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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. --- . 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