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On this day will 1 begin my reign of
terror to high priced competition and
will give to my trade a schedule of pri
ees that will talk for themselves.
I have bought more goods in nil lines
market this season before. than was My cash ever brought buy with to this has
to
been all-powerful in my heavy purchas
es, and to sell goods cheaper than any
house in Georgia, will be my chief aim.
I keen everything and it would be fool
ish to try to attempt to enumerate even
in part, my grand array of bargains that
1 ha ve in st ore for the peopl e.
CLOTHING.
[ still hold the trade on all grades of
clothing. Besides a full line ui men*a
youth’s and children’s suits in cheaper
and medium prices, I have the exclusive
control of the celebrated Voorheis, Mil
clothing. ler – Ruple, and Strouse – Bros, fine
Dr«ss Gocdsf
This season has produced some rare
and pretty styles in dress goods and
trimmings, and 1 have made this branch
of my business a special study. I chal
lenge the state to have. produce a fuller line frin- of
novelties than I My stuck of
best ges' braids, specialty etc., are the products of the
factory in t he country.
BOOTS AND SHOES
k 'w hole ear load of hoots awl shoe*
just received places we in the lead. Give
me a trial and X will guarantee you a net
saving of 25 per cent, on yoar purchases
and make a lasting customer of you.
l can say without exoneration and that I have more of these goodft than an^ three
houses in this section, prices will not ho in the way of their sale.
BP^All domestics will be sold at strictly factory prices. Hemember this.
For fiauiiels, jeans, cassimeres, tickings, and table linens, towels, calicos, trunks, va
lises, notions, all etc,, give me a look be convinced. strictly
I will sell goods on a very close margin to cash customers on Sept. 15
Come to see me. -l goods am the only sell. merchant here occupying two immense store
rooms and have the to Yours Truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga., Sept 1 1.889
N. B. Messrs. J. F. Howard, L. A. CoUtorand Edgar Cook are with me aud in
vite all their friends to see them.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
OsLorn – Wolcott
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
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 ou hand. We can suit you. Don’t, lose your
money by Investing in worthies* vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers ifi
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
K\crykin-i of House Material constantly on hand, and o»Bsnake anything you
want. Manufacturers, also, of
ENGINES AND BOILERS,
SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FARM
MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS
Carry a full line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine Fixtures, Can make or
repair anything from a Baby's Cradle to a Locomotive.
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unto 'Journal ♦
SEBULON. GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1880.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS' IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS OOINO ON OF
IMroBTANOK IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.
The Atlantic and Danville railroad was
formaly opened Monday between Dan
ville, Va., and Milton, N. C., by uu
excursion of business men.
The directors of the Ladies’ Hermitage
association of Nashville, on Tuesday sent
an invitation to tho delegates of the in
ternational congress to visit the homo of
Andrew Jackson.
The Hamilton county, Tenn., fivo per
rent, twenty year bridge bonds on Tues
day sold to Forster. Leech – Co., of
Chicago, garded for 104 satisfactory. plus. The sale is re
as most
The village of Cambria, Cal., was al
most entirely destroyed by fire Tuesday.
The post-office, telegraph nnd express
offices were totally destroyed. The total
loss is about $125,000; insurance about
$12,000.
One of the largest charters over south, granted
to any corporation in tho was
grant! d by the superior court of Georgia,
by which tho Southern Home Building
and Loan association, of Atlanta, Ga.,
was incorporated, with authority to do
lnoiness in Georgia or any other state,
The authorized capital stock is $20,000,
000 .
A war among tlic boats on the Chatta
Ga., hoochee Tuesday, wns inaugurated and the half at Columbus, will
on rate
prevail hereafter. Cotton will bo trans
ported to Brunswick for fifty-live cents a
bale instead of per hundred pounds us
heretofore. The right promises to he u
lively one.
Tho statement is now made at New
Orleans upon what appears to be good
authority, that irregularities have been
discovered in wliat is known as the
“baby” bonds, commencing at number
102,000. Nearly allot the “baby” bonds de
above 102,000 are fraudulent. Tho
falcation already insight will reach more
than 1,200,000.
The grand jury Tuesday of the parish investigated of Or
leans, La., met aud
the state bond fraud. 'I hesession of the
grand jury lasted four hours, and niue
Indictments were found charged against with fraud some
person or persons No given,
and embezzlement, names are
but it seems to be will understood that
ex-treasurer K. A. Burke is a party in
each case.
Governor Fowl®, of North Carolina, in
reply to the letter from tho secretary of
war, suggesting the removal of the In
dians nt Mount Vernon barracks to the
mountain sections of North Carolina, ex
presses disapproval of the proposition, rapid settle- as
that section is in process of
ment by the whites, and suggests that
the. Indians be located on the abandoned
lauds of Vermont.
The Chattanooga, Tenu., / iiiuk. pub
lished reports from seventy -live of ninety
six counties comprising the state of Ton
mssee showing an increase of value ol
real aud personal property of twenty six
million dollars over assessment of 1888,
and nn increase of one hundred million
over the assessment of 1880. An increase
of one hundred million dollars in taxa
tiles in three years is unprecedented in any
dale in the union.
The Mayo chartered Bridge in – improvement the circuit com
pany was court
st Richmond, Va., on Saturday. The
objects are to run a toil bridge between
Richmond and Manchester and other
points over the James River and else
where. Also to construct steam, elec
trical, horse and other railways, to erect
buildings, mills, etc., to furnish gua and
electric light, to utilize water power,
etc. The capital stock is to be from
$50,000 to $100,000.
Monday closed the Danville Ya., to
bacco year. The sales of leaf tobacco on tho
warehouse floors for the year were 28,
903,368 pounds, a decrease fr-.m Inst
year’s sides of two and a half millions.
The average price was $8.75 per hundred.
The decrease in the sales was due to a
shOrtcrop. The sales of the manufac
tured product since January were
$5,807,000 pounds, an increase over the
same time last year of nearly two million
pounds.
A dispatch from Birmingham, the Ala.,
says: “Six hundred miners at Coal
berg coal mines of tlie Sless Iron arid
Steel Company went out on a strike Tin s
dav morning. The company lias been
paying fitly cents per ton tor mining
nnd fifty cents at slopes where tho vein
was thin, Last week they notified the
men of a reduction to fiity cents at some
of tho slopes, where they had been pay
ing fifty-five, and at a meeting reduction of the
miners a strike against the was
ordered.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
A COLLISION IN WHICH FOUR TEOPLE AUK
KILLED AND TWENTY BADLY INJURED.
The St. Louis express which left Al
bany, N. Y., Friday night, met with a
bad accident about two miles east of
Palatine Bridge at about midnight. stopped The for
first section broke down and
repairs. The rear brakemun was sent
back to signal the second section, but for
seme reason failed to perform his duty.
As a consequence, the second section
telescoped into ti c first section, which
was mads up of the baggage, mail, ex
press and three passenger cars,
packed with people, and a Wagner
sleeper on the end. Four dead bodici
have been taken out of the sleep
er, and twenty others who were in the
sleeper were seriously injured.
A BRIDAL COUPLE KILLED.
AMBUSHED WHILE RETURNING FROM THEIR
fekw WEDDING TRIP.
-art creek, Lincoln county,
Ifemrcficid and his newly
BSyaiturning H^uvhen home they aftei
were
HHHlKl thcno-ali.
say
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DISCUSSING THE TARE.
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SOME RESOLUTIONS OP VAST IMPORTANCE
TO COTTON OttOWEHM.
The National Cotton committee and
the Tare held committed ptftbe session National Atlanta, Al
liance a iceret at
Ga., Monday Dight. It is rumored that
the joint committees ate preparing somo
instructions which wilj be wide-reaching
in their effect. These arc instructions to
ill the primaries, wheels and unions, ad
vising and instructing them to hold
meetings and petition the governors of
each of the cotton states to call the leg
islatures i» of extra ses-k.n for to the suspend collection the
processes the courts
ol debts for six montlfe, 1 he object of
this action, they say. i* "to thwart and
prevent the robbery planned ! and deter
mined against them.” The tare question
was discussed bv the committee, and af
ter a careful consideration the following
resolutions were of adored: “Whereas,
The association the American Cotton
exchange met in New Orleans on the 11th
instant, and in conjunction with the va
rious commissioners 0t agriculture and
representatives of the fanning interests,
did recommend that Cotton bo sold by
net weight as a solution of the tare
question; And Whereas, The action
taken by the New Cr'cans Cotton ex
change in favor of assisting the farmers to
get paid for the 8 pounds bale more cotton than that
each cotton-wrapped i* h'ghly contains
tlm Juto-wvcrBd bale and the ripprcct
aU-.l by he commit**,
nation of mid exchange to continue to
contend for the ctust,,; in spite of the fact
that many leading exchanges bad de
s< ucd it, la capec ul y commendable and
will be co-operated yi by the interests justice we
represent; and, Whereas, The
aml equity of tho farmer's claim on the
tare question is h H ed on the one fact,
which stands boldly out cottou-wrapped undisputed ami
indisputable, that every
hale aelually contain* eight Would pounds if covered more
of hut cotton than U
will, ju'e; tlurefoiy\ 'action it is hereby Re
solviii, That the had by the
Shreveport Oottou exchange be adopted
in the present emergency, and every far
mer is hereby instructed when
offering for sale cotton wnipped in cot
ton bagging, to demand payment for
eight pounds more oottou than tlio act
ual gross weight of fich bate. Resolved
second; That this action is intended to
supercede and take the place of ail pro
viem action and instructions in regard
to tho tare question, j In no case ahall a
bale of cotton be sold object, to a doek
of sixteen pounds for for cotton bagging, or
twenty-four pounds Orleans, jute bagging unless the as
agreed upon in New half pound
cotton be sold at a cent per
in advance <d the current price at that
time and place. Donaldson, R. J. bledge, Clmiunan, Carolina;
Texas; M. L. bouth
W . J. Northen, Gerjrgia; R- I‘. f vo1 ’>
Florida; S. B. Ale- md< r, North Caro
linn; 11. M. I'fmT, fmnesffief L. I*
t'eathersfone, Arkansas
A HUGE COMBINE,
TENNESSEE AM) ALABAMA CAPITALISTS TO
UNITE IN A BIG SCHEME,
A number of prominent Tennessee and
Alabama capitalists have for several days
been in consultation in Nashville, Tenn.,
with a view to organizing a mining mid
manufacturing company, which will be
the largest in the south, exceeding even
the Tennessee Goal and Iron company.
The gentlemen interested left for Ala
bama Friday, to effect a corporate org nn
ization of the company. The deal is Ihe
most important which has occurred in
that section. The plan embraces the con
aolidatioii of tho LuGrange, Aetna, and
Warner Furnace companies, the Roane
Iran company, ol Chattanooga, the
Wayne County Iron company, and other
properties, trix' furnaces, now in opera
tion, are involved in the deal, and many
thousand acres-of tine ore lands in Hick
man, Stewart and Wayne counties. The'
main object is to manufacture charcoal,
non and steel on a big scale, and to es
tablish a steel rail mill. l'he ultimate
object is reported to be the consolida
tion of all the charcoal furnaces in Ten
M'Msee ami Alabama in a tremendous
combination. It ia sniff, that the ninouut
.1 bonds to be issued with first instal
ment will be $3,000,000, and $0,000,000
of st .cks.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
i oi RESIDENCE PORTION OF GRAND
HAVEN, MICHIGAN, BURNED OUT.
A large part, and the best part, of the
residence portion of Grand Haven,
Mich., was wiped out by a great fire
Tuesday morning. Among (he buildings
burned are ihe following: The Culler
liou e, one of tho beM, hotels in Michi
gan; the residence of Dwight Butler, a
beautiful place, filled with and exquisite works fur- of
niture, valuable pictures of Hlayton, T.
art. The residences Mrs.
A. D. Burris, George I). Sanford, Capt.
Mct'ullom, A. 8. Ken/.ie. Three
churches were burned—tho First Re
form'll, Unitarian and Methodist. Be
sides these there were thirty residences.
No lives were lost. Tho sweep of fire
included both sides of Main street from
Slayton’s grocery, win re the fire origi
naled, to Ackely institute, and everything
in its path was wiped out. with The total fair
loss is about $500,000, a
amount of insurance.
BIRMINGHAM’S REPORT.
FOUR MEN KILLED—TWO BY ACCIDEN[
AND TWO MURDERED.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Jefferson Ala.,
says: Death Friday. reaped During a harvest the in morning
County Estes caught in the fly-wheel
Geoige rolling-mill got Gate City, and
of the at was
beaten to pcices. W. Benton, an em
ploye of tlie Pullman Car company, was
walking backwurds behind a car in the
Georgia Pacific yard. The car was dis
connected and moving slowly, and he
was trying to stop it with a crow-bar.
He felt across the track and his body was
cut in twain. Deputy Sheriff King Vann
was shot and instantly killed by John
Steele, a negro, aud four hours later his
murderer was overtaken by a posse and
his body riddled w ith bullets. I hr mur
dered deputy was one of the most popu
lar officers h; the county.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!,
FIRES, AND HAFFENOR3S OF INTEREST.
Five persons woro drowned Friday in
pond near Fall River, by the capsizing of
a boat.
The recent fire in the temple of heaven,
in China, was of incendiary origin. Sev
eral arrests have been made.
The achooller Erio .capsized on Monday
B jg| lt near Port ltowan, Out., and eight
persons ‘ were drowned,
A numb« . of . branches , , of ... the National xr ,
^ . a S ue ™ tf ! c counties of Waterford and
1‘1’Pcrury, Ireland, have been suppressed,
Up to the recess Tuesday night 027
jurors had been exemed in tho Croffiu
case in at Chicago, four accepted passed, and sworn
and four temporarily
The firm of Gibson, Parish – Co., of
receiver Chicago, III., was forced to embezzlement apply for a
on account of the
of $89,000 by Harry F. Clifford, their
bookkeeper.
August Belmont, of New York, has
ordered $500,000 in gold for export,
'j he assay office does not know where
the gold is to be shipped. Belmont –
(j 0> „j so re f use any information about it.
u t 8llmucl D . 8turgie , u. g. A.,
^ ut ^ homo in gt _ ,, aul 'from Miim on
8uud 1Iu graduttcd West
p, >illt1840 aioeg with George B.
McCI( . n stonewall Jackson,Stonemau, soldiers,
pick * u #nd otUer famous
A boiler used . : at . , Wriglits- xr . , ,
m a quarry
»«»«, ?*., exploded with terrific force
fa'urday. Mrs. Lemiel Barfes was
killed instantly. Her head was b own
from her body. Her husband had Ins
dt'dl fractured and cannot live. Asmull
buddu.g was blown to atoms,
Shipping disturbed circles at Baltimore Monday, were at
somewhat, on a
yellow fever Hag displayed on the British
steamer Recta, Captain Lowe, which ur
rived in ballast from St. Lucia, West
Indies, to load for London. She is at
quarantine with three seamen sick,
Action has been cobrmenced by Attor
ney General Tabor ngaihst tho assembly
ceiling contractor, John Snaith, in tl.e
supreme court of Oneida county, New
y 01 -k, to recover $280,5(15). The Albany
county sheriff on Monday arrested
gnuith, who gave bail in $50,000.
A cable dispatch ‘ from London savs:
The delitietlCy ; Q cottoll Bt0 ck strength
ens , ko corner which has now assumed u
scriou9 „ s|lcct . It h re p 0l . ted that the
ck j e f 0 , UTa ( 01 . j n the corner has made
ttrr!t ngements ® (, 0 sem j ih e bulk of cotton
tend ed him tu 1J(1Tro und thus starve
tho Liverpool market,
son, I ansh – Co., of C hl cago, Ponsh
{*«*«» '!«“■ nl
J “ ok hce P c ,',°J lu! i 1 , 110 d ,
between $40,000 and $100,000 of f the. .
firm’s assets, and lie was inclined to think
the latter figure nearer the correct ono
than tho former.
Leon Leonardi, Italian private banker,
at 41 Park street, New York, disap
peared on Monday, leaving his clients in
the lurch. They were principally of the
laboring class. Nothing was left in the
bank except tho safe end all the furni
ture of Leonardi’s residence was sold.
His depositors number 800 or 900.
J. K. Tallier, leader of the gang who
robbed the train on the Sonora railroad,
near Nogales, Ari/„, a year ago last May,
and who killed Conductor Atkinson and
Fireman Forbes, and who was subse
quently convicted of the crime and sen
tenced to death, was shot early Monday
morning by Mexican authorities at Gu
jvamas,
The suicide of a whole family is re
ported from Odessa, Russia. A school
teacher named Suttse committed suicide,
whereupon his widow became insane
3bc first threw three of her children out
of a third-story window, and then, tak
ing tho other two in her arms, jumped
eut with them. All were killed.
On ex-Queen Natalie’s visit to Bel
srfade.hef presence was totally ignored by
government officials, but alie was re
ceived most enthusiastically by crowds
that thronged On the private street* resiliences through which and
she passed. business throughout lie city
places of displayed in her honor, t
flags were
The tin plate and sheet iron workers of
Boston, Mass., and vicinity, have de
cided to leave the Knights of Labor and
organize an Independent Union. The
immediate cause of withdrawal is said to
be the support given by district assembly
SiO and general offices to the cignrmakers’
local assembly. A mass meeting will by
held Tuesday to act upon the question of
applying building for membership trades council, in the amalga
mated
C H1C AGO’S PLUCK.
HER BUSINESS MEN DONATING LIBERALLY
TO THE WORLD’S FAIR PROJECT.
Friday wns a red-letter day in the sub
scription department of the Chicago,
Ill world’s fair project. F. J. Lehman,
drew a check tor $50,000; John V. hal
well followed suit to the extent of $8o,
000, and James If, Walker, Carson Picric,
Soott – Co., and Mandel Bros, each,
put themselves down for a similar
amount. Seigel, Cooper – Co,, Morgan
than, La bold A Co., 0. W. – L. la 1 -
dridge, and Bchlessinger – .\jayer, be
tween them, put up $50,000. $100,000 ms, by
with the subscription of
Marshall Field, makes a total of $300,
000 subscribed by the dry-goods $100 mer- 000
chants. It is expected secured that from ether
additional will be
houses in the same line within a day or
two. ____________
BANK STATEMENT,
Following js a statement of the asso
ciated banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday 28th:
Reserve decrease.........
ItO–nH decre–HQ ........* • -
Specie decrease..... ....
Legal tendeis decrease... ........8.844 200
Deposits decrease........ 14,200
Circulation decrease..... ........
The banks now hold $938,700 ?a
cess of the 25 per cent. rule.
NUMBER 46.
A TOUR OF INSPECTION.
TOE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN DEL
EGATES TO BE SHOWN AROUND.
A train of Pullman cars, which, in its
appointments and arrangements for jour
ney,is believed to be without u precedent
in ths history of railroading, will leave
Washington, 1). C., on Tuursday, hear
ing representatives of American nations
to the international conference to he held
next month at tho national capital. The
party, as guests of the government, tire
to be taken over o large section of the
Uniicd States, in order that they may
SCU II nd appreciate, to some extent, the
vast resources of this authorized country. Congress, tho
at its last session, secre
tary of state to invito delegates from all
South and Central American nations to a
convention to bo held in Washington,
November 14tb, for the purpose
of discussing financial reciprocal, commer- interest*
cial and
of the countries represented,
mid appropriated $125,000 for the ex
penses of the convention. Under this
authority, and as preliminary department to the
convention, this the of state commercial qud organ
ized tour manu
factoring cities of the United (States,
with the prime object of showing the ot
visitors the gieftt natural resources
the country. The Pennsylvania Railroad
company agreed to undertake the task of
arranging and dairying on the details for
this unprecedented trip. It is unique in
at least two respects, namely, in that
there will bo no change of cars through
out tho entire distance of 5,040 miles,
and this will be the first known instance
where with railways its have engine, permitted an entire
train, own crew, etc., to
pass from other roads over their lines.
Hie train will pass over the main lines of
thirty different railway corporations,
passing through the states of Maryland,
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, Maine, Conuocticutt,
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Missouri and Kentucky, twenty in all.
V crew of twenty-six men will be re
quired to run the train which, as it
stands, represents a cost of $150,000.
A ROW EXPECTED
IN knights of LABOIt circles AT ST.
LOUIS, MO.
Important depositions bearing on the
great strike of 1886 were taken Friday
it St. Louis, and when the result becomes
known in Knights of Labor circles, It is
hkcly to cause a tremendous row. The
recent war between Mortimer T. Shaw,
„f that city, and Master Workman Bow
tie, I v, in which a number of involved prominent and
k urn'llts of that city became Workman
which is bringing Master
Powderly uud Tats entire executive hom'd
to St. Louis, is really the cause which line
led to tlie present effeet. The deposi
turns taken were from a number of riis
-atlsfied knights who, having been inside
or the utillira of tho great strike have
been able to give testimony of great im
portance to the Missouri Baeific railway,
which will be used in defense of the
damage suits instituted by tlie men pros
tented for the Wyandotte train wrecking.
The depositions contain startling charges
against the leaders of the knights,
among other things is an alleged plot St. to
blow up the big Eads bridge at
Louis.
ORDERED TO STRIKE.
FOOLISH 1'ItOCF.IinZNOS OF A BltlKLAXBItS’
UNION—TROUBLE EXPECTED.
Bctweca three and four hundred men
were thrown out of employment nt by a
strike ordered by the Bricklayers’ union,
at New York, on Monday. Some of the
contractors have been using brick and
cement made by Beck, Martin – Co.
Beck, Martin – Co., employ at their
works, four non-union compel men, (colored the
teamsters,) and it was to dis
charge of-these men that tho strike was
ordered. Borne of the contractors are
;1 placed time in a bad position, and also as they under are uu
r contracts, con
tracts to uso bricks of Beck, Martin –
Co.’s make. The workmen all side with
the contractors and are loud in their de
nunciation of the union anil walking
dclegfdes. There is a prospect of a long
lockout.
BLACK BART FREE.
THE NOTORIOUS TRAIN UOHRF.R BREAKS
JAIL AND ESCAPES.
A dispatch from Bessemer, Midi.,
says: The Gogebic stage robber, Rei
uiund Holzhay, otherwise known as
“Black Bari,” together with several
other prisoners, made his escape from the
county jail here Friday Republic, morning, where lie
was brought here from
ho was arrested some days ago for hold
ing up a Gogebic stage and murdering
One of its occupants, Mr. Flcishbein, ot
Illiaois. The sheriff lias called a posse
to pursue tlpe fugitive. Citizens are
much excited, Rtld are turning out in
larne numbers to ioin in the man hunt.
DISSATISFIED ITALIANS.
THE PEASANTS SAID TO UK OVERTAXED
AND BADLY TREATED.
Archbishop Logue, Catholic primate of
Ireland, has referred in the strongest,
terms to Italy’s treatment of the Dope.
He declared that the Italian peasantry
were overtaxed and in a worse condition
than Donegal or Connemara immigrating peasants; faster
that Italians were
than tho Irish; that the Italian govern
ment had encircled tho Vatican with
troop 0 , knowing that if the Pope de
parted, grass would soon grow in the
streets of Rome.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
A MONTANA TOWN VISITED BV THE FIRR
FIRE FIEND.
lire occurred Saturday ,
A million dollar burned
at Butte, Mont, The district is
in the tnisiuess portion, und among the
buildings burned are the Bowes Work,
the F.rst National bank, Hcr,ne*sj’s dry
goods store, Babcock’s bat store, Bernard
block, Lamic's shoe store. Several
smal'er establishments were also burned.
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MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
AFFOINTMKNTS', DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM: THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
It is estimated at tho treasury decrease depart- of
ment that there has been a
$13,500,000 in the public debt since the
first of September.
Tho board of the navy yard, investigate the com- the
mandant, appointed to has adjourned
navy purchasing deciding that system, tho system
after present
is efficient and only minor changes in the
direction of reducing the number of
vouchers checks, etc., can be made with
out detriment to the service.
The secretary of agriculture. Rusk, has
returned to Washington after an inspec
tion of mills for the manufacture of su
gar from sorghum cane by the new difu
siou process, which was lately subsidized
by emigres* by an appropriation of
$80,000, to encourage experiments in tha
new industry which now has about a
dozen establishments in the United
States. Secretary Rusk reports that the
process looks liko it will bo a failure,
and unless some improvements are made
hois very doubtful about the profit of
making sugar from sorglnim cane.
The Postal aud Cable simultaneously Telegraph com- all
pany will open offices
over the south on Thursday. The com
pany is ten years old, and has fifteen or
twenty thousand miles of wire, reaching
from Portland, Me., to California. It
has forty or fifty lines from New York to
Chicago and lias invested altogether $12
000,000. It is owned by McKay, the
California bonanza millionare, whose
wealth Is estimated at thirty millions.
The other leading stockholder is James
Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New
York lie raid.
The newly appointed minister to sailed jlny
ti, Frederick Douglas; and party
for the West Indian islands on the Uni
ted States steamer Kearsarge from
Brooklyn navy yard Tuesday morning.
The customary salute of seventy-five
guns was fired in honor of the minister.
Secretary Tracy, rather unexpectedly Sheph
Monday evening, relieved Captain Kearsarge,
ard from command of the
and replaced him by Commander W. H.
Whiting. No explanation is furnished
at the nany department for the change.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker hai
issue! an order abolishing colored tho postoffice
at Luveruoy, Ala. A man was
recently appointed postmaster, and the
citizens, it is said, showed their appre
ciation of him by boycotting him in
every way, and finally in burning down
the old building which he had succeeded,
with great difficulty, in securing for a
postoffice. In view of these facts, Mr.
Wanamaker decided that the 500 inhabi
tants of the place could go three miles
for mail and do without a poetofficc for
a time.
The debt statement issued Tuesday
allows tlie decrease of Ihe national debt
during September to have been $13,085,
094.25; decrease since June 30th, 1889,
$0,591,090.49; total cash in the treas
ury, $037,540,530.01;total interest bear
iu.r debt, $872,502,361.81; total debts of
all kinds, $1,030,774,808.82; debts less
available credits, $1,070,055,530,90; legal
tender notes outstanding, $346,081,010;
certificates of deposit outstanding, $15,-
275,000; gold certificates outstanding,
$110,675,349; silver certificates outstand
ing, $270,610,715; fractional currency,
$0,915,090.47.
The president on Saturday appointed
the following named jiostmastors;
Charles C. Shoals, at Decatur, Ala., vieo
I,. If. Grubbs, commission expired; Fe
lix G. Lambreth, Florence, Ala., vice
Bessie McCallister, resigned; Columbus,
Browning, at Dalton, Ga., vice Jeffe l-MIl
T. Whitman, removed; JosephP. Smith,
at Thomasville, Ga., vice H. M. Sapp,
resigned; Thomas W. Hicks, at Hender
son, N. C., vice R. B. Henderson, re
moved ; Mts. Ada Hunter, at Kingston, removed;
N. C. vice W. J. Barrett, vice
Samuel If. Vick, at Wilson, N. C.,
N. M. (lay, removed; I), J. Taylor, at
Pocahontas, Va., vice J. L. Deaton, re
moved; John If. Blunt, at Ashland, Va.,
office having become presidential; Portsmouth, Am- Va.,
brose H. Lindsay, at
vice W. A. Fiake, removed.
NEWS FROM MEXICO.
VISITED «V thurible STORMS— CROPS
RUINED—MUCn SUFFERING!.
A dispatch' from -Mexico says: The
main force of the storm that visited Ba
jio country within the past few days has
abated, although in its track desolation
is apparent on all sides. The second crop
of corn, which was very large, is a par
tial loss. This will entail great Trains suffering
among the laboring classes. ou
the Mexican railroad are again running still
regularly. The town of C’eiaya re
mains inundated. . Inhabitants removed living in
ihe lower streets have been to
tho old San Franciscan convent for safe
ty. Fields in the vicinity of Leon are
all under water. It is estimated that the
loss of crops in Jlajio country will be
over $500,. 000.
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ON A BOOM.
The new city directory, of Dallas,
Texas, just completed, shows that the
city has over 60,000 people. In 1883
Dallas had a population of 17,000, in
1883 it had grown to: 21,830, in 1885 it
h id 40,000, since which time the city
than
One Way to Catch Rats.
T. A. Wimbisli, Jr., was in town
Friday from La Crosse, Schley coun- just
ty. He said that iris place was
overrun with rats, and lib had tried
every way to get rid of them, “A few
flays ago I took a ton-gallo » wasn i-ot.
rilled it two-thirds with sfi a ter, and
covered the water with cotton seed.
The next morning I went there, ar.A
tho cotton seeds were all on top of the
water, and X had on a big disgust, aud
,j )0U ® „ ht jt best to let the rats \ the
. and m0T8 0 ff. Mv wife took a
btjoki dl ., pe d in'o the pot, and said,
„f rats.’ I took out a half
btlBlie i „f great big fat fellows The
n0 , j morning it was the same way, ami
U(rw j have bat few rats,”—jAmencus
Republican,