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The Georgia
ran mu xxv.
TECH 5£A ct *
Vi F.U*
t her f* ce i* tank
It 0 f r *y her hatf,
n i l .i y i .va t ebe’ll comt
if,
;jfcere sorrow dwelt of yor*
L-ut that her larch i"
:: i r.ftiten »U tbs da n
win Iu vf* h r Kdow.
.. not iro gave, diis;
r.t so that 9 hard
uu old wo
oce s j j.i ftii 1 true.
H:e there i* a charm,
■r 41 4 '.-, * ■ ill la&t; • . *
, • e Hie least ffjul
K| <*rr tout
I wiieu n< om is cast
CSfluo PfL)- jowiy other* one; of*d; tfiat give*
for w .
Kltsttnv' rjuioufc'h n hf® ! <r 004 herself * sbo knows. «.h* lives,
o'
, e _<ive her a nnineJe.93 c race,
her - wee' face more fair,
fevj ike ns In; e life hokU no trace
‘ rai an ! c iv,
ju.u-h sho h 'l<ls the key
liv U dden joy ; free
>u , v .u i\ '>n^ alwft.’a so
ui not t old muck alloy.
p,[Vr Ciinutr, Indiana.
cut S LITTLE EMILY.
fJlotrtrTT History of OI a o rruaent Pendent
Marriage. 6
UT HISS MII.OCK.
*
^.nismi i ur ■ i 1 nouum nr n
’"“Jib K b ;ib ,Vr ’ ‘and"dont the moral of
iisa. yuio ulu ai d Chris luriNiisa i n worry, moral
M •: l ! l° lende]J y and oodaloj^Jy
\fi $2 -m Hif . mam. Bnt truth for
feee 'O retimes—that trntb,
r;iH it ju-mtO jives after ihem;
Li softtn interred wiihtheir benes,
takiiiff S ?nm e
t L Vn .ri ' a wide nml
iimv miCuto's of life cm fail in too wbnt
iiss caused Often’ t assivelv
..bad; how the 1 vi' •
Lire B tbi mselves mil mote t an *
r ,k„ - Znel ,
t P . ,ect for the memory ,n
E, , ®t, . “ "
E*'* , rnm'i ^ , ,
-T tnim.JG ™ iu i!f. iiw i.-’ l laS
t If* 4 ' '-vjiled in re. 1
■h;. fiirtpc ftom I it U vii-ine vit iu- inln IU! > . a
ferWJtt F'" “ 1 oa -“b ■’ 1 ;, y** w
pave h« n dragged 7-S‘be open
pleiii-b"il ■heel of nglitecms n :,l trampled wrath aBj r“£**' H poble r }b®
bhshM up, suff--red to ^ ^passed
pjuited, becauso—ala^-’ thev^ong
to btleast, bow far they away mn in injure the silent no mote. i^,
f g
'■ '■!?: Col forbid that when
plfis t'ei'.ittl at at upon the qttiver
RlH of sinner as well us sfliat, ours J
nliodd not respect UIs awiu. .
Kbadamb. But there am cases m ^
icBee regarding Ibe dead involves J
to the liv.ng, and that which naght
les >solemn warning to many ottwva
W falls short of its natural * 6 B ® b
Bsm I would fatu have some won... y^tbe
plav to bead .loUnBoweibunSrfl from i. v sto
• ■ V 7 . ala-of wife,
it liappi nod long ago. anfd thongh
ople, aud extraneous circ^jmstances
V:■ #story I itself tmst, is effectually ATT^ention, disguised, but
no a
Jtome; and I tell it, after all the
tern are safely dead and gone,
■00 to those whom it may eoneern;
By those who are supposed to need
®! yet fate often reads to them
|hh'sharpest lesson of aU—the par
pjwwn-np pkowribniik children.
was sitting quite alone,
psed F® of in the dee era mourning, in the din
(She onse at Queen
bad been summoned to London
(1 Im first lime since her marriage, by a
( event- the sudden death of her
He v, as not au old mau exactly,
N> Utiaghis en hitherto remarkably hale aud ;
Wtown-with life-the life of a barris
fc and apparent enjoyment, made,
( spending as fast as be
M.asnres, Rond income, absorbed chieflv iu j
but pleasures of a per
y'pa'abb K and unobjectionable kind. ;
1,1 ti e midst of these Death j
Pri called him. Some hidden heart ;
L,. ft. down • while developed making itself, speech aud he in
His a
1 daughter and son-in-law were
Hed 'plan for, I nt, 4 fren be.'ore tlio mes
EH teJffrom th-in fie was no more. They
Westminster Hall to
Mtw a corpse.
tatse, deep was the sympathy with .
kin; 4*0 and though siucc her marriage
withdrawn himself from her that
teder filial relation which ever ex st
J»slikely to exist, between a loving
Vfcrcoof man bo essentially ctm If selfish, that ex
r’f the nature he had
Whatever to bo considered a father,
. 1 all but nominal- still, over
f Wriug wly , !0 t R0 much later years as
h c childish days when almost ev
take# a certain pleasure in pater
Mseecialiv fel. bc:m> father to ft nrettv lit
She recalled bow lie nsed to set
'® the table after dinner and make her
ft"0 him, or take her walks in the park
® Her best clothes on—licr muslin
®biig about, blue ribbons, “ud her golden
ft f«'].v so that, infant as she was,
t $ Whose aware everybody noticed her,
J charming these little girl which that
0 ? |'' fS daring
F P. a#han» as imperfect nature t and > hard heart
P»Rv Hipwreeked over the smooth waters of life.
EH afterward. It is not till
and eewes that we find out the real
timber of the others,"in vessel.
Jftse days Elnil came .v’s recollection, which, her
,aton very little notice of her;
E® C.H fat beaming Earned^tS spiritualloveliness nnarttetlc
4kSf head he^t eve
and sound of John
UM°iif ,‘‘’ os 8a i be neglected; bad been, during her
1 -' V 0 and, in fact,
LbcmooUis't 5 i,' vakened np ou
, aiotsei "Ii b tnnn .,1 u!„ telesK c ° father n s . ® < I n mto ? n ,
^•0 f!i :efot e , s j , 1(1 thtt 6 ^
S 8 a v e him
’ at, J r woo
He > '/cf Sl b t £o A»Private desk the »
Joht ’. summoned
W to aft€r tQe funeral,
kin/ft ift 7 ? ; ® f h 'ther--her f, was ^
f to
ISft' bis life , so cn K'yed the
FINE JOB WORK
—done AT—
OFFICE!
OIIOH
withL tLii witU. Mjs knew “
dwell upon bira safe sl( .. PnL ,j
heaven, a9 RB nd d hatmv m
and , et !;ei , h wmd ‘
! BoWerbankhadiaU.EomehandMmeta^
onal^nust tingXh from iaimediatelv be „aVs
he left u the throng o and
his Wife behind in London for a d,v
, u °Mer that she might leisurely examine
] j the !;: r ft deceased—it P<r s papers, and find onr whether
; the clever barrister, was the melancholy to hear
i already spoken social diner-oat
oi as merely “thedeceased”
; mnmL Pa T i ? ia 5 -" V 11 “Siding his
own
last sad conjiinclnre she had Wn
drawn to him than for more
! fore. in .uv monffis ^ s be
“
She had bidden him good-bv an hmt
| ago. he starting by the night mail for J,jv
| ] fT^!’ the large, and desolate had settled dining-room, herself mailing alone in
encampment by a
f . the fire, that she
i ZiuL looking ol over—drawer a drea 7 by ' drawer, , Pbe,! sha and begau paper
iafler paper the large desk which had been rfer
I i'he awe of her childhood „„d the
plexity believe of her vonth. She con'd hardlv
j * U S into that with it unhallowed was really herself then peer
i ing eyes, and turn
over with imforbiild n bauds, those
j secrets of which we all have some, and
• which we think are safe from everybody,
till death comes and teachei difi'erently.
; lVhat Mr. Kendal could have been think
ing of when he left all these matters—
malty of wbi h he certainly would not
have hk.d men hr- dangh'er to be ac
'SSSJtniWftttS VU, th, iWh, 2 *’.SI
„] b.lm.|
though it s'aros at us in ehurch-yard and
street, and wbistters to ns in every book
or newspaper, that “in the midst of life we
are in death," had been wholly uurec ng
nixed by this man of the world, or else be
might have had a superstitious dread of
'fr tt 1 * 8 8> hoas ® ,u order, o* °"' U aud i ? sola contem- ‘ i ? n
t ’ ’
, Certain it u was he left no will, and his
most private papers were found in (he ut
most coflfnsion, eventhiiig beiu^ the^moraiug exactly
as lie had quilted his home on
of his death, to return thither alive no
more.
With a solemn tenderness befitting such
a ? offiue ’ bis daughter turned over scrip
! »fte opened, and looked letter
: r ««MP» at
f,f„ lt ' ct ‘ er ’ ^ ast ^ ad,ngas “ uch .“ Sl ; “•
« S’ hnvnt”'"^ burnt. good ^ 1 °* Uy '
; • u asiuo to tie A many
V®pe« #he destroyed ft. once; she dul not
like eveu u „ husband to see them-lheso
relics of a purely selfish lib- not abso
lately a wicked life, bat one self-absorbed
and self-enjoying nothing but self
wol6 Lady hip from (he beginning to the end.
Bowerbank was growing weary;
the hall clock had just struck eleven, re
sounding through the gloomy old house
WIt)l n tHritl that almost made her start off
her chair—she was very feeble and nerr
oils siilJ, thou-’ll her health had been of
i a t 0 months a little improving. Sick at
heart, forlorn and lonely, she put aside
heap after heap of letters in unfamiliar
hand-writing, hen 5 to bo examined by and by,
68 ? dd ^ ly Came acro83 one that
Monde™ % im'being there; her father
Stenhouse had Lad a sharp cor
tepee; ^tuefe nrohaldv this imd was nnp. of been Uio
of them ever
ty / ; ghe had only found and out ac
em : , ajfagerly such had bom sent re
she took up this one,
1 'G* ' J ' A-i Jf. itated—Emily's to whether it would perpetual be hesita- breach
a
or of duty to read it, w hon,
looking at the envelope, she saw it was not
addressed, as the rest of ilr. Stenhouse s
letter- had bees, to Mr. Knowles house 111
Liverpool, but to Queen Anne street, L on
don. Aud the postmark bore a date long
subsequent to that unhappy time; a dale
which, as Emily Bowerbank gazed on,
cold shivers of fear ran through her, for it
was a week after her twenty-tiist birliiday.
“ e did write, then. 1 must read it! I
mu and will!” she said to herself; and
for onco that firm “I will” the want of
which had been the great lack of her
as it is one of the greatest and most fatal
deficiencies in auy human life or character
to her aid, and she carried out her
purpose. Was it for good or for ill? Alas!
the teller of this simple tale and may be
many a reader-cannot possibly decide;
except that, as a general blinding rule, truth to have better, met
open-eyed and easier the in most the end, than to is live un
ay, bli-htnig shadow of permanent
dev the a
lie. Kendal l>y
The' letter addressed to Sir.
John Stenhouse ran thus:
mb; Though w° di.l not part amiMiWy w
J® a J? **?’i 0 numov and the father
n la<\v whom 1 then, and ever sine,
trie make wife.
gtP a:!il V determined abstained to my all comma
At your desire, I 110 m
nicati'on with her until she became ot age
winch was a »■'- ago- Ou that day, and
r.;aiu for six days following, f called at vo ir
nous-, to see hoc and yon, “■“<* P e l “ ^
t h e
for itliasas l’ regards admitted. myself, 1
at , V g r p 3eu broker, but was not have
oanuo t i ( «ii anv'hing about her. 1
, V r,tt m to her; I'havc waiciicd—as far as a
yean, the h#«• man ot could seeuiz prwnme hei, and to wafna “ a laJy, ■>,
now fitko the h ia j • * • iu
mg' “'.'“Efather 001 entreat''von .,^-liratoM °m.‘ fci-sakc Ato.;
v ’i'V I for
aid 1 ve me once-not to stand in
me where sho is, ;■^n l wben. 1
icurs fa i.-timj, • 1 >■ ■ ■ - „ f
Inclosed with this was* email n .
scarcely more than a scrap, appaiemj it
. written in haste, and was blotted as was
folded: and complete
mu: I accept your explicit ex
plauahon, and wish your U^
j! ?fi f n in
e, 1 obedient servant,
tM “ l: d nl up 0 - ‘ 1 pv vour
* ' Joins Stekbotob.
KmilV Bowerbank read, and sat petti
” e “’ world seemed fading
| - „ If jn a 80rt of dark-gray mist. The
waters was in her cars, and
i 7^ dul! > V no-Vto« A SI min nlssed at her into heart. temporary Then un- all
1 ceased, and Rfie p
j -
j C0 “ ddhen s “ 10U8 sliecame “ eSS ‘ herself .’ she was he’ lying
forward w.th her c' t let
”j„q' She remem
' slight thing causesto fall into fam K
very "
! ! fits AriiffW thing, *? P^L , ,,v the ^arCd father
j who had done it behove- tit was the
himse’f into beh 0T ?"°_,‘ ‘ vc
.
! ! d .J^rntmltime, 8 ?™joh°n Stcnhou- and had ogam returned a»kedfit at the
ai l cnee steadily,
, hj,.,. H e bad loved her
v two blank yea -
faUbfuUv. through these d \°
He had com 0 up London pr®P® ^oitably
meet the sham ordeal that wb#
before Uim-'he woun mg bnm
.
tbo lacerating of bw ” }er the best of
hliug circumstauc Jaanee^nrlist , be ios borne a rich by a mans poor,
( B r0 " d man . willing and
! , tlaU f h y e > he had leldug come, as«‘V ® T ®'T‘
to ni-rrv Dor.
“MT COUNTRY: MAT SHS EVER EE RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MT COUNTRY /»—Jimuos.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, APRIL 3,
1 most natural impulse oi actual joy. 1
her hands together, and if
\ h \F? or ' pale fa0 ® looked like an
Au d Ule P sbe remembered not all that fol- 1 ! j
i oweu , -and how it had all ended in her j
FT? * Whl she *« now--Jol.n llower
The dead man had told a lie—or perhaps
’ 10t * direct be, but a misstatement—put
tmg fo ™ &r l "hat he believed and hoped j
a V' , lat really existed. lie |
y nr ° rm6< * -'ohu Stenhouse had his evidently
that daugh*
sssftsffif mhm, JiS". consid f^ d herself enraged
of ftft ssskss
le en •* hicts by even good peo
them. i! - who The hope falsehoods them nntiltheyreallvbelieve
pe of the wicked can
P et ~ the misstatements of the respec
ta , ’ e and "' ort by cannot.
Aud a bo Hurt is bad truth is t« erertna evsrtbe blackest Uackut
ot lies.
s wah™™ll v .. . . 0VW T “»
as a \* aS 8carcel y unnatural. t Bnt-the father.
Wben 0119 “ a “ has a grudge against
another, it may be a small thing to deny
him his house and suppress his letters; and
i sucil may •*» b y some people, counted by
110 meaus an unwarrantable proceeding on
! 'he part of any father who wishes to pie
reD '. daughter s making an imprndeiit
illtle !lli8 lra,lm *„ httle « bar v as a child: perhaps; but then •
(
1Dan - y - Tom, R women are little better than
c “ , 1Jr « n : ®“d Parents have, or are supposed
•
IT,! . ail ‘i .wisdom,
1 ,?!?’ 1 ® the justice the
.°” ‘J} 16 " elie ; may take the
“ lhe lir-iif y- tl! e 4—a chddren-just ot tide off.piia,. entering on life,
i aud v ith lltUo or “° experience of its
COB nt,ess Pitfalls, know what is best for
'heir . own happiness? Bind obedience is
f U ' 0St llUl > be-t.
So would argue many excellent people—
so doubtless would have argued the dead
%ZTSilT~ new*tilled grave, ^ 5*7 or from C0 “? the ba place, ',' k ^ wher- ba
ever it was, that hie soul hud fled to, and
before his daughter in the dead of
night, as she sat with that fatal letter
Bti11 clutched in her hands, staring at va
cancy.
She was usually a good deal given to
weeping—too much so. indeed—she was
: such a thorough U womtn iu all her weak
UL fw 'f iT 9S ' ep P®°* V ^ l: e “ e, * e f ‘V «»tnow 4 1 *® she nwt did
! think anv unholy* , wicked thoughts ,
nor
■cum her fftther’s memory. He was dead,
and she must not allow herself to dwell up
on what he had done against her, or jndgi
. wheth.r his act were right or wrong. She
j only felt that it had killed her,
j Yes, he had killed her, this respectable
end respected father-bad killed his own
daughter hi# natural flesh and blood as
completely as if he had slam her with hi*
hand. It might be worth rounting-as per
I haps the good God may send His angels to
’ count some time, when the secrets of all
lives shall be revealed—how many fathers,
perhaps selfish some mothers; bnt women being
less than men, these are rarer—
with the very best intentions, have done the
i samo.
I lawful, yout^ud^Uff wUMn^hef not fho“h ,Sy hr
open ommaUion - i>ut that
: w .>«m Uvo Wan oruoi a*»o««n leva
mean, underhand, cowardly blow, a side
i thrust which there was no panwing. By
him, worldly man as he was, probably the
(King was not realized in it# full enormity,
How could he. or such ns he. understand
the lost of love-the one blessing which
lllf ik(. s life sacred and beautiful? Or per
naps he thought, like other worldly people,
that worldlv blessings are all in all, aud
that he was keeping actually doing the his daughter a
kindness in her iu sphere she
wus born to; saving her from sacrificing
herself to a man o: no wealth aud uo po
siiion, decidedly her inferior in the mar
J ,.j age barter, who, while she gave him ev
eiyihing, hml nothing on earth to offer her
. except love, all which was Kendal. a commodity of no
, at with Mr.
Be that as it may, he had killed her. Of
course, there is this to be said, why had
: the weakness to let herself be killed?
Why did she take her lover’s loss so pass
, ;y e ] v , and so unresistingly allow herself to
p ( , married to another? Why, in short, suffer
herself to be made a mere victim to cir
eumstances when she should have risen
above them, as a strong, brave human be-
1 mg, | whether woman or man, ought to do;
j ig t her own battle, and assert her right to
ij ve out her own life in her own way,
whether she married John ytenhouse or
| uo ?
,y a3 , the question is answered by him-
1 ^(jg 0 ( victims—men aud women, but
! especially women-to whose weak help
; lessness might has become right, and cow
ardiee appeared like dutiful submission.
, p aBS 0Df pa ] e ghosts, sad shadows of lives
that might have been made so happy and
s0 f air . God will remember von, poor suf
f . ones! But how ag to , hose wbo
ba'e caused you to suffer?
I think, if there ought to be a Gehenna
upon earth—-for mortal justice must not
presume to create Gehennas afterward—it
..houkl be opened for the punishment of
tyrants—domestic Emily Bowerbank tyrants. sat till doydnwn with
out attempting so much as to stir. Bewil
j dering, ctolirious thoughts swept through
her poor brain—she who was not much
given to think, bat only to feel. Whether
those long stilt bonvs, she went over and
over again, in maddened fancy, the con
tr0st between her calm John cold Bowerbank— respectable
mRrrlage with hone-t
, ball k heaven, she felt lie was not to blame;
ha never could nave known anything- and
mar( jago with every pulse of he.-heart
! soil happy and at rest; every aspiration other
satisfied; strengthened, her nature fitted developed, weal aud
her mind lor or
woe, labor or ease, peace or perplexity, as
; #'h® "b" 1 i htenho,1S# l teab all* ftU ,hls this
never «*• “JJg” revealed. , , o USe was WM
She said nothing and did nothing; what
' was there to do or say? she blamed no
one, not even herself; it was too lato now.
! Everything was too late. Slie lelt m a
vague, childish sort of way, like one of
the “foolish virgins, whom eho had always
been so sorry for as a child; her lamp, too,
day—she sat over be, father's
Ucsk, not attempting, to arrange however, anything to search more,
'arther, or sodden fear of the seraants
Then, with a
.’oming in and ) ‘ nd i“ g 1 *’®ft g *”• 8 ft*'
dl y * 7 iu letter/ which she took
0 ij b nt away
her—it concerned nobody but her
,, e i t _ an q crep t noiselessly aw^y to bed.
. \ e xt ad/’.'towerbank day, according to her hvaband*# de
M e L started for Trier
^ K ^ well she did, for ux-medt
alcly on her rttsii 01 “ ® ® ’ a<
somewhat s. - kj d of lo »
: gasUtc.^ was rather af prevalent
No one wondered it, and
bo j v sympathized with her. "Dear
fiftover » ,• i; 0 Werba»k!” they said, in talking
- she was such a delicate, tender
A FEARFUL STORM.
muntucmy y[si
TED—TERRIBLE LOSs OF LIFE.
DEVASTATION IN ILLINOIS—THE STORM
«.ENKRAL TOBOLGHOCT THE WESTERN
STATES—SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
-V dispatch from Louisville, Kentucky,
say#: tornado Shortly after 9 o'clock Friday night
a swept over this city, wrecking
two or three hundred houses,'aud killing
Prom r *f 1 U n, °“ ^ r a
the fort of Seventh street, t was lifted
from *** foundation and turned over into
the raging torrent of the Ohio river. A
train of Mrs making up for the Louisville
Cithern roiul went over with the build
io „ Kails City hall, on West .Market
street was wrecked. In the hall were
over a hundred ,teople. and but few ol
, b “em t*sca|ieu ( . sf . aDc j aine. Many h I (inklings , li | (li , 1 - af a! .
“ r fa ll "?« c *"gh f <i« and the inmates
were burned. All the streets are block
aded with debris of fallen buildings or
telegraph dispatch and the electric wires. life A later
says loss of by the ey
clone at Louisville is estimated" at Soil.
The .! path of the cyclone was about n
s 1 . a f ( , i , | d “ 111 Ut i
tur btokM tK Illinois.
hid, A ( hicagodispatch reached says: The storm
w here at noon Thursday
—I- >»• Mori a-sj- *».•«-*}•> ,>"* -if
mm anti sleet, accompanied by wind,
blowing A tlurty-tive or forty miles au
hour. wind and hail storm passed
over Cairo at 4 o'clock Thursday after
noon. Kail stones weighing over three
ounces fell. Considerable damage is
reported from Bird’s Point, Mo., where
'' >* reported j the storm struck towns and
, n ° . v . Mobijo ! .J 1 and Ohio iu railroad,
* lne °*
AH , wires from this city are down. A late
special says Illinois, that Metropolis, thirty-five a small vil
lage in destroyed about miles
from Cairo, was by the storm,
and several hundred people were killed
and injured.
At olnev. Ilia., the house#, atorm was very
wvere, aud unroofing i r windows . , ’ overturning aud , .. 6
> barn# wreck , Bff chim-
1IlP < ‘ lePt " c bght station build
'»g *’** unroofed ; Sell mid ts restaurant
was unroofed; the cornice of Spring's
grain store was blown off. The wind
then tore down two frame buildings be*
SYm^. lon-iue to the Clark toJZdl,«d estate unroofed the
!, >, e “ I 1 d completely wreckett wrea ked
Herrm brick . shoe store. A two-story
s
frame building, occupied by Mrs. M.
Sponsler as a millinery shop, was
crushed like an egg shell and
Mis. Snousler buried in the ruins,
She was quickly extricated and found to
be aer^uslv injured. Robert Bvres’
wrecked. The storm struck the
h° UM? of Dell Harrell, which was com
.U-UoJ. TLo fsxavi.il <r +
-*nfety adjoining in the cellar residences and escaped of Dr. Marshall unhurt.
The
and 11. I). Morse were badly damaged,
The residence of Mr. Mathes, near bv,
was lilted from its foundation aud crushed,
bui rinir the familv in the ruins All es
' yr™ Mathes
, } i '! ^.y..
aho “°" h j- f 111 ; a ciitical condition, , ..n.iitinn The (he
dwelling ol John Monircil was of niown
completely The away, not a vestage desolate it ve
maining. streets present a
appearance, being filled with debris,
A special from Nashville, Illinois, says
1 , cyclone { struck that place w ith terrific
• f „i i left
. i! All nnf . V n H „ s
m a window with vhh a westein c expos M iqp. *
1 he city hall, a large trame structure,
was demolished. Martin sorter# uvery
dftble is a wreck : Sawyer & Co.’s cooper
shop, a brick building, is demolished.
\t Little Prairie, a few miles distant from
here, the storm destroyed the residence of
vYm Rhine and Air '. Rhine was iutern
,, exnecte a u> live
Da id Smith s house , was destroyed destroyed. He He
rushed out with his little girl, amt a tree
fell on them. Neither is expected to live.
Fritz Krum's house was blown away, and
he and his wife are probably fatally iu
jured. Henry Taylor and family hud a
like fate, also two young ladies—Miss
Morris and Miss Maggie ,Simmons—both
0 f wlioiu wilt die from their injuries,
.... . p ti ; , settlement directly iu
the , path , of f the , storm, , . Urnnhas ■ , , not
v M *om
heard frojn, and It is feared great loss
life lias occurred there.
A special from Cairo, Ill., says the
storm struck there at 4:80 p. m. Theba
ronicter registered 29.5, the lowest record
Tears The violence.’ wind while it lasted,
tiiew w,ra great “ The largest
. .. th M[ in lar „„ ^ Quant ;.
Three . . hous^ », blown from their ,, .
> P9 - were
foundations at Bird# Point.. At Mill
Creek, two miles north of Cairo, several
i n » down it is impossible to get register- particu
| al ., At 9 p. 111 . the wind was
h,- ., ,
A.dispatch ... fiom Carbondale, T 111., n says
a disastnous Thursday cyclone passed afternoon. through Jack
son county Anum
ber of houses were levelled to lost." the ground
imI tbrw liv e# are reported Near
Murphys!,oro, blown Air. pieces, Lindlev’s ‘his dwelling child killed was
, G
and his wife dangerously injured. At
Carbondale the banking house of W. M.
Wvkes ft” was unroofed UDroolea and Jn,i several se ' eral house® h0,1,e '
lamag.td
A dispatch or Thursday throughout from Lincoln,
Neb.,says that the storm thst
state was of extraordinary severity for
shis season of the year. The wind blows
a t a high lute of velocity, and snow is
i vailed at Omaha. Most of the street cars
in the city arc blockaded, and traffic is
greatly Milwaukee, impeded.
A Wis., report says: The
weather is comparatively warm, but snow
fell heavily aud the wind blows fiercely.
the in places drifts lines are have piled up liad so high suspend that
street ear to
traffic. Telephone wires scatter the
Mreets ami trip up pedestrians.
A dispatch from Sioux City, la., says
that the storm extends over the State, aud
partakes of the nature of a blizzard. It
began snowing o’clock thereat noon Thursday,
and at 6 in the evening, the snow
\j,ad fallen to the depth of fifteen inches in
the western portion of the Stale. Train?
A Kansas City dispatch says: A storm
prevailed throughout Kansas and south¬
western ported from Missouri, Thursday. Snow is re¬
Kansas. The some barometer portions varied of western differ
in
ent localities from 25 at Wichita to 23.28
ut tl»i'. point, the lowest reported for
years. The velocity of the wind was ex¬
traordinary it for such a long continued
storm. Wichita, Kan., the wind difl
I considerable damage. Heavy plate gl««r
windows were smashed iu, sigus dis¬ !
placed Abilme. and chimney considerable top# blown down.
At done chimneys, Kan., and damage I
was fell to signs cornices.
Snow during the afternoon.
W VTCBIKO THE STORMS.
The the signal following office at special "Washington fur¬
nishes bulletin to
the pres.#: At 8 o’clock Thursday
morning a severe storm was central in
eastern Kansas with a velocity on the
eastern side of thirty-six miles southeast;
at St. Louis, on the southern side, ot
forty-eight miles; western in northern
Texas, on western side of sixty miles;
north in Colorado and on the northern
side, of thirty-six miles; north in Ne¬
braska aud South Dakota with a severe
blizzard and snow in Nebraska. Warnings
were seat local out during in the the rwuihig of Ohio, for
several storms states
Indiana, llunois, Tennessee. Kentucky,
Georgia and Alabama, and for a severe
norther extending from Kansas to North¬
ern Texas. At noon the storm had moved
eastward winds, so as to cover all Illinois, with
high Chicago reporting forty
miles east and increasing. The storm
will be felt on the Atlantic coast Thurs¬
day night or Friday morning, producing and
seven; local storms in the interior
“asterly Maine, gales on the coast from Hatteras
to and high southwest winds on
Hie south Atlantic coast.
H11T1IIK NEWS OF THE 1.0VISVI1X*
HOBBOR.
work A dispatch of Saturday says; The
of rescuing the mangled dead
bodies goes bravely on. A hundred anx¬
ious men worked as they never worked
before for the bodies of their wives,
fathers, mothers, brothers aud sisters that
lie buried in the shapeless mass of brick
and mortar that covers the site where,
yesterday, stood the Falls City hall. The
cries of men, women and children rend
the air on every side. A surging crowd
of ten thousand people blocks the streets
for squares about the scene of the catas¬
trophe. recognition, Bodies, mangled being aud shapeless
beyond from the are dragged
beneath ruins every few minutes.
Coroner Miller has ordered that 110 body
be interred until it has been viewed by
him. This has caused some discontent
among those who wish lo take immediate
charge of the remains of their friends.
THE XILI,El) ANU INJURED.
Following are the names of the killed
throughout the city, so far as identified:
Mrs. Mary Hansom, Miss Annie Niles.
Mrs. McLaughlin, Tom Mrs. Puff. Belle Mrs. Lelloff,
Mrs. Peterson, Nutall,
Sister Mary Pius, two unknown colored
men, Nicholas J. Sullivau. William Dia
mou, Ben Chelt, John Kmerieh, J. F.
Moody, unknown colored woman, Thad
Mason, (.’. Hathaway. Charles
Ifessenbureh. Mary Ryan, Katie
McKune, Mary McGinty, Bridget
Crow, Maggie Campbell, Scield, Francis small
Parker, J. O. a
child, Park Connell, Unknown woman.
p a l Read}-, Barnwell, police unknown man,
Rev. S. E. officer V\ ln‘c
Baldwin, Dan McLaughlin, August
Fleischer, Mrs. Allen Peterson, Captain
L. Angermier, J. B. McCollum, William
Demur, Mrs. E Hostetler, Mrs. Castle
man, Theo. Angelman, Genevieve Simms,
Henry Lingo, Esquire James M. Stevens,
John Hiehl, Charles Siflicrt, Sullivan,
J. Fleschcr, Miss Mary Schatter, A. S.
Truerling, Elmer E. Barnes, Annie
Miles, Clarence Looser, Robert Hamilton,
Airs. John Horan.
A Sunday dispatch says: lt is now
pretty near a certainty that the entire
loss of life from the tornado will not go
much above one hundred, if that number
is reached. The total number
of killed at all places, whose bodies have
been recovered, and of the missing who
it is reasonably certain arc dead,is eighty.
In addition to these then - are about
a dozen who are so badly injured that
death may ensue. Anywhere from 150
to 200 persons are injured to an extent
worth noticing.
A CARD TO TIIE PUBLIC.
mittees In discussing making house the reports to house of investiga¬ the com¬
tions, considerable diversity of opinion as
to loss of property was developed. and highest Low¬
est estimate put it $ 1 , 000 , 000 at
$3,000,000. and the best founded facts
presented placed it at $2,500,000. There
is almost no insurance. It was
finally voted that the chairman of the
committee should prepare a statement to
be authorative for the use of the Associ¬
ated Press. This was approved by the
majority of the committee:
To the People: Tlic calamity that lias
overtaken the city by the cyclone of last
night spread over tire territory of the city,
covering a space of 400 yards throughout
tin - business and residence portion of the
city. Tlic loss of life is befitted to be
seventy-five people, and the loss to the
city in damage to houses and grounds not
to exceed $ 2.000,000 . While the calam¬
ity is with a great it and one, our not people down, feel able but to
cope are cast
will proceed to repair and resume in chan¬
nels now interrupted, iu all other por¬
tions of the city business is sesnming its
channel. Signed by the relief commit¬
tee board of trade.
W. T. Rolf, Chairman.
A NEW NAME.
TDK COTTON OIL TRUST REORGANIZED AS
THE COTTON OIL COMPANY.
Final steps in the reorganization of the
American cotton oil trust at New York
have been taken and on Tuesday dealings the
stock exchange admitted to its
common and preferred stocks of the new
corporation, the American Cotton Oil
company. Tho company now owns
about $41,800,000 of certificates of the
American cotton oil trusts out of a total
issue of $42,185,000.
THE PRICE OF A LETTER.
A RUSSIAN WOMAN WRITES TO THE CZAR
AND IS EXILED.
Mr. George Keenan, at Kansas City,
Mo., on Wednesday furnished additional
particulars in regard to the well known
Russian lady, Mmy Tsebrikova, who is
about to be exiled to Siberia for having
written a personal letter, concerning Rus¬
sian affairs, to the czar. Mr. Keeuan says
the lady is known in Russia as an able
and talented writer upon social and polit¬
ical subjects, and has never been a revo¬
lutionist.
THE CLASS SUSPENDED
FOR REFUSING TO ATTEND THE COLLEGE
EXERCISES.
The faculty of Amherst. Ma—. collegi fresh¬
ou Saturday suspended had the refused entire to at¬
man class. The class
tend any college exercises whatsoever,
uutil three of their number, under discip¬
line for trouble, were reinstated.
AT THE CAPITAL
WHA T THE FIFTT-FIRST CON
OR ESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEA8CRE8 OF NATIONAL IMPORTANC*
AND ITEMS or GENERAL INTEREST.
In the house, on Wednesday. Mr. Can¬
non, of Illinois, from the committee on
rule#, reported a resolution miking the
for Wyoming the day. admission resolution bill a special adopted order
The was
and the Wyoming bill then taken up. Mr.
Carey, of Wyoming, made a strong plea
for the admission of the territory which
he lepresented. into the sisterhood of
states, and he defended the provision of
the constitute 1 and the territory extend¬
ing the right of suffrage to women. Mr.
Doekerry, of Mo., favored the admission of
new states as rapidly as the increase of
population in the territories warranted.
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, said that no new
state had ever come into the union on
terms proposed in this case—that women hold
were to have the right to vote ami to
office, lt was a delicate question and ho
looked with great apprehension - upon the
growing sion tendency toward the franchise. exten¬
of the r ght to
Mr. Morey, of Oh >, spoke in support
of rhe bill, and ad rotated the civil and
legal enfranchise!) ent of women in all
states of the union. Mr. Mansur, of
Missouri, in the few moments which re¬
mained addressed himself to the country
if not to the house (for. on actual
vomit, there were not twelve members in
their seats), and said that the slim at¬
tendance reminded him of tlie fact that
the house was briuging a state into the
union by the Cnsarian operation, rather
than with the care aud comfort which
surrounded the aceouchment of au hon¬
orable member of an honorable family.
The house then took a reces-.
In the senate, on Wednesday. Mr. Mc¬
Pherson, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported n joint resolution au¬
thorizing the secretary of the navy to re¬
move the naval magazine front Lillis
island, in New York harbor, and to pur¬
chase a site for and to erect a naval mag¬
azine at some other point, and appropri¬
ating $75,000 for (lie purpose, and the
senate moved proceeded amend to consider appropriating it. Mr. Hut
cock to by
the further sum of $75,000 to enable
the secretary of the treasury to improve
Kilis island for immigration purposes.
The amendment was agreed to and the
joint resolution passed. . . .The anti-trust
bill was taken up and various formal
amendments were made. The amend¬
ment offered Tuesday by Mr. Stewart to
insert tlic wldch words, -- or of the advanced value of
money by such cost may be
or reduced," was agreed to, Mr. Hoar
withdrawing his amendment to it, which
was to add the words “gold or silver.”
Mr Spooner offered an amendment to the
first section, giving courts authority, in
addition to the other re medie s, to issue,
writs of .sjunriioyr- and re¬
straining further combinations in the business from proceeding
any except to
wind up their affairs. The legal bearing
and effect of the amendment, as well us
tlic bill generally, were discussed
by Messrs. Spooner, Gray. Hoar, Stewart,
Vest Reagan, and Eustis. Mr. Butler
offered an amendment extending the pro¬
visions of tin; bill to stocks and bunks.
Adopted. extending .Mr. Eustis offered an amend¬
ment its provisions to cotton
prints, steel rails, boots aud shoes, lead
and Blair lumber. amendment Adopted. On adopted motion in¬ of
Mr. au was
cluding woolen intoxicating goods aud drinks whisky and all
kinds of with¬
in the provision# of the bill.
The bill, whicli had been considered all
the time as in the committee of the
whole, amendments was reported have to the senate, acted where
all to be upon
again, aud where other amendments may
be offered. After a brief executive ses¬
sion the senate adjourned.
The house met at 11 o'clock Thursday
in continuation of Wednesday's session,
and the Wyoming admission bill was
again bate taken up political for consideration. line#until o’clock, De¬
went on 1
when Springer, the previous question was the minority, ordered.
Mr. ou b half of
of the committee, offered nn
a vteudment providing for an
other convention, called under au¬
thority of an act of congress. Lost yeas
131. amendment nays 138. providing Mr. Springer then offered
an that there shall
be an election on Tuesday after the first
Monday in November next, for a repre¬
sentative to the fifty-first aud fifty-second
congress, fices. The and constitution for state and judicial voted of¬
shall be
upon, and if the vote is ugaiust female
suffrage, that feature shall be elimi¬
nated from the constitution. This
was also lost-yeas 13:1, nays 139.
Mr. Springer then offered his last
amendment, which strike's out the clause
of the Wyoming suffrage. constitution Defeated—Jens providing
for female 132,
nays 138. The bill was then passed by a
strict party vote—yeas 147. nays 127.
The house then went into committee of
bill the whole read or. army length appropriation. and without The
w-as at ac¬
tion the committee rose, and the house,
at 5: 10 . adjourned. had dis¬
O 11 Thursday, after the senate tliede
posed of Sherman’s anti trust bill,
liendeul pension bill was called up in
pursuance of the programme determined
upon by the republican caucus. This is
the, bill to pension at the rate of twelve
dollars per month every union soldier nr
sailor who served three months iu
the rebellion and is now incapaci¬
tated from active work and de¬
pendent upon manual labor for support.
It will pass and receive the president's
autograph. lt will immediately adil
$38,000.(1119 to the $98,000,000 now ex¬
pended annually for pensions, making
an aggregate outlay for pensions alone
each year *30,000,000. This vast sum is
i« almost equal to all the other expendi¬
tures of the government put together.
A count of the house by speaker was
required on Friday before delay journal could
be_read. peared and bnt journal after some approved. a quorum After ap¬
was
adopting a resolution of inquiry, directed
to die postmaster-general, the house went
into committee of the whole on the pri¬
vate calendar. The entire afternoon was
consumed in the discussion of a point of
error. At its cveniug session the house
passed adjourned. twenty-five bills, and at 10:30
o’clock .
In the Senate, on Friday, after reports
from committees had been disposed of,
the resolution offered by Mr. Teller to re¬
call from the president the bill in his
hands, in order to correct a verbal inae
i oracy (the use of “and" instead of "or")
raised the question whether one house
could recall Hie hill without the concur
renee of the other house, and also as to
w hat iu cither case w ould become of the
constitutional provision that if the bit!
were not returned by the president with¬
in ten davs without his objection thereto.
it became a law. lt was the arranged that
Mr. Dotph should address senate Sat¬
urday ou the Vouchees resolution as to
agricultural depression, and that the rest
of the day should be devoted to the cal
endar. The senate then, at 1 o’clock,
proceeded to executive business. At 5:55
the doors were opened, and the senate
adjourned.
On motion of Mr. Baker. ofXew York.
the house, on Saturday, passed the senate
:T dl "* f0, 0ne V ft r the P r .°
-
' provideii ,sl0 nn . n ; <d ft'.?' with line-carrying ' re< l ulr,n .« s,oaraer3 project,le#. *®
n »o nm of Mr. Bankhead, of Alabama.
thr bill was passed for the ererUon of a
public building at Tusratoosa. Ala., at a
1 ,” l ,: s w r '
pas-cd providing for publtc buddings ., at t
AllP'rlM-nv limitingthr eost at $250, -
lt)|>. : ,..T NVilmiutrioti. Del., increasing
thf* limit olj cost from $!•#©,000 to 1250.
000'. The Hetmte bill was passed extend¬
ing to Tampa, Fin., immediate the provisions of the
act relative to the transporta¬
tion of unappraised merchandise. The
house went into committee of the whole
on the discussion army appropriation hill. The
only making was upon the provision
an appropriation of $ 100,000 for
canteens at army jioata. On motion ot*
Mr. Blanchard, of Louisiana, a joint res¬
olution dent the was Mississippi passed authorizing the presi¬
of river commission to
purchase or hire such boats as may be re¬
quired to rescue persons in the overflowed
portions of the Mississippi valley. The
house then adjourned.
NOTES.
Foreign delegate# to the Pan-Americni.
conference, have issued invitations to a
dinner to be given in honor of President
Harrison, on the 16th of April. This is
the supposed toindieate, with some accuracy,
the probable date of the ad journment of
conference. The. trip of the delegates
through the South will be made after that
fate.
Representatives association appeared of the National Cord¬
age before the re¬
publican members of the ways and meaus
committee, proposition Thursday, to protest against
the to increase the duties on
loose fibres used in twine making. They
did not ask any reduction of the existing
rate, but declared that the proposed in¬
crease would lie ruinous in its effect upon
cordage makers, the aud fibre would not produced protect
the farmer, as was not
iu fins country.
There were three delegations before Fri¬
the house committee ou naval affairs
day. The first was from New Orleans.
The members wanted the committee to
make provision for it navy yard at Algiers,
near New Orleans, in conformity with the
rceommendation-of the naval commission.
Another delegation, from Pensacola, Fla.,
sought to have the old navy yard there
reopened and made a first-el ass yard.
There was also a delegation from Port
Royal, S. who wanted a dry dock lo¬
cated there.
The house committee on elections
passed upon two more election cases
Friday. Waddcl vs. Wise, third Virginia
district. The committee by a party vote
decided to recommend seating Wad¬
dell. Democratic members of the com
mitttee took the ground that neither
party was entitled, and will recommend
that another election be held. In the
second ease, McDuffie vs. Turpin, from
the fourth Alabama district, by another
party vote the committee also decided to
report McDuffie. in favor of the republican contes¬
tant,
An amendment to the world’s fair bill
introduced on Friday by Senator Daniel,
proposes that the opening celebration of
the discovery of America shall be held in
Washington instead of Chicago, in Octo¬
ber, 1892. The plan of celebration shall
include the unveiling of the statue of Co¬
lumbus, in Washington, October 12.1892,
to be preeeiled world by u review of the navies
of tho tir-t in New York Harbor,
and then in Hampton Ronds, and the
erection suitable in Washington the holding of of a memorial large hall,
for recep¬
tions and conventions.
J. Representatives Williams, of Bland, of Missouri, and of
11. Illinois, members
tlic house committee on coinage, weights
and measures, ou Thursday submitted to
the house the minority report in opposi¬
tion to the Windom silver bill. They say
the bill is a very dangerous ex peri merit
for if it fails to restore the purity of two
metals, silver will be in a worse plight
than now. The report concludes as fol¬
lows: The bill is very adroitly drawn to
suspend silver coinage to totally demone¬
tize tliis metal, and to permanently estab¬
lish for the United States a single stand¬
ard things of effectually, gold payments. It does these
though cunningly.
The new anti trust bill introduced by
be Senator unlawful Morgan and ob Friday declares it to
a crime, punishable by
line and imprisonment, for any person or
eor|ioration to monopolize any article, a
subject the of commerce, with intent to limit
supply thereof, or to control the
selling price. Property conveyed from
any state to another iu pursuance of an
intention to unlawfully interfere with
commerce, shall be liable to confiscation
during-, or within three months after
transportatiou. made in contravention AH contracts and the agree
inents of act
arc declared to be void. Persons in
jured by any such unlawful requirements
shall have the right to recover three fold
damages.
ALLIANCE HEADQUARTERS
ESTABLISHED IN WASHINGTON —TUB
SUB TREASURY FLAN.
The Farmers' Alliance has established
a headquarters iu Washington, where the
work of educating congress U 3 to desired
h-gislatiou will be carried on. The pres
ident, Air. Polk, is on hand actively
pressing the merits of the new sub-treas
urv plan. Mr. Polk declares that this
plan is the product of the best minds of
the AHiaece, and if this congress fails to
enact it into a law, the nexteongress will,
The Alliance is making its influence felt
ft ith congressmen and the politicians worried of
both parties are considerably by
its 8 (,<i T 68 a iou 9 .
GREAT FIRE IN CHINA
FIFTEEN HUNDRED HOUSES DESTROYEL
AND TWO PERSONS KILLED.
The city of Pekio. from China and
Japan arrived at Sau Francisco ou
Wednesday, bringing advices that on
February 27th, about 1,500 Japanese
houses were destroyed by fire in Tokio,
and seventy-eight were partially de
*8troyed. Two persons were killed and
about twenty-five firemen, more or less,
severely injured. On the preceding and day
187 houses were burned in the city, on
jfarch 5th, about 860 were destroyed and
several firemen were injured. The tires
were of accidental origin.
NUMBER ■>:>
ALLIANCE NOTES.
! WHA T THE ORDER AND IT9
j I MEMBERS ARE DOING.
j ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
j OATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THE COl'NTRT.
Tb , A||bu|M of E(1 ^tab. fie , d
twint a c . b;H detenuinwi
lish a Farmers' Alliance bank, to be Joe
ted at some raffroad point in the county,
| Tbfi sbares ar , tix ed at #25 each, to he
j |d in five anuual illstRHra ents,
| 0ur Alli auccmen should turn their at
tention to encouraging * and aiding the es
taUUshing ; S of oil U l 1 , guano factories.
au(l tb nilinufa , ;tuvi ng ,| of farm impie- ^
mpnu in tb . ir QWQ s tion Jhm;
terprise# Errhaiige. vvill keep your money at home.—
The great remedies for our troubles
must lie found in national legislation.
Without it we can never redeem the ag¬
ricultural interests of America from the
oppressions determined of a favored class. We are
to have equal rights to all,
and equal rates to all.— Southern, Alliance
Farmer.
The sub-treasury plan of the Alliance
extends the helping hand of the govern -
ment to the whole people; the national
bauk system confines its benefits to the
privileged commercial classes in the great cities and
centres. Our plan gives
equal rights to all and special privileges
to none.
rV 4c
Major George Chrisman, Jacob Wissler
and Mr. Prince, representing the farm¬
ers’ Alliance of the United States, have
concluded to establish Alliance agricul¬
tural works at Iron Gate, Allogher.ey
county, Va. The works will employ
300 to 500 hands, and their product#
will go to every sub-Alliance iu the
country, bers. representing four million mem¬
The ***
( inn in mg Clarion says; “We
cannot do the Alliance and farmers of
Forsyth county a 1 letter service than to
keep before they them the fact that there is
nothing can do, is going to benefit
them much until they have learned how to
make their own bread and meat, and raise
t heir own stock. Think for n moment of
the immense amount of money annually
sent out of the county for what can be
made at home.
The Sourlnem Alliance Farmer says:
'The venal methods which arc showing
up in the opposition to the sub-treasury
bill,, are absolutely disgusting. A ma¬
jority of the papers which oppose the
bill, intentionally and that maliciously there is re¬
fused to acknowledge a
national order io the United States
Known as the National Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Union, aud that the bill
with all of its promises of good to tho
people, eminated from this source. The
sub-treasury plan proposes to give us a
place where non-perishable farm products
can be stored, and 80 per cent, of their
value advanced upon them for a term of
not more than one year. This will simply
enable the farmers to be iupepenilent of
speculators and mouo.pc'Ksts and pat them
in a position toobtaiq such a price a - -
the legitimate demand will warrant. U
there anything wrong in that? If there
is, somebody please show it to ns and
point out a better plan.”
***
The act requiring dealers in flour oi
meal to brand or print thereon the num
ber of pounds contained iu each sack,
which was adopted by the lust General
Assembly of Georgia, should be kept in
mind by all Allianeemcn. It is as fol
lows:
Sisction 1. Be it enacted by the Gen¬
eral Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby
enacted after by authority of the same, That
the passage of this act, it shall be
the duty of each and every member, or
manufacturer of flour or of corn meal (and
every merchant or dealer) sacking said
articles, to stamp or have printed on oacli
sack iu which either of said articles are
sacked, iu plain figures not less than
inches in length, the exact number of
pounds of flour or corn meal, as the case
may he, contained therein; provided, the
provisions of this act shall not apply to
grist ground for the toll. Any person or
persons shall violating deemed the provisions of this
act, be guilty of a misde¬
meanor, aud. upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished as prescribed in section
4310 of the Code of 1882, provided, this
act shall not apply to' merchants or deal¬
ers selling flour or meal in quantities less
than a full sack. Approved November
11 , 1889,
To the Farmers’ Alliances.— All pc
titions or memorials to the United State®
Congress from Alliances and unions should
be mailed direct tf> our national secretary,
.!. II. Turner. No. 511 Ninth street, Wash
ington, following D. C. This is important for the
reasons:
1. That this office may have a record of
all such petitions, their subject matter,
the number and residence of such pert¬
doners, etc.
2. Our national legislative committee,
C. W. Macune and A. Ward all, appointed
at St. Louis, and whose duty it is to look
after legislative all matters character, presented will by thus our be order ol
a ena¬
bled to take cognizance of and give per
sonal attention to the wishes of the breth
| , ren thus presented.
The bill embodying all the essential
I features of the sub-treasury plan, as
I adopted by the St. Louis meeting aud
which has been introduced tn both houses
( )f congress,, is now being mailed as rap
idly as possible to the secretaries of all
! the Alliances and unions throughout the
country, together xvith other printed mat
' er of an important character. The mat
ter thus mailed is earnestly commended
to the immediate attention of the broth
erhood.
All papers friendly to our cause are re¬
speetfully requested to copy the above,
By order of ■
i T. L. PojzK, Prcst> P* •*** «mcl 1 . U.
j J. H. Tuknkr, Secretary.
HEAVY DEFALCATION.
i MARYLAND*# STATE TREASURER SHORT IN
HIS ACCOUNTS.
j The joint committee of the Maryland
j legislature appointed to investigate the
! defalcations of btevenson Arehei, tteasu
j ver of the state, made a report Saturday
j night Baltimore. of the result They of the enumerated lnvestigatioc n't
in wht:h there should
classes of bonds, of
j be in the treasurers hand- a totaled
$500,000. The found $34.,,000. showing
a deficit of $127,1.00. I hi* amount i
exclusive of coupons on some ol the - *
bonds not accounted lor, amounting
perhaps, to several thousand dollars ■