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1889 , j/2 ■ 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 *■£***«*« ■.•.•.is? E •. .. • •Y'T: . si M .. \ q \>< 7 t \ \ \ 0 / 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. *; /V . jirpliejf 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 ‘S DISCUSSING THE TARE. —.— 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. PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY —AT— ZEBIILON, - - GEORGIA, —BY— PARRY LEE, A. BPIiKNUip ADVERTISING AGENT, WASHINGTON, D. C. 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. _________ 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,