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AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON.....
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The death of Representative Kelly, the ot
Pennsylvania, removes from the house
nun who has served the longest cont.in
nous term, and was therefore known as
"the father of the house." Judge Kelly
has for many years sworn in the speaker
of each new congress. That duty now
will fall upon Samuel.!. Randall, who
will Ubw be known as the father of the
house. Vice-President Morton has aj>
pointed Senators Sherman. < ameron,
Manderson, Butler and funeral Colquitt of to the repo hit*
sent the senate at the 1
Bepresentat ive Kelley. Sat- ^
Long before the hour of noon on
turday, the galleries of the house were
filled with spectators anxious to d<> honor
to the memory of Judge Wm. D. Kelly
who had for many years been a prominent
member of that body. A few moments
before the house was called to order, the
members of the senate, without, formal
announcement, entered the chamber and
quickly took seats in the body of the hull
A sable-covered bier stood in front of tin
clerk's desk and a handsome floral tribuU
was placed near by. At 12:10 the olii
ating clergymen, Drs. Butler and t nth
bert, entered the hull, reading the begin
ning of the burial service. They w en
followed by the committees of the senali
anti house, having charge of the ceremo¬
nies, and then amid a solemn hush, tht
mu gniftcent casket containing the remains
«>f Judge Kelly was placed on the bier.
'The burial service was read by Dr, But
ler, and praypr was offered by Dr. < nlh
bert. A benediction was delivered by
Dr. Cuthbert, and then slowly and sadly
the committees escorted the remains of
Hon. William D. Kelley from the chain
her which had known him so long and so
well. The senators, headed by the vice
president, who had oeaupied a seat, to the
right of the speaker, having left the
chamber, on motion of Mr. Bcnghain, of
Pennsylvania, the house, as an additional
remark of respect to the memory of the
deceased, adjourned.
In the house on Monday, Mr. Gum
tilings, of New York, offered a joint res¬
olution for the erection of a statue to the
memory of the late Samuel J. 'I ildcn.
He asks for an appropriation ot $'>0,006
for that purpose.
Mr. Adams, of Illinois, chairman of tin
Silcott investigating committee, submitted
a report, accompanied by u hill appropri¬ supply
ating $75,000 for the purpose of
ing the deficiency in appropriation lor tin
pay and mileage of members and dele¬
gates, occasioned by the recent defalca¬
tion in the office of the sergeant at anus.
Henatov Mitchell introduced a hill ti
prohibit the coming of Chinese into tin
United States, whether subjects of the
Chinese empire or otherwise. Those win
are now w ithin the limits of the 1 nited
States ami who nmv hereafter leave, and
attempt to return are also excluded, The
bill provides that only officials ot tin
Chinese empire shall be entitled to enter
the United States and they shall first ob¬
tain permission of and be. identified by
their government. It is also has provided landed
that any Chinese person who
unlawfully in the United States shall be
removed at tlm cost of the government.
A bill substantially similar was introduced
in the House In Mr. Glume, of California.
Among the bills reported calendar, front com¬
mittees and placed on the bronze wen in
the following: For a statue
Washington of Christopher Columbus; ti
change the limit, of the appropriation fot
a public $185,000 building $175,000; at Jacksonville, Fla., tin
from to to prevent
introduction of contagious diseases from
one state to another, and for the punish¬
ment of certain offenses.
A bill by Mr. Ewart, of North Caro¬
lina, exempting from the operation of the
civil service law, soldiers, sailors mid
mariners of the late war; by Mr. Grosve
•uor, of Ohio, for a military national park.
(Chickamauga battlefield bill;) by Mr.
Taylor, of Tennessee, fur public buildings
xt Morristown and Bristol, Tenn.; by Mr.
Washington, of Tennessee, making An¬
drew Jackson’s day a national holiday.
States were called for the introduction
of bills for references, Among the bill
introduced were the following: By Mr.
Fithian, of Illinois, resolution directin'
the committee on ways and means to re
port a separate mauilla bill placing and sisal iuinber, salt, the
jute, hemp, of grass Mississippi, on
trie list; by Mr. Morgan,
placing bagging for cotton on the fret
list; by Mr. Stockdalc, of Mississippi,
for a public building at Natchez, Miss.;
by Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, to repeat
•u much of the act of July 1, 1870, ie
authorizes the leasing of the right to en
gage in taking fur seals from the islands
of St. Paul and George; by Mr. Baker.
■,.f New York, (by request) extending tht
rigbt of suffrage to women. and
Among the petitions signed presented the wives re
ferred, was one by o'
Chief Justice Fuller, and Justices Kiel
tnd Harlan, and by the w ives of many
>ther distinguished officials and citizen?
jf Washington, praying international that in the )< ge¬
lation organizing provision the shall expo
tition of 1892, be madi
lor soardof the appointment of women on the
managers.
NOTES.
Surgeon-General from Hamilton his vi-it has reiurued Florida
to Washington into to
»nd Cuba, examining their sanitary
condition.
Colonel R. D. Locke’s nomination a
;*ostroaster at Macon. Ga.. was sent to
die senate Monday. There no danger
if a failure to confirm him, as Senator
Colquitt endorsed him for the place, and
will, of course, wotK for his confirma¬
tion.
The president on Monday nominated
the following postmasters; Richard D.
Locke, Macon, Ga,; V . \\ nlker Ku--r!k
Anderson C. I!.. 8. C.: Guilford 31. U
lor, Covington, Tenn.; William Spelling*.
McKenzie. Tenn. Also the following
recess nominations: George P. Fisher, of
Delaware, to lx- first auditor of the irons
ury; lleurv C. Warmoth, collector ot
customs for the district of New Orleans.
The discussion of the world's fair bill
by ihe house committee on forward foreign affairs
has resulted in bringing suggested a propo¬ aid
rtion which it Is may in
the selection of a site for the fair by th*
THF. OGLETHORPE ECHO, LEXINGTON,'GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY IT, 1890.
house. The committee has already de¬
cided that it will report ■< lull leaving
blank the name of the city where, the fail
shall be held, but it is feared that it it
goes into the house in that shape, and
without some arrangement in advance tc
govern the method of selection of a site,
no agreement can ever he reached.
The senate committee to select, the site
for the quadra-centennial exposition.
on Friday, listened to the claimi
of Washington city to be selected.
n- presented by District-Commissioner
Douglas; Secretary Anderson, o.
the national board of promotio!
of the three Americas exposition;. Minor
Powell, chief of the geologic Washing- survey:
Myron M. Parker, president and General of Felix
ton board of trade,
Angus, of the Baltimore American.
Secretary Proctor, who has been for
somc m onflis giving earnest consideration
[() jj (( , Amelioration of the condition ol
the Apaches, who have been held as pris¬ his
oners 0 f war since Gcronimo and
bond surrendered to General Miles, the on
Monday submitted his conclusions to
president, in two alternative suggestions,
one the purchase of a tract of land in the
mountainous region of western North
Carolina and one of the adjacent states; be
the other that the consent of congress
cquested for their transfer to satisfactory some point
n the Indian territory, if
legotiations can be consummated with
those confederate tribes.
Alexander D. We.ddlo.buro, of Ale-xan- arid
lria, Va., appeared before the ways
nouns committee, on Saturday, committee ms repre- ol
tentative of Hit: legislative of the
he national grange and farmers
Virginia state grange to demand equal
irotection of farm, with iron and wool
Manufacturers, lie said that in his opin
.on protectiou protected manufacturers, combinations
md enabled them to form
and trusts, to take money orrt of the far
. lie rs’ pocket, but the grange declared recognized for
hat the country had pro
cctiou, and he was not there to advocate
frge trade. He was for equal legislation,
and the protection did of farmers think by the means present ot
bounties. Jle not
system of taxation protected laborers tc
the value of a “row of pins,”
TRADE TOPICS.
CONDITION OF BUSINESS FOB THE WEEK
ENDED JANUARY 11, BY DUX & CO.
R. G. Dim & Go.’a weekly review ol
trade says: An easier money market and
colder weather has helped business some,
but it cannot be denied that the opening little
trade of the year has thus far been a
disappointing for the widely responsible, prevalent
sickness is, to some extent,
as it interrupts the operations of buyers
and sellers m every direction and lessens
the retail trade, except in drugs.
COTTON EXPORTS
have been remarkably heavy for (lire#
months, and are now falling behind last
year's change, which is natural and must
bo expected to continue. Tire movement
of wheat has not been large in December,
with prices comparatively low, and enn
hardly be expected to increase much with
higher prices. The iron trade is still in
doubt. Moderate lots are occasionally
offered below current quotations, while in
bar iron the feeling is less confident of
late. Undoubtedly .the enormous build¬
ing last year sustained the iron trade. At
New York and Brooklyn the value of
new buildings was $95,000,000 against
$70,000,000 in 1888, and in Philadelphia 7,875 in
the number was 9,435, against
1888, but construction at such a rate can¬
not bo expected to continue, The coal
trado remains dull and affects the prices of
stocks, though the average for active
stocks is about 50 cents per share higher
than a week ago. But sugar trust stocks
have been pushed down to about 50, not¬
withstanding higher prices for raw sugar.
Business failures occurring week throughout for
the country during last number
the United* States 334, Canada 110; total,
878 failures, against 83 2 las t week.
AETER MANV YEARS.
V QUARTETTE OF MURDERERS CAFTUBKD
AFTER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF FREEDOM.
Eighteen years ago, George Woodson,
ft ferryman on New river, in southwest
Virginia, was murdered by four men—
John French, Pale French, David French
and James llnrford, all of Pulaski county,
Tenn. The reason was a refusal to ferry
them across (he river, which was greatly
swollen. Tho guilty quartette fled the
country, leaving no clew whatever. Ten
years afterward David French was captured and
and imprisoned. On Saturday, John in
Pale French passed through Knoxville
charge of Virginia officers. After eigh¬
teen years of freedom, they had been
found in the backwoods of Harlem coun¬
tv, Kv. Pale French is a lawyer of some
standing, and an intelligent, educated
man.
FALLING WALLS,
SEVERAL FKOFLK KILLED AND A NUM-
11EI1 OF OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
All appalling disaster occurred h
Brooklyn, X. V., Thursday morning.
The heavy winds of the night before
shook the new Presbyterian church at 296
Throop avenue to its foundation, and at
I. 80 Thursday morning, one of the walls
fell with a crash on a three-story frame
building adjoining, and brought with it
death and destruction. The ruined
building was tenanted by the Mott and
Purdy families. The following is a list ol
those reported dead: David Purdy, aged
fourteen: Caroline Purdy, aged sixteen;
Max Purdy, aged eighteen; Mrs. Caroline
Mott, aged seventy-five; The injured Sarah Emma Mott,
aged forty-live. forty; Robert arc: Poole, aged
J. thirty-six. Purdy, aged and others who received onlt
slight injuries.
THE GAME FLUSHED.
AN AMATEUR HUNTER FIRES INTO A CROWD
OF CHILDREN WITH FATAL EFFECT.
In Marion county. S. C., Saturday
iftcmoon, a row’ll of colored children
"ore returning trom school, when they
vertook a m j^to boy named MoLaurin,
whohairi u .hi: hunting. Several ot
I r ? : '/V; gU V,ng MoLaanC
fhe'Iw } '
>o-m who”mddeuHaud
Phis an-en-d
the c-owd of‘chffii^n ‘kimni m2 fatally.' 2d
severely wounding four others, one bo
McLaurin "as -.ailed, and expresses
regret for hU terrible deed.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
A fire on the barge, George Kent, in
New York harbor, Thursday, destroyed
$3,000 worth of cotton.
M. T. Quimby <fc Co., of Boston, man¬
ufacturing jewelers, have failed. The
house was one of the largest in its line.
A pile of timber toppled over on four
workmen in Chicago, Ill., on Thursday,
and John Thompson and Andrew John¬
son were crushed to death.
Aline owners in Charleroi district, Bel¬
gium, have conceded the demands made
by the striking miners, and the men have
resumed work.
During the past ten months the imports
of woolen goods amounted in value to
$47,167,433, against $44,010,890 during
l lie same months of 1889,
A Providence, B. I., dispatch to the
Globe says that inside of five hours, on
Thursday, twenty-one deaths were re¬
ported from grippe and pneumonia.
Pataka river, Indiana, has risen at an
alarming rate during the last few days.
A tract of country twenty miles long by
ihree to four miles wide, is inundated.
A telegram from Victoria mines, near
Trinidad, Col., says that a cuve-in oc
curred in that mine Wednesday morning,
and that five men were buried.
Seven great flour mills, at Milwaukee,
Wis., formed a combination Thursday,
with $5,000,000 capital, and an annual
output of nearly a million and a half bar¬
rels of flour.
Judge W. S. Chisholm, of the S. F. &
W. road, is critically ill in New York.
He was attacked with the “grip,” and it
has assumed a more violent form, going
into pneumonia.
The London Globe declares that reports
that Lord Salisbury will dissolve parlia¬
ment early in the coming summer are pure
inventions, and says lhat. the idea has not
even been mooted.
While engaged in leading a raid on a
nihilist dub, in Moscow, Russia, Solutu
chino, chief of the secret police, was shot
by a woman named Olga Charenko. The
woman then committed .suicide.
Dispatches from Zanzibar state there is
much excitement and conjecture there
over the constant arrivals of British men
of-war. The British fleet now in those
waters is said to be the largest ever as¬
sembled.
On Thursday morning fire was discov¬
ered in the West Indianapolis, Ind., hom¬
iny mills, and in an hour the immense
building, which covers a quarter of an
acre, was in ruins. The loss is $75,000.
The mill was one of the finest and largest
in the country.
At Johnstown, Pa., three more bodies
were recovered on Friday, victims of the
great flood, two men and one woman.
One of them was identified by the cloth¬
ing !(S a German named Voeglitley. The
other could two were be so identified. badly decomposed that
they not
It is stated that the steel trade of this
country is to be revolutionized by a
new process for making open
hearth steel as cheap or cheaper than
Bessemer steel, A test, was made a few
days ago at Pittsburg, Pa., which was
fairly satisfactory to those interested.
The grip is spreading rapidly III. among On
railroad Thursday, employes the Chicago, at Galesburg, Burlington and
Quincy officials reported forty-two train
men ill with tho disease. All of the
trainmaster’s force are unable to work.
There are very few cases elsewhere in the
city.
Eighteen horses were shipped in a cai
via the Central railroad from Pennsylva¬ and
nia to Newark, N. J., Thursday,
when the ear was opened Friday morning,
fifteen of the horses were found suffo¬
cated, only three of them being alive.
They had been shipped in an ordinary
freight car, and the luck of ventilation
killed them.
The board of health of Boston, Mass.,
up to noon Saturday had received reports
of 436 deaths for the week, the largest
number ever recorded in that city in seven
days. Diseases of the respiratory organs
have been terribly effective. No less than
118 were from pneumonia, eighty-twc
from consumption, thirty-two from brou
chitis, and fourteen from influenza.
Exports of specie from the port of New
York during the week ending Saturday,
amounted to $548,784. of which $61,794
was in gold, and $52,703 silver; $9,986
in gold and $622,740 in silver, went to
Europe, and $54,788 in gold and $1,489
in silver to South America. Imports of
specie for the week amounted to $63,898,
of which $57,334 was in gold, and $6 590
in silver.
The proposition to settle in the uppei
Congo country a colony of negroes from
the United States meets with much favoi
at Brussels, Belgium. It is thought this
would greatly facilitate the peaceful in
treduction of the ideas and methods oi
industry and commerce of the civilized
countries. King Leopold and all the
Belgian merchants concerned in the At
vieati trade favor the scheme.
In the libel suit brought bv Mr. Parnell
against the London Times, the court has
refused the Times' appeal regarding against its answer- circu
in* T an interrogatory publication ol
tation at the time of the
the articles on “Paruellism and Crime.
The court, however, allowed an appeal ol
tho Tim front"whom ,* disclo«imr the names oi
L-.uion imrties it received the infer
nn which the articles were based.
, ... , tnn >.
place off Annapolis, Md!. Sat unlav morn
ls.ut Pa.sy Archer Mate 1 hipp- com
mamhng, and the dredging v.-sd \ r
ertmss. Uwronoe (aptain John L.ttx
both cannon and nfles were used. The
vessel was illegally dredging on Thomas
Point when sighted bv the Archer, which
I r j,«sed her several miles before capturing
j . R , r
( i Tho unprwc den t ea lv low sta-c of water
in the river m Burlington. I:e. i* the
" ondor aml chiof to P ic amon S the l^P 10
inches lower than it has been dur
iffit the sixty years since white faffing people
»“ e that section, and it Is still
C“t. The suction pipe of the waterworks
had to be sunk Thursday t prevent me •
cutting off of the supply of water.
A special from Topeka says: W. L.
Egleston, the Topeka man, who K en¬
deavoring to induce the negroes of South
Carolina to emigrate to Oklahoma, has
already succeeded in sending Topeka, 800 negroes and
there. They are mostly from
have left during the past six months,
They have established a colony near
Kingfisher, and are opening farms and
building houses.
A fast mail on the Union Pacific road
was wrecked near Sidney, Neb., early
Thursday morning by a broken rail. Two
mail cars and baggage cars were burned
and"most'of the marl and all of the bag¬
gage and express matter were destroyed.
The passengers managed to get out of the
sleepers in their night clothes. Some of
them were bruised, but none seriously
hurt. The sleepers were badly burned.
Baggagemaster Dobbins was seriously in¬
jured.
A dispatch from Madison, S. I)., oi
■Saturday, says: The bank of South Da¬
cota has assigned to W. IV". Daly. The
ssets are claimed to he $150,000; liabili
ies unknown. The assignee is engaged
1 looking over the books—which are in
ad shape—learning how the concern
.oes stand. The assignment of the bank
orced the Labelle Ranche Horse Import
ng company to assign, as the ranche and
ank were closely connected George L.
Wight, late secretary and treasurer, is
ssignee. The ranelie's assets are about
150,000, mostly in land and horses.
HOW DUES ARE PAID.
Tim FLAN BY WHICH THE NATIONAL AND
STATE ALLIANCES COLLECT DUES.
Under the constitution of the National
Alliance the State Alliances pay five
cents dues annually for each male mem¬
ber, The Georgia State Alliance also
levies an additional five cents dues for
one quarter in each year to pay dues to
the National Alliance. This requires
each male member of a sub-Alliance to
be represented by ten the cents dues ending in the
secretary’s report for quarter
Alarcii 81, 1890. Secretary R, L. Burks
has been giving some important instruc¬
tions to the secretaries in regard to col¬
lecting and forwarding the dues, for
their convenience. Dues collected from
deceased collected and expelled death members, expulsion, when
before or must
be sent forward and accounted for in the
next quarterly report, if, however, the
member fails to pay before his death or
expulsion no account is made of the dues.
Members demitted must pay dues for tho
quarter in which they receive tho demit,
but do not pay again for the balance of
the quarter in the Alliance to which they
carry their membership.
AGAINST TOBACCO TRUSTS
rilE GROWERS OF VIRGINIA AND NORTH
CAROLINA MEET IN CONVENTION.
The Farmers’ Alliance is justly proud and
of its defeat of the jute campaign bagging trust against
it has begun an active
the trust on cigarette tobacco. Delegates Virginia
from the twenty-five counties of
and North Carolina which grow bright
tobacco met Thursday morning at Oxford,
N. C., to attend what was officially
called by the alliance an anti-cigarette
trust convention. The convention is a
strong body. Captain Williamson, oi
Caswell county, N, C., was chosen chair
man. Tho convention at once took up
the subject of the trust, anc
agreed ail to receive representatives manufacturers ol
the great cigarette There appeared
in the country. repre¬
sentatives of Duke & Sons, Allen & Gin t er.
King and Goodwin, who made statements
to the convention. A committee was
appointed to consider these statements
and report. Intense interest is main
tested by every tobacco grower in this
tight, against the hated trusts. This in
tcrest is felt by all, whether alliaucemei
ir uot.
THE MONTANA MUDDLE.
THB LEGISLATIVE DEADLOCK STILL IN
FORCE IN THE HOUSE AND SENA I'K.
On Saturday at Helena, Mont na,
-Messrs. Sanders and Powers, who were
elected United States senators by the re¬
publican house aud senate, made formal
application of election. to Governor The Toole tor certifi¬ de¬
cates reque-t was
nied on the ground that their election was
illegal, and because of t le fact that Gov¬
ernor Toole had already given certificates and
of elections to Messrs. Clark Ma
ginnes, elected by the democrats, The
legislative deadlock continm in full
force, aud the republicans have decided
to break it so far as the senate is con¬
cerned by unseating Mr. McNamara,
democrat, who is ineligible because of his
being a federal official. This will give
the republicans full and free control ol
the senate.____________________
A FATAL MISTAKE.
A family suffering from influenza
TAKE STRYCHNINE FOR QUININE.
mistake made . the
A terrible was in
family of Merrill Griffin at Dearoorn,
Mich., Saturday night. The familv all
had the influenza, and took strychnine
instead of quinine. Griffin, his wife.
daughter, aged thirteen, and son. aged
nine, were the victims. the daughter r;
died, and there is l.o op *or n •
Mrs. Griffin and son have a bare chance to
cull through.____
WAWFO r-iAwts Will will u n a ANIR in La.
THE sentem . E °f THF. si F „ .i.Mi. rur-Ri
will nr. executed eerie un - .
. niS?“ewa« .. ffifcned^v rtuTsm
sentence of death imposed by the erimi
na j court of Jeiierson countv ordered to
be executed on Friday, February ~»th,
is<to.
BANK STATEMENT.
The . following . . ;- is the weekly statement
?f the associated banks for the week < na
Jauuar >' llth:
- x
Lnans “mtaOl
^gai tend re in - ease............... ImmJoi *
4.9 <
Banka now hold 700 ia «ce-s oi ■
the 25 per cent. rule. ;
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS .AND OCCURRENCES
xvhich abe happening- below ma¬
son's AND DIXON'S DINE.
Wm. Muldoon, Sullivan's trainer, Low¬ gave
$200 bonds to appear on Governor
ry's requisition. brick
The contract postoffice for the building stone and^ at Charles¬
work on the
ton, S. C., has been awarded.
The Tmes-Democrat pronounces the
gravel roads of New Orleans a success,
and far preferable to the shell roads which
were first tried.
Dr. Lehardy is preparing an exhaustive
report on the condition existing at the city
quarantine station at Savannah, Ga., and
will propose several remedies that he be¬
lieves will Vie effectual in removing what¬
ever difficulties may at present exist.
The summer temperature at Lexington,
Va., for two mouths, has put cherry,
peach and apple trees in full bloom, and
lilies, roses and other flowers are bloom¬
ing. The temperature on Saturday was
in the seventies.
While four boys, between the ages of
six and eight years, were playing under
the edge of a sand bank in Jackson,
Tenn., on Tuesday, the bank caved in,
burying them under about ten feet of
,
sand. They were dead xvhen extricated.
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala¬
bama Great Southern railroad, was
knocked from Ids tram by a water tank
and killed Friday night. Hewas leaning
cmt of the door of the caboose too far as
the train passed the water tank, and was
on the head.
Cardinal Gibbons was taken on an ex¬
cursion around the harbor at Charleston,
S. C., on Saturday morning, and at night
lined at the residence of B. O’Neil, where
•x reception was held. The ceremony of
laying the cornerstone of the new cathe¬
dral took place Sunday.
The stables belonging to Macy Bros, of
Versailles, Ivy., burned Saturday morn¬
ing, destroying thirty-five out of thirty
eight horses. Among those burned was
the horse Bell Boy, that w r as sold at auc¬
tion by Jefferson <& Sayman to J. J. Clark
for $51,000. It is said that Clark had re¬
fused $100,000 for her.
The law class of Washington and Lee
university, of Lexington, Va., of which
lion. J. Randolph Tucker, L. L. D., is
professor, organized Saturday for its final
celebration, electing J. T. Noel, Blair, of Rich¬
mond, president, and Frank of
Knoxville, orator. There south. are twenty-one
seniors, mostly from the
The Mississippi senate, in session at
! Jackson, on Saturday, creating suspended the rules
and passed a bill a new county,
to be called “Jeff. Davis” county. It is
to be composed of parts of Sunflower,Bol¬
ivar and Cahoma counties, with Cleve¬
land, on the Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas railway, for the county site.
A preamble and resolutions were
adopted in the Virginia legislature set¬
ting forth that the monument to General
Robert E. Lee is nearing completion, raised that
sufficient funds have not been to
pay for the same and calling upon citizens
of the state to take measures in every
county to raise the necessary amount. It
is understood that about $8,000 will he
required for that purpose.
Senator Williamson offered a bill in the
Mississippi senate Saturday to amend the
charter of Jackson in several minor mat¬
ters, but the feature of general interest is
that it proposed to restrict the right to
vote for mayor and other officers
to those who can read and write,
or who own five hundred dollars’
worth of taxable property. The bill will
probably pass, and will be the first at¬
tempt to abridge suffrage in the state.
Air. M. E. Born, a member of the state
executive committee of the Fanners’ Al¬
liance, at Raleigh, N. C., was questioned
Thursday in regard to the effect of the
negro exodus. He says 50 per cent, of
the negroes in Lanier county hax-e “ex
odusted” and that by March probably
75 per cent, will have gone, While
some of the this large farmers are op¬
posed to departure of the ne¬
gro labor, the poorer classes of white
people want all the negroes to leave. It
is a deep seated belief that such a separa¬
tion will prevent, race troubles.
BIG STRIKE ON HAND,
THE SAILORS AND FIREMEN OF NEW YORE
CITY DEMAND HIGHER WAGES.
The sailors and firemen of New York
C ity are preparing for a big strike OD
April 1st. Secretary George IV. Reid
was instructed to issue a proclamation
making known the determination of tht
union aud appealing to the sailors and
firemen all over the world for assistance
in the coming struggle. Cablegrams
fornia were sent announcing to England, Australia and Cali¬
the action taken and
asking that assessments l>c levied on the
men there to support their fellow-la borers
in New Y ork. The union will demand
$1.50 $1 per day for sailors on all ships, and
for firemen.
A WHOLELALE HANGING.
NINE MURDERERS TO BF. EXECUTED ON
ONE GALLOWS.
Tho largest legal execution that evei
occurred in the l nited States is billed
for 1 or! >niith. Ark next Thursnay,
when nine men are to be hanged at one
time—seven Indians and two neorroes.
yh e trap is long enough to accommodate
all of the condemned, and they all will
be dropped through at once. 'Hue con
de ® D «[ \ a thc best of s U 5ri,s *
r ,
the UP stiI1 entertain hope of com
mut| . t j on frpm thr President. Theothers
have never entertained nnv hope, and are
nremrin^ to to meet mc.t thdr tliar fate tno.
Both Modest and _ Businesslike. . ... ;
A Paris paper recently offered an emi. .
nent Frenchman $1000 far his autebb
ography. He accepted this offered, and j
after getting a check for the amount sent j
,owa: ‘ q W3S bora at Lyons in 1839 ’
and since that time I am recall nothing
pf any account, except that I have not
been killed inany of the uprisings. ”
CLEAR THE WAV.
Hen of thought, be up and stirring
Night and day;
Sow the seed: withdraw the curtain*
Clear the way;
Men of action, aid and cheer them
As ye may.
There's a fount about to stream;
There's a light about to beam;
There's a warmth about to glow;
There’s a flower about to blow;
There's a midnight blackness changing
Into gray;
Men of thought and men of action,
Clear the way.
Once the welcome light has broken,
Who shall say.
What the unimagined glories
Of the day;
What the evil that shall perish
In its ray! ,
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men;
Aid it, pen, and aid it, type;
Aid it, for the hour is ripe:
And our earnest must not slacken
Into play action,
Men of thought and men of
Clear the way.
—Charles Mackoy.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A German Count—Eins, zwei, drei!
Going to work with a will—Contest
ing it.
The scientist says an absolute vacuum
cm not exist, and yet the dude lives.
Music hath charms—That is when put
together in the proper proportions.—
Dansville Breeze.
The easiest way for a good wife to get
along pleasantly is to practice what her
husband preaches .—Atchison Globe.
When a cashier goes to Canada his em¬
ployer’s face and his own accounts are the
long and short of it .—Chicago News.
In milking a cow always sit ontheside .
furthest from the cow and near a soft
spot in the pasture.— Milwaukee Bluff.
Some men's affairs don t. get straight¬
ened out until about the same time they
do themselves.— Burlington, Tree Press.
“I only charge you a fair price, she
said, as Robinson objected to payingrtive
dollars for a buttonhole bouquet.— Yan¬
kee Blade.
One reason why an expert fisherman is
so silent at his sport is because he iff
waiting for a catch with baited breath.—
Baltimore American.
Parrott—“And so Mrs. Gadabout far
really forty years old? She doesn’t show
her age. Wags—“No; she keeps it to
herself. ”— Munsey's Weekly.
Tile man who drives a fast horse may.
find it an expensive luxury; but he seems
to have no difficulty in “raising the
3 us t. ”— Yonkers Statesman.
Whene'er you step into a room
And conversation ceases,
You won’t be wrong if you presume
You have been picked Philadelphia, to pieces. Press.
—
“Don’t you get frightfully tired of
your work?” asked the monkey of the
hand-organ. “Well life is a good deal
of a grind for me,” replied the organ—
Time.
The picture of the three-yea r-oid King
of Spain is on all of the new Spanish
postage stamps; so that child is liable to
receive his share ol' licking after all.—
Time.
“To look at you, Jouson, no one would
take you for a humorist/’ “No?” “No.
And hanged if they’d think you were a
funny man to read your jokes, either! ^ ^
— Bazar.
Old Gentleman—“Harry, I am dis¬
gusted with you. It seems to me you
have no will of your own.” Harry
“Ah, yes, but, eh—can’t you make one
for me .”—Kearney Enterprise.
Hotel Clerk—“You wouldn’t imagine
I am nervous; would you?” ejaculate! Guest-—
“Well, I should hesitate to
Why, I think you've got more nerve than'
a book agent. ”—New York Journal.
“Collecting silver spoons is a new
craze,” remarks an exchange. Yes, and
collecting towels, blankets, the soap and
other little trifles, is an old craze with
dishonest people who patronize hotels.—
Hotel Gazette.
The man who sighs, “How soon we
are forgotten,” has only to leave the ho¬
tel without paying his bill to find out
how sadly mistaken he is .—Bayou Sara
Industrial News. Wrote to you, eh?
—New Orleans Picayune.
The Professor of a California State .
university has invented what he calls
“indestructible leather.” A pair of
shoes made of leather that will never
wear out ought to last a ten-year-old
school boy at least six weeks.
It is not love that makes him moan,
Nor yet. that he is all alone.
No' griet in his mind is gunwing.
Iris not poverty's sad dart,
'Tis cot remorse tugs at his heart,
His porous plaster is drawing.
—Chicago Herald.
Fenderson (arguing in defence of his
favorite theory that personal beauty is
not woman's chief attraction)—“I con¬
tend that beauty has nothing to do with
a young woman's chief chances of getting
a husband. I’ll leave it to any married
woman in the room if it is not so.— Bos¬
ton Transcript.
A Chinese Pill.
11 jou wisn to see a medical curi*
ositv, . says a Cincinnati paper, “step
ln R> Appraiser Klimper's office in the
Government building and ask him tc
show 5? u a Chine if P 111 ' He has a dozen
.
crab apples, and sugary are coated subsLce with eoXd a semi
transparent lowers anfffilt
with wim no were ana gut letters, borne of
t h em have this sweet covering broken,
and you can see beneath the pill proper,
black as a ball of India ink, and the
very thought of masticating that mass in
order to get it down is an emetic. But,
it must take an unusual amount of moral
courage in a Chinaman to tackle a pill.”
P™£cea *. ew York uj Sute is 3,088,S45 reported to have
of honey being season pounds
exceeded only by Tea
nessee with 2,130,689 pounds.