North Carolina Newspapers

I1AIIT0N, ' N. ' 0., TITUrnpA'A OCTOBER- 10,;l805;c t V Tobacco Trust. v ! ' ' Ju.'e Carlo H. Clraon- f . ' ' .';'i'.cd Elates court, heard t i t a Tumeot iu tiie caso t ! ; I .inliipo Comj:ny and ' i jl'u' loPoCompapy sjnmst ' , &-.J r'W NorthCarolina i i. 'xufl suit was lor iu i t of 1". s Eonwk curette i ty I .e 1 1 ,i ma- r , lul", I 1J V. C. I JJS, Of . , n, 11. C. The j u a hsa reu 1 m C!,; ion, iu wiiiuii it is ad !. .1 1" t te l-iifrgs maiihine it not u i i ! "ment, and the bill wu dis r 1 v cov,U. 1 Lis il . jon is sgsinst the trust, so riwlod. Heretofore the Amerioan To I srco Company, which has the exclu sive rilit to the Bonsack machines, under contract with a' yearly royalty of a quarter of a million - dollar, has been, it it claimed, able to control the market prices for bright tobacco. If iJudga Simonton's decision stands, the jimtiket will be open to the anti-trust jinachine, $ and manufacturers outside (the trust will be able to compete from (the pnrohase of the tobacco to the tale M the cigarette. :' In course of ''his decision Judge jSimontori effid: "Cigarettes are not Ian article of prime necessity: Indeed Itheir use, if not always deleterious. can ammvmI 1.. i I...... -:l : IPV. public mind has been aroused to abmv es following their introduction in In tmcnse' quantities on the market and Itnnny of the state hare enacted laws Hooking to their suppression. There lean be no reason for the interference of the courts in securing their nnioter- ,rupteu mannnsture, notwithstanding ane existence oi patent rights." ! ' Trees Killed by Drought. P The drought has killed a rery greet (number of trees in the woods, Oaks Share suffered, psrtioularly the smaller ones on upland The aggregate loss Is large. In a trip from Baleigh to liincolnton this death of the trees can be seen. Strange' to sar in the sandy lands the oaks stood the drought better than they did on the clay lands, !. A Turpentine Distillery Boroed. 'j The turpentine distillery of Brissen 4 JohuBton SO mile from t ayettevule, was burned Thursday. - Nineteen hun dred barrel of rosin, spirits and crude, were consumed. -. Total .loss, two thousand dollars; no insurance;?, : A 10,000 Fire at Newborn. ' One of the mills and one dry house i the Clade Lumber Company, .New- toei a, wero burned Friday morning The loss is 110,000; no insurance. The fir was accidental., r- " Caldwell county has mighty hun Icr in Uis person of Mr. Ooo. W. Tay lor, now about 70 years old. This is a imt or ine thing ne- naa niuea in nil lititiine. as furnished by the Lenoir Tonic: 40 deer, 100 wild turkeys, 12 ground hops, -15,000 equirrcls, 1,000 rabliils, CuO 'possums, 60 coons, 600 crows, 400 hawks, 50 Owls, 6 minks, ' 100 tuuskrats and 40 pheasants.. ,:. -The Cjckson-Mason Lumber Com' isny hss bought 280 acres near Slack Uuuutolo and will begin at ouce put tin? up a loonst insulator- pin factory wiihacspaoity ot 18,000 to 15,000 irjs a day. - Kelt summer the comps nr will establish a big planing mil at 'the same pkoe, jthe ; total investnit b.'.iig 115,000 to 120,000. .The !oti pnny's nmin office is Asheville. ,v,- .. r. J. lm J. Dunlfip, of Faris, lost a i house containing 25 or 28 1 " c f cotton, some oats, com end X r ol'l ' ii' ht. The loss 1 1 1 1 ii'.CC0ana$2, o insuiiiuoe, v lb origin of t known. ws t' 'i VtVj 1 on 1 in i t" : "y a ss i 1 t . i or . 1 r preen -o of t , .i ; c t t v .e f'T f ! ttvTTTn TTTXTrrn .:..a t Lnn I -.r I c, t at Il.ite Which V 11 iir:i i vJi.mst t;o Great I i.i'ess. --'f The lumber t ;i la iu North Carolina is t orving ol c rfful coi deration. It bus been growing rapidly during the past two decades, and 'already serious inroncls have been made on our forests supplies. . Unr timber trade is : dereloiung along much the same line as that in other Southern States, except that we are making turgor uses of the loblolly and sap pine, which is indeed, new known on the market as, North Oro lina" pine. - . v Jfor manr rears rauoh of our timber has been shipped olit of the Stato in the log to bo manufactured elsewhere. In the northeastern counties -many thousands of logs are annually ship ped to Norfolk, aud to other points to be put throuch the saw mill and the planing mill, and iu the western coun ties of the State, many thousands .of bard wood logs are annnnlly floated down the streams .into Tennessee. His custom results in great loss to the fctate, and there appears to be no way to prevent it except by encouraging the location of saw mills aud pissing mills, and other manufacturing estab lishment within the boarders of tho Btate, and this should be done in every possible wCjr. ; ine vaiue oi tne cruao lumuer pro duced in the Btate during the past 'ear, was about as follows:, faliie of fuel,-dontestio and (or - -manufaeturlnir . . . . : 10.000.000 Value ot saw logs at mills. ..,. 3,000,000 Talus of round timber, eip't'd.. 1,000,000 Value of railroad ties and hewn , ' Umber of all kinds - 600.000 Value of all split fenorng. posts, , ete..i.,... 800,000 Total value ot all crude products, 115,000,000 HanufaotaredlumberofaU kinds $ 7,300,000 Special industrlee,' veneers aud i. - wood en ware. 300,003 Cooperage .' Ufi,000 Paper mill products (from pulp) estimated 100,000 Beslnous products (naval stores ta).. 1,780,000 Tan barks and extracts .,; 45.000 r Wagon, buggy and oar factories. ; 800,000 Furniture and repair shops '200,000 Oil ol wintergraen and blrob .... - - 80,009 Paoklng boxes, undertaking eas- aeia ana agricultural imple ment manufactories. 80,000 : Total 10,535,000 venainiy tne inanstnes in the state growing out of oar forest products are ol vast importance, and should be en couraged in every possibly way. ; now lova wm oua imnwitjtrt;")! During the nast few decades the crest wnue pme loresta oi me norm nave oeen est as an enormously rapid rate, and wits, a reoklessnessoharaoteristle of the American lumberman,. 'During the past low years the lumbermen in different portions of the coun try have been turning their attention to Bouthorn supplies ot pine and hard woods. ana tneee are now oeinif nougnt up sua out at a rapid ratei and before our people come so realise our situation, our supposed Inex haustihie forests will be largely removed. ; In tWaastera counties, at the present rsia ct eutting, fat kes than' two decades our sup- pueeoipinewiu nave oeen-exnaustea, ana the great hard wood forests of the Piedmont and mountain counties will In the same Urns have been out, or purchased by the mill men and held by them as reserve supplies. The sooner, - then, that our people eau do oroagnt to aoanuon im long prevailing belief that they have mora timber than they know what to do with, and consequently are willing to almost give it away; and the sooner they can be brought to realize the fact that the valuable supplies of timber whioh they are now selling to th mill men at the low priees, cannot be replaced in their day and generation; the sooner they come to understand that under our nresent svatem of eutting timber, they not only use up the suppiy Belonging to- tne present generation, but lu destroying the- vountt growth of the frosts they are destroying the birth-right at the next generation, without any additional return to themselves, the sooner will it be possible to have adopted a wise and con servative policy which, while It permits the use of the mature timber of today, it also reserves the young forest growth, which Is be the timber supply of to-morrow. ' Let us understand, then, that our present timber supply Is not Inexhaustiblei that In many places it hss already been nearly or quite removed; that in eutting the mature trees with characteristic reckluxsness, we are also destroying In a lar(e measure the young fort growth; that at tne present rate ot emuiiif, our forest sonpiies oiin ltwt but fw dmisues lon"iri tut in tne Oae of our fon s weshoutil do rervHn pn J'sto e . u K vmonnitiit mi 1. e . . ot i I'll .n,-.iig eHutuuahstHo-it, in oru i . .i our i" 'i r u,,v be nni nd ath)iii; iri I t iu on ; ; O' f i evit.ye rtsi.oiilb mae id ; t yoni Tt-ee growth. , J. A. Lii-xi, t . Go. .4. : . Kew Orleans Cotton Exchange State .1 vC ir i r i -i a e state n , Z it , i i to t . 2 ..a luolu- y arb. fore Inst I 1 ! ' f. r 4 1 n Inl .r .1 over- t 89,. r f ' ia s 'A, c.: 0 JiA 1 i..wii.l.J .iiuw.,ii The Inpc.dcr.ce of the Island From r sain C,.l omnly Dcclaredi A NEW PRESIDENT ELECTED. Salvador dsaaros, of Tmnia Prisetpe, , Kmd a the Head of the rennanoal GOTuamanU Membon of th Cabinet v-KaJor-Gaeials ChoeoB aadAtslssed r to Dutr In the Twrieos THitrista, la a meeting ot the Cuban ProrlnsUl Del sgatee at Anton de Puerto Pruvdpe, the headquarters general ot the rebel army, the report of the Special Committee appointed to draft a constitution was adopted without debate, the fundamental laws ol the Cuban Bepnbllc ware formally proolauned, and the independenoe of the Island from , Spain solemnly deetared. ' ' The Provincial "Ooveminent of General If also gives way to this permanent organlsa- tlon. - i , omaiALSorTHaorsssmirr. President Salvador Clsneroe, ot Puerto - vioe-mesiaeui nanoiome auuno, oi man- sanillo. , , Seeretary ot war Carlos Boioff, ol Banta Clara. - i- Assistant Secretary ot War Mario Meno- enl.of Uatsnstts-i , gecratarv ot Foreign Affatis Baraei for tuonrio, of Santiago de Cube, " ir Assistant Secretary ot Foreign Affairs Frmln V, Domlngues, of Havana. BBcretaryor the Treasury aevera rina, oi BaneH Splrltu. - - ; Ais'stanl secretary oi tne xressury oa qulrt Castillo, of Snatlago de Cab.-' : ; Sncnstary ot the Interlor-rSsntlagO J. Sanlnares, of Bemadtos. Assistant eeoretaryoi toe ineeriorr-uarum Dubol ofBaracoa, v General tu Chief Uaxim Gomes. , 'jtentenant-Genernl Antonio Haceo, ; ; rThii provinces of Banta Clara, Bantlago, ilavnna. Puerto Principe and Mataflsai r all reoreseated tn the aei Govornmentsi the organisation seeies to give general sstls- factton to insurgents sua to insurgent sym palhisers throughout the island, . : Joselfaeeo, llaso Capote, Berapln Ban ehea and Tuerto Bodrigueshave been desig nated as Ua)or-Gnerals. Uaoeo will direct operations in Santiago, Ouantanamo. Bara eoa and Mayort; Maso in Manranlllo, Bayamo and Holguin; Capote in Las Tunas and Guaytnara: Sanchez in Lu Villas, sod Bod rliraez in Camognev. " It 11 reported that Gomes and Antonio Maeeo are planning to Invade Hstanxss. PerlquUo Peres and Henry. Brook will prob ably uceompany them. Heverai OI ins omoiais oi ins now uvnra ment are American citizens snd have rela lives in Mew York and Brooklyn. Salvador Cisueros, the newlyeleoted Presi dent, is better known as the Marquis of Banta Lucia, He hss oeen prominent in the Held during the present revolution. He is over seventy years old, but Is, dtftplte bis years, an active revolutionist. He is a native of Santa Clara and reputed to be wealthy. He was , Vice-President of the Provisional Republic during the last revolution, snd barely iwiapcu capture wnen me Dpanisu troops Invaded the Insurgent camp tn Cams quey aud, took President Estrada Palms prisoner. . , - . - - , REPORT ON UTAH. " ' A boot te Kntn the Union as a (treat and -. - Prosperous Btate. . Governor Cable W. West,' of-Utah Terri tory, submitted his annual report Jo the 8o rotaryot the Interior.: The population has increased to 811824. The assessed valua tion of mid and oersonal Dronsrtv is 37.' OiJ.lBl. The banks In th territory have a e ill ml of 5,0l0.8lo. and deposits of 19, (iii),au7 . Governor west says thai abundant crops, increased aotlvity iu prospeoting snd mlulug. aud a deeidnd lmriniveii'nt in all Industrial and ei""'r.--.il s s 'l ave pre "y u'tru' 1 f ' in lttti.OI"tfl I. i l to iso, I t- - if y 1 be of is 8Ui. i-iLHMi to i v. " sl tool movmiveiit biwuii in li ii to i divi torn, r' "i.e ti.e 1 ''wi' die ,.u the . s tl bwil thesinie '. In bum, V h 1 ivo so lonjf previ t about to b Of litah into the l. ous bitltO. , in n a 1 "te, is lint e e .uuee of tn a i -.t aud prospor- TKZ C'LVCI C" :.ace, of s ? in t at Vew of the i I . 1' ot t i i t . I I' ' V' ' ' ' j " , " .', - . MAP OP CUBA, ', i - - f.:,v yc-ics r ' DevUw to Be Vtti hj 1 Leadlnx Part- lactloa. .'. " a the citizens ol a first tlmo will . les at the Con At the Kovember elws the State of New York for vote a blanket ballot t t is, i single ballot with some device at tUt , 1 elesoh ticket te distinguish the different parties. The em blems chosen by the iv publican andthi asrusuoAii rsan maun. Democratic parties were seleoted ai their re cent Btate . Conventions. The ; Bepubli cans chose a sun for the " background of their device, with an eagle poised above a ballot box, holding in Its beak a ' quill pen, presumably " made out of one of the feathers of the bird of freedom. - The Democrats' selected a Hve-pointed tar. . When the star was decided uoou at the preferred device it was I not settled whether It would be the Ave or six-pointed star, whether it would be an outline star, a shaded stsr, like that used on the Texas coat-of-arms. or a solid star,: The five-point ed solid star has been finally chosen as being nmoosAiic riBrr xmslsm. more conspicuous than designs in outline or shaded, and ns being lees subject to injury or obscuration by defects in printing. - , LIBERTY- BELL EN ROUTE, - w The Tatrlotie EmV.em Jajrlally Grseled i stS Its Way ftontll-. . a ' The ape ilal train over , the Pennsyl vania Railroad bearing the Liberty , Bell and the OfUi'iai escort, startud from rPhllndslphin," Pens., for the Atlanta "(Qa.) Exposition, Ea route the train stopped at various cities anl towns tu the South, tu order that citizens might see the bell. - ' AtElztn,Md..theLiosrcyBsl was greeted by prooessioa of 1000 children Icon the Subllc schools with flairs su 1 banners and a. etail of Infantry from the Second Raiment, N. G. Mayo; Warwiok, of Phihdelphla. spoke briefly.'' -' .-- " ' -': - x' At Washington, amid the cheer of thou sands, the muslo ot ths Marine Band, and ine waving "jr tne mars ana (smpes, xm Liberty Btl train arrived. Some of. Wash ington S most distinguished citusens were E resent, including the Commlsslonrs of the 'Istrict, a committee from the Bsard &. Trade, repreeentativw of the Sons of ths American Bevolutton, ths Sons of the Bevo lutlon, the DauKliters ot the revolution, ami the District militia. -The WaslUuirton Light Infantry and Hi(?b School Cadets presented amis as (he train came to a Stop, v ' At Klohinond.Va., a salute of twenty-oni iw e-p i the liberty Ball on Its arrival;' i wort was met by a oommittes of city oiiimiiis. innludins Jlnvor Tavlor. At the Execuiive Mansion- Governor p'Ferrall re eeivad the 1 Uiladelphlans. A guard , of honor, constHtln? of Company A. K:chmond inrnntry nines, wasmountea wnn ine train arrwwd, and rwnxiiiedon duty uniil the ball onii'iim. i im Join imy southward. At every piiiut Iu i t in n tue pstrlorlo erauiem waa g v;li , a o j.Iousjoy. . - 13 THE JUST.CE. Hi. 'jr In a roajrrval I I ram rtiavge of t i f I i T oe Eomry " n,ra-,; , ty J 1 ntot B- 7? W i ' ' s ' 1 1 V . 111 DM. GLEArTTJfGS FEOM HAMY POWT8. Issporfant Happenings Both Home Y nnd Foreign, Briefly Tola. , KewST Southern Notes. -. A heavy frost in the Owensboro. Ky.. dis trict has practically ruined tobaceo. In the HavsviUe. Kv.. eountrv. owlmrto damage by frost, the tobaceo crop will suffer loss of fully one-third. . Th Court House st Andalusia. .Covtocton eounty, Ala., was burned Tuesday night, to- imnr witn ooun papers ana oouncy records. - Hsrsbst J. P. Lamb, ot Welaka.. PI., was assassinated by unknown parties on xf oudsy afternoon. He had been energetic In enforc ing the, law against gamblers. At Montgomery. Ala., William Lide shot and perhaps fatally wounded Orange Xar kin, a negro who owed him for some goods. The merchant demanded payment and a dis pute ensued. At Mount Tornon, Ky., the jury, after tour hours deliberation, gave Bev. W. G. Capps two years in the penitentiary for shooting his wife five times some three months ago. She had applied for divorce on account of cruel treatment At Union Borings. Ala.. Friday, fire de stroyed the ginnery, etc with several thous and dollars worth ot machinery ot the Bul lock County Manufacturing Company. : Ten thousand dollars worth of hulls and 1,000 tons of cotton seed were lost. On Friday at Baleigh cotton went to cents for middling, fair and other grades ranged in price .from 8 to 8W. Borne cot ton men have predicted that the price will reach 12 1-2 cents. ' Anyhow, there is even now a profit in it for the farmers, for K was made at a 8-oent cost. . ;,.? w'- The official returns in the Black-Watson congressional election in the Tenth Georgia district, show a majority for J. C. C Black ot 1,60 i votes,' Black, Democrat, received 10,812 votes and Watson, Populist, 8,710; making the total vote polled 19,023 in the en tire district The total rote polled in IBM was 80,101 , ;-.- Political Doings. ' - The Nebraska Bepublican Convention st Lincoln declared in favor of sound money and Cuban Independenoe. - At BhelbyvUle, lite., the eighteenth district Democratic Congressional Conventional nominated ex-Ckmgressman Edward Lane, of Montgomery, to fill the vacancy eaused by the death of Gregory Mann last fall. Mr. Lane takes his position on a free silver plat form. ' Fire. . There wss a 120,000 fire at Cambridge, O., on Wednesday. Frank Law, 35 years old, was roasted alive In a livery stable. : : . ; The Bamtder Bicycle Academy, Brooklyn,' N. T. was burned. Aboat 500 bicycles, val ued at 960,000 were destroyed. Total loss about 70,000. Gen. Mahone, of Virginia, Is lying danger- ousit ui at ms residence in nasmnKion. i with little hopes for his reoorery. . - 1 The order of the Seeretary ot War. detail ing General Miles to eommand the army was Issued at Washington.. Major General Fran- : els H. Bugerls assigned to the eommand of th jMpsrtment oi tne jtast. i United fltstes Consul Horse Leo Washing. ' ton, stationed at Cairo, reports to the De ' partment of Statelhat during the past two - months the nrosnects havs improved, and that Egypt expects a good average cotton orop. i - Crime. John flMnh. alias "Pish John." was hacged In the Hudson eounty Jail, Jersey uty, ror tnemuruer oi ms wue siary. At Mount Tamon, lad., Albert Wade, as sistant cashier ot the First National bank, who dlsanneared Monday, took with him 7,000 in gold and 6,000 In silver endpaper belonging to the bank's depositors. . Wade's bondsmen will make his shortage good, . MlsceUsvneous. . Marry Wright, the veteran baseball mana ger, died at Atlantic City on Friday. The use of sntltoxlne In the treatment of diphtheria in the BostonClty hospital has re duced th mortality there about SO per cent. The President snd Private Secretary Thur ber, who left Barnard's Bay, Mass., Mon day, for a two days' fishing trip, have re turned. Mr. Cleveland m in spieaoiu aeaiin, nda reports a delightful outing. - - Large bills to ths smount of 1165,000 were, n Frid. denoslted In the sub-treasury at Kew York for s transfer of a like amount ot small bills to New Orleans to move the cot ton. Exchangee of large bills for small one came over the treasury. TELEURAPHIO TICKS. Sen. Miles on Saturday formally assumed eommand oi ths united etate army, Andrew J. Scott, colored, was hanged In the Jail yard at Charlestown, W. Vs., tor th muraer oi ms wue ny poison. Miss Loot Bin. of Beaverdale. Ga. thrown from bur bnrm While out riding and urapj-na to a nomuie ueaui. - Wm. Greenwald, who had been bKtea by a mad eat, died ot hydrophobia at Gouvenor uospiuu, new tors, on boturoay. . During the recent cyolons, tn th Provinoe or rmar am uto, Havana, alone, nine per sons were arownea ana en are miBsmg. The trnr 0ld reserve on Sa urday ws t ,i h.8, gain over yeetrfsy of ".'8,0a7. Ike gain was made entirely at western sma souuicrn pomm. At Huntington. W, Ta.( on Monday, John Burrow, a wwi-inown smio eiwtramor, was killed by 0i "r Ai --a, of tne pouee mree, wnue rei undur arreut r'uee fcsse'w I i - g arm. Anuon,a Is '.-u snd siit"W to 1! s .i. r c! ! 1 V ... -.- .1 r:rcn j FINAL WEATHE3 CUCP T. Issued by the North Carolina SUM '.. '. Weather Service. The report of correspondents of the Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin, for the past week, indicate a very unfavor able week. The temperature was con siderably below the normal, with frost on three morninra. damairiner tnhsVww Mdcthercrop. considerably Drought nnntiTillAltnnfAvul muAnmnviiiivuii having fallen anywhere. Cotton i rery poor crop, is nearly nil open, and will be all gathered much earlier than ; usual All late crops hare been Injur ed by the drought, and turnips art nearly ruined. Gathering corn ii un derway, but fall plowing continue at a standstill Eastxbs Distbiot. Ths past week -has been rery cool aud dry, with more than usual amount of sunshine. Frost occurred on the morning of the lit . and 2nd. - The drought continue un abated, injuring "peas, potatoes and turnips, and killing1 young berry plants. Wells and streams are low, and some milts hare stopped running. Cotton, whieU has opened rery rapid ly and is a poor crop, will probably be all out by the end of October. Corn was bey ond possibility of Injury and is being housed. Peanut being stacked.- Bice crop is fair. Second crop of Irish potstoes poor. . Very little planting and no fall plowing has been done. v . CumAb District. A dry and rery cool week, with frost on several day, which damaged immature pea-vine and killed considerable tobacco which was uncut and some late oorn. High north to north-east winds prevailed; weather clear and dusty. Cotton will be picked out rery rapidly.; The yield of sweet potatoes is not good. Gath ering corn and making molasses are the chief -jork of the fanners at pres ent, as long as fall plowing is impossi ble. No raih fell anywhere during the week: mills on small stream hare stopped and some wells are going dry.' Wsstsbn Uistbict. irost occurred on three mornings, which damaged to bacco considerably, as there wa more uncut in this district than in other. Pea-r ine were also injured and tome late corn. Drought:, continues un abated, and turnips are , practically ruined. Gathering corn and digging potatoes are progressing. The cotton orop appears to be nearly all open. More than the usual amount of feed for stock has been put tip. Borne fann ers are trying to sow wheat --s..:: & Note to Uobkksposdkhw. This is the last bulletin for the season ot 1895, The director desires to express hi obligations and thanks to all orop cor respondents, without whose assistance the issue of the bulletin would be im possible. The bulletin will be resumed in Apnl, 1898, when it i hoped the hearty co-operstion of crop corres pondents who are now experienced in the work may again be seorjred, H. : preparod for them by Teunesseeans in At R Hnttlp Ph D Director Ianta. The exercises : lasted for svril u. uatue, rn. v., mnowt. houra to u,e Auditorium, beginnh-g t u coirpmbw OF BUSINESS. Du Co.' Weekly Review. A Hopo , ful Spirit Reflected. B. O. Dun A Co., tn their weekly review ot trade for th past week sayt Commercial failure In the third quarter of 1895 were J. 79awlthllabUltleof S33,167,179, averaging 11,521 per Orm against 910,028 last year, about 15 per cent; more. : The rate of com mercial mortality, S84 failures in a quarter for every 1,000 firms in business, is lower than last year and the proportion of default- ed liabilities to th solvent, represented by payments through clearing houses, is but 149 per $1,000 against S.77 last year. ; - Highly Important comparisons of prices this week show, about September 8dY the lowest range ever in own ror wnoiesaie prices ot all commodities, notwithstanding advances since Maroh of 30 per cent In cot ton goods, 10 percent, in boots and shoes, aud 68 percent, in Iron and steel products, wnue in wooisn gooas mere nas oeen soaree ly any advanoe, and in all food products, taken together, a'full of 17 peroent : - Beports from other eltlos at ths end ot the Quarter are hlirhly cheering In facts recorded. and reflect a hopeful spirit, .Beyond ques tion, tne quarter nas anown astonisnmg im provement to some branches, and retail dis- Ltributioh has generally been good, though not commensurate with speeuisuve whole sale purchases as prioes were rising. Hence there is a marked decrease In buying, which some branches of Industry begin to feel. The money market Is stronger with heavy demands from the Interior. All fears ot sold exports have ceased. Failures in three days have been J07 in the United Bute against 119 last year and 41 in Canada against 10 last year. . , CLOWN ISTO ETEKNITYy - Four Men Killed by an Explosion of Sawmill Boiler. A special from Wayeross, Ga., says: Hen ry Carpenter, a Plant system engineer, and three negroes were killed by a boiler explo sion early TuesSay morning at a tawuiiU ear Alexandervill on th West Coast Line ot the Plant system. ' Carpenter was loep near his engine, while th train was wailing for orders to leave the s nlll. The ln"-s sawmill bfillnr e- ' " ? and Cariw -' head was biown o lwv-y wtt ni"' ''f-d, . as ti..-t of a ws B r fniio.L y - tuitSnsyi. I. 1 V t e -'. . t r at t The Fore! - I 1 OI'II" t The foreign sec.:, a of i j . . tion was formally opisiied oa . j . Manufactures and Liberal Arts I " Mr. A. Maochi, commissioner fur 1 The Invitations bad been Issued to '.' ? ' ors and officers of the Exposition end . r I to Svalt"' lu. . -.1 1 hill, chairman ot the enm monies, opened the ex"-. - - i y 5 Commissioner Genaral I e ' -i -i 1 i a speech of great intsrwl. i e s a t mt e .v seven months aa;o he bean tne w u l , i-. don. At once he sent special co r . to each of the important . j i i a rope. At the same time a r i -"nn n representing the Exposi. u in - i, another commission rprwrtnUng tee, t at Bordeaux and another iwre - t- Amsterdam Exposition, ad wen " - i funds, were canvassing fcurope !-. - ' He began work for the Cotton bi.. snd in- ternatlonal Exposition and swouf 1 nnarly . ten times as many exhibits ss the o ner tnree put together. The display ittmlf show the -exhibits to be ot the highest eimrsoter. "To day," said he. "everybody on ti'e face of the 5 lobe knows where Atlanta is. The name of , .Uanta has been printed In large letters in every newspaper In the world and in every language known. All the world has turned ; Its eyes on Atlanta, and your growing city .? and State have been the subject of discussion at millions ot firesides. ; You have done in a few months what it has taken other cities years to achieve. - This Exposition will mark -the mile stone ot progress in this State. We : ' have here people fmmi all parts of ths world, living on the beet terms, and this Exposition . will be the means ot tightening the bonds of friendship among the people of both hemls- : pheres. This Is the most gratifying result : ' which could be desired." ' Mr. Macohl then formally presented the foreign exhibits to the director general. Mr. Collier, the president and director general, responded in a brief but happy speech. Among other thlnss he said. After oalliuK at tention to the International character of th display: "There is no lust Idea of the pro- ' grass of the world which does not in grati- tude snd honor recognise the fact that the . elvillzatioa which has glorified this hempts- : phere was brought from-the other, and,. while we believe that a larger snd better destinty of man has been revealed here we still turn to the antique homes ot ouf; ances- tors ana nna a ngnt ana elevation u tne work of our distant kindred. They hate brought to us beauteous specimens of their i Craft and have tempered in some degree the . insular opinion that the mind and hand of a parable to those Which they reveal to us tut-1 der our own ellme. They have done more. They have brought a closer .friendship and kindled a kindier feeling between nations, whioh, though far apart, are working to gether for a common aim.'' ' f ; ' Mr, Collier then formally soc?tel the European exhibits. t : Commissioner General MaecU coad acted the party through the French section, where a Speech wss delivered by Mr. BaulRV, the French special agent, designated by hi . Government to represent the exhibits of that country. Mr. Baulay said that the Preach Government had given its moral support to , the Exposition and had officially recognlmd the Exoosltlon bv seadiae a consul B mural to attend the opening exerotses ana to re port on the Exposition. A oollsUou tollow- ea tne .exercises.-;.,.: :,v,.;, .,. '-":"':-',C. ''i'.v i JsTSUrSKSSM The exercises of Tennessee day brought the largest crowds whioh the Exposition has Sst seen, A targe party came down from ashville, headed by the directors ot tne Tennessee Centennial, Large parties auo - came from Knoxville, Memphis and Chat. tanooga, and an enthuslasUo reception w o'clock, after which the visitors " t t. day in sight-seeing. The people of At -'ii, came out very liberally in honor of i n nessee, snd the turnstiles at J o'cio!k slio--- i more admissions than on any other day. 'iue city to fuller of strangers than It ha boa heretofore. . ' - , , . W1U Cotton Go to 10 1-a C" "T Mr. Hector D. Lane, who urged the t.rm ers twenty day ago not to make a has' 7 C si position ot their crops, ha written auo.' t lottArtntha aotton erowerS ot f e f '-""1. - advising them that they are mas -s i ' attuatlon and begging them to b A t i eonoa untu tney get ten ana one-i.u a pound.: -:'. v- -:- - - . . . , ITie New Orleans Picayune gives Ustul lowing advlcet "It Is to be hoped that the cotttu p ners. while determined to sU t t c l at the best possible price, wiu not t tatuatedwith the notion that tu no limit to the Improvemoit, a I quently, stubbornly hold tiwt c market. Buoh a polioy would be e foolish. As long as ft good p It would be wiser to ship r feed the demand without i et. The accumulation of a v held eoiten on planlittiiv disastrous effect h -r oa. '.. wliieh hastnken pl'we Is a v thing, andtlie prouuec r I speculative exciimwnt v . 1 i Improvement; but t -v . ' themselves to be cia i in leot a favorable or ,"i"'. y u erons to flood au.c. . . - "Opinion as to t.n ( ' ' crop, of oouree, iij. there has ben a ru eatimatcs. Coir- ' to pinfui h to a i wliueoiit a ft f bnif". B'id o- a t i d u i- i. . i would nt drop beiow 6. . -, j. . variety ol vlnws to c; crops gonow-' i It v the largest ol short crop. a l . err 1 The: