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THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and Thers.
The Agricultural and Mechanical col¬
lege at Auburn, Ala., opened Wednes¬
day with a very large attendance.
R. M. King, the Seventh Day Advent¬
ist, convicted in Obion couuty, Tennes¬
see, of Sabbath breaking, has appealed
to the United States supreme court.
Fire at Fort Worth, Tex., Tuesday,
destroyed the Ellis hotel, a five-story
structure and the three-story annex,
together with the contents, valued at
$130,000. Total loss, $150,000 insurance,
$ 22 , 000 .
Buena Yista furnace, at Lexington,
Va., employing several hundred men,
shutdown Wednesday on account of
serious damage to the stack. It will
probably not be able to start up for sev¬
eral weeks.
A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of Thurs¬
day says: Governor Buchanan has call¬
ed the election in this congressional dis¬
trict to supply the vacancy caused by the
death of L. C. Houk, for Saturday, No¬
vember 21st.
Thursday morning the colored long-expected people
fair inaugurated by the
opened its first exhibition at the Chatta¬
nooga driving park. The fair is expected
to exhibit the work of the colored peo¬
ple of that section in agricultural and
mecbanicul lines.
A disastrous fire finished what recent
fires had left of the business part of
Oakcliff, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, Fri¬
day morning. As no fire department
could reach the flames, $50,000 worth of
property was licked up in a twinkling.
8. D. Wester’s warehouse, the largest
in Chattanooga, was burned Friday
night. The loss is estimated in the
neighborhood of $200,000, as the build¬
ing was full of produce, including bacon
and lard. The flames, consequently,
could not be checked.
A Mobile dispatch says: Frank Clor
gue, president of the Bank of Maine, of
Bangor, Me., and his brother, E. V.
Clorgue, of New York, organized with the
Mobile Trust Company, Tuesday
$500,000 capital, to do a trust aud gen
eneral banking business.
The Southern and Southwestern Rail¬
way Club, composed of of the railroads principal of
mechanical officials the
the south, assembled in Nashville Thurs¬
day in annual session. The object of
the annual gathering is the discussion of
railway machinery and appliances gener
.ally.
On Thursday Chattanooga’s new cot
•on compress was put to work on 154
bales of cotton, the first order it has had
since completed. The first hour the com¬
press was timed, turning out sixty bales,
and the whole lot was finished in twe
and one-half hours. Chattanooga expect*
to handle more cotton this season than
five previous years.
The German and German-American
citizens of Richmond, Va., celebrated
Wednesday—German day—and the one
hundredth anniversary of Koemer’s birth,
by a street parade and a volkfest at the
exposition grouuds. A feature of the
day was the unveling of the bust of
Kcorner, the work of Monyhao, and the
singing of songs of the poet soldier.
On Thursday Judge Simonton filed in
the United States circuit court, at
Charleston, S. C., his decision of the
motion made by Attorney General Pope
for the dismissal of the injunction re¬
straining the Carolina farmers and all
other phosphate in the companies from entering The
or mining denies Coosaw motion territory.
decision the and says the
before petitioners must give the eight days’ notice
again making application.
A Columbia, S. C dispatch of Thurs¬ Good
day says: Under the auspices of the
Templars lodge of Columbia, 35,000
petitions for signatures asking the legis¬
lature to enact a law prohibiting the
liquor traffic in South Carolina, are being
sent intoxicating out. A bill to prohibit the sale of
liquors got a respectable
vote in the legislature backed of 1889, and it is
believed that if up by numerously
signed petitions the coming legislature
will enact a prohibitory law.
A Chattanooga dispatch says: The
broad of public works aud the Chatta¬
nooga Electric Street Railway Company
were indicted Thurs lay by the grand
jury for obstructing Oak street, aud L.
G. Walker, W. T. Pope and C. C. Sny¬
der, of the board of public works, aud
Sam Divine and C. A. Lyerby, of the
railway company, were arrested and
placed under bona for their appearance
at circuit court to answer the chagre. The
electric road has been fined before for a
similar offense.
THE STORY DENIED
That the Catholic Knights Hy¬
pothecated Bonds.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Stilai; 0#i1si
•ays: The supreme officers of the
lie Knights of America deny the state¬
ment that fund they bonds; hypothecated $156,000 la
also the report an
the request for a receiver. They bor¬
$50,000 on bonds. They paid
5$ per cent interest. They say thegf
able to pay every demand, are per
solvent, an ! have $120,000 addi¬
in the sinking fund. As to the
of the application from for disaffected a receiver,
officers say it came
whose aspirations have not been
A LONDON BANK ROBBED.
Nearly a Million Stolen and No
Clue to the Thieves.
A cablegram from London, Eng., says:
Another heavy bank robbery was re¬
ported monday, but as every effort is
being made to suppress the facts, no
authoritative story can be told. So far
known, however, it is this: A large par¬
cel of bills, remitted from country banks, and
has been stolen from the London
Westminster bank, limited, which is an
important institution, having fifteen or
more branches in London. The amount
lost is variously stated from $750,000 to
$1,150,000. The matter has become pub¬
lic through notes to the banks and police
centers of the country, and through the
espionage over departing vessels at all
the ports of the United Kingdom. The
theory of the police is that no attempt
will be made to use the money in Great
Britain, but that it will be taken abroad,
most likely to the continent, where a
great deal of English money circulates.
A FORMER ROBBERY RECALLED.
The actual method of the robbery is,
to the public, entirely conjectural, but
the circumstances recall the clever rob¬
bery last February of a clerk of the Lon¬
don branch of the B ink of Scotland, as
he stood at a public counter of the
National Provincial bank. The thieves
obtained $00,000 by that haul and noth¬
ing has ever been heard of them or the
money. Quite recently it was re¬
ported that the Bank of England had
been robbed of £250,000, but that state¬
ment wa« denied by officers.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Florida Phosphate Miners to
Have a General Meeting.
An Ocala, Fla., special of Saturday
to the Jacksonville Times-Union says:
The following call has just been issued
here and sent in circular form to all the
phosphate miners and owners of phos¬
phate lands in Florida: “The imperative
necessity of concerted action among
phosphate miners in the state of Florida
ha3 induced us to call for a general meet¬ in
ing of miners and those interested
the sale of phosphate rock. It is sug¬
gested by some that we form a phosphate
exchange in the city of Ocala for mutual
protection and advantage. A full meet¬
ing is urged. Those interested will meet
at the office of the Blue River Phos¬
phate Company in Ocala, Florida, Octo¬
ber 1, 1891, at 3 o’clock, p. m.
The call is signed by the Euraka Phos¬
phate Company, E. W. Agnew, for the
Marion Pnosphate Company and about
twenty-five other individuals and compa¬
nies. The imperative ncccessity for con¬
cert of action is doubtless found in the
present low prices in European markets
and the great advance in fraught to the
United Kingdom and continental ports.
The shipment of grain will probably keep and
freights up for some months is to hardly come,
even at the present there any
tonnage offering. A movement will prob¬
ably be made at the coming meeting to
control the monthly output of the Florida
phosphate mines in the interest of the
operating companies and owners.
BISHOP TURNER,
The Colored Divine, Talks Glow¬
ingly of Africa.
A Boston, Mass., dispatch says: Bish¬
op Henry McNeil Turner spoke to a large
congregation of colored people Monday
night iu the African Methodist his Episcopal
church, on Charles street, on propos¬
ed trip to Africa, and in advocacy of the
migration of 100,000 or 150,000 of the
colored race to that continent. His ob¬
servation, he said, had taught him that
there was little hope for the oolored race
in this country; that the best thing a
number of them could do was to go to
some other country, set up a government that they
of their own, and demonstrate
had in them native ability to administer
the affairs of state. In Africa he saw
such a country. It was rich.in gold, sil¬
ver, precious stones and minerals of all
descriptions, such as a people starting to
govern themselves would need to make
them strong and mighty. He solemnly be¬
lieved that the black men and women in
America would finally be the instrument
to redeem and Christianize Africa and
plant on her soil one of the grandest gov¬
ernments the sun ever shone upon.
WILL PROTECT HIM.
Assurances from the Bricevllle
Miners to Gov. Buchanan.
A Nashville dispatch of Monday says:
It is learned that Saturday evening,
when the fate of the penitentiary bill
became known, the members of the
miners’ delegation waited upon Governor
Buchanan and assured • him that there
was no criticism of his conduct in the
affair; that they were aware he had done
everything in his power to promote the
legislation desired, and that no matter
what should follow every miner in East
Tennessee would go out of his way to
suppoit and protect him.
RUN INTO THE WAGON.
Three People Killed at a Rail¬
road Crossing.
A procession of wagons returning from
a nogro campmeeting at Liberty, S. C.,
were crossing the Richmond end Danville
railroad about two miles beyond Central,
Ga., Sunday, when the north-bound
vestibule train came along and struck
one of the wagons containing two negro
women, a child and a man. The wagon
was torn to splinters, the two women and
child instantly killod, and the man sup¬
posed to be fatally injured. Strange to
say, the mule escaped with slight inju¬
ries
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
. The Gaiety theater, in Liverpool, was
destroyed by fire Friday.
Dispatches of Wednesday say that
heavy timber fires are raging in Minnesota.
Two railroad trains collided in Prus¬
sian Silesia, Tuesday, and ten persons
were killed aud many injured.
The steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II sailod
from Southampton for New York, car
rying $1,000,000 in gold for New York.
Dispatches of Tuesday states that the
English government has officially re¬
cognized the provisional government of
Chile.
Later returns from the explosion at the
Italian celebration at Newark, place the
number of killed at eleven, and wounded
at thirty.
A cablegram received at the navy de¬
partment Tuesday from Admiral Belknap
announces the arrival of the Charleston
at Yokahoma, Japan.
Nothing was made public in New
York Wednesday in regard to the liabili¬
ties and assets of S. V. White & Co.,
the suspended brokers.
The boiler of Beilin’s new saw mill, at
Bear Creek, Pa., exploded Thursday
morning, completely demolishing the
mill and instantly killing three men.
Dispatches of Thursday say: The Al¬
sace-Lorraine passport decree, which
nominally goes into effect in October, is
already in operation, and the frontier is
now open.
The American Waltham Watch Com¬
pany has announced a reduction of 15 to
20 per cent in the wages of 900 of its
employes,, or all those employed on its
eighteen-size movements.
The first installment of nickel steel
plate made in this country for actual use,
was delivered Thursday at Cramp’s ship¬
yard. It is the three-inch prosective
deck plate for oue of the triple-screw
cruisers.
Three boys, ranging in age between
eleven and fifteen years, were killed on a
train at the Chicago stock yards Wednes¬
day. They were stealing a ride on a
freight car loaded with lumber, and the
lumber fell upon them, crushing them.
The funeral of the late William L.
Scott took place from his lata residence
in Erie, Pa., Thursday afternoon.
Among the most noted of many distin¬
guished persons present was ex-President
Cleveland, Hon. Daniei L. Lamont and
Governor Pattison.
A dispatch of Wednesday says: Car¬
load after carload of stock is rushing
through San Antonia, Texas, for Mexico.
Hogs from Kansas City and other wes¬
tern points are especially numerous. The
object of the shippers is to get their ani¬
mals into Mexico before the taiiif goes
into operation, November 1st.
The North German Gazette of Friday
publishes the official result of inquiries
made in regard to the wheat crop of
Prussia. According to this report the
crop amounts to 18,408,000 double quin¬
tals, against 17,523,000 in 1890. The
summer and winter crops together will
yield 1,000,000 double quintals over the
same crops of 1890.
The announcement of the assignment
and suspension of 8. V. White & Co.,
of New York and Chicago, was made on
the stock exchange at New York Tues¬
day morning. Mr. White says the fail¬
ure was due to long speculation liabilities in corn of
and not in stocks. The
the firm are very large, but only a few
hundred shares of stock are outstanding
on contract.
On Friday, a consignment of twenty
three carloads of iron buildings left East
Berlin, Conn., from the Berlin Bridge
Company to the Campania Nacinal de
forjas Estaleiros, Rio de Janeiro. The
company is extensive shipbuilders, and
has heretofore bought supplies in Eng¬
land, but in now able, under the treaty,
to obtain better goods at the same rate in
the United States.
A PROTEST
From County Delegates to the
Recent Saratoga Convention.
A New York dispatch says; Delegates
of the county democracy organization to
the state convention at r-aratoga, held an
adjourned meeting and at Cooper Union
Monday night adopted a protest
against the action of the state committee
and state convention. In this protest,
which will be presented to the county
committee of the organization, the dele¬
gates say that they were the only repre¬
sentatives of the democratic party from
this county elected iu accordance with
the Cassidy resolution of 1871, and that
in depriving them of representation in
the convention, the state committer ac¬
ted arbitrarily and contrary to the reso¬
lution adopted by the state convention of
1884. _________
Alliance Organ Withdraws.
A Louisville dispatch of Friday says:
The Farmers’ Home Journal, for nearly
ten years the official organ of the Farm¬
ers’ Alliance of Kentucky, has organization. given up
its connection with that
The reason assigned is that the alliance
wishes to go into politics. There are two
factions in the alliance in Kentucky upon
this question of joining the people’s par¬
ty, and at the state meeting at Elizabeth¬
town, November 10th, there will be a
sharp contest between the two for the
election of state officers, who are op¬
posed to political action by the alliance.
—
CUT HIS THROAT.
Morehouse, . » ,
Ex-Governor „ „ or
Missouri, Suicides. :
Ex-Governor Albert P. Morehouse, his rcsi- of j j
Missouri, committed suicide at
dence at Marysville, at <J o’clock Wednes- j
day morning. Several weeks ago the
governor was violently overheated while j
driving cattle and has been in a very j
nervous condition since. At times he j
lias been delirious and very much de
pressed. He was taken out night,! for a j
drive by a friend Tuesday excited that;
but became so much
he was brought home and a physician during j
w r as called. He became quieter morning
the night and Wednesday watches was in : |
sleepiug quietly. Two heard gurgling were j
another room. They and a
noise in the governor’s room on en
tering found him lying nn the floor, j
blood spurting from his throat. He had j
cut a gash in the leftside of his throat •
about four inches long. The weapon was j
a common pocket knife which he still |
held in h's right hand. He had folded
tip his coat and vest and placed them un
der his head.
SKETCH OF THE DECEASED.
Governor Morehouse was born in Del¬
aware county, Ohio, July the 10th, 1835,
and came to Missouri in 185G. He was a
lawyer and has always taken a prominent
part in Missouri politics. He was elect¬
ed lieutenant governor on the democratic
ticket in 1884 with John S. Marmaduke
as governor, and upon the death of the
latter, succeeded him and took the oath
as governor of the state in 1887. His
wife and two children are in St. Joseph.
SOME OF OUR GUNBOATS
May be Sent to China as an Ad¬
ditional Precaution.
A Washington dispatch of Monday says:
A week ago Secretary Tracy, after sum
moning a number of American war ves
sels in Chinese waters, remarked: “If,
however, American missions and Ameri
Can citizens in China are to rely upon
gunboats for their protection, rather than
upon the Chinese government, our fleet
in those waters must be very largely in
creased.” Since that utterance events
, have so shaped , J themselves ,, , as „ to . indicate
the wisdom of preparing to meet an
emergency foreseen by Secretary Tracy,
While there is at present no formal alii
ance, yet the government of the United
States has reached an understanding with
the governments of Great Britain, France
and Germany by the terms of which, in
the event of failure of the Chinese gov¬
ernment to afford adequate guarantees
for the protection of the lives, property four
and interests of citizens of these
nations, that duty is to be undertaken by
the governments of the United States,
Great Britain, Germany and France, act¬
ing jointly.
CAROLINA COTTON
Damaged One-Fourth by the
Heavy Rains.
A Columbia dispatch of Sunday says:
Reports from all over the state, received
by the weather bureau, show that the
damage to the cotton crop by the recent
heavy rains was not overestimated. Dur¬
ing the past week the rainfall has been
below the normal; temperature about
the average; amount of sunshine about
the average. The heavy rains which
completely saturated the soil, and in
many places ponded, together with the
hot sunshine for the past week, scalded
and rusted most of the cotton crop, and
caused many of the immature bolls to
open, and thereby greatly decreased the
yield. From reports received from cor¬
respondents and from other reliable in¬
formation the last report of 25 per cent
decrease is fully sustained, and at several
p acos the decrease in the production is
placed at a much higher estimate.
THE SOVEREIGN LODGE
Of Odd Fellows Meet in Grand
Encampment.
The seventy second grand lodge encampment Inde¬
of the sovereign grand of the
dependent Order of Odd Fellows was
opened in Masonic Hall in Bt. Louis,
Mo., Monday. Grand Treasurer, Isaac
A. Shephard, of Philadelphia, reported
the financial status of the order, and
commenting upon the figures, said .they
showed an increase in receipts, The
number of initiatio ns last year is shown
to be 68,050. The net increase in the
United States and Canada during the
past twelve months is 37,000. The total
membership at present is 072,339. The
revenue for 1890-91 is $7,244,227. The
pecuniary benevolence distributed wns
$4,000,000. He also referred to the
Rebecca, growth iu popularity of the degree of
which now numbers 13,000
ladies. *
CRASHED INTO CATTLE CARS.
A Disastrlous Wreck, but Only
One Man Killed.
sylvania A freight wreck occurred on the Penn¬
railroad, two miles east of
molishing Greensburg, Pa., Sunday morning, de¬
forty freight and twenty cattle
cars. Wadsworlr Engineor Rogers and Brakeman
Fireman R. were fatally injured, and
E. Stanley seriously hurt,
the wreck whs caused by the freight
tmin parting on down grade and coming
together again. Before the tracks were
cleared, an eastbound cattle train crashed
into the wreck, and twenty car loads of
cattip were killed. The wreck is one of
the worst ever seen. Cars were piled on
top of each other nearly one hundred feet
high. The loss will reuch awRy up in
’he thousands.' An unknown tramp was
burned to death.
By Invitation
Mrs. Binks—“Why didn’t you com c
homo to dinner?” dinner, I
Small Son— “I bad my mu.
took dinner with Williei Mink*.”
“Did Mrs. Mink* invite yon ?’
“Yes. ma, I smelled apple dumplings
cooking, and I told her I liked apple
dumplings awful.”
“Oh, you did?” .
“Yis’na. Then she Saul nmvhe if I
went home I’d find you hau app.e dump
lings for dinner too.”
“Humph.” But I told her yours was al
“Yes’m. wouldn’t let
ways so heavy pa me eat
any, an’then she invited me to sit down.
—Street & Smith's Good INe v.s.
Do You See the Moral?
A French publisher who had heard of
young Balzac as likely to do well went
Xo ca n 0 n him with the intention of giv
j n g him 3,000 francs for a novel. Upon
finding he lived in an obs< ure pirt of
the town, however, he determined to re
duce this sum to 2,000 francs. On nr
riving at the house and discovering he
lived on the fourth floor it struck him
that 1,500 francs would be ample; but
or) reaching his attic and finding him
eating a penny roll lie offered but 300
francs, with which he bought “La Der
niere Fee.”— San Francisco Argonaut.
Why Turks Keep Their Hats On.
A Turk or a Hindoo will show his re¬
spect for you becoming into vour pres
ence with his shoes off and his cap on,
to uncover his head in your drawing
room being, according to his ideas, an
act of the grossest and mo3t unwarrant¬
able familiarity.— David Ker in New York
Epoch.
Vanderbiit’s
Check is no stronger in Wall fit reel, than the word of
Mr. H, G. Saunders, a prominent carpenter and bui)
der of Auburn, N. Y,, is among his fello.y citiZ3M,
He says under date of Aug, 4. ts9i.
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of Rheumatism m my arms and che3t. A veryfew
doseBO(
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
cured me of the last one, when suffering intensely. ”
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