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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1890)
- paraisen Lount ) Hannar :,»,-‘1515‘:1 e e ;;.* ‘;“ g Rlv s e i : o L e—er— THOS. W. GRIFFITH, ’ _— —T— - 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. : e eTI S 'WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE ~ BUSY WORLD. G i 1 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 I,w ”.‘:v;f :*‘ 2D x,};t,s’!'z‘g’ ,n —’?‘ “: R R ,&,, 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. : Wy Co s oy R SRt |SR RS 5 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. e ABB Ty SRR T ee R NTR 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
