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THE BLACKSHEAH TIMES.
VOL. XL
It is now said that English syndicates
have spent $30,000,000 in buying up
profitable American properties.
The choice of Pierre as the capital ol
South Dakota has given the town a
wonderful boom. Men bought lots for
$100 and a week later sold them for
$1000.
The advisability of forming a company
to build vessels at Charleston, S. C., to
engage in the coasting trade, is being
discussed in that city, where it is
claimed that all of the materials of con
struction are as close to hand as they are
in Maine.
In view of the statement from Cape May
that a sweet potato three feet six inches
long was grown there, it wouldn’t be al
together surprising if some day vegetables
are sold by the foot. In Boston, during
certain months, cabbage are sold by
weight. _
It has often been reported that the
British army is largely composed of
undersized boys instead of stalwart men,
but the returns do not bear out these
statements. Of 202,7C1 men only 11,596
are under nineteen years of age, while
thirty-four per cent, are over five feet
eight inches in height.
The managing dii'ector of a big tea
dealing firm in London stated that he
once saw a leading broker in that city
have sixty teas, ranging within one pen
ny per pound in value, weighed up in
duplicate, the 120 pots numbered and
mixed up, lm then picking out the sixty
duplicates without a single mistake.
Trained dogs for military purposes
have answered so well in Germany that
similar experiments have been made in
the Austrian army. Pointers,sheep dogs
and poodles are the best breeds, ami the
dogs will carry messages and ammuni
tion, guard depots aud perform outpost
duty. One dog recently took a message
over a distance of eight miles in an hour
find five • minutes.
The governors of the Bank of France
are trying to discover the author of a
daring robbery of $52,000, which sum
was deposited early in the year by a per
son since dead. A receipt was given in
the ordinary course, and lately a man
presented a forged receipt, and withdrew
the money. Afterward the depositor’s
executors applied with the authentic re
ceipt, to withdraw the funds; and the
bank had to order the payment of the
money to its rightful owners.
Sunday labor in France is by no means
so general as a few years ago. Visitors
to Paris cannot fail to notice how many
more ships are shut on Sunday after the
early morning and now the first step has
been taken toward 8unday rest on the
railways. The Paris-Lyons Railway Com
pany recently decided unanimously to
give their employes in the goods stations
a holiday, and intend to gradually intro
duce similar reforms into other branches
of the service. In all probability the
other lines will be obliged to follow suit.
Indeed, some of the Northern Railway
directors have already pronounced in
favor of Sunday rest.
The live cattle trade between New
York and the British ports is booming.
Freights have gone up tremendously.
Last year cattle were shipped to Dept
ford at $7 per head, this year full car
goes are being sent out where the rates
are from $23 to $24 per capita, This
is much more profitable than carrying
emigrants. An emigrant pays $6 less and
is fed and cared for; while as to cattle
they are looked after by the owners.
The boom, however, cannot last much
longer, as more ships are being built, and
the New York Sun thinks it only a ques
tion of time when tonnage will outmeas*
ure the cargoes of live stock.
The recent reports telegraphed from
Europe, in which the assertion was made
that the oil wells of the Caspian district
were rapidly drying up, is now pro
Bounced a s.ock jobbing canard. The
stateme* was made with great positive
ness that the supply of oil was diminish
ing so rapidly that the Russian Gorern
"ment contemplated prohibiting its ex
port, and that the steamers which are
now using the oil exclusively for fuel
would not be able to do so much longer,
owing to the threatened high price, De
spite the positiveness of the statements
they seemed to have no effect on Ameri
can prices. evidently because the Standard
(XI Company keeps thoroughly posted on
the real situation.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1880.
WASHINGTON, 1). U.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATrERS
OP INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Corporal Tanner and Colonel W. TV.
Dudley, both ex-commissioners of pen
sion, have formed a copartnership here
in the pension aud claim business.
A commission of engineers has been
appointed by the secretary of w ar to re
port on the site of the proposed bridge
across the Mississippi river at New Or
leans.
The attorney-general at Washington is
informed that the trial of the esses of
alleged frauds in Florida, at the last
presidential election,has already resulted
in three convictions.
Major Isaac Arnold has been ordered
from command of Fort Monroe arsenal,
Va., to command of Columbia arsenal,
Tenn.; Major J. R. McGinnis, from duty
at Rock Island arsenal to command Fort
Monroe arsenal.
Subpoenas have been issued for Sir.
Armour, Secretary Williams and other
persons connected with the Union stock
yards at Chicago to appear at Washing- senate’s
ton before the United State’s
committee investigating the dressed beef
monopoly.
J. Edgar Engle, assistant chief of the
record division, George A. Bond, clerk,
Samuel B. Heasev, assistant chief of the
western division, and Wm. P. Davis,
assistant chief of the middle division,all
of the pension office, have been asked to
resign. They wero among those who
had their pensions re-rated.
The president, on Thursday,appointed col
John H. Devaux, of Georgia, to he
lector of customs for the district of
Brunswick, Ga.; William G. Reposs,
postmaster at Wytheville,Va., vice Alex.
S. Heller, removed; Thomas Clay Ale
Dowell, of Kentucky, collector of inter
nal revenue (or the seventh district of
Kentucky,vice William Cassius Goodloe,
deceased.
Secretary Proctor is endeavoring to
make sueh arrangements as will enable
h m to leave Washington during the
Christmas holidays in company with
Gen. Cook and Capt. Pratt, Superintend- the
ent of the Carlisle Indian school, for
purpose of making a personal visit of
inspection to Mt. Vernon barracks, Ala
bama, where Geronimo and his hand of
Apache Indians are now imprisoned. by the
The secretary has been inlormed
surgeon of the barracks that the tribe is
unusua lly sickly this year, and that there
is especial difficulty found in prevent
tng the spread of the tendency
to consumption that is charac
teristic of the tribe. lie received
a letter Saturday from Capt. Pratt who
argued strongly against the removal
of the Indians to a higher latitude or
attitude. The secretary hopes to find a
solution of the problem by a barracks. personal
scrutiny of the condition of the
Dr. Valente, Brazilian minister, on
Saturday, received a cablegram ftom Rio
do Janeiro, stating that United States
Ninister Adams had established relations
with the government now in the control
of affairs in that country. This informa
tion he communicated to the state de
partment, aud it is reported that he
urged upon the secretary the expediency Minister
of this government instructing
Adams to complete the act of formal rec
ognition. While it is doubtless felt by
tiie state department that the Republic
of the United States of Brazil has been
established upon a permanent basis, it is
probable that the act of formality recog- be
nizing it through our minister will
postponed until there is an official head
or chief executive chosen in pursuance
of some regular method. A meeting of
the congress in Brazil has been called for
next month, when the new republic will
probably be launched with a complete
organization. When this is accomplished
the question of formal recognition by
this government will probably not be
delayed.
The annual report of First Assistant
Postmaster General Clarkson shows that
2,770 fourth-class postofiices were against estab
lished during the last fiscal year,
3,864 during the previous year. 1,141
postoffices were discontinued during the
game time, making the total number ol
offices in operation on July 1, 1889, 58,
999, of which number 2,683 were presi
dential offices. The whole number ol
appointments of postmasters for the yea)
is 20,030, of which 8,854 were on res
ignations and commissions expired, 7,-
853 on removals, 553 on the deaths of
postmasters, 2,770 on the establishment
of postoffices. The number of money
order offices in operation at the close of
the fiscal year was 8,583, increase of 472
for the year. The number of money order
stations in operation July, 1889, was 144
an increase of 14 over the previous year.
The number of postal note offices in
operation at the end of the year was 587.
The reports shows that June 30, 1889,
there were 401 free delivery postoffices
in operation, an increase of 41. j n
about five other offices the free
delivery service has been established.
The aonual report of Second Assistant
Postmaster-Genera! Whitfield shows the
number of star mail routes in operation which
June 30, 1889, was 15,077, upon
the total cost of the service was $5,177,-
105. Colonel Whitfield recommends the
appointment of a commissioner to in
vestigate and report, with a view to
make the carrying of the mail nnder the
star route system equitable alike to the
government and the contractor, and re
lieve and iniquities it, as far with ss fusible, which rt from burdened. the evils
is
At the end of the year there were 128
steambo at rout s in*operation at an an
p us! rate of expenditure of $446,032.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
TRADE REVIEW FOR WEEK ENOfSIG »AT
CRDAY 2cD, BY DUN & CO.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly report says:
The Brazil revolution has had surprising
ly little influence in the markets as yet.
Coffee is only £ higher for the week, an 1
the new govern meat appears to be so
generally sustained that apprehension of
the closing o ports or interruption of
trade lias almost ceased. But it is possi- indi
ble that the tnou >y markets were
rectly allected to tome extent through
Europe, where tit certaiuty continues.
The bank of England lost for tho
week 1,050,000 pounds, and tho
bank of France 450,000 francs, Here
money has been scarce and
dull at tim<s, tight at Philadelphia, and
decidedly close at Boston. administration Reports re
garding fhe policy of the
about silver have been assiduously used
to create a feeling of distrust as to the
financial future, and in any case the near
approach of the first session of the new
congress would naturally have an unset
ting influen e with some. Under the
circumstances tho money markets have
been less disturbed than might have
been apprehended.and the volume of bus
iness has not been perccpibly affected.
Clearings continue larger than a year ago;
at New York by 16 per cent, for last
week; Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago
by 4J per cent, and at all points outside
of New York by 7$ per cent. While the
treasury has taken in for the week
$1,480,000 more than it has paid out.
Exports and imports for the month thus
far both show an increase of about 13
per cent, but as exports exceeded im
ports by twenty-two and a half millions
in November last year, the comparison is
most satisfactory. The marketing of
crops, and the movement of money to
pay for them, have produced an easier
situation at western and southern centers.
The great industries ure making steady
progress, though the sale of steel rails at
$35, reported last week, was of small
quantity, needed for renewals only, the
market is undoubtedly strong, and pig
and most forms of manufactured iron
and steel fully maintain previous quota
tions. Cotton manufacture has been
doing a steady business, with firm prices,
and as to its prosperity evidence is af
forded by dividend averaging !). 73 per
cent, yearly on 33 Fall river mills.
Wheat has risen $ cent, with sales of 25,
000,000 bushels, and corn only 1, with
sales of 5,500,000 bushels. Cotton un
changed, with sales of 468.000 bales.
The week’s receipts exceed last year’s by
19,000, and exports exceed last year’s by
39,000 bales. Oats rose | cent and pork
products are higher, while with sales o!
329,000 sacks coffee has held only J cent
of its advance. The general course of
prices has been upward, however, the
advance since November 1st being about
1* per cent on all commodities. Ac
counts from various cities ns to the state
of business are almost uniformly of a fa
vorable character recently observed, and
embrace some items of special interest.
At Chicago dressed beef receipts are
double those of last year, and of provis- dry
ions more than double, while the
goods trade still quotes satisfactory re
sults, with payments easy in the country.
The Minneapolis wheat market is very
active, and lumber cut is put at 275,000,
000 feet, On the whole the ou’look re
mains favorable, though for the present
monetary scarcity has a depressing influ
ence upon some eastern points. Business
failures during the last seven days:
Number for the United States, 245; Can
ada, 32. total 277, as compared with 256
last week.
A MORMON GROWL
THEIU MANNERS AND CUSTOMS EXPOSED
liY THE COURTS.
A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utah,
says: The investigation in regard to the
endowment house oaths and teachings ol
the Mormon church was resumed in the
district court Saturday. James E. lal
mage, principal of the Mormon college
in Salt Lake, testified that pupils of his
schools were taught that the revelation
in regard to plural marriage was from
God; that the constitution, when prop
erly administered, did not interfere with
any revelations of God. Witness said he
believed polygamy was right and the law
against it unconstitutional, notwi h
standing the decision of the supreme
court of the Uniied States. All pupils f
were taught to obey the revelation o
celestial marriage. Witness thought
about one iu thirty of his friends was a
polygamist. He believed th<? president
of the church was divinely called and
would obey him.
NEW OFFICERS
OF THE EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
At the annual meeting of the Bait
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
held at Knoxville,Tenn., on Wednesday,
the following directors were elected:
John H. Inman, Samuel Thomas, Charles
M. McGhee, Calvin S. Brice, Jehu O.
Moore, Thomas N. Logan, Edward J.
Saniord, W. S. Chisholm, John Green
ough, Wm. L. Bull, George Coppell,
John H. Hall, Evan P. Howell, Georgs
8. Scott and George J. Gould.
BANK STATEMENT.
The following is a statement of the
associated banks for the week ending
Saturday, the 23d:
Reserve increase...... .. i 22"
decrease........ ’451 jw.
^UXTdecVease .. 337,991
Deposits decrease.. . .. 2,2/iW
Circulation increase 3,1) At
The banks now hold $1,628,500 in ex
cess of 25 per cent. rule.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS,
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRICES,
TIRES, AND HAFPEMNOS OF INTEREST.
The governor-general of Cuba dis
claims that he in anyway aided the strik
ing cigarmakers of Key West.
Mexican newspapers state that negro
colonists will only be permitted to settle
in fever districts on the coast.
J. If. Rathbone. of Washington, foun
der of the order of Kuiglits of Pythias,
k prostrated at a hotel in Lima, Ohio,
aud is not expected to live.
Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent than the United States. It
possesses within Us limits an area of
8,287,964 square miles, with a population
of 12,388,375.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., favoring on Wednesday election pass<d of
a resolution the
United States senators direct by a vote
of the people. The Grange will meet
'
next year at Atlanta, Ga.
Judge . , t, Foster, , of . the , ■ , United T States .
v ®
district , . court at Topeka, Kansas, ren
dered a decision in a criminal case Thors
day, holding that “No Man’s Land” was
Indian country, and as such was part of
northern Texas, when the offense was
committed.
A now combine of all tho barb wire
mills of Illinois wilt he known as the
Federal Steel Company, with acapitalof
$12,000,000. The present price of barb
wire, paintod, is $3.10 in car load lots,
but after January 1 the price will proba
bly go up to $3.50.
A dispatch from Kansas City says:
Tho north hound passenger train on tin:
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad was
held up, Sunday night, at Pryor creek,
near Perry Station, I. T. Tho express
and mail car were robbed. The passen
gers were not molested, The amount
becured by the robbers is not known.
Exports of specie from the ports of
New York last week amounted to $503,-
124, of which $76,829 was gold and
$486,292 silver. All the silvoi went, lo
Europe and all the gold went to South
America. Imports of specie for tho week
amounted to $203,074, of which $139,-
685 was in gold an 1 $0(5,389 silver.
The United States consul at Colon re
ports that since work on the Panama ca
nal ceased, business at Colon has been
almost entirely prostrated, It single 8OIII0
times happens, in: says, that not a
vessel is to.be found unknown in the sineo harbor, 1800. a
tiling heretofore
The Isthmus railroad, which, in 1888,
paid a dividend of 234 per cent., will
this year pay only 9 per cent.
in an open letter to Charles Steward
Parnell, Miss Anna Carslnke, of Trenton,
N. J., has taken direct issue witli the
great Irish leader about his mother's con
dition. She tells him p.uinlv that Mrs,
Parnell is penniless and in absolute want.
If he thinks otherwise he is in error.
Mrs. Carslukc lias been Mrs. Parnell’s
faithful friend, and was Fannie Parnell’s
schoolmate.
A revolt has occurred among the con
victs in Layolute prison at Tunis. The
prisoners succeeded in freeing them
selves from their chninHund in procuring
firearms and other weapons. They then
made a fierce attack upon tho jailers
who were unable to quell the revolt,
and troops were summoned. When they
arrived at the jail a desperate fight took
place and many of the prisoners and sol
diers were killed.
Arrangements have been in progress for
several days for the holding of meetings
at Kilkenny and Waterford, Larkin Ireland, and in
memory of the two men, Allen
Gould, who were hanged for the killing
of Policeman Brett in Manchester in
1867. The government issued a procla
mation forbidding the holding of the
njeetings. Projectors of the demonstra
tion, however, announce that they will
not abandon their plans.
Fire broke out .Sunday morning it
the wholesale grocery house of Janncy
& Andrews, on Market street, Philadel
phia. The fire is supposed combustion. to have or
iginated from spontaneous nearly
'1 he aggregate loss is estimated at
a quarter of a million. Janncy & An
drews lose on the stock $100,000; in
sured for $131,000. The building,which
was six stories high, cost $90,000.
James McCuen, foreman of No. 4 fire
company, was caught by falling wulib
aud killed.
It was reported Saturday that the firm
of Sanger aud Wells of New York, coffee
dealers, were unable to meet their obli
gations. It is said that their liabilities
will lie about $300,000, and their assets
merely nominal. The cause of the trouble
is said to he the investment of some
of the firm's funds in a patent barrel fac
tory, the headquarters of which are in
Detroit. The firm has dealt principally
in Java coffee, and is an old establish
ment. A quarter of a century ago the
firm was known ms Sanger, Birds &
Fisher. They controlled a large trade.
A STRANGE REQUE8T.
In his will, Millard P. Fillmore, son of
President Fillmore, particularly requests
that his executor destroy all correspon
dence or letters written by his father,
mother, sister or himself that may lie
found in his effects. He bequeoths an
estate valued at $200,000 to relatives and
friends.
The Congress of Peru It authorized
the Government to contract for a railroad
connecting the Oroya line of railroad
with a navigable river of the Amazon
system on the east sida of the Andes,
thus effecting a southern transcontinsntal
line.
THE BRAZILIAN REPUBLIC
WHAT THE NEW GJVKKNMENT WILL DO —
ORDER TO 11R MAINTAINED.
The new government has announced
that it will tinuly maintain order. It it
preparing a circular to foreign govern
meats relative to the overthrow of the
empire, which will he telegraphed tc
them through Brazilian representatives
abroad. The province of Bahia has sig
nified its adherence to the republic.
Nows from other provinces show that
they are also in favor of a republican form
of government. Tho governors named
by the provincial government are all
military men. Thu newly made ropuh
lie will allow tho deposed emperor 800
contos dereis per annum during his life.
The live articles of the government de
cree are: First. A republic is pre
claimed. Second. The provinces of
Brazil, united by federation, com
pose the United States of Brazil.
1 bird. Each State will form its own lo
cal government, fourth. Each State
wl “ send a representative to a Congress,
which will convene shortly, nnd the tlual
Vision of which the Provisional Gov
eminent will await. Fifth. Meantime
Governors of States will adopt ! more
, to maintain . . order , and , protect . ■ •
means _ * ciu
. . 1 he t lU!rn , 1 nd ,
f te cas r, .’ '* 1 relations l w,ll u ! l l bo on represented a “ ‘‘ ? mean- ex
wl,,lc . 1 Ul ° ^ov.i.onal Government,
HOW IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The city awoke on Friday to hear the
Republic proclaimed. Gen. DaFonscca,
Senor Constant nnd others proceeded tc
1‘etrolis in the morning and informed
Dom tho Emperor Pedro that ho had deputation been dethroned.
received the with
absolute composure. Gen. DaFtmsocn
said that Brazil had advanced far enough
in the path of civilization to dispense
with monarchy. The country,
whilo grateful to the Empcroi
for his patriotic services, was firmly
resolved to recognize only a Republic.
Dom Pedro made a dignified reply, lie
declined to abdicate, but said ho would
yield to force. The Imperial family
wero allowed one hour to prepare for
their departure. Carriages, escorted by
soldiers, were waiting to take them to
tho outer harbor, where a man-of-war
was lying under steam. The captain
had been instructed to sail ns soon iis the
Imperial family had embarked. He had
received scaled orders instructing him
what route b> take. It is supposed that
Lisbon is the destination of the vessel.
T1IB NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
The Brazilian minister received two
telegrams from Brazil, one from tho
minister of foreign affairs and tho other
from the minister of finance. They
were simply confirmatory of press re
ports of the establishment of a republi
of can Dom form Pero of government, and that everything the departure
was
quiet and tranquil in the Republic. of H
is understood to bo the intention
Brazilians in official capacity at Wash
ington to await the pleasure of the newly
organized government.
THE NEW PLANT
WHICH I’HODICKN COTTON NEED
THE LINT.
tioned The new these liutless cotton plant men
in columns some time sgo,
Is attracting considerable attention, the
iherc seems to he no doubt about
existenceof such a plant, as proof of it
is exhibited in Charleston. Ttierc were
received there Tuesday a box of bolls
raised in Sumter county all containing
cotton seed without a fibre of lint.
This new plant which ■"Cl*
tried in Spartanburg county,
will, it is claimed, produce from 8u0 to
400 bushels of cotton seed, without lint,
to the acre, The bolls are filled with seed
which ure perfectly clean and show no
signs of lint. Every boll contains ns
many seed as it can hold, the bolls being
the size of the average cotton boil,and ev
eiy individual seed is as clean asa Boston
bean. The importance of this matter may
be understood when it is remembered
that there are thousands of cotton oil
mills throughout the south, and when it
is added that the propagators of this new
cotton plant claim that at the pr<sent
price of will cotton seed, an acre of the new
plant yield from 800 to 100 per cent,
more than an acof cotton.
AN INSANE WOMAN
COMPEL M»,ft DAUOHTKR TO JOIN HE*
IN DRINKING I'OISON.
A ghastly affair occurred at ' ’
ville, Mich., Thursday night. During
the absence of her husband, Mrs. Nathan
Strong filled two tumblers with a solu
lion of pari* green and handing one to
her daughter, Maude, a handsome girl of
eighteen, and taking the other herself,
she drank her own dose and forced
the girl, at the muzzle of a revolver,
to swallow the fatal draught.
All efforts to save the woman and her
daughter were unsuec.-s«ful, and Mrs.
Strong die! at midnight in horrible
agony and Maude an hour later. Maude
insisted to the last that her mother
forced her to drink the poison and said
she did not want to die. She doctor begged
piteously of her friends and to
save her life. The insanity which led
to the awful act has been clearly marked
for shout two weeks.
A Hen of Many Colors.
The most fashionable heu in the State
is said to live at Winslow’! Mills, in the
town of Waldoboro. She started in life
a plain, dark brown pullet, but soon ex
changed this for a black and white suit.
The next time she shed her feathers she
came out as white as snow, and this fall
the appears in a black, white and tan
dress.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
NO. 8.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
HIO US POINTS IN THE 80 UTU.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS GOING ON OP
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
A fire at Bald winsvillc, N. Y., on
Wednesday night caused a loss of $250,
000. The flames originated in the Seneca
hotel, and the entire hotel block, with
two large warehouses adjoining, were
destroyed.
The valuable barn of I. (j. Webster, al
Orchard Hill farm, K v., wus destroyed
by tire Sunday morning, Four noted
stallions were burned to death—Evann
inond, Prairie Wilkes, Joe Jjirkin and
Weaglement. Tho loss is $75,00J.
Arrangements were made at Rich
mond, Va., Thursday to restore service
from Richmond to Lynchburg and the
southwest, over the Richmond and Dan
ville and Norfolk and Western, via Bun
kerville. The schedule goes into effect
at once.
The Randolph county, West Virginia
capitalists purchased one hundred thous
and acres of land, which is occupied by
squatters, who have armed themselves to
resist ready eviction. been killed, One surveyor serious trouble has al-J i»
and
anticipated, as the settlers w ill fight.
A dispatch says that on Thutsday a
fearful storm struck the plate and pulp
factory of S. H. Gray, at Newberno, N.
(’., in which there were sixty hands,and
leveled it to the ground. One employe
was instantly killed, another mortally
wounded, and eight others injured.
Another meeting was held at tho Mer
chants’ exchange at Nashville, Tenn., of tho on
Saturday night in the interest
fund to save Jefferson Davis’ home.
A committee was appointed A to go ac- of
tively to work at once. number
subscriptions have already been made.
A number of gentlemen arrived at
Denver, <’ol., on Saturday from Reno
county, Kan., to locate government lands
in South Santa Fo for a colony of 200
Mcnnonitcs, who propose settling on the
line of the Atchison, I opeka and Santa
Fee road. It is the first colony of tho
kind to locate in the territory.
William Carpenter and Whitfield Mur
rell were convicted at Edgefield, H. C.,
Thursday, of tho murder of Preston
Younee in June lost. The murder was
most brutal and unprovoked. hanged The pris
oners were sentenced to be on
the third of next January. These are
the first white murderers convicted in
Edgefield county for forty years.
Governor Taylor,- of Tennessee, on
Friday, acted upon tho case of the five
Barnards, sentenced to hang for murder
in Hancock county. Tho governor par
doned abiolutcly John, Jr., and Elijah
Barnard, commuted to live years in the
penitentiary tbit sentences of Clint and
Anderson Barnard, and to ten years that
of idd man John Barnard.
A special to the Nashville American
from Hopkinsville, Ky., siya: Informa
tion is received to the effect that Joseph
A. Bmitli, the man who killed W. F.
Williams, town marshal of Trenton, »
village on the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, several miles south of tins city,
two weeks ago, wen taken from Hundaj jail al
Elkton, the county seat of Todd,
night, by a mob, and hanged to a tree in
the courthouse yard.
A meeting of stockholders of tin
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
Railroad company was held at Rich
mond, Va., on Wednesday. Tho road report foi
rhowed the operations of the
nine mouths ended June fit), 1889. lo
come was $502,434; expenses of trans
portation $807,0(58; interest on bonds for
nine months $31,271. Dividends on
general stock for nine mouths $26,271;
net profit $137,823.
Governor Taylor has received petition* East
from 3,000 prominent citizens in
Tennessee and letters from a majority ol
the supreme judges, requesting him tc
pardon or commute the sentence of death
passed on the five Barnard brothers who
killed Henley Hutton, in Hancock coun
ty last January. After a careful exami
nation of the record, the governor has
decided to commute the sentence of all,
mid he may pardon some of the five.
Tin: queen of Sweden sets an example
whieh might prove of service to some
nervous women. She suffers from ner
vousness and is curing herself by meant
of tho chambermaid treatment. That
is, she rises early, makes her own bed
and cleans her own room, and then
works in her garden for the V>est part of
the day. All this is by order of her
physicians
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO
HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAY.
A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich.,
says that not less than 75,000 Michigan
farmers have joined the Patrons of Hus
bandry since last May, and the number
is increasing e-ery week. They threaten
to become a controlling power in the
politics of the state, anti then to spread
orer the entire country. The patrons
claim to hare been forced into being by
monopolies and trusts, tnd they propose
to organize a combination that will
strike terror to the hearts of tbeir en«
mies. At present the patrons are dero
ting themselves exclusively to merchants,
and in every town where they have a
foothold they enter into an iron clad
contract with one dealer in each line of
trade to purchase only from him, exact
ing a pledge that they shall not be
charged to exceed twelve per cent ad
vance on wholesale prices. The patrons
have lodges in forty seven counties, with
a membership of more than 6,000.