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£33 pxq t=sO
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PIKE COUNTY,
SUBSCRIPTION. $1.0,1 PER ANNUM.
FALL WINTER
18 89 1889,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
On this day will I begiu my reign of
terror to high priced competition and
will give to my trade a schedule of pri
ces that will talk for themselves.
I have bought moro goods in all lines
this season than was ever brought buy with to this has
market before. My cash to
been all-powerful in my heavy purchas
es, and to sell goods cheaper than any
house in Georgia, w ill bo my chief aim.
I keep everything and it would be 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 still hold the trade on all grades of
clothing. Besides a full line of men’s
youth’s and children’s suits in cheaper
and medium prices, I liavsthe exclusive
control of the celebrated Voorheis, Mil
ler – Ruple, and Strouse * Bros, fine
clothing.
Geectsl
This season has produced some goods rare and
and pretty styles in dress
trimmings, and I have made this branch
of my business a special study. I chal
lenge the state to produce a fuller line of
novelties than I have. My stock of frin
ges’ braids, etc., are the products of the
best specialty factory in the country.
BOOTS AND SHOES
A whole car load of boots and shoo 8
just received places me in the lead. Give
me a trial and I will guarantee you a net,
saving of 25 per cent, ou your purchases
and make a lasting customer of you.
I can aay without exageratioti that l have more of these goods than any three
houses in this section, and prices will not bo in the way of tlioir sale.
All domestics will be sold at strictly factory prices. Remember this.
For flannels, jeans, eassimeretr, tickings, table linens, towels, calicos, trunks, va
lises, notions, etc,, give me a look and be convinced.
strictly cash customers Sept. . 15
I will sell all goods ou a very close margin to on
Come to see me. 1 am the only merchant here occupying two immense store
rooms and have the goods to sell. Yours Truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
BarnesviUe, Ga.. Sept.. 1 1889
N. B. Messrs. ,T. F. Howard, L. A. Collier and Edgar Cook arc with me aud in*
vite all tUaiL friends to sep them.
PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY!
GsEorn – Wolcott.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Manufacturers of
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I 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 Waps Just Received.
Best hand made harness always on hand. We can suit you. Don’t lose your
money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made fiarnesB. Dealers in
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Every kin 1 of House Material constantly on han^i and <•«** make anything you
want. Manufacturers, o, 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
Summers –-:-Murpliey b
HEADQUARTERS FOR
OaFuiages, Biggies a–i
W-A-G-O-NhS ♦CJ
5000 PLOW-HOES AT BOTTOM PRICES!
Barnesville, Ga.
pike Cottnljt otiowl
VOL. 1.
ZEBU LON, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1881).
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS,
ANN EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS MO* EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIEU,
MRCS, AND SAPEENINOS OF INTEREST.
Meetings of the Salvation Army have
been forbidden iu Switzerland.
The total number of women killed iu
the Glassbow factory by the fall of a
wall, was thirty.
The filed of the Hatfields and McCoys
in Lincoln county, in West Virginia, is re
ported to be bloody progress.
The vote of Wyoming, on Wednesday,
on the adoption 10,000, of with the constitution, less than 1,000 will
aggregate
against.
The now census of India gives the
population in March, 1888, os 289,477,-
726, of which 60,684,378 belong to the
native States.
M. Sclig – Co., notion jobbers, at
Philadelphia, Pa., assigned Tuesday,
with liabilities likely to reach $100,000,
Assets about one-third.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months there have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
ported Four in deaths Faii-haven, from diptheria Conn., Tuesday, were re
and some anxiety is cauaed by the news.
Tho victims are all children.
The report of the auditor of Arkansas
shows an increase in the value of real and
personal property in that state, during
the past year, of about $12,000,000.
The poorer people of Johnstown, Pa,,
relic charge fund that for in the the sufferers distribution there, of the
f most
of it. was given 1o the wealthier people,
and they are very indignant about it.
Tho freight conductors and brakemen
of the Evansville and Terra Haute and
the Evansville and Indianapolis railroads
struck Wednesday. They claim they
arc not receiving standard wages,
Mr. Josoph Pulitzer, of the New York
World, is about starting from accompanied Paris upon
a tour around the world,
by invited guests. He goes by way of
the Suez Canal, India and Japan.
It is reported at Zanzibar, Africa, that
the Masuis or Somalis have massacred
Dr. Peters, the German explorer and his
whole parly, except one European and
one Samalia, who were wounded and
who are now at Ugao.
Tho emigration commissioners at New
York, on Friday, notified all steamship
companies that a head tax of fifty cents
each will be collected from them for
every alien that they will bring here.
This will include children.
George and mine. Austin, <3K£7fES'-«„iw-,-i,
colored, Harry John Jefferson Billy,
Tom Wilge, Madison James,
Jonea, 8am Gaeus and Jamison Burris,
all full-blooded Indians, except Austin,
have been sentenced at Fort Smith,Ark.,
to hang January 7, 1890.
A remarkable revival has begun iu the
penitentiary at Kingston, Ontario,
Between eighty and one hundred
of the leading cracksmen, I erg its
pickpockets, and men of that ilk,
have been convened. Hunter and Cross
ley, Canadian evangelists, are conduct
ing the meetings.
The Prince of Wales sailed on Ihe
royal yacht Osborne, from Alexandria,
Egypt, for Piraeus Tuesday. Upon his
arrival at Alexandria from Cairo, he re
ceived an ovation. The streets were
decorated with garlands aud flags, and
triumphal urchcs were erected along the
route taken by the prince.
The exports of specie from the port of
New York last week amounted to $421,
$358,234 284, of which silver. $63,050 was the in iliver gold and
in All Went
to Europe, and all the of gold to South
America. The imports specie for tho
week amounted to $851,272, ami of which
$301,895 was in gold $49,877 was in
silver.
By the breaking out of molten iron in
the slack of Colbrook furnace No. 1, at
Lebanon, Fn., killed, Monday afternoon, five
men were and three severely
burned. The men, ail of wlu in were la
borers, were overwhelmed by the rush of
molten metal while at work, and some of
them were burned almost beyond recog
nition.
The attention of George W, Childs,
the lias editor of the Philadelphia Ledger, pub
been called to statements
lished in several papers that he had ex
pressed the opinion “that tiic body of
General Grant will be removed from N - »
York.” Mr. Childs denies the report and
says that he has never expressed such an
opinion or said in any form that General
Grant’s body would be so removed.
Dr. Mary'Wceks Barnett $50,000 of damages Chicago, in
III., brought suit for
tbc circuit court on Wednesday, against of
Frances E. Willard, president the
National Women’s Christian Temperance
union, Caroline E. Buell tnd Esther
Pugh, for circulating false and defama
tory statements against the complainant,
concerning her management of tbe Na
tional Woman’s Temperance hospital iu
Chicago.
M. Mackenon organizer of the Pasha, London
expedition to relieve Emin bar
received the Letters following dispatch been received from
Zanzibar: have
from Stanley, dated Victoria, August
29th. With him were Emin Bey, C -sati
Marco, a greek merchant, Esman Effcndi
Hassan, a Tunisian apothecary, Stars
Nelson, Jephson Parke and Bonny.
Eight hundred people accompany him
toward Mpwapwa. All were well Stan
ley reports Waddell in the hands of the
Mahaaists.
Comparatively little butter is mann
factored in Italy, and the consequence
is a large use of artificial products,
These are imported from France, Amur
ica, lands. Germany, The demand England and butter the Nether
for hag be
come America, so important Australia, in Europe, South
India, Japan and
even China that, with the under-supply
of t ;e real artide, it is necessary to mail
nfa Jure something anaia-jcum to it.
Agiin, low these prices, foreign markets don’t'af- will pay
uu.y so that they
ford a* much of an outlet for tha surplus
otherwiae of good American butter as would
be expected.
HOW IT WAS DONE.
A STORY DETAILING THE MANNER IN
WHICH DR. CRONIN WAS KILLED.
Canada, A special Saturday dispatch from Winnipeg,
morning, says: "As
sistant State's Attorney Baker, of Chi
cago, hail a long interview with Bob
Heifer, and from him received a detailed
account Burke took of the butchery Heffor, of Cronin. aud
communicative a quiet fancy with to
was very him, telling
him many details about the crime. Ho
told Heifer that Coughlin was the main
actor in the tragedy and had engaged
both him and Cooney to participate in
the crime. 11c told Heller that sand
bags were used by two of the assassins
while the third wielded a common base
ball bat; that he was under the impres
sion that Cronin was being decoyed to
the cottage under the pretext that ho was
going to attend a sick woman, who was
represented Pour to be at the point of death.
for him. men They were listened waiting in tho cottage
for the sound ol
wheels. At last the enrriugo drove up,
aud an instant later the doctor hurried
up the steps and knocked loudly and
hastily as if he realized that his presence
was urgently required. Two of tho as
sassins stood behind the door ready to
strike, while one of the others from tho
inner romu called out in a loud voice,
“come in.” The door was quickly
opened and tho doctor strode the in. nssassins Tho
instant he was in one of
slammed the door, while the other struck
the physician a terrible blow with a sand
bag. The doctor fell heavily to tho
floor.” Burke always declined to say
who struck tho first blow, and this fact,
Baker thinks, makes it quite would clear that have it
was Burke himself, else he
mentioned the nau>»- Ho always spoko
about tho four takiug part in tho crime
aud pounding Tho tho doctor the at doctor the same
time. moment was
down, the whole four rushed on him,
and with sand hags and clubs pounded
tho life out of him. Tho poor man
struggled, and moaned awfully. Blood
poured Nearly twenty from his minutes mouth, elapsed nose and before eyes. he
ceased to gasp. Then the fiends off stripped and
the blood-stained clothing of him
one of them impossible pounded recognize his face so body. as to
make it to tho
Coughlin then hauled the trunk overnnd
tho body was crammed and into brought it. One of
the quartette went out an
express wagon which had been left in a
convenient place. When they went to
carry the trunk out blood waB dripping
from it anil ran on the floor, and the
trunk was set down and these leaks
stopped with cotton batting, which teas
found in the doctor’s instrument case.
Tho trunk and its contents were then
taken to the lake, Coughlin driving tho
horse. There wa3 a boat at the point
oapaotod. — 1 ‘hey t’-t-it rt. above the
trunk out into the water, but it would
not work, Anxious to get rid of tho
body sonic way, Burke suggested that it
be thrown into the catch-basin. The
suggestion was adopted.
MORE MONEY WANTED.
TUB SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE BATS
TUJt APPROPRIATION lft TOO SMALL.
The annual report of the secretary of
agriculture was made Tuesday. The
secretary makes the uaunl references to
the woik of the several scientific and
other divisions of his department and
deals at length with certain plans for the
organization of the department, and sug
gests several new features in the interest
of the department of agriculture. The
secretary calls attention to the small ap
propriation for the current fiscal year,
und insists on adequate appropriations to
enable him to meet what he believes to
be tile obligations of tho department to
the Itself country tlie .The secretary, problem which that ot presented getting
to
the results the work done by the
department of more promptly before
the people has been solved, he says, di
by the establishment of a new
vision which furnishes promptly
to the ngricUltuia! and commercial press
a synopsis of the main points of every
bulletin and report published by the de
partment. Farmers’ institutes are re
ferred to particularly, as one of the
greatest movements in the history for of
agriculture and as the strongest IfeVet
raising and upholding the work of the
superior agricultural of education agricultural repre- col
(ented by our system
leges aud experiment stations. The sec
fetary recommends that the department aid and
ihotild be empowered to afford
mconraaement to this work.
FROZEN TO DEATH,
COWBOYS CAUBttT 11Y A BLIZZARD AND
StOCCMB TO TIIB COLD.
One of tlvc results of tho terrible bliz
zards which swept over western Colora
do ami north: ru New Mexico Thursday
and Friday of lari week, reached
Deuver Monday from Folsom,
N. M. Thursday several cow
boys, who were camping near Sierra
Grande with 1,800 beef cal tie, were
struck by the blizzard and became sepa
rated Friday night. One of them wan
dered into Head’s home ranch, half dead
with cold and hunger. He told bis story,
and a rescuing party was immediately
sent out, and the frozen bodies of Henry
Miller, Joe Martin and Charlio Jolly
were found ljing on the other open plains not
far from Folsom. The men suc
ceeded in finding their way to the camp
before being overcome with cold.
BOUGHT A BRIDE.
AN OLD MAN GIVES $100,000 IN GASH
FOR A W IFE.
Jesse Fovell, seventy-nine years old.ol
Calhoun county, Ill., and Mamie Isdell,
twenty-three years old, of St. Louis,Mo.,
were married a few days ago It Is said
the old gentleman is worth about half a
million dollars, and lives on a farm in
Oalhoun county, HI. His nephew, Isaac
Fovel, lives xa St. Louis, and Mis*
Isdell, beautiful and accomplished,
but poor, has been a sort of
companion and numery gpvernejs
in Isaac’s family. Tbe uuclo recently greatly
visited his nephews ayifi became
> mitten with the young .girl’s charms,
He paid court to her, an^ the affair, ac
,-oriing cash offer to of the $100,00(1 story, rfijlminated which in a
was ftc
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WASHINGTON, I). 0.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND NIS ADVISERS.
IMOIXTHENTS, DECISIONS, END OTBEB MATTERS
Or INTEREST MOM THE NATIONAL CATITAL.
The president on Wednesday appointed Miss.;
A. 8. Green postmaster of Echols,
V. Hyde, at Hemp; F. M. Kimbalet,
Jonesboro; Mnlinda S. Cornelson, at
Keeter, and Renjamin Pirkee, at Silver
City, Ga.
A now steward has been secured by
the president for the white house. This
time the choico lias fallen upon a Scotch
Irishman. Philip McKim. For many
years McKim wus steward at the Metro
politan Club, of Washington.
The Washington Star says that invest
igation of the charges of opium revealed smug- the
gling at San Francisco lias
fact that during the past six months the
government has been defrauded of
$409,000 in duties through the opera
tions of a gang of smugglers.
Tho latest report from the Cherokee
Indian nation are to the effect that the
recent order aud communication ot Sec
retary Noble in regard to Cherokee af
fairs, .which was received at Tahleqnab, had
the capital of tho nation, Friday, has
just the opposite effect tho commission
ers expected it would have. Indian. wtir
favored tlio state of the outlet before,
arc now obstinate. They say the tuctics, gov
ernment has adopted yield bulldozing inch.
and they will not an
The following dispatch was sent, from
the cxecutivo mansion, on Saturday af
ternoon, to Governors Mclletta and Miller,
of North and Soutli Dakota,'Bismark,
North Dakota: “The last act in the
admission of tho two Dakotas as states
in the union was concluded this after
noon at the executive mansion by the
president signing at that moment the
proclamation required by law for the ad
mission of the states. The article on
prohibition, submitted separately in each
state, was adopted in both. This is the
first instance in the history of the nation
al government that two states North
and South Dakota, entered the union at
the same moment.”
Qnartormaster-Gencral 8. B. Ilolabird,
of the army, in his annual report to the
secretary of war, recommends the enlist
ment ol men for the quartermaster-gen- establishment ol
eral's department, the
drill balls for winter exorcise of troops,
and states that repairs are needed to
roads leading to the national cemeteries
at Chalmette, La., Natchi-z, Miss.,
Knoxville, Tenu., Richmond, Va., Vicks
burg, Miss., and others. Ho also roo
online n ds that permanent means of ap
proach bo established to the national
cemeteries at Alexandria, Arlington. Va.,
Culpepper, Vn., Fredericksburg, Vm, Yn.,
Fayetteville, Ark., Poplar Grove,
Staunton, Va., Seven Pines, Va., Yolk
town, Va., and Athens.
The 4trector of the mint has submit- his
ted to the secretary of the treasury
annual report. He says the value of
gold deposited was $48,900,712, of which
$31,440,778 consisted of tho product falling off ol
mines of the United States, a
dollars, in gold product compared of about with the ono previous million
aa
fiscal year. Silver received aggregated
$35,627,273 standard ounces for coining
value ol $41,457,190. Of silver received,
$82,898,985 standard ounces of counting
value of $8,278,904 was classified as of
domestic production. Profit on the
coinage of silver dollars during
the year was $9,870,002 and on
subsidary silver coins, $32,987; the Bland total
coinage of silver dollars under
act to November, ,1889, was $843,638,
001, and total profit on silver coinage to
July I, 1889, $59,878,254; net profit af
ter deducting expenses for distribution
and wastage for eleven years ended Juno
80, 1880, was $56,349,787. The direc
tor recommends legislation looking of to- $3
wards a di–continilunce of coinage
and $4 gold pieces and tho thrcc-ccnt
nickel piece* and withdrawal from circu
lation of pieces of those denominations
now outstanding.
COTTON OIL MEN
hxvifi A MEETING AND FAVOR ' HANO 1 SO
TUB TRUST INTO A CORPORATION.
The committeo appointed at tho last
meeting of the certificate holders of tlis
cottou oil trust to examine into its af
fairs aud suggest a method for Changing
the truBt Into a corporate concern, met
at New York Wednesday. The report,
presented and adopted after Considera
ble discussion, Was oil the basis of chang
ing the present certificates into stock,
which would be assured by the deposit
ot all securities owned by the trust with
the Central Trust company. The new
itock will consist of $27,000,000 com
mon and 815,000,000 six per cent now
cumulating preferred stock. The com
mittee reported that through errors ol
judgment a low of $277,110 had been
sustained and hud been charged Flagler, off on
the book* of the company. Mr.
oreiideut, contributed $150,000 aud J.
O Morse, treasurer, $100,000 toward
making up the difleieticy. The company
Will be te-organized on the plan recom
mended by the committee.
FIGHTING OVER THE ROAD.
CITIZENS OPPOSE TUB CONSTRUCTION OF
CHATTANOOGA’S BELT ROAD.
An interesting railroad fight is in pro
gress in the Chattanooga, Tenn., courts.
The belt railroad, operating forty miles
of transportation lines, mountain. attempted They to
build a line to Lookout Hill
had to cross a road leading to Forest
esmetery. The Cemetery association en
joined them, and the county courts sub
Bcqueotly granted the right of way across
the road in controversy. On Wednesday,
the citizens of St. Elmo, a suburb of
Chattanooga, filed a bill to enjoin the
company from building the road, granted and in
order to jivotd the right of way
by the county, the bi^L attacks the chat
ter under a late dfcisipn of the supreme
court, as other cam panics a |e endeavor
ing to occupy the territory now occupied Great
by the Belt Railroad company. circles,
excitement prevails in railroad
and the outcomo will be awaited with
great interest. A temporary writ of in
junction was granted upon the biU.
NUMBER 51.
CROP BULLETIN.
ISSUED FROM TIDE CIVIL BUREAU FOR THE
MONTH OF OCTOBER.
The monthtj weather crop bulletin of
the signil bureau for October says: Oc
tober Ims been cooler than usual in all
agricultural districts oast of the The Hooky daily
mountains, except in Dakota.
average temperature for the month in the
winter wheat bait, including the atates
in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valley,
ranges from four degrees to eight de
grees below normal. About the same
thermal conditions prevailed in the mid
dle Atlantic, stales, Southern New Eng
land and along the south Atlantic coast,
whilo in tile gulf stator the deficiency in
temperature ranged from about one de
gro ■ to four degrees. There was a slight
excess in temperature in the Kooky
mountain district aud thence westward
to the Pacific coast. The line of killing
frost has extended south to tho northern
portion of the gulf statos and the north
ern portion of South Carolina and west
war d to the western portion of Washing
ton territory,central Oregon and northern
Nevada and light frosts occrured as far
south as southern Alabama, central Geor
gia and northern Louisiana. There has
been less rain than usual in tho central
valleys, and generally tbri ughout the
southern states and New England. Morel
than tho usual amount of rain occurred
in California and Oregon, in the middle
Aitaoefo avatoa uivt in the central Ro ky
mountain plateau region. throughout The rainfall Cali‘
was greatest, generally portion of which
fornia, over the greatest inches.
tins monthly rainfall exceeded six
About two inches of rain occurred during
the month in the winter wheat region;
extending from the lake region and
southern Iowa southward to the gulf
states, and only light showers occurred
in tho northwest, including Minnesota, Iowa.
Dakota, Nebraska and northwestern
The drouth condition which exiated in
tho central valleys has been succeeded by
timely rains,which have doubtless greatly The
improved the winter wheat crop.
drouth continued during the month in
the southern portion of the westward gulf states,
extending from Florida over
southern Texas, over which region only
light shower* are reported, and the Ue
fihigney of >nfall for the. month ranges
from bye to e inches,but this morning,
(November ) generous rains are reported
from Texas, orthern Louisiana and south
ern Alabama, and rains are heavy in
central Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys, with heavy snows in Nebraska
aud western Kansas.__________
national thanksgiving.
PRESIDENT HARRISON ISSUES Ills THANKS
GIVING PROCLAMATION.
The following proclamation setting day
;i'knr.dny, November 28th as a of
national thanksgiving was issued by
Prosiidont Harrison ou Friday. States.-—-A By
the president of the United
proclamation. A highly favored people,
mindful of their dependence on the boun
ty of Divine Providence, should seek n
fitting occasion to testify gratitude author and
ascribe praise to Him who is the
of their many blessings. It behooves us,
then, to look back with thankful hearts
over the past year and bless God for his
infinite meicy in vouchsafing to our land
enduring peace; to our people freedom
from pestilence and famino; and to --or
husbandmen abundant harvests, to
them that labor recompense of tbeir toil.
Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison,
President of the United States of A.meri
ca, do earnedly recommend that Thurs
day, the twenty-eighth day of this pres
ent month of November, be set apart aud as
a day of national thanksgiving
prayer, and that tho people of our coun
try,’cea*ii.„' from the cares and labors ol
tlw’ir working day, shall assemble in
their respective places who of has worship prospered and
give thanks to God, made pallia the
us on our way and our
path* of peace, heseching him to blesi
the day to our present and thanksgiving future good, foi
making it truly one circle of well foi
each reunited home as as
tho nation at large.' In hand witness and whereof, caused
I have hereunto set my
the seal of the United States to be af
fixed. Done at the city of Washington, the
this first day of November, in and eighty- ycui
of out Ixird eighteen hundred
nine, and of the independence of the
United Stutes the one hundred and four
teenth. Benjamin Harrison."
A MANIAC’S DEED.
CHARED THROUGH FINANCIAL TROUBLES,
HILLS 1118 WIFE AND CHILDREN.
A terrible tragedy occurred Monday
morning in Vergenncs township, Kent
county, stich. Haggal Westbrook a
farmer, took a hammer and fractured hi*
wife’s skull, and then went to a room
where his three small girls were asleep
arid treated them in about the same man
ner- Westbrook then run down stairs,
procured his razor, and cut bis own
throat. Westbrook is dead, and report
says the girls were instantly killed, and
that Mrs. Westbrook is mortally
wounded. Weetbrook was in financial
difficulty and had become insane.
WILL RESIST.
THK CHEROKEE LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION
DON’T WANT TO “VACATE.
The Cherokee Live Stock association
held a meeting in Kansas City, to con
gider Secretary Noble s declaration that
they must vacate the “strip” by tbe first
of January next. The meeting was not
public, but it has been learned that the
sense of the meeting was that the secre
r.iry’s order would be resisted, and it
wae determined to take legal steps to
that end. The association, s«ia one oi
the members after tbe meeting, doe* not
propose to renew its lease, but simply de
sires to bold its present lease until its
termination in 1894.___
bank STATEMENT.
Following is a statement of the asso.
dated banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday, November 2^:
Reserve increase................ 758.200 8,800
Leans decrease.......... 547.200
Specie Increase....... • • 231,200
Legal tenders decrease,. ....... 1,299,60f
Deposits decrease....... increase..., ....... 16,200
Circulation hold $1,120,475 ........ in
The banks now «x
ces* of 25 per cent rul*.
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UtTOBTXKCX XX THK SOUTHXBX STATES.
Fire broke out Sunday morning iu the
Schofield building, adjoining Hollings
worth block, on Poplar street, Macon,
Ga., and destroyed nearly $100,009
worth of property.
According to the order of business
before the Supreme Court of Alabama,
the appealed cases of Dick Hawes, Fan
nie Bryant and others from Birmingham in
will not bo reached until some time
December.
A Key West special to the Times- Un
ion, ot Jacksonville, Fla,, says: Dal Pino
Brothers’ immense cigar factory, contain
ing one million cigars, besides a large by
quantity of tobacco, was consumed
flro Sunday morning.
Charleston’s great earthquake festival
opened Monday with cloudless skies and
charming weather. Public buddings,
private residences and commercial houses
were bedecked with flags and bunting
from one end of the city to tho other.
Billy Ryan, leasee and munager of tho
Casino variety theatre, at Birmingham, night
Ala., left the city Saturday for
parts unknown, leaving about $2,000 of
unpaid debts. Several members of his
company are left without a dollar and
several week's salary due them.
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says:
A company with a capital of a million
and a half has been organized of to land reclaim
a hundred thousand acres near
that city. It will be done by straight
ening the channel of Trinity river. Tha
land will be worth ten million dollars.
A. Hirsh – Co., the largest mrj-gmm-
und milinery house in Birmingham, Ala.,
wus closed on Saturday *by the sherifli on
attachments aggregating $43,000, About
$20,000 of the attachments are in favor
of clerks in the store auAtfeintms of the
firm. The Alabama NBfouai bank at
tached $19,000.
Two men armed with Winchester rifles
were seen in the vicinity of Irondaie,
Ala., eight miles from Birmingham, late
Wednesday afternoon. Soon ufter dark
they robbed two citizens half a mile from
the town. One of the men robbed re
ported that one of the highwaymen filled
the description of Rube Burrow, the
train robber.
News oomes from Spartanburg, one of
the best cotton-growing counties of North
Carolina, of a new cotton plant,
if it is as claimed, will make a we
revolution in the agricultural nation,
oil interest* of the jg
an experienced plaflMBflB -cottonphe®
have a cotton
nuibiag
Rube Burrow, ’*
night train i/ tne
ride on the express Birmingham, on
Kansas City, Memphis and
railroad Tuesday night. He was
and recognized, but no one attempted
his capture. He boarded the train, west
bound, at a small station in the western
part of Alabama, and rode a few miles
across the line into Mississippi. He was
alone, but carried a largo Winchester
rifle and two pistols.
The superior court of Richmond
county, Ga., has decided against a num
ber of prominent citizens who, twenty
years ago, subscribed to the capital stock
of the National Express and Transporta
tion company. A test case was made on
Wednesday in case ofWiltiamH. Howard,
a prominent and wealthy cotton factor,
and a verdict rendered against him.
This virtuallv carries the other cases with
it. The verdict is regarded as a great
hardship, although in accordance with
court M*Ono decisions Texas. in thes;;jiaacyj^l^^jj
from 10
A POWERFUL ORDER.
THE PATRONS OP HU SR ANGRY GOING TO
RATE TUJNOS THEIR OWN WAY.
A dispatch from Fort Huron, Mich.,
says that not less than 75,000 Michigan Hus
farmers have joined the Fatrona of
bandry since lust May, and the number
is increasing e-cry week. They threaten
to become a controlling power in the
politics of the state, and then to spread
over the entire country. The patrons
claim to have been forced into being by
monopolies and trusts, and they propose
to organize a combination that will
strike terror to the hearts of their ene
mies. At present the patrons are devo
ting themselves exclusively to merchant*,
and in every town where they have a
foothold they enter into an uon-clad
contract with one dealer in each line of
trade to purchase only from him, exact
ing a pledge that they shall not be
charged to exceed twelve per cent ad
vance on wholesale prices. The
have lodges in forty-seven counties, with
a membership of more than 5,000.
GEORGIA GOLD MINER
TO BE PURCHASED AND OPERATED BY
BOSTON SYNDICATE.
Mining circles are syndicate agitated is over aegotiat a ru
mor that a Boston Dahlonegaj
inn for the purchase of the rumol
Ga., gold mining property. The
states that the owner will dispose of al
tbe valuable water power, 8i,500,00« acqueductl
and mines for the sum of
The discovered Boston that syndicate, the gold it of ia8t the “ DahloneJ ted <^3
mines can be worked other to known advantage propertj cheaj
er than any which doll*
Low grade ores, assay one
to tbe ton, can be milled for profit, twenty-nj in H
cents, leaving a handsome
west ore which averages two and th*
dollars a ton, cannot be worked wlthefl
loss. The inexhaustible, ore of tbe Dahlonega and it ts said mu| «
is almast the purchase J
Bostou syndicate, if
made, will work on the system that
greater tho output the grater UW pr°B
THE 8UPPLY OF COTTOffl
The total visible supply of cotton
the world is 2,020,891 bales, of wh
1 1,697)788 737 091 bales are American, agai
and 1,478,888 bales resp.
ively last year. Receipts at ail mtei
towns, 187,870 bales. Receipts at pi
tatious, 329.108 bales. The crop
sight is 2,143,198 bale*.