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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VII.
The Philadelphia Times has reached
the conclusion that this business cV
“ocean greyhounds” racing will end in
some of them going to the dogs.
One of the higher English courts has
decided that, while a man who brought
anything upon liis land noxious to his
neighbor could be made to pay damages,
this was not the case when the pest was
the natural produce of the land. The
defendant had a right to till his land,
and could not help the thistles coming
up.
It is not generally known that the
Australian colonies claim that they could,
if occasion arose, organize at once a
force of about 31,800 men of all ranks
and branches of the land defence ser
vices ; 15,913 are infantry, 7226 rifle
companies, 2111 mounted infantry and
mounted rifles, 1174 cavalry and 3974
artillery. There are in addition about
3000 men connected with the marine
forces. Victoria’s contingent number
9552. New South W'ales 6131, the bal
ance being divided among the othei
colonies.
It is whispered about in well-informed
circles that the domestic difficulties it
the British royal family are approaching
a climax. Prince Albert Victor of Wales
has returned from India and,finding that
no establishment and no dukedom has
been provided for him in his absence,
has not been at all backward in express
ing his discontent. He has made ar
offer to waive his right to the throne as
his father’s eldest son, in consideration
that he be allowed to marry the girl ol
his choice and have settled upon him an
ample allowance.
In well-informed circles abroad thi
prospect of war between China and
Japan is being seriously dis
cussed. The bone of contention is
Japan’s claim to the Lui Chin Islands at
Japanese territory, and as the Chinese
are said ta be determined to fight unless
Japan gives up the islands in question, it
is quite possible that fighting may ensue.
At all events, the Chinese Government is
said to be energetically preparing s
squadron for active service, a fact which
perhaps serves to account for the recent
marked increase of Russia’s naval and
military forces in thc far East.
The New York News observes that the
twenty-nine life insurance companies
which reported the other day at the meet
ing of the Actuarial Society of America,
will not soon want to see another epidemic
of grip in the country. The last one cost
them over a million dollars, At least
that was the amount by which the death
losses of the first quarter of 1890 ex
ceeded those of the first quarter of 18S9.
The number of deaths in the entire coun
try due to grip, according to this ratio,
must have reached nearly twenty thou
sand. Few periods of three months of
the war had a larger death-roll in battle.
And yet the doctors at first told us that
it did not amount to anything.
The Niagara River canal is expected
to cost $3,500,000 and furnish 119,000
horse power. With coal at $4 or $5 a
ton, the cost of one-horse power a year
is placed at from $39 to $46 a year or,
roughly, about ten tons of coal per year
per horse power. This canal, if it gives
the estimated horse power, will furnish
a power about equal to 1,200,000 tons a
year. This will cost, taking a capital
ized value of four per cent, on the in
vestment, $140,000 as the first outlay
and at least as much more for the main
tenauee and repairs. The horse power
will therefore be about as coal at twenty
cents a ton, and it appears capable of al
most indefinite expansion unless the
falls are considered of more value than
horse power.
The public appears to have been badiy
misled regarding the time it requires to
go round the world, announces the Chi
cago Herald. The feat of Pnineas Fogg
in fiction, which seems to have been re
sponsible for the impression that to make
the journey in eighty days was an impos
sibility, in fact has been very much out
done by three different persons within
the past few months. Miss Bly and Miss
Bisland beat Fogg of the story by sev
eral days, while George Francis Train
has beaten the former by over a week.
His actual traveling time was sixty-five
days one hour three minutes and three
seconds, beating Nellie Bly seven days
and five hours, Probably no future
round-the -world er will beat this record
a great deal, and it may be regarded as
about the minimum time required for the
journey.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1890.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
The house, on Wednesday, resumi d
consideration of the federal election bill,
the pending question being on the
amendment offered by Mr. Tucker,
of Virginia, requiring the judge of tht
circuit court, associated with the district
judge, to puss upon applications for su
pervisors of elections. Rejected. After
a lengthy debate the bill was ordered en
grossed anil read for the third time. Two
hours were consumed in the reading of
the hill. The question then recurred on
its passage. As the call was in progress
the greatest interest was manifested on
both sides of the house, Thc bill was
passed—yeas 155, nays 149. The house
then, at 9:25, adjourned. Ilis
In the Senate, on Wednesday, reconsider Mr.
eock called up his motion to
the vote by which the senate ou Tuesday
refused to recede from the amendments
to the legislative appropriation hill in
reference to the pay of senators’ clerks
ind sessional committee clerks. I lie 1110
rion was agreed to—yeas, 26; nnys, 21.
The question recurred whether the senate
should recede from its amendments.
Agreed to—32 to 16. The legislative bill
now goes to the president for his signu
Imre. The senate then proceeded bills to the
consideration of the two senate re
ported from the American committee merchant on commerce, marine
to place the foreign equal
engaged with in other trade nations, upon an and
ity that of mail service between to
provide United for an ocean and foreign and
the States ports,
to promote commerce. Mr. Frye said
that he hoped to hills, have he the intended senate act
Thursday on river both and as bill Mon- to
••all up the harbor on
Jay. After a short executive session the
lenatc at 5:10 adjourned.
In the senate on Friday Mr. Allison
Moved that the adjournment be till Mon
day, which was agreed to. At 2 o’clock
“unfinished business” was taken up, it
being two postal and ship subsidy hills.
Mr. Vest continued his argument
igainst the hills. The conference report
on the agricul-tural appropriation bill
was presented and agreed to. The senate,
at 4 ;50, adjourned till Monday.
NOTES.
The president signed the Idaho bill on
Thursday, and the new state will be
added to the flag.
The president, ou Thursday, nominated
Adam E. King, of Maryland, for United
States consul-general at Paris.
authorized The superintendent in of five the districts census hus of
a recount
Minneapolis, Minn., in regard to which
there are charges of fraud in increasing
the returns.
A telegram was received at the navy
department from Rear Admiral AValker,
saying that the squudron of evolution
sailed from Rio de Janeiro Saturday for
New York, It will touch at Pen
nambuco and St. Thomas, and it is ex
pected to reach New York about the first
of August.
Republican members of the conference
committee on the silver bill were in ses
sion Saturday but reached 110 conclusion.
It was the intention to hold a reuulai
conference, but the democratic conferees
were both absent. The principal ques
tion discussed was whether 4,500.000
ounces or that $4,500,000 worth of silver
should be purchased monthly.
Another unavailing conference over the
silver bill was held Friday morning, last
ing one hour and a half. One of the
members say the time was spent, as it
was Thursday, in a general discussion ol
the financial situation, and that no prop
osition was presented and pressed with
any particular force. An adjournment
was then taken at noon until Saturday
morning.
The northern democratic members ol
the house of representatives have issued
an appeal to tne country in regard to the
election The bill, is now alluaed pending to in “extraordi- congress.
measure as
nary, dangerous and revolutionary,” a
“purely partisan measure, intended pri
marily to control elections for congress in
all the states, and to intimidate, hound,
obstruct and harass, by jwlitical adverse persecu
tion, in unfriendly hands, ma
jorities in the citie.5 of thc north.” It
“creates an army of spies,” and “prosti
tutes the judiciary.” patriots, The appeal regardless con
cludes in a call to true
of political affiliation, to protest, through
public meetings, or otherwise, against
this consolidation of government. There
are, so far, thirty signatures to the ap
peal.
There was a dead calm in both houses
of congress Friday, after the storm ol
Thursday. Indeed, the house there were so that few it
members of present
could do no business and adjourned
over until Monday. The senate did like
wise. The democrats of lxith houses
were discussing nothing during the day
but the features of the force bill, and its
prospects of passing the senate at thi*
session. The bill, the democrats
say, is a thousand times worn
than the “force bill” killed in the
43rd congress by the efforts of the late
Samuel J. Randall. It will simply place
the entire south under the rules of re
publican federd supervisors reinforced
an armv of blue coats with burnished
baronets. The next tight on the bill wil
be made in the senate. There [are many
senators who do not believe the senate
will ever take up the bill for serious
sonsideratioD. Among them are some
republicans, but they are the men whe
oppose the measure. Notwithstanding
this talk, the chances are that the bill
will come op.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH,
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM AI.I. rOINTS IS TUH
SOITHE1N STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FI.OODS, ETC.
Mayor Ellyson, of Richmond, Ya., left
that city ou Friday for London as a dele
gate to the peace conference.
Official census figures give < hatta
noogn, Tenn., and suburbs 48,500, in
stead of 45,000 ns lias been announced.
Census Supervisor (loves estimated tin
popoulatiou of Knoxville, Tenn., at 33,
uOO. The city had 9,693 in 1880. show
ing a gain of 38,367 in ten years. If all
would the suburbs be were added, the population
fully 45,000.
The beard of trade of Paris, Texas, has
upp, iuted six enumerators to take a new
census of the city, being satisfied that
the federal census is imperfect. Austin,
too, is greatly disappointed, and shows. claims
5,000 more ]>eoplo than the census
The official census count of the leading
cities in Texas discloses the following
figures, Antonio, approximately: Dallas, 39,300;
San 38,900: Galveston,
35,000; Ft. Worth, 31,000; Hous
ton, 33,000; Waco, 3',000; Austin, 10,-
300.
'I’lie Louisville Southern ruilroad, from
Louisville, KV, to a connection with the
Cincinnati Southern, has been leased to
the East This Tennessee, Virginia and Geor- both
gia. give it a northern outlet is
to Cincinnati and Louisville, which
necessary to complete its system.
A big furniture van, containing a paity
:>f twenty cnie one young folks Frank returning fri >111
1 p on the farm of Akin, two
miles from Louisville, Ivy., was struck
hv a northbound express at Preston street
crossing of the Louisville Southern rail
road Friday evening and three of its occu
pants were killed and others injured.
The following lmv« been elected as the
officers of the North Carolina Teachers’
assembly for next year: President,
Charles Hugh Marson; I). Mclver; first vice-president, and
secretary treasurer,
E. G. Harrell. The officers of the Clas
sical association are: President, E.
Alexander; vice-presidents, ( B. Den
Denson and L. L. Hobbs; secretary, J.
E. Kelley.
A dispatch from Lexington, Va., says:
About 5 o’clock Friday morning, at
Buena Vista three miners were instantly
killed. The men assembled about the
shaft of the mine, and four men entered
thc cage without for the warning, purpose of deccnding,
when the ear fell a dis
tance of 140 feet to the bottom of the
shaft. Eli Painter, John Montgomery
and Lipps Sneed were instantly killed.
Floyd Marion, one of the party, is still
ulive and conscious.
Leaf tobacco sales in the Danville, Va.,
market for June amounted to 1,380,870
pounds, a decrease of 2,768,700 pounds
as compared nine with June of of the last tobacco year.
Sales for months
year, commencing October 1st, were 21,-
335,102 compared pounds, an with increase the of 33,939 period
pounds tobacco The same
of the lust year. average
price paid the first compared nine months with of the
tobacco year, as last year,
show un increase of $7.76 per hundred
pounds.
A Norfolk dispatch of Friday says: A
number of reports have been received
from various counties in North Carolina,
showing the condition of the cotton crop
up to the 27th of June. The reports
show that from five to six per cent less
cotton has been planted than last year.
The condition is about forty-four percent
better than last year. The crop is two
or three weeks earlier. Thc weather has
been all that could be desired. The crop
is clean and clear of grass, labor being
abundant.
KEMMLER ONCE MORE.
THE SENTENCE OF DEATH HASHED UPON
HIM FOR THE THIRD TIME.
A Buffalo, X. A’., dispatch says; Wil
liain Kemmier was, on Toursday, foi
the third time, sentenced to death. Judge
Childs carried ordered into that effect his previous Auburn sentence prisoa
be at
during the week of August 4th.
The Captain’s Widow Took thc
Helm.
How many romances there are in private
life! I never see William M. Dunlevy.
the theatrical manager, but what 1 think
of the terrible experience his mother hail
years ago. His father was a Maine roan,
who commanded one of the finest clippet
ships that ever sailed the seas. He had
made a handsome competence, and in
tended to retire after two or three more
voyages. One summer day he weighed
anchor in an African jiort and set sail for
New York. On board were his wife and
two children. The second day of the
voyage yellow fever broke out, and with
in a week had killed him, the officers
and half of the crew. Those who sur
vived were illiterate seamen, who had no
knowledge of navigation. They proposed
to drift until they met some ship and
then obtain relief. To their surprise,
Mrs. Dunlevy took command, laid the
course and brought the ship in safety to
the port of New York. The Chamber of
Commerce voted her a medal and vote of
thanks, and the undeiwriters gave her a
handsome amount as a kind of su
The event is forgotten -. but to my mind
it is hard to match the young widow’s
standing at the wheel, through sunlight her
ind storm, with her little ones at
snee, steering the almost helpless ship
icross the great Atlantic.—[New York
star.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SIMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY D1SF.VITTIKS
FROM I'NI I.K SAM's DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABI.E BRINGS.
Treasury balance: Coin, $133,035,758;
currency, $0.942,653.
The entire bi siuess portion of Pullmau,
Washington, was burned Friday after
noon.
Superintendent of census. Porter, esti
mated the fbtal population of the l uited
States at 04,500,000.
The superintendent of the census lias
decided to order n recount of twenty-iour
distiiets in Kansas City.
ing C. materials A. Blessing, Philadelphia, manufacturer of plumb- burned
at wos
out Friday. Loss $100,000.
The population of Albany, N. Y., by
the census is 92.408, an increase of 1,565.
Troy lias a population of 00,587, an in
crease of 3,840.
Supervisor Wndliuc, estimate of the of census the bu
reau, gives un official pop
ulation of Boston, Mass., which is 437,-
252, an increase of 75,000.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Out., says:
The bill which passed the last session to
punish government officials officially for disclosing
government claimed Wednesday secrets was pro
A dispatch from Madrid, Gandhi, Spain, says
the cholera is increasing at Enero,
Sueca, and other villages. The prefect assist
of Valencia is going to Gamlia to
Ilia doctors of that town.
A dispatch from Joilet, HI., says: The
ii o'clock Chicago, Chicago-bound Island passenger and Pacific train
on the Rook
railroad was wrecked here Friday morn
ing and four people were killed.
The earnings of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad during the
first week in June amounted to $123,-
241.98, ns compared with $98,098 for the
corresponding time in last year.
At London, on Friday, Mr. Bryco pre
sented in the house of commons a peti
tion from 15,000 inhabitants of New
foundland asking parliament lor a remedy
to the grievances of the Newfoundland
fishermen.
population Supervisor of Census Francisco Davis is says the
of San 300,000.
The Chinese population is 24,000, an in
.•reuse of 2,000 since 1890. Probably
10,000 more. Chinese, who are regular in
habitants of San Francisco in the winter,
arc now at work in the country.*
Three more bodies of women were
found at Johnstown, Pa.,on Friday, all
:>f them being in the river just above
Stone bridge, where a great mass of
under wreckage the lay Inst in the smmer. sand and They all were
water were
in a fair identified. state of preservation. Only one
was
The navy department has issued a cir
cular inviting proposals for building three
huge 8,500 ton coast line battle ships,
whose construction was authorized by the
mivul appropriation days act passed by con
gress a lew ago. 1 he vessels are to
;:ost, exclusive of armament, not more.
than $4,000,000 uadi.
ignutz Dourtez and Robert L. Wallace,
who plead guilty to the theft of $08,000
worth of bonds from the vaults of \\ m.
Wullace, proprietor of of Wallace's Monthly,
and uncle young Wallace, were sen
ten ced at New and York Wednesday, months’ each to
eight years eleven imprison
merit, with hard work.
A dispatch from Paris, says: The
French press admit that the negotiations
between liquidation Lieutenant Wise, representative
of the of the Panama Canal
comany, and the Colombian government
for an extension of the Panama canal
and a resumption of work on the canal
have bondholders collapsed, have and ended. that the hopes of the
Tlie grand jury at Chicago, on Friday,
voted against finding any indictment in
the Lake street *L” road boodle matter,
in which the names of M. C. McDonald,
Joseph C. Mack in, ex-Alderman Monear
and ex-Alderman Wallnerhuve been free
ly handled. The Ihiily Noes intimate*
that thc vital testimony was suppressed
by a liberal use of money.
“
A , keg , containing ... fifty .... pounds , of , pow
der exploded in August Smith s grocery
store, at Industry, near Bent haven, Pa.,
Saturday evening, completely wrecking
the budding and injuring seven children,
four of them fatally I he explosion was
cased by a spark from a Inc ciacker,
which exploded prematurely in the hands
of August Smith, Jr., aged fourteen
y fcare -
During thc celebration at Ottawa,Kan
sas, Friday, at which 10,000 persons were
present, it was reported that an agent for
a Kansas brewing company was about to
start ercises an original package house. The ex
were smqtended long enough to
denounce, in unmeasured terms, the sale
of liquor and beer in in original
packages, would anil favoring measures that
prevent such sale.
A BIG DEMONSTRATION
of the farmers’ am.iamk and othei
organizations in emfokia, Kansas.
--
An Emporia, Kas., dispatch kindred says: The
Farmers’ Alliance arid other or
ganizations united in one of the grandeit
demonstrations on the 4th, ever held
here. long and There was a people procession in attendance. five mile*
20,000
No such turnout of the farmers was ever
witnessed in this part of the state. The
speakers were L. L. Polk, president ol
the National Alliance; K. Beaumont, and
other prominent member*.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
1
NEWS CF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WnAT IS 11KINO DOSE IN THE VARIOUI
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—I.EGIS1.A
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The bagging manufactured from cotton
stalk fibre promises to be well received by
farmers, warehousemen and manufactur
ers.
*
West * *
organized Virginia State Alliance will he
at Charleston, Kanawha Coun
ty, August 13, by President Barbee ol
Virginia, assisted by National Secretary
J. 11. Turner.
Let no man let upon his Alliance work
or enthusiasm on account of the warfare
between the great Alliunee and the poli
ticians. It had to come and it has come.
But brave men will not flinch.
* *
It is stated that the Alliance eo-opeia
live store at Dallas in Paulding county,
Um., from a paid up stock of only $485
shows an account of sales from February
4th, 1889, to dale, of $12,750. This is
certainly a wonderful record.
*
>k
Join the Alliance and help to tight the
buttles which are springing up daily,try
ing to ruin the agricultural interests "ot
the country. In union there is strength,
and a thousand men in this county can
do more good by far than five hundred.
—Mineral Tost.
*%
Still they come. North Dakota has
Applied has for a State charter, South Dakota
ratified the action of its executive
committee at St. Louis last December,
ami Wisconsin lias voted to consolidate
with the National Farmers Alliance and
Industrial Union. Who next? -National
Economist.
*%
The silver bill, as amended by the sen
ate. Alliance, is a great victory for the influence Furmcis’ of
and shows that the
that order, exerted through its legisla
tive committee, is being felt. Members
of congress have recently voted for prac
tical free coinage that a few years ago
would have voted against it. National
Econoin ist.
*% North
Henntor Vance, of Carolina, who
introduced the Farmers’ Alliance sub
treasury bill in the senate, 1ms come out
flat footed in a letter, stating that he is
against the bill. The letter was written
at the request of President Polk, of the
Alliance. He says while lie is not op
posed to the purpose of the bill, he cun
not support it as it is.
*
>k *
The following is from the Namiers'
Alliance (Chattanooga, Term.): “Pay
no attention to circulars and documents
if any should reach you asking farmers
to organize leagues under a The parent or
ganization in Massachusetts. author
of this scheme is the editor of an agri
cultural paper which lias been trying tc
down the Alliance.
*
Thc /. /w „W)e "fanner (Raleigh, N.
(; } . .. Thc Allialu . ( . , {ilUv Ht Greens
bof0 on th „ 04,|, UI1 <] 2 fith of July, prom
men to be one; of the j/ruinloHt event h in
the history of our order in this State,
Many prominent speakers from this and
other States will be present. The rail
roads will give very low rates so that
people parutively can come from a distance at coin
a small expense,
The Union (Quicksburg, Vn.), a sturdy
Alliance paper, Hays: “It is the duty of
every farmer and wage-worker through
out thc country to make a special study
of the Alliunee movement, ns much so as
they do the movements of the two great
three political parties, and see which of thc
organizations is advocating mens
ures that are of the most vital interest to
the people generally. The political par
tk,i only favor measures for the moneyed
f f;w i while the AI in net* is protesting, arid
flying for which will benefit all
mankind alike. Every .nan who believes
* u rights to all should study this
matter and act wisely,
* .*
" 10 Caucasian . (Clinton, N. C.,) says,
“Oates, of Alabama, and < arhsle, ol
Kentucky, ^, are both out in long article*
th(; < . tI ,. amlry J ' K «ch admit
^ lh( . f||n „ er j H g r , a tly depressed and
0|)| ,^ , r< ^ (;(1 a' h y unjust laws, yet they say
t t thc daihl Hl t ni*urj plan will and not such do.
T , t( , , K . st atesmen. as
jt wou id have l*en more becoming in them
tf) j mve UH0( j the same time and energy
„ hav ,. ,, x in eritieising the hill,
j n am ending it, or framing a better one
with thc same object. Jf they, as stntes
men in thc halls of Congress, had done
their duty protecting in seeing the farmers’ that they inter
ests, or rather got
simple justice, then the sub-treasury bill
would never have been necessary. What
arc they going to do about itf Are they
going to sit idle and not only do nothing
f or the farmer's relief, hut even criticise
the measures we are forced to offer for
ourselves?”
don’t nf.obf.ct your meetings.
Hon. Martin V. Calvin, chairman ol
the Georgia .State Alliance, writes a
timely letter to the Honthern .Uliana
fanner ,, on the importance of prompt
and regular attendance on Alliance meet
ings. Mr. Calvin says; “The object had
i n view, at this time, is to say a word 01
two on the question of attendance upoe
Alliance meetings. The thought came tc
me while visiting a thriving lodge in thii
county. 1 wondered if there were any
lodges in the state whose meetings art
(dimly attended because of the crops 01
the warm weather. The meeting to which
j refer was held at 3 o'clock p. m.
and tile brethren and sisters came trudg
NO 8.
mg up mrougntnc neat, jovrui ot coun
tcuaiice and overflowing with zeal for the
cause. That's their manner of doing twice
n month. We are in the midst of the busy
season, but we cannot allor.l to
lose a meeting of the Alliance
except for providential cause.
An afternoon twice a mouth de
voted to Alliance work will prove au in
vestment of inestimable value to every
member of the order. Not a member
can be spared from a meeting—not one.
Nil member can miss a meeting of the
Alliance \\ hhout sustaining a poesitiv loss.
1 am sutistied that we need at onr regu
lar '"I'e'ings more talk of the good of tht
order than is usuiflly indulged in. Sc
far, we have had but an inkjing of the
benefits which will flow into every coun
try home through the Alliance agency.
We are grappling great questions and at
tempting the solution of dillicult prob
lems. This is right, but we should not
neglect a single opportunity to develop*
in their fu lness the inner-workings of the
order; for, without these, our efforts in
broader fields will be practically fruitless.
It is the cultivation of principles, which
u ulerlie the inner workings of each
lodge, that will enable every AJliuncemau
to acquit himself like a men in every eon
led in which the order engages.''
VETERANS IN LINE.
MKKTINO OK TIIK UOY8 IN OKAY IN CHAT
TANOOOA—A (ill AND HALLY.
The first convention of the United Con
federate Veterans’ association met in
Chattanooga Thursday, Gov. John B.
Gordon presiding. Thc city was gayty
decorated in honor of tlie convention, all
the public buildings and leading busi
ness houses being stripes. profusely adorned with
the stars and Out of the tens ol
thousands of Hags that were fluttering in
the breezes, not a halt dozen flags except
the stars and conducted stripes were seen. All the
decorations by the executive
committee were in nutiouul colors only.
Ex-confederate veterans came in on
every train, and thousands participated
in the meeting. Au address of welcome
was delivered by Mon. Mr. Wheeler, an
ex-confederate soldier, and was respond
ed to by General John B. Gordon. The
question of organizing the Sons of Con
federate Veterans was referred to the
committee and memorial probably will bo reported
favorably. A fpom the Wo
man's Jefferson Davis Monument associa
tion of New Orleans, asking co-operation
wus presented subscribed. and The hundred following (lui
Inrs were of*
fleers were elected: General in chief,
General John B. Gordon; lieutenant geu*
t-riil, E. Kirby Smith, of Tennessee, lieu*
tenant general W. trans-Mississippi L. Cabol, depart*
incut, General of Texas,
The convention then adjourned.
The Fourth of July exercises of tiic
reunion took the form of a monster pur
ide. Toll thousand veterans were in
line, together with three regiments of
Tennessee State Guards eneampnl neat
the city and several military companies
from other southern cities. Fifty thou
sand people witnessed single the parade. In
all the line not a confederate flag
ried was displayed, colors. hut every command hands passed car
national Brass
up Hie streets playing national airs and and
“Dixie,” “Bonnie Blue Flag,” the
war tunes on both sides, and cheers
greeted every air. 'Hie best of good hu
mor prevailed, and not a single incident,
occurred to mar the pleasure of the occa
sion. The programme arranged for Sat
urday was a visit to the Chieka
uiaiiga Imttleticld, where there wus a
great picnic and confederate speeches were soldiers. mude Gen- by
ex-federal and
eral John T. Welder, ex-federal presi
dent of Chiekiiniauga Memorial associa
tion, made received. the principal There speech, which
was well were several
thousand people present, Thc exercises
took place on Snodgrass hill, which
wus valiantly held by General George II.
rhornas and won for him the sobriquet
“Rock of ( hiekamauga. ” Lookout was
illuminated at night, Altogether the
grand reunion was a huge success. The
time and place for the next meeting wus
referred to the general commanding and.
staff.
TRADE REPORT.
BUSINESS REVIEW FOR WEEK ENDED SAT
I RliAV, Jl.T.Y 5.
Tin* weekly review of trade by R. 0.
Dunn A Co. says: With th<- beginning
of the new fiscal year wc have better heavy dis
bursements and easier money, crop
prospects and continuance of a larger
trade for the season than has la.-cn seen in
any previous year, The volume of trade
shown by clearing house returns at all
cities outside of New A ork is 14.1 per
cent larger than last year for the montho!
June a’-d 13.0 per cent larger for the half
year. The last week or two have wit
nessed a smaller increase, the extreme hot
weather having depressed trade hesitation at many
western points, while at the cant
on account of Railroad pending legislation earnings is now fat
noticeable. thus
reported for June show a gain of hut uhout these
ten per cent over last year,
show less gain for the latter than for the
first half of the month. The iron trade
is more steady, but .rather dull. Report*
from the south are very favorable as to
growing cotton, snd in Texas the esti
mated yield is the largest on record.
Government rejsirt* make the decrease in
circulation of all kinds of money in JuDe
less than $2,000,000, but for the year
past the increase has lieen $49,000,0(H).
For the first time thc public $1,000,000, debt, less
cash on baud, falls Inflow
but appropriations of $167,000,000 for
pensions during the new fiscal year render
it less likely that the surplu* will be
troublesome. Business failures occurring
during the week number for the United
States 181, and for Canada 98, as com
pared with 202 the corresponding week
of last year.