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Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
R. G. DUN & CO.'S REPORT.
Business In All Branches Seems to
Be Good, and in iron Very
Satisfactory.

Cholera has landed and the business
of New York goes on exactly as if il
had not. The cars are as crowded with
passengers and the streets are as badly
blocked with carloads of merchandise
as they were one week or one year ago,
which means that the heaviest trade
ever known at this season is now in
progress. The same is true of other
cities almost without exception, and
the outlook for fall trade is, at all
points, exceedingly good. But many
people are afraid all other people will
be afraid, and consequently the specu-
lative markets decline There has
been much talk about the pestilence
as an excuse for lower prices in bread
stuhs and cotton, but the fact is that
the enormous stocks brought over
from last year afforded sufficient
reason for exceedingly low prices. In
cotton there has been heavy selling,
and September options are below 7
cents, though prices for spot cotton Is
unchanged
Trade at Louisville is improving, at
Nashville fair and at Little Rock sat
isfactory, while at Montgomery caution
prevails and at Galveston the late cotton
crop causes slow collection, though
trade otherwise improves. At New
Orleans business is only fair and mon
ey is in strong demand, but cotton is
lower, while sugar and rice are active
and strong.
Iron is more steady, the output Sep.
TENDER l being only 15l ,618 tons,
against 155, 1876 August 1, and unsold
stocks have been reduced about So.
600 tons. The demand for structural
iron is very encouraging and plate
mills are well supplied, but quotations
are variable, and bar iron is unsettled.
| In dry goods there has been a nota-
BILE increase in the number of buyers
and the market is more nearly bare OF
wooden goods than it has been for
years, the medium worsted and serge
trades having the preference. There
Is heavy demand for cottons and me.
dunn bleached goods are higher with
browns firm. Carpets are stronger
and many mills demand an advance
of 2 cents.
Respecting cholera it is well to re.
member that the sanitary precautions
are more thorough than ever before
and at most foreign cities have sufficed
to prevent spread of the disease.
Business failures throughout the
country for the past seven days, as re-
ported to R. g. Dun & Co., number :
For the United States 154, againt 21O
last wear
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

Says the New Orleans Picayune:
"Some interesting information as to
the ages of the men who volunteered
as soldiers in the Confederate Army
was made known at social meeting
of the Washington Artillery Battalion
of New Orleans, held at the COM
mand's armory the other night. This
historic corps, composed of an excel
lent class of citizens, was among the
first of the organizations from the ex-
treme South to march to Virginia, and
it was a participant in the battles
of she first Manassas on the 18th and
2lst Of July, 1861. AThe battalion con-
sisted of four companies, embracing a
total aggregate of 800 men. OF these,
233, largely more than one fourth,
were under twenty-one years of age.
Between the ages of twenty one and
twenty-five there were 3iS, or nearly
forty per cent. Between the ages of
Twenty-Five and thirty there were l61,
or just twenty per cent. Over the
age of thirty years there were only
ninety-three, or little more than eleven
per cent. But more than sixty-eight
per cent. were not over twenty-five
years, and more than lightweight per
cent. were not over thirty years. This
was fair average of the Confederate |
armies"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

About year ago, some Arabs
started out with few camel loads of
merchandise, crossing the Sahara and
travelling to the largest town at the
head of navigation on the Benue
branch of the Niger River. They
were surprised by finding that the
Royal Niger Company British con-
Germ of which they had never heard
since their previous visit to Yola-had
established store there, which was
full of sugar, calico, tea, and other
commodities. Yola now is only TWEEN
ty-six days from London by steam,
but the poor Arabs had travelled for
nearly year to reach the same
destination by the overland route
from the north. The English were
selling sugar at twelve cents pound,
but the Arabs could not afford to sell
any of their commodities for less than
twice as much money as the English
storekeeper charged for his goods.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
A Run On q Bank,

The Birckbeck bank, the Offices OF
which are Nos. 29 and 80 Southamn,
ton building, Chancery Lane, London
IS involved in the failure of the Lon.
don and General bank, the Liberal or
Permanent Building and Investment
society, and the House and Land In.
vestment Trust, and there is a RIM on
the bank. The manager TODAY said !.
"our total liabilities, which we NAV
De called to pay on demand amount to
to,o67 900. We have securities on
which we can Immediately realize
1o'o44, 900. The public has no inst
cause for alarm about the BirckbecE
building societies. They have money
locked up in lands and buildings
Over 100000 of our securities are
held in the Bank of England, and we
can raise money on them within an
hour" " Oh
AT $3.50 o'clock the rush of deposi.
Tors became larger than ever. and
every room in the bank was full.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

"The custom of wearing mourning
is outworn; it is an anachronism in
the nineteenth century," says the
North American Review. at is un-
christian; it clouds the spiritual sig
nificance of the resurrection with the
ever present expression of temporal
loss. 1t is cruel; it forces helpless
and innocent people into action which
entails privation and unnecessary
suffering. 1t is untruthful; it makes
false outward show of changes in sen.
timent. And it is essentially vulgar :;
for it presses private affairs upon pub
lie notice; it thrusts claims of fashion
aud frivolity upon time which most
greatly moves the heights and depths
of being; and it forces its superficial
worldliness into the fercest throes
which can ever rend human nature.
Why, then, do we still wear mourn
ing?"
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

THE South is one of the most ia
vored sections of the world for a
regular and abundant rainfall 1t
is also well watered country. In
Vulnerable streams and rivers flow
to the Atlantic and the Gulf of
Mexico, furnishing cheap power
and forever regulating the railroad
rates by furnishing cheap transpor.
tation.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
CoTToN manufacturing has mad

COTTON manufacturing has made
wonderful strides in the South of
late years. For the year that closed
August 81 Southern cotton mills
took $50, $50 bales of the crop of
1892, against 604 ,661 for the pre-
ceding year and 546,SS4 for the
year 1889-90. This shows an in.
crease of 13a per cent. over the con-
sumption of the year 1S9O-91, and
% per cent. over that of the preced-
ing year. The number of Southern
mills has increased from 1886 in
1890 to 1856 in 1892, there being
SO5 now in actual operation, as
compared with 270 two years ago.
The number of spindles in opera
ton is 1898, $50, an increase of $685.
4S9 in two years Alabama con
sumed AZ, 265 bales; South Carolina,
186,099 bales; Georgia, 1896
bales North Carolina, 165,O11
bales. The Louisville Courier
Journal says: "The fact that the
South took nearly one-fourth of
the raw cotton marketed at home
last year is significant Of the rapid
growth Of the industry in that sec
ton" There is one cotton factory
IN Alabama that is now several
weeks behind with its booked Or
ders, and is unable to more than
half meet the demand for its goods. /
For the year ended June 30 this
factory paid cash dividends
amounting to 20 per cent. Of its
total capital. |
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
\ Great Big Blaze.

About O'Clock Monday mornins
fire broke out in the upper portion o.
the Lyon building on the north side
of Hudson avenue, between Green
and Peasl streets, Albany, N. j., and
spread with frightful rapidly. When
the firemen arrived the entire top
story was in flames and perfect rain
of sparks fell upon the surrounding
buildings and into adjacent streets.
At 2:30 the fire, which started in
what was formerly the Second Re-
formed church, had spread to the north
end of that structure, the flames lick
ing mp the wooden pillars of the old
belfry, poured up solid column of
flame over 100 feet in the air. The
entire department was on the ground
and the indications were that the en-
ire block bounded by Hudson avenue,
5reen, Beaver and South Pearl streets
you'd be swept away. At 3 80 the
re was under control. The loss will
ct fall short of $500 900.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
Lieutenant and Mrs. Pearv.

A special to the Philadelphia Ledger
from st. Johns, Newfoundland, saws:
The Kile arrived here this afternoon
from North Greenland, whence it
sailed August Ia. On board are the
entire Peary relief expedition in good
health, with Lieutenant and Mrs.
Peary and party. except Mr.. Voorhoof,
who, it is believed, lost his life shortly
after the return of Lieutenant Peary
by falling into crevasse of a glacier
at the head of Robertson bay, a body
of water adjoining Mccormick bay,
while on an expedition of his own to
the neighboring Esquimaux settlement.
With the exception of this casualty.
which has saddened both parties, the
two expeditions have been emineptlv
successful. Mr.. Peary has carried
out his plans fully and made great
inland ice journey of 1000 miles with
Astrupp, and through the members of
his party who remained at Mccormick
bay, has made rich collection of
fiara, fauna and ethnology of North
Greenland, besides which he has
demonstrated the ease and comfort
with which winter can be spent in the
Arctic region. He made almost a
complete collection of water and land
animals, both in skins and skeletons.
large variety of birds and sub-ma.
rine animal life, rare collections of
towering plants, moses, lichens and
insects, and of chronological specimens.
The like probably never has been seen
before except, perhaps, in the museum,
at Copenhagen.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

1T is pleasant to note the stiffen-
ing tendency of the iron market.
The bottom has been touched, and
now everything points to rapid ad-
vance upwards. The furnaces are
refusing to sell very large quaint
ties for future delivery at the pres
ent prices, and this fact, coupled
with the further fact, that iron men
are becoming to buy, shows that
both buyer and seller recognize that
prices are certain to advance.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
The Big Consolidation.

"The directors of the TENNESSEE
Coal, Iron and Railway Company met
in the United States Express Compa-
ny building on Lower Broadway to
finally consummate the consolidation
of the DeBardeleben Iron Company.
with their own corporation. The lat
ter company turned its property over
to the Tennessee Coal and Iron. and
received in return for the same 81
700, 600 of an issue of $4,000. 900 OF
new stock, by which the total capital
stock now becomes SIS, 900, 900. The
other $500, 900 of the stock goes into
the common treasury. There are
$4,000, 600 worth of bonds on the De-
Bardeleben property and SIS, OO0, 900
on the Tennessee Coal and Iron prop
erty, making total of bonds outstand-
ing of $4,000, 900.
'Gen. Samuel Thomas, Lucien
Moore and E. G. Brown retired from
the board of directors to give place to-
Percy Walker, of Birmingham, Ala 4
the son-in-law of Mr.. DeBardeleben !:
and Moses j. Lopez and j. E. AdQer
OF Charleston, s. 9. The stockholders
OF the Tennessee Coal and Iron Oom-
pany will hold meeting at Tracy
City, Tenn, on Monday to consider
the issuing of 5000, 600 of new stock
tor the purchase of the Cahaba Iron
Company properties, which adioin
some OF theirs at Bessemer, Ala. n
There is no opposition expected to
the increase of stock, which will make
the total issue of the Tennessee CoaY
and Iron company $21, 900, 900. {. }
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

A new postal money order is soon
to be put on sale. 1t will be some
thing like the orders used by the ex-
press companies, and will require no
writing to be done by the sender.
Three dollars or a less sum can be sent
for one cent.
The store and contents of sVinson
Bros, in East Gadsden, was destroyed
by fire Monday night. The building
was in flames when discovered and
nothing was saved. 1t is thought to
be of incendiary origin. Loss about
800, with $500 insurance.
BY decree of the Mexican govern
ment, corn, corn meal and beans will
continue to be admitted free from tar
lit duty until the 30th of next Novem-
Der and after that until the last day of
January SO, subject to a reduction of
10 per cent. OF tariff duty.
The trials of the Homestead work.
men who have been held to the grand
jury on charges of murder, aggravated
riot and conspiracy, will begin in the
criminal court the first week in Octo-
Der. Fifty-five men have been held,
ana against some of them there are
four and five charges.
Mrs. Aaron V. Brown, the wife Of
Tennessee's Ex-Governor, and the most
famous woman in the State since the
death of Mrs. Polk, died last Friday
morning, aged over 80 years. She
aided in the history making of the
State and was member of the Pillow
family, being the sister of Gen. Gideor
j. Pillow.
1t was reported in Chattanooga
few days since, that the Cumberland
Oil Company had struck gas at Alardt
IN Pickets county. 1t was said tina
when the gas was struck it blew tn,
entire string of tools out of the wei
seyenty-tive feet into the air. Whel
they tell on top of the derrick the
broke into pieces. The 100 feet O
casing which was in the well was blow
entirely out. and in falling, broke also
The derrick was blown into kindlin,
wood.
A dispatch from Denning Tex.
states that Deputy Marshal Williams
OF Paris, has captured Bob Dalton
Grant Dalton, Amy Dalton, Sar
Wings and "Three-fngered jack" o
the Dalton gang Of train robbers. Il
the fight between the marshaPs poss
and the robbers, two of the latter wer
killed and five captured. Three o
the gang are yet at liberty. 1t is sup
posed the gang intended to rob tn
Southern Pacific mail while on thei
way to the American border.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

We claim that the South has
stood the depression of the past two
years quite as well, if not better,
than any other section of our coun-
try /; that its affairs are now in
much better shape than is generally
conceded, and that its future posi-
bilities of advancement are incom-
parably better than elsewhere. Ex-
anime the records.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
The editor of the Timherman b,

The editor of the Timberman has
been fguringand estimates that the
annual timber product of the South
is fully four hundred million dol
lars, or as much as the value of the
cotton crop. This is rather an ex.
travagant assertion it appears to us,
however it may be true One thing
we do know, is that the extent and
variety Of the timber in the South
far surpasses. all other sections.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

IT has always been considered
that the foundation for the greatest
prosperity had to be built upon
coal and iron ore. If this be true,
and in the light of history it APP
pears to be, then Alabama is build
ing for future greatness. Today
she ranks as second in the mining
of iron ore and her position in the
coal column is nearly as high.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

The extreme western boundary of
the United States possessions is said
to be the island of Altoo, which is as
far west of San Francisco as that city
IS west of Bangor, Me. Who ever
stops to think, muses. the St. LOUIS
Republic, that the Golden Gate is but
the half way mark in crossing our
great country?
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Development Dur&
inc the Past Week,

The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn,
in its review of the industrial situa.
alton in the south, states that the iron
market shows signs of greater activity,
the demand increasing and priceR
growing more firm, and the outlook
much more encouraging. In structu-'
raj iron and steel there is a decided
advance, and considerable enquiry re-
ported. 4
The lumber market continues ac4
tive, with steady and increasing de-
mand. New mills are reported from
several parts of the south and efforts
are being made to increase the stocks
of the various grades of lumber which
have been considerably run down.
The crop reports for the week are
decidedly favorable, especially as to
cotton, which has been benefited by
favorable weather.
The increase in textile plants before
reported continues and engagements
of factories are being made in several
instances.
Mercantile business is improving in
sOutbCl IL ClblCo, anu u liz
creased demand is expected from
farmers, who have, during the past
season, bought cautiously, and are
now in better financial condition.
The Tradesman reports 43 new in-
dustries as established or incorporated
during the week, together with 10 en-
largements of manufactures, and 10
important new buildings. Among the
new industries reported are aluminium
works at Rome, Ga, a cotton compress
at Longview, Tex, $40, 900 develops
ment company at Savannah, Ga,
and an electric power plant at Coving-
ton, Ky. Flour and grist mills are to
be built at Big Reedy, KY, Willis and
Chilicothe, Tex, the latter having
$4,000 capital; foundry and ma.
chine shop is reported at Greenwood,
Miss, muck bar mill at Hartman,
Tenn, and an ice factory at Brinkleys
Ark, and fertilizer factory, Will
mington, N. G. An iron mine will
be opened at Llano and coal mine at
Laredo, Tex, ochre works at Carriers,
vile, Ga, pulp mill at Davis, w.
Va, a rice mill at Brunswick, Ga,
and tannery at Rome, Ga.
The Tradesman also reports $780,.
600 box and package factory at Cle-
mont, Fla, SIC, 900 chair factory at
Louisville, KY, furniture factory at
Kanawha City aud Point Pleasant, w.
Va, saw and planning mills at Livings-
ton and Midland City, Ala, Jackson-
vile, Fla, Crossvillc, Fowlkes and
Hartman, Tenn, Lockhart, Miss,
and Richmond, Va, and barrel fac
tory at Milan, Tex.
The engagements for the week in-
clude coke ovens at Warrior, Ala,
gas works at Memphis, Tenn, cotton
mills at Opelika, Ala, and Athens,
Ga. shoe factory at Birmingham,
Ala, and furniture factory at Jack.
sonville, Fla.
Among the new buildings of the week
the Tradesman reports business houses
at Lexington, Ky, Henrietta and Nc
Kinney, Texas; churches at Trion and
Waycross, Ca, Meridian, Miss,
Houston, Tex, and Clifton Forge,
Va; $4,000 school building al
Grafton, W. Va; banks at Bristol,
Tenn, Pecos, Tex; and Williams
town, w. Va, and warehouses at
Paducah, KY, and Little Rock, Ark.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
Cabbage and Drunkenness.

Cabbage has always been said to b.
cure for intoxication. The
Egyptians eat boiled cabbage before
their other food if they intended to
drink wine after dinner, and some Of
the remedies sold as preventive Of
on the continent contain
cabbage seed, - Chicago News.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
The Great Council.

The great council of Red men OF
the United States met in Atlanta
tuesday ninety-six delegates prese Mt.
Inc order has grown steadily, and is
now more prosperous than ever. The
proposition to reduce the age of adj
mission to 1S years was rejected. as
~, was another to reduce it to 20 wears.
thursday afternoon the great council
was given Georgia barbecue on the
Top or kennesaw mountain.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
His Only Enemy.

When Jones was at college he W.
most excellent fellow, and only had
one enemy-soap. He was called
Dirty Jones. One day tho wae.
Brown, went into his rooms, and ~
monstrating with him on the untidy,
slovenly and dirty state Of everything,
said:
"Upon my word, Dirty, its too bad !;
the only clean thing in the room Il
your towel!"-fLondon It'd Bits.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

THERE is sufficient water-power
in Alabama to spin all the cotton
the State produces, and what is true
of Alabama, is equally true of all
the Southern States. What a pity
it is that such wealth-producing
powers should be allowed to lie
dormant.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

According to the Chicago Times a
small fruit farm with poultry as an
adjunct will furnish pleasant and prof.
liable occupation for man of small
means. The fruit farm alone will do
this, but we mention the poultry in
this connection, as they frequently
prove valuable aid in keeping down
insects.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

TIE interest in base ball seems to
be on the wano aud the players are
now having the parks mostly to
themselves. Birmingham is in a
fair way to win the penant in the
second series.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

An enterprising New Yorker, tenn
porarily sojourning in England, has
just published "Guide Book to the
Haunted Houses of London" There
are over thousand houses so desig-
mated in the great metropolis.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

The chief cause of the decline of
population in France is the vast stand
ing army, it being impracticable for
the soldiers to marry.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

The most widely spread language in
the world is said to be the Mandarin
of China, which is used in fifteen of
the nineteen provinces.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
Che 1uka Reporter,
Published Every Thursday at
IUKA, MISS.

THERE are a great many things
in the South which captivate the
Northerners who come down and
spend year, but nothing so COM
pletely as our genial climate.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29
Missionaries Mobbed IN ch,n.

The Shanghai correspondent of the
London Times says; ga mob in the
northwest Sze-Chuen, attributing a
severe drought which was preyailiso
there to the alleged influence of Chris
uan missions, assaulted a missionary
named Turner and his wife. The
couple faired very badly at theshands
OF ,he lnfuriated crowd of natives.
ana would very likely have been put
to death II the officials Of the place
had not interfered and secured them
from the hands of their murderers.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

The Salvation Army is making a
specially of fashionable watering
places this season.
Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1892-09-29

The Mexican Congress is in session.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-10
rrnisn for nilnistnr IIirrcll.

LONDON, March 9.-Tho Daily Ne,rs to-
day prints an article praising the action
Of Mr.. Hirsch, tho American minister
10 Turkey, in protesting to the porto
against tho decree ordering all schools
10 procure 4 license from the govern
meut or close. The Me,ps says that the
English and American Bib!o missionary
societies in Consiantinople announce
that OF late years the friendly attitude
Of the government has quite changed.
VcXatious restraints are now placed
on them and obstacles arc placed in
their ways IN defiance of even the
Turkish law. But these laws affect
others besides Americans, and it is
probable that representations against
the action OF the porto will shortly be
made by tho English. American and
German ministers at Constantinoplc.