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FOUND NHS. Are Very Costly, and Last O ly a Year. Twenty of Them Supply New York With Fish. Twenty pound nets along the Jersey shore supply Sow York city with most of its tish th summer. To pay for the plain, a Washington Star cor V^respondent was informed, each ne6 mast cite! fi om COO to 10.000 pounds 'Sybf^Prmkiisli and other scuiy game per ^VK^ 1Rt cost< ^3000, and it only lasts one year. Next spring a new one must bo substituted for the old, only thc anchors ami chains em ployed for fastenings being useful for another season. Tho net hself has become rotten ami thc wooden poles iKi zed for supports h iVo boen eaten np by the*biva vo mollusks known as ^teredo.'' ^ nietinios two sets of $oie& aro required in one summer. St order Jo make the nets la t so loujg they are tarred all over twice d ring the-^easoti, once in the spring J|Bd again in miii-uaimer. Attempts v.:. Save been made to preserve thc poles . "W&icb are expensive, by charging- thom wx St mineral acids. Experiments have been tried in this direction in England, Holland. Be ginnt and else where, biu always without good re pentis. Hie acids are injected into the wood. Tiicy do keep o tl the teredo to some extent, bat the procc-s costs so much money that it is cheaper to rc nevrrtfte poles. B sides it ls apt to taint the water, so that the fish is driven away. Each pound net extends out thrcc qu irters of a m<ie into the ocean, ap proximately. The length varies some wb^wiih thede]):li of the water oil shore, the pocket at tho end into which the-$80. are led requiring io beata depth of about forty foot. fish find the nei an obstacle whiic -v im ming along Hie coast in pursuit of the jsniali fry that swarm in the shallows, aad they-fcilow it seaward until they 2nd themselves inclosed in th pocket, if rom which they cannot discover au fexit subsequently. There they may be kept imprisoned for au indefinite time, until there is a market demand lat pro ii tab e prices. One day last wear a single pound n-.t off Asbury Park captured 100,000 weakfish, which ^iBTtri i tl an entire School. 'There ^^W^s scarcity of J bern in New York and 70,000 4>f the b ch. were shipped to the metropolis ou ice by a tug. They fetched a big sum of money, but a storm came up amt sq moved the net that the remaining ot),OOO escaped. Running- a pound net is vary much like gambling. Between the fluctua tions of the city marget and the un certainty of making carches the own . er never knows whether he is going to come out ahead on the speculation. Ais^esewt-il is bc lio ved that there are toi many such snares ulong tiie Jer sey snore,: the re-uit being au ove1" supply, which makes prices lower. l^Ubn|S^-fiet .^-!!ern:ei) arc accused of over fishing the waters to the peril of the industry in future, but the At lantic is a pretty big ocean and it is not likely to bc fished out itt this cen tury. In early spring many shad are caught iu this man nor as well as some sheepshead and in. the fall Spanish mackerel come along. Seabright is Now York's great ?utff urce^f^supply^fot biueiish. Every ~~ ftmortimg at about daybreak 150 row ISoais go ct from there and anglo with hook and line, e-ch boat catching from 10 to lOoO po. md s at a trip and " 5 returning by 9 a. m. lt would be a good thing for the oilier fishes of the sea if the bluefish could all be wiped out, inasmuch its every one of thc lat ter destroys many times its own weight of uveful food fishes every day,.biting them to pieces wantonly as it swims along. The bluefish is a shark iu all but the name. Lions and Buffaloes. A well-kiiown traveler in Africa says that in one of his long journeys . be came across the dislocated -kelcion of a buffalo aim st intermingled with the broken bones of a lion, the sk ul. of which was lying near, while tho \ skull of the buffalo was al*o uear at hand, hut devoid of thc nasal bones. The grdttad evidently was the scene of a desperate combat, iu which both animal had suceur .1. lt is a common practice among thc lions, this gentleman says, to hunt in company. A friend of minc in South Africa had a peculiar example of this. His friend V-had wounded a bull buffalo,, which had retreated within the forest. The two hunters carefully followed the t>l od-h but afier a short advauc . were starileo by a suc cession of loud roars, which betokened lions close at hand. There could bc it tie doubt that the wounded buffalo had been attacked. Therefore, wiih proper precaution, they approached thc spot un iii an ex citing scene pr sentai itself suddenly OU the other side of a large fal.en tree, which happily concealed the ap proach of the two hun er*. Three lion* wore engaged in a life and death combat with the gallant old bull, who made a desperate defense, fir-t knocking over one of his enemies, then goring another to the ground, ind exhibiting a strength which ap peared sufficient to defeat the combi nation. Suddenly ihc buffalo fell dead. This was the result of the original wound as the rifle bullet had passed through the lungs. Thc lions were not aware of this, and began to quarrel among them selves about tlicir imagined victory. One huge beast reared to half its height and placed its fore-paws upon the bedy of the prest ate buffalo, While at Hie head and the hinda uar - -__I_a;_ ters an angry Hon' clutched the dee body in its spreading paws, sc growled at the possessor of the coi tre. Tais farmed a grand pictoj within only a few yards distance, bi I two rifleshots stretched two Hoi upon the ground, and the third bonne ed into the thick covert aud disaj neared. Testing a Fireman's rre. A training school system for lin men is one of the interesting feature of the fire-fighting department of Ch: cago. New firemen are initiated and ol ones skilled in the dangers and necee sities of their calling at the engin houses where hook and ladder comps nies are stationed. At these place what is known as the "pompier drill is gone through, and here, too, th various devices designed to insure th safety ot human iife are tested. Am at these places, also, the nerve of new man is given a thorough trial. To thc lay observer the pompie drill is a thrilling sight It stirs on to see a 200-pound man run up th wall of a four-story building by n< other meant than a skeleton ladde twelve feet long-a device that ap pears to be nuable to bear the weigh of an average youth. Yet this is donej aud done so quickly as to take one'i breath away. Attached to each engine-house is * three-story tower with window ledge* on the sides. The pompier ladder a ettrved at one end, and the new fire man is taught iiow to rest this end ot the first-story ledge so that it will noJ Slip while he is climbing. After he has reached the first ledge he draws up the ladder and hangs it from the ledge above. Then he climbs again, repeating the process until the roof is reached. The ladder, having no safe grasp on the ledge, is likely to slip un less skilfully managed. The fire man's weight must hold the ladder securely in place. A slight shifting of the weight to one side would raise j one of the curved prongs resting on the ledge, and, this slipping, ladder and fireman would fall. It was by an accident of this kind that a fireman lost his life a few days ago at the en gine-house on Pacific avenue. The object of perfecting firemen in this drill is to make them skilful in scaling buildings to the roof where lime is a valuable consideration. An expert fireman can go to the top of a building long before a truck lader is in place.-[Chicago Tribune. Trading in China. It is amusing to buy things in China, says Eli Perkins m the New York Su ti. The coolies in Shanghai con stantly surround you with baskets of bric-a-brac and cn rios. One will hold up a white Kia kian g bottle vase, twenty inches high, decorated with dragons and worth about $1 in New York, and say pleadingly : "What you gi vee?" No want him, John?" "He vellygood-lookee five claws'* -pointing to the five-clawed dragon * velly old curio. What you givee?" How much want, John?" "Ten dolla." .'No, too much." "What you givee?" "Oh, $2." " Yau k ! chi ! hop ! kee ! no can have," yell the whole crowd of curio sellers disdainfully. When the howling sub sides John holds up the vase again aud says : "What yon givee?" .Nothing. I dou't want it Get out !" ?What you givee?" "Oh, a dollar," I say, walking away. Then there isa hurried consultation, a dozen curio men yelping in discord, when the ms.ii runs after us holding out the vase as he cries: "Can havec! Can havee!" Elephants Fond of Finery. Strange as it may seem, the elephant is passionately fond of finery, and delights to see himself decked out with gorgeous trappings. The native princess of India are very particular in choosing their state elephants, and will give fabulous sums foran animal I ihat exactly meets the somewhat fan j ci ful Standard they have erected. i For these they have made cloths of silk so heavily embroidered with gold that two men are hardly able to lift j them. An amusing incident of elephantine pride is narrated by Sir Samuel Baker. The elephant which usually led the state procession of a Rajah being sick, the magnificent trappings were placed on me which had up to ihat time occu pied only a subordinate place. The animal, delighted with finery, showed its glee by go many little squeaks and kicks of pleasure that general attention was attracted to it. Not long after another state pro cession was formed, and the previous wearer of the gold cloihs being re. stored to health, took his accustomed place and trappings, when the now degraded beast, imagining, perhaps, thai he was being defrauded of his promotion, was, with great difficulty, restrained from attacking the leader of the parade. - [New York Dis patch. Woren Wood. A German chemist has patented a rr et hod for the isolation of the fibres of wood so that they can be spun and made into yarns capable of being woven. The wood is first cut into thin strips, which are repeatedly passed between roughened rollers, so that they are bent and cracked in many places. After thorough treat ment in this manner the mass is finally charged into a fibrous sub stance, the fibres being very delicate and soft, and yet strong. It is said that the material can be spnti like cot ton and takes colors very well.- [New York Journal. THROUGHOUT Tl SOUTH. Notes of Her Progress aM Prosperity Briefly Epitomized Ind Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told* The strike of dummy engineers in Birmingham, Ala., has ended, the men returning to work at their old wages. The strike was against s reduction. The Richmond, Fredericksburg^ and Potomac railroad shop, at Richmond, Va., with the machinery and ten freight cars, was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. Loss, $20,000; insured. A special of Thursday from Knoxville, ! Tenn., savs: Fr m n-habte sources it is learned that the United States Expr s* company had secured the express privil ege on the Louisville and Nashville rail way and all its branches, and the opera tion of thc same will commence January 1, 1893. A San Antonio, Tex., special says: I; is claimed by federal aut orities along the Rio Grande border that large num bers of Chinamen are crossing the river from Mexico int the United States each week,* and that the cus . oms officiais sr unable to prevent it owing to lack of river geards. A meeting of busines men of San An-. tonio, Texas, was held Wednesday, a' which it was decided to raise a fund of $2 OOO to add to the $1,000 fnnd already provided by the government for the rain making expedition and expend it in pro posed experiments by General R, G. Byrenforth and his party. A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says: A bill was rn reduced in the sena'c Wednesday authorizing any qualified elector to begin pr ceedings of contes over the state election of last August. Goodwyn was elected as a Ko lb man and th 9 bill is regarded as the opening gun from Kol b's side in the contest over the governorship. News bas reached Raleigh, N. C., of s terrible murder in Yadkin county Thurs day as a result of which four negroes art j in jail. They are Pleasant Dalton, John Long, Sidney Dalton and Wiley Hunt, and they murdered Esther Edwards, an aged woman with whom they had had n trivial dispute regarding the hauling o some corn. * Bishop W. H. Mi'es, senior bishop of the colored Methodist Episcopal church in Ame ca, died at Louisville Ky.. Monday morning. The bishop was a Kentuckian and at all times enjoyed the confidence of the whit s ts well as those of bis own race. He w*s tbe org miser of his church and a bishop for twenty two years. He preached more than forty years and was sixty-five years of age. A Montg' mery, AU., dispatch of Mon day says: M. Whatley, fusionist candi date for congress in the fifth district, will contest the seat of Judge Cobb in the fifty-third congress. He claims that bal lot boxes returning maj 'rities for him in Lowndes, Au tanga and Macon counties have been stuffed and stolen to the ex tent of robbing him of about three thou sand majority, to which he is entitled. Donald W. Bane, state treasurer of North Carolina, died at his home in Ral eigh, Wednesday, after several months' illness of heart disease. He was born at Rab igh in April, 1841, and had been in continuous public service longer than any mnn in the state. In 1857 he entered the ffice of the st te comptroller, and remained until 1865. when he became chief clerk of the st*te treasury, serving continuously until 1884, whtn he was elected state treasurer. A special from Cheleston, S. C., says: AU the law and equity courts in the state adjourned Thursdny in respect ttc the memory of Edward McCrady, th senior member of the South Carolina bar, who die I Thursday, over in*ne'y years ol age. Edward McCrady was a unique figure in ante-bellum political history in South Carolina and in the councils ol the Protestant Episcopal church. He held many offices of trust and responsi bility. A Raleigh dispatch says: Gov ernor Holt on Wednesday appointed James E. Shepherd chief justice to suc ceed Justice M rrimon. Judge Shepherd is the youngest of the justice?, being only forty-three. He began life as a telegraph operator and earned sufficient mo ey to prepare himself as an attorney. He was an able lawyer. He was elected associ ate justice in 1888, and his work on the bench has been marked by thoroughness. His promotion was expected and gives general satisfaction. A New Orleans special says: As a re sult of the persistent editorial utterances in The Times-Democrat calling for im peachment of Mayor John Fitzpatrick because of alleged inability to govern the city during the strike, bis apparent sym- I patby with the strikers and general list lessness, it seems as if action in this direction is about to be taken. All that is necessary to bring the case to a trial is for twenty-five tax-paying, property holding cb izeos to fi e a charge in the civil district court. It is said that pa pers in the eas* are now being prepared and will be fik-d in a few days. RAILROAD MAGNATES Endeavoring to Remedy the Demoral ized Condition of Rates* There was an earnest and protracted conference in New York City, Monday, of owners and presidents of southern railroad and steamship lines. A gener al desire to remedy the present demoral ised condition of rates tnroughout the South lcd to the calling of the meeting by Mr. W. P. Clyde. Every railroad and steamship line which was invited to send representatives reported. H. B. Plant presided. Every important road running into the south, including the Louisville and Nashville, Illinois Central, Central of Georgia, by H. B. Holmes, the various Richmond Terminal lines and the southern California railway were represented usually by its president s:.u two or three other officers. The oojects of the mee ing were fully explained by Mr. Clyde and others, and I a long discussion disclosed the fact that there w s practical unanimity as to the necessity of taking immediate action to stop the existing rate cutting and pre vent thrextened complications among southern lailroads. There was a gener ally express d disposition that the rail road p opie should tb m8elves regulate the rates of transportation instead of per mitting a few shippers to do it. A com mittee was appointed to revise and re port a plan of action. One of the im portant suggestions made waa that an ex ecutive board of the 8 uthern Railway and Steamship Association b? appointed to consist of the presidents of the re spective lines, instead of traffic mana gers as at present. _ A COUNTERFEITING SCHEME Te be Worked on a Gigantic Scale Kipped in the Bud. Two men, Manuel Rodridgu z. a S; an lard,and Thomas P. Parr, an E glishmon, were arraigned in court in New York, Mon day, charged with attempting counterfeit ing. Parr says that he bec*roo acquainted with Rodriqii-s three weeks ago, who told him of his plan?, offering him considera ble money to act an interpreter. Rod riquez is said to belong to a Spanish gang who have been planning to float a tremendous quantiiy of notes through Spain, the West I .dies and this country. The am st is regarded as most impor tent i MUTINOUS CONVICTS. j Nine of Them Shot D >wn In a Spanish Prison. I A cablegram from Madrid, Spain, says: Daring the pas* year several out breaks amonj; the convicts have occurred ; in the piis'-Ds io the various parts cf the I cunt ry. Wednesday the most serious of all the s.-ries occurred in the pr son at Tarrago a and moe of the convicts were killed J and then the convicts have been d ssatis ! Sed with their treatment for some time md formed a plan for a general jtil de livery. The ordinary convicts in the Spanish prisons are allowed considera ble freedom within the walls and this practice allowed them in this case to carry out their plan. Shortly after the prisoners were released from their cells Wednesday morning they mutinied. At a signal from their leader they sprang upon the wardens and the latter, taken completely by surprise, were soon overpowerel. The convicts oon had possession of the prison, with the exception of the quarters occupied by the governor. Before they could secure their freedom the governor sent an ur gent appeal to the military authorities, who promptly responded by sending a de tachment of troops to the scene. When the soldiers arrived they lound a majority of the convicts assemble^ n the court yard. The commander of troops called upon the prisoners to return to their cells, bat he was greeted with oaths and deris ive yells. Again he ordered tbem to go back. The convicts, who had armed themselves with ali manner of things that could be used as weapons, again refused to obey, and in a body advanced upon the soldiers. The rifles of the soldiers ere loaded with ball cartridges, and i the convicts moved : toward them orders were rapidly given for them to fire. The order was obeyed, but before the smoke bad cleared away the convicts were upon the soldiers and a desperate hand to hand fight followed. The convicts songht to wrest the weap ons from the soldiers, but were not. soc cesafal. Acting tinder orders from their comma ii der some of the soldiers r treat ed from the sti ogs ling, yelling convicts and reloaded their weapons. Then, awaiting an opportunity when there was no danger of bitting a comrade, they wonld fire upon the mutineers. A per fect pandemonium reigned for s time, but finally most of the convicts were overpowered and driven, fe ti ll shouting and cursing, back to their cells. Hine cf tbs mutineers had been shot dead and sixteen others seriously wounded. The affair has caused great excitement. WEAVER IS PLEASED. He Issues an Address Congratulating His Supporters. A Des Moines, Iowa, special of Wednesday says : Weaver has issued an addre s in which he congratulates his fol lowers on the splendid showing made by the tuird party and sounds a note of warning as to what vicious legislation may be expected from the party in the ascendancy. The address says: "Unaided by money our grand young party has made an enviable record and achieved surprising success at the pol s. We are but little behind the republican party in the number of states Carried. Kot being formed on sectional lines, our party in a single campaign has gained a large and influential following in every state in the south* The country is to be congratulated upon the fact that the leaders of one of the heretofore great parties have been abandoned and over thrown by the people and their organiza tion well nigh annihila ed. The acces sion of the other party to power is a n suit of violent reaction, and not, I am sure, of the deliberate judgment of the American peeople. The new administr tion will ignore three great contentions of modern times, relating to land, money and trans portation, and will not attempt to solve either. The urgent demand of the peo ple for the free coinage of silver is to be disdainfully ignored and one of the most va uable results ol the Sate civil war, that of a uniform regal tender currency issued by the government, is to be sacrificed sod abandoned and serious attempts made to force the people to return to the fraudulent system of state bank issues. " Our party has not made its advent too soon. Its mission is to restore to ou> government its original and only legiti mate function and I sincerely trust that the work of organ ;z it ion and education may now be pushed with energy through out all the states. The field is ours and we must occupy it without delay." AN ILLINOIS CYCLONE. The Little Town of Redbud Demol ished-A Number of Fatalities A cyclone visited the town of Redbud, III., Thursday morning and the little hamlet is now a scene of wreck and desolation. H uses, barns, fences an-i orchards are leveled to the ground and spread over the surrounding country. A large double brick house occupied by D. D. Pen y as *a dwelling, ofB"e and composing room was entirely destroyed. The fam ly were buried in the ruins, but managed to extricate themselves with ut serious injury. Peterson's agriculture warehouse wa* bl >wn down and fourt-en othe r residences destroyed. The eleven year-old son of Mrs. Jacob Koch was killed instantly and his mother fatally in jured The others injured are Mrs. Peter Karden, Mrs. Louis finger, Julius Honn, Mr. Biitman, Adden Starr, Miss Emma Crow and Mrs. John Manderfelt. Many of the people are without clothing and shelter in a driving rainstorm. Alto gether thirty- ve houses were destroyed. The property loss is estimated at $100,000 A London cablegram says: The Irish Times, in its issue of Thurjday, contains a sensational article in refereuce to the bankruptcy of the widow of Charles Stewart Parnell. The article states that Mrs. Parn- ll has been driven into insol vency by adverse circumstances. 'J he article stat-s that when Parnell died there was not enough money in the hou-e to bury him and friends defrayed the expense-1. Parnell had xpended forty thousand pounds in freeing the es pite at Avondale from mortgage and in fruitless attempts to make the mines on the es'ate pr< fi able. 'I his left Mrs. Psr ? eil with no other resources but a small annuity fr m her aunt. THE FARMERS'ALLIANCE n Session at Memphis-The Pro ceedings. A memphis, Tenn., special says: The first open session of the Farmers'* Alliance was held Tuesday morning. Pi evident Louck, Messrs. McCune, Till man, Wardell, iuembtrs of the executive board ; Secretary Turner and delegate! from every t*tate were present. President Loucks called the convention to order and expressed his agreeable surprise at the large attendance. He stated that the political harvest of 1892 had been successful and now the work of sowing for a greater harvest in 1896 would be gin. Hon. A. L. Nims, on behalf of Governor J <hn P. Buchanan, welcomed the delegates to the state, and Farm-r Dean, ot New Yurie, responded. He said the Alliance, more than any other body, was wiping out Mason and Dixon's line. Major Fleece, of Memphis, and Colonel Gates welcomed the guests to the city. Marion Butler, of North Caro lina, responded to these speeches, after which a committee on credentials, con sisting of Messrs Demiug, of Pennsylva nia; Burk-tr, <f Mississippi; Otis, of Kansas; Ellington, of Georgia, and oui h worth, of Colorado were appointed The total school enrollment for tbs United states last year was 14,200.000. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS, tte News ol tte Worli Conflensed Into Pitty ami Pointed Paragrapiis. Interesting and Instruct!!* to All Classes of Beadell. A New York dispatch of Monday saya: Lystander, the veteran actor, who has been confined in the insane pavillion at Bellt view hospital since the 4th instant, is dead. A special of M nd ay from Montreal, Canada, says: It is reported that there are five cholera cases aboard Allan steamship Cir cassia now off the farther puint, and that orders have been given to stop here at qtiarsntine. A special of Thursday from Blooming ton, 111., says: Vice President-elect A. E. Stevenson will visit Atlanta, Ga., as 'he guest of the new Commercial Club on the 21st of December, and will partici pate in its formal dedication. The attempt to start Beavr Falls mills of Carnegie company, at Beaver Falls, Pa., was begun Monday. Twenty-two skilled workmen have been assigned to p sitinns io the rod mill So far no in dications of trouble have appeared. The locked out men are quiet and peaceable, but firm. Chairman Holman, of the appropria tions c- mmittrc of the house of represent atives, issued a call Monday for the com mittee to m et in Washington at 12 o'clock on November 18h. It is the in tention of ( hflirman Holman to prepare the appropriation bilis as fast as possible with a view to secure their early consid eration by congress. Two masked men entered the bank of Woodstock, Minn., at 8 o'clock Wednes day night and demanded o Cashier Per ry and his assistant, Mr. Craig, that they pen the vault. Ona took Perry in charge while the other forced Craig to en ter the v ult. The robber then helped himself to whatever he wanted. The bur glars escaped with $1.000. Several par ties have gone in pursuit of them. Del s A. B'od sett, a prominent man of Grand Rapid?, Mich,, surprised the com munity Monday by retiring from busines* .nd dividing his estate of $7,200,000 into three t quat parts, giving one to his soo, John W. B odgett; ont? to ni* son-in-law, Edward Lowe and wife, aud retaining the other third for himself. His reason is that he bas made all the money he de sire , and wi-h s no further business cares. A special of Thursday to the Kew York Times from Albany says Governor Flo wei has demanded the resignations of Civil Service Commissioners Alex C. Eustace, William A. Poste and John A. Sleichey. The latter ie the only repub; ic*n on th board. Th y were all appointed by Gov Bill. Treachery to their party it said to be the mo - ive of the governor in the eas* of the democrats and offensive partisan ship in cane of the republican memb r. Tbe comm s-ionere are appointed by th* governor and are removable at will. A Cable dispatch of Tuesday from Mun ch, Geramy, says: Professor Pet ten k of er and Professor Emmerich, who have been conducting a series of experi meats with cholera bacilli, says that, a> far as they have been able to learn, loca and not individual conditions engender the epidemic. Both men have swallowed large numbers of cholera bacilli, and yet. but for slight diarrhoea, neither of them suffer* d any inconvenience. The result* of the expei intents was a surprise to Pro fessor Pettenkofer, who e theory form erly was that the taking of any larg* number of comma bacilli into the system would be followed by cholera. A Washington .pedal of Thunda} says: Heavy pension payments th) - month mounting to nearly fifteen mil lion dollars, and an unexpected falling off in government receipts, nts reduced th. cash balance of the treasury to $27,660, OOO, nearly all of which is either in sub sidiary silver or on deposit with national banks. Secretary Foster says that not withstanding the recent unusually heavy demands on the treasury and the fact that the >ugsr bounty for the year will amount to nearly tatt Bullion dollar against seven mi I Han for Ute previous year, be wat confident there will be no deficit in national finantes during the present fiscal year. BUSINESS REVIEW. Tko Election Did Hot Canto Any Bad Effects. R. G. Dunn db Co.'s weekly review of trade says the presidential election hat interrupted business to some extent in all parts of the country during the p ist week, but by no meant ai much aa anni. At nearly all points the value of trade has been fairly maintained and the un precedented activity of industries bas on ly been interrupted by the election holi day. A severe storm throughout most of tjie north rn states has embarrassed the movement of products and has check ed some trades, but was very welcome to dealers in winter goods, who had found the unusually mild weather some* what depressing to heir business. The distribution of other products has been <ully up to the average and the reports regarding collections are from almost all points qnite satisfactory for the seaton. The money m rkets have not i-een dis turbed, though tl eir working has been Fomewhat closer at several important points, and loreign nee- ssit'es and the scarcity of com mere a bi;ls have caused some decline in foreign exchvrge. It is feared that Russian needs at<d tbe failure to place the desired lom in Paris may cause further withdrawals of Russian bal ances in Eastern Europe. At Philadelphia most trades have been dud, but iron is firmer, and the colder weather, brings m> re demand for boot* and shoes. The manufacturers of tobacco are pressed to their full capacity, the wall-paper trade is large, and the trade in chemicals steady. At Baltimore business is good, with inert asing export , and southern collec tions better than was expected. At I ittsburg the production of iron in creased, tut also the demand. The gen erhl tone is slightly better than before, with larger orders for wrought pig. Glass, especially plate, is in lar-e demand. The prospects are more encouraging at Louisville nd business is fairly active, but at Nashville trade is fair and at Little Rock depressed by small receipts of cotton. At Memphis the election interfered to tome ex tent and * t New Orleans business wat, until a few days ago, at a standstill oa account of the great strike. The output of pig-iron, Novembt-r 1, wat 171,080 tons weekly, an i a crease of 18,080 toes during the month of October. Produc tion in the last half of lift teams likely to be not far from 4,188,000 toot, and stockt in October have been reduced 77, 000 tons, which indicates a consumption larger than a year ago. Tao deliveries of rails for the year are snail, not over 1,250,000 tons. Bara are ore activo, owing to car building, bel plates are quiet and new ordert for tttuetual work ve scarce. Only Closed Temporarily. A special ot Friday i rom Elwood, Ind., says: The closing of the American tin plnte factory in this ci'y on Wednesday is said not to be permanent aa was at first supposed as a result of thc election. It is only closing for repairs. It is also said that the company will, in a few week", resume aud co finuo the manufacture of tinplate as before. The same is claimed to oe true of the Diamond plate glass factory, which closed the tame day. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATED PRESS A lew Organization Formed bj the Bonita? Newspapers of the Sooth. The editors of the southam morning dailies who hare been holding frequent meetings the pa t year, perfected a Dew news association at a meeting in Atlanta Wednesday. Their papers, which are ali members of the Associated Press, are to be withdrawn from that association, and <hen organize the Southern Associated Press. This is to be entirely separate f 'om the A socLsted Press of New York, and go~s into combination with the United Press and the Western Press As sociation. The combined associations make the strongest news service in the country. For fire years the southern morning dailies have been trying to get the Asso ciated Press, of New Yotk, to treat them as an association, but the older organiza tion, whic i served them with telegraphic news, would only consider them individ ually. This new association was aided ia perfecting its organization by Genera! William Henry Smith, manager of the Western Press Association, and formerly '.olding the 8 t e position with the Asso ciated Press; Walter Phillips, genera] manager of the United Press, and P. V. DeGraw, southern manager of the >ame. The capital stock of the Southern Asso ciated Press is $30,000, of which one half was subscribed ar the meeting. The following directors wer* elected: Captain . P. Howell, Atlanta Consti tution; J. C. Hemphill, Charleston News and Courier; J. H. Et li, Savannah N'sws; Frank P. O'Brien, Birmingham Age-Herald; Adolph Ochs, Cbattmooga Times; Page M. Baker, New Orleans Times-Democrat; George Nicholson, New Orleans P cayune; T. T. Stockton, Florida Times-Union. Captain Howell was elected president; Captain 0*Brien vice president; P. P. Glass, Mon gomery Ad ver ri ger, secretary; Colonel Pat Wais t, Augusta Chronicle, treasurer. Annual mee tia gs of the asso ciation were fixed for the first Tuesday after the 15th of November of each year at such place as may be selected by the executive committee. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The lad as tri al Development in the Past Week. BegardiBg the industrial situation a general feeling of confidence prevails throughout the Scorner o Sta ea. The advance in the price of cotton ia maintained, the tact that planters are holding hack the large crop of rica for higher prices shows that they ara in no ne-d of money, and the pe calal ending of the strike in New Orleans removes the only troubla existing in boniness circe*. The iron market continues ?tron , with a lar e and steady demand, and miners are in etsatfa* the coal output. In all branches of mannfaotnre prosperity is reported with a bright out ook. ferty-asven new industries wara estab lished or incorporated during the week, to gether with seven enlarged wits of manufacto r es, and 10 important new buildings. Among th* new in inst isa reported are a brewery at Savannah. Ga, brick works at Preston, Ark., and at Helenwood, Tenn., a canning factory at Greenfield, Tenn., and a $800,000 construe ion company at Galveston, Tex. Electrical plants will be built at Bambridge, Ga., and Greenville Tenn., touring milla at An trusta. Ga., and Bar nett. Tex., grist milla at Beaufort S. C., and E t ick , Ya, and an iron furnace at Nashville,, Tenn. A $75,000 ice and odd s o*age plant is reported at Pari -, Tax., a $5C.OOO ice companv at C vington, Ky., coal mining companies at Fort Worth, T-xas, Neron, Ta., ant Coving ton, Ky-, a $75,000 quarrying company at Lou isvi le. Ky., a $100,000 manufacturing"company at Little Bock, Ark., and phosphate works at Bartow, Fia. Oil mills a ; Bovie and Hillsboro, Texas, a shoe factory at Griffin, Ga., tobacco factories at Statesville and Winston, N. C".a cotton mill Mt Maride Falls, and a knitting mill at Gal res ton, Tax, and a woolen mill at Fairmont. W. Ya. Furniture factories are to be built at Camd n, Ark., and Florence, Ala., a carriag - factory at Roanoke, Ya., a lumber mid at Mo bile, Ala., saw and planing mills at Clarendon and Nettle on, Ark., Sumvr, 8. C., Litton. Tenn., Atlanta, Tex. and Cairo, W Ya., nd nt ve works at Anniston, Ala., and Brinkl.y, Ark. W ter works are to be built at South Carroll ton, Ky., and Cleveland, Tenn. Among the new hui dings of the week re por-ed are a bu si ness block at Franklin, Ky., a $35,000 church ar Knoxville, Tenn., a coll: ge at Lexington, Ky., a $40,000 hotel at Edgefield, S. C., and a $75.000 oue at Huntington, Va.. a jail at Paris Ten n., and a warehouse at Jacks >nv.Ile, Fia, -THAD: sjjAN'. Chattanooga, Tena. THE NATIONAL GRANGE. Proceedings of the Convention ia Con cord, New Hampshire. National Grange Patrons of Husbandr y assembled in its twenty-sixth annual ses sion at Concord, N. H., Wednesday. J. H. Brigham, of Ohio, presided. Twenty five out of thirty-four grange states were reprinted. The grange was opened in the sixth degree and after obligations to new members were imposed it was opened in the fourth degree, and J. R. Dodge, representing the depart ment of agriculture, was introduced. Preliminary work was then performed. The session was resumed Thursday. Mortimer Whitehead, lecturer, made a report. He saw among the measures which he found most generally discussed and asked for at this time in thc granges of the country were rural free mail de livery, a postal telegraph and telephone and government ownership and control of the same, in the interest of the quicker dissemination of news, market reports, weather for as* a, etc. The road question was discussed-the lecturer taking the ground that while the farmers adit i ted the need and ad vantage of better roads, that they should first insist upon the equalization of taxes by which the farmers would not be call ed upon to do more than their fair share of the expenses of building and sustaining a better road system. Numerous resolutions were introduced, the principal ones being by Mr. Char liers, of Virginia, urging the passage of the Paddock pure food bill and the cre ation of a road division in the depart ment of agriculture. The reports of state masters were received, all showing increased membership and improved financial condition. KOLB ALLEGES FRAUD. i Addresses a Letter to the Legislature Asking for aa Investigation. A Montgomery, Ala., special says: Hon. R. F. Kolb, late candidate for Sovernor, puoliishes an open letter ad ressed to the legislature, which con vened Tuesday, charging fraud in the late election for state officers, and asking for thorough investigation. He says: Ta the M< rabera of the General Assembly of Alabama: Y ur attention is respectfully called to tba frauds which I am reliably informed were perpetrated in tba respective counties nasnad below a* the election held in Alabama on the first Monday in August. 1892. I charge that upon a fair investigation of the election frauds perpetrated in the counties of Auteuga, Bulleen, Butler, Consents, Coosa, Dallas. Elmore, Greene, Hale, Lowndes, Ma con, Madison, Marengo, Mobile, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan. Pike, Shelby. St. asir, gum ter, Tallade , Walker and Wilcox, it will be shown by convincing proof that a real ma jority af between fot ty-fire and fifty thousand votes for the statn ticket h-ada 1 by myself for governor was changed into a fictitious majority of about ten thousand for the ticket headed by Thomas G. Jonen for governor. These frauds upon the will of the people were not only achieved at the polls on election day, but, in many ir*tance*, were perpetrated by eonntv returning, beards of supervisors on the aaterday follewhig. My information ia regard to these fraud to of tba utmost authentic char acter and ia duce* ma to assure you that an in vestigation by your body will eatabaish the cor ractaeas of what'I allege above. The responsi bility devolves upon yon ta say whether tba will of the people shsJ be made supreme and a re Eblican form of government maintained in .bama, or whether organized lawlessness and fraud shall overthrow the rights of the pople. R. F. KOLS. The inaugural ceremonies do not take place till the first Monday in December and it is rumored if th legislature fails to take some action Kolb will establish a dual government, taking the oath of oJRce on that day. I SILL RFS LETTE The PMtoso LW Visit to tte Lone Star State Termin tes lad He ls Once Again Among His Family and Kindred, It ii a rory old-fashioned thing to say bat I 'will tay it again, "Ttiere is so place like home." When I had Stied my last appoint ment is Ten and had hoarded the train with my face tamed homeward I was happy-my f pirita buoyed me np and 1 sat light-r on the velvet cur ion and* every click of the wheels aver the jointed rails gave a welcome sound, for it meant that mach rearer home. It waa after midnight when I left the mee little town of Franklin, and that midnight bolineas has been the most serions drawback upon my com fort and happiness. Most every night my rest was br ken, for 1 have to leave a place in the da>k and aWpy honra or arrive at one, and it made me tired, very M red. One night I reached my town at 2 o'clock whiie it wat. pouring do wa iain and the little bridge over the ditch by ihe railroad had washed away and a tim b* r about aix inches square had been thrown acrcs-t as a subwtituie. The lanolo.d had a lantern and led a woman acroea very carnally. I terned to me that if the could walk ic I could, but I had a heavy valise in one hand and a light one in the other added to my abundant corporosity and raised my center of gravity beyond reason, and worst of all, jus:; as the lady had put her fo t ou the ground the polite landlord swung his lantern before her and left me in the dark shadow. With one * \ asmodic leap I mads a last s ep for the bank and nursed it about a foot. I saved my bag gage, however, and only got in about ankle deep, but it scared me aw tilly and I never got over it for aa hoar. I wish I had a picture of that i-cene. The next night I left at the same Lour and by morning I was sick-e ek with threatened pneumonia-and when I reached my fi ti II a'ion I HU. rendered and went to bcd and dren med I was in a coma and *as being ship ped home in the expr s* cir. and it distressed me bey- nd measure to think how grieved ny famity would be to receive my mor: al remains m d how th y would weep and sob and tell eacb o ner < f all my virtues and never u ention a fault-nary fault. But the good landlady got hot wa er and bathed my feet and gave me quinine and nursed me .ike a mother, and 1 survived and got better and shoo i off my fears and k* pt out of the coffin, and here I am in >he land of the living where mercy may be sough' and pardon found. It was a l >ng. long ri -e cumin* home, bat the drummers kept things lively, for they get on and off at ev ry station and are a.ways cheerful. We all talked politics and banked on Cleeland. At Trinity station a man got on the train to KO seven miles to th** next station ;?id tendered the conductor 20 cen tx. Capta n Mitchell told him politely it Would take 28 o-nts, as he had no .icket. The man was cross and iU fu , and said he wouldn't Jpayit. We were hardly out ol town when the tcap a.n galled the bcd rope and gently let him tdown on terra hrma. The man had plenty of ama 1 change for we saw it, but I ti ink he wanted to get a lawsuit. He declared that h . wouldn't pay but 3 cents a mile, ticket or no t : ck< t. Of course he will hud a lawyer to take his case, and all for 7 cents in money and a big lot of lacerated feelings, 'lhere was a poor, sad-faced woman wi h two children sitting not far from me, and as the butcher boy wt-nt to and fro with his basket of fruit the lite oap* lookrd. wishfully, but their mother shook her head. They made no complaint and seemed to understand that they wen- not in it, while thereat of OH were enjoying the grapes and ban-nas. I didn't like that, and so I whimper ed the boy to give them each an af pie nd a oana a and a paper of grapes and some to the mother and make no sign and pass on. It ddn'tcost me but 80 cerna, bot it was worth a dollar to see the sui prise-the tim d looks of wonder and of pleasure as they glanced aro une and a e of their fruir. It was a little thing but it made the miles shorter to til m and to me. Try this on fometime when yon travel. I arrived borne just before daybreak sad found the house all dark and still, and the o d dog asleep on the piazza. 1 patted him into silence and then stepp d into the parier and tumbled down upon a sofa and was soon dream ing, bot not of coffins. It Wis 8 o'clck before I was found and suddenly I was awakened by soft arms around my neck and a shower of kisses on my old rough face. Mrs. Arp and the giris yr lied and screamed their hearts delight, for is waa the longest absence I had made since th war, and I wi 1 never stay away so long again. I felt something like our big-mouth Bob whoa ha had served ont his two years in tba chaingang for unintentionally killing another negro. Colonel Towers toll him goedby and said, "Bob, yon most come and see us again some time." Bob opened his big mouth and said, '.Colonel Towers, dis here is de longest visit I ever paid anybody in my life, and if you wants to see me any more I reckon you will have to ooma <omy house." Bat it is all over now and i am basking in the sunshine of hom-* ad k ndred. On top of it aQ comes the g orinas victory-a victory tSa) is the harbinger of peace and good will between tbs sections. The outh is being vindicated at last. Id n'i know that confederate money will he good again or that Mrs. Arp w l be paid for her barrel of soap, or that our crippled soldiers and con federate widows will be pensioned, but one thing is certain: the south will get her share of the offices and the patronage of the gov ru men'. I think I shall take a sinecure* ra sine qua noa or a sine die myself. I have flt enough and now want to retire on half pay. There won't be enough > faces to go all round, I know, but we can maka a fe w more an i cut down the salaries and do pretty we!!. There is only one ol- nd over the general hilarity, and that is a feeling of sympath y tor the bereaved. It hurts my feelings to see them turn a rascal out, espe cially when another rascal is tamed in to fill his place. But such is politics. Politics is a science, and is something both funny and fan* tastic. I heard the other day about a candi date riding a hundred miles to get proof that h^s opponent deserted from the confederate ar my. He found hi ; witness away ont in the country and he said, yes, he knew all about it. for they belonged to the same company, and he was sorry to say that Bill did desert and kept hid out mvil the war was over- So the candidate prepared to take his affidavit, bot he did not seem willing to give it. He talked and ^a ked and as* rted that Bill was . d'-aerter and he would swesr to it if he was obliged to, bat still he wouldn't sign. When finally pressed for a reason why, he said: "Well, stranger, I don't want to sign that document for you see the fact is I deserted with him." But Mr. Cleveland is all tight and will re form some thmga, for the people have spoken and sa d be must. This great upheaval means something, W hy there i no telling how manv states and terri tories -he has carried. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that he has carried Canada ard Mexico and ti.s Sandwich islands. The north nd south are com ug together and get ting solid -ll round. Hurrah for Grover! Tm going 'O -end Miss Buth a hundred dollar bill in confederate money. It bas been drawing in -erest for twenty-nine years and the interest keeps marching on. BILL ABP, in Atlanta Constitution, j BERESFORD AGAIN. He Shows Up this Time ia the Role of Blackmailer. A New York dispatch says: The tal ented yoong swindler known as "Lord Charles Somerset Beresford," and also as "Walter 8. Beresford." "Sidney L s celas," "Walter Baton," and "Tom Bond," who is now serving a term in prison has been detected, it is said, in a plot to blackmail two promin nt New Tork society ladie , although he is be hind the bars. He threatens to publish in some newspapers in New York, Chicago and other places, scandalous stories reflecting upon these ladies, unless they pay him $2,000 as hush money. He first made this attempt last September and was met by a certain lawyer of this city, who hal, with the assistance of some central detectives, captured Beresford at Albany. He was afterwards sent back to Georgia, where he was wanted for swindling operations in Borne, Ga. He was sentenced to six years imprisonment, but this has not pre vented bim from seeking to injure the New York women mentioned, whom he now threaten with exposure. It is said by the attorney whe represents these victims of Beresford, that the stories which he is trying to sell to the newspa pers are scandalous lies. A DYNAMITER CAGED. The Deadly Explosive was Found in His Possession-Another Explosion. A cablegram from Paris mays: Satur day morniog the police arrested a Ger man furr er, named Victor Rabe. He was associated with anarchists, among them Francois and Munier. He is be lieved to have been the man who was seen 'oitering about the building in which the Cannaux Company has its offices. Dynamite was fouud in his possession. The anarchists continue to send threaten ing letters to Baron Beille, president of the Carmaligh Company. Another ex plosion of anarchistic, origin was reported late Friday -light from Colombes, a sub urb of Paris. I NOVEMBER COTTON. Ta Department of Agrlcnltare Issues its Report. WasMngtoh ^~parc*trs y3r The No vember returns tc .de department of ag riculture indicate a very light cotton crop with rhort staple, gathered gener ally in good condition. The local esti mates range from two-fifths to four-fifths of a full crop. Many make it the worst crop since I860. ID a very few locations a fair crop is promised. On the Atlantic coast the loss is attrib uted to the alternating heavy nins and drought. A cold and wet spring was followed by long continued dry whether, producing large weeds and dtficiennt fruitage. Picking in this region is well advanced and the crop partly marketed, while the killing frosts on the 27th and 28th ult., bas reduced thc top crop. There is great unevenness of growth and th range of production is very wide. One corres pot'de Lt in Alabama says that some of the fields will n-quire twen ty acres to make a bae, while some in Mississippi are estimated at a bale per a^re. In the Mississippi va! ley there is also a good growth of stalk and small devel opment >f bolls. The injurious factors are a cold and wet spring, defective stands, drought and boll worms. The early rains, forced cotton into slender joints with poor boils. The weather is favorable tor gathering, but unfavorable for maturing. The yield of lint is generally short in proportion to the weight of seed jpotton and the staple is short, though generally clean and of e^od quality. DEPOSITING SECURITIES: Holders of Roods of the R. k D, Mak ing Themselves Safe. A Baltimore d.spatch sa.s: The de positors of the underlying securities of the Richmond and Danville railroad with the Mercantile Trust and Doposit Com pany, of Baltimore, assumed considerable activity Situ day. ' The committee has secured about three millions of securi ties of various eiasses. The committee announced that this movement was inaugurated in Ballimore for the reason that so large an amount of bonds of different classes are owned or con trolled in th it city. Numerous requests have been addressed to the committee, asking that some arrangement be made for the deposit of bonds in New York and the committee is now conside ing the appointment of an agency in New York where bonds may also be deposited und certificates issued. CLAIMED BY BOTH SIDES. Official Count Necessary In Wyoming to Determine the Refait. A special dispatch of Tuesday saysi The control Cf the Wyoming legislature is still claimed by both democrats and republicans. A special to the News says the legislature is composed of forty-nine members. Of this number six are re publican hold-overs from, the last legis lature and one democrat hold-over. Of the remaining forty-two members the democrats have eiccted twenty-six and the republicans sixteen, making a major ity for the democrats of tire on joint bal lot. The republican state committee claims that the official count will give them the legislature by a majority of one. The majority on the eUctoral vote is still undecided and will require the of ficial count to decide the election of Har rison or Weaver electora. FIRE IN WINSTON. Ile Principal Business Block of the City in Rains. Late Sunday night a fire destroyed the prinopel business block of Winston, N. C. Los*, $850,000; insurance, $250,000. The fire burned twelve hours and con sumed Heme's building, the Vaughan building, and the building of the Hrs* National bank, the fines' block io tim city. Finns burned out include Cald well <fc Rupp, Vaughan SB Pepper, Rosen - baener Bros., ar d a number of others. The fire started in Bro n's drug store. Aid was asked from Salem and Greens boro, *ni was promptly responded Uh During the progress of the conflagration aa incendiary fire broke ont near the Richmond and Danville p stenger depot, wi ch consumed Abbot <fc Jones' tobacco warehouse and Shepard's leaf tob cea factory. El' ven horses were also burned. TEE INAUGURATION. It Will he Conducted an the Plan el Eight Years Ago. A Washington dispatch of Wednesday say s: L an ing democrats of the district, after a consultation with Senator Gor man, have decided to recommend that the plan adopted eight .years ago, when Cleveland was elected, be followed on thc occasion of his second inauguration. This plan in substance, is tiie -election by the national democratic committee of fit ty citi zens of the Di>trct of Columbia to take charge cl the ceremonies outside of the capitol. A meeting Tuesday night pre pared such a list, headed by Col. James G. B trret, who presided over the inau gural committee eight years ago. The hst was sent to Chairman Harrity, of the national democratic com mute, for ap proval. GEORGIA'S VOTE As Cast in the Presidential Election. Cleveland's Majority 87,154. Wednesiay afternoon t*>e official count of the votes cast in the recent el edon WHS finished by General Cook, secretary of state, and his assistant, Colonel Henry Thomas. Th t count shows that there were 228, 981 votes c*8t in 6eorg:a at the pres dea tial election. Of these Cleveland received 129,888, Harri-on received 48,805, Wea ver received 42,939, and Bidwell received 988. There were 2,863 scattering votes east. This gave Cleveland a plurality of 81. . 081 over Harrison, and a maj mtj of 37, 154 over all the other candidates com bined. _____ NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED By the Stockholders of the Etat Tea nesssee Railroad. The stockholders of the East Tennes see, Virginia and Georgi i Railroad elect ed a new set of directors at a meeting at Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday. Those elected are: Samuel Thomas, Calvin Brice, William P. Clyde,R. G. McGehee, John G. Moore, J. C. Maben, Thomas P. Ryan, E. F. Sanford, George F. Stone, W. E. Strong. John G. Moore is a Richmond and Danville director and W. G. 0<ikman is president of the Danville, and also president of the East Tennessee. The election of these new men give quite a Richmond and Danville cast to the di rectorate. A BOILER EXPLODES Harli ? Five Unfortunate Matt Inte Eternity. A frightful boiler explosion occurred on the Reading railroad, near Schuylkill river, at midnight Friday night. Five men were killed and several injured. The killed were: Engineer Cowey, Fire man M^yer, Conductor Kendrick and an unknown man. The engine had just been coupled up to the train when the explosion followed. There were men in jured a hundred yards away. A Milwaukee Blase. Monday morning a fire destroyed the ry goods store of T. L Kelly Co., st Milwaukee. Loss on stock $180,000, in