Newport weekly independent., 1901-09-06

cotton grows less as progress Is made in gatehing the crop,
 Lord Kitchener reports that on August 31 the Boers blew up train loaded with British soldiers near Waterval, small station.
 Hon. T. H. Humphreys, speaker of the last general assembly will probably be an opponent of Col. George W. Murphy for attorney general at the next general election.
 Our correspondent from Montgom- cry, Ala, says: John Thomas was convicted of simplicity in the lynch ing of Robert White, for which three men have aready been given peniten- tiary sentences ranging from life inn prisonment to ten years. The jury fixed Thomas punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.
 The comparative statement of the government receipts and expendi- lures during the month of August shows the total receipts from all sources to have been $45, ,394, 125 and the expenditures $39,351 ,497, leav ing a surplus for the month of $6,- | 042,629, leaving a surplus for the month of August 1900, of SSH. Hong Kong advices state that the Manila Times has caused a sensa- tion by exposing what it terms whole sale slave trading existing at Manila under the very eyes of American mil itary and police officers. It alleges that there exists a species of barter in human flesh, which in some re- spects is far more base and reprehen- sible than that which once existed in the Southern states, or in Zanzibar or Mozambique. The Times declares that, while the slave trade in these countries had cheap labor as its chief object, immortality is wholly respon- sible for that now practiced at Ma nila and other cities of the Philip pine Archipelago. The government is investigating this, and will remedy what evil exists.
 The receipts from customs during the present month amounted to S2i, ; 462,1r1, an increase over the corre- spending month of last year of nearly one hundred thousand dollars. The receipts from internal revenue were 22,036,794, which is a falling off of about four million dollars, as com- pared with August, 1900. From mis- cellaneous sources there were received $1,S95, ,169, as against $2,249,525. The expenditures on account of the war department this month amount ed to $9,320,615, decrease of nearly six million dollars on account of the navy, $5,504,931, falling off of about four hundred thousand dollars. The pensions for the month reached $13,S35,955 an increase of about sixty thousand dollars over the cor responding month last year. The in- terest payments aggregated $2, ,463, O26, as against $3,170,0S1 for Aug ust, 1900.
 The census bureau has issued a bulletin giving the numbers of per- sons of school, militia and voting ages in the states of New York, New Jersey and North Carolina and the territory of New Mexco for the cen sus year of 1900. According to this statement foreign white persons of age constitute in New York 12 per cent, and native white persons of foreign parentage 42S per cent; the two eements to- gether representong upward of one- half, or 548 per cent. of the whole number of persons of school age in 1900. These same two elements con- stitute in New Jersey 49.1 per cent and in New Mexico 12.9 per cent o1 all persons of school age The actual foreign-born males o1 voting age constitute in New York 38.4 per cent, in New Jersey 35.7 per cent, and in New Mexico 13.e