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t—3 txa era -OF PIIv B COU>i T V. puasrr.iPTios, $1.00 ter annum. 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 \A h \ # 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,