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THE OFFICIAL ORGAN i -o f- 1*1 It K coir S’ T Y, reweraraox, $t.oo mt, annum. . 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 I e 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 G ft I F F 1 N, GEORGIA, Manufacturers of H i S 83 f \/ r a y agfe||Hi| * - < A 1^ a : sfetfi ^2, 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. , Siimniti's HEADQUARTERS 1<GR r i afFiagf;S ? Bkfgiei and 5 OOO PLOW-EOES |.T BOTTOM PRICES! Barnesville, Ga. Connto HottmaL i Vs5^ 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 «»> «< o- .............. 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 ___ 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. PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY —AT— ZEEULON, - - -ISY I’AliUY LEE. A SPLENDID ADVERTISING AGENT. WASHINGTON, I). C. MO V EM ENTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND UTS ADVISERS. 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.