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THOS. W. GRIFFITH,
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- BUCHANAN, - - GEORGIA
It is said that the Jocks on the gov
ernment vaults in Washington are so
weak that most any burglar could pick
thom
The scheme to nuinber the hours ot
the day up to 24, instead of 12 and re
peat, seems to be gaining popularity,
especially amorg railroad managers.
——
‘While the debt of Great Britan has
been reduced negrly $12,000,000 in
three vears, Germany’s has increased
nearly $£95,000,000.
During the last eight years the
United States have increas-d prodigi
ously in population and business, but
during that period the amount of
money in circulation has shrunk sev
eral hundred millions of dollars.
Mr. Ozaki, a Japanese editor, who
has lately visited Europe, has contrib
ated to the Japan:se magazine a paper
entitled, “Value of Men Returning
Home from the West,” in which he i
says that the majority of Japanese who
travel are a disgrace to Japan.
There is a dissatisfaction in Cuba.
People are leaving the island for
South America. [lHigh taxes have
caused 400,000 farms to be seized. It
costs $14,000,000 a vear to support the
military and naval establi-hment, and
Cuba foots the bill.
Artesian wells are being put down
In great numbers in the district of
Riverside, in California, and owing to
them, this district, which vras pre
viously uninhabited on account of the
scarcity of drinking water, has now a
population of 7000.
The New Orleans Picayune asserts
that in northern Michigan there are
many counties without a church of any
denomination, and thousands of men,
women and children grow up in the
towns and in the woods who never
have heard the word of God or seen a
church.
«We may not produce the greatest
philosophers or theologians,”” moralizes
the Chicago Herald,but we can claim
the proud distinction of using the most
soap. For every 100 pounds used in
the United Stales, England uses 83;
Germany, 83; France, 85; Sweden,
70; ltaly, 37; Bulgaria, 35, and Mex"
ico 27.”
According to the laws of Italy, fath
ers are responsible for their sons’ re
turn when they leave the country, and,
should they not return to do the mili
tary duty required of them, are put in
prison. A young Italian, who had
been living in Waldoboro, Me., re
turned to his native land recently, to
save his father from a term of im
prisonment.
One of the greatest hardships of the
grain growers of Russia is the want of
adequate means for storing and trans
porting their produce. At certain
periods of the year such quantities are
brought to the railways that a sufficient
number of wagons for transport is not
to be had, nor are the railways pre
pared to store it. Piled up in sacks in
the open air, exposed to rain and
snow, much of it becomes damaged
and worthless.
A great many stories are told about
the parsimoniousness of Tamagno, the
great Italian tenor. Although receiv- ‘
ing $2,000 a night for singing he al
ways stopped while in America in
second-class hotels. He cooked spag
hetti in a chafing-dish in his room, and
rather than pay 20 cents a bottle for
beer in the hotels he would send out
and get 10 cents’ worth in a pitcher
from the nearest saloon. Coming
back from Mexico he had a special
stateroom in a Mann car, along with
. the other artists. He had an alcohol
cooking stove on board, and he actual
ly brought live chickens into the car
and killel and cooked them right
there as & means of economy. And
Tamagno is worth in cold cash five
Fundred thousand dollars. :
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'WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
~ BUSY WORLD.
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A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM'S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS,
The strikers in Austria are acting in a
riotous manner. Several factories ~ ive
been damaged. - :
H. N. Hickman was npominated for
rallroad commissioner by the Missouri
democratic state convention Friday.
Herdbach, - Ickelheimer & Co., New
York, have taken $1,000,000 in gold bars
for shipment to the continent of Europe.
The union labor party of Arkansas met
at Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, and
nominated a state ticket with N. B. Fizer
for govergor.
The Spanish cortes Saturday, in the
presence of the king, . formally declared
the king’s son, Lou%s Phillippe, heir to
the throne. i
Hon. Francis W. Hill, of Exeter,
Maine, democratic candidate for gover
nor, died very unexpectedly at his home
Sunday morning.
Colonel Andrew D.Baird, of Brooklyn,N.
Y., Thursday declined the post-mastership
of that city, which was tendered him by
President Harrison last week. .
‘Dispatches of Saturday say that cholera
has broken out at Pueblo de Rugat, in
the province of Valencia, Spain. Four
teen deaths have already occurred.
Up to Thursday the census returns
from forty-two New York districts had
been received at the census office, the
first quota to arrive. Kentucky promises
to come in a good second.
At Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, the
committee of reichstag on the army bill
passed the paragraph in the measure pre
scribing a basis for military formation.
The vote stood 20 to 8.
The Manchester Guardian, in its com
mercial article, says business for India
and China is unsettled, due mainly to un
certainty as to the decision of the silver
question in the United States.
The €xecutive council of the American
Bankers’ association held its annual meet
ing in New York Saturday,‘and decided
that the convention of 1890 be held at
Saratoga, N. Y., September 3d, 4th and
sth. :
All the striking coal miners in the
Peoria, 111., district,over a thousand men,
will resume work. An order was received
from,the state president Thursday even
ing saying that wages would be on a 673}
cent basis.
Eight persons were carried before
United States Commissioner, Shields, at
New York Wednesday charged with re
fusing to answer questions of census
enumerators. Six were discharged and
two were held for examination.
The Methodist conference, at its session
at Ottaway, Ont., adopted a resolution
expressing its refusal of any share of the
$60,000 awarded Protestant denomina
tions in Quebec in connection with the
settlement of the Jesuit estates. .
A dispatch of Thursday from St. Pe
tersburg, Russia, says: The government
has received information leading them to
believe a new movement on the life of the
czar is contemplated. The guard at the
palace and its approaches has been
doubled.
The opening exercises of the ninth an
nual convention of the young people’s so
ciety of Christian Endeavor took place
Thursday afternoon in Grand Music Hall,
exposition building, in St. Louis, Mo.
About 10,000 delegates were in attend
ance.
Judge Cowan, of the court of general
sessions, New York, on Friday dismissed
indictments against John Keenan and ex-
Boodle Alderman Henry L. Sayles,
chm‘ged with bribery in having partici
pated in the steal of the Broadway rail
way franchise.
The furniture workers of Brooklyn, N.
Y., to the number of 600, and about 200
varnishers went out on a strike Thursday.
The strike was ordered by the Furniture
Workers’ union, because a foreman was
employed in one of the factories who did
not know his business.
Two detectives on Inspector Brynes'
staff arrived at New York Thursday
morning on the steamer Saratoga, from
Havannah. They had in their custody
Robert P, Wallace and J. B. Lowitz,
two men who robbed the ‘‘Wallace
Monthly Magazine” of $50,000.
According to several Paiisian newspa
pers, M. Ribot, minister of foreign affairs,
is about to declare the recognition by
France of the Braziliun provisional gov
ernment, and has intimated to Senor
Stagieba, Brazilian representative, that
President Carnot is ready to receive him.,
An Olymphia Wash. dispatch says: L.
H. Leach, member of the board of edu
cation, of the state of Washington, made
the startling announcement to the board
Thursday, that hehad been offered $5,000
as a bribe to bring about a reconsidera
tion of the text book adopted, and laid
before the board the check for the money.
A meeting, held at Paris Saturday to
to express sympathy with the arrested ni
hilists, was disturbed by the anarchists,
who entered to bave a free fight. The
Egalate commented severely upon the ac
tion of the anarchists, and in revenge
thirty of them made an attack upon the
office of the newspaper Sunday and de
molished everything in sight. :
A complete set of proofs of Henry M.
Stanley’s forthcoming work, ‘“ln Darkest
Africa,” were obtained in a mysterious
manner by some person who offered cop
ies 10 an English paper. The house of
commons has issued a circular warning
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a 5 the government hus churg fi pub-
Erg«'« of specie from the port of
‘New York during the week ended Sutur
day, June 14, amount to $1,890,000, of
which $1,80,050 was in gold, und
$59,050 silver, All the silver and §),-
068,700 in gold went to Europe, and
¥262,250 in gold went to South America,
Imports of specie for the week amounted
to $107,550, of which $6,269 was in gold.
and $101,281 silver,
TRADE REVIEW,
DUN & €O,'S REPORT FOR WEEK ENDED
SATURDAY, JUNE 14,
8. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Speculation has been neither
large in volume or enthusiastic in tone
during the past week, but the legitimate
business of the country continues unpre
cedented in volume for the season, and
highly encouraging in prospects.
Crop prospects begin to rule all markets
at this season, and these are distinctly
improving. The government report was
more favorable than was expected, and,
in spite of the extravagantly low esti
mates, put forth by speculative statisti
cians, wheat has declined 1§ cents, oats 1
cent, and corn § cents. Cotton prospects
have much improved with favoring weath
er, and the most reliable authorities now
reckon the condition as satisfactory, with
a reported increase of 2.67 per cent in
acreage. The price has again declined an
eighth for export. A better demand for
retined sugar is alleged as reason for an
advance of {c in price, but other reports
indicate that dealers are not buying freely
at the high prices now asked. The de
mand for the various forms of manufac
tured iron and steel is still good, and
prices steady and sales of 10,000 tons of
rails are reported, with s3l quoted at
eastern mills, ,
The railway wars do not cease. On
the contrary, more cutting of east-bound
rates appears, and speculative managers
are suspected of a willingness to seelower
prices. The prices of stocks have been
weaker, though sugar trust has been put
up again with reports of large profits,
The delay of the senate finance committee
in acting upon sugar duties suggests some
uncertainty, butin the main the house
tariff bill has been accepted by the com
mittee, and it is thought to be passed
without great changes. The latest ad
vices about silver legislation suggest a
greater possibility that the two houses
may disagree, the disposition toward free
coinage being strong in the senate. Busi
ness failures during last week number,
for the United States, 195; Canada, 17,
For the corresponding week of last year
the figures were 226 failures in the United
States and 24 in Canada.
CROP BULLETIN.
WEATHER REPORT FROM” THE AGRICUL
TURAL DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON.,
The weather crop bulletin for week
ending June 14th, says: Reports from
the gulf and south Atlantic states indi
cate that the weather conditions have
been favorable for the cotton crop, and
in the eastern portion of this region, in
cluding South Carolina, there is an in
creased acreage, and prospects were never
better for an abundant yield. In the
central portion of the cotton region, in
cluding the lower Mississippi valley, the
crop is late and grassy, and prospects are
that the crop will be below the average.
In the west gulf, including Texas and
Arkansas, excessive rains have retarded
farm work, but the cotton crop in those
states is in good condition, and although
late, the plant is healthy and free from
insects, with indications of an increased
vield over that of last vear.
A HUGE LOCKOUT,
TROUBLE BETWEEN NEW YORK SUIT AND
CLOAK MAKERS AXD THEIR WORKMEN.
At noon Friday about 6,000 cutters and
cloak and suit makers were locked out by
the different cloak and suit firms
throughout New York city. The greater
portion locked out were union men, while
several hundred are non-union men. The
trouble arose over the refusal of union
cutters to turn their work over to non
union workmen. The employers, to avoid
greater trouble, decided to lock out every
man until the matter is amicably settled.
Fourteen firms are interested in the lock
out.
Hls LAST HOPE GONE.
KEMMLER IS REMANDED TO PRISON AU
THORITIES AND WILL BE EXECUTED.
Judge Wallace, on motion of Attorney
General Tabor, has vacted and dismissed
the writ of habeas corpus in William
Kemmler’s case, and Kemmler is remand
ed to the agent and Warden Durston’s
custody, in order that the judgement of
the court of oyer and - terminer may be
fluly executed.
Soft-Voiced Congressman.
.Congressman Carter, of Montana, is
known as ¢‘ Brother Jonathan” in Wash
ington, while at home he is called
‘¢ Oleaginous Tom.” He is said to be
the slickest citizen who ever came to
Congress from anywhere. He is the only
man in either House who has gotten
everything he wanted out of this Con
gress so far and cxpects to get everything
more which he or any of his constituents
may desire. He works, apparently, from
12 o'clock one night to 12 o’clock the
next, and yet is always fresh and smiling.
His manner is sweet and soothing, his
voice low, and all his words and gestures
conciliatory.—[Detroit Free Press. :
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NEWS OF THE SODTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER-—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Three shipments of Virginia wheat
were receive(f in Baltimore Friday. The
best lot sold at sl.lO.
W. W. Dickerson, of Grand county,
Ky., was on Wednesday, nominated for
congress on the 207th ballot to succeed
Mr. Carlisle.
A Greenville, Ga., dispatch of Thurs
duy, says: All the right of way for the
Macon and Birmingham railroad through
Merriwether county has been purchased.
The chairman of the democratic state
central committee of Louisiana suggests
to the opposition of the lottery the hold
ing of primary elections in the state and
getting the people’s voice on the ques
tion.
A severe wind and hail storm Kasscd
over the northern portion of Jefferson
county, Ala., ’l‘hurscfil(;r afternoon. Grow
ing crops were almost entirely destroyed
in places, and fences were leveled to the
ground.
The shoe firm of Stein Bros., composed
of Lee and Albert Stein, of Richmond,
Va., made an assignment Friday for the
benefit of their creditors. Their total
liabilities are $25,000 and the assets not
named.
A meeting of all the trades unions of
Chattanooga, Tenn., was held Saturday
night. About 4,000 workingmen were
present. The object is to effect a federa
tion of all the unions, which will be done
next Saturday night,
Prof. Ed Hutchinson, a balloonist,
while making an ascension in the out
skirts of Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday,
fell from a height of seventy-five feet and
was fatally hurt. He is 26 years old and
hailed from Chattanooga. = This was his
fourth ascension.
Mr. H. H. Square, of Cincinnati, who
owns 143 shares of the stock of the Look
out Mountain Land Company, has brought
~ suit in the United States circuit court at
~ Chattanooga to enjoin that company from
donating $400,000 of its stock to- the
Lookout Mountain Railroad Company.
A dispatch from Middleborough, Ky.,
says: John Cook Turner, a noted out
law and one of the chiefs of the famous
Turner gang which has been infesting
the Cumberland mountains for many
years, was shot on Sunday by Will Tur
ner, his cousin, and died Thursday.
A dispatch from San Francisco reports:
E. C. Foster, generalagentof the depart
ment of justice, is still investigating the
filibustering scheme against Lower Cali
fornia. He has secured confessiong from
two of those most prominently connected
the scheme that confirm the essential cor
rectness of the expose published.
A census enumeratorat Richmond, Va.,
has found a colored woman, named Mar
tha Gray, who has had thirty-seven chil
dren since 1868. She has given birth to
triplets six times, to twins six times, and
to seven others singly. She is now living
with her third husband, and of the thirty
seven C}Jildren but one survives.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Late Saturday asternoon a deputy sheriff
arrested P. H. Waring and J. Black, on
a charge of representing a bogus life in
surance cornpany. It is said they collect
ed premiums on policies in an insurance
company which does not exist. The men
were promptly lodged in jail.
The Evening News of Chattanooga,
Tenn., has acceded to the demand of the
International Typographical Union, and
will pay the scale of 334 cents per thous
and, asked for day composition. Under
the agreement with the union members,
all differences between the News and the
printers will hereafter be settled by arbi
tration. i
A Louisville dispatch of Saturday says:
The treasury of the state of Kentucky is |
empty, and the deficiency by July Ist ‘
will probably amount to $50,000. - Gov- ‘
ernor Buckner will save the state’s credit |
by advancing the money, without inter
est, from his private fortune, to meet all
urgent obligations. He has already ad
vanced SIO,OOO.
A report made Thursday by the agri
cultural department, of North Carolina,
states that many of the farmers of Chatham
have finished harvesting their wheat. It
was, on many farms, not worth cutting,
while all declare it is the poorest wheat
crop ever known. In some fields the
yvield was not as much as sowed. As
wheat is one of the chief products of
Chatham, the failure of the crop is a very |
serious calamity. 3
A good story is told on John W. Phil
lips, who is taking the census of Battle
boro township, Edgecombe county, N.
C. Whenever he would go on a farm
where there were colored people, the
negroes could be secen skurrying for the
woods. Phillips, in a'loud voice, would
as them to stop, stating that he would
not hurt them, but all to no purpose, and
many he was actually unable to get on his
list. 3
At Louisville, Saturday, the Kentucky
court of appeals decided that a telegraph
company is liable to damages both to
feelings and financial interests by failure
to use all due diligence to deliyer a. tele
gram. The case was Chapman vs. the
Western Union Telegraph company, in
which the telegraph company failed to
deliver a message to Chapman, notifying
him of the approaching death of his
father. G
No name has been found for the mysterious
! grass worm that is creatinn% havoc among
the hay flelds of the Schuylkill Valley, Penn.;
' neither has any remedy been suggested.
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STATE WEATIIER CROP REPORT—NEWS
ITEMS FROM RALEIGH. :
A Raleigh dispatch of Saturday says:
Earnest e?om are being made to induce
| Governor Fowle to commute the deuth
sentence of Jordan Pritchett, convicted
- of murder at' Oxford. The date set is the
| 27th instant, There are good grounds
for belief that there will be a commuta
tion. :
* The receipts of cotton at Wilmington
to Saturday, the 14th, show a falling off
of 9,000 bales as compared with last year.
The joint legislative committee on
railway taxation is called to meet at Ra
leigh this week. Tt will receive a pr?é
sition from the Wilmington and Weldon
Railway company to pay taxes. Hereto
fore that company has paid none, insist
ing that the terms of its charter gave it
immunity from taxation. The committee
will also at this session investigate
several other railways which are not pay
ing taxes.
Another daily paper is soon to be es
tablished at Raleigh and will take an
active part in democratic campaign
work ,
Professor, Charles D. Mclve on Monday
accepted an invitation to deliver an ad
dress on female education before the
State Press association which meets at
Durham next month. The association
‘decided to invite a number of leading
editors from neighboring states to attend
the convention.
The weather crop bulletin of the North
Carolina experiment station and state
weather service for the week ending Sat
urday night, says: The weather has gen
erally been very favorable for growing
crops, and for harvesting operations.
The temperature was low for a few days.
but slightly above the average dur
ing the latter part of the week.
The harvesting of wheat and oats pro
gressed rapidly during the past seven
days, and is nearly completed. The yield
of wheat seems even less than anticipated
from the preceding reports, and is prob
ably fully thirty per cent. below the
average, if not more. Other crops are
growing rapidly, are clean and well work
ed. Special reports were received during
the week ip regard to the condition of
the cotton and tobacco crops throughout
the State. The cotton crop is everywhere
reported to be in a remarkablly
fine condition, better than it has
been at this season for many years past.
For the entire state the acreage planted
is probably 107 per cent. The condition
of tobacco is fair in some counties, as
Lexington, Rockingham, Surry and Guil
ford, rather bad, while in others, as
Granville, Stokes, Moore, McDowell, etc.,
it is vood. Insects, late frost and dry
weather injured it, so that a fair stand
could only be obtained byrepeated plant
ing. The entire crop has not yet been
planted, and it is difficult to estimate its
general condition, which will undoubted
ly improve with continued favorably
weather,
HE SIGNED THE CHECK.
BUT THE MAN IN WHOSE FiVOR IT WAS
DRAWN WAS ARRESTED.
A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio.says :
President Tyler, of the W. 8. Tyler
Wire company, had a rather thrilling en
counter Saturday with James P. O’Day,
who was formerly employed by the com
pany. Mr, Tyler was standing «in his
barn on St. Clare street when O’Day en
tered hurriedly, and pulling out a re
volver, covered Mr. Tyler with it, at the
same time demanding that he at once
draw a check for SI,OOO in O’Day’s favor.
Mr. Tyler attempted to persuade O’Day
that the time apd place were not suitable
to drawing ch}::gks, and finally both ad
journed to the company’s office not far
away. O’Day, however, maintaining a
firm grip on his revolver. At the office
Secretary Patterson drew the check, and
when O’Day went to the bank with it he
was arrested. i
' LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE,
FEARFUL EXPLOSION OF NITRO-GLYCERINE
—THE SHOCK FELT FORTY MILES AWAY.
A Findlay, Ohio, special saysthat at 2:30
Saturday morning everybody in that city
was awakened by a tremendous shock
that rocked every building, and breaking -
windows in many places. It was found
to be the explosion of Casteerline & Co.’s.
nitro-glycerine works, situated four miles
east of the city. A hole was made in the
ground large enough to take in a four
story business block, while the factory,
reduced to kindling wood, is scattered
fgr a mile in every direction. No one
~was in or about the works, hence no loss
of life. Five tons of nitro-glycerine went
up. No estimate of the loss is yet ob
tainable. Specials from all points in
northwestern Ohio show that the shoek
was felt for over forty miles in every di
rection and was generally attributed to
an earthquake. ~
THE CLAIM SETTLED.
THE CELEBRATED AUSTIN COTTON .CASE
DISPOSED OF.
A Washington dispatch says: The
famous Austin cotton claim case was set
tled Tuesday in the court of claims and
the petition was dismissed. Sterling
Austin lived at Columbus, Ge., at th
outbreak of the war, butsoon after.moveg f
to Louisiana, and it was from his planta
tion in that state and Texas that the cot
ton was taken. The case was referred to
the court by congress to determine Austin’s
loyalty after the war. Austin and his son
affiliated with the republican party, and,
it is alleged were assassinateg. Florine
Austin, a daughter, pushed the claim, the
amount involved being $60,000. s
