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VOLUME XX.
RICHMOND &0ANVILLE R. R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Alr-Llns Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Nov. IOth, 1801.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No. 10. No. 12.
FASTEBN TIKE. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 1 25 pm E 50 pm 10 10 am
Chamblee..... 9 27 pm 10 48 am
Norcrosa....... 9 39 pm 1101 am
Duluth........ 9 51 pm 1115 am
Huwanee....... 10 03 pm 11 26 am
Buford........ 10 17 pm 11 40 am
Flow ry Branch 10 81 pm 11 53 am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm 12 14 pm
Lula.......... 11 18 pm 13 42 pm
Bellton........ 11 21 pm 12 44 am
Cornelia....... 11 45 pm 1 10 pm
Toccoa......... Mt. Airy....... 11 50 pm 115 pm
12 20 am 1 47 pm
Westminster... 12 58 am 2 35 pm
Seneca ........ 1 17 am 2 51 pm
Central........ 1 60 am 3 40 pm
Easleys........ 2 18 am 4 11 pm
Greenville..... 6 05 pm 2 44 am 4 4 r ) pm
Greers......... 3 14 am 5 09 pm
Well ford....... 3 33 mn 5 27 pm
S oartanburg... 6 57 pm 3 54 am 5 52 pm
Clifton........ 4 13 am 6 10 pm
Cowpens ...... 4 18 am 6 15 pm
Blacksburg..... Gaffney ....... 4 5 01 40 am 6 7 00 *0 pm
am pm
Grover......... 5 11 am 1 12 pm
King’s Mount’n 5 28 am 7 80 pm
Gastonia....... 5 54 am 7 69 pm
Lowell........ 6 07 am 8 12 pm
Belle mont..... 6 14 am 8 23 pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 i-m 8 50 pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11, No. 9.
Daily, Daily. Dally.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm '0t3'0ccaooD-o~30>a>C7tC*cni»>»tki»'Coecceoot£tcto ©waociiooSibsta^&MooijSSlSoaoCfeatsSwiScSw^SSfSioo 33BBBBBB3Sd33BbBB3BB3BB333BBHBS
Bell- mont..... 2 12 pm
L w*-ll......... 2 22 pm
Gastonia....... 2 35 pm
King’s Mount’n 3 00 pm
Grov r......... 3 16 pm
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... 3 26 pm
3 45 pm
Clifton........ Cow-pens...... 110 pm
4 13 pm
Spartanburg... Ilford........ 11 43 am 4 27 pm
W 5 £0 pm
Greets......... 5 09 pm
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 5 34 pm
Easleys......... 6 07 pro
Central........ C 55 pm
Seneca......... 7 22 pm
Westminster.... 7 41 pm
Toccoa........ 8 19 pm
Mt. Airy....... 8 48 pm
Cornelia....... 8 52 pm
Bellton .. ... 9 16 pm
Lula.......... 9 18 pm
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm
Flowery Branch 10 00 pm
Bnford........ 10 17 pm
Suwaneo....... 10 83 pm
Duluth.......'. 10 45 pm :
Norcrosa...... 10 56 pm :
Clnmbleo...... 11 08 pm
Kr. Atlanta (E. T.)
Additional tra-ns Nos. 17 an 1 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula 8 12 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
Between Lula and Ath-na—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 80 p
in* and 11 60 a m, arrive Athens 10 15 p m and
1 80 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 6 15 p m
and 6 45 a m, arnvo Lula 8 00 p in and 8 80
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 2 00 pm
arrive Elberton 4 40 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, and arrives except Toccoa8 Sunday, SO leave »Elberton 5 00 a m
am.
Nos. 11 an I 12 cam- Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Washington and Kansas City via Birming¬ Pullman
ham and Memphis, and Nos. 9 and 10
Sleeper No. between Atlanta and New York.
On 11 no change in day coaches from
New York to A'lanta.
Nos. 37 and 88, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. On this train an extra fare is
charged detailed on first-cass tickets only.
For information as to local and
through time tallies, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address,
JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Atlanta. Ga. Charlotte N. 0.
C. T. HAMMOND,
W. H. GREEN. Superintendon SOL. t. Atlanta, Ga.
Gen’l Manager. HASS,
Traffic Manager,
Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the oounties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frauklm and Banks of th<
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wiT
be given to all business ontrustecPto him.
The collection of debts will have speo-
ial attention.
A TRUST IN TROUBLE.
Whisky Mon Arrested for Violation of
the Law.
Treasurer William H. Hobart and Di¬
rector L R. Greene, of the cattle feeding
and dist.lling company were nominally
arre ted nt Cincinnati Monday, by being
rcqu sted to appear before Commissioner
Hooper. The warrant requires their Hobart ap-
pea-ance at Boston forthwith.
says i-orae dealer, in B iston who handled
some of the rebate have also been in¬
duced. The indictment is of an omni¬
bus charac'er, making its charges against
the officers and directors in a body.
District Attorney Allen stated that in¬
dictments h td been fou id charging offi¬
cers of the trnst with violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law. Mr. Allen also
added h s belief that never in the history
of the courts had there been a case pre¬
sented where so much pressure was
brought to bear upon a district attorney
not to prosecute, as in this particular in¬
stance.
ALABAMA ALLIANCEMEN
Have Called a State Convention to Con¬
sider the St. Louis Platform.
A Birmingham, Ala., di-patch says:
Five of the six Alabama delegates to the
St. Louis conference have returned.
They inclu te President Adams and State
Lecturer Beck, of the state alliance.
They, too, left before the mass meeting
which declared for a third party. They
reiterate that they are democrats and pro¬
pose to seek relief in that party. Their
idea is to contiuue the effort to make the
deraocr. tic par y take up the conference
platform. The convention will be called
at an early date in Birmingham, to be
c- inposed of delegates from the alliance
and all the labor organizations, to ratify
or confirm the platform adopted at St.
Louis, and to be consider what shall be
done in the event of a failure by An- the
democratic party to adopt a platform
bodying the measures of relief demanded.
THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
There is a severe penalty in Mexico for
walking on a railroad track or crossing
it except at specially designated points.
The United States Treasury Depart¬
ment has decided that a Chinese woman
who married an American citizen is en¬
titled to admission into the United
States.
The Egyptian fellah (farmer) is ap
parently the worst taxed man in the
world. Even on the paltn tree, which
gives him food and shelter, he pays fifty
cents a year.
Statisticians say that an average man of
151 pounds weight has enough iron in
his constitution to make a plowshare,
aud enough phosphorous to make half a
million matches.
The great United States Treasury vault
at Washington covers more thauaquarter
of an acre and is twelve feet deep. Re¬
cently there was $90,000,000 in silver
stored there—an amount that weighed
4000 tons and -would load 175 freight
cars.
There are thirteen little, old-fashioned
monitors, relics of tfic late war, laid up
in ordinary at various places. Com¬
modore Folger thinks that, armed with
high power modern guns, these little
crafts would not be by any means con¬
temptible in harbor defense.
The managers of the Russian Trans-
Caspian Railroad are having a hard time
keeping the line between the Oxus River
and Bokhara clear of saud. Tae road
passes through wastes of drifting sand
piled up in long wave-like heaps. The
slightest breeze causes the top of the
crests to blow further on, and the sand
silts on the track in great’quantities.
There is a unique item in the report
on the vital statistics of the Delaware
and Hudsou Canal Company’s Pennsyl¬
vania Division of its railroad system. In
the twenty years that part of the road
has been in operation not a single pas¬
senger has been killed, On the coa-
trary, its passenger traffic has increased
the population of the country, there hav¬
ing been four children born on trains
over the division, two of them twins.
The four are living, and one is in the
employ of the company.
To use one of its own favorite ex-
pressions, Chicago is “hustling” to pre¬
pare accommodations for visitors to the
Fair. Hotel projects test the industry
of real-estate men to keep up with them,
and dreams of fortuues in boarding¬
houses disturb the sleep of citizens more
than indigestion, Corner lots on the
south side that command a view of Lake
Michigan and Jackson Park are in great
demand aud selling for high prices. A
Chicago paper that does not announce
daily the filing of plans for at least three
mammoth hotels is not in the swim.
“By the opening of the World’s Fair,”
says one journal, “Chicago will be more
than able to take care of her visitors, no
matter how great the number.”
There appears to be no sickly senti¬
ment about the Cubans when they catch
a publ?c official who has misued the
public funds entrusted to his care. Re¬
cently Mr. Ofcersa, the Secretary of the
Treasury, was convicted of embezzling
$100,000, whereupon he was sentenced
to “eighteen years in prison, three
months and one day in the chain gang,
to pay a line of $2500 and to return the
stolen $100,000.” The sentence is rather
a severe one, but it is decidedly more in
accordance with reason and justice than
promoting the delinquent official to a
higher and more important position, as
has been done m more than cne instance
in this country that might be referred
to. A little infusion of Cuban grit in
the consideration of such cases on this
side of the water might go a good way
toward securiag honesty among a certaia
class of public officials.
Mr. McCormack, General Agent of the
Chicago Fair, through Messrs. Higgin¬
botham and Ives, wno are now in Rome,
has secured, as a special favor of the
Pope to the United States, the loan of
the second Bergian or Diego Ribere map
of the world begun in 1494 and finished
in 1529, and a contemporary copy of the
same map containing the famous bisecting
line which Pope Alexander VI. drew
across it to settle the claims of Spain and
Portugal to American Territory. T.iis is
the first map of the whole world as then
known. It was bequeathed by Cardinal
Borgia to the Vatician Library, and is
tbe same which Pope Pius IX. refused to
allow the American Government to have
even a copy of. It is three feet by
seven,and is in an excellent state of pres¬
ervation, clean and unworn. It begins
with the Melucca group and ends with
the other half. The Nile is traced to
three lakes. Russia and Siberia are put
down as barren and unknown countries.
America makes a showy appearance with
Yucatan, Brazil and New Spain dis¬
tinctly indicated, the North terminating
with Labrador.
TOCCOA, GEORGIA, MARCH 5, 1892.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What is Being Done in Congressioral
Halls for the Country’s Wel are.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BftlEFLY
TOLD—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Friday. —Mr. O’Feria l, of Virginia,
from the committee on library, reported
bills for the erection of monuments to
General Daniel Morgan, at Winchester,
Md., and Nathaniel Greeue, at Guilford
Courthouse, N. C. The committee of
the whole, Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee,
chairman, sideration made an effort to secure con¬
of the bills on the private cal¬
endar, but the house preferred to resume
discussion of the Craig-Stewart contested
election case, and it was addressed by C.
W. Stone, of Pennsylvania, in support
of tie claim of the sitting member.
Monday. —In the house, Monday, Mr.
Catchings, from the committee on rules,
reported a resolution providing that on
Tuesday, the March 22d, immediately after
ceed morning hour, the house shall pro¬
to the consideration of the silver
bill, and should said bill be not sooner
disposed of, the house shall continue
consideration thereof during Wednesday,
the 231, and Thursday, the 24th. The
resolution was ordered printed, and Mr.
Catchings gave notice that he would ask
the house to consider it on Monday next.
Mr. McMillin, fiom the rules committee,
reported a resolution providing that at 5
o’clock on Fridays the house shall take a
rteess until 8 o’clock, the evening session
to be for the consideration of bills grant¬
ing private pensions, removing political
disabilities and removing the charge of
desertion. This amendment to the rules
is brought in to overcome the difficulty
encountered last Friday, when it was
contended that should the house adjourn
before 8 o’clock it would have to convene
ing as a new day’s session preceded by read¬
the journal and prayer by the chap¬
lain at that hour. The resolution was
adopted.
Tuesday. —In the house, Tuesday, Mr.
Dockery, of Missouri, of the committee
on appropriations, reported the District
of Columlra appropriation bill. Referred
to the committee of the whole. The
house then went into committee of the
whole, Mr. Bvnum, of Indiana, in the
chair, on the Indian appropriation bill.
The pending amendment to strike out
the clause appropriating $1,000 for an
annual allowance to Captain Pratt, of
the Carlisle Indian school, was passed
over for the present. This was done at
the request of Bcltzhoover, of Pennsyl¬
vania, who said ih_t he was satisfied that
Captain Pratt had never uttered the
charges that were attributed to him.
THE SENATE.
Friday .—In the senate Friday a con¬
ference was ordered on the census defi¬
ciency bill, and Messrs. Hale, Allison and
Cockrell were appointed conferees on the
part of the senate. The joint resolution
to provide for an international bi-metallic
calendar, agreement having been reached on the
it was, on motion of Mr. Sher¬
man, laid over without action. Among
the various petitions presented and re¬
ferred were several from press rep¬
resentatives aud from employes of
the government printing office in favor
of compelling the various street rail¬
way all companies night. of Washington to run
cars The Idaho election con¬
test was then taken up and Mr. Vance
completed his argument, begun Thurs¬
day in support of Claggett’s claim to a
seat. At the close of Mr. Vance’s speech,
the conference report on the census defi¬
ciency bill was presented and agreed to,
and two public building bills were re¬
ported appropriating and placed on the calendar—one
$75,000 for Brockton,
Mas?., and the other appropriating $200, -
000 for Boise City, Idaho. Mr. Claggett,
of Idaho, then took the floor under
the resolution awarding him two
hours to speak in support of
his contest for the seat now occupied by
Mr. Dubois. His argument appeared to
interest the senators very much, and
they listened to it, on both sides of the
chamber, with very cl se attention.
There was also a large audience in the
galleries to listen to the speech. After
he had spoken about two hours, but with¬
out finishing his speech, Mr. Claggett
yielded the floor, and the Idaho case
went over without action. After a short
executive session the senate adjourned
till Monday.
Monday. —The senate was entertained
Monday by a bill introduced by Leland
Stanford, to make 25.8 grains the uni¬
form standard by which shall be deter¬
mined the value of a dollar. Mr. Voor-
hets delivered a speech in favor of free
coinage, after which the senate spent the
day in consideration of the Idaho con¬
tested election case.
Tuesday. —The senate finance com-
mittee Tuesday directed a favorable re-
port to be made on the house bill for
better control of and to promote tbe
safety of national banks. The home
committee on foreign and inter state
commerce ordered a favorable report to
be made on the bill to increase the
j ay of the men of the life saving service,
The senate bills introduced by Messrs.
George, Harris and Vance to repeal the
internal revenue tax on the circulation of
state bank notes (and with like titles),
were reported back adversely from tbe
committee on finance and placed on the
calendar. Tbe amendment to the post-
office appropriation bill appropriating
$200,000 for the distriouiion of mails in
the rural districts, reported from the
po-toffice committee aod referred to tbe
committee on appropriations. consideration of The senate Idaho
then r* suraed the
contested election case.
NOTES.
The senate ba9 confirmed the nomina¬
tion of Rowland B. Mahony, of New
York, to be minister to Ecu .dor.
The state department, on Tuesday, re¬
ceived a list of the verified claims of sail-
ors of the Baltimore, against the Chilian
government for injuries alleged to have
been received during the riots in Valpa¬
raiso, amounting to $2,065,000.
The president left Washington Friday
morning for a week’s visit to Virgin a
Beach, Va. He makes the trip solely for
rest and quiet, and will transact no offi-
rial business while away, unless it is ab¬
solutely necessary.
Telegrams of Sunday report that Sena¬
tor Cameron is confined to his room with
a severe cold. Representative Springer
is also confined to his house, suffering
from a severe attack of grip, aggravated
by erysipelas and derangement of the
nervous system.
Friday’s contested election cise Craig, To
democrat, was seated by a vote of 150
58. Cochran, of New York, and Bab-
b tt, of Wisconsin, both democrats, voted
to seat the republican. Watson and his
third patty following also voted to sca¬
the republic in. Several republicans who
ic-i.ro on the elections committee si’iri
favor thoroughly studied the case voted in
of the democrats.
by Secretary Noble was examined Friday
the special house committee appointed
to investigate the management of the
pension office. In reply to Mr. Enloe’s
question the secretary repeated the story
now so well known of the removal of
young Green B. Raum from the pension
office. The secretary was also tsked
about the reratings, which occasioned
so much comment early in the ad¬
ministration of the pension office.
He said that the responsibility
originally rested on Commissioner
Bltock, and when he found Commissioner
Tanner was proceeding to carry info
effect his predecessor’s rulings to a de¬
gree he highly injurious to the government,
intolerable promptly stopped it. He thought it
that employes should under¬
take to rerate themselves, and he made
them feel the weight of his authority.
Those reratiDgs were not for large
amounts each month, but as they went
back a long time, the aggregate was con
siderable. Secretary Noble said he wish¬
ed tc say so far as the efficiency of Com¬
missioner Raum was concerned, that he
thought he was running the pension bu¬
reau with great efficiency.
TRADE NOTES.
Nominally Encouraging Though Con¬
siderable Dullness Prevails.
B tsiness failures occurring through¬
out the country during the week ended
Feb. 27, as report -d by R. G. Dun & Co.,
numDer for United States, 236; Canada,
34; total,270; against 299 previous week.
The s ate of domestic trade has not
changed. The continuing dullness is
perhaps delph.a more generally felt. At Ptiila-
money is easy, though trade is
much depressed by southern sales Hard¬
ware is dull in the city. At New Or¬
leans, general business is dull, although
sugar is strong and active. Rice is in
fair demand, but cotton is dull and low.
At Savannah, also, the low price of
cotton is depressing and money is in ac¬
tive demand.
Speculation in breadstuffs has been
much less active since go.'d began to go
abroad, aud wheat has declined 4 cents
during the past week, the Atlantic ex¬
ports being small. The receipts at the
we^ were over 2,000,000 bushels in three
days. Corn has risen £ of a cent and oats
4 cent, while scarcely any change ap¬
pears in pork products. Oil is 1J- cents
lower, and coffee £ stronger, with small
transactions in both; but cotton declined
1-16, with sales of 468,000 bales, and the
receipts will exceed those of the same
week lost yenr, while the exports have
fallen (.ff during the past week. The only
great branch of manufacture which
makes discouraging reports at present is
the iron and steel industry, and the diffi
cutty is, there is no shrinkage in the con¬
sumption, but an enormous increase in
the production.
In cotton there is a larger consump¬
tion than has ever been known. This is
sustained by the demand being so active
that advances in some qualities are occa¬
sionally reported in spite of the cheap¬
ness of the material.
Money continues in abundant supply w*th
at 1£ per cent on call at New York,
no pressure at any interior market, but
the large shipments of gold, said to be
for Russia, led to the belief that money
must be dearer soon.
A MAYOR IN PERIL.
An Attempt to Assassinate the Head
of Savannah’s City Government.
A Savannah, Ga., telegram of Friday
says: Rumors have been floating about
during the last lew days of the attempted
assassination of Mayor McDonough.
Invesdgation these develop well ed the fact that
rumors were 1-founded.
HOW THE STORY STARTED.
Last Wednesday night two negroes,
after midnight, went to the residence of
the executive and knocked loudly at the
street door. Being answered by the
mayor, they told him that he was wanted
at the police barracks right away on bus¬
iness of importance.
The mayor was suspicious; if he had
been needed at pobce headquarters he
would have been telephoned from that
point, as usual, or police officers would
have been sent for him. He ordered
the negr es away and retired agaia. This
is Mayor McDonough’s own statement of
the affair.
On Friday a negro went to the mayor
*nd telling him that he had an import-
ant communication to make to his honor
said be had been offered $50 to get the
mayor out of his hou-e and had been told
that he would be paid so soon as Mr.
McDonough made his appearance and
was outside of the door,
This negro says he refused the < ffer. It
is oow tuken for granted that the parties
secured other negroes to do the work,
The negro who gave the information
gave a full description of the men who
had made him the offer. The mayor ac-
knowtedged the accuracy of these Btate-
ments, but is reticent,
HARD ON THE TOUGHS.
The name of the Degro informant is
withheld for the present. Mayor Mc¬
Donough has been severe on tbe tough
element since he has held office. They
are very spitelul against him. During
a meeting of the council, one night re¬
cently, the harness was cur from his
horse, which was attached to a bui/gy
out-ide tbe council chamber. Of course
there was no business that demanded the
presence of the mayor at the barracks on
the night alluded to.
It is currently believed that the toughs
whom the mayor has so severely pun¬
ished were intent on off- ring him
bodily harm, if not on assassinating him.
This matter has caused a great deal of
excitement in Savannah.
iNEWS IN GENERAL
Happenings of the Day Culled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS THANSPIKING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER¬
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
The total amount of gold oi-dered Fri¬
day for Europe, was $750,000; total since
February 9th, $2,750,000.
A cablegram of Friday is to the efft ct
that Chili has declined to participate al¬
together in the world’s fair at Chicago,
on the plea that she cannot afford it.
A. dispatch of Siturdny says: Four¬
teen persons lost their lives by the sink¬
ing of the steamer, Forest Queen, run
down by the steamer, Loughbrow, off
Flarnborough, England.
A dispatch of Monday says: Thirteen
new cases of typhus fever have developed
in New York City within the last twenty-
four hours. All the patients will be re¬
moved to the Riverside hospital.
Infoimation was received at Chicago
Tuesday to tbe effect that Geo. J. Gibsort,
ex-secretary of the whisky trust, was ar-
rested at Peoria under an indictment
found against the officers of the trust at
Boston.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Cincin¬
nati says: Orders have been received from
the east to the United States Express
company’s office in Chicago to open a
fight on the brotherhood by discharging
several messengers.
A cable dispatch of Saturday to the
New York Herald from R o Janeiro says
there is the greatest uneasiness through¬
out the republic. It is reported not less
than 2,500 men are under arms who are
opposed to the government.
A Wa-hington dispatch of Sunday
says: the Proceedings iu congress during
present week promise to be of more
than usual interest, for it is expected
that two lea ling.issuts of the day, silver
and the tariff, will figure in one or both
houses.
A destructive conflagration visited
Hot Springs, Monday. Fifteen business
houses in the southern part of the city,
including block, the new syndicate’s stone
iu which the postoffice was located,
burned. Total loss, $75,000; insurance.
$ 20 , 000 .
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., says:
Fire broke out among some oil barrels in
the storehouse of Mather Bros., wholesale
grocers about on Bro dway and Dean streets,
9.30 o’clock Monday-night, and by
million midnight destroyed about a quarter of a
dollars’ worth of property.
One of the most violent windstorms,
accompanied by rain, snow aud hail, for
several years, passed over Reading, Pa.,
Monday wind night, iasting two hours. The
blew a perfect hurricane and dam¬
age was done all over the city and sur¬
rounding country.
A St. Louis dispatch of Saturday says:
The executive committee of the national
committee of the people’s party, composed
of seven members, will meet at Omaha
on May lltli for the purpose of perfect¬
ing arrangements for the holding of a
national convention of that party on July
4th.’
A cablegram of Monday states that
Minis!er Reid and M, Roche, the French
minister of commerce have concluded an
agreement for a commercial treaty be¬
tween the United States and France, and
M. Roche will introduce a bill in the
chambers of deputies to ratify the agree¬
ment.
A Washington dispatch says: In the
case of the Church of the Holy Trinity
of New York to the question of its right
to impoit a rector, Rev. Mr. Warren, the
United States supreme court on Monday
reversed the action of the lower court,
and decided in favor of the church and
Mr. Warren.
A dispatch from Little Rock says: Ex-
Governor Conway was accidentally
burned to death in his own residence
Sunday morning. It is supposed he was
asleep feeble. at the time. He was very old and
He was quite excentric and lived
alone, not allowing any one else to sleep
on the premises.
A New York dispatch of Saturday
savs: The total visible supply of cotton
for the whole world is 4,720,872 bales, of
which 448,372 are American, against
3,548,317 and 2,878,214 respectively last
year. Receipts of all interior towns
68,581, receipts from plantations 116,-
659, crop in sight 7,859,235.
A cable dispatch of Friday from Syd¬
ney, Australia, says the trial of the offi¬
cials of the Australian Mercantile Loan
Company for fraudulent management of
that institution, resulted in the convic¬
tion of Messrs. Finlayson and Smith, di¬
rectors, aud Mr. Miller. They were sen¬
tenced to imprisonment for seven years
at hardjabor.
The Manufactures’ Record published
at Baltimore, was sold Monday by R. H.
and William E. Edmonds to Waiter H.
Page, editor of The Forum magazine, of
New York; E. H. Sanborn, of Phila¬
delphia, and Thomas Grasty, who has
been for three years chief southern cor¬
respondent of The Manufacturers’ Rec¬
ord.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York dur.ng the week ended Feb.
27, amounted to $3,259.06 of which
$2,292,426 was gold and $366,600
silver. Of the total exports
$2,288,546 in gold and $206,600 in
silver went to Europe and $607,000 in
gold and $160,000 in silver went to the
We3t Ind es and South America Im-
poits of spec e during the week amount¬
ed to $590,519, of which $497,847 was
old and $2,672 silver.
A Wa i hington dispatch says: Nego
Rations between the United States and
Great Britain looking to the submission
t > arbitration of the long-pending in con¬
troversy betwe- n the two countries re¬
gard to the Behring sea seal fisheries,
reached a favorable condition Monday.
Sir Julian Pauncefott* British minister,
met Secretary Blaine by appointment signed at
the state department Monday, and
a treaty of arbitration on behalf of Great
Britain.
Dispatches of Saturday report the street
car str ke in Indianapolis as growing
serious. Mayor Sullivan hre ordered the po¬
lice to assist the street car company in its
endeavor to run cars. At 6 o’clock Safc-
urday morning three street oars were
started out of the New Jeisey street sta¬
bles, aboard. each car having five or six police -
men From that time until after
1 o’clock the city was in a continuous
riot. Cats were turned crosswise of the
track with poicemeu on them. Others
were deposited in gutters, and the teams
unh tched and turned loose. One driver
was beaten u- arly to death.
THIRD PARTY TALK.
Casting About for Suitable Presiden¬
tial Candidates—Some Possibilities.
A dispatch of Sunday says The
echoes of the St. Louis convention have
scarcely died away ere the rank and file
of the allied industrial organizations
have begun to discuss the possible presi¬
dential candidates of the national peo¬
ple’s party. A convention for the nomi¬
nation of candidates for president and
vice president will not be held until July
4th, at Omaha, and as both of the othtr
inations leading parties will have made their nom¬
in by ‘jbat time the people’s party is
sible a position to make the strongest pos¬
nominations for the purpose
of carrying doubtful states in
which their organizations have in
the past manifested the greatest
strength. Iowa, General James B. Weaver, of
once a candidate of the greenback
party for pre-ident of the United States;
Hon. L. L. Polk, of North Carolina, now
president of the National Farmers’ Alli¬
ance; Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minne¬
sota; United States Senator Leland Stan¬
ford, of California; T. Powderly,
grand master of the Knights of Labor;
Hon. Alson G. Streeter, of Illinois, late
candidate of the Farmers’ Mutual Benev¬
olent Association for United States sena-
tor from Illinois, are a few of those now
being discussed as possible presidential
and vice presidential candidates of the
people’s party.
THE STRIKE SETTLED
And a Receiver Appointed for the Street
Car Company.
An Indianapolis dispatch says: The
street railway strike was practica ly set¬
tled Monday night when Judge Taylor,
of Steel the asrisaut superior court, appointed Thomas
di-cliarged superintendent, recently
Ly PresidentFrcnz;1, receiver
of the company. The petition for re¬
receiver was filed by W. P. Fish-
Lack, who sets fo<th that he is a citizen
of the city of Indianapolis; th«t the
Citizen’s company occupies the streets
by reason of a franchise granted twenty-
eight years ago; that till recently
it performed its duty as a common car-
ri> r, and did so until Mr. Frenzel was
elected president; that he had no expe¬
rience in such business, and that he is
wholly unfit for his position, and was
only appointed beeausi it was thought
he could get a renew. 1 of the franchise.
It then recites the causes of the strike
and the deeiiion of the directors to stand
by Frenzel in the strike, and SHys that a
continuance of the strike will result in
bloodshed.
A LIBERAL GIFT
For Colored Education in the South
by Mr. John D. Rockefeller.
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
president, has made another princely gift
in the interests of colored education in
the south. This time it is for a school
for pr actical training, and the amount
donated for that purpose is $40,000.
Tbe building is to be located in Atlanta,
and will be begun this spring, tix years
ago Mr. Rockefeller was in Atlanta.
While there he devoted considerable time
at Spelman seminary, which was erected
partly through the financial aid he lent
those at the head of the institution. The
large open campus on which that school
is situated affords a splendid location,
and ample territory for any additional
buildings of the kind. Mr. Rockefeller
has of late been desirous of seeing an¬
other seminary there, and with his ac¬
customed modesty quietly expressed his
wishes to the trustees of Spelman some
time ago, and stated his willingness to
furnish the means.
HALF A MILLION MINERS
Threaten to Quit Work if Their Wages
are Cut Down.
A London cablegram of Monday aaya:
It is now estimated that 400,000 miners
will cease work in a fortnight in their
efforts to prevent the masters from put¬
ting into effect a scheme to reduce
wages. Should the threatened strike
actually occur, it is estimated that close
to one million men will feel the effects of
the miners’ struggle. The agitation is
due to tbe action of mine owners in
Wales and Cumberland, who gave an in¬
timation of their intention to reduce
wages on a ‘‘sliding scale,” principally
owing to the decline in the price in coal.
The men refused to accept the reduction,
and declared that mine owners must
make the consumer pay.
A REAR END COLLISION
In Which Seven People Lose Their
Lives and 0the ; '8 Injured.
The Watertown local train, due at
M lwaukee, Wis., Tuesday afternoon, ran
into and demolished the rear end of n
tiaia loaded with employes of the West
Milwaukee sh >ps of the C hicago, Mil¬
waukee and St. Paul railroad, killing
sev n tjnd injuring s veral • thers. The
trains were m >ving i • the -ame dir ction,
the workmen’s train having ju-t left the
main track on a short switch and strung
itse.f out on the track with the main line.
The switchman failed to turn the switch
after the workmen’s train, and the local,
a moment after, p .ssed on the short
sw tob, and, in a minute, had telescoped
the rear car. Tne seven men killed wen
terri My inangle 1.
QUIET IN BERLIN.
No Further Trouble is Apprehended
From Disorderly Workingmen.
A cablegram of Monday from Berlin
rep rts that sinoe Saturday night the
city has been perfectly quiet, and there
has not been a single disturbance tha'
called for armed police interference. It
is believed that the disorderly movement
has spent its force, and that no
trouble is to be apprehended.
NUMBER 9
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The Hews of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN*
1NG8 OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAT
TO DAT WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The president, on Friday, nominated
Homer C. Powers to be collector of in¬
ternal revenue for the Louisiana district.
A. Richmond special of Friday says:
There is a proposition in the general as¬
sembly share to sue West Virginia, unless her*
of the debt is adjusted.
’longshoremen A dispatch of is Friday says: A strike of
on at New Orleans,and
2,000 men are out at work. The demand
is an hour’s pay for fractional parts of aa
hour.
Information was received Tuesday of a
fire at Hillsville, the county seat of
Carrol! county, Va., which is said to have
destroyed lars. half the town. No particu¬
A telegram of Saturday from Memphis,
Tenn., says: Miss Lillie Johnson, charged
with being accessory in the murder of
Miss Freda Warde, has been admitted to
bail in the sum of $10,000.
Sales of leaf tobacco a t Danville, Va.,
in February, were 3,000, <00 pounds.
Sales for the first five months of the to¬
bacco year were 14,715,428 pounds, a
decrease of 1,300,000 pounds us compared
with the same period of last year.
A telegram from Pensacola states that
Dr. L. N. McIntosh, head of the McIn¬
tosh Optical Company, of Chicago, an¬
nounced to lecture at the Florida Chau¬
tauqua, died at DeFuniak Springs of heart
failure Tuesday night. Mrs. McIntosh
will take the remains to Chicago.
At a banquet Friday night of the
wholesale grocers of Richmond, Va.,
among those who responded to toasts
were Governor McKinley, Mayor EUjsod,
United States Senator Daniel, Congress¬
Tucker, men George D. Wise and H. H. George
Lieutenant Governor Hoge Tyler
and E. E. Hooker, of Tennessee.
A dispatch of Friday from Nashville
states that there is a movement now on
foot among the negroes of that city to
start a migration to Oklah ma next fall.
A negro who has great influence among
his people is agitating th<* qu> stion and is
procuring the names of those who want
to go. About one thousand names are
already on the list, and the indications
are that many more will be added.
A telegram from Raleigh, N. C. f
states that the transfer of the R anoke
and Southern railway to the Norfolk and
Western, was completed Saturday and
the contract has be>-n signed. The stock
of the Roanoke and Southern was prin¬
cipally Western held at Winston. The Norfolk
a d will at once extend the
Roanoke and Southern southward from
Salem for officials independent connections. The
present of the latter road are re¬
tained.
A Savannah dispatch says: On Friday
a of meeting of the naval stores producers
Georgia will be held in this city, to
provide for concerted action towards re¬
ducing the wages of labor, and otherwise
curtailing order the expenses of production, in
to meet low prices. Delegates will
Florida be present representing the producers of
and South Carolina, and an
agreement interests affecting the entire naval
stores of the three great pro¬
ducing states will be entered into.
A frightful explosion occurred at 6:13
o’clock Monday morning at Stvannah.
The Florida stationary engine in the Savannah,
and Western railroad shops ex¬
ploded, wrecking its own house and ad¬
jacent buildings and killing the engineer
and his fireman and mortally wounding
the porter, the only persons who were in
the vicinty of the disaster. Had it oc¬
curred a half hour later, with all the em¬
ployes in the building, the loss of life
would have been fearful.
The executive committee of the North
Carolina State Colored. Agricultural and
Mechanical College met at Raleigh, Tues¬
day, and received a committee from
Greensboro. It had been agreed last
autumn that Greensboro would give $15,-
000 and twenty-five acres of land to
secure the location. But the committee
appeared remaining with $7,000 $8,000 and asked that the
be reduced $2,000.
This was not accepted, and a call for a
meeting of the full board March 23d was
issued.
The executive committee of the Texas
Bankers’ association have issued an ad¬
dress to tbe farmers and business men,
urging a reduction of the cotton acreage
15 percent, giving as their opinion that
the effect will be to raise the prices 30
percent. They cite the increase in
prices of 10 per cent in 1871 by de¬
creased acreage of 15 per cent, and refer
to tbe example of Brazilian coffee plan¬
ters raising tbe price of coffee fr^m 7 to
24 per cent in 1880, and up to 1886, by
reduced acreage.
Messrs. Mitchell & McIntyre, and 8.
A. Roddenbery will plant this year on
their farms near Boston, Ga., 200 acres
each in tobacco. They have a large
force of hands making ready for the
crop, and have several acres planted in
bed® for transplanting. the Lumb r large is on
the ground for erection of a
number of farm and tenant bouses.
Verily, this is the coming industry of
south abundant Georgia. These back gentlemen and have will
means to them
doubtless make of tobacco raising a com¬
plete success.
HUNTING DYNAMITE.
The Paris Police Make a Raid Upon
Anarchist Haunts.
A cablegram from Paris says: Some
excitement was caused a few days ago in
police circles by the quantity receipt of informa¬
tion that a large of dynamite
had been stolen from a factory belonging
to the state where that explosive was
made with many safeguards as to its
manufacture and aa to its subsequent
itorage and disposition. It was imme¬
diately eeneludrd that tbe theft was the
work of anarchists, and on Tues lay the
polite searched all houses in Paris in a
vicinity tfrist* known to be occupied by anar-
lynamite. in tbe expectation of finding the
The police refuse to divuLe
die result of their search.