North Carolina Newspapers

t It 1 W t O VOL, V. SALISBURY. N. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 18, 1892. NO. :. ... " ... - vrrTT7r TV iT7VTT?r A T I Jbrf IT ij 11 UrUiil lLlVii.lv Happwings of the Daj Culled from Ou Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches. ' : is' WHAT IS TRAHSPIRRSTO THROUGHOUT OUB OWX COUNTRY, AND K0TE8 OF IKTXa IST FROM FOUEIGH LAUDS. New York Typographical Union No. tj, has raised the boycott off of The Tribune atd declared it a fair office. George A Leach, for many years con nected with the New York Associated Press, died in New York Wednesday. -- Offers of silver to the treasury depart ment Friday aggregated 525,000 ounces. The amcmrttSrtirchased was 350,000 ounces at .8203 and .8293. ' Advices of Wednesday state that Henry .Rider, United Statet consul at Copenhagen, charged with misapprc priating 200,000 kroners, confessed guil- tylof embezzlement and forgery It has been discovered that Rev. J. O. Tate, republican nominee for lieutenant governor iu Nebruska, is ineligible. Tate is an Englishman and failed t take out naturalization papers until a year ago. A Dews special of Thursday from Cheyenne, Wyo., states that the stock men have been released on $20,000 bail each, practically on their own recogniz ance. The nheiiff had refused to pay the expense of keeping them longer. A Chicago dispatch or lhursday stys: It is annurc d that the in 1 nacre me nt of the Northern Paci9c and the Wiconsin Central railways will shortly be conso i dated, the I titer road becoming a part of tho Northern Pacific. The consohda tiou will take place ut New York within the r:ext iwo wo ks. ' A New York dispatch of Sunday says: The w stern democratic campaign fund. ..inaugurated by the New York World, starts t B. w th the following subscription : Joseph Putitzef.of The New York World, $10,000; C. M. Taylor, of the Boston (J lobe. 1 1.000. and W. M. Sinsreriy. of tho Philadelphia Record, $1,000. A Chicago dHpntch of Sunday says: Lcroy Bell, six years of age, died of hy- dropunbia alter eleven hours of agony, The Pasteur institute had declined to treat the boy unless it was proven the log was mad, but, as the dog could not be found, nothinz beyond caterization was resorted to to prevent hydrophobia, A Kansas City, Mo., dispatch says: The Southern Manufacturers' Lumber As sociation in session Thursday, adopted a price list on yellow pine slightly in ad vance of the schedule established, in Memphis last May, selected Mobile, Ala., as the next meeting place and transacted considerable routinepusinoss 01 import ance. ' A large wooden factory building in process of construction, at Ogden, N. J., callapst d Friday, burying twenty work men. Tw men were taken out dead and seven seriously injured, four fatally. A number are still buried in the ruins. All the men who can got near enough to be of service are encaged in tearing away the wreck. A cablegram of Sunday from Brussels reports that while the government doubts the truth fu ness of the reDor;s from the Congo, free state that the Arabs are sweeping the country along tho upper Cougo snd destroying stations, it is tak intr measures to concentrate its forces at Bazoko camp and to establish a post at the con flu nee of the Lomami and Congo rivers to watch the Arabs. A L W ashington dispath of Thursday .. v;n;c -p,,rn h Hfinitiv says: Minister Eagan has definitely agreed with the Chilian government upon a conven 1 n for the settlement of all un adiusted claims of citizens of the United States against Chili by means of a claims commission to meet in Washington. This action of the minister chronicles a satis factory termination of the negotiation, which has been pending for a time. , A London cablegr""! is to the effect that the financial art ice in the Pall Mall Gazette Friday afternoon ays thit there is an acute feeling of uneasiness at the utlook for silver. The weakness, it says, is due to the expectation that cer tainly next year, if not before, the United States will repeal or modify the silver act of 1890. The depression may have a similar influence on stock?. The British steamship Winnhoa.of the Murrell's line of direct trade steamers be tween Bruuwick, Ga., and Liverpool and Bremen, arrived at Brunswick Saturday Digbt. She I the fir-t of the direct. trade fleet to arrive and brings a large carg of Eyritei, which wiU be shipped to AU am to be used in steel making. Everything looks most favorable for the irst direct trade line established from the south, A Washington dipatch of Thursday ssys: Senator Allison and Senator Jones, of Nevada, have formally notified the secretary of state of their acceptance of the appointment as delegates on the part of the United States to the interna tional monttiry conference. Similar ac tion is expected on the part of the other three debgntes. , No decision has yet been reached as to the time and place of hold lag the conference. A cablegram of Friday states that near- ly all the business establishments in 11a- vana have closed their doors in coe- quence of the nfusal of the minister of the colonies to suspend the new tariff. It was thought probable that the merchants would make a demonstration to show their disapproval of the action of the minister of colonies, but the government issued an order prohibiting anything of the kind being done. A dispatch from Boise City, Idaho, states that on Saturday Judge Beatty Eassed sentence upon five more Couer I'Alane rioters held for contempt. Thomis Easy, president of-the Miners' unionwas sentenced to six- months in the count? jajl under his first conviction. The sentence for his offense in the Bunker Hill and Su'livan case was sus pended. Thomas BoyleThomas Henry, F. T. Deane and E. M. Bojce were each sentenced to six months. Returns from mills at Fall River, Mass., for the past quarter show that they are now enjoying the most prosper ous season ever known in cotton manu facturing in Fall River. Thirty-one cor porations, representing forty-4ix mills, have paid a dividend of $533,830 on a Total dividends pid for the corresponding quarter last year amounted to $233,290. The Avenll mill, which was paying 2 per cent quar terly, is now yielding 7 per cent upon the selling price of its shares. At the Iowa People's party state con vention in session at Des Moines, Thurs day, resolutions were adopted endorsing the platform of the Omaha convention. t 1 . . 4 .... s. ueijiuuu.u the, iepciii 01 an .aw wuivu sbal: maintain the character of private corporations for pecuniary profit; de manding free silver and denouncing the I Pinkertons. The following nominations f for state rffirers were made; Secretary 1 of state, E. H, Gillett: attorney general. ' - , . .- . Dital Of Xi 8. 123,000. C arles L,. ilcKerzie; treasurer, jusncqs j ueen temporarily u riven irom meir com Wells: railroad commissioner, J, II. Bar- petition with free labor. Tracy City is fattt; auditf,' J. It-Blaksttyr; r j A Denver dispatch says: Hos HuprH McCur ly, of Corunna, Mich., was. Thursday mojning, elected grand master of the Knights Templar of the Unit i States. Mr. McCurdy acknowledged th 3 comoliment in an address in which ha modestly denied his own merit and culo- ; gized the men who had preceeded hira in that exalted position. The new graud master has an illustrious Masonic history. He is a great worker and outs de the press of a large legal practice finds time to visit crand bodies, to keep making important additions to Masonic literature and the preparation and deliverance of of eloquent Masonic lectures. TRADE REVIEW For the Past Week as Reported by K. G. Dun & Co ll. G. Dun& Co.'s weekly report ears: The crop reports are not quite up to ex pectations, and are construed t indicat ing a deficient supply of corn and cat3, while any possible deficiency in wh' -1 ai d cotton will be more than met by t! surplus etocks. But prices have s vanced quite harply, and the export3 tl domestic producs fall below last year''. The great industries are all doing re markably well, excepting iron manuf ture, in which the 'labor controyert.es have been partially settled. : 1 he iron output on August 1st was 13,- 130 tODS weekly, agaii st 169,151 July 1st, and 169,576 a year ago. but tha stocks unsold nevertheless increased 1C, 000 tons during the month of July, and on the 1st of August exceeded 1,000 C03 tons. Southern pig iron is pressed for sale, and some quotations are lower than ever. But the resumption -of manufac ture by the Western ijon works, which have settle;! their' controversies with th3 men will make a great change in the sit uation at once, increasing - the output of iron, but probably the demand still more. In textile industries the utmost activ ity prevails. Manufacturers are buying wool freely. Boston sales for the week being 2,000,000 pounds above last year's, and the total sales at the three principal markets for the year thus far have been 82,000,000 pounds greater than last year. The boot and shoe factories are still pressed to the utmost and shipments from the east continue for the year 81, 000 cases greater than last year. Cotton fell an eighth, th- ugh exports are larger than a year ago, as the crop reports grow more favorable. In fall clothing, trade is heavy and stocks of woolens are being closed out, while orders for spring goods are noerai. ine iraae in arv gooes is rendered larger than usual bv liberal western orders, particularly in woman' dress goods. At Philadelphia wool is also strong with free receipts,- groceries dull, but up to the avrage, manufactured irn in better demand other trades com paratively quiet At Baltimore the trade drJ goods and hardware is good and 'hoe manuf net urers report business far ahead of last year. The strike in the iron mills at Pitts burg has been settled with a reduction of 10 per cent, in wages in the finishing branches, and the window glass workers have settled the scale on last year's basis. The southern reports show a general improv ment in trade at Little Rock, at Memphis, Montgomery and New Orleans, but at Galveston collections are slow, and at Savannah money is' reported tight. The treasury has taken in $700,000 more gold and silver than it has paid out, while lessening the volume of notes in circulation $1,200,000. but money is altundant and cheap. Silver has fallen to S3 pence in London, the lowest price tfer quoted, and in June it sold at 41 pence. Business failures occurring throughout the country during the last week number for the United States, 169. . CROPS IN TEXAS. The Largest Yield of Corn Ever Known In the State. A di-patch of Friday from San Antonio, Texas, savs: Abundant rains continue to fall over the southwestern Texas dis- . " . , . 1 rm , 1 trict and the suff ring among stock has l been completely relieved and crops great ly benefitted.. Many farmers in the drough'-stricVen district planted corn in July, and with late fall' rains will make good crops. The recent rains through Mexico enhance the prospects of fine crops in that republic, and the importa tion of American corn will soon be dis continued. Some fear' that with the pret- ent contracts the Mexican markets may bo overstocked. This will leave Texas practically without a market for its enor- 1 raous crop?, and cattlemen are pre ring t to feed large quantities of beef cattle with 20 and 25 cent corn. Never in the history of Texas has she harvested such a large corn crop, and many farmers are now beginning to harvest and contract their crops while they can get 25 to 40 cents per bushel HALVES WORTH SEVENTY-FIVE A Predion Offered for, the Souvenir V;. Half Dollars, A dispatch ' of Monday from Chicago says: Director General Davis of the Co lumbian Exposition, says that congress has really givtn the fair $3,2S3,000, in cluding the expenses of the commission and the government exhibit. The sou venir half dollars will be worth 75 cents, the premium already offered. Smallpox In Kerr York. A New York dUpatch says : One more death and two new cases of smallpox fere reported Monday morning at the bureau of contagious diseases. CONVICTS LET OUT. Riotous Miners Once Mori on tlie Wu Path In Tennessee. TUB STOCK AD B AT TBACT CITY BURNED A-TO SIX HUNDRED AKD OTHCTY CONVICTS LIBERATED. A. dispatch of Saturday from Tracy City, Tenn., says: Once more Tennessee has riotous miners, prison stockades havd been burned again and convicts have l. : I J . . the scene of the trouble. This is a point woere trouble was least expected. L.ast ii:r.i!tier,when the cnvicts were released C .1 Creek, Oliver Springs and Brice vil.j an unsuccessful attempt was made to I we Tracy City to take similar ac- ;i.,-i u nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad C. i c tbs'c tL3 c put V whe : j was wui&iug no nee millers on 3 and they were injured, by the 3 leing there. Recently,however, ; :.2y found it necessary to reduce o utput and during July the out " r -ly twenty-eight thousand tons, . year ago it was thirty-six thou . Li loss fell on the the free who were put on half time, while jvicts worked full time. This ibe organization of the band that the cau burr:l tbs stockade Saturday. TUB BREAK MADE. The stockade was burned at 9:30 o'clock and 690 convicts were liberated. All was quiet when the laborers quit work Fiiday night. At 5 o'clock, after a. ensi meeting had been secretly held, Vet mmittee of miners called on Mr. E. !Tithurtt, superintendent of the Ten 3 Coal and Iron company, Saturday a Eg, and asked that the" miners be .iowtd to work as many hours per day (3 tb.3 ccnvicts.- He promised to f -bruit the matter commit: 3 double. to the company. Afiur the hft Mr. Nathurst feared knowing of a se- - bound organization formed , .3 " tinia ' ago "with unknown purposes. IIe,t with Deputy Warden Burton, circulated among the mineis, who were in groups, and tried to keep things quiet, but their efforts were of no avail. Thir-rs grew worse till 9;30 o'clock, when an armed body of men ad vanced and toci the stockade. There .were about ens hundred and fifty armed men in the party that went to the stock fids about 8 o'clock! The men approach ed each guard. Two disarmed him while the third took his place. The convicts vn re then ordered out of the mines and c Z tie grounds. There were 690 of them TL '.-7 were marched to and loaded on flat were then thrued over to Warden . and he was. ordered to take them ev j ceeJc the ft -mediately. The train then pro to Cowan, where they waited for z'xl sent from Nashville. TL: i the convicts had left the free miners removed four sick prisoners from the hospital and placing all the arms, ammunition and other property in places of safety, the stockades, which cost about $5,CCD, were burned. The guards in charts cf the convicts were allowed a gun apiice and the otheis were confiscated by the miners. Not a shot was fired during the trouble. - .5 A EltKAK FOB LIBERTY. Within a quarter of a mile of Sewanee the coupling pin was drawn from the hack -car, andbetween twenty and thirty convicts made a break for-liberty. The guatds fired, and two convicts were killed. "One is said to be wounded in the woods and one captured alive by mountaineers. It is known that only five have been recaptured. The miners are very reticent, and say they have no statement to make and would not give the names of the leaders or state their intentions in case the con victs returned. They say the time they worked was not sufficient for them to ttake a living. Everything was quiet at Tracy City Saturday night, and will remain so until further action from the other end of the line is taken. Th trouble grew out of the lease system. The miners at Tracy City hare been among the most conservative in the stata. The mines are situated in , Gruadv county, and are among the most extensive in me state. - .A ? HAY ASAXDOS THE LEASE. V A dispatch from" Nashville states that the 400 convicts employed at Tracy City reached that city Saturday night, and are now safe in the penitentiary. What the authorities or lessees will do is not known, but there is a probability that the lessees of convicts will abandon the leise. A committee of miners from Coal City called on Governor Buchanan Sunday, and asked l have the troops removed. vIIe took the n quest under advisement ". It is expected in many quarters that an- ! , Ml - . t 1. other uprising will be the result. PERISHING CATTLE. Thousand! Upon Thousands Dying in Hexico for Want of Wa er. Dispatches of Sunday from Ztcatecas, Mex., state that there is intense buffering among the people and live stock in that state owing to the prolonged drought. 1 1. 1 . . 1 1 ... . Aiuiougu Dounuiut rains nave iauen in all parts or Mexico during the past two weeks, this section has iot been blessed with a drop of moisture for nearly three f years. There have been enormous losses of cattle. The following is a Ut of the larger ranches and the number of cattle on them which have died for lack of water and grass: Hermosa, 20,000 head; Jetilisa, 10,000; Guadalapelas Uonentos, 10,000; Elfurte, 6,000; Mezunite & Nories, 5,000. VALUABLE FREIGHT. Twenty Millions in Gold Shipped From San Fransclsco to Xew York. A dispatch irom Umaha, Neb., says: A train bearing twenty millions in gold, irom ban i rancisco to isew Tors, ar rived bund-y night and after a short stop proceeded eastward. A Pullman and six coaches were guarded by a company of scalers with bpringneia rules and two uaiungs . 1 he guards etooa on the plat forms with loaded nfles while the stop was made and no one was allowed to ap proach. GEORGIA DEHOCRATS Hold Their State Convention In Atlan ta Wednesdajr. The Georgia state Democratic , eon vention was held in Atlanta Wednesday and the following state ticket nomina ted: . . : - . -,..'. Governor Hon. W. J. Norther-. Secretarr of State Gen. Phil Cook. Comptroller General Hun. W. A. Wright. Attorney General Hon. JoeTerrelL Treasurer Hon. R U. Hardeman. Com. of Agricultue-Hon-Tt., T. Nes- For the StaftfiCWofcilames, t)f Douglas. , Allen D Candler, of Hallt ternate. - . W. T. Garej, of B bb, DuPont Guerry, of Bibb, alternate. v From the Districts : 1st. Alf Herrington, of Emanuel. Dan R. Groover, of Bulloch, alternate. 2d. J. W. Walters, of Dougherty. G. M'Lndon, of Thomas, alternate. 31. E. T. Hinton. of Sumter. I. D. Shipp, of Dooly, alternate. 4th. W. C. Adamson, of Carroll. D. Peabody, of Mu-cogee, alternate. 5th. B. M. Blackburn, of Fulton. F. Hutchinson, of Clayton, alternate 6th. Frank Flynt, of Spalding. W. Bryan, of Henry, alternate. ' 7th. P. M. B. Young, of Bartow. S. Coleman, of Polk, alternate. 8th. 8. P. Sh nnon. of Elbert. G. s. E. G. W. w. Adams, Putnam, alternate. 9th. William E. Simmons, of Gwin nett. W. E. Chandler, of Union, alter nate. 10th. J. W. Lindsay, of Wilkinson. Ben Walker, of Glascock alternate. 11th. M'K. F. McCook, of Glynn. B. M. Frizzell, 0 lfair, alternate. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEB. From State of Large Allen Fort, of Sumter; J. W. Nelms, of Fulton; J. T. Hardeman, of Bibb; G. R. Brown, of Cherokee; Clark Howj11, of Fulton, mem ber of the national committee, ex-omcio member. Distiict members: 1st. Gazaway Harlridge, of Chatham; U. P. Wade, of S reven. 2d. H. C. Schffield, of Early; J. L. Hand, of Mitchell. 3d. J. H. Hodges, of Houston ; W. E. Steed, of Taylor. 5th. B. H. Richardson, of Muscogee; T. C. Crenshaw, of Troup. 5th. J. W. Hale, of Rockdale; W. T. Kirasey, of Clayton. 6th. M. H. bandwich, 01 Upson; J. Pound, of Bu:ts. 7th. D. B. Hamilton of Floyd; J. U. Foster, of Cobb. 8th. James M. Smuh, of Oglethorpe; H. W. Baldwin, of Morgan. 9tb. George L, Bell, of Forsyth; How ard Thompson,- of Hall. " 10th. A. L. Wooten, of Jefferson; 1. M. Hunt, of Hancock. 11th. Jacob L. Beach, 01 Ulynn; Wal ter M. Clements, of Dodge. The committee on resolutions entered. the hall and reported the following: The democratic party or ueorgla, in conven tion assembled, pledges anew its loyalty and devotion to the time-honored principles of de mocracy as promulgated and practiced by the fat.ru rs and sage of th party. It endorses the platiorm adopted by tne na tional democratic convention of 1892 and pledges its united and enthusiastic sapport to the election or its nominees u rover Cleveland andAdl&iE. Stevens-n. It commends to the people of Oeorgi the administration of Governor W. J. Nor 1 hen and the srate house (ifficenr whose most honest and economical manag ment of the affairs of tbe state Lave conduct d bo largely to the progress and prosperity of the people. THE ALABAMA MUDDLE. Tbe Kolb People Are Indignant and Claim that Fraud Was Perpetrated. A Montgomry dispatch of Tuesday gay a: No incident in the recent state elec tion has caused the IvolD people to leel more indignat than throwing out ten t the twenty-two boxes in Pike county, by which means tbe count;, which went for K"lb by 910 majority, was given 'o Jones by a majority of fifty-five. This is what caused the peop'e of that county to call a convention next Monday to take steps to protect themselves in what they consid r their rights. County officers on the Kolb ticket will Push their contests in the counties ot Ike and Conecuh, and claim that th-y will surely win before the jury. The counted out legislators will contest for their seats, and a Jones man says he "be lieves th" legislature will s at them. Kolb is out in a published letter dis puting the claims of Jones' election. The fetter concludes: "I have b-en fairly and honeutly elected by over forty thous and majority, and the people of my na tive state recognize 'he fact and will see that justice is accorded by placing me at the head of onr sUte government for the next two jears." The leiter crcat s a sensation, and is regarded as evidence of Kolb's intention to challenge tt e official count, which is nearly completed and fixes Jones majority at between nine aud twelve thousand. FRICK'S LIFE IN DANGER From the Machinations of Anarchists and Guards Doubled. A Pittsburg special of Friday says : The report that Chairman Frick's life may again be in danger from the machinations of anarchists seems to be credited to some extent by Frick. as well as by the Car negie officials and police authorises. The force of detectives is more 'n doubled at the offices of the Carnegie company on Fifth avenue, and every one visiting there, unless well known to the officers on duty, is subject to strict and searching scrutiny, and has to run the gauntlet of inquisitive and interested eyes. The Banner Wheat State Advices of Thursday from Sioux Falls, S. D., state that the figures on South Dakota's prospective wheat yield by com petent men, are simply astounding, rang ing from fifty million to sixty million bushels of wheat, besides immense quan tities of other grains. Elevator experts place the yield at sixty millions, while Milwaukee and Northwestern railway ex perts place it at fifty -five million and fifty million respectively. Even at the lowest figure it is cLsimed the state will carry the banner of the entire oniocu BUCHAiNAN SCORED. penonnced for Hitloi Comntted E Clay Hag's Sentence. BClSTJ) IH XXTIGY IK THE PUBLIC BTRKXT OF MEMPHIS KIXQ SAFELY UT THB PKHrraTTIARY. The city of Memphis wss thrown into a state of intense excitement when the announcement appeared in Wednesday morning's papers that Governor Buchan an had commuted tbe sentence of Colonel IL ClajKing, who was to have been hanged on the 12th instani for the murder of Mr. Poston. Wednesday morning's Appeal-Avalanche said : .If the governor's power in the matter is abso lute and conclusive, the respotia.bility is his x one. Ha is not required to give reaona. He m it yield to any passing caprice, to appeal to h.s sympathies, to prejudice, and yet his author ity remains undippatable and supreme. If his determination of the King case is to.be taken as a precedent, then we see no reason why any other criminal should be hanged in Tennessee. King, in cold blood, after careful deliberation, shot down David fl- Poston, unarmed and un suspecting. It was a highway assassination in which the victim was given no chanca to defend himself. There could not have been a murder more heinous. When the trial was had, the murderer himse.f, with most extraordinary as surance, protested against the introduction of the ins-nity plea. . Discussing the review of the case by th? supreme court, the Appeal-Avalanche continues: . The opinion was welcomed by all lovers of law and order. Its en rt was-not confined to Ten nessee. It was felt throughout the whole United States, and the nuprem court of Tennessee was entitled to enduring honor for advancing civili zition to that degree. The court did not over look a phase of the case; it considered every ex cuse K ng made for his act. But the governor has brought all this to naught. Having greater power to save, he' has met the court's poer to condemn and has whistled the latter'g judgment down. With a stroke of his pen he has given hope to every murderer in tne jails of Tennessee, He hi a re buked the jury and mad light of the state's higueat tribunal ot justice. It were infinitely better if the jury of the trial court had bade King go free. We now wish sincerely that it had done so. It were even better if the governor had granted an absolute paadon. He has acted without the support of a trial, judge, jury or prosecution, usually an essential p-requisite in gubernatorial clemency, and it now remains for King's attorney to solve the question of his free dom. The Evening Scimeter vehemently de nounces the governor in a sensational article abounding iu tuch sentences as these: "He has spit on the carpets of the state and nation and held out his band to save an assassin ia whose person was centered and upon who-e fate depended the question whether any iuflu eace in the south was sufficient to make dis tinction between persons convicted of cold blooded murder. s "The rescue of H. Clay King from the gal lows to wh ch all courts of the country, af .er a cirefol review of tbe evidenoe,had condemn d him, wa a or me more damnable even than the murder of Poston. "He has risen above all law, all right an 1 all justice. What King did as a citiz.-n, he has done as chief executive of the state. He has taken the law in his own hands; he has justified the murder of Poston ; he has saved an assastin; hi has taken the smoking pistol from King's hand, ft pped into his shoe, d.pped hi hands in th blood of his victim and trampled upon the already outraged law. He has turns 1 a deaf ear to the pit-adings f the victim's famiy for Justice; he made a governor of a state a cham pion of murderers. "The governor's conduct tears the bandage from the eyes o justice: it palls down the pillars of the teniple; it paralyses tne strong arm of the law; it stifles tbe crv of the widow and the or phao, and make of th court a sham; it shakes the very foundation oi society, and makes every man a law unto htmseif. "If Buchanan should tie shot down from be hind a pillar on th" prtic on the capttol to day, if King should oe slain on his way to the p-'nitenrisry, wh shall say that the gallows would bear fruit?" These publications aroused intense feeling. A mass meeting was arranged for at which Governor Buchanan was to have been hung in effigy Wednesday night. It was given out that the jail would be attacked and the noton u pris oner would be lynched. So great was the anxiety that Criminal Court Judge J. J. Dubose i sued the following order: It appearing to the court that there is now undue excitement in the public mind because of the commutation of the enrenco of H. Clay King, who was by tbe supreme court sentenced to hang on the 12th day of August, 1892, and it further appearing that becau e of threat en d mob vio enc, it id n 't safe to longer keep said King in the county jail of Shelby county; it is therefore ordered by the court that tbe sheriff of hel y county, without delay, take said King ai d deliver him to the keeper of the penitentia ry at NhShviJe, in por-narjoe to tbe order, as made by the governor, commuting h i sentence to life unptiaonmen. in the penitentiary of tbe state. KISO TAKEN AWAY. 8ber"ff McLendon took King from j ill in tbe m an time and out of the city, on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, en ronte to Knshville wb-re they arrived safely. The sheriff hurried his prisoner to the peni'-entiary. HTJHO UT HTFIOY. The indignation against Governor Buchanan for commuting King's sentence found vent in hanging and burning him in effigy at the comer f Min and Madi son streets Wednesday niht. The crowd w-s composed not of Vughs and street arabs but of well clad, unusually orderly and respectsbSc y ung m-in. Wnea the figure burned in two and tbe lower hslf fei to the ground the crowd vented in wrath by kicking the burning embers abut the streets. 1 he governor was cursed and abued with every rjntemptous epithet 1 naginable. BCCHA-IAir TALXS. Governor Bjchanan, in an interview "with an Associated Press reporter, gives bis reasons for the commu?ition of King's sentence as follows: 'Firt, said the governor. I thought that King sh uld have had a chance of venue. Affidavits to the effect that Juror Smith ha i com municated with outside parties - and ex pressed an opinion ah ut the case were filed rjth me. These affidavits eoold sot b4ixttroduced in the court of record, because it was too late. The action of Juror Mtutio and of the jury going to Arkansas to deliberate upon the case also had their weight; the dissension of one of the supreme judges in defense of partial insanity: the pleadings of his wile and children and the most prominent men of the country. besides hundreds of letters and petitions they were my reasons for commoting the sentence. I am responsible for my action, added the governor., I thought I was doing right, and I acted according to my belief. He then handed the reporter a petition signed by Jwenty-eix senators and congressmen. WARRING ARABS Up in Arms Against the Whites -Extermination Threatened. A Brussels, Belgium, cablegram of Friday says: The Independence Beige tates that twenty agents of the Katanga company have been killed or captured by the Arabs on the upper . Congo liver. The steamer Bt mart, which was taking goods up the river, was seiz d, and the factories were razed. 'Whole tribes on the western bank of the river are in in surrection. Arabs northwest of Nyangue have gone down Lualabt river, and cap tured the station at Ribariba, killing the whites employed there. The stations of upper Lomassi have also been destroyed. Arabs at Stanley Falls and Isangi, who have hitherto been loyal, are showing hostility. The Congo state authorities are sending reinforcements to the various points threantened by the Arabs. Dis patches from Z nzibar bring interesting news from the scene of action. i The Arab insurrection, under Raimali za, has spread from Tanganyika to Stan ley Falls, and, what was a merely locil demostration, has developed into a gen eral uprising of the Arabs of Central Af rica sgainst white domination. I the Arabs have grown desperate, ing to the evident determination cf whites to suppress the slave trad cv,. t!;a - which the Arabs hsve accumulate - ;r wealth and established their powr They were greatly encourage I disaster to the British, under ' Maguire, last December, when ( ; Magutre and two other Englh' , t their lives in a conflict with 6lavs t l:rs. The Arabs were still more strcr.iLcnci in their hostile attitude oy the more re cent successful attack on Fort Johnson. The. greatest -anxiety is felt for ; the safety of the expeditions under Captain Jaques and Captain Joubert which were seut out to suppress the jfTave trade. It is paid that the Arabs have sworn to ex peditions as a lesson, to the whites not to interfere with the traffic It is known at the latest accounts that a large force of Arabs nad gone in search of Joubert. ', The news from the scat of theiosur recction is of 'the incst mtaser kind, but is sufficient to cau? f 3 crravest anxiety to be felt',' not or expeditions menii Catholic and Pre The reports fi agree in statin due to an uprl the invasion c ! bands of Tar - tbe jantt-slavery , but also for the t rnisiocfe. ''.2 Cocg I country ' trov.b cs ere not ; .ii Ar:; 3 lutto '.va r icr3 by -:3. T.9 Cono tL.t tr' -Ms "..lis and on t!.3 state officials -t I were receive ... fnsongo. V. To assi river. CONDITIO L.. C 7 GRAIN Forti, Uoath cl asDeiasV, Cropie turns of the di; .;i riculture at Washingtoa sbow improvement in the condition . c I aj raising, the, monthly average bcL-j frnn 81.1 in July to 83.5 In August. In only four years since the initiation of crop re porting has there ; been a lower August condition. In the year of the worst fail ure, 1831, it was 79, declining to C3 in October. In 1890 it was 73.3, declining to 70 6 in October. In August, 1870, it was 80.7, andin ,1837 it was 80.6, de clining later only in the latter ycur. A slight improvement is indicated ia the stntes north of the Ohio river, nni greater advance iu states west of the !! ' -sissippi riverj except Kansas and N ' ka. The condition is highincc i southern states, nearly the sams as i in breadth west of the Mississippi, 1 in the lower staUs of the Atlantic and slightly lower in Alabama en sissippir" A mall decline i seea i middle states, except New ".York, a- . . so in the eastern states, though in t: . of these divisions the average 4s Litc: than in the west. The followi.g aver ages of principal states are given: 2Tew York. 80; Georgia, 97; Ohio, 81; Iowa, 79; Nebraska, 80; Pennsylvania, CJ; Texas, 94; Indian H Missouri. C ; ; Vir ginia, 90; Tennessee, 92; Illlc-v.?, 72; Kansas, 81. Most corresponded': indi cate tbe prtsent tendency to further Im provement. Returns relating to:j rirj wheat are lower, decling during, ' month from a genersl average of t '. 87.3. The reduction is from 90 to I Wisconsin, 92 to 87 in Minnesota, i to 85 in North Dakota. " ( The condition of other, crops ay ,. . as follows! Spring rye, 89.8, inste&d I 93.7 in July; oats, 86.2, fall of 1 pi; : barley, 91.1, instead of 92; buckwhc acreage. 101.3; condition, 92.9; pot. toe, 80.8, declining from 90; tob-ccc, 88.8. fall from 92.7; hay, 93.2. CLEVELAND'S LETTER Regarding the H. Clay King UtV Fnllj Explained. A dispatch from Buzzards Biy, Ma says: ilr. Cleveland was, on Fri : night, shown his published letter of J, 27th, wri ten to Mrs. E. C. White. niece of H. Clay K ng, wrhich caused little comment. The letter was a j -sonal one and Mr. Cleve and was v ; much surprised to find that it was be publ shed broadcast and that it had I rl fiied among other documents with Gov ernor Buchanan. Mr. Cleveland does zci deny writing the letter. The lettr rt ceived from Mrs. Wnite was a Vrry j a thetic one and certainly d-servcd an t-f wtr. Mr. Cleveland reiterate! his S'f ment that he "ought not to ?nterfere 1 j appealing to the governor for a mitl. tion of tbe sentence." Mrs. White's li ter, which stated the physical conditio of her uncle and other circumstance, le . Mr. Cleveland to tender his sympathy for her with the honest hope that the exe cution of the death sentence might be avoided. .GRAIN ELEVATOR BURNED And the Losses WIU Reach a Million and a Half. In leas than an hour Friday afternoon, the magnificent grain elevator and mi 1 of Theodore, Chase & Co., at New York, was totally destroyed by fire. Tbe flames were first noticevd in tbe tower snd were in full fjosse&skn of the structure when the first detachnent of firemen ar rived. The total lots of stock, building and machinery will (reach a rxullion and a nan. THEsouxr : drief It! lets cf E:? I. Plthj and F. " '-'7 h "' 1 T A3TD ACOMFLTT.- utosoroErr ' to cat rr The' plat" nsmiltcrs. Loss ? M; ii : vr ir.t urj .t .0 f.r t.ri'.:l- - i i! .iL' ) :.ra.j tliOV. U . a r Knight , isheU t: nial cc Livi: j ccri.-' - . ttrs 1 . COL The Hour. A I truck ! veget' ' Char! . urt,. 1 t ' .ii. r: 1 i.ave a .1 off 30 .c : ) 1 T ' irt 1 f 'V,, - CI ;: la pair f.'-rges cf t!. baa Electric ror day ciht E -was seized and at white heatf iV I- v. 1 , ' ; A special of j 'r;l-' jy' American froij .r t . . t: i : - a lir.L 1; : ..i .. other i '. X t.!ij ; r'.'lute L ' . t;a r r f rr-T t u. 1 1 ' - f 1 r. li V r - r.-vc; was c t c litis in tcrved ncl behalf cl in his c! his dc- ' placed tt '' ' . ' The ;'. , , adjiirnt . 'lutions ia called the r.rd declare rrgaaized - dc:..r . , turned, held a i -Icztx&l Fit-U pea!.-' resolut'"-3 wi- ,1' ) t' :?r ! - - !:rC: , TLo : -.oc'. TrciUf '.:2 rr. crd; .!-! G. .TL-.fl.; : J. C ' i . nr.- W5 fctre pt.. is ret kco. 7".r! h or ti : - 1 bishop 1 . f ctntec! ag .3 to Le sensi A ITew cZi : He-sti., -! :t4 ry law .: -i t f iittij u. r ' 'M the t -: .at city f- :,f h the recti i '. f . al notes, t?c, l. -.8 J 4. '. -.ey or- smouat of s i'ari.t i j t'3 ..The result hii b t'-;t r Sat on has received icstrue it' 3 the p'stmaster cenerU to rs : t i Ealsries of all clerks la that di- . HIE COTTON REPORT a. ' i r ' ' " 7 I . . I " if I . f , f I -:J hj Hhe Agricaltural T j y . partmenW . ' I gust report of the statist Iciaa i department of agriculture at d ,'on; issued W'ednesdsy, fhows a v J 3 la thr conditiaa of cotton dur ) - from 86 to 82.. . This is the ' --gjv since August, 18c8, when ; condition ws cm point lower. f I i ' i Las Dccn at meal mjwiK jgb in Beatn Uaroiioa ana -n.rin-a nt as excessive rain r-Tinrr aunaaine have ben J Tn Texas the need rt?d hy f ome cor rhe natwral result t i rar. res: . Of thU- fie'la, rv. fruitage, . . Grasiworms u. m red ia the s appears, in grassy V growth and small ; arable aheSd'Bfi?. V rjAllars havejl southern and w"? districts, no tcaterial damage has .-jetiresulwd. The state at eragcj of cpBditlc'isre: Virginia, tJ onh Carolina, rtBouth CaroUaa, "l Geotgia, 84; Flo.d? ZU Alabaina, 3t Mitaxssippi, W7 11083; Texas, tii Arkans 75 ; TenT ;.l - 1 V er. e . aadC ) sla -