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NEWS FROM INCH i K Column of Both Home and Foreign Happenings i ARRANGED FOR THE FIRESIDE. i W'UIch Will Be of More or Le?s Inter* est to the General Kcader. . General Fit/.hugh Lee, Consul General }(tlio United States to Cuba has returned 1 Trom Vlrgiuia, where he has been visiting i his family. No time has yet been fixed for his return to Havana, but itis understood he has been asked to remuiu hero probably a ouple of weeks longer, in order to hold | himself in readiness to confer with the , President and Secretary of Stuto over the j Cuban situation. Genorul Leo talked of the Spanish Cuban | lituation, and while uot denying the possi- ! (ility of war with Spain, expressed tiio I >plnion that the reports that an open rupuro was Imminent, and that consentient tire- I iHratiouH for troublo wero being made by ?oth countrlos, .might bo greatly exaggerated, do said ho hud no knowledge of immediate Uuger of hostility, though of course there was great feeling among some Spaninru., tgninsl this country who thouglit that with>ut filibustering, aid aud comfort (rem hero .ho rebellion might be cosily suppressed. lie taid ho had no infoimation as to whether .ho Spanish were preparing for war, but they night be making extensive military preparations without aiming them particularly at .he United States, in view of the troublo they ire having with Cuba and the Philippine lsnnds. lie said: "I do not believe that there lias been any nasslng of armutnont in Cuba, with a view to lossiblo trouble with the United Slutes, nor .hat tho construction of Spanish war vessel 's to bo attributed to any such contingency. The Spanish may be improving their do"euc.Cs wherever possible, but it does not no essarily imply expectation of war The United States is steadily strengthening it.'ortillcut'.oiis aud defence works, but it is an jld maxim that says, 'in time of peace protare Tor war.* "About the war sentiment in Cuba? The -Spanish ofllcials said nothing to me that inlieated an expectation of war. The onlj tiling that eoubt be construed to give that mptcssioii is the mounting of a battery ui iteavy seaeoasl guns along tho coast above Havana. Tliero aro trom twelve to llftecn ol these that extend porlia) s a mile or u mile dud a half north of tlie limits of the city proper. These pciht to the sea, and not :oward the insurgetits. In ease ?>t attack it Is possible these might bo made to supplement lite defense given by Mum Castle, tht Cabanas and ISicnnu and other forts. "The Spanish authorities rather censure Iho United States tor not strictly eniorcinp the neutrality laws, ami many think that, at '.lie sympathy <>t thiscouniry is more with tlu insurgents tnan with tho Kpnuish, our j,'ov. rti!T5?-nt does not want to take the |iro|ioi precautions to prevent expeditions leaving tlx* United Status seaports in <1 binding u. Cuba. i told tho Spanish authorities that they must rente ruber that there was an immense extent of ficucoust here, with innumerable inlets and places where expeditious could he concentrated uud embarked Front tin trouble Willi which they themselves had to prevent tho lauding of such expeditions ou the Cuban coast, notwithstanding the fact that their gunboats ami other vessels were constantly patrolling thee ast nittl or the lookout for filibusters, some idea could be formed of the comparative ease witt which tho United States authorities could l>? evaded. With the comparatively small eoast Jiue_X know of only ouo bin expedition?thai of the Throe Friends?which Las boon captured by them. Yet this country hnscertainli prevented the Htartlag of at least half a do/.ei big expedltlo. fi for the island, lu view o; tills its an object lesson of the difficulty o> putting it stop to lllibtistoring, I contend thai the Spanish ought to be curuful about censttrlug us." ? I ? Although the House committee on approprint ions meets November 20th for the com mcftoeinCtit of work on the appropriatior bills the estimates of the various departments have not been completed. The law requires these estimates 10 be submitted U the Secretary ol the Treasury t y October 1st but this Ihw lias always been ignored uudei all administrations, lu partial from the estimates will, be ready when tho LIouse committee meets but will net bo made public. Commissioner Joseph S. Miller ol tho Internal Revenue ISureaii, lias resigned, to no copt the vice-presidency of the Amerieat Bonding and Trust Company of Baltimore under an agreement which was practically i consummated some months ago. Mis sue" oessor in office probably wnl be c.\-Kcprc- j seii'.ative Form tin, of Illinois. Mr. Miller'.- ; resiguiition has beeu in the hands of tin ; l'resfdeiji some weeks. - I ~ Early last month the Washing!*.: .'ost puis lishcd an artnde relating to lite . . uhlcs between Chris Nun Der Abe, ?>f Ui' Kt. l.oiin Basidiall Club, and tin* Nath .nil League which asserted tluit mi v.?i. ii.... a i. about to bo expelled from tin* league for \h nous reasons. Von Der Alio has brought suit in 11n.* District Courts against the l'osi Company for ?50,000 damages. Owing presumably, to the i>r< -i<I ,ti;i election, tin1 returns of the Department <> Agriculture correspondents as to the comparative anil prospective yield of the coltel erop nre too meagre for a trustworthy report iBoiittb sueii returns ns have been receive, indicate a somewhat greater yield than w promised in lust month'.) report. Postmaster (ieneral Wilson's estimates foi his department lor the next tlsent year foot! up 515,411, an increase over 18514 of ?4, 0411,840. The King id Sweeden anil Norway, Oscai II. lias hi en eliosen l?y treaty hetween tin United States and (Ireat Itritain as the fifth oi final arbitrator of the Venezuelan boundary ipiestion. The other arbitrators, four lit number, are to l>? designated, two by tin T.oril Chief Justice of Kngland, anil two by the Chief Justice of the United Slates. Admiral Bunco's sipindron will go to Vone. xuola in a week unless a radical departure b made in tiio plans perfected in the navy department. The object of Admiral Bunee's Vew orders is declared to be without any 'imiificanee in the foreign affairs of the L'ni- I vd Stales but relati'saltogether to the iiecrsities <d effective naval administration. I 'oil)(drotier i" '!\. i lias "loscd the l-'irst \'a'ional bank of Dceorah, Iowa, capital i75.J00. The bank is in bad shapv. - Ifii his ani.ii.it report. Mas.r femoral Miles i >f the I . N. army tiroes imrii<><]:i|>f r.")- I .riaiioiis <>f several millions for fortillcatioiis | mil lmrra'-ks at seanort cities. 11 estimate i?r Charlc-teii i*. . SSoO.O'.tfi. ami fur Savannah I!" recommends una .soldier fur vary 2.(100 inhabitants and not mora than j >nc for every I,(I'M). Postmaster Genera. Wilson has submitted ,o the Secretary of the Treasury his estimates 'or the department fur the lineal year end,rur June HO, IH'.ts. These ntfKrebate H>7,>2!>,411 tin Increase over the estimate of |H!)7 of Ci.013.KJfi. There will L>e u UellciOU;y of f 1,288,335 in 1807. BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH. The Growth ut' i urcigu Commerce Very Pleasing ut all Ports. The Manufacturer*' Record in its review of Southern business conditions says: The rouiarkuble growth ol foreign commerce throughout Southern ports is emphasized by tho arrangements that have just been completed for the establishment of direct steamship liues from Norfolk. Charleston, Savannah aud Brunswick to European ports. Fivo yeare ago only three Southern ports bad direct steamer linos to Europe, the shipments from other points being made by tramp steuiners. Now eleven Southern ports have established regular lines to | various British aud continental ports. The muguitud e of this business is illustrate d in tile fact that ouocompany operating a large number of steamers bus engugod much of their cargoes through the whole winter uud uj? iuivri-ii, mm uuoiuor company operating from Norfolk has about 50 or GO steamers engaged for carrying on a general cargo business this wiulor. This grout increase in foreigu exports is building up S- uthern so iports ami giving to them as much activity and prosperity as has heretofore provuiled in the industrial centres of the South. A largo number of Southern enterprises liuve resumed operations since the election. The Baltimore Tin l'lute company, employing 200 bunds; the Wheeling Iron and Steel ooiupany and the Whltnker Iron company, of Wheeling, uud other enterprises have increased the number of their htmvls from 2,000 to 4,500; the Kauuwha Woolen Mills, ot Charleston, W. Va.; the Maryland Silk Mills, of Iiagerstown; the Cotton Duck Mills, near Baltimore; the Galveston, Texas, Hope and Twine Mill, omploying one hundred hands; the Foatoria Glass Works, at Moundsville, W. Va,, 800 inon; Avery Plow Works, Louisville, Ky., 120 additional men; the Louisville Woolen Mills, 200 operatives; the Blue Grass Woolen Mills, 200 hands; the Howard Harrison Iron Company, of Bessemer,. Ala., put on full forces; Birinijghain, Uolling Mill, 1,500 men; the Gate City Boiling Mill, Gate City, Ala., 000 men, and a largo number ot' other industries throughout the South. Among the now enterprises looking to tho development of business interests in tho fciouth reported for the week are n number of railroad undertakings; a $1,000,000 compauy organized in the West, which has purchased 6,000 acres of laud in Texas for improvement and colonization in connection with manufacturing enterprises; a Chicago company organized to purchase 200,000 acres of laud in Alabama for colonization; sales of several large tracts of timber land for development; a $150,000 cellulose plaut atOwenshoro, Ky.; a $20,000 knitting mill company at Union Point, Ga.; a $100,000 electric light ( ana power company at Fort Wortli, Texan. | Many enterprises projected some months ago and dolnyed t>y the political excitement ' are now being taken up actively with a view j to securing capital for immediate coustruc- ! tion. Some of them have capital pledged j contingent upon the election, and these will j bo carried forward promptly, lteports to the i Manufacturers' Record from all parts of the | South show a very hopeful feelingaud deter- : ruination to bend every possii lo energy to tho j material advancement of this section, tho newspnpers very generally urging the people > to drop politics for tho time and givo at ten- ; tion to the advancement of oiuteriul interests. .tilts. castlkTkklkaski>. Utterly Prostrated Under the Strain and llroketi Down in Kody and Mind. Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of San Francisco who was sentenced nt the Clerkonwell sessions on Friday hut to three months imprisonment without hard labor, after having ploadod guilty, by advice of counsel, to the charge of shop-lifting, has been released from Wormwood Hcrubbs prison on medical j grounds, by order of tho Home Secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley. The commissioners of the prisons, it appears, directed the medical hoard to inquire into and report upon the health of Mrs. Castle, wlio.se eomiition was causing anxiety to ' the prison authorities. She was watched day ; and night t?y special attendants in the inllrinr.ry, and was shown every attention possible. The commissioners, after receiving the report of the medical board of the state of Sirs. Castle's health, communicated with the Home Secretary, who promptly ordered her release from prison, and that she be placed in the care of her husband, at ouce to bu taken back to the United States. lie Conspired Against Cleveland's Kinsman. Col. Luther A. Hall, a Federal prisoner from Georgia, died in the State prison ol ! dropsy. His crime was conspiracy against Col. Forsythe, a Fe leral revenue collector ( who is a relative of President Cleveland. Col. Hull was a member ot the G< org in logia- j latum at one time. Spain (Sorrowing Money, It iias been derided by the government that the lirst -uhseription to the new Span- ; ish b>ait*-<'!' -100.000.0(H) pesetas, which will bo issued i,e\t Saturday, shall be limited to 2.10,000,000 peretas. The remainder of tlio loan, amounting to 110,000,000 pesetas, to be reserved as the government lias no picscut need of tlio money. A Railroad Ordered Sold. Judge Speer, of the United Stales District i Court for the southern dist riot of Georgia lias ' sigi oil an order for the sale of the Atlantic i Short Liue on November 17th. No price is ' lived Collision on tin* O. !?'. ?V. Y. V. A collision between two freight trains oo- ! eurred on the Capo Fear A Yadkin Valley railroad near Jonosboro. No one was hurt. . SI'AHKS KltOM TIIK WlliKM. . Tlio official Republican plurality in Ohio Is 51,1)50. Tito total voto 1.003,050. One hunted Armenians have horn massacred at Eqerek in Asia Minor and 150 houses ! hurried. Olapp A Co.. dealers In stocks and crain, I have failed. The It rut made an assignment to Win. T. Davis, Jr. General Nelson A. Miles, in Ids report on 1 the army lo the Wat Department, recommends a ?325.525 garrison ut Wilmington, ] N 0. The Tredegar Iron Works at Uiehmoinl, ; Va., has started up its spike mill, whieh will Hive a tniblderalde number of men employ- ! inont. 11 * v. -lohn White, Secretary of the Dap- j list Mission Doard, su\s there will ho over one hundred Jlupti.-t.s in the next (ieiterul j A ssend'ly. The general assembly of the Knights of I,a- j tor is in session at Rochester, N. Y. s>>\erei-.:n is likely to ho re elected tiraml Maxtor \N orkman. At Nusltvillc, Tenn., tlto Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association elected Dr. nrorK?> i?. jouubioii, 01 JkiciintoiKl, vu., president. .!a-?. Fagin, who threw a lighted cigar into Secretary CariiHlo's fneo while ho was at Covington, Ky., has boon lined $20 aud coat for the offouso. The lumber manufacturers of Arkrinsns have advanced the price on coninion iinnher 50 conta per 1,000 foot, and upper grades 1.000 nor 1.000. VENEZUELAN CRISIS EKBS Lord Salisbury Proclaims the Great Victory ot the United States. ENGLAND BACKS DOWN. Thr British l'rlino Minister, at the T.nrri Mnvor'. Banquet, Snyn lie B.dlovcs the 2*l?u SiiKsmtcil by Mr. Olney Knda the Venezuelan Controversy?The News Kei'civoil With Immense Applause. Ijonpon, England (By Cable).?Lord Salisbury announced in his spooch at the .Mansion House Monday ni^ht that the disputo between Great Britniu and the United 8tiites over tho Venezuelan boundary has virtually boon sottied. It lias boon sotiied on the torms which the Unitod Hta* \s insisted upon. Tho whole question is to bo roforred to unrostrioted arbitration. Tlie only condition attached is ouo proposod by Secretary Olnoy that tho *141-. -? i " .... mo ui uuus nuo seiners 10 meir present holding shall, in case the arbitrators' award places them under the jurisdiction of Venezuela, be decided by the laws governing private titles. I.O)ir> SALISBURY. Tbo British law provides, among other things, that u title to land which has been unnssnilod for twenty-one years cannot be invalidated. Venezuela, in other words, will no ctobnrrrd from confiscating property in any territory she may acquire under arbitration. That was the Rood news in tho Dritish 1 Premier's groat speech. Ho announced it at tho outset, and it was received with immense enthusiasm. Ho ventured also to congratulate Ambassador Bayard and the United Stntos on the result of the election. This is an extraordinary thing for a Prime i Minister and Foreign Secretary to do, but 1 ho explained that it hardly amounted to interference in the domestic politics of another Nation to express admiration of ''the splendid pronouncement which a great people has made in behalf of the principles ' which lio nt the base of all human society." ! There was a sumptuous display nt the banquet at which the above announcement was 1 mad", it marking the installation into office of Mr. George Faudel Phillips, the new Lord Mayor of London. The banqueting hall of the i Mansion House was crowded. Among the | gueeta were Prime Minister Salisbury, Mr. | George J. Goscnen, First Lord of the Admiral- , ty; Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State i for India; Lord Halsbury, Lord High Chan- < cellor; Mr. Charles T. Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade; General Lord Wolsoley; Commander-in-Chief of the British forces: i General Sir Herbort H. Kitchener, Sirdar of I the Egyptian Array; Mr. William Court Gully, < Sneaker of the House of Commons, and Mr. < Thomas F. BayarJ, tho American Ainbassa- i dor. i Interest centred in tho speech made by Lord Salisbury, it being tho custom for the Prime Minister at the Lord Mayor's banquet to make a statement regarding tho foreign and domestic policies of the Government. t Ambassador Bayard replied to tho toast "The Foreign Representatives." Mr. Bayard, in treating of the community of interests of tho Nations of tho world, nil ' being affected by the doings of others, referred to the Presidential election in the J United States, saying: "I am very sure that it was in no narrow , party sense, no merely Nationnl sense, that . the heart of tho people which it is my high- j est honor to represent was echoed in a verdict that could not be misunderstood, standing as it does for National honor and tho v.MiiiiiiMiv ni :iikuuii;ii oougiiuons, making < tho world safer in the trust of each part. and i 1 speaking as emphatically as the human mind [ j and human heart over spoke in favor of that i honesty which is an o.-.sentiul condition of civilization everywhere." (Loud cheers."i ' I When Lord Salisbury arose to reply to the toast "Our ^linisters," ho received an ovation. After thanking the Lord .Mayor and ' the others present for the warmth of tho welcome extended to him, ho said: "? thank the Ambassador of tho United 1 \ Slates for his presence here and for joining ; a great historic meeting, iiy the few words lie has uttered lie has ra sed his own piano of observation so high almvo tho mere level of party tlint, though contrary to practice to I remark upon the internal politics tn other < States, i may be permitted, without itnper- < tinence, to congratulate bint ui>on the spleu- i did pronouncement the great people ho represents have made in behalf of th ? peine, phvs | ! which lie at the base of all human society. (Cheers.) "It is rather bathos to have to turn therefrom to tho - ntlicr uidinportsnt controversy Ids country and ours have had in recent , mouths. I only do so for the purpose of ex- ' pressing tho beliel that tt is at an cu t. (Cltec.ru.) Jtou tire aware that in the dis- i cusstoit ltad with tho United States on helialf of their friends in Venezuela our question has not been whether there should he arbitration, but whether arbitration should have unrestricted application, and we have always claimed that those who, apart front historic right, had the right I which attaches to established settlements i > should he excluded from arbitration. Our I difficulty for months has beeit to dell no tho set- I tied dist ri'tsand the solution lets, I think come < that wo should tr at our colonial empire us wo treat individuals; that the same lapse of litntj which protects the latter In clvio life from having their title questioned should similarly protect nr. English colony, but beyond that, when a lapse could not bo claimed there should he an examination of | title and nil th-equity demanded in regard | thereto should bo grunted. "I do not i? dieve tan it?ing unduly snn- | (Miinc words when I declare my belief that ' this has brought tho controversy to an end. J (Loud cheers.) 'We have had an anxious year at tho ' Corele;; <inice, but v.e have )1 >utod into a pcrio i of comparative calm, and I do not 1 intend to tr< able you with matters that have vass" I away." Soldli-'s' Bleat mid I>cca:]. ! A .Ta| am so solde r is allowd seven ounces of meat in bis rations, an Austrian or Spinlab private t ighi a h'rciicli, 'I urki.-b, (icrniiin or iivi-i.ui i.>j an naiiaa eleven, an ling- | ashman twlvi-, u JIu.-Man sixteen. The ru tiou in tln? United State-. army is twenty ! ounces. The latum of hread is highest in ! the Austrian army, thirty two ounces. In tlie Gorman army it is twenty-eight ounces, ' I in the French ami Italian it is twenty two, 1 the same ir. the United states, and in th?*l Kussian army seventeen ounces. All modern armies, save the Ftwaiuu, tiuvc also a dailf allowance yt Geo, WEEKLY NEWS dUuuti. * Southern Pencil l'ulnttri. Governor Carropened the 19th annual colored State fair at Raleigh. It is reported in Louisville that Heeretar) Carlisle wants to retire Irom politics. Dr. Wise Republican, will congest the seal of Young, Democrat, in the second district ol Virginia. William Wintrtre nn A#Inn ?? found dead lu a stream near Hint city, having been shot. The 4th annual session of the North Carolina liuptiat btato Convention met ut Morganton with a good attendance. All the newly oleeted Republican members of Kentucky's Legislature have been served with notices of contests by their late silver Democratic opponents. After being without licensed saloon? fot nearly two months. Winston, N. O. again to have saloons at a license of *1,000 per year Just double the former price. From tho latest returns from Kentucky MeKluley will have 12 and lirynu 1 elector. This was occasioned by unexplained iregu-1 larities in voting. The Palmer ticket got 5,018. The 114th annual session of the Virginia Conference of the Methodist episcopal Cbureli, South, met at Lynchburg, Va. i Bishop \V. \V. Duncan, of South Carolina, j prcaided. Milton II. 8mitli, of tho Louisville and { Nashville, says his company has not bought the South Carolina and Georgin railroad; i that tho matter was considered four years ago and dropped. James Michael, the llttlo Welsh rider, hroke tho record in New Orleans. Faced and i with a (lying start he covered the distance I in 18 miuute.sand nino seconds, breaking the previous record by ono second. It is expected that tho Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City 11.11, an enterprise begun nenriy thirty years ugo. but which was llrst brought to the point *f construction last spring, aud which has hung lire since, will be pushed through. At Augusta, Ga., tho Southeastern Utuvdiall League was organized for the coming season, embracing the following cities: Augusta, Atlanta, Macon, Charleston and Savannah. Columbus. Ga., and Columbia, S. C., are scrambling for the sixth place. Two masked robber? entered tho store of T. C. Harris in the town of Lancaster, Eallas i county, Texas, and covering a clerk with their pistols, forced him to opou the safe and rvivn in. Cr inn ? - ?11 w?? hiuu' .v, nie rouoereare lit large, pursued by a sheriff and posse. ? AH About flic North. CluppA Oo., of Now York, dealers in stock ami grain have tailed. The Iowa Savings Bank, of Sioux City, lias hiwn closed. Assets $70,000; deposits *150.000. Th? Bryan electors in Wyoming have 380 majority; Osborne, Democratic candidate for Congress, 401 nuijoiity, and Corn, Deino ratie candidate for Supreme Court judge. 104 majority. * Han Frnneisco dispatch to n Cnieago paper savs that C. J). I.anc, the California millionaire mine owner, has offered to pay all the tra eling expenses of Mr. Wm. J. Bryan if Mr. Bryan wtll devote his time to preaching silver throughout the country. At n meeting of the directors of the Nntioutl Baseball association in Chicago the ponnuut was awarded to Baltimore. At the league meeting it was decided to change the opening nud closing time of the season, so >h:?t ?*>itues will commence April 15 and end Dct 15. / In the United States district court, Wilmington, Del. the jury gave a verdict for ?8.000 dnmHg??J|\in tliecnseof David F. Crnig ?gainst F. Blumeti'lial A' o. of Now York. Craig was a bov employed hi the company's morocco factory uud lost an arm while working a machine. . -*? Foreign Chlt-Cliut. Au important expedition in aid of the inairgents in Cuba is said to have recently hailed from Kingston, Jutuica. Six persons were killed nnd 130 injured in i heu<1-on collision between trains on the St. Petersburg and W arsavv road, near (Irodiuo, Poland. The Transvaal government has decided to laiin t'2,000,000 indemnity from the British South Aliiean Company to cover the damages sustained by thr Jameson raid. The I.ondon Globe, commenting upon the Venezuelan arbitration treaty, says it wwl omes the agreement because it releases the United States from a "false ai d dangerous BOSlllOll. i'he London Daily News' Vienna correspondent telegraphs thai reports from Con tfiol:.:opl.- show that (in* situation thorn is eery dme-p-rous. 'i'lir families of most Of the iijiloni us litivo left the eily. 'J'ho German imperial budget, as it will he momitte.i to tl.o IJeielist.nr. allows Hint the ri' -eiots ami expenditures balance at 1.112H,101 S21 marks. The ordinary expenditures ihotv an increase of 24,200,21)8 marks. Spanish soldiers are said to have entered the home of F. I,. Draieroft. an American iti/.en. formerly from Indiana, who has a ?u;;ar estate in Cuba, outraged his wife, almost killed him, and robbed him of .*850. The matter waareported to Consul General Springer. -< ? M Isecllaneotis fallings. Gold continues to come to the United States Treasury. Theoflleinl ltepubliean plurality in Ohio is HI,950. Tho total vote 1,0015,040. Major M -Kinley will spend a week with Mr. Ilauua at the hitter's home in Cleveland. Tho will of John II. Inman allows three years in which his partners tuny wind up his hanking business. Ilis Fifth avenue house Mid furniture is Riven to his wife, with S25.)()() annuity. Tho remainder an unasecrtamable amount?will be divided nm?ng the children. Tliut Watson Letter. Tom Watson's letter neeej ting tin* Vice Presidential nomination of the l'opnlist party lias at last been given to the pnblie. It was written on Oelober 14 to Senator Marion Duller, chuirtuan of the notilleation cominittee and manager of the l'oiilist cainpaign# It was suppressed by Senator Kutler during tbc campaign The doeumeni would make r. .11 ii in-no|i.i|M-r, oiusoil accepts only "bncau.-o hi* I tin I promised to do lio." Ho raves ami rants against evervniic ami violently a'.tn<*ts Chairman |tiitl<?r himself. win* ho mis, shmil I 2 v it v * * culled Si-wall ilowii, ninl inrii a l ">ii hi-1 (W.-u.-on's tuition. llv listening to toe itviTiiipv. >>t l?omoeratie managers. Wnt.?.m sii\.h the I*.>j*?ili?*t party has been torn into <a -lions, tln-tr lend or." ilotvlvial ami ensnared, ami thn work am! hopes of yours gone. Tin* \vho!o toil" of the ilo(*amoiit shows bitterness an 1 disappointment, ami with no particular intorost in till' of thn cntlse of Slivi'l". for which both part las worn battling at t!. titm tha letter was written. Charles It. Flfnt, of the Now York Yacht Club, has just ordered n steam yacht, which is to make thirty-eight mtitsnn hour, so that she wilt Ihj the fastest craft afloat. Hhe will be no dasignotl that h!io oau bo turnoi Into u, tor^olo boat io three days, REM FOR NOVEMBER. j The Returns to the Department of Agriculture at Washington. . CORN BETTER THAN EXPECTED. The Russian Wheat Yield Not Kx- i aetly Known?Wet Weather t'n- i favorable to I'otuto Crop. m i Tbo returns to the Department of Agrleul- | tare for tire month of November us to rates of yield make the average of corn 27.3 i bushels,'which is above the yield indicuted by I the conditiou figures in October. Last year the preliminary estimate of yield was 26.2 bushels. Tho rates o!! yield in tho large and principal corn States are as folllows: New I York 31 7: Pennsylvania 37,1; Ohio 39.9; i Michigan 37.0; Indiana 32.4; illiuois 40.4; j ! Wisconsin 33.6; Miuuesota 80.6; Iowa 37.7; ' Missouri 26.3; Kansas 27.1; Nebraska 37.2. Tho average yield of buckwheat is' 18.7 ! bushels per acre, against 20.1 Lmshols last , | year and 16.1 for the year 1894. The average yield per acre lor potatoes is 8G.s bushels, which, though not phenomenal, is nevertheless ubovo the average for the t J past ten years. Avorago yield of hay, as indicated by tho preliminary returns, is 1.3C tons against 1.06 last year. " The average yield of tobacco 'j 679 pounds ! per acre, against 743 pounds last year and 733 pound.1-! n the year 1894. , The European agent notes tho lack of trust- j worthy estimates of the Russian whoatshort I age. Tin" h ivance iu price, which is expectj ed to be fairly maintained, will result tu increased acreage In Great liritain. Wet weather in October throughout central Europe was utiinvorable for the potato crop. A good corn yield bus boon realised on the lower Danube. Raised Klgucs oil Script. At Savannah, Oh., Major Alfred H. Hartridge, a broker has been arrested for forgery. Warrants were sworn out by tho Gormauin bank atxl the National bauk of Savannah. {' Hartridge was attacked with paralysis Satur- ! day just before tho warrant was issued. An ' oflicer is now watching at his bedside. It is alleged that Hartridge raised llgures on scrip for nineteen shares of Southern llail- J road stock to ninety, and one for sixteen shares to sixty shares and secured tho cash. I Ho borrowed $10,000 from Simon Borg A Co. of New York on the alleged ninety shares, and negotiated the scrip with the National Bank of Savunnnh To cover up ids loss and pay the hank what had been advanced on it, last Friday Hartridge went to the Germauia hank and borrowed $7,000, giving a draft on Simon Borg & Co. Payment was refused. Indian Cotton Crop. Tho drought that tho Indian people have experienced lias iiad a disastrous ciTect not only upon their wheat, but upon their corn crop. Just how far it will reduce the normal output of Indian cotton and the exportation ol this it is not now possible to say. It has been eustomury for those engaged in the cotton business in India to export about a million hales of cotton, about one-fourth of this amount going to Iiamhu g. If. as now seems not unlikely, the cotton crop is reduced in > amount by 500.000 or 60 >,000 bales, tho sales 1 of India cotton may be reduced by that ' amount, this leading to an increased demand ' with better prices for Amorican cotton. It is I fortunate that ut this particular time wo are likely to find so good a market on tho other side of the Atlantic for some of our more important agricultural products. Liberty Belt Attached. Report from Chicago, 111., says the Columbian .Liberty Boll is in the hands of the sheriff. The Henry McShane Manufacturing company, of Baltimoro, which cast it, claims that they were never paid for the work, and the firm's local agent with a do^ , uty sheriff, brought the bell from Kvanstofe to Chicago. It will be shipped to Baltimore, ! where the firm intends to place it on exhibition. The bell was attached once before, ' ,ust prior to its final jaunt to the Atlanta ex- ' position, but a note for $125, the amount of the attachment, was given to secure the debt. The McShane company claims that the bell cost them $1,200. The Texas Cotton Crop. The cotton crop of 1896 is at an end. A 1 killing frost has fallen and the fields are as black as soot. There is not a particle of life left in a plant. A few more bales can be picked out, but fully 90 per cent, has been marketed. There is a small number of bales I left about farm houses, waiting and hoping for a price which the smallest crop in ten years ought to command. /vr ..< ' ?? wi iiurrcsi 10 Miippors. Tho Baltimore Steam Packet Co., con- I | trolling the Old Bay lane of steamers on tho i Chesapeake Bay, announces that all freight | consigned to points in the South via. tho At- | lantio Coast l.ino will le sent to IMnner's ! Point, Norfolk, instead of Portsmouth as in tho past. Messrs. Alfred Poor and Alexander Sutor have been appointed soliciting agents at Baltimore for this service. TKIKI) TO KILh MAVOK SWIFT. A Crank Invades the City Kail and l)ru\vs n Hull-l)og--Also Wants to Kill MeKtiilcy. At Chicago Joseph Maruska walked Into tho lower corrido* of the city hall armed to tho teeth, and intent on killing Mayor Swift. Maruska asked, in an excited manner, to be directed to the mayor's oll'ice. An oflloor took him to detective headquarters, where tho desk sergeant was introduced to him as tho mayor. Maruska declared that the mayor 1 was a menace to society and reached for his hip pocket, lie succeeded in drawing a hulldog revolver, hut was disarmed by the officers at hand. Maruska swore that lie would kill the mayor, and then go to Canton, (?., and dispaleh Praaldout-eloct MeMinloy, hoth of whom, he snij, must die before the I'onntry could prosper. He was handcuffed after n hard struggle and locked up. Dr. 1'itrkluirst Wins. The Supreme Court of Kings county, New York, has decided in favor of tho Society for the Prevention of Crime, of which the Rev. I>r. Parkhurst is president, and against the | Society for the Prevention of Vice, of which I Anthony Comstock is the head, in construing the will of the late <Diaries Bathgate Beck, who died at Richlleld Springs, N. C., : October 11.1*93. Beck left an estate valued at $5,000,000, and as a residuary legatee the Society for the Prevention of Crime comes in for $200,000. The Society for the Pro-on-, tion < f Vice claimed, after the will was lllod that the testator clearly Intended ths l?equest for them, ami that the lawyers in drawing the will mistook the names of the two societies. A Prohibition Tragedy. At T.arraboo, la., l'ev. K. L. Benedict shot and fatally injured Hurry Mewhortor, a prominent druggist. The trouble was caused by J Benedict securing a search warrant and entering Mewhorter's drug store in search o I liquors. 'J'his enraged the druggist and he j assaulted the minister. Friends interferred and tlioy parted, but later Benedict passed the drug store and Mewhortor and others jumped on him with tho above results. Thr. minister Is in the cu-todny of the law. A PLEA FOR GOOD TIMES. We all SIuk It, Wo nil Hopo It, But Do wo liuow What Hard Times Are? Barnhnrdt Bros. & 8pindler,type founder** of Chicago, III., recently issued the follow, log, which is well worth universal publication: "'Ilnrd Times! Hard Times! Como again ;iio more !' "Wo all sing it, wo all hopo it, but do wo kuow what hard times arc? Wo sing it while wo cut bocf steak at twouty coats a pound, oysters at tifty cents a dozen, andthreo kinds ot bread at the same meal; wo shout it while wo s-uioko cigars, two fjr a quarter; wo think it while we stretch our comfortable logs on Brussels carpet, before a blu/.iLg grate, with woll-grooined beys and expensively clad girls arouud us; wo shout it to our uoighbors across our smooth lawns, or through our plate-glass windows; we groan it as wo read our morning and eveuiug papers, our plentiful mnirazlnes ujwI our u.mMv in.ri,ri.,u. dream of it in our soft nml springy beds, \vlilIt) our coal-fed furnace keeps the whole hovse warm; w? maunder about it in our well-equipped offices, shout it through our telephones, ring tho changes on it as wo send telegrams and tako expensive summer outlaws. We meet in our politieu', social, literary and business conventions, and ring the changes on it while we are spcudiug fortunes with railroads, hotels, restuuranls and places of amusement. ' 'And yet, in these days wo do not know what hard times are; we think we do, but wo ilo not. "The.writer knows of a time withiu his remembrance?and ho is no patriarch, when, In one of the richest parts of one of the most rnvored States in tho Union, the whole town L)f some two thousand inhabitants possessed altogether not over !?;)00 in money, all exchange was by Imiter; there wjis uo cash payment because there was nothing to pay with. \tuoug the best and richest families (and there ivere many who thought themselves well-toio) beef steak was a onco-a-woek visitor; round beef was a luxury; oysters were an un:ieard of dainty; corn bread was the usual, ivbeat the rare food; the cheapest plpotobaceo tvas a dissipation; cold bed-rooms, scanty ,vo- <1 fires, woolsey and calico were Jn tho louse; <>.\b window panes were helped out by lats, old papers aud rags; a weekly paper was in extravagance, and served several families. Ten books made a good, fair library; beds A-ere slatted or corded; rait car pot a were occasional. ingrain scarce, and Brussels a tradition; the s<dc vacation was a ride to the an- .. iual pis-nio in the one horse shay; nobody tiad time, money or heart for conventions or itnusemeiits. We men worked from 5 a m. to 7 p. m., (the aristocrats shortened the time ?v two hours) aud the women worked at ail bourn. And yet it (s doubtful if there was in those dittos such a universal spirit of unrest and Jiseontent, such a concert of growling, us iodav. "is it fair? Are wo just? Can wo afford t to waste time in bewailing liard times when , times are easy oh us uud treat us fur better than we deserve. "A manager once said with a chuckle: 'The mails have been p,ood to our houso toiluy; the llrst one brought an order in every letter, and the lost one brought a remittance In every letter.' We all know (mayhap wo uro) persons who would have said: 'Alas, we have fallen on evil times; the llrst mail brought no money uud tho last mall brought no trade' "Let us put aside these ugly tempers of ?urs;look toward the sun; smile at the nhnddw; all sunshine makes the desert; 'it's a pretty world, senor;'enjoy its beauties, let us borrow no trouble, shed light on our neighbors; quit us like men, and times will seem (us they are) good, TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL. . Preparations arc Going Forward to Make It a Great Success. > The Tennessee Centennial Exposition in > uot an assured success and no such enterprise ever had better and more encouraging prospects. The work of erocting buildings and beautifying the grounds has gone on steadily despite tho excitement -of the political campaign ami visitors from other States arc amazed at the extent and scope of tho enterprise and splendid appearance of the great buildings. Tho entorpri e has steered clear of debt and has poshed forward with redoubled energy to make it the most beautiful and the ccmplctest exposition over held in the South. There is u constant demand for space for exhibits coming from every State in the I'tiion and foreign countries. The exposition will open May 1, 1897, and it is the determination of tho management to ' avoid the mistakes of other expositions anil huui* oviirvt hiiiff nn nnonlnir iluu that the llrst visitors will onjoy a full exposition without the annoyance of unfinished work. Kvidcnecs arc multfplylrtg that this ^rcat agricultural, coinmurcial and Industiial celehration of Tennessee's centennial will ln? 0110 of the most successful occasions in tin* Hew era of prosperity and business actively which is promised by the renewal of confidence and the manifest spirit of progress which is now ubroud in tliolnnd. An appro- . priation for a government exhibit, which was passed hy one house at the last session o* Congress, is expected to he provided at tin* coining term, a Slate appropriation, and greatly increased subscriptions in Tennessee will add to tlie already assured success of a State's celebration under exceptionally nuspicious circumstances Murdered His Mothcr-in-Law* A special from Richmond, Va., says: One of the moit brutal murders ever committed in Carroll county has just come to light, and the Sheriff and a posse aro in pursuit of the murderer, who is an Italian named John Relego. On November 2 Mrs. Ann Mitchell left her home to go to Woodlawn, about Ave miles from Hillsville, to get medicine for her daughter. Sclogo, h?r son-in-law, started to a blacksmith shop near by, got a mattock, nnnnnAlgfl ltimui*lf in u iiiicl-nt (liranuli Mrs. Mitchell had to pass and crushed her head with the mattock. He burled her body in a pile of rocks, whero It remulned several days. Helego then carried the body through his yard on a sledge and left it in tho woods. He then joiued In the search to lind it, until the murks of the sledge were discovered, when he lied to the woods. ldryuii for tlic U. S. Senate. A special from Seattle, Wash., says n boots nas been stuited here for Wrh. J. Ilryftn fof United States Senator from this State. The silver (unionists will control the Scnatorship. The constitution of Washington provides that to tie eligible to tho office tin. candidate shall merely bo an "inhabitant" of the state at the time of bis election, so that ,ne lusion majority could elect Mr. Bryan without uily- trouble. lticliard Winsor, Sr., tins l'opulisl leader in Wasliington. and .lames Hamilton IaiwIs, Democratic fusionlst and member-elect of Congress, are rival candidates for tiiu Senatorntnp, and Mr Bryan lavs l*;on suggested a* a compromise. Ten-font Cotton. i). A. Tompkins writing from Now York to the Charlotte, N. C.^ Observer, sayB: "Cotton men say that European buyers expect a rise in price more on account of the prosperous trade expected all over F.uropo this winter than on account of short crop. Oood authorities here say that with a crop of 8,000.000 or 10,000,000 halea cotton will go to 10 cents. It should not be forgotten, however, that New York la excited over the result ol the election."