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VOL. VI. NO. 1.926.
HAS THE GRIP.
Governor Northen Can’t Stand
This Beastly Weather.
THE STATE DEPOSITORIES
Continue to Cause Worry
News of the Schools in
Georgia.
Special to the Tribune.
Atlanta, Jan. 9th. —The governoi
was not at the capitol today. He it
down with a slight attack of the grip
The weather is of the beastly variety and
the very worst kind for such a trouble, so
his excellency very wisely decided to re
main in doors at the mansion. He had
a number of callers during the day, but
nothing of general interest was done.
As yet there has been no appointment
of depositories in the towns in which
the legislature decided they should be
put. This is due to the fact that there
are two contestants for the place. In
Elberton there a e two banks and the
same is the situation in Carrollton. The
governor has not decided which of these
banks he will name in these cities. What
he is going to do in the division of terri
tory in Harmony Grove and Jefferson re
mains to be seen. The situation of hav
ing two depositorirs in one county seems
rather un qua, to say the least. Then in
Monroe county, where it was decided to
put a depository, it was found that there
is no regularly chartered bank. There is
a strong private bank but a depository
can only be placed in a regular chartered
state or national bank.
State School Commissioner Bradwell
had to throw out an election in Schley
county today. It seems that the county
school board of that county went ahead
and elected a man to fill the place of Dr.
Smith, who has been county school com
missioner for years and who resigned to
go to Florida, and they held the election
without first having the applicants exam
ined as the law directs. They wired '.he
facts to Capt. Brad well this morning and
he ruled the election void. He also re
ceived information that J. G. Mills had
been elected county school commissioner
in Jefferson county and J. W. Phillips in
Douglas county.
Thirty-six counties have decided t
open the schools in January. Under the
law recently passed the time of opening
schools was left to the county school
boards but the school year was changed
to July. Up to date thirty-six counties
have decided to go ahead and open the
«chi ols now. Fulton county is one'
which decided übf, to open the schools
until July as contemplated by the law.
The change will qelp to bring about
quarterly payments tut is not material
otherwise.
C -ptain Bradwell lists of
teachers who pas■ examination at
the election Satuiduy. Under the law
conn y ofiic als have thirty days io'which
Tn make out these lists and send thereto
the s’a e school comm rsioaer. Some of
uem have already begun toJstud in tic*
lists. "
WORK AT WASHINGTON.
The House Gets Down to Work on the
Tariff Bill.
Washington, Jan. 9.—There were
by actual count, 40 rper>bers present
when house met at 11 o'clock, commit
tees were called for reports, but without
result, and the house went into comnrit
tee of the whole on the tariff bill.
Chairman Wilson, of the ways and
means committee, resumed his speech in
favor of the pending tariff measure, de
claring that a protective tariff, instead
of increasing wages, really lowered them
by reducing their purchasing power.
Mr. Wilson finished his speech amidst
loud applause, and was followed by Mr.
Burrows.
Work of Committees.
By a strict party vote, the house com
mittee on elections decided to recom
mend to the house that ex-Congressman
John J. O’Neill be seated from the Elev
enth Missouri district, in place of Charles
F. Joy, the' sitting member, who is a
Republican.
The house banking and currency com
mittee decided to take a vote next Fri
day on the bill to repeal the 10 per cent
tax on state bank circulation. The fate
of the measure in the committee appears
to depend on the vote of Representative
Warner, of New York.
In the Senate.
There was nothing of special interest
in the routine morning business of the
senate. The resolution offered by Mr.
Chandler as to the authority for the ap
pointment of Mr. Blount without the
advice and consent of the senate was
taken up. After some colloquy, Mr.
Chandler withdrew his resolution, the
matter being within the scope of an in
quiry now going on before the commit
tee on foreign relations.
MURDER NEAR MARIETTA.
A German aud 111. XV Ho Met a llorrilllu
Dentil—Their Son Missing.
Marietta, Ga., Jan. It. —1 ferny Saner,
a respectable German, and his wife were
murdered in tbeir home near I’inchtsun,
four miles north of this place, and their
son is missing.
Their barn was burned and their house
had been set on fire, but neighbors ar
rived in time to extinguish the blaze.
Mr. and Mrs, Saner lav at full length on
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
me iknvneu uvur will! m<ar vroumug
burned from their bodies, having been
saturated with oil. The neighters put
out the blaze and saved their bodies aud
the house from destruction.
The floor was covered with blood
which ebbed from eight bullet holes in
the left side of Mrs. Saner’s head and
from a wound caused by a heavy blow
in the back of the Mr. Saner'i bead.
Near Mr. Saner lay the barrels of the
gun. They were bent from the blows.
• A visit to the fire at the barn revealed
nothing except burnt carcasses of horses,
cows and other stock. Many suppose
the boy was burned in the barn, but
there is nothing to warrant this, save
his absence.
The coroner soon arrived and Saner’s
pocket book, containing $326 was found,
it is believed the entire family were
murdered and that robbery was the ob
ject.
TALKS'
France and Italy Will Clash Unless Some
thing is Done.
Paris, Jan. 9.—Journalistsand diplo
mats in France are shocked and deeply
indignant at the story, told upon the al
leged authority of the United States
Consul at Palermo, of French agency in
the Sicilian outbreak.
Since an entente between Russia and
France was established. German diplo
macy has been feverishly devoted to em
broiling the French Republic with Italy.
There is every reason to believe that the
maneuver at Palermo is the result of
German intrigue.
A report comes from high diplomatic
sources that renewed pressure to spring
war upon France has been put upon the
Italian Premier, Sig. Crispi. Rome
journals are paid to print pretended evi
dence that French forces are concentra
ting in Tunis in order to make a descent
upon Sicily, and that the revolt on that
island was incited by French agents for
the purpose of dividing the Italian army
and leaving the Alpine frontier open to
French aggression.
Information has reached the govern
ment authorities here that vehement
agitation.ls going on in every province
of Italy in favor of an immediate rup
ture with France. Preposterous allega
tions of French intentions appear in
local journals from the Swiss frontier to
the Gulf of Taranto. The Aigues-Mortes
verdict is taken for a text, and Italians
are exhorted not to suffer another such
affront as was put upon the kingdom by
the slaughter at New Orleans.
A veteran diplomat here declares that
the relations between France and Italy
are too much strained to endure. Un
less England can restrain Germany, he
says, tiie present Italian regime, as a
last desperate resource, must imitate
Napoleon 111. and embark upon war,
CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH,
Depot t of tli<» Situation for th* Week End.
ing January 8, 1894.
Chattanooga, Jan. 9.—The Trades
man, in its review of the industrial situ
ation in the south for the week ending-
Jan. 8. 1894, reports that no material
change in industrial conditions has taken
place. The number of new industries
in process of organization continues to
be above the average, indicating a pros
perous state of affairs, as compared with
the past few months. There can be no
doubt that the tide of revival in manu
facturing and mechanical affairs has
fairly set in.
It is shown by the increasing inquiry
for machinery of all kinds, by the for
mation of new co-partnerships and com
panies, by tne enlargements of
plants, and by the growing
sites for factories nnd industrial plarfta.
Southern merchants and southern banks
are in a good condition, and an adjust
ment of the pen-ling tariff question is.
.only needed to insure renewed pros
perity.
It reports 33 new industries as estab
lished or incorporated during the week,'
together with eight, enlargements of
manufactories.
Made Laws While the Train Ran.
Albany, Jan. B.—Curious features are
connected with the signing of the first
bill passed by the New York legislature
of 1894. It is the capitol appropriation
bill, which places $200,009 at the dispos
al of Commissioner Perry, to put at least
1,500 men to work at once. The bill
was passed in a hurry on Tuesday last
and was not engrossed when Lieutenant
Governor Sheehan left for New York, so
that it was not signed by him
and consequently could not be
signed by Governor Flower.
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan passed
through here on the Empire state ex
press. The train stops only a few min
utes' He was met at the depot by his
private secretary. Mr. McGoldrick, and
signed the bill just as the train was
about to start. Mr. McGoldrick was
compelled to jump from the moving
train and he injured his right hand by
falling. The bill was taken to Governor
Flower, who signed it.
Hoy (Tilled li.v Ilfs Father.
Elgin, 111., Jan. 9.—Clark Burr, a
wealthy farmer, killed his son Charles
with a shot gun here in a quarrel grow
ing out of the latter taking innsic lessons.
The young man, who was 17 years of
age, was endeavoring to draw a revolver
when the father fired. Burr gave bonds
of SIO,DUO, furnished by his neighbors.
Fattl Draws Well.
Nashville, Jan. 9.—Patti drew a
$7,800 house here and has left for At
lanta. She has signed a contract with
Manager Marcus Mayer for 15 more
conceits, making 40 in all, and extend
ing her tour to March 22. She was also
elected to life membership in the Ladies’
Hermitage association.
Mali stolen at Cartersville.
Chattanooga, Jan. 9.—Chief of
Postoffice Inspectors Whiteside received
a message stating that the pouches con
containing Saturday night’s entire mail
from the north, east and west were stol
en from the Cartersville depot. The thief
is unknown.
HOME GA., WEDNESDAY MORNIMQ, JANUARY 10, 1«»4.
WATTERSON’S WAY.
His Vigorous Attack of the
Democratic Tariff Bill.
SPEECH BEFORE A CLUB.
He Uses Strong Language in
Denouncing the Party
Measure.
l.f.'Cisvu.i.E, Jan. 9.—One of the most
remarkable political speeches which has
been delivered in Louisville in a long
time was made before the Watterson
club, the occasion being the celebration
of Jackson’s birthday by this well known
WWJIf .
HENRY WATTERSON.
political organization named in honor of
Hon. Henry Watterson, of The Courier-
Journal. The speech was received with
the greatest surprise, though with tre
mendous enthusiasm. Mr. Watterson
spoke with great vigor, and evidently
felt what he said.
Mr. Watterson began his address in
the following vigorous remarks:
I would not be entirely candid' if I did
not tell you at once that, there are some
things in the political outlook that jars
against my sensibilities nnd offend my
judgment. I mean no disrespect to per
sons in authority when I declare that (this
seems to me an era of very small things
and very small men. Yet the stream of
life goes on, bearing its awful cargo of
good and evil, of hope, and fear,, and hold-,
ing to the least of the generations the rela
tion it held to the greatest. And, surely,
never in the history of mankind were
deeper problems set to statesmen and phil
osophers than are hidden ip the dark clos
ets of contemporary experience, arising
out of the unfixed laws that pre to deter-!
mine and the undefined boundaries that'
are at once to separate and inclose the ac- '
cretions and rights of property and the op
portunities and the literties of the people.
It is now, aa ever, the old battle between
the many and the few, for the blessings of
free labor aud free thought, which, tinder
Ot'.r system, are supposed to be birthrights
of all.
Mr. Wattdtson then asks why in the
midst of a country where there are mil
lions lying idle, and plenty abounds,
does the cry of want and suffering go ,
up from one end of the land to the other.
He says that the Republicans tell us it
is because the Democratic party has
come into power! and that, on the other
hand, the Democrats tqjl ug, it re
sult of 20 years of—Republican rWsrule,
affl<iad legislation.
The truth of the matter is, according
to Mr. Watterson, both parties have
proven recreant to trusts imposed; both
have failed in the discharge of impor
tant duties laid upon them, and both
"are-TespOT.sible for the easting state of
affairs—the Republican party sinning in
excess, and the Democratic party guilty
of important omissions.
He said the cause of the revulsion of
feeling which was shown in 1893, was
the failure of the Democratic party,
which a year previous had swept tlie
country, to show a disposition to carry
out the program that bad been mapped
out.
This, bringing about an unusual state
of affairs summed up in the following
paragraph:
The political conditions are thus exactly
reversed. It is the victorious Democrats
who are disheartened, the vanquished Re
publicans who are encouraged. And the
question for you—the veritable, the un
terrified, tne original boys in the trenches
—the question for you to consider is,
whether you arc going to sit down and
sulk over it, or wake tc ths danger and
make yourselves heard and felt in those
seats of power, which exist by your will
and breathe the breath of life out of your
nostrils.
Mr. Watterson then entered into a dis
cussion of the present plank in the Dem
ocratic platform in reference to tariff,
He denounced vigorously the action of
certain democrats who attempted to in
sert a plank which to his mind was good
Republicrn doctrine, and when they
failed, then tried to have Mr. Cleveland
repudiate it. Failing in this they charged
that the substitution of the Neal plank
the present one—for the Vilas was the
midnight swirl of a turbulent mob. The
speaker said:
If history were fiction, and politics a
game of blind-man’s buff, poets would be
statesmen and only children would vote.
There was never a more deliberative act
done by a deliberative body than the sub
stitution of the Neal plunk for the Vilas
plank by the national Democratic conven
tion of 1592. It was the logical culmina
tion of a campaign of education covering
10 years. It was an act of the people set
ting aside a subterfuge of the politicians.
It was not done at the dead of night, un
der whip and spur, but between the hours
of 6 and 9 o’clock in the evening, when the
convention was wide awake, and knew
perfectly what it was about. It was not
planned to obstruct the nomination of Mr.
Cleveland; though, if the convention had
suspected that Mr. Cleveland had any
hand in the original tariff
olauk. which it struck out. be I
wouia not nave received one-taira or
its votes. Both Mr. Vilas and Mr. Whit
ney were assured by myself and others
that no obstruction was meditated; and it
is well known that, averse as I was to the
nomination of Mr. Cleveland, I regarded
it a foregone conclusion before the con
vention met, nnd had ceased to disturb
anybody, qr to be disturbed on that ac
count. In short, in the most decisive, and,
as far as anything in American politics
cin be solemn, in the most solemn —at
least in the most serious way—the conven
tion ended, as I hoped, finally and forever,
the long struggle between the forces of
light and darkness hi the Democratic
party, by stamping out a double tongued
assertion of its tariff policy, and inserting
a declaration which no human being could
misunderstand or misinterpret
After reviewing the magnificent vic
tory of the Democraticjiarty, under the
leadership of Grover Cleveland, “the
ideal" apostle of tariff reform, aud the
successful meeting of every charge
brought by the vanquished enemies, in
cluding flings at''sectionalism; the cry of
“confederate constitution’,’, Mr. Watter
son concludes as follows:
The Two Report,.
I have read with exceeding care and deep
concern, the reports accompanying the
newly introduced measure of tariff re
vision. The Democratic report begins by
a masterly declaration of tariff for revenue
only logic, to end in an actual exposition
of protectionist practice. The Republican
report seizes the weak point effectively,
anil, both In its sarcasm and its effrontery,
shows us how impossible it. is to placate
the implacable.
Democrats may learn from the report of
the Republican minority of the ways and
means committee, if they have any doubt
about it, how hopeless is tne task of urg
ing liberality upon monopoly, or reason
ing with th# demands of subsidy, or quell
ing the spirit of either. Thy concession of
today becomes the concession of tomorrow.
Give bounty an inch and she will take an
ell. Just think of a Democratic commit
tee tolerating the sugar bounty for a. sin
gle day! Yet, with the repeal of their
bounty before their eyes, the sugar claim
ants, professing to be Democrats, stood
around demanding their own terms under
threat of voting with the Republicans,
Aud so with every interest thAt is al'owed
to enter the ways nnd means committee
room. They all regard themsulvet as as
sociate members of the committee—a sort
of ex-officio congress by brevet—and it is
to do as we tell you, or die! As long as
this stand-and-deliver game is allowed to
go on—as long as there is no one to kick
the rogues and rascals out, and to pitch
after them their bogus samples and false
entreaties, and to close the windows and
bar the doors —be sure that we shall have
no reform which they can prevent.
I believe in the integrity and courage of
Grover Cleveland. I telieve "HWepgtri
otism and genius of J olm
we could put two Jaeknon
would live again. lam giving tile admin
istration the niost earnest ami disinterest
ed support, because I believe it is trying
to do right, ami because, in the main, my
judgment approves the fruits of its inten
tion. My judgment does not approve the i
Wilson bill, either in method or in detail;
but if it is the best that can be got out of
congress, so be it.
But it is far, very far, from a measure
that can be truthfully described as em
bodying the idea of tariff for revenue
only.’ It is merely better than the Me- l
Kinley bill in degree, not in kind, and if
protectionism is ever to lie dislodged, I
doubt the Trojan-horse strategy to which '
it seems to incline. We live In the age of
the Carnegies and the Goulds, not iu that ;
of Priam and Aeneas.
bodying the idea of 'ft tariff for revenue
only.’ It is merely butter than the Mc-
Kinley bill in degree, not in kind, and if
protectionism is ever to lie dislodged, I
doubt the Trojan-horse strategy to which
it seems to incline. We live in the age of
the Carnegies and the Goulds, not iu that
of Priam and Aeneas.
The robber barons know their business.
They never go to sleep. They relinquish
nothing. Their rapacity is insatiable. It
was the history of the old slave power that
the more it got rhe more it deinahdcd. It
might have had emancip;|Gon, and its
gradual and peaceful elimination from ihe
body corporate. It refused this, to end in
blood and flame, carrying with them vast
losses and cruel
lung to slavery,
defend and mainlain it,
not have it back today on
Mr. Wilson’s moderate dose of revenue
powders in protectionist capsules is rejec
ted by the protectionists as vigorously as
the slave owners rejected Mr. Clay’s sug
gestion of emancipation. Like the slave
holders, the robber barons yield nothing.
They will not reform themselves or con
sent that any one shall reform them. The
work must, therefore, be done from with
out. It will never proceed from within.
And when it is done, if it be done by
statesmen and not by the sword, the
American manufacturer will rise like one
who has teen in chains, amazed, as the
slave owner was, to find that the theory
he cherished was a curse, and not a bless
ing. The Chinese wall removed, the world
will be at his feet. Does national charac
ter count for nothing ? Does a laud teem
ing with original resources count for noth
ing? Are the creative energies and inven
tive genius of n people who have reversed
the feudal policies of the old world, to
build a fabric in the new whose corner
stone is competion and whose watch word
is freedom,’ to be accounted nothing?
The cry of the poor goes up to God for
work! But there is no work. Why? Be
cause there is overproduction. Why? Be
cause we can produce in nine months more
than we consume in 12. The remedy?
More consumers; wider markets; freedom
of trade with all mankind. Let us out of
this black hole of protect ionism, where,
with banks bursting, with money and mil
lionaires multiplying by hundreds, men
are starving by thousands. Let us out,
out to the world, and, with plants estab
lished, processes perfected and cheapened,
trademarks and patents carrying all the
protection that honesty ought to desire,
and we can meet and beat all our commer
cial rivals —yea, England—in every neu
tral market, recovering those markets
that geographically belong to us, but
which have been stolen from us by our
senseless policy of restriction.
Fellow Democrats, it is of the first im
portance for us to know, and to know as
speedily as possible, whether we have a
Democratic party, homogeneous and
strong, as in the day of the sage and hero,
whose memory we celebrate this night—a
party whose lines are laid in fixed princi
ples—honest money, home rule and free
trade —with power to compel discipline
everywhere—or. whether we are a ‘
agglomeration or factions,tnrown togetner
by the upheaval of the times. My own
effort is, and always shall be, for straight
politics atid square issues. I want to know
a spade when I see it, and to call it a
spade. I don’t want to deceive, to mislead
anybody. I love no neighbor less liecause
he does not agree with me. He may be
right and I inay be wrong. But let us at
least be honest. Let us say what we mean
and mean what we say. That is the roaa
to good government. It is also the road
to universal patriotism, which, founded in
free thought and free speech, aud support
ed by the virtue and intelligence of the
people, is to precede tljgt period of peace
on earth, good will to pen, to which the
the Christian world loaks as confidently as
to the coming of its Redeemer. I do not
despair of its realization. Ido not despair
of the Democratic party. The immediate
outlook may not be all that we would
have it, but the future is always ours. Let
us cling to it. Let us fight for the test
that it has to give.
Suicide Rather Than Hang a Woman.
Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 9.
Jones, the public hangman of Victoria,
has committed suicide by cutting his
throat because he was unwilling to exe
cute the death sentence pronounced
upon Mrs. Knorr for causing the death
of infants she received at a so called
“baby farm.”
A Military Arrest In Mexico.
Mexico, Jan. 9.—Vincente Vales 1
ques, a well known resident of this city, 1
has teen arrested by order of the war!
department, but on what charge is not)
known. He is now in the Santiago mil?
itary prison. I
DOLE SEEMS DEFIANT. (
He Flatly Refuses to Accede to Willie’s D«.
mands.
Victoria, B. C„ Jan.—The steadier
Warrimoo, which has just arrived,
brought advices from Honolulu uirder
date of Jan. 1. On Dec. 19 Minister
Willis demanded of the provisional gov
ernment that it surrender to the queen.
President Dole replied refusing to con
sider this demand. The government is
keeping the answer of Dole to Willis'
demand secret until it shall have had
time to reach the president.
The following summary, however,
has been obtained from good authority:
Dole begins by noting that thia is the
first official communication this govern
ment has had intimating in any way the
policy of President Cleveland towards
Hawaii. By no action of this government
has any matter connected with the late
revolution-been submitted to the author
ity of the United States. - /
This is carefully argqed, i
No intimation made to
the proviso*! anything
having teeß-ffofie 'WnflSloreil in the
premises until the of
the president, now by Minis
ter Willis. An resume is
given of a series of polMcal straggles
leading up to the revolution, including
the acts of Kalakaua before 1887, and
his obstructing and dictating legislation
by filling up the legislature wuh office
holders.
The climax was reached in-the opium
scandal when Kalakaua took a bribe'of
$71,000, previously prepared for the leg
islature. The citizens then united to
overthroxy the monarchy. This was
averted by his submission to the new
constitution, which took most of his ar
bitrary power away. Thence on until
his death he constantly chafed and
sought to evade those restrictions.
The inside history of the attempted
revolution of 1889 is then recited, and of
Liliuokaiani’s partiripatiou therein.
The opposition then shown by her to the
rights and interests of foreigners was,
after her ascending to the throne, con
stantly emphasized. It became violent
during the latter part of shown
jbvher inverse guqj
■■hints in opporitioa ■'i.'Jdl
legislature. '
Tiie events of thi '
reign are recited, the re-.:wtilat z
defunct lottery bill and tue removal of
the Wilcox cabinet, a'l through the
queen's personal influence. Dole recites
the attempted coup d'Etat action of the
committee of safety and two mass meet
ings of foreigners and natives. The com
mittee deemed the presence of American
forces necessary for tiie protection of life
and property and requested Minister
Stevens to land them.
Dole denounces, in the strongest terms,
the falsehood that Stevens was ever ask
ed to have his forces assist iu ths revo
lution. or that he ever did so. The gov
ernment disclaims having ever author
ized Damon or any other person to make
terms for the queen's surrender, and de
mes that he ever reported or was asked
to report such terms. Damon made
those terms on his own responsibility.
Never before or since the revolution did
any of the members of the committee of
Bsfety confer with Stevens about the
overthrow of the government.
The provisional government is respon
sible only to those who constituted and
are now maintaining it In power. It is
amenable to no foreign power on earth.
It has always been faithful to its con
stituents and by no act or intimatiou has
ever offered to submit its rights to the
United States or any other power. For
these reasons this government must re
fuse to consider the proposition of Min
ister Willis.
No allusion is made by president Dola
to Willis' appeals to their patriotism and
moral sense, nor to the terms of amnesty
Secured from the ex-queen.
DENIED ABSOLUTELY.
Minister Thurston Says They Already
Have a Recognized Government.
(Copyrighted by Associated Press.)
Honolulu, Jan. 9.—The proposition
for the establishment of a republic here
said to have been brought by Minister
Thurston and Mr. H. N. Castle, of The
Advertiser, is absolutely denied by both
of these gentlemen.
To the Associated I’ress Mr. Thurston
said: "Such an idea never entered our
heads. Why should it 't We are now
an established government. We have
oesn recogmzea uy notn me umtea
States and Russia, and to establish a re
? public would be but to renounce the re
cognized nation we have tor its exist
ence. This we do not propose to do.
Deny it, absolutely, and give it the
widest publicity,” concluded Mr. Thnrs-
’ ton. when interviewed.
' Mr. Oastle took the same view. He
! said: “You can see what my views are
from tb« columns of The Advertiser.
While, like Mr. Thurston, I am a Ha-
‘ born American, I am
not hpre to compromise unless our
1 national mother, America goes com
, pletely back on us, which I don't believe
, American patriots would tolerate."
j Blount nt Washington.
((Copyrighted by United I’ress.)
Washington, Jan. 9.—Ex-Congress
tnan Blount, former commissioner to
Hawaii, has arrived here. He was at
the' department of state bright aud early
anfi had an interview with Secretary
Gresham. Minister Thurston will re
turn ft t once to Washington where his
4ar vices will be much needed.
/ Some Appointments.
I Washington, Jan. 9.—The president
sent to the senate the following nomina
tions;
i John M. B. Sill, Michigan, minister
'resident and consul general of the United
to Korea.
States marshals: Albert A.
.'-■■Hmm, for the District of Columbia; J.
IW. Tulllbfte, eastern -district of Louis
iana. O. J. Carroll, eastern district cf
North Carolina; J. N. McKenzie, mid
dle district of Tennessee.
General luung litluriiing,
San Francisco, Jan. 9.—General P.
M. B. Young, United States minister to
Guatemala and Honduras, has arrived
here on the -steamer City of Sydney, on
leave of absence, en route to Washing
ton, and thence to his home at Atlanta,
Georgia. Minister Young says that war
between Nicaragua and Honduras now
threatens to assume formidable propor
tions.
To Elect an Assistant
Richmond, Jan. 9.—Bishop Whittle
has called a special meeting of the coun
cil of the diocese for the purpose of
electing an associate bishop. The meet
ing will be held at St. Paul church in
this city, Jan. 31.
I'eixoto Has Resigned.
Paris, Jan. 9. —A dispatch received
in this city dated Rio, Jan. 9, states that
President Peixoto, of Brazil, nas re
signed. —v- —-X
Jan ~
Ham
ed United succeed him-
self.
CITY GLEANINGS.
A Baptist Election.
At the conference of the First Baptist
church Sunday Co). Chas. M. Harper was
elected treasurer and Capt. A. B. S
Mosely clei k,
Charming Accompaniments,
All who attended the conceit at Shorter
night before last were delighted, and the
artists who appeared are receguMumuch
praise. One feature
the beauty the
the
lhum P &
m s si n-
■ ' 'nun:
Ul ‘ l! ’ ’1
‘C: ■ 1
telling mouths old
boy had taken tm^ v
show. The doctor
At the First Pr?sbyterian.
The regular prayer meeting
held at the First Presbyterian cbuicCT®|
night, beginning at 7:00 o’clock. AIIT
coedially invited.
A Lecture on Armenia.
Dr. J. A. George, an
lecture tonight at the
church on the manners .!
his native country. _Jt
vary luteresting. All cordially invited.
No Opera Tills Week.
Manager Nevin, of the opera house,
received notice yesterday that the Ta
vary Opera Company, booked for Thurs
day night, would not be able to fill the
date. The company has stranded in
Augusta.
Teague Will Die.
Peter Teague, the negro shot Sunday
was very low last night, and it was con
sidered impossible for him to recover.
Those Tax Books.
Judge Meyerhardt has all but five
of the missing tax digests, but thesr
he has received are not those lost. They
are duplicates that were kept in the
Ordinary’s office. The law requires that
there be three separate sets of the digests.
The Convicts Ready,
Work will be begun at once on Rome’s
streets by the county convicts. They are
now camped at the crossing of the C. R.
& C. and R. & D. railroads, and Capt.
Moore says he never had a better work
ing set. This means much for Rome’s
streets.
PRICE UVE CENTS.
WHITE CITY BURNED
»
The Recent Scene of Splendid
Achievement Now in Ruin.
FAIR BUILDINGS GONE.
A Magnificent but Terrible
Picture Unfolded to the
Gaze of the People.
Chicago. Jan. b.—The beautiful
White City is in ashes, and the greatest
building on earth—the liberal arts build
ing of the World’s Fair is a mass of
smouldering ruins.
Probably no more magnificent yet ter
rible spectacle was ever witnessed on
the continent than that of the destruc
tion which visited the World’s Fail
grounds about 7 o’clock p. m.
The fire started in the Casino, just
east of the agricultural building and
south-of the peristyle. The Casino was
quickly' devoured, and the Sanies surged
north on top of the peristyle and drop
ping made a second line of fire along the
base of the columns. The flames then
sprang through the wusicr hall whyfe*,
corresponds at the
4- s t ‘ 1 (
V 1 ' ' eL lire w; i
peristyle were
spectacle for those people fortunate®
enough to Ire on the moving sidewalk ’
just east of the pcr.-stylo was that of a
succession of gigantic human beings.
The spectators at this time, partly to
guar.l their lives and prevent wholesale
robbery; of tho exhibits, had been large
ly driven by tho police westward over
tho bridges from the lake and lined up
in a soinl mass against the electricity
building. Here they could see great
blazing fragments dropping down upon
ti.o exhibits below.
Through the glass in the buildings
could beseen pieces falling like boulders
in an avalanche, cr'ttshing and burning
the exquisite French section and threat
ening to destroy the Russian and British
sactions. - »
The boats and engines osi the lake side
had by this time the flames in
the ashes of the pt in the low
er eolmiade of the side of the
bni were
t subdued,
i orU v P- m - the
BLi; • !ith->
>• build
> f
A iitA g
a i >< > \ e.
f > : e> : .
■- 1 ■ -f 1
ur> i ark than it waM
-i ■ by six in
l"nldmgs. The caM’-j 1 ?/' ■
- - we. tti'l of
’ 1 s '."a -t » £'•
li/ii's and I.reek
l.atWJ
1 is arch*s w< >■ '
stately e..b- [I
li" in cdl.lns. -.
cm.de win ii | s
; i~'l' o‘. W bn 11 in 111
>‘g;n.:m! 'n 11.. n
." ■ -pp or.'Knn in
bus and ms heralds with [■&&»&
and chariots are
the muss of mins and 2 :m®MHMB|
wise, is a nmhmeholy UotH%' w**f**l
Save here and there. wbe r*®ra||||H||||
girders protrude-*, not a norMfiMagM
saved from th . flames.
AU about the walks are sH / ’• ."
debt is and charred In suds BSHI
wind blew from the PuruingJHßHH
and little piles of white
some of th., brands were consiHHß
falling. Manufacturers
within and without, presents
des r.-d either by artist or exhilMMH
The lattice work between
and th« carre 1 one, covering tbjHHH
a:.de on the east side, was
®U>a pi.'nt above the sent IwniHffig
States section south, BBMI
hei:, -’ r ' n - mbb
lU-oh :ir-ii-.i TP ' MgM
wore
. 4 .>X 4 ? v *
water which, iv'd-
two inches in depth, are innn
rneral.'le ladls containing precious ware*
baled and bound for res.hipment as sooi
as they could be released from bond
Upon and about them lay, now destroy
ed, the decorations of the pavillious.
The French, Belgian and English set
tions suffered most and in the spaces o
cupied by them are to be seen the mol
disastrous results The scene ins.de til
great manufacturers’ building was ■
absorbing interest. Here and there waj
seen boxes with their tops half buri®
through, but their contents safe, ex.®
for water that leaked into them. Af®
of the timbers in the roof are still bd®
ing and smoking. JMH
A rough estimate places the ® ',
the buildings at about t’suo.isi'i.
timate of the loss on the exhibit®-
given until the cases <•<>ntain'
goods are examined. B
Judge Key to K« tire.
Knoxville, Jan. 9.-Hon.
Key. United States judge
district of Tennessee, has .stat''dM|M
will retire from the bepch so. n
seventieth birthday, whh h
27. He has filled the office v®
tinction for many years, and
retire to his private home at <
Judge Key was postmaster ga®M®|
der President Hayes. Among tflb , •
cants to succeed him on the
T. S. Webband Judge IL H. MbHH
of Knoxville, and Judge T -.
Chattanooga.