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Editor and Publisher.
Professional Cards.
L. H. CARTER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
And Real Estate Agent*
Leary, Calhoun Co., Ga.
Also Broker in Merchandise, Lumber
and Produce, which are handled on
Commission.
LA ND
Bought-, Sold and Rented on Commission
Special attention given to the collect¬
ion of claims, rents, &o., and prompt
returns guaranteed.
CR1FFIN HOUSE i
F. P. GRIFFIN, Preprietor.
A well kept hotel where the convenience and
accommodation of guests will be studiously
looked after. The transient trade is solicited;
and every effort will be given to make a stay at
this house pleasant to patrons. Rates $2.00
per day.
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY,
M. C. LEWIS, Proprietor,
ARLINGTON, GA.
A.11 kinds of Carriage work done
with neatness and despatch.
CARRIAGE PAINTING A SPECIALTY.
IWITIHI mm! FUTHI!
I am Cheapest now prepared to Best Manufacture grades, FURNITURE which of all kinds, from the
to the at prices compare favorably
with tbe factories of large cities. My designs in
CABINET WOIRjIK:
Are of the Prettiest, and Substantially Made by tbe BeBt Workmen,
Orders will bave prompt attention, and the patronage of the surrounding section
is solicited and satisfaction in every instance assured.
Respectfully, M. C.
LEWIS.
JEIVNIX^S’ FEVKR TONIC
IS A GUARANTEED CURE FOR FEVER, AGUE, CHILL', &C
Where it is taken according to the directions, and fails to effect a cure—THE MONEY IS
REFUNDED. Th following certificates are from reliable parties:
JA8PER, FLA, July 17th. 1885.
Mr. T. Albert Jennings. Jasper. Fla. Dear Sir:—Having used two bottles JENNINGS’
FEVER TONIC in my family for Chills and Fever. I am fully satisfied that it will do what it
claims. I regard it as a speedy cure and sure preventive for Fever, Ague, Chills, &c.
Yours Respectfully. E. C. HORNE, Prop’r. Horne's Imp. S. I. Cotton Gin.
JENNINGS, FLA., July 21st, 1885.
Mr. T. Albert Jennings. Jasper. Fla. Dear Sir:—My wife had the Fever for twelve months,
and I could get nothing to cure her until recently, when she used a bottle of JENNINGS’
FEVER TONIC, which cured ber immediately. I have used several bottles of FEVER TONIC
on my farm, and am highly pleased with it-—it never fails to cure.
Respectfully, S. S. SHARP.
WHITE SPRING, FLA., July 24th, 1885.
Mr. T. Albert Jennings, Jasper. Fla. Dear Sir:—Lad Spring I had an attack of Fever. Hear¬
ing of vour FEVER TONIC, I purchased a bottle and used only a third of it and was cured.
The remainder of the bottle I gave to a young lady who had had the Fever for two years, and
have learned that it entirely cured her and she has not had the Fever since. I take great
pleasure in recommending it to those suffering with Chills, Fever, Ac. F. STEWART.
Very Bespectlully, J
Tax Assessor of Hamilton Co., Fla.
For Sale by HAND & GEORGE, Druggists, Leary, Ga.
LEARY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1885.
D. B. JAY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
And Real Estate Agent,
MORGAN, GA.
Bales Negotiated for a Reasonable Per Gent.
JAMES KEEL,
attorney at law
And Real Estate Agent,
LEARY, GA
Special Attention given to Oolleotioni in Cal¬
houn and Baker counties.
J. J. BECK J
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MORGAN, GA.
Prompt attention will be given to all busi¬
ness entrusted to bis care. Collections made
a specialty. Money loaned on good security.
ATTORNEY GEO. H. DOZIER, AT -AW
MI RE41 ESTATE AGEIT. J
ARLINGTON, GA.
Will practice solicited. anywhere. Justice Court prac¬
tice not
5,000 acres Farming Land Southwest wanted, for cash.
For sale, or exchange for Georgia
north property: of Columbus, A farm in Harris & Co., R. Ga., 20 miles
on C. railroad; 300
acres; good 6 tenant, room dwelling; necessary Uplands out-houses; 3
settlements. produce
from l bale cotton per acre to 1 bale 2 acres;
bottom lands, from 25 to 50 bushels corn
acre. plums, Finest etc., orchards and large of peaches, vineyard. apples, Fruit
pears, School
worth $1,000 per annum. and churches
convenient. Chain of titles from State.
Parties at wishing office, to Butler sell or building. buy land, can find
me my in
gSTMorey loaned on land.
African Sunshine.
Stanley says that African sunlight,
with all i ts great heat, appeared to him
as a superior mooniight, judging from
its effect on scenery. He attributes the
apparent solemnity of the “solemn look¬
ing kills” of which he so often speaks to
this peculior sunshine. “It deepens the
shadows and darkens the dark green fo¬
liage of the forest, while it imparts a
wan appearance, or a cold reflection of
light to naked slopes and woodless top
hills. Its effect is a chill austerity, an
indescribable solemnity, a repelling un¬
sociability.”
Perfumers now utilize the scent of the
cucumber.
Let not any one say that he cannot
govern his passions nor hinder them
from breaking out and carrying him to
action; for what he can do before a
prince or a great man he can do alone,
or in the of God. if he will.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Points.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES.
The British yacht Genesta has added a
third trophy to her victories in this country,
winning the Cape May International Chal¬
lenge cup in an ocean race which lasted nearly
two days, and resulted in an easy victory for
the cutter.
The Grant national monument fund up to
recent date had reached $82,692.
General Edward F. Jones was nomina¬
ted for lieutenant-governor by the New York
Democratic State committee in place of Mr.
Flower, declined.
The Massachusetts Greenbackers at their
State convention in Boston nominated a full
ticket, headed by Janies Sumner for gov¬
ernor.
The owner of the British yacht, Genesta,
refused $20,000 for the craft, but offered to
sell her in New York for $30,000.
The famous collection of orchids belonging
to the late Mrs. Morgan was sold at auction
the other day in New York. Nearly 400 of
the 2,000 plants were sold on the first day,
and brought about $7,000, sixty-five of them
bringing over $25 each. The highest price
paid for a single plant was $750.
The Massachusetts Republicans, at their
State convention in Springfield, renominated
Governor Robinson, the remainder of the
ticket being: Oliver Ames, for lieutenant-
governor; Henry B. Pierce, for secretary of
state; A. W. Beard, for state treasurer and
receiver general; Charles li. Ladd, renomi¬
nated for auditor; Edgar L. Sherman, for
attorney-general. The platform demands
the suspension ot the silver dollar and the ex¬
tension of the principles of the civil service.
Ex-Governor Franklin J. Moses, of
South Carolina, charged with obtaining money
under false pretenses from prominent citizens
of Boston, has been sentenced to three years’
imprisonment.
Mr William Page, the painter* and
formerly president of the American Academy home
of Design, died the other day at his
near Tottenville, N. Y., aged seventy-five
years. _
SOUTH AND WEST.
During an altercation between two Barton physi¬
cians in Say brook, Ill., Dr. George
struck Dr. Harvey L. Harris, whereupon the
latter drew a revolver and shot his opponent
dead.
Judge George W. Ward, editor of the
Abingdon (Va.) Examiner, was shot by Wil¬
liam White, Independant candidate White and for the
State senate. A relative of an¬
other man also fired upon Ward, who re¬
ceived nine wounds, and was reportod in of a
critical condition. The trouble grew out
an article in Judge Ward’s paper.
Jake Flowers, a drunken colored man,
tried to assault three colored women near
Summerville, S. C., and after failing in each
attempt burned down their dwellings. One
of the women was caught by Flowers while
fleeing from her burning building and fatally
injured. Flowers was shot dead by a con¬
stable.
In a fire which destroyed one of tbe build¬
ings of the insane asylum at Warm Springs,
Montana, three inmates—two men and a
woman—were burned to death.
Bishop Clawson, a prominent Mormon
of Salt Lake City, has been found guilty of
polygamy under the provisions of the United
States law forbidding a plurality of wives,
and has been sentenced to found imprisonment. guilty,
Other Mormons similarly es¬
caped punishment by pledging obedience to
the law.
Four men were caught between coal cars
at Cleveland, Ohio. Andrew Devir was in¬
stantly killed, Patrick McMannon fatally in¬
jured, and James Guilty and Cjpven Galla¬
gher seriously but not mortally injured.
WASHINGTON.
Seven agents for the Indians in various
sections were appointed the other day by the
President, as follows: W. L. Powell, of Vir¬
ginia; John V. Summers, of Missouri; Mark
W. Stevens, of Michigan: Charles Hill, of
Nebraska; Moses Veal, of Kansas; Henry I. Cow¬ E.
Williamson, of Mississippi; Fletcher
art, of Alabama.
Postmasters a ppointed by the President:
B. J. Sheridan, at Paola, Kan.; Robert F.
Chilton, at Santa Anna, Cal.; Edward Vai:
Do Casteelo, at De Pere, Wls.; Harry S,
Parker, at Farmington, N. H.; F. H. Spinney,
Medford, Mass.; Burritt B. Breed, at Lisbon,
Dakota; Fidelia Kilgore, at Longview, Texas:
L. R. Davis, at Athens, Ala.; Milton H.
Westbrook, at Lyons, Iowa; James B. Black-
well, at Marietta, Ga.; John Shearman, fit
Monroe Texas: City, Mo.; E. E. Thomas Waggoner, A. Gary, Shelby- at Gal¬
veston, at
ville, Ill.; John A. Collins, at Washington,
Mo.; E. P. Matthews, at Bowling Green, Mo .:
John Flynn, at Duluth, Minn.
There were 615 patents issued for the week
ending on the 29th, the largest number ever
issued in one week in the history of the
patent office.
dent: Additional Edward appointments Stevenson, of by Boise the Presi¬ City,
A,
Idaho, to William be governor B. Webb, of the territory Mon¬ of
Idaho; of Billings,
tana, to be secretary of the territory of
Montana; .Tames T. Healey, assist¬
ant treasurer Walter at Chicago. W. McGrew Presidential Eureka, post¬
masters: at
Kan.; John C. Friend, Rawlins, Wyoming;
Isaiah Garrett, Monroe, La.; Arthur D.
Glover, Bit. Olympia, Grand Rapids, Washington Mich. Territory;
James r,
The President has decided that the offices
of weigher and guager in the customs service
cannot be filled without an examination under
tiie civil service commission. This decision
practically disposes appointed of the case weigher of Sterling,
who New was recently house, in the
York custom and then suspended
bj- order of the President, pending an investi¬
gation into the manner of his appointment.
The President has refused to accept the
resignation of Dr. J. B. Hamilton, surgeon-
general of the marine hospital service, declar¬
ing the best interests of the service would be
served by retaining its chief.
Senator Logan delivered a eulogy on
General Grant at services held in Washing¬
ton a few days since in commemoration of
tho dead commander.
Further appointments of postmasters by
the President: Richard J. Ashby at Charles¬
ton, W. Va.; James Delaney at Saint Peter,
Minn.
John S. Wise, Republican candidate for
governor of Virginia, had an altercation in a
train between Washington and Alexandria
with ex-Congressman John Ambler Smith,
The trouble ended in Wise’s striking Smith
in the face, drawing blood.
FOREIGN.
Two Cuban leaders have just been killed
by the Spanish troops in Cuba.
The Turkish losses in the ten days’fight-
ing at Dwakova were two hundred men. The
AJbanians lost 1,000 killed.
An area of 2,500 miles in India has been
devastated by heavy floods. Many lives have
been lost and a great amount of property de-
stroyed.
In a recent fight with the Hovas, in
Madagascar, the French were repulsed, with
loss.
Thomas Lumsden, a wealthy Canadian
farmer and stock raiser, was gored to exhibi¬ death
by a bull which he was driving to an
tion at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
PUBLIC LAND SALES.
Receipt* from their Sale I»,wring the
Past Fiscal Year.
Commissioner Sparks of tbe United States
Land office, has prepared a statement of the
disposals of public lauds and receipts there¬
from during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1885, Iroin which it appears the disposals were
as follows:
No. of
entries. Acres. Amount
Alabama.... 8,950 270,901.63 $00,385.70
Arizona..... 2,447 27S,174.78 01,840.85 57,376.20
Arknusas... 4,393 244,582.00
California... 15,813 1,205,909.03 784,031.76
Colorado.... 10,979 602,011.05 856,404.22
Florida..... Dakota....... 53,304 4,547,749.772,508,769.50 193,791.05
Idaho....... 8,961 282,515.55 111,592.39
3,544 284,903.04
Illinois...,
Indiana,..
Iowa...... Kansas... 32,574 215 3,030,846.60 11,659.86 667,983.17 3,819.59
Louisiana. 1,889 181,043.60 79,181.23
Michigan. 1,326 80,611.23 307,220.91 47,941.91
Minnesota. 9,198 624,379.49
Mississippi 1,362 111,000.03 28,520.10 66,759.04
Missouri.. 3,638 291,277.33
Montana.. 37,080 8,059 1,112,140.57 003,846.10 198,854.07
Nebraska. 3,098,381.76
Nevada... 1,179 171,430.91 0,222.73
New Mexico. 2,417 103,981.57 95,373.22
Ohio...
Oregon----- Utah........ 8,481 788,287.71 184,853.02 244,861.60 56,880.92
Wash. Ter.. 2,222 827,753.18
Wisconsin... 10,778 1,010,117.75 218,430.92 101,094.05
3,283
Wyoming... 3,510 552,907.14 355,480.04
Total.....226,382 20,113,603.38 $7,680,114.80
The number of original homestead entrie
was 50,817, including 7,415,885 $731,843. acres, The from
which the receipts wore num¬
ber of final homestead entries was 23,066, in¬
cluding 3,032,679 acres, from which the
receipts were $105,152. The number of
original timber culture entries was 30,998, in¬
cluding 4,755,095 acres, The from which the final re¬
ceipts were $425,420. number 750, including of
timber-'ralture entries was
90,890 acres, from which tho fees were $2,764.
The tot al number of acres taken under.rall- fol¬
road selections was 3,558,914, made up 33,198; as
lows (fractions omitted): California, Alabama, 376,445; Colo¬
Arizona. 133,952: Dakota, 790,693; Iowa, 6,014;
rado, Kansas, 14,852; Louisiana, 19,887; Minne¬
195,040; Nebraska,
sota, 108,217; Montana, 00,612; 793,459; Oregon, 245,880;
178,039; Nevada, Territory, 535,216;
Utah, 17,123; Washington
Wisconsin, 51,819. disposals of lands (20,-
The grand total of
113,663 acres) includes 881,850 acres of Indian
lands. This is a decrease in the number of
acres disposed of as compared with the year
1884 of 0,535,656, but as compared with the
year 1883 it is au increase $933,483 of 683,630 acres. real¬
From sales of Indian lands was
ized, making the total receipts from all sales
of lands $7,686,114, a decrease compared with
tbe receipts during 1884 of $4,159,532, and of as
compared with the year 1883 a decrease
$3,086,167.
DISAPPEARING FORESTS.
Interesting Figures showing Heavy
Drains Upon Timber Laud.
At a session of the American Forestry
congress in Boston, Rov. N. H. Egleston,
cnief of the forestry division of tho depart¬
ment of agriculture, Washington, read a
paper setting forth that the recent census
shows that the whole area of land surface,
Alaska beiug loft odt of consideration, is
1,850,010,400 acres; total forest area, 440,-
990,000 acres; total farm area, 295,050,000
acres. Of unimproved and waste 1,115,430,400 lands, in¬
cluding There “old fields,” 150,000 there miles are of
acres. are railway,
including side tracks. It has required 396,-
000,000 ties for their construction. Suppos¬
ing that the ties require to b9 renewed once
in six years, and that 10,000 miles of new road
are built annually, if twenty-five years be
allowed as the time necessary for
trees to attain a size suitable for making ties,
then it would require 15,000,000acres of stand¬
ing timber to supply the annual demand for
ties, or an area almost exactly equal to that
of Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Rhode Island. But with the increase oi
railroads it is to be considered that the an¬
nual demand for ties is all the while increas¬
ing. The census reports tbe consumption
of 145,778,137 cords of wood, and 74,000,-
0 iO bushels of charcoal for fuel in dwel-
lings, stores, factories, steam-
boats and locomotives. This, in a single
year, would clear the forests from an area of
30,000,000 acres, about equal to that of New
York and North Carolina. The census also
reports that in 1880 forest fires consumed the
trees on 10,274,089 acres, less and there will is no be
reason to believe that a area
burned over this year than in 1880.
The census gives the amount of luin-
ber cut in 1880 as 18,000,000,000
feet. Last year the cut had increased to 28,-
000,000,000 feet, which would lay bare an
area of 5,600,000 acres, equal very nearly to
that of New Hampshire. of the Altogether it ap¬
pears that the forests country are sub¬
ject to an annual drain of 50,750,089 acres,
which would clear a wooded surface equal in
extent to the area of all the New England
States, together with New Jersey and Mary¬
land.
Xlircc Men and a Woman Lynched
in North Carolina.
The town of Pittsboro, N. G\, was the
other night the scene of a terrible occur¬
rence. At 1 o’clock a. m. a band of a hun-
dred disguised men marched up to the jail and
demanded the keys of the jailer. They made
threats when he refused to accede, and final¬
ly forced him to deliver the keys and show
them to the cells in which four negroes,
charged with being the murderers of the
Gunter and Finch families, were confined.
This done, they Finch, took out his the Harriet four persons
wanted—Jerry Pattishall. wife Finch,
Lee Tyson and John The prison¬
ers were in an agony of fear. They had for
weeks dreaded lynching, and now their time
had come. The lynchers were inexorable and
marched the prisoners to a place about a mile
from Pittsboro, near a crossing on a public
road. Then all four wero hanged to one tree.
The prisoners made no confessions.
This was the horrible sequel to the murder
of the Gunter family in December, 1883, and
of the Finch family in Moncure July last. The first
murder took place near Mrs. on Sunday,
December 24. 1883. Olive Gunter,
aged eighty-nine, and Miss Jane Gun¬
ter, aged sixty-four, granddaughter were brutally
murdered, and a of Mrs.
Olive Gunter, aged eight years, was mor¬
tally wounded.
m urde^in^manne^ Vnd mfthal^startingly
like the former, was committed within six
miles of the same spot. The victims this time
were Edwin Finch, an old bachelor of sev-
enty-nine; his maiden sister, aged eighty-one,
and a colored boy four of seventeen. The coroner’s
jury found the persons named above
guilty of this last crime, although they main-
tained that they were innoeent to the last.
Hun Over and Killed.
Major Janus Ralston, a well known fanner
and exten.-ive catt e dealer of Harrisburg. Va.
w-as run over by the train and killed at Cowan,
station, on the Baltimore and Ohio road, Sat¬
urday night
LATEST NEWS.
FOUR NEUltOKS LYNCHED.
Tliclr I)tingling Bodies Hy a North Carolina
Koaufanle.
LiiNt Wednesday, four nog 1-010 *, Jerry Finch
bis wife, Lee Tyson and John Pattishall, were
lynched, one mile from Pittsboro, Chatham
county, N. 0. They were taken iroin jail and
their bodies wero found the following morning
rus ended to a tree near tho public road. This
is tho torriblo sequol to tho triple murder of the
Finch family on tho night of the 4th of last
July, and of the murder of tho Gunter family,
near the saino spot, some eighteen months ago.
There were two of the Finch family, Edward,
aged Seventy-nine, and his sister aged 81. They
were found on the morning of Sunday, July 6,
lying on the floor with their throats cuts. Near
them lay their servant, a negro boy, aged 16.
All had boon knocked in the head with an ax.
Suspicion rested early on the negro Jerry Finch,
and ho was arrested. It was a groat task from
tho first to prevent the lynching of these and parties.
Loo Tyson was afterward arrested, some
time later John Pattishall was taken on the
charge of being ooncerned in the Gunter mur¬
der, and possibly in the Finch murder. Ho was
said to have been seen near the spot whoro the
Gunters were killed, and next morning was in
anotbor county, and told the first news known
there of the crime. The verdict, when render¬
ed, was against the prisoners. A majority of
the people appeared to be well satisfied that
these persons .were guilty of both murders.
BLOODY WORK.
A Desperate Political Duel in Vlr*
Blnta.
Judge George W. Ward, editor of tho Exam¬
iner, and commonwealth’s attorney for Wash¬
ington county, while about to enter the Colon¬
nade hotel Sunday, about 4 P. M., was fired up¬
on by Dr. William White, independent candi¬
date for state Benator, who had been concealed
in a storeroom nearly opposite the hotel. Whits
stepped out of the door and discharged one
barrel of a shotgun loaded with buckshot at
Ward, who fell lace foremost, but recovering
on his knees, drew his pistol and fired three
•hots at a young relative of White’s, who was
m the other side of the street behind a tree.
White in the meantime had stepped inside the
store, and hearing tho firing came out again fell.
md fired the second barrel at Ward, who White’s
While he was lying on the ground two of
elatives (ono of whom Ward had already shot
it, and whom he thought had shot at him)
walked up and fired sevon shots at him (Ward,)
til of which took effect. Judge Ward is in a
--cry critical condition and it is thought he can¬
not live. Dr. White and his two relatives have
been arrested, and bailed in the sum of $7,000
each.
AN AEROLITE.
The People Clacking to Wee the Pennsyl¬
vania Wonder.
The aerolite which caused loud detonations
throughout Washington and Alleghany coun¬
ties on Saturday last, fell upon the farm of Mr.
Buckland, in Jefferson township, Pa., near
the West Virginia line. EUis JoneB, mail ear-
rier, who witneHSod the fiery mass in its flight
through the heavens, says it moved with in¬
credible velooity, and was as large as the
largest barn ho ever saw. Thero appeared deeper to
he attached Vi it, an immense flame of a
co lor than that which enveloped ceased, the mass. tho
W hen the noise accompanying it
flames and dark tail disappeared, arid in their
stead the stone assumed a whitish blue lmo,
which it retained until it passed out of sight.
When the stone fell it broke into three pioces. red
It is grayiBli in color, with a tendency to feet
in streaks, and it is more than thirty
square. The people are flocking to seo tho
wonder in great numbers.
A terrible leap.
A Juckson Comity Alan Eludes the Officers
at a Frightful Risk.
A prisoner named J. C. Harden, who was be -
ing conveyed from Texas, where lie was cap¬
tured hy the sheriff, to Jackson county, Ga.,
where he is wanted for horse stealing, made a
daring leap for liberty from a flying railroad, tram on
the Memphis and Charleston hear
Chattanooga, Tenn. Harden was handcuffed
and tied to the seat. He gnawed the rope and
jumped headlong through the window, The
shock threw him iully thirty feet, but he soon
recovered, and when last seen was deep in tin-
woods running at full speed.
DESPERATE DUEL FOUGHT.
In Wkicfa Iloth Men Engaged Receive
Mortal Wounds
Information comes hero that a desperate
tragedy occurred in the village of Cottonwood
Point, Mo., on Friday night. Two intoxicated
strangers got into a dispute and then had a
rough and tumble fight over the weight of the a
bale of cotton, but they were separated the by
bystanders. Bliortly fight,’ after, mutually however, agreed, men in
renewed their and
order that neither should have an advantage
over the other: that they should clasp their left
hands together and fight only with their with right
hands. Thus right arranged, hand, each the man, bloody work. a re¬
volver in his began of the
Seven shots wero exchanged, in one his head men and
fell dead with four bullets
breast, while tho other sunk dying from two
or three desperate wounds.
A NEW HAVEN SENSATION.
A Society Hello Elopes While Preparations
Are Using Made lor Her Marriage.
A great sensation was created in society circles
by the announcement that Honora, youngest
daughter of Dr. Edwin Harwood, rector proihi- ot
Trinity churob, and one of the most
nent citizens, had eloped and married a rich
New Yorker named Truman Hemingway and
sailed for Europe in the steamer Werra. Be¬
sides the elopement thero is the added sensa-
tion that invitations had been sent out and
extensive preparations made for the lady’s
marriage in Trinity church on Wednesday V. next L.
to Mr. Fruyu, son of the late Hon. John
I’ruyn, of Albany. N. Y., who is a millionaire.
A number of valuable wedding presents had
already been received at the Harwood resi¬
dence.
A CHOLERA SCARE.
Report** of Its Existence in Nova Scotia.
There is much anxiety in Eastern Maine re¬
garding the reports of the existence of Asiatic
cholera at Hantsport, Nova Scotia, as there
is a great deal of travel between the provin¬
ces and the States. It is reported that the
deaths at Hantsport average six a
day out of a population of only a
thousand. The epidemic is said to have
been caused in this way: Last fall a shoal ot
black fish came up the river, which runs al¬
most through the village. The tide receding,
many of these fish were left on the mud flats.
They weighed several tons. A local firm
s^i-ured the 1 s au- , taxing a lei e
quantity ot oil iroin them, buried the
carcasses on the shore. This summer the
pla'-e where the fish were burio 1 hen'. - tt
ular stench pit. When the wind was blowiug
from the river the smell in the village was al¬
most unbearable. This was allowed to com
tinue for some lime, but finally a covering of
lime and earth was put over the carcasses and
the stench ceased to be an annoyance. The
neglect of an effective sanitary rule is at the
bottom of the trouble. Bangor is in fre¬
quent communication with Palermo, Mes¬
sina, and other Mediterranean points by
means of Italian vessels in the' fruit box
trade, and the Widow’s Island quarantine
suitiOD may come into service.
NUMBER 8.
DEBT STATEMENT.
of The Mints and Cash in The
Treasury.
The apparent docrease in the public debt
for September is 112,757,965. This amount
is reduced, however, by payments of about
$7,500,000 due on account of interest on
bonds. Following is a recapitulation of the
last statement issued:
INTEREST-BEARING DEBT.
Bonds at per cent........ $250,000,000,00 737,736,450 00
Bonds at 4 per cent.......... 194,190,500 00
Bonds at 3 per cent..........
Refunding certificates at 4 per
cent....................... 227,000 00
Navy pension fund at 3 par
cent...................... 14,000,000 00>
Pacific Railroad bonds at 6
per cent................... 61,623,512 OO
Principal................ $1,260,777,462 00
Interest................. 12,214,788 83
Total................... $1,272,992,250 83
Debt on which interest has
ceased since maturity: $3,871,385 26
Principal................ 221,332 30
Interest .................
Total $4,092,717 56
debt bearing no interest.
Old demand and legal tender
notes...................... $346,738,886 23,185,000 00 00
Certificates of deposit....... 118,137,790 00
Gold certificates............. 93,656,716 00
Silver certificates............
Fractional currency, loss $8,-
375,034 estimated as lost or 6,961,163 88
destroyed................
Principal........ ....... $588,079,554 88.
total debt.
BS£*. 8
Total $1,865,764,523 27
Less cash items available for $210,927,074 70
reduction of tbo debt.....
Less reserve held for redemp¬
tion of United States notes, 340,927,074 70
$ 100 , 000,000 ...............
Total debt, less available
cash items................* $1,524,837,448 57
Not cash in the Treasury.... 63,903,106 30
Dobt less cash in the Treas¬
ury Oct. 1, 1885...........■ $1,400,934,342 27
Debt less cash in the Treas¬
ury Sept. 1, 1885.......... 1,473,092,307 52
Decrease of debt during tho
month as shown by this
f'statement................. 12,757,905 25
CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Available for reduction of the
debt:
Gold held for gold certificates
actually outstanding... .. $118,137,790 00
Silver held for silver certifi¬
cates actually outstanding. 93,650,716 00
United States notes hold for
certificates of deposit act¬ 23,186,000 00
ually outstanding.......... matured debt
Cash held for 5,945,066 71
and interest unpaid........ 2,501 99
Fractional currency.........
Total available for reduc¬
tion of debt........... $240,927,074 70
RESERVE FUND.
Held for redemption of Uni¬
ted States notes, acts of
January 14,1875, and July $100,000,000 00
12, 1882 ..................
Unavailable for
reduction of
debt: Frac-
tional silver
coin..........$38,641,893 790,853 26— 79 24,438,740 05
Minor coin....
Certificates hold as cash.... 54,667,230 00
Net cash balance on hand... 63,903,106 30
Total cash in the treasury as
shown by the treasurer’s
general account........... 483,930,157 95
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
Receipts of the United States for Soptem-
bor:
1884. 1885.
Customs $17,662,633 *17,521,264
Internal revenue.. 9,936,83.2 10,446,101
Miscellaneous 1,629,653 2,003,660
Totals .....$29,229,119 $29,171,026
EXPENDITURES.
Ordinary. ......$13,040,954 $9,403,296
Pensions.. ..... 1,352,242 3,860,110
Interest.. ...... 2,780,714 2,749,646
Totals ....$17,173,912 $16,013,054
THE COINAGE.
The following is a statement of the coinage
executed at the mints during September-.
Denomination. Pieces. Value.
Double eagles.., 39,503 5 $ 790,060 50 00
Eagles.......... 00
Half Eagles----- 326,001 1,130,005 00
Three dollars.... 4 12 00
Quarter eagles.. 4 10 00
Dollars......... 111 111 00
Total gold 265,628 $1,920,248 00
Standard dolllars... .2,500,050 $2,500,050 00
Half dollars..,. 50 25 00
Quarter dollars 50 12 50
Dimes.......... 50 5 00
Total silver 2,500,290 150 $2,500,099 50
Five cents...... 7 50
Threo cents..... 150 4 50
One cent........ 150 1 50
Total minor 459 13 50
Total coinage... 2.766.278 $4,420,354 00
PERSONAL MEN i'lGU.
General Longstreet is keeping a hotel
at Gainesville, Ga.
Queen Victoria’s private fortune is esti¬
mated to be $30,000,000.
Samuel J. Tilden has had 187 books read
to him during the past eighteen months.
Lord Coleridge, England’s chief justice,
intends to come to America again shortly.
Canon Farrar, of England, Archdeacon
of Westminster, is at present in this country,
lecturing.
Robert Browning, the English old, insists poet,
though now seventy-three United years States.
£hat he is coming to the
Mr. Moody, tho evangelist, is somewhat
stouter than ho was in the earlier years of his
work, and his head sinks farther down be¬
tween his shoulders.
Captain Robert W. Andrews, of Sum¬
ter, S. C., who walked last year lrom his
home to Boston, is now ninety-six, and yet
is prenaring for a pedestrian tour to New Or¬
leans.
Mr Stanley, the African explorer, has
fitted up a cosey home in London, a couple of
doors from Mr. Henry Irving’s. He has made
the rooms look like a museum, with trophies
of his travels and adventures.
“Adirondack” Murray, having Montreal aban¬
doned the waffle baking business in
and attained his old success on tbe lecture
platform, his spe. dy progression to his for¬
mer popularity in the pulpit is confidently
predicted.
Major Dan Simpson, who has drummed
for the Ancient and Honorable artillery of
Boston for sixty-six years', celebrated his
ninety-fifth birthday recently, and Robert
C. Wmthrop and other distinguished citizens
called on him and made him speeches and
presents.