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VOL. XI., NO 33.
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY. MARCH U, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
MfflJJ DAYS OF CONGRESS
j reserve. 6 In addition L this there if; of
course, the natidnal bank leserve and
subsidiary coin amounting to about f‘29,-
in Extraordinary Session,! ooo ' oo °- cut this u ruuy if not more than
! covered by outstanding drafts.
Confirmation of the Cabinet
Notes and Gossip In and About the
National Capital.
the benatk.
The senate held a abort session Mon
day morning. At ten minutes to 12 Ma
jor Pruden, the president's executive
clerk, appeared upon the floor of
the senate bearing the nominations
of the officers of Prcsidant Cleve
land’s cabinet as follows: Walter Q
Greshcm, of Illinois, to be secretary
of state; John G. Carlise, of Kentucky,
to be secretary of the treasury; Daniel
S. Lamont, of New York, to be secre
tary of war; Richard Oloey, of Massa
chusetts, to be attorney general; Wilson
8. Bissell, of New York, to be postmas
ter general; Hillary A. Herbert, of Ala
bama, to be secretary of the navy; Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, te be secretary of the
r" ilftwffii; Julius Sterling Morton, of Ne
braska, to be secretary of agriculture,
After the Journal of Saturday’s session
was read, Mr. Pruden presented his mes
sage and on motion of Senator Harris the
senate went inlo executive sisnion and
confirmed ali the cabinet nominations.
The senate then adjourned until Thurs
day noon. Before the adjournment Mr.
Call introduced bis resolution in rela
tion to public lands in Florida, and to
the interference of railroad companies in
that state with the election of senators
but on objection by Mr. Walcott it went
over without action. Mr. Sherman in
troduced a joint resolution to extend the
hrms of office cf pre ident and vice-
president until the afternoon of the 30th
of April, 1897, and substituting the 30th
of April for the 4ih of March as the
commencement nnd termination of the
official term of president, vice-president,
senators and representatives. At the sug
gestion of Mr. Harris it wss laid ou the
table.
The senate reassembled Thursday
morning, and immediately after the
reading of Monday’s journal, the crc-
1 dentials of W. Lee Mautle, appointed by
the governor of Montana as senator from
that state, io place of Mr. Saunders,
, were presented, read and laid on the ta
ble to await action of committee on priv
ileges and elections. On motion of Mr.
Gray it was ordered that when the senate
"adjourned it be to meet Monday. Mr.
Mitchtl! introduced n joint resolution
on the election of United States senators
by the votes of qualified electors of a
state. The resolution was laid on the
table without refertcce. Pending the
discussion of the questiou of receiving
Gills or joint resolutions requiring the
action of both houses at a session like the
present one of the senate. Mr. Dolph
offered another which he wished to have
received if the others should be.
It was read. It was one cailin
upon the president of the United
States to take such mea‘ures as he
mny deem necessary to eonsum
initc an agreement betwecu the govern
ments of Spain and the United States for
the relief of Antony Moro, a naturaliz'd
cit zcn of the United States. Then Mr.
Mandersou offered a resolution declaring
it to bo the sense of the senate that at
this extraordinary session business trans
acted should bo confined to executive
matters and matters requiring the action
of the senate only. Cockrell objected to
i the immediate consideration of the reso-
1 lution, and it was ordered printed and
to lie over. Hr. Hale offered a substi
tute for Mr. Manderson’s resolution de
claring that “no legislative business shall
liejeceT^fcAor entertained at the pres
ent session of the senate.” He subse
quently modified it by inserting the
words “except treaties.” Finally, the
whole matter went over until the next
meeting of the senate. After some re
marks by Mr. Call on the subj ct of his
resolution ns to public lands in Florida,
the senate proceeded to executive busi
ness and at 1 o’clock adjourned until
noon on Monday.
The President nnd Senator Hill.
Senator David B. Hi 1 was the first
caller at the white house Thursday morn
ing. He had a twenty minutes private
interview with Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Hill
wanted to know just what recognition
he would receive in the distribution of
the New York offices. Mr. Cleveland told
him just as he would the senators from
all other states, that he would consult
with him in the New York appoint
mentg, and he thought they would have
■o difficulty in agreeing. No specific of
fices were discussed and the interview
was not unusual. The two were polite
and courteous but not exactly chummy
Anti-Gray 31 e a nre Angry,
The appointment of Governor Isaac P.
Gray, of Indiana, as minister to Mexico
has stirred up a little hornet’s nest.
Governor Gray was given this appoint
ment in place of the cabinet portfolio
which Mr. Whitney promised him at
Chicago, but which Mr. Cleveland after
ward declined to give. Governor Gray
was satisfied, but the Indiana element
which fought him and were for Mr.
Cleveland at the Chicago convention, aro
mad. Just as the nomination left the
white house Thursday morning a party
of Indianians called to protest against
the appointment. They told Mr. Cleve
land that the appointment of Governor
Gray would cause great dissatisfaction
among the genuine democrats of Indiana.
View the lloii^e and Senate Stand.
The present roll call of the senate
shows forty-four democrats, thirty-eight
republicans and one populist, oee inde
pendent and one farmers’ alliance and
three vacancies. The vacancies are one
each in Montana, Washington and Wy
oming. Appointments have been
made by the governor, of Wyo
ming of Beckwith, democrat, and
of Mantle, republican, in Montana,
but these are subject to be chang
ed when the legislatures of those states
meet again and elect. Should repub
licans eventually fid all of these vacan
cies it would givethem forty-one. Should
the third party senators then all vote
with the republicans—a most unlikely
supposition—the senate would still be a
tie with Vice Prcs’dent Stevenson hold
ing the controlling vote. The cmnnosi-
tion of the hou<e, as shown by unofficial
re urns, is democrats, 217; republicans,
128; third party, 8, and vacancies, 2.
The democrats have a majority of eighty
over all.
That Clock Fake.
During the pari few days there has
been very much unfavorable c lament
upon the seuate for setting the hands of
the clock back more than an hour last
Saturday iu order to conclude the busi
ness before that body. Under the law
the term of congress and oftl'.c president
expires at 12 o’clock dood on March 4’h.
By setting the hands of the clock back
last Saturday the new prtsident was not
swo:n in until after 1 o’clock, though
the senate clock pointe 1 to the
hour of noou wh’n the cererno-
ui*s look place. The day was bitterly
cold and the troops congregated ou the
outride fur the great procession were
compelled to remain in a blizzard for
hour-, awai-ing the senate. As a con
sequence thousands of people who at
tended the inauguration ceremonies are
now ill, and rouDV who were exposed to
the cold of that day are not expected to
ive. Indeed there have been a number
of dea'hs already. The Washington
newspapers are very severe in their criti
cism upon the senate, nnd it is generally
behoved tl at they are correct.
THEY TAKE CHARGE.
New Cabinet Members
Into Office,
CYCLONE SWEPT.
homeless FAMtLtEs i THROUGHOUT THE SODTH
Acquainting Themselves With Their
Antics and Employes Under Them.
SUIT FOR A MILLION DOLLARS
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
Thirty six nominations were sent to
the renate by President Harrison during
the last session that failed of confirma
tion.
The senate, which Vice President Steveu-
son calls to order these days at noon,is a
very different body from that which Vice
President Morton adjourned Saturday.
The adj urned senate was a republican
majority, while the new one has a demo
cratic majority
Judge Gresham took the oath of office
ns secretary of state at the state de
partment Monday afternoon. His com
mission, witli those of other members of
the cabinet, had been received at the
vvhito housa from the department and
were handed to the president, who sign
ed them immediately.
The white house was besieged by un
numbered thousands Monday. For hours
they marched through the east room and
shook hands with Mr. Cleveland. Many
distinguished visitors, including the gov
ernors of a dozen states, a'so called to
pay their respects to the president before
their departure for hom».
W The''d< mocratic' caucus committee en
gaged in ri-organ'z ug the senate com
mittees have partly completed tbeir task.
The two chief objects of the convention
wcie the chairmanship of the commit
tees on finance nnd appropriations, the
principal committees of the senate. The
ranking democrats of those committees
were Voorbees and Cockrell, and they
„jtre given these positions of tionor.
Pustnia-tcr General Bissell is credi'ei
with the announcement that no local
business men n f ’< it arodv for r r stofficea
■under his administration. He objects to
commissioning local business men as
postmasters, for reason that the actual
duties are performed by irresponsible, and
often incompetent clerks and substitutes.
A postmaster under Mr. Bissell must
promise to devote his entire time to
the work.and personally keep strict office
hours.
The Cabinet Confirmed.
The cabinet was sent into the senate
Monday and confirmed with unprece
dented quickness. Not the slightest
suggestion of opposition or even dis
pleasure was exhibited in commending
^gj-appreving the new cabinet. The re
publicans joined with almost equal ardor
\rith the democrats. Both parties alike
recognized the honesty, ability, fearless
ness and patriotism of President Cleve
land and those whom he has selected as
his advisers.
A Bankrupt Treasury.
When ex-Secretary Foster turned the
treasury department over to Secretary
Carlisle Tuesday he informed him that
he had just been notified of the with
drawal of over $2,000,000 in gold from
the subtreasury in New York for ship
ment abroad. The treasury, therefore,
passed into the hands of the democratic
administration with less than a $2,000,-
Before the Supreme Court by Letter
Carriers for Back Pay.
A special of Thursday from Louisville,
Ky., says: The letter carriers of Louis
ville and many other cities in the United
States are anxiously awaiting a decision
of the United States supreme court.
This decision may mean a loss of over
$1,000,000 to the government and a gain
of almost that n uch to the carriers.
The amount is involved in the suit for
pay for over time under the eight hour
law. The law was passed May 24, 1888,
hut no pretense of enforcing it was
made until mauy months afterward. The
suit was brought by the carriers to get
back pay for over time from the
date of the passage of the law until
its enforcement. Nor is this all. Mr.
Wanamaker holds that the eight hour
law means the men shall work fifty-six
hours a week. If they are worked this
much in six instead of seven days they
are not entitled to overtime. The car
riers and their attorneys hold that the
law' did not include Sunday. In 1892
two cases were won by the carriers and
appealed by Postmaster General Wana-
maker. These cases have been argued
in the supreme court, and a decision will
probably be given this summer. There
have been filed with the attorneys em
ployed by the carriers 500 claims from
117 towns and cities.
THE PACKWOOD MURDERERS.
Impli-
Marion Clinton Confesses and
eates two Others.
A special of Thursday from DeLand,
Fla., says, Marion Clinton, one of the
long suspected Packwood murderers, has
made a voluntary confession of the crime
and implicated two others—Irwin Jen
kins, the suspected negro or half breed,
and Will McRae. Jenkins and McRae
are both in jail and Clinton is under
guard. Clinton is about twenty years of
age and his home is about two miles from
the Packwood house. He is ignorant
and uneducated and his face shows signs
-J a guilty conscience’s ravages during
the past year. Will McRae comes fiom
a good family, being a son of Dr. Mc
Rae, of Sanford. He has been a resi
dent in the Packwood neighborhood for
several years and was a frequent visitor
at the Packwood house. He is about
thirty years old. He lived on a grove
about one mile from the Packwood place.
The grand jury found true bills against
all three for murder.
Mother and Children Drowned.
Thursday Mrs. Edgar Woods and four
children attempted to cross Cedar creek,
four miles from Cave Springs, Ga., and
were drowned. The creek was greatly
swollen from recent rains, and the wag
on, which was driven by a negro boy,
was turned over and drifted down
stream. The team was drowned, but the
negro driver made his escape by swim
ming to land.
The first meeting of Cleveland’s cabi
net was heid Tuesday afternoon at the
unusual hour of 3 o’clock, and it lasted
something more than two hours. All
the members were present. There was
no formality or ceremony observed in the
opening of the meeting. Mr. Cleveland,
sitting at the head of the table, started
the business in a simple, direct man
ner. The session was devoted to the dis
cussion of matters of current public im
portance including the Hawaiian annexa
tion and the financial situation, which
were touched upon. The greater part of
the time was taken up, however, with
the consideration of the question of ap
pointments, particularly those of assist
ants to th? various cabinet officers. The
necessity of fiiiing these positions with
out delay was taken as a self-evident fact,
but Mr. Cleveland impressed upon his
official family the necessity of going
slowly in making selections. The Cabi
net adjourned at 5:10 o’clock.
SECRETARY CARLISLE AT WORE.
Secretary Carlisle, accompanied by bis
son, Logan Car.isle, arrived at the ireas-
ury department at 11:45 o’clock a. m.,
and was immediately ushered into the
office of the secretary. Ex-Secretary
Foster and Private Secretary Wynne re
ceived the new secretary, and Messrs.
Carlisle and Foster entered into a pri
vate conversation, Mr. Foster escorting
Mr. Carlisle to a chair at the secretary’s
desk and himself taking a chair at the
side. Mr. Wynne performed a similar
service for Logan Carlisle, who immedi
ately began the opening of a
large pile of mail addressed to
Secretary Carlisle, some of which had
been there two or three weeks, most of
it being applications for office. At 12
o’clock the door of the secretary’s office
was thrown opcc and department offi
cials filed in to pay their respects to Sec
retary Carlise. They were presented by
ex-Secretary Foster.* Assistant Secretary
Spaulding, who has been designated by
the president as acting assistant secretary
in case of the absenee of Secretary Car
lisle, was first presented, and then came
in rapid succession Assistant Secretary
Lambertson, Appointment Clerk Macan-
ley, Commissioner Mason, Treasurer Neb-
eker, Comptroller Hepburn, Director
Leech, and the comptroller and auditors
and various chiefs of divisic ns. After
the department officials retired Secretary.
Carlisle was occupied most of the after
noon in receiving callers. Secretary Car
lisle, when he assumed charge* had
on hand $1,250,000 of free gold, and a
net balance of $25,500,000, of which
$11,500,000 was in national bank depos
itories, $11,000,000 in subsidiary coin
and $500,000 in coin.
SECRETARY LAMONT.
After being sworn in Secretary L&mout
went over to the v ar 1 rartment, where
he had a private ■ cnference with Gener
al Schofield. Th chiefs of various bu
reaus were then j resent d to the new
secretary. While i.c was so ingaged
a large crowd, including several ladies,
assembled in the secretary’s office and
were subsequently presented. JJr. El
kins was not at the department during
the reception, having bid a formal good-
by Monday afternoon.
SECRETARY HERBERT ON HAND.
Secretary Tracy severed his official
connection with the navy department
and Secretary Herbert took charge. He
had a final conference with Secretary
Tracy relative to various matters now
pending. After the conference Secre
tary Tracy presented the various bureau
chiefs to his sucoessor. Secretary Her
bert spent a couple of hours at the de
partment Tuesday evening receiving vis
itors and signing his mail. He is no
stranger at the navy department and re
ceived congratulations from many of the
different officials with whom he hvs be
come well acquainted during his years of
service on the naval committee of the
house. His personality with them is
well established and of long standing.'
It is said at the department that As
sistant Secretary Loley will probably
continue in his office for several months.
The administration, it is understood,
does not intend to make any change in
that office at present.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY.
The new attorney general, Mr. Olney,
was presented to the United States su
preme court by retiring Attorney Gene
ral Miller, who in a few appropriate re
marks announced his own retirement and
expressing the hope that his successor
would find his relations to the court
equally pleasant. Justice Field was
presiding officer of the court in the ab
sence of Chief Justice Fuller. After
General Miller had introduced Mr. Ol
ney, the commission of the latter was
ordered spread upon the minutes, and
Justice Field made a response in its na
ture complimentary to the retiring at
torney general.
THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Smith, the secretary of the inte
rior, took the oath of office with the
other members of the cabinet and then
repaired to the deDartment, where he
met the heads of the departments and
had a conference with Secretary Noble.
Some of his Georgia friends were
present.
THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE.
The new eecretary of agriculture, J.
Sterling Morton, arrived at his depart
ment about noOD, coming direct from
tho department of state. Chiefs of divis
ions and their assistants were presented
to him by Assistant Secretary Willets, of
the department. After the presentat’on
ex-Secretary Rusk took fHrewell of his
late employes. S cretary Morton and
cx-Secrriary Rusk afterwards drove to
the weather bureau, where the former
met the officials of that branch of the
department.
Mil and Destruction in tCe Counties of
Meritetiier, frotin ana Pile.
Who Lost Their All in the Cyclone in
A special .I’S^tas, Mf5 «> HW PlWSS iti P^WitT
' ' 1 Briefly Epitomized
A Number of People Killed and Much
Property Destroyed.
says; Over three hundred families were
rendered homeless and destitute in two
districts of Lauderdale county by Fri
day’s cyclone. Reports from the farm
ing districts are coming in slowly and
reveal a distressing state of affairs. Far
mers who were in comfortable ’circum-
A fearfully destructive cyclone swept stances are left penniless, with not an
over Troup. Meriwether and Pike coun- I 0UD p® of food or raiment to clothe their
ties Friday night. ; families. In many instances their horses
At Greenville,Meriwether county,three- ; anl ^ mules were killed and they are with
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
fourths of the town was completely de
stroyed. The cyclone was preceded by
a brilliant electrical display that aroused
the fears of all. In a few minutes the
aintinuous lightning flashes were suc
ceeded by an ominous roaring sound, and
almost instantly the storm swept over the
ill-fated town on its mission of destruc
tion. In ten seconds the accumulations
ol years were swept to the four winds of
the earth. 8everal people were caught
under the falling houses, bu ! , strange to
say, there was only one death in the
town from the cyclone.
In the lower part of Troup county the
storm played fearful havoc. Residences,
trees, houses barnes, fences, sheds—in
fact, almost everything standing was
blown down and torn to peices in the
track of the storm. Horses, mules and
cattle were killed by wholesale. No loss
of human life is reported.
SIX KILLED AT ODESSA.
Telephone advices from Odessa, Meri
wether county, state that there were only
three houses left standing and six per
sons killed. Odessa is a proptrous town
on the Macon and Birmingham railroad.
PIEDMONT WIPED OUT.
The little town of Piedmont, in Pike
county, was almost totally destroyed.
Only three houses are left standing and
fifteen lying in ruins, some with not one
piece of timber upon another. One
young lady, Miss Daisy Hawkins, was
killed instantly. Thirteen or fourteen
other persons are lying seriously injured,
some thought to be fatally. To see the
destroyed village you only wonder that
any of the inhabitants escaped alive
THROUGH THE COUNTRY.
One mile beyond Peidmont Dr. Harp’s
residence, outhouses, and b3rns were
qlown down, a complete wreck. On his
plantation one negro was killed and a
negro woman seriously injured. Beyond
Dr. Harp’s lived a man by the name of
Pressley. It iB reported that he went to
the door when the wind began to blow
and no traces nave been found of him
since.
On the Thomaston road Mr. Andrew
Riviere was instantly killed and his wife
and daughter painfully injured. The
house was blown down and away so
that there is hardly a thing left to mark
where the house stood.
All along the line of the storm there is
a vast amount of distress. From many
of the poor the last meal and the only
suit of clothes were swept away and
nothing left them but the drenched night
robes in which they had retired the night
before. The loss of property, not to say
anything of the suffering, is great and
cannot be estimated. The citizens who
have been out to tee and help the unfor
tunate give a most gloomy account.
out means of cultivating their crops. An
other mass meeting of citizens was held
Monday to raise funds for the suffer
ers, A liberal sum was subscribed
and committees were appointed to dis
tribute food and clothing among the
victims. The Mobile and Ohio and the
Queen and Crescent railroad companies
notified Mayor Dial that they would
transport food and clothing for the suf
ferers free of charge. The railroad
companies also offered to run excursion
trains to Marion, Toomsuba, Pacuta and
Barnett, and donate the receipts to the
destitute. The offer was accepted. Two
more of the injured at Toomsuba died
Monday, making a total death list of
twenty-nine so far as is known.
HAWAIIAN TREATY RECALLED.
GROWTH OF THE SOOTH.
The Indnstrlal Development During:
the Past Week.
A review of the industrial situation in the
South for the past week shows the organization
of a cotton compress company at Greenville,
Tex., with $50,000 capital, by the Greenville
Independent Compress Co.; of a cotton mill at
Gastonia, N. C., by the Windsor Cotton Mill
Co., with $75,000 capital, and one at Talladega.
Ala., by W. Taylor and others, with a capital of
$250,000; of a rice mill at Lake Charles, La .
having 1,5G0 barrels daily capacity by J. B.
Watkins; of a flouring mill with $10").000 capital
at Cuero, Tex., by the Farm re’ Ginning and
Milling Company; and of the following cotton
seed oil mills: At Temple, Tex., by the Empire
Oil Company, capital $20C,000; at New Braun
fels, Tex., by the New Braunf la Cotton Oil
Company, with $100,000 capita 1 ; at Comanche,
Tex , by the Comanche Cotton Oii Company,
capital $50,000; at Italy, Tex., by the Italy
Cotton Oil Comp ny, capital $10,000, and at
Jug Tavern, Ga.. with $20,000 capital.
Forty new industries were established or in
corporated during the week, together with six
enlargements of manufactories, and eleven im
portant new buildings. Among the new indus
tries not already r ferred to are brick works at ■
Roanoke, Ya., and Statesville, N. C. ; a canning
factory at New Castle, Ya. ; an ice factory wi h
$25,000 capital at Manchester, Ya., by the
Manchest* r Transparent Ice Company, and
others, at Huntsville and Luling, Texas, flour
ing mills at Bivnaford, Tenn., and a harness
factory at Athens, Ga.
A machine shop will be built at Cedartown,
Ga., copper mines have been incorporated at
Richmond, Ya., a gold mining company at Bir
mingham. Ala., and a zinc mining company at
Ivanhoe, Va. A shoo factory is reported at
Middlesboro, Ky., belt works at Newport, Ky.
and tobacco factories at Hopkinsville and
Owensboio, Ky. Cotton mills will be built at
Eutaw, Ala., Richmond, Ya., and Forest City,
N. C., novelty works at Tampa, Fla., and Mar-
timburg, W. Va., a pencil mill at Bean’s Creek,
Tenn., an I saw and planing mills at Sibley
• nrl Stiillmnpa O* Fnrf Mill C fl XT
President Cleveland Sends for Papers
In Regard to Annexation.
President Cleveland’s first executive
communication to the senate of the
United States came Thursday afternoon
and proved to be a surprise not only to
the republicans, but to many democrats
as well. Mr. Cleveland withdrew the
treaty with Hawaii, which was sent to
the senate a few weeks ago by President
Harrison. The message was short and
to the point, the president simply re
questing the senate to transmit to the
executive the proposed treaty with Ha
waii. The message was received
without comment on the floor of
the senate, alrhough the republicans
were prone to criticise the proceeding
with considerable emphaeis among them
selves. Republican senators regard this'
action of the president as in line with
the course pursued by Mr. Cleveland in
withdrawing the Nicaragua treaty sent
to the senate by President Arthur in
the closing days of his administration.
Democratic senators are divided in their
views, some taking th* ground that it
shows Mr. Cleveland to be against an
nexation or American domination of any
soil in the Hawaiian islands, while others
hold that he will send in another treaty
more to his liking.
THE OATH ADMINISTERED.
Cleveland’s Cabinet Sworn Into Their
Respective Offices.
The induction into the office of the
members of President Cleveland’s cabi
net (save Gresham who was sworn in
Monday) was the historic event at the
state department Tuesday morning. For
the first time in the history of the gov
ernment the head of departments assem
bled in the diplomatic parlors and to
gether took the oath of office.
About fifty persons were present to
witness the ceremony. The new cabinet
officers grouped themselves about the ta
ble at the east room of the parlor, Jus
tice Field and Secretary Gresham at the
head. The venerable jurist then calling
the secretaries to his left, in turn admin
istered the statute oath to Messrs. Car
lisle, Lamont, Smith, Herbert, Olney,
Bissell and Morton, and each signed. The
table used was a new one procured for
the occcasion. The ceremony being ended
a few minutes was spent in the exchang
ing of salutations and making the intro
ductions of strangers to one another, and
then tne new secretaries departed for
their several departments to enter upon
the discharge of t licit duties.
John G. Webb and Madison Bever,
who have been flooding West Virginia
with counterfeit coins, have been cap
tured by the federal authorities, Their
factory is at Bellvilie near Parkersburg
and the officers have made a big haul of
bogus coins.
From all over southern Texas reports
come of the tremendous rainfall Wednes
day night. At Caldwell the cyc'one
raged over an hour and did great dam
age. Many houses wnre demolished.
Several persons were hurt by flying tim
ber, but no less of life is reported.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch of Mon
day says: Treasuier Craig and Comp
troller Harris have returned from New
York, where they have been for a week
in connection with the placing of
$1,000,000 of the state of Tennessee re
funding bonds. They state that no
trouble will be experienced in placing
the bonds.
Considerable uneasiness is felt in Nash
ville, Tenn., over the reports received
Tuesday from Winchester as to Governor
Turney’s condition. He was caught out
in a rain Friday and shortly afterwards
an attack of rheumatism came on him
with the result that he is now scarcely
able to move. The rheumatism is said
to be, however, his only trouble.
A Nashville special says: Hon. Julius
A. Trousdale, was sworn in Thursday
morning by Chief Justice Lurton. A
message was received from Governor
Turney, recommending the separation of
the office of adjutant general from that
of private secretary to the governor, on
the grounds that it is almost impossible
for one man to perform the duties of both
under any conditions.
A most disastrous fire recurred at Mar
ion, Smythe county, Va., Wednesday.
The Central hotel, Mac Wolf’s store,
Lewis’s law office and Sprunkle’s drug
store were const, red. The upper story
of The Southwest Virginia News office
was destroyed. A keg of powder was
exploded in Wolf’s store which blew the
sash out of the court house windows.
The loss is about $12,000.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch of Thurs
day says: A special train will leave
here next Monday loaded with legisla
tors, politicians and lawyers to wait on
President Cleveland. They will ask the
appointment of Chief Justice H. H. Lur
ton as United States district judge for
the circuit made vacant by Judge How
ell E. Jackson’s promotion to the su
preme court of the United States.
On the Stmts faim, fourteen miles
northeast of Florence, Ala., the first ex
perimental boring for oii and natural
gas is now being made with every pros
pect of striking it rich. Expert, oil men
have gone over the ground carefully and
have found promising indications of oil
and gas. The Tennessee and Alabama
Oil, Gas and Mineral Company, an or
ganization composed of wealthy Nash
ville parties and capitalized at $10,000,
A Novel Warship.
The new coast defence vessel, known as
the “Ammen” ram Katahdin, is built
upon the plans drawn by Rear Admiral
Daniel Ammen, and is something of a
novelty in naval architecture. The
1 principal peculiarity consists of a number
of tanks which, when filled with air,
give her a covenient free board for
coasting service, but when filled with
water depress her so that her turtle back
deck is awash. She is intended purely
as a weapon of offense against an attack
ing fleet, and her mission will he to
sink battleships or cruisers. She will
mount no gun save a few small ones of
a rapid fire pattern intended to keen off
torpedo boats.
The dimensions of the vessel are as
follows: Length over all, 251 feet,
length on the normal water line. 250 feet
2 inches; breath extreme, 43 feet 5
inches, and on the water line, 41 feet 6
inches. The total depth from the base
to the crown of deck amidships is 22
feet 10 inches; the normal draft of
water is 15 feet, and the displacement
2183 tons. The lower portion of the
hull is dish shaped up to a sharp
knuckle which runs all around the vessel
6 inches below the normal liie.
Above this knuckle the shape of the
hull is a circular arc, with a radius amid-
thiptrof 39 feet, rising from 6 inches be
low to 6 feet above the normal water
line. This curved deck will be armor
THE AMMEN RAM KATAHDIX.
plated throughout, the thickness of the
armor tapering from 6 inches at the
knuckle to 2 inches at the crownof deck.
Above this deck, when the ram is com
pleted, will rise only a conning tower 18
inches thick, a smokestack and ventila
tor, the lower portions of which will be
protected by (5 inches of armor, two light
barbettes, within which the guns will be
mounted, and skid beams carrying four
boats.
The propelling machinery will consist
of two sets of horizontal triple expansion
engines, the cylinders being respectively
25, 36 and 56 inches in diameter, and
the stroke of piston being 36 inches.
The estimated maximum horse power
will be 4800. There will be two screw
propellers.
The estimated speed with full power
is 17 knots per hour, and must be at
tained to render the vessel acceptable
under contract. The quarteis for officers
and crew are all within the armored
hull, and there will be fitted complete
systems of electric lighting, artificial ven
tilation and drainage.
Valley Forge’s Owners.
The historic camp ground ou Valley
Forge has fallen into tho hands of a syn
dicate of real estate speculators. Unless
the famous locality can be saved very
so n it will be cut up into building lots
and sold. Already there is talk of a
summer hotel on the site of the old
earthworks. The people of Phoenix-
own the gas and oil right to 20,000 j ville, Norristown and vicinity are quite
acres of land in that part of the county , indignant about it. For year3 past the
MAY RESUME BUSINESS.
and Stillmore, Ga., Fort Mill, S. C.. and Hazle
ton, W. Va.
Water works will be built at Demopoiis, Ala.,
and Martinsvile, Va. 'i he enlargements for the
week include electrical works at Knoxville,
Tenn.; gas works at Parkersburg, W, Va.; an
ice factory at Rome, Ga.; phosphate works at
Ocala. FI*.; and cotton mills at Augusta, Ga.,
and Charlotte, N. C. Among the new budd
ings reported are churches at Manchester and
Norfolk, Va.; a factory at Houston, Tex-; an
opera house at Washington, Ga.; residences at
Knoxville, Tenn., Louisville, Ky., and Rich
mond, Va., and school buildings at Cnero and
Kaufman, Texas.-—Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED
Failed to Elect.
A special from Olympia, Wash., says:
The final ballot—the one hundredth, was
taken in joint session of the legislature
Thursday for United States senator. It
resulted as fo lows: Alien, 50; Turner,
24; Griggs, 8; Shaw, 15; scattering, 14.
The joint session then dissolved. It is
expected that Allen wdl be app. in’ed by
t-e governor.
GAINS IN GOLD.
A Probability that Exportations will
Hold Up.
The treasury xeceived gold at several
points Thursday. In New York the
gain made in gold was $100,000, while
at New Orleans it receivtd $20,000 in
gold in exchange for a like amount in
silver certificates. No intimation hss
yet been nctived that any gold will be
exported from New York in the near
future, and at the present rate of ex
change it is not thought that any will be
taken out of the country. The tieoeury
has now more than three million dollars
' in fiee gold, and, in the usual condition
of trade, this is likely to be increased
rather than diminished.
And a Heavy Freight Train Goes Down
with it -No Loss of Life.
The most disastrous freight wreck that
ever occurred on the Chicago and Erie
road happened at Lima, Ohio, Wednes
day morniDg, about one mile west of
the station. The third section of west
bound freight train No. 83, with a heavy
train, derailed a car at the switch before
reaching the bridge, and when the
bridge was struck the middle span of it
gave away, and nineteen cars, with
the caboose, were piled up in the
stream, thirty feet below. The engine
and several cars were all that passed
over safely. Fortunately the trainmen
were all in front, except the conductor.
He escaped by juttplDg. The conductor
thinks there were three tramps in a bix
car, who got on at Kenton. If they were,
they were ground to atoms. The cirs
were reduced to splinters, and only two
or three of them can be repaired. All
were loaded with merchandise.
Senator Morgan Improving.
A cablegram of Tuesday from South
ampton, England, is to the effect that
the condition of Senator John T. Mor
gan, who is suffering from a slight at
tack of erysipelas in that city, has mate
rially improved since Monday. He ex
pects io be able to procee 1 to London in
two or three days, and will shortly after
start for Paris to attend as one of the*
representatives of the United States atj
the sessions pf tfie Behring sea court oii
arbitration,
Report of Examiners on the Gate City
Bank of Atlanta.
The silver lining to the dark clouds
that have been overhanging the Gate
City Natioual bank in Atlanta is begin
ning to show. The latest indications
aie that the hank will be placed upon i s
feet in a few days and will resume busi
ness just as if the defalcation of Assist
ant Cashier Redwiue had not occurred.
Bank Examiners Stone and Campbell
have finished their work and have for
warded their report to Comptroller of the
Currency Hepburn at Wasbingjon, where
it will receive immediate action. In that
report some very m eresiiog recoinmeuci-
ati’ Us were made, which, if cairied out,
will edict an early se'tlcmcut ol the
bank’s trouble®, and save the dep' sitors
and stockholders much inconvenience.
1 he most important recommendation con
tained in the report nu’siue of its inaitr
is that the bank he rtopene L.
GOV. TURNEY VERY ILL.
and they have obligated themselves to
bore four wells in that section, 1,500 feet
deep, or until oil or gas is found in pay
ing quantities.
The plants of the United States Roll
ing Stock Company, located at Anniston
and Decitur, Ala., were sold Thursday
at receiver’s saie. There was but one bid
—that of George W. Ristine, agent of
the reorganized conmany, known as the
Uniteij^States Car Company, and Mr.
Itistine’s bid was $150,000 for the two
plants, and the property was knocked
off to him at that figure. Tin sale is
subject to a blanket mortgage of $1,300,-
000, which covers the Alabama plants
and also the one at Hogewisch, Tenn.,
Washington’s headquarters at val
ley forge.
more public-spirited citizens of the
neighborhood have been endeavoring to
and the one at Williams, O. The two ! have Congress buy the whole area of 200
latter plants are not included in the sale,
and, until they are sold, the amount
of the mortgage to which the Alabama
plants are subject cannot be deter
mined.
DAVIS BOUNCED.
Speaker of Tennessee’s House of Rep-
seutatives Deposed.
A Nashville, Tenn., special says: Up
on the assembling of iho house of repre
sentative, Wednesday, Speaker Davis
yielded the chair to Mr. Truosdale, and
Mr. Jones of Hardeman, introduced a
resolution asking that Mr. Davis be re
moved from the position of speaker be
cause of the fact that he had recently
acres and keep it forever as a National
’ park, but so far without success,
j The Woman’s Memorial Association
bought Washington’s headquarters sever
al years ago, and freed the old house
1 from debt in 1887, but their purchase
1 only includes the mansion and the gar-
| den around it. The matter will be
i brought to the attention of the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution.—San
Francisco Examiner.
Spain's Boy King.
Alfonso XIII., King of Spain, will be
seven years old on the 17th of May. He
rejoices in seven names, and more titles,
military and ecclesiastical, than he can
been disbarred by the circuit court of I probably remember himself at present.
Shelby county. | jj e jg a bright little fellow, said by those
Mr. Davis made a statement, saying
He Is Not Expected to Live Two Weeks
Longer.
A Nashville, Tenn., special says: Hon.
Peter Turney, the bedridden governor of
this state, is hardly expected to live more
than two weeks longer. Governor Turney
was inaugurated in a sick bed in January
last. He has had a severe relapse and the
general belief is he will never come to
the capital.
A sensational rumor that Governor
Turney was dead reached the city Wed
nesday morning. Both houses of the
the legislature immediately adjourned.
The rumor proved to be untrue, but Gov
ernor Turney’s condition is precarious
SENATOR MORGAN ILL.
He is Suffering From Erysipelas in
London.
A London cable dispatch of Monday
says: Senator Morean, one of the rep
resentatives of the United States in the
Behring sea court of arbitration, who
was a passenger on the American line
steamer New York, which arrived at
Southampton Saturday, was taken sick
on the voyage. Since his arrival he has
become worse and is now confined to his
bed at the Southwestern hotel at South
ampton.
A Huge Derrick.
The largest traveling derrick ever
raised for practical use or experimental
purposes is the one which will be used
in placing the great steel roof of “The
MacKaye Spectntorium” at Chicago. This
derrick is an immense affair, weighing
nearly 70 tons and is necessary to place
in position the 1,000 tons of steel which
will be used in the roof of this building.
This derrick is 180 feet high and it was
raised only after the most strenuous ex
ertion. The first four attempts made
being failures on account of the iackle
used not being strong enough. The feat,
one of the most extraordinary ever
known to modern engineering, was suc-
cessfjillj accomplished on the fifth triai.
he did not w sh to embarrass the house
and asked thst a committee be appointed
to investigate the charges against him.
There was considt rable discussion, some
members favoring and others opposing
the resolution. The resolution was fin
ally adopted by a vote of 72 to 8. Mr.
Julius Trousdale was elected speaker.
This was done after Davis had refused to
resign.
who know him to resemble his father,
! Alfonso XH., who died before he was
i born. The little King has always been
TENNESSEE’S CONVICTS
Reported ns Being Inhumanely Treat
ed by Their Managers.
A Nashville, Tenu., special sais: The
viriting penitentiary committee presented
its report to the general assembly Wed
nesday. It denounces the management
of all the branch prisons, except the In
man, in vigorous Urms. Tne charges
are scant clothing, insuffieient food a d
inhuman treatment. In their rcc'm-
mendations the ermmittee advise the
erection of a new peniteuti iry, the aboli
tion cf the lease system, the purchase of
cjnl lar.ds for operation by the state and
the erection of a youthful reformatory di-
pirtment. In regatd to fie Coal Creek
troubles they recon mend the immediate
rem -val of the troops and an investiga
tion of the administration of justice in
Anderson connty.
SPAIN S BOY KING.
an interesting object on account of his
great devotion to his mother. Queen
Christina, Regent of tne kingdom.
Sultan of Zanzibar Dead. j Christina, Regent of tne kingdom. She
Alibin Said, the sultan of Ziozibar, is ' has watched over him with more thau a
dead. He was a brother of the former
sultans, Khalifa and Burgasb, and suc
ceed to the sultanate on the death of the
mother’s tender care, and has declined
to leave Spain even to open the World’s
Fair on account of her scruples against
leaving the heir to the throne. The
little monarch has two sisters, the In
fanta Maria, who is twelve years old, and
the Infanta Isabella, who is ten.
former in February, 1890. He was born
in 1855. No sooner was it known that
:be sultan was dead than his son Kalid ;
gainsd admittance to the palace by the
back entrance, evidently with the inten- |
lion of claiming the throne in defiance of j The chiDa In ] aa( j Mission has 526 mis-
British authority. H® deposed, jionaries, and occupies 103 stations in
however, and Hamid, who has been de- . fourtee n provinces of the Empire. In-
signaled as he.r to the throne and recog- I cludi out-statioa., there are 172 local-
n.zed as such by the British, was pro- , uies w | ere the work is going on. They
have ninety-four organized churches,
with 3038 communicants, thirty-two
Life and Death.
I.
What is life? r
A round of years;
Filled with joy; 'whelmed with teaf!$
Part weal—part woe;
Darkened days, and days aglow-*
A dirge—a song;
A ceaseless fight 'twixt right and wrong?
This is life. «
If.
There i» naught, such as men call death.
What we so fear
Is but the ceasing of the earth-breath {
The breathing in a purer clim^
The balmy air
Of Heaven’s eternal summer-time.
— [J. Hoffman Ratten, in Ram s Horn.
HUMOROUS.
A learned man is a nobody.
An old-timer—Your great-grand,
father’s clock.
“What do you do in school, Polly?”
asked Polly’s aunt. “Wish I was at
home,” said Polly.
“lloh!’’ sneered Marty, “of course
horses can run fastor thau boys.
They’ve got twice as many logs,”
The business mail who trusts out
CYerything lie L^ually bs '
driven to the uccSssfiyof resting on
his owners.
A nimi addressed a passionate love .
letter to a lady, adding postscript:
■•Please send a speedy answer; some
body else in my eye.”
Young Prettywilde—Doctor, I am
suffering from insomnia. Can you
suggest a remedy? Dr. Squills—Cer
tainly. Don’t stay up all night.”
claimed by the British authorities as sui- J
tun, and was at once installed in authori- :
’v under the British protect-.rate. j , , , . . . -
i boarding and day schoo s, seven no.pi
Recent statistics show that women to- ! thirteen dispensaries and thirteen
day average two inches taller than they •
’•Margaret” was the way her name
Appeared in her youthful copy-books
neat;
fn society’s columns we see the same
Girl figures quite gaily as “Marguerite.”
George—I am so nervous that I
don’t believe I could get married un
less I had somebody to stand by me.
[Iortense—Well, George, I will stand
by you.
Young Tnttcr—Do you mind me
calling oil your daughter, Mrs. Slim-
3on, in n business suit? Mrs. Slim-
son—No, Mr. Tut ter, uot if you really
mean business.
Marie—Charlie Debrie is an easy
going fellow, don’t you think? Claire
—Well, no. He comes to see me.
about one evening a week and I havs
found him quite different. He’s a
stayer.
The Editor—Take that chair, Miss
Bostiu. Miss Bostin (with a roll of
niannscript)—Thank yon,[will not take
the chair, but I will bo glad to occupy
it when I read you my poem on
icicles. ^ -
It is discouraging (o a newly-mar
ried man to sear his conscience prais
ing his blushing little wife’s first
cake and then have her tell him that
she got it at the baker’s when she
went down town.
Remembering the Teachers.
The school children of Grass Valley, ^
California, have a custom that is faJ^qP
more commendable than any one ihtti
prevails in this city of making pre
sents to teachers. Instead they bring
to school a stick of wood or a paper
bag of potatoes. These are taken
charge of by the Ladies’ Relief So
ciety and distributed among the poor.
This year the people of the town
joined with the school children and a
large procession, headed by a band of
music, was formed. Men bearing
sacks of flour, billets of wood or some
thing of use were in line, as were also
the delivery wagons of the merchants,
which were filled with all sorts of_.
articles, including provisions, boots,
shoes, clothing, blankets, etc. Thera
were also ten wagons in the proces
sion loaded with cord wood. AH off
the articles were taken charge of by
the organization above mentioned,
and it is a pretty safe assumption that
no one in Grass Valley will feel the
bi e of extreme want for some time to
conic.—fSan Francisco Chronicle.
Which Way the Moon Was Going.
There is a little boy in this town, a __
five-year-old, that they call Johnny.
Johnny had been told that the moon
rocs around the earth, and the other
light he was out making astronomical
observations. Pretty soon the little
fellow came running in and said:
“Oh, inaiiiina, I saw the moon going
ouud the world.”
“Did you, dear? ”
“Yes. I saw it ruu up past two
clouds.”
“And which way was it going? ’*
“It was going down Thirteenth
street.—(Kansas City Journal.
f
A
Not a Freak.
Little Lutie—Was you ever in f
museum. Miss Tweezer? •-
i-liss Tweezer—No, dearie; why?
Little Lutie—Well, ma said you waa
awful two-faced.— [Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
did twenty-five years ago.
opium refuges.
Gibbons Downs Daley.
Gibbons defeated Daley in thirty-one
rounds before a large concourse at the
Crescent City Athletic club in New Or
leans, Tuesday evening, for a purse of
$3,500 and a side bet of $1,000. Gib
bons demonstrated his superiority as a
fighter from the start, but Daley exhibit
ed considerable pluck and some little
generalship which delayed the fight -to
such a leDgth. Daley made frequent at
tempts to foul Gibbons, and the police
were on the point of stopping the fight
several times. Daley was badly punish
ed and Gibbons’ right hand was broken.