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Six denomination* are now operat¬
ing mission*in Alaska—Presbyterians,
Methodists, Friends, Moravian, Epis¬
copal and Swedish. There are a total
of 18 Protestant mission stations.
Sir Douglas Fox lia* forwarded to
London an exhaustive report on tho
plan* for constructing the proposed
tunnel between Prince Edward Island
and New Brunswick. He declares l be
scheme to be practicable and estimates
the cost as follows: Tunnel of twelve
feet, to be operated by an electric
motor, $5,000,000; tunnel of eighteen
feet, to be operated wilh American
rolling stock, $11,000,000; tunnel of
sixteen feet, $10,000,000. The tunnel
would be chiefly constructed of brick.
:1
“The growth of New York, a* well
a* the beautifying process that is go¬
ing on, is shown," suggest* the New
York Nows, “by the fact that plans
and specifications for 314 new build¬
ings, of the value of $9,010,850, were
filed iu the building bureau during the
month of May. Many of these are to
be erected on ground hitherto unoccu¬
pied and others will take the place of
old structures iu the business portions
of the city, where the changes during
the last ten years have been little short
of marvelous."
Paris has been peculiarly fertile re¬
cently in swindling schemes One of
the cleverest was played by two
Bharpers upon a large linen manufac¬
turer in Southern Russia, They
claimed they were commlsssoners
authorized to secure a cloth case for
the Eiffel tower in winter, and, after
displaying many credentials, secured
$1000 as a guarantee from the manu¬
facturer that he would fill the big con¬
tract. He never discovered the cheat
until he reached Paris to measure the
tower. Tho fellow who devised this
fraud should turn his attention to
fiction, for he has a rich imagination.
Tho woman’s rights Question is
making itself heard in Vienna. There
was a large meeting there the other
day, in which women of all classes of
society were represented, and at which
resolutions were adopted demanding
that the middle and lower schools be
opened gratuitously to women, that
the number of professions opened to
women be increased, that women be
allowed to take part in political affairs,
and that “all Austrian subjects of age,
without consideration of taxation,
position or sex, be admitted to equal
and direct parliamentary suffrage.”
Tho resolutions have beeu forwarded
to the Reichsrath.
There is not flow,marvels the Chicago
News, a single descendant in the male
line of Cnaucer, Shakespeare,Spencer,
Milton, Cowley, Butler,Dryden, Pope,
Cowper, Goldsmith, Byron or Moore;
not one of Sir Philip Sidney, nor of
Sir Walter Raloigh; notone of Drake,
Cromwell, Hampden, Monk, Marl¬
borough, Petersborough or Nelson;
not one of Bolingbroke, Walpole,
Chatham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Grattan or
Cauniug; not one of Bacon, Locke,
Newton or Davy; not one of Hume,
Gibbon or Macaulay; not one of Ho¬
garth, Sir Joshua Reynolds or Sir
Thomas Lawrence; not one of David
Garrick, John Kemble or Edward
Kean.
The Prussian minister of justice,
Dr. Schelling, is interested in the new
American method of execution hv
electricity, and has caused instructions
to be sent for full reports as to its
methods of working, so far as obtain¬
able. Many Prussians are iucliued to
consider decapitation as too barbarous
a method of execution, and the conse¬
quence of this sentiment is favorable
to the criminal classes. Reindel, tho
headsman, has been making personal
inquiries ou tho subject of electric
death, whether for official reasons or
to satisfy liis own curiosity is not
known. The conservative feeling in
Germany is very strong, and there is
little probability of such a serious
change in the criminal laws as to do
away with the existing form of dcath
penaitv.
REY. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: “or ronTraiTiEH fob cuius
TIAN8.” ( rBEACHED AT MAM
SON. WIS,
T»XT: "Who kAoweth whether thou art
come to thekingdomfortwsh a time as this?'
—Esther iv., 14.
Esther the Beautiful was the wife of
Ahasuerus the Abominable. The time had
come for her to present behalf a petition of the to Israelitish her in¬
famous husband in
nation, to which she had onoe the work belonged. lest She
was afraid to undertake she
should lose her own life; but her uncle, Mor
decai, who had brought her up, encouraged
her with the suggestion that probably she
had been raised up of God for that peculiar
mission. “Who knoweth whether thou art
come to the kingdom for suoh a time as
this?” Esther bad her God-appointed work;
you and I have ours. It is my business to
tell you what style of people we ought demand to be
in order that we may meet the of
the age in which God has cast our lot. If you
have come expecting to hear abstractions
discussed or dry technicalities of religion
glorified, if you really have would come like to the wrong place;
but you to know what
this age has a right to expect of you as
Christian men ana women, then I am ready
in the Lord’s name to look you in the face.
When two armies have rushed into battle
the officers of either army do not Want phil¬
osophical discussions blood about the chemical of
properties ot human They or the nature
gunpowder. batteries swab want some the one to man And
the and out guns.
now, when all the forces of light and dark¬
ness, fight, of heaven it is and time hell, have give plunged ourselves into
the no to to
the definitions and formulas and technicali¬
ties and conventionalities of religion. What
we want is practical, triumphant earnest, help. concentrated, What
enthusiastic and we
need in the East you in Wisconsin need.
In the first place, in order to meet the
special demand of this age, you need to be
an unmistakably aggressive Christian. Of
half and half Christians we do not want any
more. The church of Jesus Christ will be
better without ten thousand of them. They
are the chief obstacle to the church’s ad¬
vancement. I am s peaking of another kind
of Christian. All t ihe appliances for your
becoming hand, an there earnest Christian are at your
and is a straight path for you in¬
to the broad daylight of God’s forgiveness.
You may have come here to-day the bonds¬
men of the world, and yet before you go out
of these doors you may become the princes
of the Lord God Almighty. You know what
excitement there is in this country when a
foreign prince comes to our snores. Why?
Because it is expected that some day he will
sit upon a throne. But what is all that
honor compared with the honor to which
God calls you—to be sons and daughters of
the Lord Almighty; yea, to be queens and
kings unto God! “They shall reign with
Him forever and forever.”
But, Christians, my friends, and you need not be aggres¬
sive not like those persons
who spend their lives in hugging their Chris¬
make tian graces and wondering How why they do not
any progress. much robustness
of health would a man have if he hid him¬
self in a dark closet? A great deal of piety
of the day Is too exclusive. It hides itself.
It needs more fresh air, more outdoor exer¬
cise. There are many Christians who are
giving their entire life to self examination.
They are feeling their pulses to see what is
the condition of their spiritual health. How
long would a man have robust weeks"and physical health
if he kept all The days and months
and years of his life feeling his pulse instead
of going out into active, earnest, everyday
work?
I was once amid the wonderful, bewitch¬
ing cactus growths bewildered of North Carolina, I
never was more with the beauty
of flowers, and yet when I would take up
one of these cactuses and pull the leaves
apart, the beauty was all gone. You could
hardly tell that it had ever been a flower.
And there are a great many Christian peo
pie in this day just pulling apart tbeir
Christian experiences to see what there is
in them, and there is nothing attractive
left. This style of self examination is a
damage instead of ac advantage to their
Christian character. I remember when I
was a boy I used to have a small piece in
the garden that I called my own, and I
planted would pull corn it there, and every how fast few days I
up to see it was
growing. Christian Now, there in this ara day a whose great many
amination people merely the self ex¬
amounts to pulling
up of that which they only yesterday or
the day before planted.
Oh, my Christian friends! if you want to have a
stalwart character, plant it right
out of doors in the great field of Christian
usefulness, and and though storms may come
upon it, though it the will hot sun of trial may
try to consume it, which thrive until it be¬
comes a great tree, iu the fowls of
heaven may have their habitation. I have
no patience with these flowerpot Christians.
their They keep themselves under in shelter, aud all
Christian experience a small, exclu¬
the sive circle, garden when they of the ought Lord, to plant it in
great so that the
whole atmosphere could be aromatie with
their Christian usefulness. What we want
in the church of God is more brawn of piety.
The century plant is wonderfully sugges¬
tive look and at it wonderfully without thinking beautiful, of it3 but parsimony. I never
It lets whole generations go by before it puts
forth one blossom; so I have really
more heartfelt admiration when I see
the violets, dewy for tears in the blue, eyes of
the they come every spring. My
Christian friends, time is going by so rap¬
idly that we caunot afford to be idle.
A recent statistician says that human life
now has an average of only thirty-two years.
From these thirty-two years you must sub¬
tract all the time you take for sleep aud the
taking of food and recreation; that will leave
you about sixteen years. From those sixteen
years you must subtract all the time you are
necessarily hood; engaged in the earning of a liveli¬
that will leave you about eight years.
From those eight years you must take all the
days time and weeks and months—all the length
of that is passed in childhood and sick¬
ness, leaving you about one year in which to
work for God. Oh, my soul, wake up! How
darest thou sleep in harvest time and with so
few hours in which to reap? 80 that I state
it as a simple fact that all the time that the
clusive vast majority service of you will have for the ex¬
of God will be less than one
year!
'die “But,” Gospel, says some man, “I liberally support
and the church is open and tli9
Gospel preached; all the spiritual advan¬
tages are spread before men, and if they
want to be saved let them come and be
saved; I have discharged alt my responsi¬
bility.” Ah! is that the Master’s spirit? Is
there not an old Book somewhere that com¬
mands us to go out into the highways and
badges What and compel the people to come in?
would have become of you and me if
Christ had not come down off the hills of
heaven, and if He had not come through the
door of the Bethlehem caravansary, and if
He had not with the crushed hand of the
crucifixion knocked at ths iron gate of the
sepulcae;- or oa.- uy.ric.ii .1 deat a, cry in;,
“Lazirm came forsh!”
Oli, my Christian friends, this is no tima
for inertia, when all ths fores* of (iaranesi
seem to be in full hi ist; when striaui printing
presses are railroad pub is'.iing iofidel carrying tracts; when
express trains are mas¬
S Ml ters of sin; when fast clippers are laden
wit h o iiutn and ru n; wheu the night air of
our cities is polluted with the laughter that
breaks up from the ten thousand saloons of
dissipation tin and abandonment; when the fires
of second death already are kindled in
the cheeks of some who only a little while
ago fell were incorrupt. the Never since the curse
upon earth has there been a time
when it was such an unwise, such a cruel,
such an awful thing for the church to sleep 1
The great audiences are not gathered in the
Christian churches; the great audiences are
gathered able their in temples of s»n—tears of unutter¬
woe baptism, the bloo i of crushe l
hearts the awful wiue of their sacrauie.it,
blasphemies the world their litauy, aud dirge the groans of
lost the organ of their
worship.
Again, duties if you want to ba qualified to meet
the which this age demands of you,
you must oa the one hand avoid reckless
iconoclasm, and on the other hand not stick
tao much to things because they are old. The
air is full of new plans, new projects, new
theories of government, new theologies, and
I am amazed to sea how so many Christians
want only novelty in order to recommend a
thing late and to their swing confidence; and fro, and and so they they vacil¬
to ara use¬
less and they are unhappy. New plans—
secular, ethical, philosophical, religious, cis¬
atlantic, transatlantic. Ah, my brother, do
not adopt a thing merely because it la new.
Try But, it by the realities of a judgment adhere day.
on the other hand, do not to
anything merely because it is old. There is
not a single enterprise of the church or the
world but has sometimes beeu scoffed at.
There was a time when men derided even
Bible societies; and when a few young men
met near a haystack in Massachusetts and
organized the first missionary society ever
organized in this country, there went laugh¬
ter and ridicule all around the Christian
church. They said the undertaking was pre¬
posterous. And also the work of Jesus Christ
so was
assailed. People cried out, "Whoever heard
of such theories of ethics and govern nent?
Whoever Jesus has? noticed 1 Ezekiel such a had style talked of preaching of mys
as
terious wings and wheels. Here came a man
from Capernaum and Gennesaret, and He
drew His illustrations from the lakes, from
the sand, from the ravine, from the lilies,
from the cornstalks. How the Pharisees
scoffed! How Herod derided! How Caiphas
hissed! And this Jesus they plucked and by they the
beard, and they spat in His face,
called Him "this fellow 1" All the great en¬
terprises in and out of the church have at
times been scoffed at, and there have been a
great multitude who have thought that the
chariot of God’s truth would fall to pieces if
it once got out of the old rut.
And so there are those who have no pa¬
tience with anything like improvement in
church architecture or with anything like
good, hearty, earnest church singing, an l
they deride any form of religious discussion
which goes down walking among everyday
men rather than that which makes an ex¬
cursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the
Church of God would wake up to an adapt¬
ability of work! churches We must of admit Jesus Christ the sim¬ in
ple this fact day that do the reach the great
not masses.
There are fifty thousand people There in Edinburgh
who never hear the Gospel. are one
million people in London who never hear the
Gospel. There are at least three hundred
thousand souls in the city of Brooklyn who
come not under the immediate ministrations
of Christ’s truth end the Church of God in
this day, instead of being a place fall of
living epistles, read and known of all men,
is more like a "dead letter” postoffice.
"But,” say the people, You "the world is going Th«
to be converted. must be patient.
kingdoms of this world are to become the
kingdoms Jesus of Christ.” . Never, unless speed the
church of Cln-ist puts on more
and energy. Instead of the church convert¬
ing the world, the world is converting the
church. Here is a great fortress. How shall
it be taken? An army comes and sits around
about it, cuts off the supplies and says, "Now
we will just wait until from exhaustion and
starvation they will have to give up.” Weeks
and months, and perhaps a year, pass through along,
and finally the fortress surrenders
that starvation and exhaustion. But, my
friends, the fortresses of sin are never to
be taken in that way. If they are taken for
God it will be by storm. You will have to
bring up the great siege guns of the Gospel artil¬
to the very wall, and wheel the flying
lery into line, and when the armed infantry
of heaven shall confront the battlements you
will have to give the quick commaud: "For¬
ward 1 Charge!”
Ah, my friends, there is work for you te
do and for me to do in order to achieve this
grand accomplishment! Here is a pulpit,
and a clergyman preaches in it. Your pul¬
pit is the bank. Your pulpit is the store.
Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your
pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the
nouse scaffolding Your pulpit is the me¬
chanic’s shop. I may stan d in this place and,
through cowardice or through self seeking,
ma y keep back the word I ought to utter;
while you, with sleeve rolled up and brow
besweated with toil, may utter the word
that will jar the foundation of heaven with
the shout of a great victory. Oh, that to¬
day this whole audience might feel that the
Lord Almighty is putting upon them the
hands of ordination. Every one, go forth
and preach this Gospel. You have as much
right to preach as I nave, or as any man has.
Only find out the pulpit where God will
have you preach, and there preach.
Hedley Vicars was a wicked man in the
English army. The grace of God came to
him. He became an earnest and eminent
Christian. They scoffed at him aud said,
"You are a hypocrite: you are as bad as
ever you were.” Still he kept his'faith in
Christ, and after awhile, finding by calling that him they
could not turn him aside a
hypocrite, they said to him, “Oh, you dis¬ are
nothing but a fanatic.” That did not
turb him. He went on performing his Chris¬
tian duty until he had formed all his troop
into a Bible class, and the whole encarnp
ment was shaken with the presence of God.
So Havelock went into the heathen temple
in India while the English army was there,
and put a candle into the hand of each of
the heathen gods that stood around in the
heathen temple, aud by the light of those
candles, held up by the idols. General Have¬
lock preached righteousness, temperance and
judgment to come. Aud who will say, on
earth or in heaved, that Havelock had not
the right to preach? I
In the minister’s house where prepared
for college there was a man who worked, by
the name of Peter Croy. He could neither
read nor write, but he was a man of God.
Often theologians would stop in _ the house—
grave theologians—and at family lead, prayers and
Peter Croy would be called upon to
all those wise men sat around, wonderstruck
at his religious efficiency. When he prayed
he reached up and seemed to take hold of
the very throua of the Almighty, and ha
talked with God till the very heavens were
bowed down into the sitting-room. Oh, if I
were dying I would rather have plain commend Feter
Croy stand by my bedside and
my immortal spirit to God than some heart
lesss ecclesiastic arrayed in costly canon¬
icals. Go preach this Gasps!. You say you
are not licensed. In the name of the Lord
Almighty, this morning I license you. Go
preach this Gjspol—preach it In the Sabbath
schools, in the prayer-mootings, in ths high¬ if
ways, in the hedges. Woe be unto you
you I preach it not. to be quail
remark, again, that in order
fie 1 to meet your duty in this particular triumph ago of
you want unbounded faith in the
the truth and the overthrow of wickedness.
How dare the Christian church ever get dis¬
courage 1? Have you not the Lord Almighty
on onr side? How loag did it take God to
slay the hosts of Sennacherib or burn So¬
dom or shake dowu Jericho? How long will
it take God, wheu He onoe arises in His
strength to overthrow all the and forces of there iniq¬
uity? Betweeu this time that
may be Ion 5 seasons of darkness—tbs char¬
iot wheels of God’s Gospel may seem to yonder drag
heavily, but here is the promise, aud
is the throne; and wheu Ominiscieuca has
lost its eyesight and Omnipotence falls back
impotent and Jehovah is driven from His
throne, then the church of Jesus Christ can
afford to be despondent, but never until
then. Despots may plan and armies may
march,an I the con grasses of the nation may
see.n to think they are adjusting all the af¬
fairs of the world, but the mighty men of
the earth ara only the dust of the chariot
w.iee s of God’s providence.
f think that before the sun of this century
shall set, the last tyranny may fall, shall and
with a splen or of demonstration that
be the astonishment of the universe God will
set forth the brightness of His and pomp and glory
an l perpetuity eternal government.
Oa: of the starry flags and emblazoned in¬
signia of this world God will make a path for
His own triumph, and returning from uni¬
versal conquest He will sit down, the grand¬ His
est, strongest, highest throne of earth
footstool.
Then shall all nallo ws’ Father, song ascend. Friend,
To Thee, our Ruler,
Till tie ivea’s high arsh resounds again
With '" J eica on earth, good will to men."
I preach this sermon because I want to
encourage all Christian workers in every
possible department. Hosts of the. living wifi
Go 1, march on! march on! His spirit His
bless you. His shield will defend you.
swor d will strike for you. March on! march
on! The last despotism will Mohammedanism fall, and pagan¬
ism will burn its idols, and
will give up its false prophet and the great
walls "of superstition will come down in
thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of
the Gospel trumpet. March oa! March on!
The besiegement will soon be ended. Only
a few more steps on the long way; only bat¬ a
few more sturdy blows; only a few laurel more
tle crie3, than God will put the upon
your brow, and from the living fountains of
heaven will bathe off the sweat and the heat
and the dust of the conflict.
March on! March on 1 For you the time
for work will soon be past, and amid the
outflashings of the judgment throne and the
trumpeting of resurrection angels and the
upheaving of a world of graves and the
hosanna of the saved and the groaning of the
lost, we shall be rewarded for our faithful¬
ness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting
to everlasting, and let the whole earth be
filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
THE HUNGRY FLAMES
Devour $290,000 WoFth of
Property in Dallas, Texas.
Shortly after midnight Saturday night
fire broke out in J. B. Cowan & Co.’s big
liquor house, on Commerce street, Dallas
Texas, and spread rapidly to the Pen
Brook School Furniture Company’s place,
Brewer’s Storage Company’s warehouse,
„nd Welle & Co.’s cotton gin. Five
hundred bales of cottou in the gin be¬
longing to Sanger Bros, were destroyed.
The loss foots up $290,000; insurance,
$200,000. Seven hundred barrels of
whisky were stored in J. B. Cowan’s
wholesale liquor house, where the fire
originated, and the barrels exploded dif¬ at
intervals, making the fire extremely
ficult to handle, and causing buildings. it to quick¬
ly spread to neighboring
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Groceries.
Coffee-Boasted—Arbnekle’s 25c $ 100 Jb
cases; Levering’s 24%c. Green—Extra choice
23>£c; choice Sugar—Granulated 23c; good 21%; fair 5c; 20c; common
I8@19c. loaf 5%c; off granu¬
lated —c; powdered 6%c; cut white
Orleans extra G yellow extra prime C 35@40c; 4c. Syrup—New
choice 48@50; common
30@35c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@38; imi¬
tation 22@25. Bice—Choice 7J^c; good
Salt—Hawley’s 6 y t c\ common 5%@6c; dairy imported $150; Virginia Japan 6@7c!
15c
Cheese-Full cream, Cheddars 13c; fiats
13%c; ikim —--White fish, half bbls
$4 lbs 00; pails 60c. turpentine, Soaps—Tallow, 60 bars, 100 60 bars, lbs,
75 $3 OO.i3 75;
$200a2 25; tallow, 60 bars, 60 lbs $2 25a2 50.
Candles—Prratine 1134c; star 10c. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s «3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 60s,
5 gross |3 76. Soda—Kegs, bulk 5c; do 1 lb do^ pltgs
5K°l muses, 1 lb 5%c, do I and 63^0; %lbs 6o, lb
6%c. Crackers—XXX soda XXX butter
6j£c; XXX pearl oysters 6c; shell and excelsior
7c. lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn
hills 9e. Candy—Assorted stick 6%c; French
mixed 12%c. Canned goods—Condensed milk
$6 00a8 00; imitation mackerel *8 95a4 00; sal¬
mon $6 00a7 50; F. W. oysters 82 20a2 50; L.W.
8160; corn $2 00a2 75; tomatoes $1 75a2 50.
Ball potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl 4%c; lump
5/^c; Pickles, nickel packages $3 50; celluloid $5 00
$1 50al plain Powder— or mixed, Rifle, pints $1 OOal 40; quarts
80- kegs $5 50; % kegs
$3 00; % kegs $1 65. Shot $1 70 per sack.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour—First patent $6 CO; second patent
$5 50 ; extra fancy $5 25 ; fancy $5 01; family
$4 25. Corn—No. 2 white 87o; mixed 63e.
Oats—No. 2 mixed 55c ; white —c ; Kansas rust
proof —e. Hay—Choice timothy, large bales,
$1. 00: No. I timothy, large bales, 95c; ch ice
timothy, bales. "95c; small No. bales, 2 timothy, $1.00; No. small I timothy,small bales,
93c.
Meal—Plain 87c; bolted 83c. Whoat bran—
Large saoks 9'.c ; small Backs 97c. Cotton
seed meal—$1 30 per cwt. Steam feed—$1 35
per cwt. Grits—Pearl $4 25.
Provisions.
Clear rib sides, boxed 7%o iec-cured belies
8%c. brand Sugar-cured nd average;Calitoroia hams 10,%al2^c, according
to bacon 9%alOV»c. a Lard—Pure leaf Tj^e; 8%e;leaf breakfast 7%;
refined tic.
Country Produce.
Eggs 12%al3e. Buttor-Western creamery 25a
30c ; choioa Tenuess e 10a20c; other grader
chickens, 10iil2%c. Live poultry'—Hens 28j30c ; young
large 20a25c ; small X2al4c, ] Dressed
15c. poultry—Turkeys Irish 17a t8c; ducks 14c; chickens
peratoes, new, $3 75a $4 00 per bbl.
Sweet potatoes-per bushel. Honey-Strain¬
ed 8al0c; in the comb 10at2c. Onions $6 00 per
bbl. Cabbage 2u3%e per )b. GrapeB, 5al0e per
lb. £ a
Cotton.
Market dull.—Middling 7?/c.
THROUGH DIXIE.
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Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
The last of the jury bribery cases waa
tried in New Orleans Thursday and re¬
sulted in an acquittal.
The boiler of a stoam thresher ex¬
ploded at Litchfield, Ky. ( Thursday,
killing three men and fatally injuring
three others.
The comptroller of currency B* as ap¬
pointed Col. John C. Goodloe, of 63 arton,
Ala., receiver of the Florence National
bank, of Florence, Ala.
A Memphis, Tenn.. dispatch says:
Proceedings of the motion for a new
tiial in the King murder case were re¬
sumed Monday morning in the criminal
court.
Judge Casfady, of the AnnistOD, Ala.,
city court, on Monday, appointed the defunct Capt. An¬
A. P. Agee receiver of
niston Saving and Safe Deposit Company. of the. de¬
This was done at the request
positors, who held two or three meetings
recently to devise some way for obtaining
amounts due them.
Friday night the Citizens’ bank of
Jefferson, Texas, made an assign ment.
The bank closed business Saturday morn¬ credi¬
ing, not having funds to meet their
tors. Liabilities, $ 100,000; assets, $125,
000. It is believed the depositors and
creditors will receive the full amount of
deposits and the bank will be able to
pay ull its indebtedness.
A Raleigh dispatch of Thursday says:. ad¬
Governor Holt has decided, on the
vice of the attorney general, not to part pay
the world’s fair commissioners any
of the $25,000 voted by the general fund. Tlio as¬
sembly from the direct tax
governor does not think he would be
justified in carrying out the act, as it re¬
quires him to make inroads upon the
funds held in trust.
One of the richest and best paying Pine
gold mines in the country is the
tucky mines in Cleburne county, Ala.,
about thirty miles from Anniston. The
nuggets mined there yield an average of
$63 a ton. The mine is operated the on a
limited scale at present, but owners
contemplate increasing the output by an
additional force of laborers in the fall.
A Raleigh dispatch says: Dr. Henry
V. Wilson, director of the United States
fish commission, stationed at Woods
Hall, Mass., was, on Monday, elected
professor of biology in the University of
North Carolina. He will be scientific ex¬
pert to the North Carolina shell fish com¬
mission. His election makes a valuable
addition to the faculty of the University
of North Carolina.
A dispatch of Friday from Sacramento,
Cal., says: State Controller Colgan has
refused to draw his warrant for the
amount due as office rent for California’s
world’s fair commission. He doubts the
constitutionality of the legislative act
appropriating $300,000 for the California
exhibit at the world’s fair, and wishes te
have the question decided by the supreme
court before he pays out any money.
A run began on San the People’s Home
Savings bank at Francisco, Monday,
and several thousand dollars was paid!
back to the depositors. The bank com¬
missioners have begun an investigation
of the bank’s affairs. According to its
report July 6th. the People’s bank has a
capital stock of $1,000,000, of which
one-third is paid number up. There is due de¬
positors, who about eight thous¬
and, the sum of $100,000. The bank
officers state that the institution is per¬
fectly solvent.
THE WAR ENDS
And Tennessee’s Convicts Re¬
turned to the Mines.
A Nnoxville, Tenn,, dispatch says:
The convicts were returned to Coal Creek
and Briceville mines by Governor Buch
hanan Saturday. The governor, the
guards, twenty strong, and the convicts
were received at the mines quietly and!
pleasantly, and during the governor’s so¬
journ at the camp he was treated not
only courteously but as royally as the
Tennessee miners could treat him. The
happy gladly solution of the ugly problem was
received by the people in and
about Knoxville. On the governor’s re¬
turn him, to and, Knoxville, tht troops saluted
in a short but feeling speech
the governor thanked the military boys
for the many sacrifices they had made,
and the faithful work they had done.
GLOOMY OUTLOOK.
The Harvests in Russia and In¬
dia in a Bad Way.
The I ondon Times , of Saturday, sura
marizes the harvest prospect of the world
as follows; It Russia there is a grave
deficit. Tho peasantry are starving, and
there is small hope of relief. Iu India
there is serious anxiety. Famine pre¬
vails over a considerable portion of tk<
country. Madras, Raj, Pmtaaa and
Punjaub are tho worst sufferers. Tht
harvest will be late and prices will be
high. look There is, therefore, a good out¬
for the English farmer to break the
long series of disastrous years.
Sealing Stopped.
Victoria, Telegraphic dispatches of Sunday fron.
B. C., say; Sealing is certainly
toria stopped in Behring sea, and all the Vic¬
fleets are now on the way home.
Entrance to Behring sea is effectually
blocked, and is now patroled by five
American and two British war vessels.