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BUTLER, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. AUGUST 28, 1894.
Sark brown isthe prevailing- color ’
of the hair of the people of English
nationality.
Ah estimate of the charitable be
quests in England during 1893 puts
the total sum at about §7,000,000.
Ninety thousand dollars a year is
paid to New York City for the privilege
of picking over its garbage for what
ever jjf value it may contain..
According to the official' report oE
the department of agriculture there
are 16;206,802 horses in the United
States, or one to about every four in
habitants.
In the matter of woman’s rights
Abyssinia is far ahead of Europe, the
Detroit Free Press notes. The house
and. all its contents belong to her,
and if the hnsband offends she turns
him but until he is duly repentant
and makes amends.
The annual wool clip of Australia is
1550,000,000 pounds. Argentina yields
400,000,000 pounds and the United
States 300,000,000 pounds of wool.
The other great wool producing coun
tries are respectively Russia, Great
Britain, France and Spain.
. Lieutenant Colonel A. B. Saville,
of; the English service, claims that the
cycle possesses numerous qualifica
tions as a suitable mount which are
not fulfilled in the body of any living
animal, and argues that cyclists should
be included among armed forces.
Official German reports show tlinl
the number of deaths caused by light
ning have been increased by about 200
per cent, from the season of 1870 to
1882. The author attributes this to
the gradual disappearance of forests
and to the greater nse of metals in
building construction. Lightning
protectors have yielded excellent re
sults in most cases, and it is deemed
essential that all high bnildings should
be provided with them.
TheBussian Ministry of Justice is
considering a system of providing
State-paid people’s attorneys for the
gratuitous defence of the poor in
criminal and civil cases. The argu
ment is that wherever the State pro
vides a prosecutor, it ought also to
provide an advocate for the accused.
This practice already exists in Austro-
Hungary in the form of ex-officio
counsel; but this is for criminal
cases only. An association exists in
Vienna to provide counsel for tho
poor in oivil cases.
The rich frescoing on the walls of
.the room of the Committee on Naval
Affairs in the Capitol at Washington
attracts a great deal of attention from
visitors. Conspicuous on the walls
- are a half dozen female figures, which
show remarkable artistic skill, and are
also wonderful for the peculiar beauty
of the face and form of each figure.
It is apparent at almost a glance that
-no model served for the whole group.
The painting was done by Brnmidi,
the. famous Italian artist, and the
model was the artist’s lovely wife.
■ A curious and interesting fact given
by the Begistrar-General in his statis
tics for 1S93 is that in tho Celtic por
tions of the United Kingdom the pro
portions of the female births is much
higher than it is in the non-Celtic
portions. - Tho highest proportions
are found in Cumberland, Cornwall
and North Wales, while South Wales
is only a little way down iri the list
and has a proportion considerably
above tho average for the whole coun
try. The proportion of female births
is higher in Ireland and Scotland lhau
in England.
The credentials of Thomas Staples
Martin, the next Senator from Vir
ginia, which have been presented to
the United States Senate, were en
grossed upon a huge sheet of bristol
board, nearly three feet square, to
which were attached several yards of
light bine ribbon bearing the golden
Beal of the State. The letters were
beautifully executed in pen and ink,
tho body of the credentials appearing
in ornate script, while the important
clauses and words, such as the new
Senator’s name, were made prominent
with all tho decoration of' which the
artist was capable.
The late President Carnot was noti
fied nearly every day during his term
■ of office that he would bo a33.as3inated.
More than 2000 such threats reached
• him in seven years. As tho Atlanta
Constitution observes he literally
'faced death every day, and yet he
went about with a smiling face, shirk
ing none of his duties, and making
one-of'the best rulers that France ever
had. The French President was a
great man, a brave man, and made of
the genuine martyr stuff. Few men
could have endured his mental strain
for so many years without breaking
down. It Would be hard to find a
nobler example for all men in what
ever station who bear great responsi
bilities and have important duties to_
discharge. Life was sweet to Carnrif,
CONDENSED FROM- OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
but he never weighed it in the Lilian
against principle and- duty. j.he uaiiy The fire star ted . among ‘chemicals aud
threat of murder never caused him to
waver or halt. He lived and died
withqut fear and without reprofeph.
Short and Crisp Items' of General
Interest to Onr Readers.'
, The big strike of the miners at
Spring Valley, I1L, has ended by an
agreement between the coal company
and the strikers as to terms. The
men will resume work at once.
It developed Wednesday that the
two hundred employes of the Ports-
mouthManufacturing Company, South
Berwick, Me., had not been paid sala
ries for six weeks when the, mills closed
down last week.
After making a thorough investiga
tion of the conditions existing among
the employee of the Pullman company-
who participated in the recent boycott
and strike, Governor Altgeld has is
sued an appeal to the people of Illinois
or relief.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
the court of inquiry has established
the fact that the Japanese war ship
Naniwa ordered the destruction of the
drowning men from the Chinese trans
port Kow Shing, which was sank by
the Japanese.
The whisky trust has succeeded in
borrowing all the money it needs for
the present and on Wednesday depos
ited over $1,000,000 in one of the city
banks of Peoria, 111. This was bor
rowed in small lots and parties are of
fering the trnst money in all direc
tions.
The spinners at the Standard Spin
ning Company’s works, Fall Biver,
went out on-a strike Wednesday re
fusing to work under a.fnrther reduc
tion. They have been working at
lower wages than are usually paid in
mills where colored hosiery yarns are
made.
A Chicago special says: Officials of
the American Bail way Union and local
labor leaders are much pleased with
the methods of tiie national strike com
mittee so far. Several of them have
expressed themselves as satisfied that
both sides of the question will receive
a fair and impartial hearing.
The triennial convocation of the gen
eral grand chapter of the United
States Roynl Arch Masons was held at
the Masonic temple at, Topeka, Kas.,
Wednesday. Three hundred and fifty
members of the fraternity, represen
ting grand chapters with an aggregate
membership of Over 150,000, were
present. The sessions will centinue
for one week.
An Indianapolis special says: A call
is being circulated for a state mass
meeting to be held in that city to or
ganize a good citizenship political par
ty. The Christian Eudeavor, with its
45.000 members; the EpworthLeague,
with 30,000 members, and the Baptist
Young People’s Society, with perhaps
10.000 members, have recently gone
into the movement.
A dispatch of Wednesday to the
Central News, London, from Shang
hai states that advices have been re
ceived there from Chemupo to the
effect that some unimportant skir
mishes have taken place on the great
road north of Pongsan between tile
Chinese and Japanese forces. Tie po
sition of tho Japanese troops is un
changed, and all the passes are strongly
held by Japanese soldiers.
General officers of the Illinois Cen
tral railroad have given ont informa
tion that after September 1st that road
will own and control the Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern, and would run
its fast passenger and freight trains
from New Orleans to Chicago through
Memphis over the Yazoo and Missis
sippi Valley and the Chespeake and
Oiio, abandoning the route for fast
trains through Jackson. Miss., and
Jackson, Tenn.
The Tokio, Japan, correspondent
telegraphs that the court of inquiry
which has been investigating at Shan
ghai the circumstances of the sinking
of the Chinese transport Kow-Shung
by the Japanese warship Naniwa, has
returned a decision holding that the'
action of the Japanese commander in
firing upon the transport was justified,
and that, therefore, the Japanese gov
ernment will not he called upon to
make any compensation for tho de
struction of the vessel.
The Big Four freight depot at Cin
cinnati burned Tuesday afternoon.
The building was two- squares long
and was valned, with its contents and
Wagner sleepers and coaches, at $500,-
000. Owing to the material of which
the structure was .built the flames
could not be checked. A row of frame
buildings opposite the depot caught
fire several times, but the incipient
blaze was extinguished in every case.
About twenty of the Wagner sleepers
and chair cars were destroyed.
The window glass manufacturers of
Indiana met at Anderson Wednesday
afternoon to consider ; tho wage scale
for the next year. There were repre
sentatives from thirty glass manufac
turing towns, where. 6,000 men are
employed. The manufacturers named
representatives to meet the wage com
mittee at Fittsbnrg and announce that
the Indiana manufacturers must have
a 30 per cent, reduction. The local'
glassworkers say it will never be
agreed to. They are demanding a 20
per cent, advance in some branches.
The affairs of the Second National
bank of Altoona, Pa., where Bank Ex
aminer Miller committed suicide, are
furnishing a new crop of sensations.
Mayberry Miller, one of -the clerks,
has been arrested, charged with fasi-
fying the hooks of the bank. Tues
day Harry Clabaugh, assistant cashier,
was also arrested on a similar charge
and Tuesday night a dispatch was re
ceived from a Pittsburg detective
agency saying that Gardner, the ab
sconding cashier, was seen in Pitts
burg and asking for authority for his
arrest.
A fire started at an early hour Tues
day morning in the four-story build
ing at Nos. 367 and 378 Shelby street,
Memphis, Tenn., occupied by'the
Mansfield Drug Company, and within
less than«an hour’s time nearly $250,-
000 worth of property was destroyed.
the heaviest losers are the Mansfield
Drug Company, Fader & "Go., whole
sale grocers, and A. B. Treadwell &
Go., wholesale grocers- and cotton
factors.
Thomas Harris, of Ellenshurgh,.Fa.,
returned from Mount Clemens, where
he had been for his health.. He found
his home closed, and, after considera
ble trouble, broke in. : He found the
dead and decomposed body of Ms wife
on the bed and by her side slept their
two children, aged two and four years,
respectively. The woman died last
Thursday with hemorrhages and the
bed was saturated with blood. The
neighbors -supposed that the family
was away. The children- are in a pre
carious condition from lack of food
and breathing the contaminated at
mosphere so long.
The American Bar Association, of
wMch Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of
Ann Arbor, Mich., is president, began
its seventeenth annual meeting at Sar
atoga, N. Y., Wednesday morning.
The president’s address was read. It
was very lengthy and he commented
on the most noteworthy changes in
statutory law on points of general in
terest which have been made in the
several states aud by congress (luring
the preceding year. The secretary re
ported the membership as 1,113, and
the election of sixty niw members.
Every state but Nevada and three out
of five territories are represented.
LATEST
GIVING THE NEWS UP
HOUR OF GOING TO
A Brief Summary of DaiV Happen
ings Throughout the Vorld.
Four hnndred weavers in ! the China
mills at Snncock, N. H., didnot go to
work Thursday because of tie reduc
tion in wages, equal to the jcut-down
in the Fall Biver mills. Wjges paid
at the China mills are gov)rned by
the scalo paid in Fall Biver! and the
operatives wire according!] notified
of a ten per cent, cut-down ^Tuesday.
The south Dakota state republican
convention went through pe entire
list of business at "lankton Thursday.
Permanent organization was effected,
with W. C. Palmer, of Sioui Falls, as
chairman. The following teket was
nominated: Two congressmjn, B. J.
Gamble, of Yankton, and J, A Pickier,
of Faulkton; governor, C. Apheldon,
of Pierre.
Wabnsh freight train N>. 97, in
charge of Conductor Willian Bryant
and Engineer Charles Charle Felton,
which left Johnsbnrg, Mo. jW^ilnes-
day night, jnst ahead of tje Kansas
City express, ran into a herdbf horses
two miles west of the townjand was
badly wrecked. Those killjd were:
Engineer Charles Felton; j William
Fidler, of St. Joseph; Willign Miller,
residence unknown. A larra number
of tho crew were injured, j
Three Indianapolis banks4the mer
chants’ National, Fletcher’! and the
Indiana National—have advtuced $40,-
962 to Governor Matthews t> pay off
the state militia for services during
the -ricitb at Hammond, Ink, in the
mining region. There was to regular
fund in the state treasury fnm which
the amount could legally be irawn. It
is understood.that Governor Matthews
mortgaged hmfine- 6tock foi^i in Ver
million county\to" the br-’
to secure the load-
Applicationjironifxjbdividi
itors from -Morocoo, ~
Francifco for" space at the "Ai
position -vrere received and fill
exposition office Thursday Morning.
It is probable that - all of thq' foreign
exhibitors which were at the ^World’s
Fajr mil come to Atlanta. They will
ha fe new: exhibits, however, and the
exposition authorities will see that all
6f their displays are new and not re
productions of the exhibits at the
World’s Fair.
A distressing accident occurred near
Baton Bouge, La., Thursday, which
resulted in the death of three estima
ble young ladies, and which has cast a
gloom over the entire capital. The
unfortunates were Misses Mar Leo
Bead, Belle Chambers anl Elenore
Garland. The young Is lies were
bathing in tho Amite river, when one
of their number got beyond her depth.
She screamed, and the other two went
to her assistance, and all of them were
drowned.
While threshers were at work on a
farm of George Whitmer, nfar Akron,
O., a box of dynamite was found con
cealed in a sheaf of wheat' Half an
hour later a dynamite cartridge, which
had been secreted in another sheaf,
was exploded in the separator, wreck
ing the machine and setting fire to the
barn. John ,W. Hines, Jacob and
Charles Lacy attempted to i rescue the
horses in the barn. .Hines was fatally
injured. Four horses, one; mule and
several head of cattle were burned to
death, and Whitner’s entirfe whent and
oat crop and many farm implements
were destroyed.
TO BUILD FACTORIES.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
Wliat Our National Law-Makers are
Doing "for the Country.
Less than fifty members were pres-
eht-wben the house met at noon Mon
day. There were the usual indica
tions that congress was on the eve of
adjournment. Members wera crowd
ing eagerly about the arena in front of
the speaker’s desk with requests for a
unanimous consent for passage of bills
of local interest to them. Mr. Say
ers, : chairman of the appropriations
committee, secured unanimous con
sent for the consideration of a bill ap
propriating $9,000 for an additional
force for collection of internal reve
nue and $5,000 for carrying into effect
the arbitrations convention between
the United States and Venezuela, sign
ed at Caracas in January last. It was
passed without objection. The house
then adjourned at 12:50 until Tuesday.
In the house, Tuesday, Mr. Boatner
endeavored to secure the immediate,
consideration of Senator Hill’s anti-
annrchisfc bill, but Mr. Warner, of
New York, objected so strenuously
thnt the bill went over. The consid
eration of Mr. Hoar’s anti-lottery bill
was prevented by objection from Mr.
Davey, of Louisiana. The house then
adjourned until Thursday.
About fifty members were present
when the house met Thursday morn
ing. A number of senate bills were
laid before the house and . several
sed. Mr. Cummings, chairman of
the committee of naval affairs, pre
sented a report of the committee’s in
vestigation of alleged frauds -in the
manufacture of armor plate. At 1:10
the house adjourned.
FAILED TO COME ACROSS.
China’s. Effort to. Float a Loan.Falls
Flat.
V ' The Central News, (London) has ad-
yices from Shanghai to the effect that
the attempt of tho Chinese government
to float a loan of 1,000,1)00 taels, to be
guaranteed by Chinese merchants, has
proved a flat failure.
' ...The American consul at Shanghai
has ordered the Japanese living in that
city to discard Chinese costumes and
advises d majority of them to return to
their native country.
Mr. Oteri, the Japanese minister at
Seoul, is reported to have been killed.
The stories in circulation as to the
manner of his death are conflicting.
oils in the rear of the Mansfield .build
ing and spread so rapidly-that the fire-
mep sopn losj; pontjol of it, Among
A Plausible Scheme of' the North
Carolina- Alliance.
At the annual meeting of the North
Carolina Farmers’ Alliance, hold at
Greensborongh C. P. Simmons, of
Halifax county, proposed a novel
scheme for building a number of cot
ton factories in the state. His plan is
to open subscription books iu each
congressional district, under the man
agement of a special committee for
subscriptions, to be held monthly,
ranging from $1 per month up. When
the total amonnt of subscriptions is
sufficient to warrant steps being
taken for the erection of a
factory, the committee will ih-
invite propositions from the differ
ent'towns and communities for its lo
cation, and the place which offers the
best inducements,: in the opinion of
the committee, will secure the factory.
It is proposed that every subscriber
shall he a stockholder, land be entitled
to a vote according to [the amount of
his stock, and that the]matter-shall be.
entirely free from all party and.politi-
Qal influence, a purely progressive
manufacturing movem-ent, to.be.open
to farmers,'business meni.aud capital
ists alike. The-plau is j meeting with
inuch favor. 7 "
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TIIE SENATE.
In the senate, Monday, Mr. Harris,
from the finance committee, reported
back to the senate the sugar hill
amended so as to provide a duty of
forty per cent fiat ou all sugars. The
committee did not report back any of
the amendments and several senators
who had previously given notice of
amendments reserved them, notably
Mr. Quay, who brought forward his
McKinley act entire as an amendment,
and Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, who pro
posed the McKinley dnty on the free
coal hill was reported hack amended
as to provide for reciprocal
free coal. •• The iron ore bill was re
ported back without amendment.
The barbed wire fencing bill was
amended so . as to make barbed wire
free, the honse making free only tho.
material from which it was made. The
senate agreed that when it adjourned
it would be until Wednesday. The
finance committee decided to re
port these bills at a meeting Monday
morning by a strict party vote, Mr.
White (democrat, California,) acting
with the committee for the first time.
The bill went to the calendar and can
now bo called up by a majority vote
only.
When the senate met Wednesday
morning 21 senators were present—'
less than: half of a quorum. Upon a
later call 32 answered. Mr. Harris
moved that absentees be sent for, and
"this was agreed to. At 1:20 o’clock a
quorum was secured and flip. senate
went into exocnp^vtf^seysion. The ex
ecutive "sessjflsrTnBted but a few min-
utefyandi at 1:40 the senate adjourned
nnti, 1 , Thursday. Immediately after
wards a long -list! of confirmations'of
presidential nominations to mihojr of-,
flees were made public.
Even -before the readfSg.of Wednes
day’s journal the absence of a quorum
in the senate Thursday inorning was
pointed out by Mr. Manderson and
the roll was called, showing the pres-
ence'of thirty-three senators, ten less
than a quorum. Mr.’ Harris moved
that the sergeant at arms be directed
to request the presence of absent sena
tors, but Pasco and Cockrell pointed
out-that the order made Thursday was
still in force and the latter asked that
the report of the sergeant at arms be
read. This was done and reported
that of forty-two senators who had
failed to answer to their names the
previous day-only two were in the city
and one of these, Mr. Voorliees, was
too ill to attend. The others were tel
egraphed to attend immediately. Up •
to 12:30 o’clock thirty-fivo senators
had responded. At that hour it
being apparent that a quorum
could not he secured, upon mo
tion ojpMr. Harris,, the sergeant-at-
arms was directed to compel the atten
dance of the absent senators. This, it
is said, will not amount to anything as
the sergeant-at-arms has always and
now refuses to arrest the senators, and
bring them before - the bar of the'
senate, unless he is given a warrant
for their arrest. The senate has al
ways likewise refused to issue its war
rant. As a'matter of fact, a quorum
could be obtained if all the republi
cans would vote, as there are a number
about the building who havd so far
declined to enter the chamber. At
1:18, tho senate, pending the ex
ecution of an order to' compel the
members to attend, adjourned un
til Friday. This was owing
to the fact that it was de
monstrated to be impossible to get a
quorum. Executive' clerk, Pruden,
reached the capitol at 1:15 with some
important nominations, hut owing to
the absence of a quorum they could
not be laid before the senate.. They:
were taken back to the white house.
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting an Epitome of tiie
. South’s Progress and Prosperity.
NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI
OUS DEPART3IENTS.
Sayings. and r Doings of. the President
and Members of tho Cabinet.
A special from Statesville, N. G.,
says the Southern Bailway Company
has bought the Western North Caro
lina railway for $500,'000 r . "V -
The 6ixth' Texas state . democratic
convention, adjourned from Corsicana,
met at Dallas Tuesday. At adjourn
ment the 1262d roll call had been
reached without a break in .-the vote,
which was as follows: Burke 37, Poin
dexter 32, Abbott 12, Hardy 10.
A Nashville, Tenn.,. dispatch says: .
Henry Olay Evans, of Chattanooga, - Q “ n S er of defeat are sojourning, at
Cleveland Will Not Sign It.
The liouseieadersreceived a straight
tip Tuesday. It was that President
Cleveland had finally decided not to
sign the tariff bill. He trill not veto-
it., but will permit itto become a law
at the expiration of ten days. This
would send congresshomo on the 29th.
Several members of the cabinet who
saw the president Thursday morning
afterwards stated their belief that no
change had come over the president
during his stay at Buzzard’s Bay, and
that he would, permit the tariff bill to
become a law without his signature.
It is generally thought, however, that
the president will send a . message to
the-house announcing that he has per
mitted it to bscome'a. law abd.'giri'og
Ins-reasons therefor.
The house and eenate now mestonly
do adjourn. The end.of the long sea--
sion of congress is practically at an
.end. A quorum could not be produced
in either honse even by the aid of the
sergeont-at-arms. Members of congress
are leaving on every train to escape
the stifling heat of the national capi
tal, and to work for their own re-eicc-
tio'n. The senators who are not in
ex-congressman from the third, dis
trict, has been made the republican
nominee for governor, after one of the
most prolonged and bitter contests
ever witnessed in a republican conven—Savannah, Ga., and Mr. Peter Dodge,
tion.
Henry Dangerfield, a prominent and
wealthy citizen of Alexandria, Va.,
suicided by shooting himself. He had,
been a hypochondriac for some time.
Dangerfield was abon t fifty years old
and a man of considerable wealth and'
owned “Springfield,” a fine estate in
Franklin county, Va.
The Tennessee Biver, Asheville and
Coosa railroad was sold at auction' at'
Birmingham, Ala., for $14,000. The
road was bid in by James Little for J.
E. Znnts, trustee for the bondholders.
The line runs from Whitney to Ashe
ville, a distance of four and a half
miles. The road will now he com
pleted- from Asheville to Anderson.
One of. the heaviest rainstorms and
rainfalls that Alabama has ever expe
rienced passed across the state Wed
nesday, doing irreparable damage to
the cotton crop, Tho young cotton
was beaten off the plant and cotton
that had opened was knocked down
on the ground. No casualties were
reported. Telegraph, communication
south was out off, the wires being
down.
A terrible accident.happened on -the
Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama rail
road Wednesday evening. As ' the
northbound train was nearing Hazel,
Ky., about fifteen miles north of
Paris, in passing a crossing- ft struck
a wagon loaded with people and five of
the occupants met their death. The
killed are: - Misses Jennie antL-jaiTira
Bay, aged eight^n ■ 'and twenty,
dau"h ) Bay; his son Tobe
"Say and two V young ladies, Misses
Hannon.
HenTy HaijSS®5of Logan co.nnty,
Va.-., was showfiMBr his friends arifle
with, which he; proposed to sepioib
things), with a neighbor, who, in a
quarrel: recently, had shot his. (Har
man’s) hand off. Hnrman dropped
the rifle and it went off, lodging a bul
let in his brain. William Workman
started through the wojSds for a doc
tor. He passed some" men who were
felling trees, and one of the trees fell
on him, crushing him to death. Har
man died from his-wound.
In the petition of Receivers Comer
and Hays, of the Central railroad, set
ting np claims against the Port Royal
and Western Carolina railroad for bal
ance due on operating expenses, $130,-
000; for new rails, $40,000, and for
interest on Augusta and Knoxville
bonds for $22,000 and praying that re
ceivers’ certificates may be issued for
the total amount thus due, Judge Si-
monton has filed an opinion refusing
the petition and only allowing certain
sums for new rails laid.
' SUGAR BAG CLOTH O. K.
near-by watering places.
Secretary Carlisle Thursday ad
dressed letters to Dr. Jos. B. Graham,
United States quarantine officer at
of Savannah, awarding them siiver
and gold life saving medals of honor,
under the provisions of act of congress
of June 20, 1876, and May 4, 1882, for
their courageous rescue, of three Bail-'
ora of the British bark “Mary E.
Chapman,” wrecked near Tybeejsiand
on the afternoon of July'25, J-S?l.
President Cleveland retimed to-
WaEhington Wednesday, hoi his’ inten-'
tions in regard to the jLitiff bill are. ns
much surrounded- in mystery as ifhe
were still on board the Ruth in Buz
zard Bay. The opinion ha* been that
.he would sign the bill and accompany
its return with a characteristic mes
sage urging the passage of the pop
gun hills. Opinion, however, ykus
shifted and it is thought he will" per
mit the bill to become a law with
out his signature. - The constitutional
term of ten days will expire on Tues
day next. Those who think he will let
it become a law without his signature
believe he will send a message urging
the passage of the popgun bills on
Monday, prefacing it with a statement
to the effect that, while he cannot ap
prove of the bill by fixing his signature
to it. nevertheless he can feel justified
in disapproving it, and therefore,
mit it to become ahyyjraJiflSnegative
maimer. :
] Conce^jg the Tariff Bill,
.x.^^yi^eatuncertaintyas to when _
the, tariff ££\ fioeg into effect. Many | thfi aui
C opflictedjf Bto £ icB have been telegraph-
ed bro^ / ftnd the public mind
TRADE TO*
Bradstreet’s - Report oi
the Fast Wi
Bradstreet’s revie'
past week says:
• “The special'
advices summ _
more, than five hnndred Ieai
sale dealers ..and ma'nufi
forty-seven cities throng
country as to the present effi
of the prospective -tariff se;
and the ontlook as to the effecl
senate tariff - bill, should it be
law, indicate relatively; less enl
asm at large eastern - centers; ~exc«
New York and Baltimore; almost’
form satisfaction throughout
southern states and similar ad'
from the central and northwest
states, except where serious crop di
age has taken place. In the far w
little interest in manifested, in tdri 1
legislation, notably at Denver an!
Helena, where, silver attracts more at
tention. Portland Sears the result in^
the reduction of the tariff on lumber,
but at San .Francisco an, improve
ment in- demard is expected and con
siderable freight, is offering for
ment to China.
’fATeiaiure ia found in declarations
from- -mantiifaittirers pJLwoolen goods,
glassware, pottery ainl iron audited
at various centers of production, that
wages will probably be reduced^..
“Aside from the .probable improve.-,
ment due to the ending ofthe uncer
tainty in business, neither Bouton,
1’rovidence, Buffalo," Philadelphia,
Pittsburg,''.Newark- nor‘Rochester mer
chants interviewed express noteworthy
enthusiasm as to the trade prospect.
While no gain is reported in trade
circles at southern cities, several thous
and cool strikers have gone back to
work in the Birmingham district, sev
eral southern railways are calling for
more coal and southern iron works are
shipping more iron than a year ago.
jobbers based reo
Wilson biU^ "
SRge-of 1
difference
Little Bo
inahnfacti
and three]
of fhe excl
state and)
cotton crop
iness outlol
proposed ccl
nle exerts mf
iano. ’
“The regiofi
and east of th<T
ports almost nniil
conditions, with/
in industrial acjj
?.na and IUig|
among."
him:
by native A
creod was respfl
hood:” The AmeV
cannot harm him)
the state prison fled *S\
l-'ather Ryan took (
andnight to tho c
This book oE Mi
in the honse.
rayt
reffi
•B, .
Jumped From a Tower.
Colonel J.. M. Winstead; president
of the Piedmont and-People’s. Sayings
bank, of Greensboro, N; G., Thursday
morning removed his shoes and jump-fed
from one of the towers of the city, hall,
a distance of one hundred.and twenty-
feet. He was craeliy mangled.. His
left leg caught on a projection of - the'
tower abd was torn from its socket.
No oanse-is known for his conduct.
_ -Aid for Pullman Strikers.
' A Chicago special says: Governor
- Altgeld aind Mayor HopkiuB have de
cided on a plan of relief for the starv
ing Pullman strikers. The scheme is
to secure the aid of the railroads u by
their furnishing free transportation to
all those of the town'people who de
sire to seek work elsewhere. - •
The New York Exchange Says That It
Is Good Delivery.
Many letters have been received by
the New York cotton exchange, both
for and against the nse of sugar hag
cloth for baling cotton. The hoard of
managers, after:a full discussion of-the
matter, have jStesfed the following res
olutions :
“Resolved, That many inquiries
having been received by . the New York
cotton exchange as to whether or not
the use of what is known as sugar hag
cloth in covering cotton is contrary to
the rules of the exchange; theset r 'tary
is instructed to advise the southern ex
changes and others known to be- inter-
ested in this matter of the fact that
cotton covered by such bagging con
stitutes a good delivery under the
rules of this exchange.”
INDICTMENTS GALORE.
The Grand Jury of Shelby County,
Tenn., After the Liquor Dealers.
The Shelby county, Tenn., - grand
jury have found two hundred more-in
dictments against liquor dealers in and
near Memphis, making a total of seven
hundred no to date." Indictments have
also been found against a score of real
estate dealers and more are expected
to follow,, running the total to ar thon- f
sand, ali : for-fmlnre- to pay privilege
taxes." .The.disclosures of this grand
jury, showing that a million an din half
Has been lost by the state, county and
city in the last eight years,has created
sheh a popular feeling that a “Good
Government Club, ” has. been organ
ized, embracing leading citizens whose
announced purpose it is to enforce the
laws and especially tho revenne laws.
Know Sot
The officials at !
tion in Loudon s
heard nothing to th
Chinese vessels were i
anese fleet on' Angus
The report- is discyedit
has natujf lly ’ become mU ch hefaddled.
Wednesda * ornin Secretary C«-
hsle andatlt- y - Gener al Olney held
erencej^ e i t he disputed poiiiS "
After the ^SK e ting. Secretajr Carlisle
said . to a pifi^g B r ep-r<w=ntative: “The;
*nat so^ far as the
internal retinue and. whisky taxes are
concerned, tj,ey are payable as soon as
the bill is signed, or it becomes a
"law,” but on tht other articles, the su
preme court has held that- persons pay
ing taxes'can-prove the -hour and min
ute in which a bill becomes a law. Tf-
the president does not sign tho bill, it
will become a law at midnight on the
27th, and will be in full effect and
force • the whole of .the 28th. ” In' re
gard to . those goods which arc now
held in bond and which are p’aced
on the free list by the' new tariff
the secretary holds that they can:
he withdrawn from bond for cons ^
tion without paying the McKinley flu
ty. To escape this tax. these articles
will have to be re-shipped to a foreign
port and then sentMniek to this coun
try. This is not tr.ue of dutiable goods
because the section of the bill which
relates to them provides that they may
be withdrawn for consumption. The
second section, which relates to the
free list, makes no such prorisioh.
•i’HE CORBETX-JACKSON FIGHT.
Manager Brady Accepts the Offer of
the Sioux City Club.
A dispatch from Sioux City, la.,
says: Corbett’s manager, William A.
Brady, has telegraphed his acceptance
of the Sioux City Athletic. Club’s $25,-
000 offer for the Corbett-Jackson
fight. Jackson telegraphed that he
would accept if training expenses
were guaranteed, him, provided the
fight did not take place. JDie guaran
tee was made. The club is composed
of forty 'of fltha leading business and
professional ;mein, . who have jointly
signed a_.hote. for the §25,000 to be
taken np: and-the cash deposited-with
the articles when signed. .The club
manager does not tell, how they-expect
to pull the fight off.
FALL RIVER BULLS TO CLOSE.
iiriy-nine new industries were ait'ablished
or incorporated during the week, together with
fivo enlargements of manufactories, aufl-Ivren-
ty-fhree imporraut new buildings. Prominent
among the new industries of ! the wool: ar, :
Tlio Gherokoe Oebre and Barytes Co , of Car-
teravilie, Ga., capital 950,000; the Talc m Ma
chine Works, of Hillsboro, Texas, and the Ht
Clair Coal and.Coke Co.. Euckinumon. \Y. Va.,
each"with $40,000 espitai; a 920,000 school
furniture factory at, Hou-ton. Texas; a larg'e
saw and planing mill, near- Mobile, Ala.; and
the Walk alia Manu-actnring Co., c.ipital$10,
OOJ, of IVelhalla, S. C.
Car works are reported- as to. be establish
at Augusta. Ga; a cannery.at Tampa, Fla:;
' ij:■ vare to b- opened at Pajufsrillo, Ky-,
.rrson City, X. C., and electrical plants
uiished at Hammond and New. Orleans, La.
lr and griat mills are repertod at Hant.viUe,
Ala.', Rome, Ga., and Fall Mills, Tonu.; a fur
niture factory at Charleston, W. Va. ; ice facto
ries at Mammoth Springs. Ark, 8t. Petersburg,
■ Via., Charlo te, N C-, and Greenville and San
-iugelo, Texas, arid machinery works at Bir-
anese lega-
iSi-.y have
hut seven
lie Jsr-
• TH
This Move Will Throw 2,500 People
Out of "Work.
It has been learned beyond question
that' the executive committee of the.
Manufacturers’ association at- Fall
Biver, Mass., met "Wednesday-after-:
rioen and voted to -order all mills under
their control to close for an indefinite
period. The order will cause the
throwing of 2,500 people out of work,
and the stoppage of plants variously
estimated at from §40,000;000 to.$50,-
000,000 in value. No one seems able
to predict bow long the lockout will
continue, but it is gei
that it will go
shows improvemi
Watson for Congress.
- The populist convention for the
10th congressional district met at
cial cen
for shipment ’
the crops has 1
ie-infll
GROT
^Rrpi
TheIndu
.tuation as Ke]
Jp ast Week.
Obattanoogji, Tenn., in i"s
"at condition of the sonth
g.: Tiie long strike anior.g
— I— mers. is no.w virtually at an
end, and th- ra tors will now increase
their outpnt t- J maximum. -. Preparations
are being inat ® 0 Arther increase tho unmber
of iron iurnajSj-^ 0 p crab an d iron pr.j-
ducarsjice-itneh en-ouraged by increased de*
for pig iron, B-.ocks of w.yichlare tow
and some grades in scant tuyply. producers of
southern pine are preparing' to rodnee their
outputs-by concerted action, Imping thereby to
increase the price," which is how rely low.
Crop conditions oontinue to.beXvery favor-
ville, Ala., ahrtywoodworking pl*dts at.M ibile,
Ala- Fort- Smith. Ark.,«£aaSs, Ga., 'L.ke
Charles, La.,; EliziBe.hton. Tenn., Frederick^
burg and Norfolk, Va.."and .Central City, W.
Waterworks are to be built at Forest City,
Ark, and to be enlargid at Winston, N. C.
The enlarged]enfs,for the week inchtde iron
works at Wbee ing,’ W. Va.-, phosphate works
at Orlando, Fia., and woodworking plants at
Little Bock, Ark, and Be .nmont, Texas.
Tho new buildings for the week include
bank bnildings at Elliavil o, Miss., .and Mem-
. ilisg
iose names -will posterity
- “Unwept, unhonored and unknown.
• The south has not many friends anywhere,
and it becomes ns to treasure those wo have.
"It is amazing how wo survive the Blunders of
onr foes and prosper nnder oppression.
; 1‘haVeLS.son and a son-in-law in Englaud
who wan called Hr re on business, anil now
they aT6 kept" hot in defending tho south from
the lda Weils Blenders- They feel like they are
held responsible and are under the bait of
public .opinion." : Tho English people are
shamefully ignorant of our.mamfers and ensr
toms and'are as fall of prejudices as our north
ern friends Were-before the .war. At a dining
one evening a lad of ten years asked, my son if .
he had auy boys in America. “Yea.” said he,
•T-have tour.” “Aref-they black?” said the -
boy. A negro is a rare sight in London, and
lienee.there is no colored line either in cars nor
hotels nor churches and: the English people
- .cannot understand why there should be any
twen- distinction here. Negro men,intermarry with
white servant girls ovsr there and nothing is
said or thought ahontit, but white man do 'not
marry negro girls. But it is impossible for any
of the Anglo-Saxon. people to tUaderstaml the
'social situation until they are brought faco to
face-with it. Take a "quieten
lags of 3,0(J(Hnliabitants upmtjttb and bade!on
ly pour into it 1,000 or 1. . _.
how soon they qoql.a^aMtVffis Solor
VUer&rkfaTut a small percentago of Chinese
people Who commit no outrages and aro in
dustrious andolcanly in theirhabits. It lookt 1 An |
our English neighbors are" hunting forexoujes
to belittle and abuse our nation nnd-our govern
ment-.; My son encloses me a chapter from a •
late issue of The Loudon Echo, aud itreadsas-
bad as some:of ..tbo utterances of Herr Most _.
and other anarchists.
“The signs of tb? times indic-itc that beioro
the sun rises on the 1st of January, 1900, the
great American nation will groan arid writho
in an agony of revolution and the streets of all
her great cities will he slippery with biood-
hnndred drops of bhjod for each — *
flashes on the necl
men and ten droj
has washed the i
every election is
EgVery election iE
raid that?) Politic
ft stinks; -Everybody
cares."' America, r "
is a plutcort—:y. The
creation of bank dir
coal barons, and it I
emors or, the states. _ ,
their poverty and . gnaw their.x)rusi
but can always Be counted on to :
rich, arid nine-tenths of them wonld shi
$35,000 court house at Sinton, Tex,
Waxahatcliio, Tex.; hotels at. HdE 1
and Clarksburg, W. Va ; schools
leans, La,, and Boyd..Tex., and
LouiBville, Ky, and Edwards, ,,: '
COTTON OPERATIVES !
Eleven Thousand Idle at
ford, Massackusetl
Monday morning the co
tives of New .Bedford, Mass: %
rated their general , strike and nearly’
11,000 ore idle..-. Tiie!machinery of but
five of the twenty-seven mills in the
city-trill be. shut down with.the others.
The manufacturers have nothing to
say, but the - notices of reduction
against which help rebel -are still
posted. . - ; -A—.?" -., .-
The strike promises to be the most
important thnt ever occurred in the
textile industry in I
manufacturers must
ganized unions, so:
fairly wealthy.: ' T '
ticular is the S]
has a fund in its
at least $30,000.
voted, however,
this money for a month.
The executive^'
tional Spinners’
and it was tl ‘ "
ing that the
ford sp' "
was alsc
votini
port
their muskots aud lay down their i ives iu
fenso of the right of the rich to rob thOT.
nation such ]is.this, in which- one ’.Viilhon piu-;
tyrannize oyer sixty miilions slaves
_ i- jfoe "or^
tried in itl own blcod er dio of gangrene.
~~rious labor organizations neither
'ir, vote together nor work together,
jy-cno- money to buy votes,, bxr.mi
/ages. Soldiers and police shnei 1
ng'poople and. aro;chccrOLl on
l soon come when
of death lighted
to tho music of cries
' Lbs. Bich idlers
' Tuxedo; poor
rknesa of tbo
.rig men and .
' and o~-‘— -
- -P«V.
overwork m- n .
'the wliite house enj lying tk
—infidelity in-the.tener’"" i 4
punishment of nprig
signs of the times in Air.S
noint to" calamities ii;:;’’
iut which notliiiig cany
and the aecnrse ’
it. it av
on venom a
Slay the
citizens. ■ L
tobe allowed
try that we
will scare tjj
they wi2t-<
in Allan*