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VOLUME XVIII
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1894.
NUMBER 50
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THE REPDBUCMS CM
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1 Longer.
David B| Hill and Coiressmaii
Iilson Botli Snowed Under.
Democracy Suffers Disastrous
D efeat at Nearly All Points.
Va-
Details of the Elections in the
rious Stales of ‘he Union.
The election of 1894 has passed into
history and the Bolid south is no more.
Following a phenomenal victory, in
which tho people were bonyant nnd
hopeful, the disaster of defeat is filly
as crushing.
Out of the wreck of the battle th
salient points in view indicate the cen
ters of popular displeasure,
Not only was Mr. "Wilson, of Wesi
Virginia, defeated by his people, bu|
his state, one that has been democrats
from its birth, has elected a solid
publican delegation. Nor is this al
for the next senatorship from that stal
will be in republican bands.
Then there is Delaware, which r
mniued democratic .under all circm
stances until its senior senator accepi
ed a place in President CleveJand|
cabinet. Then it sent republicans
both branches of congTess, and n
that the ex-secretary, who is ininisl
to England, has returned home to cc
vass the state, it finishes up the t;
of becoming wholly republican.
Crossing over to Tennessee, whe:
democratic majorities have ranged
high ns 40,000, tho latest dispatch]
show Governor Tnmey is hanging
to an election by tho skin of his tee:
with Candidate Evans claiming that
has carried the stato for governor.
From the southern point of Louii
ana there is a story of disaster bom
to be heard from in the future, and
Virginia and North Carolina the n
nnd neck character of the voting v
decidedly uncomfortable. Alabama
solidly democratic, ns are Florida ai
Mississippi, while two districts
Texas await the officio! count.
South Carolina has been enjoyim
quarrel of her own, resulting in
continued triumph of Governor Ti
man, but the ugly threat is made
Dr. Pope that he is intent upon aeo
test, both state nnd federal, which
bound to invite tho investigation
republican south haters, now on|
more in power. This is briefly ti
story of Tuesday’s election in t
southern states.
McKinley’s State.
Tho Ohio election was simply
overwhelming republican victory,sui
a one as the state hasn’t known sin
Vnilnudingham was buried under
avalanche of votes when he ran off
Canada. The McKinley majority
80,000 simply isn’t in it. - Govern!
MoKiuley was naturally the center P
attraclion Tuesday night,as his liiends
believe this victory, which is so close
ly drawn on tariff lines, foreshadows
iiis nomination to the presidency.
Latest advices indicate that tho ma
jority may reach 100,000 or more.
Tho West Strongly Republican.
Tho republican cyclone swept 1 hro.ugh
the west, and with results just as fatal
to the democratic candidates os in New
1'ork and Pennsylvania. It is ai
way through Ohio, Indiana arii
nois, and, up in tho northwest,
democratic managers have fo]
counted on building up the party,!
results wero just as disastrous, —
the far west—the Pacific slope—tin
turns are necessarily very much
laved on account of the differenci
time, but the early advices all poin:
republican gains and republican vii
rica all along tho line.
Iu the Notv England States,
In the New England and eastern state
the republicans have swept things. Mot
ton carries New York for governor b
about 100,000 plurality over Hili
Strong is elected mayor of Now Yor
ci ty over uran t and the republicans JUav
won in two-thirds of the congressions
districts. It was a genuine landslid
in Now York. Everything democrati
went to pieces.
In the New England states everj
thing is republican. Massachnseti
sends a solid republican delegation o
thirteen to tho house. Counecticu
sends a solid republican delegation
New Jersey goes overwhelmingly re
publican, electing only three demo
crats out of eight congressmen, uni
electing a republican legislature whicl
chooses a successor to Senator Me
Pherson, democrat. This will proh
ably mean a republican senate us wel
as a republican house of represents
tives. Indeed the republicans gain ii
every eastern state. But the greates
.democratic slump of all is in New York
where everything goes against thi
party.
The House Republican.
Latest advices from Waahingtoi
stato that tho next house will stand
Democrats,. 140; rcpnolicans, 211
populists, 4. Total, 356. This meani
a largo working majority for the re
publicans. It means that Tom Reecf
will again be speaker. Such demo
cratic leaders as William L. Wilson,
of West Virginia; William M. Springer,
of -Illinois; John Taraney, of Missouri;
William D. Bynnm, of Indiana; Jo
seph H. Oathwaite, of Ohio; JohnD.
Alderson, of West Virginia; A. B.
Montgomery, of Kentncky, and others
have been defeated by republicans.
It looks like the republicans made a
fight .all along the line against the
democratic members of the ways and
means committee. Qf the eleven dem-
cniais on that committee, only two
hereto:
e failed Of renomm
Henry G. Tnrnor, of Georgia, are the
only .two democrats of this committee
who go back to congress. The demo
cratic ranks ore broken all along the
line.
"Details of the Slump.
The election in .New York city Wa3
remarkable for the general quietude
that prevailed despite the intense par
ty feeling that" ran with great fierce
ness in every district from the battery
to Spuyten Duyvil. With the excep
tion of a few ordinary encounters
there was no happening that could be
called riotous iu any section. There
was actual disfranchisement iu hun
dreds of cases iu various, parts of the
city. Unfortunate fellows who, be
cause of their illiteracy and who were
allowed no guide posts behind the
screens, were unable .to make ballot
ends meet legally and hail to give up
the job finally, were very many. The
cause of it all was unquestionably the
luck of booths. Extra booths were
quickly put in place the night before
election day; lint all that did not alter
the fact that hundreds of men in. the
city stood in line and had finally
to see the polls closed in their
facts before they could reach the bal
lot-boxes. All the election districts
in New York givo Morton 124,873;
Hill 127,177; Wheeler 8,749. 2,102
districts outside of New York nnd
Brooklyn give Morton 309,567; Hill;
212,514; Wheeler 4,425. The same]
districts in 1891 gave Fassett 236,
Flowe ■■ != '"“
MISSISSIPPI.
A special from Jackson, Miss.,states
that seven democrats aro elected to
congress from Mississippi. The vote is
-reported light, hut no figures aro ob
tainable.
ALABAMA.
The congressional election in Ala
bama passed very qniet-ly, very little
ever half a vote being polled. Meager
reports from the precincts show a ma
jority of about 300 iu favor of Wheeler,
democrat, over Bandall, populist-.
Conservative estimates place Wheeler’s
Lumber of members in tbo legislature
to re-eleot Senator Bntler aver Gover
nor Tillman, the democratic choice for
the senate. The indications are now
that these tickets will fail of election
in nearly every" conn ty. It was the
last chance of Senator Bntler.
LOUISIANA.
A New Orleans special says: i3ix
democratic congressmen are*" elected
from Louisiana. The vote was gen
erally light throughout the state, only
a small proportion of the negroes vot
ing, and in some of the parishes none
at all. '
VUtGINIA,
When the roll of the uexi house of
representatives is called eight, and
perhaps ten, democratic congressmen
will respond to their names. This, in
brief, is the result of the election in
Virginia Tuesday as shown from the
latest returns.
The Walton election law, passed by
the last.general assembly, which grafts
the Australian ballot on the Anderson-
■fcCormiek system, and adds the
medal constable feature, which
all tho opposition parties have
raised finch vigorous ' objections
to, was given its first general trial. So
far 06 tbo democrats are concerned, it
worked most satisfactorily, though
there is no doubt that it kept many
who feared the constable or shrunk
from exposing their illiteracy to re
frain from voting. The republicans
and popnlists are loud in their denun
ciation of the system. The vote was
small as a goneral thing, but demo
cratic majorities in most'districts are
large, the tariff having been the one
issue on which the canvass was made.
The result is construed ns an emphatio
endorsement of the legislation of the
laBt session of congress in the matter
of reform.
FLORIDA.
The vole was light all over Florida,
although the weather was fine. Spark
man, democrat-, had a walkover in the
first district and may run ahead of the
vote for Mallory, democrat, in 1892.
the second, Cooper, democrat, is
opposed by Atkinson, populist. No
republican nomination.
ARKANSAS.
Betnrns from all portions of Ar
kansas show that all the six'demooratie
congressmen are elected—McCulloch
first-, Little second, McCrae third,
Terry fourth, Densmore fifth and
Neill sixth.
KENTUCKY.
Beports from all over the Ashland
distriot indicate a heavy vote. The
Breckinridge and exconfederate ele
ment is voting largely with tho repub
licans for Judge Denny for congress.
Owen’s friends are disconrsged over
tho outward indications at all points,
but do not concede his defeat. The
contest for governor is so close now
that an estimate cannot os yet be made
with any degree of accuracy.
IN MINNESOTA.
Tho returns from none of the con
gressional districts of Minnesota arc in
complete, but the few at hand indicate
the election of republican candidates.
NEBRASKA.
An Omaha special says: Indications
are that Holcomb, democrat and pop-
utist candidate for governor,is elected
by 2,500 plurality over Thomas "Ma
jors." " Tho legislature is in doubt; but
indioatic us pointtoamajqrity for the
democrats and popnlists,which insnres
Bryan’s election to the senate."
WISCONSIN by 80,000.
The republicans have carried Wis-
consin by at least 80,000,electingHp-
ham govemor over Peek, "the present
incumbent. - The republicans also
elected ten to the democrats’ one con
gressmen, and carried tbo state legis
lature almost entire. No United States
senator will be elected in Wisconsin
this year.
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Betnrns from all portions of South
Dakota though meager, indicate that
the republican ticket, including two
congressmen at large, is elected by not
less than 12,000 plurality. Betnrns
’rom legislative districts aro not in ex-
Jept from cities and towns, but these
airly indicate that the legislature will
»e two-thirds republican. Pierre, the
’j apital, has rolled up the largest re-
mblican majority ever known.
GEORGIA.
Georgia is to be represented
li^d
national congress by a sol:
io delegation; The ninth, seventh,
fourth and tenth districts were the
.ones that were regarded as the weakest
democratic districts in the state, and
if there was any fear at all among the
party leaders it was hinged upon these
districts. But they all went democrat
ic. Congressman Tate succeeds himself
in the ninth by abont3,500 majority. In
the fourth Congressman Moses defeated
Mr. ThorntoD, the populist nominee, by
something more than 3,000 majority.
The Seventh district went for democ
racy and Congressman Maddox by
1,602, according to the most reliable
reports from all the counties in the
district. Dr. Felton, who was the pop
ulist nominee in the district, carried-
five out of the thirteen counties in the
district. His majorities in S*a district
were as follows: Gordon, 150; Bar
tow, 500; Haralson, 260; Polk, 400,
and Paulding, 375; total, 1,0S5. Tha
result in the tenth was interesting,
and the vote in Bichmond was surpris
ing, as many as 15,053 votes having
been reported from the county alone.
Of this number Congressman Black
received an overwhelming majority in
the county. Hancock was the only
other county in the distriot, however,
that went for Black, the majority
there being about 1,000. The coun
ties carried by Mr. Watson, tho popu
list nominee, gave him a total majori
ty of 4,773. Ihe overwhelming
/ote reported from Bichmond and
the 1,000 majority for Black in Han-
ooek offsets this total majority for
the popnlists and gives the district to
Black by something more than 5,000
majority. Speaker Crisp had but one
county in his district to leave him this
time and that was Taylor. His major
ities iu all the other couuties were
large, and he claims the district by at
least- six thousand majority, which is
perhaps the largest of all the districts.
Taylor county gave Mr. White, the
Dopullst candidate, only tv/o hundred
majority. Congressman Lawson sue
ceed3 himself in the eighth dis
trice by about 2,800. In tbo first
district Congressman Lester ii
re-elected without any trouble at all
His majority is handsome, and the
remarkable thing is' that only fifty-
seven populist votes were cast in the
oity of Savannah out of the total of
more than 0,000. The second district
has given Congressman Ben Bussell
strikingly large majority, and this is a
most complimentary- endorsement 6,
his work. Hon. Charles Bartlett
carrier the sixth by more than 5,000.
Colonel Livingston will succeed himself
in the fifth by 2,519 majority. In the
eleventh Congressman Turner goes
back to congress with a majority of
ai ore than 3,000.
FROM WASHINGTON.
25
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Entnriiy
nrne
m
pluntarily,
in Tu
pendent canllidate, supported by white;
men who hltvo. left the democratic
party because of their- bitter feel
ing toward the present state
tration, backed by the negroes of
cities and towns. In addition to all
this the state has been agitated over
the question of holding a constitu
tional convention, which, if held,
would disfranchise the negro and
eliminate him from polities. This
aroused the negroes, and on this ques
tion they have bean supported by the
jgjjoj to use the.ne-
a half the counties inde
pendent tickets for the legislature were t.tai
m;
NORTH DAKOTA.
Meager dispatches only have been
eceived from the election in North
lakota. Seven fnsionist congressmen
re reported as elected. The chair-
tan of the democratic state commit-
m claims the state for Budd, demo-
rat, for governor, by 10,000.
MARYLAND.
Maryland joined the republican pro-
ession and will, for tho first time in
le history of the state, send more re-
ublicans than democrats to represent
er in the halls of congress. Four of
the six congressmen elected Tuesday
are republicans, a net gain of four.
Unprecedented gains were also made
by the republicans in other directions
and the first branch of the Baltimore
city council will, for the first time, be
controlled by the republicans.
IDAHO.
Beturns from Idaho favor the repub
lican stale ticket and the " republican
congressmen from Boise City district;
The election of the entire republican
ticket is claimed.
The Australian ballot ByBtem was
used in Wyoming and thus the returns
aro coming in very slowly. The re
publicans claim the state. The popn
lists claim tliat they will win when tho
northern counties, 300 miles from a.
telegraph office, come in. This state
elects a congressman and the legisla-
irs this fall
IN "WASHINGTON,
was a light vote cast in the
f Washington on account of bad
The indications are thut the
— state, tioket iselected by
5,000. .The republicans claim 14 ma
jority in the legislature, and there is
no doubt of the election of two repub
lican congressmen.
UTAH.
The oxciteihent is.intense all over
Utah and an enormous "
for delegates to congri
of tho convention to fi
tution for the new'state;..
The Total Vote In Now York. .
The total corrected vote for gov
ernor in New York stnte, Sullivan
connty out, stands ns follows: Hill,
514,073; Morton, 667,419; Wheeler,
27,108; total, 1,208,600; Morton’s plu
rality. 153,346; Morton’s majority,
126,238.
The adoption of the constitutional
amendments, of which there is little
question, establishes the following
principles: Laws authorizing po'ol
selling and all forms of gambling are
prohibited; election and registration
boardsjhroughout the state must be
1 bi-partisan;~ffirpnblic money shall.be'
granted to sectarian schools; the legis
lature is forbidden to enact laws limit
ing damages for injuries resulting in
death; personal registration is not to
be required in towns of fewer than
5,000 inhabitants; public officers shall
not accept passes on railroads or
franks from telegraph and telephone
companies. Beturns for the voto in
New York city and Brooklyn on the
“Greater New York” scheme indicate
that a majority ol|the votes, have been
cast in favor of consolidation.
Late returns show that the republi
cans iu Illinois have elected their stato
ticket by n plurality of at least 90,000.
Cook county goes republican by ma
jorities ranging from 25,000 to 40,000.
The new legislature will be republican
in both branches by a majority of
from 25 to 40 on joint ballot. This
practically insnres the re-eloetion of
Collom to tho United States senate.
Tho republicans have carried Indi
ana by upwards of 40,000, capturing
both branches of the legislature. They
carry every one of the thirteen con
gressional districts by pluralities rang
ing from 400, the figures by which
Holman is defeated, to 12,000.
The returns now show that the re
publican plurality in Ohio is about
135.000. The republicans have elect
ed nineteen of the twenty-one con
gressmen, beyond a doubt, nnd pos
sibly one other.
A special from Columbia, S. 0.,
snys: Out of . 50,000 votes reported,
Pope gets 16,631, Evans 29,367. l’be
total vote will aggregate about 65,000,
and tho Evans majority will approach
25.000. So far the returns show the
constitutional convention—affirmative,
21,471; negative, 22,532. It is prob
able that tho affirmative will win by a
few thousand majority, but this is men
conjecture. The legislature will con
tain 127 Tillmanites, 30 anti-Tillman
ites and 3 republicans. ■ »
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The president has pardoned Jnines
A. Jassul, sentenced in Mississippi to
four years imprisonment for pension
fronds. Application for pardon was
denied in the case of John H. Sloan,
sentenced in South Carolina to three
and a half years imprisonment for
counterfeiting.
Tho foot has leaked out at Washing
ton that the department clerks under
the civil service commission are large
ly responsible for the defeat of Dock
ery in Missouri. It was discovered
through the boasting of a-brood of de
partment clerks, that $5,000 had been
sent to assist Dockery’s opponent.
Their only quarrel with, him was his
successful effort, as chairman of a com
mission, to reform the department, to
put each department on a purely busi
ness basis, nnd root out office holders
who were merely pensioners.
Work preliminary to carrying into
effect the new incomo tax law is going
forward as rapidly as its naturo will
permit, under the direction of Mr.
William H. Pngh, who, in October
last, was appointed superintendent of
the income tax. A number of compli
cated and interesting questions having
arisen under former laivs, and antici
pating that questions will arise in the
future of equal importance, it iB essen
tial for tbeir solution to understand
what has been the former legislation
of congress, the decisions of the courts
and the rulings of the department'on
the subject of the income tax.
Newspapers as Educators.
The annual report of Dr,. JY.-IL-
Harris, commissioner of education,
says that 23 per cent of the population
attend school daring the same period
of the year. The average period" "of"
attendance in the year, however, is
only eighty-nine days for each pupil.
Tho report snys: “It would seem to be
the purpose of our system to give
in the elementary schools to every
child the ability to read. Aftei
he leaves school- he is expected
to contsnuo his education by reading
the printed page of newspaper and
book. The great increase of public li:
brarics in the United States is signifi
cant of progress toward the realization
of this ideal. In 1S92 we had over
4.000 public libraries, with more than
1.000 volumes in each. The sohools
teach how to read; the libraries fur
nisli what to read. But far surpass
ing the libraries in educative influence
are tho daily newspapers nnd mag
azines. We are governed by
public opinion as Ascertained
nnd expressed by the newspapers, to
such a degree that our civilization is
justly to be called a newspaper civili
zation. The library and newspaper
are our chief instrumentalities lor the
continuation of the school and the uni
versity. Lecture courses, scientific
and literary associations, are assisting
largely. The work in the churches bf
the land is an even more
in school extension.”
How the Next House Will Stand;
The following table as to how the
new h'pnse stands is made np from the
latest advices on the congressional sit-''
nation: £3
A TUMBLE IN TE
Staid Old North Carolina In the Re
publican Column.
Special dispatches from Dallas, Tex.,
says: Even the rock-ribbed democratic
state of Texas has parted from the
faith, and partially gone over to the
enemy. She was caught in the slide,
not of republicans, but of populists.
The democrats certainly lost two and
possibly four congressmen. Nugent,
populist, for governor, is running liko
a scared hound, and tho popnlists sre
actually claiming his election. While
many leading democrats are dnm-
fonnded at the cyclone which has well
nigh swept the party ont of existence,
others are not at all astonished. They
say that Cleveland and congress have
utterly failed to carry out the wishes
of the people, and hnv • hrtr-yil every
trust and all confidence put in them.
There is loud talk of forming a new
national party with a new name, upon
the best planks of the democratic-
populist and old line whig platforms.
The time-worn plurality of 180,000 for
democracy is a thing of the past-.
Every return throughout the stato
Thursday showed phenomenal popu
list gains, nnd may possibly indicate
the election of Nugent, the popnlists’
nominee for governor. The state is
claimed by both parties. Tho popn
lists claim a plurality of 80,000 for
Nugent, while the democrats only
claim the state for Culberson by
30,000.
North Carolina, Too? ■
A Baleigh, N. O., special of Thurs
day night says: Semi-official returns
from nearly every county in the state
indicate that the fusion ticket, state,
judicial and legislative, put out by the
republicans and populists, is elected by
some 20,000 majority. This gives them
the state treasurer, chief justice and
two associate; justices-of- the-supremo
court, and five" judges of the superior
court-. Chairman Butler, of the popu
lists, claims the state by 30,000, and
says that Tbe'fusioriisis TF<]1 listen ms-,
jority of 30 on joint ballot. This 'lat
ter estimate is believed to be correej_
They will have the sennte by ten ma
jority. It is not yet pissible to esti
mate their strength in the house. Only
three democratic congressmen have
been elected—Woodward in the sec
ond, Shaw in the third, nnd Lockhart
in the sixth district. Crawford is de
feated by Pearson -in. tho ninth by a
very small majority.
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
HAPPENINGS,
Alabama.
Dem.
Arkansas ■ 6
California 1
Colorado "0
Connecticnt 0
Delaware..... 0
Florida 2
Georgia 11
Idaho ... 0
Illinois _2
Indiana 0
Iowa 0
Kentucky 7
Kansas....! 0
Louisiana....-.- 6
Maine 0
Maryland 3
Massachusetts 1
Michigan 0
Minnesota 1
Mississippi 7
Missouri 9
Montana. 0
Nebraska. 0
New Hampshire 0
Nevada 0
New York... „ 6
New Jersey 0
North Carolina...... 4
North Dakota 0
Ohio 2
Oregon 0
Pennsylvania . 1
Rhode Island 0
South Carolina 7
South Dak.ota 0
Tennessee 6
Texas 12
Vermont 0
Virginia.... 8
Washington 0
Wisconsin 1
Wyoming. 0
West Virginia .-.. 0
Bep.
0
0
6
2
"4-:
1
^0
0'-
1
20
13
11
4
8
0
4
3
12
12
0
0
6
1
5
2
0
28
8
2
1
19
2
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COTTON SHIPS FIRED. -
Seven Vessels Sufltor From the Incen
diary’s Torch.
A Savannah special says: • Firo
broke out Monday almost simultane
ously in six of the British cotton ships
in port. At midnight the seventh ship
was reported on fire. The alarm first
called the department to the British
steamship Skidby. The fire broke out
about G :30 o’clock in tho No. 3 hold,
where there , were fully 2,600 bales,
all of which were more or less dam
aged.
' -It was. not fifteen minutes later when
the fireman were called to the steam
ship Baltimore Oity, (British) at tho
Savannah, ‘Florida and Western wharf.
The fire was fonnd in the fore held of
the Baltimore City, where it was soon
put o'lfc] with a damage to about 100
bales.
The fire on the Baltimore City had
trot been discovered a minute before
an alarm was given from tne British
steamship Oostlegorth, which was tied -.
alongside thb'Baltimore City, and he^e
fire -was- discovered in three holds!
There-were4,500 bales on ihissteamer,
and about 500 of them wero damaged
by fire and water.
v Shortly ..after 1 the -firemen got to
tlegarth fire was dis-
on thi _
'coffered in th'e British Stag, at the ~
Gordon wharf;-about hslf;a nrileiromr- -scarcely know what else to do nnlem
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
Two hundred Italian laborers ar
rived in Brunswick, Go., from New
York Tuesday, and located in the
suburbs of the * city. They will be
placed at work on the sewerage sys
tem.
The United States court of claims
has entered up judgments for extra
pay under the eight-hour law for thirty-
three letter carriers in Richmond, six
in Pettersbnrg, Va., and five in Roa
noke, Va.
The Southern Seating and Cabinet
Company, at Jackson, Tenn., burned
Wednesday night. It was one of the
largest plants in the south. The loss is
probably $25,000; $15,000 insurance.
The fire is believed to have been in
cendiary.
William Cruse was shot and killed
in an election riot in South Amreica,
Ky., by Tom Jones. Will Jones and
Tom Buchanan were kiUed by the
Somers brothers in an election riot in
Wise county, Virginia. The murder
ers escaped.
A fire broke out in the Foreigners’
hotel at Evergreen, Ala., Tuesday
afternoon, which soon spread to the en
tire block. A high wind prevailed and
carried the flames across thestreetand
before the fire was stopped property to
the value of 40,000 was destroyed. The
insurance was light.
General Gordon,cQmmanding United
Confederate Veterans, has appointed
General S. D. Lee, of Mississippi, to
the command of the department east
of the Mississippi. General Gordon,
owing to disagreements, has decided
to withhold the official promulgation
of the constitution adoptee! at-Bir-
d the old consiifcnfien is
still in fordE,"
S. M. Inman & Go’s big cotton plat-
form at Xoccoa, Ga., was burned Tues
day afternoon. 'Seventeen hundred
bales of cotton -were entirely con
sumed; loss, $50,000, fully covered by
insurance. The residence of G. W.
Swilling was also burned. Tho cotton
compress and Southern railroad cot
ton platform were saved by . hard
work. ,i- *'
A disastrous coUision between a pas
senger and freight train, resulting in
the loss of six lives, occurred at Rosen-
steel siding, 103 miles east, of Pitts
burg, Pa., on the Baltimore and Ohio
road at 5:40 o’clock Wednesday even
ing. The killed are as follows: En
gineer Henry Bush, of the passenger
train; liis fireman, McCarthy; En
gineer Browning, of the freight train;
Brnheman Manning, of the freight
train; two mail clerks, names unknown.
- The whaleback steamship Joseph L.
Colley, which pBt ■ in at Savannah
Tuesday to coal, attracted -large
crowds especially on account of her
cargo. She is a vessel of 914 tons, and
her decks are almost bare with the ex
ception of.a cabin and a small pilot
house near the stern. She is from
Tampico, Mexico, for. jjpw York; with
?fen tons of silver, bullion " for the
United States government, beside a
ot of hides and other stuff.
A special from Dallas says: The cot-
tbn situation continues to favor the
biggest crop, ever raised in Texas.
Bottom, middle and top crops aro full.
Many T&rmers speak of abandoning
what is left. They say it wiU scarcely
pay tho expense of picking, packing,
ties and ginning and marketing. They
.the. Baltimore Oity. Tliis-fire was dis
covered in the bunker, and before it
was under way there it broke ont in
hold No. 1, ; and then in "holt?. No. 4.
In this hold was found some phos
phorus, which gives a clue, it is be-
Heved, to the origin of the fires.'^ -
A few minutes later an alarm wae
sounded for fire on the Delgartb, a
British steamer at the Central wharf,
half a mile from any of the other
steamers. The fire on tho Delgarth
damaged about" 400 bales and was dis
covered about the same time in two
holds.
The Petunia was the sixth to give
tho alarm and it was lying near the
Delgarth. The damage on this 6hip
was to about 200 bales. Iu nil it is es
timated that about 3,000 to4,000 bales
have been damaged by the fire, repre
senting a financial loss of between
$6,0000 nnd $75! 000.
CHINA A SUPPLIANT.
She Asks tho Powoi
Stop tl
A dispatch
from Tien-' - *"
sentatives 6)
sembled
Tsnng Li Yamen
to Intervene aud
"ar.
london Times
it the repre-
s were nS-
by the
.e Chinese
THE NEW SECURITIES
Of the Southern "Which are Being
Made by Drexel, Morgan & Co.
The delivery of the new securities of
the Southern railway in exchange for
Bichmond Terminal reorganization
certificates has began. The exchange
is being made at the office of Drexel,
Morgan & Co. The stock wUl be issued
in the form of voting trnst certificates.
Of the bonds there are $4,500,000 East
Tennessee reorganization mortgage
bonds bearing 4 percent interest from
March 1, 1895, and 5 per cent after-
March 1, 1898, and an authorized "is
sue of $120,000,000 first consolidated
5 per cent bonds of the Southern Rail
way Company of which abont $8,000,-
000 bear interest from July 1, 1894;
$4,000,000 from January 1, 1895;
$3,0,00,000 from Jnly 1 1895, and
$7,9ll,000 from January 1, 1996.
Teiinessee’s Republicau" Governor.
. A? Nashville special of Thursday
Official and unofficial returi
been received from eii
counties.
S’
plurality c.
•00. Tljfeh
ISP
Total .111 239 6
Republican majority over all, 122.
FOR SEBASTOPOL.
Removal of the "Remains of the Czar
from Livadia.
A St. Petersburg cable dispatch
says: The most solemn of religious
services was held at noon Thursday in
the church at Livadia, to which the
body of Alexander HI was removed
the previous night. Masses were .said
in - the-presence of the body. The
services-were attended by Emperor 1
Nicholas II, the czarina, and the
prince and princess of Wales, the rep
resentatives of the various foreign
powers and many others. The czar
"was deeply affected.".
At the conclusion of the services and
after the royal visitors present and the;
troops had viewed the body, the popu
lace were formed in line and filed"past-
"the. coffin to take a farewell look'at
their dead ruler. Many of those who
the face of the dead czar
affected
r ere heard
coflin was then
governmentVstatc-ment respecting the
critical situation of nffairs.
Price Kung, president of the Tsnng
Li Yamen, the dispatch adds, calmly
avowed the impotence of China to
withstand the Japanese attack and 1 ap
pealed to the powers to intervene,
ssyiDg that China was wiHing to aban
don her sovereignty over Corea and to
pay a war -indemnity. The ministers
applauded the frankness of this con
fession and promised to report China’s
appeal to their respective governments
with a view to the. restoration of peaco
in order to avert the dangers threat
ening all interests. The French min
ister believed in taking a leading part
in the proposed intervention.
Longest Balloon Voyage.
The longest balloon voyage as far
as we know was one’-undertuken" lin
1883, in which"the. distance; traveled
saw more than twelve hundred miles.
Three voyagers on that- occasion
made an aseehttln France, with the
intention of crossing/the Mediterra
nean and landing in-.'Algeria'." The
wind, proving unfavorable,' carried
them toward Corsica. When they
the price is considerably raised. It is
certain thousands of bales raised will
never be taken from the^stalks.-- Just
jdaoat now every boTi- is swearing he
will not plant a seed of cotton next
year. •
A partv of ten_Spnniards dug up a
large" "ffon'chest, supposed to be filled
with treasures, on tho old Christeval
Brovaproperty, at St. Augustine, Fla.,
before daylight Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Reddick, wha occupies tho prem
ises,^ not knowing what the men wore
doing, appeared with a shotgun and
drove them off, bnt not until they had
loaded the chest-, requiring several men
to carry -it, into a vehicle. No trace
of the men can be found. Nothing but
a bole, some old pottery and an iron
hook and one silver coin were left by
them.
The cotton exchange of Savannah,
at a called meeting l^eduesday, con
sidered a resolution appropriating $500
to the work of dotccfifrg'tlioae who set
fire to the cotton ships on Monday
night. This resolution _ will be passed
at the annnal meeting of the exchange.
The board of trade w:
ing to'urge the city ti
wards than $50° for
each of the criminali
offered by the city is
small. There are.no
ments in the situation
are working on the shipri loading tUose:
from which the burned pottos is not
being remove
THE LATEST BY WIRE
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
Brief Mention of Daily Happenings
Throughout the World.
In clearing away the wreck on tbo
Baltimore and Ohio roadatBosensteel
siding, twe miles east of Roekwood,
Pa., the body of G. W. Min ear, brake-
man on the freight train, was found
Thursday morning in the debris. This
makes a total of six kiUed.
The Central News Company has this
dispatch of Thursday from Shanghai:
“The panic iu New Chwang and
throughout Manchuria continues. Nu
merous country, people are arriving at
New Chwang aud two-thirds of the^
stores have been closed.
Now that it is and assured fact that
the anti-gambling amendment to the
constitution has beeii carried in New
York the turfmen ham began to lose
heart. At first they did not regard
the amendment which prohibits bet
ting, pool selling or gambling of any
kind seriously.
A service in memory of the late czar
of Russia was held at New York Thurs
day morning in the Greek church.
Tho little church was draped in white
and black and the Russian, Greek and
American colors hung in the forepart
of the edifice. Tho church was crowded
with distinguished people, most of
whom wore uniforms and medals.
Special Agent Burns, of tiJB United
States secret service, and 1 ”al bank
officials of Jackson, Miss., wj&e sum
moned before the federal court in that
city Thursday, which is investigating,
the special state warrant eases, to give
testimony as tq the' similarity of the
mam -1 “ ■’
warrants and United States currency
and national bank bills.
The trial of Detective- Richardson
and Ed Smith, two of. the alleged -.
lynchers of the six negro prisoners
near Kori-vill^ on f| T —-q fr n
SifeS^criminal court (jit" Memphis,
Tenn., Thursday. Four jj rors wero
secured opt of 100 men examii.ed.- It
is not probable" that the rema.nder of
the jury will be secured this wtt-k.
Oh account of the labor troubles at
New Orleans brought "about by the
white.laborcrs in an" effort to get rid
of the'colored laborer as a competitor
on evangelical alliance meeting was
held Thursday at the Wesley chapel of
the Methodist church attended by fifty
ministers and 1,500 people, nnd pray
ers were offered for guidance, bless
ings and protection.
The First National bank of San Ber-'
nardino, Cal., closed its doors Thur-
day morning. A quiet run was Or
ganized that went on all day Wednes
day. Nothing was thought of it, but
oh opening Thursday morning the
rush commenced and Cashier Kohl
closed the doors and posted the notice
to protect all depositors. The bank
was doing the largest business in tho
city.
At Waco, Texas, Thursday, Gov
ernor Hogg (.(elivered nu address -to
thousands who witnessed^ the. opening
of nhe Texas cottoippaifice. FulIyT
000\atrangcrs were ih tKe citr agil the
management anticipated fjrpcess"
this, the first year of' the B exposition.
Jerome E,. HiU, or. St. Louis, also "
made an address, after which the build
ing was thrown open to the visitors.
The exposition closes December 6th.
The Bov,. Charles H. Parkhurst,
the New ■ Yorkpreaejrer and re
former,, has been _ elected an
ho’tfotapymember.-/of -t]je Union
LgAgneiClnb at the regular . monthly
jnfeetinigjALthe clujt Until Dr. Park-
added to the number
iff jjf such mem>
■■■■ M
eral O. O. Howard and (
Morton. Dr. Parlchu
only clergyman to be
Among the sporting'inen of Jackson-*
ville, Fla., there is much Surprise and
more indignation at" the action of the
city counoil in repealing the municipal
ordinance permitting contests with
five-onnc^gloves. This ordinance was '■
passed in_December last, was vetoed by
the mayor and then passed over his
veto, its object was to aUow theUor-
bett-Mitchell fight to come off at Jack
sonville nnd thus to thwart Governor .
MiteheH in his determination to stoplt.
Governor Waite is going to leave
Colorado. “He is tired of the state
and disensted with his defeat,” said a
well known populist. He also-" said
that the governor is considsiing a
proposition made.to him to take up" his'
residence "in Illinois. The story is
that thb populists in Illinois have
taken such a liking to the governor
him riot only to reside
it also to: lead thepi- to
“ to. for governor
-were near that
descended toward
a time thair liv
jeopardy. By tlirov
apparatus thg
1 Ihe balloon
and for
in great
" out all their
j i if -
i e"-r
LATEST FR(
Evans Too
• • Tro:
A Columl
turns confirm
Carolina wiU
next coup
delegation,
elected beyo:
enth district,
port from
creases the':
liott; democra]
lican, Murray!
lican candidates in
and fourth
elections. Com,
twenty-three eomitk^K
turns for the
36,197, and Po;
ies yet
crease j
the
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