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f Explorer Stanley thinks that Africa
■will in the future become what America
is to-day._
j|£ A minister of Boston says no farmer
can be successful who doesn't work six¬
teen hours a day,
F The adoption of steel ties in place of
■wooden ones seems to be one of the com¬
ing reforms in railroad building.
The Argentine Republic imports yearly
over $100,000,000, and of this vast sum,
the United States sell them less than seven
per cent._
There is an extraordinary increase of
suicide and dueling in high military cir¬
cles in Russia. The fashionable duel is
fought at five paces with cavalry re¬
volvers.
It is estimated that $312,000,000 is
invested annually in the co-operative
building associations in this country, and
that these associations annually furnish
156,000 houses or homes to their mem¬
bers.
_
The newspapers of Louisiana, without
regard to locality, almost solidly unite
in demanding that the United States
Government take charge of and maintain
the levee system of the Mississippi
River.
_
The remarkable statement was recent¬
ly made from the pulpit by an optimistic
Boston clergyman that “there were
never more beautiful women that now,
and that Helens and Cleopatras arc pro¬
duced by the thousands.”
The burning of a Florida steamer is
attributed to the laziness of a watchman
who attempted to till a lighted coal oil
lamp. The result was the loss of three
lives and the destruction of the boat with
all the passengers’ luggage. The New
York Telegram declares that “a term in
the penitentiary is the tit reward of such
laziness.’’_
Domenico Cappeletto, a journalist of
Padua, Italy, sent his newspaper an
account of his own suicide and then shut
himself in a room, lighted a charcoal fire
and underwent asphyxiation. In a foot¬
note he advised the editor to print 100
extra copies, as he thought there would
be an unusual demand for the paper on
account of his death.
A Philadelphia barber testifies that the
use of leeches for black eyes is becom¬
ing a thing of the past. This is net
due so much he says, to the growing un¬
,
popularity of the leech, as it is to the
fact that black eyes are much less fre¬
quently seen than they used to be. Is
this a good sign, muses the Chicago
Herald, or does it only point ?o the grow¬
ing popularity of the revolver!
T- - ; -—
It, is worth remarking that the Ger¬
mans have never called Bismarck “The
Iron Chancellor.” The title is one of
French or British invention. Bismarck
was called der Eiserne Graf after the
battle of Sadowa, and f ir years he was
known only as “The Iron Count.” But
this title is said to have been given him
in admiration of his nerve in himsell
arresting Blinde, who tried to assassinate
him in the open street.
In a case just disposed of the Supreme
Court of Indiana has decided that a will
made on Sunday is valid. It holds that
the drafting and execution of a will are
akin to the execution of a marriage con¬
tract and solemnizing the marriage.
“The statute,” the Court notes, “makes
it a penal offense to be lound engaged
in common labor or in one's usual avoca¬
tion . It certainly could not be contended
that a minister of the Gospel engaged in
solemnizing a marriage on Sunday, or a
lawyer employed in writing a will to be
executed on Sunday, would be subject to
indictment and prosecution for a viola¬
tion of the statute.”
There is just now a remarkable revival
of the ship-building industry in the State
of Maine, announces the New Orleans
Thnes-Democrat. Yards, which long
since fell into decay, have been brushed
up and the symmetrical shape of a large
schooner or ship has appeared, and the
hum of building has taken the place of
silence. After a careful review of the
field it is concluded that the piesent sea¬
son will rank well up with any in the his¬
tory of this industry in that State, even
in its most palmy days. While last year
there was a marked increase in building,
this yeas- will outrank it. This may be
in part accounted for by the great ice
boom and the additional number of b«
tome needed to move the product.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
rROCKED 1 NOS OF TltE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OCR
COMMON COUNTRY. —NOTES.
In the house, on Wednesday. Mr. Os¬
borne, of Pennsylvania, presented the con¬
ference report on the army appropriation
bill. The report was agreed to. Mr.
Morrill reported the disagreement of the
conference committee on the senate de¬
pendent pension bill. The house insisted
on its amendment, providing a service
dered. pension, and a further conference w as or¬
further consideration The house then proceeded to the
of the Alabama con¬
tested election ease of McDutfiie against
Turpin. The first vote was taken on the
minority resolution declaring Turpin
elected, aud it was reported—yeas 114,
nays 130. The majority resolution seat¬
ing McDuffiie was agreed to—yeas 130;
nays 113, and Mr. McDuffiie appeared at
the bar of the house and took the oath of
office. Mr. McKinley presented a concur¬
rent resolution directing the enrolling
clerk to enroll in the customs administra¬
tive bill what is known as senate amend¬
ment 91, in regard to the abandonment of
goods to underwriters and salvors. The
resolution was agreed to—yeas 127, nays
5. The house then, at 4 :05, adjourned.
The resolution for an inquiry into the
management of thg fish commissioner’s
office was taken up by the senate
on Wednesday, and agreed to. The
presiding ed officer, Ingalls, announc¬ the
as select committee on bill
for the establishment of the university of
the United States: Messrs. Edmunds,
Sherman, Ingalls, Blair, Dolph, Harris,
Butler, Gibson and Barbour. The forti¬
fication bill was taken up, the pending
question the being on striking out two items
for Watervleit, N. Y„ arsenal $248,-
743, for the erection of a south wing, and
$780,000 for machinery for twelve-inch
guns, and inserting, in lieu of them, the
following for boring and turning laths,
rifling machine, and eighty-ton traveling
crane of fully equipped for Watervleit the manufacture
twelve-inch guns, at Arsenal,
N. Y., $235,090. Alongdebatc followed.
Finally the amendment to strike out the
two items described and insert the sub¬
stitute was agreed to—37 to 18. Amend¬
ments were adopted providing for the
purchase and test of a new iniantry gun
and two new cannons. All other amend¬
ments were agreed to and all were passed.
The senate then adjourned.
In the house, oa Thursday, Mr. McKin¬
ley, from resolution the committee, providing on rules, re¬
ported a that the
house shall proceed immediately to the
consideration of house bill 5.381 (the sil¬
ver bill,) and that consideration be con¬
tinued until Saturday, at 3 p. m. Mr.
McKinley said that the resolution was in¬
tended to give the house of repre¬
silver sentatives legislation an opportunity and to pass some
give the coun¬
try a silver bill, which would be
in perfect response to the general senti¬
ment of the country. It was to give the
house an opportunity to pass the bill,
which would take all the silver bullion
of the United States and utilize it for mon¬
etary ple purposes. $2,000,000 It was to give tlie"peo¬
not a month, but $4,500,
000. The resolution making the silver
bill a special order was adopted—yeas
120, nays 117. Messrs. Williams, of Idi
nois, aud Lanham, of Texas, spoke in op¬
position to the bill, and Taylor, of Illi¬
nois, favored it. Pending debate, the
house adjourned bills until reported 11 a. in m. the Friday.
Among the the committee and placed senate
Thursday calendar, from the house bill
on the was to es¬
tablish a national military park The at silver the
battlefield of Chickamauga.
bill was taken up, and Mr. Iliscoc-k ad¬
dressed the senate in opposition to the
free coinage of silver. After a long dis¬
cussion by Messrs. Sherman. Teller. Stew¬
art and Aldrich, the bill went over.
Several private pension and bridge bills
were taken from the calendar and passed,
Mr. Blair introduced a bill to prohibit
the exportation of alcoholic Pacific liquors to
Africa and islands of the ocean.
Referred. The senate adjourned.
The silver debate was resumed by the
house Friday fnorning, Mr. Lind, of Min¬
nesota, being the first speaker. A long
running debate followed, then the house
at 5 o’clock, took a recess until 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for general de¬
bate on the silver bill. Mr. Perkins, of
Kansas, acted as speaker pro tern, at the
evening adjourned session. until The house, Saturday. at 11 o’clock,
11 o’clock
In the senate on Friday,Mr. Platt present
ed a petition from the tobacco growers and
lealers of the Housatonic Valley, Conn.,
in favor of a specific duty of not less than
Referred $2 per pound the finance on imported committee. wrappers. A
to
new conference was ordered on the
dependent pension bill and Messrs. Davis,
Sawyer and Blodgett were appointed
conferees on the part of the senate. The
silver bill was taken up and Mr. Plumb
addressed the senate. Pending debate
the bill was laid aside. A message from
the president is relation to the landing
of an armed force from the revenue cut¬
ter, McLane, at Cedar Keys, Florida, was
presented, read and referred to the
judiciary, committee. After acting upon
some local bills, and a brief executive
session, the senate adjourned.
The house Saturday afternoon passed
the republican caucus silver bill. In the
free coinage amendment there were dis¬
senting votes from the republican side.
However, all the southern men, except
two from South Carolina, voted for the
free coinage amendment. The bill was
passed in more haste than any measure of
importance that has ever went through li
the house. The vote stood 135 to 9.
The bill provides for the issuance of $4,-
500,000 of silver certificates monthly on
the deposit of silver bullion.
NOTES.
The senate committee on commerce is
busy with the river and harbor bill.
Indications are that the tariff bill will
be ready to report to the senate on Mon¬
day of next week.
The senate and house coufereuce held
another meeting Saturday, but no con¬
clusion was arrived at.
The marine hospital bureau has been
informed of a case of yellew fever on
Chandleur island, which arrived on a
vessel from Brazil.
A delegation of about O'C hundred
importers from New York city appeared
on Wednesday before the senate conimit
Ue on finance, to protest against the
passage of the McKinley tariff bill.
Republican immediately representatives the went adjourn¬ into
caucus upon
ment of the house Wednesday afternoon,
to consider the silver question. No defi¬
nite action was agreed upon.
The president, on Friday, nominated
James A. Pine to be collector of customs
at Fcrnand’ina, Fla.; William A. White,
at 8t. Mary’s, Ga.; William L. McMillan,
surveyor of customs at New Orleans.
There is a movement on foot in the
senate to have congress take a recess from
the first of July to the first of October.
The reason the men who have proposed
this assign is that the senate finance
committee will take at least three months
to prepare a tariff bill, to report to the
senate as a substitua for the house bill,
and that while this committee is at work
there will be no business for the houses
to tra- sact outside of that which they
finish by the first of July.
It is understood at Washington that i
movement is on foot among soul hen
men, w ho were ex-con federates, some ol
whom now reside in New Y’ork and
others in the south, to raise a subscrip¬
tion for the Grant monument, as it seems
New Y’ork will never raise the fund
for the monument to Grant at River¬
side park. It is now proposed that the
men who fought on the other side come
forward and subscribe the additional
money needed.
THE FLEECY STAPLE.
REPORT OF THE NEW ORLEANS EXCIIAXGB
REGARDING THE CROP.
The New Orleans cotton exchange is
sued a statement Tuesday, embracing
thirty-nine weeks of the season, from
September 1st to May 30th inclusive, this
and last year, showing that 7,078,915
bales of 1889-1890 have come
into sight at the ports, overland
points of crossing and leading southern
interior centers, including the takings
by southern mills. Up to this time last
season the amount brought into sight was
0,805,112 bales, or say 98.08 per cent of
the entire crop. The statement shows
there were brought into sight after May
30, last season 33,178 bales. It indicates
that of the supply this season 2,117,592
bales have been'taken by American and
Canadian mills, including 429,587 south
of the Potomac, and 4,725,047 have been
exported to foreign ports. It also shows that
northern mill takings and Canada over¬
land is 32,900 bales ahead of the cor
rcspoyiding thirty-nine weeks of last year,
ana that f-hevss ih foreign exports for the
season is 220,537. Between the 1st ar.d
13th of May, inclusive, this season's stocks
at American ports and twenty-nine lead¬
ing southern interior markets have de¬
creased 17,910 bales, against a decrease
during aud the same period last year of 122,-
334. are now 141,278 bales less than
they were at this time last year.
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
A PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED AND FIVE
MEN KILLED.
A dispatch Northwestern from Rockford, 111., says:
The passenger train from
Freeport, which reaches Chicago at 2
o'clock, jumped the track two miles west
of here at 11 o’clock Friday morning, on
account of a broken wheel. A gang of
section meu were working about two
hundred feet from the point where the
engine left the rails, and before they could
get away the train had run them down
and toppled wrecked over and them. the The entire train
w as engineer and four of
the section men killed outright. The
fireman, two station tnen and some of the
passengers were injured.
A PHOSPHATE SYNDICATE
ORGANIZED IN BARTOW, FLORIDA, WITH
OVER A MILLION CAPITAL.
A dispatch of Monday from Bartow,
Fla., reports: One of the largest phos¬
phate syndicates in Florida was formed
very quietly in Bartow. It is called the
American Mining and Improvement Com¬
pany with a capital stock of $1,200,000.
They own 4.720 acres of the noted phos¬
phate bed on the Alafia river. This com¬
pany is now preparing to mine and have
a contract to deliver 10,000 tons of phos¬
phate in a certain length of time, begin¬
ning July 1st.
WICKED STUDENTS
RESORT TO VANDALISM IN CELEBRATION
OF THEIR VICTORIES.
A dispatch held from Boston, says: The
Harvard boys high carnival Satur¬
day night over their victories in the Y'ale
baseball buildings games. During the night the
college were defaced with vari¬
ous mottoes, including some profane
r fercnces to Y’ale. The statute of John
Havard was besmeared with red paint.
The inscription was hidden, and sculp¬
tors will have to chisel away the paint.
There is much indignation over the van¬
dalism.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING CN IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
The New Y’ork supreme court, on Fri
lay, affirmed the conviction and sentence
af ex-sheriff Flack.
While firing a salute from a Haytian
torvette, at Philadelphia, on Saturday, a
premature wounded. explosion occurred and several
men were
Steamers arriving at Baltimore, New
Y’ork and Boston continue to report many
icebergs, and some of them of large di
Tiensons, on their passage.
has A dispatch from London says: Cholera
in the crossed the Caucasus, and of appeared Russia,
southern provinces
making its way westward.
President Carnot, of France has par¬
doned seventy-two workingmen who were
convicted and sent to prison for offenses
in connection with the recent strikes.
Richard L. Edwards, of Cincinnati,
was drowned three weeks ago. YVhen
found his hair had turned white, it is
supposed from fright while drowning.
YIrs. J. C. Ayer, widow of the noted
patent medicine millionaire, is to erect a
hospital ive in New Y’ork city for consumpt¬
$3,000,000. patients, at a cost, it is said, ol
The prosecution of the striking car¬
penters of Chicago by their old bosses is
being continued. The strikers’ pickets
are arrested as fast as one shows himsell
near a non-union job.
An Egyptian claims to have discovered
the sarcophagus of Cleopatra, and has
written to the directors of the World’s
Fair, at Chicago, offering to sell it, with
the skeleton of the queen, for $00,000.
Henry Hoffman, a discharged employe
of the LaClede flour mill, bt. Louis, has
been arrested, and has confessed that, out
of revenge, he set fire to the mill, by
which it was destroyed. The loss is
about $75,000.
The cracker pool recently formed at
Minneapolis, having proved unsatisfac¬
tory, a cracker trust, with a capital of
$10,000,000, has been formed. It is tc
include and conduct the entire crackei
business of the country.
Councilman Maloney, from the joint
standing committee of ways and means
of the Baltimore council? AVednesdav
night, the reported an ordinance authorizing
sale of the city’s 32,500 shares ol
Baltimore and Ohio common stock .
The London Times declares that the
order to dispatch the American cruisers
to Behring sea smacks too much of the
methods of the first Napoleon in dealing
with weak statesmen, and that if the or¬
der is executed British men of war must
follow.
An explosion occurred Thursday after¬
noon on the German junk steamer, Hans,
on the Dcleware river. Thirteen men
were caught in the flames, and several
were badly burned: one has since died.
The loss on vessel and oil is about $150,
000 .
Burglars blmv open the safe in Brow n’s
bank, Chats worth, 111., at 2 o’clock Sun¬
day morning. The building caught fire
•and seventeen store buildings, compris¬
ing the main block, were burned. The
bank contained $15,000.
The Home Market club, of Boston.
Mass., had for its special guests Saturday
evening. Secretary of War Proctor,
Speaker Greeuhalge, Reed, Congressman Dingley and
while among the 250 gentle¬
men present were many who were prom¬
inent in national and state affairs.
It has come to the knowledge of the
nihilists police of in St. Petersburg, Russia, that the
France are engaged in a fresh
conspiracy police against the life of the czar.
The french were made cognizant
of the conspiracy by the authorities there
and placed on truck of the conspirators.
A Joliet. 111., dispatch says: Bernard
Dealev, a life convict, who received word
a few days ago that his sentence had
been commuted and that he would be
free next October, dropped dead AA’ed
nesday while telling his good fortune.
His excessive joy undoubtedly produced
heart disease.
A Lincoln. received Neb., from dispatch Bradshaw, says:
Meagre reports
i hamlet of some four or five hundred in¬
habitants, about lifty miles west of Lin¬
coln-, state that the town was swept away
late Wedesday night by a cyclone. Six
persons are reported injured. killed and twenty
five or more
The negro conference opened at Mo¬
hawk Lake, N. Y’., AVednesdav. A
number of distinguished men from all
parts of the country were present. The
conference is called to consider the ques¬
tion of Christ anizing and educating the
colored people. Among the speakers
were ex-President llayes and Albion
TouQfee,
Tbe laboring classes of the City of
Mexico are up in arms because the gov¬
ernment has decided that hereafter all
werkiug men on both pantaloons public and instead private of
works must wear
the usual cotton garment. The authori¬
ties determined, however, to enforce the
order.
The county attorney at Topeka, Kan¬
sas. caused the arrest of six men selling
liquor there in original packages, an 1 u
state judge sent them to jail. But judge
Foster, of the federal court, has released
them on writs of habeas corpus. The
county officials say they will continue
making arrests under the state law and
imprisoning offenders.
In the general term of ihe supreme
court of New York, a few day< ago, the
tVic decision of
burn, in the Kotnmlcr huln *
was affirmed. This allows tin
at once to the court of s,
only Kemmler question be at issn: 'j 1
Darden of can Auburn legally eiecj
prison.
The free coinage convents
state of Nevada, met at r.-TI t ■
days ago and adopted mj
questing senators and r<;
congress from the state ol X n
vor the measure for the open
of the United States for free i
ited coinage of standard &
and to support no other bill;
The court of claims at W's
C., has dismissed compensation the claim!,
let for $150,000
state, of the building and now depaiti oecujl
war navy
claim was for architect!
sion ou the total cost of the L
though thirteen it was after not eomplctnil tJ
years he ceased
thing to do with it.
BUSINESS REVIEW
AN ENCOURAGING REPORT SBj
DUNN A CO.
R. G. Dun & Co. 's review o
week ended Saturday, June? _
indications regarding legitimate!
continue there is encouraging. renewal At the^
based a the of speculative
ment, on prospect :ml I
ver bill will speedily pass both
and in such a form that tieJ
proval doubt can he expected. There ill
to that conditions are improa
the productive industries, and ftl
mate trade. Crop prospects hart*
ened of prices wonderfully. The affected! gettenll
has not been
yet, but has turned upward, and
factored products, with bresdwP
a general tendency to advance, D
industries show clearly a grai n
ny toward improvement. In in
ness in appears quotations nowhere, is while reported, «o r j
many of anthracite Sc, |
marking down
by the Thomas compai tmiel
recognition of prices for the
Large sales of steel rials are r|
unounting to 30,000 tons I
quoted here as the minimum, fir
works continue so fully beliMi csjW
stocks of pig-iron are further 4
ight, that fear months, of a in
mg the hot
furnaces close for repairs, continue!
Cotton manufactures
Live, and the decline in raw cotM
ing speculative the week markets has helped generaliv! a 1™J
are
though cotton lias fallen over I
sales at 340,000 bales. The ma!
ket has been variable, the “ J- r
ing taken in about. $ 1 000,000 ul
,
it paid out. Exports from
May show an increase cf '•"! T
aver last year, and though the I
n imports was about 9 per ;
has been only moderate reshzW
eign exchange has advanced onjl
ter of a cent. In short.
prospect in all parts of. the •
favorable to business activity. *1
failures Iasi week numtx i 1
States, 179; Canada, 20.
sponding week last year the hi,
200 failures in the l nited '
25 in Canada. ___
KILLED BY LIGHTN1
1 BOLT STRIKES FOUR MUN. ]
OK THEM.
•troitFweTrtse'specialH o’clock *4
says': At 7
four farmers were
g, four miles Goodtfhilil west of
Edward Ringle- '"l
and Matt anopc*j
. in performing thunder
iorse. A lig i ltn ’':J
v and a bolt of
“ , J
lidst of the men. 1
wctg dead when
Itkougli no marks or ^ |
could be Taggett found up°“JI are i*l
ingle and
ENGLISH
AGAIN BROUGHT INTO
WEST V
l dispatch from wbi^
s: The negotiations past two m
ing on for the rolh |1 .
.Etna and Standard T
resentatives of an hng
flip anle of the m 1 ’ 1 ’
_
•eement lnursday sow J ’,1
loncerned. The price P
3 a forfeit of $ 15,000 • H 1
■ited. The negotiation- probably j
I mill will
bin a few days.
CREMATED'
AN ATTEMPT TO LIMIT A FIRE
SENE RESULTS Di-■ 1
of P
r. on :
ay as i
a vor