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1*1 It K coir S’ T Y,
reweraraox, $t.oo mt, annum.
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Edgar L. Rogers!
Sweeping- Summer KeduotionsJ
■mm ari cur low in wm uni
From this date for 30 days I propose to make
a cut in prices on everything in my store re
gardless of cost I do this in order to convert
goods into cash, and to CLEAR MY STORE to
make room for my Tremendous Fall and Win
ter stock that I am now buying.
THIS IS NO GUSH
or blow just for sentiment, but a plain.
GOLD BUSINESS TRUTH.
f mean every word of it. My entire stock will be subjected to this reckless cut
e in prices, but I will nut deepest on
DRESS GOODS A^D CLOTHING l
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am not scared or overstocked on anything, but I want the roam that thes
goods oecupy and the ntriney that is invoked in tlum..
MY BARGAIN COIJ.NTIUl
,-Will be a-;
NEW DEPARTURE FORBARNESVILLE
But I am going to have one on a big scale and show the people what a Bargain
Counter means. Lookout for my Bargain Counter! Cash is the
powerful lever with which I propose to raise a tensatiou
in the dry goods and clothing trade next
seuson, and cash I will have if low prices are any inducement.
Now to the Point,
When yon have a cent or a dollar to invest
call for next 30 days and get mv cut figures.
PRICES, IT TALE, IS TBE MOTTO.
FOURS TRULY,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga., July 1, 1881).
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
Osborn – Wolcott
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Manufacturers of
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER
Repairing done neatly, substantially and with dispatch. Home-made wagons war.
ranted. A car load of
Tennessee Wagons Just Received.
Best hand made harness always on hand. Wo can suit yon. Don’t lose your
by investing in worthless vohicles and machine made harness. Dealers in
Money
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
l-ivrry kind of House Material constantly on band, and cm; make anything you
want. Manufacturers, aiso.ot
ENGINES AND BOILERS
SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FARM
MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS
CwrrY afnil line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine Fixtures. Can make
r pair anything from a Baby’s Cradle to u Locomotive.
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VOL. 1.
ZEBU LON, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1880.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
sews 1BOM EVERYWHERE-—AOC1HENTS, STBIXBS,
FIUES, AND IUFPESIN08 OF INTEBEST.
A hurricane raged at the port of Buo
nos Ayres Siturday, which did great
damage to shipping.
Ihe town of Dubno, Russia, was de
stroyed by fire Monday. The loss is
enormous.
The manufacturers of window formed glass,
table glass and crockery have a
■’tiust.”
An earthquake was^xperienced on the
Russian frontier Tuesday. In the village
of Khenzorik 129 persons were buried
alive.
The fine passenger steamer, Common
wealth, was burned tc- tho water’s edge
in less than three quarters of an hour at
Cincinnati, loss Ohio, Sunday night. The
ir about $30,00(5.
Tho schedulo showing liabilities of the
insolvent wool firm of Brown, Steese –
Clark, of Boston, Mass., was filed in the
insolvency court oti Monday morning.
It; shows liabilities of $1,180,000.
1ms A formed combination buy of eastern capitalists lands
to all the coal
along the Monouguhela River, including
franchise*, lauding, boats, good will,
etc., and control the river coal business.
The Get man police have uneart hed a
socialist society whose organization ex
tends throughout the province of Gnli.
tia. Many lawyers, students and ladies
connected with the society have been
arrested.
released ‘■Jimmy” Hope, the bank burglar, was
from Auburn, N. Y., prison
Friday, having served a term, and was
immediately arrested for alleged com
plicity in the Manhattan bank burglary
in October, 1878.
Biruuni and Bailey’s circus was
wrt eked Thursday night near Potsdam,
N. Y., while en route to Montreal over
the Watertown fine horses and Ogdensburgrailroad, loss
several were killed. The
to the circus is about $40,000.
An investigation of the accounts of W.
E. Denny, assistant postmaster at I5omie
vile, ind., who is charged with embez
zlement in his office, allows that the
shortage amounts to $6,000, and may
reach more. Penny has not yet been ap
prehended.
Tuesday diameter, evening a bomb, ten centime
ters in was thrown from the
rear of the chamber of deputies into the
Piazza Colena, in Spain, during the
progress of a Conceit. The bomb ex
ploded, wounding seriously six gen
darmes and a child.
Dispatches from Egypt say that famine
prevai s at Khartoum, Kassala, Tokar
and other river towns, Tho survivors
are said to be feeding upon the bodies of
the dead. About twenty deaths from
starvation daily are reported ut Tokar.
John B. Mass., Mackintosh, wool puller Tuesday. of
Milton, assigned estimated on the
His liabilities are to be in
neighborhood of $100,000. The assign
ment was caused by the embarrassment
»f Brown, Steese – Clark, and George
Holds.
The slice factory of A. Coburn, Son –
Co.,, at Ilopkinsou, Mass., was burned
Tuesday morning. Over three hundred
workmen are deprived attached of employment.
One store house to the factory
was abo rieriroyed. The loss is esti
mated at $250,000, fully insured.
At Chicago, II. J. Huiskamp, one of
the proprietors of the Tinm, procured and
his warrants secretary, Tuesday Charles for James K. Graham. J. West He
charges them with illegally issuing 1,000
shares of the stock of the Times com
pany.
It is repotted from St. Louis that the
fust mail train which arrived in that city
Saturday night over the Vandalia iloau,
was robbed at Terte Haute, Indiana,
while the mail clerks and train hands
Were at supper. It is said that one
pouch, containing The pouch registered supposed letters, was
taken. was to
contain about $10,000.
The J. II. Mahler company, of St.
Paul, Minn., one of the l^est carriage
and wagon houses in the West, made a
voluntary assignment Saturday. The
statement of assets and liabilities has not
yet been filed, but operations, from the magnitude liabili
of tn« company’s the
ties will probably nut fall short of $500,
Oi.O.
The Sterne Chittenden building, at
Columbus, O., was burned Sunday.
The principal losers are Candy Hill Bros., –
restaurant curs, $15,000; A. N.
Co., clothing, $9,000; Patterson Merrill
Wallpaper Co., $15,000; Theo. Faul
haber, hatter, Chittenden’* $8,000, heirs building, $15,000, $45,000; and
Sterne
several others. $2,000 or less.
The trial of the six men, Burke, Wood
ruff, Coughlin, Beggs, O’Sullivan and
Kunze, charged with the murder of Dr.
Cronin, on May 4th, was begun at Chi
cago, on Tuesday. Probably no case iu
the history of the city has attracted such
wide-spread attention as the Cronin
murder case, and the trial will be
watched with great interest.
The spring lake reservoir, near Fi-k
viile, in the southwest corner of Crans
ton, about fifteen miles from Providence,
It. I , which supplies the whole row
mill villages along Pawtucket Iiiver,
buist Sunday afternoon. Three
were drowned, and some damage done eigh- to
property. The reservoir covered
teen acres and contained about 35,000,
000 gallons of water.
The immense packing house of Swift
<– Co,, at Kansas City, was almost de
roved by fire on Sunday. During
fir,.- Master Mechanic Tate fell from
roof of the building while attempting
duicend by a rope, and was
killed. The total loss on the building,
machinery and stock is placed at
000, with $100,006 insurance,
with forty-two companies.
Margaret W. Yapp, of White Bear,
Minn., brought suit in the district
at St. Pant, on Saturday, against the 8f.
Paul Globe for $10,000 damages for libel,
ihe aik-ged libelous artiebs ate two
ee rams printed in the Globe on
16 anil" 19, bended “Unworthy “Mrs. Yapp belief,”
toitely,” and of
spectively. Both articles accuse Mt».
Yapp of being guilty of perjury.
The entire plant uf tho Union Fur
naco wiped compauy, existence of Rockford, Ill., was
out of Monday night by
the most disastrous)!fire that ever oc
culted in that vicinity. It broke out in
the the finishing buildings, room, and in threo hours
slructuree, two - large four story
were in ashes. Not a thing
was saved. The comDany will loso
nearly $100,000, on which there is only
$40,000 insurance.
Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, tido
graphed Monday General Manager Devlin on
to discharge all employes of the
Spring Valley coal company at Spring
needed Valley, III., who wets not absolutely
to run the mini-, anu io prepare
for a general shut down for six months
or a year. This means a practical de
population of the town. Many Chieago of the
miners have already le't. The
and Northwestern Railroad 1ms closed
down its Spring Valley branch, and dis
charged line. all the men at their end of the
People residing in tlri section bounded
and by Parish, Brown, WestjCollege avenue
Pa., Twenty-eighth afraid streets Philadelphia, liiaht
were to retire Monday
for fear that their dwellings would be
swallowed up and that they would be
killed. A succession lif the most start
ling eavo in of streets, of breaking pipes, of
sewers, and bursting water
reigned result in that district on Monday estima- as a
of the recent rails. It is
ted that $100,000 worth of damage has
been caused thus far.
The great strike in Loudon, which
was inaugurated several days ago, is
gaining new adherents hourly. Fight
thousand sailors and fireman and two
thousand livo hundrel doekmen at the
Isle of Dogs, where several large author- docks
are located, have gone out. The
ities are holding military in readiness to
suppress an outbreak should it occur.
The coal porters at Kings Cross have
also joined in the strike. A conference
took place on Monday beiweeu the dock
manageis and delegates lrom tho striking
IaboriiJ8, but it was without result.
The statement of the business of the
Norfolk mid Western Railroad company
for July, 1889, as Compared with the
same month last year, shows the grois
earnings to be $457,580, au increase oi
$50,444; expenses, $279,522, an increase
of 428, 142: net earnings, $178,208, an
increase of $22,302. For the seven
months ended July 31st the gross earn
ings were $2,985,4*24, an increase of
$254,163, ns compared with the corres
ponding period of |888; expenses, $1.
925,060, an increase of $252,400; net
earnings, $1,599,764, an increase ot
$1,764.
TERRIBLE CLOUD-BURSTS.
NORTH CAROLINA BUFFERS UNTOLD DAM
AOES—TUB LATEST DISASTER.
Cloudbursts in North Carolina this
year lire proving more disastrous than
ever known before in the been hiatorv reported of the
ritalC. am fur eluht have
since Muy first, and great damage lias
been done. The latest di-aster caused
by cloud bursts occurred iu Richmond
county Monday night, and the town of
Rockingham, on the C. C. railroad sus
i ains the heaviest lois. The cloudburst
half a mile above the town, right, over Ihe
lVrti-c river,and instantly the stream was
swollen out of its batiks, and went dash
ing down upon the town, cnirying nearly
l-Vc rything before it. Several small
cabins on the low bottoms were
washed away and the ocupants were
com pallid to flee for (heir lives.
Five, miles of the C. C. Railroad is
washed out completely, and all tele
graphic communication* are cut off by
the terrible floods. The report at a late
hour Monday night t tys that great dam
age lots Leou done the Roberdel, Great
Kails, Peedee and Ml Iwoy cotton mills.
Koine cotton factories are said to be
wasl ed completely away, or so near it
that they ore totally mined. It is feared
that many people have been drowned.
No istimutu be i f the less or further partic
u ars can Seamed at present.
TO MEET IN CHATTANOOGA
THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE CUM
BERLAND FAVORED I1Y THE RAILROADS.
It is reported Merchants’ from Chattanooga, and Miners’
Term., that the
line of boats have announced a round
trip fare of $30.67 Lorn Bnton and
Providence, via Norfolk and East Ten
nessee Road to Chattanooga and return,
on the occasion of the meeting of the
society of the Array of tho Cumberland,
in Chattanooga, September 18, 19 and 20.
This ha* been met by the Louisville and
Nash vibe, with a rate of one Cent a mile
to all brigades in Illinois and Indiana,
and it was announced Saturday that the
Queen and Crescent made the same rate.
This has created gieat consternation in
railroad circles, and it is probable that
ail roads leading into Chattanooga will
make the same rate oh the occasion of
the meeting of the rociety of the Army
of the Cumberland, one be ef the the formiug principal of
features of which will
a society of veterans of both armies.
Worl was received at Chattanooga that
the brigade which w;m commanded by
President Harrison will attend the reun
ion in a body, and that the president has
consented to accompany them, announced. though
this has not been officially
THEIR NAME 18 LEGION.
NUMEROUS A IMPLICATIONS FOR A COLLEGE
PKOFE.W01181HP.
An elect j on j 9 (o |, e } ic ld by the trus
ices of the College of Charleston, S. C.,
(lU September 10, fora professor of mod
ern languages and an assistant professor $1,000
0 f mathematics, the salary being The
C8C jj > without board or lodging. it
fact wa3 advertised, and ns strange as
may gecm) there are not less than
one hundred and fifty-eight applicants
foI ttie tw0 positions. Brill stranger,
ttiev j. a jp f rom nearly all over the world,
York heads the list with one
hundred and twenty-six candidates.
8outh Carolina furnishes Six, New Jersey
an d Ma sachusetts three <aeh, Germany
two, British Columbia two, France one,
Washington Territory one. supported The.ooflege
is Over :t century cl i and is by
end .wmenta and not by state or munici
pal aid. Its roil of students rarely runs
over thirty, and it is entirely a day col
lego.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
items OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS dOINO ON OF
IMFOBTANCE IN THE SOUTHEBN STATES.
Theodore . Carant „ ... the dtst.nguished .... . , ,
v. lm'st, dropped dead Saturdaym New
us '
T ^ lorida’a delegation of Grand Army of
the Republic left Friday for the Milwau
keo encartipm <nt.
A Carpenter’s strike is in progress in
settlement Birmingham, Ala. No prospects for a
are at present in sight.
Tuesday. Granny Boston died at Murphy, N.C„
Sho was one hundred and
twenty-one years old, a pensioner, and
remembered ' the Imttle of Kim's " moun
min.
,, . Y’ I l, ! 1 a l'JL omln . ® nt ,
awycr and notary pubbe, r’ of r New Or
months Im^andered ago It hits'been ascertained
that $100,000 of other
8 money.
•I. 1 lie Southcru Dental association, . , after
being in session at Galveston, Texas,
since Friday. Tuesday, The concluded its labors on
association will meet uoxt
year in Atlanta, Ga., on tho third Tues
day in July.
One drug house in Vicksburg, Miss.,
received orders for fifteen tons, or 80,01)0
pounds of Paris green a few days ago.
This fact demonstrates the extent of Hie
apprehension felt by cotton planters
concerning the cotton worms in tho large
area of country t.ibutnry to or trading
with that city.
A sharp shock of earthquake occurred
at Los Angeles, Cal., at (5:13 Tuesday the dia
evening. Tho entire duration of The
turbauce was about ten seconds.
vibrations were of such force as to stop
clocks and crack ceilings. Tbe shock
was the most severe experienced there iu
many years.
Tho United _ Slates circuit . court, . at .
San Francisco, was officially of informed inuider
Tuesday that the charges
against Justice Stephen Stockton J. h leld had
been dismissed by the court,
Judge Sawyer accordingly dismissed the
habeas corpus Field. proceeding in the cuso of
Justice
A joint stock company is being formed
at Tallulah, Ga., to build a $100,000
hotel, to be located near Ridge, the grand
chasm, north of the Blue and
Atlantic railroad,and an elevator will be
put down to the falls from the Grand
view park, thence a cable line narrow
gauge road will reach all the grand
points at Tallulah.
About one hundred negro miners left
Binuiuvhsm, Ala., on Tuesday in the coal for Mex
ico. They go to work mines
in one of the interior states of that, re
public. High wages and liberal induce
uiuiiCH ut vaiiuuw ivluClo arc offered the
negroes. Most of the negro minor. a t
Bnminghnm arc ex-convicta, and learned
the trade while serving their sentence.
Reports were received at Charleston,
8. C,, from the Ashehoo rice fields, on
Monday, by F. W. Wagoner, E. I!.
Means and other big planters, that har
vesting had been commenced. It is es
timated that the fields in that vicinity
will yield from fifty to sixty bushels per
acre. Reports from the entire rice re
gion of the state confirm this statement.
Little Mamie Parker, fourteen years
old, died Sunday afternoon medicine at Nashville,
Tenn., from the effects of ad
ministered to her by iter little cousin,
Bessie Woods. They with were playing pretend- doc
tor -with each other, Bessie
ing to be tho physician. pills, which Sho made resulted her
little cousin take ten
ih her death in a short time.
'The annual statement of the shipments
of watermelons from the melon region of
South Carolina is out. The area planted
is 8,000 acres and the shipments 1,880
car loads, or about three milliou melons
against 785 car loads last year, and 759
in 1887. Of these New York took 022;
Philadelphia 298; Baltimore 2(57, and
Boston 68 car loads.
A wholes poisoning occurred at
Chattanooga, Tenn.,ou Monduy, through
the use of impure tainted meat. A. col
ored woman named Wildhnm keeps a
boarding house, and has ten men board
ers. One hour after d.nner, all the
boarders, including the woman and her
daughter, were taken violently ill, and
al I have been unconscious since. The
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FOUR MURDERERS SWING.
ALL Of THEM SUFFER DEATH FOR ItUR
Ill-: HI NO WOMEN.
Th® four murderers of women -Rat
rick Packenhntn, Jack Lewis, colored,
James Nolan and Ferdinand Carotin,
were banged in the yard of the Tombs
prison, New York, Friday morning.
There were two scaffolds, and two men
were hanged on each. Pnckcnliatn attd
Nolan were first executed on the scaffold
which had been erected on the Franklin
street side of the prison. The drop fell
at 6:56 o’clock. Eight minutes later
Lewis and Carolin were hanging from
the scaffold on the Leonard street side.
Tho crimes for which the men were hung,
briefly to’d, are as follows: Patrick
Pitekenbam, the patriarch ot the. murder
ers, cut Its wife’s throat with a razor,
killing her instantly. Jack Lewis
and killed a woman named Alien Jack
son. James Nolan murdered a woman,
whom ho induced to leave her husband
and share her fortunes with him.
soon quarrelled, however, and while
der the influence of liquor he shot
dead. Ferdinand Carotin murdered
woman named Bridget butchered Quinn,
passed as his wife, fie
with a hatchet
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A TRAMP AUCTION,
Four tramps, arrested at Mobcxly,
Mo. for vagrancy, were put up at public
aue. tion, Monday, from the c urt house
sieps. The sale had been duly adver
used according to law, and there was a
large crowd present. The bidding was
not very spirited. Two of the tramps
went to farmers for $2 a head, and an
other was bid in for 75 cents The
fourth tramp could find no purchaser.-, three who
,nd he returned to ja.s. The
were sold must serve their purchaser* for
four months
NUMBER 41.
REVIEW OF TRADE
FOR WEEK ENDING AUGUST 24TB, AS
COMPILED BT DUN * 00.
Following is B. G. Dun – Oo.’b re
view of trade for the week ending Au- of
gust 24. The monetary pressure
which so many warnings have been given,
uiprovement operated during the week to modify the
£ in the * general trade due to
ellent crop pr0 ott . The suspen .
sion of important bills, resulting houses lrom
the recent failures of commission
comes just when thoro were brighter
prospects for manufacturers than at
previous times in mild weather and over
production lagt Winter. With orders in
s ; ght, if the mills could go on, it is said,
ell liabilities could soon be met, but if
thi » b ® lact - lt 8ll0W9 tlle ®* te nt of P res -
Bur0 1,1 commercial , money markets,
From all quarters improvement in busi
uess is reported with tine prospects for
the Fall trade consequent actual" upon laigo
crops. £ At Chicago * the transac
lio are 4bout c oM to Ust year-, m
‘lothing, u little larger in boots and shoes,
£ Tad. *£5
points, excepting as to sugar, for which
1 ho demand has boon much affected by
ihe operations of tho trust, and raw is
$c lower. Coffee is in bettor demand and
jo higher, and the serious injury to the
eastern potato V crop by wet weather le.s
caused sharp advance. Butter and
eggs are also liightr, and cotton 3-lGc
tor .poo', notwithstanding a decline of
ic in print cloths. Splendid crop pros
peels begin to have their legitimate ef
feet upon prices of breadstuffs :and pro
visions. Hogs have declined this week
20 cents per half 100 pounds, lard barrel 12 cents Oats
nnd pork dollar per
GeD ^ 1, ‘* t«Jr wx.h sales of
, bll8ll cls, and wheat ha ‘ *
j-hued 1J cents, with sales only 7J l ' ‘
busbe .
1011 a 10 B P e ? u
movement in , wheat has been defeated , .
by liberal receipts from the farmer and
when the farmers market freely early m
the season, Urn prospect for the
trade is excellent, and monetary pressure
n0 ^. u8 y ft py 0 f long darntjon. Tho
} ron ant ^ 8 teel business appears still more
encouraging to most producers and deal*
<Jrs aH( j g 0 me furnaces have this week
k e(jn producing force. Happily
th(J f orc i gll trade at present ji threatens no
declinej –n(] wb e imports have
been 28 per cent, larger than in August
last year there has also been an increase
of 22 per cent, in exports from New
York. Business failures occurring
throughout the country during the last
seven days, as reported to R. G. Dun –
Co. Mercantile agency, by telegraph, and
number for tire United States 120,
for Canada 10, or total of 206 as corn
pared with total of 211 last week and 213
week previous to Inst. For the eorre
sponding week of last year figures were
214, made up of 187 in the United btates
and 27 in Cattails.
ANOTHER T uro essaqu-iio SMA8H UP.
A TRAIN OOKS OVER A CLIFF, DEALING
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
A terrible collision occurred Friday
morning on the Baltimore – Ohio Rail
road, between Petroleum and Silver Run
tunnel, about twenty-three miles east of
Parkersburg, W. Va., in which three men
were instantly killed and many
wounded. The accommodation train
coming west, due at Parkersburg at 12
o’clock, crashed into a special train oc
cupied by railroad magnates on a tour of
inspection. The trains came together
wilh a crash at a curve east of Petroleum
and between that point and Bilver Run.
Both trains were running collided, at the a rapid
»j, to.., ami wlien they spe
cial train and engine, tender and baggage
car of the accommodation Went over the
cliff. James Layman, engineer of the
accommodation, in one of the Baltimore oldest engi- –
neers the employ of the
Ohio lfoad, was crushed Layman, to death. the Alex.
Bailey, fireman for on ac
commodation, was also crushed. Ceptius
Rowland, also one of the oldest engi- and
neers, was caught under the wreck
had one leg broken and received internal
injuries from which he cannot recover.
John Plc ^‘' , ' special,
wafl 8lso 1 1 f etcher stuck to his
e n K ,D . « af,d V ret “ rt:( de,lt >‘ t0 tf >?
tion . of Jus post, and went over the bank
J n th® * r «>k. He was cut. and crushed
to officials a V le f l>fcar teg was occupied rfiuhed. by
on inspect tom,
Headmaster J. A. Hunter was badly ri
J urea - Iu the accommodation.toil were
sssr.t’i.tar'’
A DAY OF CASUALTIES.
KI011T PEOPLE BILLED IN ONE- DAT ON
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROADS.
Monday will probably go down as the
uo iKt un.ueky day for tramps and drunken
men ever known in North Carolina. Bn
far as reported, eight men “.were on that
day run over and kited on railroads.
i i,ring the early morning Joe Caldwell,
colored, was run over and instantly
killed on the Richmond – Danville road.
S. O. Tanner and Robert Haider, both
white, were in the afternoon run over
and killed on the Air-Line, near the
bury. They were lying upon pieces,
and were both crushed to not
iiegroo-, whose names could
1, arned, were found, during the
jut to prices on the railroad near
Point, The train bad passed they over
put it is believed that were
Jercd and placed on the track, A
vram says two white men were run
mi the North Carolina railroad
Durjium Monday night, killed and^
mutilated. They were
A PENITENTIARY BLAZE.
One of the most exciting conflagra
tions that has visited Columbus, O., in
years, occurred at the Ohio penitentiary started
Tuesday afternoon. The flames
in the factory building occupied by the
Columbus chair company, and had made
K reat headway when discovered. Before
the flames could be got under control,
the chair factory, Columbus bolt works,
an d a large warehouse were total
The prisoners were locked io their cells,
but the lights had not been put out,
K Chair , cat consternation lose $15,000, _prevaMed, bolt
company Brush company
,- 4(0 00, Corner
$10,000, and th* total loss win
$93,000.
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ArFOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHKIt MATTEM
OF INTEBSST FBOSI THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The secretary of the treasury on Mon
day afternoon accepted $1,465,550 four
percents registered at 128, and $100,
000 four and a half per cents registered
at 1015 J.
Tho bonds purchased Tuesday, by reached the treasury the
department on ',000. un
usually large total >.t t'c register^ :
wore all four per cent,
and were bought at 128, I ■ . y
The acting secretary of war n
pended the order twansferna® Surgeon
]> 0 rter from Jacksonville, Flu., to Jack
son Barracks, La. It is-probable that he
will be permitted to remsr.q in' in the pres
,.nt station indefinitely ...pleWf conformity
w-ith the desire of th- Florid*.
The treasurer of the United Shales hu
“ tU ^
tm ibiire. 0 f , he United States at New
’ to supply ' 'u notes and silver
( , nte9 of sm a denominations to banks
or( j cr iDg them in sums not less than
*[ f ’ oo<)
If mmihcial ,,, . , which . • , ... ! as
an n nor
[.o^j^will ^ *dve a most eomieuVellc. 1 to
f remonstranceof the Canadians
a f™t/oush . f tl \ fn ,,r u Je revenue
tire BetoingSea th<r*team The
6turV b, to the effect Umt seat
“ ... , i - i „ in.larj ii ie first
^^ ^ oW
d if not 1 b y citizens of the
p T „; te( j stares. This information came
(0 ( ) ie department incidentally while a
quiet inquiry was being made into the
truth of the statement, that the United
v i oe . oon8U l at Victoria is largely
ted ju soine colonial vessels ille
Kelly scaling in Behring o«« sea. __________
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
VESSELS AND VALUABLE CA MOOES BURNED
IN CALIFORNIA WATERS.
Dispatches from Ban Francisco say;
The town of Port Costa, on Carwuinz
straits, which is the grain center of Cali
fornia, was, on Monday, the scene of a
destructive fire, involving originated a total loss in of
about $000,000. The fire a
warehouse owned by G. W. McNear –
Co., add containing 7,000 tons of grain.
Within two hours the building and had, con
tents were a total loss, and the fire
in the meantime, communicated to the
warves and shipping alongside. and The thq
American wooden ship Armenia, both
British wooden ship Ilonowaur, burned
partially loaded with wheat, were
to the water’s edge. The rigging of the
British ship Kenilworth caught fire, but
before any serious damago had occurred
to her hull, sho was towed into the
stream, and her hold flooded. She had
a cargo of nearly 8,000 tons of wheat on
board, which will prove nearly a total
loss. In additition to the warehouse
and wharves, forty freight cars of the
Southern Pacific company, loaded with
grain, were burned. The loss on tho
ware house and contents is placed esti- at
$850,000, upon which there was an
mated total insurance of $104,000.
The wharves were valued at * GO, -
000, and were insured for $48,000.
The Armenia was valued at $80,000.
The ilonowaur was valued at $50,000.
The Armenia had 800 tons of wheat,
valued at $28,4t»0, fully insured. 'Jho
Ilonowaur had 200 tons <-f wheat, valued
at $23,000, fully insured, The Kenil
worth’s cargo was valued at $9,000,
which was also fully insured.
EPIDEMIC AMONG CATTLE.
A DISEASE SUPPOSED TCI BE TEXAS FEVER,
RAO INC! IN SOUTHERN KANSAS.
Reliable news of the greatest impor
tance to cattlemen in all sections of the
United Stales comes from the southern
line of Kansas and pasture lands of In
dian Territory. There has been for some
time a suspicion among cattle dealers
that herds of native and Texas cattle
which range in the territory were afflicted
with the Texas fever. A mail wanted
William Johnson has just returned from
a tiip to Oklahoma, and passed through
the country where the herds Hre pastured, af
lie says that not only are the natives
flicted but thorough Texans are of dying Ar
by hundreds in the pastures south
kansas City. The symptoms are exactly
the same as the Texas fever but thorough
Texans have never been known to die of
the disease, lie says cattle are being
shipped to market from the pastures
where carcasses are lying in hundreds and
of the same brands of those good shipped rough and for
that they are considered
dinners’ slock and everything much goes.
The cattlemen are becoming
alarmed. Among the cattle raisers it is
the actual belief that the disease is not
Texas fever, hut something even of more the
serious. It is said the managers
Kansas City stock yards will take imme
diate action in the matter, and try to
prevent the shipping of cattle from
points where the disease is raging.
SURPRISING DISCOVERY.
TfATUKAL GAB FOUND IN A NORTH GEOR
GIA TOWN.
On Friday, while the Dalton, Ga., gas
company wore making an excavation for
their gas bolder, they struck natural gas
at the depth of ten feet. One of the di
rectors, wishing to test the matter, ap
plied a lighted match to a hole in the
rock from which the gas seemed to come,
and very much to his surprise it ignited,
the blaze shooting up ten feet high, and
burning off his beard, eyebrovvs, etc.
The strangest part of the affair is, that
instead of preparing a place to make gas,
the company has probably found it al
ready prepared. The discovery has at
tracted considerable .attention, as natu
ral gas was not thought to exist in that
locality.
Both the Russians and the British, as
they push farther and farther into Asia,
pay great attention to arboriculture,
nlanting trees, shrubs and flowers where
tver they form a settlement. 'The result
« that Central A*i* is being reforested.