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« V \ THE VIENNA PROGRESS. 1 TERMS, $1. Per Annum. M Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” vWSSBfe. \ 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.