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VOL XXX. NO. 31: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9. ISs.h. AT HIS SAME OLD TRICKS C. H. SIMMONS IS A RRRHTKO IN NEW YORK FOR STEALING MONEY. MATTERS IN MONTGOMERY. Thf Man Who «hi ’*i»rrlonr«I lor III*) Aiigu»l* Hank Knblier}', on H«-|>re- Ion* of HI* Friend*- A Queer Election < ajier. Atlanta, Oct. 8.—In the distribution of offices which the people of Georgia in dulged in laBt Wednesday, Dade county and the Forty-fourth Senatorial district came to the front with a rather queer and h(g arre8t WM aworn “ ut in a j<uticd coart rare election episode. T. J. Lumpkin was b c# C . Brown, a Court street retail The Wheel* of .Instice Grinding on Ever? Corner—Gov. "eay at Home. Montgomery, Oct. 8.—This is fall court week iu Montgomery. The City Court, County Court and Chancery Court met this morning and began to grind out justice, to say nothing of the Poliee Court and numerous justice’s courts. In the City Coart a grand jury was organized, and will proceed to look after the criminals. The docket will be taken up regularly next week. CHARGED WITH RIFLING A SAFE. W. B. Dense, a young man of respecta ble appearance, who recently came here from Macon, Ga., was arrested this morn ing on a serious charge. The warrant for THE MILLS BILL RIVAL. SENATOR ALLISON PRESENT" THE SUBSTITUTE TO THE SENATE. He Make* a Long SpMfh in Favor of It. and Proini*** .More -Senator Vance Defend* the Mill* BUI—The People'* Interest*. a tandidate for Senator but was defeated, ^^ry merchant. Brown alleges that His friends however, voted for him in th., he went ^ hJfl 9tore yef(U;rda /. accom- saine election for Itenrcwnt at it e. and pani<;(1 by that * he Brown was * were countea n £“ drinking and went to sleep, aud when be close. Mr. Allison said it was impossible the candidates jor mat awoke Dense was gone aud his Brown’s to say when tbe Senators would re same election for Representative, when the votes were counted he had majority over the ca^d .dates fort ha. awoke Den« waa gone and his" ■ Brown’s: office. Politics is tnily a fine artt in« the Mfe had beeQ r « Dbed of ^ Brown HLate ‘j L'Jinpk D PI . y charges Dense with the theft. Dense gave at home is evidently of ^ ^ Senate and and will have a hearing to-morrow. Washington, Oct. S.—The Senate, at 12:40 tbi* morning, proceeded to the con sideration of the tariff bill. Tbe reading in full was dispensed wit a, and tbe Senate substitutes was ordered to be first consid ered. Mr. Harris asked Mr. Allison, who is in charge of tbe bill, to fix the time at which the general debate on the bill should his people want him House at the same~ti;ne. PENSIONS FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS. The act of 1887 for the relief of married and disabled soldiers does not fix the date for the second payment and inquiries are constantly being made of the Executive Department by beneficiaries when they can get their money. In answer to these, and to fix a date definitely, with the rea sons therefor, the Governor has issued the following executive order, which gives all the information necessary: Executive Department, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 6.—Inquiries having been re ceived at this office in reference to the sec ond payment to disabled soldiers under tbe act of Oct. 24,1887, and no date for said payment being fixed by said act, fur ther than that they shall be nude within twelve months from the 21th of Oct., 1888, and the prospect being that the clerical force of tlii* department will be fully oc- cuped by tbe heavy work incident to the meeting of the Legislature, and the large number of commissions for county officers which must be prepared and sent out in January,and it being possible that the Leg islature may increase tne amount of boun ties under said act, or the number of bene ficiaries under it. It is therefore Ordered, That blanks for applications for bounty under said act be prepared and forwarded io the Ordinaries of the several counties by the 20th day of January, and that payments be promptly made us soon as such applications are returned, exam ined and aoproved, By t in- Governor. J. B. Gordon, Jam. T. Nihbkt, Governor. .Sec. Ex. Dep’t. ’TWA8 HIS NATURE SO TO DO. The public will remember the celebrated Augusta bank robDery, about which so much was said aud written a few years ago. < Lie of t he thieves, C. II. Simmons, a young in.in hailing from Now York State, was caught, convicted and sent to the pen itentiary. His New York friends and rela tive made great and persistent efforts to obtain his pardon and release. New York Congressmen joined in the petition, aud Augusta people were not behind in the ap peal for executive clemency. It has not been a great while since the Governor, yielding to these petitions and endorse ments, the representations made, the youth and alleged previous good character of the convict, ana the length of time already served by him, had him discharged from the penitentiary. New York has been well reoaid for the interest in the matter, as .Simmons is behind the bars in Albany, New York, now charged with the robbery of (30,000 in bonds from a buggy in front of a bank iu that city. Col. Towers, principal keeper, received a letter to-day from the prosecuting attor ney of Albany county asking for a tran script of the Georgia penitentiaty record of Simmons. The probability is that Sim mons will serve a term in the penitentiary at Albany. THE AMENDMENT HOPELESSLY DEAD. The election returns received by the Secretary of State at this date are not com plete, but they are sufficient to settle the defeat of the constitutional amendment. All the counties have been heard from save about a dozen, and from what is known of them, the total vote in the State will show a majority against the amend ment not far from 10,000. When it is con sidered that there was no effort made any where iu behalf of the amendment, and the country vote was left to its own sweet will, tbe majority against it is small, the surprise being that it was not a great deal larger. NO TROUBLE ABOUT HIS SALARY. Capt. Bob Irvin, of the comptroller- general’s office was distributing his salary around among provision merchants Satur day and during its process gave one dealer a $20 gold piece instead of a silver half dollar. Capt. “Gum” as he is called by familiar friends spent two sleepless nights and a restless Sunday trying to locate the loss, and was scouring the streets at an early hour this morniug. The honest dealer returned the gold piece, aud the business of the State iu the comptroller’s office is now proceeding as smoothly as usual. When State officials recklessly throw (20 gold pieces about for silver dollars, it raises the suspicion of a ofdoubt the complaint about small salaries. A PROFESSIONAL GOOSE THIEF. In the Recorder's Court this morning Albert Jackson, colored, a famous goose thief, was convicted of larceuy and fined $25 aud costs. He has made a specialty of stealing and Belling geese. Felder Liv ingston was also convicted of larceny and fined $10. Quite a number of smaller case3 were disposed of. THE FUNERAL RITES. The funeral of the late A. F. Williamson took place at bis old home, Lowndesboro, yesterday. He was Coroner of Montgomery county and for many years an honored resident of this city. OOVERNOR SEAY AT HOME AGAIN. Governor Seay has returned irom his Summer stay at Blount Springs. Major Sol. Palmer, Stale Superintendent of Education, has returned from Gunters- ville, having been quarantined out of Montgomery twenty days. A BUSY DAY IN THE CITY. The cotton market is a little flat to-dav, but the streets are crowded and this is Montgomery’s busiest day of the season so far. The weather is fine, and the fanners are {licking and marketing their cotton very rapidly. The bulk of the crop will bo out aud sold by the last of this month. BLAINE IN MICHIGAN. say sign their right of speaking on the bill. It was a very important subject, taking in every interest and every industry of the country. It seemed to him that he ought not to take any responsibility respecting it. He com curred with the Senator from Tennessee in the desire that the bili should be proceed ed with as rapidly as possible. Mr. Harris remarked that there was not a Senator but who hod a well defined and fixed opinion as to the principle that ! corn and meat if it could not be disposed of in foreign markets. HOW IT WOULD BE THEN. If the American producers were con fined to the home market, they would j have to do what the American manufac turers did when they found themselves in the presence of an overstocked market, shut down their works and turn the blessed American laborer into the streets to beg bread for himself and children. The Democratic party, he said, had for the last tea years made honest efforts to reduce the taxes to the requirements of the Government, and had been, at every step, thwarted oy the Republican oarty. REPUBLICAN INCONSISTENCY. Tbe Finance Committee acknowledged ' the imperious necessity of a reduction, but blamed first the President of the United States for the existence of the surplus, and said that he could hare expended it in pay ing a premium of 30 per cent to their friends, the bond holders. It is very true that he could, said Mr. Vanca, or he could have squandered it as countless millions have been squandered under the administration of his predeces sors, but he did not choose to do it. THEY DEFEAT ALL STEPS TO REFORM. They say, in the second place, that the responsibility rest on the party that con trols the House ol Representatives, and that this is the first bill which the House has sent to the Senate for reducing the revenue in severol years. Nobody will be deceived by that, for it is as well known IN HIS ROBE OF ERMINE. AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING MELVILLE \Y. FULLER CLOTHED WITH THE MAJESTY OF OFFICE. He s****ar* that He Wilt, a* Chief Justice of the United State*. Adminl«ter Jus tice Faithfully and Impartially. According to the Law. Of the Exp««iti»n Hoard—Veteran'* Com mittee Meeting—Exhibits and Note*. The Exposition Board of Directors held their regular weekly meeting last night, and no meeting ever showed more enthu siasm for a good object than was shown by some of Columbus’s best business men iu the coming Exposition. The reports of the President and Secretary showed splendid work all along the line. Every de partment is rapidly filling up. and pa'rties who intend gettiug advantageous spaces had better come forward before it is too late, as onlv a limited amount of space cau now be had. Letters have been received from the Ala bama State Agricultural Society and from Washington, Oct. S. — Chief Justice Fuller took hts oath of office, aud assumed the active duties of his position to-day. An hour before the time tor the opening of the court, tbe narrow space allotted to the Department of Agriculture and Immi the general public in the court chamber, gration. which promise every possible aid was crowded by men and women, who io the Exposition from “our sister State." wanted to witness the ceremony of the the vetebass’ meeting. installation of a chief jastice. and at that „ , _ . , _ , , time the sore trials of the attaches of the ^ esterday at « o clock, at the Exposition marshal’s office began. It was an orderly, office, there was an interesting and en- well-mannered throng of Congressmen, thusiastic meeting of the special commit- attorneys and ladies, which sought to pack itself into a space far too small to contain it, and naught but the crowding marred the usual solemn decorum of the proceed ings. The attempt to reserve the oar lor those entitled to admission was only partially successful. THE DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Among the people of note who touod places in the room were Judge Allen G. Thurman, who was conducted to a seat tee from the Confederate Veterans' Asso ciation. Tbe object of the meeting was to confer with the Exposition Committee no Veterans’ Day. EDWIN MARTIN AT REST THE BRAVE EDITOR OF THE TIMES- UNION IS LAID IN HIS GRAVE. All Jack* >nvllle Turn* Out t, Pay n Lx* TrilMlt* to Him I More Favorable Ite.Hirt—Decatur, \l» , Lo*e* Her Fourth Doctor. Jacksonville. Oct. S.—The weather was clear and cool to-day, except at mid day, when the mercury rose above 80. The funeral of Eiwin llamu, late editor of the Times-Union, took place this morning and was largely atten led. A beautiful ttoral croas.sent by the employes of the Times-Union, lay upon the casket. Right Rev. Edwin G. Weed, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, read the service of the church. All the attachees of the Times-Union eitablishment, some sixty in nuraoer, representing the edito- i&l, business and mechanical depart ments, attended iu a body, wearing Rev. Robert' H. Harris, D. D., a survivor °. f *£• of the rweuty-niuth and Fifty-seventh would control his vote to every pnase and to the people as it is to the Senators who within the space reserved for the mar- He Speak* of Prohibition and Attacks Mr. Dickinson a* an Ignorant Upstart. Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 8.—Blaine and Ins party, when they arrived here this afternoon, were gfeeted by an immense and enthusiastic crowd. Escorted by a long procession of uniformed companies, Blaine and party were conveyed in car riages to the hotel where they dined. At 3 o’clock the doors of Hartman’s Hall were feature of the bill. He thought it more important to the country that the Senate act upon the bill, rather than to have an extended debate upon its general princi ples. If the Senator from Iowa would agree, he Mr. Harris: would in acknowl edgement, consent to have a fixed time at which the general debate should close. Mr. Allison thought it ratner premature to make any suggestion as to that matter to-day. Mr. Harris—“Does the Senator think that ten days, or two weeks would be sufficient for a general deoate.” Mr. Allison—“I hope so.” Mr. Harris—“Then I will ask the unan imous consent to close the general de bate on this bill in ten days.” Mr. Allison—“I would not like to con sent to that at the very beginning. It might be found that we wanted eleven or twelve days.” MR. ALLISON EXPLAINS THE BILL. Mr. Allison then proceeded with his statement as to the bill. He said that the Senate bill differed from the House bill, in fact it proposed to deal with all schedules of the tariff, while the House bill did not. The House bill did not deal with the tobacco schedule, silk sched ule, or wine and liquor schedule, and has dealt but slightly with the sugar schedule. Tbe Senate bill had been made upon the principle of protecting American labor and American industry. That was its aim and purpose. The Senate Committee on thrown open and the crowd poured in in a great flood, which occupied every inch of ! Finance had sought to care for every in space. The larger part of it was j dustry in the country. The reductions of made up of workingmen in the factories, who listened to Blaine with close attention aud frequently cheered his good points. His topic was protection and the home market, and he took for his text a passage which he quoted from a recent, speech of Postmaster-General Dickinson, in these words: “New England selfishly hangs on the body politic, absorbing make the assertion that almost the entire body of the Republican members in the House have resisted at every step every bill that the Democrats have tried to pass within that period, and were able, with the help of a handful of Democrats, to defeat every such bill, and they know that those Democrats who aided the Re publicans to defeat the tariff reduction, were applauded to the skies, and made patriots and moral protectionists, by brevet, on the field of battle. They know that for ten years past, no Republican in the House of Representatives certainly, no considerable number of Republicans, had so much as proposed a bill to reduce the taxes. ONE FOR THE PEOPLE, THE OTHER NOT. The House bill is framed not to relieve the Treasury, but to relieve the people, while the Senate bill is framed so as to re lieve the Treasury and to increase the bur dens of the people, and after all that can be said, that is the difference between the two bills. Mr. Hiscock then obtained the floor, aud the bill went over till to morrow. After a short executive session, the Senate, at 4:50, adjourned. Hou*e of Representatives. Among the bills introduced in the House aud referred was cue by Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, appropriating $200,000 to sup press infection in the inter-state commerce of the United States, and a bill to establish a new land district in Mississippi. Mr. McRae, who, as representing the shells, aud who became the conspicuous centre of attraction during the half hour proceeding the entry of the Chief Justices; Mrs. Fuller, the wife of the Chief Justice, with her six daughters and one son, for whom seats were reserved; Mrs. Justice Harlau, Mrs. Senator Cockrell, Attorney- General Garland. Japanese Minister Mut- on, wife and secretary; Senators Davis, i once, and will be furnishe Butler, HamptOD,_ Farweli, _ George, federates in this section wh Mitchell, Dolpn and Spooner; Congress- them out. meu Breckenridge, Wheeler ind Herbert, to call at Georgia Regiment, presided. In the ab sence of the regular secretary, Mr. A. A. Dozier, Captain G. E. Thomas, jr., acted a* secretary. Mees :s. T. J. Bates, E. E. Yonge, T. ll. Mahoue. W. R. Bedell, J. M. Fletcher and G. A. Clark, were present. The other members of the committee were unavoidably abseut. but they sent their re grets and expre ted sympathy with the movement. A circular letter, to be sent to “old Con federates,” was submitted by the Presi dent of the Exposition Company and approved by the Committee. Several hundred of these letters will be struck at d to any Con- 10 desire to send of Alabama, and Solicitor-General Jenks PRELIMINARY OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. The Chief Justice arrived at the capital at 11:30, and proceeded to the private ojfice of the court, where he took the oath of allegiance in the presence of the associate justices, tbe oath being administered by the senior member of the court, Associate Justice .Miller. At 12 o’clock the gavel of the crier fell, and at the announcement of the honorable Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the seated portion of the assemblage arose and remained standing in respectful silence The Associate Justices, in their white robes of silk, preceded by the marshal, entered in the procession as usual. HE ENTERS THE CHAMBERS. The Chief JusMce, also wearing his robe of office, was escorted to his place at the All veterans will be expected Exposition headquarters and get a lot of these circulars to mail to their I comrades. The Secretary was instructed to write to the Atlanta Confederate Veteran’s As sociation and secure a copy of their by laws and constitution; and, on motion of Mr. W. R. Bedell, a committee, composed of Messrs. W. R. Bedell, T. J. Bate*, and T. H. M a hone, was appointed to provide badges to be worn by all veterans at t ho re union. Mr. G. A. Clark moved that the badge consist of three bars of ribbon—red, white and red. President Harris sug gested that at part of the programme on Veterans’ Day, the veterans review the volunteer troops, and on the second day the volunteer troops review the veterans. 1 A special programme for November 16 and 17, which days are veterans’ days, will be arranged later. A banquet will be given, many prominent ex-ConfederaP i Masonic bodies, Knights of Honor, Jack sonville Press Club, and a large concourse of citizens and friends followed the re mains to the place of interment in the city cemetery. The Times-Union office was closed for two hours during the funeral services. The pall bearers were W. R. Carter, editor of the Metropolis, Colonel HitefleJd Walker, B. F. Dillon, the Florida superintendent of the Western Uunion Telegraph Com pany, C. H. Borg and F. W. Hawthorn. The funeral arrangements were in charge of the secret societies and T. R. Stockton, business manager of the Times-Union. NO FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS. The Masonic fraternity in Florida has issued the following circular: “Jacksonville, Fla., October s. “To all the Masonic Fraternity to whom this shall come: * grateful greeting— Owing to the generous charity of our brethren throughout this broad land our present and future necessities arising from the prevalence of the yellow feverare fully supplied,not alone to relieve oar immediate vicinity, but also the brethren of in footed towns in Florida; therefore, with grateful hearts and thanksgiving, the Masonic Re lief Committees ot Jacksonville, requ.-st contributions be for- that no warded. [Signed further Sioi MU tad pubho u3reora*i«Si,‘IK. .SSBd« ; ff«. calculated at *71.000,000, tdose by tbe 3,d- I flour, yielded to Mr.Wueeler, of Ala- Jh; to=«r.bleS„„ = Court of the Dm, Clerk’s desk. The Associate Justices j will be present and a great time is expeet- bowed to the assemblage and took their 1 J rt " 1 —“ seats. They were only six in number, Jus tices Gray and Matthews being absent. The Crier called: “Oh, yes! oh, yes! oh, ate bill would amount to about $73,000,000, MILLS’ BILL ENCOURAGES IMPORTS. The latter computation had been made up on the idea that where the rates of duty were increased there would be a corre sponding, or at least, a partial reduction iiaiigu v/11 tuu uv/uj 1 viv^ txuovji o" . - - 7 j . * wealth and giving nothing in return, and ol importations, and that thus the revenue the revenue la s, ~ vr . 1 i i j i .-».•**. a rpuiamn nr a a p we buy of New England at the extortion ate prices kept up by the tariff, while at the same time we sell her nothing.” Mr. Blaine said when he read this speech, he looked up the States which he gave aud which show that New England annually takes from the States west aud south of her four hundred million dollars worth of food products, coal, iron, copper, lumber, cottou, wool and manufactured goods, while the entire value of the products we sent to Old England last year, of all imag inable articles, was $325,000,000. [Cheers.] “Now, gentlemen,” hesaid, “if you want to know what the value of the home mar ket at your door is, by an exchange of in dustries, see what 4,000 000 ot people en gaged in the arts, can take from you at your door and among your fellow citizens, as compared with 40,000,000 beyond the seas. [Cheers.] Is anything more needed to prove the wonderful advantage of a home market ?” I am speaking only of New England. There is New York aud New Jersey, and that great State of Pennsylvania and vast East oi which I do not speak, for I am answering for the section that has been as sailed by the Postmaster General. Mr. Blaine went on to say that he had a piece of advice to give Mr. Dickinson, and Qe imparted it in two anecdotes—one of an upstart in General Scott’s army, and another of James Fox, implying ignorance of his country. I commend Mr. Don M. Dickiusou to a serious aud prayerful study would be reduced; but the manifest pur pose and intent of the House bill was to increase the importation of the articles placed on the free list, and of the articles where the rates of duty were reduced, and of course it was a question whether or not XV »* U UVVUV* v* | j . . . . . , , , . * , that increase of importation would not administration, seized upon this demand bama, who addressed the House on the ' te< * States are adimonished U.dm.near tariff question. and th ?, ir attention, for the court is I now sitting-” MR. WHEELER OF ALABAMA j „ HERE AND READY.” The first business laid before the Con- , - . - r gress, he said, was the message of the I After a moment of silence, JusticeMiller President recommending the revision of Gentlemen of the Bar. I have the The necessity for such pleasure to inform you that since the last a revision was clearly shown by the uu- j r f t^ 1S C< h rt ^ n< hil 9 vt^ J w ri p^n n f’ answerable logic of that remarkable state j a Chief Justice, Honorable M. W..Fuller, paper, and the Democrats of the House at ^a 8 Deen appointed and confirmed by the once addressed chemselves to tne task. Senate, and has received his commission^ The Republicans, after a search for faults or defects ed. The committee are in earnest. They adjourned subject to the call of the chairman aud this call will be made as soon as letters of invitation are heard from. EXHIBITS FROM FAR AND NEAR. The Southern Immigration Convention which meets in Montgomery, November 20, will arrange to come in a body to our great show. Entries were made yesterday in nearly every department and from points as far away as Terre Haute, Indiana. A Terre Haute lady enters twenty different articles in the department of fine arts and fancy work. A splendid entry, and one of the best so more than counterbalace the reduction of the rates and increase tne revenue rather than diminish it. SENATE BILL WILL REDUCE SURPLUS. There was no question, however, but that the Senate bili would reduce the reve nue between sixty-one and 3eventy-three million dollars, and in hri judgment, the reduction would be substantially midway between those two points. The reduction would be not merely from the import duties, but also from the internal revenue. THE TAX ON TOBACCO. Referring to the question of tobacco, Mr. Allison said that he had not been very vigorous and urgent in removing the tax on that article, but he supposed that there was practically a sal sentiment in favor of off that tax. It had been reduced at vari ous tftues from 38 cents a pound to S cents a pound, which was said to be an onerous imposition on many of the agricultural States. He had yielded, and the Commit tee on Finance had yielded, to that sup posed sentiment. The only difference be tween the House bill and the Senate oill, in regard to tobacco, was that the Senate fora revision of the laws aud a reduction of the surplus as a key note of their cam paign, and the misrepresentations of Dem ocratic purposes were relied upon as effective party ammunition. DOWN LIKE AN AVALANCHE. Denunciations come with the force of an avalanche, from Republicans in all stations, and from all sections. The un crowned king, Mr. Blaine, dispatched his famous message from the imperial courts, where, for a year, he had been seeking state-craft inspiration, and the cry was echoed by the leaders of all grades, down to the newest fledged aspirant for political preference. Tinkering with the tariff, as they chose to describe our efforts, was especially de- univer- l nounced, and they demanded that the cus- taking toms laws should be left untouched. Ev- ! ery intelligent man in the United States knew that this position was taken by Re publicans because they felt the necessity of aggressive antagonism. These purely political strategems were not concurred in j by the real statesmen and sagacious busi ness men of the Republican party, j The charge so often made by the Re publicans that the Democrats could not — — t' L “ — — > 7 „ . puuuciiiis mat tuc wnuuunw uuuiu IIUL of thri short saying (iguorancei of Charles bill made a redaction of *l.o0 » thousand un it e upon the tariff measure wasexploded MUNICIPAL POLITICS. A mass meeting of citizens was held to night. which was largely attended, to rat ify the municipal ticket put out Jay the committee of sixty, acting for the conser vative movement. A number of citizens addressed the meeting in favor of the ticket, claiming it a temporary settlement of the Prohibition question, which all agree is seriously hurting Atlanta. The Antis were not satisfied with the ticket, because the Antis on it were selected by the Prohibitionists. John B. Goodwin, the most influential Anti in Atlanta, made a speech agaiust it James Fox. [Laughter and cheers.] THE COOLIES ake coming. Two Ship-Loads Arrive at Sau Fraacisco. Floods in China—The Yacht Coronet. San Francisco, Oct. 8.—The steamer Belgic arrived yesterday, twenty-nine dajs from Hong Koug, having been de layed by head wiuds aud high seas. She brings 176 U hinese. Yesterday being Sun day there was no effort made to land them. The Duke of Westminster also arrived from Hong Kong via Van Couvers, B. C., with 251 Chinese aboard. All ot these Chinese, with the exception 1 of fifteen, whose destination is Panama, have Custom House return certificates. The number brought by the Belgic is much smaller than would have been brought on that vessel had there not been consid erable talk in China before it left about the probability of Chinese passengers not be ing able to land when they reached here. The officers on the steamer say that some such law as the exclusion act has been expected iu China, and this anticipation exercises deterrent influence in Houg on manufactured cigars, and also took off and rebuked by the almost unanimous j the tax of $1 on retail dealer* iu tobacco. Democratic vote upon that excellent bill, i The Senate bill increased the duty ou im- passed by the Home in July last. ported cigars from $2 50 a thousand, wfrf duty R-»rvn to pritiptsf and 25 per cent ad valorem to a specific were dlt\ bol. d to criticise. duty of $3.50 a thousand. The effect of this The most astute and far-seeing Repub- chauge would be, ho thought, to increase iicau politicians insisted that their policy the duty on imported cigars, but as they were a luxury, he did not think that the j increase would be very much felt. A change had also been made iu the Senate bill as to duty on cigar wrappers,,which was fixed at 75 cents a pound. A STEP TOWARDS FREE TRADE. In comparing the two bills, Mr. Allison : said that the Senate bill was a clear and distinct measure to the protection of . American industries, while tne House bill was a step, and long step, in the direction of what was commouly known as free : trade. HE WILL SPEAK AGAIN. In conclusion, he said it was his purpose, and the purpose of the Senators on his side of the cnamoer, to proceed as fast as possible with the discussion of the bill. At some future time he might have occa was to criticise all Democratic measures, and though taunted to produce something better, they, by non-action, admitted their inability to do 90. When our bill reached the Senate, the party leaders who en gineer the political campaigns of the Re publicans determined that their party should not be placed upon tbe defensive by putting in print their partisan substi tute for the House bill. holding the bibie in one hand read from manuscript the oath of office. “30 HELP ME GOD.” “I, Melville Weston Fuller, do solemnly swear (or affirm! :that I will administer justice without respect to persons and do equal right to the poor and the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially dis charge and perform all the duties incum bent on me as the Chief Justice of the United States, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to tbe constitution and tbe laws of the United States, so help me God.” His voice was clear and his enunciation firm and distinct, at the beginning, but be fore the end was reached a marked tremor was manifest. ON THE HIGH THRONE OF JUSTICE. The Chief Justice was now escorted be hind the bar and to his official seat in the center. Again the court and assemblage arose, this time without other summons than that of the hand of the clerk. Justice Miller took the hand of the Chief Justice and with a smile ot welcome ad dressed him in a low voice: “I welcome you, sir, on behalf of this court as one of its members, aud as its Chief Justice.” HE OPENS THE COURT. The Chief Justice bowed, took his seat, and when the assemblage was again seated, j he =aid: “I will say to the members of the bar that, as is the well known usage, the i court will transact no business to-day, but ! applications for admission to the bar will i be entered.” Attorney-General Garland, several Sen- j ators and other members of the bar, now i presented the names of applicants for ad- Macon, visited the grounds yesterday with Secretary Gordon and chose a larjje space in machinery hall, where they will make a complete exhibit, including stationery and portable engines, saw mills, grist mills and cotton gins. EXPOSITION NOTES. An addition will have to be made to the art gallery to accommodate the large number of works of art already promised. Two carloads of iron and wire benches, cages, etc., for the poultry and bench de partment, have been received at Exposi tion Park. Two gentleman, one from Atlanta and one from Macon, Doth stated in the Expo sition office yesterday that the Columbus Exposition grounds were the best in the State. The engine which will run the machine ry at the Chattahoochee Valley Exposition is the same engine which was used for a like purpose at the St. Louis Exposition. Invitations were sent out to all tbe mili tary and civic societies in this city and Browneville and Girard, requesting them to join in the grand parade which will be held on the opening day of the Exposi tion. This will be tbe most imposing pageant ever seen in this city. THE KNIGHTS TAKK ACTION. N. R. Carter, Grand Master. A. W. Knights, Acting Grand Seo’y. CONTRIBUTIONS REPORTED. The contributions reported to-day amount to nearly $2100. This embraces the donations of the past three days. F. McQuid was to-day elected 1’resident of the Citizens’ Auxiliary Bauitary Asso ciation, vice J. J. Daniels, deceased. J. M. Schumacher succeeds the former iu the Vice-Presidency. • f, THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN. The official bulletin gives new cases 50, deaths 4, total cases to date ^corrected) 3208, total deaths 205. The deaths are Robert A. Hayes. Mrs. F. L. Elliott, Mrs. C. Hare and Mack Barnes (colored). Frank Marvin died to-night after the of ficial bulletin was filed. He was the last of a large household to contract the fever, all the former cases having recovered. Ho leaves a wife and infant child. Two Cases In Heealur, Decatur, Oct. S.—Two new cases to- Williama and Lizzie me to say a few while they will he read and remembered. All cases come from exposure in an infected district, or to ! the sick. No exposure, no yellow fever. If you keep away from the fire you won’t i get burned. Absolute Isolation is absolute ! safety. No need of stampedes, no need of 1 panics. Instead of running away let every man isolate himself aud his family iu his ! own house and cut off all Intercourse with the world outside and be will roinain safe even in the midst of an epidemic. [Signed.] Jerome Cochran, State Health Officer. *A Fourth l>«M*tor to Die. Decatur, Oct. 8.—No sadder scene has ever been witnessed than the death ot Dr. R. V. Williams, which occurred at l p. rn. to-day. A number of his friends were present at his death; all were greatly af fected. This makes a total of four of our physicians that have had to yield to the terrible disease. CONGIt-.SSlONAL CHIT CHIT. They Sustain the Chicago Striker*—Hu**e* to l»e Kuu—Fight the Company. Chicago, Oct. 8.—District Assembly, No. 24, Knights of Labor, met last evening to take action on the Northside strikers. The conductors and the drivers of North- side are in the district controlled by No. The most important business transact- A MOST AWKWARD PREDICAMENT. Their position was most embarrassing, and to go before the people in Novem ber, admitting their inability to devise auy means of relief to the taxpayers, was equivalent to signing their own political death warrant, and to submit to the coun try a bill consistent with their platform would drive from them every voter who pay their respects in a body to the Presi- ’ ! thought that the material interest of the dent of the Lmted States.” mission, whom they vouched tor as qual- ; was ^ authorize the employment of ified under the rules of the court, omn ibusses for use this morning, to be and tbe Chief Justice directed each ; managed by the striking drivers and con- batch in its turn to proceed to the clerk]s ductors, aud to make regular trips on dask, and take the oath. About a score of : Northside at five cents per fare. These attorneys were thus admitted, and when busses will be run as early as possible in the brief ceremonial was over the Chief ; morning, and with relays of horses Justice announced that all motions noted for this morning would .-tand over until tomorrow. THE CLOSE OF THE CEREMONY. He then said “In accordance with the immemorial usage, tbe court will cow ad journ, in order to enable its members to and proposed that both sides select their j Koug on the exodus of the Chiuese own representatives on the ticket as was proposed two years ago by the Prohibi tionists. and accepted by the Antis. The ticket, nowever, was ratified, the Antis, as a rule, not voting. Tom Glenn, # who leads the conservative ticket as the candi date for Mayor, made a speech accepting tbe nomination. The leading Antis since the meeting say they will not vote the ticket, but may vote for some of the candidates. Tne outlook is promising for an exciting mayoralty race between Tom Glenn and Walter Brown. _ SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA. Decision* Hemleml October Sth. 1SSS — Kc- ported by Henry C. Peeples. No. 13. Argument concluded. No. 14. Campbell vs. Metropolitan Street Railroad Company. Case, from City Court of Atlanta. Argued. George T. Fry and Frank A. Arnold, for plaintiff. Haygood vt Douglass and E- W. Martin, for defend ant. No. 15. Lies & Co. vs. Daniel. Refusal of injunction, from Fulton. Argued. John L. Tve. tor plaintiffs. A. H. Cox, by Harrison «& Peeples, for defendant. Afijourned to 9o’c1ock Wednesday morn ing. DECISION RENDERED MONDAY, OCT. S. Roberts, surviving partner vs. Rigdou. Complaint, from City Court of Atlanta. Actions. Hiring. Damages. Verdict. New trial. Before Judge Van Epps. Bleckley, C. J. — 1. Though suit be brought before the term of hiring expired, yet the recovery may embrace all the damages down to the expiration of the term, the trial being had after the whole of such damages became susceptible of definite proof—that is, after the term ex pired. r *2. That the verdict was too small is no injury to the defendant, and no cause for a new trial at his instance. 3. The finding of the jury to the effect that defendant bad no right to discharge the plaintiff at pleasure, under the con tract for 1887, was warranted by the evi dence. Judgment affirmed. Milledge A Blalock, for plaintiff in error; Alexander Turn bull, contra. From advices by the Belgic the follow ing is gleaned: A disastrous flood in the province of Monkden, about 350 miles northeast of Pekin, caused the death of hundreds of natives, the utter annihilation of very many homes and destruction to the crops, and there is a prospect of a gen eral famine for the coming winter. Cholera is stili raging at Hong Koug. The daily average of new patients ranges from forty to dfty, most of whom die. A storm on September 30tu at Nakajo- ree, Japan, caused the following damage: Number of houses demolisned or half de stroyed, 3,000; vessels totally lost, 85; ves sels* wrecked, 500; number of persons wounded, injured and receiving puolic as sistance 52,000. The American yacht Coronet reached Yokahoma September 17ch, on ner voyage around the world, lrom this point. Her owner proposes to return to New York via Singapore, Bombay, Suez Canal. Mediter ranean Sea and Liverpool. sion to make som^further observations in respect to it. His oaly desire to-day had been to state the general provisions of the bill as plainly as possible, so that they might be understood by those who had not studied it. TENATOR VANCE SPEAKS. Mr. Vance, a minorfty member of the committee, next addressed the Senate. He drew an imaginary sketch of the partner ship entered into at the close of the war between the government of the United States and the tnanufac.urers of the L'nited States, the terms of partnership being that the government was to enact laws and sub ject foreign products to taxation for its own benefit, while the home products were to be taxed for the benefit of the home manufacturers. He desired this as an unholy aud iuiquitious system of taxa tion of the many for the benefit of tne few. THEY DON’T WANT A REDUCTION. The House bill, he said, mide a total reduction of $7S,O30,(»}. but bow bad tne favored classes responded to that fair proposition? Every Republican member of tne House of Representatives aad voted s gainst it. and it had been rejected by an equally unanimous vote of the R oablican Senators on' tbe Finance Committee, and how. be asked, did the Senate substitute divide the reduction of duties as between the Government and the people ou one side, and the favored classes on the other? THEY WANT PROTECTION. It took off the tax on tobacco, twenty- five millions, aad tbe tax on alcahoi. used in the arts, seven million and reduce tne duty on sugar, nearly all of which taxes amounting in ail to sixty-five million, were pure revenue. In other words the Senate bill took $s from the Government for every $10 that it took rrorn the manu facturers. Mr. Vance proceeded to discuss in con siderable detail, the provisions of both bills on the various schedules, arguing taa: the H >use bill had in view the inter est of the people, and of tbe Govern ment. and that tne Senate bill was special ly in the interest of tne manufacturers and the favored classes. NOT A MARKET FOR THE FARMER. As to the claim that the manufacturers fernish home market for the farmer, he instanced as a reduction of that claim, that nowhere in the United State was the decav va“Burke, and riceTe^T a*'judgment'“n't change*/and says.that he will make no of agriculture mjrenoticeahle and Umeni- affirtnance was rendered. Reoort will an- reports unless x change, occurs. able than in New England, waere manu- country were more important than party success; and after hesitating for three months, as to which horn of tne dilemma they would accept, these party magnets have decided that any action was better than none, and the long looked for Senate tarifi bill has been laid before the public. PROTECT THE MONOPOLIST. Mr. Wheeler shows that Harrison was nominated upon a platform which the Republican Senate interprets to mean that none of the privileges of wealthy monopo list of the nortneast are to be surrendered, but that all changes in the revenue laws are to be effected almost entirely at the expense of the hard working farmers of the West and South. The difference between the purposes and objects of the during the day and a change of men, will run until late at night. The men say they are determined that the traveling public shall not be inconvenienced if it is in their power to prevent it. A resolution was unanimously adopted recommending the leaders of the strikers to keep all their men away from the barns, power rooms and offices of the company, and in no manner whatever attempt to in terfere with the lawful efforts of the street car company’s officials to run their cars, if This closed the proceedings of tll ®y were able to do so. i Another resolution was adopted fully sustaining the strikers and promising them The voice of the crier echoed through the vaulted halls, “this honorable court Is now adjourned until to-morrow at 12 o’clock, the day, SHOOTING AFFRAY IN ANNISTON. Editor Edmund* and two Clerk* Shot on Account of Prohibition Agitation. Anniston, Oct. 8.—W. H. Edmunds, proprietor aud editor of the Anniston Hot Blast, has been showing up the viola tions of the prohibition law in the city, and on this account has caused the discharge of the chief of police, and all of the of the other police throwing up their and quitting. Edmunds was clubs and quitting, namunas was re- Dsmocratic party and Republican party, is cently assaulted by one of tne ex-police- very clearly indicated by the character- men and badly beaten. The day after this A Murder on the Mineral Road. Birmingham, October S. — At Mount Pinson, fifteen miles north of this city, ou the Mineral railroad, this afternoon, John McConder, a colored laborer, was brutally murdered by Isaiah Burse, assisted by three other negroes, whose names could not be learned. Burse formerly lived with a negro woman named Lula Davis, but she left him to live with McConder, wno re cently married her. While McConder and his wife were sitting in the waiting room of the Mount Pension depot tnis after noon. Barse and three other nesrroes entered. Without a word, they took Mc Conder fifty yards from tbe depot, where Barse shot him three times, silling him instantly. The four negroes then fled, and have not been captured. After the kilting, McGonder’s wife went to his body, took all the money in his pockets, and tiien she too fled to the woods. istics of the bill designed to reform our revenue laws, wnieh the two parties have submitted to the country. BILLS LIKE THEIR ORIGINATORS. It is difficult to conceive of two measures more clearly indicative of the character istics of the opposing parties. The Re publicans represent and endeavor to serve the aristocratic elements of our people, and the Senate bill is framed specially in thei' interests, while the House bill is framed iu the interests of the Government and of the people. After comparing the proviso ns of the House and Senate bills upon like subjects, Mr. Wheeler said: Where the Senate does not openly increase the tax on articles used by the farmers, iu some in fracas there appeared in the Montgomery Dispatch a special from Anniston giving a malicious statement of the case. Ed munds replied, catling the author of the card “a liar and a dog.” This occurred on last Monday, and nothing more was thought of the affair until tnis evening, waen Edmunds was sitting in his office. He was approached by S. J. Lawrence, a Jastice of the Peace, aud Will Lacv. and asked to step into the adjoining nail. He did so. Hot words en sued, pistols were drawn and shots ex changed, in which Edmunds was injured in the left arm, John Chappell, the mail ing clerk, was shot twice in the head, and A. Tripney. another employe was wounded in the shoulder, the last two seriously. Lawrence and Lacy took to the woods, the support ol the various assemblies of the district until victory was assured. The Car Company Show* Fight, Chicago, Oct. 8.— As was promised Saturday, the cars were started this morn ing over the Northside lines. At 7:30 o’clock, six open cars, drawn by horses and manned by about a dozen policemen eacli, left the city limits’ car barns, destined for business. The cars, which were run in a bunch, preceded by a patrol wagon load of policemen, were not mo lested, but two or three hundred strikers and onlookers gathered around the barns. The down trip was made successfully, without any misbap to speak of, although the cars were somewhat namp- ered by the crowds ot vehicles which took up the tracks. At 8:50 o’clock Washington street, tne soutn terminus of the horse car line, was reached, and the cars started on their return trip. Cars were also started from several other Northside stations, but none of them were patronized by the public to any great extent, the care have been running continuously for three hours. Report* to W»<kl*gton. Washington, Oct. S.—Surgeon Hutton at Camp Perry. Fla., telegraphs that he has received (500 from the Louisville Courier Journal for distribution among the destitute people. He says also that he has arranged free transportation fbr the New Orleans nurses. Dr. Wirt Johnson reports from Jackson. stances, it accomplishes that result by b ut were captured. To prevent a lyncnin. indirect means, in tact, the entire bill is ■ -■ »—> «* aimed at the farmers, and if it becomes the law would reduce his profits and increase his already onerous burdens. THE WORKING MEN’S PASTY. The entire measure, taking it ail in all, furnishes additional proof that the prin ciples which govern the Republican party are not the kind upon which our fore fathers sought to establish a free repub lican government, and it admonishes us that the prosperity and happiness of tbe great mass of people can only be secured by rigidly adhering to the principles of Democracy. At the conclusion of Mr. Wheeler’s speech, the house, at 2:30, adjourned. carnival they were earned to Jacksonville, jailed aad pat under a heavy guard. The citiz=ns are now trying to quiet the excite ment. * Payin? Them in Their Own Corn Harrisonburg, Va., Oct. 8.—In April last exeontious were issued upon judge ments against about eighty persons in this county, who offered Virginia coupons in payment of State taxes. These coupons were perchased of James P. Cooper, agent for foreign bondhoides of London, who was to be responsible for all damages. Cooper tendered the coapons in June last in payment of these executions and costs. Striker* Sending the Scab* Horne. Chicago, Oct, 8.—Later in the day the street care earned a considerable number, for as public confidence increased the seats were better filled. There was no rioting or confli ts of auy kiud. The new men were called “scabs” and hooted at by the crowds which lined the streets, but beyond that there was no trouble. Many of the new men were captured by the strikers, who succeeded in inducing them to quit and go home, the strikers paying their fare if tney lived at distant points. In the case of th# Atlanta National Bank Mississippi, that the situation is un- affirtoance was rendered. Report will ap pear hereafter. General Rethune Struck With Patriotism. Talbotton, OcL 8.—Gen. Marion Be thune, of this place, will to morrow an- nounce himself as a candidate for Congress j transportation to the South without enter* from the Fourth Congressional district. ing Jacksonville. A report received this morning, shows that a track has been constructed aronnd Jacksonville, making connection between the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West road with the Savannah Florid* and Western Railroad, thus allowing through Too Good Frirod* Io Fight. London, Oct. 8 William Henry Smith, in a speech at Gloucester to-nieht said that' the Canadians were willin? to bide their time because they know that after the Presidential elect! in in the L uited j ^ r _ _ __ r _ T States, they would obtain a just and fair TheSrreriff refused the" tender ."“and" the arrangement of the tisn^ries trouble. Tne Stale has again instituted suit against tae people of England and America, and Can- same parties in our Circuit Court here, i *da were too good irieud* to quarrel oyer Tbe same tender will again be made by a question of this kind. *Ir. Smith denied London. Oct. S.—A biography or the Cooper should the judgments oe rendered truth °* . tae r ?P? r 1 f Tfji} u late Emperor Frederick of Germany, will against these parties. Government inteadod to hand Beehcan- be published in London shortly. It will ; land over to tne Government ofCapeCol- detai^solely his domestic life. It is believed Republican Out io Louisiana. j on>. that his widow is the authoress of the; New Orleans, Oct. 8.—The Third Con- Tril>ur«* by Frederick’s Oaeen to Hi- Memory factories most abounded. The eff*ct of protection was to convert that his widow is the authoress an independent yeomanry into dependent work. Her name is appended to the pre- gressional District Republican Committee* factory operatives. face. The profits derived from the sale of I composed of tnirty-six negroes, met this The annual cottou product of the South ! the book will be devoted to the hospital : afternoon and nominated R. C. Jolly, was 7,000,030 boles, of which 5,001,000 were ! for treatment of diseases of the throat, i editor of the Morgan City Rsview, for surplus. What was to bs done with that | The Pall Mall Gazette says the work is j Congress, to oppose E. J. Gay in that dia- sorplus, and with the surplus of wheat, being revised by Lord daiisbary. trict. A Bruch Show iu Richmond. Richond, Va., Oct. 8.—At the exposi tion, commencing to-morrow and contin uing through the week, there will be a bench show of dogs from the best kennels in America. Democrats Cou*f<i<-riuK the "Substitute'’ Clmiik'** itl tli« Hill. Washington, Oct. 8.— Several of the Democratic members of the Committee on Ways and Means and Representatiqe Hatch, of Missouri, who has just returned from the West, had 'an informal confer- : once this afternoon respecting the phase in the tariff question, resulting trom the report of the substitue bill to the Senate, and the beginning of its consideration by ttiat body. It was decided tnat an expert should be employed to make an exhaust ive analysis or the substitute for the pur pose of bringing to light such flaws and defects as might be found, for use in the ; debate in Congress and speeches during I the campaign. Incidentally the question of adjourn ment was discussed, and the conclusion was reached that it would n it be polite un der the present conditions for tbs Demo crats in the House to send any resolution of adjournment to the Senate. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, to-day re ported favorably to the House, from the Committee on Expenditures in tne Treosu- ; ry Department, the bill appropriating $.500,000 to establish camps for the yellow fever refugees. The bill authorizes the President to establish camps of refuge and, in designated localities, to furnish supplies to the camps, and to destroy the camp equippage after the disappearance of the epidemic. The committee in its report says that the object lope accomplished by the proposed bill is of most urgent and gravest importance to the whole people of the United States. By visitation of Divine Providence, the yellow fever scourge made its app larance in a comparatively small community in Florida, whence it spread to other locali ties with the resuit of creating at numer ous other places such dire apprehension as to induce the establishment ot rigid quar antine regulations, so ruthlessly enforced as to expose many of our citizens to the charge of inhumanity. While tne gener ous must depiore, few can be found so unreasonable as to censure these desper ate measures of protection again*: the plague. As a consequence of these severe measures, the citizens of any locality where yellow fever make* it appearance must be exposed to great sufferings be sides those resulting from the disease, many of them being dep'ivel of an oppor tunity to purchase necessary provisions, even when able to pay f >r them. The committee is the opinion that the bill cannot fail to mitigate these ills by the establishment of camps, in which per sons fleeing from the scourge may be col- i lected and properly cared for, the spread of the disease arrested by their isolation, and proper medical cert ficates issued to persons leaving the camp. The conferees on the general deficiency bili have reached an agreement on the only remaining point of difference—that relating to the W jman’s Industrial Hime in Utah. Thev make an appropriation for tne completion of the buildings for the home, according tottie present plaas. and provide $4000, also, for furnisning the building and maintaining it during the next fiscal year. The work of the institution is to be un der the management of the Utah Com mission, as a board of control. Provision is made for the regular report of opera tions, aud for the auditing of the expenses of the home. The title of the buildiugs is to be transferred to the Government. By an error made by the committee in preparing for the publication, the addi tions to the free list in tne substitute tariff bill reported by the Senate Cpinmit- lee on Finance, it was made to appear that opium for smoking had been free of duty. As a matter of fact the substitute bill ex pressly prohibits the importation of such opium. The committee also desires to have cor rected an impression which prevails, to the effect that it had added eggs to the free list. Eggs are made free of duty by the existing law, and the substitute bill does not change that provision, although the matter is now under consideration, and undoubtedly an amendment will bo reported from tne committee imposing a tariff on eggs.