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THE VIENNA PROGRESS. TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JNO. B.,HOWELL. 1 LACY A. MOROAN, » r VOL. XI., NO 30. VIENNA, GA„ TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, t r ffl CONGRESSIONAL HALLS. Daily Ronfins oi Both Houses ol tho Fifty-Second Congress, Measures Discussed and Bills Passed By Our National Law-Makers. THE SENATE. In the senate, Tuesday, Mr. Sherman reported back from the committee on fi nance the amendment suggested by him self some days ago, in reference to the issue of the United States 3 per cent bonds. The committee decided it to be affixed to the sundry civil appropriation bill. The sundry civil appropriation bill was taken up. Nearly half of the bill had been read through when 2 o’clock arrived and then Mr. Allison said he would let the bill go over until Wednesday, to that the senate might proceed with the Nica- ragua canal bill. This bill was then taken up aDd a statement was made by Mr. Sherman in exp'anation, he said, of some points which seemed to puzzle the senators. His statement was to the iff ct that under the bill contracts now sub sisting between the Maritime Canal com pany and the construction company were n J ,r0 S a t®d; that the government of the United States would start in the work with a '“clean table;” that it would own eighty millions of the $100,000,000 of stock, and would have ten directors, the Maritime company becomiog a mere agent of the government. The bill was again laid aside and consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was re sumed. AH but twelve pages of the bill were disposed of. Amendments recom mended by the committee on appropria tions were agreed to, except some that were reserved, and these included the world’s fair items and river and harbor improvements. At 1:40 o’clock the sen ate adjourned. The conference r. port on the army ap propriation bill was presented by the senate, Wednesday, read and then laid over until Thursday. Consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was proceeded with. The reading of the bill having been finished, reserved amend ments were taken up, the first being the series in reference to the world’s Colum bian exposition. Mr. Quay offered his amendment making all appropriations for the exposition conditional on Sunday closing. Mr. Allison hoped that Mr. Quay would not press that amendment. It was only a reproduction of pirt of the legislation of last year, every provision of which had been complied with. With that assurance, Mr. Quay withdrew bis amendment, and then all the com mittee amendments as to the world’s fair were agreed to. The next series of reserved amendments were those for the improvements of the rivers and hirbirs. At 2 o’clock p. m, unfinished business, the Nicaragua canal bill was laid before the senate; but at the requestor' Mr. Gorman it was laid aside temporartly and the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill proceeded with. While the discussion was progressing one of the secretaries of the president of f.hft Sf.ftfpa n mvnnrnrl ua tiro booms , ution relating to the contested election case of R-3nolds vs. Shonk, from the twelfth district of Pennsylvania. The resolution confirms the title of Shonk, I ublican contcstce, t > his teat. The house then re limed, in ermmittee, the cou-iiieration of the peusion nppropria tion bill. After debate general discus sion was closed and the bill was read for amendments. No action was taken any of the committee amendments, at 5 o’clock the bouse adjourned. 'I he hoiDe of representatives resolved itself into a prize ring Thursday. The Contestants for honors in the ring were Be | r..-sent a lives Turpin, of Alabama, and Waugh, of Indiana. The fight was the ••ctultofa discussion over lhe pension ppropriation bill. Mr. Turpin arose to ask Mr. Morse a question. He wanted in kno.v if ilwas not true that there was clerk in the p usion office drawing a pen sion of $3Q a raonth,for total deafness who oeivid u salary of $1,800 a year for ans wering inquiries over the the telephone, Of crurse this created general laughter, when Mr. Waugh, of Indiana, jumped to uis feet and dre ared that the statement was un’vue and that there was no such «let k in the pension office. But the words were hardly uttered before Mr. Turpin bounded across the open space in front of the speaker’s desk, and grabbed the Indinnian' by the throat with his left band an 1 proceeded to pound him in the face wilh right. Mr. Waugh fought back, and the pommeling became lively. Members frrm all parts of the house lushed down the sislcs to join in to stop the figLt. The republicans took the side of Mr. Waugh while the demccrats were rrady to assist Mr. Turpin, though all were anxious to stop the fight. Speaker Crisp happened to be on the floor near the desk when the fight occurred, and, although the house was in committee of the whole, the speaker rushed to the desk and assumed charge, rapping for order and ordering the sergeant-at-arms to quiet the disturbance and arrest the disturbers if nectssary. In a few mo ments order was restored. Mr. Waugh was cairitd out one door and Mr. Turpin from another. The house then immedi ately adjourned. the United States appeared as the bearer of a message. As soon as it reached the vice president, Mr. Sherman, knowing that it related to Hawaii, moved to proceed to ex ecutive business. The motion was agreed to, the galleries were cleared, the doors closed, and the senate was left to discuss the Hawaiian question in secret. The doors were reopened at 4:45 o’clock nud then the business of the senate was sus pended in order that .a fitting tribute might be made to the memory of the late Ttepreseutative McDonald, of New Jersey, who died on the 5th of November last. The usual resolutions of regret were of fered by Mr. McPherson and agreed to, and the senate at 5 o’clock p. m., ad journed. Tbe senate again took up tbe sundry civil appropriation bill Thursday, the pending question relating to the Phila delphia harbor improvements. The amend ment reducing the Philadelphia harbor item from half a million to $300,000 was defeated. The amendment reducing in like proportion the Hudson river, New York, item was also rejected. The sen ate incidental to the sundry civil bill discussed in open session the Hawaiian treaty. Mr. Vest vigorously attacked the proposed annexation. The discussion re verting to the sundry civil bill, the committee’s amendment to reduce the item for improving the Mississippi river from $758,000 to $658,000, from the mouth of tbe Ohio to the mouth of the Missouri, and from $866,600 to $736,000, from the mouth of the Missouri to Minne apolis, wss rejected. The following amendments proposing reductions of appropriation were disagreed to without disvision: For Charleston harbor, South Carolina, from $750,000 to $650,000; for Savannah, Georgia, from $1,000,000 to -$750,000; for Mobile, Alabama, from $500,000 to $450,000; lor the Mississ’ppi river from the head of the passes to the mouth of the Ohio river, from $2,605,000 to $2,000,- 000; for the Missouri river, from $750.- 000 to $650,000. The amendment pro viding that not moro Ilian three-fourths of the appiopriations for internal im provements shall be expended during the next fiscal year, excepting as to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and Hay lake channel, was agreed to, this being the last of the amendments in relation to these works. The next amendment was one striking out the provision that co money shall bs used fi r warrants or arrests or prosecution nnder the internal revenue laws, works, or laws relating to the elec tion of members of congress. This brought on a lively political debate. No 1 ction was taken on the amendment. Mr, Faulkner gave uotice that iu conse quence of the very serious illness of the late Senator Henna’s ch ldren, the mem orial services for Mr. Henna were post poned from Saturday till Monday 27th of February at 3 p. m. o’clock. The sen ate 6:10 o'clock adjourned. THE HOUSE. Tuesday morning Mr. Mutchler moved that the house go into a committee of the whole for consideration of the inva lid pension appropriation bill. The re publicans began to filibuster over the limitation of debate. Again the demo crats were obliged to yield to the repub lican demand that six hours’ debate be accorded to the minority, and it was agreed that the general debate close Wednesday at 3 o'clock. Mr. Hatch in cidentally gave notice that if the appro priation bill was not deposed of in a reasonable time he would ask for consideration of the anti-option bill. The house then resumed consideration of the pension bill. Iu the house, Wednesday,ou motion of Mr. Wheeler, the bill uuthorizing the construction of a bridge across the Ten nessee river at Shefli .-Id, Ala., was pass 'd. Mr. O’Ferrall called up, CAPITAL GOSSIP. A Washington special of Monday says Criticism is diminishing and indorsement is increasing in regard to lhe Gresham appointment. The Miller vs Elliott contest for the “shoe string” or black district of South Carolina was to have come up for deci sion Thursday in the hous" committee on elections, but a quorum did not appear. Four republicans and two democrats were pre'ent. The senate, Thursday, refused to con cur in the report of the committee ot the sundry civil hill cutting down the appropriation for Savannah harbor. The million dollar appropriation made by the house was reinserted in the bill, and it will go through the senate in this way, though there is an amendment pro viding that Dot more than three-fourths of the appropriation shall be expended during the next fiscal year. To Prevent Clash of Authority. The unusuul number of railroad prop erties in tlie south in the hands of receiv ers has made additional legislation nee essary ns respects service in suits against these companies, and, on Tuesday the house judiciary committee ordered favorable report on the bill introduced by Mr. Turner, of Georgia, to cure de fects in the judiciary act of August 13, 1888. By this act suits were authorized to be brought in certain cases in state courts against receivers appointed by United States courts. By the procedure of most states, service may be made on railroad companies through their local agent in place of a suit. It is now nee essary, however, where roads are in the hands of United States court receivers, to serve process iu suits on receivers. The Canal Hill. The Nicaragua canal bill discussed in the senate Monday provides that 3 per cent bonds of the company, to an amount not exceeding $100,000,000, shall be guaranteed “principal and interest,” by the government of the United State: these bonds to be fssued according as money is actually paid out and expended by the company in the construction of the canal. The government is then to own the capital stock of the company with the exception of twelve millions of it, which is to be retained by the company, and except shares to be delivered to the governments of Nicauaugua and Costa Rica. The importance of this guarantee by the government was demonstrated in n speech by Mr. Frye, of Maine, who undertook to snow mat the worn would with a guarantee, be fully completed at a cost of $100,000,000 and that its fixed charges would be only $5,000,000 a year, outside of the sinking fund, whereas, without a guarantee, tlie cost would not be less than $200,000,000, and its fixed charges $14,000,000, Cotton Tax Bill Reported Favorably. The Oates cotton tax bill secured a favorable report from a majority of the house committee on judiciary, Tuesday. The bill provides that the tax collected by the United States during war times on raw cotton shall be refunded in the event that the United States supreme court holds the laws under which the tax was collected to have been unconsti tutional. The bill authorizes any person who paid cotton tax duty to briDg suit in the court of claims against the United States for recovery of money, right of appeal to the United States supreme court being given to each side to suit. One test case is to be made, and no other case tried unless the supreme court decides the taxing act to have been unconstitutional. If the act should be declared invalid, the court of claims will try every cotton tax suit commenced within one year after the decision of the United States supreme court, Mr. Bynum will put in a minority re port, and will probably be joined by other members of the committee. The refunding of the cotton tax would coal the government some millions of dollars, and this fact alone, doubtless, will be sufficient to prevent the bill passing con gress at this session. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Board of Directors Hold a Busi-. ness Meeting in Chattanooga. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Southern Associated Press held at Chattanooga, Monday, the following of ficers were present; E. P. Howell, presi dent; Patrick Walsb, treasurer; F. P. Glass, secretary; A. S. Ochs, chairman; of the executive committee, together with T. T. Stockton, of Jacksonville; J. 0. Hemphill, of Charleston; F. P. O'Brien, of B rmingham; J. L. Rapier, of Mobile, and J. H. Estill, of Savan nah. Steps were taken to improve tbe service of the Southern Associated Press. The body parsed resolutions of condo- ___ i lence in reference to the death of Dr j ; and"" the • Norvin Green, president of tbe Westers house adopted without debate, the reso- Union felegiaph Company. THE MILITIA CALLED OUT, far in tlie Kansas Legislature Between and Populists. The Doors ot the State House Battered Down With Sledge Hammers. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. A Topek«, Kansas, special says; A bloodless but excitiDg battle took place between the republicans and the popu lists’ house at the entrance to the repre sentative hall Wednesday morning. The populists* who have bad possession of the hall in the afternoons, adjourned Tuesday until Wednesday afternoon, and, as been the custom since the begin ning of the session, tbe republicans ex pected to hold their regular morning session as usual, but the populists swore in a large number of assistant sergeants-at arms, who were placed on guard and the doors and entrances to the hall were locked. No one was admitted to the hall ex cepting the populists and members of the press and they were required to show a pass and run the gauntlet of a d( zen guards. The republicans were fully in formed of all these preparations to ex clude them from the hall, and a hundred men were sworn in as officers of the re publicans, and at 9 o’clock the members of tbe republican house, with their iffi- cers, started from their headquaiters fer the statehouse. met With winchesters. The march through the long corridors leading to the representative hall was Unimpided. The little column forced its way through the line of guards sta tioned at the foot of ihc stairs in the west wing and started upstairs. On the first landing was a crowd of populist house officers under command of Adju tant General Ar:z. They were armed, and the advancing republican crowd were met with muzzles of revolvers and Winchesters. The adjutant general commanded them to halt, but no stop was made and the advance guard pushed into the crowd of populists. Three or four of them suc ceeded in passing tne doorkeeper after a brief struggle, aDd getting into the hall, but the populists sueceded in closing the door and barring it. THE SPEAKER UBI 8 A SLEDGE HAMMER. The repubheans on the outside de manded admittance, and when it was de nit d them Speaker Douglass swung a large sledge hammer and began to batter the heavy doors leading from the cloak room. It took many bloas to beat a passage way through, but the doors fin ally gave way, and the republican legis lators surged in with a loud shout. The populists promptly retreated, and tbe republicans WERE IN COMPLETE CONIROL. Ever since the opening of the session the populists have had the committee- rooms, the fergeart at-arms room and the chief clerk’s room. These were all locked and guarded on the inside, but after the house had been called to order the republicans battered down the doors and took possession of them without encountering any resist ance. At 10 o’clock there were a few populists in the representative hall and the republican house had settled r’owD to the regular order of business, as if noth ing unusual had happened. Assistant sergeants-at-arms, each wearing a bright red ribbon, promenaded the aisles and lobbies. BOTH SIDES SWEARING IN OFFICERS. The republicans and populists are both swearing in officers ns fast as possible to be in readiness for an emergency. RECRUITS FOR THE REPUBLICANS. At 12:40 o’clock tbe republicans added thirty or forty recruits to their force, ss- istanl sergeant-at-arms cadets, of Wash burn college, appearing in tbe hall and taking the oath before the sergeant-nt arms. The popu’ists’ jaDitor undertook to freeze out the republicans ai d shut off the steam from the hall. The following order was delivered by Adjutant-General Ariz to Col. J. W. F. Hughes: Yon are hereby ordered to assume command all officers anil men o; the Kansas National Guards assembled in Topeka and around the statehouse- By order of L. D. Lewellixg, Commander in Chief. The republicans during the afternoon ppointed a committee consisting of Messrs. Sherman, Warner and Cubbison to visit Governor Lewcllipg and agree upon, if pi ssible, a uspension of hostili ties. They proposed tb.-.t both hi uses gree to adjemrn until a rase could be made in the supreme court and finally adjudicated. MOKE TROOl-9 CALLED. Governor Lewelling issued a proclama tion at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday after noon stating that as the malitia now in Topeka was not sufficient five piovision ' companies would be organized* com posed of voluntecis. Only three com panies, however, has been organized, and they are cf thirty men each. D M. Scott, publican member from Hodgeman county, who happened to be in Ottawa telegraphed that he would be in Topeka with 300 armed men on the first train. S. Anthouy telegraphed that 1,000 men would come from Leavenworth. Co- umbus telegraphed that 400 men would come from there at the command of peaker Douglass. Sheriff Wilkinson informed the gov ernor at midnight Wednesday night that was a peace officer, and demanded hat the latter turn over to him the situ ation . Colonel Hughes, in command of he s'ate militia, went into the republic- hall soon afterwards and told the re publican members that if the governor k'd him to eject them he would resign s Dosition. to eject the republicans. ShouTcT (Hat attempt be nude it will be met with armed r< ssfance ou the part of the re- publ'cans. A PEACE OFFERING. At 2:32 o’clock Thursday afternoon the governor sent an application for: peace to the repub’ican house. It reads: l - The gorfrnor offers, in ti^e interest peace * interesting and Instructive to All GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The News ol tlie World Condensed Into Pithy aind Pointed Paragraphs. and harmony, that he will military and not allow the republican house or its employes to bs interfered with by tbe pop ulists, provided that all further proceedings Classes of Readers. i lhe Industrial Development Dnrlng the Past Week. I ^ The review of-the industrial situation in the j Scrath for th? week past is vrry Rra ifying, not j oniy in the number of new industries piojected, but also iu tneir diversified charact-r. and the j amount of capital interested. The wood-work ing, textile and flour and grist mill interests have received pirt'cnlar attention. Cotton mills are to be erected at Concord, N. C., Dan ville, Ya., and Union, S. C., the one at Dan ville to have 15,000 Bpindles, and the company at Union having $100,000 capital- A cotton gin will be established at Pitts, Ga. Flouring mills are to be erected at. Danville, Va., H gh Point, N- C. and Obion. Tenn., and grist mills at Cava Springs, Va., Manchester, Va., and Steel’s Tavern, Va.. Among the wood working p’aofs reported are saw and planing mills at Brinson, Ga., Bristol, Tenn., N’oreross, Ga., Rural Hull, N. C., and Snm- merfield, N. C., a barrel factory at Lyons, Ga.. furniture factories at Winston, N. C., High Reports of Tuesday to the board of arising f om the arrest of Ben C. Rich, be health of New York City from Black- dropped and the populist members and em-' well’s Island show that since Saturday pletyee to not be disturb'd by the arrest of offl- ten new c-ises of typhus fever developed co.f,uv^rj” e, i and t the e Bh0ri ? f Sha , wnee ' in the workhouse of that place, county discharge Jus deputies and does not in- r terfere no • try to interfere with tk: acts of the Early Tuesday morning fire destroyed populists and state officers, including the mil- the Wagman block in Fort Smith Ark., ma, nud tins agreement to continue in force an d a two storv brick hull dine ndlnin until the o ese cf the present session of the leg- { ” rlck D ^ , " V T J islatnre 1D£r - The total loss will be between miaitiic. AAA , . . ... . , tuumuio lauuiiiB taa n uisiuii, in . kj. HigU The republicans will not accept thii ?Ll' A , an< ^ vlW),000, with luburance of Point, N. 0., and Paris, Texas. Hoop factory ne^cc offerin'/. | *ko r 000. , at Dveraburg, Tenn., shingle mill at Plaque- Another dispatch says: Colonel J. F. . A report of the treasury department P^o^^C^cMperage 11 Hughes, commanding the Kansas Na- issued Monday shows the following ex- j *.t Little Bock, Ark., and lumber companies at tional Gusrd, has for the third and last ports of cotton from Georgia and South ; Charleston, 5V. Va., Leggett, Texas, and At- tiins notified Governor Lewelling that he Carolina ports for the month of January: lanta, Ga., the latter with $[,000,000 capital, will not take charge of the militia. It is Brunswick, 1,100 baits as against 5,980 A pot»ble industry of the week is a shoe factory lh-ught probable that the governor will I°r January, 1892; Savannah, 42,661 as appoint another commander. I against 33,886; Charleston, 16,397 as j against 24,825, T im nnrrmn : -r- At tbe 1 ?°. nthl y meeting of the New HjL aMIJIH York association cf piano manufacturers j Tuesday afternoon seventeen firms re ported through their representatives that they had deciden not to send any exhib its to the Chicago fair. Dissatisfaction regarding the space assigned is given as the chief reason for this actioD. The seventh annual convention of the American Newspaper Publisher’s Associ ation was opened at New York Wednes- , day. A great majority of representatives C '’ P xford ’ A , la fi aI J d Un ! on Springs, Ala. .om,..- j - “ , The enlargements include brewery at Dallas, of newspapers and members of the asso- »hnn „t iwif.Ji rut. v„’ ciation were present, and over one hun dred millions of dollars capital was re presented. A terrific explosion occurred at Mc- Abce’s powder mills, about twelve miles from Pittsburg, Pa., on tbe Alleghany Valley railroad Wednesday afternoon, by which Albert McAbee was instantly killed and William Scirborough so badly injured that he died while being taken to the hospital. McAbee was blown sixty feet. Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity • Briefly Epitomizeii And Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. at Loni-mlle, Kv., with $75,000 capital. Fifty- seven new iudu-tries are reported for the week, together with ten enlargements, and seventeen important new buildings. Among the new in dustries for the week not already referred to are a canning factory at Water Valiev, Miss., eleotric light plants "at Suffolk, Va., and Union Springs, Ala., gas and fuel company at Mem phis, Tenn., graphite works at Cartelsville, Ga., machine shop at Bedfi rd City, Va., laundry companies at Jionroe, La., an t Savannah, Ga., the latter with $25,000 capital. Mining and quarying companies have been formed at j Birmingham, Ala,, and Riverside, W. Va., oil | mills wiil be established at Waco, Texas, and j Caldwell, Texas, the Caldwell company having | $20,000 capital. Waterworks are to be erected at New Bsme, The North Carolina house of r presen- tatives Tuesday, after prolonged debate, defeated the bill to repeal the homestead law. The vote against It was over whelming. The Savannah, Ga., Evening Press, in an editorial Thursday afternoon, say: “There is one feature of the selection of Hoke Smith for a cabinet position which is grateful. It is the compliment paid (he southern afternoon press by the new administration. The Southern Loan Company of Nasli ville, Tenn., has secured control of the Cumberland blast furnace on the new Mineral railroad, in Dickson county and will begin operations there in a few Weeks. This is one of the richest ore beds in the south. Superintendent Wadley, of the Central of Georgia, has issued orders threatening to discharge any man in the employ of the Central railroad who in any way in duces any person, white or black, toim migrate from Georgia. He desires to in crease population along the lines of the Central rather than decrease it. - Tbe two houses of the Kentucky state legislature, Tuesday afternoon, balloted separately for a successor to Mr. Carlisle in the United States senate. The vote was as follows: Senate—Lindsay, demo crat, 16; Augustus E. Willson, republi can, 0. House—Lindsay 63; Willson 13. Populists voted for Lindsay. A joint ballot will be taken. The Alabama house of representatives, Thursday morning passed the Sayre elec tion bill, which is drawn on the Austra lian system. It was bitterly opposed by the Kolbites because they alleged it would not only disfranchise the negroes, but at least thirty thousand whites in the state. The bill was passed by 50 to 46. It is believed the bill will pass the senate without serious opposbion. Secretary Foster, Tuesday afternoon, telegraphed to Minister Stephens, at Honolulu, approval of his action in af firmatively responding to the icquest of the provisional government of Hawa i for the establishment of a protectorate over the islands, pending negotiations for the annexation of tbe is'ands to the Uni ted States. Instructions for the guidance of his future actions were also included in the telegram. A N»sbvi]!e, Tenn , dispatch siy3: Wednesday Adjutant General Fite re- ci ived from Governor Turney, at Win chester, the commission of three ap pointees that have been awaited with anxiety by the numerous applicants. Major Felix G. Buchanan, of Lincoln county, is appointed warden at the main prison; Charles H. Smith, of Carroll county, depu'y warder), and Dr. J. R. Thompson, of Marshall county, prison physician, A New Orleans special says: The Loui-iina supreme court, Monday, hand ed down an opinion in the case of the state vs. the Boston and Pickwick clubs, two crack social organizations of the city, for suits tor license for following tbe bus iness of liquor dealers and keeping bil liard aDd pool rooms and restaurants. The courts ordered that the defendants be hell liable for all licenses from 1888 to date. The Sunday law is not men tioned in the opinion, but it is claimed, as the club3 are placed on an equal foot ing with the saloons, the law will be op- eiative in this case. MARDI GRAS FESTIVITIES. ENDORSING THE REPUBLICANS. A tremendous meeting of citizens was held in Leavenworth to endorse the sc ion of the Douglass house at Topeka. Mayor Hooker presided and Hons. E D. Carroll, John Hannon, E. N. Morrell, D. II. Anthony nnd William Hook made peeches strongly endorsing the action of the constitutional house in taking pos- sion of and holding representative hall. Strong resolutions were unani mously adopted endorsing the Douglas' house and urging them to stand firm end fferingsuppoit. LATER NEWS. A Topeka, Kas., dispatch of Thursday ivs: The republican house is stiil be sieged in the representative hall, and a force of the state miii ia is still posted about the cspitol. Colonel Hughes has again declined to obey the gov- nor’s order -to eject the republicans. And the only resource the governor has besides the regular militia s three companies of provisional tro-ip*, Lindsay Elected, composed of populists who, of coins", Judge Wu>;Lindsay was declared elected sympathize with the populist object. United States senator at the joint session “Be governor will make no statement as 0 f the Kenluckv legislature at noou Wtd- hie plans, but it is believed they in- nesday, He will proceed, to Washington elude an order to tho provisional-troopa to !$£•• bis seat. New Orleans Merry with Music and Masqueraders. A New Orleans news special of Tues day says: Eveiywhere floats carnival colors. The city is bright with sunshine and merry with music and a vast army of miscellaneous miskers. At high noon the procession of Rex appeared upon the streets. The subject chosen for the pageant was “Fantasies.” It allowed more scope for the display of the art of the painter and the costumes in the specta cle, which could not have the aid of cal cium lights and torches,and the result was n gorgeous sight. The first float bc-re “Bceuf Gras,”acc 'rding to a time-honortd custom. The second vehicle bore a fanciful design, illustrating the subject of dis play. Other floats depicted the king of the carnival upon his throne, and then came “Cloudland,” “Gambols of the Deep,’ “Pastimes in Hades,” “Star- ;and,” “Realm of Riches,” “Wa'er Nymphs,” "Court of Fairies,” “Sun- iand,” “Home of Brightness,” “Silver Spirits,” “Dancing Eifs on the Waves of Joy,” ‘‘Sports of Fairies,” “Hours of Idleness,” “Cupid's Bower,” “Dream land.” Tbe drill corps of S'. Bernard com- mandery, Knights Templer, of Chicago, ;>arnded as the guard of boner of the king, who was Impersonated by Captain John Pointevcnt. The queen of the car nival was Miss Ella t-inDOtt and her maids of honor, and they viewed the pi- rude from the galltry of the Pickwick Club. All the clubs were magnificiently grouped and erected special stands, from which beauty, from all sections of the ountry, viewed lhe parade. A New York special of Wednesday says : It is not expected in financial cir cles here that either tbe senate or tbe house will take any further action on the silver question during tbe present ses sion of congress. Careful inquiry among bankers and business men reveris the fact that these elements are very much discouraged over the condition of affairs. There was no little excitement at Wilksbarre, Pa , Tutsdav, among seven hundred depositors of the broken bank of V. Rockafellor & Co., when it be came known that the total liabilities will reach $342,000, while the entire assets would scarc.Iy foot up to $80,000. It looks now as though the wreck was complete, and that the depositors will be lucky if they receive 8 per cent of their money. A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says: Tbe lobby of tbe St. Chari’s hotel was thronged Tuesday morning with repre sentative telegraphers who assembled from all parts of the United States to participate in the convention of the commi-rcial telegraphers of North Amer ica. The opening session was called to order at 10:30 o'clock behind closed doors. More than sixty delegates re sponded to the roll call. A Washinhton speicial says: Lieuten- aut Lovell K. Reynolds, of the navy, while andeavoring to board a cable car, was knocked down and run over, both legs being crushed. He died Thursday morning. Lieutenant Reynodls was ap pointed to the naval academy for Alaba ma, and graduated in 1871. He attain ed his present rank, that of senior lieu tenant, in 1891. He was attached to the coast survey steamer Endeavor. A London cablegram of Wednesday says a serious marine disaster i9 reported. The bark Cataliua, owned at Bremen, was -recked off the mull of Gallwav ai:d the captain and seven of the crew were drowned. Four were saved. Tbe Catalina was commanded by Captain Sehutte nnd left Wilmington, iu the United States,October 27th last for Bow ling, a port on the Clyde, between Dum barton and Glasgow, and has since been engaged in other traffic. A London cablegram of Tuesday says: More of the master cotton spinners of Lancashire have given DOtice that they are willing to act in unison with a mas ter cotton fpinners’ federation and leave work in order to prevent those of their employes who belong to the operatives’ union from aiding those who are on a strike against a five per cent reduc tion of mill owners. Seventeen million spindles are idle and one million art- working short. CONFEDERATE VETERANS. Texas, machine shop at Bedford City, Va., spriiiR bed factory at Suffolk, Va., cotton mills at Colnmbns, Ga.', and Concord, N. C.; wire works at Wheeling, W• Va.. planing mill at Elizabeth City, N. C., saw mill at Gurley, Ala,, and ice fao'oty at Dalton. Ga. Among the new buildings of the wrek are bnsine s houses at Fayettevdle, Ark., Houston, Tex., Huntsville, Ala., Lnmfkin, Ga., Borne, Ga., Felma, Ala., Wayeri;ss, Ga., and Lexing ton, Ky. College and school buildings will be erected at Lexingion, Kv., and Li tie Bock, Ark., a hall at Jack-on vile, Fla., a club build ing at Atlanta, Ga., and court house at Lump kin, Ga. Fine residmees a>e to be meted at Lex ngtoo, Ky., Little Bock, Ark., and Monte zuma, Ga.—'Tradesman, (Chattanooga, Tenn.) THE HOME RULE BILL A Constitution to be Submitted to the Next Reunion. A New Orleans di-patch of Thursday says: The committee on constitution and by-laws for tbe United Confederate Veterans has been holding its session for the Inst few days in this city. The com mittees have completed their labois and will make a unanimous report to the next reunion to be held at Birmingham, Ala., on the 19th of July next. The consti tution, as agreed upon by them provides for a general committee and staff of ficers of bri gadier gcDerals. It also pro vides for three departments to be known ns the Army of Northern Virginia, the Army of Tennessee, and the Army of Trans-Mississippi, to be commanded by lieutenant generals with limited staffs to ranks of colone's. But one major general is to be allowed to a state or territory. State and terri tories may be divided into brigades by a vote of the camp. New Orleans was made permanent headquarters for the federation. By-laws and rules of order were adopted by the committee. The work of thecommittce ha3beeu approved by all prominent confederates to whom it has been submitted. Accepted by the Irish Parliamentary Party. A London cablegram of Tuesday says: The following statement of lhe contents of the home rule bill has been officially handed to the correspondent: “The bill offers Ireland a legislature to deal in all Irish affaire, and the executive government is responsible to that legisla ture. In all the main principles and in the political machinery it is provided much better than the bill of 1886. Tbe Irish parliamentary party, at a meeting specially summoned after the delivery of Mr. Gladstone’s great speech, cordially accepted the new home rule constitution as a satisfactory scheme of Irish national self-government, subject to tbe endeavors in lhe committee to im prove the proposed financial arrange ments, and to have the time shortened whtrein the land question is to be with held from the puiview of the Irish na tional legislature. We are authorized by the party to transmit, this resolution to the friends and supporters of Irish liberty in the United States and Canada. [Signed.] John Dillon, Michael Davitt, COMMENT ON GLADSTONE’S BILL. The contervat ve j mmals refl ct the measure id tot", while tbe liberal papers approve aDd h-ar it, although at the time picking at small news in certain piov sions of tne bill. Some publish the present bill and hit of 1886 in parallel columns and tabulate their several provis ions. The Pr nee of Wales was the first to congratulate Mr. Gladstone in the private room of the b< use of commons after his address introducing the home rule bill. Then the studies of Teek and Princesses Louise and May of Teck congratulated tbe premier, LAB UCHERE’S AMENDMENT. Labouchere declares that he intends to have as an am ndment to the home rule blli, the exclusion of Irish members from the imperial parliament. ANNEXATION RECOMMENDED DEATH IN A BALL ROOM. A Frightful Catastrophe in a Hunga rian City. A cable dispatch of Wednesday from Buda Pestb, Hungary, states that a car nival dance was given on Monday evening in Deutcb Pvreg. At 11 o’clock, when about one hundred persons were dancing in the hall on the first floor, a child, playing in the cellar, dropped a lighted taper through the bunghole of a cask of petroleum. The cask exploded, killed the child, tore up the dance floor and scattered burning petroleum among the dancers. A dtz n persons, envel oped in flames, ran for the windows and doors, spreading fire and panic among the rest of the company. Half of the people in the hall were at the end from which there were no exits, aDd ss the floor on the side near the windows had been torn up by the explosion, they were obliged to lun the whole length of the blazing room to escape. Ten persons fell through to the cellar and were burn ed to death. Seven more, whose clothes had caught fire, died shortly after reach ing into the open air. Three were tramp led into unconsciousness in the panic and were burBed as they lay on the floor. Five men and seven women whose clothes were half burned from their backs, are in a critical condition. Many others have slight f-actures or burns. But thirty or forty persons escaped without injuries. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr. Cleveland Makes Known Four of HIs Cabinet Officers. A special from Lakew. od, N. J., says: Mr. Cleveland officially announced the names of four meinbets of his cabinet through the United Press Tuesday after noon. They arc: Walter Q. Gresham, of Illinois, secretary of state; John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky, secretary of the treasury; Daniel S. Lnmunt, of New York, secretary of war, and Wilson 8. Bissell, of Buffalo, postmaster general. On making this announcement Mr. Cleveland said: “There is no need of any mystery in regard to the cabinet, and it is useless to speculate and indulge in guess work. I shall make no secret of the matter, but shall announce the Dames of the gentlemen selected to fill the po sitions as fast as I receive their accept ance and permission to make the matter public.” GEORGIA IN THE CABINET. Hob. Hoke Smith Gets the Secretary ship of the Interior. A Washington special says: The sec retaryship of the interior was, on Wed nesday, formally tendered to Mr. Hoke Smith by Mr. Cleveland and the gentle man from Georgia accepted it. Mr. Smith called at Mr. Cleveland’s office in New York Wednesday by appoint ment. Messrs. Wilson S. Bissell, who is to be postmaster general, and D,;n La- raont, who is to be commander of the aimies, had proceeded him. Mr. M. A. Beach, a frietd of Mr. Cleveland’s from New Yoik, was also there. These gentle men were in conference over an hour. When the conference ended none of them would talk, but Mr. Cleveland subse quently announced to the newspapermen that Mr. Smith would be his secretary of the interior. This leaves the naval port folio, that of secretary of agriculture and the attorney generalship the only ones to be filled. MRS. DAVIS CONSULTED By President Harrison in a Message to the Senate. President Harrison sent a message to tbe senate Wednesday afternoon recom mending the annexation of the Hawaii an Islands by the United States. It was accompanied by lhe treaty of annexa tion concluded between the sicretary of state and the Hawaiian commissioners and a mass of correspondence relating to the question at issue. The treaty is brief, providing merely for the annexation of the islands under the present provisional government, and leaving the de tails of a permanent form of the government, etc., to tbe action of con gress. The correspondence is very volu minous, going back many years and giv ing a complete history of the islands so fai as negotiations with the United States are concerned. Contrary to geneial expec tations, tbe senate, in executive session, declined to make the treaty public imme diately, but decided to first have the mes sage and document printed for the confi dential information of the senators. AGAINST TILLMAN. The U. S. Court Fines Each One of His Sheriffs $500. A Charleston S. C., special of Thurs day says: Tne United States Court has decided the railroad lax case against th? sbt’. The marshal has been ordered to p’aee the property in tbe possession of a icceivirand tbe county -her.ffs hare been fined five hu dr d dollars each for con tempt and witi b- in .risoaed till the fine is paid. LIVELY TIMES. Movement of Specie. The steamship La Bretagne, sailed from New York for Havre, France, Sat urday carrying $3,250,000 American ~—— , . , , | gold coin, of which $3,150,000 was KiY&l Houses of the X&ns&s Legislature withdrawn from the subtreasur r . The at Outs. total gold exports for 1893, to date, A Topeka, Kas., dispatch of Tuesday \ amounts to $15,650,000. The steamship In Regard to the Removal to Rich mond of Her Husband’s Remains. J. Taylor Ellison, mayor of liichmond, Va., who is president of the Jefferson Davis Monument Association, left Tues day night for New York to confer with Airs. Davis in regard to the removal of the remains of her husband from New Orleans to Richmond. It is believed that Lee Camp will carry a large crowd of the Crescent City to escort Mr. Davis’ remains to Richmond for final interment. It appears to be the general opinion of members of the camp that the route of the funeral train should be through a3 many as possible of the states that form ed the late confederacy. Lumbermen Meet. The Southern Lumber Manufacturing Association met at Mobile, Ala., Wednesday morning fora two-days’ ses sion. One hundred members were pres ent. lhe morning hours were devoted 'to a discussion of the Lest plan to im prove the selling price of ytllow pine lumber. The nfternoon s<s-ion was con sumed in committee work. Only one committee, that of gradis and classifica tions report) d, and that was to the effect that the s; me grade aDd classification now pr< vailing be retained in force for the ensuing year. Odd Fcilow’s Temple Burned. The Odd Fellow’s temple at C'antoD, Ohio, was burned at 2 o’clock Wednes day morning, with a loss of $75,000. Three firemen were injured by falling walls. William Rieth an I Frank Kelley were buried beneath a pile of brick \svpfant Chief Adam Hobart was liii by riling brick and seriously hurt. Mrs. Whitney’s Will. The will of tbe late Flora Whitney, wife of ex-Secietary of the Navy Whit ney, was filed for probate in New York Wednesday. The will was executed Jan uary 31, 1893, and leaves all her proper ty, real and peisonal, to her husband, and makes him sole executor. The prop erty is valued at nearly a million dollais. Support for the Old Soldiers, A Rak-igb. N. C., sptcial of Mon day says: Tlie legislative committee on the confederate soldiers’ home decided unanimously to report favorably tbe bill appropriating $8,000 annually for the maintenance of the home and $2,000 this year for improvements. Tbe home has over seven 1 y inmatss. Slowest Railioad In the World. “The slowest railroad in the world is :he Arizona'and New Mexico,” said E. C. Tuttle to a St. Loui3 reporter. “From Benson to Nogales is eighty-eight miles, ind when I went over the road the schedule time was eight hours. The fare was $8.80, or ten cents a mile. “The road was known as the ‘Burro says: War is on in real earnest between I Servia, also Bailing Sa’urday, carried the two houses of the legislature and ; 250,000 ounces of silver and 105,000 blows have been exchanged. There are j Mexican dollars. Total shipments of sil- now open threats by the populists of sen- , ver tov 1893, to date, amount to $2,162,- I road, and Bill Nye must have had it in sational hostilities and at any moment | and 800,000. Mexican dollars. j mind when he described a railroad there may be something more than talk, ->]■ . 7T . whose trains wore the cowcatchers be- wbich has so loog been indulged in. An Blizzard in the West. hind, to prevent the cows from invading attempt by the deputy seroeant-at-arms Reports of Wednesday from the north- the coaches aDd eating the passengers, of tbe repub ican house to arrest Ben C j we6t are to tbe egect ,bat another bliz- “The Arizona and New Mexico could Rich clerk of tbe populist house, on or- ZarJ is ra g‘Bg. At Fergus Falls, Minn., ! easily make better time, as the rolling d.rs from the republicans, caused aeon-' ,he broads ate blockaded. The ; stock is good and the roadbed not so fiic-t, during which the republicans were i Northern Pacific train did not go east, very bad, but it don’t have to, and a knocked down and several men on both ! From Redwood Falls there are reports of : railroad seldom does anything except sides were badly Lr.used by blows of a blizzard with all traffic stopped. At ; under compulsion. . g._ tp ‘ Miibauk, S. D., business is practically I “The Mexican division, extending : suspended. Hector, Minn., reports a bliz- ; from Nogales to Guayinas, makes a trifle BvxdziuLLEXA, a bullff^atar, ere- Zdrd ra ? in g ia the city, the thermome- tietter time,_ but it never overtakes a ated a seniatioa m she toura uj it ac “ia- j ter shows a steady fall but there is no ! itreak of lightning. At least I have dry Jfegras, ifexieo, by tier agility. ■ snow. I sever kesrd of }<; doing so." THE SONG OF'THE ICfi Sing ho!sing hot for the skater, oh! For the flying feet and the winds blowl For uie blood, that runs to the glow like the western sky! Sing ho 1 once more for the flying shof And the great long cracks in our icy floor! I And the tree tops that wail of the sad more Of the days gone by! Sing hot sing ho las we glide and go Where the pines on the edge of the sho bend low. Over the ice, and the stream’s stilt flow As in times gone by I Sing ho I once more while the pine topi r With a song that they sing to us o’er o’er S9 As the old sun walks through the great red door Of the western sky! —Charles G. Roger?, in Outing HUMOR OF THE DAT. A chafing dish—Crow. Cold feet—Two feet of snow. Creature comforts—Household pets. "A partial payment—The favorite’s salary. An old-timer—Your great father’s clock.—Troy Press. The editor may enjoy good healti but he is always 1 ‘in a critical condition. —Puck. Talk about your transformations! We have seen a square man turn round.— Statesman. Some philanthropic women seem to work everywhere except at home.— Somerville Journal. Great wit may be allied to madness, but the stupid man need not brag of his superior sanity.—Puck. “Here’s another case of kidnapping,” said the messenger boy who found a comrade asleep.—Washington Po3t. A man may be superior to false social standards, yet it makes him uneomfort- able to be cut by his barber.—Puck. A young man never thoroughly appreciates his own insignificance until he attends his own wedding.—Puck. In Missouri they sell Shetland poDies- by the perpendicular foot, and tbe pur- chaser has to pony up.—Chicago Tri*- j buue. Mincer—“What brought about all this ¥ trouble between Morgan and his wild? iff®* Is his mind unsettled?” Parsons—“No«. ■ it waa his coffee. ” Mrs. Singer—“Patti has a diamond ring worth $5000.” Mr. Singer—“Oh, well, I wager she got it for a mere song.” —Jeweler’s Weekly. Mrs. Trolley—“Do tell ms, Mr. Kan- vass, which is the greatest work oi art?” Mr. Kanvass—“Selling the paint ings.”—New York Sun. “Jenny, do you know what a mirac%‘ is?” “Yes’m. Ma says if you don’t marry our new parson it will be a miracle.”—Brooklyn Life. Martin—“How well Miss Greenbougfc-Ht keeps her age I" Mrs. Grinder—“Why of course! nothing would induce her to give it away."—Inter-Ocean. “I really feel that 1 am a public example of pole-lightness,” said the carbon as it was put in readiness for the electric current.—Washington Star. “Our gardener will make a good vil lain in a melodrama.” “Why so?” “Because he is always laying out plots that amount to nothing in the end.”— Boston Gazette. Eleanor—“Don’t you think Miss. Noyes plays with great feeling?” Tom' (dryly)—“Ye3; she does seem to feel about for the notes a good deal.”—Har vard Lampoon. On the Ocean Greyhound. Captain Saylors—“I’m sorry to say, madame, weTe delayed. The vessel’s broke her shaft, ma’am.” Mrs. J. S. (sympatheti- j cally)—“Oh, dearl Can’t you fix it with this hairpin?”—Chicago News Record. “The great problem that I have to deal with,” aaid the keeper of the im] j becile asylum, “is to find some occupa tion for the people under my charge.” “Why not set them to inventing college yells,” asked the visitor Buffalo Ex. press. Old Lady (to chemist)—“I want a box of canine pills." Chemist—“What’s the matter with the dog?” Old Lady (in dignantly)—“I want you to understand, sir, my husband i3 a gentleman.” (Chemist puts up quinine pills in found silence.)—Philadelphia Times, Millions of Quail. There surely will be an exodus from some sections of the world lake up its line of march for the Mohawk Valley in Yuma County. The children of Israel were at one time fed by the number of quails that flocked around' them and manna from heaven. If they were in Mohawk Valley to-day they could do equally as well. The quail litei cover the ground, and can be caught hand. Those who are profiting by cat ing them and shipping to San Franc: catch more than they can bag. Hun dreds of dozens are shipped daily by ex press. They have used up all the lum ber for boxes and have about used all the barley sacks in the county shipping them in that manner. The children make from seven to twenty dollars a da; catching them, and their numbers not seem to diminish. Similar report* of their numbers come from A .ua Cali- ente and Gila Bend, and their slaughter goes daily along. You fun-loving sportsmen, the world over, if you want to have a genuine good time shooting quail now is the time to get pleasure. There are millions upon millions of them, and no let up to their numbers. When a band is routed the sound of their wings is simply deafening, re- sembling a distant thunder roll. T‘ is no telling what a Yuma climate not uext produce Y'uma (Arizoi Sentinel. Tracing the Name “Ch?s$ The word “chess" is said to ruption of the Arabic word - meaning chief or king. The g3 westward by way of Persia, word sheikh became shah. It game of the king. The term “check’1 is merely to give notice that the king attacked, and “checkmate” means “thej king is dead;” the verb raata being froo the same root as the Spanish matador, the, slayer ot the bull. The word check whether verb or noim, may through several curious ram it back to the Persian and Arabic.) the word exchequer is curiously J UI) in this verbal net-.wr.rk