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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES,
VOL X.
BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
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BLACKSHEAR, GA.. THURSDAY, JULY 13 , 1893 .
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
Cirocerioa.
Coffee—Roasted—Arbncklc’s 23.83 Kt 100 7b.
oases, Lion 23.60c, Level ing’s 23 60c. Green—Ex.
tra choioe 21c; choice good 30c; fair 10c; com
mon 17ai8c- 8ugar—Granulated 6c; off
granulated-; powdered tVJ^'c; cut loaf 6>4; white
extra C 1 c; New Orleans yellow elarillo.l
5%5J^c; yellow extra C 4>^a4%c. Syrup—New
Oilcan, choice 45c; prime 35(^40c; common
20(g80c. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 3r>i<338olimi
tation 22@25. Teas—Black 35@55c; green
40@60c. Nntmogs 65@85e. Clove. 25<S>30e.
Cinnamon 10@12%c. Allspice 10@Ue. Jamai
ea ginger 18c. Siusiqwro pepper 12c; Mace
Si^ed dairy Virginia San° 75c. ; 5^1 Cheese—Hats &lb-Ha” llaiai*.
$1..50;
White Ash, half bbla.$4 00; pail**
nlrpentine, 0 "Ho bars/^eb ibs, *$ 2.50;’
2.26 a
Candles—Pnrafino 71V«c; star lie. Matches—
100 s $4 00;300si?3(K)a3 75;20()s$2i)Oa3 75;60»,
Crackers—XXX so. la 6H'c ; XXX butter
t%c; XXX pearl oysters 6c: shell and excelsior
hiiu’flc! 1 WatXiok7^e-, Condensed French milk
mixed 18c. Canned goods—
$6 00a8 00; imitation maekerol *3 95a4 00; sal
moil $6 00a7 50; F. \V. oysters 42 00; L.W.
4135; corn ®2 50 a350; tomatoes 42 10.
Rail potash $3 20. Starch—Pearl celluloid 4e; lump
4 V ; nickel packages $300; $5 00.
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $t OOal 40; quarts
$1 50al 80. Powder-ltifle, kegs $3.50; 14 kegs
$2 00; % kegs$l 15. Shot $160 per sack.
Flour, Grain ami Meal.
Flour--First patent $5 00; second patent
$4.50; extra fancy $4.00 ; fancy $3 75; family
$3 25. Corn—No. 1 white 60c. mixed,
58c. Gals, Mixed 43:: white 44o; Texas rust
! proof 44c. Hay—Choice timothy, large halos,
$1.00 No. 1 timothy, largo bales, 95c; choice
timothy, small halos,$1 00; No. 1 timothy,small
halts, 95c; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 90c.
Meal—Plain 58c; bolted 54c. Wheat bran—
Largo Backs 88c, small sacks 90o. Cotton
seed meal—$1 80 per cwt. Steam feed—$1.10
nor cwt Stock peas G5a75c per bn. White, 75
to $1.00. Boston beans 42.65a2.75 per bushel.
Tennessee, 41.75a 2.00. Grits—Pearl $3.35.
rountrv Produce.
Fggs 12a',2%c. Butter—Western creamory
20a25c choico Teunesseo 15al8c; othor grades
10ul2‘/Jo. Live poultry-Turkeys 10@12%o chickens per
lb; liens 28 and 30c. spring Dressod
largo 20a25c; small spring 12%al5o. 150; chick
poultry—Turkeys 15al8c ; ducks
ens 12V,al5. lri’sli potatoes, new, 1.50@2.00 per
bbl. Sweet potatoes 90c a 1.00 per bn. Honey
Strained HalOc; in the comb 10al2%o. Onions
$1 00a $1.25 per bu.
Frovlalonn.
Clear rib sides, boxed 104*. ice-cured bellies
12^o. brand Sugar-cured aud hams Calitornia, I4%al6c, 14c.break- according
to average; Compound,8c.
fast bacon 16o. Lard, Leaf ll%c.
Cotton. Middling 7^c,
Local—Market Firm.
Cpoi.ERA now exists in a larger number
of.toyvns at itb in height Europe last than September. when the epidemic
was
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
HapDenings from Day to Day in the
National Capital.
Appointments ft: the Various Depart
ments—Other Notes of Interest.
Air. E. W. Barrett, correspondent
0 f The Atlanta Constitution at Wash
teemaii ■ ^ j , nmiointod a commit
for the centennial ceremonies
of tho laying of tho corner stone of
the eapitol to bo held on Beptomber
Dr. Guzman the Nicaraguan minis
, called on preeentedThis Secretary letters Gresham
Thursday and of
recall. Ho notified tin- secretary that
the Nicaraguan government has abol
ished its legations at Washington and
in Europe. The action is based on
economical considerations.
Hon. ■» Robert i . P. t> Porter, . superin
tendent of the census, has resigned, to
take * ak0 effect eflLC \ immediatclv immediate 1} . Mr Ml Porter 1 ort. r
has been desirous of severing his con
ncction with the office for over a
month, and . recently ., completely , . , cer
tain business arragement with a New
attenUoiT ° dem “ ud8 h “
ewly
Tho action of the treasury iu de
clining to buy silver Wednesday at the
market price the metal brought iu New
York, on the ground that the price iH
an artificial one, is bitterly resented
by the silver men iu Washington.
They see in it another link in the
chain of tho conspiracy which encir
cles the world to destroy silver as a
money metal.
Assistant Secretary Hantlin, in view
of the repeated violation of the law in
the sale of goods on exhibition at tho
world’s fair, without the payment of
the eustoms duty, attaching, has in
structed Collector Clark to hereafter
strictly enforce tho law, which provides
a penalty for its violation, of a fine of
not more than $5,000 or imprisonment
at not more than ten years.
It lias been stated that appropria
tion bills would be taken up by the
extra session before even the financial
question. At the treasury department
it was learned that the request, tor the
various departments to submit their
estimates for the next fiscal year was
made before tho cull of the session,
It will take three weeks for the treas
ery department to place them in such
shape that they could be considered by
tho appropriation committee.
Inquiry at the treasury department
Wednesday as to whether tho amount
of silver offered the government was
as large now as formerly, developed
the fact that for the first six months
of the current calendar year the offers
aggregated 52,300,000 ounces, while
for the same period last year they
were only 45,350,000, showing an ex
cess for tho corresponding period of
thin year of 6,950,000, which would
indicate that the production of silver
was not fallingoff in the United States,
The celebration of the Fourth of
July at the national capital opened
with religious services at Ephimauy
church, conducted by. Rev. Dr. Me
Kim, in the presence of the Sons of
tho Revolution and others. The soci
eties proceeded to tho ground of tho
Washington monument, where, ufter
the reading of the Declaration of In
dependence, two speeches were made.
Other societies observed the day in a
formal manner. business was huh
pended and all tho government de
p artmcntB c l ose d.
Assistant Secretary Reynolds, of the
biou utciBion wmcil will ne welcome
tUJ ts
lnm the commiflHioDer of pension, n I
to whether those women who superin
tended the diet of the sick and wound
ed soldiers were entitled to pensions
under the provisions of the act com
monJy monlv known known as us the the nurses nurses act. act
Ibe following cadets from thesouth
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lc KaiHfts r iiHi • u. p Maxey, \f rtothpnngs. ' Ueor
T D ’ ar r0l r.°D in
Jarrett, t rugalo, with G J. T P. Ji. Allen,
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31?°',’, ?• Massmberg, .'y XUK , " alternate, B *. H ’ Ians. T , ur ‘ ’
e erm egins , une ,
From a statement prepared by H. S j
Wiley, the chemist of the agriculture 1
department, it appears that since 1888
$20,723 lias been expended at the
Sterling Sugar experiment station in
Kansas, and $40,024 at Medicine
Lodge from July 1, 1890, to June 22,
1893, chiefly in experiments in making
sugar from seirghum. I he above
amounts do not include traveling ex
pens-s nor thechenncal apparatus and
supplies purchased for the stations,
Secretary Morton is considering the
figures with a view to reducing the
expenditures.
cirrrUiisa F««arr».
I issued by treasury department Tues
day shows a net decrease on circulation
since June 1st, of $2,245,490, and since
July 1, 1892, of $9,346,977, making
tho amount of all kinds of money iu
circulation on July 1, 1893, $1,593,-
726,411. The class of money iu cir
culation is as follows: Gold coin,
$403,633,700; standard silver dollars,
$57,029,743; subsidiary silver, $65,-
400,268; gold certificates,$92,970,019 ;
silver certificates, $320,489,105; treas
ury notes, net July 4, 1890, $140,661,
! 694 ; United States notes,$.320,875,683 ;
tli0 assembly cheered and cheered
| again. The clapper used to ring tho
beil 18 only sixty pounds in weight.
Huudrcdn of people gathered Tuos
! ™7, ‘J 11 ^ at Troy, the Clinton N. l., to Menoley view the bell Colnm- foun
! ^ an hberty la'll and hear its first
tones At 1 o'clock wor.1 was received
lrom Chicago, With which place direct
communication with the foundry yard
was had, that all was ready for the
ringing of tho bell. 1 wo workmen
held a sixty-pound bell clapper, which
Mr. Chester Mcneley guided, while six
‘
' h V on '! , " ,, ’." , , 1
wnH 111 the foundry f yard, mouth lip
%vard Tho notof) Honm l 0 d were deep '
|md mo]odioUB ftIlll t |„, v riulL ^ ,. t
certificates, . .. act of June 8,
curroncv
1872> S11 >9 ; 13>() '. oo ; national bank notes
$174 731 m The amount of circula
tion per capita is placed at $23.86.
MR. EL0UNT IN PERIL.
He Is Marked for Assassination by
Annexationists.
Latest dispatches from Hawaii state
that developments of the past six days
have been three arrests for conspiracy
| to overthrow the provisional govern-
1 mont, a threat against the life of
C'laus Bpreekles and an organization
of a society within tho ranks of tho
annexationists for tho purpose of
shooting down such royalists in the
event of any open attack upon the
present government. Claus Sproekles
found on his gate a few days ago a
placard ornamented with skulls and
crossboues and bearing tho inscrip
tion: “(told and silver will not stop
lead.” He laid tho matter before
minister Blount and tho latter for
warded Sprecklos’s statement to tho
provisional government. Tho persons
arrested are all English ami the Brit
j M jj consul was disposed to interfere in
t .[ Je i r behalf, but droppod the matter
when informed of tho nature of tho
eh’trges. Tho government claims to
have evidence against these men show
-ng that they woro forming a plot to
j,l > w U p government buildings and
th >n shoot down tho annexationists
when they should rush to the scene.
A largo number of persons are being
watched by the authorities.
Six or seven hundred annexationists
have formed a “Citizens’ Reserve.”
They are armed with rifles and have
selected certain supporters of the ex
j queen whose names are known and
| marked them for slaughter in tho
event of a royalist outbreak. A mem
Txt of this organization gives a list of
I names of those niurked for assassina
tion and says that in addition to prom
incut Hawaiians it includes Claus
Sprcckles and Minister Blount in case
they interfere iu any fight that may
occur.
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THE EXCURSION POSTPONED.
Ex>Coufe<lerates Will Not Visit Chi
cage Until September,
A New Orleans special of Saturday
says: Adjutant General Moorman,
by order of J. B. Gordon, general
commanding united confederate veto
runs, iu order No. 99, announces that,
m response to an almost universal re-
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bayo l.eeu held at Mtunitbug, Ala..
<>n July 19th and 20th, and General
Underwood’s excursion to northern
prisons, the world’s fair and the un
veiling at Chicago, have aft been post
poned Lnber until Friday ami Saturday, Sep-
15th ami 10th, 1893. This
t nem(; , lt mll ke* no change in the |
arrangements or dispositions already
made, and all delegatew appointed will f
remftill for t h e date of September 15tb
and 16th.
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BIGDAY rx aa ^L5 rrs r*\*\nLnr\ HIC
pie (elebrate the Fourth.
X Chicago special says: It is fit
ting that the Fourth of July, the na
tional day of tho nation’s independ
ence> Bhould witness the largest at
tendance of the season at the world s
Columbian exposition. Although the |
official returns are not yet in, the of- \
ficiajg ,} (J no t hesitate to declare that
Tuesday’s attendance will not fall
short of 250,000. Every railroad run
Illn g j n ^ 0 Chicago gave a special
Fourth of July rate, and the closing
0 f commercial houses in the city
enabled the workinganu business peo
ple of Chicago to swell tho throngs
nntil the aggregate became greater
than that of any previous days at
tendance. The exercises of the day ,
were grand and on an immense scale.
Gezg ral Adla. E. htovenson, vice pres
ident of the United States, was the or*
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
The News ot the World Condensed Into
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs.
Interesting ami Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
At Afadrid, Wednesday evening, tho
police arrested a man carrying a bomb
under his coat in the immediate
neighborhood of the hoUBO of ex-1 re
m ^ er Canovaa del Catillo.
Alexander Troso, Patrick Haley,
.Tames Morris and J. A. Carison were
drowned in Lake Tahoe at Carson,
Nev., Wcdnsday by tho upsetting of
a small boat in which they wore sail
ing.
Wednesday the German reichstag,
by a large majority, elected Herr Von
Levetzow conservative president; Rar
on von Buol, clerical first vice pres
ident; Herr Burklin, national liberal
and second vice president.
A fire entailing heavy loss occurred
Thursday iu Alton, n suburb of Ham
burg,Germany. The buildings destroy
ed were Strieker A Anderson’s coffee
warehouse and Woohnort's granary.
The loss is placed at 500,000 marks.
The McPherson County bank at
Golden, Col., did not open its doors
Monday morning, but, instead, made
an assignment for the benefit of its
creditors. “Impossible to collect on
notes outstanding,” is giveu as the
cause of tho failure.
Freiberg Bros., dealers in liquors at
Cincinnati, made an assignment Alon
day. The cause is stated to be the
stringency for some months, but the
present difficulty to obtain money <■(>!»
polled an assignment. The liabilities
are estimated at $500,000, with assets
about tho same.
Aside from the celebration at tho
world’s fair grounds, Tuesday was the
liveliest Fourth of July Chicago 1ms
had for many years. Forty-one people
were injured by powder and three of
them were fatally injured. Tho fire
department waH on tho run all duy.
There were 155 alurms sent in.
The West Point cadets are going to
tho world’s fair. They leave West
Point August 17th and remain at Chi
cago ten days. The entire corps of 308
cadets iH expected to go. The expen
ses will bo I7,o00, which will be taken
from tho general appropriation for
army transportation. The cadets will
be encamped in Jackson park during
their stay at the fair.
The Choctaw Indians to be shot for
the murders committed during the war
between the Jones-Loeke-Jaekson fac
tion, did not suffer execution of the
sentences whieh were set for July 7.
Tho courts made u reprieve for a
month to give tho prisoners an oppor
tunity to have a new trial. The re
prieve, without doubt, is due to inter
ference by tin government of the
United States.
The steamer Boigle nrrivod at Han
Francisco Thursday from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, China, bringing ud
vices to tho effect that one of the
branches of Welling river has over
flown, in consequence of heavy rains,
uud, according to a telegram received
by native authorities at Shanghai,
near ten thousand people have been
drowned and crushed to death by the
falling of houses.
The Montana silver conference met
at Helena Thursday afternoon to take
action on the silver question. Tho
convention was composed of promi
nent mine owners as well us citizen
delegates from every county in tho
Htate*. .. A . plan . of . Cftruimii/n mlopt- . ,
wiim
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A epeein 1 of We.lue.i.l..y from New
port, H I., states that Justice Blateh
ford is in a critical condition. Hois
continually losing strength and vitality
and his physic.au finds it necessary to
make frequent calls. No information
is yet obtainable from tho house, but
it is reported that he still continues to
retain his mental faculties, though
obliged to give up all work. He jh
also reported as now refusing every
thing except liquid food.
NcwYork v v , wtato . . , 8 t liandHoine rnonu
; S? .......-«-",-’r ZLgr&Jp :'r “V 1 nrz
t ] JO g re at day of tho eelebra
tj on 0 f the thirtieth anniversary
of the two days’ fight. Seven thous
and New York veterans, the governor’s
of the two states, the surviving gener
a ] H the battle and thousands of vet
erang and vinitor-s from other states
were present to attend the impressive
ceremonies.
The eighth annual convention of the
socialist labor party of the United
States opened at Chicago Sunday. A
t m<[jn< 88 session occupied the morning,
^ in th<; afU;rnooa H m(ljority of the
(lfc legates went to visit the g graves
^ aIjar ,. hiHt( , Thc conven on will
^ ^ which time the
... [ MOIKai ^ A itu,na mhmiiM l.v the
vur on ctions of the orirauization
r J ,.^ r(] ,ng a change in the party’s plat
f m & rt . m o<lelingof the coustitu
t ; nil -ji.
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THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Henry Fink and Thomas Spence
were appointed receivers of tho Louis
ville Southern railroad by Judge H. H.
Lurton, of tho United States circuit
court at Nashville, • Tenn., Alouday.
The appointment was made in nnswor
to the application of the Central Trust
Company, of Now York.
Receiver Blakeinoro, of the Com
mercial National bank at Nashville,
Tenn., began paying tho 80 per cent,
dividend to creditors Thursday. This
dividend amounts to $376,000 and will
he almost entirely disbursed in Nash
ville, and will tend greatly to lighten
the financial depression.
A Raleigh special of Monday says:
Tho railway commission has completed
its assessment of seventy railroads iu
North Carolina, and the total valuo
closely approximates $25,000,000.
The Raleigh and Gaston division of
the Seaboard Air-Line, which has
heretofore paid no taxes, iH assessed at
$10,000 pejr mile; total, $1,250,000.
The mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., M.
E. Thompson, and his brother, S. O.
Thompson, made an assignment Sat
urday for the benefit of their credi
tors. Tho liabilities are placed at
$102,000, with nominal assets of nearly
$100,000. Tho assets *Tjio consist of val
uable real estate. assignment is
made on tho account of inability to real
ize in present momentary strin
gency.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Lex
ington, Ky., says that a combine has
existed in the freight depot of
the Ciucinnatti Southern railroad for
some months, whereby tho road has
been robbed of tietween forty and fifty
thousand dollars. Eight conductors
and ten engineers and the timekeeper,
have been issuing fraudulent time
checks. These chocks were made out by
the conductors and engineers and hon
ored by the timekeeper.
Tuesday was the biggest day in tho
history of Greenwood, S. (J. Nearly
6,000 visitors were in tho city indulg
ing in tho exercises and sport incident
to the reunion of tho Sixth South
Carolina cavalry. About 1,600 of
these veterans are of all classes and
descriptions. Tho feature of the day
was tho address of General John B.
Gordon, of Atlanta, who made a su
perb talk to tho immense crowd which
feelingly responded to his vigorous
and eloquent words.
A Columbia, S. 0., special says:
There is much satisfaction and relief
at the action of tho syndicate whieh
purchased tho new 4 1-2 pur cent,
bonds of this state, Issued to retire six
per cent, brown consols in completing
the payment to the stuto treasury of
$5,250,000, the full amount for the
new bonds. The syndicato is com
posed of the Baltimore Trust and
Guarantee company, of Baltimore,
John I>. Williams & Sous, of Rich
mond, Va., and It. A. Lancaster & Co.,
of Now York, and their associates.
The Mississippi railroad commission
Wednesday assessed the first-class roads
viz: tho Memphis ami Charleston, the
Illinois (Jcntrul, the Louisville and
Nushville, the Alabama Great South
ern at $12,000 per mile. This is a re
duction of $500 per mile from last
year’s assessment. The Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham was put at
$10,000; the Mobile and Ohio at $9,
000; the Georgia Pacific at $8,000;
tho Alabama uud Vicksburg at $8,500
ami the narrow gauge roads ut $5,000,
except the Gulf and Chicago, which
was fixed at $2,500 per mile.
A Columbia spocial of Wednesday
says: Tho outlook for a cotton crop
in South Carolina is exceedingly dis
couraging, aud there is a poor pros
pect for over a half crop. Most all
tho counties report that cotton is
small aud that there aro very few
blooms. In many counties it cannot
recover from tho excessive ruins. The
bottom leavea are red and yellow and
are dropping oft’. In Charleston it is
thriving and tho crop will be the
largeHt -4*5 m years, and , of , unaurpaaoed ,
T
ly, and in tho others is about two
weeks late and impossible to make
half a crop. In many counties it has
turned red and has fired up considers*
bly. ___
The Camperdown Docked.
The British battleship Camperdown
was placed on dock at Valeta, Malta,
Thursday, to go under repairs. When
she came out of the water it was seen
that her stem had been broken off just
under the torpedo tube, about nine
feet down. Her ram was bent over
toward the port side, and six of pUtea,
three on each side, daimmed.
Probabl frohabiy Y aPake. a lake.
The Greek consul-general, sUtioned
^ Loudon laughs at the idea of the
“ bdlcatlon ° eor ? e . Greece,
as announced in the newspapers. He