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VOLUME VIII. CAMDEN, S. C\, Kill HAY, OCTOBER I, 181)7. ? Nu. ;{h. iiliipilii. It h b'rown by Thomas A Jackson, ^ Near Atlanta, Ga. f SENSATION AMONG GROWERS, ? ? ? ? ? . ??sJ Ht?m?voa to a 8Ulk? AikI They (Irow^/'to lie Fourteen Fort Tho Atlanta (tift.) Constitution say# tho famous Jackson limblosa cotton has nssiuuod u national iinportanco ami rooontly tho .States Hocretary of Aci'iimlturo telegraphed to Weather ami Crop Oflioial Marbury, at this place, to go out to Wjo Jackson farm and m&ko a thorough ami oxhaustivo oxamiuation of tho plant and thon re port to tho government official at Wash ington. Mr. Mai bury at once wont out to tho farm near tho barracks, where the wonderful cotton is growiug, and through tho kindness of Mr. Jackson was enabled to go through the aix acros FAG- HIM I I.I 15 OF COT TON STALKS Afl IK HELI). of magnificent cotton. IIo spont quito ? white nt tho place and looked over nil the field. After making Lis examina tion ho wr>s allowed to brim? bouio of tho cotton to town with him to include with his roport, Mr. Marbury was enthusiastic over tho limbless cotton. He said that it Was tho finest crop. :of .cotton ho had ever scon. JUe said that some of the cotton was tffytall that it could hardly bo roachod with an umbrella. The I'ltyit is thieklv studded nil the way np with large bolls, and the lowest esti mate is that the six acres will yield four boles to tho acre. ,'1'ho weather official will make a very full' report on tho condition and the prospcctB of'tho cotton, and will enter into its probable commercial value. Ho . will givo as full and complete a report oil tho subject as could be desired, and when tho roport is lilod the government will then bo in a position to act as it may consider proper. lhat tho government officials are evincing considerable interest in the remarkable cotton is not n surprise. It an ontirely now variety ol cotton, and i? tho best spccicB that lias beea grown in thin country. The government will probably buy up largo quantities of the heed and distribute them among the aer _ ..xicultural classos, ?o ae to.insure a wide (1 istribut'on and a spread of the new va riety. Tlio Bccd rot ail at 8200 per bushel, and tho present owners of the aix acres at Jackson's farm have beeflh offered $20,000 for the product of the field. Tho cotton doos not have a limb on th<r stalk, and has many advantages not possessed by othor varieties. Mr. Marbury will file his report in a few days, aud the government will ^tprobably take early aotion in order to accuro the seed that is now being grown. .. . I>KCIvAREI> UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Act Authorizing Assessing Property. Holders for Street Improvement. At Greenville Judge Watts' decree in the case of W. L. Mauldin vs. the city of Greonvillo has been filed sustaining the contention of tho plaintiff that the city ? )\ oul clbVo n joi n e d from collecting an assessment of two-thirds of the cost _ of the paving of the ?id?%alks on Main street. Judge Watts ftolde that' the act under which the assessment^ was mad# is un<M>nstifaiional, and thaieven if it 7 were not, that the assessments - were improperly nisde. The decree is voluaiaoas - and discos? the fceoeht -I -.acts of Ui#.MsisTaiare with reference to street ipfoTemehts and the netr ml -? limitations aa~ .to the municipalities to do* tract ? cass will go jxp on appeal >ma Conrt. < itts also decree In I Gentry w. Lanneao. He J t ?,.*?*? o?>U hou* I MOUTH OOTION Growth TTfi>^o Factories lu tho ft'Ast SoVtiYk'cnrs. s> The growth of lnnnumclnrlng in tho South in tti'd jmst iittL Joars in shown by tho faot that thoae'aro now in tho States of iKentnok/, \l.'ou uosboq, .M i ?y ?iflsippi, -Alabafua, (ioo^giD.^ht) Carolinas and Virginia -1*14 cotton ?uill?, with 8, 451,031 spindles and HO, 108 looms, besides 73 knitting wills. In 18iK) tho total number of spindles iu thewo Htates was l,ubH,?;'jO, ho that tho iuoroaso sinoo that year has boon about 180 por con t. Of tho cotton mills, 2-11). representing about two thirds of all tho spindles and looms, uro on tho lino of tho Southern Hallway. Thoro avo now 50 per cent, inoro spin dles on this road than thoro woro in tho wholo South iu 1 8Ul?, and tho creat or proportion of tho iueroaso has occur red in tho last throe years. ? Tho woolon mills of thesoeovon South crn Statos number eighty-eight a* ! uro situated as follows: Alabama, '21; cor Sift, ft; Kontuoky, 18; Mississippi, 10; forth Carolina/ 13; Tonnesseo, 2>; Vir ginia, 24. About iiftoon of thoso mills at e also cotton and knitting mills. Of tho total nearly ono-half uro located on tho lino oi tho Southern Hallway, and thoso in clude W08^ of tho largest ono*. ENI> OK Til Id 8TIUKIC. 150,000 miners Cio linok to Work at Higher Wages. A Pittsburg special Bays tho bitumi nous coal striko has brton ollicialiy end ed. The ton days duiiug which it was agreed tho minora should ronhun idlo expired on the 22d an\l ajmuctyod and fifty thousand minors -^vhoNj^ave boon idlo for eleven wooIib havo' roBumqd work at an advance of 20 por cent, in tho wogos paid for mining. Tho light against the Now York and-. Cleveland Qua Coal Company will con tin no. This Btriko lias been probably [tho most oxtonBivo that has eyor taken place in tho coal industry in tliis coun try. At ouo timo aa high aa 250,000 miners woro idlo. The rninorB practically won tliiH striko. boing grantod tho fconcoBsion thoy uomaudod from tho mine opora- { tors. NO ULTIMATUM IMPJLIHO. [| I Mlulstor Wootllbru I sod No Threat ening Langungo Against .Spain. Madrid. ? (By Cablo. )'? Tho Duko of Tetuan denied that Minister Woodford had impliod an ultimatum vin an inter view. A dispatch from Washington Bays while it is declared at the Stato Depart ment that whiln Gonoral Woodford(did, according to the original idea of his in structions. sat forth^tho doep interest which tho United Statos has in desiring a cessation of tho dcplorablo conflict in Cuba, ho did not deliver hiuinelf of an ultimatum but simply made a statement of our deep interest iu a/ettlomont of the Cuba war as a rorsonablo explana tiou for intervention in any manner at this time. HjOOI>S in ITALY. ft Many Killed and Woumled--Scvcral Great daliAgo to property and loss < f life havo been caused by. Hoods ihrouwl - out Italy. In tho vicinity of Baiiulisi, Province of Ijcccr, several villages have been completely destroyed l?y the floods and storms. "Seventy jiornons have beej^ killod and lj^any others are either injurod or missing. vaijksquez con fusses. Ho Owns Up i'bnt Ho Directed the Killifca of Arroyo. City of" "Mexico.? (Spocial). ?Renor Don Eduardo' Volasquoz, Into chief police, has confessed that ho directed the killing of Arroyo, tho aispilaut of President Diaz. Volasquoz was ro moved from ofllco and placed in Bolorn prison, on suspicion of having as quiesced in tho killing of Arroyo. Americans in Belgium '8 Army. The Americans residing in Antwerp, Belgium aud who are liaole, undor the nevr law, to be onrollod for military service in case of war, havo hold a meeting and organized to opposo this aotion of the Belgian govorninont. Itesolntions to this effect havo boon for warder to Bellamy Storor, the LJnitod States Minister at Brussels. The Battle of Hunker Hill. One of the big attractions to bo givon during Charleston, (S. C. ), Gala Week, in Ootobor frill ^bej^o historic picture of "Thel^iile ofCunker Hill,'' as produced by Tfc*..?f%tost of ali pyrotechnists, the Pains. Martin ?n<l Ills Deputies. At Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sheriff Martin and his deputies have been roloased on bail in the sum of $6,000 each, $5,000 for murder and $1,000 for feloniously wounding. A bond was provided by a Philadelphia trust company. Bis Bridge Works Burned. ^(At Youngstown, Ohio, the Youngs (own Bridge Company's works havo t**n burned. The Ion it a hundred tfifitliWJtd ddllare, pertly insured. Two hundred persons are thrown out of employment. Baby Cremates a Tiny Sister. ? r * ,, Baby John Koble, aged 18 months Villages Destroyed. bim uJSRf rin, slia, one year home in Sb*> IK II A Few Items Picked Up From ^ ? Various Sources ? . ? - - . ACCOMPLISHED NEGRO THIEF. Anderson's New City llallvCharh's (on Will Heeclvo (fcorulik Cotton ? Howard For a Murderri't A fdrango condition of coiuo to light in tho otllco altyira of th liatf istor of in os no conveyance for villo comity. A lawyer in lool< ft title to roftl eatato, mudothodi that tho deod was only parW cord oil. This discovery disci fact that entrio? in tho ree have boon improperly mrule d yoar 1803 to IjsOO. Thoro aroAnatauoes wlioro deoda are only half e/>plod, tho work being loft oil' without 'ho uamoa of witnosaes. In othel* casostho names of notarioa taking aflhlavitaof aubacrib ing wit nos?ea and rondiotion of dower nro omitted. Names of witnoasoaTtvo left oil or improperly plao^jl. This will cauao great inconvoiiioneC, but no loss i? likely to voauU to property hohlors; but so long a a ilooda are im properly rooordoil a cl >ud wi 1 hoituovvn on tho tit lo of oaeh parly ititjioitud. Col. J. T. Auatin hold tho.etNeo during tho yoarn rnontionoil andft. W. Hornyga 1 was hia olork part of tho timo. Tho wholo ti oublo was tho "result of <*aroloss noBS. Mistakes aro found in booka Y, H, Aaa.otibb, CciJ ami possibly othora. H. N. Stewart, the present incumbent, will correct tho orrora ah far aa possi ble. ? Tho Rotator. At Sumter, William Anderson, an omployo at Mr. Edgar Skinnor'u gin houuo, met with a horrible (loath. Ho was slauding in front of tho gin, which was running at a high rate of speed. Stooping down, ho roachod his loft arm underneath tho rapidly rovolving saws, and in soiuo way hiB sloovo was caught by tho tooth of the saws, in an instant tho un fort una to man was jerked up to tho front of tho gin and hold fast whilo bis arm was cut into shreds. Aa soon as possiblo tho machinery was stopped and Andorson was extricated, but tho deadly saws had dono thoir work. Medical aid was summonod at once, but before a physician could reach him death relieved him of his Buffering. A jury of inquest was empanellod and a \erdict rendored in accrdanoo with the abovo. Thore has boon pome bold stoaling done in Wodgcliold in opan daylight. Tom Friorsou, colored, who had boon absont for nearly two mouths, dodging the officers of tho law, returned last weok and soized a bale of cotton, be longing to his brotlior ITayti, and sold the same to Mr. Dan McLaurin, Not being satisfied with this halo, he after wards forged an order on tho giunor and got anothor bale belonging to Ir win Keith, llo also sold that halo to Mr. MoLaurin, and after ho had re ceived payment for both bales, bo left, walkiug, fie went by his mother's farm, took two mulos from tho stable aud Bold tbom at Sumter. Ifo left Sumtor on tho Florence train, pursued by Chiof of I'o lico Bradford. ? Tho Registor. I ? i ' ~ - ? Charleston's board of health at a ro cent meeting passed tho following reso lution which speaks for itself: "Re solved, that the product of the farm and manufactured goods, except sugar, rico nn"ft molasses, will bo rormitted to coino to Charleston from Atlanta, pro vided tho same (Ioob not originato in any infectod points and placoH. This lets in somo of tho Georgia ' cotton which has a I whys opriio to Charleston but has recently been, kept out by tho quarantine restrictions. <?* At the fall term of court at Loxing ton, tho case that enlistod most intcrost was tho Stato vs. H. J. Petit. It will bo romomborod this was the prosecu tion of tho defendant, charging crim inal nogligouco in tho fatal collision near Swansea on October 14, 1800. 13. Ti. Abndy, Esq., represented tbo de fendant and managed tho dofonso throughout with consummate legal skill. Tho jiiry. ^nftor " live minutes' deliberation, promptly returned a ver dict of not guiltj'. Charleston will liavo moro than one diroct lino to Europe this season. The Johnson Bluo Cross Company decided to inaugurate a lino between Charleston and tho leading Europoau ports. Tho arrangements havo boon complotod and tho first ship of tho lino will noon ar rive. J. D. Wolf, a policeman at Orange burg. diod from tho wound ho rocoivod by a nogro whom ho was attempting to arrest. Tho negro has not beon arrost: ed as yot, and it seems to bo under stood that ho will never livo, if cap tured, to see the insido of tho jail. Tho city council of Anderson has let the contract for tho city hall to Jesso M. Smith. The contract calls for tho building to be turned over by tho 1st of April, 18U8. The prico to bo paid for the building iti $8,${)1. ? ? ? A reward of $100 has been offered by the Oovornor for the arrest And convic tion of the person df persons who shot and killed Hiifus Harling, ofEdgofiold, on the 0th Of September. The now equipment of the Aiken Manufacturing Company, <>f?IialV cludcsSf 2 looms and forty- four si ' frames, which combine the latest 11 The cotton crop of Edgefield baa been cut off fully one-fonrth by heavy rains. provc^nts. The cotton cut off fully . Other orope ar? good, Tb*-~f*rm?rs are saving an abundance of hayr* The Citizens' Building and Loan Association has been organize! at Co hnntrta; with 1,009 stofM Of Stock sub scribed - The iwsntr?ftfth aaaivsseary AMMVfH# U <0 j I A t!U> l IN (iKKKNVIIil.l1.. Die CKy Cluitn-liaiin AttackiMl by a Orunkcn Mob. N\ I A npocinl from (iroouvillo to t lio ? , Register, says a small riot occur rod I hero, which oft mo near resulting se [ riously. Tom ami (Jeorgo Kigdon, of ' ; Pickens, and ft. J], I ?rk and CJeufjo i ! Tinsley, ot' 1'iedmont, whito men, w ore I in tin* oily.??ud got en i\ spree Wan- j | doring an/ujd thoy cnmo upon the oily I ! chain gni/* convict force working on ? the htrcyts in tho northern pail of tho ' city. i"no of tho no;>'ro convicts was worjung Homo distance from tho force, iiu?r tho four moil made an attack on with sticks and rocks. Ho called for holp, and Street Overseer I'oulo ran to his ft>sistaneo. Half a dozen of ; tho convicts ran to tho aid of I'oolo, I and ft lively battle followed, the woa ' pons being rook n and clubs. | During tho light I'oolo drow hi:i pin- | tol and was on tho point of shooting Moorgo Tinsle.y, who seemed to l?e tlm ! most aggressive of tho lftidors, 1 ?u t did i not have to shoot, us one of the convicts j landed a rook on Tinsley 's head, knock- j i n him Bonaelosfl. ? Two of tho attacking party were badly wounded by tho convicts and all four were captured, tho convicts, under ^hhloru of Overseer I'oolo, acting ft* 'poliCo. The eon vie t? escorted tho four "^i^sonerB to the station house, whero thoir wounds were drossod. Tinsley ami Tom Kigdon are seriously hurt. Tho remarkable part of tho all'air is that no convict attempted* to oacape, and a (tor landing the prisoners in tho guurdhous^ all rolurnod to work ns if nothing had happened. I'OUOl; AM) NKOHUKS. Desperate Klght In Which Negro Toughs and Oniofcrs Take Part. A white child walking along tlio streets in Charleston was j m filio?l into tho gut lor by a crowd of negro toughs. Half u dozen whito men, most of whom wore st root car conductors oft for [din ner, ran up to takotlio boy's part, wlion thoy worn attacked by tlio negroes. A I torrillo hand-to-hana fight followod, clubs, DtonoH and iron roda'being usod as weapons. Conductor My or was knocked sonsoloss with au iron bar. Tlio negroes woro getting tlio best of tlio flglit'wjiontho polico camo in sight and thon tlioy Hod. Eight of tho negroes took vefugo in a shantv. A squad of policemen tried to mako an ontranco, but tho negroes openod tho windows and began shooting. Tho officers ro- . turned tho firo. and for a fow minutes I a regular battle was in progress. Henry I'orry, colored, was shot through tho head and killed. Edward Washington, another negro, was soriouslv injured and is not oxpoctod tolivo. f'olicoinau Burton, who lad tho attacking forcos, is dangerously wounded. I'ivo colored rioters wore arrested af- 1 tor bo ng clubbed. Tho situation van ? alarming for a whilo, but tho polico have control and ovorytiug iB quiet. NEOnOKS KXCITUD. Tbo negroes of tho city arc worked up f.o a pitch of great oxcitcmont by tho killing of Honry Perry by J'olico man Burton. A mass mooting was hold in Misliaw Hiflohall and speochos wore made condemning tho act of l'oliconian Burton, and it is said a boycott will bo eutorod into auainut ' the street railway company. Besolutions woro adopted asking tho Stato govern ment to tako a hand in tho matter and seo that they aro promoted from pollfco men's Jmllots. Negro men went to the different lawyers in the oity asking advico and bogging them to tako the orfse against Oflicer Burton. Ilia wifo, it is learned, will bring a oivil action for damagos against tho oflicor. ABOUT. I'll 10 CHOPS. Bauer's Weekly Bulletin Shows a ?Steady Dccllnc. Tho htftTV' gonorally dry weather caused cottoil to open very fast, somo promaturoly, and two-thirds of all cot ton is now open with about half of the crop picked. This applies to the wliolo Stato; in tho eastern counties tho pro portion opon and picked in somowhat gronlor. Full roports from evory couuty indicate that there has been a steady dteclino in condition fcinco tho first of this mouth, and that during tho past week tho decline was duo to excessive heat and drought, winch causod tho plant to shod young, nn nature boll*, Tho report a iijjjo indicnto that there will be practically no top crop. That in to say, that cotton hns either stoppod taking on frYiit siuco the middle of August, or thi}t whero it did fruit tho bolls and 8<| titties dropped oil'. No blooms wero seen during the week cxcopt on moist bottom tnude. Over al)out one-third of tho 8tato the estimated yiohl of lint per aero will equal an avorago, and over two-thirds it will fall short, so that, making duo allowauco for tho increased acreaKC. correspondents estiraato that tho yield will bo Binallor. than last year;* and, generally, tho worst reports come from tho localities of usually heaviost pro duction. In places where the plant ip still green, rust is very provalont, but many fields presont tho.appoaranco of having boon killod by frost., 8pa island cotton picking progressing rapidly; tho crop, much of which is not' j:et maturod, is looking remarkably ^ne.-- notwithstanding tho oxistinfir moderate lli^nght where this crop io tmltivatod. . xuxcupi over the extreme northwost ern counties where corn was planted lato, it was not adversely affected by the lack of rain and hot weather. 'Jftie cmqfi crop is now entirely safo and much of It has beon gathered. Correspon dents generally speak of it as a fair crop, in places, a large one. - The weather continued favorablo for harvesting flee, and now there remains only latq May and June plantings to be cut. La.te rice is not as promising as the early rfce, and in portions of Col leton the crop frmy-poor. - Threshing rice is well under way. few seem to be fruiting heavily not withstanding that the leaves nearly all ! d/oppfijLgff _ih* - >i aaa rtnriag the past J (wo weeks* Tea-vine bay is nearly all w Wdry for sweat potatoes and ! Advancc in Money Rates in Now York Explained, MOVEMfNT OF THE CROP, Why Southern lliiuhs Have to llor row Largely Front Hunks in Other Sections, Deputy Controller of tho Currency Collin, in discussing tho recent ml* vnnco in monoy lAtos in Now York fl.iitl : ' v'o.ne of the recent sharp advauoe> i ratou of interest on demand loans in Now York is no doubt duo to specula' live manipulation of tho stock market, but 1 think tho impulse to thU upward turn has boon givon by tho heavy ^.Vithtlrawal from Now York of funds for tho logiti lnate purposo of moving tho cotton crop now coming to inat'kot. Ar a resident (.if South Carolina, familiar with the movement of this crop, I have for yours observed its ell'eet upon national bank statements, as well as oix 4 tho mouev maiket in New Yol k during the month of September. As u rule tho rates of interest advance about this time, and in donio yearn liavo upproaohed tho danger lino, and while tho movement of wheat and other grain crops has contributed to this effect, still I think the move ment of the cotton crop has boon tho main factor for this reason. The average value of the cotton yield i>5 about $800,000,000 and it is practical ly marketed between October 1 and March 1. or within a period of itvo months, but it is peculur in this res pect, that onlvv. about ouo-ninth of tho ontiro crop, ^Jion this is 0,000,000 bales, remains in tho section whoro it, is grown. Of tho remaining eiwiit ninths, about 2, 000,001) bales aro ship ped north, whoro it in manufactured, while about two-thirds of tho ontiro crop are exported from tho United Statos. Tho rapid removal of so largo a pro portion of this groat product within so short a period of time requires a largo amout of actual currency, for most of tho cotton is paid for in interior towns at tho .South with spot cash. As tho o-jt ton-growing rogion is not. donsoly populated, the accumulation of banking capital there is not sulllciont to provide tho enormous amount of monoy noodod for a few mouths to iiH>YOttho crop, and for this reason tho Hbutliorn banks have to borrow largely from banks in other sections during this crop period. This is rollectcd in national bank reports for the past few years by tho following figures, showing tho amount of money borrowed by national banks in tho dis distinctly cotton States of North Car olina, South Carolina, Ooorgia, Ala bama, .Mississippi, liouisiana, Arkan sas and Texas at dates in each year approximating Oct. t and March I. October 5, 1HH7 sJ 0,905,000 February 11, 1888 1,788,000 Octobor 'J, 1888 8,0138,000 February 20, 1880 1, 781,000 September 80, 1881) 0,257,000 February 28, 1800 2, 18J,000 October 1800 14,584,000 February 20, 1801 0,548,000 September 25, 185)1 10, 558, 000 March. J, 1802 8,021,000 September 80, 180* 10,840,000 March 0, 1808 4,725,000 October 8, 1808 12,801,000 February 28, 1801 1,011,000 October 2, 1801 11,111,000 March 5, 1805 2,701,000 .September 28, 1805 10,808,000 February 28, 1800 4,010,000 October 0, 1800 11,008,000 March 0, 180?. ... , ' 1,885,000 When tho borrowing" of the Stato banks in thoso States arc added to thofio of tho national banks, and it is understood that most of this money is borrowod from New }oik, it can bo seen how potout a factor tho cotton crop movement must bo in aflocting rates in Now York. Theso llguros, I think, too, show how vital an intorost bankors, mer chants and farmors in tho cotton grow ing States" havo in a curroncy which would bo elastic. Jf auy plan could be devised^ 'under which tho Houthorn banks could issijb additional currency, < cLiul to one-fourth -of - tkoir capital stock during tho cotton season it would bo a godsend to that sec tion. For it would ' cnablo tho banks there to furnish tho money neoded without outsido aid, and frco from tho cost of interest now raid on borrowed money, and rtational banks in all other sections having tho samo privilege. Tho result would bo to make monov moro abundant and cheaper, and to relievo tho Now York market of tho annual strain now put upon it. On October 0th, 1800, tho capital stock of tho natioual banks in tho eight Statos namod was about 888,000,000. Could thoy havo insuod ourronoy to tho extont of one xourlli of this amount, thoy could themselves havo furnished $0,500,000 of tho 811,000,000 they had nuder existing circumstances, to bor row outsido, In my opinion, therefore, tho cotton growing South has a moro vital interest in devising a bank cur rency which is olastic, as well as safo, than an othor eoction of tho United States. ? Judge Kilgore Dead. United Statoo Judge Kilgore, ex Congressman from Texas, died at Ard? more, I. T., after * short illness. He wan buried ai Willis Point, Tex. While in Congress Judge Kilgore made him self known by bursting in the House t door with hi* h?av y boot* whil*%?eaker Reed was counting a quorum. Judge Kilgore is known all over the West as "BtBfcr* ? " -? - _ Yellow Fever in Atlanta. A case of yellow fever h t? developed in a family of refugeee in AUaata, Ua. The situation in New Orleans ii mani festly worse; there were ?icniew cafes ,and four deaths onrtbe $8d. The city IswAalJMitth. ?125,000 and holds alike sum in reeerro. In Mobiles Ate., thirty -eight oasee have been reported; one death aad iwo new mimi it filimli THitf Ihttt biV r , Teloped en the Nd. and there l^are tteim Umr deaths Oae death bm oe? etrred in 81. Ltmie, Mo., nd tfeeraare Ill SlNKSM. SI. HUH N|,Y Al'l?k( Ti:i> , \> holt'sali' Interests l'rocl Icnlly at it Standstill In Ihr Mutes. .lb adstroot'a commercial roport for j tho past wook i nv?. There is ? cheek to tluN inwurd swoop of demand in staple I in oh notieoablo throughout tho oouu tr.v fur tho past nix woolen. Tho yellow fever quarantine which extends from lexas to ( loot gia 1ms brought wholo aalo business ton puictical staudstdl throughout tho greater portion of t ho region ombinc^l by tho tlulf States. At centers of distribution, in Vnstcin, nil, Kilo ami central Western States, tho rooout activity in dry floods, huts ami hardware, haa fallon oil, but at I ho Northwest and on tho I'ncilic coast l?ny - in by interior morohntiH cud tho free distriluilion of niorcliundiso coutniuo to bo features. Tho douiatid for hoavy toxtilo faluioa has boon Htii'iuliitod by colder weather, and St. l.ouis mer chants Hay tho yellow fovor scare will havo no otVoot upon trado at that city, an Southern merchants had supplied them j Holvoa thoro hoforo tho quarantine wan enforced . Tho outlook for businoaa in parts of Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and (loor Kia is for a inueli ilnllor season than had boon ex reeled. Tho favorable foaturos of tho wook aro found In aharp advances in priooa of jron and Blool, heavy sales of Hcssomor j>ig iron, tdeol billets and rails, and a prospect that that tho iron and .steel pi iooa will go higher in the near future. Kxports of wheat (Hour included as wheat) from both eoaMs of the 1'nitod States and from Montreal amount to o, (i'v'H, 1 UiJ bushels, compared with (>, WO, - IM8 bushels last wook; 8, 080, 000 bush els in tho week a year ago; 8,511,000 bushels two voars ago, 2.052,000 bush els throo years ago, and as compared with 8, -100, 000 bmdic'o in tho eorres ponding week of 18:'!', Kxports of In dian corn aggegated ?1,"22, 11 vJ in tho woek a year ago; I ,}>00,000 bushels two years ago; 10-1,000 bushels throo years ago. and as contrasted with 818, 000 bushola in tho like week of ISM. Thoro aro <.'87 business failures re pot tod throughout tho United States this week, compared with WO last woek, Bvl in tho third week in September, 181K5, 108 in 1805, 201 in tho like week in 18IM, and as contrasted with 232 in tho corresponding poriod in 1803. TJioro aro 25 bttsinosu failures re ported throughout tho ('amtduiu l'o minioh this wook, against 30 lust week; !M in tho week a year ago, and 35 in tho corresponding week of J8U&. AN ILLINOIS >1 IN IC IIOHltOK. A Dozen or More Minors Killed l?y a (ins Kx plosion. A special to (lie St. Louio Post-1 Mr patch from Marion, 1 1 ? . , says: An ex plosion torriblo in its ertects oocurrod in tho Williamson County ('oat com pany's mine, four miles north of hero. Fifteen wounded miners, two of whom lmvo sineo died, havo boon rescued, whllp one was found dead when tho reciting party went down the shaft. Sovoral of tho wounded aro no sovoroly crushed and othorwiso hurt that tlioy will dio. There aro said to bo five or nix minors still imprisono I in tho burn ing mine, but they cannot bo reached on account of tho smoko and firo. DOUHhK JIANOIA'U l>l?PKl(ltKI>. Ihsplto on Accouut of a Confession M ade. Tho execution ofdrai^y Hoynoldsand i Ilud brooks, murderers of M. C'. Hunt, in ./aokson county, Clooigia, did not take placo. Tho (Jovornor roapitod Jbooks for four weeks on a confossion made by Reynolds that ho singly* handed, had committed tho murder, but that Hrooks planned tho crime and shared in tho division of tho money. Koynolds was dressed for the gallown, but on a request made by tho brothors f)f tho murdered man that both shall hang togothor, tho execution of Koy nolds was accordingly deforrod. NI?KI> M IS Old NIC. An Appeal For tlio Cuban Army ? Malarial Fever I'rovnlls. yUlvices from Prosidont Cisneroa, of tho Cuban Republic, to Col. Aguiorro, CiHiuiTugonl in IbiiTt^unlfy, Hays tlio patriot artny fuued medicines and <jui niuo as'a result of tlio prevailing ma larial fever i it tho inland. An agent lias issued a call requesting contribu tions of tbis character from tho'pooplo of (his country. 'J'ho contributions may be sent to any authorized agent of tho Cuban Republic in this country. BIIOT AND KILLED Itcoaiinn llo Declined an Invitation to Take a Drink. A dispatch to tho Birmingham Age Ilerald from Tuscaloosa, Ala.,eays: J. I (}. liclhindo was ?hot_ nr<LJiiBtautly killed by A. Stonoking, a railroad con tractor. Stonokiug iuvitod Lellandoto tako a drink. Tho latter' rofused, say ing ho only drank with gentlemen, whereupon Htoneking drew a rovolver and shot Lellaudo ilviho abdo'tnon. Norton lias No Opposition, general election ilor CongresR mim in tho Sixth Congressional district of South Carolina, to ftlt *\ho \fcuncy causod by tho resignation of 'Sonator McLaurin, is to bo hold October 12th. Ho far no Republican candidate has f been an now need egainst Nortonj { the Democratic nomineo. Mr. Norton'* i only danger will be a failure of the peo ple to go to the polls on election day. Wbtelmtn ^niojjr South. The majority of the\ professional wheelmen who tuyr? been engaged dur ing the past season in nearly every eity of protainenee on the circuit in the United States atari*! South Monday for a eerie* of bieyeliag eonteM*. Their destination ie the * City of ' Mexico. , Nearly all of the lending professionals have sigped-k>gOglL?llO trip. [ J ( ^ 11? > f b Sliii To Wipo Out an Unpleasant Mem ory of tho War. j AUSTRIA CAN'T HELP SPAIN, ' Steel KoimIh for t li<* Count ry ? - Hunk | Clcurluga?< The Import* of Wool. Chlcononus to Tost tin* l,a\v. | S tn t o Deportment ortioiola profeas to fool not tho least unoosinoRS tlint any . tlun^ will como of tho reported plan of i Austria to interfere betwoon tho Unite1' States and Hpain, sliouht this govern meut in future think it best to tnko ac tion in behalf of t lie Cubans. I hoy fifty, in tho first place, if ovontn scorn to vo quir o A mot ienn intervention in behalf (<f Cuba, it will bo taken only after it has boon nmdo plain to tho world that our material interests, as well as every consideration of humanity, demand such notion on our part. Moreover, it is pretty clearly intimated that if it be comes necessary for thi.< government to intervene it will not do ho without bo ? ing fully informed of tho probnhlo ntti tudo tho principal Powers of Europe will assume when now condittonn nriao. Austria, it is believed, is the only Kit* ropoan Power that would in any way show displeasure at our intervention in Cuba, and tho oouriio of that Power would bo dictated altogether by sonti ment growing out of tho relationship of the Queen .Heiront of Spain to iho AuHtriiMi Imperial family uud because of the feAv that Iho loss of Cuba would bring about Iho overthrow of tlio forew ent Spanish dynasty. No sort of rtfo^oot admission can be obtained at the St-.tlo Deportment that a crisis is approaching in our relations with Spain ovor Cuba, but at the same time the* utmost coull* deuce is oxpressod t hut if such a crisis comes it will not be attended with com plications with other European Powor.i Tho government is about to ombnrk in a l'ooiI roads movement of its own, embodying the uteri track idea. Tho Secretary of Agriculture has givon o rolling mill an order to turn out a suf ficient number of flat lads to equip a specimen stretch of country road, pre sumably in tho vicinity of Washington. Tho pattern adopted in a broad, flat ' steel rail j.loto, to bo laid flush with the surface of tho road. It will have u flab groovoor gutter, with a slightly raided head on tho inside, just Humeioijlt to guide the wheel. The track way.-/ are to bo laid in gravel, and 140 to bo' tied together at intervals with cross braoofi of steel, 110 wood whatevor being fitted, 'J'ho troad for tho wheels will be height inches wido; tho weight will bo .about' UK) tons por mile, and tho cost about #8,000 per mile. ? A movent is on foot to havo tho namo of Jejlerson Davis restorod to tho placo it once occupied on tho groat bridge at Cabin John. A society composed of young pooplo from Georgia and\othor Southern Statos has boon organism, it inlaid, with thin purpose in view. Tho building of Cabin John Bridge, which is located near this city, wis an engineer ing teat that attracted much attention, it having tho largest ^nasoury arch in" tho world. At tho timo of it? 'comple tion Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War and bin name was carved on tho ' tablet which boars tho namo of the men responsible for the famous work. Upon . his election an pfosidontof thoSouthorn Confederacy hie namo was out out, 'J ho r<K?ord? of the) Treasury Depart ment show that- the imports of wool tot t no ports of Now York, I'liihUlclpliiii ? aud/ftostou during August, 18!)?, tho firtft full mouth sineo' tho now tariff wont into effect, amounted to 2,87/5,807 pounds, the smallest importation of any month oi nco January, ]8iM, \yhou tho aggregate whs ii,714,'10n pounds. Tho wool importations for August,' 181)0, amounted to <1, 711), 778 pounds, and tho ' largest previous importation was for April, 1807, whou it reoohod 0.1,^50,007 pounds. Last August importations , woro vory largely of class 3,*or carpet wo alp. -V, ? ?_ ? Tho DopartmCnt of tlio Interior has accepted tho hid of Frederick L. C3 ?1 bert for nil tho- timber -on ficd?CH# ? Chippewa fu^lian Reservation, in Win oo u ? in. TUm estimated that tho tim ber amounts to a hundred million feet, and Mr. (Jilbort'fl bid is #4 10,000./ - - * I .'y A cargo of bides takon from cattlo oxportod from this country will bo im- . ported by Chicagoans in ordor to tost tho locality of tho Treasury Depart ment's recent ruling that, such hides aro dutiable. ? *??- ? ? Tho total bank clearings in tho United SlutoH for tho past week woro ?1,308, 801,077; per cent, increase, 00.0. Ex 'clusivoof Now York, $48!j,513,?f)7; per cont. inoreaso, 28.?. Tho Consul (lonoral at Singapore ro portsthat a loan has boon authorized to tho amount of $3,000, 000 to begin tho construction of a railway sj'stem of about 870 miles in longth in tho Malay- - I'oniusula. A voto taken . among -Washington ... prin tors on tho civil sorvico reform question simply shows that those now in the government service believe in it and thoseoutiidedonot. Treatv relations between ChtfSsand Japan nave been establishj^^Tor TL~ flrsttime ** """Vision Commissioner Etiot bu re.V turned ttom Ohio in improved Sir Jttlian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, It expected to retara h#r? -- - ? ? ? ? ? ? . .