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THE MONROE ADVERTISER
FORSYTH, GA.
Official Organ of Monroe County.
BY McGINTY St CAB ANTES.
The Ch »n empire ha* 6,276,009
farms, of which 2,953,000 era euitt
v«u>d by the owner*.
I he annual yield of the ranches and
stock farms of tho Western .States «x
c*:< d« in value the oombined product
of fli? ir gold and silver mincH.
Lif. er av t hat it i»
a la mke policy
coll*? s who do
»>* are k
They nay that oil is destined to su¬
persede coal as fuel for oceHii steam
shijiB, The New York Press thinks
everbody will feel more comfortable
when travelling bv sea to know that
there are no brother men shoveling
coal in the floating inferno down under
the engine**.
I he horse’s hat, which last year a
humane horse-owner in Bordeaux pro¬
vided for his horses, is now becoming
a great article of trade in France. It
is made of straw and covers tho eyes
Hill 1 forehead of the horse, while open¬
ings ar • jou f u i the ears. A sponge is
kept in the inside of the hat and this
is moistened from timo to time with
vinegar, ho us to keep the horse’s head
refreshingly cool.
Stanley justified one of tho ao-callcd
“lies” of Herodotus by showing plu >
Digraphs and at least one living sam¬
ple of the dwarfs of which tho grand
old historian wrote to incredulous pos¬
terity. And now comes Explorer
Peters certifying to the previous ex¬
istence of an ancient raco of white
men in tho Nyauza region descended
from tho Egyptian*, who were them¬
selves of European stock, as Herodo¬
tus ssid.
According to the official statistics
there are in round numbers 110,000
Chinese in tho United States. Of these
13,179 have complied with the provis¬
ions of the registration law, and 96,821
have refrained, ”he official returns
show forty-three registrations in Al¬
abama, thirtei 11 in Arkansas, 4831 in
California, 1500 in Colorado, 146 in
Connecticut, forty-four in Florida,
sixty-five in Georgia, 1019 in Illinois,
59 in Indiana, sixty-two in Iowa, twen¬
ty in Kansas, tw y- eight in Ken
Irj*, Ulr m». 1 , 1 w
laud, twenty in Masnaohusettn, 103 in
Michigan, fifty-nine in Minnesota, 400
in Montana, 333 in Missouri, ninoty
one in Nebraska, forty-seven in New
Hampshire, forty-one in New York,
five in North Carolina, 106 in Ohio,
1092 in Oregon, 712 in Pennsylvania,
thirty-three in Month Carolina, nine in
Tennessee, 725 in Text* s, twenty-seven
in Virginia, t it\ In West Virgin'
>a an TT iT lsoonsm.
S11 Henry Thompson, of Loudon,
js engaged in the somewhat quixotic
enterprise of arousing the English
mind to a just sense of the appalling
insufficiency of British cooking and
the hopeless inefficiency of British
cooks—quixotic, because, so far as we
are aware, the English mind, and,
what is more, the English digestion,
are fairly content with both cooking
and cooks. The London Spectator,
which is the worthy organ of the
thoughtful Englishman, while admit¬
ting that the cooks are bad and the
cookiug execrable, calmly suggests
that this may be one reason for the
conquering tendency of the English
race, ft points out that ruin overtook
Persia, and Sparta, and Rome in pro¬
portion as their diet became first eata¬
ble, and then palatable, and finally
luxurious. All of which may be true;
but if w o were Englishmen, we should
distinctly and deliberately prefer di¬
gest ibly cooked daily food.
With a maximum pressure of 46,800
pounds per square inch, the Brown
segmental wire-wound gun has pro¬
pelled a sixty-two-pound shot at the
surprising velocity of 2,665 feet a sec¬
ond This is a great gain, boasts the
New York News, for England's great¬
est guns, and those of Germany have
not reached any such velocity as that.
The highest ^ initial lelocitv recorded
■
with them in either country, or in
f * ««'<’ — «-» *100
feet a second, though even higher ,7 than
3,300 W Won no,I ™., ln
weapons. Now, inasmuch as. other
thin SS being o„n»], ,ho penetrative
power l of a shot ‘ depends niton I its 1
1
velocity, . the trial of the segmental gun
at Sandy Hook the other day, with
the result noted above, sustains the
view hitherto expressed that the gun
-ill -i» in tho o.ul against ,he
™ ’>■*>" ........- «>" oi
Minor a ship can oar.y is less now
than the gun can pierce. The eeg
mental gun just tried carries ten times
8 the weitrht which in of Fr.uc‘ metal carried p bv the
tremendous initial . . . velocity . spoken of;
*ud, of course, the power of the weap
on can be increased with its size until
|jk will throw a shot or shell of the
deemed most desirable in a
■ith tin frdnoiiul
THE' 1 VERT1SER, FORSYTE!, QA -, TUESD AY, OCTOBER 17 , 1893-EIGHT PAGES.
The finest draught horpo?
are seen in the a&rieta of English
fcitiea.
An estimate of ih of Texas
obtained by ring that
it is fifty-four times as large as Con
neeticut.
The owner of some onco busy ship¬
yards in Waldboro, Me,, has been
plowing them Up for conversion into
grass fields.
A* evident of the loneliness of the
Pacific Ocean it stated that the
steamer City of Peking on a recent
trip sailed 1240 miles without meeting
11 ^ingl« vessel.
Tt is reported tint the Ghezirah
palace, situated on the banks of the
Nile, is to bj oonvertt I inti a hotel;
that a line of steam ferries is to ply
•cross from Cairo, an 1 tli it the Nile is
to be tunneled.
The religious censns of Australia,
just completed, shows 1,185,066 mem
Vx rs of the Church of England, 81,118
Catholics, 493,369 Pres byte rians and
394,061 Methodists. lie's* are the
four most numerous denominations.
The Unit.-1 St it •■* produce 222C
pounds of grain to each inhabitant*
Denmark, 2225; Canada, 1500 ; Russia,
1200; Rotnnauia, 1150; Spain, 1100;
France, 990; Sweden, 98 ); Argentine
j Republic, 850; Australia, 760; Ger
j many, TOO ; Belgium, 600; Portugal,
! 550; Ireland, 500; Scotland, 490:
England, 360.
A learned German who has devoted
himself to the study ofphysiology and
allied sciences makes a startling aseer
tiou that mustaches are becoming
commoner among women in the pres
ent day than in the past. He says
that in Constantinople among the un¬
veiled women one out of ten possesses
an unmistakable covering of down on
the upper lip.
Henrik Ibsen, the Swedish dramat¬
ist, is desirous of visiting England,
principally, as lie declares, to see the
old men. “In all other countries,” he
says, “the best work is done by men
between forty and fifty years of age;
in England a man of seventy or eighty
is still in his prime. I should liko to
see such men as Gladstone, Salisbury
and Herbert Spencer.”
It is mentioned as an instance ol
what the fashionable world has come
to that a recent private concert given
in London cost the hostess $12,509.
] According to this figure entertaining
-guttls guest s will stAp- V»o jpaprir^Ulp
ftn d society must iiffiugurate some new
method of keeping its end up in that
line. First-class artists over there ask
sums ranging from $1000 to $2500 for
three or fou ngs, but, fortunately,
the sse artists is
, u iiiplov them .a^T the
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"Says the Century Magazine: The
United States sells its forest lands at
$2.50 an acre, lumber companies in¬
directly acquiring a square mile of land
for little over $1600, while the timbei
on it is often worth $20,000. The
French Government forests return an
average profit of $2.50 an acre annually
from timber sales, or two and a hali
percent, interest on the value of the
laud. The United States now owns
only enough forest land to provide n
continual timber supply to its present
population, if forests are managed and
used as in Germany. The United
States is exactly in the position of a
man making large drafts on and using
up an immense idle capital, which, if
properly invested, would return an in¬
terest, sufficient for his expenditures.
In 1885 the Government of Bavaria
sent an expert forester to study the
timbers of the United States, w ho
stated: “In fifty years you will have
to import your timber, and as * vou will
probably , ,, have , a preference , , lor Amen- .
can kinds, we shall now begin to grow
them, in order to be ready to send
them to you at the proper time,”
rr Ihe ., t> Boston a. Advertiser 41 reports , amn- .
creased demand at the office of the
Massachusetts State Board of Agricul
tare for its descriptive catalogue of
abandoned farms. This fact taken
alone would furnish no indication that
purchases were contemplated, but, as
the me Aaverxiser Advertiser points noints out out, there mere was v as
*1 so during the hard times of 1873 a
noticeable ... increase m the , demand , , for ,
/“S «**
analogy it says: ‘ If by any unfortu
; -tothe stnn^oy of the
past few weeks were to be continued it
«-ry likely that the ‘nUndone.l
j farms’ would be bought 6 up ' verv large- 0
*
A not inconsiderable . . clnss of mill
operatives have saved up money, and
: if there were any very real prospect
’ that the ‘shutdown’ of some of the
: mill. to be long
continued, these operatives -ouU go
to farming as a better thing than re
maiuing idle in a large city. A nunf
ber of those who have made good
wages uL.*d as mill operatives are well ac
q with f.rming method., and
can■ cm make maKe at at least lea t a a livino-on nvin 0 on a farm iarm,
wllile at tlle same tirue tlie v wonld have
j .
j n0 ren * to The low prices at
which the abandoned farms are offered
are tempting to many operatives wno
de»ireto a farm of their otv» ”
!
■S estimated that 119,000,000 cop
p*r pennies have been lost to circular
tion in the century since the United
States began to coin money.
f
It is a fact of curious interest that
twenty-fonr of the 6100 murderers ar¬
rested in the United States in IS90
were blind men.
Homestead farmers in this country
•am eight per cent, of the total earn
ings of the Nation, and their farms
and stock represent seven per cent, oi
the National wealth.
A queer new law in Chihuahua. Mex
ico, permits airy one to shoot at sight
a person caught stealing cattle. Such
•i law seems like a dangerous invita¬
tion to the holders of private grudges.
The American mosquito has crossed
:he Atlantic, is entertaining itself to
its heart’s content on the blue blood
of England, and, according to the
New York Ledger, is getting in its fine
work most effectively.
The Japanese Government is said to
have demanded that the Hawaiian
Government extend the voting irau
ehise to Japanese on the islands, the
same as to Europeans and Americans.
In the opinion of the San Francisco i
Chronicle ‘turn .... demand . n . has no legal i , .
backing, for every Nation lias an ab
solute right to regulate the elective
franchise for itself, but if Japan shall
insist Hawaii will be powerless to re
dst, unless she be backed up by some
strong Nation.”
Kerosene oil is rapidly growing in
favor as a cheap illuminant in China.
The consumption, which was 8,256,*
000 gallons in 1882, had risen to 4$,-
348,000 gallons in 1891. Of this
amount eighty per cent, was imported
from America and twenty per cent,
from Russia. The illuminant before
kerosene was introduced was bean or
tea oil. The Chinese have discovered,
however, that kerosene is cheaper and
gives a much better light. It is called
fire oil by them.
The Sergeant-at-Arms of the House
of Commons would feel lost if he ha.l
to exercise similar functions in one of
our American legislatures—say in Kan¬
sas or even Illinois, deedares the Chi¬
cago Herald. He is too easily upset.
Mr. Erskine—for that is the gentle¬
man’s name—is described as going
about during the recent fracas “be¬
seeching infuriated legislators who
were engaged in the fray to desist,and
begging others who were marching
around with their hats on, to remove
nffo °■*’%g headgear.” Imagine an
American Sergeant-at-Arms begging |
and beseechtkg. He would use a club. |
The series of uttjgijd rgp 0r t s getting
j forth the (hateriai and educational
D f the country, recently is
sued by the Mexican Government,
though not marking so great an ad
vance as expected, is still very encour
aging. During the past twenty years,
the period covered by the comparisons,
the railway mileage has increased
twentyfold, and the telegraph mileage
eightfold, followed in each ease by a
proportionate increase of business.
Exports and imports have largely in¬
creased, as have also manufactures and
agriculture, and the appropriations of
the Federal and State Governments
and municipalities for educational
purposes has advanced from $1,600,
000 to $3,500,000. Peace and pros¬
perity have been secured, especially
during the Presidency of General
Diaz, who holds the reins of Govern¬
ment with a firm hand, and who is not
alraid to suppress the tendency to
revolutionary movement by the prompt
application of military force, The
country still suffers, however, from
the lack of esteem for productive in¬
dustry on the part of the upper classes,
whose chief ambition is to hold public
offices, ’ imitating ® in this respect the
Argentines, . and the absence ol trained
habits of industry on the part of tho
Indian and mixed races, which consti
lute four-fifths of the population.
What is most needed is industrious im¬
migrants to develop ... tne vast natural
resources of the Republic, a fact clear
ly perceived by the Government, which
has already permitted the establish
ment of Mormon eolonies in Chihua
hua and Sonora, and bid for immigra
tion from northern Europe.
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Human Skeleton Twenty-five Feet Long.
xr M. t Le n Cat. *. +1. the -p rreneii i scientist, • +• e m •
* known as the Giant’s Field a
feet wide and eight feet, high was dis
evened When opened it vvas found
i to contain a ^ uruan skeleton entire
• twenty-five feet and a half long, ten
feet ^.jq e acroS s the shoulders and
eight feet thick from the breast bone
to the back. His teeth were each
about the size of an ox’s foot and his
^bonee e«h me^nred oor feet m
Fifteen Vessels Pass a Castaway.
The place to get an idea of the com
parative insignificance of the indivi
dual undoubtedly is at sea, floating on
» b« of wreok.g e .t the mercy of .he
atd mus. George Upton, oi
. the ill-fated schooner Mary Lizzie, tells
his South Portland friends that during
| the fifteen thirty-three vessels passed hours close he to was him adrift with
. out taking the slightest notice of him,
his cries failing to attract their atten*
tjoo -—Lewiston Journal
DEATH AND DISASTER
FHimer tv,.. Fdrt.CH,ars n . . Of ... thB D8Stll-DB3l- „ .. n .
ine Storm on tie Gull
Scenes of Horror and Mi<ery--The
Death List Increased to 2,023.
A New Orleans special of Friday
says: The full story of the grewt storm
is now told. Every settlement in itr
path has been visited, every survivor
interviewed anti has told his tale of its
terrors and its heroism. The news¬
papers of the city are at last able to
publish a list of the dead, which is net
likely to require many changes or ad
ditions. The only doubtful element it
the loss of life at Chehiefe Cttminadn,
where 776 bodies have been recovered
and buried. A few are found from day
to day in isolated localities, but the
general sentiment is that nearly all
that are likely to be found have been
discovered, and that the ""others hav
been swept to sea in the great tidal
wave. This leaves some doubt as to
the exact number lost, as the popula
tion of the settlement at the time o
disaster )S£* r r.al known. Father Gon
deranx, the parish priest, has furnish
ed a list of 822 known to be dead. Tli
estimate of the loss runs from this fig¬
ure to to 1,200 for the Cheniere prop
er, and 1,300 for the whole district.
In the Bayou Cook section the num
be of bodies recovered has been 131 as
follows:
In Bayou Cook 37; Bayou Shute
37. Grand Bayou 26; Bayou Ferrand
7; Bayou Chalard 1; Cypress bay If
and at Tropical Bend, 011 the Missis
sippi 1 |' er » eighteen miies distant
where they floated from the swamp,17
There are 183 other persons still miss¬
ing who have not been seen since the
storm. Their bodies are supposed to
be lying in the sw’amps or were swept
to sea. A large number of seorchin;
parties are out looking for them, but
as the swanqi grass is ten feet high, tin
search is a very difficult one and tin
bodies are discovered mainly by tin
horrible stench they send out. It will
be difficult to identfy them,not only be
cause of decompositionbut because they
have been badly disfigured and eater:
by the gars and other fish and crabs.
This makes the total loss in the Bay on
Cook country 316, two-thirds of whom
were Austraiits from Dalmatia.
On the coast islands, seventy-eight
bodies have been found on the Chand
leur and 115 on Cat and Ship islands,
probably all from the wroeked vessels
in Mississippi or Chandleur sound.
The loss of life from the shipping will
be heavier than was at first, reported.
Already 184 bodies have been report
ed, and there are still many vessel)
missing islands whose fate is unknown. I’otl
on the and on the Bayou Cool
swamp, ies of the)stench find cattle from is the dead bod
men most offensive.
bt|eying the dead.
The Louisiana state board of health
has sent liirie and other disinfectants
to be used yhere Ihe dead are lying.
An appeal i was made to the board to
bury the cAtd, but a majority decided
that tl*ig •t w ithin its. ..nr ov inpc
and that $ ^‘ttryiug must beVlone by
of the New parish^'^Thf. O Slavonian Society,
Settom t 1 * ans, appointed oroncr
■ all those faun in the
swamps at ijts expense and erect slabs
over them giving their names. This
is being done. Only a few additional
losses of life were reported Friday,
except at sea. They are: Creole Gap
5; Doe island 3; Slidell 3; Wrens
island 2. The list of tlie dead is now
given as follows by districts:
Cheniere Coniinada and neighboring
settlements. 1,312; Bayou Cook coun¬
ty, 316; Lost from shipping, 184;
Grand Isle, 27, lower coast of Plaque
mine, 47 ; I - ike Borgne fishing camps,
47; Louisiana Coast island, 73; Mis¬
sissippi sound, 73; total, 2,023.
This may be increased fifty or sixty
by other losses on missing vessels. In
addition to those vessels reported lost
Thursday the following are known to
be wrecked with the following lives
on them : Corinne, 5 ; Hope, 5 ; Anne,
4 ; Cove#a, 2 ; Victoria, 4 ; Nabella,
5; Roma, 3; Clementine, 1; Idonia,
5; Georgiana. 2; Rosalie, 4. The
Rosalie’s men were found lashed to the
side of the vessel, but dead. Oilier
wrecked vessels are the Pauline, Made,
Messenger, Danielo, Mary B. Villara,
K St. Barthomew, Iydilare, Dema, St.
George, Beddecke, Julia, Sarah and
St. Helena,
HAD LARGE FAMILIES.
Of the 822 dead at Cheniere Cainin
adft whose names are known, 496 were
children. The Caminada people are
famous for large families. Mr. Lafon
kis wife and fifteen children, Aiser
Petre his wife and ten children and
August Bonamonr his wife and ten
children. The families of the three
Yalenee brothers, who lived together,
Aulome and Perie, consisted of
six grown persons and twenty ehil
dren. Of these twenty-six oniv one,
John Valence, survived.
The effects of the storm at the Che
niere are seen onlv in the destruction
of all the houses,"but the geography
and character of the country are
changed. The settlement formerly
faced Barataria bay. The wash
ing away of its front has made it face
the gulf of Mexico. Chandleur island
has ceased , . largely , be
o an island, „ the ,
storm washing awav f the soil and leav
■ H lv covered in ordi
changed *T,V their A courses, E " mber while lakes or
horror s climax.
Terrific nswasth,twoA.ofUhe etorm
el. e .uie, on Cheniere cammada it
reached a climax of horror. Cheniere
is one of that group of islands which
extend along the lower coast, and to
which belong Grand isle, Tam
balier and Lost island It’s a long,
low fl.t strip of «rth, .bont U,^
S
his band. Of late, it was a station
for fishing boats. It contained one
town, Cami-salaville, of about 1,800
population, the majority of whom were
Mterm. n, .no all of -horn did a great
deal of usiness New -
leans tMrough the firm selling fish m
the Fretech market. The destructive
work of the elements no where finds
better * xemplifieation than at Cam
inidavillt?. The condition in which
this onco prosperous little town is
now Wt fa.app.lbn*. On M
evening there were 1,200 dwellings
within its limits, but only twenty-five |
remain standing, and of these, there
is not one uninjured. The mute rp
I* 5 ? 1 Of these shattered heaps of de
bris is irresistible. Even the coldest
heart would grow sick to behold them.
The sympathetic scene is
'
ing -
BtfBTTNO THEIR OWN FAMILIES.
It is no unusual thing to see gteht, hard
rugged fishermen, bronzed and 1
ened by a life of almost constant ex¬
posure. embrace each other in tears.
All had shares in the losses of the
storm. Not one of them could claim
exception from the universal depres
sioti. There were a thousand duties to j
be attended to, and they had little time J
to spend in ebnversation.
So long as the festering dead lay un- |
buried, one did not have the heart to
detain them from their work. Just
imagine fathers and mothers bury
ing their sons and daughters, and cliil
dren, in their extreme sadness, bury¬
ing their dead parents. Everywhere
one could see graves, wherein as many
ns ten people were buried. Some
were drowned; others killed in the
wreckage. There are huud eds of
bodies that are still unburied. Some
are under tho wrecked buildings,
while the balance are floating on the
bosom of the bay of C.iminada.
Beneath some* of the wrecks there
are many decaying °out bodies, but they
cannot be taken and given even
a rude Christian burial. The brave
little band of grave diggers is exhaust
ed. They have already buried in the
rude graves on the island 950, and are
still burving what bodies they enn
find.
Imagination wonld be out of place
in describing that scene, for the cruel
truth itself surpasses anything possi¬
ble to the fancy.
TRADE TOPICS.
Report of the Past Week’s Business by
Dun k Co.
It is difficult to detect any signs of
improvement. While there has been
some addition to the number of manu¬
facturing establishments and the num¬
ber of hands at work during the past
week, it is becoming painfully clear
that the orders obtained do not suffice
to keep employed at full time even
the limited force at present engaged.
Reports from other cities disclose a
distinct check in business. There is,
on the whole, less activity and less
confidence regarding tho future than
there was a week ago, and this is in
many cases attributed to the uncer¬
tainty regarding the monetary future
which the delay in the senate causes.
The stock of money in New York
banks has increased rapidly, and the
retirement of clearing house certifi¬
cates at New York and at other cities
shows a great improvement in the
monetary situation.
There is not as much encouragement
as might be desired in the industrial
reports for the week. An increased
number of establishments 19 reported
in operation, but £&$ edging of prices
in 5rint cloths and some other cotton
gjods, and in the more important pro
ducts of iron and steel, discloses great
ly retarded business. The demand for
iron products is, on the whole, less
satisfactory than it was a week ago.
Steel billets are selling at Pittsburg
for $18 per ton, and there is practical¬
ly no demand for rails.
In the manufacture of wool there is
still a remarkabble hesitation and
the demand for consumption is much
restricted, so that the purchases of
wool at the principal market, notwith¬
standing some speculative buying,
have been only 2,626,995 pounds,
against 6,727,400 for the same week
last year. The movement of wheat
has been fairly large and the price has
declined about two cents, while corn
has also yielded about one eent.
Cotton is 1-4 cent higher, with other
distinctions in crop prospects, * and
pork products are also somewhat
higher—pork, 75 cents per. barrel.
Oil has advanced sharply, and after
some reaction closed 2 cents per barrel
higher than a week ago. It is possible
that the surplus currency in circula¬
tion has the natural effect of stimulat¬
ing speculative activity. Happily, the
changes thus far have not diminished
the exports of products, which con¬
tinue fairly large.
Failures continue to decrease in
number and importance, though not as
much as hoped. The number reported
for the United States fer the past week
was 320, against 184 for the same week
last year, and in Canada 45, against 36
last year. The disposition to include
all banking and financial failures with
those of commercial and manufactur¬
ing concerns during the past year, ha*
led to estimates which do much injus¬
tice to mercantile interests,
BEGINNING OF DIRECT TRADE
Celebrated in Grand Style at Port
ReyaJ, S, C.
Monday was a grand day in the his
tory of Port Royal, and was hailed by
the citizens and by business men of
that section of the country, as the be
ginning of a new era in southern de
velopment. Recently the "W illiam John
so n & Co - Steamship Company, of
Liverpool, . has put on a line of trails
Atlantic steamers between Port Royal
and Liverpool and organized the Port
Ro Ta i Shipping Companv I *
By p the ,, invitation of the - . latter com
a ml Carolinians to celebrate the Tnau
Roval and Europe. Two Ships lay at
Ih. eLochmore just load
ed with /, 000 bales of cotton for Liver
pool, and the Mayfield, which will
carry 8,000 bales.
After inspecting the ships and tak
ing a ride around Port Royal harbor
the party enjoyed a barbecue at which
, » rf ^eech« were ».tie by
^t
back in time from Chica o, where he
went from the St. Louis convention.
Ihe following telegram was received
4
the s a e o 1 South Carolina to ibe enfranchise
mere nt Fort P.oy»i. B. R Tillman.
Telegrams were also read from
Lieutenant Governor Gary, ex-Con
g/cssman Elliott and President J. W.
Ihomas, of the Nashville, Chattanoo
ga and St. Louis railroad,
j
Pn\If vUil uI l Dl?QQ iIjOu TN Ill OTlOOIUIl.
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‘jjg Routine Q[ ^ Both HOM
^ BriSaY EpUODllZSa.
«>,», IS Brf.r none ,» Altar FI—
elal Depression and Bring Relief.
54th Day.— The tesolutioti offered
Monday by Mr. Dolph, calling on the
state department for information as to
whether the Chinese government lias
requested an extension of the time for
the registration of Chinese laborers,
under the Geary bill, was laid before
the senate Tuesday morning. Mr.
Dolph set out to make a speech upon > I
j t } mt was C ut off by a suggestion from
Mr. Sherman that the resolution re*
ferred to executive business and had
to be considered in private session,
Mr. Dolpli attempted applicable to argue that
the rule was not in this,but
w as again cut off by the ruling that
even the suggestion that the matter
before the senate involved executive
business required the presiding officer
to order the galleries cleared and
the door closed. That ruling did not
suit Mr. Dolph’s plan, which was
to have his speech made in open ses
sion and reported ; but he had to yield.
The galleries accordingly closed, were cleared
and the doors The doors were i
re-opened at 11 :50, and the silver pur
chase bill was immediately taken up.
Mr. McPherson argued in support of
the bill, declaring his belief (a belief
whieh was shared, he said, by two
thirds of the people who had any opin
ion on such subjects) that the Sherman
law was the main and only cause of tho
business troubles. Mr. Squire offered
a substitute for the silver repeal bill,
providing that tho silver bullion
produced in the United States may
be presented at the mints and
the owner receive therefor stand¬
ard silver dollars to the extent
of the commercial value of the bullion
on the day of offering, the amount of
such issue not to exceed two million
dollars monthly, and coinage to cease
when two hundred million dollars
have been coined. No certificates are
to be issued against such silver. Tho
purchasing clauso of the Sherman act.
is repealed and the secretary of the
treasury directed to issue two hundred
million dollars of four per cent,
bonds, redeemable after five years,
the proceeds to be held ns a reserve to
insure parity. The national banks
may issue circulation to the full
amount of the bonds deposited by
them. Allen’s resolution regarding
the borrowing of money by the United
States since March 4, 1885, was passed.
55th Day. —On the assembling of
the senate, Wednesday morning, Mr.
Bate sent to the clerk’s desk and had
read a scries of resolutions adopted at
a large meeting of citizens of Lincoln
comity,
action of the Tennessee senators
against the unconditional repeal of the
Sherman act, declaring the repeal bill
to be in the interest alone of tlie weal
thy and creditor classes ; and denounc¬
ing “the enemies of silver money as
our enemies and its friends our
friends.” Mr. Bate made some re¬
marks on the subject as connected
with the con tarry action of the
Memphis cotton and merchant ex¬
changes. He admitted that there was
a wide difference of opinion among
the people of Tennessee on the silver
question, and referred to the facts to
shoiv the variableness of the opinion
of the Memphis cotton exchange on
the subject of the Washburn anti¬
option bill last session. The silver
purchase repeal bill was taken up at
11:45, and Mr. Cockrell began the
third installment of his long speech
against it.
56th Day. —The Wednesday night
session of the senate was a peculiar
one. Senator Allen, of Nebraska,
took the floor at 5:15 o’clock in the
afternoon, and without any interrup¬
tions except such as were purely inci¬
dental, had the floor all night. He
proved himself an able and indefatig¬
able talker. At no time did bis voice
fail him, and even when the clerk was
calling the roll to secure a quorum he
stood erect and ready to proceed with
his remarks. He concluded Lis speech
on tlie stroke of 8 o’clock Thursday
morning, having been on the floor
fourteen and three-quarter hours. His
speech breaks all previous records and
his powers of endurance won for him
the admiration of those opposed to his
tactics. At the conclusion of Mr. Al¬
len’s speech, Mr. Voorkee.s moved to
lay the Peffer amendment on the ta
ble. A call was ordered, dur¬
ing which Mr. DuBois, of Ida¬
ho, remained in his seat,' but did
not vote. Finally, Mr. Vilas called
the attention of the chair to this
fact and asked that the rule be read
requiring the senators to vote. Vice
President Stevenson directed this
done, and then ordered the clerk
to call the senator from Idaho. Du
Bois’ name was called, but he remained
silent, looking straight at the presid
ing officer. The vice-president then
ca u e d on Mr. DuBois to state his rea
sons for declining to vote. Mr. Du
Bois did so, and the presiding officer
a8 ked : “Shall the senator from Idaho,
for the reasons he has assigned, be ex
ense d from voting?” ® On this Mr.
Butler _ demanded , , the yeas and i nays.
The roll was called, and the senate
"Noting. , , thafc xf r DuBois be not ex
Aye, U ; nays,
LuBois name was again called,
i tiie tenfnon ! J
“““1 p Itna™, arn . rifl
1V.
m. amendment thus defeated was a
'
complete , , tree col imw.net i in itsel f ■ It •
_
mten<le<3 to Vovlrhees *
r.relerihed the bill The
flight\f the siltr pi-ooortions
hereffter gold and coins to
aud the natore
Joth jo goid « e ‘namely the free coinage "hav- of
and silver. The vote
j. ing heen announced, Mr. Voorhees re
! marked that the only other amend
men. pending to the bonne bill ™
the amendment reported from the fi
nance committee. Mr. Martin,of senate’in Kan
^ then addressed the favor
0 f f re e coinage
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house nt noon Tuesday, but the repre
sentatives entered quickly s«d tho
house was soon filled. Mr. Outhwait,
from the committee on rules, reported
a resolution for the immediate consul
oration of the bill amendatory of the
G» nrv Chinese exclusion act. He gave
that he would call the resolution
“““
,| 10 consideration of and vote on tho
Tucker federal election bill and tho
amendments thereto. At 11:15 p. m.,
the first vote was on Mr. Burrow s
amendment ment an<1 to Mr. Lacixit?on .!
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of sections 2,OOo, "> »
2,000 and - t i H . 1111 * 1 1 .f
,
there were M in u a n ! m \
,
* n Lie negative. i' s s u>wii *
^ u ' democrats had t uir quotum, am
Hie 7*** ftml na V8 WCIV wdered. ine
.
amciitment was lojecttt yeas, the ,
nays, 198, The next vote was
Lacey amendment, which strikes from
the repealing clause the criminal sec¬
tions of the statutes, The Lacey
amendment was defeated—yeas, 96 :
nays, 192. The bill was finally passed
by a strict party vote of yeas 200, nays
101. The populists voted with the
democrats in the affirmative.
55th Day —In the house Wednes
day morning resolutions for a recess
of congress from October 14th to No
vember 1st. w as presented by Mr.
Hunter of Illinois. It was objected
to by Mr. Outhwnite and referred Uy
the committee on rules. The limirfte
proceeded to consider the bill fy.4- the
remission of penalties outlie filial dynamite
cruiser “Vesuvius.” No action
was taken on the bill, and a/t the eon
elusion of the morning f hour. Mr.
Outhwaite called up the resolut ion,
the committee on rules providing for
the immediate consideration of the
bill to amend the Geary Chinese ex¬
clusion act,
56th Day —In the .course of the;
morning business in the house Thurs¬
day, there was u s’nail controversy
over the number <»f copies of the ways
and means tariff hearings to be print¬
ed, lmt the printing committee’s
recommendation (i.,000 copies) was
finally accepted. The Flynn resolu¬
tion, fixing the qualification of Chero¬
kee strip citizens, was adoped. and
the house took up the bill to protect
forest reservnth ms.
A STohM ON THE COAST.
A Repetition of Hie Disasters of August
27th Apprehended.
A Savannah special says: The West
Indian storm which reached hero
Thursday morning and has been blow¬
ing a gale of forty to sixty miles an
hour all day continued to increase in
fury, but up to dark had not done any
very great damage right in the city.
The storm was reported at Titusville,
Fla., Wednesday night and then had
a slightlj northwest, direction.
The City of Augusta, which left New
York Wednesday, will meet the storm
off the North Carolina coast in about
iffe'kamditude that the Savannah
was struck by the last storm. There
are eighten vessels in the Tybee roads
and at quarantine, and tjie chances are
that if the gale continues they will all
be wrecked, as in the case of the last
blow. All the vessels in port are seek¬
ing places of refuge.
- FEARS FOR THE SEA ISLANDS.
No reports have been heard from
any of the sea islands, but the pros¬
pect is that the storm will undo all
that has been done for them in tho
way of shelter and that they will be as
bad or worse off than they were be¬
fore. No reports of any fatalities have
yet been received.
SEVERE AT JACKSONVILLE.
The gale at Jacksonville is said to
have been tlie worst they have had
there since 1881. Brunswick also got
the brunt of it, but the amount of
damage there has not yet been learned.
A Charleston special of Thursday
night says: The West Indian cyclone
is on us. The wires are going down
to the southward and there is trouble
to the northward. At this writing the
wind is blowing in great gusts at from
forty to forty-five miles an hour. No
damage has been done except the
wrecking of telephone and electric
light wires.
Three tides have been banked up,
and at midnight it is expected, unless
the wind shifts around to the south¬
west, that the eastern, southern and
western portions of the city will be
under water. Neither of the Clyde
steamers due Thursday have arrived.
At this hour it looks like a repetition
of the cyclone of August.
TO THE NORTH.
Governor Northen Writes a Letter Tel«
ling of the Horrors of the Plague.
Governor Northen has written a let
ter to the people of the north to be used
By Mr. T. J. Palmer, of Brunswick,
who is going through the north and
east to get subscriptions for the Brunsr
wick sufferers. The following is the
governor’s letter:
* understand Tat Mr J J. P Imcr, of
o„ basinesB^n^that’ while tLrrThe kby
r? quest, present the matter of tho dire d stress
of Brunswick b f.»re the people of those seo
cdffiesVfferingpoip'Hf thlt cSnnhv!' 6 "'
The story of Te mAerli}" and distress in
Brnaswick as told m the da ly p ess, lias not
TheciSaB* ‘towr/are remaining Sth"'p strict' ine
stricken *hut in by sanitary
cordon and are unable to leave tie place and
unable to support ihemselves, as there is no
money< no -business, no food in the
ciry. (Starvation fuees the entire population,
Fr. at the only hope, is several mom li« dsrant,
c ty have been inadequate and are being rapid
b ,he
speedy relief of these unfortu ate people, star
tion of the plague. It would be a work of pro
found chare y if the people of the entire crjtin
j try,.r yd zing the destitution aud suffering of
heir fe ,ow c tiz ns m B unswiek, won d com©
to their re! r f and aid science an l tlie self
sacrficing devotion of nurses in rescuing this
city from apparent destruction.
I should be glad to know that som:• niove
mm.. oking our
Governor of Gsorgia.
A Tote Wanted,
! the annual meeting of Winston,
: X C., chamber of commerce Friday
^eobt d^armg -ons the were delay unanimously of the senate adopted in
, acti the Sherman is doing ir
ng on act
reparable injury to the business of the
country and confidence is rapidly di¬
! minishing among American people,
I and the people of tho world in the up
I P er hfftcoh of the national oongres*
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