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THE MORNING NEWS,
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J. 11. iuSTILL, President. |
RATES OX CARLOAD LOTS.
RAILROADS must not use them
TO KILL SMALL DEALERS.
A Decision Rendered by the Inter
state Commerce Commission In the
Case of Thurb3r, Greene and Leg
gett Thousands of People Inter
est and in the Points Involved and
Ruled Upon.
Washington , March 16.—The interstate
commerce commission yesterday, in an
opinion by Commissioner Schoonmaker, de
rided the case; brought against the trunk
lines by F. B. Thurber and others, Thomas
L. Greene, and Francis H. Leggett & Cos.,
of New York city, known as “tho carload
cases,” in favor of the complainants. Com
plaint was made of too great differences in
the rates charged on carload and less than
carload quantities. The cases excited wide
spreadjnterest, and more than 4,000 persons,
firms and corporations doing business in
various sections of the country filed memo
rials with the commission expressing their
views for or against the relief sought for by
the complainants.
THE POINTS DECIDED.
The points are briefly stated as follows:
Classification of freight for transportation
purposes is in terms recognized by the act
to regulate commerce, and is therefore law
ful. It is also a valuable convenience b th
to shippers and carriers. Classification of
freight designating different classes for car
load quintiue-and for less than carload
quantities for transportation at a lower rate
in carloads than in less than carloads is not
iu contravention of the act to regulate
c mmerce. The circumstances and condi
tions of transportation in respect to the
work done by the carrier and the revenue
earned are dissimilar and may justifv a
reasonable difference in rate. The public
interests are subserved by carload classifi
cations of property tnat on account of the
volume transported to reac h markets or
supply the deni nds of trade throughout
the country legitimately or usually moves
in such quantities.
CLASSIFICATION RIGHTS.
Carriers are not at liberty to classify
property as the basis of transportation rates
and impose charges for its carriage with
exclusive regard to their own interests, but
they must respect tie interests of those who
may hove occasion to employ their servi es
and conform their charges to the rules
of relative equality and justice
which the act prescribe;. The cost of the
service is an important element in fixing
transportation charges, and entitled to fair
consideration, but it is not alone con
trolling, nor so applied in practice by car
rier-, and the value of the service to the
property carried is an essential factor to be
recognized in connection with other con
siderations. Ti e public interests are not to
be subordinated to those of the carriers,
and require proper regard for the value of
the service in the apportionment of all
charge; upon trafilc.
MUST KILL SMALL DEALERS.
A difference in rates upon carloads and
less than carloads of the same merchandise
between the same points of carriage so wide
ns to be destructive to competition between
large and small dealers, especially upon
articles of general and necessary use, and
which under the existing conditions of
trade furnish a large volume of business to
carriers, is unjust, and violates the pro
visions and principles of the acr.
A difference in rate for a solid carload of
one kind of freight from one consignor to
one consignee and a certain quantity from
the Fame point of shipment to the same
destination consisting of like freight or
freight of a like character from more than
one consignor is not justified by the
difference in the cost of handling.
Under the official classification articles
known in trade as grocery article :s are so
classified as to discriminate unjustly in the
rates between carloads and less than car
loads upon many articles, and revision of
the classification and rates to correct the
unjust differences, and give these re-pective
modes of shipment more relatively reason
able rates is necessary, and is so ordered.
A PRESENT FOR UNCUS SAM.
The Nations !u the Pan-American Con
gress to Erect a Monument.
Washington, March 16.—The work of
the pan-American conference has so far
progressed that an adjournment is confi
dently expected within the next thirty
days." With that in view arrangements are
making for a li ip through the s uth, which
will end the official hospitalities of the
United States to the delegates. The trip
will be arranged and carried out by the
officers of the Richmond and Danville rail
road, as was the northern and western trip
by the Pennsylvania railroad officials.
Senor Meridonca of Brazil, one of the
committee appointed to devise and report a
plan for expressing the grateful apprecia
tion by- the visiting delegates of the courte
sies and hospitality extended by the United
States government and the delegates from
the United States, will submit to his col
leagues to-morrow his ideas upon the sub
ject.
WILL PROPOSE A MONUMENT
He will propose that the delegates from
Central and South America inaugurate a
movement for the erection in the city of
Washington, as a gift to the people of the
United States, of a monument to commemo
rate the gathering of the first congress of
all nations on the western hemisphere, and
typify in its design the principal results
chief among them the adoption of
the principle of Arbitration as a means of
settling all disputes and difficulties
that might arise botween two Ameri
can nation’. The representatives of
the Central ami youth American
nations located in Washington are to be
constituted a committee to ask for designs
for the proposed monument from architects,
sculptors,and artists in the three Americas,
auci superintend its erection upon a site to
bo designated by the congress of the United
States, to bo unveiled in 1 hi):.'. For this
nun oso a fund of UAo.OUO will bo proposed
by Mr. Mentioned, to tie contributed by the
nations interested in proportion to their
population. He has no doubt his proposal
will bo accepted and adopted by his col
leagues.
CKICK AM AUGA’R HISTORIC LINKS.
Offlcora of tho Government to bo Sent
Early In the ummer.
Washington, March 13.—Inquiries have
tcached tho war department from various
quarters asking wiiothor Micro is any appro
priation avuila 1 to pav the oxpo'ises of
veterans visiting the battlefield of Ckicka
uiauga for Mm purpose of aiding in identify
ing tho lines up >n winch thoy fought. There
isno fund Available for that purpose. Upon
tho poixago of the Chi kaitiauga pork bill,
which is cx|iecUxl early in the summer,
officer* will l>o sent to the fluid to
confer with ail tho veterans who will
gather there to Assist iu establishing the
Bum UiiMS then the lime and *peusj of
visiting tbs fie-d would be e filial jr wasted,
§3je Jfiofning
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
The Measures That Will Consume the
Time of the Two Houses.
Washington, March 16.— An effort w ill
be made in the Senate to-morrow by Sena
tor Plumb, la accordance wits his notice of
last W ednesday, to replace the Biair educa
tional bill with his land grant forfeiture
bill. The vote on this proposition will, it is
supposed, indicite the fate of the educa
tional bill. If the motion to supersede it on
the calendar by the forfeiture
bill is successful the belief is
that it will not again be heard
of at this session of congress.
If the bill shall be further discussed under
the present order, it will not occupy all the
the time of t:.eSenate until a vote i; reached
(Thursday afternoon) to the exclusion of
other business, as lut one or two more
speeches are to be made on the measure
besides the summing up by Senator Blair,
which is limited to one hour by a resolution
of the Seuate.
EXECUTIVE SESSIONS.
The subject of executive sessions will
come up to-morrow for discussion under
Mr. Cab’s notice to ask for consideration of
the Florida judicial nominations in open ses
sion.
Mr. Dolph’s committee is expected to
make a report of the result of its investi
gation of the subject of executive session
“leaks” some time in the wee.;. It is said
that the corn mitten is now considering the
question of certifying oae of the witnesses
examined last week to the district attorney
for pro ecution on a charge of perjury.
The urgent deficiency bill will be called
up to-morrow by Senator Hale, and it w ill
probably be di.-posed of without much dis
cussion.
Early in the week majority and minority
reports upon the case of the Montana sena
tors will be submitted, but it is the under
standing that action on them will be post
poned until the Blair bill is out of the way.
Tuesday the finance committee will report
the McAinley administrative customs hill
to the Senate and urge consideration
thereof at the earliest practicable date. To
secure this the committee will an
tagonize the Pacific railroad funding
bill, Mr. Sherman’s trust bill, Mr. Hale’s
bill for the enlargement of the navy and
the dependent pension bill, all of which will
be strongly pushed for first place as soon as
the way is cleared by tho execution of tho
present order, the Blair bill.
In the House.
To-morrow being the third Monday in
the month the committees calling up
measures for action under a suspension of
the rules in the House will hftve the right
of way and if the committee on accounts
reached an earnest effort will be made to se
cure the adoption of the resolution granting
clerks to all members of the House who are
not chairmen of committees.
It is the present intention of tho com
mittee on elections to press the Maryland
contested election case of Mudd againt
Comp’.on to a c onclusion during tho week
and to follow that up with the Virginia case
of Bowen against Buchanan.
The pension appropriation bill is ready
for action, and will undoubtedly give rise
to spirited discussion upon the subject of
general persion legislation.
The direct tax bill is in a position where it
can be called up any day, and the members
of the ways and means committee express
their confidence of being able to report the
tariff bill before the close of the week.
DENBY’B LEASE OF LIFE.
Harrison’s Friendship All That Has
Kept Him in His Piece,
Washington, March 16. —Charles Denby
of Indiana, who was appointed by
President Cleveland minister to China, is
still holding tl at office, although all other
democratic ministers have been replaced
with republicans. This is not because of
Mr. Deuby’s democratic views, but partly
because of personal relations with President
Harrison as an Indiana neighbor, and
partly because of the difficulty
in finding a suitable man for
the place. The President would
have liked to gratify Morton Barker of
Philadelphia, the original Harrison man, by
either appointing Mr. Barker or letting
him name a man, but unfortunately Mr.
Barker’s financial scheme in China fell
through. It said that the office is now beiug
saved for another Indiana man.
M’KINLEY’.S HIGH HOPE3.
He Kxoects to Jump fron Ohio’s Gov
ernorship to the Presidency.
Washington, March 16. —Congressman
McKinley rather likes being redistricted
out of congress, because fce thinks it will
make him the republican candidate for
governor of Ohio next year against Gov.
Campbell, and that his election, which he
expects,although be recognizes the fact that
the fight would be hot, would make him
more likely to get the republican nomina
tion in 1892, and at the same tiino dispose
of Gov. Campbell.
CANADY IN CONTEMPT.
He Is Charged With Currying Favor
by Telling Tales.
Washington, March 16. Sergeant-at-
Arms Canady is charged with currying
favor with the senatorial smelling commit
tee by reporting to it the remarks of news
paper men heard or overheard by him
about their source of executive session
nows. The fact that the oonunittee is pro
ceeding on such information shows how
desperate it has gotten. It is expected to
report to the Senate this w oek that its in
vestigation did not investigate and then to
quietly let the matter drop.
WOOL WILL BE AT A PREMIUM.
A Large Sprinkling of Negroes for
the Next National Convention.
Washington, March 16.—Ex-Senator
Kellogg of Louisiana, who is in constant
communication with tho leading colorod
men all over tho country, says: “Tboro
will bo 15J colored men from the south in
the next republican national convention
men who can neither be bought nor bullied
and how many of them do you suppose
will be for Harrison! Not oue.’’
Mrs. Carlisle's Narrow Escape.
Washington, March 16.—A Jay or two
ago the liorsos attaoned to Mrs. John G.
Carlisle’s coupe became unmanageable
mid ran av.ay. Mrs. Carlisle ami b r
daughter bad just stopped into the carriage
in front of their house, No. U 26 K street,
when tho horses started off and dashed
down K street. The driver, however, kept
his seat and managed to stop them at tiio
corner of Eleveutu street. Guo of ths
horses was thrown and hurt, and tbs cnr
ringo was and The two him did
not attempt to jump from tho cai ridge, and
oamo off quite unhurt by tho accident.
A RnviaUer fibot Lead,
Nashville. Tknn., March 16.—At Gods*
d* i, ia tiu ;tate, at 3:3d o’clock to-day,
Henry Williams (colored) was t knn from
jail by a mob and soot to death fo atbsiupt-
CHEROKEE’S BOOMERS.
WILLOW SPRINGS FAST BECOM
ING A REAL TOWN.
Boomers Still Arriving, While Others
are Leaving the Strip—Troops to be
Erought Into Requisition to Forco
Them Out—Great Activity at Fort
Leavenworth—Preparing to Move
Troops to the Scene.
Willow Springs, I. TANARUS., March 16.
Neither the President's proclamation nor
the order for troops to oust the boomers has
yet been received here, consequently
boomers are arriving. Some are returning
to Kansas and Oklahoma, but for every
one that leaves tbore is now a couple to
take his place. Many town-site boomers
are here, and a considerable portion of a
town has been laid off and surveyed. A
large teat has been erected, where the
boomers met to-day, and organized
the town of Willow Springs. The streets
are to be laid out to morrow, and town
lots are to be secured by lottery. Two fe
mala boomers were accorded the privilege
of making the first and second choice of
corner lots. A large lumber yard is to be
erected, and building will begin at once.
troops to be sent.
St. Louis, March 16.—Word reaches here
that there is great activity at Fort Leaven
worth in preparing for the departure of
troops from that post to expel the boomers
from the Cherokee strip. There aro five
companies of infantry, four of cavalry, and
oue of artillery ut the fort, ad all except
the artillery are expected to go to the strip.
Gen. Merritt has received orders from the
war department to oust the boomers, and,
while no definite information has been ob
tained when the movement of troops will
take place, the indications at the fort are
that they will start on short notice.
MANY BOOMERS ON THE RETREAT.
Guthrie, I. TANARUS., March 16.— The Fred
dent’s pi oclaniation ordoriug all the settlers
on the Cherokee strip to vacate is already
having the desired effect. This, together
with the orders received by Gen. Merritt at
Fort Leavenworth to use troops if neces
sary to eject the boomers, has already
caused considerable of an exodus from the
forbidden territory. All day the trains
were loaded down with boomers leaving the
strip. A number went to Arkansas City,
and about 100 came here. Many poor peo
ple who flocked to the Cherokee strip under
the wrong impression that it was open to
settlement have not the means to return,
and will remain till the troops drive them
out.
six troops sent.
Fort Leavenworth, Kan., March 16.
—Gen. Merritt has ordered six troops of
cavalry to proceed to the Cherokee strio
and oust the boomers there. Two troops of
cavalry have been ordered from each of the
three towns of Oklahoma City, Fort Reno
and Fort Supply, to proced at "once to Guth
rie. At that point tue forces will bo united
under the senior captain and a
concentrated movement on the settlers will
be made. The forces started from the towns
mentioned this morning and will probably
not all arrive at Guthrie before Monday
night or Tuesday morning. Lieut. Dodge,
a staff officer of Gen. Merritt, was dis
patched yesterday from Fort Leavenworth
to the strip to at onc& make a full report by
telegraph of the state of affairs.
THE CONTINGENT AT THE FORT.
The troops at Fort Leavenworth will be
put in readiness to move should the report
from Lieut. Dodge make such action nec
essary. It was learned this evening
that Gen. Merritt has given instruc
tions for the troops to give the settlers
ample time to vacate before ordering forc
ible measures. Under no circumstances
will such measures be taken, unless the
boomers, after being given full opportunity
to vacate, refuse to leave. In any case the
movement on the boom. rs will notbehastv.
A day or two will probably elapse
after the arrival of the troops at Guthrie
before the march to the strip is taken up.
TRACY IN TROUBLE.
The Dispatch Goes Ashore Where
Oysters Won’t be scarce.
Baltimore, March 16.—The Sun, has a
dispatch from Capt. William Geoghegan of
tho steamer Sue. He reports that the
United States ship Dispatch went ashore
Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock on
Cedar Point shoal. Capt. Geoghegan
pulled on the Dispatch until 3:30
o’clock this morning, hut failed
to move her. It is thought that the vessel
will remain ashore until a lull iu the north
west wind permit; the water to rise in the
river. Secretary Tracy and his party are
on board bound to Norfolk. Tho secretary
is accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Wil
merding, and Miss Wilmordiug, and Lieut,
and Mrs. Mason.
SAMOA’S SERENITY.
A Permanent Government Not Yet
Formed by the New King.
San Francisco, March 16.—Advices to
the Chronicle from Apia, Samoa, report
everything quiet on the islands. King
Maliteoa has not yet formed a permanent
government, preferring to wait until the
arrival of the new chief justice
provided for in the Berlin treaty.
A proclamation issued some time ago
asking all Samoans to disperse to
their homos and make friends with one an
other has been generally obeyed. Com
plaints been made that the wrecks of the
United States men-of-war Trenton and
Vandaiia divert tho tidal current in the
harbor from its natural course, and drive
it, at certain periods, with great force
against the shore.
CAFITAL OF THE STATE.
A Meeting of Odd Fellows—J. W. Eng
lish Very 111.
Atlanta, Ga., March 16.--A largely at
tended meeting of Odd Fellows was held
here to-night iu honor of Grand Sire J. W.
Underwood of Louisville, Ky., and Deputy
Grand Sire B. F. Busbee of Raleigh, who
v ere passing through the city. The even
ing was chiefly consumed in speech-mak
ing,
J. W. English, chairman of the local
police commission, president of the Chatta
hoochee Brick Company and of the new
Trader; Bank, is reported to bo danger
ously ill at his homo on Spring siroot.
A STAB AT BOUTHERN ORE.
Carnogio’u Company Rejects It as In
ferior to the Northern.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 16.—Tho attempt
t introduce sou' hern tree in this market is
a failure. A member of the Ann of Carne
gie, Phipps <ft Cos,, soys 2,000 tons
were received by them last week, but it is
so much inferior to tue northern production
that they have refuted to rsoeivs it and
wt i order no more. Oiner manufacturers
interviewod u; that it "Ul never take the
place vf tbs ore Bow iu use Ueia
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1890.
FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
The Chances of the Lodge and Mc-
Comas Bills In Congress.
Washington, March 16.—The Lodge con
gre-sional election bill rivals the McComas
gerrymander bill in tho conversation of
congressmen. There is no doubt that both
bills, having been carefully prepared after
consulting with Speaker Reed an l other
republican leaders, will be favorably re
ported by the majority of the committee
on the election of president, vice president
and the repre entative;, and will b. made
party measures iu the House. As such both
are likely to pa;s the House, although tiere
are republicans who object to both—to Mr.
Lodge's bill because of the Australian ballot
feature, and lo the McComas bill on the
ground that it is inexpedient.
strong opponents.
Messrs. McKinley, Butterworth and
Cooper of Ohio are among the republicans
who take this ground a; to the McConms
bill, regarding it as a hazardous remedy
fora temporary evil. Having pas eu the
House, it is entirely problematical whether
they will pass tl(e .Senate. Chairman Ho .r
of the Senate committee on elections
does not favor Mr. Lodge’s bill, i ut will
substitute for it oue of his own, which he is
carefuiiy maturing, and which will not
contain the Australian ballot feature. Tho
iii-c,!s;iou ou the McComas bill in the
House committee Saturday was not io: g or
deep enough to indicate the republican semv
tonal position on it.
opposition or the democrats.
The democrats will oppose b ith the Lodge
and the McComas bills a. a party, although
an individual here or there may privately
approve. Their objections to the McComas
bill are based chiefly ou its unprecedented
centralization of power and on its present
parti-an effect if passed. They very
generally approve the Australian
ballot feature of the Lodge
bill ss being in the line of prog res; and in
accordance with democratic policy, but the
other features they condemn as being di
rectly intended for the southern and not for
tho northern states, as Mr. Crisp of Geor
gia, late chairman of the committee o i
elections and democratic leader on all
election matters, points out.
how it would work.
By wav of example, 600 citizens could not
be found in a northern congressional district
to impugn the honor of their state by peti
tioniug for federal interference, but 500
negroes could easily be induced by designing
leaders to send up such a petition from
many a southern district. Mr. Crisp thinks
that when the people of the north
understand that this bill is really of partial
and local application their souse of justice
will prevent them giving it support. The
present purpose of the republicans is to get
tho McComas bill through first, but it may
be held back for amendment, to meet the
possible legislation of the Ohio legislature.
BREAKS IN THE LEVEES.
The Opening at Raleigh Floods a Large
Area and Lowers the River.
New Orleans, March 16 — A special to
the Times-Democrat from Vicksburg savs:
“A personal visit maos to Raleigh, on
Pecan Grove, to-day, satisfied your corres
pondent that reports had not exaggerated
the extent of the damage by the flood. At
3 o’clock to-day the crevas-e was 1,000 feet
or more wide, and tho ends were caving
so rapidly that it was foolhardiness to
approach them. The levee is nearly fifteen
feet high, and an immense volume of water
was rushing through it in a stream two or
more feet deep. Tho extent of the crevasse
and the immense amount of water de
livered by it may be estimated by the fact
that in the twenty-four hours ending this
evening the river has fallen three inches at
Vicksburg" and four inches at Lake Provi
dence, though rising steadily prior to the
crevasse.
serious results.
Assistant Engineer Thompson, who ar
rived at the crevasse this evening, is quoted
as saying that no crevasse at any point
along the line of the fifth levee district
could occasion such serious results as the
one at Raleigh. The water backed up several
inches and flooded some plantations. It will
overflow fully one-fourth of East Carroll
parish and the greater part of Tensas and
Madison parishes. The eastern part of the
latter will escape.
Advice; from other Louisiana levees, and
from Mississippi, show that the Raleigh
crevasse relieved tho pressure on them. I tie
levee inspector, the solitary witness of the
break at Raleigh, says seventy-five feet
caved off at once into the river.
A telephone message from Fitlars, Miss.,
slat s ihat tho water fell eight inches in tho
past twenty-four hours.
Henry Bergor, of Duval, Miss., seeing
some negro houses on the Louisiana shore
floating away crossed over In a skiff, avo d
ing the crevasse by pulling his boat over
the levee and reaching the houses just in
time to save a negro who was in one of
them. A moment later tho building was
swept away.
A RISE AT CAIRO.
Cairo, 111., March 16.—Tiio river rose
one-tenth of a foot during the last twenty
four hours, now marking 48 feet 3-10 on tho
gnage. This is due t > the rise from tro
Mississippi river. The Ohio river has fallen
six-tenths of a foot at Paducal during the
past twenty-four hours, and it is thought
that the rise here will be very little. The
weather is clear and cool.
CHARLESTON’S TRUCK CROP.
Thousands of Dollara Lost by th€
Freeze of Yesterday.
Charleston, 8. C., Maroh 16. A bliz
zard pounced down upon Charleston this
morning wi hout warning from the signal
office. In twelve hours the mercury fell
from 70° to 24°, and everything was frozen.
Tne loss to the truck growers will be thou
sands of dollars. Those who aro supersti
tiously inclined recall the fact that the finst
freeze of the winter occurred after the
recent visit of Vice President Morton,
March 4. On that occasion the mercury
went down to 32", freezing point.
THE PRESENT FREEZE.
The present freeze occurred on the
very day after the Harrlaon-Wana
maker party left here. The “Morton”
freez; dam igod the early crops somewhat,
but tho plants rallied soon after. Potatoes,
peas and berries are much advanced, owing
to the mild winter, and tho farmers hail
good prospects of getting their produce
to the northern markets, even
in adva'/co of the Florida truck. The Har
rison-Wanainakor freeze, however, has
wiped out everything green. For the first
time in many years at r placed in the
open air at 10 o'clock in the morning fr< ze.
The truck crop of Charleston and vicinity
represents, in round numbers, over $2,000,-
000.
A Child Totally Burned.
Macclkkity. Fla., March 16.—Thursday
while Jan et Coerert, who live* about three
miles from town, wo* clearing land and
burning stumps, with his children playing
about him. one of thorn, a 4-year-old, fell
into the boles upon the burning slumps.
The child was b Ariti/ buried, end died
the foilo w utg (right.
CIVILIZATION’S CRUELTY.
INDIANS DYING OF HUNGER AND
WANT IN NORTH DAKOTA.
Bishop Ehanley Draws a Vivid Pict
ure of a Terrible Situation The
Government Charged With Robbing
the Redskins of Their Land and
Sending Them to an Almost Unin
habitable Region.
Philadelphia, March 16.—Right Rev.
John Shanloy, D.D., bishop of North
Dakota, occupied tho pulpit of the cathe
dral hero to-day, and told a pitiful story of
the private ns and sufferings of the Chip
pewa Indians occupying the reservation at
theextreme northern part of his di cese. His
object was to securo assistance for their re
lief. With that end in view ho described
most vividly the condi: ion of these Indians,
as witnessed by himself during the recent
cold weather, when the thermometer
marked 40° below zero.
A GOVERNMENT STEAL ALLEGED.
He charged the government with having
stolen 11,Cud,000 acres of land this tribe pos
sessed wh n Dakota Territory was divided
between tho fiioux and Cnippewa ludians.
‘ Eleven million acres stolen bodily and not
one cent paid in return for it,” said his
grace, “and the owners sent to tho northern
border of tbe state, the coldest and bleakest
spot iu the country, wbeie two towuships
wore organized with 5,000 acres of land.
This is tilled with bad timber forests and
lakes, swamps and rocks. On these 5,000
acre; were put 1,030 Indians, who are trying
to'make their living; these wards of ttie
United States living where 100 white men
could scarcely ratse enough to keep them
alive.”
LOO HUTS IN A FREEZE.
His grace then described a personal visit
to the township where, he said, he witnessed
scene; that would have disgraced Siberia.
“I spent over a week with these people
with the thermometer registering 40°, and
sometimes 44° degree below zero. The
Indian houses are log huts constructed by
the Indians themsolves, without flooring,
and with sheets and quilts covering tho
windows and doorways. Tho crevices be
tween the logs are filled with mud, which
cracks and falls out by tho summer boat,
and is blown out by tbe northern winter
blast so that the occupant may as well bo
sleeping outside.
SIX FAMILIES TO A HUT.
“In theso huts it is not infrequent to find
six families living. These 1,930 Indiuns
cannot make their own living there. They
have never been supplied with proper agri
cultural implements. Last spring tho di
rector of the Catholic Indian bureau sent
twenty-four plows to these Indians, and
with theso they managed to break 800 acres
of this virgin sail. But there was uo rain,
and to-day they are absolutely destitute;
no grain, no food, no clothing, no money;
1,9 ;0 Christians, 1,930 of God’s children are
living on this continent to-day ou the poiut
of starvation.
A LIVING SKELETON.
“While visiting these people I entered the
house of an old Indian. There was no food
in tbe house that day, but there were tears
and desperation. A poor old Indian woman
had a puny sickly child in her arms. She
wept for joy when she saw me, thinking
God bid sent reliof to her children. She
showed me her child. There was not a pound
of flesh on its bones. I am sure that the
child is dead. lam not easily moved, used
as lam to scenes of misery iu large cities,
but I could not but cry on that occasion.
SHIVERING BY THE EMBERS.
“In one corner of the room there was a
boy 6 years of age. Another wa3 crying
by the obimney place, trying to warm his
shivering form, while an old Indian was
i kneeling by tbe fireplace muttering, prob
ably vowing vengeance ou tho white race.
At anotbor hovel a poor old man, 85 years
of age, was lying on the frozen ground
dying of consumption, no one near him but
his poor old wife, who knelt over him with
a rosary in her hands praying for God to
take her husband. Night was sotting in;
uo light, no caudle, no one to say a kind
word to the poor old couple.
A SAD COMMENTARY.
“And this is a Christian country in the
United Stales of America, tho land of tho
free, the land of plenty. In another novel
I found children without clothing gathered
around tho fireplace plucking out the
charred sticks that they mignt roll in the
warm ashes. The United Bta o; appro
priates $5,090 to theso Indians, uliout $3 50
to each one. This amount is spent in fl >ur
and fat pork arid distributed among them.
The pork is sickening. I mysef would not
have believed the truth of the story if I bad
not witnessed it.
A HEAVY DEATH RATE.
“During thes-ightoeu months previous to
Jan. 1 1890, out of 1,400 Indians 100 died.
During the month of January 27 died.
These deaths are almost invariably of star
vation. The women are almost universally
clad in one garment, a calico dress, to pro
tect them, and let it b said to their credit
that Dot one woman was missing from the
little parish church on Sunday ”
The reverend s; oaker closed by appealing
to tbe congregation to extend to theso poor
people, their unfortunate brethren, a porj
tion of their substance for tho relief of these
poor Indians.
FIVE SAILORS DROWNED.
Tho Eoa Swallowed Them Up Just as
Safety was at Hand.
Baltimore, March 16.—Cap!. Burgess of
the river steamer Defiance telegraphs the
Sun that on passing the York Bpit light
house this afternoon he saw a schooner on
tho spit, near tbe northwest bouy. About
tbe same time a yawlboat was seen, contain
ing five men, leaving the sinking schooner
and pulling for the lighthouse. The wind
was blowing with terrioie force, and as the
boat neared tbe lighthouse it was thrown
against tbe iron piles and swamped, and all
tho men were thrown overboard.
ALL DROWNED.
The men grasped the iron rods of the
piles in a desperate struggle for life, but
t e sea dashed over them with such fury
that they were soon benumbed, fell off, an 1
were drowned. A short time previous a
b r.t bad been lowered from tbe lighthouse,
and a man w as seen to descend the pile and
jump into the bo it, which ou goitiug loose
immediately drifted away.
THE MAN RESCUED.
The Defiance ran alongside the drifting
boat and throw t ;e man a line and he was
hauled on board, and provod to be James
B. Hu: st, sec aid keeper of the light house.
Ha state i that the live shipwrecked men
wore drowned. Ho was unable to render
any assistance on account of tho violent
seas dashing over everything. It is sup
pose that tbe chooner i) an oyster vessel,
and w trying to run into the East river.
Gainesville Gleanings.
Gainesville. Fla., March 10.— Tho
cold w ill not injure aiiytbing.
The two is crowded w.th viators.
Tbe lteeord has bought the Adweale
aid wdl consaU lab , Thus the AUlocate
COLORED CHERUB3.
Bishop Halsey Makes a Fervent Ap
peal for Aid.
Baltimore, Md., March lfi.—Bishop Hal
*cy, in an address before the Baltimore con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church
south, spoke in part as follows; “I want to
say that wo have a high regard for you,
and our oolored people are look
ing to the Methodist Episcopal
church south to aid them. Wo look
to you and you to u*, for we know you aud
you know us. The colored men have an
abundance of religion, mid in fact I some
times tbiuk they may have more than the
white men, but they may lie lacking in the
spirit of true Christianity. The colored
man has a claim on bis white brethren. I
say this delicately but emphatically, for
they werg sent here by no act of their own,
but through the overruling providence, ad
as a lesult many Christian colored pe >pl are
now angels in heaven. We were brought
here as slaves, and I claim, therefore, that
the southern people ought to do their duty
by them.
faithful during the war.
“When the flower of the manhood of our
sunny southland went to where blood
flowed freely In the cause our white |>eople
thought was right, then the oolored men
stood by the h unes of their masters, and
delvod, and labored for the suuport of your
wives and little ones, who were loft behind
bv their soldier husbands and brothers.
They loved the whites then, and
faithful they were on the old plantations,
and they love and rospect you still. As
then, so still, the colored people constitute
the mud sills of southern society, and the
south will never be able to get a better
class of laborers than thev furnish, and the
whites know it. [A voice—That’s so.]
PATIENT AND DUTIFUL.
“They are a i atient and dutiful people.
I was raised in the boeom of the old Metho
dist Episcopal church south aud I love her
and pray that, her banners may never trail
in the dust. It is well fir you to send glad
tidings of salvation to those who live in
darkness in f reign parti, without any re
gard to the question of t ree trade or pro
tection [laughter], but at the same time you
should tako care of those of our semi-barba
rian colored population at your own doors,
for, I tell you, there are those among our
colored population who need your care and
protection."
THE BISHOP ONCE A SLAVE.
Bishop Halsey was once a slave of Col. R.
M. Johnson, who resides near Waverly, in
lialtimo. e county. Ho is about 50 years of
ago; in color that of a mulatto; has a fine
presence and a good delivery. Ho is here
in the interest, of the Colored Metho
dist Episcopal church boarding and
day school at Augusta, Ga. This school
has 150 scholars who are iutenteil for the
ministry ami for teachers. It is desirable
uow, Bishop Halsey siys, to increase the
capacity of the school by the erection of a
new building, and for that purpose $30,000
is needed. “But," the Bishop told the con
ference, “we will take what wo can get,"
and the collection that followed his address
amounted to SIOO.
CHURCHILL'S CEN3UR&
He Falla to See How It and Hla Speech
Can Be Called Disloyalty.
London, March 10.—Lord Randolph
Churchill, publishing his original protest
against tbo Parnell commission bill, says
he fails to seo how this and his recent
speech can be construed as disloyalty to the
unionist party. It seems to him that the
chirge of disloyalty might be more
forcibly forcod againat those who,
in spite of every warning, forced
upon parliament a measure which
by its history and results obviously dealt a
heavy blow at the cause and party of the
union. He explains tnat when he sent his
protest the commission bill was in embryo
and the government contemplated abandon
ing it, or at least withdrawing it, if it led
to u protracted debate.
FRANCE/cl NSW CABINET.
DeFreyclnet at Its Head With Rlbot
in Second Place.
Paris, March 16.—The new cabinet is
composed as follows:
Pres dent of the Council and Minister of
War —M. do Freyclnec.
Mini ster of Foreign Affairs—M. Ribot.
Mini ier of the Interior—iVL Constaus.
Minder of Fin nice—M. Rouviar.
Minister of Justice —M. Fallieies.
Minister of Commerce—M. Roch.
Minister of Public Instruction—M. Bour
geois.
Minister of Agriculture—M. deVelio.
Minister of Public Works—M. Guyot.
Minister of the Marine—M. Barbey.
Minister of the Colonies—M. Etienne,
THOUSANDS OF MOUIHS EMPTY.
Fearful Cost of the Miners’ Strike In
England.
London, March 16.—The price of coal Is
advancing rapidly in consequence of the
miners’ strike. It is the general opinion
that tbo strike will not be of long duration,
but if it lusts oven a w eek it will cause a
stoppage of scores of factvries and throw
thousands of hands out of employment.
One hundred thousand men a: e out on the
strike. Many owners are conceding the
terms proposed by the meeting of the
miners’ delegates at Manchester on March
13. By this compromise the men receive an
advance of 5 per cent, in wages now aud a
similar advance in July next.
Hungary’s New Cabinet.
lluda-Pesth, March 16.—The new cabi
net has been offllally announced. Count
Szapary becomes prime minister and minis
ter of the interior, and Herr Betbien be
comes minister of husbandry. The other
cabinet officers will be retained by the in
cumbents
A Threat Against Bismarck.
Berlin, March 10.—The Cologne Gazette
threatens war to tue k ife against Prince
Bismarck if the chancellor forms an alli
ance with Ur. Windthorst, leader of the
Clerical party.
A German Labor Department
Berlin, March 16. —1 tis reported that
Emperor William will create an imperial
labor department, headed by Ur. Heiuz
peter.
Don't Want to bo Under Obligations.
Paris, March 16.—The Uuke of Orleans
writes that he is opposed to the presenta
tion to President Caruut of a petition for
ins release.
RUINED BY A BOOKKEEPER
Heavy Speculation in Real Estate
Followed by Flight
Chicago, March 16—William M. Craig,
confidential manager of the C. L. Meyer &
Buns Lumber Company, is missing, and it
is charged that the books of the company
•how irregularities on his pait amou. tmg
to many thousand dollars. The recent
failure of Meyer & Hons is said to have
ins i due in part at least, to Craig's opera
tions. Craig has been sjiecuial ing in real
uDite to the extout of noiii iy |3.y,OW.
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"A FOOLISH BON 13 THE RE A VI
NEH3 OF HIS MOTHER."
Talmage Proaches a Striking Sermon
from the Stag3 of Brooklyn's Acad
emy of Music Anxiety of All
Parents that Their Children Should
Turn Out Well.
Brooklyn, March 16.—The following
sermon was preached this morning by Dr.
Talmage in the act lernyof muic, In which
his church is worshiping during the re
building of the Brooklyn tabernacle, and
which will continue to be so occupied until
that edifice it completed. After expound
ing a chapter describing Absalom’s carriage
toward bis father David, and the singing of
an appropriate bym i, Dr. Talmage an
nounced as his text, tho words, “A foolish
son is the heaviness oi his mother." Prov.
10: i. Hu said:
All parents want their children to turn
out well However poorly father and
mother may have dona themselves, they
want their sons nnd daughters t > do splen
didly. Up to forty years ot ago parents
may havo ambition for themselves, after
that their chief ambitious are for their
children. Some of the old-ntne names
indicate this. The name of Abner means
“his father’s lamp." The name Abigail
means “her father’s joy.” And what a
parental delight was Solomon to David,
and Samuel to Hannah, and Joseph to
Jacobi And the beet earthly staff that a
father has to lean on is a good sou, and th<*
strongest arm a mother has to help her
down the steep of years is that of tv
grateful child. But it is not a
i are thing to find people un
fiiial, and often tho parent-) are themselves
to bl nne. Aged persons sometimes become
querulous and snappy, an 1 tho children
l ave their bunds full with the old folks.
Before entering my profesdon 1 wns for
three months what is called a c lporteur.
One dav ia the country districts 1 stopped
at tho house of a good, intelligent, genial
farmer. The hospitality of sucj a country
house is especially pleasing to me, for I was
Lorn in the country. This farmer and his
wife were hardworking people, hut tried to
make their home agreeable and attractive.
The tanner’s father, about 6& years of age,
and his grundfather, about 9i>, were
yet alive and with him. Indeed, there
weje fur generations iu the hou-a, fur
tiie farmer bad little ohildr.'u playing
about the room. We gathered at the din
ing table. Af er the blessing was asked
tho farmer put some of tho meat up m his
plate and courteously passed it to me, when
Lis father of 65 years of age cried out to hi*
sou, who was at least 3i) years of age: “Why
do you not pass tho meat as vou always do,
ad let us take it off the plate ourselves?
You are trying to show off because we have
company.” Mean while, his granfather of
GO sat with his hat on at tne table, his face
unclean, and his apparel untidy. Hi ill tbs
farmer kept his patience and equipoise,
aud 1 never thtuk of him without udnira
tion. He must have had more grace than I
ever hud.
Because people are old they have no
right to be either uugentlemanly or un
canny. There are old people s > disagree
able that they have nearly broken up some
homes. The young married man with
whom the aged oua lives, stands it, be
cause he has he m used to it all his life, but
the young wife, coming in from another
housohold, ca i hardly endure it, and some
times almost cries tier eves out. And when
lit tle children gather in the hi mo they are
afraid of tho vonerable patriarch, who has
forgotten that he ever was a child himself,
and cannot understand why children should
evor want to play "hide ami seek,” or rod
hoop, or tly kite, and he becomes impa
tient at the g mud from the nursery, and
shouts with an expenditure of voice that
keeps him coughing fifteen minutes after
ward, “Boys I st p that racketl" as though,
any boy that ever amounted to anything
in the world did not begin life by making
a racketl
Indeed, there are children who owe noth
ing to their parents, for those parents hare
been profligates. My larnonte 1 friend, good
and chris:lan and lovely Henry Wilson,
vice president of the United H ates, in early
life changed his name. H -nry Wilson wa*
not his original name, lie dropped his
father's name becanis that father was a
rirunkaid and a disgrace, and the son did
not feel called upon to carry such a carcass
all Ids life. While children must always be
dutiful, I sympathize with all young peo
ple who have di-agr-table or unprincipled
old folks around the home. Home of us,
drawing out of onr memories, know that it
is possible, after sixty or seventy or
eiguty or ninety years of age, for
tho old to bo kind and genial; and
the grandest adornment of a home Is an
aged father and an aged mother, if the pro
cess of yeurs has mellowed them. Besides
that, if your old parents are bard t) get
along with now, you must rememb?r thera
was a time when tuey had hard work to
get along w.th you. When you were about
5, or 7, or 10, or 13 years of age, what a time
tiiey had with youl If they had kept a
written acc-m it of your early pranks and
misdoings, it would make u whole volume.
That timo when you gave your little sistera
clip; that time when you explored the depth
of a jar of sweet things for which you had no
permission; that havoc you one day mada
with your Jack-knife; that plucking from
the oi chard of unripe fruit; tiiat day when,
instead of 1 eiug at senool, us your parents
supposed, you went a-fisbing; and many a
time did you imperil your young life in
places where you bad no business to climb
or swim or venture. To get you through
your first fifteen years witn vour life and
your good m rals was a fearful draft upon
parental fidelity and endurance. Indeed,
it may be that much of this present phys
ical and mental weakness in your parents
may have been a result of your early way
wardness. You made such large and sud
den drafts upon tbe bank of their patlenoe
that you broke the bank. They were
injured in being throwu while
trying to break tbe colt. It is
a matter of only common honesty
that you pay back to them some of the
long-suffering which they paid to you. A
father ta dto his son: “Surely no father
ever had as .a i a hoy os I have.” “Yes,”
said the son, “my grandfather had.” It is
about the same from generation to genera
tion, and parents need to bo patient with
children, and children du ifiil to their
parents. Taking it for granted that those
who hear me to-day have hail a good
parentage, I want t > urge upon all the
young the fact that tho happiness and lon
gevity of parents much depend upon the
right behavior of their children, and loan
do this no more effectual,y than by demon
strating the trut li of mv text. “A foolish
son is the heaviness of his mother.”
Perhaps some young man astray may be
brougnt bock i y a thought of how 'hey
feel about him at home. A French soldier
lay wounded and dying iu the hospital at
Oe leva, Bwitzsi la id. His father at home,
70 yea's of age, heard of Ins son's suffering,
aud started nnd took tbe long j urns. , and
found the hospl'al; and as he entered, the
sou cried: “O, father 1 am -<> glad you have
come to seo me die.” “No,” ra-i the father,
“you are not going to die; your mother is
watt iug for v<u, end I an gang to take
y, u hutns; I have brought v • > mou-jr and
everything you oeed." "No," sid th - *oi
diur, "they gire m> here tf o > tuffig that H
