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< \ ( HSnHHHHI MMR» i t \ VIENNA TERMS, $1. Per Annum. ‘Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JNO. E. HOWELL, l LACY A. MORGAN, f VOL. XI., NO 34. VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1893. - PUBLISHED WEEKLY. -SMSIKEr DAYS OF CONGRESS The Senate in Extraordinary Session. Notes and Gossip in and About tbe National Capital. N THE SENATE. The senate reassembled Monday and discussed for nearly un hour the resolu tions offered last week by -Mr. ’dander- son intended to limit the action of the senate in the present extraordinary ses sion to executive matters or to matters requiring co-operation on the part of the house. Mr. Gorman favored that policy, but preferred to have it take the form of unanimous consent rather than of a reso lution. Objection to unun mous consent came from the democratic side of the chamber nnd the most strenuous oppo sition to the resolution came also from that side. The question finaliy went over without any decision and the senate adjourned until Wednesday. The senate held a short session Wednesday, lasting not longer than thirty minutes. Meeting at noon and disposing of some morning business, an executive session was ordered, and, while in executive session, a recess vras taken til! half pas; 3 o’clock so as to give time to the republican caucus to complete its party assignments to committee planes. When the senate reassembled, Mr. Gor man, acting for the democratic majority, < ffered a resolutiou declaring the const! x tution of the standing and select com mil tees, and that resolution was agreed to, the senate then adjourned till Thurs day. A communication whs presented from the interior department in answer to a resolution in last session i inquiring as to whether permis- t sion for Sunday Concerts in the pension office had been given. The com munication states that such permission had been applied for and had been cx pressly refused, and that the building had oot been used on Sundays for such purposes. The credentials of Mr. Beck r with, appoinied as senator from the state K Wyoming were presented by Mr Vance and were laid on the table to be referred to the committee on privileges and elections when appointed. The vice pnsident laid before the senate the reso lution of the Massachusetts legislature, favoring the unnexitio i of the Hawaiian P islands. After they were reud, the sug gestion, was m ide by Mr Sherman that key should have been presented in ex ecutive session. They were laid on the table nnd then tbe senate proceeded to take up executive business, a list of nom inations having been previously received fr< m the president of the United States. The ouly business transacted by the senate Thursday was the presentation of various memorials from the legislature of North Dakota, and a refi rence of the n s- olution for tho appointment of a cleik to the committee on national banks (at $1,- 440 per annum). Then Mr. Gorman moved an adjournment, and the senute, at 12:12, adjourned until Monday at noon. Mr. Blount Well Fixed. Ex-Congressman Blount is to be a spe cial confidential agent of the treasury department. It is a position of much importance, requiring a man of ability «nd dip'omacy to fill it. The position is cot down in the blue book. No ' j.propriation is made directly by congress for such an office, but t pays well, the salary coming ■ut of the contingent fund of the trees ry. Mr. Blount will receive $10,000 an- uallv and his Uu.ies will be entirely of coi fideutia! character with the secreta ry of the treasury. Much of his time will >e spent in New York a id much of it r.ibably in European money center? h ugh his h< adquarters w ill be in Wash- ing'on. Mr. Blount’s name will not be ?ent to the senate for confirmation. That ? not neces-nry. Indeed, no < fficial an ■eureement will be made of it. TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. CAPITAL GOSSIP. William McAdoo, of New Jersey, who •<, has been nominated by the president to i. be assistant secretary of the navy, is a consistent old line democrat. He served several terms in congress on the naval committee, where he did excellent work. The president Wednesday sent the fol lowing nominations to thesenure: Win I McAdoo, of New Jersey, to be assistant I secretary of the navy; Ed ware B. Whit- I ney, of New York, i.ssistani attorney- general, vice Abraham C. Parker re signed. L The collectors of customs, comnrission- 1 ers of immigration, internal revenue col- 1 lectors and other treasury offie als locat- * ed throughout the country are taking the president at his word that they are to he ' allowed to serve out their terms of four years. Only two resignations of this l class have so far been received—that of I Coloci! Weber and Collector Hendricks, both of New York. Secretary Smith has ordered the tem porary suspension of all homestead en tries in Clark county, Ala. This order is issued by representations made by Governor Jone?, to the effect that en tries were being made of salt springs and saline lands in violation of section 6 of the act admitting Alabama into the union. A thorough investigation will be made and the lauds will remain in suspension until all the facts are ascer tained. - ,P ostmarier General Bisscll is credited I with the announcement that no local ~ stiainess men need apply for pnstoffices 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. Bisselt must promise to devote his entire time to the work,and personally keep strict office hours. Senators Wolcott and Teller, of Colo rado, called Thursday morning and in terviewed S- cretnry Carlisle in regard to ’ "'The light-weight gold at D-nver. The secretary poiuted out the statutes to them, regulating his action iu the premises and the government officers at Denver were telegraphed not to accept light-weight gold except by weight, When light weight is proff red the government and the pirti'B ■ fferiug it refuse to sell it by weight, it is returned to them with the word “light” stamped across its face, the gafue as the word “counterfeit” is stamp ed across tho face of a had note. Postmaster General Bissell stated Thursday that whenever there is a con test for any postufficc, the person who held the cffice under Mr. Cleveland’s onaer administration is not to be con- fid. He further stated that the full of this rule applied to the fourth- istmasters, and he, nnd not the ent, was responsible for it. The nent leaves open the prospect of re ntmeot of postmasters who held under Mr. Cleveland before when is no other applicant for office, but strictly to the rule that as between Ipp'icants he who has not before office shall be the one selected, change that has come over the was patent to the must experienced rver Thursday. As soon as the body lead adjourned after its brief session the army of office-seekers, who have been thronging the corridors for days past, found entrance and opportunity to see their .senators. And all fuund their way to the democratic side of the chamber with the nsult that nearly every s-nator seated there was soon surrounded by a group of wistful-eyed men or was obliged in self-defense to flee to the re- jjjng. ri)oms of the committee rooms. On ther side of the chamber the repub- Jcaa senators sat at their ease, and were unmolested, amused observers of the tceae. The Industrial Development Daring the Past Week. \ revit w of the industrial situation in the >n;h fur the past week shows the organization f a brewery wi h $150 000 capital at Augusta, >a., by It. H. Plant and others; of a mining nd milling company with $5,000,000 capital at Little ltoeli, Ark. by tne Little llock Mining o mpany; of a $150,000 sugar refinery at Cen- rev lie, La., by J. D. Capron and associates; of a foundry with $50,OCO capital, at Louis ville. Ky., by the Sheppard Manufacturing com pany; of a $50,000 cotton mill at Liatesburg S. C.. hr tire Bates'urg Cotton Mill company, and of one at Augusta, Ga., with $35,000 cap ital. by the Piucnix Mills; of Rattan mills at Atlanta, Ga., by the Sou Item Rattan company, with $.0,000 capital, and of an oil mill with $40,000 capital at San Marcos, Texas, by Diffy & Schmidt. Forty-eight new indus ries were established or incorporated during the week, together with 5 enlargements of manufactories. Among the netr industries not already teferred to are cement works at River J unction, Fla.; canning factor ei at Huntsville, Ala., and McRae, Ga.; cotton compress at Mexico and San Marcos, l ex., anl a cons rue ion company at Atlanta, Ga. Flouring mills arc reported at Burlington, Sil ver City and W llbnrg, N. C., Pulaski, Tenn., and Love’s Mills, Va., a grain elevator at Abi lene, Tex.; glas. woiks at Portsmouth, Va., and foundries and machine hops at Piedmont, Ala.. Dublin, Tex., and Suffolk, Va. A coal mining company is also reported at Short Creek, W. Va., a gold mining company at Salisbury, N. V., oil mills at Roanoke, Ala., Abilene, Bastrop and Mexia, Texas and terra cotta works at Pooler, Ga. A tannery is re ported at Cuthbei t, Ga., tobacco factories at Hew Orleans, La., Roanoke, Va., and Mt. Airy, X. C., and cotton mills at Hogansville, Ga., Gre nville, S. C., and Lexington, N. C. Among wo dworking plants reported are a carriage tic orv at Culp' pp. r. Va.; furniture factories at Greenville, 8. C., aud Athens, Tenn., and saw and planing mills at Arkansas City, Ark.. Fort Meyen, Fla., church Hill. Miss., Vox, S. C., ai d Pul 'ski, Tenn. iVat-r works are to bo built at Harriman, Tenn , Selma, N. C., and Karnes City, Texas, tho enlargements reported for the week in clude a fonndrv at Honaton, Texas; a pottery at Trenront, Miss.; railroad Bhops at Tyler, Texas; a cotton mill at Selma, Ala., and a saw mill at Davis Station, N. C. Among new buildings reported are an asy lum building at Milledgeville, Ga.; bus ness houses at Macon, Ga.; Winston, N. C.; Hous ton, Texas; Clinton. Tenn, and Bristol, Va.; lmrchci at Dayton, Ky.; Jacksonville, Fla.,and Lynchburg, Va.; a court house at Fort Worth, Texas; a $50,000 hospital at Behevue, Ky.; aud an office building at Charlotte, N. C.—Trades man (Oaattauooga, Tenn.) A NEW PARTY. To be Organized by Ministers, Prohi bitionists and Women. A conference i.f mini ters and prohi bitionists interested in the formation of a new national p ditical orgauzation was begun in LaFayette hall, Pitt; burg, Pa., the bir.hpfiicc ot the repub ican party, Thursday morning. When the confer ence was called to order there was just twenty-three men and ten women pr; s- ent and a in j tity of these were from the immediate vicinity. Aft.-r welcom ing the delegates, the chairman read the platform of the proposid party and a call for the meeting signed by two thous and persons. Tbe platform recognizes God as the author of civil government, equal rights for all, without respect to race, color or sex; abolition or suppres sion of the drink traffic, and such other moral, economic, financial and indus- tr al reforms as are needed in this coun try. A committee on permanent organiza tion wns appointed. The question of naming the new party occupied most of the time c.f the convention. It was de cided to h-t tbe matter go over to some tuture time. Among the names suggested were “national reform party” “national prohib tiou party,” “abolition party” and “national party.” A committee was appointed to arrange for a state confer ence to take place June (5:h, after which the conference adjourned. CHOLERA REGULATIONS. Secretary Carlisle Issues Some New Precautionary Measures. On Monday, S-’cretary Carlisle issued the r.ew regulations regarding the pre cautions to be observed in admitting im migrants to the Uuited States. The reg ulations contain seventeen articles, the first tea of which are substantially the same as the regulations now in force. Arrticles eleven to fifteen inclusive, are practically new, made to conform to the new laws affecting immigration passed by tbe last congress and approved on the 3d of March last. Their most important points are as follows: Article eleven enacts that no vessel bringing emigrants from points where contagious or infectious diseases are pre vailing shall be admitted to entry unless it appear by tbe certificate of the consu lar officer at such port that said emi grants have been detained at the port of embarkation at least five days under medical observation in specially desig nated barracks or houses set apart for their exclusive use, and that their cloth ing, baggage and personal effects have been disinfected before placed on board. Article thirteen provides that such lists of immigrants shall accompany each steamer. Article fourteen provides that immigrants shall be listed in convenient groups, aDd no one list or manifest shall contain more than thirty, names. DISCRIMINATION IN RATES The News of the World Condensed Mo Pithy amd Pointed Paragraphs. Interesting and Instructive to All Classes of Readers. Will Probably Get the L. & N’t in Hot Water. A bill was filed in the United States circuit court at Nashville, Tenn., Mon day by the interstate commission against the Louisville and Nashville railroad company charging that the said company was discriminating in its rates on coal shipments against Nashville, in favor of M' mphis ai,d other licalities, and thereby refusing to obey the orders of the said commission to conform its tariff rates with those laid down by said commission a year ago. v " Mother and Children Durned. At Rutherford, N. C.. Wednesday night, a child of T. W. Dixon, a drum mer of the Watkins Hardware company of Richmond, Va., turned over a kero sene lamp and burned two children to death, one six m ntbs and the other two years old. Mrs. Dixcn was badly burned, and died Thursday morning. One of the three children was saved. The house was burned to tbe ground. Bishop BrowD, of the African Metho dist Episcopal church, died in Washing ton Thursday. The foot and mouth disease has bro ken out in the Berlin cattle market and all removals have been prohibited of cattle. Notice has been received at Eagle Pass, Texas, for the removal of the Mexican import duty on corn, corn meal and beans. Snow fell for several hours in Iowa Thursday, and indications point to one of the worst storms of the season. Snow also fell at Kansas City. The Beauprie Mercantile Company, at St. Paul, Minn., failed Thursday. The assets of the company are estimated at $168,658 and the liabilities, $517,286. A special general assembly of the Presbyterian church in Ireland convened in Belfast, has passed unanimously reso lutions condemning the home rule bill. Numerous Austrian, Swiss and Ger man Catholics have petitioned the pope that he call an international conference to take steps to abolish gambling at Monte Carlo. A bill extending tbe right of suffrage to women in municipal elections, was de feated by the lower house of the Michi gan legislature Thursday bv a vote of 38 to 39. The statement of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for the month of February shows earniogs of $1,84G,112, a decrease of $88,566; expenses, $1,474,783, a de crease of $31,772 Thursday morning fire broke out in the Wheeler opera bouse at Toledo, O., and in a short time the whole building was a mass of flames. The loss will be at least $100,000; fully covered by insurance. A London cablegram states that the captain of the steamship Teutonic re ported at Queenstown Tuesday that she had taken a long southerly course, but had seen nothing of the steamship Naronic. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company held in New York City Wednesday, Ed ward Lauterbach was elected a director to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Jay Gould. A destructive fire occurred Tuesday at Bootle, near Liverpool, Eng. Two cot ton warehouses belonging to the Deene Company were burned. Loss about one hundred thousand pounds. The cotton in the warehouses belonged to Townsend, Woolley & Co. Judge Brown, in tbe United States district court at New York, Tuesday, issued an order fur the sale of the steam ship Vigilance, cf the United States and Brazil Steamship Comyany, to satisfy a drum of seamen for wages. Other vessels of the line may also have to be sold. A Monterey, Mex., special soys: Con struction began Tuesday on the exten sion of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf railroad from Trevino towards Sierra M' jada, the great silver ore producing region of the state of Coauuila. Several thousand tons of steel rails for the new line has arrived at Tampico. Dispatches of Wednesday from Guth rie, Oklahoma state that the Cherokee strip is being invaded by boomers. Hun dreds of them are encamped along the line of the Santa Fe road. A troop of cavalry have been stationed within twelve miles south of Arkansas City, which is twelve miles from the Kansas line. Turn Hall, a building covering half s block, at Patterson, N. J , was totally destroyed by fire Thursday morning. The loss is roughly estimated at $75,000. Four firemen were injured and it is be lieved two will die. The? were caught in the building when the walls collapsed, and it was with the greatest difficulty that they were rimovid from the debris. The Missouri house of representatives, on Tuesday, passed the senate bill for the appointment by the government of an excise commission to have absolute control of the i?sue of dramshop license. It was passed by a strict party vote as it takes the licensing power out of the hands of the republican collector at St. Louis. Governor Stone will approve the bill. Mrs. Annie Potter, of Kansas City, Kas., in a formal card to the public Sat urday announced herself as an independ ent candidate for mayor of that city, She is the wife of Ed Potter, a prominent in surance agent. Hi r candidacy is the out come of a meeting o' thirty women, all of whom have registered and are enti tled to vote. A house to house canvass is to be urged to register and vote. A special of Tuesday from Buffalo, N. Y. says: Eiward A. Kingston, a drug gist and his brother, James Kingston, an employe of the Wagner Palace Car Company, arc under arrest charged with smuggling drugs from Canada, The cus'om house inspectors have bein aware for some time that large quantities of drugs were smuggled and Kingston was suspected of handling them. They were caught in the act. A special from Havana says: The time fixed for the redemption of the bank bills issued expired od March 11th. Notes of nominal value of $4,508,800 were not presented for redemption and according to the law have now no value whatever. It is supposed that by far the greater part of these notes have been lost or destroyed in various ways and that very few indtviduil holders failed to present whatever bills they had for redemption. The Carnegie Steel company recently gave an order to Whitworth & Co., of Manchester, Eng., for an enormous piece of their armor plate machinery. The massive proof machinery will have a ca pacity of 16,000 tons pressure and will cost over $1,000,000. It is claimed that the machinery will give the Carnegie company advantages over the world in the manufacture of war fixtures. An armor p ate weighing 200,000 tons can 'asily be worked in one piece. An oil tank train broke in two while go ing up a grade, the latter half of the train crashing into an engine which was close behind. A terriffic explosion fol lowed, setting fire to the oil tanks. The fireman and engineer of the engine were instantly killed, as was also the head brakeman of the traiD. A bill entitled “an act to prevent gam bling in grain, beef, pork, lard or pro visions by corporations, brokers or others,” was introduced in the Illinois general assembly, in February, by Rep resentative William A. £ent, of the eleventh district. So unobtrusive was the debut of the measure the intelligence of its real imeort did not reach the board of trade UDtil last Saturday, when it created quite a stir. Should the bill become a law the board will have to close its doors and several thousand peo ple who now find occupation and profit in its walls will be compelled to find other pursuits in life. A Chicago dispatch of Thursday says: The Gingalez workmen at the world’s fair have gone on a strike against their employers, who have charge of the Cey lon exhibit. The men were hired in Ceylon for 30 rupees per month which is about $7 in American money. They thought 30 rupees was a big thing until they gained an idea of what workmen receive in this country They have been here only two weeks, but they followed the proper programme and struck. They then appointed a committee to see what the boss was going to do about it. They were offered 40 rupees and are thinking it over. DEPRECIATION IN GOLD. The Deuver Bankers May Lose in Their Transaction With the Government. A special of Wednesday from Denver, Co!., says: There is a hitch in the con templated exchange of $1,000,000 in gold for a like amount of currency as proposed by the Denver banks and ac cepted by secretary Carlisle. Should the negotiations be completed on the present basis the Denver banks would quit loser on the transaction not less than $2,200. The all-important question at present at the eleven banks which comprise the Denver Clearing House association is on what basis of weight the government will accept the $1,000,000 in gold coin, whether standard or current weight. The difference between the two is consider able. Tbe director of the mint at Washing ton has been queried by wire on tbe sub ject and his reply will decide what Den ver’s banks propose to do. The govern ment having already deposited its mil lion in currency at the denver mint, prep arations for weighing an equal amount in gold coin began Wednesday. It was found that there was a depreciation of $11 on every $5,000. The banks will probably stand by their contracts wheth er they lose or not. LOCATED IN TWO SPATES. Bristol a Bone of Contention Between Virginia and Tennessee. A Washington dispatch says: The state of Virginia and the state of Tennes see are parties to a suit which occupied practically all the time of the United States supreme court Wednesday. Vir ginia is seeking to secure a large strip of land now within the boundary of Ten nessee, but claimed by the old dominion to be part of its territory. The tract in question is a wedged-shaped strip of land stretching across the northern border of Tennessee, adjoining Virginia on the south. It is 113 miles in length, two miles in width at its eastern and right miles in width at its wisern extremity. The country is mostly sparsely settled, but it is iu the line of material develop ment of southwestern Virginia and east ern Tennessee. One of the towns in dispute is Bristol, Tenn., which has grown greatly in the last decade and enjoys two municipal governments, ac cording to the present boundary line be tween Tennessee and Virginia, Main street separating the Tennessee section of the town from the Virginia section. If Virginia should win the suit the whole town would be '■'st of ito terri tory. EXHIBITS FOR THE FAIR THROUGHOUT THE SODTH Notes ot Her Progress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized And Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. Being Rushed in Rapidly—Over 100,* 000 Packages Already on Hand. A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says: The work of getting exhibits into the wor’d’s fair building and putting the big show in readiness is being done. Direc tor General Davis has issued a rush or der, telling exhibitors to hustle their displays to Jackson park at once. As soon as the great flood of exhibits begin to come into the park the forces of work men will be greatly increased and the work will go on steadily nigat and day. When asked if everything would be in readiness by May 1st, Mr. Davis said: “Over 100,000 packages have been re ceived here already. Most of these are foreign, but when the displays begin to come they will come in a hurry. The capacity of the installation plant has not been tried in the least. We are for tbe exhibits to get there, and the faster the better. It is a big force of men and con tinuous work can put the fair in shape. It will be ready by May 1st.” O’BRIEN TO BE PROSECUTED. Tuesday night every street car opera tive employed by the 8ioux City, la., Railway Company, with the exception of a possible half dozen, was discharged and new men put in their places. The com pany charges all the men discharged with dishonesty. It is claimed that the com pany has been robbed of as high as three thousand dollars a month, and that many employes have taken from fifty dollars to seventy dollars a month in addition to theii salaries. A terrible accident occurred on the New York, Ontario and Western railroad near Munnsville, N. Y., a few miles south of Oneida, Wednesday evening. Catholic Knights Refuse a Proposition for -Settlement. A Toledo, O., special of Tuesday says: M. J. O’Brien, of Chattanooga, Tenn., formerly treasurer of the Catholic Knights of America, and who default ed in the sum of $76,000, called on mu nicipal authorities hire with a view to settlement. He submitted a proposition to pay $2,500 cash and $3,000 in annual installments until the discrepancy, which he claims is $80,000, is made good. After a lengthy consideration of the proposi tion the officers rejected it, and, pending a more acceptable one, resolved to prose cute the case against the ex-tmasurer. O’Brien, it will be remembered, fled from Chattanooga before it become known that he was a defaulter, but was subse quently captured and indicted. A MISSING HEIR For Whom a Fortune of a Million Dol lars is Awaiting. A fortune of over a million dollars, consisting of stocks and bonds and San- Francisco real estate, awaits Michael O’Reilly, if alive, or his heirs, if he is dead. Ail this is left by his ’bachelor brother, John. In 1854 John and Mich ael O’Reilly settled in San Francisco, coming from Dongerey Ireland. John secured employment and in a short time had accumulated considerable money, but Michael drifted into the army and fought through the Indian wars of 1874. The last heard of him was in Chicago in 1875, when he applied to his brother, now a millionaire, for money and was re fused. The missing man is supposed to be about sixty years of age if alive. The town of Guyhandotte,W. Va., ten miles east of Huntingdon, was visited by a destructive fire Tuesday. Tbe loss is $10,000, fully covered by insurance. The fire was incendiary. Governor Turney. of Tennessee, Wednesday, appointed Frank Armstrong Moses, of Knoxville, to be coal oil in spector. Dr. W. R. Niblett was ap pointed inspector at Harriman. The Alabama association holds its an nual session ia Montgomery on July 5th to 7th, and have accepted the hospitable invitation of Montgomery’s commercial and industrial association as their guests. A special from Hempstead, Texas, to the Galveston News says the Walter county court house burned Wednesday. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $9,000. The records are safe in a fireproof building adjoining and were saved. A Nashville dispatch of Monday says: It is authoritatively given out that the state will make an effort to have all the Coal Creek cases now pending in the courts at Clinton transferred to the fed eral court at Kuoxville aud to bring up all cases that may occur hereafter in that court. A Knoxville special of Saturday says: The Tennessee legislature is investigat ing the committee reports of the fearful condition of affairs among the convicts at Coal Creek. They are in a most dis eased and fifthy condition and many of them or so poorly fed that they are starv ing to death. The California state leg'slattire Satur day evening passed through both houses a resolution to submit to the people a constitutional amendment removing the capital to San Jose, providing the latter city shall deed to the state ten acres of land and a bonus of $1,000,000. The action, though hasty, appears to have been earnest. The heirs of Sam Houston, “Father of Texas,” entered suit Saturday against the holders of a block of ground, frontiug the market, one of the most valuable blocks in Houston worth $600,000. The suit also included accrued rentals of $300, 000 or more. The son, cx-Senator Tem ple Houston, is managing the case for the heirs, some twenty in number. A Washington dispatch of Wednesday says: Comptroller Hepburn states that the Alabama National Bank of Mobile, Ala., has been placed in the hands of Examiner Campbell at the request of its board of directors. A meeting of its stockholders will be held on March 21st, aod if acceptable propositions will be submitted that the bank be reopened. A Belleview, Texas, special of Monday says: Otto Sanders has a wife and five childten—three by a deceased and two by bis present wife. While returning from work and missing his wife and her -two children, he instituted a search and found them in a well on the premises. The children were dead, and their moth er, who had thrown them into the well, then jumped in herself will die. No cause is known. The California general assembly refus ed to reconsider the vote whereby the constitutional amendment removing tbe state capitol from Sacramento to San Jose was adopted. The amendment has already bet-n adopted by the senate and now goes to the people to be voted upon. The adoption of the amendment by the legislature was a surprise to the whole state, as the qutstion has not been men tioned this session. The directors of the Tenessee Coal and Iron Railway Company held a meeting in New York City Tuesday afternoon. They decided to adopt the Talbot opeu hearth steel process, a patent owned by the Metal Refining Company, of Chattanoo ga, on which they have an option good until April 4th. Secretary J. Bowron said the company proposed to be in the south in the manufacture of steel what Carnegie is in the north. A Charleston news special of Monday says: General T. A. HugupniD, the con federate commander of Fort Sumter, has issued orders to every company of the Fourth brigade to send a detachment fui y unifotmed and with draped colors, to the great memorial meeting on the 12th of April to be held in honor of Gen eral Beauregard, to wh >se great genius and courage is due the successor Charles ton. Tbe La'ay tte artillery has been ordered to fire a salute of seventeen guns at sundown the same evening. Judge Bryant, of the United States circuit court, at Galveston, Texas, Tues day, made a decree confirming the sale of the Waco aud Northwestern railway to E. H. R. Green, who bid $1,375,000 for the property when cried off by the master in chancery at Waco December 28th last. Green asked to be released from the bid because be understood that notes for land sales and for tbe cash in the receiver’s hands were to be included in the transfer, but the judge decided that these were not iucludcd and ordered a deed made to Green. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Jefferson Davis Monument asso ciation, held at Richmond, Va., Thurs day evening, the p-cs;d:nt was author ized acd instrucled to proceed to New Orleans to make such arrangements as he shall deem necessary aud proper to re move the remains of Mr. Davis from that city to Richmond, and determine the route by which they shall be removed. He was further authorized and instructed to confer with Geueral John B. Gordon, commander of the United Confederate Veterans, and John Glvr n, commander of 'he Lou'siana division of the Confederate Veterans, with respect to the funeral es cort frrm New Orlians to Richmond. TRADE REVIEW. MAY RESUME BUSINESS. 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 are 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 Redwine had not occurred. Bank Examiners 8tone and Campbell have finished their work and have for warded their report to Comptroller of the Currency Hepburn at Washington, where it will receive immediate action. In that report some very interesting recommend ations were made, which, if carried out, will effect an early settlement of the back’s troubles, and save the depositors and stockholders much inconvenience. The most important recommendation con tained in the report outside of its matter ia that tbe bank be reopened. Bradstreet and Dunn k Co.’s Report for the Past Week. R. G. Dun <fc Co.’8 weekly review ot trade says: Business during the past week has been affected byfevere weather and even more by the stringency and un certainty in the money markets. Rates for money have mourned from 5 1-2 on call to 51 per cent, and for two days ruled above 10 per cent, but extreme pressure was abated without aDy measure of relief, and on the announcement that the treasury department will not issue bonds but would use the bullions reserv ed in maintaining gold payments, with drawals of money for west and south nearly ceased. Gold to the amount of $1,000,000 was off red to tho treasury in exchange for legal tender by the bank of Denver and as much by one bank at Chi cago, and rates here fell to six per cent. There was some liquidation in stocks but none of importance in products,and it is evident that the restraint of exports by speculation in the chief staples is an im portant cause of tho monetary strin gency and of the loss of gold by the treasury. A fair increase is seen in the wholesale trade at St. Loui9 with a bright prom so for spring. Trade is satisfactory at Little Rock, improving at Memphis and quiet at other points in Tennessee, shrinking with tight money at Columbus, but fairly good at Atlanta; better with in creased shipments of lumber at Mobile nnd fair at New Orleans, with sugar firm but rice is lower. Business failures during last week number for the United States, 193; Can ada, 31; total, 225. WHAT BRADSTREET SAYS. Bradstreet’s report for the week says: Orders for cotton goods at eastern and other centers of production are larger. Mora cotton is being consumed and prices are steady. Jobbers are taking larger quantities of goods, and the country dealers are placiog heavy orders. The increased capacity at Fall River re sults in a surplus of 5,000 pieces. Bnt prints are active. At the south, Charles ton reports trade dull, as interior dealers are permitting stocks to run down. Bus iness in not particularly active at Nash ville, Memphis, Richmond, Atlanta, Bir mingham or New Orleans and colleci ions, while fair at a few points, are generally slow. Farmers are actively engaged in field work in western Tennessee, and in Geor gia they have raised so much larger food crops that grocers’ sales have been affec ted at Atlanta and elsewhere, although at Birmingham trade in this line has im proved. The slow movement of cotton mikes trade dull iu Louisiana, where the sugar acreage is to be increased. VISIBLE COTTON SUPPLY. Bradstreet Compiles a Statement Galh ered from Correspondents. Bradstreet has issued a special cotton review based upon the report of nearly 2,000 correspondents, of which the fol lowing is an abstract: Reports from 1,975 correspondents in ten southern states of stocks of cotton at 1,494 towns on March 1st, enable Bradstreet to make an unusually comprehensive statement of the visible supply of cotton lying back of the usual visible supply points, waiting to come forward, and be counted in the crop of the season of 1802 3. Of 1,494 towns reported, 900, or 00 per cent, only reported stocks of cotton on hand. At 954 towns our correspondents say no stocks were held over on March 1st, of which town?, however, 239 reported stocks held on March 1, 9812. The total stock held March 1, 1893, was 341,753 bales, against 508,039 bales last year, an apparent decrease, according to the correspondents, of over 32 per cent. Decreases by states show some curious differences. Florida shows the heaviest decrease of any, while Louisiana shows the smallest. Tbe adjoining state of Mississippi also shows only a moderate falling off. The small decrease in Lou isiana, however, is, by ieference to the detailed reports of stocks, due to the heavy increase in stocks held at Monroe. The cause of this exceptional increase is the holding for better prices. Texas, with one-quarter of the total stock re ported, shows a decrease of 39 per cent. The average for the entire cotton belt, it will be seen, is considerably below this. The result of an enumeration of stocks at nearly 1,500 interior eouthern towns, shows the total held of 342,000 bales, about one-third less than that reported held a year ago. This, under ordinary circumstances, might be taken to indi cate that, as far as the leading towns of tbe south are concerned, tbe amount held and likely to figure in the count of the crop is only two-thirds of that held last year. MAIL CARRIERS WIN. The Supreme Court Renders a Decision in Their Favor. A Washington special says: The Uni ted States supreme court Monday affirmed the judgement of the court claims in favor of fetter carriers in the cases of Aaron S. Post and Frank Gales against the United States. These cases arose un der an act prescribing eight hours as a day’s work for the letter carriers. It was contended by the letter carriers that the post office department in con structing that act, had violated its intent and purpose, and was requiring more la bor from them than was contemplated. The will of the late Charles E. Geh- ring, president of the Gebring Brewing company, was filed at Cleveland, Ohio, Monday. It disposes of an estate valued at $1,000,000. Four thousand dollars is given to local charities, $2,000 to the poor of his native town in Germany, and the remainder goes to his widow and children. SHEPARD TO TlERBERT. BIG BLAZE IN BOSTON. Several LiTes Lost and Nearly Five Millions in Property Consumed. A disastrous fire broke out about 4 o’clock Friday evening in a building owned by F. L. Ames, corner of Essex and Lincoln streets, Boston, Mass., and involved the entire block. Tho fire was under control shortly after 8 o’clock. The area burned over comprises practi cally one whole square, hounded on the north by Essex street, on the east by Lincoln street, on the south by Tufts street and on the west by Kingston street. In addition to this square, one building on the north of Essex street, extending along Columbia street, was burned. Also three buildings on the east side of Lincoln street; also one on the south side of Tufts street, Emergen cy hospital, which was part of the Uni ted States hotel, and the rear corner of the hotel. Three unidentified bodies have been taken from the ruins, and there are supposed to be many others yet undiscovered. The injured number about thirty. The burned buildings were full of manufacturing enterprises of all kinds— boots and shoes, machines, rubber goods, plush goods, leather goods, glass veaeer- ings. One of the principal firms was Horace, Partridge & Co., fancy goods, and tbe fire seems to have originated on the premises of this firm on the sixth floor of the Ames building. They em ployed about thirty clerks. Every floor in the building had a number of people employed and among these were the most of the injured. Girls were overrun and trampled upon in the parn'e. Three men and one woman were seen to hang by their hands from the parapet of the building, but owing to the netword of telegraph, telephone and electric light wires no help could be got to them and they all fell six stories to the froz-n ground. One of the dead is Leonidus II. Redpatb, a merchant; another is a fireman, Robert J. Restaux. Two bodies are not identified. One is a girl too badly burned to be recognizable. The casualties were at the Ames building, where the people were hemmed with out warning. Latest estimates of the loss amount to four and a half millions. The three largest buildings burned— Ames Lincoln and Brown-Durrell—were of modern construction and built in the most noncombustible style possible for the mercantile use. The Brown-Durrell had front walls of sandstone and rear walls of brick. The Ames and Lincoln were much like it. HE QIVETH HIS BELOVED SLEEP What would we give to our beloved? The hero’s heart* to be unmoved— The poet’s star-tuned harp to sweep— The senate’s shout to patriot’s vows— Tbe monarch’s crown to light the brows? “He giveth his beloved sleep.” f What do we givo to our beloved? A little faith all undisproved— A little dust to overweep. And bitter memories, to make The whole earth blasted for our sake! “He giveth his beloved sleep.” —Airs. Browning. HUMOR OF THE DAY. WAS THE MONEY STOLEN Tbe Colonel Dines the New Secretary of the Navy. Secretary of the Navy Herbert was en tertained at a dinner Wednesday night by Co 1 . Shepard. There were twenty- six guests at the dinner. It was private and there were no means of reporting the speeches, but the general tenor was cordial, hopeful and enthusiastic about the new secretary of the navy. A Menagerie for the Exposition. The British steamer Port Adalaide, ar rived in New York Wednesday from China and Japan. She brought from Singapore, for the Columbian exposition, a large collection of wild animals, among which are three large elephants, a tiger, tiger cats, monkeys and several ourang- outangs. Big Failure in Liverpool. The failure has been posted in Liver pool of Bigland & Harvey, the stock brokers, who operated largely in the American market. Tbe deficiency of as sets is estimated at 25,000 pounds—a million dollars. ./ For the Loss of Which Hemingway Is Serving Time in the Penitentiary? A Jackson, Miss., special says: It is now two and a half years since William Hemingway was sentenced to the state penitentiary for tho term of five years for the failure to piy over to his succes sor as state treasurer, $315,612 which the books of his office showed was due tho state. Hemingway could give no expla nation why tbe money was missing. An attempt to explain the mystery attending the disappearance of this money was made Friday by C. F. Hemingway, a brother of the late treasurer, and for sev eral years bookkeeper in the treasurer’s office. Hemingway declares that the money was stolen by a man who cleaned the safe timer, March, 1888, and who ac quired and made a record of the treasu rer’s safe combination then in use and never afterward changed during Colonel Hemingway’s incumbency of the office. A HEAVY ASSIGNMENT. Big Honse-Fnrnishing Company at Boston Goes to the Wall. The Atkinson House Furnishing com pany, at Boston, Mass., with fourteen branches in other new England cities, has made an assignment to Charles F. Libby, of Portland, and Costello C. Converse, of Boston. The president of the company says the liabilities are $1 ,500,000, and the assets are estimated at $3,000,000. The trouble was caused by a stringency in the money market and inability to meet the call loan on Satur day. L ist year the company did a busi ness of three million dollars. The firm will probably pay its debts in the fall. While the greatest portion of indebted ness is to firms in Boston and vicinity, there are a number of creditors in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. CLOSED ITS DOORS. A Bank of Which Ingalls Was Pres ident, Fails. The Kansas Trust and Banking com pany, at Kansas City, Mo., of which Sen ator Ingalls is president, closed its doors Monday night. The liabilities are esti mated at $800,000, and the assets will probably reach $700,000. The company owns 30,000 acres of land in Kansas and about $20,000 worth of property iu Kan sas City. R. M. Manley, the general manager, loses $250,000*. There wns about $30,000 on deposit when the bank cio-cd its door?. Ingalls loses $10,000. The concern loaned considerable money on Kansas property at boom figures, and was compelled to bid it in and were unable to realize as much upon it as bad been advanced. A receiver has been ap pointed. GAINS IN GOLD. A Probability that Exportations will Hold Up. The treasury received gold at several points Thursday. In New York the gain made in gold w&a $100 000, while at New Orleans it received $20,000 in gold in exchange for a like amount in silver certificates. No intimation has yet been received 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 treasury has now more than three million dollars in free gold, and, in the usual condition of trade, this is likely to be increased rather than diminished. Blount Goes to Hawaii. The facts in the Hawaiian annexation muddle are what President Cleveland and Secretary Gresham are after, and i-x-Congressmaa James II. Blount, of Georgia, is g ing to the island to ascer tain the correct history of the whole matter. Mr. Blount will hurry on to San Francisco to take the b >at for Hono lulu. He is accompanied by Mrs. Blount and a private secretary and Stenographer Ellis Mills, of the state de partment. The Fire Ruined Them. Redpath Bros., of Boston, manufact urers of boots and shoes, who were burn ed out in Friday’s big fire, are financially crippled and will assign. Mr. H. L. Redpatb, one of the partners, lost his life in the fire. The firm lost their books and accounts, and their insurance was much less than the loss. The liabilities an said to be $100,000. With an emerald ring—The Irishman’s voice.—Truth. Not a common bark—An ocean grey hound.—New York Journal. On the roll of fame—The champion' wheelman.—Galveston News. A discarded official standing about is out of place.—New Orleans Picayune. The man who fancies he writes poetry frequently wrongs it.—New York Morn ing Journal. Old Diogenes would have had an anxious time of it in Fiance.—Louisville Courier-Journal. It is certainty of continuance, not the present amount, that is the measure of kindness.—Puck. When there is a great falling off in a hod-carrier's business some one gets hurt. —New Orleans Picayune. Tbe best cure for trouble is labor. Who ever heard of a wood-sawyer com mitting suicide?—Buffalo Enquirer. Law, physic or divinity— I Which is the easiest ot the three? Divinity; because the fact is ’Tis easier preaching than to practice. —J udge. Little Elsie—“Who was Shakespeare, pa?” Scribbiems (the playwright)— “One of my predecessors, child.”—Tit- Bits. Just as soon as a young man finds that he can’t have a girl he begins to imagine that he can’t do without her.—Dallas News. “This is a vane struggle,” as the breeze said after trying and failing to turn the weathercock.—Philadelphia Record. No man can sleep well in cloudy weather when he knows that he has a sandy foundation under his house.—• Ram’s Horn. Most creatures are entirely harmless when they are asleep. But the moth does the most mischief when it is taking a nap.—Siftings. “What I am looking for,” said Blig gins just after he had rented a telephone, “is the man who said that talk is cheap.'-’ - —Washington Star. He (painting)—“If you were I, Misi Maud, I wonder how you’d treat this subject?” She (posing)—“Oysters.”— Kate Field’s IVasuington. “It is an odd thing,” mused Indigest- icus, “that the same food which makes the brain so stupid by day, keeps it so ferociously active at night.”—Puck. The Professor—“Ah, Miss hvu it’x very pretty, but it’s not the least fill the model. Pm afraid you’ve painted the eyes out of yourown head."—Punch. Ob, from that swell deliver us Of whom it may be said Tbe swellness is most noted in The region of the Dea l. —W ashington Star. “Maggie,” called Mulligan to his ac complished daughter. “Wnat do you want?” “Is the pianny bruk or are you playin’ classical music?”—Washington Star. “But why do you always hear them called etchings?” Father—“Urn—er— well, I suppose because it takes such hard scratching to pay for them.”—Inter- Ocean. “The early bird gets the worm,” mused the big fowl. “I’ll just hang round in a leisurely way till he does, and then I’ll take it away from him.”—Wash ington Star. “On the Verge of the Unknown” is the title of an editorial in a recent issue of the Fort Worth Gazette. So they have hash in Texas too, do they?— Chicago Mail. Mother (to her child, who has just had some sweets given her by the man opposite)—“What do you say to the gentleman, Mabel?” Mabel—“Have you got any more, please?”—Judy. Diner—“Waiter, I find I have just money to pay for the dinuer; but it nothing in the way of a tip for yourself.” Waiter—“Let me add up the check again, sir.”—New York Herald. Tommy Figg—“Sister’s beau kicked my dog yesterday, but I got even with him, you bet.” Johnny Briggs—“How?” Tommy Figg—“I mixed quinine with her face-powder.”—Indianapolis Sen tinel. While Sir. Donovan was watching an engine that was engaged in backing the other day he was heard to remark, “Faith, that's the most roundabout way of goin’ forrard Oi iver saw.”—Wash ington Star. Caller—“So you mean to be an M. P. when you grow big, Tommy?” Politi cian’s Youngest—“Yes; like pa.” Caller —“Then you’ve made up your mind to do a great deal of talking?” Politician’s Youngster — “Yes; like ma.”—Funny Folk. Yabsley—“I tell you, when I see one of these hard-working, patient school- ma’ams I feel like taking off my hat to her in reverence.” Mudge—“I tried that once and her brother kicked me clear across the street.”—Indianapolis Journal. Miss G— met a beggar in the street and was moved to help him. “Here’s my card,” she said. “If you’ll call at my house, I’ll give you some clothes.” He failed to put in an appearanee; but a day or two later she chanced to see him again and asked: “Why didn’t you call?” “Indade, mum, but your card do say ‘Thursdays!’”—Brooklyn Life. Building a Steamer on Novel Plans. A new idea in shipbuilding has been developed at Belfast, Ireland. There is an immense vessel on the stocks there which has no keel for about 120 feet from the sternpo3t, while six feet of the sternpost is cut away, the hull of the vessel sloping from the horizontal for the 120 feet, until level with the curtailed sternpost. The bottom of the sternpost and the actual stern of the vessel are not connected in any way. The vessel is a twin screw and the propellers will work through a small aperture with nothing between them and the water beneath. Tney will therefore always be iu un broken water.—Boston Journal h