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, THE MORNING NEWS. I
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| J. H. F.STILL, President. j
VAN ALEX STAYS AT HOME.
He Declines to Accept the Ambassa
dorship to Italy.
Bather Than Be Placed in a False Po
sition Before the Public by His Crit
ics, He Declines the Office Presidagit
Cleveland Requests Him to Recon
sider His Determination—Mr. Van
Alien Writes That His Decision Is
Final.
New York, Dec. 3.—The following coi£
respondence, which is self-explanatory,
was given out here for publication to-day:
Newport. K. 1.. Nov. 'JO. 1893.—H0n. Walter
q. ore-flam. Secretary ol State-Sir: 1 have
the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of Oct. 38, in which you oftieially notify
m,. that the Pres.dont. by and with the advice
sne, consent of the Senate, has appointed me
ambassador to Italy.
since the receipt of your letter 1 have given
the matter m,v most serious ami careful at-
Iteation. and. as the result of my reflections,
hi,v- concluded to ask you to express to the
President my decision not to accept the office
lei. a red me.
1 must beg that you will not infer from this
action any lack of appreciation on my part of
th honor conferred. On the contrary, 1
fully comprehend the dignity, imoortunee
and responsibility of the position and. having
this realization, I may frankly add. that the
nomination was extremely gratifying to me—
not in a personal sense merely, but more par
ticularly because of the opportunity affording
of representing my country in .such a manner
a* i hoped might be satisfactory to the
American people and creditable to the ad
m.nist ration.
Among the comments upon my nomination
which appeared in the public press, one
ch ug only merits attention; not because It
was rue. hut because it was, ami I suppose,
still is believed bv many persons unfamiliar
v.th the individual* concerned, and the facts
essential to the formation of an accurate
Judgment.
The charge was. that I received the nppoint
tr. uit In return for a contribution of ssJ,uuu to
the democratic national campaign fund.
Wi.i.i iny nomination was pending in the
sea,itc. it did not seem fitting and proper for
nil- to offer more than an explicit denial. I
va-auare that, as an interested party, my
statement would have little effect beyond the
limits of my personal acquaintance. Now. how
ever, when my action can not be fairly
attributed to purely seltlsh motives, it seems
tu me that a repetition of that denial, which
1 make without qualification, should be suffi
cient for any honorable man. 1 have never
denied and do not now deny, that I contrib
uted to the campaign fund—not $50,000. Init
yet a considerable sum of money. Sincerely
t ebevtng, as 1 did, that a continuation of re
publican supremacy would be the only
hindrance to national progress, but
In line- a positive menace to the success of
popular government, and, having large inter
• -:> ar stake, I was impelled, by loth patri
ot:, and seltish reasons, to aid the democratic
cause, J did not do so until I had made my
se f famiiiar with the methods of the cam
i:' - : as conducted by thonationaldemocratic
committee. I visited the, democratic heud
(,carters and was astonished at the great
work being done. An expenditure, in large
proportions, was being made to bring home
to the American people the truths upon
which 1 believed the welfare of the country
depended. Hundreds of speakers, too poor
to pay their own expenses, wore being helped
to do a patriotic duty by the national commit
tee. and a vast amount of literature was being
distrlnuted free to a waken the public mind
on the questions pending in the campaign.
The Democratic party had not been favored
in this respect, and was ooliged to rely upon
Individuals for the necessary financial assist
ance Hence my contribution. It was bv no
means the first time I had assisted the party
since Mr. Cleveland's aggressive leadership
aroused my admiration, and I do not hesitate
to say that, if it shall again seem to be my
I llu tv as a citizen desirous of the best govern-
I ni ™ l ; it will not be the last. So far from
■ attaching undue importance to it. I was
limy aware that the contribution meant far
J less to tne than the time and effort devoted bv
: thousands of unselfish clti. eus to the same
I campaign Nor did 1 believe that it should
; entitle me to any consideration. On the con
trary. i have not only admitted, but have
positively insisted at all times that it created
no obligation to me whatever, und I feel
I contidi’nt that the President, who, in fact.
a- kind enough to say to the democrats of
I haoile Island that his personal acquaintance
I " !i mi enabled him to consider my eandi-
I o m " oltly Ulxm its merits, will hear' me out
in this assertion.
J'n thD other hand. I frankly admit, that,
uni.i after the appointment had been made.
• ' ver once occurred to my mind that my
imitniiuticn could be used to my injury. I
Kw.v add that, although I have endeavored to
7 ; without bias, the arguments which
miv i e n advanced, I cannot even now per
cue that it is any less creditable or
patriotic for one to aid with his meins
a 1m which he believes than with his
' pen. But, whatever may be the cor
, conclusion regarding the ethics of the
; !!“' 'act remains that u large number of
m\ tt-umv citizens have been led, either by
'° " Donee of circumstance or by false
n tr, look upon my appointment as in
'Un' nay inconsistent with the professions
I,! ‘ he Democratic party. and the
IJ, f r 111 s personal high ideas of
,■ s °rv;ce. By these critics
I*. ai.y my fitness for the position has been
0 . i-l.v conceded, but the fact of my con
li-.m ‘iv 1 , to tlle campaign fund has been
■ red as making it improper for me to
'-V th s appointment. IJo not think that
I;.' • ! "•>' remove this impression from the
■ th.- many right minded and thought
■ ; ‘"'"pie, whose judgment, I frankly admit,
■ possibly be correct.
1 1 events it is clear that I placed myseir
■ lf * ri| .se position with reference to this
| ;• did appointment. Acceptance of the
I”;:'' ;:tld make me appear willing, for the
■ Personal gratiticatton, to my discredit
■7, ’ '“dills of many of the political parly to
■ , - 1 i am attached, to bring undeserved re
1, 7 u *ke administration which has lion
■ ; o and whose success I earnestly desire.
■ the 7. e ' Beams to me sufficient to add
■ ", I respect compels me to adopt the
|. ••. "i-nattve. and to decline the hi Mi office
■ |, ’ 1 “ I have been appointed.
■ kt. v, ‘ !ht ‘honor to be, sir. your obedient
, n J. J. Van alkn.
' '-kVEf.AKD ASKS HIM TO RECONSIDER.
' 'flowing reply was sent to tlie above
■ ;• P.v President Cleveland:
■i-7 7 , /' iv<; mansion. Washington. Nov. 2.’,
Ic Hon. J. ,T. Van Alen: My Dear Sir —Tne
li. V.' ,J , r y, ot State has submitted to me your
Itep .7, t!le . I not., in which you ten
■ , |ar resignation as amhassudor to Italy.
■7 7'" to express my earnest wish that you
■, , consider this conclusion. The senti-
H "Utained in your letter do credit to
Hj. science and Americanism, tut you
show me to dissent from their ap
■7„"‘f' 11,11 >n this case. 1 did not select
H 7. , ' “odiination to the Ltaliau mission
Ht satisfying myself of your entire tit
"r, ’he place. 1 ant now lietter con
'■ your iitness than ever. You know.
. that all the malignant criticism
Hi , . " "ecu indulged in. regarding this ap
■L : ''at has no justification, and that the
H,ri ,7 i P fio I )1 who have doubted its pro.
. "ave been misled or have missed the
Kv,.' , considerations, upon which tt rests.
■3 ud not yield to the noise and clamor
■I na\,. arisen from those conditions.
. , " r '"'ial preference should enter very
k :i , ' " ll, > your llnul determination, imt so
K.. .. Vf : such preferenee.it is emphati
§ " v,) " accept the honorable office con
ii,:. ' “ban you. and vindicate by the dls
[■ ,-7 ~ lls duties, the wisdom and pro
■ '.our selection. Waiting your early
I ‘ lam yours sincerely.
I ... Grover Cleveland.
|jj e j,:' i , u ! c President's request Mr. Van Allen
y ; "P',rt. RI. Nov. 38, 1893.—T0 the Presi
' r—l have the honor to acknowledge
: C' lpt of your letter of Nov. 32. In reply.
• a-•, t,lll nk you most sincerely and
for the very kind and flattering
.. ts you express. For the reusons I
•' ...‘IJ! , v . stated, in my letter to the
nb V ry s ’ at ®. and which were reached
: serious conside.au,>n of tie sub
B-t: , 7 ■“ l 1 cannot accept the high of
,[ ' fl’c“ 1 have been appointed. Mv ontl.y
gPj )t
regret in this decision, which I must beg you
to consider as tinal. is that it is contrary to
the personal preference which vou so kindly
express. But 1 cannot think it would be ad
vlsable forme to invite further misrepresen
tation by taking advantage of vour gener
osity.
Again, thanking you for your most gracious
words, and with an earnest hope for the con
tinuance of the successes which have already
mark ed your second admin stratioh. 1 beg to
remain, sir, with much respect, your obedi
ent servant, J. J. Van Allen.
LONDON’S ANARCHISTS.
The Police Break Up the Proposed
Meeting in Trafalgar Square.
London, Dec. 3.—The London anarchists
tried to hold a meeting in Trafalgar
square to-day despite the refusal of the
home secretary to grant permission. A
large force of mounted and unmounted
police was present to disperse them.
At 1! o’clock a few of the anarchist
leaders gathered at the pedestal of the
Nelson column to confer as to the pro
gramme. Most of the crowd in the
square, however, were not anarchists, but
merely curious spectators, who hud gath
ered in expectation of seeing a shindy.
The police kept the crowd moving and
cleared the roadways. Shortly after 3
o'clock Samuels, Nicolla, Presburg and
about 300 other anarchists arrived and
mingled with the small crowd near the
column.
NO SPEECHES PERMITTED.
Several anarchists attempted to speak
but they were hustled away by the police.
Despite the comparative absence of ex
citement the crowd continued to grow
until the approaches of the square were
densely packed, but the anarchists there,
as on the square were a very small minor
ity.
The mounted police trotted around,
clearing the roadways as the throng in
creased, and the unmounted police were
kept busy moving on the crowd around
the monument. At 4:15 o'clock a con
certed effort was made and the men in
the square were forced back on all sides
into the roadway. The anarchists cheered
a little as they retreated. They began
dispersing at once and by 5 o’clock the
square and its approaches were clear.
ITALY’S CABINET.
A Ministry Selected From Members of
the Left Almost Completed.
Rome, Dec. 3. —A cabinet selected from
members of the Deft has been almost
completed. The list reported this eve
ning is:
Premiership and interior, Giuseppe Zan
ardelli.
Finance, Paola Boselli.
Treasury, Pietro Vaacchellio.
Public works, Alessandro Fertis.
Education, Niccoio Gallo.
Agriculture, Francesco Coceu-Ortu or
Guido Banneccelli.
Posts and Telegraphs. Baron De liiseio.
Gen. Barttieri, governor of the Red Sea
colony, is regarded as the man for the
ministry of foreign affairs.
No selections have been made yet for
the ministers of war and justice.
AS KAXOtaMUT. MANIFESTO.
An extremist manifesto, signed by
thirty deputies, was published this even
ing. It contains a hot attack upon ex-
Premier Giolitti and his ministers
as responsible for the wrecked
condition of the state finances. The
socialists cannot support any cabinet
of similar tendencies, the manifesto says.
Further taxes are represented as impos
sible. The revision of the bank laws and
immediate retrenchment in the depart
ments and at the palace are demanded.
This retrenchment must effect a saving,
the thirty deputies say, of at least 101),-
000,000 lire a year.
The Naples Courier reiterates the report
that King Humbert intends to forego
3,000,000 lire of his civil list.
A HISTORICAL MANSION.
It Will Be Offered for Sale Soon.
Double Wedding.
Washington, Ga., Dec. 3. At the Meth
odist church Thursday Misses Julia and
Kate Anthony were married to Mr. Wylie
Dußose and Mr. Kimball Wilhurst. The
church was exquisitely decorated with
wild smilax and chrysanthemums. A
handsome reception was given the bridal
party by the parents of the brides.
A thanksgiving hunt ended fatally for
a negro boy here named Joeißr.van. His
gun was accidentally discharged and the
load passed through his head. He died
at 1 o'clock on the same night.
Mr. Will Tatham, who o wns a gold
mine on Little river, was in town this week
and went down to his mine. He is now
interested in gold mining in Montana.
W. A. Pope has a sow of the “Jersey
Red” variety, which lately presented him
with twenty-eight fine healthy pigs.
This breaks the record.
The sale of the old Heard property will
take place in January. This is the his
toric mansion in which the last meeting
of the confederate cabinet took place.
A small colored child, daughter of Ed
Hill, a shoemaker, was burned to death
here one day last week.
DRIVEN TO DEATH BY LOOSES.
A Texas Business Man Wounds His
Wife and Commits Suicide.
Palestine, Tex.. Dec. 3.—This morning
about 3 o’clock a woman's shrieks sum
moned neighbors to the home of O. B.
Sawyer, where they found him dead and
his wife badly wounded. Mrs. Sawyer
i stirs her husband awoke her and after a
I recital of his business troubles.
I took a pistol and shot her in
| the left breast. She sprang from
| the bed and he shot her again. She then
attempted to wrest the weapon from his
grasp, but he placed the muzzle to his own
! head ami sent two bullets crashing
through it, dying almost instantly. Saw
yer was one of Palestine’s most highly re
spected citizens, but of late has been un-
I fortunate in financial transactions. He
1 told his wife he could not face the dis
grace he was in and did not want her to
survive to hear It.
ROBBERS BOARD A TRAIN.
A Hitch in Starting it Made Them
Take to Their Heels.
Bolton, Tex., Dec. 3.—News has just
reached here of an unsuccessful attempt
to rob a southbound Missouri. Kansas and
Texas passenger train at Little River
switch, twelves miles from here. The train
stopped there to put off some passengers,
and two masked and armed men got
on the engine and ordered the engineer
to pull out. This he attempted to do, but
as the passengers had not all left the
train the conductor put on the brakes
and stopped the train. Seeing this the
would-be robbers, thinking that there
might be armed guards on board, got off
ana took to the woods. Detectives arc
working on the case.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1893.
ECKELS AND THE BANKS.
Tiie Controller of the Currency Makes
His Annual Report.
A Total of 3,796 Banks in Operation
at the Close of the Fiscal Year.
Their Capital Stock $095,658,120.
Their Total Resources $3,109,663,-
284 In the Same Period 159 Banks
Suspended, of Which 86 Resumed.
The Clearing House Certificates.
Washington. Dec. 3. —The annual report
of James H. Eckels, controller of the cur
rency, which will be submitted directly
to congress to-morrow, differs from for
mer reports, in that no tables appear in
the body of the text. It shows 3,706
national banks to have been in operation
at the close of the fiscal year, with a cap
ital stock of SOUT>,S.VU3O, represented by
7,450,000 shares, held by 300,000 share
holders.
At the last rejiort of condition the total
resources of the banks then in operation
was *3.109,588,284.
The total amount of circulation was on
Oct. 31, $200.311.003. a net increase during
the year of $38,886,972.
During the year 119 banks were organ
ized in thirty-two states and territories,
with a capital stock of $11.330.0)0.
Within the same period 158 banks sus
pended with a capital of $30.3(X',(X!0. Of
this number eighty-six, with a capital
stock of gIS,3SO.iKXi. resumed, and sixty
five passed into the hands of receivers
with a capital stock of *10,883,000. At
the close of the year seven remained in
the charge of examiners, pending resump
tion.
'J he aggregate resources or liabilities
on Oct. 3, 1892, the date of the last report
of condition, compared with those of
Sept. 30, 1892, Vycre $400,531,813 less.
TIIE POLICY OF LENIENCY.
Upon the question oT the suspensions of
national banks during the year, the con
troller says:
With a full knowledge of the general
solvency of these institutions and the causes
which brought about their suspensions, the
polity was inaugurated of giving hanks,
which under ordinary circumstances would
not have closed, where the management had
been honest, an opportunity to resume busi
ness. This policy was one which seemed to
commend itself to the controller as proper
to pursue under the circumstances, and it is
believed the result has justified the experi
ment of its adoption.
in no instance has a lank been permitted to
resume on money borrowed, or for which as
an association it has become liable. When
ever those active in the management resum
ing, either as executors, officers or directors
have been debtors, their indebtedness has
been paid or secured, and when
ever impairment of the capital stock
has existed such impairment has been
made good either by voluntary or enforced
assessments on the shareholder. Hi a num
ber of Instances changes have been made in
the directory and official corps of the bank,
't he one general criticism, however, to be
made upon the management of these banks
was the proper dminbiition-of their -drums, a
circumstance which greatly retarded the ton
version of such loans into cash, und thereby
causing suspension.
CLKAIUNO HOUSE CEBTIFJCATES.
The matter of clearing house loan certi
ficates is briefly discussed. Upon this
subject the controller says:
Briefly stated, they were temporary loans
made by the banks in each city issuing them,
associated together as a clearing house asso
ciation, to the members of such association,
and were availaule to such bunks only for the
purpose of settling balances due from this to
each other, these balances under normal con
ditions of business being always settled in
coin or currency.
At a time when vast sums of coin and cur
rency were being withdrawn,from the l nnks
to be hoarded, these loan certificates, hy per
forming the functions of currency or coin to
the legimate and current demand of business,
unquestionably p aced it in the power of the
banks in the cities named to extend to out
side tanks the aid needed on the one hand,
and on the other liberally extended. In no
instance were these certificates designed to
nor did they circulate as money. They were
but due Mils and their sole, function
consisted in the discharge o. the single obli
gation at the clearing ho; sj An attempt on
the p trt of any bank in any of the associa
tions issuing these certificates to use them
otherwise would have incurred a fine ami
other penalties provided in the
rules governing such associations
Their issuance at an early date
in the financial derangement of the country
was most opportune in not only preventing
an acute panic, but in tending to restore pub
lic confidence, such action demonstrating
that with the mutual agreement of all, the
weak banks of the association would be, so
far as depositors and other creditors were
concerned, as strong as tho strongest.
In inaugurating the issuing of certificates
so promptly, and in issuing them to so large
an amount, the clearing house assot iation oi
New York particularly rendered the country
great service, and the associated bunks of
that city aro entitled to the credit which the
public generally accords them.
CHANGES IN THE I.AW.
The following amendments to the law
are recommended:
1. That ete.y association may issue' circu
lating notes equal to the par value of bonds
deposited.
2. That the semi-annual duty on circulation
be so reduced as to equal one-fourth of one
per cent.
That the controller of the currency, with
the approval of the Secretary of the Trea
sury. t.e cm powered to remove office! sand di
rectors of a Dan t So- violation or the law,
first giving such officers and directors an op
portunlty 10 be heard, leaving the vacancy so
created to be tilled in the usual way.
4. That no executive officer of a’bank, or
employe thereof, be permitted to borrow
funds of such bank in any manner, except
upon applieat ion to anu approval by the board
of directors.
5. That the assistant cashier, in the ab
sence or inability of the cashier of a national
bank to act, be authorized and empowered to
sign the circulating notes of such bank.
ti. That the law be amended by appropriate
legislation so a- to empower some class of
public officers to administer the general
oaths required by the provisions of the bank
note act.
7. That bank examiners be required to take
an oath of office before entering upon the dis
charge of their duties, and to give a bond in
such amount and with such securities as the
controller of the currency may require.
8. i hat the controller of the currency, with
the approval of the Secretary of the t reas
ury, may be empowered to appoint two gen
eral examiners of considerable ability and
experience, to be paid out of the reimburs
able funds, whoso duty it shall be to visit, as
sist and supervise the various examiners m
their several districts. In order to secure uni
formity in method and greater efficiency Id
Work.
9. That the law lie so amended as to provide
that thecompensatlon of all hank examiners
be fixed by the controller of the currency with
the approval of the secretary.
OtlltltENCY LEGISLATION.
Upon the subject of currency legislation
is the following:
The controller has been urged to make some
specific recommendation with respect to a re
vision of the law so far as it pertains to the
Issuing of currency. After a careful consld
eration of the question, the controller is of
the opinion, aside from the amendments
heretofore suggested, that the putdic good
will be best subserved at this time by making
no radical change in the provisions
Of the law as it stands. The financial situa
tion of tiie past mo: t’is was not the result of
citner a lacs in the volume of the currency,
of which there is u plethora, nor a want of
elasticity in the uresent system of Issuing it,
but arose from a loss of confidence on the
part cf the people in the solvency of the dis
tinctively monetary institutions of tlio j
country. It Is worthy of note und of serious j
consideration that at the very time the I
scarcity cf currency for buslne-s purposes
was at its high! the country s volume of cur
rency was increasing the most rapidly an l
the amount per capita was much larger than
in any recent year.
In view of the fact that there is now a very
great abundance of unemployed currency in
the country, as is shown by the daily money
returns from the commercial ceuters It
would seem that whatc\e~ need appeared
some months since tor enlarging to any maik
ed extent the circuit ting medium, has now
ceased to exist: and. therefore, congress is
afforded an opportunity of giving to the whole
.-abject that c tretul research and Intestigu
tion that Us importance in all of its tieariugs
demands.
MRS. CORBETT CONFIDENT.
She Has no Doubt Whatever That Her
Husband Will Win.
Jacksonville, Fla., Deo. 3. Mrs Cor
bett, wife of Champion Jim, arrived in
the city to-day, and is quartered in the
rooms of the St. James. She. was aecom
pauied by Mrs. Delaney, the wife of Jim’s
trainer, and her father. Mrs. Corbett
is a remarkably pretty and vivacious lit
tle blonde, and is as bright as she is
pretty.
In an interview to-day a reporter
asked, “Well, what do you think of the
fight.’”
“That isn't iny business, ' said she good
naturedly. “That’s Jim's business, and
wives, you know, ought not to meddle
with their husbands’ business. He knows
nil alioiit fighting, and I not a thing.”
"Do .you think he will whip Mitchell J”
“Whip Mitchell?” sho replied with sur
prise; “not a bit of doubt about it in the
world, lie's bound to do it. He’s got to
do it. Its his business to do it, and—well
Jim knows his business. I'm just us sure
be will win as I was when he fought Sul
livan. After the fight when 1 was told
that Jim was victorious. I was not sur
prised in the least. 1 was its sure, before
hand that he would come out all right ns
1 tun sure of being here.
Mrs. Corbett is desirous of having her
husband train on the sea coast, and ex
pressed the opinion that Oruiond would
be a good place. She said that when he
fought Choyinski in California, a few
years ago, he was in better condition than
he ever was before or lias been since. He
trained for that fight on the sea coast, a
few miles above San Francisco. The surf
baths put him in fine condition. At Or
mond there is fine bathing, and a magnifi
cent beach stretching smooth and hard
for miles, upon which he can do ail the
running that tt man in training has to do.
All in Mrs. Corbett's party are much
pleased with Jacksonville.
A BIG BLOW AT YORKVILLE.
Several Buildings Unroofed The
Damage SIO,OOO.
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 3.—A special
from Yorkvllle, S. C., to the News and
Courier says: “A terrific rain and wind
storm passed over this place this after
noon at 3:30 o'clock, untoofliig'buildings
aud doing damage to the amount of about
810,000. The heaviest damage done was
to the Carolina Buggy Company, whose
loss will easily reach $3,000.
“Just across the street from the Caro
lina Buggy Company, Latimer's fashion
bazar suffered the loss of a chimney,
which was blown on the roof and crushed
through, stampeding tiie ladies occupy
ing the room just beloyv.
“The roof of George H. O’Leary’s fur
niture warehouse was blown off and
ss.iKk) worth of furniture was exposed to
the mercy of the rain for two hours.
"The spoke and handle factory and the
graded school building were also un
roofed.
“A chimney on the new Baptist church
and the Episcopal church sustained slight
damage.
“Quite a number of small houses were
more or less damaged.
I’he damage seems to be general in the
storm’s track across the country.
■As yet no loss of life lias" been re
ported.”
MRS. CARRIE HAMMOND DEAD.
She was the Mother of the Lato John
Hammond, of This City.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 3.—Mrs. C-arrio
Hammond, widow of tiie late John Ham
mond, died at the residence of her son
in-law, C. M. Wright, in this city, at 13
o'clock to-day. She was stricken with
paralysis several months ago and ling
ered in a helpless condition until death
• •ante. She was oho of the oldest mem
bers of the Methodist church of this
city, a woman of excellent Christian
character and greatly beloved by the
people of'this city. She was the mother
of the John Hammond, of Savannah, Poke
Hammond, of Griffin, Mrs. G. W. Holling
sltciid and Mrs. C. M. Wright, of this
city, Mrs. Robert Adams, of Americas,
and Mrs. I. II Adams, of Eatonton.
INCENDIARISM DENIED.
The Accused Admit That They Were
at a Gin to Steal Cotton.
Milledgeville, Ga.. Dec. B.—John Bry
ant, Arthur Phelps and Sandy Howard,
arrested for the burning of the gin house
of D. W. Brown at Brown’s crossing, in
this county, had a preliminary hearing
before Judge John T. Allen yesterday.
They confessed tu the burning, but
claimed that it was accidental, admitting
that they were there for the purpose of
stealing cotton. They were held for
trial at the January term of Baldwin
superior court. A reward of S2BO was
offered for their arrest by Gov. Northern
A DWELLING AND STORE DE
STROYED.
A Sewing Machine Man Lost S2OO In
Cash.
Halcyondale, Ga., Dee. 3.—Mr. W. A.
Hagins, of Bulloch county, about five
miles from this place, had Ute misfortune
to lose his dwelling and store this morn
ing by fire. The fire was discovered
about 3 o'clock, and it had made such
headway that only a few bett clothes
could be saved, ’ihcre was SI,OOO insu
rance on dwelling, but none on store or
stock of goods. A sewing machine agent
was spending the night at the house and
in the excitement got up and went out.
leaving liis valise with about S2OO in cash
in it, which was also burned.
No Longer a Member of the Legisla
ture.
Tallahassee, Fla., Dec. 3.—Hon. John
R. Blocker has resigned as a member of
the legislature, to accept the position of
inspector of customs at the port of Apa
lachicola.
George Niles, constable for the Second
district of Monroe county, has resigned.
RATES OF THE RAILROADS.
Seventh Annual Report of the Inter
state Commission.
Commercial Emancipation Claimed to
Have Been Brought About by the
Federal Commerce Law The lowa
Decision as to What Constitutes a
Railroad Line, Playing Havoc With
the Power of th.e Commission.
Washington, Dec. 3. —The seventlinnnnal
roportof the interstate commerce commis
sion claims that, although all exporta
tions have not been fully realized, the op
eration and administration of the statute
have brought reforms in transportation
which, compared with the evils that ex
isted prior to the law, amount'to commer
cial emancipation. The act provides
what the common law did not afford a
procedure by which to test tiie relation
of rates charged to different persons and
at different localities. Fear of discrimi
nations or exactions no longer deters per
sons from complaining of carriers' illegal
acts. A carrier has not now the power to
punish shippers for protesting against its
wrongdoing.
I.OXO AND SHOUT HAI LS.
In regard to the long and short haul
clause tlto report says:
This provision of the law is nothing more
than tin extension to places of the rule for
bidding unjust discrimination between per
sons. The operation of the provision was ee
tepte.l generally by the carriers Hut the
effect of a derision of the court of
appeals in an lowa case wherein the
word “idne'’ in tiie statute was given a
wholly different meaning from 1 lint which the
commission had held was the projier con
struction, has been startling. This court dc
ctsion hits been followed and expanded by
other couitr. These decisions hold, in effect,
that one railroad is a line, und that the same
and another railroad is a different line, and
three railroads are stilt another Itne, and so
on. und that rates on one lino are not
to be compared w ith rates on another. The
commission holds that the word 'line ’ meins
a physical line--the tracks of one or more
rmlrouds and that a line may he extended
over other roads by simply connecting the
tracks.
The court's const ruction says the lines are
separate and independent, while the commis
sion contends ttint the shortest line 1: n purl
of the longer line. The interest of nearly
every place where connecting roads join and
of every loctl station, it Is urged, are vitally
concerned In straightening out this lonftlet
of opinion and tiie need for prompt legisla
tion is urgent.
MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM HATES.
The commission argues in favor ot giv
ing it authority to prescribe minimum as
well as maximum rates, aud shows how
the present depression of rates at large
centers is working injury to the general
public as well as to railroad investors.
The commission recommends additional
legislation, as follows:
To give legislative construction to the
word “line” iri the statute.
To provide for through rates and joint
through rates.
To give the commission power to pre
scribe minimum as well as maximum
rates to competitive points.
To provide for the adoption of a uniform
freight classification.
To make corporations subject to the act
liable to indictment for violations of the
law. and to provide a penalty for failure
on the part of carriers to file their annual
reports within a specified time.
LEHIGH OFFERS A REWARD,
Persons Who Catch Foes in Hostile
Acts to Be Paid SSOO.
Philadelphia, Dec. B.—President Wil
bur. (Jeneral Manager Voorhees and Coun
sellor Itrikor, of tho Lehigh Valley rail
road, held a long conference at Bethlehem
to-day, and at its conclusion gave out for
publication a circular which will be
posted along the lino of tiie road to-mor
row. It roads as follows:
SBOO ItF.WAItD.
Th' 1 Lehigh Valley lfailroad Company will
pay S6OO reward to a 1 sheriffs, deputy sheriffs,
policemen and constables of counties, cities,
or townships, and to any other person, or
Piersons, for information that shall lead to the
detection urd conviction in each case! of
any person or per-ons, who have, since Nov.
Ik. 1893. or may hereafter maliciously inter
fere with the propertv of this company, with
intent to cause accident to its trains, injury
to its employes and puss"ngers. or interrup
tion to Its business. • K. P. Wilbur.
FICW TIIAINS KUNNINO.
South Bethlehem, Pa , Dec. B.—For the
first time since the strike began the offic
ials and strike leaders agree in their
views on the traffic question. General
Manager Voorhees says only a few trains
ran on the road to-day, and Chair
man Clark, of Ute grievance
committee, soys his informa
tion is to the same effect. Mr Voorhees
sa.ys tiie traffic of the railroad was con
fined to passenger business to-day, for the
reason that, ever since tiie strike began,
tiie new employes have worked steadily,
and it was decided to give them a rest on
this, the third Sunday of tiie strike.
- YAGUI’B READY FOR WAR.
Tie Indians Congregating to Join the
Mexican Revolutionists-
Hermosillo, Mex., Dec. 3. A courier
arrived here to-day from Oasinipi, a
small settlement northwest of here in tiie
Niera Madre mountains, with informa
tion that the Yaqui Indians are congregat
ing in bands of several hundred
near that place and are prepar
ing to join the Mexican revolution
ists who have their rendzvous in the
mountains ovpr the border line in the
state of Chihuahua. It is reported that
agents of the insurgetfts have been qui
etly working among the Indians for some
time. Tho Yaqttis are abundantly sup
plied with rifles and pistols of the latest
mproved pattern, and are well mounted.
JAIL BIRDS TAKE WINGS.
All the Prisoners in the Jail at Cam
den, Ark., Escape.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 3.—A1l the pris
oners confined in the county jail at Cam
den, Ark., made their escape this morn
ing. They had by some means secured
tools with which they cut the bars to the
cells so as to allow them to pass out.
Seven negroes aud four white men es
euped. Two of the negroes, Henry How
ard and Will Phillips, were to he hanged
in January for murder. ''
Brazil’s New Cruisers.
London. Dee. 3 A special to the Times
from St. Thomas. West Indies, says that
the Brazilian cruisers, America and Nic
theroy, sailed from there last night for
some north Brazilian jKtrts.
Servin'* Cabinet Resigns.
Belgrade, Dec. 8. The king lias accept
ed the resignations of his ministers, aud
M. Gruies has been called lo form a
cabinet.
BANKER CLEWS' VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall Street.
New York, Doc. 2. Stock Exchange in
terests still continue buoyant, but neither
decidedly active nor excited. Tiie pre
vailing mood is that of expectancy, but
without any common effort to force the
improvement anticipated. The near a|)-
proach of a session of congress unusually
important for the questions to be consid
ered. naturally has a tendency to hold op
erations in suspense; and that kind of in
ttuenec coniines, for the moment, the
speculative transactions to brief turns.
The advattce publication of the Wilson
tariff hilt, as agreed upon in committee,
has enabled Wall street to form its first
impression as to the hearings of that im
portant subject of legislation. 'Hie in
dustrial stocks most conspicuously re
flected the effects of the bill; ami that
group exhibited a general decline, fol
lowed, however, by an early recovery
consequent upon over sales, and due in
part also to previous intimations of the
changes of duty having caused "short”
sales which were covered on the bill
being made public. The retention of raw
sugar on the free list with n small charge
upon refined to offset foreign export
bounties, is construed as on the whole
not so unfavorable to the “sugar trust”
as it at first appeared; inasmuch as it en
courages the largest |tossible consump
tion. Judging from the tone of
prices outside of the “industrials,”
the general bill does not
appear to have excited any distrust un
favorable to investments; it must, how
ever, he taken into account that any ad
verse hearing of the new tariff policy had
already been discounted; and perhaps all
that can be properly said is that the
publication itf the details did not change
materially the estimates that had been
previously formed. The reductions of
duty in the leading schedules are less ex
treme in many instances than lmd boon
expected among manufacturers; and con
sidering that, on the one hand, the old
duties raise the prices of imiiorts much
above what home producers are selling at,
and, on the other hand, that producers
will have in many cases im
portant advantages from cheaper
raw materials, the impression gains
ground that the new duties may not so
seriously affect manufacturers as has
been feared, i iertainly, there is nowhere
any evidence that the bill is viewed as
more deranging to industrial interests
titan it was expected to be; perhaps, as a
rule, it is regarded ns less threatening.
This element, at any rate, bus now had
its effect on Wall street, and it has not
been tsueli as to materially affect confi
dence in investments. Tho “industrial”
slocks may he kept unsettled until tho
bill is finally disposed of by congress, as
tho proposed duties on sugar, lead and
cordage arc likely to be hotly contested
in both House and Senate; but, beyond
that, the future estimate of the bearing
of tariff legislation upon stock exchange
interests is not likely to undergo much
change, and this will therefore cease to
bean important element of fluctuations
in prices.
Wall street, however, has at the mo
ment twoother occasions for u waiting
iNtlicy The utterances of the President's
message, expressing the attitude of tho
administration upon points of policy about
which there is some conflict of opinion in
the majority party, is looked for with
more than usual interest; and, should the
document commend itself to public opin
ion, it might prove to be an important
contribution t<> the recovery of confidence
from tiie shock it lias lately suffered. Tho
prospects of currency legislation also are
watched with deep interest; for it is felt
that, notwithstanding tiie present large
necumulatibus £of idle money in the
banks, another twelve months might quite
possibly see it all distributed and new
supplies needed ; which, as matters now
stand, there is no trustworthy means of
getting. Tiie plan now under consider
ation providos'for note issues upon con
ditions that would insure security, elas
ticity and redemption without pledge of
bonds, is gaining in interest, the more so
as it appears to be receiving support from
high banking opinion, and is understood
to be regarded favorably by the adminis
tration. The plan contemplates among
other provisions, making the notes a first
claim upon Ute entire assets of tiie bank
and also upon an extra liability of stock
holdersequal to the amountof the capital
stock ;it also provides for a tax upon the
notes, to create a redemption fund avail
able for tiie payment of the notes of any
insolvent bank ; other clauses are proposed
for enforcing quick redemption of the
notes, and also to secure periodical exam
ination of the banks and tiie publication
of statements of condition This propo
sition appears to be rapidly growing in
favor, and as matters now stand it seems
more likely to be adopted than any other.
But. in the present divided state of party
opinion on the question, there is some rea
son to doubt whether this subject may be
disposed of during the coining season—an
uncertainty which is to be greatly regret
ted. as one of tiie tilings that can he least
of ail afforded is a still unsettled state of
our monetary system.
(Jutside the foregoing factors depend
ent upon new legislation, the situation
continues to steadily improve. From all
parts of the country, reports show a
gradual recovery in the state of business.
Tho reduced condition of stocks of goods
is forcing buyers into the markets, and
though purchases are made cautiously
the volume of trade is assuming much
larger dimensions. The exchanges of
the clearing houses are gaining largely
utton those of late months, and the
banks are extending their discount op
erations. The manufacturing interests now
better understand the conditions under
which the now tariff will place them,
and are therefore more free to resume
work in response to tiie increasing de
mand for goods. The industrial inter
ests are also finding relief in the reduc
tion of wages called for by the changed
conditions of trade. The extraordinary
cheapness of money facilitates tho re
sumption of business; it is beginning to
have its effect in encouraging prepara
tions for launching new enterprises, and
the conditions are becoming more propiti
ous for the introduction of corporate
loans, which were thrown into suspense
by the panic. An unusual extent of capi
tal seeking employment isapparent in the
specially active demand for cor
porate mortgages; and this demand is
stimulated by the indisposition of
banks and trust companies to receive im
portunt deposits, lor the reason ttiat,
with the present superabundance of float
ing balances, they cannot afford to pay
interest on funds thus left in their hands.
The tendency thus arising to a rise in the
price of investment securities is too evi
dent tq need comment. A foundation is,
therefore, being laid for an ultimate rise
in stocks, which nothing short of some
now unforeseen contingencies could
counteract. Under these conditions, we
can only regard the present market as
one favoring buying operations.
i DAILY. *lO A YEAR. I
-! 5 CENTS A COPY, V
I WEEKLY,SI2S A YEAR. I
THE MISSION OF TIIE FROST.
Talmage Tells of It in His Sermon in
the Tabernacle.
The Frost as a Painter on the Leaves,
and Finally on the Window Panes.
•
The Frost as a Physician Who Drives
Away Disease—The Frost as a Jew*
eler —The Frost as an Evangelist.
Brooklyn. Dec. 3.—Before the usual
throngs that, for nearly twenty-five years,
have gathered in the first, second and
third Brooklyn Tabernacles successively.
Dr. Talmage this forenoon preached this
gospel sermon, after commenting on an
appropriate scripture lesson and giving
out the most inspiriting hymns. Tho sub
ject was: “The Mission of the Frost.”
Text: Job 87: 10, "By tho breath of God
frost is given.”
Nothing is more embarrassing to an or
ganist or pianist than to put his finger on
a key of the instrument and have it to
make no response. Though till tho other
keys are in full play, that one silence de
stroys the music. So in the groat cathe
dral of nature if one part fails to praise
the Ixtrd the harmony is halted and lost.
While tiro and hail, snow and vapor, re
spond to the touch of inspiration, if the
frost made no utturance, the orchestral
rendering would be hopelessly damaged
and the harmony forever incomplete. I
am more glad titan I can [tell that the
white key of the frost sounds forth as
mightily as any of the other Keys, and
when David touches it in tho Psalms, it
sounds forth the words: “He seattereth
the hoar frost like ashes,” and when Job
touches it in my text, it resounds with
the words: “By the breath of God frost
is given.”
As no one seems disposed to discuss the
mission of frost, depending on divine
help, 1 undertake it. This is the first
Sabbath of whiter The leaves aro down.
The warmth has gone out of the air. The
birds have made their winged march
southward. The landscape lias been
scarred by the autumnal equinox. Tho
buskers have rifled the corn shocks. The
night sky has shown the usual meteoric
restlessness of November. Three seasons
of the year are past and tho fourth, and
last, Ims entered. Another element now
comes in to bless and adorn and instruct
the world. It is the frost. The palaces
of this king are far up in tho Arctic.
Their walls are glittering congelation.
Windsor castles and Tuilleries and
winter palaces and Kenilworths and
Alim m bras of ice. Temples with
pendant chandeliers of ice. Thrones,
of iceberg, on which eternal silenoe reigns.
Theatres on whoso stage eternal cold
dramatizes eternal winter. Pillars of ice.
Arches of ice. Crowns of ice. Chariots
of ice. Sepulchres uf ice. Mountains of
ice. Dominions of ice. Eternal frigi
dity! From those hard, white, burnished
portals King Frost descends, and waves
his silvery sceptre over our temperate
zone. You will soon hear his heel on tho
skating pond. You already feci his
breath in tho night wind. By most con
sidered an enemy coining here to benumb
and hinder and slay, I shall show you
that the frost is a friend, with benedic
tion divinely pronounced, and charged
and surcharged with lessons potent, ben
eficent and tremendous. The Bible seven
times alludes to the frost, and we must
not ignore it. “By tho breath of God
frost is given.”
First, I think of frost as a painter. Ho
begins iiis work on the leaves and con
tinues it on tho window-panes. With
palette covered with all manner of colors
in his left hand, and pencil of crystal
in his right hand, he sits down before
humblest bush in the latter part of
September, and begins the sketching of
the leaves. Now he puts upon the foliage
a faint pallor, and then a touch of brown,
and t hen a hue of orange, and last a
flame of fire. The beech and ash and oak
are turned first into sunrises and then
into sunsets of vividness and splendor.
All the leaves are penciled ono by one,
but sometimes a whole forest in tha
course of a few days shows great ve
locity of work. Weonix, the Dutch
painter, could make in a summer day
three portraits of life size, but the frost in
ten days can paint ten mountains in life
size. It makes tho last days of an
autumnal wood the days of itschiefest
glory. Luxembourg.* in the Adirondacks.
Louvres in the Sierra Novadas, Vaticans
in the White Mountains. The work of
other painters you must see in the right
light to fully appreciate, but the paint
ings of the Frost in ail lights are enchant
ing, and from the time when tho curtain
of the morning lifts to the time when the
curtain of the night drops. Michael
Angelo put upon one celling his represen
tation of the Last Judgment, but the
Frost represents universal conflagration
upon three thousand miles of stretched
out grandeur. Leonardo da Vinci put
upon a few feet of canvas our Lord’s
‘•Last Supper,” for all ages to admire,
hut the Frost puts the gleaming
chalices of the Imperial glories of
the Last Supper of tho dying year
on tho bights and lengths and
breadthsof the Alleghanies. 'When Titian
first gazed at a sketch of Correggio ho
was wrought up in such ecstacy that he
oriodout: “If I were not Titian I would
be Correggio,” and so great and over
powering are the autumnal scenes of our
American forests that one force of nature
might well exclaim to another: “If X
were not the sunlight 1 would be the
frost.” Kugendus, the German painter,
suffering from weakness in his right
baud, laboriously learned to paint with
his left hand, hut the frost paints with
both hands, and has in them more skill
than ail the Kembraudts and Rubens and
Wests and Poussins and Albert Durers
and Paul Veroneses and Claudes gath
ered in one long art gallery. But the
door of that great inusoum of autumnal
coloring is now closed fora twelvemonth,
and another spectacle, just as wonderful,
is about to open. I put you on the alert,
and ask you to put your children
on the alert. Tired of working on tho
leaves, tho frost will soon turn to the
window panes. You will soon waken on
a cold morning and find that the windows
of your home have, duringithe night, beeu
adorned with curves, with coronets, with
exquisiteness, with pomp, with almost
supernatural spectacle. Then you will
appreciate what rny text says, as it de
clares, “By the breath of God frost is
given.” You will see on tho window pane,
i traced there by the frost, whole gardens
I of beauty, ferns, orchids, daffodils, helio
l tropes, china asters, fountains, statues,
hounds on the chase, roebucks plunging
I into the stream, battle scenes with dying
j and dead, catafalques of kings, triumphal
• processions, and as the morning sun
breaks through you will see cities on fire,
and bombardment with bursting shell,
and illuminations as for some great
victory, coronations, and angels on the
wing. All night long, while you were
sleeping, the frost was working, and you
ought not let the warmth obliterate the
scene until you have admired it, studied
It, absorbed it, set it up in your memory
for perpetual refreshment, and realized