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OAiLY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING DECEMBER 27, 1890.
WE NEED MONEY!
And have entirely too many WRAPS, therefore we will not refuse any reasonable offer
tor any of our Fine Plush Wraps, Newmarkets and Jackets. A choice lot of Fine
Jackets, worth $8 to $15, reduced to $5. Another lot worth $4 to $6, reduced to $2.50.
A similar cut in Children’s Wraps.
Buy a Silk Dress for Christmas.
To encourrgi you to do so, we will make a special reduction of 10 per cent to any
one buying a oilk Dress to make a present of.
Iq Our Millinery Department
Can be found many suitable articles for Holiday presents. Received last week a choice
stock of Infants’ and Children’s Silk Gaps. They are the very latest in design and are
lovely. We continue to sell our Trimmed Hats at half price and our Felts at greatly
reduced prices.
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
For Table Linens, Towels, Napkins, Table Sets, Handkerchiefs, and anything in the
Linens. It is a well known fact that our Towels are lower priced and altogether
better values than can be found in any other house.
Kid Body Dolls 25c.
Our stock of Dolls is growing beautifully less. The reason for it we are selling
them at less than others. We are turning out from our Millinery Department Doll
Hats and Caps made from scraps at 25 to 75 cents. They are exact duplicates of the
prevailing styles.
J. A Kill YEN & CO.
HOLIDAY STATESMEN.
CHRISTMAS HAS BADLY DEMOR
ALIZED BOTH CONGRES
SIONAL BODIES.
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HUNDREDS OF LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
CROWD DAILY THE
E
OH 1 -
Chancellor & Pearce,
Purchasing Christmas Presents
Slaves to Please All.
Kid, Fur-Top, D03-
Skin, Fie* ce Lined, Drivers’
and Ftyilroad, and any style, from 25c to $3
NECKWEAR
Suited to old and young, ladies and gen
tlemen. Mufflers, Initial Silk Handker
chiefs (50c to $1), Socks, etc.
5 Dozen Xmas Slippers
Will be opened today.
We sold more Fine
Slippers last Xmas
than any two houses.
This season we expect
to do better still. On
Men’s Fine Patent Leather, Calf, Kid and Kangaroo Shoes
we have no competition—simply do the business. Our close
prices and immense stock the secret. Note this fact and
examine the line.
CHANCELLOR & PEARCE.
N. B.—Great reduction on Overcoats. They must be sold.
THEY WITT. GET ABOUND NEXT WEEK.
SENATOR BUTLER FEARS THE
FORCE BILL—THE CLOTURE
RULE.
Washington, December 20.—[Special.]
—The House assembled today at 12 m.
o’clock, persuant to adjournment, but it
was apparent to all that a quorum was not
present. Napolean McKinley was on band
in command of the Republicans, and Mills
was on watch for the minority. A mess tge
from the President was presented, and
then a motion to adjourn was agreed to
after some slight sparring between the two
captains. Reed was in the chair. The
House will meet again next Tuesday. The
Senate will assemble tomorrow, but the
session will be merely formal.
It is difficult to forecast the action of the
Senate on the Force bill next week. Sena
tor Butler, of South Carolina, in a con
versation with Judge Twiggs, of Augusta,
last evening, expressed a fear that the bill
would eventually pass. The opponents of
the bill are counting on Wolcott, Teller,
Plumb, Haddock, Anderson, Quay and
Stewart to cast their votes for it when it
comes up. Some think that Ingalls and
Cameron may vote against it, but the two
are regarded as uncertain.
Mr. Cutclieon, chairman of the House
committee ou Indian affairs, is trying to
get his committee together so to report the
McAdoo resolution to inquire into the kill
ing of the Sioux chief, Sitting Bull. He
has failed to get a quorum up to date.
Treasurer Huston has consented to with
draw his resignation tendered some time
ago, and will stick to the ad
ministration through to the end.
His resignation is said to have been in
duced by the treatment Mrs. Huston has
received at the hands of the Harrisons
since her residence here. They are all
Hoozters, and when at home in Indianap
olis the Harrisons and Hustons were quite
chummy. After they came to Washington
the White House family drew the line on
the bureau chief,and so, soon they failed.to
speak as they passed by.
ABOUT THE CAPITOL.
ter part of the session being mainly be
tween the lowest point named and 97fc.
The closing price was 97* to 97fc. There
was some trading in July, and the ten
dency was towards an increasing discount
between May and July.
The snow, which cast a damper on the
spirits of bulls on wheat, was not re
garded unfavorably by the corn crowd.
The opening price for May was 51£, and
it sola down to 51J. It then advanced to
51 5-8 to 51$, reacted, and sold lower than
before, closing with a slight tendency
toward recovering some of the decline.
Oats were qniet and steady, ranging from
43 5-8 to 43$ to 44 for May. Near futures
were only nominal.
May pork from $11.10 at the start, ad
vanced to $11.17$, declined to $10.92$ and
closed at $11.02$.
May lard opened at $6.45 and closed at
$6.42$.
The fluctuations in ribs covered a range
of 5 to 7$c. The highest prices were made
at the start, and the closing was 2$c under
those at the opening, but 5 to 7$e higher
than at the close on Wednesday.
MASONIC LOSSES.
ATLANTA ITEMS.
HAVE THE INDIANS GOT HIM ?
SERIOUS CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT AND A
MEAN ROBBERY.
Atlanta, December 26.—[Special.] —
Willie Morgan ami Albert Sternheimer,
two white boys, while lighting firecrackers
over a can of powder yesterday, were
blown up and are now in a critical condi
tion.
A. J. Murphey, a well known street
beggar, with neither arms nor feet, was
last night robbed of $15 and a new mer-
chaum p : pe just presented to him as a
Christmas gift. The money was taken
from his pants, which had been placed, on
retiring, beneath the pillow on which he
slept. Fortunately for him he had taken
the precaution to turn over his vest, con
taining a much larger sum, for safe keep
ing to a one-legged in in who roils him
through the street and plays the organ to
attract the attention of passers by.
AMERICUS NOTES.
Amebicus, Dec 26.—[Special.]—A quite
serious accident happened to one of the
electric cars this morning. While crossing
thi> bridge over the S. A. M. Railroad at
Leeton, by some means, the car jumped i
the track, broke the railing and fell a dis
tance of some twenty feet or more to the
track below. Luckily the occupants, I
though all hurt more or less, escaped with
their lives, the most serious casualty being
the breaking of the arm of Hon. W. M.
Ilawkes.
Mr. Cbas. F. Stanfield, one of the oldest
employes of Harrold & Johnson, died last
night of pneumonia, and was buried this
afternoon.
Christmas is passing off quietly.
NOTHING HEARD FROM COL. CARR IN
THIRTY-SIX HOURS.
Washington, December 25.—General
Schofield this morning received the follow
ing telegram from General Miles, under
date of Rapid City, S. D., December 25:
“I have not heard from Coionel Carr for
thirty-six hours. He started to intercept
Big Foot. Should he succeed, or turn him
to the Cheyenne Agency, it will be favora
ble, as General Brooke reports messengers
from Little Wound, Big Road and Fast
Thunder, who are leaders of the Indians
who went to the Bad Lands, who say that
about half the Indians are coming, an l the
rest will follow. Should this not be inter
rupted by some unforeseen event, it will
be almost favorable.
BIRMINGHAM S BUDGET OF NEWS ITEM
Birmingham, Ala. December 20.-
EFFECT OF THE HOLIDAYS ON BOTH
HOUSES.
Washington, December 26.—The holi
day season has afil'eted the Senate heavily
in the matter of attendance, and but seven
Senators put in an appearance at the
north wing of the capitol today. It was
understood when the Senate adjourned
Wednesday that its session tomorrow will
be purely formal, and, in fact, it was or
dered only to escape the constitutional in
hibition against an adjournment over three
days. So nothing can be done until Mon
day, and then the elections bill will be
taken up again. There is to be no
cloture, no finances, no anything,
for a whole week to create division from
the dreary debate on the, elections bill. A
Republican Senator—a strong champion
of the bill—said today: “We will go on
talking about the bill next week, and
many speeches will be delivered to vacant
seats and empty galleries. We can’t help
it, you see, for the proceedings the other
night, when Hoar tried to drive the Demo
crats into night sessions, was proof con
clusive that we could not muster in force
during the holiday season. But I believe
that about January 6th we shall have a
fighting quorum and then you may look
for a division.”
The Senator was asked if a majority
could be secured for the cloture resolution.
He replied that Aldrich, who had it in
charge, had been instructed to canvass the
Republican side of the Senate before put
ting in the new rule. Aldrich was a cool-
headed, shrewd man, and it was hardly to
be presumed that he would enter into as
great a struggle as this promised to be
without some sort of assurance of sufficient
power behind him to win a victory.
IN THE HOUSE.
The Sergeant could hardly secure enough
members who were present in the House
this morning to constitute a skirmishing
squad, and, if he had succeeded, it is
doubtful whether his squad would have
proven to be a very efficient one in either
a military or a political melee. An air of
lassitude hung over the chamber, and
politics being tabooed for the nonce, the
time was employed in an interchange of
holiday greetings and tender inquiries as to
how Christmas day had been spent by
each individual member. Here and there,
however, a few gentlemen would gather
in groups, and in a desultory manuer, talk
over the bus ness now pending in the two
Houses. The concensus of opinion, es
pecially on the Democratic side, was that
tiie debate on the shipping hill would be
prolonged to a much greater extent than
had been expected, many representatives
on both sides of the House naving signi
fied their desire to deliver speeches on that
measure. Of course, the representatives
are in the dark as to the action
of the Senate on the cloture, the financial
measure and the elections bill. That the
first will be. adopted is considered doubtful.
As to the s -coud, the feeling on the Re-
HEAVY DAMAGE OCCASIONED BY THE
BALTIMORE FIRE.
Baltimore, December 26.—The insur
ance on the Masonic Temple aggregated
$95,240, and on the furniture and fittings,
$8,000. The old United States court house
building now vacant, has been secured as
a temporary home for the burned out Ma
sonic bodies. The loss on the building is
variously estimated from $50,000 to $100,-
000, but the majority seem to think that
the rebuilding can be done at a cost of
about $80,000. A very large additional
loss was on the fixtures in the shape of the
remarkably handsome carpets, furniture,
and the historical relics. The commandary
rooms of the Templars, in the top story,
were entirely destroyed, with contents,
involving a loss of $25,000, to which is
added individval losses to the Templars of
regalia, uniforms, etc., aggregating $100,-
000. Grand Secretary Medairy fortunately
had the greater portion of the valuables
stored in a safe in a warehouse. Fore-
paugh lost every bit of scenery which
belonged to him, and Gray & Stephens
lost all of their scenery and other effects,
except a small amount of clothing, whiph
was still in trunks. The loss of Forepaugh
is about $10,000, and of the traveling com
pany about $20,000, as stated by one of the
managers.
A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY
THE STATE OF TRADE.
DUN AND COMPANY’S REPORT FOR
THE WEEK.
TO FLOOD THE COUNTRY WITH SPURIOUS
COIN.
Pittsburg, December 26.—A gigantic
conspiracy to flood the United States with
counterfeit silver dollars has been un
earthed, and to the energy and intelligence
of the officials of the first police district of
Pittsburg is due the credit. Nineteen per
sons are already under arrest, and $1100
in spurious coin is in the hands of the
police. The money was brought from a
Central depot in New York city to Pitts
burg by a gang of Italians. The money
was all in silver dollars, and United States
Detecteclive Sweeny says it is the best
counterfeit of the standard silver dollar
that was ever made. The coin is perfectly
framed in every detail, and the ring is
identical with the good coin, the only fault
about it being that it is a little light in
weight. From the persons arrested here,
information was gained that the money
was made in New York, and they had been
sent here to dispose of it. Similar gangs
were sent to other cities, but the men
could not tell what particular cities were
being operated on. Not a mold or die of
any kind was found in the residence of
the gang arrested here.
THE HEAVY HOLIDAY BUSINESS—UN
USUALLY LAKGE EXPOBTS—THE
MONEY MARKETS EASIER.
FAILURES THIS WEEK.
New York, December 26.—Business
has progressed as well as could be expected
in a week broken by the Christmas holi
days and a great snow storm. The holi
day trade was remarkably heavy here, and
at nearly all other points good, which is by
no means an evidence that the tightness of
the money market springs from any gen- j
eral embarrassment of business or iudus- l
try. The volume of payments through
the banks continues larger, though
but about three per cent, larger
than a year ago. Railroad earnings thus
far reported for December also show a
gain of four per cent over those
of the same weeks last year. The
foreign trade is very heavy, in
spite of causes which were expected to in- ;
sure a material decrease. The uncertainty
in regard to monetary legislation and its
possible effects, is still a great obstacle,
but even this has less disturbing influence
than it had a week or so ago, as the pros- j
pect of unwise action seems more remote,
and the money markets have generally
grown easier during the past week, not,
only at the East, but also at Western and
Southern centres. Reports from omer !
cities disclose no important change in the
condition of trade, though at Pittsburg
Bessemer iron has sold at $16.25, the low
est price for the year, and all pig iron is at
bottom prices. Manufactured iron is in
fair demand and rails unchanged. At !
points farther West the expectation of irn- j
provement after January 1 is general, ;
though trade is quiet in wholesale lines,
but fully up to last year’s mark. At other .
points in the Northwest the monetary sit
uation seems rather better. Reports from
the South also indicate some improvement.
Trade at Atlanta improves; cotton is mov
ing mors satisfactorily, and at Galveston
the receipts exceeds last year’s. New
Orleans reports a fair trade, larger re
ceipts of cotton, the crop being there
estimated at 7,700,000 bales, and good re
ceipts of sugar and molasses, wLh steady
prices. Throughout the South the prices
maintained last summer and fall for cotton
have caused some embarrassment, being
followed by the inevitable decline as the
crop becomes known. But more than
5,000,000 bales have already passed out of
the hands of the producers, mainly at fair
prices. It is especially encouraging that
thus far there has been so little embarass-
inent and so few failures among the im
portant manufacturing works recently
established in that section.
in the steel rail business, a crisis and
destructive competition seem imminent,
the provisional agreement during the past
week in this city having been defeated by
the refusal of an Eastern mill to sign.
Woolen manufactures clearly enjoy a
larger demand for most products since im
portations were checked, but as yet no
considerable improvement in prices has
been found practicable. The readjustment
of prices in the boot and shoe and leather
industries seems to be progressing fairly,
lumber mills, on Black river, forty miles
from here, two persons were killed and a
number wounded. Engineer Wiley Sloan
and Superintendent John Angus were
standing in front of the boiler when the
explosion took place, and Angus was
blown into a lumber heap, breaking his
limbs and tearing away portions of his
skull. No traces of the body of Sloan can
be found. A large portion of the boiler
was shot through the deck of the steamer
Golden Gate, anchored near by, and then
across the river 100 yards wide.
WILD WINTRY STORMS.
THE FIERCE SWEEP OF SNOW AND
SLEET.
DESTRUCTIVE GALES ON LAND AND SKA.
STREET CARS STOPPED—TELE
GRAPH LINES AND ELECTRIC
LIGHTS SUFFER.
RESISTING A SENATE JOB.
THE HOUSE REFUSES TO PENSION SENA
TORS CLERKS.
| Washington, December 26.—There is
an interesting little fight going ou be
tween the Senate and House over the ur
gent deficiency appropriation bill, (made
up principally of appropriations for the
Government printing office) and unless
the dead lock between the two bodies is
broken, there may be somewhat of an in
terruption of the work of the Government
printing office. The Senate added to the
bill a provision for the payment of salaries
to the clerks to Senators during the
interim between the two sessions of
this Congress. The effect, of
, this provision would be indirectly to make
the clerks to Senators annual instead of
session employes. The House refused
concurrence in the Senate amendment,
and the Senate conferees refuse to sign the
conference report and permit the other
items of appropriation in the bill to be
come a law, unless the House yields. The
fight is really a continuation of the strug
gle between the two bodies begun last
session. The Senate, by an amendment
to the regular annual appropriation bill,
made the Senators’ clerks annual
employes, but the House re
fused concurrence, and finally
carried its point, the amendment being
stricken from the bill. In the closing
days of the session, however, the Senate j
passed a simple resolution to which, of j
course, the assent of the House was not
necessary, providing for the payment of
Senator’s clerks during the recess from the
Senate contingent fund. There was no
money available in this fund, and it is now
sought to increase the fund to the requi
site amount by a deficiency appropriation.
The House is steadfast in its determina
tion to resist this and the members of the
appropriation commit tee say that such a
: thing as paying regular salaries from the
j contingent appropriation was never con-
• templated, and that to permit it would be
for the House to abdicate its power of
! scrutinizing and providing for the ex
penditures of public monies.
A CHATTANOOGA FAILURE.
A BIG LUMBEK COMPANY MAKES AN AS
SIGNMENT.
Chattanooga, December 27.—Last
night the Hughes Lumber Company, of
this city, filed a general assignment to M.
H. Ward, for the benefit of its creditors.
D. W. Hughes, president and general
manager of the company, who has made
himself personally liable for the debts of
the company, also filed an assignment of
his property to M. H. Ward. The liabili
ties of the Hughes Lumber Company ag-
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
BRUTAL MURDER BY A NEGRO WHO IS
INSTANTLY KILLED IN TURN.
Atlanta, December 26.—[Special.]—
A special to the Journal from Gainesville,
Ga., reports tne murder of Chief of Police
Kittrell there by a negro, Bob Pruett, yes
terday, and the immediate killing of the
negro by H. H. Towery, another police
man.
A daughter of the negro insulted two
white ladies. The police were telephoned
for, and Kittreli and Towry responded.
They found *Pruett standing guard over
his daughter with a pistol. The chief
ordered him to drop it. Instead of doing
so, he fired on Kittrell, shooting him down,
then turned on Towery and shot three
times at him. The patrolman returned
the fire. Three bullets from his pistol
took effect, killing the negro instantly.
Towery was not hurt at all. Kittrell
lingered till ten o’clock last night.
A DAY OF TRAGEDIES.
[Special.]—At Bessemer, yesterday, George [ publican side is that, no financial bill can
House ai:d Charley Sanders, two negro j pass the House that i3 not purely a Repub-
dray drivers in the employ of Rosenbaum j lican measure, one that is agreed upon in
Bros., got in a quirrelanJ House struek the party caucus, and one that is not put
OUTFASTING SUCCI.
Martin’s Ferry, O., December 26.—
Martin’s Ferry has a woman who has ac
complished something that Signor
Succi, the faster, cannot do.
She is Mrs. Timothy Callahan, seventy
years old, and she has lived on milk and
tea for four months, or 122 days. Her
son Dennis says that for seven years he
never saw his mother eat a bit of bread.
This abstinence was not on account of
poverty, but stomach trouble. Mrs. Cal
lahan has seven children. She is Native
and is able to do housework every day.
WILL NOT YIELD.
Glasgow, December 26.—The Caledo
nian Company claims an improvement in i
the working of the road, and gives out
that it is more determined than ever not to !
yield to the strikers.
Sanders in the stomach with a brick.
Officer Mims appeared and arrested both
men. Before jail was readied Sanders
died. He had been internally injured.
House is held for murder.
THREE B’S DELAYED.
It was expected that the Brierfield,
Biocton and Birmingham Railroad, a divis
ion of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, would have been completed and
had trains running into Birmingham by
January 1st, but a big land slide that has
occurred in Gentry’s gap, in Shades Moun
tain, will delay the operation of the road
until February 1st. The cut caved in for
500 feet and a month’s labor will be re
quired in which to remove it. Otherwise
the road is finished. It runs from Monti-
cello, on the main line of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia aDd Georgia, to Biocton,
twenty-three miles, and from Gurney to
B-s emer, twenty miles, and will get into
Birmingham over the Queen and Crescent,
which is controlled by the East Tennes
see.
A CHATTANOOGA HOTEL BURNED.
Chattanooga, December 26.—Fire
broke out in the Kennedy House, a large
hotel, this morning at 4 o’clock. The ho
tel portion of the building was damaged by
fire and the store rooms beneath were
damaged by water. All the guests were
removed without injury. The loss is
$15,000, covered by insurance.
Highest of all in Leavening Power,—-U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
Baking
Powder
ABSOLUTE!^ PURE
through the Senate with the aid of Demo
cratic votes. That the prospect of the
elections bill is not very bright, unless the
pendin>j debate is brought to a speedy end,
is admitted by all, a prospect which is
deplored by Republicans and openly re
joiced in by Democrats.
DIED AT COLUMBIA.
HEART DISEASE CARRIES OFF A DISTIN
GUISHED SOUTH CAROLINIAN.
Columbia, S. C., December 26.—Hon.
W. D. Simpson, Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court of South Carolina, died at his
home in this city, this morning, of heart
disease. He was a native of Laurens and
about sixty years of age. Judge Simpson
was elected Lieutenant-Governor with
Governor Hampton, on the restoration of
the State government in 1876 to Demo
cratic control. He succeeded to the Gov
ernorship on the election of Hampton to
the United States Senate, and before the
close of his term as Governor was elected
Chief Justice, Hon. J. C. Sheppard suc
ceeding him as Governor. Fiags are at
half-mast on the public buildings.
THE STRIKERS NOT SUFFERING.
Glasgow, December 26.—The railroad
strike continues to hold business at almost
a stand-still, and is a cause of inconven
ience and annoyance to many thousands.
The statement that.the families of the
strikers are beginning to feel the effects of
the strike is denied by the men who are
out. The latter claim that they are in a
position to hold out at least six weeks,
without, in any way, causing distress to
their families or themselves. Up to the
present, with the exception of hooting and
occasionally stoning obnoxious employes
who may have remained loyal to the rail
road- companies, there have been few act
of violence. This is, to a great degree,
due to the admirable precautions taken by
the police.
CHICAGO MARKET.
Chicago, December 26.—The
BIRMINGHAM KEEPS IIEP. PLACE IN THE
PROCESSION.
Birmingham, Ala., December 26.—
[Special.]—At Irondale, Berger Jones,
colored, cut the throat of Charlotte Moor
man, colored, in a fit of jealousy. The
wound is fatal. Jones is in the county
jail in default of $5,000 bond.
At Irondale, Lee Williams was drunk
while out hunting. He dropped his gun
and it went off, killing him instantly.
At North Birmingham, John Foster,
colored, shot and killed Clayton Cross,
colored, in a duel about a woman. Foster
is in jail at Atlanta.
Alex. Morgan, a negro, while drunk,
resisted arrest and assaulted Constable
Hartley. The officer shot and killed
Morgan.
SUFFERING MINERS.
l^any of the striking miners are suffer
ing on accounts of their funds running
short. The miners’ committee say they
will get aid from the North. Many of the
men threaten to return to work out of
necessity.
IS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL?
with less prospect of any serious embar- j gregate $173,573. The schedule
rassment. of assets at gregate $33,088; the
On the whole, labor has never been ' schedule of D. W. Hughes aggregate
more fully employed than in the latter j $86,785 liabilities, and $475,277 assets,
part of 1890. The monetary situations The excess of assets over liabilities in both
grew more satisfa:tory because the Treas- j assignments is over half a million. The
ury disbursements continue, and the ar- assignment was made necessary owing to
rivals of gold have given aid, and the j the pressure of claims on which Hughes
enormous excess of merchandize exports I was endorser. He has had extraordinary
over imports is felt. In three weeks of ! demands made on him by reason of the
December, exports from New York have j failure of three concerns which he had be-
been seven per cent greater than last year, j friended with his endorsement. Hughes
made an assignment, he says, to prevent
clamorous creditors from attaching the
properties, from getting into court,
THE COLUMBUS SOUTHERN FIGHTING THE
COUNTY TAX LAW.
Atlanta, December 26.—[Special.]—
In the Superior Court, today, a temporary
restraining order was granted to prevent
the Comptroller General from advertising
for sale property of the Columbus Southern
Railroad, to enforce the payment
of county taxes levied under the
Glenn bill. The road contests the consti-
tationality of the law.
BIG FOOT’S TREACHERY.
Washington, December 26.—General
Schofield has received a telegram from
General Miles, dated Rapid City, Decem
ber 24th, as follows: Colonel Sumner re
ported his command at Big Foot’s camp
on the Cheyenne River; that Big Foot as
sured him he would do whatever he said,
and bring all his people to his (Sumner’s)
camp, blit that he deceived him and
eluded his command, going south in light
order. This was most unfortunate just at
this time, and may turn the scale against
the efforts that h ave been made to avoid
an Indian war. Up to this time, the pros
pects looked favorable, and in one week
244 of the worst element have been re
moved.
KILLED AT EAST POINT.
Atlanta, December 26.—[Special.]—
John Coleman, white, was killed today at
East Point by Rufus Johnson, a negro.
The two had words about a trifling matter,
wheat
market today was lifeless and the trading
was almost entirely confined to local
scalpers. The range in May was from ' but the affair seemed adjusted before Cole-
975 8 to 97$e and to 97 to 97$e. The high-! man started to leave the store where the
er figures were made during the first hour , quarrel took place. As he did so, John-
of trading, the fluctuations during the lat- ■ son suddenly turned and shot him down.
which would indicate heavier exports than
in any previous month, while the increase
in imports has been but two per cent.
These facts point to an excess of exports
as large as $37,000,000 over last Decem
ber, and in November, the.excess of ex
ports over imports was more than $45,
000,000.
There has not been much activity in
speculation this week, though corn has
fallen 2$c, and oats lc, and cotton 3-16«,
but wheat is 5-8c higher, coffee £c, and oil
4$c. The stock market has been left to
professionals, who have chosen to do but
little until the new year has begun. It is,
by all classes, believed that the monetary
pressure will cease soon after January 1,
at least for a time, and, if no disturbing
legislation comes, trade may be expected
to revive with vigor. It is a good system
that, instead of increasing toward the end
of the year, failures have become less im
portant and less frequent.
Failures for the week number 303,
against 262 for the same week iast year.
THE PARNELL PROBLEM.
WHAT THE DUBLIN NEWSPAPERS SAY
ABOUT IT.
Dublin, December 26.—The Express
accuses Timothy Healy of making untrue
statements, to put it mildly, about the Kil
kenny election. For instance, the Express
says that Healy’s statement that 400
Unionists voted for Scully is untrue.
The newspapers of this city in general
concur in expressing the belief that the in
terviews which are expected to take place
shortly in Paris between Parnell, O’Brien
and other Irish leaders will not result
in any compromise agreement which will
allow Parnell to retain the leadership. J
These papers ask what Archbishop Croke
would say on the subject, what Gladstone’s
and after long and costly iit’gation
to be sacrificed. He expects to secure a
settlement with his creditors within 30
days, as he only reqnests indulgence, rat
ing his assets at $3 for every dollar of
liabilities. The principal creditors are
local banks who are all amply secured.
D. W. Hughes began ten years ago, a
small planing mill in this city, with $1,200
capital. He has been remarkably successful
and is estimated as one of the best inform
ed lumber men in this section. His assets,
aside from a principal interest in the lum
ber mill, which is one of the largest and
best equipped in the South, consists chiefly
of real estate. The assignment mentions 46
different lots of real estate upon which
there are nearly 100 small houses that
yield a rental of over $1,000 per month.
Hughes is the principal stockholder of the
Electric Light and Power Company of this
city, having, by his personal means, built
the large plant. It will not be affected by
the assignment. lie is also identified with
numerous enterprises in this city and else
where, none of which will, in any manner,
be affected by the assignment.
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AN EMBEZZLER ARRESTED.
Long Branch, N. J., December 25.—
A heavy sea again plays havoc with the
piers, board walks and cottages at the
summer resorts along the New Jersey coast.
A good deal of damage has been done at
Long Branch, Asberrv Park and elsewhere.
A big schooner is pounding to pieces on
Sandy Hook, where she anchored yester
day, expecting to ride out the storm. Her
rudder was torn off during the night and
she had to remain anchored, and today
the crew was taken off by the life-saving
erew. The sea is making a clean break
over her.
THE WEATHER IN CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, December 26.—The ther
mometer holds about to the freezing point,
so that the snow is not melted in the
streets save from underground heat. It is
estimated that at least seven inches of
snow fell. It drifts in many places to
depths of two and three feet. Street car
travel has been impeded and the double
trolley electric street cars are comDletely
stopped. The snow interfered with their
motors. They had to be taken off today,
although the horse cars traversed the same
tracks a portion of the day. On the other
hand the single trolley road has expe
rienced no difficulty at all and has not even
been delayed. The cable lines kept their
tracks clear by running cars all night last
night.
A SEVERE STORM.
Utica, N. Y., December 26.—A severe
storm is being experienced along the Mo
hawk Valley. The weather is quite cold,
the wind very strong, and the snow is fall
ing in large quantities. The entire system
of over thirty miles of electric street rail
way in this city is tied up, the cars being
stalled on the streets, and in soma in
stances, off the tracks. The stoppage of
street railroad causes much inconvenience
to business, and people begin to think that
the electric roads are of little use in win
ter.
THE STORM AT SEATTLE.
Seattle, Wash. December 26.—A vio
lent wind storm prevailed on Puget Sound
yesterday. Several vessels were broken
from their moo rings. Telegraph lines
were prostrated last night by falling tim
ber and two laborers were killed by trees
striking them. A number of windows in
this city were broken and several frame
buildings blown down.
A GREAT SNOW STORM.
Washington, December 26.—A heavy
snow storm, accompanied by intense cold,
prevailed all day over the entire country
from Virginia to Canada, and from the
Atlantic ocean to the Mississippi river.
Railroad and street car traffic is much im
peded in Pennsylvania, New York and
New England, and the mail service is much
delayed.
bishop o'connell’s opinion.
Dublin, December 26.—Dr. O’Connell,
Bishop of Raphoe, in a letter to the Irish
Catholic, says he regrets that the Irith
people did not immediately place the blame
upon Parnell for his offense against mo
rality, instead of giving him a handle with
which to ruin the party and the country.
1 WINTER IN VIRGINIA.
- Ricamond, December 26.—Snow, fol
lowed by rain, has prevailed throughout
the State during the past twenty-four
hours. Tonight the weather is the coldest
of the season.
A SNOW BLOCKADE.
Staunton, Va., December 26.—Eight
inches of snow fell yesterday and it was
last night followed by sleet. Snow to the
depth of two feet blockades all the coun
try roads.
“LITTLE JOHN IS QUITE BIG.”
THE THIEVING COLLUSION OF TWO CON
FIDENTIAL CLERKS.
Albany, N. Y., December 26.—Daniel
W. Talcott, head book-keeper in the em
ploy of II. W. Sage & Co., lumber dealers,
was arrested this evenfng on the charge of
embezzlement. Bail was found at $5,000.
The exact amount of his thefts is not yet
known, but it is believed it will run high
up into the thousands. After Sage-A Co.’s
confidential clerk, Joseph B. Abbott, who
killed himself on December 3d, had been
opinion would be, and what view Morley caught stealing from the firm, an expert
would take of a compromise arrangement.
They add that these gentlemen must be
consulted before terms are decided upon
between the church leaders as to the con
tinuance of Parnell in power.
TEMPORARY WORK PROVIDED.
Newark, N. J., December 26.—Notice
has been posted on the gate of the Clarke
thread mills that work will be resumed in
the twisting mill Monday. This will give
temporary work to about 1000 girls for two
or three weeks, until the supply of cotton
on hand gives out. This does not affect
the condition of the striking spinners, or
the locked out carders, or framers. The
girls will probably accept the work. Gen
erous contributions are pouring in for the
striking employes.
A BROKEN BANK.
Woonsocket, S. D., Decembe# 26.—
The Sanburn Couty Bank, run by Leon L.
Stevens, closed its doors this morning.
The county treasurer had $80,000 of county
money in the bank, and a number of mer
chants are caught. Stevens has made an
assignment to George Corking, a former
partner. Stevens was the city treasurer,
and had the funds in the bank. There was
a ran on the bank, and the reasons given
for the suspension were poor business and
slow collections. Stevens was Secretary
of the Republican county committee and
stood high.
COLLAPSE OF A DEPOT BOOF.
Albany, N. Y. December 26.—Two
sections of the roof of the New York
Central Railroad round house at West
Albany, collapsed this afternoon under the
weight of snow. Three men were in
jured.
EDISTO PHOSPHATE WORKS BURNED.
Charleston, December 27.—The Edis-
to Phosphate and Fertilizer Works, about
three miles from this city, burned tonight.
The loss is about $200,000, fully covered
by insurance. _
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION.
Newport, Ark., December 26.—By the
explosion of a boiler in Kelly & Wells’
was employed to examine the books, and
in this way Talcott’s dishonesty was dis
covered. It appears that Talcott and
Abbott operated in collusion. Their
operations were facilitated by the fact that
the firm trusted them implicitly and left
blank checks signed in the bookkeeper’s
hands for business purposes. These he
filled out and cashed, and the money he
pocketed and charged to some fictitious
expenditure. Talcott is elderly, and had
always been thought to be the soul of
honor. ^
sun’s cotton review.
New York, December 26.—Futures
opened lower, further declined, quickly
rallied and further improved, closing
steady at one to five points advance from
Wednesday’s closing prices. We had quite
a market today, notwithstanding the ab
sence of news from other points. European
markets were closed and the storm cat us
off from communication with the South.
The opening was weak, and there was a
further decline due, it was said, to the
free issue of notices for delivery on January
contracts, and to the freedom with which
these notices were thrown upon the mar
ket, the. latter being ascribed to the re
latively high figures at which quotations
for low grades of spot cotton were main
tained. Subsequently the notices for
January delivery were taken up. The
crop movement began to show up com
paratively small, then came a demand to
cover contracts, causing not only a recov
ery of the early decline, bnt some further
advance, especially for distant months.
Spot cotton was dull
HE WILL RESIGN.
London, December 26.—John Pinker-
son, Member of Parliament for Galway
and a supporter of Parnell, announces that
he will resign his seat if his constituents
desire him to do so because of his alle
giance to Parnell.
A GAINESVILLE TRAGEDY.
Atlanta, December 26.—While at
tempting to arrest Bob Pruitt, a negro, in
Gainesville last night, City Marshal Kith-
ell was shot dead. Policeman Lowry then
shot and killei Pruitt.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SWIN
DLING SCHEME OF WM. DUVAL.
Washington, December 26.—Wm. Du
vall, the man who has victimized a large
number of Senators, has tried the same
scheme upon Postmaster-General Wan-
amaker, who today received a letter from
Duvall, enclosing tickets for an entertain
ment for his benefit, and adds: “Little
John, your namesake, is getting along
well. He is quite big now.”
A dispatch from Baltimore says the ad
dress given by Duvall in his letter is a
saloon kept by a man named Donahue.
Duvall requested permission to have his
mail received at Donahue’s place. Duvall
was formerly a mail carrier. He is mar
ried, but is separated from his wife, who
has never had a child. The police are in
vestigating the matter.
TRIED TO SWINDLE WATTEBSON.
Louisville, Ky., December 23.—Du
vall, the Baltimore sharper, who has just
buncoed several United States Senators
through the medium of a bogus baby, did
not limit himself to the Congressional
field, but has certainly been operating on
an extensive scale. About six weeks ago
Mr. Henry Watterson received a letter
from him overflowing with fulsome com
pliments, stating that he had named his
first burn Henry Watterson Duvall, en
closing a richly engraved baptismal cer
tificate and five tickets to a church enter
tainment, marked $1 each, but Mr. Wat
terson did not bite.
Being interviewed today he said: “The
first thing that arrested my attention was
the post mark. It did not impress me that
Baltimore was just the locality where I
might expect a namesake. Then the bap
tismal certificate was too elaborate and
circumstantial. It looked like a gratuitous
offer of excessive proof. Finally, the
indirect demand through the tickets for
money seemed conclusive and I threw the
big envelope and its contents into the
waste basket, satisfied that it was a very
original trick of a very clever confidence
man.”
THE PARNKLL-O’BRIEN CONFERENCE.
Paris, December 26.—The Temps an
nounces that after tne meeting between
Parnell and O’Brien, a conference of
Irish leaders will be held. Among those
who will take part in the deliberations
will be McCarthey, Power, Redmond,
O’Kelly, Sexton, Kinney and Arthur Con
nor. The arm of conference will be a
reunion of the two sections of the Irish
party, based on the temporary retirement
of Parnell from the leadership.
The Debats asserts that Parnell will
come to this city without having made a
previous arrangement with O’Brien for a
meeting; also that O’ Brien does not expect
to discuss his position with Parnell per
sonally.
VIROQUA’s BIG FIRE.
Yip.oqua, Wis., December 23.—A fire,
originating in Lendeman’s building, swept
away the entire block of buildings, except
ing the Tremont House, involving a loss
of fully $150,000, with but $16,000 insur
ance. It was only by great exertions on
the part of Die firemen and citizens that
the remainder of the town was saved.
PROSPECTS OF A SETTLEMENT.
Edinburgh, December 20.—As a result
of a conference here today of the railway
directors and delegates representing the
strikers, it is stated that there are pros
pects of settling the strike.
At Dundee today an unsuccessful at
tempt was made to derail a train, ^