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r»H£K COUNT Y,
BGBSCEIPTION, tl.00 PER ANNUM.
FALL WINTER
Id 89 1889,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
» On this day will I begin my rcigu 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 more goods in all lines
this season than was ever brought to this
market before. My cash heavy to buy with puichas. has
been all-powerful in my
es, and to sell goods will cheaper chief than any
house iu Georgia, bo my aim.
I keep everything and it would lie fool
ish to try to attempt to enumerate even
in part, my grand array of bargains that
] have in store for tho people.
CLOTHING.
1 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 have the exclusive
control of the celebrated Voorheis, Mil
ler – Kuple, and Strouse – Bros*, fine
clothing.
Dross Goads!
This season has produced somo rare
and pretty styles in dress goods and
trimmings, and 1 have made this branch
of my business a special study. 1 chal
novellas# lenge the state to have. produce a fuller lino frin- of
than I My stoctc of
ges’ braids, etc., are tho products of the
best specialty factory in the country.
BOOTS AND SHOES
A whole ear load of boots and shoo 8
jnst received places me in tho lead. Give
me 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 be more tho of these goods their than any three
houses in this section, and prices will not iu way of sale.
g#«k_AH domestics will be sold at strictly factory prices. Remember this.
For flannels, jeans, eaasitneres, tickings, table linens, towels, calicos, trunks, va
lises, notions, etc,, give me a look and be convinced.
I will sell all goods on a very close margin to strictly cash customers on Sept. 15
Come to see me. Iam the only merchant here occupying two immense store
rooms and have the goods to sell. Yours Truly,
EDGAR L. ROGERS.
Barnesville, Ga., Sept. 1 1889
N. B, Messrs, J F. Howard, L. A. Collier and EdgarCook are with mo and in*
vite ftll theic friends to theui.
HOME INDUSTRY!
Osborn – Wolcott
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA i
Manufacturers ssf
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$9 \
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES AND WAGONS.
FINE VEHICLES MADE TO SPECIAL ORDER.
Repairing done neatly, substantially anil with dispatch. Home-made wqgons war
ranted. A car load of
Tennessee Wagons Just Received.
Best hand made harness always on hand. Wo can suit ye a. Don’t lose your
money by investing in worthless vehicles and machine made harness. Dealers in
Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Every kind of House Material constantly on hand, and o»n make anything you
want. Manufacturers, also, of
ENGINES AND BOILERS
SAW MILLS, SYRUP MILLS FABM
MACHINERY, ALL MANNER OF CASTINGS
Carry a full line of Pipe and Pipe Fittings and engine textures. Can make or
repair anything from a Baby’# Cradle to a locomotive.
Summers –-i* Mm§Mj „
HEADQUARTERS FOR
CfeFia§©s* Mmgglm aji<I
Cv>+ WmA-GmOmKmS * r3
5 OOO PLOW-HOES AT BOTTOM PRICES !
Barnesville, Ga.
J3ii« Ccnmtji JmiowL
VOL. 11.
ZEBU LON. GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1889.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
ITEMS OP INTEREST PROM VA
RIOUS POTNTS IN THE SOUTH.
A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OF WHAT IS OOINU ON OF
IMTONTANCB IN THE SOUTHEEN STATES.
The courthouse at Warrcnton, Ya.,wna
burned Friday night.
The Demopolis, Ala., oil mill burned
Friday; loss 1125,000, insurance $75,
000 .
Columbia, S. C., on Tuesday, re
ported cotton receipts at 839,938 bales,
as against 558,842 bales last year
Colonel L. F. Livingston addressed
the Richmond county, Ga., alliance, Sat
urday, on the general condition of tho
farmer.
The Early county, Ga., alliance has
determined to establish a cotton seed oil
mill and fertilizer factory in Blakely to
be in operation by September, 1890.
William Nathan Larrell Smith, chief
justice of the supreme court of North
Carolina, and one of the ablest men in
the state, died at his home in liaieigh on
Friday.
About threo hundred negroes left
Kinston, N. C., Tuesday fur Arkansas
and Mississippi, A largo number were
left behind who will leave later on.
The immigrants came from Jones, Lctoir
Pitts and Green counties.
A fire at night Baldwinsville, N. 5'., $250,- on
Wednesday caused a loss of
hotel, 000. The flames the originated iu block, the Seneca with
and entire hotel
two destroyed. large warehouses adjoining, were
James 1’. Gill’s livery stable an Clarks
ville, Tenn. was destroyed by fife Fri
day, and in it fifteen fine horses were
burned, among them the famous trotter,
Single Wood, valued at $7,000. Tho
total loss will be $40,000, with no insur
Slice,
The Randolph county. What Virginia
capitalists purchased land, one hundred occupied thous- by
and acres of which is
squatters, who have armed themselves to
resist eviction. One surveyor has al
ready been killed, and serious trouble is
anticipated, aa the settlers will fight.
A number of gentlemen arrive 1 at
Denver, Col., on taturday from Reno
county, Kan., to locate government lands
in South Santa Fo for a colony of 200
Mennonites, who propose settling on the
line of the Atchison, tho topekaand colony of Santa tho
Fee road. It is first
kind to locato in the territory.
The United States grand jury, after a
two weeks’ session at JaOltson, Mis ,
were finally discharged Saturday. divided They
returned forty one indictments,
as {ollow*i Timber dppr*-cl**i*«*«, passing -..
counterfeit teen; postoffico robberies, 6ne; unlawful flvfi, retail
Illicit money, eight;
ing, five; distilling, per
jury, two; intimidating witness, one.
Tho annual meetings of the following
roads, composing the Richmond, Atlantic boast line,
will be held at Va , next
Monday Richmond and Peterstn ‘fg;
PcteYsburg, Wilmington Cheraw aud and Salisbury; Weldon;
Northeastern, Danville; Wilmington, Co
Oheraw and
lumbia and Augusta;Central of the South
Carolina, and Alberniarle and Raleigh.
A. special from Eutaw, Ala., says that
Tuesday night burglars broke into tho
store of llrow – Bargeman, at Clinton,
Greeno county, blew open the sufe and
secured over two tlioUsalld dollars in
cash. The thirty scene of the burglary home being of
only about miles from the
HU be Burrow,tho country people believe
the burglary was committed by the great
outlaw.
The alliance men of Franklin, Haber
sham and Rabun counties, Ga., have
formed a joint stock company for the
purpose of buying goods and selling pro
duce for the members of the alliance.
Shares are placed at $5 each, and the
capital stock is to bo at least $15,000.
Only members of the alliance can be
shareholders. This stock company is to
be worked through the alliance exchange
of Georgia,
Richmond, A meeting Fredericksburg of stockholders and Potomac of the
Railroad company was held at Rich
mond, Va., on Wednesday. Tne road report for
showed the operations of the
nine months ended June 30, 1889. In -
come was $502,434; expenses of trsns
p -rtation $307,008; interest on bonds ho
tline months $31,271. Dividends on
general stock for nine months $26,271;
net profit $137,823.
Dr. R. A. Gerrard was jailed charged at Chat- witli
tanoogo, Tenn., on Friday, accord
bigamy, having ten wives living, No.
ing to the sta’eroent of wife 10,
whom he married in that city. Several
of his numerous wives are expected to
arrive from different points of the com
pass in a few days. Ho admits that he
has Bcvernl wives living, but claims that
he does not know how many he has, his
memory on this point being defective.
Governor Taylor has received petitions
from 3,000 prominent citizens in East
Tennessee and letters from a majority ot
the supreme judges, requesting of him death to
pardon or commute the sentence
passed on the five Barnard brothers who
killed Henley Sutton, in Hancock coun
ty lust January. .After a careful exami
nation of the record, the governor has
decided to commute the sentence of nil,
and he may pardon some of the fivo.
The state department of agriculture
of Alabama has completed its November
report, based on reports from all sections
of the state. The report is lull of inter
est, particularly as it shows but eighty
six per cent of the cotton crop has be n
made in the state. The average has been
reduced by tliealmost total failure of the
crop in some cotton-producing counties
of north Alabama. The corn crops is
above a full one, the report showing an
average of 105.
The board of directors of the primn
congressm' t at Nashville, Tenn., Satur.
(lay, and attended to tho routine bu-i
ness, nearly every member of this board
was present. Rev. Frances Wayland,
D. D LL. D., of Yale college, is presi
, board of directors, in the
dent of the
board are Rufus B. Bu.h-ck, of Atlanta,
Ga ; B. H. Dawson, of Montgomery,
At,.; B:n E McCudoch. of Huotsvlle,
Ti ins, a d William J. Hicks, of Ra
leigh, N. C.
The Virginia Methodist conference
met st fliiffimontJ Y*., Mund#/ and tl#>>
ted tho following delegates to a gener al
confereuco to be h4d at St. Louis in
May, 189J: Clerical delegates—Rev. Dr.
J. E. Edwards, Dr. R. M. Sledd, P. A.
Peterson, Paul Whitehead, ,T. J. Lafferty,
A. G. Brown, ltev. J. Lowell Garland.
Lay Delegates—Governor E. E. Jackson,
Maryland; Prof. W. W. Smith, Ran
dolph, Macon college; Messrs. J. Pet
tyjohn, Lynchburg; Capt. K. V. White,
Norfolk, mid Major it. W. Peatross, Dan
ville, Va.
Tlie Southern Surgical and Gynecolog
ical association, which has been in ses
sion at Nashville the past week, hat
adjourned, after selecting the following
officers: President, George J. Englo
mann, of St. Louis; first vice-president,
B. C. Iladra, of Galveston,Texas; second
vice-president, Dr- Duncan Eve, of
Nashville. Judicial council—Dr. Hun
ter McGuire, of Richmond, Va., for five
years; Dr. Bedford Brown,of Alexandria,
Va., for one year; secretary, W. E. B.
Davis, M. D., Birmingham, Ala.; treas
urer, Ifardin P. Cochrane, M. D., Birm
ingham, Ala. Tho next meeting will he
held in Atlanta, Qa.
THE WEEK’3 BUSINESS
AS 8HT FORTH BY R. O. DUN A OO., OF
SBW -|~ YORK.
According to R. G/Dunn <–> Co. bush
ness continues healthy, confident and un
precedented in volume. Long ago il
was held that a yoar’s results would turn
upon the crops, and si is now certaiutUaf
tho yield h is been ou the whole about the
largest ever kn >\vn. The question
whether the wheat yield is twenty 01
thirty million bushels below the maxi*
mum is not important. The cottotl croj]
will much exceed any previous one, T1 il
tho latest official figures are preceding correct. by i
corn crop wi l exceed any
one hundred to two hundred million
bushels. The oat crop U also the lafgesl
ever known, and tho shortage in potatoei
and fruit is immensely ovei thaduwed by
the gain iu meats. Exports of $12,604,, provis
ions and cuttle in October were
657 In value,against $6,505,277 last year
a gain ot 69J per ct nt, aud while tho
breadstuff* movement was $145,000 sliorl
of last year’s, the increase in cotton hat
boen immense. The capacity of iron
furmces in blast November 1st was much
the greatest ever recorded, no less 151,- than
than 105, 765 tons weekly, fiearly against 10
059 October 1st, a gain of pet
Cent for tho month; and against 141,064
November 1st* 1888, a gain of 17.5 per
cent for tho year. It ttppears, too* that
Si veiral other ftirnaces of large capacity
afe about to begin wor*c. Weekly pro
duction is now greater than that of Great
Britain,, and close to the greatest ever te*
ebrd’pd lb 8,300,000 that- cojtnT." L'-tnsr ycdrly, nt utter tlie rate the
of about tons
allowance for difference between cap io
ity and actual output. Yet no excess of
production has been perceived, and
orices are firm at the recent advance, an
actual but small sole of rails at $35
being reported, bar iron being strong
at $190, nails in fair demand at $2.10
and plate, structural and sheet mills full
of orders. One point of doubt is whether
the warrants system may not oporate lot
lie time, to Conceal an excess ot output
>ver real consumption, and thus prepare
lot a disastrous reaction later. The Coal
>usine»s is still dull, with individual sel
lers cutting prices beforfe. Oopnef the hat
risen to 12 J bid for lake, though and pro
lusion is huge. Lead ia dull, tin
woaker at 21} cents. The cotton branch
d tho dry goods trada is active. Receipts
of raw cotton again exceed last years,but
he excess of expoits for the week has
been over 50,000 bales, and the price ia
mchanged, with speculative sales of
600,0fl0 bales. Woolen goods concessions are now in
moving fairly, aud ot
price. Speculation in products has been
more active,with some advance in prices.
Operators who were buying at Chicago
were selling at New York, and sales
were over ten million bushels Frid-iy.
Corn is but a quarter stronger, pork injardj un
petroleum changed* with blit shade slight highor, advance and
only a oats
one cent higher. Coffee bus been ad
vanced again fivo-elghth of a cent, with
speculative sales of 250,000 bags, but
distribution is dull. There are more than
tho usual uniformity in accounts from
all parts of the country. Reports are all
favorable as to tho volume of business*
and in the main as to collections. Busi
ness failures occurring throughout the
country during the last week, number
for the United States 225; Canada, 20.
Total 265, against 267 lust week.
MOVEMENT OF COTTON
WEEKLY STATEMENT OF THE NEW OR
LEANS COTTON EXCHANGE.
The New Orle -n* Colton Exchange
statement, is- ucd Saturday, makes tha
overland movement of cotton across the
Ohio, Mist eg ppi and l’otom ic riveis to
Northern, American and Canadian mills
for the week ending November 16th, in
clusive, 68,848 bale*, ugainst 71,718 last
year, and total since (September 1st 241,-
726, against 394,749. Total American
nill taking North and South for first
eleven weeks of season, 623,031, against
305,673. The total amount of American
crop now in sight 8,036,441, against
2,706,888. Northern mills are behind in
the taking for eleven week* 181,280
bales, while the movement for foreign
ccount is on a iibirai scale. Total for
eign exports show an fjxcc s to iLtte
over the total of tiie o one of the corre
sponding week of 48,094. The report
-hows that the amount of the crop mar
keted passed the three million mark Fri
day, the excess over last year now Vic
ing 220,093 bales. Stocks at seaports
uid leading interior towns have in
creased 32,638 bales during the past week,
and are now 883,907 bales, against 915, •
959 bales at the close of the correspond
ing week last year.
BANK STATEMENT.
The following is a statement of the
associated banks for the week ending
•a: urdriy; $1.810,725
deserve increase. . 1,6X4.000
Loans decrease .... 1.070,-900
Specie Legal tendere increase..... dec^eise ►. lao.soo
Dc{k wit# decrease . 2,103 900
Circulation Increase................ 10,990
The banks now hold $049)450 in ex*
?OTidf 19 p*r B»Ht, rui*,
GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSATION OP CURIOUS,
AND EXCITING EVENTS.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—AOOIDBNTS, BTRIRES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OE INTEREST.
The boom in the pig iron market in
Scotland tins collapsed.
Seventeen deaths have resulted in Ber
lin from explosion in powder at Hauau.
A heavy sbirm prevailed at Blooming
ton, depth III., M, oight ',(!ay. inches. The snow attaining
a of
The government has contracted with
General Joseph Ceballos for the con
struction of wharves at Graymas.
The German consul at Hong Kong tel
egraphed that a typhoon has ravaged the
country between Hong Kong and Saigon.
Brazilian securities fell at the London
Stock exchange, on Monday, five per
cent. It is difficult to effect transactions
in these securities.
The papal nuncio at Paris has been
instructed by the Vatican to favor the
adhesion of the Catholics to the conser
vative republican party. ,
S ection was held iu the third division
of Berlin, Tuesday, for members of the
municipal council. Six liberals and six
socialists were elected,
J. 11. Ratlibone, of Washington, foun
der of the order of Knights of Pythias,
is prostrated at a hotel in Lima, Ohio,
and is not expected to livo.
The strike iu the Vienna molhcr-of
pearl button factories is spreading. Mother
There arc now 4,000 hands out.
of-pearl has risen fifteen florins per hun
dred Weight.
Not including Alaska, Brazil is larger
in extent than the United States. It
possesses within its limits an area of
8,287,084 12,383,375. sejuaro milts,with a population
of
A fast mail train was placed on will tho
Atlantic Coast-Line Monday. It
leave Washington at 4.15 a. m. and ar
rive at Jacksonville, Fla., on tho follow
ing afternoon at 0.30.
Diphtheria lias become so prevalent
at Elkhart, lad., that nil schools huvo
been closed. Several deaths have oc
curred. Tho Authorities are taking
strong measures to stamp it out.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., on Wednesday passed
a resolution favoring tho election of
United States senators direct by a voto
of the people. The Grange will meet
next year at Atlanta, Ga.
The British East African company has
conveyed to the German government,
through Lord Salisbury, its regrets for
d.wn«U»i f th<5 Jr*eU;i‘a t Jk.|tuvHtH)fiy* r
and offers to do everything possible to
discover and punish the mtlrderers.
The Liverpool chamber of commcrco
has petitioned Lord Salisbury to endeav
or to procure the rescinding of the action
of the collector at Norfolk, Va., regnid
ing the employment of English classifi
ers of cotton in violation of lhe labor
act.
The extensive now vitrious china
works of Knowles, Tuyior – Knowles, at
East Liverpool, near Pittsburg, wns en
tin ly destroyed by fire Monday. Totul
loss is about a quarter of a million dul
lais. insurance $80(000.
Tlife prosperity of the cbttori mills of
Fall River, Muss., during the past >ix
months, uud, iu fact, during the entire
year, is without parallel in the History of
Fall River manufacturing. Never has
there been a year when the dividends
paid were so large as this.
Tho latest papers from Gautemalti,
bearing date of October 27th, toll of tho
immediate downfall of tho riotous out
break which, it was thought at the time,
might result in a revolution, Three
leaders were shot, the othors surren
dered, and all is quiet.
A now combine of all the barb wire
mills of Illinois will be known as the
Federal Steel Company, with a capital of
$12,000,000. The prisent price of bnrb
wire. painted, is $3.10 in cur ldad lots,
but after January 1 the price will proba
bly go up to $3.50.
A. W. Morris – Bros., proprietors of
J. A. Converse, plaster and cordage
works, Montreal, Canada, have been
compelled to seek the Indulgenceof their hav
creditors. The firm is an old One,
ing been in existence for about eighty
years. It is impossible to estimate tho
liabilities, but they will reach, if not ex
ceed $1,100,000,
Exports of specie from the port of
New York last Week amounted to $822,
972, or which $24,400 was gold gold and
$298,572 in silver. All the went
to Bomb America, $297,832 in silver
went to Europe, and $740 in silver went
to South America. Imports of specie
last -week amounted to $178,832, el
which $128,730 was gold uud $52,102
silver,
'l he natural sequence of the position
taken by the Catholic Baltimore congress Saturday w-is a
mass meeting at
night under the auspices of tiie Catholic
church, in favor of high license. It was
attended by persons of all shades of re
ligious opinion, and the proceeding! of
Resolutions'in the meeting were highly interesting.
favor of high license were
adopted.
'J he sixty-third annual report of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company,
for the year ended September 80, 1889.
shows that the gross earnings for 1889
were $21,31)3,001, an increase over 1888
,f $909,510. The expenses in 1889 were
$14,810,844, an increase over 1888 of
$010,283. The net earnings in 1889
were $6,492,157, an increase over 1888
of $389,227.
The United Slates consul at Colon re
ports that sinco work on the Panama ca
nal ceased, business at Colon has been
almost entirely lie prostrated. that not It single some
vessel times happens, be found says, in the harbor, a
is to a
tiling heretofore unknown since 1860.
The Isthmus railroad, which, in 1888, will
prid a dividend of 28} per cent.,
this year pay only 9 per cent.
Peirrepont Morgan, of Drexel, Morgan
– Co.; John King, president of the Erie
road; M. E. Inga is president, and II.
W. Fuller, gem rat rnasenger agent of
the Chesapeake an t Ohio, and a number
of other New Yo. k cap.tullsU, left Rich
mond, Y#., Friday on a tour o! lospeo
jwavf tiw Ut«MyMw ¥«* Ohlv wad.
NUMBER 1.
The trip will be extended to Cincinnati,
the western terminui of the road.
Reimund Holzhay, “Black Bart," on
trial for the murder of Banker Floisch
boin, of Belleville, III., and the robbery
of the Gogebic stage, took the stand in
his own defenco Saturday aud made a
oonfeaaion. He admittad that ho robbed
the Milwaukee and Northern tndn six
months ago; that he held up the Wiscon
sin Central at Cadott, Wis., a month
later; and that he wavlaid the Gogebic
stage and shot Banker Fleiachboin.
THE NEW PLANT
WHICH PRODUCES COTTON SEED WITHOUT
THE LINT.
The new lintlcBs cotton plant time men
tioned in these columns some ago,
Is attracting considerable attention.
There seems to be no doubt about the
existence of such a plant, us proof of it
is exhibited in Charleston. Tbero were
received there Tuesday a box of bolls
raised in Sumter county all containing
cotton seed without a Alive of lint.
This uew plant which was
tried in Spartanburg from county,
will, it is claimed, produce seed, without 8U0 lint, to
400 bushels of cotton
to the acre, The bolls are filled with seed
which are perfectly clean aiul show lie
signs of lint. Every boll contains til
many seed us it can hold, the boils being
the size of the average cotton boll,and ev
ery individual seed is as clean us a Boston
bean. Tho importance of this matter may
be understood when it is remembered
that there are thousands of cotton oil
mills throughout the south, and when it
is added tiiut the propagators of thisnejv
cotton plant claim that at the prisent
price of cotton seed, ran acre of the new
plant will yield from 300 to 100 percent
more than an acre of cotton.
SOUTHERN ACTIVITY.
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW ENGLAND CAPI
TALISTS INVESTING IN THE SOUTII.
The past week has been one of activity
in the organization of enterprises iu ilia
south. Florence Philadelphia Ala., has led and with New an
investment by including $500,
England 00(fcotton capitalists, a $200,
mill; a furnace to cost
000, to bo built by Philadelphia parties
aud to lie known as the “Philadelphia
furnace,’’ and a $300,000 Loan and Bunk
ing company, white $1,000,000 iu cash
has been invested iu stock and land of
two local improvement companies iu
Florence by these northern capitalists.
In Florida a contract has been made for
constructing 300 miles of canal to furnish
a water way nearly the entire length of
the state. At Bessemer, Ala., two new
are.to be
rou works
■ to be reorganized $700,000 with of $500,
000 of bonds and pre
ferred stock. At Rome, Ga., a $125,000
furnace is to be built. A steel plate mill
is to be built in West Virginia; a $200,
000 clothing factory in Baltimore and
extensivefertilizerworksat Norfolk, Va.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
ELECTION OF OFFICEItS AND OK AND ItALL!
AT 8ACHAMENTO, CAL.
The National Grange, in session at
Sacramento, Cal., devoted most of Sat
urday’s session to the election of officers
and routine business. J. II. Brigham, of
Ohio, was elected master; Hiram Haw
kins, of Alabama, overseer; Mortimer
Whitetiend, of New Jersey, lecturer; A.
J. Ross, of TeSus, chaplain; E. W. Dav
is, of California, steward* O. E. Hall, of
Nebraska, assistant steward; P. N. Mc
Dowell, of New York, treasurer; John
Trimble, of Washingtou, 1). C. secretary;
Avo E. Page, of Missouri, gate-keeper;
Mri. Edna Brigham,of Ohio, ceres; Mrs.
M. J. Thompson, of Illinois, pomana;
Mrs. Joe Bailey, of Mississippi, Massachu' flora;
Mrs. Laura C. Donglass, of
setts,ladies’ assistant steward; L. Rhone,
of Pennsylvania, holdover; J. J. Wood
man, of Michigan; X. X. Chartlers, of
Virginia: J. H. Brigham, of Ohio; ex
officio exeoutive committee.
will consolidate.
OBTB OF THE LARGEST AND BTRONOKSl
CORPORATIONS IN AMERICA.
It Is reported at Birmingham, Ala., Co on d,
good authority that tho Tennessee
Iron aud Railroad oornpauy and the De
bardeleben Uoal and Iron company of
Alabama, will soon consolidate. The
consolidated company would be probably
the richest coal and iron corporation of the iu
America. The combined property
two companies will consist of fifteen
blast furnaces in Tennessee and Alabama;
about one hundred miles of railroad:
coal mines with a total daily output of
eight thousand tons; coke OVena aud or#
mines enough to supply all tho furnaces;
and about one hundred thousand acres of
the best mineral lands in the south.
A NEW ORDER
TO BB FOUNDED BT MISS XATK DREIKt
-AN AMERICAN bISTKRHOOD.
It has been authoritatively stated at
Pittsburg that Miss Kate Drexel, known
in religion us Bister Catherine, will not
remain' in tho Order of Mercy. She is
merely making her novitiate in that or
eb r so that she may become a nun and
found a new order. The sisterhood she
will institute, it is stated, will be dis
tinctly American, and it will have foi
its object missionary work and charitable
work among tbe Indians, dhe membeis
of tho new order will be expected to do
all kinds of domestic work, in addition
to educating Indians. Tbe name has not
yet been decided upon.
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HE WA8 REINSTATED.
ltev L Barrow, a theological student
in the U B Grant university at Chatta
nooga, Tenn., was editor of tho Lookout,
tire collect! paper. Chancellor Spence
demanded that one-half space of the pa
per be devoted to the other branch of the
university Id Merely, at Athens, which Barrow crit
id lhis ^editorial and wg 8 suspended lookout for
wiitimz The
then stopped publication. Chancellor
Dp Witt ot the Chancery couit, on Fn
day granted, a mafidamus compelling M tho
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EVBRY TUESDAY
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ZEBTJLON, - - GEORGIA#
—BY
PARRY LEE,
A SPLENDID ADVERTISING AGENT.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
J 10 VKMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS ADVISERS.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
A commission of engineers has been
appointed by site the secretary tho proposod of war bridge to re
port on the of
across the Mississippi river at New Or
leans.
Surgeon Posey has reported to moriue Sur
geon-General Hamilton, of tho
hospital service, that two new cases of
yellow’ fever have beau developed at ICay
Wist, Fla.
The attorney-general at Washington i#
in r oru\cd that tho trial of tho raises of
allcgod frauds in Florida, at the last
presidential election,has already resulted
in threo convictions.
Mi s Ada Tanner, of New York, con
fidential clerk to commissioner of pen
sions, lias tesigned. Miss Tanner is a>
daughter of ex-Commissioner Tanner,
She lins been appointed private Hustin. secretary
to United States Treasurer
Subpoenas have been issued for Mr.
Armour, Secretary Williams and other
persons connected with the Union stock
yards at Chicago to appear at Washing
tou before the United State’s senate’s
committee investigating the dressed beef
monopoly.
The president leccption Monday number afternoon of gave
n special representing to the a various business gen
tlemen, 1
interests of the country, who requested
that he incorporate in his message to con
gnss a recommendation for the enact.
ment of an equitable national bankruptcy
law.
Thc civil service commission, president it ia un
derstood, lias laid before the
its findings and recommendations in tha
CHS-' of tho offenders of tho “Old Do-*
minion Republican league,” of Virginia,
just prior to the late eltction, and in vi
olation of the cival service law, circular
letters soliciting contributions for cam
paign purposes.
Secretary Windom has sustained Treas
urer Huston in his controversy with the
United States Express company in regard
to the transportation of government mon
eys issued to meet busiuesss wants, by
decision made Tuesday afternoon, that
under its contract with tho depariment,
the express company is compelled to re
ceive and transmit, at contract rates, any
and all money tendered by the United
States treasurer in his official capacity.
First Comptroller Matthews lias de
cided that a United States marshal who
undertakes to serve a government sub
pujuwtiputt a witness at a distant point
and fails to find him, is not entitled to
the actual expenses of the trip, notwith- in
standing they were incurred only
going to the place indicated iu the writ;
also, that he is not entitled to the actual
expenses for travel to another place to
nrrest a person whom he fails to find; also,
that ho is not entitled to mileage for his
return after conveying a criminal to a
place designated for his confinement.
John W. Mason, commissioner of in
ternal revenue, lias submitted to the sec
retary of the treasury reports of opera
tions of the internal revenue service for
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1889. Ag
gregate receipts for last fiscal year $130,-
894,434, or $8,567,953 more than tho re
ceipts the previous year. The receipts
for the first threo mouths of the fi-cal
year oggiegated $34,034,526, an increase
of $3,470,807 ns compared corresponding with the period re
ceipts for the
of the last fiscal year. Tho com
missioner says if this ratio of increase Is
maintained tire receipts of the present
fiscal year will amount to over $142,000,
000. He does not, however, think such
to be the case, aud estimates collections
for the current year at 35,000,000.
As a result of several conferences of
Attorney General Miller, Secretary Win
dom and Solicitor Hepburn in regard to
the case of the twenty-five English glass- of
blowers, employed at the works
Chambers, McKee – Co., Saturday ot Jeannette, referred
Pa., the first named ou
all lhe papers in the case to United
States District Attorney Lyons, at proceed Pitts
burg, with instructions to
against the firm named, and those officers
of the local assembly of glassblowers,
who were instrumental in bringing tha
English laborers to this country, provi
ded ho is satisfied that suits can be main
tained against them under the provisions Solicitor
of the alien contract labor law.
Hepburn has given an opinion to the
secretary of the treasury that the depart
ment lias ample authority to send the
imported glassblowers back to England.
On Monday Secretary Windom’s at
tention was tailed to the report that he
had decided to withdraw $47,000,000 of
public funds, now on deposit with na
tional banks. The secretary said that it
certainly was not his purpose to make
any suen wholesale witudrawal, hut that
the question of a withdrawal of a portion
of the fund in depository bunks has been
under consideration for some time, and
he fully recognized the necessity of call
ing in such a portion as could be with
inconvenience drawn from the to the banks trade without and commer- seriousj
cial interests as early as practicable. direct in-|
He said also, in answer to u
quiry on the subject, that the govern
ment for many years past has hud on
deposit with banks through which its
current business is transacted, from ten to
twenty million dollars, and that lie saw
no good reason why this policy should
be changed.
TO SAIL SUNDAY.
A SQK AD RON OF FOUR AMERICAN SUIPi
THAT WILL HAIL FOR EUROPE.
Amid the booming of cannon,
of flags, waving of hundredis of hat a am
handkerchiefs, and chrers flora .
throats, Admiral John C+. Watkar q
his cago, squadron, Boston, cora«Bwg^he Atlanta u »hips B
will* panoply bunting of wnr, flying aa.led and mam.Rcdlydowl m £ j
noon direct Monday. him to remain X > in o.„, - 0 u not lute] 1
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