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I#»LAW.
Tlie Tariff Bill Goes Ioio
Hct By Limitation.
Mr. Cleveland Relused to Endorse
tie Measure.
HE WHITES A LETTER TO
GENERAL CATCHINGS
Giving His Reasons for Witholding
His Signature.
I ho n< w tariff became a law Mon¬
day night. Its barn at the white house
expired at midnight. Mr. Cleveland
failed to sign it. Under tho constitu
tlou, it having 1 >ecn adopted by both
Iioiihch <>f corigrcs ss and having rcniaiu
• d iii the hands of tho president for
ten days, it became a law at midnight.
Though Mr. Cleveland intimated in
his letter to Chairman Wilson that he
would veto the bill, ho failed to do so.
lie likewise failed to sign it, but throws
the responsibility of the law oil cou
gr< kh. Iu doing so Mr. Cleveland
writes a letter explaining his position,
’llus letter is addressed to Mr. Catcli
ings instead of to Chairman Wilson
Re does that for the purpose of getting
hia views before the people. Why lie
did not address it to Mr. Wilson is
unknown. He abuses tho bill, but
says it is better than the McKinley
bill and is a step in the right direc¬
tion. Ho will not iuterpose a veto.
Mr. UIoycIuikPh Letter.
President Cleveland has written tho
following letter to Representative
< ’atchirigs, of Mississippi, iu which he
s« ts forth his views of tho new tariff
law and gives his views for not approv¬
ing tho lull:
“Executive Mansion, Washington,
D. (J., August 27, 1S9L- Hon. T. C.
Catchings My Dear Sir: Since the
conversation I had with you and Mr.
Clark, of Alabama, a few days ago, in
regard to my action on tho tariff bill,
now before me, I have given the sub¬
ject further and most serious consider¬
ation. Too result, is, 1 am more set¬
tled than ever in tho determination to
allow tho bill to become a law without
my signature.
“When tho formation of tho legisla¬
tion, which it was hoped would em
body democratic ideas of tariff reform,
was lately entered upon by the
congress, nothing was further
from my anticipation than a result
which 1 could not promptly aud en*
thusiastically endorse. It is, there¬
fore, with a feeling of tho utmost dis¬
appointment that 1 submit to a denial
of this privilege,
“I do not claim to be bettor than
tin' masses of my party, nor do I wish
to avoid any responsibility which, on
account of tho passage of this law, I
ought to bear as a member of the dem¬
ocratic organization. Neither will I
permit myself to ho separated from
my party to such an extent ns might
bo implied by my veto of the tariff
legislation, which, though disappoint¬
in’'. is still chargeable to democratic
effort. But there are passages in this
bill which are not in direct line of hon¬
est tariff r» form and it contains incon¬
sistencies and cruelties which ought
not to appear in tariff laws or laws of
any kind. Beanies there were, as you
and I well know, incidents accompa¬
nying the passage of the bill through
tho congress which made every sincere
tariff reformer unhappy ; while influ
* ac s surrounded it in its latter stages
and interfered with its full construc¬
tion which ought not to be recognized
or tolerated iu democratic reform
councils.
“And yet, notwithstanding all its
vicissitudes and all the bad treatment
it received at tho hands of pretended
friends, it presents a vast improvement
to existing conditions. It will cer¬
tainly lighten many a tariff burden
that now rests heavily upon tho peo¬
ple, It is not only a barrier against
tho return of mad protection, but it
furnishes a vantage ground from w hich
must be waged further aggressive op¬
erations against protected monopoly
and governmental favoritism.
“1 take my place with the rank and
file of the democratic party who be¬
lieve in tariff reform, and who know
what it is; who refuse to accept the
results embodied in this bill as tho
•'lose of the war; who are not blinded
to the fact that the livery of democ¬
racy has been stolen and worn iu the
service of republican protection, and
who have marked tho deadly light of
treason that has blasted tho councils
of the brave in their hour of night.
“The trusts and combinations—the
communion of pelf —whose machina¬
tions have prevented us from reaching
the success we deserved, should not be
forgotten or forgiven. \Ye shall re¬
cover from our astonishment at thoir
t xhibition of power, and if then the
question is forced upon us whether
they shall submit to the free legislative
w ill of the people’s representatives, or
sliail dictate the laws which the peo¬
ple mu -t obey, we will accept and set
t!e that issue as one involving the in
t grity aud safety of American insti¬
tutions.
“1 love the principles of true de¬
mocracy because they are founded in
patriotism and upon justice and fair¬
ness toward all interests. I am proud
i f my party organization because it is
conservatively sturdy and persistent in
the enforcement of principles.
i fore, 1 do not despair of the ef
r uude l»v the house of represen¬
tative- to supplement the bill already
THE MONROE ADVERTISER. FORSTHY GA.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER L 1894.-EIGHT PAGES.
passed by further legislation, and to
have engrafted upon it such modifiea
tiona as will more nearly meet demo
eratic hope* and aspirations.
“1 cannot be mistaken as to the ne¬
cessity of logical and sensible tariff
reform. The extent to which this is
recognized in the legislation already
secured is one of its encouraging and
redeeming features; but it is vexations
to recall that while free coal and iron
ore have been denied ns, a recent let¬
ter of the secretary of the treasury
discloses the fact that both might have
been made free by the annual surren
der of only aliout $700,000 of unnec
(ssary revenue.
“I am sure that there is a common
habit of underestimating the import¬
ance of free raw materials in tariff leg¬
islation, and of regarding them asonlv
related to concessions, to be made to
our manufacturers. The truth is, their
influence is so far-renching that if dis¬
regarded a complete and beneficent
scheme of tariff reform cannot be in¬
augurated.
“When we give to our manufactur¬
ers free raw materials we unshackle
American enterprise and ingenuity,
and these will open the doors of for¬
eign markets to the reception of our
wares and give opportunity for the
continuous and remunerative employ¬
ment of American labor. With mate¬
rials cheapened by their freedom from
tariff charges the cost of their product
must be correspondingly cheapened.
Thereupon, justice and fairness to the
consumer would demand that the man¬
ufacturers be obliged to submit to such
a readjustment and modification of the
tariff upon their finished goods as
would secure to the people the benefits
of the reduced cost of their manufact¬
ure, and shield the consumer against
the exactions of inordinate profits. It
will thus be seen thai free raw materi¬
al and a just and fearless regulation
and reduction of the tariff' to meet the
changed conditions, would carry to
every humble home in the land the
blessings of increased comfort and
cheaper living.
“ 1 ho millions of our countrymen
vho have fought bravely and well for
-fiff reform, should be exhorted to
continue the struggle, boldly challeng¬
ing to open warfare and constantly
guarding against treachery under half¬
heartedness in their camp.
“Tariff reform will not bo settled
until it is honestly and fairly settled in
the interest and to the benefit of a
patient ami long-suffering people.
Yours very truly,
4 ‘Grover Crevel and. ”
WASHINGTON NOTES
NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI¬
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
Sayings and Doings of the President
and Members of the Cabinet.
A Washington special says: Captain
Thomas If. Barry, First infantry, has
been designated as a member of the
board of managers fur tho United
States of the Cotton States and Inter¬
national exposition at Atlanta, Gn.
Tho treasury net balance gained
$2,500,000 Saturday, standing at the
close of business at $125,243,000. The
gold reserve partook of the general
favorable condition and increased
nearly $200,000, footing up now
$54,553,000.
President Cleveland, accompanied
by Secretary Lament, private Secre¬
tary Thurber and Dr. O’Reilly, left
Washington Wednesday morning at
7 :30 for New York en route to Gray
Gables. Tho parfy occupied the pri¬
vate car of President Roberts, of tlie
Pen n sy 1 vania rai 1 road.
In round figures the sub-treasury at
New York received Wednesday night
from tho custom house $512,000, which
represented the receipts for the day for
duties under the new tariff law. The
payments were mostly made to the
custom house by certified checks
against special deposits in the sub¬
treasury by the banks on which the
checks were drawn. There was only
$130 iu gold received.
Before leaving for Gray Gables
President Cleveland signed commis¬
sions for several of his appointees
whose nominations failed of confirma¬
tion in the senate. These were A.
Augustus Healey, collector of internal
revenue for the first (Brooklyn) dis¬
trict of New York; George Wilson,
collector of internal revenue for the
district of Florida; James W. Ball,
collector of customs for the district of
Yaquima, Ore., aud David G. Browne,
collector of customs for the district of
Montana and Idaho.
Official reports received at the state
department at Washington indicate
quite a serious situation in Peru. It
has been found necessary to suspend
several articles of the constitution in¬
cluding the writ of habeas corpus.
The president of the republic is prac¬
tically clothed with dictatorial powers.
Tho provision allowing all persons to
meet peacefully iu public as iu private
is suspended, also that provision which
prevented sending a person from the
republic or his residence without ex¬
ecutive sentence.
The members of tho government
board for Atlanta exposition are being
rapidly announced. Tuesday Becre
tary Morton announced the appoint¬
ment of Dr. Dabney, the assistant
secretary of agriculture, to represent
the agricultural department. Attor¬
ney-General Gluey announced the ap¬
pointment of Mr. Strong, chief special
agent of the law department, to rep¬
resent the department of justice. Sec¬
retary Gresham will probably an¬
nounce the appointment of Chief Clerk
E. I. Renick, to represent the state
department. The postmaster-genera!
has appointed Kerr Craig, third assist¬
ant postmaster-general, to represent
the postoffice department.
A Convention Called.
The committee appointed by the
Central Labor Union to confer with
representatives of the people’s par¬
ty as to their joining issues on politi¬
cal lines, in New York, submitted their
report at a meeting of the Central Li¬
bor Union. The report recommended
that the union issue a call to all la¬
boring organizations in the city to at¬
tend on September 1st a convention . f
the people’s pasty and the Central La¬
bor Umou, The report was accepted
and an order for the call was issued.
! IT’S ALL OVER.
j
CLOSING SCENES IN THE HOUSE
AND SENATE.
EnJ of the longest ami Stormiest Ses¬
sion on Record.
The 53d congress was adjourned
sine die Tuesday afternoon at 2
o’clock. The scenes preceding the
final adjournment on the floor of the
house and the senate were tame in the
extreme. The only life and interest
was furnished by a crowd of Pythians
ami their friends who swarmed the
galleries and corridors.
The house at FridayVsession passed
a joint resolution providing for the
adjournment of the present session of
congress at 2 o’clock p. m. Tuesday,
August 28th. Another effort was made,
also unsuccessfully, to consider the
Hill bill for the exclusion and depor¬
tation of alien anarchists. An amend¬
ment had been agreed upon by the ad¬
vocates of the measure, and those
members who had previously antago¬
nized it, defining an anarchist to be a
person who advocates the destruction
by force of all governments or of the
government of the United States. This
satisfied the objections heretofore
made, but Mr. English,of New Jersey,
entered an objection, and the bill again
went over—this time probably finally
—for this session. Two or three un¬
important measures were passed and
after a session of an hour, the house
adjourned uutil Monday.
The galleries of the house were
crowded Monday with visiting inem
bers of the order of tlie Knights of
Pythias and their families, The floor
was a waste of empty chairs, however,
less than fifty members being present.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana, the old
“watch dog of the treasury,” created
some a musement by asking unanimous
consent for tho consideration of a bill
to pay to J. O. P. Cobb <fc Co., of Au¬
rora, Indiana, $5,400, tho value of
some barges taken possession of by the
government during the war. The
house was not indulgent, and Mr.
Marsh, of Illinois, objected. Mr.
Haugen announced the death of tho
Hon. George B. Shaw. The usual res¬
olutions were agreed to and at 12:15
tho house adjourned until Tuesday.
Closing Scenes in the House.
Tuesday the galleries of the house
were packed to overflowing with visit¬
ing Pythians and their families, drawn
there to witness the closing scenes of
the dying session. The attendance on
the floor was very light, however, a
great majority of members having al¬
ready gone to their homes. The res¬
ignation of Representative Oates, re¬
cently elected governor of Alabama,
to take effect December 3d, was laid
before the house. In accordance
with the usual custom, Mr. Wil¬
son, of West Virginia, offered a res¬
olution, which was adopted without
division, for the appointment of a
committee of tb*oqi members of the
house to meet a similar committee of
the senate, and wait on the president
aud inform him that congress was
ready to adjourn, and ascertain if ho
had any further communication to
make. Tho speaker appointed Messrs.
Wilson, Holman and Hepburn. The
speaker also appointed a committee to
investigate the Ford theater disaster.
No prospect of a quorum appearing,
the house took a recess until 1:45,
When the house re-assembled, the
committee appointed to wait on the
president was announced, and Mr.
Wilson reported that the duty de¬
volved upon him and his associates had
been discharged. “And wo are
charged by him,” Mr. Wilson con¬
tinued: “in response to say that the
president has no further communica¬
tion to make. Ho congratulates con¬
gress upon the successful conclusion
of its business and to each member
individually he wishes a pleasant and
prosperous vacation.” At 2 p. m. the
house adjourned sine die.
TIIE SENATE.
The session of the senate Friday
lasted until 1:25 o’clock p. m., and
then adjourned until Monday. The
general public was excluded from the
chamber during all but four minutes
of the session, the remainder of the
time being spent behind closed doors.
There was no test as to whether or not
a quorum of the senators was actually
present, and iu fact, matters were so
arranged m advance by mutual agree¬
ment that the question did not arise.
The matters discussed iu secret were
not exclusively of an executive char¬
acter. Oil the contrary, eight or ten
bills (three of them bridge bills) were
taken from the calendar and passed,
and the concurrent resolution for the
final adjournment of congress on Tues¬
day at 2 o’clock p. m. was laid before
the senate and was passed without a
word of opposition and without a vote
in the negative. The senate then, at
1 :25 o’clock, adjourned until Monday.
Although the senate program fur
Monday was the same as that which
was followed Friday, when the absence
of a quorum was covered up by the
transaction of legislative business be¬
hind closed doors, the galleries were
crowded before the hour of noon by
visiting Knights of Pythias, in their
neat uniform, and by the ladies
and followers wh a were in Wash¬
ington to witness the annual en¬
campment of the knights. There
were only twelve senators pre¬
sent while the opening prayer was be¬
ing offered. The reading of Friday’s
journal was dispensed with, and then
at 2:10, on motion of Mr. Cockrell,
the galleries were cleared, the doors
locked and the senate proceeded to the
consideration of executive business.
The Jours remained closed till 1 :15 r>.
m., waen xne senate adjourned tin
Tuesday afternoon.
T immense^"crowd . gathered
An in the
senate galleries before the hour of
noon Tuesday eager to witness the
closing scenes' of the eventful session
on which the curtain was to fall at 2
p. m. The senators on the floor were
few and far between. Afrer the read
ing of the journal a resolution offered
by Mr. Ransom was agreed to for
appointment of two senators to join a
•ike committee on the part of the
house to wait upon the president and
inform him that, unless he may have
K ome further communication to make,
I he two houses are now ready to ad¬
journ. Messrs. Ransom and Mander
son were appointed on the part
of the senate, At 12:17 the
senate took a recess till 12 :45.
The session was resumed at 12 :45. A
message was received from the house
announcing, among other matters, the
hath of Representative Shaw, of Wis¬
consin. The usual resolutions were
adopted and a committee appointed to
attend the funeral. At 12 :55 another
recess was taken until 1:30. After the
recess was closed, a report was made
by the senators who had been ajv
pointed to wait upon the president,
and who informed the senate that the
president’s reply was that he had
no further communication to make
to congress. Then a resolution
was offered by Mr. Quay and
was unanimously adopted tender¬
ing the thanks of the senate to
Vice-President Stevenson for the abil¬
ity, dignity, courtesy and impartiality
with which he has presided over its
flcliberations. A resolution similarly
couched in laudation of Senator Har¬
ris, president of the senate pro tem,
was offered by Mr. Manderson, of Ne¬
braska, and adopted with the same
manimity. A third and final recess
was taken till 1 :50, when a message
was received from the house, announc¬
ing the appointment by the speaker of
the house members of the joint com¬
mission, on the Ford theatre disaster.
Then, after a wait of several minutes,
the vice-president arose and formally
closed the session of the senate with
t hese words: 4 ‘Senators, the hour
fixed by concurrent resolution for ad¬
journment of the second session of the
lirty-third congress, has arrived. Be¬
fore making the formal announcement,
f cannot forbear giving an expression
of my grateful appreciation of the res¬
olution personal to myself, just adop¬
ted by the senate. For this manifest
action of your confidence, as well as
for the uniform courtesy, official and
personal, extended to me, I am pro¬
foundly grateful, and now, wishing
each of you a safe return to your
homes and constituents, I declare the
senate adjourned without a day.”
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The Tradesman, Chattanooga, Tenn., in bs
report on the industrial condition of the south
for the past week aays: The condition of mei
cantile business throughout the Southern States
is v ry satisfactory. Sales are largely and
steadily increasing, collect ions are fa'r, and the
condition of the crop encourages the b lief tin t
fall and winter trade will be unusually good.
Money is plenty with but light demand. The
genual disposition on the part of lumber pro¬
ducers to reouce their stcckg is a favorable
symptom, and will bring needed relief to an
important industry. The output of coal and
iron grows larger each week aud textile mil's
are running on full timo. There is a general
feeling of increased confidence that promises
well for the future.
Thirty-three new industries were incorpor¬
ated or established during the week, among
which are the Palmetto Phosphate company, of
Bartow, Fla ., capital $100,000; the American
Cau and Stamping Co., and tlie B. J. Mont¬
gomery Furniture Co., of New Orleans, La.,
each with $50,000 capital, a large sugar refin¬
ery at Franklin, La., and the Barnesville Un¬
derwear Co., of Barnesville, Ga., capital $15,
000.
Brick works arc to be established at Smith
field, Texas, a canning factory at Alvin, Texas,
cotton oil mills at Jo^sboro, Ark, and Hnzle
liurst, Miss , clary at Graham, Va.,
and a distillery 4? , Laf*Sr, Flour h tS -i
jrrist mills are reported at Huntsville, Ala.,
Jjong View, Ga., Middlesborough. Ky., New
Portsmouth, Orleans, La., Sandersville, Miss., Yancey and
Gatesville, Va., and an electrical plant at
Texas. Textile plants include a
knitting mill at Dunnellon, Fla., a woolen mill
at Uniontown, Sperryville, Va., and a cotton rope factory at
Ala. Paper mil’s are to be built
at Marietta, Ga,, and Huntington, W. Va., a
tobacco factory at Winston, N. C., a sugar re¬
finery at Atlanta, Ga., and woodworking plants
at Huntsville, Ala., Ellzey, Fla., Ramsey, Kv.,
Sanders ville, Miss., Cana, N. C., arid Knoxville,
Tenn.
The organization is also reported of a water
works company with $50,000 capital at Decatur,
Ala., and an increase of $600,000 in the cap,tat
of the water works company at Houston, Texas.
Enlargements for the week include machine
works at Owensboro, Ky., a tannery at Bristol,
Tenn., Welford, cotton S. C., mills at Henrietta', N. C., and
and an oil mill at Comanche,
Texas. Among the twenty-five new buildings
reported for the week are a'$20,000 church at
Louisville, Ky., and one at Raleigh, N. C.; a
court house at Morganton, Ga.; hotels at Pine
Bluff, Ark., Jacksonville, Fla., Atlanta. Ga.,
and Franklin, City, La., N. C.; a 50,000 school building at
Amite and others at Charleston, g,
C., and Liberty, Texas.
DISPENSARY GORE.
A Duel to the Death at Blackville,
South Carolina.
At Blackville, Barnwell county, S.
C., Solomon Brown, aged 22, son of
one of the most prominent citizens of
the town, and John Gribben, a state
constable, were killed in a row result¬
ing from dispensary troubles. Grib¬
ben had opened a case of clothing con¬
signed to Brown under pretense of
searching for contraband whiskey.
This had occurred several times before
and had already created bitter feeling
between Gribben and the Brown fam¬
ily, one of the most influential in the
sothern part of the state.
Tuesday afternoon Solomon Brown,
his brothers Isadore and Herman, and
his father, Simon, met the constable.
A row ensued in which pistols were
drawn and six or seven shots fired,
Gribben was fatally shot, dying in ten
minutes, and Solomon Brown was kill
ed instantly, Simon, Isadore and
Herman Brown nre under arrest as ac
cessories to the killing of Gribben.
H. P. Dyche3, the Tillmanite coroner,
who tried to hold an inquest, was ar
rested on the charge of having fired
the shot that killed Solomon Brown.
The affair has caused great excitement .
in Blackville ana feeling is running
REPORTED CHINESE VICTORIES,
The Japs Alleged to Have Been Badly
I Beaten.
The native press at Shanghai has re
ceived confirmation of the reported
battle between the Chinese and Japan
ese troops on August 13.
According to these reports 5,000
Chinese troops attacked the Japanese
forces detailed to guard the Pong Pang
passes in northwest Corea, and event
ually succeeded in driving the Japan¬
I ese from their positions.
, On the 14th the Chinese were rein
forced by 4,000 troops and attacked
the Japanese lines at Chung Ho and
the Japanese retreated
ther 0n reinforced lbti l ^ by-13.,000 0 C £?“ fresh e ^ ere troops, fur ’
j and on the 1 *th attached the Japanese,
ar ? ® aic ^ to ^ ave f° st T.O men
an,i their_heavyjbaggage. .
Buck Kilgore Defeated.
< A special from Dallas, Texas, says:
Yoakum was nominated fur congress
by the democrats of tho third district
at Mineola to succeed Buck Kilgore,
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
Thirty-two deaths from cholera and
sixty-eight fresh cases are reported
throughout Germany for the week end¬
ing August 27th.
The national labor commission, in
session at Chicago, expects to complete
its work by the end of the week and
will then report to the president.
Eli Whitney, of New Haven, Conn.,
a grandson of the famous inventor of
the cotton gin, has invented a machine
w hich may revolutionize cotton pick¬
ing.
The big strike of the miners at
Spring Valley, Ill., has ended by an
agreement between the coal company
and the strikers as to terms. The
men will resume work at once.
William Seaworth, a young farmer,
living near Ghana, Ill., made a wager
with his sister that he could eat more
watermelon'than she could. The boy
is dead and the girl, it is thought, can¬
not recover.
The plant of the Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Biscuit Company was burned Wednes¬
day morning. The loss is $40,000.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Congressman M. D. Martin is presi¬
dent of the company.
The Parisan royalists are greatly
alarmed at the reports of the condition
of the count of Paris, and are sending
messages of sympathy to Stowe house
and offering up prayers for the recov¬
ery of the head of the house of Bour¬
bon..
After making a thorough investiga¬
tion of the conditions existing among
the employes of the Pullman company
who participated in the recent boycott
and strike, Governor Altgeld lias is¬
sued an appeal to the people of Illinois
or relief.
The Delaware democratic state con¬
vention met at Dover Tuesday and
nominated Ebbs Turness for governor
and Samuel H. Bancroft, Jr., for con¬
gress, both unanimously, All local
differences were fought out before the
convention was called to order.
A London cable dispatch says : The
bark Venerata (Norwegian), Captain
Persen, from Savannah, July 25th for
London, was sunk on August 25th by
a collision with the British steamer,
Norham Castle. The Norham Castle
was not injured. The crew of the
Venerata were saved and have arrived
at Madeira.
The strike situation at New Bedford,
Mass., remains practically unchanged
and little excitement attended the
opening of the Bennett and Columbia
mills Wednesday morning. The oper¬
atives have a more hopeful feeling
since the managers of tlie Bennett and
Columbia mills have given in to their
demands.
The supreme lodge of Pythians be
its session at Washington Tuesday
morning at the Builders’ Exchange.
It has very important business to
transact, and sessions will be held every
day during the encampment, which
will end Saturday, with the award of
prizes to the winners of the prize
drills.
The steamer Islam, which was re¬
cently seized at Glasgow, Scotland, by
order of the government upon infor¬
mation that she was being fitted out as
a war ship for one of the belligerents
in the war between China and Japan,
has been released, it having been guar¬
anteed that she would not be used as a
man-of-war.
The most startling news has reached
Paris from Senegal, West Africa. Ac¬
cording to the report the French gar¬
rison at Timbuctoo, after three days’
desperate fighting with the Taurega
and other desperate tribes, which have
been infesting that city for a long
time, made a sortie. The leaguering
forces were overwhelming in numbers,
and fell upon the sortie party, fairly
annihilating it.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Central New a says: There is an un¬
easy feeling in Tien-Tsin, owing to
the attitude of the native troops.
Foreigners are arming themselves as
they fear an attack. The French war¬
ship Lion, the German Wolf, the Brit¬
ish Linnet, the American Monocaeca
and the Russian Sivootch have been
sent by their governments to Tien-Tsin
to protect the foreign residents in
case of need.
Governor D. H. Waite, of Colorado,
was arrested Tuesday evening on a
warrant charging him with opening
and retaining a letter addressed to
Mrs. Likens, formerly a matron at
police headquarters. The warrant was
issued by United States Commissioner
Hinsdale, who also issued warrants for
the arrest of President Dennis Mullins,
of the police board; Hamilton Arm
j strong, chief of police, and Kate
Dwyer, matron at police headquarters.
The complaint was made by Mrs. Li
kens and was investigated by Postoffice
I Inspector McMahon,
j A six story building in New York
burned earlv Timothy Wednt-iJav Collinn
morning. Fireman had
first started up the ladder. He
not climed more than ten feet when
the horrified crowd saw a boy
* 1 the fifth floor,
' The bov J landed on Collins’ head
and the boy and the fireman went
to the ground together. The boy
W as killed almost instantly. Collins
was seriously injured and his recovery
is doubtful. When the flames were
extinguished the firemen found on the
I fifth tloor the bodies of the watchman
j named Herman and a boy. Both were
Herman’s sons,
Thirty-Seven Miners Dead.
! A dispatch received from I ranklin,
Wash., saysa lire in the sixth level of
amine Friday afternoon imprisoned
all the men working there. Thirty
geven corpses had been brought to the
surface up to 4 o clock p. m.
Chairman Wilson Renominated.
A special from Martinbnrg, W. Va.,
says: Chairman Wilson, of the ways
and means committee, has been re
nominated for congress.
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A LESSON TN LOVE.
“Love is not wise,” they say—
Those sage advisers that have lived and
died.
And in their sterner moments put aside
The areh intruder from their way;
‘‘Love is not wise " they say.
They seek to frighten thee—
Thou who art far from their old, stupid
world,
And on the airy wings of youth art whirled
Above all practicality:
They seek to frighten thee.
Decline their wisdom now ;
And seek that only that our hearts perceive,
Only that grand, groat bliss which I believe
Comes from our spirits’ secret vow—
Decline thoir wisdom now !
—Edmond Pieton, in Times-Democrat.
HUMOR OF THE 1UY.
Money talks—in all languages.—
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A receiving teller—The scandal
bearer.—Truth.
Fame is suiely a bubble; for plenty
of “soap” will make it.—Puck.
There is a little wolf and a little
rabbit in every man.—Atchison Globe.
In the grammar of femininity two
negatives make two affirmatives.—
^ >uc ^*
Most men and their stomachs don’t
understand each other. — Atchison
Globe.
Let us be frank, and admit that we
are all somewhat gossipy.—Atchison
Globe.
The fat man is an examplo of those
who have greatness thrust upon them.
—Truth.
The difficulty in chasing men 1 ie3 in
getting them started to run.—Atchi
son Globe.
Tolerance is the admission of the
right of other people to hold wroug I
views.—Puck. I
There is no success so sweet as the
achieved by acting against the .
success
advice of our friends.—Flick.
“And do you think Binks cau fill
tlie requirements of theplaoo? ’
m, well —ii it requires Binks, he can.
—Puck.
No man will ever amount to much
who labors under the impression that
somebody else is always in his way.— |
Dallas News. i
“Does your wife put up all her can j
stuff herself?” “Certainly. Self-pres
ervation is the first law of nature.”—
Boston Transcript.
Priscilla—“I want to get a gown to
■
match my complexion.” Perdita —
“Why don’t you get a hand-painted
one?”—Brooklyn Life.
He who thinks that imagination is
solely an attribute of youth should
chat a while with one of our “oldest
inhabitants. ”—Truth.
Caller—“Your son graduated from
college this year, did he not?” Mr.s.
Malaprop— “Yes; he was valetudinari¬
an of his class.”—Puck.
There are times when the man who I
thinks he fills the public eye merely
occupies the position of a speck of j
dust.—Milwaukee Journal.
Training will do much for a man;
but it will not teach him never to
neglect to look for the towel before
ho fills his eyes full of soap.—Puck.
According to Kipling, the elephant
is a gentleman. Nonsense ! Who ever
heard of a gentleman carrying his
trunk himself?—Boston Transcript. j
The world no doubt owes a great
many people a living; but the records
do not show that it ever has assigned
for the benefit of its creditors.—Puck, i
Though womau, lovely woman
Sometimes falls to have her way
You can bet your botton dollar
That she'll always have her say.
—Indianapolis Journal.
A ten-eent box of blacking, proper
ly applied, will command more re
epect than a hundred dollar diamond
and rusty footwear on a man who is
seeking work.—Washington Star. j
“There is more pleasure in giving
than receiving,” was the proverb that
a mother was trying to instill into a
youthful mind. “That’s true about
castor oil, mother,” was the answer
she got.—New York Advertiser. j
It has been said that there is some¬
thing not unpleasing to us in the mis
fortunes of our friends. While most
likely this is true, yet pleasure, at the
misfortunes of oar enemies, is still do¬
ing business at the old stand.—Puck.
Haughty Lady (who has just pur¬
chased a stamp)—“Must I put it on
myself?” Postoffice Assistant (very
politely) — “Not necessarily, ma’am;
it will probably accomplish more it
you put it on the letter. ” —Newark Led
ger.
He — “I had a queer dream aboul
you last night, Miss Louisa, I was
about to give yon a kiss, when sud¬
denly we were separated by a rivei
that gradually grew as big as the
Rhine.” She—“And was there nc
bridge or no boat ?”—Fliegende Blaet
ter.
< t How many feet ought I to have to
the line for this poem?” asked the
young man, as he sauntered careless
ly into the editor’s office. “I hardly
know,” wearily replied the gloomy
man of shears, “but if I had a thou
sand I would gladly give them to
you, "—Atlanta Constitution.
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A CHINESE VICTORY.
Additional Particulars of a Rattle at
Ping-Vang.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the
news agencies at London, says that a
letter received in dice Foo on the
24th instant, from Chemulpo, Corea,
reasserts that the Japanese were de¬
feated by the Chinese at Ping Yang,
Thirteen Japanese transports, con
veyed by nineteen war ships, arrived
in the estuary of Taston Kiang on the
8th iustaut, and landed a force of
6,000 men, who advanced upon Ping
Ym'gg W hen midway between the
landing place and their objective point
Japanese were attacked by theChi
nese cavalry, who succeeded in divid
ing the advancing column into two
parts. Thereupon the Chinese nrtil
Aery poured a heavy lire into the Ja
panose ranks, creating almost a panic,
The Japanese retreated in disorder to
the shore, where advance of the Chi
nese was checked by the fire from the
guns of the Japanese fleet.
The Japanese lost 1,1100 men. The
letter does not mention the retreat of
Japanese troops irom ( hung Ho,
from which place, according to Chi
nose Nevertheless, reports, they had been driven.
it is believed that the
Chinese are in possession of Chung
Ho, as it is stated that a council of war
was held there on August 20th, when
it was decided to attack the main Jap
anese force, which is preventing the
Chinese advance upon Seoul.
It is reported that the Japanese are
r o-embarking their heavy bnggngo in
Ping Yang inlet. The country iH be¬
ing scoured by the Chinese cavalry,
who have taken prisoners and beheaded
. 1 . U< , r0< „ , - . ,
H er8,
GROWTH OF PYTHIAN ISM.
-
Keeper oi Records R. L. C. Whit©
Gives Some Figures.
Mr. 11. L. C. White, supreme keeper
of records and seal of the Knights of
Pythias of the world, in his report be
fore the meeting at Washington, says
that the net gain of the order in tiie
past two years 1ms been 1,007 subordi¬
nate lodges and 85,691 members.
While neither of these gains are so
as the preceding two years, it is,
considering tne
depression of the past, season, remark
ably encouraging. The total amount
disbursed for relief by the subordi
nate lodges in the year 1893 was
$1,205,135.98, while the year 1892 and
it WUH $2,379,374.13. I lie total
in numerical strength of the
order during the thirty years of its ex¬
istence is shown by a comjjarison of
the number of subordinate lodges and
members then and now. In 1864 there
were three subordinate lodges, with a
total membership of seventy-eight,
while at present there are 6,008 lodges
with a membership of 443,615.
TO MORTGAGE THE SOUTHERN.
A General Stockholders’ Meeting
Gal led for That Purpose.
A notice has been given to the
stockholders of the Southern Railway
Company that a general meeting will
he held in Richmond, Va., on October
20th, at which there will be submitted
for their approval the proposed mort
gage to the Central Trust Company,
trustee of $120,000,000 of bonds,
1894, with interest at five per cent,
payable in gold,
At this meeting authorization will
also be asked of the stockholders to
execute a mortgage on the East Ten
Virginia and Georgia for $4,-
500,000, due 1983, with interest at 5
percent, payable in gold. These bonds
are to be issued in lieu of the equip¬
ment and income bonds upon which
the mortgage has been foreclosed.
A Levee Caves In.
Late Monday night, the levee at the
head of Pauline street New Orleans,
caved into the river for a distance of
about 250 feet. The levee for years
stood apparently firm and sound, and
was regarded by the levee board as one
of the most substantial that protected
the city from inundation.
Private John Allen Safe,
Primaries in the first Mississippi
district were held Tuesday. Twenty
two of the thirty-four delegates elected
favor Hon. John M. Allen, insuring
bis re-election to congiess.
The President at Gray Gables.
President Cleveland arrived at Grav
Gftb]eB> Buzzard’s Bav, Mass., at 10:30
0 ’ clock Thursday morning. He will
remain from four to six weeks.
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