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Artificial watering it is said, will mul
tiply Montana’s crop fivotimes. ;
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The Mammoth cave of Kentucky is
becoming a fashionable summer resort,
announces the Chicago News. s
A quarter of a million 18 to be asked
from Congress for a monument in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, to commem
orate the Constitution.
As an instance of rapid warship
building, the London Army and Navy
Gazctte cites as “without a precedent’
the fact that at the Portsmouth Dock
yard recontly a huadr:d tons were built
- into the Pullas in twelve days.
An uausual number of icebergs dis
turbs the serenity of mind of the cap
tains of the Atlantic liners. The cargo
steamer Fremona, which recently arrived
at Quebee, reports having passed ice
bergs for no les: a distance than 200
miles.
According to a Government return
just published, the debt of Canada has
reached the enormous amount of $285,-
778,656. The increase during the last
ten years has been more than one-half,
and during the last twenty years more
than 150 per ceat.
It is estimated that $5,000,000 are
expended annually in New York alone
for oranges, and throughout the United
States the figure is placed at §25,000,
000, New York being included. A
movement is on foot to regulate and
concentrate this large and important
traffic.
English capitalists at the preseat time
hold upward of §750,000, 000 worth of
American railway bonds, which are
yielding an anaoual average income of
4} per cent. Besides this another $500,-
900,000 of ordinary railway shares are
held, the income from which is subject
to considerable fluctuation.
According to the Bt. Louis Republic
there are 6,000,000 acres of land un
cultivatel out of a total acreage of 7,-
440,000 in the southwestern corner of
that state. This vacant land would
make 37,500 farms of 160 acres each
for settlers and would sustain not less
than a quarter of a million people.
Either Inglish princes or English
royal nicknames are running down, ob
serves the Chicago Herald. Hereis a
little list: Alfred the Great, Edward
the Confessor, William the Conqueror,
Richard the Lion-Hearted, Henry the
Scholar, Edward the black Prince,
Charles the Merry, Ceorge the First
gentleman in Europe, Albert the Good,
Albert Victor, Collars and Cuffs.
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The London Giode tells of the inven
tion of an ingenious attachment for lo
comotive engines. The attachment is a
combination of Elison’s phohograph
and the steam whistle, and its purpose
is evidently to spare the lungs of rail
wayr conductors by shouting, ¢Tunnel!’’
“Daager!’ ¢“All passengers get outl”
and so on with such pitch and force
that the words can be heard at the dis
of a mile or two. :
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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS ¥ROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKRY,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
Ex-Burgeon General Joscph Beale died
in Philadelphia Tuesday.
An exteuvsive strike of dock laborers
has begun at Rotterdam, Holland.
Landore steel works, at Swansea, Eng
land, have been destroyed by fire.
The Temple of Heaven, at Pekin, con
taining the dragon throne, has been de
stroyed by fire,
Wilkie Collins, novelist, who has been
seriously 11l for some time, died at Lon
don, England, on Monday. .
The man-of-war, Ossipec, sailed from
Boston, Monday, for Hayti with Fred
erick Douglass, the new minister.
The Baltimore Sugar Refining compa
ny has been incorporated. Capital stock
$1,000,000—10,000 shares at SIOO each.
The reports from the rhine wine grow
ing districts of Germany, indicate that
this year’s vintage will be the best of the
century.
A boiler explosion occurred at a saw
mill in Berlin, Pa., Wednesday, and
John Pritz, Edward Pritz, Oliver Ross,
David Ross and David Baker were
killed.
The New York Daily Graphic, which
has for some time past maintained a
fluttering existence under financial diffi
culties, has ceased to exist. The last
number was issued Tuesday.
The state inspector of New Jersey, on
Monday, killed fifteen head of cattle at
Fleischmann’s distillery, at Millstone,
Somerset «county, and twelve head on
adjoining farms, that were afilicted with
pleuro-pneumonia,
A dispatch from Marion, Ind., says
that the prevalence of dipththeria there
has caused such alarm that the public
echools were ordered to be closed Tues
day for one weck. About a dozen
deaths have occurred.
A cable dispatch from London says:
The stevedores employed on the East In
dia dock have again gone on strike.
They claim that the companies are not
engaging the old hands as they agreed to
do when the strike was settled.
The police commissioners of Kansas
City have ordered the chief of police
to suppress the Salvation Army in that
\ city. The order was issued on account
’ of the numerous cases of peace disturb
ance at the army’s headquarters,
1 Fire at Buckley & Douglass’ mill at
Manitee, Mich., Wednesday afternoon,
destroyed over a million feet of lumber
and three hundrcd feet of docks and
tramways. The loss is estimated at
$125,000.
On Thursday morning flames broke
out in Emery’s big soap factory, at Ivey
Dale, Ohio, and soon got beyond the
control of the department. The large
buildings were completely gutted, and
-it is estimated that the loss will be in
the neighborhood of $125,000.
The mammoth publishing house of
Belford, Clark & Co., of Chicago, which
has the largest establishment in the city
and branches in New York and San
Francisco, went to the wall Monday, and
was taken in charge by the sheriff. The
asscts of the firm are supposed to be
about $350,000, and liabilities about
$400,000.
Early Thursday morning, Laflin &
Rand’s powder mills, at Cresson, three
miles below Pottsville, Pa., blew up.
The explosion was terriffic in force.
Three workmen were killed and a num
ber of other workmen injured. Nearly
all the window glass in Cresson was
shattered, and the concussion was scnsi
bly felt in Pottsville.
In the case of Henry F. Barber, of St.
Paul, Minn., arrested for selling meat
from cattie not inspected on hoof, Judge
Nelson, on Monday, rendered a decision
that the law is unconstitutional, as it in
terferes with commerce between the
states. The prisoner was ordered dis
charged. Notice of appeal to the su.
preme court was given.
Lewis Bros. & Co., dry goods com
mission merchants of 83 Worth street,
New York, whose failure wasannounced
some time ago, have just made their
formal offer to their creditors to com
promise at 574 cents on the dollar.
Creditors to whom the secttlement has
been presented have all expressed a will
ingness to accept the terms and have the
) e business. ;
ed at the treasury
through some miscalculation, it occurred'
before the time of his majesty’s de
parture, J
The official retort of the trial board of
the new cruiser Charleston, was received
at the navy department from San Fran
cisco on Mong:y. Reports show the
maximum horse. power dgveloped to be
6,816, while the average power was con
siderably less, making a t})eficiency under
the contract requirement calling for
about §20,000 penalty. In other re
spects, the vessel was up to the required
siandard. No action has as yet been
taken upon the report, but the vessel
will undoubtedly be accepted.
At e Carnegie and Edgar Thomson
steel works at Braddock, Pa,, Thursday
night, Captain W. P. Jones,general man
ager of the immense steel works, and a
number of workmen, were horribly and
perhaps fatally burned. One of the blast
furnaces gave way at the bottom, and
tons of molten metal, like water, escaped
from a reservoir and ran out. Captain
Jones, with a number of men, were near
the base of the furnace when the break
occurred.
WILL BE REVOLUTIONIZED.
. A BCHEME FOR THE RESTORATION OF ARID
LANDS IN THE WEST,
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Major J. W. Powell, chief of the geo-
I logical survey, arrived in Chicago
Thursday onhis way to Washington.
| Major Powell said: **We visited North
I and South Dakota, Montana, Washing
ton Territory, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Ne
vada, California, Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas, Indian Térritory, Kansas, Colo
rado, Wyoming and Nebrasks, or every
state and ferritory in which there are
arid lands. We held eighty meetings
and heard over two Lundred witnesses.
The arid land that can be irrigated and
thus made productive, will include the
| larger portion of each state visited, in
i all over 100,000,000 acres. The work of
] the committee will be the preparation of
| & report upow the advisability of con
| gressional gppropriations for surveys in
i the arid dlstricts. There is not much
doubt that|such appropriation will be
made. I dl) not believe Congress will
ever take in charge the construction of
the ditches| and reservoirs. Whoever
does it, wh%it is done, it will revolu
tionize the West.”
FLODDS IN MEXICO.
A TOWN DESTROYED AND GREAT DAMAGE
DONE TO CROPS, ETC.
Advices from different parts of Mexico,
say very heavy storms have been sweep
ing over that country since August 15th,
visiting different states at different times.
The latest prevailed along the Pacific
! eoast, and reports from Mazatlan and
Maunzanilla, are that the steamers Por
| firio, Diaz and Alata have probably been
wrecked. After five days’ steady rain in
the state of Vgra Cruz, a cyclone passed
over the town of Chicantepec, causing
great destruction, and to add to the ter
ror of the inhabitants, a great land-slide
occurred on the mountain back of the
town, part of which passed directly
through the town, There was no loss of
life, however, as the people had warning
and sufficient time to escape, but the de
struction to crops and loss of cattle was
very great,
TOO FAST,
HALF-BREEDS WARNED THAT THE CHERO
KEES MAY NOT ADMIT THEM.
The attention of the acting commis
sioner of Indian affairs, at Washington,
was, on Friday, called to the press re
ports that a large number of half-breed
Cherokee Indians, in the state of Geor
gia, are making preparations to emigrate
' to the Cherokee nation in the Indian
' territory. The acting commissioner
nakes the following statement in regard
thereto: ‘‘Under the decision of the
Unpited States supreme court in the case
of the eastern bagnd of Cherokee Indians
' against the United States and the Chero
kee nation, commonly called the ‘Cher
okee Nation West,” the authorities of
the Cherokee nation alone have the
right to admit or re-admit persons of
Cherokee blood to citizenship in that
pation. Parties claiming rights of citi
zenship in the Cherokee nation by blood,
would be warned against incurring the
txpense of removing to said nation be
fore their claims ave allowed by the
proper Cherokee anthorities.”
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A DRUNKEN DRIVER,
A WAGON CONTAINING A PARTY OF YOUNG
PEOPLE THROWN OVER A PRECIPICE.
-om Erie, Pa., says a party
g people went out in the
londay, in. a band wagon
)n their return, the driver,
the influence of liquor,
ank, throwing the horses,
y over ‘a precipice forty
All werell))adly injured,
herty, of Springfield,and
of Erie, were so badly
ly that they cannot live.
painful cuts and bruises.
les Lewis, is severely in.
EN CENTS.
OR FARMERS TO HOLD
IR COTTON.
y'imes correspondent at
‘There is a prospect that
| may vet touch seven
and that a fortnight’s
per will be cecured to
pol ring. Oue huadred
foppoges.”
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA.
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT 18 GOING ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Ex-Confederate General D. H. Hill
died in Charlotte, N. C., on Tuesday.
Every gambling house in Mem
phis, Tenn., was closed Wednesday night
on warrants issued by the judge of the
criminal court.
A party of gentlemen from Jackson
ville and St. Augustine, Fla., will make
a tour of inspection through the Indian
river country, which rumor says may re
sult in railroad and canal enterprises.
Fifteen miles of track have been laid
on the Columbus Southern railroad. The
work is being pushed with great rapidi
ty, and trains will be run into Cussetta,
Ga., in a few days.
At Harlan, Ky., court-house, Monday
night, eight prisoners, by means of a
handspike, removed a log of the jail
wall and made their escape. Two or
three men charged with murder were
among the lot.
The board of state institutions at Jack
gonville, Fla., on Monday, awarded the
contract for state printing in classes B
and C to the Zimes-Union; in cluss A, to
C. W. Dacosta. Since the state printing
has by law been let out to the lowest
bidder the competition for it has been
very sharp.
One of thelargest charters ever granted
to any corporation in the south, was
granted by the superior court of Georgia,
by which the Southern Home Buildicg
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
business in Georgia or any other state.
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,-
000.
An executive reward of two hundred
dollars was offered by Governor Taylor,
of North Carolina, for the apprehension
of J. N. Carter, alias Jim Carthy, who
stands charged with the murder of Wal
ter Chatham, in Horry county. A re
ward of one hundred dollars was offered
for John Cox, a negro, who is charged
with having committed murder in Jones
county.
The State Farmers’ alliance of Florida
met at Jacksonville on Wednesday. The
principal object of the meeting was to
make Jacksonville a wholesale market
for Florida raised cotton, the building of
a cotton warehouse there, and the start
ing of fruit and vegetable and canning
factories. Incidental to these is the
building of a cotton factory by Jackson
ville capital, a company being already
organized with SIO,OOO subscribed.
It is reported from Savannah, Ga., that
spirits of turpentine has dropped off in
the last few days. Buyers are a little
hopeful at the decline, but sellers smile
and talk of the matter at 50c. October
have sold at 44c and 46c. Just now
there is considerable stock on hand, 12,-
‘3OO casks, 3,000 more than on the same
day last year. The receipts to date are
123,000, which is 17,000 more than the
receipts during the corresponding period
last year.
M. Bateman, a member of the North
Carolina alliance, hasmade arrangements
to be married on the first of October
at the state fair to be held at Raleigh,
dressed in garments made of cotton bag
ging. He took that way of showing his
detestation of the jute bagging trust.
His,wedding in public in hissnow-white
garments will attract a great crowd, and
will be very novel. The governor will
be asked to perform the marriage cere
mony, assisted by the chaplain of the
state alliarce.
At a meeting of the Memphis, Tenn.
Cotton Exchange, held on Tuesday, the
resolutions adopted by the New Orleans
conventien fixing a tare of twenty-four
pounds and sixtecen pounds on
bales covered with jute and
cotton bagging respectively, were
unanimously rejected. It was
recommended that factors in that
market tier in warehouses all cotton
covered bales separately from jute
covered bales, and that it be sold upon
its merits, separate and apart therefrom,
The managers of the Alabama state
fair, to be held near Birmingham, last
week sold the bar privileges for $2,300.
Since then an act has been found, passed
by the legislature several years ago, pro
hibiting the sale of liquor within three
miles of a coal mine in Jefferson county,
except in incorporated towns, The fair
grounds are three miles from Birmingham
and within one mile of a coal mine, and,
as the law has never been repealed, no
liquor can be sold on the grounds.
CHICAGO WANTS IT.
THE CITY MAKING STRENUOUS EFFORTS TO
SECURE THE WORLD'S FAIR.
Chicago wants the world’s fair in 1892,
and wants it boadly, and she is doing
more than New York and all other cities
combined to get the fair, The city has
secured subscriptions to the original
amount she proposed to raise, say
$5,000,000; but her people have decided
to make the subscription $10,000,000.
It is published that Mr. Field, the.dry
goods prince of Chicago, has added
SIOO,OOO to the subscription in the past
few days, and prior to this the Pullang
bad subscribed SIOO.OOO.
WOMEN TO VOTE.
At Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Frida
tho statoiood Gonvention. sdopted s 4
part of its constitution the suffrage
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DARING ROBBERIES.
TRAINS “‘HRLD UP” BY HIGHWAYMEN AT
THE MUZZLE OF REVOLVERS.
The Mobile and Ohio south bound pas.
senger train was held up Wednesday
morning by train robbers at Buckatunnni
Mss., a station seventy miles north o
Mobile. Just before the train left Buck
atunna, two men mounted behind the
tender of the train, and climbing over,
covered the engineer and firemen with
their revolvers, and ordered them to pull
out, and to stop at a bridge two miles
below Buckatunna, and to dplac’e the
train so that the express and mail car
should be on the further side of the
bridge from tle rest of the train, the
bridge being a trestle over a deep creek.
The engineer put the train just where
the rovbbers wanted it. When they,
reached the place, a third robber 28-
peared. / These three men made the
engineer and fireman go with them to
the express car, and the messenger was
made to open the door and dump the
contents of the safe into a canvass sack,
but noticing that he was not closely
watched, he shoved some of the
money aside, so that about a thousand
dollars was hidden, the robbers getting
$2,700. All this money belorged to the
Mobile & Ohio Railroad company.
Alongside the express car door was a pile
of $70,000 government money en route to
Florida which the robbers failed to no
tice. After securing their booty the
train was ordered to pull out at once,
which it did, and the robbers disap
peared. The Mobile & Ohio road offers
SI,OOO reward for the arrest and convic
tion of the robbers.
STILL ANOTHER.
At a late hour Wednesday night, aa
the north bound Santa Fe train was pull
ing out of Crowley, ten miles south of
Fort Worth, Texas, three men boarded
the train and two others jumped on the
locomotive. The two on the engine
placed pistols to the heads of the engin«
eer and fireman and told them to stop.
One of the men then got into the express
car and ordered the messenger to show
them the money. He pointed to three
bags of Mexican silver. Oune of the men
ripped open a sack and shoveled the sil
ver out of the door, while the other one
threw out the other sacks. They took
two packages said to contain §5,000
each, but overlooked three or four pack
ages for Fort Worth. The engineer was
then made to move on. : %
A HUGE JOB.
THE PRINTING OF THE TESTIMONY IN CON
TESTED ELECTION CASES.
The government printing office, at
Washington, D. C,, has just completed
the immense work of printing testimony
in contested election cases, which will
come up for gettlement before the fifty
first congress. The following are the
titles of cases: Chalmers vs. Morgan,
Mississippi; Langston vs. Venoble, Vir
ginia; Waddell vs. Wise, Virginia; Po
sey vs. Parrott, Indiana: Miller vs. El
lott, South Carolina; Bowen vs. Buchan
an, Virginia; Kecrnaghan vs. Hooker,
Mississippi; Threet vs. Clark, Alabama;
Atkinson vs, Pendleton, West Virginia;"
McDuffie vs. Turpin, Alabama; Hill vs.
Catchings, Mississippi; Goodrich vs.
Bullock, Florida; Katon vs. Phelan,
Tennessee: Mudd vs. Coynston, Mary
land ; Featherstone vs. Cate, Arkansas;
McGinnis vs. Anderson, West Virginia;
Smith vs. Jackson, West Virginia. The
total number of pages in the entire work
is 15,554, which, at 3,000 ems to the
page (solid brevier), amounts to 46,662,
000 ems.
THE AMERICAN CONGRESS.
DELEGATES EROM CENTRAL AMERICA ARE
THE FIRST ON THE GROUND.
A distinguished and significant list of
visitors to this couatry arrived at the
port of New York, early Tuesday.
morning, on the City of Para, being del
egates to the coming international con
gressfrom the various Spanish-American
countries, The delegates were: Dr. Ju
anto Castellanos,delegate from Salvador;
Dr. Joaquin Arrieta Rossi, attache, and
Bameul Vadioeso, secretary; Senior Juan
Francisco Velarde, delegate from Bolivio;
Alcibia Desvularado and Mariano Velar
do, attaches; Geronimo Zelaya, delegate
from londuras, and E. C. Fiallos,
secretary. In reference to the
coming congress, Senor Zelaya,
the delegate from Honduras, said:
“‘Our people are very enthusiastic over
this international congress, and expect
many advantageous results from it. We
wish to develop our mining and agricul
tural interests, but our mines are what
we want to see in operation as soon as.
possible. We need railroads and an e !
largement of our commerce with foreié%‘
countries, especially the United States.
All classes in our country desire closer
relations with your people.” :
A BIG SALE.
COAL AND IRON LANDS IN DADE (€O UNTY,
GA., SOLD TO ENGLISHMEN.
A trade with New England parties for
16,000 acres of coal and iron land and &
town site, at a point on the Alabama
Great Southern railroad in Dade count%{
Ga., known as Morrison’s, fourteen miles
from Chattanooga, Tenn., was clm&2§
Thursday. $50,000 of the money Was
paid down, and the palgmwm
through the Chattanooga National bank..
The purchasers have applied for a char
ter of inc .Q’# for a cor s faor
FhoNn AL IR PN el T
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