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CONVICTS FREED. THE MINERS GET IN THEIR WORK AT BRICEVILLE By Swooping Down Upon the Stock ode and Liberating' the Occupants. A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch says: At an early hour Friday night an attempt was made to get through a business mes¬ sage to Briceville. There was no re¬ sponse to station, the telegraphic the signal. Then the next and next was tried, until at last Clinton responded. The operator there was asked what was the matter. He looked out in the direction of Briceville. and at once replied: “I *ee « flected great light, as of an immense fire, re¬ in the sky. The wire to Brice ville is cut, and I can’t call it up.” At once the suspicion arose, a moment later to be strengthened into conviction —the miners had cut the wires and taken possession. Iutense excitement prevail¬ ed. A telegram fiorn Clinton read: “Three thousand miners had gathered around among the hills during the day. As darkness came on they gathered in little parties, these parties joining each other, until four parties were formed, As by a preconcerted signal they closed in upon the camp. They were halted by a guard, but he ■was quickly silenced by the command: “There are 3.000 of us here. We have come for business. Call out your bos 3 at once and. let us settle this affair.” By this time there were a number of the of ficers of the camp on hand. They were d is posed to resist. The discharge of a thousand shots in the air convinced them that the call was serious. The messen ger blew a policeman’s whistle, and, in a minute, coming in at a double-quick, theie were in sight hundreds of brawny, determined-looking did men. Not a word they say, but they had their Win chester rifles in readiness. Reluctantly the officers stepped of the " out way. The liberators came from every tion, and, assembled in force, marched on the stockade. Their first act was to blow up the magazine: the uprights of the stockade were knocked off. Then began a scene which beggars descrip tion. The 150 convicts, who had been awakened by the shots, were terrorized. They were screaming for mercy, fearing that the mob inteuded to kill them. The miners closed in within a circle of about one hundred feet from the stockade. A detail was sent in, and the work of breaking the shackles began. As fast as they were freed they were told in no un¬ certain language, to get out,, and it is needless to say. they skipped out with alacrity. There was a large quantity of citizens’ clothes near by, which many of them donned. When the last prisoner was free the torch was applied to the stockade, which, with the exception of the norih wall and the rifle pit, was re¬ duced to ashes. Ten eight-room houses and a large dining hall inside of the en¬ closure went in the general conflagration. At the lower end of the Coal Creek stockade the office building was burned and the guard “shacks” demolished. The interior of the convicts’ dining hall, sleeping room, with hospital ward and kitchen were filled broken furni¬ ture, shattered glass and queensware. The store of the warden, Jack Chumley, was rifled, and about fifteen hundred dollars’ worth of goods taken and de¬ stroyed. ANOTHEB ACCOUNT, The citizens in Bricveillcbegan to hear squads of men passing through the place on their way to the stockades between eight and nine o’clock Friday night. This was kept up for nearly an hour. It was about 9:30 o’clock when 200 men descended Walden’s ridge, approaching the stockade from the east. deliver They called upon Warden Cross to them the keys of the prison, While this was go¬ ing on, the magazine was blown up, and the stockade surrounded by 2,500 men. Cross gave up the keys, and when the 141 vonvicts were released, they assisted in burning and destroying the property. TO THE CHUMLEY MINE. The attacking party then moved on the Chumley or Coal Creek stockade, and a halt was made near there. Twenty five men were sent forward to demand the surrender of the convicts. The men up continuous volleys from their Winchesters. Only one guard was on duty, and he lost no time in obeying. The convicts were told to go, and many of them, as at Briceville, were given citi icn’s clothes. When the convicts were liberated destroyed they plundered stockade Chumley’s furniture. stove and the The office building was accidently set on fire by the overturning of a stove. The mob then descended to the valley, where they set off several dynamite bombs, and fired a small cannon they had with them. The racket occasioned by these dis¬ charges, together with the explosion of the ammunition stored at the Briceville stockade, which the fire touched off 1 created the impression among in non-par¬ ticipants that a small war was progress. This, however, was not the case, as there was not a single shot fired at any man or any personal violence. THE CONVICTS IN GANGS. Saturday found the woods and fields and railroad tracks around the two stock¬ ades generously strewn with the striped suits of the released convicts. Convicts in gangs of tens and twenties were wan¬ dering all over the Surrounding country. Sheriff Rutherford and deputies, of Anderson countv, were busy all day Saturday recapturing convicts, and the sheriff wired Governor Buchanan that his jail was about full. The president of the Tennessee Coal and Mining Company, whose stockade was the first attacked, was asked what he proposed to do. He says matters were in such shone at nreseut he could giveuc definite information, but lie thought he would hold the Mate to its contract. Tin excitement has considerably h bated. A. Nashville dispatch say -: Governor Buchanan and the state board of prison inspectors held an informal conference ill day Saturday considering the Rrice ville outbreak, but arrived at no decis¬ ion as to what to do. The problem is a knotty one. Adjutant General Norman says of the affair: “The convicts him been released and are scattered to Mu four wind-, and the mob has dispersed to their homes. Of course, wo want to vindicate the law, but the question is how to go about ir. The improbability several of its inhabitants by Nanbui In¬ dians on the night of Monday, October 19th. Santa Rosa is an interior village with a population of 600 people living in thatched huts. The Indians came down from the mountains and suddenly fired the village and killed several Mexicans who failed to escape. BUSINESS REVIEW. The Outlook as Reported by Dim & Co., for Past Week. Dun’s review of trade for week ending October 30tb, says: Business failures during the United the past seven days number for States 207, Canada, 48, com pared with a total of 249 last week and 259 the week previous; the corresponrl vveel j last year, 218, representing 190 failures in the United States and 28 in Canada. B Improvement is in business continues, greater than before at, the west, con sidcrable at the south, and is clearly per <;e ‘ 7ed even at the eist. Yet discourage ment in som e branches of industry is not ' es s * l 311 ! more apparent than before, evidently . because calculations have been made u P on a “ore rapid and greater in¬ crease in business than has been realized, The peculiar expansion in some forms of production and of trade has invited the ? sual incorrect view, and depression ex fats which is so general that it might easily be misinterpreted. The iron industry shows most change for fallowing the large increase of output change m onth, there has come a decided of tone. Extreme anxiety to 9el1 P*g iron > au d financial weakness in unexpected depression, quarters produce the present which is in curious contrast with the abounding confidence which prevails ragardiug the future. Plate mills have a fair business at. the lowest P™ es ever recorded, and structural iron 18 irregular and also very low. The mithracite coal market is more cheerful, the production to October 24th being 31,608,975 tons, or 3,059,44? more than ^ ast J ear to date. The dress S 00,is market is active and works wel1 employed, though narrow margins of profit. Cotton mills have au increasing business in fancies, but the fa ac *° m staplgs is falling off and buyers urge that lower prices are justified by the decline in raw cotton. Yet the southern demand is better and trade, on the whole, fairly good. York Reports from decidedly other cities than New than usual, are though more encouraging im¬ at the east the provement is not rapid. At most southern points general trade improves, but at Charleston money is tight. Wheat rises 2 cents without any excuse. Speculative manipulation has hoisted corn 5 cents, but pork products are a shade lower, and cotton declines a sixteenth with continu¬ ing eighths, heavy receipts. coffee, Oil has fallen three but ia a shade stronger and sugar unchanged. No fears entertained of a monetary pressure, for it is not believed that the advance in rates by the Bank of Euglaud can much diminish the shipments of gold to this country. The treasury has put out $1,500,000 more new treasury notes, but has taken in the same amount of other forms of money. Throughout the East and West, and at most Southern plied points, the money markets are well sup¬ for legitimate business, and rates tend lower, while collections improve to some extent almost everywhere, but es¬ pecially at the principal Western points. RED HOT POLITICS Causes a Big Row in an Alliance Meet¬ ing--Several Killed. News reached Little Rock, Ark., Thursday night of « terrible hand-to band encounter at Bucksport, twenty miles from Eldorado, Union county, at n Farmers’ Alliance mass meeting. State Lecturer Bryan, of the alliance, was the principal speaker of the evening. Shortly after he had concluded his speech a quarrel took place among several specta¬ tors, which was soon taken up by many others in the audience, Winchester rifles, shotguns and pis'o!s were used with deadly effect. Burt Manning, J. H. Town and thiee others, whose names could not be learned, were killed. Several were slightly wounded. Sheriff Dunn, of Eldorado, left lor tho scene of trouble. Red-hod politics was the only and sole cause of the trouble. GREEN GOODS SHARPERS. A Den of them Unearthed in New York City. A New York dispatch of Sunday says: Central office detectives have just un¬ earthed the headquarters of a “green goods” business in that city, together with a cipher code, books of reference, lists, names and some six thousand let¬ ters received from different people in reference to the purchase union. of goods from every state in the They have also arrested Frank Brooks aud Terrence Murphy, head operators and leaders in the business, They also learned that the combination had just sent out 500,006 circulars and letters preparatory to the winter’s work. Inspector Byrnes has the name* of people to whom these circulars are addressed, and will look after future correspondence in his own peculiar way. THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. The (rial of Wo id niff, ex state treasu¬ rer of Arkausas, began at Little Rock Thursday. The porte is enforcing the recent de¬ cree tering prohibiting Turkey. Jewish families from en¬ Work on the Mantagua canal has been abandoned. Estimated cost to Guate¬ mala, $100,000. The Teutonic has arrived at Queens¬ town, having beaten the fastest previous record from New York. Lieutenant Colonel Howlette, one of the few survivors of the British officers who fought at Waterloo, is dead. The president has appointed Richard Ilerbet, of Ohio, to be United States consul at Antiqua, West Indies. tive Dispatches of Sunday say that destruc¬ prairie tires are sweeping the coun¬ try between Monon, Ill,, and Chicago. About eight thousand miners in Staf¬ fordshire and Worcestershire have struck against a reduction of 10 per cent in wages. The damage from the recent earth¬ quake iu Sau Salvador was not very great. The government is vigorously prosecuting the work of interior improvements. S. Simon, of Berlin, has sold to the University of Chicago a library of 280, 0*00 volumes and 120,000 dissertations in all languages. • The price paid is not known. Simonson & Weiss, cloak manufactur¬ ers at Green and Canal streets, New York, failed Saturday. Liabilities estimated at $180,000, The firm began business in 1870. The employes of the June Manufactur¬ ing Company, at Belvidere, III., went out on a striae Friday because of the dis¬ charge of five men who had been agitat¬ ing a strike. Patrick McDermott, McCarthyite can¬ didate, has been elected without opposi¬ tion to the seat in the house of commons for no th Kilkenney, left vacant by the death of Sir John Hennessey. A convention of militiamen at Chicago, Wednesday, decided to hold a national encampment near Chicago, August 5th to 20th, during the world’s fair. Con - gress is to be asked for appropriations for expenses. The Henry G. Allen Company, dealers in subscription books, at New York, is asking for an extension from its credi¬ tors. Liabilities about one hundred and thirty thousand dollars and nominal assets considerably larger. The Adams Express directory met at New York Wednesday. The auditing committee reported that a thorough ex¬ amination of the company’s securities, loans and cash corresponded with the entries iu the books. A committee was appointed to devise a plan to prevent misappropriation of the company’s prop¬ erty and breaches of trust. The bark Liberia sailed from New York Saturday morning with fixty-six negro colonists for Liberia. Only thir¬ ty-three of them are adults. They go under the auspices of the American Colonization Society, which defrays ex¬ penses of passage and of maintenance for several months after they reach then destination. A Chicago dispatch of Friday says: The chief of constructin of the world’s fair has ordered the contractors to double the force of men now employed on the buildings. The chief of construction made the order imperative, and said they would have to work two shifts of men eight hours each day, or make sixteen hours constitute a day’s work. Suit lj|ps been entered in the United States court, at Pittsburg, Pa., against the officers of the Lousiana Lottery Com¬ pany for unlawfully using the mails. It is alleged that circulars and tickets were mailed to the city on July 24th, and that in order to conceal the crime envelopes of the United States Express Company were used. At Boston, Mass., suit has also been entered. A dispatch of Friday from Guay mas, Mex., says: Information has reached this city of the burning of the Mexican of village securing Santa conviction Rosa and the of massacre of the of a, any leaders will not be taken into considera¬ tion. The law passed by the geueral as¬ sembly, at its recent extra session, ou the subject of interfering with convicts, is in sub¬ stance this: That peisons interfering with ,r releasing convicts in jails, pris¬ ons, mines or elsewhere, shall be guilty of in the a felony, penitentiary, punishable the by principals imprisonment for not Jess than three nor more than seven years, and the accessories for not less than three nor more than five years. About all that can be done is to prosecute the leaders of the mob under this statute, but even this would have no testify result, as nobody could be found to against them, and there is sympathy all over -the state with the miners in their determination to resist an odious law.” FOR A CURTAIN DRAMA. Johnny—Popper, does it follow be¬ cause a man wears glasses he has bad eyesight Pepper—As ? rule, Johnny. a Johnny—Then you must have awful poor Popper—Oh, eyesight. no, sonny. Johnny-—Then why did mommer say you look ten glasses a day ? Popper—I’ll explain it to mommer to. night.—[Jewolers’ C ironlar. THE GREAT SOUTH AMERICAN --AND Stomacht^Liver Cure The Most Astonishing Medical Years. Discovery of the Last One Hundred It Is Pleasant to the Taste as the Sweetest Nectar. It Is Safe and Harmless as the Purest Milk. This wonderful Nervine Tonic Las onlr recently been introduced fat* this country by the Great South American Medicine Company, and yet it» great value as a curative agent has long been known bv the native mhai> itants of South America, who rely almost wholly upon ita great medicinal powers to cure every form of South disease by which they are overtaken. This new and valuable American medicine possesses powers and qualities hitherto unknown to the medical profession. This medicine baa completely solved the problem of the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Liv«r Complaint, and diseases of the general Nervous System. It also curoa all forms of failing health from whatever cause. It perforins this by the Great Nervine Tonic qualities which it possesses and by its great curative power* upon the digestive organs, wonderfully the stomach, the liver and Tonic the bowels. builder No remedy compares with this valuable Nervine as a anal strengthener of the life forces of the human body and as a great re newer ol a broken down constitution. It is also of more real permanent value in th* treatment and used cure of this diseases continent. of the Lungs It than marvelous any ten consumption for rem¬ edies ever on is a cure nervousoea* of females of all ages. Ladies who are approaching the critical period known as change in life, should not fail to use this great Nervine Tonic almost constantly for the space of two or three years. It will carry the::: safely over the danger. This great strengthener and curative is of inestimable value to the aged and infirm, because its great energizing properties will give them a new hold on life. It will add ten or fifteen years to the lives ai many of those who will use a half dozen bottles of the remedy each year CURES Nervousness and Broken Constitution, Nervous Prostration, Debility Indigestion of and Old Dyspepsia, Age, Nervous Headache and Sick Headache, Heartburn and Sour Stomach Female Weakness, Weight and Tenderness in Sumach, All Diseases of Women, Loss of Appetite, Nervous Chills, Dizziness Frightful and Dreams, Ringing in the Ears, Paralysis, Nervous Paroxysms and Weakness of Extremities and Nervous Choking Fainting, Impure and Impoveri?' ed Blond,. Hot Flashes, Palpitation of the Heart, Boils and Carbuncle,' Mental Despondency, Scrofula, Scrofulous Sleeplessness, Swelling and Ulcers, St. Vitus’s Dance, Catarrh Consumption of the Lungs, Nervousness of Females, Bronchitis of the Lungs, Chroma Ceugh, Nervousness of Old Age, and Neuralgia, Liver Complaint, Pain? in the Heart, Chronic Diarrhoea, Paim in the Back, Delicate and Scrofulous Childrwt, Failing Health. Summer Complaint of Infants. All these and many other complaint* cured by this wonderful Nervine Tarsia, NERVOUS DISEASES. As a cure for every class of Nervous Diseases, no remedy has been abl® to compare with the Nervine Tonic, which is very pleasant and harmless in all its effects upon the youngest child or the oldest and most delicate -individ¬ ual. Nine-tenths ©f all the ailments to which the human family "W hen ia there heir, la ax* dependent on nervous exhaustion, and impaired blood, digestion. general of debility a*, insufficient supply of nerve food in the a state or tie brain, spinal marrow and nerves is the result. Starved nerves, Ink* starved muscles, become strong when the right kind of food is supplied, m4 a thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear a3 the nerves recover. As nervous system must supply all the power by which the vital forces of th* body are carried on, it is the first to suffer for want of perfect nutrition. Ordinary food does not contain a sufficient quantity of the kind of nutriment n pessary to repair the wear our present mode of living and labor impose* upon the nerves. For this reason it becomes necessary that a nerve food be supplied. This recent production of the South A merican Continent has been found, by analysis, to contain the essential elements out of which nerva tiasu* is formed. This accounts for its magic power to cure all forms of nervous CiiAWFOUDsmus, Ins., Aug. 20, ’**. To the Gieat South American Medicine Co.: Be. r Gents :— I desire to say to you that 1 have suffered for many years with a venr seri¬ ous disease of the stomach and nerves. I tried every medicine I could hear of until but I nothing ad¬ done nae any appreciable Great South good American Nerviua was vised to try your and Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, since using several bottles of it 1 must say that I am surprised at its wonderful powers to cure the stomach and general nervou^system. If every¬ one knew the value of this remedy as I do, you would not be able to supply the demand. J. A. Haudex, Co, A SWORN CURE FOR ST. VITUS'S DANCE OR CHOREA. CRAWFORMVnxit, twelve Imd., May 19,1886. af¬ My daughter, several years with old, Chorea had been flicted for months or St. Vitus’s Dance. She was reduced to a skeleton, could not walk, could not talk, could not swal¬ low anything but milk. 1 had to handle her like an infant. Doctor and neighbors gave her up. 1 commenced Tonic: giving her the South Ameri¬ can Nervine days the effects were very sur¬ prising. In three tho was rid of tho ner¬ vousness, cured her and completely. rapidly improved. I think Four the bottles South discovered, American Nervine and would the recommend grandest remedy it to ever Mrs. W. S. ExammsM. every¬ one. Slcle of Indiana, ) I" , 5 . Subscribed Montgomery and County , to ' before thi* Mar sworn me 19,18S7. Ckab. M. Travis, Notary Public. INDIGESTION AND DYSPEPSIA. The Great South American Nervine Tonic Which vre the now offer of you, Indigestion, is the only Dyspepsia, absolutely and unfailing the remedy train of ever iKsccnr erod for cure vast symptom* and horrors which arc tho result of disease and debility of the human stom¬ ach. No person can afford to pass by this jewel of incalculable value who j* affected by disease of the Stomach, because the experience and testimony of thousands go to prove that this is the one and only one great cure In th* world for this universal destroyer. There is no case of unmalignant disea** of the stomach which can resist the wonderful curative powers of the South American Nervine Tonic. Every Bottle Warranted. Large 18 Ounce Bottles, $l.25.Trial Size, 15 cewts. 3STEILJL _A_LMOISrD, Wholesale and Retail Agents FOR HARALSON COUNTY. CA. Mr. Solomon Boo 4 , a member of She Socfetf of Friend*, of Darlington, Ind., ««y»; “£ h*v* used twelve bottle* of The Great Soatb A mark can Nervine Tonic and Stomach and Giver Jura, and I consider that every bottl* did for tna on* hundred dollars good worth of sleep good, for because twenty t year* hav* not had a of irritation, night’s pain, horrible dream*, and on account general which hat nervous nrostratlon, dys¬ been caused by chronic Indigestion and, pepsia ol the stomach and by a broken do«m condition of tny nervous system. But now I can He down an like d sleep all night as sweetly I do m a baby, thin* and I feel a. soul d man. nor, there has ever been a medicine introduced into this country which will at all eompawi With this Nervine Ionia iu a cure for th* sUnaaca." 1 Cxlwfosdjvtu.*, In’d., JoM 22. TfSff, My daughter, eleven years old, wu aeversly afflicted with St. Vitus'* Dance or Chorea. W* gave her three and cne-half bottles of South American Nervine and she is completely re» stored. I believe it will cure every case of St, Vitus's Dance. I have kept It In my family tot two years, and sun sura it Is the greatest r ew edy In tho world for Indigestion Disorders and Droptip. Failing ala, all tonus of Nervous and Health from whatever cause. Joes T. Sin*. State of Indiana, 1 **' . Subscribed Montgomery and County, j to before tfat* fun* tswa.-a at 22, i$S7. Char. W, Notary Waiaat, PaWlA