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m- VOL. XXVIII-NO. 163 COLUMBUS, GEORGIA: SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1886. t_ PRICE FIVE CENTS An Interesting Debate on a Vetoed Private Pension Bill. The I'rnMnt Bitterly Attacked by BUImt Kc- y«hllr»ii»- Dcaorratlc Hynkfn 8I» Flj*ri*i Tkst Show the Hypocrisy of Hepablirsa Pro. IbMlona—'The Day la tb« Senate—Bowie's Noail- ■atton Rejected. cause be was not in the same category. He was not looking for votes, but all the rest were. Tti- Imuse should turn Its attention to bt-uiesB. If it did not its statesmen would be here until the last of August. This vituperation and abuse of the president was all wrong and he asserted his entire confidence in the in tegrity o' the president and in his desire to do his duty, and he reserved to himself the right to approve or disapprove the veto. Suppose that the members auit quarreling ana turn their attention to the public busi ness, Let them remember what they had been taught by their mothers: “ let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God has made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For ’tis their nature to. But little children should not let Their angry passions rise, Their little hands were never made To scratch each others’ eyes.” (Laughter.) Allen, of Mississippi, thought he ought to apologize for discussing pension mate ters, as he had been a confederate private. It was said that confederates ought to have thought of this matter of pensions twenty-five years ago. He acknowledged that at the beginning of the war he had not given' the matter that due consideration to which it had probably been entitled. [Laughter.] He had been quite a j’oung boy then, but along about the third year of the war he began to think seriously of it, and so much had he been impressed with the fact that the course he was pursuing would bankrupt the United States government in pensioning the wid ows of the soldiers he was killing, that finally, gun in hand, he retreated across five or six states with the enemy in his front rather than slay the whole army. [Laughter.] The contest had finally come to a point that he said that he would stay the whole army or give up, and he laid down his gun like a man and went home. He wanted to call attention to a little incident which occurred when he was on his way home. He had gone into the war at the age of fourteen, and had re mained four years, and he was pretty well tired of fighting. There was another boy with him as he was going home, who had not been in the war so long, and who wanted him to go across ed unless there was a law authorizing iM|^he river in Alabama and fight with wholly oblivious to the fact that congress Kirby Smith. He had had about enough Washington. July 9.—Immediately after the reading of the Journal the speaker an nounced that the regular order was the vote on the demand for the previous ques tion on the motion to refer to the commit tee on invalid pensions the message of the president vetoing the bill granting a pen sion to Sally Ann Bradley. Amid a good deal of confusion Burrows, of Michigan, on the part of the republi cans, and Matson, of Indiana, representing the democrats, endeavored to come to Borne arrangement to prevent time being frittered away with roll calls. It was finally i agreed that the demand for the previous ’question should be withdrawn and that [ Grosvenor, of Ohio, should be allowed fifteen minutes to oppose the motion to refer, with permission to some democrat to reply, if so desired. Grosvenor said that he desired to heap no recrimination or condemnation upon the president for his veto messages. They were caused by a total misapprehension on the part of the president of his relations to the administration of the government. He (Mr. Grosvenor) had read all the vetoes coming from that prolific source of vetoes, and he thought the trouble was that the president understood that it was his duty to examine carefully every act of congress and if he was a member of congress would not vote for the bill. He gave no sort of consideration or weight to the fact that the legislative branch of the government had acted affirmatively upon it. The pres ident acted upon the idea that the execu tive had the right and it was his duty to decide absolutely on every ques tion. Another idea of the president’s was that no private act should be approv- \vas the law-making power and had the right to confer a pension on anybody. K Grosvenor then detailed the facts of the special bill under consideration and com- t mented on the fact, as he asserted, that the ! president had approved the Fitz John Por ter bill on the very day that he had vetoed the bill grafting a pension to Sally Ann Bradley, the mother of tour sons, two of whom nad died on the battlefield and two of whom were in a hospital disabled. Fitz John Porter would go on the pension roll, while Sally Ann Bradl^’ would go to the poor house, and this was the govern ment which undertook to say that it was dealing generously and liberally with its soldiers. The house was paralyzed and terrified by the veto of a single man. The proposition was tyrannical in the direc tion of absolute usurpation; in- the direc tion of turning from its normal position the congress of the United States, and turning over the administration of the generosity of the government to one man. [Applause on the republican side.] Matson merely remarked in his reply that be had just learned that Jin the forty- seventh congress a republican committee of the senate had reported that the woman ought not to be pensioned for the same reason as the president said she ought not to b<- pensioned. [Applause on the demo cratic sid*]. Long, of Massachusetts, suggested that at that time the woman had a hits- band living, and was also in the receipt of a pension. The bill and message were then referred —yeas 122, nays 111. Matters then proceeded smoothly, and the messages were read and referred to the appropriate committee without debate or objection until the veto message on the bill granting a pension to Francis Deming was reached, when the republicans de manded and were accorded half an hour for debate. Boutelle, of Maine, arraigned the presi dent for what he characterised as his cru sade against the veterans of the country. He regarded the policy of the president ns an open, clear, unmistakable announce ment that the dem 'cratie party was op posed to recognizing the services and sacrifices of the men who gave their lives or health in order that this great nation might be preserved. jn- The time had come when the democratic party felt itself sufficiently firmly seated in the saddle to utter its defiance and hostility to the men who went to the front to save the union in its hour of peril. He thought, he could see the muse of history looking at the grand procession of chief magis trates, and he could imagine the expres sion of ineffable disgust which would pass over the features of the goddess of Ameri can liberty when she should look upon the panel upon which was depicted the present chief magistrate sitting in his shirt sleeves with his collar unbuttoned, per spiring over vetoes of the paltry pension bills of the heroes of the war. [Applause.] j He then proceeded lo read from the Record, to show that all legislation favor- [ able to the soldier had emanated from the j republican party and had been passed by | republican votes against the solid votes of j the representatives ot the solid south, and I , , , . , , , against the almost solid vote of the demo- ? UC *J P n Pers, he had telephoned cratie party. pension office, and had had no Brum, of Pennsylvania, characterized j R" u ^ad now The committee had been diligent. The president had been negligent. Congress had been just. The president had denied justice to a citizen whose ease lie had never consid ered. Romiser, he said, was justly entitled fighting and did not wish to go and they were arguing about the matter when they saw an old gentleman coming across the field, and waiting for them at the fence. When he reached them he was very much interested to know about the surrender and about our institution. “I told him,” continued Allen in a doleful tone, “that our institution was gone. [Laugh ter.] He asked me what I was going to do. I told him I was going home. He said, ‘young mar,, you are right. You go home nnd go to plowing. My experience is that when you fight and get beaten you ought to go to something else.’ Then he began to philosophize ana he said: ‘Boys, this has been a mighty bad war. We have lost a good many of our best men. We have a great many one-legged and one-armed soldiers in our midst who can scarcely earn a living, and a great many widows and orphans. Society has been terribly de moralized and our homes have been deso lated and devastated. Boys, this has been a terrible war, but we can stand all this. The only thing terrible is that some damned fools who have not made much reputation out of the war will be wanting to throw this thing up to us for the next twenty-five years. [Loud laugh ter.] I make no application of this inci dent, but it does look like the words of prophetic wisdom.” The message was then referred without objection. The next and last veto message upon the speaker’s table was taken up and laid be fore the house. 'It was the message vetoing the bill granting a pension to Joseph Romiser, and as tills case is re garded as presenting specially strong features, the republicans determined to make a fight over its reference. McComas, of Maryland, who originally introduced the bill, made an explanation of it and analyzed the veto message of the president. The bill, he said, had passed both houses with unanimity. The presi dent declared that the committee on in valid pensions had reported that Romiser had filed a claim for a pension which had been rejected by the pension office. There was no such ease in the office. The president said that Romiser had never filed a claim. If this were true the committee was in deed convicted of gross carelessness, and doubtless the president made the state ment to illustrate the loose methods of the committee and his own accuracy in exam ining these private pension bills. If this charge were unfounded then the president was convicted of still grosser carelessness, because the report of the committee had warned him that there was a case in the office. He :McComas) had in his hands the very bundle of pension papers in the case of Joseph Romiser. The packet re corded all the proceedings from the time of tiling the claim 'll 1SI8 until its rejection. The records showed that the pension offi cer found that though Romiser was se verely wounded by a niinnie ball passing through his head and face, because lie was not mustered in, the officer was-constrain ed to respect the claim. When the president's veto came to the house declaring that there were j but the gentlemen on the other side of the I chamber had taken advantage of the dis- | cusslon to attack the president and tha ; democratic party and to charge that they , ! were opposed to grantiug pensions. Noth' ing could be farther from the, truth. During the entire eight years of Gen. Grant’s administration only M2 pri vate pensions were granted. . During the forty-seventh congress, which wnsropubll- { can in both branches, only 151 private pen sion bills were paused; but during the leal (the forty-eighth) congress, which contain ed a majority of democrat* in this horapji,; and when- the gentleman from Indians, 1 (Matson) wae chairman of the committed' on invalid pensions, there were 552 of sue he bills passed and became laws, an# during this * congress, since Der i cember last, congress had passed 66$' private pension bills, of which 575 ha# either been signed by President Cleveland or had become laws without his action. He had vetoed about nineiy private pen sion bills, but thirty-three more had pass ed Rnd become luws during his administra tion up to this tjuic than were passed dur ing the years' of Cfrant”s administration. Gen. Black, commissioner of pen sions, had granted over 110,000 . cer tificates to pensioners since lie assumed tile duties of his office, being ten per cent, more than had ever before been issued by any of his predecessors during the same length of time. The treasury of the United States attested the effect of Gen. Black’s increased efficiency in the administration of the pension office. Payments to pen sioners .luring the fiscal year just ended exceeded those of the previous fiscal year by #3,600,000, but notwithstanding this in crease in pension payments there had been a net reduction of expenditures during the past fiscal year of over *10,000.- 000 as compared with the fiscal year of 1865. Excluding pensions the reduction of the ordinary expenditures for 1886 as com pared with 1885 amounted to >24,500,000. This statement was from the treasury de partment. Springer asserted that the pen sion office had been, previous to General Black’s administration, run in the interest of the republican party. During the last presidential year the number of claims of applicants for pensions considered by the examining surgeons in certain states was very significant. In Maine, a contested state", there were 773 cases considered in each congressional dis trict. In Massachusetts, reliably republi can, where no special political efforts were required, the number so considered was. only 291 in each district. In Pennsylvania, reliably republican, there were only 332 considered in each district, but in Ohio where there was a great contest, the num ber was six hundred and five in each district. In Indiana the number considered was 821 in each district, while in Illinois, reliably republican, the num ber so considered was only 460 in each hli trict. Thus it would be seen that wifore there were great political contests during tho last presidential year the business of the pension office was concentrated to the neglect of worthy appli cants who happened to reside in a state reliably republican or hopelessly democratic, Matson, of Indiana, said that an attempt at this tim* to pass the billl without refer ring it to the committee on pensions would result in a vote to sustain the veto, because there were gentlemen on the democratic- side who were not satisfied to vote for the bill without the veto message j having been considered by the 1 committee. He was in favor of the bill: i he believed that it was right. He believed • that this man ought to oe pensioned and j he thought the president was wrong, and : when he had made up his miud to that I effect he was not afraid to sav so. He a.s- ' sured the gentleman from Maryland ' Mc Comas) that the bill would receive early consideration of the committee. The bill was referred. This cleared the. speaker's table of veto messages. The house then resumed consideration of the general deficiency bill and by a vote of 124 to 86 confirmed the action of the committee of the whole in agreeing to the amendment making an appropriation to | meet t he Fox and Wisconsin river claims. A stormy scene then ensued over an amendment granting to the house and sen ate employes one month’s extra pay. The | house was in great confusion, which was i increased when Reagan said that the I amendment had been tampered with and I made to include official reporters and the i capitol police. He stated that the amend- ! nient as agreed to in the committee had I not included those employes. Hepburn, of Iowa, who had originally i drafted the amendment, stated that no i change had been made in it, and Reagan admitted that he must have been mis- I taken. The opponents of the amendment failed i to secure the yeas and nays on its passage, ; and the amendment was agreed to. They, ' however, secured a roll call on the motion j to reconsider and lay on the table. The j latter motion was agreed to—yeas 116, nays 191. So tlie amendment remains in tiie j bill. , | Pending further action the house took a j recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session !|to be for the consideration of pension bills. papers that citizens of the United States aro confined in Mexican dungeons withaut trial for alleged offense^against the laws of Mexico, and that their final trial hns been postponed without cause, and re quiring the United States government (if such statements are found to be true) to demand a trial of such persons, nnd their humane treatment during their confine ment, and to make provision for their defense and relief from confinement when no sufficient cause for detention is found ; also request ing the president to institute negotiations with the government of Mexico for a con vention to secure fair trial without unnec essary delay of citizens of the United States who may he charged with violating the laws of Mexico. As the basis for the reso lution Call sent to the clerk’s desk and had read adispatch from Chehuahua, published in the New York Herald, stating the case of Morkley, station agent of the Mexican Central railroad company. The resolution went over. Edmunds’ resolution was agreed to, and tlie senate at 12:45 went into executive ses sion. Immediately after the doors were closed an order was made, upon motson of Senator Ingalls, that the public should be excluded from the upper corridors, lobbies and committee rooms, which order was carried into effect at once. This resulted in closing the offices of the associated press and the. Western Union and Baltimore and Ohio telegraph companies and tlie eject ment of all reporters from their quarters in the senate wing of the capitol. The case of John Goode, nominated to be soilicitor-genernl and adversely reported from the judiciary committee, was taken up and Riddleberger made a long speech in favor of the confirmation. Hoar and Mahone replied at considerable length, and Riddleberger followed them again. The burden of the debate was the tissue ballot in politics. Edmunds said he had letters which inculpated Goode in a dicker for confirmation. These letters stated that if he was confirmed certain of his republican subordinates would be re tained. • The letters were demanded by Riddleberger, but Edmunds declined to produce them. Riddleber asked that t he final vote be postponed till to-morrow, and assent being refused, he made two or three dilatory motions. A vote was taken at 6 o’clock, resulting in Goode’s rejection by 25 to 28. Thereupon the senate ad journed. Another Pension Itill Vetoed, Washington, July 9.—The president to-day sent to the house of representatives a message vetoing the bill granting a pen sion to Daniel H. Ross. Ross had an ap plication for a pension pending before the pension bureau, but he died last February, and this bill is vetoed on the ground that if it became completed legislation it might is- prejudice the claim of Ross’ widow. cratie party of the house, the party which was opposed to centralization, stood by humbly and said to the president, “Not my will, but thine be done.” He continued to berate the democrats, which he did in , . . , , , , , • • , such an energetic manner as to call forth 11 Pension because he had been inspired rounds of applause and laughter from both • u .. spirit ot the nunut' sides of the house. He denounced them as paltroons, who exonerated their ' president whenever lie chose to slap them in the face and spit upon them. The action of the house reminded him of the play of Hamlet. [Laughter.] He would substi tute for the young prince a young cour ageous man of nerve, President Cleveland, and for poor old Polonius, the poor misera ble cowards of the democratic party. [Laughter.] Cleveland—“Do you see yon der cloud that is almost in the shape of a men of Concord aud Lexington. There were many precedents for tbe bill. The very first congress had passed a bill pen sioning the minute men of Concord and Lexington, and George Washington, un like President Cleveland, had approved it. Thomas Jefferson, the father of the demo cratic party, had signed a bill granting a pension to men who had never been mus tered into tlie army, and Andrew Jackson had signed a similar bill. Abraham Lincoln in a like ease had said camel?” . Democratic congress-^- the | ‘bat he would .^inquire whtdher a man mass! and it is like a camel indeed!” Cleve land—“Methinks it is like a weasel.” Democatic congress—“It is like a weasel.” Cleveland—“Or like a whale.” Demo cratic congress—“Very like a whale. had been mustered in, but only whether he had done his duty, rApplause.] If members of congress could not rise above party feeling and go with Jackson, Jeffer son and Lincoln and Washington, let them [Laughter.] “And so this executive of j go with Cleveland and send hack this poor L J .. i ... in smniw wnn hnn nevftr reupivod a rinllnr yours;” continued Brumm, “has only to "point out the shape or form and the democratic party is down on its marrow bones, saying : ‘As thou wilt and not as I wilt.’ ” [Laughter.] Hill, of Ohio, made an argument to show that' the democratic party had tlie credit for much of the pension legislation of the country. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, bespake for the president decent respect and decent speech soldier who had never received a dollar of pay, who had scars the bullet left and who had twenty-five years of neuralgia for serving his country. Every man who thought that the fathers of ’he democratic party were instinct with tlie heroism of Concord nnd Lexington would vote for the minute-man of 1861 who got a bullet in his head when on his way to join tlie boys in blue. [Applause.] Burrows of Michigan also vigorously He did not know wkdt tlie pending bill ' assaulted tlie ■ eto, and maintained that was about. Its merits had not been pre sented, but tlie iiouse had resolved itself into a political meeting. Gentlemen must understand that before the election came the people would forgi t all these speeches, so they might, r' serve their campaign elo quence for awhile. He could speak be- there was no reason why the bill should be referred to the committee. Springer said lie would not discuss the pending bill and the veto message of the president thereon, except to call attention to tlie fact that it was vetoed in the pen sion office ill 1832 bp Commissioner Dudley, IN THE SENATE. | UiihlU-lM-rurr's lteiiolutiou for ('onshlcrlmr Nomi nations With J>|M*a [Inors Unit'd Out on n I'olnt ; of Order—(haute's Nomination Rejected. Washington, July 9.—After the pre- ! sentation of the usual variety of petitions the senate took up Riddleberger’s resolu- ' tion, ottered yesterday, to have the exeeu- ! tive session of to-day held with open doors. Harris made the point of order that the • resolution proposed a change of the rules ■ aud that proper notice of it had not been give . ' , Rimbebcrger conceded that tue point of order might ; .y, but lie had merely wanted m call .. .eution to the mutter, ami he was g ling to do so on every occasion that presented itself. The chair sustained the point of order and the resolution was laid mi the table. Sewell, from the committee on pensions, presented a report in the case of the vetoed bill granting a pension to Margaret D. Marrliand, widow of Commodore Mer- 1 chmid. The committee repeats its former report in tlie case ana recommends the passage of the bill ovet the president's objection. Referred. I The time for considering the calendar I having expired, Edmudds moved that tiie , senate go into executive session. I McMillan who has charge of the river [ and harbor bill, reviewed the course of tlie bill thus far, aud gave notice that he would ask the senate to finish it to-morrow. He : moved that a vote on the passage of the bill be taken at 5 o’clock to-morrow. Several objections were made, and then McMillan announced liis intention <o ask the senate to sit to-morrow tili the bill ; was disposed of. Hoar offered a resolution calling on the president for information ns to tiie seizure or detention in any foreign ports of any American vessels, and the prtWt or u.- leged cause»therefor, and what < llhrt have been made to provide redress Ibrsuoh seizure, and to prevent their reuarcnco. j The resolution went over. Call offered a resolution calling on the [ president, to direct the American r< pro- :u:ti.ti\! i. Mi-ico ’iu. 7c A BIG HAUL. llurtrlar* Work n Post Hfllrc Tor Nearly Twenty Thuioatiiil Hollars' Worth of Stamps. Minneapolis, Minn., July 9.—Thepost- oifice was broken open last night and robbed of >20,000 in money aud stamps. There is no clue to the thieves. The lobby of the post office was open all night and the safe blowers had no diffi culty in opening the stamp window where one man crawled through and opened the door from the inside. The safe was near a window, but as the glass was painted they could not be seen from the street. The work was that of professionals. They drilled a hole four inches into the safe between the hinge and combination and then picked the lock. The postmas ter estimates that there was about *23,000 in stamps in the safe, and of this amount *18,000 were taken away, they having left *'2300 in one cent stamps. All the cur rency that was taken in after 5 o’clock, amounting to #100, was taken. After the I robbery they made their exit through tlie office door and took the mail carrier’s I horse and Rickey, Middleist & Taylor’s de- ; livery wagon and carried the boodle off. i As near as can be ascertained the robbery was committed between 1 aud 2 o’clock. I The office does not employ a watchman. I From the looks of the stamp department • they left in great haste, having left several ; fine steel drills and a large sledge hammer and pick axe ; also, a silk handkerchief with a mark on it, which will be a clue for the detectives. At the time of the robbery a heavy rain was falling, and there was not a policeman that could be found any where in the neighborhood. The robbers came to St. Paul and left the horse and wagon which has been found by the ' police. Un '(liainre. New Yohk, July 9.—The stock market opened moderately firm this morning, but the day’s business was very dull. At the i opening St. Paul was Uie most active. Favorable crop news; I lie announcement that the Chicago aud Atlantic had signed the passenger pool, and the statement of President Benedict, that his proposition to the Central Traffic Association would lie accepted; stories that the Pacific Mail has accepted Huntington’s proposition about the subsidy, and the chronic report of earnings, gave the (mils new hopes, and under the leadership of the Pacific Mail prices advanced steadily until after 1'2 o’clock, when buying ex hausted itself and the market was extreme ly dull and prices yielded slowly, but in the last hour tiie market rallied and closed steady. The filial prices generally show declines, though none of the active list are down more than fractional amounts. Sales, 187.000 shares. Serious TrouN.r Aufirl|iii(eil. Danyii.: M., July 9.—The striking miners ul Grape creek are still in a state of intense excitement over the report that negro miners arc to tie imported from Ken tucky to take their places, and it is their intention to keep the substitutes from go ing to work. Persuasion w 11 be used first, and if that fails, force will be re-sorted to. Tlie negroes are already oil their wav nnd will arrive this morning. Sheriff Tuttle has thirty-five deputies at the creek who are under orders to quell any disturbance. The strikers are determined that no one except theniseives shall work the mines, and serious trouble is anticipated. Tlie Last oft ho liana. Shoals, Ind., July 9.—Sam Archer was convicted of murder in the first degree last January, being charged with complicity in tlie brutal murder of Samuel A. Bunch on . the Util of July, 1882. He was according ly hanged to-day. He was the last of the gang of the numerous and notorious “Archer gang” of thieves and murderers. Two brothers and their father were lynched and the others met violent deaths ill various ways. A Murderer IIunsod. New York, July 9. Miguel Chacon, a young Cuban, who killed his paramour while attempting lo :.hiot her husband, i was hanged this morning in the yard of the toombs prison at 7:10 o’clock. The Hill Vetoed. Washington, July 9. —Th : president has ! vetoed the hill providing It r.i public build- | ing at Dayton, Ohio. The president docs net mil k the public business of the city is i-igc enough to '..uiiant die expenditure. Hot and Parohing Blasts Play Havoc in the Wheat Belt. Wmen of Fiery Wind—Ilskots Dried l|i, Vegeta. Hon Destroyed and People In a Panie—Looking fiir the End of the World. St. Paul. Minn., July 7.—People in Da kota thought the world was coming to an end yesterday. The Intensely hot weather of the past week culminated in a regular oid-fasnioned Indian summer. The air was as hot as from a baker's oven. Birds flew about wildly and beat their lives out against the trees in their frantic efforts to escape unseen danger. Horses and cattle broke from their fastenings and plunged into streams and would not be moved. At many places in Dakota and Iowa the mer cury lias been up to 100 degrees since the 4th. Tuesday was tho hottest day ever known in Minnesota, the mercury ranging from 84 to 96 degrees, with an average of 85 degrees during the day. At midnight the thermometer stood at 83 degrees. The simoon in Dakota was severest at Ashton. A hot blast. At four o’clock yesterday morning the people were awakened by a roaring noise and oppressive heat, which almost stifled breathing. On going to the door your cor respondent was driven back into the house by hot air from without, which felt like tfiat from a furnace or oven. There were at the time heavy dark clouds in the south west, from which direction the wind came. STRICKEN WITH PANIC. Fear seized upon the people that a bad cyclone was forming, and they began to congregate in the neighborhood of the cy clone cellars. Many lathers and mothers on awakening and feeling the heated air, seized their children from their beds and rushed in the street, believing that their homes were on fire. One citizen describes his fear that the earth was being precipi tated into the sun. A farmer living eight een miles northeast of here, who was on his way to town, states that it was compar atively cool when he started out, but was soon struck by a hot wind which he could not face. The prespiration oozed from them in large drops. The hot wind lasted about half an hour,and the temperature was 120°. Your correspondent has lived there nearly five years, and has been out when the mercury stood lOOdegreesin tlie shade, but never before experienced such heated atmosphere as that of this morning. Had this wind continued for two or three hours there would not have been left a vestige of living vegetation, and it is doubt ful whether animal life could have with stood it. As a general rule the nights are very cool, and this freak of nature is a mystery to every one. The hot wind was immediately followed by a cool breeze, but now, at 9 p. m., the mercury stands at 100 degrees in the shade. Farmers and mer chants generally are feeling very blue over the gloomv prospects of crops, as this makes tlie sixtli day of excessive heat. LIKE A SOUTHERN SIMOON. A special from Pierre says: “Pierre citi- ! zenB have just passed through one of the I most remarkable and thrilling freaks of ! the elements ever experienced in this see- j tion. For the last three days tlie mercury | has averaged about 103 degrees, but last | night capped the climax. About 9 o’clock the western heavens were suddenly illumi- I nated, aud in a few moments wind swept down the streets, blowing down several ! houses and doing ot tier damage. The wind ! was red hot and people were compelled to , seek shelter in cellars to avoid I the intense and suffocating heat, i The wind continued until four j o’clock this morning, and at two o’clock • the thermometer registered 105 degrees. I Passengers who came in from Montana on | the.Northern Pacific.say the air was almost ! unendurable. If a hail'd was thrust out of i a car window the rushing air felt like j blast from a furnace. The trainmen had their faces blistered and swollen by the hot I air. [ THE FREAKS OF THE THERMOMETER. I The letter from Ashton was referred to j Observers Lyons and McGinnis, and for a j moment both were amazed, and at first ; neither could believe it possible that the i thermometer had reached any such 1 altitude as 120 at four a. m. With an | eagerness of two scientists they be gan to seek to account for it. Mr. | McGinnis was inclined to believe that it I was similar to tlie terrible Sahara Desert [ simoon, which, like this hot air storm, is ; accompanied by a dark cloud, and seems not only to be hot but deoxygenized so that it acts on tho lungs almost like carbonic acid or devitalized air. Sergeant Lyons as sented to this partially, but suggested that it might have been tlie heat from a huge meteorite. Both agreed that it was one of , the mysterious weather dispensations of Divine Providence which could not be predicted. BAROMETRIC DISTURBANCES. There were grant barometric dis turbances in the region at the time, and all Dakota was very much heated but this blast, they thought, was like a tornado, in asmuch as at the first signal station at Huron, sixty miles away, the greatest heat of the day was 101 degrees, up and down ■ tlie Missouri river in Dakota, as far north as Bismarck, is noted for intense heat in summer, but the highest thermometer ever officially reported was at Fort Sully, June 20th, 1876, when it rose to 111 degrees. But this was in the middle of the day. Tlie hot Wave at four a. m. can only be regarded as a phenomenon, almost unprecedented in this latitude and cer tainly unaccountable. The extreme heat experienced in St. Paul extends through out the northwest, i! being three degrees warmer in Duluth on Monday than in New Orleans. Along the Missouri Valley grass is drying up and crops are withered and dying. Farmers are alarmed lest prairie fires should break out in tin-grass and de stroy the remaining crops. Wheat in Min nesota, Dakota and Wisconsin has already been severely injured by the drought. THE NEW SOUTH. #10,000 furnaces at Sheffield, Ala., or.e at South Pittsburg, Tenn., one at Calern, Ala., aud two in Sequatchie Valley, Tenn.; a Bessemer steel rail mill at Chattanooga; cast iron pipe works, to cost #300,000, at the same place; a |600,000 dry dock and shipyard at Newport News, Va., and a #2,500,000 English company to min* coal in Kentucky. The amount of capital, includ ing the capital stock of the incor porated companies represented by the new manufacturing and mining enter prises organized or chartered at the south, and in the enlargement of old plants and the rebuilding of mills that were destroyed by fire during the fi-stsix months of 1886 aggregated about #63,618,200. ZJFACTS FROM FOREIGN SHORES. The Klet'llun Returns In Orest Britain—The Fannins Canal Loan—The Karaite* of Cholera, Etc. London, July 9.—At 4 o’clock this after noon the lories had elected 263 candidates, unionists 54, Gladstonians 133 and Parnell- ites 70. The tories say they are confident of electing 320 candidates. The tories have won Chippenham, Wilt shire, and Malden, Essex, from the liberals, Lord Henry Bruce defeating Barrister Fletcher (Giadstonian) in the former and C. W. Gray heating E. B. Barnard (Giad stonian) in the latter. These two acces sions make the total union gains thirty- three. The tories are to-day carrying every thing by sweeping majorities. Tne unionists to-day succeeded in retaining Inverness borough, re-electing Robert Bennatyne Finlay; Fairshire, where they selected James William Barclay ; Falkirk borough elected W. H. Sinclair, and Hart ley Liverpool, where they re-elected Thomas Richardson. M. Conway (Parnell- itej has been re-elected for North Leitrim and F. H. Gill (Parnellite) for South Louth. France. THE PANAMA CANAL SCHEME. Paris, July 9.—De Lesseps hus request ed Prime Minister DeFrycinet to withdraw the Panama canal lottery loan bill, but he reserves the right of appealing to the pub lic to subscribe to a fresh issue of Panama canal shares. A SURE WAY OF ATTRACT NO ATTENTION. In the chamber of deputies to-day a man who is supposed to be insane fired a shot from a revolver. The bullet passed close to the head of the president of the chamber. The man was arrested. When questioned as to his motive he said he wished to attract the attention of the public to his misery. Italy. THE RAVAGES OF CHOLERA. Rome, July 9.—Cholera returns for to day are Brindisi, 127 new cases, 78 deaths; Latino, 52 cases, 22 deaths: Fontano, 47 cases, 41 deaths. Minister Grimaldi is vis iting and succoring the sufferers. GEN. WEST. Tlie Vice President nil Hie'84 Ben. Butler Ticket Askeil lo Ban far Congress. Memphis, July 7.—Gen. A. M. West, vice president on the B. F. Butler green back-labor ticket ill 1884, passed through the city to-day. Gen. West is being im portuned bv the d- mocrats and green- backers. mostly tiie latter, in different portions of the second Mississippi district to run for congress against Hon. J. B. Mor gan, the present incumbent and demo cratic nominee, and Gen. J. It. Chalmers, who will run on the independent ticket. Gen. West lias a large following of demo- era tic-green backers around Holly Springs, his immediate home, but Mississippi in the past lias suffered too much to divide her democratic forces in the face of the enemy. The regular nominee will bs elected. Gen. West has not yet announced whether he will accept the call to become a candidate. ATLANTA'S LATEST SENSATION, It* Industrial Ornnth t'ui't a rcr Minna ID thi’ Mm ] Baltimore, July 9. — The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record of to-morrow in its semi-annual review of the industrial growth of the south shows that during the first six months of 1886 there have been added to the numher of manufacturing and mining enterprises in the south, 30 ice factories, 40 foundries and machine shops, 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 8 miscel laneous iron works, 17 electric light cran- j panics, 7 agricultural implement factories, 70 mining ami quarrying enterprises, 11 carriage and wagon factories, 8 cotton ■ mills, IS furniture factories, 15 water works, 29 tobacco factories, IS flour mills, ! L’kX lumber mills, including planing ! mills, sash and door factories, etc. I In addition to which there j was a large number of miscellaneous enterprises. Among the leading entor- ] prises established during the past six months were the Alabama furnace coui- I pany, with #1,000,000 capital, composed of leading Pennsylvania iron men; (lie *2,- ; 00(1,000 DeBardalehen coal and iron com- | puny, to build furnaces in Alabama J two Two Bar* Thai Sell lij the quart Closed by tho | Polire—The Olllrer* Knjuined and the Selling | (hies On. Atlanta, OA..July9.—When the retail I liquor licenses expired in this county on. i June 30th several wholesale licenses were still in force, some to run three months, ! The Kimball Iiouse company secured an interest in one and opened a loom for the : sale of liquors and beer by the quart. I One other firm did likewise, j To-day the police closed these places up and great excitement was created. Thousands of men congregated ■ about the Kimball house to discuss the 'matter, Application was made for an in junction restraining the police and a tem porary order was granted for a hearing on i the 17th. Meantime selling has been re sumed. THE DROUTH BROKEN. It a i ii Falling In the Sun-Burnt Srrtlon of AA r is- Cllllsill. Chicago, Julv 9.—An Evening Journal special from Milwaukee says: “A rain storm set in early this morning, and there | are promises of good showers. Rain is re- | ported in many parts of tlie state, and ; there arc hopes that the great drouth is at an end. in many parts of tile state there has been no rain since May 15th, and the 1 crops have suffered terribly. So far as can . be learned, all tlie forest fires that have i raged in the northern part of the state for i some days past have been extinguished.” BROKE THE FAITH. Tin 1 si. .1pit Satiimiiiiaii la tin- Guti'ltcs of tlie Law Alia in. St. Joseph, July 9.—The grand jury for tlie June term of the Buchanan county criminal court have returned 104 indict ments, most of which arc against saloon- men who are charged with selling liquor without license and with violating the Sunday law. About a year ago all the saloonmen in St. Joseph were arrested on the same charge and tlie court let them off' with a fine of *10, under promise that they would observe the law in future, but now as they have broken the faith the court, it is believed, will impose the heaviest fine possible. Protested Hi* Innocence. Knoxville, Tenn., July 9.—Jack Lam bert, a painter by trade, was executed at Charleston, N. C’., to-day in the presenceof several thousand people for the murder of Dick Wilson twenty months ago in Jack- son countv. Lambert had been drinking heavily the day of the killing, and had a 1 grudge agaiuet Wilson. Lambert left a statement protesting his innocence and charging another party with the murder. lb. Ar i.li.luti' Mobii e, July 9.—M. D. Wickersliam, nominated for" state auditor, and G. M- Duskin, nominated tor associate justice of the supreme court by the republican state executive committee at Birmingham yes terday. state that they were not consulted and are not candidates for these or any other offices.