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CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Two hundred and seventy-live out of
1,000 of the Elmira, N. f , refonnary,
are down with the grippe.
Five hundred grain porters of the
North and South docks. Liverpool, have
struck for an advance in wages.
M. Jaffrin, one of Boulanger's lieuten¬
ants, was forcibly ejected from the French
‘hamber of deputies on Monday..
The influenza is spreading in Mexico.
Several deaths from the disease are re¬
ported as having occurred at Villa Lobus.
The editor of the newspaper El Pro
press, published in the City of Mexico,
lias been sent to jail for defaming Adelina
Patti.
Julius Barnes & Co., dry goods dealers
in Laporte, Ind.. made an assignment
Saturday. Liabilities $50,000; assets
$53,000.
The bill granting a subsidy to the East
African Steamship company passed il“
second reading in the German reichstag
on .Monday.
The Mark Lane Express. in its weekly
review of the British grain trade, w».v»
that English wheat is depressed in const
quent ot damp deliveries.
The German Czech conference, held in
Vienna Austria, lias succeeded in recou
citing all differences between the Czech*
and Germans in Bohemia.
The sultan of Turkey and invited kings of
Grecce aud Roumania, have, flu
crown prince of Italv to sojourn in theii
palaces during his tour in the east.
The otficiul report of the Congo Free
State publishes decrees granting civil
statu* in legal matters to Catholic and
Protestant missions in that country.
Three thousand shoemakers who him
been locked out for a week returned U
work at Haverhill, Mass., Monday. Tin
trouble has been satisfactorily settled.
It. is proposed to organize at Berlin.
Germany, for 1897, an international ex
hibition which shall be far grander Ilian
the French exhibition.
Editor Burke, of the North London
Times , was found brought guilty of libel carl in tin ol
< use against him by the
Bust on, and sentenced to one year's itn
prisonmeut.
A telegram from Victoria mines, near
Trinidad, Col., says that a cave-in oc
i:urred in that mine Wednesday morning,
and that five men were buried.
Alderman W. II. Porter, convicted ol
cons piracy and blackmail, was sentenced
<u Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday, to eighteen
months in the western penitentiary, and
(to pay a fine of $50.
Authentic news has been received at
Cairo, Egypt, of terrible mortality among
the natives in the Soudan, owing to a
famine resulting from a lack of rain dur¬
ing the autumn.
The president on Monday nominated
John Vigneuux United States marshal foi
the western district ol Louisiana,
withdrew the nomination ot \\ illmm I
Roller, postmaster at Bristol, Tenn.
Thirteen prisoners jail Monday escaped from the
'Quincy, III., night. One of '
them, who escaped, was being held for mi
attempted burglar* murder; and the confidence others were pick
pockets, men.
influenza, in a severe form, prevails
among the officers and crews of the
Amertenn squadron of evolution, now in
the Mediterranean. There are 130 eases
of the disease on hoard the Chicago alone.
A span of a highway bridge iu course
of construction over Little Miami River,
at Oregon ia station, in Warren county,
Ohio, fell Monday, carrying down several
workmen. One was killed and ten in¬
jured.
Argentine A dispatch republic from New has York fully recognized says: The
the newly established republic of Brazil.
The Argentine consul-general in New
York has just received an official circular
front liis government icuveyiug this no¬
tice.
The jury iu the suit of Miss Caroline
Cammerer against Clemens Muller,at Now
York, for $100,000 lor breach of promise,
oil Sunday attended the opening of theii
sealed verdict in the supreme court. They
found for the plaintiff m the sum ol
$12,000.
Claflin, Coburn A Co., boot and shoe
dealers, of Boston, Mass., were burned
out Friday morning. Loss between$t50,
O00 and $200,000; insurance $100,000.
The building was a four story stoue. be
longing to the Boston university. Loss
$100,000, fully insured.
The Standard Oil company's works at
Constable Hooks, N. J.. was the scene of
another costly oil fire Saturday afternoon.
A large tank exploded, presumably from
gas cold generated oil already by in pumping the hot oil on the
tank, The loss b
**timated at $35,000.
It was announced Saturday that an
English trust had accepted terms offered
lor the sale of five Trenton. N. J.,potter¬
ies. Eleven potteries embraced at East Liverpool,
Ohio, are also in the transac¬
tion, receiving about $5,000,000. Tren¬
ton's share will be about $1,500,000.
A ...... dispatch from Shamokin, c . . . „ l a., says:
Locust Springs. Reliance, Burnside IV t*
»nd Funnell collieries, opt nit ed by the
Philadelphia and Heading railroad eom
puny, shut down Saturday evening, turn
ing *.000 men out of employment. Dull
ness in the coal trade is the cause.
Judge Ingraham, of New York, on
Monday, denied the motion to *et aside
the verdict giving $12,000 to Mi** Caro
line C’ammerer. of Philadelphia, Clemen* in her
Muit for $100,000 from Muller as
■damage* for a breach ot promise of mar
nage.
A deputation from Barcelona, Spain,
lias presented a Anglo-Spanish jwtition to the govern ol
mient against under the which meu-of-war treaty of both
1888,
/countries have the right to search vessel*
trading in African waters. File jwt ition
holds that the measure is injurious to
commerce.
On Saturday, at St. Paul, the Grand
lodge of Minnesota. A. and F. A. M . by
an overwhelming vote condemned that
branch of the Scottish rite known a* I e
yesauhrat. and hereafter Minnesota, like
THE OGLETHORPE ECHO, LEXINGTON,' GA • • FRIDA Y, JANUARY ‘24. 1890.
New York, Pennsylvania and other s tab’
I ,,{ the -southern jurisdiction in general,
will have nothing but "straight Masonry. "
J{ was reported Saturday that six o'
the leading bri werie- of ( I veland, Ohio,
had been purchased by an English syndi¬
cate. the price paid being 975,000. They
are the Stoppel company, <)perative
Brewing company, George Muths. .1.
A. Schneider, Cleveland Brewing compa¬
ny, Oppman Brewing company and Mrs.
J. Bachr’s.
The Brazilian government has issued a
decree dividing the country into three
banking districts, and providing for three
issue banks with a capital of $250,000,000 of
in government stock, the circulation
■ach bank's notes to be confined to its
,wn dial riot. Ton percent of the earn¬
ings will be applied to the redemption of
he capital stock.
The new cabinet of Spain, which has
just been formed at Madrid, is as follows:
Prime minister and president of council,
Sagastn: minister of foreign affairs,
Marquis d> La Yegardc Armijo; minister
of war. General Bermudez Koina; minis¬
ter of' ju--t ire. Henor Pulgoerver; minister
of finance. Senor Eguilioir: marine, Ad
iniral Komero; colonies, Senor Gnllon;
trade, agriculture and public Trinitario works,
Senor Becerra; inferior, Don
Jluiz Cupdepim.
q-pn following circular was sent out
f' ro m New York, Thursday: “To all Sub
gcr j| )t . rH 0 f ,j, e Commercial Telegram
Comjiany: The Commercial Telegram that
company is compelled operated to announce by it has
;j lr property heretofore
|„. tn sold nt sheriff’s sale to satisfy judg
m ents against the company, arid now
finds itself unable to continue to distrib¬
ute, after this date, quotations which
have heretofore been supplied beerctary. to its cus
foment. Gkoboe VV. Caspar,
It is understood that the Postal lcle
graph company were the purchasers.
A BAD WRECK.
SEVER At. PEOPLE KILLED AND A NUMBER
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
A Cincinnati dispatch says: Friday
evening, as the Glendale accommodation,
bound for Cincinnatii, was leaving the
station, near College Hill Junction, the
Chicago ......... V estibule tram mu into ... the rear
<)f th(i accommodation. There were
three passengers cars of the Glendale
train, containing about seventy-live vestibule t >eo
pie. The locomotive of the
train ran half way through the rear car of
the accommodation, piling passenger cars
in a heap and setting them on fire. 'Hie
fire department Cincinnati and patrol wttgo lis exlin- were
called from and the tire
guished. The following persons were Wil¬
taken from the wreck dead: John
son, Life superintendent Insurance of the in Metropolitan Cincinnati;
Witherbee, company conductor No. 77,
F, W. res¬
idence Toledo; an unknown woman;
James Staley, buggciuaster, train No. 77,
of Dayton, O.; William Khunitz, a boy
of Carthage, Ohio. About a dozen peo
y 1 e were Imdiy injured, some ot them
perhaps fatally.
THE MELON GROWERS
AnE i)K 8 PO ndkNT ovkhtuk outlook UN
favorable freight reports.
q'j le melon growers of south Georgia
feel rather blue over the prospect l'or the
coming year. At the last meeting <>f the
South Georgia Fruit and Melon Growers’
association, a committee was Steamship appointed and to
confer with the Southern
Railway association as to correcting, its
errors as to weight per ear. Complaints
are made that the weights at Albany being are
carelessly determined, the ears
weighed while passing over the
scales, without being uncoupled. weight
Thousands of pounds of the excess Fur
have thus been put upon ears, each
therm ore, they are re weighed by
connecting road and in many cases a*
Hutch ns two thousand pounds are added
by each road until the overcharge of
weight would amount to seven or eight
thousand pounds. The committees were
met cordially, but no concessions were
made.
ONE MILLION DONATED.
vou kstabushino A national baptist
UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO.
R. was announced at Chicago, has'supplied Sunday,
,) m t Mr. Marshall Field a
„ji 0 f or du> proposed now Baptist Univer¬
sity. He ha* done it by donating for the
purpose ten acres of land, valued at
$100,000. The tract is in the southern
I icrtion of Chicago, and fronts on Ellis Ave.,
>etween Eighty-fifth and Eighty-seventh
streets. Mr. Field's gift tills the last of
the requirements of the originator of the
university project, J. 1). Rockefeller, the
oil ing. Mr. Rockefeller gave $600,000
to ■ university, on the condition
that $400,000 should be raised, and that
none of the total $1,000,000 should be used
for the purpose of a site. The value of
Mr. Field's land,together with the money
already raised, more than completes the
$1,000,000. It is intended, however, to
consider it as no part of that sum, but to
complete Field the round amount, regardless ol
the d onation,
_
HONORING AN OARSMAN.
A gkcnd FI M R.U. rittx'KsstoN IN SYDNEY
;
| ,x honor ok henry s. eahi.b.
j Ad wee* from Australia, says the funeral
j ©f Jieory 8. Earle, the deeeased champion
, arsnmti, took pla< e at Sydney December
u . The .wenumy was witnessed by fully
70.006 parliament people. formed The mayor and aldermen
of part of the proves
sion. which was one of the longest of its
kind ever *een in Sydney. There is a
movement on foot to erect a monument
to his me mory
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A CEMETERY BATTLE.
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bloody eu.ht between two w arring
, uurcii factions.
-
A Wilke-barre, Pa., dispatch says: A
bloody riot place between the two
warring fait ion* of tho Polish church at
. Plymouth. Monday evening. The Luther
j ans faction endeavored to burv one of
, their number in the cemetery. The Poles
resisted and a fierce battle took place, in
which pistol*, atom * ami club* were used,
During the shooting thirtv men were
j prostrated by wounds.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY FIRST COE
OHRSH IS DOING.
AFPOINTME.VJ’S BT PRESIDENT HARRISON
MEASURES OB' NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In secret session, Monday afternoon, the
senate confirmed the following nomina¬
tions: Collectors of Customs—Robert
Smalls, Beaufort, S. C.: T. F. Johnson,
Savannah, Ga.; United States District
Attorney—Henry C. Niles, northern dis¬
trict of Mississippi. United States Mar¬
shal ~-Carter J). Morrison, middle district
of Tennessee. Postmasters—T. J. Fuller,
Wayeross; R. B. Locke, Macon, introduced Ga.
A number of bills have been
in both houses of congress, providing is
in for reciprocity with commercial Canada. union Canada with
fsvor of free
the United States. The republican protection¬ mem¬
bers of the committee, being
ists, are opposed to reciprocity. would They
want Canada annexed, but they
not allow Canada to send her goods believe here
free until annexation. They that
Canada would consent to annexation if
rec iprocity is witheld. before
Mr. Carlton, of Georgia, went
the judiciary committee, on Tuesday, to
be heard in favor of his bill to change the
date of the inauguration of presidents
from the 4th of March to the first Wednes¬
day in March. Mr. Carlton says Wash¬
ington’s inauguration occurred on
Wednesday, which happened thoughtlessly, to be the
4th of March, and perhaps,
the day of the month instead of the day
of the week was incorporated in Sun¬ the
statutes. The fourth often comes on
day or Monday, as it did last year, which
necessitates congress setting on Sunday.
Mr. Carlton has received letters from all
over the country favoring his proposition, the
and he will push it to a vote in
house.
The senate has passed the concurrent
resolution, reported from tho committee
on finance, requesting the secretary of the
treasury not to take any steps towards
making a new lease of seal fisheries until
after February 20th, election of
The house committee on
president and vice-president had set apart
Thursday for u heariuj' for the delegation
of colored held men, Richmond, appointed Va., at the conven¬ time
tion at some
ago, who desired to speak on the subject
of an election law. The delegation did
not put in appearance, however.
Although attention the of world’s the house fair hills Thursday occupied
the on to
the exclusion of other matters, still there
is yet a chance to reconsider the vofe of
Wednesday by w hich the house refused to
appropriate money to pay its members for
the loss by the Slicott defalcation,
On Thursday favorable the judiciary committee the bill
decided upon a report on
recently introduced by Mr, Stewart, of
Georgia, for the establishment of two
national penitentiaries, 80th degree one of to latitude, he located and
north of the
the other south of it. The bill appro¬
priated $500,000 for eath building, and
$100,000 additional for machinery and im¬
plement*. Atlanta, Ga., is favorably men¬
tioned as of a good prisoners location sentenced on account of from the
number
Georgia and neighboring states.
NOTES.
The following fourth class postmasters
were appointed for Georgia on Saturday:
J. (). Murcy, Dry Branch. Bibb county;
A. C. Johnson, Efiie. Whitfield county;
,1. T. Ruston, Hut laud, Bibb county. IV.
T. Cromley was appointed light house
keeper at Sapelo Island.
Secretary Windom, on Thursday, sent
to the speaker of the House a letter rec
on intending appropriations buildings, for for the the follow¬
ing named public pur¬
pose* set forth: Charleston, 8. C., cus
rombouse, $21,000, for the general repair
af the building and heating apparatus;
Macon, Ga., courthouse, postofhee, from etc., the
$5,000, to construct a sewer
milding to the river, and waterproofing
:he boiler pit in the basement.
Secretary Noble is busily connection engaged in with the
examination of papers in
;he appointment of supervisors supervisors of the
eleventh census. Of 175 pro¬
vided for by the census act, quite decided a large
number have been intention practically of the
upon, and it is the seere
larv to make his recommendations to the
president at once in as many as eight or
ten states. Others will follow as rapidly
as is consistent with the importance of the
positions to be filled.
The following nominations have been
confirmed by the Senate: Civil Service
Commissioners Theodore Roosevelt, of
New York, and Hugh 8. Thompson, of
South Carolina; Collectors of Customs
J. H. Deveuux, Brunswick, Ga.; F. R.
Gungy, Tampa, Florida; T. B. Johnson,
Charleston, S. O.; H. \V. Daugerfield,
Tappahaunock, Ya.; T. J. Jarret, Peters¬
burg. Ya.; J. W. Fisher. Richmond, Ya.;
E. J. Pennypacker, Wilmington, N. C.;
Robert Hancock, Jr., Pamlico, N. C.;
W. O. Henderson, Pearl Hirer, Miss.; IV.
R. Sheppard, Apalachicola.Fla.; II. DeB.
Clav, Newport News. Ya.; Surveyor of
Customs, C. C. Winibisli, Atlanta, Ga.
The following is the first section, of
which there are fourteen, of the bill pre¬
pared by Secretary Windom for presenta¬
tion to congress, authorizing the issue of
treasury notes on deposits of silver bul¬
lion iu accordance with the plan pro
j Hl in hi* report ,o congress: Be it
enacted bv the senate and house of rep
re *entativrs of the United State*, in cou
j assembled, that auy owner of silver
bullion the product of mines of the
j I gnired State* or of ore* smelted or ru¬
i u the United State*, may deposit
th* same at any coinage mint, or at any
office in the United State* that the
Lecretarv of the treasury may designate,
^ receive thereafter the treasury notes
hereinafter provided for. equal value at the of
tlate o{ deposit to the net
such silver, at the market price, such
price to lie determined by the secretary of
the treasury under the rules and regula
tions prescribed, based upon markets the price of
current in the leading silver
the world; but no deposit, consisting in
whole or in part of silver bullion or for
fign silver coin* imported into this coun¬
try . or bars resulting from melted or
refined foreign silver coins, shall be
received under the provisions of this act.
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THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
PIN AND CO.’S UK VIEW or TRADE FOR
WEE I, ENDED JANCAUV IS.
R. G. Dun A; Co.'s trade revie w for th<
week says: Important improvement in
business is noted wherever the recent
change to cold weather lias beeu felt.
Elsewhere the unseasonable weather is
the chief complaint, business hut and everywhere manufacturing in¬
terruption prevailing of sickness is observed,and
by the have been forced close
many factories to
because so many of their employes were
unable to work. The export of provis¬
ions are heavy, the lard movement last
week reached 14,582,862 pounds. Clear¬
ings of banks last week were not only the
largest on record for the past year, but
showed an increase over last year of twelve
per cent, outside of New York, The
weekly output of pig iron January 1st
was 174,038 tons, against 109,151 Decem¬
ber 1st, and 154,398 a year ago. This im¬
plies a slight increase in production last
year over previous estimates.
COTTON AND WOOLEN GOODS.
The cotton industry is disturbed only
by sickness; the demand for prints goods is
slightly improved. the first Staple time, and wool are
firm. Now, for man¬
ufacturers are busy and hopeful, and the
demand for such wool as they can use is
strong, prices being firm. Reports whole, from
various quarters are, on the more
favorable. The mild weather has caused
much depression, hut wherever cold
weather lias appeared there is a clear and
quick recovery. Collections are quite
generally slow, because of retarded dis¬
tribution, but uneasiness is reported at
only a few points. All southern reports
note an active trade. Exports of cotton,
provisions, oil, and breadstuff’s, iri Decem¬
ber, were $74,449,727, against $67,045,-
545 in 1888, which points to an aggregate for the
of exports exceeding surpassing $1)4,000,000 imports by
month, and again
$ 20 , 000 , 000 . products
The speculative markets for are
irregular, but not very active. Wheat is
nearlv a cent higher with sales of only
12,000.000 bushels for the week. Corn a
cent lower with sales nearly as large, and
pork products a shade w eaker, (,’otton
has been marked up a shade, though Coffee re¬
ceipts again exceed last year’s. is
steady. Oil lie higher osi light dealings, shade,
and raw sugar is again advanced a
though estimates of the European beet
crop is 8,445,000 tons against 2,704,457
for the previous year. The general level
of prices is a shade lower than a week
ago. Business failures occurring through
out the country last week, number for the
United States 307; Canada 31, a total of
350 against 375 last week.
THE NEGRO’S PARADISE.
OKLAHOMA BEING RAPIDLY COLONIZED BY
THE COLORED PEOPLE.
Letters received by W. L, Eagleson,
business manager of the Oklahoma Immi¬
gration society, in Kansas, from points number in
North Carolina, say that a large
of negroes in that state are goiugthrough
in wagons this winter to the new
territory. Eagleson says there are now
" in Oklahoma,
about 22,000 negroes
and that by spring there will be at
least 50,000. He claims they ought
to have that country, and says presi¬
dent Lincoln and the them. republican He'adds: party
promised to give it, to
“We are determined to take it any how
and we will make it one of the grandest
in the union. I favor Colonel Morgan’s strip
scheme to purchase the Cherokee and
other lands in the Indian territory, ex¬
clusively for negro settlement. Give us
the Blair bill, the Indian territory, and
Senator Butler’s $5,000,000, and we will
be content. Oklahoma, in my judgment,
is the land of promise for the race, and
migration the panacea for every ill now
effecting the negroes of the south.”
ENGLAND APPREHENSIVE.
THAT AN INCREASE OF DUTIES WILL ST OF
IMPORTATIONS.
A cablegram from London says: The
testimony 'before the congressional \V ashington coin
mittee of ways and means at
is followed with great interest by Euro¬
pean manufacturers. A slight increase on
the tariff on many exportation; lines of goods and the means Al¬
the cessation of
most unanimous recommendation of wit¬
nesses that the duties should be madt
higher, fills continental jobbers and ntan
ufacturers with consternation. They say
that owing to the strict interpretation consuls ol in
the laws bv the United States
Europe, and endless squabbles about
invoices, their business has been greatly
damaged, and any additional burden
placed upon it would prove ruinous to
them.
TROUBLE EXPECTED.
saloon KE FEE Its OF DENVER SAY THEY
WILL DISREGARD THE SUNDAY LAW.
Sheriff Barton, of Denver, Colorado,
on Friday 7 created a sensation by mak
, which is the effect
ing his first order, to close
that hereafter all saloons must on
Sunday. Heretofore the law has praeti
cally been a dead letter. A number of
special deputies have been sworn in for
this purpose aud given their orders.
Several saloon men declare they will puv
no attention to the sheriff s orders, and
gome sc usational developments are antiei
pa ted.
THE CYCLONE'S WORK.
great destitution in wiCKLiFFR and
clinton, KENTUCKY.
There is much suffering at AViekliffe
and Clinton, Ky., in consequence of the
recent cyclone. At the former place
twenty-seven houses were destroyed or
made uninhabitable, and at the latter
place upward of fifty houses are gone.
Fiftv-seven people at IV iekliffe and
nearly one hundred at Clinton, are in des¬
titute circumstances.
SIX INDIANS HANGED.
Six Indians. Austin.Dillcy.Willis.Jones,
Goin and Burris, werv hanged tor murders
committed in the Indiqn territory, Willis,
Austin was a Chickasaw; Dillcy,
Jones. Coin and Burris were Choctaws.
The victims w ere all white men and rob
bery was the object in each c»*e. Two
other Choctaws were to haw been hanged
with them, but their sentences wire coin
muted by the president.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARK HAPPENING BELOW ma¬
son's AND DIXON'S LINE.
George Penley, bookkeeper of the
Kentucky Lumber company, which has a
heavy business, w ith large capital, head¬
quarters at Burnside, Ky., is a defaulter
and fugitive. The amount of defalcation
is not yet known.
Craven Bros., on Thursday, started fires
in three furnaces in their glassworks been at
Salem, N. Propositions have
made to the loeked-out union men, but if
they do not accept the terms offered, th«
works will be run by non-union lkbor.
While four boys, between the ages of
six and eigjit 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 when extricated.
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala¬
bama Great Southern railroad, was
knocked from his train by a water tank
and killed Friday night. He was leaning
ont of the door ot' the caboose too far as
the train passed the water tank, and was
on the head.
The Zazoo aud Tallahatchie Transpor¬
tation company’s steamboat. Katie Rob¬
bins, collided Sunday night with a barge
towed by the Jessie Harkins, from Sun¬
flower river, for Vicksburg, Miss. The
barge sunk with her load of three thou¬
sand sacks of seed and thirty bales of
cotton. The hull of the Robbins was
crushed, and she sank to her hurricane
deck. Four of her erue were drowned.
If Savannah, Ga., does not ^et a million
bales of cotton this year, she is going to
get pretty close to the seven figures. On
Saturday the receipts were 12,000 short of
the total for last year. This month’s ex¬
port, too, are now just about equal to
those of all lust January, and there are
live large British steamships to dear.
They will carry away about 30,000 bales.
Upland eotton market is still advancing. has During
the month the gone up nearly
$ of a cent, and January 2d middling
cotton was quoted 9 9-16. On said Saturday
it was quoted 10J. Sales are to have
been made at 10$.
SNOWED IN.
A SNOW BLOCKADE IN THE WEST—TRAIN'S
HEMMED IN AND WIRES DOWN.
A dispatch of Monday from Chicago
says: The snow blockade in the west
and northwest is one of the most com¬
plete on record. Not only has travel be¬
come impossible on western divisions of
the Central and Northern Pacific, but the
Telegraph companies through ave wire equal is sufferers, down
and every
on both of these routes. shut Washing¬ off
ton and Oregon are
from communication with the entire
world,with the exception of one little zig¬
zag wire that, still ticks feebly between
San Francisco and Portland. The Wes¬
tern Union repairers lathe are snowed and there up at is
half a dozen places west
little prospect of renewed communication
until the roads have mastered the elements.
Monday night eight westbound,trains were
snowed in. and the prospect of the road
being opened in the next forty-eight
hours is poor, freezing as snow ice plows and cannot work
through the the force of
shovelers is inadequate.
HUMBUGGING IMMIGRANTS.
A SWINDLING SCHEME TO INDUCE DUTCH
IMMIGRATION TO FLORIDA.
The United States consul at Amsterdam
recently reported that an effort was made
to induce citizens of that country to emmi
grate to Florida, depositing by representing hundred that
each emigrant would be given one
and fifty pounds ten acres
of rich Florida land, together with imple¬
ments for cultivativation and would be
given board and lodging free for one
year. The matter was reported to Win¬ the
treasury department, and Secretary
dom has written the state department,
suggesting that while such immigrants
would not be. prohibited from landing, advise it
would be well for the consul to the
people to move cautiously in the matter,
and to correspond taking with the decisive governor action. of
Florida before any
AFTER THE OFFICIALS.
ASKING FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF THE
ACTS OF MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
A Topeka. Kan., dispatch asking says that Judge a
petition is in circulation
Guthrie to call a special grand jury to in¬
vestigate the acts of certain members of
the state legislature and other state offi¬
cers. One of the circulators of the peti
t j on stated on Saturday that the peti
tj onerg -were after State Treasurer Handl¬
tou _ insurance Commissioner Wilder aad
-yfessrs. Burton and Gillette and two or
t jj ree other members of the legislature, made
-phe charges against them are not
p U h|j c . Judge Guthrie will probably
sumlnon a grand jury if enough petition
ej . g as ^ jj
KUNZE ON EXHIBITION.
I A DIME MUSEUM MANAGER SIGNS HIS BOND
AND WILL EXHIBIT HIM.
] John found Kunze. guilty who of murdering was one of Dr. the Cro¬ four
| men
nin, and whose imprisonment the jury
axed at three years in the penitentiary, is
1 free man again. Judge McConnell
granted him a new trial a few days ago.
tnd he was admitted to bail in the sum of
$5,000. This was furnished Saturday by
i dime museum manager, who signed
Kunze's bond, and the little German, in
return for the favor, will appear on exhi¬
bition at the museum.
BANK STATEMENT.
The following is the weekly statement
of the associated banks for the week end
ing Saturday, January 18tb: j
Reserve increase. ...... ............j
Loans increase.....................
t«SerTuier<itL436.900 increase........1.......... j i
]>epogh B 6,502,700 6.200
Circulation increase................
Banks now hold $.,i81,125 in excess of
the 25 per cent. rule.
JUST DO YOUR BEST.
The sign* is bail when men commence
A-fitidin' iault with Providence,
And balkin' 'cause the earth don't shake
At evxv prancin’ step they take.
No man is great till he can see
How less than little he would be
££ stripped to self, and stark and bare,
He hung his sign out anywhere.
My doctem is to lay aside
Contentions and be satisfied;.
Jest do your best, and praise or blame
That toilers that counts jest the same.
I’ve alius noticed great success
Is mixt with troubles more or less.
And it's the man wao does the best
That gits more kicks than all the rest.
—James Whitcomb Riley
HUMOR OF THE HAY.
Making lots of money—The mints.
It is the scissors grinder who likes to
see things dull.
The Republic of Braz.il deposes and
money disposes.
A clothes call—“Say, you heatheb
Chinee, isn’t my washing done yet?’’
Some of these amateur singing so¬
cieties ought to come under the head of
bawl clubs .—Boston Bulletin.
Some people look to posterity for vin¬
dication, thinking that posterity will not
have a chance to find them out.— Judge.
Deat' mutes talk with their finger^;
but the most expressive of silent lan¬
guages is heard when “money talks.”—
Puck.
Dignity is becoming; but beware of
sticking your stomach out in the effort to
keep square shoulders, lest you become an
object of derision.
Wiggins—“Has Higgins settled down
any?” Jiggins—“Yes, I think he has
by this time; he's beeu buried about
three weeks.”— Epoch.
When a man is young he thinks to re¬
form the world, but when he gets older
he is quite satisfied if he is able, to reform
himself .—Atchison Globe.
Burglar—“You’re getting fat. Don’t
look as if business worried you much.”
Pickpocket—“Oh. no. I take things
easy. ” — Philadelphia Inquirer.
“My face, as well as yours, is my for¬
tune,” said the two-nosed freak at the
dime museum as he turned up one of his
olfaetory organs at the Circassian beauty.
Angry Father—“Another tailor’s bill,
I suppose. Well, what's to be done
about it?” Son (meekly)—“That’s for
you to settle .”—Clothier and Furnisher.
The urchin who sees the legend “Paint”
Can never pass it by fingers
Without putting out his
To see it' the paint —Boston is dry. Courier.
There is one point in favor of the mat
that laughs at his own jokes. You are
never in doubt as to whether he in¬
tended to be funny.— Terre Haute Ex
press.
Hungry Guest—“Do you think I can
satisfy my appetite with such a dinner a»
this?” Waiter—“Of course not. What
extra dishes shall I bring you?”— Texa*
Siftings.
Irate Father—“You young rascal,
you; didn’t I catch you making faces be¬
hind my "how hack?” Young Hopeful—
“Well, was I to know you’d see
me?”— Jury.
“Yes,” said the dentist as he yanked
away at the tooth regardless of hi*
patient's yells, 4 ‘a man is bound to succeed
at his work, provided it is done with
sufficient pains.”
Minnie—“They say that Mr. Peck does
all of his own mending, Isn’t that nice
for her?” Mamie— 4 ‘I don’t know, It
seems to me that I would rather have »
real man .”—Terre Haute Express.
The snobs who declare they are the cream of
the land—
The superlative few, the select of ';ke race—
Should remember the process that nature has
Put* planned and the iu the same
the cream scum very
place. —Chicago Herald.
Little Louise was told that her grand¬
mother had died and gone to heaven, and
was asked if she didn’t want to he in
heaven with her. “Well,” replied th*
little one, “I would like to live with
grandma, but I don’t want to go so early.”
—Boston Herald.
“I don't see how Mrs. MeGay can af¬
ford to wear so many tips on her hat.
There is a row of them all the way round
the brim.” “Afford it? I woncer that
she hasn’t the whole hat made of tips.
Her husband is a hotel-waiter, you
know. ”— Judge.
“Some boarders,” said the landlady in
an offended tone, “are hard to please. I
heard young Crape complaining of a lack
of variety of food at the table this morn¬
ing, and I have hash live times a week.
That ought to be ‘variety’ enough for
any man .”—New York News.
“Mamma, where is my hat?” yelled
Tommy. “Just where you left it,” re¬
plied his mother. Tommy rubbed the
end of his nose for a moment, and then
sank • -Mamma, if you won't tell me
tvheft it is. won't you please tell People. me
where I left it ?”— Harper's Young
An Ancient Batcher Shop.
| The Museum of Antiquities at Dresden
\ has come into possession of an interest¬
ing marble relief from Rome, which rep¬
resents an ancient butcher’s shop, of ob¬
long shape, and divided by a pillar into
two unequal parts. In the greater stands
the butcher, with a high chopping block,
resting on three substantial legs, before
him, while behind him hangs the steel¬
yard and a cleaver, he himself being oc¬
cupied in dividing a rib of meat with
another cleaver. On the wall above him,
just as with us, is a row of hooks near to
each other, on which hang pieces of meat
already dressed: a rib and a leg of meat,
a pork joint and udders—atid-bitof the
Roman*; also lungs and liver, and last of
all, the favorite boar s head, On the
left, in the smaller division of the shop,
the wife of the butcher sits in an easy
c h»i r , with an account book on her knees.
engaged in assisting the business of her
husband by acting as bookkeeper. }j et
headdress point* to the time of An
tonine. J