The National tribune., 1885-08-13

lockout in eight of the leading stone-cutting
| yards of the city, throwing ISL hands out of
| employ ment.-TheP Piedmont Mills, at Green
| vile, S. C., were sold last week to a Green
vile company for $4,000. The mills will
resume work in October.-The Lookout
Rolling Mill, at Chattanooga. Tenn, after be-
ing shut down eighteen months, resumed
work last week with 100 hands and with
six months orders ahead.-Over 300 re-
plies from milling correspondents in Kansas,
Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri in relation to
the wheat crop of 1885, published by the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, report the yield as gen.
orally small. The amount of 1884 crop still in
farmers hands is reported as follows: Kansas,
10l per cent. Missouri, s; Illinois, 8; Indiana,
10. The yield of the new CROP as compared
with that of last year, is 55 per cent. for In
diana, 422 for Missouri, 81 for Kansas, and 81
for Illinois-The business failures for the
seven days ending August were 1872 for the
United States and Is for Canada.-The July
report of the National Cotton Exchange says
the percentage has been advanced to 81, against
81 at the close of June. The condition of the
crops by States is: Virginia, 80; South Caro-
lima, 81; Florida, 90; Tennessee, 81; Louis
lana, .9S; Arkansas, 81; North Carolina, .95;
Georgia, IS; Alabama, .95 Mississippi, so;
Texas, .9S average.-The first bale of the new
cotton crop was received at Columbus, Ga,
Thursday. 1t came from Dawson, Ga.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Judge of the Court at San Francisco
where the Hill-Sharon suit is being tried has
issued an order to the Marshal to Gisarm the
woman HILL the defendant she having threat
ened TO shoot Stewart, one of Sharon's lawyers.
"A peculiar and fatal disease is prevailing
among the hogs in the vicinity of Newark,
Del, and many deaths are reported. Samuel
Miller, who lives at Appleton Nd, has lost %
pigs in two weeks, while a farmer at Elkton
has lost 60 within the same period. The dis
ease strikes the animals suddenly, and after
staggering awhile they fall oyer and die in
convulsions-Wm.K earney, an insane man,
who lives near Humboldt, Neb. and owns fine
farm there, was arrested at Kansas City, Mo,
last week. Kearney said he was on his way to
Washington to kill President Cleveland against
whom he had a fanced grievance. He had a
revolver and about 20 cartridges in a handbag,
and was well supplied with money.-Withn
the last six months Herbert Beahm, of Madison
County, Va, has caught % hawks, 6 big owls,
26 muskrats, 2 coons, 112 rabbits, and destroyed
innumerable hawks nests, containing eggs and
young ones. The net profit on his work is S1S,
allowances for seal ps.-Dr. Il. j. Calling, who
invented the famous Calling gun, is a stout
man with a chubby face and a stubby gray
beard. He resides at Hartford, Conn.-The
Salvation Army were mobbed at Belleville,
Ont, Wednesday night of last week, by crowd
composed chiefly of boys Patent-medicine
men rented Market Square for entertainments,
and the Salvationists refused to retire, when
the crowd set upon them and forced them to
retreat, under shower of rotten eggs
Richard Hindsman colored, in Villa Rica, Ga,
who was proved guilty Of insulting white
lady, received 300 lashes at the hands Of the
indignant white citizens.