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r ll BLACKSHEAR TIMES. f
VOL. XI.
BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES,
L Jack shear, Ga.
Airtight Canvas Boats.
Airtight canvas boats, built expressly
for boys and timid ladies’ use, are much
used at the fashionable summer resorts
now. The man who has a reckless and
ambitious sou of seven is tired of giving
rewards to big fishermen who make it a
practice to keep a weather eye out for
drowning boys, and who is equally
weary of administering punishment “at
the end of the slipper,” lias solved the
most difficult problem of his lile by buy
ing an airtight, unsinkable boat, He
gives the boy a hundred yards of stout
rope, one end of which is tied to the boat,
tho other secured on land. He feels
happy and care free, and goes to town
feeling that the boy is safe, for if the
boy cuts the rope after the prescribed
distance is run he never learns it, and
“where innocence is bliss” none of the
boy’s admirers would care to mske him
any wiser, for at a lake resort a boy with
a generous heart and a boat is not to bo
made an enemy of.
The Canned Fruits of Pompeii.
The American Druggist tells that we
are indebted to Pompeii for the great in
dustry of canned fruits. A'ears ago,
when the excavations were just begin
ning, had a party of Cincinnatians found in
what been the pantry of the house
many jars of preserved figs. One was
opened and they Investigation were found to be fresli
and good. showed that;
the figs bad been put into jars in a heated
state, an aperture left for the steam t<
escape, and then sealed with wax. Tb
hint was taken, and the next year fruii
canning was introduced being into the United
States, the process identical with
that in vogue at Pompeii twenty centur
ies ago.
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway.
WAYCBOSS SHORT LINE—TIME CARD. ■
Schedule of through trains to Florida and Southern Georgia. I
In effect July 2, 1893.
Going South—Head down. _Ompg Nortii—Bead up.
5 33 23 M I l8
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8 10p' 8 28a ClOa Lv. .....Savannah. •. Ar a209p|8 “SSlSSfc::: 32pi...... C20i
.... .........Jesup..... ......Lv ?oSi
10 20p .....10 11a 8 00a Ar.
12 30 ij ....llll.i 0 15a ...... .. Wayrross..... Brunswick,.. 720(1 too'p
7 20a . .. ...... 1130a ...... .... -700a! IZ ,
10 40a .......... 2 lOp!...... .......Albany-.... Jacksonville.. 2 00p ::::::
8 23a 1 .... 116p-12 09n ...... ... Sanford.... l I5al 7 55a............
5 53p; 5 55p ! .....
.... ......
.... 10 15pl0 20]i...... .......I anipa.....
.... 10 55p 1100p...... ....Port Tampa. • |
S 15a •••• ...... «35P...... ......Live Oak-...
11 15a j .....Gainesville-. ; j
4 28a i 11 28a ......Valoo-ta. • • •
*• 25a 1 (J2p .. ..Thoma-ville.. l^rv:\VZ 2i0p ...... 726p
l» 25a 3 25p .....Mont cello...
8 37a 2 23; ...Chattahoochee Uainnridge. .
11 30a: .......Macon..... 3 36a'10 53 .......
3 15a h '
I' .....Columbus-... ,tLop «Wn
C 15a ......Atlanta..... 7 50a
8 40 |( ; ... Montgomery. • 7 30p 35; 1
3 05a 1 .......Mobile..... ..... 12 60p!..... 20a'.....
i 35a j .. .New Orleans.. ..... 7
No. TJ loaves 8avaniiali dad , except Sunday, 3:55 p. in., arrives Jesup 7 20 ji. in. No. b08
leave-. .1 1 v-uj) daily except Sunday, 4:25 11 . ni., arrives S.ivannali S:3 > a. m. These trains stop at
ali stations between Havann ih and Jesup. i
sleepixo CAR S1KVICE A»D commcnop*.
Trains Nos. 35 amt 14 cirrv Pullman cir« la-twcen New York, S&vannah *nd Port T*mp». No.
23 Carrie-; Puilman sleeping cars Waycross to Nas iville f>ouisville *nd Chies«o. '] non 78 ear- |
-if? Pnlman sleeninc car* b-tween Nwloik »nd Jacksonrnle. No. 5 carries Piillman
.sirs between Sav.itii'ah and Chisago, and o. Wednesdays and Saturdays No. 5 carries Pull- (
man sleep-r to Sawsnnee Springs, and on Tlm>*daj» and Hundays the sleeper returna from !
Suwannee Springe. at Jcgup for Macon. Atlanta and the wes*. _ Train . 23 connects at „ Way- I
T r ,'n \ 5 connects I
cross for Montgomery, New ml. am, Nashvi ie. Cincinnati, 8t. Louis and Chicago. Through
T ; m deeper WavcVos^ to Ckkngo, Tran 23 CGmieeie with Alabama Midland railway for . !
Mon .omer. and the southwest.
PO 'e‘ a, ArS"cirTim A^ST' 1 at |,a '" ! * nger ’‘ t ‘ tlon *' * nf| tlckpt j
. \ General Paaserisrer
r r FierniD" Sn^rin^ndf-nt. W. M. DaTid*on, Agnnt.
North Georgia Agricultural College
At Dah.lor> ega.
A BRANCH OF THE STATE IMVERSITY.
Spring Term begins First Alonday in February. Fall Term begins Firs
Monday in September.
Best school in the south for students with limited means. The military
training is thorough, being under a U. S. Army officer, detailed by the
Secretary of War
eoTH SEXES HAVE EQUAL ADVANTAGES. i
!
tudente prepared and licensed 10 teach in the public schools, by act of j
the Legislature. j
Leetur on Agriculture and Sciences bv distinuished educators and scholars I
For hs the climate is unsurpassed. Altitude 2237 feet,
oard .?10 per month and upwards. Messing at lower rates.
Each enatoT and representative of the state i* entitled and requested to
appoint one pupil from his district or county, without paying matriculation
ft e- during his term. i
! cataLgor inform'ti-a. ddreos Secretary or Treasurer, Board of Trustees i
BLACKSHEAR. GA.. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 21,189:!.
They Ate Grasshoppers.
Marcelina Salvador Changalogash and Sonora
Blacktooth wore among the
witnesses examined in the action begun
by ex-Governor Downey to remove the
Indians from a portion of Warner’s
Ranch, eavs the San Diegan-Sun of Cali
fornia. Both are very old. Airs. Blaek
l ,00t h could not give her exact age, but
was able to romember the time when
Captain Warner’s house was burned
down, and that a big fight between the
and white men occurred about
that time. She also remembers that
packed produce raised by the Indians waA
on burros to the old mission in the
valley here, which, it may be said, was
long before the boom. The Indians
then had bows and arrows and crooked
sticks to fight with. The white men
had guns.
in answer to a line of quesdons froir
Senator White, attorney for Governei
Downey, Mrs. Blacktooth further said,
through an interpreter, article that diet grasshoppers with
were one favorite of the
Indians in old timOs. To catch the'agile
hoppers in bill-of-fare quantities the In
diuns first dug holes in the ground; then
, they set fire to the grass, and the hop^
! pers, to escape the fire, fell into the holes,
! ! " here they were captured in large num
hers. The grasshoppers were usually
roasted before they were eaten.
“Well, the Indians still catch and eat
grasshoppers, do they not ?” asked Sen
ator White.
“Not much now,” was the stoical an
swer.
“Why not ?” asked the Senator.
“Because there aro not now many
rasshoppers to eat,” explained the aged
witness.
Rats also appeared to have been a
favorite side dish with the Indians. To
facilitate the capture of the rodents the
grass was usually burned off the ground
in the summer and fall.
A decidedly new departure in postage
stamps has just been made by Belgium.
This novelty is a Sunday or non-Sunday
stamp, with a tag separated from the
main part of the stump by the usual per
forations and announcing in two lan
guages, French and Dutch, the fact
that the letter bearing it is not to be
delivered on Sunday. If the persons
using these stamps have no religious de
scruples livered against their letters being do is
on Sunday all they have to
to tear off the tag containing tho order
and place the upper portion of the sta i p
upon the envelope. It is the intention
of the Belgian government to get out a
full series of these Sunday stamps.
There are nine varieties, of these values:
—One, two, five, teu, twenty, twenty
five and fifty centimes, and one and two
frnuos. The same design appears on all,
but the colors are different. The profile
on the stamp is that of King Leopold II.
The Sunday stamp idea, it is said, orig
inated with Railways, T. Vandeupeeveboon, and Min
ister of Telegraph, Posts
of Belgium. He is an extremely re
ligious man, and while he cannot stop
the collection and delivery of mails on
Sunday he has adopted this postage stamp
scheme hoping to educate the people up
to his own ideas. __
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs oi Government and Routine of
the House and Senate Discnssefl.
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
Congressman Oates, of Alabama,
for rP adding „„ iniroiltihh» the territory I,ill oi ,.r„yi,lih l tali to B
Nevada, so ns to make that state tho
proper size and of sufficient popula
tion.
A Washington dispatch says ; The in
teresting ceremony of weighing the
white house baby took place Tuesday
with all eclat attending such an event.
The scales showed just nine pounds
and a quarter, It is stated at the
white house that both the mother and
child continue to do well. The damp
weather has lmd no ill effect on either
of them.
The senate will not have a monopo
ly on filibustering. As soon as the house
met Thursday morning the Republicans
commenced filibustering tactics against
tho consideration of the bill repeal
ing the election laws by failing to an
swer to their names nud swarming to
the cloak room and leaving the house,
and having yeas and nays called on ex
cusing members.
Representative Cooper, of Florida,
will introduce a resolution in tho house
calling for an investigation of the
course of United (States .nidge Swain,
with a view to impeachment on charges
affecting his administration of busi
ness in his court, especially in the
matter of the improper appointments
of masters and receivers. Air. Coop
er’s action is taken in obedience to
resolutions passed by the Florida leg
islature.
Patent Commissioner Seymour lias
been served with a summons to appear
before the district supreme court and
show cause why a writ of mandamus
should not ho issued to the state of
South Carolina to compel the regis
tration of the trademark “Palmetto.”
The suit is brought by States’ Attor
ney Townsend. The application for
the registration was refused by an ex
aminer. An appeal was subsequently
tiled. Tho refusal to register was on
the grounds that a state has no right
to deal in liquors outside of its own
limits. The decision iri the ease will
establish and test an interesting prec
edent.
Judge Turner introduced a judicia
ry bill in the house Wednesday morn
ing which will effect all property in
Georgia now in the hands of a receiver
to a great extent. The bill provides
for an amendment to the judiciary net
of August 13, 1888. Tho bill provides
that evwy receiver or manager of any
property appointed by any court of
the United States, may be sued in re
spect of an act or transaction of his in
carrying on the business connected
with such property without the? jrfe
vious leave of the court in which sucb
receiver or manager was appointed,
and that service on such receiver or
manager in such suits may be made
upon him or his agent in the same
as process would be served on
said corporation, if it were not in the
band* of such receiver. .
Tbe Oprniutr Of the (heroker strip.
The opening of the Cherokee strip
is the great<*8t uftnir that ha« come
............... ....... ..... i"—a
ministration, excepting the financial
‘l»e»tion. Within a few years one of
tho triftiest, th; wealtliieHtand moHt influ
ential of new states of the great
west will be what is now called in the
school boy’s geography “Indian Terri
tory.” The climate of'tl,at country ie
unsurpassed,being midway between the
cotton-producing states of the south
and the wheat belt of the north,
Anything will grow in Oklahoma,
The graiLB of the north and the tex
tiles of the south find a rich fruitage
in its generous fructifying soil. This
land was set aside as an ideal country
, or _ “10 r<fl , mail, when , conscience
*
stricken . the white population drove
him from his home on the Atlantic
f oas *- v Vegetation . , ,i tie re grows _ , •
noutoilS luxurancc. ( <ml ftboiinclH ill
untold quanities, anil its rivers run
through beds of saline deposits eitpa
ble of developing a great new indufl
To Dedicate Lbicknvaauarn .
General Grosventr, of Ohio, lias in
trodeed a bill in the house to provide
for the dedication <jf the Chickainauga
and Chattanooga national military
park. His bill provides that ten
thousand dollars slu.II Ik appropriated
for this dedication and that, the
secretary of war be author iz« tod ter
mine all arrangements. ; 1 pr( ide
congress, supreme »ourt. ‘ XI'C
tive department, tie ■ . 1, rr
army and admiral «f t tie nr:
vited to partieipatd iththc ( .
of the states and tb r i-.taft
survivors of the per
ecgaged. October 17
are the date- -^t bi t'
His I$1 ai- iirecti that
of war hall L, • t V t ui
cure such ippli i va
be nece 'al\ *
heads of th v . ,
of the army for 1:
stores as h< tet
connection with til- de
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Report of the Industrial Situation for
the Past Week.
iu.hv.trUI .itu.tio. in the
uercurront of iikt. nsol , ooliut'iice anu an oft
exprtR-eii In' i. f 1 l.at tlir worst, is over, which,
in itsolf, is cfoiii, much to relit vc the situation.
•Die mast ^riitifvin-feature ..f the nock has
the manufacturing plants and especially the
fact that many of them are receiving sufficient
orders to justify their operation. While no
fia3K»t^KF,SBatfS port fair order* and with the increased
aeconi
modations they can now secure from the hanks,
the volume-of business is being materially in
creased.
All indications point tea con inn d gradual
improvement of trails, tie steady advancement
of the manufacturing interests of this most fa
vorod section and valuable lessons learned that
will vc stilt in greater economy in nil lines, v and
.
well as the agricultural product* of tho entire
South.
Fifteen now industries worn established nr
incorporated enlargements during tho wool,, together with
throe of liiiimfactorios, and,
twelve important in w Imildin Tradesman
(Chattanooga.)
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
n llic . _ JJnit ■« Ol r it HCl’ Ti I rr^mss RDu j n ros
I -
Twi’itu JILIliy Cpinflir Dlitdly MntoH HUluUi
llnppenings of Interest Portrayed In
Pithy I’nnigrnphs*
Tho purpose for which the colored
men's conference, which convened at
Roanoke, Yn., Monday was called made
itself apparent Wednesday night when
a iron a resolution, the convention re
solved 1o place a colored men’s state
ticket ill tho field to be voted upon at
the November election.
In tho course of interviews with
bank officials and presidents of com- the
mcrcial bodies, it is learned that
trude outlook at Raleigh, N. is tine,
that crops are good, that there is plenty
of money to move them and that they
were made more cheaply tlinn ever
before. It is also stated that the farm
ers in that section are nearer out of
debt than thev ' ever were before.
Dm old confederate soldier* .. of
Fairfax court house, \ trgiuia, and vi
cinity, are preparing for a grand re
union of the soldiers who wore tho
grav. 'I he principal orator of the oe
cttsion xyill he General John H. Gor
doH. Genera 1 . . u < r, o » <>n »
Carolina, Henator Himton, of Vir
jima, am 11X11 * ’ ° ,n ' * n * °
Mississippi, will also deliver addresses. .
A dispatch of Tuesday from Duck
hill, Miss., says: Heavy and contin
uod rains for the past four days have
seriously damaged an already sliori
cotton crop. Much cotton was open
in tho fields, It has been to some ex
lent washed out of tho bolls and that
''cmuiiing .... is beginning <> sjim.ii
,
^ ?>y the warm wet weather
otton n. tins neetum ,s hilly one
' tblr(1 short of ti,,! estimate.
W. Dye, oik* of the wciilthieHt
planters in northeast Georgia, died,
and bus lpft his fortune to .a negro
family who attended him for the last
lift.v years. Dvo was never married.
lb* owned 10,000 acres of land and
raised a quantity of cotton. He had
no members of his family living with
iiim, and his attendants were faithful
To these he left his estub'.
< xocutorw arc Jemling men »n
^ .... ........-......
33 >#arR of age.
A special of Tuesday from Natch, z
.Minn,, fujh: Largo gin hoiiHo and
cotton sheds belongingto U. D. Jon-'
at Carlisle, in Olayborne, .Miss, win
burned Sunday night by a mob ol
whiteeaps. The gin house was posted
about three weeks ago by whiteeups,
who threatened it* destruction if any
mtton should be giune.l there before
price of staple went to 10 cents pe,
pound. A numher of gins ju adjoin
ing counties have been similarly
posted, but this is the first one that
lias been fired.
\ special of Wednesday ...... from Lex ,
jnptnn, Ky.,says: It isstateil on goor
authority that <,'oloriel W. Breekin
ndge will return to Lexington , am
,j;d;o Much Ktnt< inontu iih will Hitiht>
lb< \shland demoerats that he is stil
;i fit subject to n-pr.-ent tin min eon
^rohH. Colonel i>r« fkinridge will b<
r.eeived with an ovation, and be wil
receive the hearty assurance of hit
constituents that iu.- will be given al
the time required by him to clear him
,, jf of the scandalous charges of Mini
Madeline Pollard,
Collector Webster at Columbia, S
r ■ ; recei ved n ofi ficat i on W ed u esdftj
fr -m the internal revenue departmen
o ooli ct 10 per cent tax from th<
Columbia Clearing House Assf/ciatior
on their ie of clearing house c»-r
tificates, which hai beeu in local cir
('illation Hevernl v/- ks. As the >*u*
J100,001 th x would be _10.
Coll considered
iportant a after to act de
1 oit ut once i.iiJ he accord
in- l from . association 1
certifioat an>
1 orwari
t<>
The ram in naval warfare is be
lieved now to 'Jf UlS thin:
ODR LATEST DISPATCHES.
™ B »»WS Oi 3 Dl? CtNlCM H
m am Concise Pamratls
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‘ Olltiliilillg tie Gist of the „ new*
From All Paris of the World.
_
The United States cruiser Detroit,
after adjusting her compasses, at 7 :30
Thursday morning, sailed from Fort
Monroe,'“Vn.,for Rio do Janeiro,Brazil,
under orders to protect American in
terests.
A Washington dispatch of Thurs
j day says: Rear Admiral A. AV.
1 Weaver of the navy, "ill soon boro
* * v iv y x a *' i i 1 11 • t m , , ^ ..iia o, m * 11 *
, tired and Commodore George Brown,
now iu command of tho Norfolk navy
yard, "ill be promoted to tho vacancy,
The steamer F.l Cid, broke a record
on her maiden voyage from New Or
leans to New Aolk, where she arrived
Thursday, having made the trip from
} South Pass liar on the A1 iHsissippi riv
er, to Sunday Hook in four days, two
hours and twenty-five minutes.
A Knoxville, Tonn., special says:
For the first time in its history of
eighty-seven years, the University of
{Thursday i Tennessee was opened to women of
and hereafter members
the fair sex will ho admitted to this
institution on the same basis as men.
The board of InlnmI quarantine at.
Wilmington, N. C., held a meeting
| Thursday and quarantine restrictions
against several southern cities, which
, ] lll( ( ], een previously removed, were
i re-established as to Brunswick, Cl*,
Tho new quarantine will bo rigidly un
f„j. co( p
The worst fire that ever visited tho
town of Spencer, Mass., broke out
there Wednesday afternoon and re
j j„ , v total buildings loss of $250,000. In
Fully six acres of originated were
tally destroyed. The fire
j n t j„, f ro j K ‘ht, depot of the Boston and
Albany railroad,
After suspension little over two
i months ago, the First Natioual bank,
of Winston, N. Cl., will resume busi
ness. J. ( . Buxton, who has charge
of t)l() j nHt it u tion as examiner, was
, o^ted president; .Mm (1. Miller, of
| Dauvilie, Va., cashier. The bank re
j organized.. The People’s bunk, which
; a f,. w week»ago,will reopen
bef(>r „ Octal., r 1st.
RepreHentiitivuB of Mie Luwtoiioc
C( , ni( . nt |U|y> of New York, were
before the wayw and ineariH commit
t ,, 0 Thlirt , dll y „ lorl , illK arguing in fa
V()r 1(f t j |)( protection of American ce
Im . n t against foreign. It is claimed
nU( j,. r the operation of the McKinley,
l aw> that the price of Portland cement
j H |,, wer ed to consumer fifty cents*
, t |„] (|,„ amount of importation*
ami revenues increased.
pjttubnrg * Pa., and vicinity * is suf
^ h) K , u . '
|iM(mtcll froII1 llj(lt city .
()> ft ,
Thursday. Wholesalers are unable,
HfJVt f (> fjjj j lJ0 r<? thun ten per
C))n t of their orders. They sav the
j H chargeable directly to the
r ,. H , m ,| i M particularly exaspera- the fruit
t iug just now on aeeonnt of
can „ m g ftn ,| preserving season being
,( H | M .The scarcity applies only
to r ,.fi ri< .,| ..roductH.
^ ^ M .u UI1M »..i. u ^ . lVU .
^ ^ ^
* i S Tlnirw
: lltl( ’ u liicl, i lfiM |, 4 .<.»
aft( , r tl „. |„ mn | f ,„. ni0 u t| m j„ regard to
f t ■ i, 1M <itii1ion t for 1h< Lo ir
y t .«
tll( , r( . K) . ll)M wl . ()t t( , great expense to
.i.i . ■ • : ..... r | , u-ith
of the association. An
ol ] J( , r ,|,, IIJI4ll( j WUH The regents
flt t)i( . jr m , ,. tjn H|ll(( to tll(r ttHHOC j u .
tj(jn t)mt if i( w „ IjtH to lt can cancel
,. Vl j 1( , li( . v OI) th( . prop .
erty.
A sensation was caused at Jackson,
Miss., Thursday, when it, became
known that Air. \V. If. Gibb*, ex-post- 1
master, had been arrested on a war
rant sworn out by I’ostotfice Inspector
TIioiiihk charging the ex-postmaster
with the embezzlement of .8392.58
The: alh o il emb«zzleun-nt took place
during the last months of April, May
and June of this year, or just before
Gfhlis went out of office. Major Gibbs
appeared before cornrniH^iouer Mowriy,
waived examination ami was placed
under a 81.500 bond for Ins afipear
ance at tie* next term of the federal
court
SHELLING RIO.
The City Bombarded by the Brazilian
Rebel Fleet.
A Washington special of T hursday
says: Secretary Gresham has received
the following cablegram from Alinis
ter Thompson, at Rio:
“At 11 o'clock ibis in irnloK the
arv forces bombarded th* fort commanding Ihe
entrance to the harbor, aUo ibe auseml on the
wbarfm .he center of iha city. A few -ted s
were flre/1 mio the city, and a. woman killed
In tier rwideac ■ < ornruercial teleRrams have
agam Utn forbidden the Charleston has
Lot arrived ol
This dispatch practically department disposes that
the Lopes of the navy
thc cruiser Charleston had reached
Rio, and it 1* now believed that she
went direct to Montevideo vithouf
j touching at anv Brazilian port.
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TRADE REVIEW.
Dim & Co.’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
H. (J. Dun & Co .’h review of trade
| ‘ .....« ,
, hanks to the mills. ,, I he condition ,... of ,
grant industries has distinctly mended,
though still seriously depressed.
More important by tur tlinn any rise
instock in the fact that tnoro works
have resumed during the past week
than have stopped operation, so that
the producing force of tho country,
after months of constant decline, has
begun to increase. Dispatches men
tion twenty-eight textile and thirty
metal works which lmve resumed,
some only with part force, while
t wenty-live textile and nine iron works
■ It is expected that
must of the Fall river mills will start
soon, tho hands assenting to reduced
wages.
Tho money markets are more
] lPtt ithy; the premium on currency has
almost vanished; the embarrassments
j„ domestic exchanges have well nigh
disappeared, and while very little
money is yet available for commercial
or industrial loans, there is some re
lief in that respect also. September
1st tho output of iron fiirnacesiu blast
was only 85,500 tons weekly, against
107,042 August 1st, and 181,551 Alay
1st; so much loss than half tho pro
during forces were engaged, and yot
tho manufactories were so stagnant
that unsold stocks of pig iron in
creased 22,000 tons a week in August.
It, is stall'd that further reductions in
the output have been made since Hop
tciuhcr began. Soft steel 1ms reached
tho lowest point on record—$20 at
Pittsburgh, and substantially all rail
mills in the country are idle, but
there is a somewhat better demand for
hardware, wire rods, barbed wire anil
contracts for architectural implements
and supplies are reported at Chicago,
In cotton mills resumption of work
is quite general; the paper business is
doing better, the Troy paper and the
Illinois glass works are starting and
also several shoe factories.
While tho money markets have
grvutly (he improved, they are yet far
f rom norma.....million, and tho
{ jjops are in doubt. The monetary
H ituation lias changed hut little, for
t|„. ro has been an abundance of money,
(lI1( , OIlly coU fidenee in employing it'is
hiking.
Failures for the week have been only
328 in number, against 885 last week
and 430 for the weak preceding, and
I 25 in Canada against 38 for the same
week hint year. While one large mort
j gago company swells the aggregate of
liabilities for the week, the average of
the other failures was lower than
usual, 2(12 being for less than $5,000
each, and only four over $100,000
each.
FARMERS’ NATIONAL CONGRESS
,... ",c Delegu.c* ... , Mr » Georgia Appointed ( ,
by Gov. Norlhen.
'< l "> formers’ iiationul congress will
nie< t ut Siivauimli, <iu., December 12,
* !, M, 189.!. At the request of Hon.
h. 1. (.Jayton, of Imlianola, In.l.,*eo
retary ol the congress, Governor Nor
then lias appointed the following dele
gates to represent this state in tho
congress:
From tho Htate at Large— R. B.Bax
ter, Hparta; It. T. Nesbitt, Atlanta.
First Distriet-- G. Al. ltyals Havau
,,u 1 » ^ ^ Waynesboro.
ham, O. A. harry, .tiiJ Cuthbcrt. ’
1 Amer *
,c,iK ' '- v * l| '- M Danviib".
''’ . ,< ’ lwn urlb ,B Ktoru J A U V' ,lirttsh JoueH
,H ‘ * > - - '
Atl,l, v ‘ ttt - hum 11 V'ToaGr.Jxffit Broadnax. Walnut
Grove.
Sixth District—J. H. Mitchell,
/ebuloti; R. N. Lamar, Alilledgeviile.
Seventh District- James H. Har
lan, Calhoun; Dr. Beasley, Stilesboro.
Kiglith District VV. H. Mattox,
Flbertoti; Henry dcJarnette, F.aton
ton.
Ninth Distriet J. H. Nichols, Na
cooch. u; Janie* It. Brown, Canton.
Tenth District George Gilmore,
Warthen ; Tom Hardeman, Louisville.
Eleventh District- A. I*. Brantley,
Blockslicar; it. J. Denmark, Quitman,
THE COTTON CROP.
Report of the Department of Agrlcnl*
ture fur September.
The September cotton report of the
department of agriculture show* a de
cline from tho August condition of the
crop of full 7 points, tho average be
ing 74.3 this month, as against 80.4
last month. condi
This is the lowest September 70.
tion since 1881, which stood at
The condition in September, 1892,
waiJ 70.8. For the same month iu the
years 1891 and 1892 it was 82.7 and
gr, g respectively, Virginia,
qhe state averages ; are:
93; North , , Carolina, ,, . 7«, . South c„ n *L farn- CMO
, ] j j j a s 63; Georgia, <7; r ioriua, oo,
^) a y )ftrna> 7g; Mississippi, 78; Lotliai
j ? > 81 . Texas, ’ C3; Arkansas, 80;
Tennessee, C<.
Tho hurricane of August too 28th .. caus
ed much damage to the crop in the
, Carolina, South Caro
btataaof North
lina and Georgia, and in a less degree
in tha state of Florida