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r H!i: BLACKSHEAI! TIMES. l
VOL. VI.
Australia is a great country. Two
newspaper men are chief justices out
there.
Gladstone attributes his long life aud
wonderful health in a great measure to
absolute rest on the Sabbath.
The letter accompanying Mr. Edison’s
gift of $2000 to the Paris charities was a
gracious bit of composition, and greatly
pleased the French.
The pubic school system, according to
the annual report of the Commissioner of
Education, is making marvelous progress
in the South. The increase iu enrollment
greatly exceeds the increase iu popula
tion.
It is observed that the lashiou in colors
for war ships is changing. In the Brook
lyn yard at present the Chicago aud the
Boston are both white, instead of the
time honored black. The war ships seem
to have followed the yachts in this mat
ter.
A writer iu the New York Evangelist
objects to mustaches in the pulpit. He
says that a mustache spoils elocution, and
renders a speaker's w ords unintelligible
in the back part of the church. A man's
voice, says the critic, should not pass
. through a thick lock of hair before it
reaches the audience.
Ludwig Pietsch, the celebrated Ger
man critic and author, has written long
articles to the periodicals of his native
land in praise of the exhibition of Ameri
can artists in the Paris Exposition. Herr
Pietsch is surprised at the general ex
cellence of the paintings and considers
them equal to any in the Exhibition.
A Christian tribe, surrounded by
pagans, has just been discovered in the
heart of Africa. They had never before
seen a white man. While their religious
ideas are crude, still they have a priest
hood, the cross, and other emblems of
■Christianity. They arc believed to have
been exiled from Abyssinia about eight
hundred years ago.
Two German athletes have arrived in
New York city, whose feats of strength,
it is said, will be a revelation to the
strong men of this country. One can
,lift 545 pounds with his middle finger,
and can pass a weight of 200 pounds
slowly ever his head with one hand. The
other is credited with being able to force
a siW-Jhch nail with his bare hand through
u;t/wclinch plank.
1 J
j The Agricultural Department has re
.eiftvod a specimen of timothy grass grown
on the Rocky Mountains at a height of
30,500 feet. The specimen will be planted
at -one of the experimental stations with
other specimens of grasses the depart
ment is now experimenting wi:h, with
the view of obtaining some grass that
can be successfully grown in the arid re
gions for fodder.
Inventor Edison has been decorated
with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor
ary to put it differently, the legion
has been decorated with Edison. He
will return to his native land, observes
the Commercial Advertiser,& very different
man from the Edison who recently left
our shores, Like Jacob, he will be able
to say: “I have crossed over this Jordon
and am become as two bands.
Although people talk gibly about a
million bushes of wheat, but very few of
them, says TAjh , realize what a vast
amount that represents, If a million
bushels were loaded on American freight
cars. 500 bushels to a car, it would fill a
train over fifteen miles long; if transported
by wagon, forty-four bushris per wagon,
dtewouid make a line of teams 142 miles
long. If made into bread, reckoning a
bushel to sixty pounds of flour, it would
give each man. woman and child in the
United States a two-pound loaf of bread.
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English Premier, issued a circular to the
representatives of her Majesty’s Govern
ment in the ,, principal • ■ i cities of r, r v„rnni Europe
asking for information as to wnat laws
are in force as to the carrying of firearms
, by Tl pn - a. af . pe nns in 1 nonulous P * ' centers
The reports received go to show that ?nat of n ,
the twenty-four states comprised m the
continent of Europe there are stringent
laws reguaing^ i *• t Kn rar-rina of wpanona
m all of tnem save n Denmark, ^ ^
Duchy of B iden, the Duchy of Coburg,
Montenegro, the the Netherlands, Netherlands Norway A or )
and Sweden. Servia and Switzerland. In
Turkey regulations on the subject exist,
the provisions are very elastic and
sv*d°m tamed , out.
BLACKS HEAR, GA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER v. 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
t'ONDENSA TION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NF.WS IBOM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
IIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The cotton crop in Faysom district,
Egypt, this year, will not be more than
half that of 1888.
The grand total of receipts, up to
Thursday night, of New York's amounted guaran- to
tee fund of $.1,000,000,
$1,797,654.
The reports of destitution in North
Dakota are said to be greatly exaggera
ted. There is nothing in the situation
to justify the reports that a famine ex
ists in Dakota.
Cholera is still raging iu the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
Advices from llrisboue, state that the
natives of Southwest New Guinea, have
massacred Rev. Mr. Savage, who was
sent out by the Loudon Missionary so
ciety.
Mrs. Annie Price, for years past known
as the “only original fat woman." 1ms
just died at her home in New Y< rk, of
fatty degeneration of the heart aid
obesity. Mrs. Price weighed 550
pounds.
The big Washburne and Pillsbury
mills, among the largest in the world,
has passed into the hands of a syndicate. of
The option of the Pil sburv system
mills and elevators, it is said, calls for
$5,200,000.
The emigration commissioners at New
York, on Friday, notified all steamship
companies that a head tax of lifty cents
each will be collected from them for
every alien that they will bring heic.
This will include children.
A company of manufacturers and
bankers, of Lynn, Mass., lias purchased for
2,000 acres of land near Chattanooga,
$750,000. Two shoe factories, a tan
nery, two furnaces, tool works and other
plants, will at once be erected.
The Paris Figaro says that the mar
riage which had been arranged between
Prince Murrat- and Miss Gwendoline
Caldwell, has been abandoned. Prince
Murrat, the paper says, left Paris Tues
day, and Miss Caldwell will embtrk for
New York Saturday.
Members of the cotton exchange, of
New York city, met and passed a resolu
tion calling on tbc board of managers to
submit a law, to be voted on by the ex
change, which would repeal tin system
of inspecting and classing cotton, and re
enact the former system with such
amendments and modilieationg as expe
rience has shown to be desirable.
The gable wall of a building that was
being erected alongside of Templeton’s
carpet factory at Glasgow, Scotland, was
blown down Friday. An immense ma^s
of debris fell on the roof of the weav
ing department of the factory, crushing
it in, and burying tit ty girls ami women
employed in the weaving rooms. It is
probable that forty of those buried are
dead.
Early Thursday morning, the boiler in
the new four-story brick block on S uith
Main street, Akron. ()., occupied by
O’Neil & Dyas, dry goods merchants,
exploded. The building took tire and
was completely gutted. The fire burned
through to Howard street, and several
other buildings were damaged. The
principal losers are O’Neil and Dyi s, dry
goods, store and building, $225,000. In
surance $12'.!,000.
A dispatch from ('ape Henry says.
“Passed in at nine o’clock Thursday
morning, brig Alice, Captain Bowling,
from Navassa, for Baltimore, with sixty
four of the rioters in the massacre at
Navassa, October 14. The brig also lias
the crew, except the mate, who was lost
overboard, of the schooner Tom Wil
liams, from Fernandina for New York,
which was wrecked during the late
storm. The crew was four days in open
boats without food.”
Mrs. Greening, of New Windsor, N.
Y., presented herself at an Episcopal The
church and partook of communion.
rector being told that she was a Meth
odist, but partook of communion at an
Episcopal church, owing to the distance
of her home from the Methodist church,
informed her that by church mles she
could not have communion there again.
This so worked upon her nervous system
that it resulted in a paralytic stroke.
She is now in a helpless condition.
M. Mackenon organizer of the London
expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, lias
received the following dispatch received from
Zanzibar: Letters have been
from Stanley, dated Victoria, August
29th. With him were Emin Bey, Cisati
Marco, a greek merchant, Esman Effendi
][:>ssan, a Tunisian apothecary. Stars
* Nelson. Jephson Parke and Bonnv.
1 Waddell in the hands of tbc
^ ^
Maha dists.
A . dispatch from Denver, .. ol. , ays
that one of the most important meetings
oi .abor organizations held in this conn
or so'ne j me : ^ 1 " 1M
Wednesday. A^riy one bun bed 1 , an 1 . th.r
hood ot_ Lrcomotive
‘"L ' to consider the
iIiet in " crct -ession V
'iffnow°Ltlting . f . , ... ..
labor now agitaun inc the Brotherhood o
; Locomotive Engl .
AtOtisviIle, N. A .,on He inesday, ttur
. ty . five cars brokc away from a switching
en „ ine an ,] ran back down grade to a
point a mile east of Otisvire. at a speed
of west forty bound mBesan freight hour train, Cr they "^' D wrecked ~ , “ t ‘ ) '*
the engine completely and twenty-four
cars. Levi Breird, Samuel ,1. Sloatt. killed. flagman, Engineer J a ml .1.
were
1). Fosdick was ha ily scalded, and Kire
man John C. Briefly aud Brakrman Lee
Garrett were burned and bruised.
Sixteen workmen were hurried Thurs
day beneath the ruins of a huge three
story brick dwelling which they were
building on Monroe street, Passaic City,
N. J. Every one employed injured. about Hun- the
place was move or less
dreds of volunteers were speedily effect at
work digging away the debris to
the release of the imprisoned workmen. otheis
Richard Cormick and one or two
will probably not recover. The owner
of the building is severely condemned,
as it was a "Buddcnseick” affair, and
seemed to have been constructed fof ap
pearances only.
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING.
PRESIDENT HARRISON ISSUES HIS THANKS
GIVING PROCLAMATION.
The following proclamation 28th setting day
apart Thursday, November as a of
national thanksgiving was issued by
Presiident Harrison on Friday. By
the president of the United States.—A
proclamation. A highly favored people,
mindful of their dependence on the boun
ty of Divine Providence, should seek a
fitting occasion to testify gratitude and
ascribe praise to Him who is the authoi
of their many blessings. It behooves us,
then, to look back with thankful hearts
over the past year and bless God for his
infinite meicy in vouchsafing to our laud
enduring peace; to our people freedom
from pestilence and famine; to our
husbandmen abundant harvests, and to
them that labor recompense of their toil.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of Ameri
ca, do earnestly recommend that Thurs
day, the twenty-eighth day of this pres
ent month of November, be set apart as
a day of national thanksgiving and
prayer, and that the people of our coun
try, ceasing from the cares and labors of
their working day, shall assemble aud in
their respective places of worship prospered
give thanks to God, who has
us on our way and made our paths the
paths of peace, bcscchiug him to bless
the day to our present and thanksgiving future good,
making it truly one of for
each reunited home circle as well as for
the nation at large. In witness whereof,
1 have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to be af
fixed. Done at the city of Washington, in
this first day eighteen of November, hundred the yeat
of our Lord and eighty
nine, and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and four
leenth. Benjamin Harrison.”
STOCKS TUMBLE.
the cotton seed oil combine having
CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE.
Calamity seemed to reach its climax
Thursday, for the bulls in the trust
stocks, on the stock exchange at New
y 0 rk. The grief was concentrated iu
cotton oil crowd. Everybody was pre
dieting an immediate advance of muny
points in cotton oil certificates, based on
ihe rosy programme of converting the
tiust into a corporation, aud reducing the
cu pital from $42,00u,000 to $30,000,000.
doubt of the success. But alas for the
frailty of promises and prospects in Wall
street the popular expectation failed
sadly of realization. Immediately on the
opening of the market there was on over
whelming pre 1 sure to sell. The first sale
was 411, a ,1( l from that point in,
a decline instantly set the
which had no check until
price was hammered down to 36j. This
tumble of five full 000,000 points in meant the a
shrinkage of over $ 2 , mar
ket value of the total capital the
of the trust. The scene on
stock exchange baffles description. de
The real reason for the most of the
cline was probably because of the serious
disappointment which some prominent
insiders felt at the annual report. The
allowing of earnings for the last year is
V>y no means flattering. For the first six
months the net profits were entirely sat
isfactory, but the last six months were
bad. The total net earnings for the
year amount to a little over $1,600,000
which is at least $1,000,000 less than
officially predicted. Several of the mills
belonging to the trust have been shut
down on account of proving un
pi off table, and it is said that several
more will probably have to be closed for
the same reason. The corporation resolved into be
which the trust is to be will
known as the Cotton Oil Company of
New Jersey.
A PHILANTHROPIST.
the WILL of HENRY STEERE, AND THE
BF.qUESTS IT CONTAINS.
The will of Henry J. Steere, one ot
in trust the sum total of $1,130,000. Mr.
Steere was a single gentleman and was
a 1 his life distinguished J? for philanthrop- ill
ical jm , 8eB . e gives $ 654,500 to
jjividuals directly, in sums ranging from
qqq to $J 000. The amount given
tocharitable organizations etc., is $340,
WX) The home for the f ree dmen of Prov
idence received $150,000; Home for Aged
Women, of Providence, $25,000; Benefi
Congregational church and St.
Stephen’s Epfrco pal church, Providence,
« et IW.OOO and $5,000 respectively;
the Charitable Fuel society, of Provi
idence, $5,000, and to the Rhode Island
Historical society * is bequeathed l $10,
000; The Tab r col!cg ( in Iowa> is
given 50.000, and the Roanoke college,
at Salem, Ya., $25,004. The executor
of the vast property is Alfred Metcalf, of
providence, who is only required to gire
bond to pajr t h e leg cies, etc.
WASHINGTON, D. G.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND 1IIS ADVISERS.
AFFOINTMFNTS. DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTEUS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATION A l. CAPITA I..
Secretary Tracy, Friday, formally ac
cepted the cruiser Charleston.
awarded Secretary Tracy Wednesday building afternoon
the contract for two
of the 2,000-ton cruisers, the proposals
for which were opened on lust Saturday,
to the Columbian Iron Works and Dry
Dock company, of Baltimore, for the
sum of $1,225,000. The contract for the
third one will he awarded to either Har
rison I.oring, of Boston, or N. F. Pal
mer & Co., of Now York, each of whom
bid $074,000.
The collector of customs at Norfolk,
Yn., has asked the treasury the department
for instructions in regard to practice
of Liverpool cotton merchants of send
ing men under contract from that city to
Norfolk for the purpose of buying and
grading cotton tor the English trade.
I he immigrant inspector for the state of
Virginia reported the matter to the col
lector as a violation of alien contract la
bor, and the collector wants to know
what he can do about it. Treasury olli
rials are divided in opinion in the mat
ter, and it will probably be referred to
Ihe solicitor for settlement.
The following dispatch was Saturday sent from
the executive mansion, on af
ternoon.to Governors Melletta and Miller,
of North and South Dakota, Bismark,
North Dakota: “The last net in the
admission of the two Dakotas as states
in the union was concluded this after
noon at the executive mansion by the
president signing at that moment the
proclamation required by law for the ad
mission of the states, The article oil
prohibition, submitted separately in each
■state, was adopted in both. This is the
first, instance in the history of the nation
al government that two states North
and South Dakota, entered the union at
the same moment.”
The government directors of the Union
Pacific railroad imve reported to Ihe judg- sec
retary of the interior that in Iheir
ment the intere Us of the United States
demand early action by congress to se
cure payment by tho company of its in
dobteducss to the government. I he gen
eral plan of .settlement first suggested by
the commissioners of railroads, they as
sert, has never been successfully uttuckcd
They express their firm eonv8i*tion that
the interests of t ic United States de
mand the passage of a bill substantially
like that pending when the last congress
adjourned. The report is signed by
George K. Leighton, John T. Plummer,
Jesse Spalding, Rufus B. Bullock and
James W. Savage.
'Ihe Washington Star Wednesday say*
tb it the civil service (ominissioii have
decided to ask the district attorney to
prosecute all persons concerned in the
preparation and distribution of the j olit
ic d assessment circular recently sent by
the old dominion republican league to
Virginians in the government service
Those persons not employes of the gov
ernment will be prosecuted under section
1” of the service, which provides lmil that ling no
person shall in any government
solicitor receive contributions for any
political purpose, The commission
holds that a person not connected with
the government may ask for and rcc.ivc
money from government employes for a
political purpose anywhere except in a
government building, but.that where the
occurence takes place on government
1 property, or where letters are sent to a
government building, those concerned
are liable to prosecution,
The order of Postmaster-General
Wanamaker, dited Wednesday, wax
promulgated Thursday, fixing the rates
j (J ,. tb(. government telegraphic service
during the current fiscal year, The
for day service is ten cents for ten
words, and a half cent for each addi
| tiorm 1 woid for listanees under 400
1 uiiles, with a sliding scale, of increase for
distances greater than 409 miles. For
night messages riot exceeding twenty
i W ords, fifteen cents forall distances, and
ono-hulf cent for each additional word,
date, address and signature are ex
j eluded from count both day and night,
j signal service cypher messages are to Ic
j j charged With at two and a half the cents above per
word. reference to or
f j eri president Green, of the Western
Union telegraph, says: “The rate fixed
by the postmaster-general is undoubtedly
! | >e j ow cost, but I am not prepared to say
! what the attitude of the company will be
till after the matter has had the consid
eration of the executive committee. The
; reduction averages about thirty-three
: J, iier cent, from the old rate, which was
! t a r , tnunarat i Vc one.”
The director of the mint has submit
ted to the secretary of the treasury his
annual report. He says the value of
sold deposited was $48,900,712, of which
$31,440,778 consisted of the product of
mines of the United States, a falling off
in gold product . of , about , . one million
dollars, as compared with the previous
fiscal year. Silver received aggregated
$35,627,273 standard ounces for coining
value of $41,4 >7,190. Of silver received,
stand ard ounces of counting
value of $8,278,964 was classified as of
domestic production. Profit or, the
coinage of si.ver dol ars during
the year ^va3 *.>,-**0.002 and on
subsidary silver coins, $.52,987: total
coinage of silver dollars under the Blind
act to November. 1889, was
001. and tottl profit on silver coinage to
July 1, 1889. $59,378,2-54: net profit af
U-r deducting expen?-- for distribution
md vantage for eleven yeara ended June
30, 1880, was $56,349,737. The diree
tor recommends legislation looking to
ward * a discontiruince of coinage of $3
ami $-1 gold pieces ami the three-eent.
nickel piee s mid withdrawal from circu
lation of pieces of those denominations
now outstanding.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
A STORY DETAILING THE MANNER IN
WHICH 1>K. CRONIN WAS KILLED.
A special dispatch from Winnipeg,
Gatiada, Saturday morning, says: “As
sistant State’s Attorney linker, of (.'hi
cago, lmd a long interview with Bob
Heffer. and from him received a detailed
account of the butchery of Cronin.
BurkfiJtaok s quirt fancy to Mt lief, and
was very communicative with him, telling
him many details about the crime. He
told Heffer that Coughlin was the main
actor in the tragedy and had engaged
both him and Cooney to participate in
tlie crime. He told Holler that sand
bags were used by two of the assassins
while the third wielded a common base
ball bat; that he was under the impres
sion that Cronin was being decoyed to
the cottage under the pretext that he was
going represented to attend a sick woman, who was
to be at the point of death.
Four men were waiting in the cottage
for him. They listened for the sound ot
wheels. At last the carriage drove up,
and an instant later the doctor hurried
up the steps and knocked loudly and
hastily as if he realized that his presence
was urgently stood required. behind the Two of the as
sassins door ready to
strike, while one of the others from the
inner room called out in a loud voice,
“come in.” The door was quickly
opi ned and the doctor strode in. The
instant lie was iu one of the assassins
slummed the door, while the other struck
the physician doctor a terrible blow with a sand
bag. The fell heavily to the
floor.” Burke always declined to say
who struck the first blow, and this fact,
Baker thinks, makes it quite dear that it.
was Burke himself, else ho would have
mentioned the name, lie always spoke
about the four taking part in the crime
and time. pounding The the doctor at the same
moment the doctor was
down, the whole four rushed on him,
and with sum! bags and dubs pounded
the life out of him. The poor man
struggled, and moaned awfully. Blood
poured from his mouth, nose mid eyes.
Nearly twenty minutes elapsed before he
ceased to gasp. Then the fiends stripped
the blood-stained clothing off of him and
one of them pounded his luce so as to
make it impossible to recognize the laxly.
Coughlin then hauled tin- trunk oyer,and
tho body was crammed into it. One of
the quartette went out and brought an
express wagon which lmd been left in a
convenient place. When they went to
carry the trunk out Idood was dripping
from it and ran on the floor, and the
trunk was set down and these leaks
stopped with cotton batting, which was
found in tho doctor’s instrumeitt case.
The trunk and its contents were then
taken to the lake, Coughlin driving the
horse. There was a boat at the point
expected, and they tried to shove the
trunk out into the water, but it would
not work. Anxious to get rid of the
body some way, Burke suggested that it
lie thrown into the catch-basin. The
suggestion was adopted.
CROP BULLETIN.
Issued from the civil bureau fob tiik
MONTH OF OCT0IlF.lt.
The monthly weather crop bulletin of
the signal bureau for October says: Oc
tober lias been cooler than usual in all
agricultural districts east of the Rocky
mountains, except in Dakota. The daily
average temperature for the month in the
winter wheat halt, including the stater
in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valley,
ranges from four degrees to eight de
grees below normal. About the same
thermal conditions prevailed in the mid
dle Atlantic states, Southern New Eng
land and along the south Atlantic coast,
while in the golf staler the deficiency de- in
temperature degrees. ranged from about one
li re ; to four There was a slight
excess in temperature iu the Rocky
mountain district and thence westward
to the Pacific coast. The line of killing
frost has extended south to the northern
portion of the gulf states and the north
ern portion of South Carolina and west
ward to the western portion of Washing
ton territory,central Oregon and northern
Nevada and light frosts oc rurod as far
south us southern Alabama, central Geor
gia and northern Louisiana. Tnere has
been less rain than usual in the central
valleys, and generally thr ughout the
southern states and New England. More
than the usual amount of rain occurred
in California and Oregon, in the middle
Atlantic states and in the centri! Ho ky
mountain plateau region. The rainfall
was greatest generally throughout Cali-
fornia, over the greatest portion of whieh
the monthly rainfall exceeded six inches.
About two inches of rain occurred during
the month in the winter wheat region;
extending from the lake region aud
southern Iowa southward to the gulf
states, and only light , showers . occurred
in the northwest, including Minnesota,
Dakota,Nebraska and northwestern Iowa.
The drouth condition which existed in
the central valleys has been succeeded by
timely rains, which have doubtless irreatlv
improved the winter wheat crop. The
drouth continued during the month in
the v.utl rn portion of the gulf states,
extendm from Honda westward
south-rn Texas, over which region nlj
light showers are reported, and the de
of rainfall for the month ranges
from one to five inches.but this morning,
(November 11 generous rains are reported
from Texas,northern Louisiana and south
err: Alabama, and rains are heavy in
central Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys, with heavy snows in
» D( ] western Kaoaas.
NO. 5.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS' IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDKNHICD ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GQINCJ ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE. SOUTHERN STATES.
The Few society, at Oxford, Ga., cele
brated its fiftieth anniversary Wednesday.
The anniversarian was Mr. G. D. D(tr
ough, of Wetumpka, Ala.
The Anniston, Ala., News says that
"they have organized a ‘Sand Trust’ in
Birmingham. Tim combine has raised
the price of sand from 80 cents to $1.25
per yard.”
Eire broke out Sunday morning in the
Schofield building, adjoining Hollings
worth block, on Poplar street, Macon,
Ga., and destroyed nearly $ 100,000
worth of property.
A receiver was appointed, on Friday,
for the firm of Klinck, Vickcnburg &
I’o., for the Inst half century engaged in
(lie grocery business in Charleston, 8. C.
Liabilities nre about $70,000, and assets
nominally large.
A Key West special to the Timex- Un
ion, of Jacksonville, Fla., says; Del Pino
Brothers’ immense cigar factory, contain
ing one million cigars, besides a lariie
quantity of tobacco, was consumed by
lire Sunday morning.
It was reported Saturday that Mrs.
Longstrect, wife of Gen. James Long
street, was dying at Gainesville, Ga.
The announcement will east a gloom both
over the many ardent admirers,
north and South, of her illustrious hus
band.
Billy Ryan, lessee and manager of the
Casino variety theatre, at Birmingham,
Ala., left the city Saturday night foi
pints unknown, leaving about $2,000 of
unpaid debts. Several members of hi*
company are left without a dollar and
several week’s salary due them.
The state association of confederate
veterans of Alabama was perfected W. at
Birmingham on Wednesday.General E.
Puttus, of Selma, was elected president,
with a vice-president from each congres
sional district. One object of the asso- in
ciation is to build a confederate home
A labama.
A. Hirsh & Co., the largest dry goods
and milincry house in Birmingham, Ala.,
was closed on .Saturday by the sheriff on
attachments aggregating $43,000. About
$20,000 of the attachments are in favor
of clerks iu the store and relatives of the
firm. The Alabama National bank at
tached $19,000.
A passenger train bound east aud a
freight train going west,, on the Norfolk
and Western railroad,collided Wednesday,
night between Liberty and Tliaxtons,'
Va., and both trains were wrecked. It is
reported that the firemen and engineers
of both trains were killed. One passen
ger was also killed and many hurt.
Thomas G. Buchanan, a merchant of
Huntsville, Ala., was closed Wednesday
by attachment, as follows: Fcchheitncr
A Co., of Cincinnati, $2,000; Phil J. C.
Cudili-r, of Hhelbyville, Tenn., $8,004;
Nashional Bank of Slielbyville, $14,250,
and Miss Jennie White, of Huntsville for
$2,500. It is said other attachments
will foliow.
News comes from Spartanburg, one of
the best cotton-growing counties of North
Carolina, of a new cotton plant, which,
if it is as claimed, will make a wonderful
revolution iu the agricultural and cotton
oil interests of the nation. T. Ferguson,
an experienced cotton planter, claims to
have a cotton plant which will produce
nothing but cotton seed without the lint.
The Hoque Woolen mills at, Clarksville,
Ga., which are in the hands of a receiver,
and which will eventually lie sold, began
operation Wednesday, to he run by
one of the creditors, for one month, under
a grant from the judge of the superior
court. The object is to get the property
cleaned up and the machinery clean, so
that the bidders may see just what they
have.
The superior court of Richmond
county, Ga., has decided against a num
ber of prominent citizens who, twenty
years ago, subscribed to the capital stock
of the National Express and Transporta
tion company. A test case was made on
Wednesday in caae ofWilliain H. Howard,
a prominent and wealthy cotton factor,
and a verdict rendered against biro.
This virtually carries the other cases with
it. The verdict is regarded as a great
hardship, although in accordance with
court decisions in these cases in all stntes
from Maine to Texas.
One of the largest transactions in land
ever eonsurnated in the South, has re
cently and been jierfected Friday. at Jacksonville, unsold
Fla., made public All
lands in Florida of the Plant system of
railroads aud steamships, of the Florida
Southern railroad, of the Jacksonville,
Tampa & Key West syttem, including
the Florida Southern railway, and the
Florida Commercial company, have been
consolidated tinder the name of the As
sociated Railway Land Department
Florida. Over six million acres of Inn (
are consolidated under one management
by the formation of this syndicate.
MUST BE PAID.
jhe Indiana legislature last wfntei Ti
,,^ e d a law raising the maximum
ceoge which the city of Indianapolis may
impose 1250. for the sate of liquor from $100
to The supreme court Wednesday law*
affirmed the constitutionality of the
In another case it declared that a license
ig DOt a contract, Indianapolis raised the
license to $250 I.iauor tlOoTevious sellers who tolhe had
outlicense at
increase contend that they should not
be compelled to pav the increase of $ 150
Ilntj j the expiration of the $100 license.
The court save their position is wroni? $100.’
they must pay the additional