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Newspaper Page TextBLAIM £ 5jil « Ml! TIMES. VOL. VI. Jt is estimated that Uncle Samuel will payout at least $1, 500,000 in artificial lejfs and arms in 1890. 'William Xye, the humorist and philoso pher, sagely and wittily remarks that there are two kinds of baldheadcd men. Some are bald on the outride aud some are bald on the inside. The railroad companies of the United States owe $4,600.000,000. Last year the amount of interest paid by the railroads of the United States was $207,000,000, and the amount in dividends-$80,000, 000. If the amount of freight hauled were all reduced to one mile, it would amount to $70,000,000,000 tons of freight. Joaquin Miller, who, after lie went into Wall street and lost his little pile, used to rail at the rich and revile leading New York capitalists, has become a capitalist himself. Some years ago he bought 200 acres of land near San Francisco, and now they have become valuable for town lots. The poet says that lie shall spend the re mainder of his days on the Pacific slope. The whole trade of Calcutta was almost paralyzed recently by a general strike of native bullock-carters, 30,000 in number. They arc forced to pay a heavy municipal license. A local firm endeavored to levy a further fee for priVate registration, and the carters thought that this was an endeavor to impose an increase of taxation, The misunderstanding was removed. It is said that the common cowcatcher attachment to locomotives is about tho only article of universal use that was never patented. Its inventor was D. B. Davies, of Columbus, who found his model in the plow. Red lights on the rear car of trains, it is further said, were adopted at the suggestion of the late Mrs. Swisshelm, after a railway accident in which she had a narrow escape. Treasury statistics show that tho ex portations of Mexico for the first half of the fiscal year 1888-9 amounted to $26,- 846,990, indicating a total exportation for the year of $33,000,000, tho largest ever known in the history of the country. 'The exportation of precious metals in creased in the half year, as compared with the previous half year, $1,999,809, and merchandise exports mereascd’ < S570,- 263. These facts bear out the statements regarding the prosperity of the country, unci what railways are giving to the de velopment of Mexico. Rev. J. Crossett, an independent American missionary recently died in China, where he had been devoting him self to labor among the benighted. He had charge of a winter refuge for the poor at Peking during several winters, and made it his business to seek out the sick and unfortunate for the purpose of affording them relief rather than to change their faith. He went about in Chinese costume, and accepted no remu neration for his labors except his enter tainment. He was everywhere welcomed among the Chinese and was called by them 4 ‘the Christian Buddha. ’’ The inquiry is not infrequently ad dressed to a millionaire, “Why do you not discontinue business? You have wealth enough, you need not work any longer’'—and the answer almost invaria lily is, “What shall I do with my idle hours, if I have no employment?” This was the answer that that eminent Chica goan of brains and wealth, Mr. Philip I). Amour, made when an English syndicate offered him a bonus of 85,000,000 in ad dition to the estimated value of his great pork unu great beef-packing plant. Mr. Armour doubted if he would find peace of mind in a plethoric purse and no busi ness. Tl'.e St. Louis Globe-Democrat is not quite sure whether we should “rejoice at Chinese progress or regret it, for the waking up of the vast Mongolian masses means the , precipitation of , an overplus , upon the Aryan world that we do not ■yet know how to deal with. However, it is certain that China will soon be practically a modern btate. Tne corner vative element is effectually overcome and railwiiv construction has been en tered on as a national policy. Peking is at once to be joined to Tien Tsin by a road passing through the most populous district of the Empire. The radicals or refonners are at last entirely triumphant. and C hma will adopt every means for de velopment. It will be impossible to exist on the same planet under a system ed mutual exclusion.’’ BLACKSIlEAl CA. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1889. . GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS , AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS IRON EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES, I IRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST. The Swiss government has adopted tht smokeless powder for her army. The schooner Erie capsized on Monday eight, near Port Rowan, Ont., and eight persons were drowned. A number of branches of the National league in the counties of Waterford and Tipperary, Ireland, have been suppressed. It is rumored that the German govern ment will ask a credit for 300,000,000 marks for bronze guns for the new smoke less powder. The large four-story morocco shop of Peter Sill & Sons, on Grove street, Sa lem, Mass., burned Friday. Loss $1,000 000, partially insured. Up to the recess Tuesday night 027 jurors had been excused iu the Cronin case at Chicago, four accepted and sworn in and four temporarily passed. The Rotterdam, Holland, dock labor ers’ strike was brought to an end on Wednesday. The modified terms of the employers were accepted by the men. 'Eleven men were killed by an upheaval of the earth in a quarry near Lima, O., on Thursday. The upheaval was fol lowed by the spouting of a subterranean stream of water 200 feet into the air. August Belmont, of New York, has ordered $500,000 in gold for export. The assay office does not know where the gold is to be shipped. Belmont & Co. also refuse any information about it. A construction train on the Mucky railroad left the track at a point about eighteen milts west of Bedford, Ind., Thursday afternoon. Ten of twenty eight men on the train were seriously in jured. Six were dangerously hurt, while two will die. There was a fatal collision on the St. Louis and S in Francisco railroad, near Notthview, Mo., on Saturday. Seven 2 ars were (lumped over an embankment, The engineer of one train was killed, and four men dangerously hurt. Conebacerj, M. P., who was released from Londonderry jail, Saturday, was received with great enthusiasm on his arrival at London. A procession, fiiends, escorted com posed of thousands of iii’n to Glerkenwell gieen,where speeches jf welcome were made. The grand jury, at Chicago, III., on Saturday, failed to return any indict ments against any of the gamblers particu- of city, though their attention was larly directed to it by Judge Horton. The Evening News alleges that the polit cal “pull” of the gamblers prevented it. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says: Thu boom iti steel aud iron rivals the memorable advance of 1884. Steel rails to-day cannot be bought for lees than $33 per ton, and manufacturers are quite independent on these figures, for it is confidently believed the price will reach $35. Liverpool’s cotton Matemcnt for the past v- ec-lc is as follows: Total sales of the week 38,009; American, 27,000. Trade leakings, including forwarded from ship side, 34,000; actual export, 3,000; total import, 32,000; American, 22,000; total stock, 363,000; American, 202,000; total afloat, 134,000; American, 120,000. The suicide of a whole family is re ported from Odessa, Russia. A school teacher named Sause committed suicide, whereupon his widow became insane, She first threw three of her children out of a third-story window’, and then, tak ing the other two in her arms, jumped out with them. All were killed. On ex-Queen Natalie's visit to Bel grade,her presence was totally ignored by government officials, but she was re ceived most enthusiastically by crowds that thronged the streets through which she passed. On private residences and places of business throughout the city flags were displayed in her honor. The strike of the window light glass blowers, which began at Baltimore, Md., lust June, and Ids seriously affected manufacturers and 5,000 employes in business, most of whom are located iu New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, was settled on last Saturday. The demand of the blowers was for an advance of ten per cent., but a compromise of 5J per cent, was agreed upon. The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the National Association of Wool Man ufacturers was held at New dork on Wednesday. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Wm. Whitman, Boston; Vice Presidents, John L. Houston, Hartford, Conn.; A. C. Mi ler, Utica, N. Y-, and Thomas Dolan, Philadelphia; treasurer, Benjamin Phipps. Boston, and secretary, 8. N. D. North, Boston. A frightful wreck occurred oa the d'ounsrstown A Ashtabula division of the Pennsylvania company’s lines at Haz'e early Thursday morning, by w Hich Flagman John Fitzgerald was iu stantlv killed and Conductor Ben Milner badly injured. A freight train going westbroke in two going up a steep grade, and t jj e detached part ran back to en -_dne 231 going in the same direction, f'he engine was wrecked and several freight cars were smashed to kindling wood. The Iowa supreme court, at Dei Moines, has given a death blow tc the hitherto sacred rights and privileges ^‘^J^fsteilrlln^hedt.rict of the State court in the murder case vs. Royal Adams. Adams wag indicted for murder in the first degree, for tbe acci dental shooting of a person named Har ing, a member of a charaviri party, con- vicied of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary for seven years aud six mouths. BLOWN TO ATOMS. THE BOILERS OF A STEAMER KXPLODH WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS. The steamer Corona, of the Ouachita consolidated line, left New Orleans, Thursday night for Ouachita river, with a full cargo of freight and a good list of passengers. She exploded her boilers at False river, nearly opposite Port Hudson, at 11.45 Thursday morning, causing the loss of the steamer and about forty lives. The Anchor line steamer City of Ft. Louis, Captain James and Oneil, boats "as saveQ ntj.ii by, and with bis crew many lives. The surviving passenger! and crew tllkt | n iSKJiir . zi. - - „ „ . . J. W. Blanks, captain; ,J. V. Gordon, first clerk; Charles C. Elios,second Dinklc, clerk; Swimn liana, third clerk; Fred barkeeper; Fred Verman, barkeeper; Pat Bvan, stewart; Dick Curtis, fireman ;Tom Hook, engineer; Henry Doyle, barber; porter; Jomes Swipe, porter;--Tate, hand; Tom Cook, Henry Davis, deck sailormau; Billy Young, second mate; Sam Steel, a boy; both captains of the deckwatck; fifteen musters, names un known.. The passengers lost were; Dr. Atwell, corn doctor; four negro mu sicians; Mr. Scott, Southland, La.; Mr. Stockman, Texas; Mr. Koench; Mrs. Huff, of Opelouses, sister of Captain Banks; Mr. Wilson, of’Red River _ Landing. The Corona was on her first trip of the season, amt had but recently come out of tho drydock, where she received repairs amounting to nearly $12,000. She was built at Wheeling, W. Va., seven years ago and has a carrying capacity of 2,700 bale’s of cotton. At the time of the acci *•» *• ~ “»•»»■ A GOOD SHOWING. ADVANTAGES OF THE SOUTH IN THE COT TON MILL INDUSTRY SET FORTH. Tne Tradesman, of Chattanooga, instituted nn exhaustive inquiry into cotton mill industry of the South, Mud lias received reports from all mills of the southern states. The actual number of mills iu operation is of 3311, 232 against 142, in 1880, au increase per cent, since the census year. The in crease. in mill consumption of raw cotton in the same period lias been253percent. South Carolina is the banner state; 132,31‘J bales were consumed in that state last year, against 120,988 bales in Georgia. The consumption has of increased raw cot ton in South Carolina 33 per cent, in two years, Tho concensus of opinions of leading manufacturers of the South in their written reports to tho Tradesman, is that the South possesses advantages over tiny other portion of America for cotton man ufacture in: 1. Proximity to ra >■ mate rial. 2. Superior climate. 3. Cheaper power. 4. Lower cost of renting and living. 5. Lower wage scale. 6. L-m liability to strikes. 8. Less expense, for heating mills. 9. Saving on freight. The Tradesman has received returns of dividends from twenty-five leading mills in the Houth, located in six differ ent states. These dividends run between extremes of four arid twenty-eight per per cent, and average of twenty-five is 1 It per cent, per annum. These twenty five tairly represent the whole. WORK OF THE FLAMES. THE residence portion of grand HAVEN, MICHIGAN, BURNED OUT. A large part, and the best part, of the residence portion of Grand Haven, Mich., was wiped out by a great fire Tuesday morning. Among the buildings burned are the following; The Cutler bou-e, one of the best hotels in Michi gan ; the residence of D.vight Butler, a b' uutiful place, filled with exquisite fur niture, valuable pictures und works of art. The residences of Mrs. Slayton, T. A. D. Parris, George D. Sanford, Capt. McCullom, A. 8. Kenzie. Three churches were burned—the First Re form' d, Unitarian and Methodist. Be sides these there were thirty residences. No lives were lost. The sweep of tire included both sides of Main 6trect from Slayton’s grocery, v.h re the fire or gi nated, to Ackely institute, and everything in its path was wiped out. The total loss is about $500,000, with a (air amount of insurance. MORMONS SN CONFERENCE, urging the adherents of Tnu MORMON FAn h TO SUSTAIN its principles. A dispatch from Salt Lake City says: The sixtieth general semi-annual confer ence of the Mormon Church began Bat unlay. Wilfred Woodruff, president of church, presided, and George Q. Can non, of the first presidency, was pres ent. There were also present, five other high church officials. President Aid Wood ruff, in the opening address, the Mormon church had been established by God, and that no power on earth could stay its progress. All revelations given direct to the saints, from God, including and notwithstanding polygamy, came the trials and troubles through which the Mormons had passed, the Lord would susta n all those who obeyed his princi plea and his revelations. Apostle John W. Tay lor commended the people to give obei-er.ee to the priesthood. “These ; men at the bead of the church,” he said, I “have the spirit of revelation and speak for God. I liesr my testimony that President IVoodroff arid his counsellor are prophets, seers and reveSators. The hand of God is over this church, and rm p>wer can destroy it or impede its prog- SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OK WHAT IS (101N0 ON Of IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The Florence, Ala., bank has been au thorized to begin business with a of $50,000. The property of the North Alabama Lumber company of Bridgeport, Ala., was attached by creditors Thursday, Tho directors „f ,i u! Ladies’ u ss0C j at j 0I1 0 f Nashville, on Tuesday ;ftll j llv jt tt tion to tho delegates of the in ternatiouiil congress “to visit the home Alldrow Jackson. The Hamilton county, 4 Tenn., five rwr a » T * r | day sold to Forster, Leech -a & Co., u oi M^dcd us most satisfactory tj. - North Carolina will the principal-- _ pay the lulled $147,000 -on an old claim of «sbs government, but will leave the question of interest to tho United States supremo court. The Baltimore American announces that the Maryland White Lead company hus been absorbed by the national lead trust, and that the stock of the company was turned over to the trust Thursday, Three men were burned to death at Winona, Miss., in ,a fire which destroyed the restaurant of It, G. Lotus. The men were Tlunmis Lawtrv, his son aud Paul vVilliiuns. The corner s'onc of the new music llllU , lt K , w Orietms, La., was laid Sun d#v ufternoou with wreat ceremony. It wi j| lmve ft mating capacity of (5,000 iu th e nuditorium mi<] 1,800 ’ on the stage, 1 »>« village of (,'tmbria, ,, . ( ... al was ul- , entirely destroyed by fire I uesday. XiTlISi" less is about $125,000; insurance about $ 12 , 000 . One of the largest clmrters over granted to any corporation in the south, was praided by the superior court of Georgia, by which the Southern Home Building and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga., was incorporated, with authority to do business in Georgia or any oilier state. 'I'll" authorized capital stock is $20,000, 000 . A war among the bouts on the Chatta hoochee was inaugurated at Columbus, On,, on Tuesday, and tho half rate will prevail hereafter. Cotton will be trans ported to Brunswick for fifty-five cents a halo instead of per hundred pounds as heretofore. 'Thu light promises to bo » lively one. Two of the largest first mortgage bond holders, of tho South Carolina railway, at ( buries, ton, S. C., have refused to de posit their bonds with the Union Trust company, of New York, or to be content with the settlement bondholders. proposed hy^'ie It is see oud mortgage ru mored, on very good authority, that * receiver will be appointed for the road, The grand jury Tuesday of the and parish investigated of Or leans, La., met session of the the state bond fraud. The grand jury lasted four hours, and nine indictments were found charged against with fraud some person or persons No given, and embezzlement. names are but it seems to lm w.-li understood thut ex-treasurer E. A. Burke is a party in eaeli case. A letter received at Greensboro, N. C., on Wednesday, from Russell A. Alger, the Michigan millionaire, says that In intends to visit North Carolina in tiu near future with a view of investing some of his vast accumulated wealth, d is not known just what lino of business he will interest himself in, but it is be lieved he will place a good deal of money in the state. A dispatch from Birmingham, the Coal- Ala., says: “Six hundred miners at berg coal mines of the Slnss Iron and 8teel Company went out on u strike 'Tues day morning. 'The company 1ms been paying fifty cents per tori for mining and fifty cents at slopes where the vein was thim Last week they notified the men of a reduction to fifty cents at some of the slopes, where they had been pay tog fifty-five, and at a meeting of the miiiers a strike against tho reduction was ordered. The Peabody Normal college at Nash- ^ vide. Tenn., opened Wednesday morning for the session of 1889-90. There were 262 enrolled students from the following states: Alabama 24, Arkansas 9, Fieri da, 2, Georgia 10, Louisiana 7, Missis sippi 1, Missouri 1, North Carolina 15, Ohio], South Carolina 12. Tennessee 'jVxtsp' West Virginia 12 and Virginia 12. This is the largest number ever present at the college. Kentucky ia , he on j y Southern state not repm ger]{(1 ,j Mre board , of . trade . , on toiday, , , tons , , ^ “eps oward making Jacksonville Fla ;: » f t,0Q Warehouse fa c,,stm tiavc . bcM1 tem P oran! > and a siock company ins been joirriu , to build a new warehouse. A.l J arm '-' rh Alliance growers wi I ship their cot to Jacksonville, And a Brunswick, Ga., firm has agreed to open an office at Jacksonville and ship largely through that port. It is expected will that at handlec least eighty thousand bales be there this year. A Pensacola, Fla., special to the Jack son ville Tirnr-- Union says: At a meeting of the city cummissionera held Trmrsday, Major-Chipley v as instructed to com moiheate with the mayor* of Montgom - ry, Birmingham, Nashville. New < r leu , Mobile, Savannah, Charleston and other cities to induce a joint effort del- tc lwve the present route of the foreign 1 egates to the International American Congress sj changed as to include all important cities of the South and Gulf ports.” The town of Trenton, Tenn., eighteen miles south of Chattanooga, on the Alabama Great Southern Road, is on a boom, occasioned by the reported clos ing of n big deal by a Northon syndicate involving the purchase of largo tracts of mineral and town lands, aud pledging the syndicate to spend $000,000 in im provements. Hundreds of people arc there from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and other States laying oil old cornfields, etc., into town lots. The people arc fairly wild, and large amount! of property are changing hands every , iav. THE LEGISLATURE. BILLS PASSED IIT THE SENATE AND HO USB OF REPRESENTATIVES. A bill to incorporate the Merchants and Traders bank, of Brunswick, with u capital of $100,000 to $250,000; to au thorize the commissioners of tho town of Louisville to purchase from tho Louis ville academy a tract of land for sanitary purposes, tor a price not to exceed $4,ol)0; to incorporate the Kansas City, Chattanooga and Port Royal Bail road company; to amend flic set establishing ti board of county commissioners of Miller county; to amend the act Covington; regulating tho storage of fertilizers in a res otution to authorize the purchase of four hundred copies of the Van Epps digest, for the use of the state library and offi cers, and for distribution, the price not to exceed $5 a volume; a three mile pro hibition bill for tlm liaptist church, iti the town of llomer, in Bunks county; a bill to amend the road law of Carlton county; a bill to amend tho charter of tho Merchants’ Bank of Macon, so as to make each stockholder liable to an amount double their subscriptions, not to exceed one-tenth the capital slock of the bank; a bill to incorporate the Main bridge, Lake Douglass and Suburban Street Railroad company, with a capital of $50,000 to $100,000; a bill to amend tins act establishing an academy iu Louis villo by increasing the number of trusteos to twolve; a bill to amend the charter of the Rome railroad, so that it may extend oast to the South Car olina and west to tho Alabama line; a bill to incorporate the Home, Eubligmi and Northern Hail mad company, or dummy line, witi» a capital authorizing stock <>! $100,000. A resoltilion the governor to appoint a cominiasii'ii of three to investigate the oyster industry ami report what legislation is incorpi necessaiy to it h advancement; a bill to inn.: the Banking and Trust company of MU ledgeville; a four-mile prohibition lull for Wildwood Baptist Church and Mur gauville Methodist Church in Dado county; a bill to incorporate the South ern Loan anti Banking company with a capital of $100,000 to $500,000; a one mile prohibition bill lor Uuitv Baptist Church and Union Methodist Church lit Gordon county; a bill to repeal that sec tion of the Loganville charter which re quires $1,000 license for the salt! "f in toxicating liquor; a bill to amend the charter of Midway meeting house, so an to change tho time of the termination of the offices of the, selectmen; to amend the act establishing the city court of Co lumbus in regard to solicitor’s fees; to le galize and regulate the lease or condi tional sale of rolling stock to railroad com panics; a bill to require assignees of failing or insolvent debtors to give bond. The amount to be fixed and the bond approved by the ordinary, If till! IIH signeo fails to give the bond, a majority of the creditors shall have power to choose an assignee who shall give bond. If the assignee shall not qualify within ten days after the execution of the deed of assignment, the sheriff shall take charge of the property in the interim and ut the end of the ten days turn over tne property to the original assignee; a bill to prohibit the sale or barter, or exchange of seed cotton in Muscogee between the 15th of A ugust anil the 15th of December without the written consent of this owner of the land whereon it was grown. birm , NG HAM’8 REPORT. __ gom MKS K „ MV TW0 „ Y acci deni and two muiidhbed. ___ A dispatch from Birmingham, Jefferson Ala., (, a ys: Death reaped it harvest in coun \y Estes Friday. got caught During the the fly-wheel morning George lling-mill at Gate in City, and was (J f t | 1( . ro beaten to pcices. IV. Heaton, an ei. ploje of the Pullman Cur company w .« walking backwards behind a car m the Georgia Iacitio yard. m ' l . connected and moving slowly, ana ne was frying to stop it with a crow-bar. He fell across the tu< ran’ iisxn ywm cut in twain Deputy Sheriff lutng; Va n was shot and liistsntly Kille-i late-hm oy .1 >im Steele, a negro, and four hours } wn j overtaken by a P"»* ; uud bis body riddled with bullets, 1 h-: mu/ rlured deputy was one of the most popu lar officers in the courrtv. BAD MONEY IN THE BOX A PREACHER’S FLOCK FAY UP IN COUNTER FEIT MONEY—SUBSEQUENT TROUBLE. -- A sensation ' was created in Chambers rr>wl Ala., several days ago, by the fp. v , j, JJ. >1, Injrau, a Metho diet minister, charged will pa' sing coun money. He was lodged in jail, 8 nd his triai came off Thursday. Head t |, 8 t he had nissed spurious mffnev but proved that he had got it out f) f t j 1( j contribution hoi. There were c p f ht silver dollars in thf box. and seven 0 f them were cennterfei 1 *. He said God anr i the sinners who passed the lhecaae cuius were t k e oa i» ones wh know, babS dismia-ed on ace mt of the officers’ to get alaent witneca. NO. 1. A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION IN WHICH THREE MEN ARK killed and ABOUT TWENTY INJURED. Two men were instantly killed, an other fatally injured, and about twenty, or less, hurt, at the bottom of the and Hccla perpendicular shaft at Houghton, Micln, Friday. The us ual blasts of dynamite were tired Thurs day evening, but one failed to explode. On Friday ‘>nc of the miners accidently struck the. charge with his pick. A deaf ening ploding crash followed, the dynamite shattered ex and sending masses of rock in deadly showers all around the spot. Otto Flink and Alfred Erickson, Were killed instantly, their bodies being frightfully torn and scarred by the flying pieces of rock. Nelson Boone was fatally injured. John Cameron hud his right arm broken in two places by pieces of stone,both legs being cut in many places. Twenty-six miners, who were at work in the vicinity,were all more or less injured. The accident took place 1,000 tcet under the ground. BANK STATEMENT. hollowing is a statement of the asso ciated bunks at New York for the week ending Saturday 5th: 003,806 Beset ve decrease...... .$ 2 , Specie Loans dt-etease......... 1 , 252,360 085,200 deerease....... 2 , I .ejptl tend, i s decteiiHc. 1 , 000,400 014,100 I )c posits dee i ell SO... . .. 0 , i irciilatinii increase .. . U,6C0 The bunks now hold $1,008,050 less than 2.5 per cent, rule calls for. For the (itst tune since the week- following the May panic of 1881, the statement shows the reserve held to be less than ‘25 per rent, of tint deposits required by deposits tho na tional banking law. The amount to $112,273,800, against which •inly $1,014,000 is held in reserve, The deficit is $1,(1(58,050, as the legal re quirement is $103,0(18,4 50. The deficit of is almost wholly caused by the drain money to the West and South where over $67,000,000 was shipped last week, uuu almost ns much went in the week pro* ceding. ROUTING THE MORMONS. True WHITE CAPS DRIVING MORMON KLD If.Its FROM TENNESSEE. News came from Wilson county, Tenn., Thursday, that tho Mormon elders have been driven out of that county by the Wbito Caps. The ciders disap peared Homo time ago, when the agitation was hot against them, hut a few days ago returned, believing the storm to have blown over. Their incendiary utterances were not forgotten, however, and the people who warned them proposed fifty to make their threats good. Forty or men, masked and robed in white, on Wednesday night visited the house of William Barrett, Thou.ns Smith and Lee Barrett, whore the elders had been, searching had for them. and Some one, elder however, given warning, not nn cautioned wsi to he found. These men were against allowing the elders to over darken their doors again, und the elders left the county. UNFORTUNATE JOHNSTOWN MANY rliOI'J.K .hi I rKlilND I OH WANT OF i’Hon.H ('LOTIII.NO AND IIKI.TKR. With the thermometer about (fie freez ing point there fan great deni of suffering nt. Johnstown, l'ii., these rights by peo ple who are improperly sheltered anti poorly flail. The relief money, which was intended to supply their necessities, even if paid at once, will come too late to lie properly applied in providing Clothing against the blasts of winter. that wan on hand when the commissary department shut down lias been trans fered to the Red Cross society, by whom it will ho distributed to tho needy. 'There have been a grr-ut many deaths there within the past week and most of them have been superinduced tin; fiood. by In ail- the ments contracted in Red Cross hospital there are twenty-two cases of typhoid fever. THE L. &. N. ANNUAL MEETINQ OF bTOCK HOLDER#- 4 ELECTION oy OLD OFFICERS. The annual meeting of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad stockholders, was held at 8t. Louis, Mo., on Thursday, Pnr-ident Norton and Directors J. J). Probst, Win. Mcrtens, August Belmont, Jr., J. M. Horsey arid A- Marcus, of New York, were pre-ent us stockholders, rep resenting, through proxy, other director* and London and New York stockholders. 1 ne issue of thirteen million dollar* of new stock was contirmed, only one stockholder, a woman, owning fifty-four shares, object!i g. The directors of the road met and re-elected the old officers. I he bonded indebtedness is $05,726,660, au increase of $1,680,000; gros* earning* $16,590,396; net c-wrni.n^s $ 1,273,310. THE 8AME OLD 8TORY. TIT* aOOKKKEFER OF A CONNECTICUT TIB.* ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. Charres Pratt, confidential boo . . 8. - keener, secretary and cashier of t li Wales Llccu Compiny. of Mer.ucu, Conn., waa arrested o^s Thursday for em bezzlement. Pratt * embezzlement amounts to over $10,000, co\ enng varion pwiods since 188 J, and w.ts accomplis By false'jntneamjunly on pay rot s - affair has cauaed a profound aensati _ , Pratt w-ia an officer in several .oc-a o k'uurzaUona, tre esur r of toe F-r.- . ' greguUonal Society an> i a city a.< * confessed hsa guilt , j .o t* eru < era, saying: “It is tne same o * - - tfSSf" ^ * tR "* DS ' ’

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The Blackshear times. (Blackshear, Ga.) 1876-current, October 10, 1889, Image 1