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BUCHANAN, - - GEFORGIA
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The total number of theatres known
to have been actually destroyed by fire
during the past thirteen years i 3 141
The killed reached the total of 2 215.
Two curious facts have recently been
brought out in reference to state taxa.
tion. Nevada with no pullic debt at
all has the highest rate of taxation—9o
cents per SIOO. Massachuscits which,
except Virginia, has the largest debt,
$31,000,000, has the lowest rate of tax
ation, 11 1.2 cents on SIOO.
The private detectives of a railroad
oompany must be constantly shifted so
that their faces may not become famil.
far to the employes and arouse suspicion.
The cost of secret service to a railroad
s often very large observes tha Commer
sial Advertiser, but can never comparn
with the proportions of adroit and suc-
Bessful freight robbing.
A murder trial of more than usual
Jensational interest has just been
brought to a conclusion in Paris. A
man by the name of Hoyos has been
condemned to death for killing a cer
tain Baron, who bore a faint resemblance
to him, and who was to be substituted
in his stead in order that a considerable
sum might be collected from different
life insurance companies.
' Btatisticians estimate the wealth of
the United States to be mnearly fifty bil
lion dollars, or fifty thousand million
(850,000,000,000). It is believed by
some that at the end of the present
century it will foot up $70,000, 000,000. ‘
The wealth of the nation is compound.
W B G eeerelly W
ing rapidy, while the people €omplain ‘
of hard times continually. Machinery, 1
railroads, steam, éTectricity, skilled la. 1
bor, millions of immigrants and many ‘
other things have helped to swell the .
wealth of the nation. Labor is the
source of national wealth, and machin- |
ery labor is a producer the same as hand 1
labor, or the labor of domestic ani
mals,
»It is noteworthy that in England
“there are indications thas it is thought |
?nezz'ssary to be prepared for an emer- 1
gency in the fact that the manufactories
of firearms at gijr_x}lin'gham are employ
ing additional hands to meet a presum
able demand for their products. One
firm is engaged in erecting a hydraulic
forge capable of producing 10,000
steel shells of various sizes weekly, and
there is also greatly increased activity
in the manufacture of revolvers, torpe
does and new patterns of rifles, while
vast quantities of ammunition are being
turned out by the firms with whom the
government has coatracts for such sup
plies.
The American arm is now reaching
Into Chili, where American contractors
are accepting a $15,000,000 railroad
contract. It is felt in Peru, where the
building of 600 miles of railroad con
tracted for with that government for
$22,000,000 is just beginning. It is
present in Porto Rico, where Brooklyn,
capitalists have purchased immense cof
fee and banana plantations. It i 3 work
ing in Venzucla, where a New York
company owns the only railroad. It has
pushed raiiroads into Mexico; is work
ing there the ancient mines of silver
and the lateiy-operated mountains of
iron, and has secured the privilege of
supplying Mexican cities with water
and lights for a period of 20 years.
The Nineteenth Century magazine con
tainsan appeal against female suffrage
signed by the wives of some of the most
distinguished statesmen and literary
men of England. They base their op
position on the ground that modern
government rosts on force, and say that
for that reason it requires members of
the sex who, in the last resort, are phy
jically qualified to carry out forcible
measures. If this view of the case is to
prevail, then the only hope for the woman
puffragists is to bring about a state of
At i A e consianf pepes;
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACOIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND MAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
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Eighteen persons were injured by a
wreck on tfi: Burlington & Missouri
Railroad near Lincoln, Neb., Sunday
morning.
The ship John A, Brills, Rio Janeiro
to Philadelphia, 1s detained at quaran
tine at Lewes, Del., on account of bav
ing had yellow fever on board during
Passage.
_ William Kelly, a porter at Minneapo
liz, Minn., dropped a trunk, and a re
volver in it' was in some manner dis
charged. The bullet passed through the
trunk, entering Kelly’s head, killing him
instantly.
The Brazilian steamer Alliauce, with
the three ccmmissioners who were
sent as delegates to represent Brazil at
the international congress of American
nations, arrived at New York Saturday.
John Lees & Son, cotton spinners,
who operate the Dover Mills at 1,717
Bodine street, Philadelphia, Pa., made
an assignment Tuesdey. The firm’s lia
bilities amount to about $86,000, and
assets §25,000.
There was no baseball game at Cincin
nati on last Sunday, as has been usual
heretofore, as the authorities threatened
on Saturday that if one was played they
would break it up by arresting the presi
dent and all the players.
A cyclone.passed over Winthrop, Mo.,
Tuesday afternoon. The rain fell in tor
rents, and the wind blew a gale, accom
panied by a heavy thunder. Corn and
other crops were seriously injuried.
Anmvestigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at Boone
vile, Ind., who is charged with embez
zlement in his office, shows that the
shortage amounts to $6,000, and may
reach more. Denny has not yet been ap
prehended.
Chicago parties have bought out the
Toledo, Ohio, street railroad system, and
are negotiating for the purchase of the
street car lines in Findlay, with a view
of consolidating them under one man
agement, and to run them all by electric
motor. ‘
Dirt was broken Saturday,with impo®
ing demonstrations, at Huntsville, Ala.,
for the line of the Cincinnati, Alabama
and Atlantic Railroad, which is to run
from Cincionat due south to Huntsville,
and then deflect either to Birmingham or
Bavannah, Ga.
Tuesday evening & bomb, ten ceniime
ters in diameter, was thrown from the
rear of the chamber of deputies into the
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of a concert. The bomb ex
ploded, wounding seriously six gen
darmes and a child.
Mrs. Maybrick, under sentence of
death at London, England, is sinking.
Her appearance is so changed that her
mother scarcely recognized her. The
delay in granting the expected reprieve
has cansed the friends of the prisoner
almost to give up hope.
Twenty Arabs, of both sexes, who
came on the steamer La Normandie, are
detained at Castle Garden, in New York,
until the Turkish consul can be con
sulted. It is said there are 70,000 Arabs
waiting to come to this country provided
the twenty are passed through,
~ An independent German ¢ompany has
been formed at London, England, with
a capital of 300,000,000 fra%fis to com
lete the Simplon tulinel. e company
gas acquired two Swiss railroads from
Lucerne. Italy will give 15,000,000
francs to possess one end of the tunnel.
United States Attorney Carey, at San
Francisco, received a telegram Friday
from the department of justice, at Wash
ington, instructing him to assume, on
be%mlf of the United States Government,
the defence of Deputy United States
Marshal David Nagle, who shot Judge
Terry on Wednesday. -
A cablegram from Paris, received at
Pittsburg, Pa., announces the death there
of Wm. Shaw, vice-president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, and one of
the most prominent railroad men in the
country. He was reported to be worth
at least $30,000,000. He was 61 years
of age. :
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark.,
says: Great excitement exists among
the cotton farmers of five or more count
ies in this state over the appearance, in
the last few days, of cotton worms. They
have appeared in the cotton lands of
Pulaski, Jefferson, Clark and two other
counties, as far as heard from.
Tt is reported from St, Louis that the
fast mail train which arrived in that city
Saturday night over the Vandalia Road,
was robbed at Terre Haute, Indiana,
while the mail clerks and train hands
were at supper. It is said that one
pouch, containing registered letters, was
taken. The pouch was supposed to
contain about SIO,OOO. .
A gasoline engine at the oil refinery
of A. D. Miller, in Alleghany, Pa., ex
ploded early Wednesday morning. The
plant took fire immediately and was
rapidly destroyed. The engineer is
missing, and the watchman was blown
many geet and badly burned and bruised.
Loss at least $225,000. : -
The great strike of dock laborers in
London, England, is spreading, One
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A lieutenant with a small detail of
soldiers from Sully, Dak., has just com
pleted a tripalong the edge of the Sioux
reservation and reports everything quiet,
with nota ‘“‘boomer” in sight. The good
cffect of the assured open?ng of 11,000,-
000 acres to settlement can ulready be
felt, and a wonderful increase in all
classes of business is plainly noticeable.
The company which is arranging to
pipe natural gas to Columbus, Ind., from
the Greenfield field, has just closed a
contract with the Shelbyville Natural
Gas company to pipe the cheap fuel to
that city from the same field. The work
of digging the trench and laying the
pipe on the main line will begin as soon
~as the pipe can be secured and distrib
uted.
It is reported from Berlin, Germany,
that the recentinterviews between Prince
Bismarck and the Emperor Joseph and
Count Kalnoky, resulted in a modifica
tion of the Austro-German treaty where
by a casus foeder is established whenever
vital interests of either nation are
threatened. Hitherto only open attack
has constituted cause for joint action.
The British bark Onaway, Captain
Anderson, which sailed from Philadel
phia June 5, for Bilboa, with a crew
of fifteen men and 124,000 gallons of
crude petroleum, valued at $8,956. is be
lieved to have been lost, as nothing has
been heard of her sinogshe patsed out
Deleware capes. The captain’s wife and
two children accompanied him.
Governor Hill, at Albany, N. Y., on
Wednesday, heard an appeaf by Lawyer
Howe for executive clemency for Charles
Gilbin, James Nolan and John Lewis,
three of the five murderers, who are
awaiting execution on Friday morning.
The governor said he would grant Gilbin
a respite until October 28d, and would
deny Nolan’s and Lewis’ application.
The Minister of Finance at St. Peters
burg, Rfissia, intends to tax Protestant
churches in the Baltic provinces, These ‘
churches have hitherto been exempt from
taxation. This is one of a series of re- I
forms, by which the government intends
to thoroughly Russianize cld Baltic Ger
man institutions and diminish the influ. ’
ence of the German Protestant clergy.
A storm which prevailed in St. Paul,
Minn., Tuesday night, was one of the
worst ever experienced there. Two |
inches of water gell between the hours of !
2 and 5 o'clock. -At Eau Clarve, Wis,, |
lightning struck a large agricultural |
building on the grounds of the north- |
western fair association destroying the ’
building, together with several thousand |
bushels of grain and a lot of machinery. ]
The loss is $6,000. . !
A dispatch from Helena, Montana, |
says: Heavy rains, general throughout |
the Territory, fell all Sunday night, and |
the forest fires which have been raging |
for the last week are checked in most l
places and put out in others. . The fires
origingted from two causes, lightning
and camp fires,,,&nd millions of feet of
the most valuable lumber in the Terri
tory has been destroyed as well as val
uable ranges burnt over. |
A sensation was created at Hastings, |
Neb., on Wednesday, by the report of
an autopsy over the late Congressman
Laird, This examination brought out
the surprising fact that Laird was a
sound man physically. He was getting
well, and it was only a question of time
when he would have been restored to !
full vigor. His death is attributed di
rectly to blood poisoning resulting from j
an operation performed just a few days |
before his demise. |
CHINA’S BAD LUCK, |
EARTHQUAKES, FLOODSB AND RIOTS—
GREAT LOSSES ENTAILED. |
From news brought by the steamer
City of Sydney, which arrived at San
Francisco Sunday from Hong Kong and
Yokohama, China, it would seem that the
loss by the earthquake at Kumamoto in
July, was greatly exaggerated. The
floods have subsided in Japan. Nine
hundred and thirty houses were washed
away or broken up, and forty-one per
sons are known to have been Kkilled.
The overland China mail learns, on
July 6th, that rioteers in Fohein, in the
province of China, had fled before the
approaching troops. Before leaving,how
ever, they burng£ their boats. The at
tack on Chin Chu villages is confirmed.
For the loss of four or five of their coun
trymen last year, the rioters revenged
themselves by slaughtering between four
and five hundred inhabitants of the Chin
Chu villages, including women and
children.
AN ANCIENT MURDER.
THE SKELETON OF A WOMAN AND BABR
UNEARTHED.
J. M. Hart, a farmer living near Sioux
City, lowa, while ploughing on his farm
Saturday unearthed two human skele
tons. From the relative positions of the
skeletons it is certain that they are those
of a woman and her unborn babe. The
woman’s bones were doubled up, the
body resting on the front of the skull
and knees,as though she had hastily been
pitched into a small and shallow excava
tion and covered with earth. No one
who has seen the skeletons is competent
to judge of the length of time they have
lni& in the ground. : ;
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: HONORING EDISON.
_ Bdison is expected,at Milan, Taly, in
where in Europo are Mr. Edison’s genius
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT I 8 GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The cigarmakers «t Jacksonville, Fla.,
are on strike,
- The first trip of the new electric cars
in Atlanta, Ga., took place ’l?hursday.
A large foundry will be erected in
Athens, ga., in a few weeks, The industry
will be a large one, and will be a great
addition to the city.
Prof. Perry, the aeronaut, whose ter
rible fall from a balloon at Mount Holly,
N. C., was reported several days ago,
died at Charlotte, Tuesday.
The Empire Lumber Company is ne
gotiating for a 50,000 acre tract in Cam
den county, Ga. If secured, they will
erect sawmills and build roads through
it.
On August 30th, the Eighth Georgia
battalion will hold a reunion at Adairs
ville, Ga. Prominent speakers will be on
hand and great preparations are being
made for the success of the reunion.
Col. Adolph Brandt, 8 prominent at
torney of Atlanta, Ga., and a distin
guisbed member of the Independent Or
er of Odd Fellows, and grand chancel
lor of the Knights of Georgia, died sud
denly of apoplexy at Rome, Ga., on
Wednesday.
Mrs, Jehn P. Richardson, of Chatta
nooga, Tenn., arrived at New York a few
days ago, and, upon opening her bag
gage, found she had been robbed of
$5,000 worth of jewelry, probably on
the railroad. There is no clue to the
robber.
The Keating Railroad Comgnny, of
Reading, Pa., closed a contract Saturday
with the Staunton and West Augusta Rail
road Company at Staunton, Va., to build
twenty-five miles of railroad from Staun
ton to the anthracite coal fields. The
work is to commence in thirty days.
The Farmers’ Alliance exchange of
Florida,on Wednesday,took the first step
toward making Jacksonville a home
market for Florida-raised cotton. ¥or
many years Florida’s product has been
sent to Savannah, Brunswick and other
points, but Jacksonville will now handle
the crop.
A report from Raleigh, N. C., says
that Dr. Bugene Criscom will tender his
resignation as superintendent of the
North Carolina insane agylum. The res
ignation of Dr. Griscom will end one of
the greatest sensations in the state.
Nine-tenths of the. people and newspa
pers have clamored for it for weeks.
A special from Charleston, W. Va.,
says: Frank Morris, John Heil, James
O’Brien and Brodie Morris, miners, were
caught beneath a fall of slate in the
mines of the Cannelton Coal Company,
in Fayette county, W. Va., Wednesday
night and instantly killed. Several
others were wounded and others had
DArrow escapes.
There will be a grand reunion of na- |
tive North Carolinians, now residents in
other states, at the state capitol, Raleigh,
October 14-19th, at the Southern Indus
trial Display and Annual State Fair.
The lowest possible rates have been far
nished by the railways, and there will be
no obstacle in the way of those who wish
to revisit the old scenes and renew the
tender associations of past years.
At a meeting of district assembly 105,
Knights of Ltfi)or, held in Atlanta, Ga.,
on Wednesday, it was resolved ‘‘that
the Knights of Labor express to our
representatives in the State Legislature
the earnest desirg of the Knights of La
bor that the bill known as the Childs la
bor bill and the arbitration bill, and the
bill known as the ten hour bill, all da
pass, and to that end request our repre.
sentatives to support, vote for and doall
in their power to have the bills passed.” |
The board of directors of the cotton |
exchange of New Orleans, has sent to all
exchanges and boards of trade an invita
tion to a convention of the cotton inter
est, to take place in that city on Sep- !
tember 11th, to agree on a uniform
method in adjustment of difference in J
tare between cotton and jute bagging.
The proposition is that from a certain
date all cotton shall be sold by net
weight, allowing 5 per cent. of gross
weight for jute and 3} per cent, for cot
ton bagging.
In answer to certain inquiries made by
the collector at Charleston, 8. C., rela
tive to drawback on the jute bagging im
ported as covering of cotton in bales, the
Treasury Department holds: First, that
the official supervision of lading should
be as careful #nd thorough as possible.
Becond, whenever it is found impracti
cable for the exporter to give in prelimi
nary entries, the numbers of the various
brands of bales in each lot, it will be
sufficient if the numbers are stated in the
inspectors’ return. Third, sworn state
ment of exporter required by the regu
lailons should be made by an active
shipper who has knowledge of the fact.
Fourth, agents or attorneys should not
be alloweg to sign the final entry and
oath of exportation when the exporter
himself is present at the pori of ship
ment. '
A HOLOCAUST. '
A FIRE IN NEW YORK IN WHICH NINE
S RS AT OB
~ Early Monday mornin; fi?*&*“‘
n 8 big five-story tenement at 305 Sev
sixtv-odd oceupants of ‘the house lost’
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A GHASTLY SPE CTACLE.
OHILDREN IN THE STREETS OF PHILA
DELPHIA USING HUMAN BONES FOR TOYS,
Property owners and residents in the
vicinity of Twelfth and Carpenter
streets, Philadelphia, are indignant at
the careless manner in which human
bones are being handled by laborers in
the new three foot sewer down Carpenter
street, which is the site of the olcf pot
ter’s field, where the victims of the yel
low fever of 1832 and the cholera of
1845 were buried. The laborers broke
ground on Thursday, and late on that
afternoon the first coffin was struck. I
was carelessly thrown on top of the
dirt pile, and in the fall the partially
rotten boards feil apart, and the skeleton
rolled upon the airt. 'When the excava
tion was enlarged and extended, the la
borers found that they were cutting a
sluice through ground literally packed
with corpses. Coffins that lay parallel
with the trench were torn out and thrown
upon the embankment, and others that
lay crosswise were torn out by a stalwart
laborer, who, with an ax, quickly cut
through the coffin and inclosed body un
til the width of the trench was secured.
The parts were then picked up on a
shovel and thrown upon the embank
ment, to be thrown into barrels. Bones
were scattered on all sides. The scenes
at the trench were horrible in the ex
treme, and the odor was nauseating.
About fifty bodies, or portions of bodies,
had been taken out. Children living
néar the scene were running over the
embankment handling the remains of
the epidemic victims and many of them
were carrying away the smaller bones.
Rib and breast bones were scattered all
over the sidewalks, and some of the
children were ‘‘building houses” by pil
ing up the bones. At one point thirteen
coffins lying in a heap had been cut
through, and half the remains were still
sticking in the ground. At another
point six coffins were cut through, and
along the sides of the trench the dis
gusting spectacle of partially destroyed
coffins and bodies was discovered.
HEAVY FAILURE,
A COTTON GOODS COMPANY OF RHODE
ISLAND SUSPENDS,
The Wauregan cotton goods company,
of Providence, R. L., on Wednesday, de
cided to suspend pavment and allow
their goods to go to protest. The com
pany has two wills at present in opera
tion—one at Wauregan, near Plainfield,
Conn., capitalized at $600,000, with 1,-
400 looms, employing 1,000 hands; the
other, the Nottingham mills, in Provi
dence, capitalized at $300,000, with 28,-
000 spindles, 556 looms, and employs
600 hands. Treasurer Taft is also secre
tary and treasurer of Ponemah mills, in
Connecticut, that has a capital of $1,500,-
000. Thecompany’s liabilities are placed
at one million. Assets, according to the
company’s figures, are two million. The
failure is directly due to that of Lewis
Bros. The Nottingham mill will also
suspend. The Thornton worsted mills
went under Wednesday. Their trouble
is caused by the failure of Brown, Steese
& Clark, wool dealers, of Dedham,
Mass.
INDIGNANT AMERICANS
CLAIM THAT THEY WERE CRUELLY
TREATED BY GERMANS,
E. C. Hill, widely known among flor
ists, and president of the national floral
association, has just returned to Rich
mond, Ind., his home, from a trip to
Europe, and reports that while en route
from Belfort to Basle, in company with
Robert George, of Painesville, the train
was stopped at the neutral line
between France and Alsace-Lorraine,
and he and his companion were
arrested as spies. . They and their bag
gage was searched, their passports dis
regarded and they were not permitted to
cross the line. Mr. Hill says the Ger
man officers were obstinate and brutal
in their treatment. They were denied
the privilege of continuing their journey
although there was nothing whatever to
support the suspicion against them, and
they were compelled to hire a French
peasant 1o take them back to Belfort.
Their treatment will be reported to the
state department, :
AGAINST COTTON BAGGING
The president of the Charleston, 8.
C., cotton exchange has received a letter
from Peter Brown, president of the
Liverpool cotton association limited, in
which that official says: ‘I have been
instructed to intimate to the American
exchange that this association condemns
the use of cotton bagging, and does not
see its way to make any legislation deal
ing with cotton so covered.” As the
farmers’ alliances in the state have al
ready made arrangements for cotton
covering for the coming crop, the situa
tion looks alarming. It looks very much
like there will be trouble as soon as the
cotton movement begins, S
CROCKETT'S BIRTHDAY.
CELEBRATING THE BIRTHDAY OF THE
HERO OF THE ALAMO.
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The one hundred and third anniversa
ry of the birth of Dfiwwmm
celebrated Saturdggthfi AP#O
Strong’s Springs, .in Greene County,
