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FALL WINTER
18 89 1889,
EDGAR . ROGERS.
On this day will 1 begin my reign and of
terror to high priced schedule competition of pri
will give to my trade a
cos that will talk for themselves.
I have bought more goods brought in all lines this
this season than was ever to
market before. My cash to buy with has
been all-powerful in my heavy purchas
es, and to sell goods cheaper than any
house iu Georgia, will bo my chief aim.
1 keep everything and it would bo fool
ish to try to attempt to enumerate even
in part, my grand array of bargains that
I have in store for the people.
CLOTHING.
I si ill hold the trade on all grades of
clothing. Besides a full line of men’s
and youth’s medium and children’s prices, have suits the in exclusive cheaper
I
control of the celebrated Voorheis, Mil
ler – Kuple, and JSfcrouse – Bros, fine
clothing.
Dress Go©<M
This season has produced some goods rare
and pretty styles in dress and
trimmings, and I have made this branch
of my business a special study. I chal
lenge the state to produce a fuller line of
novel tics than I have. Afy stock at frin
ges' braids, etc., are the products of the
best specialty factory in the country.
BOOTS AND SHOES
A whole ear load of boots and shoe®
just received places me in the lead. Give
roe a trial and I will guarantee you a net
saving of 25 per cent, on your purchases
and make a lasting customer of you.
I can say without exageration that I have more of these goods than an; three
houses in this section, and prices will not lie iu the way of their sale.
»d>,.AIl domestics will ho sold at strictly factory prices. Remember calicos, this. trunks,
For flannels, jeans, eassimeres, tickings, table linens, towels, va
lises, notions, etc., give me a look and be convinced.
X will sell all goods on a very close margin to strictly cash customers on Sept. 10
Come to see me. I am the only merchant here occupying two immense store
rooms and have tiie goods to sell. Yours Truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesviilc. Ga.. Sept. 1 1SS9 Collierand Edgar and
N. B. Messrs. .1. F. Howard, L. A. Cook arc with me in
vita afllisHKj^scmu to sec tUciu.
PATRONIZE HOME INDHSTRY!
Osborn k Wolcott
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Manufacturers of
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CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADETO SPECIAL ORDER.
liepairing 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. We can suit you. Don’t lose your
by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers in
money
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Every kind of House Material constantly on hand, and can snake 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,
8 umm–ff »!«• – Muvpfej »
HEADQUARTERS FOR
©avfiai®®* Huggins ami
5 000 PLOW-HOES AT BOTTOM PRICES!
Barnesvilie, Ga.
pike €®iitt|| Journal.
VOL. 1.
ZEBULON, GA., TUESDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1889.
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKE!,
FIRES, AND HAl’FENINOS OF INTEREST.
The Isthmus ef Panama is marked by
dullness and d str ss.
A violent gale prevailed on tho Massa
chusetts coast Monday.
Clark – Keen, manufacturers of
worsteds, Monday. Philadelphia, mado an assign
ment
Rev. Dr. Tahnage’s Tabernacle at
Sunday Brooklyn, morniug. N. Y., was destroyed by fire
A council of war was held in Paris on
Monday. It was decided to strengthen
the army on the German frontier.
A movement to combine all the cracker
and cake tinkers of the northern cities
into a kind of trust to regulate prices, is
said to be progressing.
jurors Up to the recess Tuesday night 627
had been excused in tho Cronin
case at Chicago, four accepted aud sworn
in aud four temporarily passed.
Judge Chicago, Jameson, in the superior court
at close the on affairs Monday, granted Treacy a Carbon bill to
up of tho
Lamp company. The company is said to
be a tremendous swindle.
York LaBourgogne, which board arrived Millet’s at New pic
L’Angelus, Sunday, had on purchased
ture, recently at
tho Paris Exposition for the American
Art association. $110,000 was paid for
the picture.
Fire broke out in Cook's lumber yard
at Serpent River, Out,, Saturday wind, after- de
noon, and fanned by tho, soon
stroyed tbe greater portion of the city.
Fifty million feet of lumber wero con
sumed. The loss is estimated at $300,
000 .
lly tho capsizing of the schooner
Laura in East River, New York, on
Tuesday, Alexander William James Hughes and and
Christie were drowned,
Captain Eugene McLean and James Law
ler severely injured.
Since tho first of September there have
been five deaths from alternating electric
currents in New York City alone, and
fifteen accidental deaths from contact
with electric wires outside of that city,
nine of which were caused by alternating
electric currents.
It is reported that William Warldorfl
Astor, at a banquet, given by himself to
Mayor Grant, on Wednesday night, de
clared that the World’s Fair at New
York, must bo a success, and that if
necessary ho would foot the entire bill,
estimated at $20,000,000, himself.
The threatened strike of the bakers be
came general at Newark, N. J., or
Wednesday. Five hundred men ure now
out on strike, and a boycott lias been or
dered against the York boss lu-kcra Rickets
are keeping New men from going
to work and persuading thorn to go
home.
The announcement that the steamers
had advanced their freight rates caused
considerable stir on tbe floor of the pro
duce exchange, at New York, on
Wednesday. Freight on bushel. grain has This ad- is
vanced to 5J ponce per
the highest figure reached for this sea
son’s crop.
At Terre Haute, Ind., Axtele, the
great trotter, waB sold to Colonel Con
ley, of Chicago, for $105,000. Colonel
Conley is supposed to represent a syndi
cate. Andy Walsh, of Hartford, and John
Madden, of Lexington offered $101,000,
but it was refused, This is the highest
price ever paid for any horse.
United States government officers have
seized the distillery of Freiburg – Work
um, of Lynchburg, Ohio, United upon tho
charge of defrauding tho States
by in packages equalizing before shortages from shrinkage
tho ganger measures
the contents. The whisky seized amounts
to more than a million gallons.
A dispatch from Kansas City, says:
II. D. Gregg, for many years private
secretary of General Sheridan when the
general had his headquarters in Chicago,
HI., and for sometime department clerk
at Washington, and later a sentenced newspaper
man at Omaha, Neb., was to
the penitentiary Tuesday for horse steal
ing.
The firm of Lissbcrger, Solomon –
Brown, wholesale dry goods and that cotton they
factors, of YVaco, Texas, state
are temporarily embarrassed, and on
Tuesday made a sale of their stocks of
goods and store to II. B. Clafhn – Co.,
of New York, placed their principal about creditors. $950,000,
Liabilities are at
with assets estimated at $1,200,000.
Export* of specie from the port of New
York for the past week amounted to
$721,017, of which $58,100 was in gold
and $662,912 silver; of the total exports,
$11,000 in gold and $052,662 in silver and
went to Europe, and $47,100 in gold
$10,255 silver to South America. Im
ports of specie for week amounted to
$27,904, of which $9,351 was in gold arid
$18,613 in silver.
A special from El Paso, Texas, says:
At Sonora, Mexico, two caught companies ol
Mexican soldiers were in swim
ming by the Y'aqui Indians, and ull of
them were slaughtered. The dead bodies
of the men were found terribly mutila
ted and stripped of all clothing and
valuables. The Mexican government
has sent 40,000 men in pursuit of the
Indians.
Great dbsatisfaction is reported in the
Conemaugh valley, over the failure to
distribute fully half the relief fund of
$3,000,000, intended for the flood suffer
ers. There are many eases of great des
titution, and some very pitiful instances
are detailed. Gross mismanagement of
tbe funds is charged. It is reported
(hat clerks sad expert i ccouutants ai e
drawing extravagant salaries from the
fund.
tVheellBg A wreck occurred on the Cleveland,
west’oj hud Lorain railroad, two miles
Bridgeport, Ohio, Friday morn*
ing Between an engine and cab nose car
rying about one hundred’laborers, One
train was going north and a freight with
a caboose cryiing south. A gereral
smagh-up was the result. Four men,
whose names could not be learned, were
killed and twelve veo fatally injured.
A terrible wreck occurred ou the Bur
lington and Missouri road,at Gibson, a few
miles from Omaha, Nebraska, Yfednes
day. About fifty jiassengiTs were in
jureii. Two engines were completely
demolished, and a chair car and combin
ation ear were thrown from the tracks
and reduced to atoms Tho combination
coach and chair car (were both crowded
with passengers, all of whom wero more
or less injured. Many of the passengers
were badly burned iu addition to their
other injuries.
STOLEN DOCUMENTS.
ALL TUB RECORDS IN TUB CRONIN CASK,
AT CHICAGO, DISAPPEAR.
A dispatch from Chicago says: A
startling rumor was current, early Satur
day morning, that the entire official re
cord of the Cronin ease had been stolen.
The recur-1 iueludea a copy of the pro
ceedings bofore the coroner’s jury, the
sworn affidavit of witnesses before tbe
grand jury, portions of the hair, blood
clots, cotton batting, and other tangible
evidences of tbe crime found in the catch
basin, the Carlson cottage and the bloody
trunk. An ex-employe of the state at
torney’s office, who had full access to all
the valuable pieces of evidence, is now
missing and may be in Canada. Volu
minous documentary testimony and more
precious, but still bulky, material evi
dences were kept in what was considered
tv safe place in the state attorney’s office,
to which only trusted employes had ac
cess. The ex-employe is said to have
several times been seen in proximity in the of
this vault, which, when he was
smploymentof the county, he had abun
dant opportunity to learn every uook
and crevice. Tiie discoveries were made
Friday morning, whin the necessities of
looking Up the addresses of witnesses in
compliance with an order expected the to bo
entered by Judge McConnell at mora
tng session of thetual, made a reference
to affidavits taken before the grand tfc*.t jury t-lm
imperative. Then, it is t-aia, the state’*
awful fact presented colleagues, itself that to the result
attorney and
of their labors since May 4th had van
ished as if by magic.....A1 Hanks and
Mark Solomon, criminal court bailiff’s,
ate under arrest, charged with suspicion packing ol
tho Cronin jury. The first
tho fnct, was tiie failure of the men to
report for duty Saturday morning. Theii
absence was due tho fact that they were
taken to a Nortkmdc hotel by several de
tectives, and were kept there in close
surveillance. Two men have also been
discovered in attempting to corrupt ve
niremen summoned to Judge McCon
nell’s court, and to instruct those favora
ble to the prisoners how to answer ques
tions of the state’s attorney iu order to be
retained as jurors.
ATLANTA GETS IT.
run ALLIANCE EXCHANGE TO BBLOOATKD
AT THE CATITAL OF GEORGIA,
The alliance exch-tegc will be located
it, 4 <*•*., «Utr^. •/»! D l- ----a F-.
business just as soon the building can
be changed to suit the alliance, The
exchange will be located at tho corner of
Forsyth and Hunter streets. The offi
cars of the exchange, into whose hands
the location had been placed by the al
liance, met Monday morning to consider
the bids submitted for the location ol
the exchange. There were present, Hon.
Felix Corput, of Cave Springs, presi
dent; Hon. L. F. Livingston, vice-presi
dent; Ellis Ledbetter, of Cednrtown,
secretary, and W. A. Broughton, of
Madison, treasurer. Propositions from
quite a number of towns were receivod,
but monied bids wero submitted by three
only. Atlanta, Griffin and Cordelewere
willing io pay tli3 alliance for the loca
tion. The vote was unanimous for At
a util. The directors of the exchange
will meet again iu Atlanta next week,
when the action of the officers of the
exchange will be submitted for ratifica
, ion or rejection. At tbe same time a
trade agent will be elected.
ROASTED ALIVE.
A HOUSE AND ITS INMATES BURNED UT
11Y THE EXCLUSION OF GAS.
At Davis Switch, a small village, thir
teen miles from Bradford, Me., the
dwelling of Patrick Daily was burned,
and his wife and three sons aged thir
teen, eleven and nine respectively, o’clock were Bun
roasted in the flames. At 6
day night, while the Daily family were
at supper, the father went to the stove
to partly turn off the gas, lie uninten
tionally shut tho throttle tight, arid on
reversing it again the house was filled
with gas, and an explosion followed, and
in an instant the entire house was in
flames. The three, boys and tbe mother
fell prostrate on the floor, overcome by
tho heat and flames. The house was
entirely consumed in a few minutes.
The charred and blackened bodies pre
sented a most sickening sight. Mr.
Daily was severely but not fatally burned
about the head and face, and is almost
crazed with grief.
DEADLY WIRES.
MAYOR GRANT, OF NEW YORK, ORDER!
THE ELECTRIC WIRES DOWN.
Mayor Grant, on Saturday morning,
hastily called a meeting o{ the board ol
electric al control of New York, and a*
soon as it was assembled, a resolution
was adopted ordering the immediate re
moval of all electric light wires that
were not properly insulated. The cause
of this hasty action was the killing, on
Friday, of a lineman by electricity from
badly connected wires. An interview with
Mr. Edison, the inventor, has been
printed, in which lie says that no insula
tion will make an electric wire safe, and
that sub ways aud insulation will alike
prove ineffective, and that the only way
to prevent loss of life is to regulate of the
pressure the same as the pressure steam
boilers is regulated.
BANK STATEMENT
•mm — of the
following is a statement asso*
dated banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday:
Reserve increase....... 960 ,m
Loans decrease-. • • > • 1070 , 30 (
Specie Inert ase,... ■ • • ..... 1 . 835,300
Legal tenders decrease.. ..... 1 , 15^,300
Deposits decrease....... ..... 6 , 107*700
Circulation decrease.... ..... 13,200
The banks now Hold $705,708 less
fchau 25 per eput. rule calls for,
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA
RIOUS POINTS'IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OK WHAT 18 OOINO ON OF
IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN BTATE3.
Edward A. Ferry,ex-governor of Flor
ida, died at Kerrvillc, Texas, on Tues
day, from paralysis, after an illness of
about a week.
Montgomery, Ain., last week, beat any
past record, reaching the unprecedented for
figure of 11,447 bales, againBt 9,157
the samo week last year.
'J he trial of Edward Brown, charged
with the assassination of Colonel Roger
J. Page, late editor of the Marion Times
Register, was begun at Charlotte, N. 0.,
Friday, in McDowell superior court.
A fire in tbo Montgomery, Ala., ware
mouse, Marks – Gayle, proprietors, Mon
day morning, damaged about one
thousand bales of cotton. Insurance
$04,500; loss about forty per cent, of the
insurance.
Coke iron was made in Anniston, Ala.,
for the first time on Friday. The two
furnaces have been in course of construc
tion for two years, aud ore among t e
largest and best in the country. The ton
nage of iron, when both furnaces are in
blast, will be more than that of the cot
ton crop of the whole south
A dispatch from Flcmingsburg, Ky.,
says; At least five hundred thousand
pounds of tobacco in this county lias
been entirely destroyed by the frost of
the last three nights. The auditor’s re
port places the average crop of the coun
ty at 4,700,000 pounds, and this year the
crop was above that figure. About half
of the crop had been housed and cured.
Governor Seay of Alabama while in
New York on Tuesday, of Montgomery, placed through the
Uhlfeldor Bros.,
nov* issue of $954,000 state bonds, one-tenth bear
ing 4 per cent., ut one and
premium. The bonds were taken by the
New York Security and Trust company,
ot which the late secretary of the tress
ury, Fairchild, is president. The bonds
run thirty years.
Nine negro men and three negro wom
en were arrested at Charlotte, N. O., on
Saturday, charged with robberies extend
ing over several months. Over 100 res
idences and business houses in that city
have been raided by these thieves. In
one instance $500 worth of jewelry traceable was
taken from a store, and losses
to the gang aggregate nearly $100,000.
The whole gang will probably of North be hung, Caro
as burglary in the state
lina is a capital offence.
The supreme court of Georgia, now in
session at Atlanta, has already com- the
menced passing upon the acts, of
present legislature. Sometime ago a bill
was passed which provided Glenn and for Capt. the Ellis, pay
ment to Hon.Tom
former solicitors of the city court of At
lanta, certain insolvent costs, saw to ue
due them by the Htate. The supreme
court had the matter up before it on
Monday and declared the act unconsti
tutional.
On Saturday, Attoiney-Generad Ro- of
gers, before the civil district, court
New Orleans, sued out two writs of se
(juestration—-one against Maurice _ J.
Hart and another against E. Miss Bunce, Laura
Gaines, a sister to Mrs. A.
both to recover certain portions of stolen
state bonds, which he alleges to have
been transferred to these parties by Ex
State Treasurer Burke. After deducting
the amount of the bonds so far recovered
from Burke’s deficit, he is still about
$400,000 short
The New York Sun's cotton review of
Friday: Futures declined 8to 11 points
under an unexpectedly weak report from
Liverpool instead of the advance which
the bulls expected. On this decline
there was a brisk demand to cover con
tracts, and us the day wore on the com
paratively email crop movement gave
strength to values. An exceptional of
feature was the further development month
October cotton, which caused this
to close dearer. Cotton on spot wus
steady hut quiet. ,
Danville, Va.,on Tuesday,voted $156,
000 towards the western extension ol the
Atlantic and Danville railroad, from
Danville to the coalfields of southwest
Virginia. The city has already voted a
like amount to tiie eastern end of the
line, Danville to Norfolk, and that end
of the road, two hundred miles long,will Bristol,
soon be opened for business.
Term., the probable western terminus of
the line, telegraphed Bristol greetings will also and sub- as
sured Danville that
scribe $150,000 to the road.
SIXTY MINERS KILLED.
TKItlUBLE EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE IN
ENGLAND.
A dispatch from London, Eng., says.
An explosion occurred in Bentilee col
liery, in Lnngton, county of Stafford,
at an early hour Wednesday morning. the
Seventy miners were in the pit at
time of the accident, only eleven of
whom are alive. The pit getting was completely tho
wrecked, and the task of out
buried miners will be odc of great diffi
eulty. Tho men engaged in the search
for the victims have so far found fifty
bodies of dead miners. The bodies re
covered show that tho victims died of
gas poisoning. The latest advices from
tiie scene state that fire is feared. raging, The and
that another explosion is
reerrd of the men in the mines lias been
lost; hence it is impossible to verify the
number.
farmers in distress.
A TTIREATKNBD FAMINE IN NORTH DAKO*
TA —APPEALS FOR AID.
A special dispatch froqi Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, says: There mgreat dan
ger that the lain me among the farmers
of North Dakota last year will repeat it
self this year. Intelligence just received
from Miuor county discloses the fact that
a large number of farmers in that section
are in destitute ci.rcui»siqucea. Owing
to the drougth their crops were a total
failure this season. A relief coremittee
has been appointed to solicit aid and many
towns throughout the state are respond
ing liberally to the call for assistance.
NUMBER 48.
THE AMOUNT NEEDED
TO IMPROVE THE RIVERS AND HARBORS
OP THE SOOTH.
General Cnsey, chief of engineers annual at
Washington, D. C., in his esti
mates submitted to the secretary of war,
makes the following recommendations
for appropriations for continuing work
on the principal improvements under his
charge during the year ending .June 30,
1801. Potomac river flats, W.ishington,
D. C., $1,000,000; James river, below
Richmond, $400,000; Great Kanawha
liver, $100,000; Gape Fear river, North
Carolina, $310,000; Coosa river, Georgia
and Alabama, $220,000; St. Johns river,
below Jacksonville, $300,000; Black
Warrior river, Alabama, $300,000; Cum
berland river,above and below NashviLe,
$500,000; Tennessee livev, above and
below Chattanooga, $1,080,000; Missis
sippi river, Minneapolis to lies Moines
rapids, $1,000,000; Mississippi river
from Des Moines to Illinois river, $300,
000; Mississippi river, from Illinois to
Ohio river, $000,000; Norfolk harbor and
approaches, $100,000; Charleston, S. C.,
harbor, $750,000; Winyaw bay, S. C.,
>300,000; Cumberland sound, Georgia
and Florida, $500,000; Savannah harbor,
$500,000; entrance to Key West harbor,
$100,000; Mobile linrbor, $600,000. The
total amount recommended by General
Casey for river and harbor improvements appropriated
is $30,180,300. Total amount
by the river and Harbor MU for tlw» year
ending June 80, 1880, was $22,897,617.
The Mississippi river commission rec
ommends appropriations for the fiscal
year 1880-91 as follows: Continuing the
surveys, $150,000; from mouth to
Ohio river, $4,000,000; improvements at
Hickman, Ky., Greenville, Vicksburg,
and Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans,
La., $1,086,280; rectification of Red and
’the 830 The Missouri river commission
us | ( following appropriations: Bala
r j eg) gHrve y S) e tc., $150,000; general im
,, r 0 v (:m ents, $1,000,000; Qm.jxa, Pluttsmouth, special work No- at
gioux
hraslta City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Min
,„i (UK l Arrow Rock, $1,375,000; river
ftbove an(1 be]ow Sioux City, $60,000.
Total, $2,700,000.
HURLED TO DEATH.
A TERlllBI.il AND FATAI, ACCIDENT ON AN
INCLINE CABLE ROAD.
A frightful catastrophe occurred at
Cincinnati Tuesday on one of Mount
Auburn inclined planes which lies at the
head of Main street and reaches to the
height of between 250 and 350 feet in a
space of perhaps 2,000 feet or less. Two
cars are employed, one on each track.
They are drawn by two steel wire cables
that aro wound up on a drum at tile top
of the hill by an engine located there,
and nine passengers had entered a cat
at the foot of the plane, and a number
were on the other .car at. the top. Ihe
passage or tiie .....
right until it had reached the top, when
the machinery refused to work and the
engineer could not stop it. The car was
drawn against tho bumper, tho cables
snapped in two and the car ran back
wards down tiie incline at lightning
SpCGQ. The crash ut the foot ot
the plane was frightful in the extreme.
The iron gate that formed the lower end
of Urn truck on which the car rested,
was thrown sixty feet doan the street.
The top of the car was lying almost as
fur in the gutter. The truck itself, and
floor and seats of the cur formed a shape
less wreck, mingled with tiie bleeding
and mangled bodies of nine passengers.
The list of dead, so far as known, is as
follows: Judge W r M. Ilickson, -Mis.
.
Gulel) Ives, Miss Lillian Oscamp, Michael
Knobs, Joseph llochstetter. The
wounded arc: Charles McFudden, both
legs broken; Joseph McFudden, Mrs.
llochstetter, and Mis. Joseph McFudden,
cuts aud internal injuries.
GRAVE JROBBER3
vt concord, mass., steal Ralph waldo
kmerbon’s skull.
___
Ori Monday afternoon whilo attending
– at Sleepy Hollow cemetery, two
gentlemen of Concord, Mass., discovered
Giat the grave of Ralph Waldo Emerson
been disturbed. The authorities
W ,, r( . notified and found that tho grave
h„d been opened during Saturday night
exposing the casket. Whether the ro
rnaius were taken out or not is notknown
, lt p re g en t. A. watch was at once opinion placed is
llf tll( , g Vav e, but the accomplished general their
that the miscreants skull,
object aud secured at least the
which was probably what they were
after. There is great indignation over
he affair.
AN ANARCHIST MEETING.
HISSING THE STARS AND STRIPES AND
CUEEUINO THE RED FLAC1 OF ANARCHY.
When the stars aud stripes were raised
at an anarchist mass meeting jn Var
wacrt’s Turner hall at Chicago, Sunday
afternoon, the flag was greeted with
hisses by probably half a thousand men
and women in the room at the time. The
red flag was then unfurled, arid was
greeted with enthusiastic applause. One
speaker declared the hanging of the an
archists the gravest crime ever committed
in America. He was proud of Chicago,
as it would one day be the Paris ol
America, a city of revolutions. Smoul
dering discontent would soon break fort!
in fiery revolutions.
A PROPOSED CHANGE
TO BE MADE IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THI
KNIOHTS OF LABOR.
At the coming convention of the
Knights of Labor, to be held at Atlanta, the
Ga., an effort will be made to amend
constitution of the order so that Mr.
Powderty will have the power of select
ing his own advisers. This amendment,
if successful, will give the surround general himself master
workroau tho power to
with men ol bis own choice. Opposition be
to tiie proposed amendment is to ex
pected, but the local authorities state
that the amendment will cury neverthe
less. As the general assembly meets on
November 12th, all tesolutions to amend
the constitution must reach the general
office not later than October 12th to per
mit them being acted upon by the gen
eral assembly,
PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY
-AT—
ZEBULON, - - GEORGIA,
-BY
PABUY LEE,
A BPI.ENDID ADVERTISING AGENT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
ArrOINTMKNTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATrEttS
OF INTEREST FROM TIIE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Francis Fava, son of the present Ital
ian minister to this United country, qualified at the
i- a citizen of the Stales
state department, Monday.
A. G. Riddle, attorney for tho District
of Columbia, and Henry E. Davis, assist
ant attorney, on Saturday, tendered to
tho district commissioners tlioir resigna
tions, which were accepted.
John Henry llayncs, consul at Bagdad,
Turkev, writes the state department, cholera un
der date of August 22d, that was
raging then in Bagdad and surrounding
country. Iu Bagdad 59 deaths wero re
ported in one day.
Acting Hear Admiral Walker has or
dered tiie purchase of libraries for ten
of the new ships of the navy for the
special use of the enlisted men on board.
. tho
These books are generally novols of
better sort, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray
and the like, and miscellaneous works,
and are intended for the entortaimuet
of the men in the forecastle, (where they
will be placed) when off duty. Each
ship will be provided with about three
hundred volumes.
The pic»v»t torm of the United States
Supreme Court will ho couiTo«,t« I l with a
docket of 1,825 cases, and it is csvi
diligently court sit, . it can
mated, as than 400 may during tho
dispose of not more
term. Virginia coupon cases will bo
called immediately, as will also be the
case of Cross and While against the
state of North Carolina. This latter is
-^-criminal mum which-ij. pursuance of a
previous order of the court, has been
advanced on the docket.
The president, on Saturday, made the
following appointments: Audrew W.
Smythe, of Louisana, to bo superintend- Charles
ent of the mint, at New Orleans; U.
A. Cook, of North Carolina, to he S.
attorney for the eastern district of North
Carolina; Simon S. Matthews, of Missis
sippi, to be U. 8. marshal for the south
ern district of Mississippi; be Benjamin U. S. W.
Walker, of Alabama, aud to southern mar- dis
shal for tho middle
tricts of Alabama.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department shows that the total amount
of standard silver dollars iu the treasury,
against which certificates may be issued
is $5,176,171. Of a total coinage is of
$341,199,650, silver dollars, there in
the treasury $282,829,333, against which
there are iu circulation $277,753,162 of
certificates. The amount of standard
dollars iu circulation is OVi, •aid.
the count of silver certificates in tho
treasury is $2,582,205.
The necessity of making some [.repa- has
ration for (tbe meeting of efingru.-s
compelled the preslCfcut the daily t- ■ transaction
following rules for
of business at the executive mansion,
which will be strictly obeyed: Senators
aud members and others having business
with the president will be received every
day, except Monday, between eleven and
half-past twolve, and at no other time.
Public receptions in the cast room at 1 p.
in. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday,
will be held as usual.
THE TABERNACLE BURNED,
THE REV. DR. TALMAGB’s CHURCH, AT
BROOKLYN, N. T., DESTROYED BY FIRE.
The famous tabernacle, at Brooklyn,
New York, of which Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage is pastor, was on Sunday, for
the second time in its history, totally
by lire. At 2:15 o’clock in
.lie morning, a policeman discovered
issuing from tho small windows
over tho main entrance, and rushing to
Tho die nearest firemen signal found the box, fire sent had the assumed alarm.
large proportions, and it became evi
dent that the edifice was doomed.
Desparing of saving the church, they
rected their efforts to the adjoining
property. The three-story frame struc
ture No, 353, Schermerhorn street, ad
joining the church ou the cast, was tho
first to take fire, and No. 355, a similar.
structure, followed. No. 357 was also
damaged. On the west side of tho
cliurcn tho flames extended to two brick
dwellings, and on tho opposite side of
Schermerhorn street, a row of three-story
brick dwellings numbered 838 to 848,
were greatly damaged. church In building the mean
time, the doomed was
being rapidly consumed, and manhour’s
time only tiie tottering walls remained.
Dr. Talmage was on the scene soon after
the first alarm, and did not leave until he
had seen the edifice, which had been his
pride, laid in ashes. Edison’s The origin of tho in
lire is unknown. men were
the building until 5.80 p. m. Saturday,
arranging a new electric plant, and it is
thought that during tho thunder shower,
which prevailed during tho night, the build- the
lightning had been carried into
ing by wires they introduced, and which
ran around the gallery about on a level
where tho flumes were first seeD. The
loss on tho church building, including in
tbo organ, which was one of tho finest
the country is $150,009.
FATAL RIOT,
ALLIANCE MEN AND TOWN AUTHORITIES
HAVE A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.
A bloody riot occurred atDotlien, Ala.,
on Monday, in which George M. Strin
.rcr, proprietor of the alliance warehouse,
and Jeff Walker, an alliance man were
killed. J. L. Domingos, town, marshal,
and Parker Powell, deputy marshal were
mo rtally wounded. Peter Tew, au alli
ance man, Green Stringer, and B. Strin
ger, were seriously wounded. The riot
grew out of the town council passing in the an
ordinance imposing taxes on drays alli
town, which was disregarded by the
ance meg, the consequence of which was
a general fight all around with the above
results. Dothan is a small town about
one year olcl^ with, 800 people, having
sprung ipto existence in anticipation of
the Alabama Midland railroad,
now runs half a mUe of it? public what
streets. Tl*ep« bas been no feud
ever between the alliance and the town,
but on tbe other hand, tho best of feel
ings have existed heretofore,