———————— a ——— i. - The reduction of cottoe acreage for the entire South this year is at least eighteen per cent. It is stated that the damage from blight, mildew, rot and yellow done to the fruit crop of the ccuntry amounts to not less than $50,000,000 annually. A share of stock in the Chemical Na- tional Bank of New York City, par value $100, is worth $4800, That is, every dollar invested by its stockholders pos- sesses an earning power sufficient to make it worth § The United States has about seventy one sheep to each 100 population. Aus- tralia has over 3000 to 100 population. The latest returns show very little differ- ence in the shearing capacity of animals in the two countries. it is libelous for a news- In paper to mention a criminal case against Mexico a man in the event of his acquittal. After his vindication the person charged with crime can put the editor who pub- lished the report in prison. To all the strenuous opposition against the trolley system of electric cars it has always been rephed, notes the Boston Transcript, that no person has ever been killed or even seriously injured by re- ceiving the electricity of the system. Tip-O-Tip, son of the late Zul Cetewayo, is in this 1 Kg country, and airns to secure an education here before re- turning to his own people. money to pay his expenses in is giving small entertainments in ern cities. They co: : native songs, chants, translations of the Z answering questions, English to and tongue He is only teen years of age. Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, cently told a friend « of his ancestors had sion, to show how accomplish that business a than now. man to prove no his necessity. clared that his sole slaves latter would not even raise v and of the forn one Quay's ancestor de- posaessi as were two f land and twelve acres of rheumatic and the oth time attending to his fell State reports and o thorities show, estimates the Sun, that the winter wheat areas, whole, are not likely to give me yiel 1: i an average wheat will average. to both varieties equals thatof 1891, the region Assuming that the aréa sown indications are for an aggregate out-turn of about some 132, 480 000.000 bushel 000,000 less than the product of 1891, and showing likewise that the exportal l crop of 1892, will be about 140,000,000 less, as domestic creased fully 8,000,000 last year. om th quirements have in- bushels since As an evidence of the pros the South, and of the flourishing con- dition of Southern cities, Atlanta, Ga. Is cited by Samuel W. Goode in the Manufacturers’ Record. “Atlanta is the capital of the State of Georgia, in value of properly which tbe increase in during the last decade, by official re port, is $210,000,000, elevation of 1085 feet above sea level, greater than any other city of equal population in the Union save Denver. Atlanta Reo- graphically, of a section of the ten States of Virginia, West Virginia, North Caro- $na, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Llabama, Misssippi, The city has an is the practical centre, Tennessee and Kentucky, which contain 450,515 square niles and 15,000,000 people. Around it, within seventy-five miles, isn over greater mineral variety and a thundance of many minerals than the larger ame environment of any city in the Bouth, if health, under scientific observation and not in the world. Atlanta's test of temperature and rainfall, proven by its wonderfully low death rate, shows it one of the most salubrious climates on the Its mainly agricultural, with soil fit for all grains, grasses, cotton, truck and dairying, Is rich in varied and proximate minerals und timbers, while its manufactures em. brace a territory from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, Its transportation facilities, with its ecleven railroads, are equalied. With these and many more rare advantages, Atlanta's real estato has made rapid and steady enhancement in value. Every new railroad and in. dustry has brought people, creating greater demand for homes and business sites. The growth of the city in popu. lation, business and manufactures is the sure test of the steady increase in the value of real estate, The official and reliable record on thew points proves that property has moved coatiaually up Au prices,” globe. trade area is un« Statistics show that trade does not decline in Presidential years, The United States spend $125, 000,. 000 a year for public charities and char- ftable institutions. Within the borders of the State of Maine are wild lands ot a total estimated value of 832,000,000, A queer illustration of British back- wardness is found by the San Francisco Examiner in the fact that this year sees to street returns exhibited crowds by the stereopticon for the first election time in London. The English Hackney horse, which is rapidly coming mato favor in this coun- try, is in England superceding the Clove- land bay stallion as a sire for carriage horses. The Hackney isa thoroughbred of the hunter type, with more boone, stoutness and action than the Cleveland bay. In Japan a play called the ‘‘Extermin- | ation ot Christianity” is on the boards, In the of sionaries to the shricks slaughter make-believe is wildly applauded. However displeas- ing this circumstance be, the may thinks it is less to the Francisco Examiner be deplored than more practical method of China, in which real mission. | aries are used In view of the recent complaints about | not is the ‘‘injurious action nned goods on the human economy, it interesting to note in the New York Recorder that recent experiments by Lunge and other well-known German chemists have de monstrated the fact unatiac tically tables. There ig rva tian t 1 here is a patien named Rila Kittridge } 3 "it ftir r who I» putt speeches on th to the ‘Gras the manages words, Mr. Gladstone dicted to gets some nostal posial f th MH Lhe the when he must feel thal he very mild Mr. George Bird Grion Forest and Stream Publishing Company, hia ’ | ny f ww an enthusiastic hunter of wi experi. ence, gives, in Scribner, a graphic nar. mative of a now extinct sport, and writes f swelinge reanectine the iegling resp MO sd hat has made the **The Last of the te. Hesays: “Of 1 even is is in free whicl herds, down to the | have disap; eared.” The American P BOIng Dis no yantries, ces the Chleago San. Persecu libel, infamous slan. , proscription, ders, and even bayonets cauanot keep him from inserting his savory snout into a foreign land, and when once he Jifts his small, twinkling eyes upon a people they immediately become charmed with his the will- The } 4 hog toothsome possibilities and are ing slaves of his porkship. Intest the achieved is that of conquest which Yankee has Mexico. According to a dispatch from Kansas City, Senor Earique Torez, a Mexican merchant, has been in that city making for shipping hogs to Mexico for slaugh. | ter, What the New York Pos fraud of a peculiarly abominable char. considers a acter has come to light in Germany, where a number of workmea snd en- gineers employed at the great Bochum | Association for Mininz and Steel Foun. dry have been arrested on a charge of selling defective rails, wheels, axles, etc., by means of a system of forgery. This material was supplied to the (ler. man State Railway, and then tome for. eign corporations. It appears that the State Railway employed sn inspector to stamp such goods as had withstood the regular tests, The incriminated work. men are accused of having made false stamps, with which they marked mater jal which had not been examined; with repairing holes, cracks, and other de. the a particular cement, and so giving the inferior and fects in mils with useless material the apperance of fia. ished work, aud with substituting re. jected rails for those which the officials had handed over to be stamped as sat. isfactory, and marking the good ruils with the forged stamps. The 1ncentive to the frauds was the fact that the work. men are paid a premium on the amount of work passed by the inspector. How long they have been indulging in these tlishonest practices, how general the distribution of defective material has been, is still as uncertain as the possible consequences of she rascality. mis- | of the orchestra | San | arrangements | HARRISON'S LETTER He Formally Accepts the Re. publican Nomination, The Principles and Polioy of His Party Endorsed, HARRISON. substance President r accepting the Republican | somination for the office of President of the United States “Wasuixaron, D “Hon, William McKinley Committee, Ete. “Gentlemen period of Sept, 8, *., 80d Otherge 1800 mysslf of the public dutiss to which you of my nomination of the United Trst respond to srought to me on J or the office of Pres | States by the Republican National Conven | Hom, re sently held at Mioneapoli I acoapt the nomination, and am grateful for the ar roval expressed by th { the administration ‘The great work of the Fift 18 been subijected to the » House of Representatives, : tive Department to There has the ot mn Cone« of a and its | ross h son Democratic the acts of the wrutiny andl investigation, | {fom been a time , When a change from the declared policies of the Republican Io the declared policies of the Democratic SUCh serious results to t ! intry.' rites at y question r continues subjects bave elicited more dis or ex Ore genera that very by the [7 share mn fo nierest United biact to it our Natio the [fastest upon eace profit 1 y viAryY sense, war ernmenta telligont An Stafes would have must be entered su8 enacts influence er ent have heen miractad to uiit, in Ameri 1 shipyards tn now prac won have under e Lnest sted York ¢ twill re al yards iF and wi sienmashiipa eny relorencs to wn its hostility to sx pend an ntra Presider furnishing od ur ships, a the far. { Central and the Hpaniah and with al trade m sugar and ad tea upon the ¢ relief to our ! apeaing arti in every housshol ous advantage to the countries these articles as to suggest that ® al prooal favors tariffs to articles rr Mmarsets » to Mr, Blaine for the i thio unon bazun to realize ta. The sand of adapt. ia ins necessarily the results already attained Ath ns establish in yopaiar favor the policy of reciprocal trade, i upon free importation such ’s y not in juriously compets with products of our own {arma mines of worries, in exchange for the free or favored n of our products into other los i in. Was Als use toersol re ther rene view pou rrangemer sure, to weed the arti TE fa introdua countries “The obvious efficacy of this policy in in. creasing the foreign trade of the United | tates at once attracted the alarmed atten. | tion of European trade journals and boards | of trade. The British Board of Trade has presented to that Government a memorial | asking for the appointment of a commisddon to consider the best means of counteracting | what is called ‘the commercial crusade of | the United States.’ | “The Democratic platform promises a re- peal of the tariff law containing this pro- vision, and denounces asa ‘soam reciprocity’ that section trade arrangements have been made, If no other issue were involved in the campaign | this alone would give it momentous imports ance “Tha favor of Protection’ proval, The declaration of the platform ‘The American meets my most hearty ape convention did not adapt a schedule, but a principle that is to co. trol all tariff schedales ‘here may be differ ences of op won among protectionists as to the rate upon particular articles necessary to effect an equalization between wages abroad and at home “Onoe or twice in our history the produe- the prices itat a profit, But the Welsh makers al once cut prices to a point that drove the American beginners out of the business; and, when this was accomplished, again made their own prices, “But in spite of the doubts raised by the elections of 1900 and of the machinations of foreign producers to maintain their mono. poly, the tn plate industry has bean estab. lished in the United States, and the allianes between the Walsh producers and the Demo. tratia Party for its dastruction will not sus “This tariff law hae given smploment th many thousands nf American men and women, and will ench year give om. ployment to ing thousands, Jt« repeal would w thousands out of smployment and give work © others only at reduced wages. | regret that ail employers of labor are not just and oon siderate and that eapital sometimes takes Ion large a share of the te, But | de not see that thess evils will bs ameliorated H¥ a tariff policy, the first nacessary sffsct of which les tvare Ate ent, and the second Aoar ge diminction of the aggregate amount of work to be dons in this country, ! i : of the law under which these | in | Doctrine of | tion of tin plate had been attempted, and | outained by the Welsh makers | would have enabled our makers to produce "The Dictatorship "No inte'tigent ndvocats of a protec. tive tariff claims that it fs able, of teal, to mainta,u a uniform rate of wages, without regard to fluctuations in the supply of aud demand for the products of labor But it is confidently claimed that protective duties strongly tend to hold up Wages, and are the only barrier against a reduction to the European scale,” o In Fegard tothe Federal Election bill Mr, i : Bohne 7 at anna msn ¢ must vet entertain the hone possible to secure a calm, hit hota ust bh ation of such Constitutional or etatutory changes as may be necessary to secure the choloe of the officers of the Government to the people by fair apportionments and | free elections. I believe it would be possible to constitute a coms mission, non-partisan in its raem bership and composed of patriotic, wise as a impartial mon, to whom na consideration of the questions of the evils connected with our election systems and methods might be com. mitted with a goot rospect of ssourin unanimity in some % wh for removing . mitigating those evils, » The Constitution would permit the tion of the commission to be verted Bupremse Court if that method the best guaranty of impartiality mission should be ch arged wit iring into the whole stions as related t of the Nation al G to securing to every electo molested exer eo sufls an approach to an equality ballot cast as is : demand that the lin shall bs found | isa t demand, and vo just man should re- sent or resist it It seems to me ple to consides gnlen. in the would give This com. the duty of oct of the law choles of officers woernment, with a view a free and reand as Yaius ua y the un. iss of th a in ths law, and only there, that an appeal to ¢ the pon sb naes might th peo- ple & ) stion of read justing ur legislation l tisan ght sponse, Many tim say that laws and ele n methods designe te give unfair advantages to the part k ing them would me 1 me be wed pas petunts in power a fact the will of a majority Of ¢ 8 We soem t to per the recent WAS no o State elect liean tf white Democrats. The way they were refused the renre- guarantsed by law upon the elec wet Kolb part sentation tion boards, and mandamus atten appeal that could election made the wr 4 tw te 140 P : t presented in the resoiuth Upon all that hav beforas publicly ex ‘A change in ti administration meus, If are able, W pL be found the chang in sdministrative moment. When p given a direction and itself to those line volves a stoppage a ments, If the « foal as to bri into use the 1 not read just “I've Demo gramme of demolition The policy to whic the importer, is now ad ity policy, the new merchant marine, are all to be demolished, not gradually, not taken down, but blown up. To this programme of destruction it has added one constructive feature, the re-sstablishment of State banks of issue, “Toe policy of the Republican Party § on the other hand, distinctively a policy o safes progression and development—of pew factories, new markets and new ships will subject business to no perilous changes, but offers attractive opportunities for expan sion upon familiar lines, Vary respectully yours, xiamin Harrison” m tions others may But protective ess, oven that of ited «the recipr ———— FAST NANCY HANKS, She Trots a Mile on the Regulation Track in 2:b%, Nancy Hanks broke the world's trotting record for the regulation track by going a mile in 2:07 at the State Fair grounds, St. Paul, Minn Budd Doble drove the mare and when she passed under the wire the judges waved | their hats, and proclaimed that the Jretty i covered the mile in 2:07 flat, he sone that foliowed in describable Turfmen who recog. nized the fall significance of the perform- anos simply went daft for the time being, forgot their dignity, threw hats and canes in the air and otherwise gave expressions to their joy, It wasn wonderful and a very unexpected performance. Previous to the trot bets were freely made that Nancy could pot do better than 2110, It was a regulation track like that on which she trotied at Chi ago, mare bad Was TE ——— CRESPO TRIUMPHS, in Venezaola fs Finally Overthrown, Unofficial advices recived at the Depart. mont of State, Washington, from Venszuela were to the effect that General Crespo has finally triumphed and the dictatorship has been overthrown, General Crespo has, it fs said, been ealled ant Mts aoe RP Rpt m a oro wa t or {hd sxumaraion of peace fn the distracted sountry. . { intion It | vurg-Amerioan Packet Company, | deaths on both shins to | of the disease, THE CHOLERA News From the Plague Ships in New York Harbor. ————— Ravages of the Pestilence in Europe and Agia, According to the daily bulletins of the Board of Health, New York City remained free from the cholera soourge that found such a comfortable lo Iging plecs in the three pestships lying in the Lower Bay. The last bulleting issued by the Board of Health told of a condition of the city that far different affairs in in from that on | the Normannia and Rugia, and on thos two | desolate { Islands spots, Bwinburne and Hoffman but conso- confident pestilenes Fhe plague is spraading thers, can be derived from the prediction of Dr, Jenkins that th will not roach the city, He firmly that he ean keep it in the infected territory. where it is now running ric and wher terror-stricke pn 1 belle Delieves ein w ' ormmannia v On the day Just men NAW CARS, a0 us nAnnIa, war bay Swinburne ware among gated members hres others i r £1 gers of t f the new A Wn od and fun nia's crew we + i n H ora dev its first APPOATal riy-two ani the grand total of deaths they sailed being forty-six It was with a feeling York City learned that t of the Normannia would x their poison ad prisor t This release, u nscionably long delayed wae wi the munificence of J Pierpont Morgan, who at bis own expense chartered the spa steamer Sion ington, of the N i flotilla, and tendered ber 10 the Hamburg Company for the use of the eabin passengers It is noad- loss to add that the offer was accepted, Sen ator MoPherson also procured a barge for the sane purpose I'he old frigate New Hampshire was taken for cocupancy by the Rugia's cabin passe. ore. Dr. Jenkins made a tour of inspection of Bandy Hook, NX. J., with a view of establish. ing'a quarantine oamp there. Secretary Fos. tor thought the Secretary of War could not object to the appropriation of the peninsula. Austin Corbin offered to build barracks, More Plague Shipe, ben { relief that New abin passengers released from nfe fue Miy to Following fast in the wake of the plague thip Moravia, two more vessels reached New York Harbor with cholera on hoard. They were the Normannia and Raga, from Hamburg, and both belong to the Ham. Health the number of be nine four on the Rugia and five on the Normannia, On moh vessel there ware four persons still il) The bodies of the dead were buried at sea The piague-infeotad ships anchored in the lower bay to the east and wouth of Hoffman Island, No one was allowed near them On the two shins there are 581 eabin pase O01 JOR WTO MIUYT STAY O0ODea up on poara of the vessel until the Health Officer be lieves all danger is passed, Among them are wme prominent persons, including Senator Mo herson, of New Jersey, and a number of theatrioal people, The Normannia bas 453 cabin passengers and 453 steerage. The Rugin bas ninety. tight eabin passengers and 420 stesrage, he jour who died on the Rugia were all steorage vassengers, Of the five who diet on the Normannia one was a first-class passenger, one wes a second-class and three Wore sLosrage PRLsen ers, Un the day after the infected vouals ware sent to quarantine cholera cinlmed new vie. timeon every one of the three Hamburg steamships, and four more nama must bs added to the death roll, There were two deaths on the Normannia, Hmma Horn, eight years old, a steerage passen. ger. snocumbed to tae disease after an ness of five days, and Heinrich Lammers, forty. seven years old, one of the steerage stew. ands, died while being removed from the ship to be taken to Swinburne Island, He been ill one day, Both bo ties were cremated at Swinburne Officer Jenkins reported te i aie mar tren oe oe the oravia, | and { Island Hospitas, | late nt night, | | | 180 aena were cremated There was almost n panic among the Normannis's cabin passengers, It was reported by persons who approached within hailing distance of the ships in tugs that the gers were badly {rightened, When Dr. Jenkins was on board one of the passengers told him, it ie said, that be could raise $5000 on board in an lostant if permis. sion were glven tw charter a boat and re- move the cabin passengers Lo her, the vessel | to be anchored north of the pest grounds | until the passengers could be relsusyd On the second day after being placed in quarantine there were threes deaths and | tive new cases of cholera on the plagues fleet in the lower bay. Two tugs with policemen | went on picket duty, Dr. Jenkios, New York's Health Officer, decided to act in har. mony with the President Becretary of the Treasury Foster | Quarantine, He sald there would be no conflict between the Htate and Federal suthorities, and pronounced the station one of the best equipped in the country, if not in the world, | e has great faith ian Dr, Jenking's ability to fight the plague Two police boats have been added to the patrol fleet. Beven officers are ou each tug, They will endeavor to ks ry kind of craft away from the pest ships, At the Navy Yard there are a tug launches all ready with stores aovosrd t down to the lower bay and assist 1 in their patrol w , should su iz be necessary. It seemed Lo be defi tind that there should be n wore | i 3 the visited en evi and ) RO polio w v choern fleet to New ¥ at the ality ated at been people i wit} In all Persia there § ht | fenths {rom the Prestiyterian Mis Ppitals eigh recovered of the hospitals were PENNSYLVANIA § Volkman War Departmes Colonel enc . - ited States War of Pent not Homestea | ang » y and disciplis Wen shoes in sotive wid commends the activity ailing out the troops and say The system for notitying mw very interesting f Western “xX! metho not nine to uniform 1 1 entire Guard Milmtantaily by many officers The ivided into squads, each under sergeant, corporals and privat being grouped, as far as pra ing to residence or place of emg one regiment Lherew ¢ entirely of coca ri actunlly receive! his orning his men were wu among shafts and caller yet the orders were communicated men, who dropped their mining to cended to the surface and were so places in the ranks The colonel gives credit for the dis in the Guard to Governor Patterson onel Volkan bas this to say of the Cee Woen the Guard arrived at Homestead the lchabitants prepared an adroit plan, well oalou'ated to induce the troogs to affiliate with the populace With quiet, soldierly dignity the Commanding Uegeral rigidly decline! to entertain such over. tures, and he instantly becaine the target for A Matters reached a olimax one Cay when the hand of the assassin was raised; (or a moment no one could tell who would fall beneath the next shot and great excitement prevailed, In Howestead the provost gusrd speedily dispersed crowds clustering about od telegraph bulieting, while enl men disposed to gather in groups Were ordered at ones 10 their tents In deflance of this order, one man pro posad cheers for the assassin and was dealt with summary if not in exact sosordance with forms of law, Thers are times when immediate example is absolutely neo sary, and although the ome to which [ allude has regiment which, if is ony i Mine Co lams
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