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Established 1850. Incopoeatedlßßß. >
J. H. ESTILL, President. )
EFFECTS OF THE TARIFF.
THE SENATE AND HOUSE BILLS
COMPARED.
Three Hundred Changes Made in the
McKinley Bill by the Senate Finance
Committee—The Duties Under the
House Bill Estimated at $206,344,-
977, and Under the Senate Bill at
$201,689,907.
Washington, June 22.—A statement of
the effect upon the customs receipt* of the
provisions of the tariff bill as reported by
the Senate finance committee has been com
pleted, and, together with the reasons of
the committee for recommending its pro
posed change in the bill as it passed the
House, will probably be submitted to the
Senate tc-morrow. Counting each para
graph stricken out of the Senate bill as a
cnange, there was just 300 changes made by
the senate finance committee. The reasons
given generally are brief, and consist of a
statement that tlje rate proposed is believed
to afford sufficient protection. There
are exceptions, of course, in cases of
changes of importance, where the
motives that actuate the committee are
given at some length.
ACCOMPANIED BY TABLES.
The tables accompanying the statement,
showing the estimated revenues under the
proposed rates, together with the compari
sons with the existing rates and those pro-
Sised in the House bill, were prepared by
r. Evans, a treasury expert, and Mr.
Durfee, the finance committee’s clerk.
These show that the amount of duties col
lected in 1880 upon the importation of all arti
cles made dutiable in the House bill and the
amendments proposed by the (Senate,assos-ed
under the existing law was $161,408,846.
The duties estimated under the House bill
amount to $206,844,977; and under the bill
ns amended by tbe Senate to $201,689,907.
The equivalent ad valorem rate under the
House bill is 52.80 per cent., and under tbe
Senate bill 51.97 per cent.
Ihe reduction of revenue by the transfer
of articles to the free list in the House bill,
including $10,327,878 reduction of internal
revenue taxes which is stricken out by the
Senate finance committee, is estimated at
$71,064,774; by the transfer of articles to
the free list in the Senate bill the reduction
of the revonue is estimated at $60,599,343.
INACCURACY ACKNOWLEDGED.
A foot note to the recapitulation says:
These tables are prepared upon the plan and
theory usually followed; tbe estimates are
largely conjectural and more or less unre
liable and misleading. They are based upon
the assumption that if tbe bill should be
come a law, merchandise of like quantities
and values would be imported as
was imported during the fiscal
year 1889. This basis can only
be accepted as reliable whore the changes
in rates are not of such a character as to
necessarily cause increased or diminished
importations. The reduction given alone
of $71,064,774 by the House bill and $60,-
559,443 by the Senate bill appears to be cer
tain, but if the imports should be the same
as last year under the now rates the reduc
tion would amount under tbe House bill to
$26,128,642, and under the Senate bill to
$20,318,2.83.
PRESIDENT AND PREMIER.
Harrison Emphasizing' His Difference
With l laine.
Washington, June 22.—President Har
rison is very anxious to have it understood
that ho is not opposed to the McKinley bill.
He has taken pains to assure Mr. McKinley
himself that this is the case. He is also
anxious to have it understood that he is not
in favor of Secretary Blaine’s reciprocity
policy. In transmitting Secretary Blaine’s
report on the pan-American conference re
ciprocity recommendation on Friday, Presi
dent Harrison was very careful not to say
anything commending Secretary Blaine’s
policy. President Harrison explained that
he sent in the Blaine report because it was
one of the results of the pan-American con
ference, a report on that subject being con
templated by the act providing for the
conference.
WHY HB DIFFERS.
The President spcb that Secretary Blaine’s
course leads toward greater freedom of
trade and away from prohibitory tariff,
and he thinks it is in so far more democratic
than republican. Then, too, his dread of
being thought to be in any way controlled
by Secretary Blaine’s opinions makes him
anxious to have his difference with Secre
tary Blaine on the tariff question empha
sized. Secretary Blaine stands by his op
position to the sugar and wool schedules of
the McKinley bill as expressed in bis re
cently published letters, because they pre
vent reciprocity with South America, but
says that what he said about the bill in the
subcommittee of the Senate committee on
appropriations last week was jocular, and
was not intended to be taken seriously.
REED'S NEW SCHEME.
The 811ver Men to be Forced to Paßs
the Election Bill.
Washington, Juno 22. —Speaker Reed is
apparently going to make the silver bill
w ait on the federal election bill in the Hcuse.
He proposes to give from Tuesday to Satur
day this week to the federal election bill,
and apparently proposes to make the silver
republicans, who oomprise some of the
western men opposed to the federal election
bill, vote for it in order to secure what they
desire in the proposed compromise silver
bill. The silver republicans now insist that
they shall have not only the bullion redemp
tion clause, but also the ten-year limit
stricken out of the House bill before they
will agree to it.
REED WILLING TO TRADE.
Speaker Reed, they undorstand, is will
ing to make both concessions. The silver
republican senators are talking very loudly
in a “no surrender” vein. Senator Teller,
for example, says that not only shall no
federal elections bill pass the Senate, but
no tariff bill, unless and until the House has
a fair, square chance to vote on the free
coinage proposition. Secretary Blaine is
exerting his influence, such as it is, in favor
of free coinage in the interest of his silver
•nine investments in Colorado. The Presi
dent disavows Secretary Blaine’s views on
this as well ns on reciprocity. In both cases
President Harrison stands with Speaker
Reed and not with Secretary Blaine.
LYMAN TOLD TO GO.
The Civil Service Investigation Settles
His Fate.
Washington, June 22. —It is stated that
•s a result of the report of the House civil
service committee, that an intimation has
been made to Commissioner Lyman that his
resignation would be acceptable, and that
in the event of his not taking the hint a suc
cessor would be named without the formal
ity of a written request for his resignation.
England Satisfies France.
Paris, June 22. —It is stated that the
English and French governments have ex
changed satisfactory communications re
garding the Auglo-Uarwan agreement.
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RUN DOWN' BY ITB OWN ENGINE.
A Peculiar Accident to a Passenger
Train in Alabama.
Birmingham, Ala., June 22.— The East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road pas
senger train No. 6 was telescoped by its own
engine at 9:20 o’clock this morning at
Calera, and Ella W est, a aegro nurse, was
instantly killed. The infant child of her
employer was severely injured.
Mrs. Abner Pitt, wife of tbe conductor,
and several other passengers were slightly
injured.
The accident happened in a peculiar man
ner. The engine was uncoupled from the
train and started for a coal shute, about
three-quarters of a mile up the track.
A DOUBLE CRASH.
It had not proceeded far when Engineer
Griffin saw a freight train coming down the
track toward him. Seeing that a collision
could not be avoided he reversed his engine,
and, shutting off steam, jumped from the
engine, followed by bis fireman. The
freight engine struck the passenger
with full force, and the sud
den motion turned on tbe valve, and
the engine started back towards
the standing train at the rate of forty miles
an hour. It crashed into the express car
and mail car No. 4, tearing it from its
trucks, and sending the tender half way
through the oar. All the passengers
jumped. The nogro girl was the only one
killed. Both engines were totally wrecked.
DUNBAR’S PRISONERS
The Rescuers Still Working to Get
Into the Mine.
Dunbar, Pa., June 23.—The rescuing
party has not reached the entombed miners.
Thoy are working hard, but no oi.e knows
how far they will have to go yet, and they
are as much in the dark now as at any time.
They may reach the men in a few hours
and it may he days before the Hill Farm
mine is broken into. Hope has given way
hi despair. It is now seven days since the
disaster, and few if any expect to find the
men alive.
To-day crowds visited the scene of the
disaster from all the surrounding country,
and at one time fully 8,000 people were pres
ent. This evening an appeal for aid was
sent out. The miners’ familios are iu desti
tute circumstances, and contributions will
be thankfully received.
A LABOR SPLIT IN UNION.
The Central Union Drives Out the
Socialists.
New York, June 22.—A split occurred
in the Central Labor Union to-day. The
socialist delegates withdrew and formed a
new central body, which will oe known as
the Central Labor Federation. Antici
pating this action on the part of the socialist
delegates the conservatives, at the instance
of the building trades’ section, passed a
resolution denying them the right of repre
sentation in the original organization. The
war of words thus aroused was loud
and vigorous, and for a time it looked as
though the opposing factions would come
to blows. The progressives were called
ignorant foreigners, usurpers and nation
wreckers; while they in turn characterized
the conservatives as boodlers, scats and
professional politicians, and dubbed the
hall “boodlers’ hall.”
HENRY W. TUOMAB DEAD.
He Served Several Terms In Congress
Before and After the War.
Fairfax Court House, Va., June 23.
Judge Henry W. Thomas died here this
morning in the 78th year of his age. Before
the war as a whig, and since as a democrat,
he served soveral terms in the legislature.
He was a member of the commis
sion that visited President Lincoln
in 1861, with a view to averting
hostilities. During the war he was second
auditor of the state. After tho war he was
a member of the court of conciliation, later
judge of the court of Alexandria circuit,
and still later lieutenant governor. For
half a century he was one of tho leading
lawyers of Northern Virginia.
ENGLAND CONTROLS AFRICA.
One of Wissman’a Advisers Put Out.
at the Agreement.
Berlin, June 22.—Herr Wolff, Maj. Wise
man’s commercial adviser, condemns the
Anglo-German agreement. He says Eng
land gets'everythiag and will control Africa.
The Hamburger Nachrichten, supposed
to be inspired, suggests that England give
further proof of her good will by ceding to
Germany Walfisch bay, whi h is valueless
to England, and of the utmost importance
to Germany as a harbor for her Southwest
African possessions.
Prince Henry, with the German squad
ron, will formally receive Heligoland
from the British representative in October.
FEVER ON PANAMA.
A Fruit Steamer Arrives at New Or
leans Infected.
New Orleans, La., June 22.—The Nor
wegian steamship Adria, from Bocas del
Torro, with fruit, arrived at the quarantine
station yesterday. Her oargo of bananas
was removed to barges and the vessel fumi
gated and sent to the lower quarantine
station. The health authorities report that
the steward of the Adria died while en
route to the passes and was buried at sea,
and one her crew is ill with fever—a sus
picious cane—but not yet pronounced yellow
fever.
SIN’S BLOODY CARNIVAL.
Two Men Bhoot Their Mistresses and
Then Commit Suicide.
Birmingham, Ala., Juno 22.—At 1
o’clock this morning Charles Cato (white)
killed his mistress, Lizzie Mitchell (a negro)
and then blew out his own brains.
Four hours later W illiam Tatum shot and
mortally wounded Marie Barnard and then
blew out his own brains in a bagnio.
Jealousy caused both crimes.
The latter saw the first tragedy and fol
lowed suit.
Constantinople’s Cotton Factory.
Constantinople, June 22.—The minis
tar of works has inaugurated the first cot
ton factory in this city, which has secured
a monopoly for twenty years. It is ex
pected that this factory will produoe cot
ton and woolen yarn at 15 per cent below
the cost in English factories.
Cholera Dying Out.
Madrid, June 22.—The cholera epidemic
makes no progress There are very few
fresh cases at either Puebla de Rugat,
Fenollat or Montichelvo. The officials de
clare that 75 per cent, of those attucked re
cover.
Carlisle’s Successor.
Louisville, Ky., June 22.—Hon. North
Dickerson was yesterday chosen by the
usual majority to suoceod John G. Carlisle
as representative in congress of the Sixth
Kentucky district.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1890.
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
THE ACTION OF THE COINAGE COM
MITTEE STILL IN DOUBT.
To-day's Business in the House De
pendent on That Committee's Course.
The National Election Bill to Lead
to One of tbe Most Exciting Politi
cal Debates in Years.
Washington, June 22. —To-morrow will
be district day in the House, but whether or
not the day will he given up to matters of
local interest depends on the coinage com
mittee. If it should be ready to report
upon the Senate amendments to the silver
bill there are indications that the committee
on rules will be ready in turn to
see that the report secures speedy con
sideration in tbe House. It is also probable
that by Tuesday morning the same com
mittee will report a rule making the na
tional election hill the epecial order for the
remainder of the week. If this order is
adopted it will probably lead to one of the
most exciting and bitter partisan debates
witnessed in recent years.
ADMISSION OF WYOMING.
A political debate may also occur in the
Senate this week upon the bill for the ad
mission of Wyoming into the
union, which is the first order of
business. When it comes up the
democrats will offer a substitute in the
shape of an omnibus bill, providing for
enabling acts for Wyoming, Idaho, Ari
zona and New Mexico. The territorial bill
will have to give way however, for the
consideration of appropriation bills; the
committee on appropriations being deter
mined to pass these measures as rapidly as
possiblo. The diplomatic and consular and
postofflce bills are now on the Senate calen
dar, and the committee expects to be able
to report the agricultural, Indian and sun
dry civil bills before the end of the week.
Two of the bills, and probably throe, will
be disposed of by the Senate in tho noxt
six days.
FRYE’S SHIPPING BILL.
If opportunity offers Senator Frye will
make an effort to have his shipping hill con
sidered, and if that fails then be will press
the river and harbor bill in order to hare it
out of the way before the tariff bill shall he
taken up.
Senator Davis will probably have the
conference report on the dependent pension
bill considered early in tho week.
Part of Thursday afternoon is to bo de
voted to the delivery of eulogies upon tbe
late Representative Oox, and, unless some
thing now unforeseen intervenes, Saturday,
in the ordinary course of events, will bo
devoted to consideration of bills on the cal
endar to which objection Is not made.
STATUS OF THE APPROPRIATION BILLS.
All except fourteen of the regular ap
propriation bills have been acted upon in
one or both houses of congress. But two
of tho thirteen, however—the army and
military academy bills —have passed both
houses and been approved by the President,
and are now laws. The oondition of the
remaining eleven is a9 follows:
The naval, District of Columbia and
pension appropriation bills have passed
both houses, and are now in conference.
The legislative, executive and judicial
and fortifications bills have passed both
houses and are ready for conference,
although the conference committees have
not yet been appointed.
The postoffice, consular and diplomatic
and river and harbor bills have passed the
House, been reported to the Senate with
amendments by the Senate committees
having them in charge, and are awaiting
action by that body.
The agricultural, sundry civil and Indian
bills have passed the House and are being
considering by the Senate appropriations
committee.
The general deficiency appropriation bill
is the only one that has not yet boon con
sidered by either body, it not having been
reported from the House appropriations
committee.
Almost 700 bills, the larger portion being
House hills, have been sent to the President
since the opening of congress for his action.
EXTERMINATION IN FLORIDA.
Hunters Wiping Out the. Alligators
and Plumage Birds.
Orlando, Fla., June 22.—For years the
hide and plume hunters have been syste
matically destroying the alligators and
aquatic birds of this section for profit. A
few years ago every lake, pond aud stream
was full of alligators. A tourist might now
spend half a year in this state, ana unless
he made persistent efforts he would not be
likely to see a wild alligator. The blue
heron is the only plume bird which is not
nearly exterminated, and that is because
the bird is very wary and the plumes aro
not very valuable. > The water turkeys,
curlews, whoopingcranes and flsh hawks
aro spared because there is no profit In
killing them.
The destruction of the ibis and white
heron is particularly mlsfortunate, because
one of their principal articles of diet is
small snakes.
The extermination of the plume birds and
alligators is so nearly complete that it is
not profitable to pursue them as constantly
as before, but enough will probably be
killed to keep them from increasing much.
This matter is attracting considerable at
tention, and it is possible that the legisla
ture may do something for the protection
of the birds.
MURDER NEAR JONESBORO.
A Dispute Over a Gama of Marbles
Costs a Negro His Life.
Jonesboro, Ga., June 22.—At Morrow's
Station, five miles north of here, yesterday
two negroes, Dick Alexander and Budd
Cotton, were playing marbles, and a dis
pute arose about the game. Alexander
drew his knife and Cotton ran from him,
but the former followed him, and Cotton,
seeing that he was iu danger, drew his
pistol and shot Alexander, from which he
died. Cotton skipped after he shot Alex
ander, but returned after Alexander died.
Warrants have been issued and placed in
the hands of Sheriff Hutchison, but no
arrests have been heard of.
SPAIN’S BUDGET,
A Proposal to Tar Interest os Loans
Voted Down.
Madrid, June 22.—The budget debate
lasted till 3 o’clock this morning. The
Cortes by a vote of 115 to 24 rejected the
protectionist proposal to levy a tax of 5 per
cent on the interest of Spanish and foreign
public loans held in Spam and a similar tar
on the bomls of railways and other securi
ties. At the dose of the debate the budget
was passed.
Crops at Macclenny.
Macclenny, Fla., June 22.—Crops,
especially corn and ootton, are looking un
usually well for this season, and the
acreage is considerably greater than last
year. Beaches will be a short crop for the
first time iu WW
BIOT IN A SMOKING CAR.
A Band of Nsgroes Terrorize a Pas
senger Train.
Macon, Ga., June 23. —Yesterday being
Saturday, the East Tennessee road offered
a special rate of one fare for the round trip
from l ocust Grove to Atlanta and return.
Over 100' negroes took advantage of the op
portunity and went to Atlanta to pass the
day. When they started home they were
all well loaded with bad whisky, aud each
man was also supplied with a jug of bran
new fiery warranted-to-raise-a-row corn
liquor.
Suddenly some angry words were ex
changed between two negro, s, and the balf
drunkeu mob at once developed into a Wild,
conglomerated mass of maniacs.
For a few moments blows only wore ex
changed. All at once, however, the report
of a pistol sounded through the car, followed
by a wild shriek of agony. Then every man
in the fight drew a pistol and a regular
fusillade oommenced.
The few white passengers who wero in the
oar fled at once to the oar next to it, but
when the bullets oommeucad to crash
through the windows that also was vaoate l,
and everybody orowded into the sleeper at
the end of the train. Finally, the train
commenced slowing down for the Locust
Grove station, and it was decided to wait
until help could be procured.
When the train came to a standstill‘the
smoking car was exactly in front of the
platform, and the frenzied negroes turned
their wrath from each other to the fright
ened passengers.
Without the slightest warning every win
dow on tho car toward the platform was
suddenly occupied by an armed darky and
a volley of bullets was poured into the
crowd.
In the meantime a number of the citizens
of Locust grove, with some of the passen
gers, had secured arms and they commenced
an organized attack on the car. As soon as
the negroes saw them approaching they fled
from the car and soattered in every direc
tion.
When it was evident that the battle was
over an account of the injured was taken.
It was found that the volley fired into tho
people on the platform had resulted in se
vere wounds having been received by two
white gentlemen. J. B. Cook was shot in
the head and W. M. Bassett had lost a toe,
a stray bullet having severed it from his
foot.
Terrible groans wero heard from the car
where the fight had taken place. When the
people entered It appeared empty, except
for a pair of legs which protruded from be
tween two seats. A closer examination,
however, showed that the legs belonged to
a dead negro, and between otner seats two
negroes wero found, one mortally woundod
and the other in a such a condition as to
make his recovery possible.
Tho white people wero not in a frame of
mind to waste much sympathy on the
wounded negroes. They were lifted on to
the platform, and as soon as the two
wounded white men were made comfort
able in the smoking car the train pulled out
for Macon.
A doctor found that Mr. Cook had been
struck a little over the left eye, and the
bullet had glanced round his head, tearing
his hat to pieces. His injury was Very
painful, but not dangerous.
When Mr. Bassott’s shoe was removed a
rattling sound was heard inside, and when
it was turned up his toe dropped out. The
doctor did not consider that he would be
permanently lamed.
No arrests were made, as all the negroes
who had been in the car scattered at once.
BLAIN BY A BLACK GAMBLER.
A White Man Bells Whteky at a Negro
Frolic and Is Killed.
Covington, Ga., June 22.— Homicides
are becoming common in this oounty.
Last night at Almond, four miles west of
Covington, the negroes had a frolic and Bob
Whatley (white) wont out and began
peddling whisky and gambling witli tho
blacks. Charley Glover, who perhaps was
a victim in tho game, said to W hatiey,
“ you, I will bill you,” ami
executedjhis threst by shooting h m throu. h
the back of his head, killing him instantly.
Glover is still at large.
TO PUMP OUT A POND.
The Last Resort in the Search for Miss
McMillan’s Body.
Pensacola, Fla., June 22.—Capt. An
gus McMillan, father of the young lady
who was drowned at Cbipley, telegraphed
here to-day for a steam fire engine, whioh
left at 5 o’clock by special train, with a
large supply of coal. The efforts of the
expert diver to find the body were without
effect, and they will now attempt to drain
the pond with the steam engine. The pa
rents of the unfortunate young lady are
almost crazed with grief, and it is feared
that if her body is not soon recovered the
effects of the shock will prove fatal to one,
if not both of them.
OOALA BEATS JACKSONVILLE.
•The Alliance and Industrial Union to
Meet In Ocala.
Jacksonville, Fla., June 22. A dis
patch from President Rogers of the Florida
Farmers’ Alliance, at present in Washing
ton, addressod to Hon. John F. Duun of
Ocala, is to the effect that the National
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
will hold its uext annual meetlug in Ocala
instead of in Jacksonville, as designated in
the vote of the national alliance at BU Louis
last December.
Two Negroes Shot.
Thomasville, Ga., June 22.—A number
of negroes who were gambling Friday night
got into a general row. One had a putol
and blazed away at his companions pro
miscuously. One of them was hit twice
and another once, neither seriously. Dr.
Mclntosh extracted the bullets and says a
flat key in one of the negroes’ trouser pockets
saved his life, as a bullet hit it and glanced
off, making a slight wound.
Surrender of a Man Killer.
Orlando, Fla., June 22.—1 t is stated on
good authority that Tom Bass has volun
tarily surrendered himself to the authorities
at Kissimmee. On July 10 he killed Bart
Johns at Turkey Hammock, about twenty
miles below Kissimmee, in a quarrel over
the ownership of two steers. Hass was at
one time sheriff of Osceola county.
Burglars at Macclenny.
Macclenny, Fla., June 22.—Burglars
attempted to enter the houses of three or
four citizens Friday night. At J. S. Hern
don’s they succeeded in effecting an entrance
and stole his gold watch ana some small
change that was in his trousers’ pocket. It
is thought they were negroes.
A Denial by Bismarck.
Berlin, June 22.—Prinoe Bismarck in the
Naehrichten denies the radical reports that
he would never enter the Reichstag and sup
port Chancellor von Caprlvi. He declares
that he would not accept a seat.if compelled
to oppose the government, though general
agreement with it would not prevent his
expressing deviating opinions when neces
sary.
ROUND ABOUT IN GOTHAM
WHAT IB TALKED OF DUBINQTHE
EARLY DOG DAYS.
Croker's Real Condition—Neurasthe
nia and Politics- The Labor Situa
tion—A Million for Strikes—Women
os Census Bumerators—Ths Smug
gling Dudes—Will tho City Absorb
Its Environs?
New York, June 2L— His trip to Eu
rope and his treatment at the lVieshaden
baths have lifted the shadow of death a
little from Richard Crokor, but the Tam
many chief is still a very sick man. It is of
less consequence to his family what ho shall
say to tho investigating committee iu reply
to the charges made by his brother-in-law,
McCaun, than that the stricken loader
should be left alone in peace and given
a chance for his lifo. I saw him for
a moment, threo days aftor his arrival.
To any one who knew him a year ago, and
who had marked his firm, springy stop and
the square-sot shoulders aud kiudhng eye
under the jetty brows, there was a story of
sudden deoay in the dull orbs, tbo puffy
face—though bronzed a trifle by tho sea
air—the trembling hands and the halting
and almost iufirin gait. It will be a sur
prise to many, who know all tho facts of
his condition, if Croker ever takes part in
another campaign.
Neurasthenia, the disease from which he
suffers, is declared by our loading inedioal
men to be peculiar to this oountry. It is
almost unknown abroad. Morever, it
afilicts only a certain class, 90 per oent. of
its victims being politicians, although it
occasionally seizes a groat speculator or
railroad king. Its victims are men on whose
shoulders lie great burdens of responsi
bility and who aro constantly under tho
harrow of a sovoro nervous strain, such
as is inseparable from political manage
ment. Lurge, easy, lymphatic men suc
cumb quite as speedily as thin, nervous
individuals; there seoms to he no discrimi
nation. The symptoms are irritation,
sleeplessness, chronic stomach weakness ami
lassitude, the sufferer after each attack
being as linm as “a wet rag,” and his nerves
all on edge, like tho machinery of a clock
that bos been Jarred. Disappointments and
successes or reverses affect tho victim
equally. Stubborn John Kelly died of
it; witty Sunset Cox’s demise was
hastened by the same insidious ailment; tbe
eloquent Oliver I*. Morton of Indiana,
Horuce Greeley, Johnny O’Brien, Ltau
Manning and Robert Uarrott, all displayed
in a marked degree the symptoms of the
disease that is tbe forerunner of paralysis,
unless checked by proper treatment and an
absolute withdrawal from all excitement.
Blaine had a touch of it, too, at one time;
hut had the strength of will to pull up in
time to save himself. Thoso who suffer
uncomplainingly, and who try to shake it
off by plunging into still deeper oxelto
mont, never round out their lives. Such is
tho verdict of science regarding this strange
malady that affects only political liosses ami
money magnates. Of course Croker may
recover. Ho is still a comparatively young
mau—much younger than Houry D. Purroy,
his rival in Tammauy, who is similarly
afllicted, and who has also beeu compelled
to “pull out” of politics for a time. But a
man of his dogged nature would rather die
than be put ou the shelf just as lie had
reached the hight of his ambition.
Crokor, like l’urroy, is a mau who has no
scruples in politics, and who is intensely
jealous at any blow at his influence in his
own fashion. It is this jealousy more than
the ponding investigation that has brought
him home, almost at the poril of bis Ufo.
Tbe Tammany loaders from Tweed’s time
till now have all been men of this narrow
moral stripe, whose ruling passion has been
to make their personal influence paramount.
This is the very essence of the “one man
power” in New York politics—a condition
that carries with it the elements
of ultimate defeat. When a mau sets
up for a boss he invites attack
from every quarter, but more particularly
from his own organization, and it is from
thence, aud not from the legitimate foe,
thut his deathblow comes. Croker has no
fear whatever of investigation. Whatever
tho result, it would only affect him os it
augmented or destroyed his influence in
Tammany. A long political career makes a
man obtuse morally with greater certainty
than anything else in this world. At the
worst, if driven into retirement, he will he
very far from a “poor man,” for the last ton
years of his lifo have been improved so well
that he will be quite aide to live the rest of
his natnral existence without any danger of
liecoming a charity patient, as some few
noted local politicians have done before him.
Census Superintendent Charles H. Mur
ray, iu hit efforts to oount tho million and
thiee-quartort of people in this big town,
has been having lots of fun, and particu
larly with bis staff of women enumerators.
Thu old adage that woman is her own bit
terest foe has been comically illustrated a
score ot times in tho experiences of these
census ladies. There were about a dozen of
them altogether, aud every one, without ex
ception, hail a parrot-and-rnoakoy time of
it iu the district she was canvassing. A
few went about it dressed in plain business
styles; but there were others who thought
their temporary commissions from Uucle
Sam afforded tho opportunity to shine
rosplendent and dazzle the eyes of those un
fortunate other folks they were to enumer
ate. So thoy went at ft rigged out in the
swollost way'and determined to carry their
districts by a tour do force.
One of these swell enumerators was a
dashing blonde of English extraction. She
was to canvass a certain district on the oast
side,not at all an aristocrats ouarter, either.
She came upon the place like a sunburst
aud fairly took away the breath from the
Italians and Germans in tbe tenements,
who sot her down successively as a bogus
directory worker, a book canvasser, and a
pretty DuncoUt. She had a hard time of
it, and cried a good deal after tho first
day’s work, but she stuck to it. Indeed,
all the women did. Another is a smart
young person, who had till a few weeks ago
been employed by a firm as canvasser for a
volume of war stories, which she had man
aged very artfully to sell to nearly every
politician at tbe city hall and to a large
number of susceptible brokers on Wall
street as weiL She bod a very exciting
time of it, and I suppose hers is a fair
sample of the experience of tho other pettl
coated enumerators.
"The only trouble was with the women,”
she explained to me. “There were a good
many stores and offices in my district, aud
at the*e I was treated vory nicely by their
owners, most of tbe gentlemen filling out
the blanks for me. But invading tho resi
dence part of tbe district I found to be
altogether another matter. The first lady
I encountered told me I ought to tie
‘ashamed of myself,’ and although I showed
her my commission she evidently
decided that I was a fraud. At cue
place I found three ladies making
merry over a lunch. They insisted that I
should sit down and join them, and tell
them all about the other ladies on the block,
and when I declined, thoy wero indignant,
and I got the facts after a sharp tuxsel. To
a sweet-faced German lady I had to explain
all about tbe census. ‘The government
u umbers you every tea yours,’ 1 said. ‘O,
but I haven't been here ten years yet,’ she
insisted. ‘Your age, next birthday, if y. u
pleasei’ I inquired. ‘l’m 22.’ Then you’il
be 23 next birthday!’ ‘O, hut that will be a
l-o-u g time,’ she rospoiuleil. An elderly
woman, who seemed to be all alone In her
great house, was indignant when tasked her
whether she hid any acute or chronic dis
ease, aud naked me sharply if I meant to
insult her ‘L -cause she had two false front
teeth.' I oould not find it in my heart to
put the question whether or not they had
ever been in jail. I quickly learned to de
tect divorced peoplo. Tho women would
hesitate and say: ‘Well, put me dowu
single; I suppose that will do. ‘But you
have beeu married, have you not?’ I per
sisted. When such a woman glared at me
and asked what the next question was ou
the list, she went dowu as divorced. I
found the test iutallihle.”
There is a terrible flutter among the
anglomauiacH and howling swells just now
over the heart-breaking disclosures of smug
gling London-uiado clothes through the
custom house iu defiance of Uncle Sam’s
revenue laws. So extensive has tbe prac
tice twci>me of late that the morohaut tailors
who formerly supplied swelldom with its
clothes have lieen in despair over the traffic
that was ruining their business.
But the girls do these things in a touch
olovorer way thau the men! For ail toe
oceans of lace, the mountain* of silks, and
the rivers of diamonds that are brought
over the blue sea every fall with tbe back
flowing tide of summer tourists, there is a
mere fraction of reveuue [laid to tho govern
ment. Nobody susp-'Cts the demure-iook
ing girl, with tho soft peaches of maiden
hood still hanging on her cheeks, of
defrauding the customs; hut site does,
tho sly puss I Once iu awhile a clumsy
matron who has loaded hersolf dowu with
onough goods to stock a Broadway dry
goods or millinery counter gets caught and
stripped of her contraband belongings by
tho Rharp-eyed aud deft-fingerod women
searchers; but not 1 per cent, of tho women
who mako smuggling a merry adventure
every time thoy cross tho ooeau is ever de
tected.
None aro more astonished than tho labor
leaders themselves at tbe progress made by
the eight-hour movement since May 1, the
day of the great parade. At the outset
very few trades wore disposed to embark
wholly upon the recommendation of the
Federation of Labor; but the success of the
few emboldened the rest, and the prospect
now is that iu the near future there will be
aa avalanche of strikes such as
the oldest labor agitator in the
country cannot remember. Success is
inaxiug the trados restive under restraint,
and they will hardly wait for the pro
gramme of the federation, which con
templates the strike of one trade
at a time, hanked by all, the ma
chinery, moral support ami money
influence of the confederated trades, to
Help it to win a victory. The eight-hour
idea, which only a yenr ago was discussed
among labor mon at their councils and
docidod to be impracticable, is infectious
aud threatens to seize all the trades not
already “in tho .movement,” as Prescient
Gotnpers expresses it, long before the
summer is ended. Hardly a sum
mer passes without half a
dozen or more strikes taking place, so this
is nothing now; but there aro already five
big strikes iu actual ; regress, involving
thousands of operatives, and partially
stagnating the building industries that have
their harvest iu the hot season. There are
sympathetic strikes under way iu Maine,
Rhode Islam!, Massachusetts, District of
Columbia, Connecticut, Tennessee, Penn
sylvania, Now Jersey, Oregon,
Wisconsin and Ohio. Tho four
weeks of strike have already cost the
trades very nearly $300,000; hut there is
a constant influx of funds to an extent that
docs not lesson the quarter million of dollars
in the treasuries ot the trades involved.
Before the eight hour day oau bo said to be
an accomplished fact—even supposing that
all the trades win as easily as those that
have already struck—it will have cost the
unions over a million dollars, as the move
ment cannot ruu its c >urse earlier than
September. Tho ability to conduct a strike
movement demanding so large au outlay is
somethlug unheard ot in labor organiza
tions.
If tho scheme for consolidating New
York, Brooklyn and the suburbs of both
oities into one great metropolis should ever
he carriod through, Gotham will then rank
next to I’aris among tho great capitals of
the world. There ore in round numbers
1,800,000 souls in Manhattan Island, 800,000
in Brooklyn, possibly 200,000 more on Long
Island and 100,000 in the yet unannexeu
portion of Westchester beyond the city
limits. This would bring the total
population to something very near
3,000,000. But the plan, which
is an old one, though very attractive and
not without it* advantages, will probably
fail for the reason that has blocked It in
the post. Tbo rurals have no liking for the
tax rate of the great oitioe. It is, for them
at least, a positive advantage to be con
tiguous to the big cities and yet not a sharer
of their burdens, although a fair participant
in their benefits. The half huudredor more
suburbs that have live 1 ami fattened off
Now York aro oontonted to be let alone,
incorporation means to them an in
c. ease of taxation proportionate with
the increase in values. Thoy aro
not at all duzzled by the prospect of being
citizens of the greatest metropolis of the
future. The annexation scheme is an old
acquaintance, having been first mooted by
Andrew H. Green, formerly controller of
New York some twenty-five years ugo.
From time to time it came to the surface,
only to be driven down again by tbe un
yielding opposition of those who very
sensibly believed that the time hadn’t yet
arrived for the city to gobble up its en
virons, as Loudon is gradually doing. But
Gotham must always have some pretty idea
to toy with, and since it could not have the
world's fair, it has apparently decided
to take up the consolidation foil as a mid
summer consolation —a pleasant wav of
dreaming, during the dog days, of sea
washed wards and precincts and mountain
girt boundaries, with an unrivaled vista of
speculative possibilities for the capitalist,
and no end of fun, right in town, for the
pleasure-denying stay-at-homes. But the
ghost of quadrupled taxes will probably
frighten off annexation for another decade
at least. Yet it is probably a fair predic
tion that the New York of 1900 will have
3,500,000 souls, 100 aldermen, a dozen East
and North river bridges aud a chance for
official boodlers unequaled in two hemis
pheres.
Thomas County Candidates.
Thomahville, Ga., June 22.—The fol
lowing gentlemen have been mentioned as
candidates for tho legislature from Thomas
county: A. T. Mclntyre, Jr., Robb Alex
ander, 8. G. McLendon. A. R. Jones, N. R.
Sprengler, W. B. Hambleton, Nat Turner,
Leon Neal, J. M. Parker, Allen Bullock, J.
A. Pope and A W. Ivey. The alliance
meets on July 3to settle the matter. AU
the candidates now await the action of the
alliance, whoso recommendation wUI
amount to a nomination.
Brazil's New Constitution,
Rio de Janeiro, June 221—President da
Fonseca signed the new constitution at the
ministerial dinner given to-night. Tbe text
of the constitution was approved at the
cabinet council yesterday.
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ORPAIFS TURNING BACK.
RUTH’S BRA VARY IN CLINGING TO
NAOMI.
The Timid Daughter-In-Law’s Action
an Illustration of the Course Fol
lowed by Many Starting Out on the
Road to Salvation—Talmage Paints
the Moral in a Vivid Word Painting.
Brooklyn, June 23.— Dr. Talmage gave
another evidence of his genius in bis sermon
to-day. The book of Ruth has furnished
the subject for many sermons, but they
have naturally be-n concerned with the cen
tral character of that boau iful story; it
remained for the popular Brooklyn divine
to find in tho character of the leas conspicu
ous widow material for spiritual lessons.
His text is Ruth 1, 14: "And they lifted
up their voices and wept, and Urpah kissed
her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto
h er." Following is the sermon:
Moah was a heathen land. Naomi is
about to leave it anil go into the land of
Bethlehem. She has two daughters-in-law,
Ruth anil Orpah, who conclude to go with
her. Naomi tells them thoy had better nott
loave their native lund and unde: take the
hardship of the Journey, hut they will not
be porsuaded. They all three start out on
their journey. After awhile Naomi, aU
though she highly prized the company of
her two daughters-iu-law, attempted again
to persuade them to go back because of the
hardship and self-denial through which they
would be obliged to go. Ruth responds la
tho words from which I onoe discoursed to
you: “Entreat mo not to leave thee, nor to
return from following aftor thee, for
where thou guest I will go, and where thoa
lodgest I will lodge, thy peoplo shall bo my
people anil thy God my God, where thou
diest will 1 die asul there will I be buried,
the iiord do so to me anil more also If aught
but death part thee and me.” Not so with
hor sister Orpah. Her determination had
already Ixieti shaken. Tho length and peril
of the Journey begnn to appall her, and she
had worshiped the gods of M tali so long
that it was hard to give them up. From
that point Orpah turned back, tho parting
being described in tho words of my text:
And they lifted up their voice ami wopt
again, and Uriah kissed her mother-in-law,
hilt Ruth clave unto her.
Learn from this story of Orpah that
some of those who do not leavo the Moah of
their iniquities are persons of fine suscepti
bility. It was compassion for Naomi in
her widowhood anil sorrow that led Orpah
to start with her toward Bethlehem. It
was not because of any lack of affection for
her that she turned back. We know this
from tho grief exhibited at parting. I do
not know hut that she had as much warmth
and ardor of nature as Ruth, hut she lacked
the courage and persistence of her
sister. That there are many with as
title susceptibility as Orpah who will
not take up their cross and fol
demonstration. Many of tbuse who have
become tho followers of Jesus have hut very
little natural impressibility. Grace often
takes hold of the hardest heart and tho meet
unlovely character aud transforms it. It is
a hammer that break" rocks. In this Christ
often shows Ids power. It wants hut little
genoraUhip to conquer a flat country, but
might of artillery and heroism to take a
fort manned and ready for raking cannon
ade. The groat captain of our salvation has
forced his way into many an armed castle.
I doubt not that Christ could have found
many a fisherman naturally moro noble
hearted than Simon Peter, but there
was no one by whose con
version he oould more gloriously
have magnified HU grace. The conversion
of a score of Johns would not have illus
trated tho power of the Holy Ghost as
much as the conversion of one Peter. It
would have beeu easier to drive twenty
lambs like John into the fold than to tame
one lion like Peter. God has often made
some of his most efficient servants out of
men naturally unimpressionable. As men
take stiff and unwieldy timbers, and under
huge-handed machinery bend them into the
hull( of great ships, thus God has often
shaped and bent into His norvien the most
unwieldy natures, while thoso naturally
impressionable are still in their unchanged
state.
O, how many, like Orpah, have warm
affoctions and yet never bacomo Christians!
Like Orpah, they know how to weep, but
they do not know how to pray. Their fine
ness of feeling leads them into the friend
ships of the world, but not into communion
with God. They can love everybody but
him, who is altogether lovely. All other
sorrow rends their heart, but they are un
touchod by the woes of a dying Christ.
Good news fills them with excitement, bat
the glad tidings of great joy and salvation
stir not their soul. Anxious to do what is
right, yet they rob God. Grateful for tho
■lightest favors, they make no return
to him who wruug out the last
drop of blood from his heart to deliver
them from going down to the pit. They
would weep at the door of a prison at the
sight of a wicked captive iu chains, but
have no compassion for their own soul* ovor
which Hatan, like a grim jailer, holds the
lock and key. When repulsivo, grasping,
unsympathetic natures resist the story of a
savior’s love, it does not excite our sur
prise; but it is among the greatest of won
ders that so many who exhibit Orpah’s
susceptibility also exhibit Orpah’s irapeni
tency. We are not surprised that there is
barretiess in a desert, but a strange thing Is
it that sometimes the Rose of Sharon will
not grow In a garden. On a summer mom
lug we aro not surprised to find a rock
without any dew ou it, but if, going among
a flock of lilies, we saw in them no glitter
ing drops, we would say: "What foul
sprite has been robbing these vases f” We
are not surprised that Herod did not be—
ootne a obristiau, but how strange that the
young man Jesus loved for his sweetness of
temper should not have loved the redeemer.
Hard-hearted Felix trembled, proud Nebu
chadnezzar repented, ana cruel Mauaiseh
turned unto tho Lira; but many a nature,
affectionate and gentle, bos fought success
fully against divine influences. Many a
dove ha* refused to come in the window of
tho ark, although finding no rest for the
sole of her foot.
Again, the history of Orpah impresses
upon me the truth that there are many who
make a good starting, but after awhile
change their minds and turn back. When
these three mourners start from their home
in Moab there is a* much probability that
Orpah will reach Bethlehem as that her sis
ter Ruth and her motbor-in-law Naomi
will arrive there. But while these continue
in the journey they coinmeueel, Orpah
after awhile get* discouraged and turns
back. This is the history of mauy a soul.
Perhaps it wa during a revival of religion
they resolved upon a Christian life, and
made preparations to leave Moab. Before
that they were indifferent to the sanctuary,
churches were necessary evils. The minister
almost always preached poor sermons, be
cause they had not tne heart to bear
them. They thought the bread was uot
good because their appetite was poor. Re
ligion did very well for invalids aud the
aged, but they had no desire for it. Sud
denly a change came upon their souL They
found that something must be done. Every
night there was a thorn in their pillow.
There was gall in their wine. They found
that their {Measure* were only false lights
of a swamp that rise out of decay and
death. Losing their self-control they were
