Daniel’s successor will be John W.
Holcombe, of Indiana, the present
chief clerk of the bureau of education,
who received his appointment as such
early in Cleveland’s first administra
tion.
The house committee on privileges
and elections met Tuesday morning to
consider the contested election case of
Whatley vs. Cobb, of the fifth Ala
bama district. Neither the contestant
nor his attorney appeared. Represent
ative Cobb suggested that, in order
that all parties should have a fair trial
the case should be postponed and the
committee fixed October 17 for the
next hearing. The 20th of October
fixed for hearing argument in the
case of O’Neill vs. Joy, of the 11th
Missouri district.
The president has issued orders that
no one except cabinet officers shall be
admitted to his office without first sig
nifying the nature of their business to
Private Secretary Thurber. The new
order applies to senators and represen-’
tatives and under it Mr. Thurber is to
exercise his discretion as to whether,
representative or any other persons
shall be admitted to see the president.
Mr. Cleveland issued this order to re
lieve the pressure upon him that he
may have more time to attend to pub
lic business.
A Snb-Trramiry for Atlantn.
A Washington special of Saturday
says: Everything is working favor
ably for a sub-treasury at Atlanta, Ga.
Speaker Crisp and Colonel Livingston
called on the secretary of the treasury
to urge that he recommend the pass
age of Colonel Livingston’s bill by the
two houses of congress. They .stated
to Secretary Carlisle that all the south
east wanted a sub-treasury in that sec
tion of the country, there being none
between Washington and New
leans. Mr. Carlisle, while he '.Jule
no definite promises, said he would
examine the bill carefully and act in
the matter. He believed a sub-treas
ury at Atlanta would be only a proper
recognition of the southeast. Ihe bill
is now before the appropriations com
mittee of the house.
Oates’ Bill to Repeal Tc‘i Per Cent. Tax.
The committee on banking and cur
rency of the house had a hearing Fri
day morning on the Oates bill for the
repeal of the ten per cent, tax on state
banks. The Oates bill varies from the
others in that it simply “suspends” the
tax as to all notes issued to circulate as
money, provided there shall first be
deposited with the state treasury, or
other state depository, an amount of
lawful money of the United
States or solvent bonds of the par
value of the state or municipalities,
equal to the aggregate amount of
notes proposed to be issued, which
shall be held as security ;and provided,
also, that the aggregate amount of
such state bank issues shall iu no case
exceed $5 per capita of the population
of the the state. Colonel Oates made
an elaborate argument in favor of his
bill, which he said mantained federal
supervision, with limitation of what had
been declared by the courts to be a
lawful federal tax.
Humors of Compromise.
A Washington special says that com
promise talk was started Friday. Sen
ator Gorman was with the president
and Secretary Carlisle Thursday night.
He told them plainly that it would be
impossible to pass unconditional re
peal through the senate. Mr. Cleve
land, however, was not disposed to
give up. He has never yet said he
would agree to a compromise. He
says in his message he stated his views
and prefers to make no additional
statement to that in his letter to Gov
ernor Northen. Senator Gorman
and Voorhees, the unconditional
repeal leaders, realizing that the
question must be settled, and that
the onlj way to do it is by a comprom
ise, began making overtures to the
silver men. They suggested a com
promise to Senators Cockrell, of Mis
souri, and Teller, of Colorado. These
senators were closeted for several
hours and agreed that they could get
together on the line above indicated.
All day Saturday small conferences
w r ere in progress and senators of both
factions are disposed to get together.
Nothing definite has yet been agreed
upon, but on all sides the disposition
is to get together and settle the con
test.
Riotous Strikers.
A cable dispatch from Paris says:
Striking coal miners started riots
Monday evening at Levin, in the de
partment of Push-de-Caluis, and a
Drucort, in the department of Eure.
In both the military and police quick
ly dispersed the crowds. Nobody was
iniured.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Tie Drift of Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
Seven new cases of yellow fever
were reported by Brunswick’s board
, of health Monday.
M. Rountree & Cos., general mer
chants at Wilson, N. C., assigned Fri
day for the benefit of their creditors.
The firm’s liabilities are $100,000; the
assets are not stated.
A fearful wind storm visited Mobile,
Ala., Monday morning, doing consid
erable damage to property. Water
was driven from the bay far tip into
the city, and one man was drowned in
the street. A number of steamers were
wrecked by the gale.
The Eagle and Phenix mills, of Co
lumbus, Ga., which are the largest
, cotton and woolen mills in the south,
and which have been running on half
time since the early spring, will start
again on full time. Large orders
ahead make this step necessary.
The Bank of Carroll, Teuu., the
oldest bank of the city, failed Monday.
; Cashier R. F. Truslow acknowledges
using $5,000 of the bank’s funds. The
county funds are locked up and the
public schools may be forced to close.
Truslow has turned over all his prop
erty.
A Columbia, S. C., special of Sun
day says: Governor Tillman is now
firm in his intention to try to saddle
metropolitan police on the larger
cities in South Carolina under the
plea that the local police always op
pose his efforts to cafry * .certain
measures especially, th. mspensary
law. -x
There are foltF cases of yellow fever
to date on Jekyl island, all isolated and
under control. All communicate m with
the club houee three miles distant is
cut off’. Surgeon Faget and locol
Physician Hugh Burford have control
of the cases. The germs were carried
in a pile of bedding recently moved
‘ bm Brunswick to Jekyl.
A Louisville, Ky., special says: The
new state law, requiring seperate
coaches for the white and colored pas
sengers, went into effect Monday,
All the railroads have complied and
thus far there has been no trouble.
The colored people have organized
and will file suit to test the constitu
tionality of the statute.
Advices of Monday from Kissengen
say that Prince Bismarck has had an
other set back, and will now scarcely
touch food. It is also reported that
his right hand is apparently complete
ly useless. It is said he salutes with
his left hand and signs his name also
with the left. He also complains of
pain day and night, and has certainly
aged in looks and is very decrepit.
Avery high wind storm visited New
Orleans late Sunday night, doing great
damage to telegraph and telephone
wires and causing considerable loss by
blowing off tiles, etc. Patrolman Ul
- Bauer, of the private police force,
was struck and killed by falling bricks
from an office building at the corner
of Tchonpitoulas street and the levee.
No further loss of life is reported.
The Nashville American of Sunday
says: “There are indications all over
the country, and especially in the mid
dle states and along the main and
branch lines of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, that a general up
rising against P. M. Arthur, chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers, is about to take place. In
fact, the bitterest feeling is aroused
against him, and after thirteen years
in the executive chair, his head may
be chopped oft’ at the annual meeting
next winter.
The assignees of the Memphis Ap
peal-Avalanche, after a journalistic
career of one week, threw up the
sponge Saturday and applied to the
chancery court for a receiver to wind
up the affairs of the company. W. J.
Chase, a merchant, and one of the
largest creditors, was appointed re
ceiver. Several suits were filed
against the paper by creditors, who
■were not paid in the recent assignment.
Receiver Chase is said to be obnoxious
to the foreign creditors, who will
make an effort to oust him.
The following telegram was received
at Washington, Monday, foom Miss
Clara Barton, president of the Ameri
can National Red Cross, a* Beaufort,
S. C. : “The Red Cross has officially
accepted and assumed control of the
relief of the sea island sufferers, ten
dered two weeks ago by the governor
and committees of South Carolina.
This implies the housing, feeding,
clothing and nursing of 30,000 people
for eight months, with no aid from
the government and no fund but the
direct charity of the American people.
Our headquarters and address are at
Beaufort, S. C.”
A Nashville special says: Governor
Turney Monday disapproved the con
tract made by the penitentiary pur
chasing and building committee fof
the purchase of 1,500 acres of farm
ing land in Franklin county on which
the new penitentiary would have been
built. He based his objections on the
ground that the syndicate had options
on the land at $44,300 and the contract
price $63,000, would make a profit of
$16,700. The governor says that this
is too much money for the land, and
for this reason the contract is disap
proved. Franklin county is the gov
ernor’s home.
BUSINESS REVIEW.
Condition of Trade as Reported by Bun
& Cos. for the Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: A complete statement of
failures for the quarter, which closed
Friday night, is not possible, but the
number thus far reported is about
4,000, and the aggregate of liabilities
about $150,000,000, greatly surpassing
the record of any previous quarter.
For the past week the failures have
been 329 in the United States, against
177 last year, and in Canaila34 against
31 last year.
“Hope deferred” explains the past
week in part, and it is doubtless true
that many indulged unreasonable
hopes, but business has not entirely
answered expectations. The feeling
of disappointment is commonly as
cribed to delay of action on the silver
bill in the senate. It is also true that
many works, which have resumed op
erations, do not find orders as large
or the demand from customers as vig
orous as they anticipated, and with
some it is a question whether they will
not close again. While money on call
has been abundant and cheap, and about
$4,500,000 clearing house certificates
have been retired, there is a percepti
ble greater caution in making com
mercial loans at New York and at some
western points. Confidence, prover
bially of slow growth, has been some
what diminished, in part, because ad
vancing exchange suggests the possi
bility of gold exports. The cotton
manufacture is gaining more than any
other, and there is a stronger market
for print cloths and prints, while some
reduction has helped to stimulate trade
in other goods. The enormous de
crease in production for the past two
months begins to be felt, and saleß are
larger, though much below the usual
qantity.
While seventy-eight manufacturing
concerns are reported as starting,
wholly or in part, against twenty clos
ing or reducing force, more than a
third of the increase has been in cot
ton mills, and another third in ma
chine shops, nail mills, manufacturers
of stoves and hardware, tools and cars,
while in the iron manufacture proper,
only seven concerns have started,
against three that have stopped, and
the outlook does not seem brighter.
The closing of the largest iron mine in
the country, the Norris, which ordina
rily produces a million tons yearly,
indicates the limited character of the
business.
At the east the demand for products
is painfully inadequate, eveff for the
scanty force now at work, and the
lowest prices on record attract little
business. It is said that one sale of
Bteel rails has been effected by a sharp
reduction in price. The contest be
tween the Amalgamated Association
and the works in the Pittsburg region,
has been settled, but too late for most
oi Tie men.
Colored Democrats of Virginia.
At a general conference of the Vir
ginia state league of colored demo
cratic voters held at Richmond Thurs
day night E. A. Randolph was elected
chairman. A series of resolutions
were adopted, which are to be issued
in the form of an address, urging the
colored democratic and independent
voters to support the democratic state
ticket this fall.- They also endorse
President Cleveland “and his course
toward our entire international and
foreign relations.”
Soldiers Indicted.
A Knoxville, Tefln., special of Sat
urday says: The grand jury of Ander
son county has returned indictments
against several of the state militia men
for the lynching of Drummond for the
alleged killing of one of their number.
The names of those indicted are not
made public. Adjutant General Fite
will deliver them to the sheriff of An
derson county.
Tirginia Bonds Quoted.
At the stock exohange at New York
Thursday, SIO,OOO Virginia funded
debts bonds of 1891 sold at 51|. These
bonds were listed Wednesday at the
stock exchange and were issued under
the settlement of July 1, 1891, as made
by the Virginia bondholders’ commit
tee.
A TERRIFFIC STORM.
Tie Gnlf Coast Visited 1? a Disairois
Horricane.
Thirty Lives Reported Lost and a Mil*
lton Dollars Damage.
Special dispatches of Tuesday state
that the storm which visited Mobile,
Ala., AJonday left it a perfect wreck.
At present the damage can only be
conjectured, but it is safe to estimate
it at nearly a million dollars. Several
schooners and small crafts were dis
mantled and the passenger steam
er Crescent City was wrecked on the
bay shore. Several ofthe scows work
ing in the lower bay went ashore,
but fortunately no one was hurt.
CATTLE LOST BY HUNDREDS.
It is certain that three or four hun
dred head of cattle have been lost.
The home of Stephen Walker was
swept away and his family, consisting
of himself, his wife anil niece were
drowned. The city was in utter dark
ness Monday and no street cars were
running. There was only one wire
out of the city and no trains are run
ning.
THE LOWER COAST DESOLATED.
News from the lower coast is heart
rending. At Grand Bay four churches
were destroyed, while at Scranton five
churches suffered a like fate. Houses
have been scattered, crops ruined and
desolation appears on every hand.
Between Mobile and New Orleans
are twenty miles of bridges, the long
est of which are at Bay St. Louis and
Biloxi. All these bridges are washed
away, and traffic on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad is suspended.
Accounts of the storm are coming
in slowly and it will be several days
before a true account can be obtained.
THE DAMAGE ABOUT NEAV ORLEANS.
A Now Orleans special says: A ter
riflic storm struck New Orleans late
Sunday night, coming from the north
east, and raged all day Monday,
sweeping to the south along the line of
the Mississippi river, through the par
ish of Plaquemine to the gulf.
The storm was one of the worst
which ever visited this part of the
country and, as far as can be learned,
twenty-four or more persons were
killed and probably three times as
many wounded, gome fatally.
The wind nan reached a velocity of
48 miles an hour at 8 o’clock Sunday
night, when the anemoneter of the
weather bureau was destroyed, and it
constantly increased in force until 2 a.
m., when its velocity was estimated at
60 miles an hour.
The crash of sheds and buildings
blown down, trees torn up and houses
unroofed, caused intense alarm, and
most of the population of the city re
mained up all night, expecting their
houses to be blown dowp.
The revetment levee on Lake Pont
chartrain, which protects New Orleans
from overflow on the rear, was washed
away, and water swept over it fifteen
feet or more. Many of the yachts
there were sunk or injured. The
tracks of the Louisville and Nashville .
railwuy were badly washed for fifteen
miles, and it will be several days be
fore it can run trains.
THE MORTALITY SEVERE.
Three deaths and one person tvound
ed severely, if not fatally,, is the mor
tality record in New Orleans. Below
the city it is far worse, especially in
Plaquemine. Here the wind reached
a velocity of 100 to 125 miles an hour,
sweeping everything before it. The
parish seat of justice, Pointe ala Hache,
a town of 2,500 people, was the worst
sufferer. In the town not a single
house escaped injury. The courthouse
and the Catholic church, the principal
buildings in the town, and some twenty
other buildings were destroyed, and
the situation was so threatening that
the greater part of the people, fearing
destruction in their buildings, camped
out in the street.all night in the heavy
rain.
The air was filled with debris, and
the wind was blowing so fiercely that
many of them had to anchor them
selves against trees to prevent being
blown away. Four grown persons are
known to have been killed in Pointe a
la Hache, and several children—how
many is not exactly known. It is
probable that the mortality will be
greatly increased when the news is re
ceived from the far-away settlements
on the gulf coast below Pointe ala
Hache, in the range country of Lou
isiana.
THE ORANGE CROP RUINED.
The orange crop was ripe upon the
trees and about to be harvested. It
was completely destroyed in the storm,
with a loss of 8850,000 on this one
iteie The crop in the OTange farms
of 1 radish Johnson, the largest in the
south, had been sold to a fruit dealer
in New Orleans, Mr. Oteri, for $65,-
000. It is said that there is not an
orange left on the trees, and it is the
same all the way down the coast. The
sugar district escaped the worst of the
blow. There is much damage to rice
and sugar cane.
There is no doubt that people raiseo
by a cyclone are able to move in th.
highest circles.—[Chicago Inter Oeeun,
NO. 30.