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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VI.
A Pennsylvania farmer wants the Gov
ernor to set apart a “sparrow day,” when
a wholesale onslaught may be made on
the obnoxious birds.
The sentiment in favor of a republic
in Brazil is spreading very rapidly, and it
is by no means improbable that Dom
Pedro is destined to be the last Emperor.
According to an official statement, the
contributions for the relief of the Johns
town sufferers aggregate $3,500,000.
What a magnificent exhibit of national
benevolence.
In Guelph, Ontario, the other day,
every man, woman and child so far as
could be ascertained, suffered for about
four hours with headache, and the local
physicians are looking wise and talking
about fissures in the earth and the escape
af natural gases.
The Hartford Times reports a great
stenographic feat: At Mrs. Isabella B.
Barrows, of Boston, wrote a verbatim
report of a speech made in German by
Carl Schurz, which she turned into Eng
lish while her pen was flying across the
paper, in stenographic characters.”
Legacies to the amount of $9000, left
by Benjamin Franklin and John Scott to
be expended upon public improvements,
have amounted by investment for nearly
a century to about $110,000. Of this,
$100,000 will be devoted to the erection
of a large public bath in Philadelphia,
while the remaining $10,000 will be laid
aside for another hundred years.
If the poor inmates of insane asylums
were capable of gratitude, the New York
Sun thinks they would undoubtedly
bless the name of Dr. A. G. Chase.
This humane practitioner has invented a
system of complex mirrors and shafts
leading to the attic or top story of the
asylum of Norristown, Penn., by which
an inspector stationed there is enabled to
observe minutely every act and motion
of the patients and attendants in the
wards of the first and second floors, so
as to prevent the abuse of patients. The
trustees have adopted this sort of rd\ te
detectives and expect from their use a
prompt cessation of the brutalities which
have hitherto been practised with impu
nity in the asylum.
A paper published in India tells about
the ingenuity of the thieves of that coun
try in secreting stolen valuables, The
base of the epiglottis is one of their
curious hiding places, A leaden bullet
three-quarters of an inch in diameter,
fastened to a string, is allowed to slip
down the throat to a certain depth,
where it remains for half an hour or
more. This operation is repeated until
a pouch is formed in the throat iu which
the thieves secrets small articles of
jewelry, money, etc. Twenty prisoners
in a Calcutta jail recently were found to
be provided with this singular receptacle
for stolen goods. The detectives of
India must be uncommonly alert to have
developed a ruse of this kind.
According to a foreign publication,
“it is quite likely that we may witness
this year the unusual though not unpre
cedented spectacle of an export of pota
toes from Europe, and even from the
United Kingdom, to America. The chief
sources of supply for the United States
are the New England States, and in all
these except Ylaine the crop is undoubt
edly a failure, Even in Maine it is be
lieved that the yield will be very poor,
although the accounts are not yet quite
conclusive. The production of that State
is, however, larger than that of any other
in the Union, and if the adverse esti
mates now current should be confirmed,
there can be no doubt that imports from
ride of the Alantic will be required.”
Dr. Ogle, an English statistician.
while admitting to the full extent al
leged the movement, in England and the
l nited Stages, toward .he on. a
cities, denies that it is attended by a de
population of the rural districts. He ha
found that the rural population in Eng
land did not decrease between 1851 and
1881 bv more than , one per cent., a rate
quite within the limit of allowance for
error. The author believes that the
rural population is onlv stationary and is
ample ampie, with witu the modem improvement* /
an farming, for the tillage of the land,
while only its increase and surplus pour
into the towns: but the continuous mi
gmtion <rration of or the tne mo=t mo vigorous ig and ener
gebc to the manufacturing distnms. and
higher mortality there, may be produc
ing a gradual deterioration.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21. 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIESe
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST.
The report of the murder of the mis
sionary, Savage, in New Guinea, is de
clared to be untrue.
Cap tal Hotel, at Dallas, Texas, $50,- was
destioyed by tiie Thursday. Loss
000; insurance $80*,000.
The Standard Oil company has ab
sorbed the Globe refinery at Pittsburg,
Pa., and also the Freedom, Pa., refinery.
The schooner Southwest, iron laden, is
missing, and, with her crew of nine men,
is supposed to have gone down in Lake
Erie.
Master Workman Powderly says the
Knights of Labor are in better shape
than a year ago, the future brighter than
ever before.
A convention of the American Associ
ation of Agricultural colleges and ex
periment stations began its session at
Washington, D. C., Tuesday.
The Volcano of Colina, Mexico, is re
ported to be in a state of active eruption. and
Mauy houses have been destroyed,
the woods for many miles around are on
fire.
News comes from Talequah, that the
Cherokee council will employ attorneys
to contest the government’s claim to ju
risdiction over their lands known as the
Cherokee strip.
The New Y r ork Herald says that it is
understood that the oil producers associ
ation is to lay a pipe line from Pittsburg
to the seaboard, in opposition to the
Standard Oil company.
Fire on the river in Bedford, just be
yond the city limits of Manchester, N. II.,
Saturday, destroyed the farm buildings
of Samuel N. Dunbar. Two children
were burned to death.
Coal miners of four pools in the Mo
nongahela Valley met at Monongahclu
City, Thursday,and decided to strike for
an advance of one-half a cent per bushel
for the price of mining.
The first regular shipment of the new
crop of California oranges passed through
the port of Nongales Thursday. The
quality this season is fine, and the crop is
an unusually large one.
A live wire fell on the roof of a Third
avenue car, in New York city the other
day, and stopped its progress. It is be
lieved that it would have killed any one
who have been touched by it.
The Lager Bper Brewer’s association
of New York, voted $440,000 to the
woild’s fair guarantee fund. Total re
ceived Wednesday was $522,000, mak
ing the grand total now $3,554,110.
Advices from the Pan Handle coun
try and regions further north says that
heavy snow now covers the earth and
there is every indication that the begin
ning of a most severe winter is at hand.
A special to the Tribune from Albany,
N.Y\ says that the firm of B. Lodge & Co.,
knit goods jobbers, of that city, has been
forced into an assignment by a depres
sion in business, with $70,000 liabilities.
The official gazette at the city of
Mexico publishes a contract entered into
between that government and Francisco
Alfaro for the construction by the latter
of a railroad from the Rio Grande to the
Pacific coast.
The supreme court of Indiana has de
cided that natural gas is a commercial
commodity, and, consequently, the legis
lative act of last winter prohibiting the
piping of gas out of the state unconsti
tutional.
The wool growers of Western Texas
have concluded to send a delegate to
Washington to look after and protect the
interest of the wool growers generally
before the committee of ways and means'
of the coming Congress.
Daniel V. Carmichael, one of the best
known business men of Amsterdam, N.
Y”., was arrested Tuesday night by De
tective Sweeney, of Albany, on the
charge of forgery. The forgeries extend
over a period of two years.
The proposition to remove the remains
of General Grant from Riverside Park,
New York, to Arlington, near Washing
ton city, seems to be meeting favorable
consideration. It is indorsed by two or
three posts of the G. A. R.
The new state of North Dakota begins
business with a bonded indebtedness of
$50(1,000 and a floating indebtedness of
about $C0,000. TTifh fnc strictest econ
omy there will be a furrher defficiency
during the first jear of at least $50,000.
A call has been issued by the temper
anee societies of Nebraska, Kan.-as, Iowa,
North and South Dakota, for a conven
tion to be held in Omaha on the 18th of
December, for the purpose of organizing
the states named in a central prohibition
^ from tbe port of
jj ew y or k f 0 r week ending Saturday,
November 9, amounted to $342,641, of
$10,426 was in gold and 382,03;
j n silver. Imports of specie last week
amounted to $279,166, of which $177,331
was in * gold, ’ and $101,836 ’ ’ in silver.
_ , , .
ffiarket jg excited 3 C leve an< ] p j g
- g q UO t e d a t 66s. It is reported that the
svndicate has bought up all Cleveland
^™ts, Middles borough thus cornering No. 3 warrants the market, are
quoted gt 6 a g CSLg h.
£ y a nhosen, a prominent church
member and cashier of the Toledo, O.,
National bank, has been arrested,
charged ^ with embezzling about $60,009
^ funds j M Kelleri tt i_
j er 0 f tbe bank, is also under arrest as
an accomplice.
Bishop O’Dwyer, at Limerick, Ireland,
has issued a pastoral letter forbidding
the clergy of the diocese to grant abso
lution to any person guilty of boycotting The
or pursuing the plan of campaign. right
bishop retains to himself alone the
to absolve such persons.
In keeping with the rise in the iron
market, the wages of employes of blast
furnaces of the Brooks Iron company,
at Birsboro, Pa., have been advanced ten
per cent. The Warwick Iron company,
of Pottstown, Pa., will incret.se its fur
nace employes’ wages ten per cent, next
Monday.
Mayor Creiger, of Chicago, on Tuesday
appointed a committee of leading citi
zens to confer with the ex-Confcderato
Soldiers Association relative to the re
ception to be tendered to Governor Gor
don, of Georgia,during his visit Novem
ber 30th. The occusion promises to be
a notable one.
A dispatch from Roseburg, Oregon,
says: A lone highwayman held up a
Coos Bay stage Thursday, broke open
letters and registered pounchesand rifled
them of their contents, then handed
them back to tlio driver, thanked him
politely and bade him “God speed.”
It is reported from Chicago that Dr.
Cronin’s clothes were found on Evans
ton avenue, about one hundred feet from
the catch basin in which the body was
found, Saturday afternoon. In them wii
an account book containing Cronin's
name. Mrs. Conklin, with whom lie
lived, identified them as his.
The state geologist of Ohio, says offi
cially that the natural gas supply in the
now famous field iu the northwestern
part of that state will not last for ten
years. In the eastern part of the state the
supply has been so nearly exhausted
that the manufactories have been com
pelled to return to the use of coal.
The committee appointed at the meet
ing of the govoinors of the thirteen orig
inal states, held in Philadelphia in April,
1888, and of which Governor Green, of
New Jersey, was chairman, has issued an
invitation to the governors of all the
states and territories to meet in person,
or by representation, on the second Tues
day in December, 1889, at the Ebbitt
house, Washington, D. C.
THE CRONIN TRIAL
BAD BLOOD BETWEEN COUW8EL—A WO
MAN’S STARTLING TESTIMONY.
There is much bad blood between
counsel for the prosecution and those
for the deforce in the Cronin case, which
is rot confi icd to the principal counsel,
but is shared also by the juniors. There
was a wrangle Tuesday nighi in the
cli rk’s office after adjournment, in which
Disuict Attoinoy Longenccker and At
torney Forrest exchauged tho lie and
nearly came custody to blows. Tne dispute which have was
about the of exhibits
been placed in evidence. Counsel for
the defense wishes them taken from the
prosecuting attorney and placed in the
bauds of the clerk. This wrangle broke
out afresh iu the court Wednesday
m ruing without any apparent renson,
except that Attorneys Forrest and Hynes
wished to imphasize the distrust and
dislike of Prosecutor Longenecker. dropped,
The matter was fiualiv
an 1 the testimony proceeded with.
Tho most important testimony, so far,
outside of the identification of Burke as
the man who rented the Carlson cottage,
where tl e murder was committed, is that
of a washerwom'ti named Puuline Hoer
tel. Bhe testified that she passed the
Carlson cottage between 8 and 9 on the
night of tho murder. Bhe saw a white
horse, drawing a buggy in which there
were two men, driven up to the cottage.
The larger man, who appeared like taking a gen
tleman, got out of the buggy and
a satchel or box out of the baggy went
up the steps and entered the cottage.
The driver of the white horse at once
turned around and drove back toward
Chicago. The man knocked a-fl was at
once admitted into the cottage. .Vs Hoertel quick
as the door was closed Mrs.
heard sounds as of blows and the fall
<>f a heavy body and what sounded to her
like some one calling, “Oh, God.” In
the confusion of sounds she also heard
the word “Jesus.” Then in a very short
time everything became still. Bhe said:
“It was hs if somebody was fighting and
hen as if somebody fell.” Witness said
this occurred soon after eight o’clock at
night. “The man who went into the
cottage,” she continued, “went into the
house unhesitatingly, and it seemed tc
me as if the door was opened or ns il
S',me one opened it for him ns he came
up the steps. When I turned from Ash
land avenue and started east I saw a man
standing between the Carlson house and
the cottage. He was inside in the fence.
There was a light in front of the cottage
rnd the night was bright starlight.”
ANOTHER SUSPECT
FOUND IS THE CRONIN CARE, BUT HE IS
IN EUROPE.
The Chicago Inter (Fean,(A Thursday,
says another important Cronin su-pect
has come to light in the person of a
former resident of Lakeview—an Irish
man, named McDonald. He is now said
to be in Europe and the police are mak
ing strenuous efforts to locate him.
Before the murder, McDonald was em
ployed by the public works department
in Lakeview. After the disappearance
of Dr. Cronin, McDonald suddenly
appeared to be in affluent circumstances, trip
and talked to his neighbors about a
to Europe, and exhibited steimdnp
tickets. May 10th the family disap
peared. Tbe neighbors assert frequently that prior
to May 4th McDonald was
visited by suspicious characters.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OK WHAT IS QOINO ON Of
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATUS.
A Confederate monument was unveiled
in Suffolk, Va., Thursday.
Chief Justice W. N. II. Smith, of
North Carolina supreme court, died at
Raleigh, Thursday.
Miss Nellie P. Hunt, daughter of tho
late Mini. H. Hunt, of Louisiana, ex
minister to Russia and a member of Gar
field’s cabiuet, has been chosen private
secretary to Mrs. Levi P. Morton.
The assessment of property for taxa
tion in Louisiana has just been com
pleted. The total amount is $223,894,-
750, which is an increase of about 9 per
cent, over the assessment of 1888.
It is now said that the last reported McCoys
fight between the Hatfields and and
in West Virginia never occurred,
that the accounts of previous conflicts
between these factions were much ex
aggerated.
Sanfor.i, Joseph Plummer, Thursday. aged 88, died months near
Ky., Two and it
ago he had a stroke of paralysis,
is said weut without food for forty days,
his weight declining from 225 to 125
pounds.
A dispatch from Sacramento, Cal., on
Monday says: Frank J. Lee, who ac
companied Sam Jones, the revivalist, to
this city last winter as his private secre
tary, is now locked up iu the city prison
on a charge of burglary.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, who had accepted
an invitation to attend tho approach- has
ing centennial at Fayetteville, N. C. (
written a letter to the committee of ar
rangements, in which he states that his
health will not permit him to be present.
Ten men have been arrested at Cleve
land, Tenn., for passing counterfeit
money. The operations of the counter
feiters have been very extensive through
out that section for several months past,
silver dollars being tho principal coins
made.
A special of Tuesday to the (four Ur -
Journal from Loudon, Ky., says: Reports
from tho fight of tho French-Eversolo
factions in Perry county continue to lie
meager and conflicting, but there is no
doubt that a desperate encounter com
menced at Hazard Thursday, and is yet
perhaps in progress.
Among the cases of importance which
will he tried at Sylvania, Ga., next week
will he that of Thomas Beard, charged
with killing L. M. Conner a short time
ago. The .Alliancemen are taking an
active part in tho proceedings, owing the to
the fact that Beard belonged manifested to or- in
der, and intense interest is
the case.
Dispatches of Thursday from Vernon,
Ala., say that Summers, the merchant
who w T as robbed there Tuesday night,
declares that the robber was not Burrow.
Summers bus known Rube .1 his life,
and although the men wore masks, he
could tell his visitors were not the fa
mous outlaw and his pal.
At a meeting in New Orleans, of the
chamber of commerce and industry of
Louisiana, Thursday night, there was a
spirited contest over the question of
preference as between New York and
Chicago for the site of the world’s expo
sition of 1892. A resolution was finally
adopted favoring Chicago.
News was received from Reidsville, N.
G'., Thursday, that the grand jury had
returned a true bill against Mrs. Cora
May Harris, for the murder of her hus
band, a merchant of that place, by poi
soning him. The woman is of one of
the best families iu the state, a relative
of ex-Governor Scales, and the ease
promises to be a celebrated one.
News of a horrible double murder
comes from Johnston county, N. C. An
aged and respectable lady named Mrs.
Celia Brown resided in the eountry,
about four miles from Selma, with her
little grandson eight years of age. Sat
urday morning both were found mur
dered. They had been killed with a
gun. No clew has been obtained to the
murderer and no cause for it can be as
signed.
The well known ease of Charles E.
Cross and Samuel C. White, defaulting
president and cashier, respectively, Raleigh, N. of
the State National bank of
C., was finally disposed of Monday by
an opinion rendered by Justice Harlan in
the United States supreme court. The
effect of the decision will be to eornpel
Cross aDd White to serve out the term
for which they were sentenced.
The third bi-ennial session of the Uni
ted Syod of the Evangelist Lutheran
church, South, convened in Wilmington,
N. C., Thursday. This body embraces
eight district synods, and lias a commu
nicant membership of about forty thou
sand. One of the important, matters to
he considered by the synod is the estab
lishment of a Southern theological sem
inary.
A Jackson, Miss., special says: A spe
cial train ori the Illinois Central branch
from Aberdeen, Mi-*., collided north of
Canton with a switch engine Thursday,
resulting in the death of Patrick Red
mond, engineer of tbe switch engine;
Tom Loftin. fireman of the switch en
gine. Jim Smith, I). Halsey and V.
Thorr.ss, and several other persons were
injured.
The royal chapter of King’s Daughter-*,
which is composed of delegates from the
various circles in the state, met at
Charleston, S. C., Sunday, and was very
tlimly attended. The slim attendance
was attributed to the publication in a
newspaper of a card, which wns supposed
to have been written by a prominent writer
Kitg’i Daughter and in which tbe
urged the King’s Daughters to get up a
petition to Queen Victoria for the pardon
of Mrs. May-brick.
News comes from Raleigh, N. C’., thnt
the reports of very valuable finds of gold
in Montgomery county are true, and that
there is already much excitement in that
section, which may develop into a rush
if the discoveries continue. The char
acter of gold found shows that it has
been beaten from veins. The find will
greatly stimulate mining in that county,
which is the richest in the state in aurif
erous deposits.
A GENERAL FIGHT
SEVERAL MKN KILLED IN TIIE FRKNCH
KVEHBOLF. KURD IN KENTUCKT.
A Courier-Journal special from Hazard,
Kv., says: The circuit court convened
here last Monday. Judgo Lilley,
the regular judge, not being present, tho
bar elected Captain W. L. Huclst, of
Wolf county, to presido. Everything
started off serenely, with apparently no
danger of trouble between the warring
factions. Geurgo Eversole, leader
of the Eversole faction, came in
to town Mondny evening before
the court with fifteen armed men.
But ns most of them were under bond to
appear at this term of court, nothing was
thought of it. The Eversole party kept
increasing iu numbers until it reached'
thirty well-armed men. Thero were only
a few of the French party in town. It
soon beenmo apparent, that there would
be trouble. French was aware of the
war-like preparations and placed himself
with a strong force iu easy reach of tho
town so as to bo able to relieve his
friends in the event of trouble. Thurs
day evening Wesley Whittaker, of the
Eversole faction, tired upon Henry Dav
idson, one of the French party. Whit
taker had barricaded himself in a small
log house on tho opposito sido of the
street. Davidson was tho soon meantime, joined had by
others. Whittaker, in
also been joined by several of his friends,
and a lively fight French took place between and tbe
four men of tho party
Evcrsoles. Tho court which was in ses
sion, stampeded. The light lasted about
fifteen minutos. When the smoke
cleared away, it was found that Camp
bell, of tho Eversolo party, had been
killed. This fight took place
about four o’clock in the aftor
noon. The parties r est,ed ou their
arms till dark, when tho light was re
newed with increased fierceness. The
French party lmd been reinforced by the
Davidson boys, Jessie Morgan, brother
of E. C. Morgan, win* was killed by tho
Evcrsoles, and others. B. F. French
himself enme Into town about 12 o’clock
with reinforcements to the relief of hiN
beleaguered friends. At daybreak the
fight raged with new fury. The Ever
solo party was stationed in tho court
house and J. C. Eversolo’s old fort.
The battle lasted about an hour and when
the Eversole party retreated, leaving their
dead, Ed Several Campbell and wounded John McKrdglit, the
killed. were on
Evi rsolo side. The court broke up with
out ceremony, the judgo leaving for
home ns quickly us possible.
A COURT ROOM FIGHT
IN WHICH THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED
AND SEVERAL SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
A dispatdh from Lexington, Va., saysi
“Reports received here from Browns
burg, a small village of about 800 peo
ple, In Rockbridge county, fourteen
miles notth of Lexington, state that that
village is in a high state of excitement
over a terrible and bloody fight between
leading men of tho vicinity. Three
persons are dead or fatally wounded,
while a number of others are severely
injured. It seems that Dr. P. J.
Walker, one of the most prominent phy
sicians and surgeons of the state, hud
threatened tho life of Henry Miller, a
prominent and wealthy citizen of Rock*
bridge county, for an insult offered the
former’s wife. Miller had Walker ar
rested to keep the peace. Friday even
ing the case came up in a magistrate's
court, and the trouble soon started,
which ended in both sides drawing their
weapons. Miller was killed, Dr.
Walker fatally wounded and Mrs. Walk
er, who was in court as a witness, wai
killed. Dan and William Miller, sons of
the accused, were shot and dangerously
wounded. Samuel Beaver and others
whose names are unknown, are also in
jured.” A later dispatch ssys: “Dr.
1'. J. Walker, who was wounded in the
Brownburg affair Friday evening, near
Lexington, Va., lias died from his
wounds. Dave Miller is mortally
wounded, and his brothers George,
James and William implicated in the
shooting of Dr. Wulker and his wife, are
in jail. Lyncning is feared.”
TRIED FIVE TIME8.
AN EDGKKIED, S. C., MURDERER ESCAPES
THE GALLOWS POU THE FIFTH TIME.
News comes from Charleston, S. C.,
that the fifth trial of It. T. Jones, the
model Edgefield murderer,is now in pro
gress at the Edgefield courthou-e. Some
five or six years ago Jones, who married
' Miss Pressley, got mail with his wife’s
relatives, took his shot gun and three or
four butcher knives, and went out into
field where his father-in-law, aged sev
enty years, and three brothers-in-law,
were at wotk. Jones established a hu
men abbattoir. Be murdered his aged
father-in-law and butchered hie three
brothers-in-law. He then went in the
courthouse village and surrendered him
selL The murder occurred during the
session of the court at which the Cul
breath lynchers were being tried for the
murder of an innocent man.. Jones has
been a hero ever since. Five times he
has been brought to trial, and each time
he has escaped by a mistrial.
NO 7.
TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT
WIIII.K IN THE ACT OF PLACING A DAN
GEROUS OBSTRUCTION ON THE TRACE.
The Central passenger train which left
Atlanta, Ga., bound for Macon, Wednes
day evening, narrowly escaped a fearful
wreck. By the time the train reached
Westview, near McPherson barracks, tha
engine was under good headway. The
watchmnn who looks after the tracks
near Oakland was walking the track
when suddenly ho discovered a man
bending over the track just ahead of
him. 11c stepped forw aid and asked the
man what he was doing, when the latter
raised up and ho recognized him as Dick
Latham, a negro well known in Atlanta.
Glancing at the track, the watchman
saw a piece of railroad iron, curiously
bent, lying on the rail. The headlight
of the train flashed full upon it, and he
saw that it had been tied to the track
with wire, and he tugged away at it,
getting it clear of the rail just as the
wheels of the locomotive passed over the
wiros that lie did not have time to disen
tangle. By that time the negro had es
caped, hut was captured later in the
night. Tho spot where the iron was tied
to the track is within fifty yards of tho
pi ice where tho same train was wrecked
by a cross-»ie placed on tho track some
weeks ago, when three railroad men lost
their lives.
MOVEMENTS OF COTTON.
KEPOIIT OF NEW ORLEANS COTTON EX
CHANGE FOR TABT WEEK.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange
statement niukes tho cotton movement
over tho Ohio and Mississippi and Poto
mac rivers to Northern American and
Canadian mills, for the week ending No
vember 0th, 48,887 bales, against 48,779
last year, and the total, since September
1st, 1,188,070, against 230,741 lust
year; the total American mill takings,
North and South, for tho first ten weeks
of tho season, 517,888, against 074,853,
of which by Northern, 481,436, against
587,152; I ho amount of the American
cotton crop in sight, 2,070,580 The
statement shows a partial halt in heavy
foreign exports, and tho excess, which
lust week was 410,575 bales, is now 869,-
573 O7or the total to this time last year.
It also indicates that the Northern mills
ure the still deficiency pursuing in a their hand-to-mouth takings for policy, the
ten ing weeks been increased compared with last year hav
to 125,718 bales.
The stocks af the seaports and leading
interior towns have increased 189,874
hales during the week, reducing the de
ficiency, compared with the close of the
corresponding week last year, to 80,543
hulas.
POI80NED HA8H.
OVER A HUNDRED WEST POINT CADETS
BUPPOBED TO HAVE BEEN POISONED.
A report reached Ncwburg, N. Y.,
Thursday, that half the corps of cadets
at West Point, upwards of 150, hail re
ported lit Hospital ill from poisoning. It
turns out that tho illness occurred a few
days ago; that, it was not poisoning, but
trouble of the bowels, and tho attack
was general with all connected with the
mess hall—drivers, gardeners, waiters,
etc., furing as badly ai the cadets. Even
those who had not tasted food at the
mess were ns bndly afflicted as the others,
Tho surgeon had his hands full of busi
ness for a time, but all recovered. Tha
superintendent has appointed a commis
>ion to investigate the cause.
8UIT8 FILED
TO COMPEL THE DELIVERY AND PATMEN*^
OF BONDS UNLAWFULLY ISSUED.
The Massachusetts and Bouthem Con
struction company has filed suits in the
United States circuit court against the
townships of York, Ebenezer, Broad
River, Catawba and Cherokee, in York
county; the townships of Giles Creek,
Pleasant Hill and Cane Break, in Lan
caster county; the state of South Caro
lina and the Boston Safe Deposit and
Trust company, to compel the township!
named to deliver and pay over the bonds
issued by these townships to aid in the
Construction of the Charleston, Cincin
nati and Chicago railroad. The state
supreme court of South Carolina hae de
clared the issuance of such bonds by tha
townships unconstitutional.
THROUGH THE 8HOAL8.
A MISSISSIPPI KIVER STEAMBOAT LANDI
AT CHATTANOOGA'S WHARF.
The steamboat, A. C. Conn, a Missis
sippi Shoals river canal craft, and passed arrived through wharf Muscle in
at the
Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday morning.
This is the first vessel which has passed
through the great canals now abou.’
completed. The construction of canalr
to overcome obstructions in the Tennes
see river at Muscle Shoals was com
menced by the government in 1878, and
nearly four million dollars have thus far
been expended on the work. The open
ing of the canals, which will formally
take place in a few weeks, will give in wa- the
ter transportation nine months
year from Chattanooga to the Mississippi
river.
COPPER TUMBLES.
A London cable to the New York stocSl
exchange, on Thursday, indicated a aud
den break of nearly two pounds in the
foreign copper market. Q. M. B. metal,
which had Ueeu taken in large quantities
on Wednesday at 47 pounds on a steady
market, closed weak Thursday at 43
pounds 0 shillings spot and 45.10 fu
mres.