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THE VIENNA PROGRESS. tEHMS, $i. Per Annum. tt Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” aSvVffiKSi*. I , / _ VOL. XI., NO 29. VIENNA, GA„ TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKL’ IH GBngrissional halls. Daily Routine ol Both Houses of t&8 Fifty-Seeonfl Congress. Measnres Discussed and Bills Passed By (Jur National Law-Makers. THE SENATE. Iil the senate, Monday, Mr. Morgan dehiaode 1 the regular order of business, and the vice president decided that the tegular order of business was the motion df Mr. Hill to take Up the bill to repeal the Sherman silver act. After a g..od deal of confusion and parliamentary Wtaagling the question was brought to a direct vote on Mr. Hill’s motion to take I tip the bill to repeal the Sherman act, and the motion was defeated—yeas, 23; nays, 42. Twelve democrats and eleven tepublica r voted to take up the bill—all the free t Jnago senators voted together. cveral who had not beeu advocates of flee Coinage voted against the motion, 'this vote, however, cannot be considered a test of the silver question in the senate, because should it have been ndopted Senator Hill’s bill would have become the tegular order and would have oc cupied the time of the senate every day after 2 o’clock until disposed of. The senate, Tuesday, ratified the Rus sian extradition treaty with amendments. The Norfolk and Wistern railroad bill Was reached on the calendar and laid aside on account of the absence of Mr. Gorman. In response to the senate reso lution the chief of engineers of the United States army submitted several communications showing that the mate rial used in the construction of the new library bui ding consists of imported from foreign countries and not home production. The material is Vienna and African marble imported iu rough, to cost about $40,000; Italian imrb’e im ported in rough, costing about $57,000; foreign mahogany wood costing $0,000. i A number of unobjected house bills on ^ the calendar were passed, among them sixteen private pension bills; also renate bills for the relief of the assignees or le gal representatives of John Iloach, de ceased, to pay the balance due on the United States ship Dolphin. In the senate, Wednesday morning, Mr. Morgan introduced a bill to > .provide f- r the provisional government " of foreign countries and places acquired by treaty or otherwise, which was read iu full and referred to the c mmittce on foreign relations. On motion of Mr. Hoar, it wa9 ordered that at five minutes before 1 o’clock the senate, in pursuance of the concurrent resolution of the two houses, should proceed to he hail of the house of representatives to take part, under the c institution and law, in the count of the electoral vote for president and vice pre-ident. Sometime was devoted to disposing, in various ways, of bil's on the calendar. The most important ones were passed over. At five miuutes before one o’clock, Vice President Morton announced that the time had arrived for the execution of the order of the senate. The senators then fell into line and preceded by the vice president and secretary, and attended by other officers, who carried the boxes con taining the certificates of the presidential electors, moved toward the hall of the house of representatives. The sen ate returned to its chamber at 2:10 o’clock and the vice president made a staterm nt of the votes for president and h vice president of the United States. The bill appropriating $50,000 for an equQstrim statue of General J -bn Starke, iu Manchester, N. H., was passed and the senate resumed considers’ion of the car coupler bill. No action was taken, and the senate, after a short executive session, adjourned at 5.30 o’clock. In the senate, Thursday, Mr. Frye, in reporting back adversely certain amend ments referred to the committee on com merce (proposing river aud harbor ap propriation'), said the sundry appropria tion bill already contained the river and harbor appropriations to the amount of about. $16,000,000 (under continuing contract clause) and that the committee on commerce would not recommend any any fDrther river aud harbor appropria tions. On motion of Mr. Morgan, the senate at noon went into executive ses sion. When the doors reopened, Mr. Wolcott moved to change the hour of meeting to noon. The vote was a tie and the vice-president voted in the affirma tive. At 1 o’clock p. m. the automatic car coupler bill was taken up. the nousE. Monday was suspension day in the hrt.se and absolutely nothing was don**, although the body was in session five hours and under the ru'es jnv measure having a two thirds majority of the members preseut in favor of it, could be passed under a suspension of all rule3. Oates, of Ala bama, expected to call up the bankrupt cy bill, and had arranged to be recog nized for this piirp- S". Mr. Kilgore, of Tixis, who has be n fi.hting this meas ure all the tim j , began filibustering a? soon as tbe house met and co tin a- il hi< tactics all day. It was ceirly three hours after the house met before the journal could be read and approved. Tuisday morning in the h< use, the reading of the journal havii g i een com pleted, the speak* r stared that without objection it would stand approve 1. The routine tusiness having been disposed of, the house proceeded to the consideration of the legislative appropriati n bill. In the house, Wednesday morning, the journal was read aud approved. The speaker laid before the body the quaran tine bill with senate amendment, and Mr. Raynor, of Maryland, moved a con currence, which prevailed. On motion f Mr. Springer,a resolution wts adopted admitting to the flo<-r ladies, who came to witness the electoral ronot, and who having tickets to the reserved galleries, were unable to secure seats. A recess was taken for a quaiter of an hour. Af- • er rectss, and a few moments before 1 D’clock, Doorkeeper Turner announced he presence of the vice pre-ident and >enate of the United Stales and the rest assemblage rose with one accord to lo'tbem honor. The vice president took •he chair assigned to him to the right of She speaker, aud the senators occupied tire first four rows of seats to the right of She presiding ofiicer. The counting of Jie electoral votes was then proceeded with and at its completion the senate re sumed to its own hall. When thesena'e iad retired the house resumed in rom- nittee the consideration of the legisla tive appropriation bill. Without di- losing of the bill tbe committee arose icd tbe house, at o:20o’clock,adjourned. The house, Thursday, recommitted the ilver special order of the day, which vas the copsideration of the rt ps l »t to Sherman silver ait, to the ru'es com- tee, which kills silver repeal for the 3ent. The heuse went into coir.mit- of the whole for further consideia- ,of the legislative appropriation bill. On motion of Mr. Enloe an amendment was adop’ed providing that hereafter no buildinsr owned or used for public pub lic purposes shall be draped in mourn ing. An amendment was adopted pro viding that the executive departments of the government shall not be closed as a mark of rrspect <o the memory of any dece sed official of the Unit* d States. A proviso making it the duty of the heads of the several executive departments, in | the interest of the public service, of require of all clerks and other em ployes not less than eight hours of labor each day, except Sundays and public holidays, gave rise to a great deal of dis cussion, but no material change was made. The committee then rose and re- l !'THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH BUSINESS REVIEW* TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. Notes ot Her Progress M Prosperity Briefly Epitomizes And Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. ported the bill to the house, to re-couim’t the bill to the committee on appropriations was iost and the bill was passed. The house then adjourned. CAPITAL GOSSIP. The report of R-presentative Oates on the ir vtsugation into the Pinkerton sys tem and Homestead troubles was at last piloted through the judiciary committee Tuesday, the camittee by a majority vote ordering it reported to the house with leave to the minority to file their separate report. The placards bearing the word “Closed,” which has been displayed on the front door of the white house ever since the day before Christmas, when the president’s grandchild was stricken with scarlatina, were removed Tuesday, and the public part of the house is once more open to visitors. The president will now probably resume his tri-weekly receptions to the public. The New York members of congress, all of whom worked and voted for the repeal of the Sherman act, say that the action of the house Thursday makes an extra session of congre s early in the spring an absolute necessity, they say they have no doubt but that Mr. Cleve land will call an extra session for the j sole purpose of dealing with the money question. These men are, howtver, somewhat excited. They seem to fear a crisis in financial ailairs. The con servatives, who are equally well posted, were in no such apprehension, and many believe that Mr. Cleveland, after consid- iring the matter thoroughly during the next few weeks, will conclude that an extra session is not such an imperative necessity. Counting: the Vote. Immense crowds were drawn to the capitol, Wednesday, by the merely for mal ceremonies incident to the official counting of the electoral vote. The cer emonies incident to the counting of the vote are prescribed by a joint resolution reported by senator Hoar, in 1888, and which had been made applicable to all succeeding elections and been incorporated in the supplement and revised statutes. Vice-President Mor ton some days since appointed as teliers, on behalf of the senate, for this important ceremony Mr. Hale, of Maine, and Mr. Blackburn, of Ken tucky. Speaker Crisp appointed Judge Chipman, of Michigan, and Henry Cabot Lodge, senator-elect from Massachusetts, as the house tellers. The actual cere monies were nearly the same as four years ago. There was the ceremonious open ing of the safe in the vice-president’s room, and taking out the eighiy-eight sealed packages supposed to represent the forty-four stales,as received in dupli cate by mail and messenger. There was a solemn procession in the “goose step” of old Captain Bassett, who has participated in every presidential couDt for more than sixty years escorted by a squad of capi- iol police to prevent a raid being made upon the precious locked boxes contain ing the votes. The boxes having been safely depositad in the house the senate in a body followed shortly before one o’clock. The vice president having call ed the joint assemblage to order, pro ceeded formally to open one of the boxes which contained the returns of the electors of the various states. The first return—that of Alabama—was handed to Senator Haley, one of the tellers, who, in a low, but distinct voice, read the statement showing that the eleven votes of that state had been cast for Cleveland and Stevenson. Then cir- tificates were presented without formal reading, the letters merely stating the result. After the last certificate had been read and the result footed up, the vice president made, the customary an nouncement that under tbe law th ; s was sufficient declaration that Grover Cleve land, of the state of New York, was elected president of the United States, and that Adlai E. Stevenson was elected v:ce prisi .cut of the Uuittd States, each for a term beginning March 4th, 1893, and that this result would be entered to gether with a list of votes on the journal of the senate and the house of represen tatives. The joint session was then de clared dissolved. The senate withdrew, and each house resumed business in its own chamber. FUNERAL OF MRS. WHITNEY. Distinguished People Take Part In the Last Sad Rites. The North Carolina house of represen tatives, on Wednesday, passed a bill ap propriating $20,000 for the states exhibit at the world’s fair. A New Orleans specia’ says: In re sponse to an inquiry at General Beaure- uyd 1011 gard’s residence. Thursdav, the informa tion was given that the general has al most recovered from the attack of colic j which he was prostrated with lost Sun- • day. His physicians consider him en tirely out of danger. Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, on Friday, appointed J. E. Brez.-ale, of AndersoD, to revise general statutes of the state under the enactment of 1889 and 1891. The salary for the work is $1,500. Mr. Brezeal will take the place of Judge Maher, whose illness will pre vent finishing thh work. The Meharry medical college, Nash ville, held its seventeenth annual com mencement Tuesday night, and gave diplomas in medicine to thirty-six color ed men, dental diplomas to two anu pharmaceutical diplomas to bix. One medical graduate is a woman and will go to Africa as a missionary next month. The special message of Governor Hogg to the legislature on the lynching was not known in P-ris, Texas, until the ar rival of the Thursday moruing papers. The first impulse and expression was in dignation that the govetaor should con tinue to agitate a matter which he con fesses is without a remedy, hut on better considerrtion this gave way to pity for the absurdities, as people called them, into which he had plunged. ■ A Columbia, S. C., dispatch of Thurs day, says: It is statid officially that Governor Tillman hits selected the first floor of the agricultural hail >:s the 1. ca tion for the state liquor dispensary, which may or may not go into being next July. There is talk among the prohibitionists of calling a March convention for the purpose of preventing in the various counties the number of signatures to the petitions necessary to get a dispensary. A dispatch of Wednesday states that four thousand people in the Concordia arid Cataraoula parishes in the northern portion of Louisiana, are on the verge of ttarviug. Information received from that section shows that the people are in a pitiable condition, and unless relief is given them many deaths from starva tion will result. The floods of last sum mer destroyed their crops. Hundreds moved but thousands were unable to leave. Wednesday morning, Governor Jones, of Alabama, sen: to the senate the names of R. T. Simpson, of Lauderdale, and H. M. Scmetville and Alonzo Hill, of Tuscaloosa, as trustees of the Alabama insane hospital. He also sent in the name of Major Henry B. Shorter to suc ceed himself as president of the rail road commission. All the appointments were confirmed. There is another va cancy ou the railroad commission to be fi led for which there are about seventy applicants. Lanier and Burnett’s gri3t mill, in South Nashville, Tenn., was destroyed by fire Wednesday night. The mill and feed sheds covered an ac«e of ground and adjoined the big tobacco warehouse of Charles Dortch and the Nashville ware house and elevator, and were practically destroyed when the fire department ar rived. The stock in the mill, which is known as the Rock Ci y mill, was low and the loss was only $39,000, nearly covered by insurance. Tue fire origi nated in a boiler explosion, the cause of which is not known. A Savannah, Ga., special of Thursday, says: Securities of the Central railroad system arc being deposited in the South ern bank gradually by their holders, who are desirous of corning in under the re- organiz ition plan. Each mail brings in number of securities from points in Georgia and other states, and vice-presi dent Crane is kept steadily busy attend ing to them. O. e trouble is the mistake of sending stock without the power of attorney to authorize the action that the senders desire, rendering it necessary to write to them for it. The new street car syndicate of New Orleans suflerred a heavy loss Tuesday morning by the burning of the sheds of the city and Lake Railroad Company in the square bounded by the custom house, White, Dupree and Bienville stieets. The sheds were fi'led with cars, which were all destroyed. The total loss to the car company is about $70,000. Insurance on the sheds aud other property destroyed, was $27,100. There was a blanket in surance of $129,000 on the entire prop erty owned by the syndicate in the neighborhood. The cause of the fire is unknown. Tnc funeral of Ms. Whitney, wife of the ex-si cretary of the navy, was held at St. Birtholomew’s church, New Y’ork C tv, Tuesday morning with impressive Episcopal services. The furneral was under charge of Col. Dan Lamont. The p dibearers were: Grover Cleveland, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George Peabody, Wctmoie Hamil'on, McK. Twombley, E Randolph Rjbiuson, George G. Haven, Ge r.e II. Bend, Edward A. Wicks, Thomas F. Cushing and Buchanan Win- throp The services at the grave were simple but impressive. The floral decora tions nt the burial plot were beautiful, the flowers t-h.it were used a; the funeral were, by order of Mr. Whitney, d stribut- ed among the various hospitals of the cry. lh*re were three wagon loads of < in m. AFTER THE WHISKY TRUST. PROHIBITION A FAILURE, And Opelika, Ala., Will Resort to a System of High License. A special of Friday, from Opelika, Ala., Eavs: The whisky question in Ope lika is about settled, a system of high license will be substituted for the pres ent prohibition law. Opelika has tried { irobibition lor six years, and a large ma- oriiy of the people think it has been a failure, as it is impossible to suppress the “blind tigers.” Many good men oppose the change, but a large majority of the white democrats favor i^ The license will be $1,000, with very stringent regu lations. Sensational Testimony Before the Con gressional Committee. A Washington spieialsays: Thomas Dewer, a United States revenue gauger, fired a bombshell into the whisky trust Wednesday morning. He testified be fore the congressional committee that Secretary Gibson, of the trust had of fered him $25,000 to act ns a secret em ploye of the trust while retaining his position with tbe government. Ten thousand dollars were to be paid cash and the balance in stock. He agreed to accept the proposition so as to get into the secrets of the trust. About the first thing he was asked to do was to blowup a rival company with an infernal machine. Gibson brought him the machine at the ■ Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago. It was the j size of an oyster can and contained sev- ! i ral large bullets and explosives that would make itgo off in three hours alter I it was properly placed. When Dewcr had * gotten the machine he ceased negotia tions and turned it over to the authori- i t es. Mr. Gibson found it neceseary to j get a Uuited Sta’es guager to do this j work because no one else is aliowed in j the examination of che distilleries. This j testimony has gre it y incenred the com- i inittee aganst the Whisky T int con- : oan v. MRS. WHITNEY DEAD. Southern Governors to Meet. Governor William Fishback, of Ar kansas, issued a circular letter Friday to tbe governors of all southern states asking them to join in a convention at Rich mond, Va., April 2d, for the purpose of formulating a plan for developing the ....... resources of the south and < gering ini tTe* death"^d‘“the endT coming” unex- ducemepts to capital ana labor, | , ;Cl -,t 0( jlv v “ Wife of the Ex-Secretary of the N’aTy Dies Suddenly. Mrs. William C. Whitney, wife of the cx-secretary of the navy, died at her home, No. 2 West Fifty-seventh siree\ New Y'ork City, at three o'clock Sunday morning, of heart disease. Only Mr. Whitney and the nurse who amended her during her illness, were present at Reports of Bradstreet find Dun k Co.* for Past Week. i Bradstreet’s report of business for the past week Says: Features of the business week include ac unusually large number of decreases in prices for staple articles, among which are pig iron, 21 cents; finish ed iron, 50 cents; wheat, 1-2 cent; corn, 7-8 cent; oats, 7 8 Cents; lard, 3-4 cents; cotton, 1-1G; raw sugar, 1 19 cents; hogs 5@ 10 cents, and steel, billets, petroleum and high wines as well. In contrast there has been an advance of 1 cent in special grades of domestic woo ! , 1-2 cent I on sole leather, 1-8 on hides and pork 50 cents, as well as advances for rubber ! goods, shoes and bricks. East and south I milder weather has opened up the ave- | nues of trade, but in the northwest a seoond cold'snnp has further restricted j business. 8o far as heard from the vol ume of transactions throughout the coun try in January, with few exceptions was the largest of aDy in that month on rec ord. REPORTS FROM THE SOUTH. Business in the south has been favored by the openiBg up of traffic routes, and advices from the larger cities announce an improvement in the demand for spring goods. Some delay in placing orders for hardware and clothing i3 experienced. Wholesale merchants at, Baltimore report collections in the south freer and trad# improving. At Richmond the demand for groceries and shoc3 is relatively most active, but there is a good request for plug tobacco, cigarettes and cheroots, while the lack of demand for pig iron causes prices to tend downward. There is no change in trade conditions at Charleston, where the prospects for spring business is good. Memphis mer chants report considerable activity in hardware and planters’ supplies. A like state of trade is reported at Birmingham, where the volume equals the average for the season. Wholesale business at At lanta is active and of satisfactory propor tions, but warm and damp weather has checked the retail trade. Generally favorable commercial con ditions in the region tributary to New Orleans promise much for the merchants of that city. The movement of produce is large, except that of meats, which has been chucked on account of higher prices. Large sales of sugar and rice cause prices to tend upward. The production of cotton goods at eastern mills is heavier than in any pre vious year. There are no stocks in hand. The output of print cloths is sold ahead to April and there are no stocks at Fall River against 229,000 pieces held there a year ago. WHAT DUN SATS. Dun’s weekly review of trade says*. Actual business is surprisingly large for the season, and yet fears about the fu ture are also large. Congressional uncer tainties cause fears, but the prosperity and needs of the people make business what it is, and never before has the dis tribution of products to consumers been larger than it has been thus far this year. Hence industries are remarkably pros perous. The volume of trade measured by the clearings in January was nearly 12 per #ent larger than in any previous year, and the railway movement shows a grot increase in the tonnage transported. Yet it is probably safe to say that rarely, if ever, except in a time of panic, has business been more cautiously and con servatively iegulated. Monetary uncer tainties are excused by the continued outgo of gold, but the pa-sage of the anti-option bill by the senate has had no effect upon the market as yet. At Louisville, prospects arc encourag ing; at Nashville, business is good, and at Kuoxvilie, improving with money ir better demnad. At Little Rock collee tions are slow and many planters are be ing carried over, but at Mobile trade is very satisfactory with good pr, spects. Business at New Orleans is quiet with money in good demand aud easy; cotton more active and sugar strong and trade in rice improving. The wonderful de mand for textile fabrics is unabated. For brown and bleached cotton th-* mar ket is said to be the best for twenty years and some makes of sheeting have advanced. The price for manufactured products of iron and steel are depressed beyond all precedent and nevertheless sales continue remarkably large, and the volume of bus iness is greater than in any previous year. Tbe stagnation in steel rails has beer broken by the placing of orders fo. 60,000 tons by tbe Pennsylvania railway, and in plates orders for 20,000 tons ha^ been placed for Cramp’s, at Pittsburg mills, though at very low prices. Large structural contracts have also been placed for buildings in New York. The uncer tainty about the monetary future retards business engagements, but in other re spects trade is most satisfactory, and per haps all the more safe and healthy for the feeling of caution that prevails. Business failures during the past week number, for the United States, 255; Can ada. 40: total, 301. Tie News ol the World Condensed Into Ply amd Pointed Paragraplii | Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers* GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The lndnstrial Development Daring the Past Week. A review of the industries established in the Southern States duriDg tbe past week shows that a continuanc: of the interest in textile manufacture is indicated by the establishment of a mill with $450,000 capital at, Lock- ville, N. C., by the Loekville Cotton Mill Com pany, one with $200,000 capital at Florence, Ala., by the Cherry Cotton Mills Company, a finishing mill with’ $100,000 capital at Greens boro, N, C., by the Southern Finishing Com pany, together with a $75,000 mill at Julietta, Ga,, and others at Birmingham, Eufaula and Opelika, Ala., Haw River, Mooresboro and Statesville, N. C., Enterprise, Miss.. Lau rens, S.O.. and Danville and lioanoke, Va, A mining company, with $100,000 capital, has beeu established at Gadsden, All., by the Gadsden Coal. Iron and Railway company, and a mining and development company, with $150,000 capital, at Navosota, Texas, by the Mineral Springs Mining company. At Atlanta, Ga., the Aurora Mtning company has been chartered with $75,000 capital. Sixty-two ik-w industries were established or incorporated during the week, together with 6 enlargements of manufactories and 13 impor tant new buildings. Among the uew indus tries nor already referred to are a canning fac tory at Jackson, Tenn.,with $55 090 capital,one at [Knoxville, Tenn., with $25,000 capital and on at McKenzie, Tenn. Flour and grrit mills will be built at China Grove, Ala., Siler City, N. C., and Callaway’s, Va. A rolling mill is reported to be built at Ashland, Ky., an ice factory at Lnling, Texas, and an oil mill at Alverado, Texas, and phosphate works at At* Unta and Brunswick, Ga., and Fort Meade^ F.&. Among the woodworking plants of the week a: a lumber companies at Bearden, Fnlton and Black Bock, Ark., aud Central City, W. Va.. saw and planing mills at Bristow and Longview, Ala., BogueChitto, Miss., Wilming ton, N. C., aud Jefferson, Texas, and novelty works at Jackson, Tenn. Water works are to be built at Sumter,S.C. The enlargements include lime works at Anniston, Ala., flouring mills at Dandrige, Tenn. cotton mi ls at Prattville, Ala., Griffin, Ga., and Langley. S, C., and a lumber mill at Petrole um, W. Va. Among the new buildings of the week are business honses at Athens, Tenu , and Dublin, Texas, ubnrcb-.s at Savannah, Ga., New port, Ky.. and Greensboro, N. C., a court rouse at Friar's Point, Mi-s., and an op.ra house at Palestine, Texas- —Tradesman (Chat, tanooga, Tenn.) H. 5V, Wier, chief justice of Idaho during Mr. Cleveland’s administration, died at Boise, Wednesday morning of appoplexy, aged 70, Malleable iron work s nt Mo’ena, 111., was destroyed bv fire Tuesday night. Loss $50,000. About 300 men were thrown out of employment. The Pennsylvania house of representa tives, Tuesday, by vote of 150 to 18, passed a bill to prohibit the manufacture and sale of cigarettes within the common wealth. The bill now goes to the senate. A c iblc dispatch of Tuesday to the New Y’ork World from London says: Algernon Sartoris, who married NcLie Grant, daughter of Genaral Grant, died Friday at Capri, Italy. He had not lived w*b his wife for some years. A cable dispatch of Wednesday from Cerunna, Spain, says: The British steam er Trinaeria, plying between the rivei Clyde and the Mediterranean poits, was lost off Cape Villand, near Punta del Buy. Only two of the crew were saved. Thirty-seven weredrowued. A Indianapolis specia! of Tuesday says that, a strike is threatened by the engin eers on tbe Louisville and Nashville Railroad. They had asked for three and a half cents for passenger men and were refused. The question of a strike in conseauence is being considered. A dispatch of Thursday from Titu - ville. Pa., says: The ice ha3 gorged in Earl creek, completely surrounding the waterworks aud making it necesary for workmen to be taken to and from it iu boats. The water only lacks one foot of being as high as during the flood of last June. Heider’s hotel, 265 West Fifth street, Cincinnati, O., was completely gutted by fire Thursday morning, and four per sons were burned to death. Tho dead are: Fred Detzel, waiter; Albert Grau, yardman; Joseph Maines and a waiter named Gottleib Grau, who awakened the inmates of the hotel but was unable to escape himself and burned to death. Cablegrams of Tuesday are to tie ef fect that the city of Bri-.bane, in Queens land, continues completely isolated by floods. In the region about Wide Bay, Queensland, hundreds of houses were de molished by the rushing waters; thous ands of destitute people have taken re fuge in the hills, withomt shelter and nec essaries. At Brisbane business is com pletely suspended. The individual banking house of F. V. Rockafellow & Co., at Wilkesbarre, Pa., closed its doors Wednesday morning. It was one of the oldest banking institu tions in that section, and the people had the u'most confidence in its soundness. No official statement has as yet been made, and whether it is n bad failure cannot as yet be stated. Great excite ment prevails among business men over the affair. A resolution was introduced iD the Oklahoma house of representatives by J. A. Wallace, a negro member, con demning lynch law, especially when it is meted out to negroes without trial. The intention of the resolution was to cen sure the recent lynchings in the south, and more particularly the Paris, Texas, affair. The resolution was voted down by a large majority. A Kansas Ci’y, Mo, dispatch says: Cass county judgis, who have been in jail for near.y a year for contempt of court, appeased before Judge Phillips Tuesday morning and reported the adop tion, by over 2,000 majority, of the 70 cent bond compromise proposition sug gested by Judge Phillips. He accord ingly discharged them aiid remitted their fines. If the bondholders accept the com promise new bonds will be issued. A Washington dispatch of Wednesday says: Secretary Foster, of the treasury department, has been notified that the American flig will be formally raised unon the Inman steamers, City of New Y’ork and City of Paris, at New York ou Washington’s birthday, February 22d. The event will be celebrated with great pomp. Many distinguished people have received invitations to be present and President Harrison will himself hoist the fir=t flag. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. HOW TO MEND BROKEN CHINA. Make a light paste of the white of an egg and flour. Clean the broken edges from dust, spread them with the paste and hold the parts together while wet-, wiping off all that oozes out. It must be held or fastened in position until dry, A perfectly colorless cement is made bj dissolving a half ounce of gum nrabic in a wineglass of boiling water and add ing plaster of Paris to form a thick paste. Use at once, applying with s thick brush.—New York World. SILVER IS VICTORIOUS. A USE FOR WORN STOCKIN' 8S. ' According to the Household, very pretty little jackets for babie3 can be made from the legs of silk and woolen stockings when the feet are worn out. The stitches that confite the legs are Carefully picked out, and the legs joined together down the back c-f the jacket. The sleeves are cut from the narrower parts and sewed in. The jacket is then edged around with a scal loped edge of worsted or knitting silk, which is- started by drewing a single crochet through the edge of the ma terial. A cord and tassels made from the ssme is run through the neck. TEST FOR OLEOMARGARINE, If in doubt whether you are using but ter or oleomargarine, boil a tablespoon ful of each. The butter will foam with out much noise, the oleomargarine ot the contrary will sputter and hiss as does melted lard, but it will not foam so de cidedly. Butter that keep3 unusually well in a warm room in summer is to be suspected. A well-known chemist is inclined to think a mouse knows the difference without these tests, for he found that of two crackers, one spread with butter and one with oleomargarine, left in his laboratory, the mouse pre ferred the former. The latter was sam pled and left.—New York Post. TDe Bill lor Repeal of tlie Sherman Act Fails of Consideration, The House by a Vote of 158 to 142 Recommits to the Rules Committee. A cable dispatch of VYedncsdayfrom Aril ens,Greece, stales that the island of Zante is shaken several times daily by earth quake. The king will remain there some time to superintend the building of huts for the homeless and to assist the relic? committee in Zanta city. The queen is still traveling from village to village,giv ing generously to the impoverished and trying to encourage the panic stricken. Two Italian mcn-of-war have taken sup plies to Zante. A Boston, Mass., dispatch siys: The jury in the case of Asa P. Potter, the ex-president of the bankrupt Maverick bank, charged with false certification of checks, Thursday morning rendered a verdict of guilty. The verdict finds Potter guilty on fifteen counts, which cover practically the five charges over the certification. The case will now go t > the supreme court. Tbe minimum sen tence for the crime alleged is a fine, and the maximum twenty-five yeara’ imprison ment. QUARANTINE REPORT. HOW TO SELECT CARPETS. There are many things to learn about carpets and their purchase. The man ufacture of them is full of catches and tricks, and in the desire to make cheap goods, quality and everything else are sacrificed to looks. A carpet may be made with a very pleasing surface, fairly good colors and generally attractive appearance, but will last scarcely as long as it takes to make and put it down. The regular tapestry carpet is printed like old-fashioned cal ico. It is made all in one color which is the color of the ground, it is then run i through presses on the same genera - principal as any other printed article. | The color merely strikes through th< | outside of the wool. The pile is held ; in place only by single light binding thread, aud a single strand of the wool may be drawn out for a yard or mon by giving a gentle pull at one end. While this sort of carpet may have its uses, it is the most unprofitable thing imaginable to buy. A chair drawn ovei it may pull the threads out, any rough ness in the heel of the shoe is almost certain to do it, and ordinary use in s short time works the threads all out of place. In body Brussels every color is dyed in the skein, then woven in, belDg thrown upon the surface only where this special color is required. In this class of goods the variety of colors is neces sarily limited, as with present machinery only a certain number can be handled independently of each other. Body Brussels carpets are usually designated by the number of frames which signify the number of colors used.In all carpets of this kind, the wool surface is thrown through the fabric, and shows to some extent on the back. Unscrupulous dealers have so arranged their machinery that the back of tapestry carpet is stained or clouded to follow as closely as possible the colors on the sur face. By this means unsophisticated oi ignorant peisons are imposed upon, as their idea that the colors show through is easily met by the stained appearance on the back. Of course such goods are a most bare faced fraud and should be treated as such. That reputable dealers sometimes handle them is not at all to their credit. What is known as velvet carpet is merely a tapestry with the pile cut. Wilton carpets have the interwoven back of the body Brussels, are yarn died and questionably the most durable carpets made. Moquette3 and Axmiosters are very thick and sometimes very durable, but the purchase of such carpets maybe said to be almost a lottery. For ordinary use and at moderate cost, body Brussels is by far the best in vestment in the carpet line.—New York Ledger. The question of silver legislation at this session of congress has been finally settled. There will be none. The fight in the house Thursday morning was brief, but highly interesting. General G'atch- ings, of Mississippi, opened it by report ing the order from the committee on rules, setting aside the day and Friday for the consideration of silver. Mr. Ba con, df New Y’ork, chairman of the com mittee on banking and currency, which reported the bill, followed with a brief speech in advocacy of the adoption of the order and of the bill. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, the leading advo cate of free coinage, delivered an impassionate speech against the resolu tion and against the proposed legisla tion. Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, the able young orator who won fame by his tariff speech last session, declared eloquently that the democratic party dare not go to tbe people of the country, having adopt ed cloture for this bill when it had re fused it for every measure in the interest of the people. There was not a line in the bill which was not opposed to the policy of the democratic party. Several brief speeches were made in favor of the measure and several ra* re against it, when General Catchings yielded ten minutes to' Tom Reed. Mr. Reed favored the re peal of the Sherman law. He said it had only been enacted as a compromise meas ure to stay for the time being a strong demand for free coinage. It seemed to be an obstacle to bimetallism all over the world aud should be repealed. THE VOTE TAKEN. After Mr. Reed’s speech, the voto was taken on ordering the previous question on the adoption of the order. An “aye” vote practically meant a vote against the bill, while a “nay” vote was for the bill. There was intense excite ment during the call of the roll. Al most every member , on tbeflmr kept a tally sheet of his own. It ran along al most even until the last score of names were reached. The vote stood 153 for the previous question to 142 against it. An analysis of the vote showed that the motion was supported by 107 democrats, 85 republicans and 10 populists or inde pendent membeis. The opposition con sists of 104 democrats and 39 republi cans. HOW IT WAS RECEIVED. When Speaker Crisp made the an nouncement it was greeted with great applau-e by the silver men. It meant the defeat of the bill and the advocates of tbe repeal of the Sherman law gave up tbe fight with' U' further contest by not contesting the motion of Mr. Cox, oi Tennessee, to resubmit the special order to the committee on rules. That was carried through on a standing vote of 150 to 83, and thus the fight over silver ended almost before it had begun. The gold men saw there was no hope and suc cumbed. The 153 votes for the previous question were made up of 190 democrats aud thirty-five republic ins and niue pop ulists. The negative vete, representing the strength of tbe repealers, was made up of 104 democrats and thirty-eight re publicans. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL*! nrc 4 | THE TEXAS BURNING. A Thorough System Recommended foi Florida and Gnlf States. A Washington specia! of Haturd .y[says: Senator Call, from the committee on im migration, made a report to the senate Saturday on the examination made by the joint congressional committee that investigated the qu irantien system be tween the West Indies an 1 F.orida dur ing the holidays. The report states that there is great danger of the introduction into the United Stitesfrom th*se islands by immigration and commerce and re commends a liberal appropriation to main tain a thorough quarantine system iu Florida and the South Atlantic and gulf sta’es. The report recommends the insertion of an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, appro priating $1,000,000 tj be expended by the president in co-operation with state authorities to prevent epidemic or con tagious disease and that the president be given authority to suspend tl! immigra tion and commerce when neceesarv until the danger of contagion and infection shall have passed. Tho rep rt alac re commends the establishment of a system of international sanitation and regulation to prevent the iniroductioD of disease through immigration between the people of the several republics of North, Cen- trRl.and South America an<J the West Jh- dll Island#. RECIPES. Apple Marmalade—Peel, quarter and core pleasant tart apples; cook in watei until tender; then squeeze through s colander; measure and allow half a: much sugar as pulp, and cook together until thick; then pour into bowls and tumblers. Fried Potatoes—Boil some potatoes; when done, peel them aud set them away to get cold. Then chop them up fine and add pepper and salt to the ta3te. Flour them and fry in hot lard. They must be brown. Some add a little vine gar just before they ate taken out of th< pan. Giblets—Clean the giblets of a turkey or chicken, cut the gizzard into quartets aud separate the lobes of the liver. Stew them in water to cover with au onion, salt and pepper. When lender thicken the liquor with flour and butter cooked together; add tomato or walnut catsup to taste, and Eerve on toast. Squash Pie—One quart of stewed and strained squash, a scant quart of boiling milk, two-thirds of a nutmeg, one and oije-half teaspoonfuls of salt,two cupfuls of sugar. Mix slowly and well; when cold add four well beaten eggs. Line deep plate3 with a jilaia paste, and after filling with the mixture bake in a mod erate oven for forty minutes. /• Talking Through n Bird’s Nest. A telephone lineman at Punxsutawney, Penn., the other day discovered that t little to the south of the town, where the Indiana coimty line runs through the branches of a maple tree,a robin had built its nest around th8 wire. Tne red - breast bad used the wire a3 a main sill for its domicile. So when Punxsutaw- Beans and Inclianians do business or make love over the telephone they may be said to be talking through a bird's nest. This is at once more lomantic and more practical than talking through one’s het.—Philadelphia Record; Governor Hogg Want# Legislation Against Mob Law. A special dispatch of Tuesday from Austin, Texas, says: A message con cerning the burning of the negro Smith at Paris has been prepared by Governor Hogg for submission to the legisla ure. The governor says it becomes his pain ful duty to emphasiz .* the necessity of taking some steps to prevent mob vio lence in Texas. That the recent terri ble holocaust at Pari# is but an illustra tion to what extent a mob will go when the laws are inadequate to check it. While the victim of that affair was guilty of an atrocious, barbarous crime, appalling and contemptible he was cer tain of full punishment under the consti tution and laws of the state. Civiliza tion stands a helpless witness to the most revolting execution of the age, in which a large number of citizens openly, in broad day, publicly become murderers by methods shameful to humanity. That crime committed at Paris is a pisgrace to the state. Its atrocity, in humanity and sickening effect on the people cannot be obscured by a reference to the previous act of the culprit in bru tally taking the life of the innocent child. To contend that his executioners can neither be indicted nor tried- in the county where the crime was _mmitted is a pretense and mockery. He says if the legislature will enact suitable laws and place them at his command every person who takes part in a mob shall be brought to trial, or the slrength of the machinery of justice shall be thoroughly tested in the eff ;rt. HEADING THEM OFF. An Uncle of Hawaii’s Queen Reaches Washington Ahead of Commission. A Chicago special of Thursday says: John M. Cleghom, from San Francisco, au uncle of Priueess Kaiuliani, the heir- apparent to the Hiwaiian throne, stole a match on the Hiwaiian commissioners, who are on their way to Washington to present th# claims of the provisional gov ernment. As soon as the news of the revolt be came known, Cleghom packed his grip and took the first tr in for Washington with the result that he arrived in Chicago forty-light hours ahead of the comm'ssicmers, and will reach the capitol that much in advance of them. His purpose is to present the claims of his niece to the United States govern ment before the commission appointed by the provisional government arrives at the national capitol. He is & brother of A. S. Cleghorn, whose deceased wife was the sister of the depose^ queen Lilinokalani, and whose daughter, the heir apparent, is at a fash ionable school in England. He will lay before President Harrison the claims of his neice, Princess Kaiulimi, and will plead for the establish ment of a protectorate with the princess as queen. A POPULIST SENATOR Elected by the Nebraska Legislature After Much Yoting. A special from Lincoln, Nebraska, says; Judge W. B. AlleD, populist, wa8 elected United States senator Tues day morning, receiving seventy votes; four more tbaa tyere necessary to a choice. The g'ow worm lays luminous Banana flour has been prod small quantity in some parts of A1 Nutmegs ir. the quantity of Ihree drachms will cause both stupor delirium. Oyster shells laid on the hot coals a stove or range will loosen clinkers on the firebrick, so that they may be easily removed. It is stated by an actor that the elec tric lamp used a3 footlights is harder on the eyes of the performers than either gas or candle light. Numerous experiments to determine the best fire-resisting materials for the construction of doors have proved that | wood covered with tin resisted the fire I better than an iron door. The main elements in the make-up the world are oxygen, nitrogen, hydro gen, chlorine, carbon, fluorine, phos phorous, silicon, sulphur, aluminum, calcium, copper, iron, iead, potassium and sodium. Oysters come nearer to milk than all most any other common food mati as regards both the amounts and the ative proportion of nutrients, the f< values of equal weights of milk and o; ters being nearly the same. It is somewhat singular that, not with* standing the great advances made iis chemistry and metallurgy, no other more satisfactory silver alloy has yet been dis covered for coining and other purposes than the alloy used 800 years ago. The best lighted city in Europe is Milan. American machinery only is employed in its two central stations. A curious feature of the system of distri bution is that the wires, instead of being carried on poles, are suspended from the brackets under the eave3 of the houses. In summer at Paris the Siene 'delivers . to the two parts of the bridge Pont- Neuf about a hundred cubic inches o'l water every second, moving with a force of 13500 horse-power. Every ho 860.000 cubic metres of water pass der the arches of the bridge, or 8,64' 000 cubic metres in a day. A Roman has offered King Humbert a novel instrument of warfare. This il a prrjectile, which on being shot from a cannon and striking an object will produce a Iuid’lous disc of 100,000 candle poi.cr, and thereby expose to view an enemy’s position by night at a distance of from three to ■'-'ur miles. A miniature thunder factory has beeu constructed for the science and art de partments at South Kensington, Eng land, with plates seven feet in diameter, which, it is believed, would give sparks thirty inches long, but no Leyden jare have been found to stand the charge, all being pierced by an enormous tension. M. Bourdelles, Chief Engineer of French lighthouses, has perfected,4 tern by which he can project a.; ■ 2.500.000 candles by means of f instead of twenty-four, as pr?/-, and by a novel system of rote the “flash” every twenty seccnu. the inventor claims, is the finest result yet achieved anywhere. Electric light baths are among th« latest inventions. The necessary parts of such a bath are a cabinet which will inclose the entire body except the head, and fifty electric lamps of sixteen candle power, or 110 volts, arranged about tbe body in group3, with a separate switch for each group. The light. i3 thrown on a ssetion at a fluic, making the patient frisky and browning the skin like an ocean bath. C. C. Jennings, formerly r aperin- tendent of the Brush Ele<Y .c Light Company of Buffalo, N. Y., has pat ented a system of telephonic communi cation, by means of which barbed wire fences can be utilized between railroad stations, farmers’ houses and large ranches. The patent involves the use of a portable transmitter or telephone, which can be attached to the barbed wire at any point, and by which mes sages can be received or sent to railroad stations or other places at which there are regular telephones. Has a Finger-Reducing Patent. The Patent Office has granted a pat-; ^ ent on a device worthy of the ancient: Greeks. It is a system of finger-taper4^ ing and joint-reducing bands. The ideta is to make thimble-shaped bands of thin .and pliant aluminum in sets of various sizes to fit the fingers and thumbs, and by wearing them at night graduaU^pi duce the slender and tapering digits much admired by the fashionable hal the world. The aluminum bands provided with rings which are crowd 1 down on the outside so as to compres the fingers and drive the blood back to 1 any desired state of diminutiveness. The letters patent do not state whether the use of this new device is attended with pain or not. It is said these bands have been thoroughly tested by several of the best known women of fashion in Wash# ingtonand New York, and they speak of them in the highest terms prajj^^fha leading merchant in cosmetics ancHBjJ articles in Chicago is forming a stoefl company to buy the patent and boo * the finger taperer at the World’s Faij The patentee says his idea will go wildfire, as have so many other in tions to produce beauty, and he th: his patent is worth atr least $50,001).— Chicago Heraid. Immense Dining Hail for Students. An immense dining hall for students, to be known as the Mensa Academics, !was opened in Vienna, Austria, the other jweek. In it 2000 students can dme together. The intent of the institution is to enable students to eat together at a minimum cost, instead of being com;j pelled by reason of their small means i obtain their meals in cheap and low ^ I sort3. The privileges ot the Men, I Academics are restricted to regular i senbers, and the rates are for din $2.50 a month; for breakfast and 1 ner, $3.25, and for breakfast, and supper, $4.75 a month.—Ch Times. President Harrison has classification of tha Civil Service i include all free delivery offices, 601 in ber. sixty-three of whioh are at classified: also by an amendment classification of the Agricultural J ment employes of the Weather elsewhere than in Washington, are These two changes bring within the fled service something over 703U placa? iug tbe total number of jjlaeos with: <terv ce 43.POL One year from January 30 th, last telephone patent expires, transmitter patent has aVeu-ay Beu’s patent expires elaron “