The Vienna progress. (Vienna, Ga.) 18??-????, March 28, 1893, Image 1
THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
H* Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips FaH Where They May.”
fO 35.
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
to Day to the
anitaL
Various Depart-
s of ILe Senate.
Senate.
i that have come to
fment of the great ap-
thc last session form-
discussion for nearly
r irae that the senate was
Monday. More than ninety
Frrors were stated by Mr. Hale to
been discovered by him in the na-
Jipropriation bill alone. Various
ftions as to clerks of committees,
i of rules, etc., were oil red, but
l;d on, and the senate adjourned
Ednesday. The credentials of gen-
llien, appointed by the governor of
late of Washington, were read
laid on the table. Mr. Me
in offered a resolution, which was
Id to the committee on education
Ibor, directing the commissioner to
make a report at the opening of the fifty-
third congress, comprehending facts in
relation to the total cost of producing
various iron and steel products, such as
Lbariron, steel rails, etc., and of leading
articles of textile industry, and of other
articles, the cost of which may be ap
proximately obtained. Mr. Allison of
fered a resolution, which was referred to
the committee on rules, permitting pho
tographic copies to be taken of certain
juicleut executive communications in the
[ies in the archives of the senate, for
exhibition at the world’s Columbian ex
position.
The resolution reported last Monday,
kuthorizing the appointment of five new
jmmittee clerks (on the Geological Sur-
National Banks, Forest Reservation
Irporations in the District of Columbia
Id Trcspassors on Indian lands) was tak-
lupin the senate Wednesday and agreed
Mr. McPherson reported back from
Icommittee on finance the resolution
■him at a ] revious session, directing
I commissioners on labor to make a
art at the opening of the fifty-third
[gross ns to the cost of production of
and steel manufactures and of text
fabrics, amended so as to authorize
the finance committee to make fur-
liefl investigation into the same matters
frith power to send for persons and pa-
'It was ordered printed and laid
table. Mr. Manderson tendered
fngaation as president pro teni.
hsignation wag on motion of Mr.
nm accepted. Mr. Cockrell offered
llution declaring Mr. Harris presi-
Ipro tem. It was agreed to, and
liarris escorted by Mr. Manderson,
file chair and signed the oath of
The vice president having left-
[diair temporarily, Mr. Harris ex-
messed his thanks for the honor con-
rred upon him. On motion of Mr.
cPhersou a resolution was adopted di-
ccling the secretary of the senato to
fcait up m the president of the United
IStatcs and inform him that Senator Har
ris had been elected president pro tem of
he senate in place of Senator Mandeison,
[signed. ' ‘‘er an executive session, the
lnate adjour. id.
Y'lio’senate was in open session only
minutes Thursday morning, when,on
IflW of*5Ir, Daniel, it proceeded to ex-
Jtive business. Mr. Call offered a res-
Ition in jegard to the commission to
(Gir^intorth'esevernl executive depart
ing W thd'gqvernment. The resolution
[lares thifdjic provision of the appro-
Ytion act providing for appointment of
Senators’ and three representatives
ngress, by tlie presiding
i houses in the 52d con-
frrnmission, is in deroga-
Tbhstitutional rights, privi-
Tnd prerogatives of each house, is
Iwise violative of the constitution
|bsoiutely null and void. The reso-
. was ordered printed and laid on
l)le. Afterspeuding three-quarters
[lour in'ipxecutive session, the sen-
(jourued till Monday.
J.
sentiment of foreigners as well as of na
lives, and to conclude, as far as possible
from the facts, whether it would be ad
vantageous to this country to annex the
island.”
The senate Thursday confirmed the
following nominations: Theodore Run
yan, of New Jersey, as minister to Ger
many; Walter D. Dabney, of Virginia,
as solicitor for the department of state
Edward B. Whitney, of New York, ai
assistant attorney general; James C. Jen
kins, of Wisconsin, ns United States cir
cuit judge for the seventh judiciul cir
cuit; (.has. B. Stuart, of Texas, as judge
o' the United States court for the Indian
Territory; Abner Gaines, of Arkansas, as
marshal of the United States for the
Eastern district of Arkansas; Joseph TV.
House, of Arkansas,-as attorney for the
United States for the Eastern district of
Arkansas; Clifford L. Jackson, of the
Indian Territory, as attorney for the
United States court for the Indian Terri
tory; Ernest P. Baldwin, of Maryland,as
first auditor of the treasury; Thomas
Holcomb, of Delaware, as fifth auditor
of the treasury.
New Nominations.
The president, Monday, sent the
following nominations to the senate:
James R. Eustis, of Louisiana, to be en
voy extraordinary and minister plenipo
tentiary of the United States to France;
'Ihecdore Runyon, of New Jersey, to
be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary of the United States to
Germany; John E. Riseley, of New
York, to be envoy extraordinary and
minister p'enipotentiary of the United
States to Deo mark; James G. Jenk
ins, of Wisconsin, to be United
States circuit judge for the seventh
judicial circuit; Walter D. Dabney, of
Virginia, to be solicitor for the depart
ment of state; David T. Guyton, of Mis
sissippi, to be United States marshal for
the northern district of Mississippi; Ern
est P. Baldwin, of Maryland, to be first
auditor of the treasury; Thomas Hol
combe, of Delaware, to be fifth auditor
of the treasury; Wade Hampton, of
South Carolina, to be commissioner of
railroads; John A. Dyson, to be post
muster at Washington, Ga.
The president sent to the senate Wed
nesday another batch of nominations
among which are the following: John
H, Seymour, of Connecticut, to be com-
mUsioner of patents; Silas W. Lamoreux,
of Wisconsin, to be commissioner of the
general land office; ’William H. Sims, of
Mississippi, to be first assistant secretary
of the interior; Edward A. Bowers, of
Washington, D. C., to be assistant com
missioner of the general land office; Henry
C. Bell, to be second deputy commis
sioner of pensions; Horace II. Lurton, of
Tennessee, to be United States circuit
judge for the sixth judicial circuit; Max
Judd, of Mi-souri, to Le consul general
at Vienna.
I AilSOUT THE DEPARTMENTS.
kry (Jarlisle is advised that $500,-
|ld was taken from the subtreas-
fork, Tuesday, for shiptneut
"-.is is the first gold ship-
ph 11th.
; named fourth-class post-
[iscd to the presidential
Cloveport, Ky.: Plaiu-
lue Hill and Randolph,
Edmond and llennessy,
Tenn.
ig confirmations were
ate Wednesday: Frank
|ey of the United States
David T. Guyton,
Ifnited States Northern
lippi; William H. Haw-
l.the United States dis-
|iih*| of Michigan, has
lisbursing clerk and su-
Ithc postoffice depart
ure Davenport, resign-
Iheld this office during
llr. Cleveland’s former
ll for some months un-
Jrrison.
i are 2, rj^'ostofucea in Georgia
nothing over ten thousand appli-
1 these plumbs. Naturally the
"gressmeu are somewhat per-
ake selections for each office
Ihen the applications come in by
[ire in every mail, sometimes they
tyish they were not congressmen.
ta*t!c v aotpgrqsswan’s life is any-
j'n happy’ one right now.
important of the bach of
j' eent’to the senate, Wednes-
lat of Horace H. Lurton, of
to be judge of the sixth judi-
/ vice Judge Jackson promot-
Mbiited States supreme bench.
;he present chief justice
l is regarded as one of
s in the state. He is a
:han fifty, and was en-
I I and delegation of Ten
sle, Thursday, signed
[mount of $250,120 in
fid’s fair commission,
n souvenir half dollars,
up to this time has re
pp* the $2,500,000 ap-
-css payable in. sou-
lot The secretary has
g>f the original appro
ver security, as pro
ved States, is given by
o the secretary of tho
filing for Hawaii Tues-
^er Blount had this to
object of his trip: “The
have the idea that I am
c.rds with instructions,
Siili 'Truththat I have
cally.
GROWTH OF THE SOOTH.
The Industrial Development During
the Past Week.
The review of tho industrial situation in the
Soutli for the paBt week shows tho organization
of steel plants at Birmingham, Aia., by the
Tennessee Coal, Iron A It. It, Co., and at
Thomas, Ala., by the Pioneer Mining and
Manufacturing Co.; of an irrigation company
with $1,000,000 cadital, at Brownsville, Texas,
by the Chatfleld Irrigation Co.; of a mining
company at Blacksburg, S. C., with $1,000,000
capital, by the Carolina Manufacturing and
Reduction Co.; of a telephone company with
$500,000 capital, at Cnviueton, Ky., by the
Te.eplione, Teiegraph and Electrical Co.; of a
cotton seed company with $250,000 capital, at
New Orleans, La., by the Colton Seed Hull Co.;
of a $150,000 oil mill at Douison, Texas, by the
National Cotton Seed Oil Co.; of a rice mill at
Crowley, La., witli $100,000 capital; of a cot
ton mill with $100,000 capital, at Anniston,
Ala.; or an $3 1,000 ice and refrigerating com
pany at Houston, Texas, by the H. Henk Ico
and R.frigeiating Co.; and of a lumber com
pany at Louisville, Ky., with $00,000 capital, by
the Beargrass Lumber Co. The aggregate
capital repor*e | f (lr this week’s new organiza-
- tious exceeds $5,250,000.
Sixty-nine new industries were established or
incorporated during the week, together with
S enlargements of manufactories, and twenty-
aev.n important new buildings. Among the
new industries not already referred to are ag
ricultural implement works at Johnson City,
Teuu., witii $50,000 capital; brick and tile
works at Alexandria, Ya., canning works at
Tifton. Ga.. and Angleton, Texas; electrio light
and powe,r companies at Meridian, Miss., cap
ital $50,005, and at Brinkley, Ark., Ellisrille,
Miss., and Trenton, Tenn.; ice factories at
Huntsville, Tenn., and Lexington, Ky.; a ma
chine sliop at Gonzales, Texas; a coal mining
company at Knoxville, Tenn.: oil mills at Mon-
r. e snil v-ndoli*, La., Grand View and Gonzales
Texas; a $.',0,000 packing house at Jackson,
His\, and one at Canton, Miss-
A sluai factory is reported at Alexandria,
Va., with $100,000 capital, by the Leather
Shaving Shoe company; cotton mills at Ozark
and Pell City, Ala., Griffin and LaGrange, Ga.,
and China Grove, N. C., and a knitting mil),
at Mobile, Ala. A tobacco factory will be es
tablished at Moeksville, N. C., and a wood
pulp faotory at Burnside, Ky. Among new
wooden plants are a carriage factory at Roan
oke, Va.; furniture factory at Texarkana,
Ark., Middlesborough, Ky.. Aberdeen, Miss.,
Athens and Chattanooga, Tenn, and planing
mills at Montgomery, Ala., and• Galveston,
Texas.
Waterworks are to be built at Brewton, Ala.,
and Rocky Mount, N. C., and enlarged at Way-
cross, Ga., and Victoria, Tex: Among the new
buildings of tlie wee k are a bank building at
Hempstead, Tex., churches at Anniston, Ala.,
and LoutBville.Ky.; hotels at Union City, Tenn.,
and Marion, Va., a school building at Laredo,
Tex., and warehouses at Nashville, Tenu., and
Luling, Tex.—Tradesman (Chattenooga, Tenn.
FUNERAL OF JULES FERRY.
no instructions from
-land uor an y one el8e>
to investigate the whole
ation; to determine the
His Burial Hade a State Occasion in
Paris, Wednesday.
The burial of the great French states
man, Jules Ferry, at Paris, Wednesday,
was made a state occasion and represen
tatives of all distinguished orders were
present. Thousands of strangers throng
ed the streets interested, spectators of the
ceremonies.
An immense mortuary chapel with
naive and transepts, had been erected in
the courtyard of the Luxembourg. It
was draped with black cloih, edged with
silver lace and emblazoned with the mon
ogram of the dead statesman. The coffin,
covered with a crimson and white pall,
remained until 1 o’clock in the Salle des
Garden, where the body has lain in state,
and was then removed to the cata
falque.
It was followed by an almost endless
procession throughout the streets, filled
with uncovered crowns. Balconies and
windows from the Luxembourg to the
i ail way station were thronged with silent
men and women. At the station the
troops pressed back the crowd and forced
a double line, between which the coffin
was carried to the train for St. Die.
There was no disorder during the serv
ices or on the way to the railway station,
although the police had expected and
prepared for a hostile political demon
stration.
TELEGEAPHIC GLEANINGS,
The News of the WorM Condense! Into
Pithy am! Pointed Paragraphs,
Interesting and Instructive to
Classes of Readers.
AH
Senator Morgan Has Recovered.
A cablegram was received at Washing
ton Monday, from Sesator Morgan, dated
at Southampton, in which he states that
he is well and will proceed to Paris at
one®.
Hack ay Improving.
A San Francisco dispatch of Wednes
day says: The condition of John W.
Mackay, who was shot by a madman two
weeks age, continues to improve.
Influenza has appesred in a virulent
form throughout southern Russia.
Peter Svancc, the Swedish and Nor
wegiaD consul at Chicago, died Tuesday.
Six bombs were thrown in Rome,
Italy, Tuesday. General alarm is felt.
No arrests have been made.
A London cable dispatch says: Wed
nesday, for the fiftietn time, the crews
of Oxford and Cambridge sat in their
shells on the Thames river and rowed
for dear life to win, and Oxford won her
twenty-seventh victory over Cambridge
The one hundred and seventy weavers
employed by the Johnson Manufacturing
Company, makers of fiue ginghams, at
Nortn Adams, Mass., struck Wednesday
for more pay, and in consequence the
entire mill, employing four hundred
hands, has been shut down.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American National Red Cross, has ac
ceptea the magnificent gift of between
700 and 800 acres of land on the borders
of the blue grass region in the state of
Indiana, tendered the association last
month by Dr. Joseph Gardner, of Bed
ford, Ind.
Owing to the alarming growth of spec
ulation from the funds of charitable in
stitutions of Arkansas, her house of rep
resentativfs,Wednesday, passed and sent
to the senate a bill placing in the hands of
a board of trustees, one from each con
gressional district control of all charita
ble institutions in the state.
Prairie fires are ranging for miles
around the city of Guthrie, Oklahoma,
and much damage is being done. A
considerable amount of property has
been destroyed and some stock injured.
Near the little town of Evansville, Tues
day night, several houses and barns were
swept away and many farms swept clean
of everything.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: The present indications are that
$2,000,000 gold will be exported by Sat
urday’s steamers. Two houses are ex
pected to ship $1,000,000 each. This
amount may be increased $500,000 by a
third house, which has had orders for
the past week, but shipment may be de
ferred until Thursday week.
The arrangement for the series of evan
gelical meetings to be conducted by Mr.
Moody in Chicago during the fair, were
completed Thursday. The evangelist
has surrounded himself with a staff of
able Christian workers from every part
of the country and Europe, and prepara
tions have been made to hold meetings
each night in every part of the city, be
ginning May 1st.
The National Plate Glass Company
was incorporated at Springfield, Ohio,
Thursday. The capital stock of the new
company is $8,000,000. The object, as
stated in the charter, is to manufacture
and deal in plate glass, etc. Dealers in
glass look upon the new corporation with
suspicion. Some think it is the begin
ning of the consolidation of the plate
glass interest of the country.
The striking miners of the MoDonga-
hela valley met at Monongahela City,Pa.,
Thursday, and resolved unanimously to
remain out until the operators conceded
to their demand for 3} cents per bushel.
Two families were evicted from the
company’s houses and three more
have been notified to vacate within ten
days. The strikers say that starvation
is the only thing that will break the
strike.
A Topeka, K«s., special of Tuesday
says: Viewing with alarm the successful
efforts being made by Governor Lewel-
lingand his adjutant general to organize
independent military companies, in ad
dition to the regular national guard,Mrs.
Lease has commenced to organize the
women of Kansas into a peace associa
tion. The object is not only to prevent
war, but to resolutely frown down any
attempt to form organizations whose ob
ject is bloodshed.
The Carcegie 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 plate weighing 200,000 tons can
easily be worked in one piece.
Another of the numerous sales of
Washington relics that have been held at
Philadelphia in the past few years was
begun Wednesday. An autograph letter
of Washington, written from Mount
Vernon on December 13, 1799, one day
before his death, and the last letter he
ever wrote, was sold to the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania for $850.
Washington’s secretary and book case
was sold for $2,000 and his card tables
for $260 apiece and his dining table for
$885.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Wednes
day says: Before the close of the week,
there will be no less than 1,642,000 Co
lumbian souvenir half dollars in the
special vault in which they are kept in
the United States mint in this city, and
probably Saturday the fire millionth or
Inst coin of the series will be struck and
placed aside with Colonel Bosbyshell’s
certificate to the last one coined. The
amount then on hand will be about 33
per cent of the total coined, and it is not
known how long the souvenirs will be
left in the mint.
A special cable dispatch of Thursday
from Berlin, Germany, says: The Prus
sian government having issued an order
prohibiting Russian and Austrian emi
grants from crossing the frontier into
Russian territory, and from buying tick
ets that would give Russian and Austrian
emigrants passage througb Prussian ter
ritory to German ports, the agents of the
Liverpool and Glasgow lines of trans-At
lantic steamships have opened offices
in Rotterdam, Holland, whence the
emigrants who reach there will be
shipped for America by way of Great
Britain.
A New York special says: Despite
the various denials, a strong impression
prevails among well-informed bankers in
Wall street that J. Pierepont Morgan, of
the banking house of Drexel, Morgan &
Co., who sailed for Europe Thursday on
the Majestic, has a commission from the
government to arrange the sale of bonds
abroad. If an issue becomes necessary
to replenish the treasury stock of gold
the bonds would be issued under the re
funding act, and would bear interest at
the rate of 4 per cent. The bonds would
probably command a premium of 12 or
13 per cent.
A cablegram from Moscow, Russia,
says: Mayor Alex jex was shot dead Tues
day afternoon in the city hall by a man
named Adrainoff. The city council had
met to elect a new mayor. 51. Alexjeff
had just called the meeting to order
when Adrainoff pushed his way past the
doorkeeper and entered the reception
room. He demanded loudly to see the
mayor, and M. Alexjeff left the chair to
ascertain his business. As Adrainoff be
gan to approach him with dishonesty and
oppression of the people, M. Alexjeff
ordered him to leave the building.
Adrainoff then drew a revolver and shot
the mayor in the stomach.
FIGHT WITH DESPERADOES.
A Sheriff Killed and a Deputy Wonnd-
ed—Judge Lynch Takes a Hand.
i A terrible tragedy occurred on the
Knoxville and Ohio passenger train Sat
urday morning before daylight at Hell’s
oint, a peculiarly significant name, one
le and a half east of Newcomb, in
ampbell county, in which Sheriff John
Barnett, of Campbell county, was killed;
Deputy Sheriff John Dale, probably fa
tally shot; Crusoe Smith mortally wound
ed, and Jesse Jones sustained several se
rious injuries.
Sheriff Burnett and Deputy Sheriff
Dale went to Jelico Friday from Jacks-
boro, to arrest a miner by the name of
Jesse Jones, on the charge of carrying
concealed weapons. Jones was promptly
arrested.
The arrest was made on the Tennessee
side of the line dividing Kentucky ahd
Tennessee, not far from Jellico. Soon
afterwards a number of miners, friends
of Jones, came to the rescue of Joues and
succeeded in taking him away from
the officers. They then hastened to the
Kentucky line and bade defiance to the
Tennessee officers who deemed it prudent
not to cross the line.
The rescue and fight took place on the
train, which was at the time running at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. When the
sheriff was killed, Deputy Sheriff Dale,
who had opened fire upon the murderous
assailants of himself and his superior of
ficer, was overpowered and rushed to the
rear platform of the smoker and was
thrown off.(his assailants leaping after
him. The train was stopped by this time,
and was run back to the point where the
shooting had commenced. Dale was
found wandering about the woods near
the track in a dazed and partially de
mented condition. His senses gradually
returned, however, and it was found that
he had been shot in the temple, receiving
a very dangerous wound.
Crusoe Smith and Jesse Jones were
found near where the deputy was come
upon. They were lying by the side of
the railroad apparently dead, but they
soon returned to consciousness. Jones,
the prisoner, was found to have a broken
arm, sustaining injuries about the head
also. Crusoe Smith has in a critical
condition. He was shot in the breast and
stomach and his right arm was broken.
Dale sufficiently recovered from the shock
which he had sustained to take charge
of Crusoe Smith and Jesse Jones. Two
other men who took part in the shooting
made their escape.
When the train reached Careyviile, the
nearest railroad point to Jacksboro, the
deputy sheriff got off with his two priso
ners to take them to the Jacksboro jail.
The body of the sheriff was also taken
off at Careyvilie.
JONES LYNCHED.
A special from Jellico, Tenn., says:
Judge Lynch held a meeting Saturday
at midnight at Jacksboro, Tenn., and at
daylight the form of Jesse Jones was
found hanging to an old fashioned gate
beam a quarter of a mile east of the town
limits. It was the penalty for shooting
down Sheriff John Burnett on the south
bound Louisville and Nashville train
Saturday morning while he was attempt-
to execute the law and aid the con
ductor in protecting the passengers from
a gang of desperadoes, of which Jones
was one.
MORE PANAMA CONVICTIONS.
THROUGHOUT THE SODTH
Notes ot Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomize!
And Important Happenings from Day
to Day Tersely Told.
Charles DeLesseps, Bailm ut and BJon-
diu Found Guilty.
A special cable dispatch of Tuesday
from Paris states that Charles DeLesseps,
accused of corrupting ex-Ministerof Pub
lic Works Baihaut to support the Panama
lottery bonds bill, has been found guilty
by the jury. Baihaut, who confessed his
guilt in open court, and Blondin, who
acted as go-between in the bribery of
Baihaut, was found guilty. All the other
prisoners were acquitted.
The court, after deliberation, sentenced
M. Baihut to imprisonment for five years,
to pay a fine of 750,000 francs and to the
loss of civil rights. M. Blondin was
sentenced tc imprisonment for two years
and Charles de Lesseps to imprisonment
for one year, the one year to run concur
rently with the five years’ sentence
already imposed on him. All three of
the convicted prisoners were condemned
by the civil parties to the proceedings.
The sentences of Charles de Ltsseps and
Blondin were comparatively light on the
round of extenuating circumstances.
The court also oidered M. de Lesseps,
51. Blondin and M. Baihaut to pay to 51.
Monchicourt, liquida'or of the Panama
Cana! Company, 375,000 francs, the
amount taken from tlie treasury of the
company and paid to M. Baihaut for his
influence in favor of the lottery loan bill.
FLOUR DUST EXPLOSION.
Burning Mill Blown to Atoms,
Wreaking Death and Destruction.
At 3:30 o’clock Tuesday morning fire
was discovered in the big Keeler flour
ing mill, at Litchfield, 111., and despite
the efforts of the employes, it quickly
spread throughout the building. In less
than 20 minutes the flames were beyond
control. While the firemen were fight
ing the flames there was a terrific explo
sion, caused by flour dust, and the im
mense structure was blown to fragments
John Cowle, head millwright, was in
stantlv killed. Several employes were
seriously injured. The explosion
wrecked nearly every business house in
the village. Many persons were badly
hurt by flying bricks and falling timbers.
Tae damage to the mill alone will reach
one million dollars, and other property is
damaged over $150,000. The shock was
feit in the adjoining villages of Clyde,
Butler, Gillespie and Hillsboro.
JUDGE DUBOSE TO BE TRIED.
The Committee Recommends That Im
peachment Proceedings be Begun.
In the Tennessee house of representa
tives, Monday, the special committee of
five appointed to investigate the charges
against Judge Julius J. DuBose, of
Shelby county, submitted its report
which was to the effect that it was the
committee’s opinion that the charges
were sufficient for impeachment proceed
ings to be instituted. The committee
recommended that another committee be
appointed to have the charges sworn to.
Two motions were made, one to appoint
the committee suggested and the other
that the house go into a committee of the
whole to take sworn statements in sup
port of the charges. ,
The murder case of M. B. Curtis
(“Sam’l of Posen”) will be taken up for
ils third trial in San Francisco in a few
days.
R. B. MacDonald’s distillery, mill,
coopershop, dwelling house and office at
Falmouth, Kv., burned Tuesday night.
Loss $40,000; no insurance. He will rc
build at once.
The Pittsburg coal king and turfman,
Captain S.. S. Brown, has determined to
establish a breeding farm for trottin L
stock in Kentucky. His farm will be
located near LaGrange.
The majority of the church pastors of
Raleigh, N. C., decided by reasoH of the
fact that Moody, the evangelist, was
not an ordained authorized evangelist, it
wa9 best not to invite him to that city to
conduct a meeting. The action has rais
ed a great stir.
The North Alabama Furnace, the
plant of the Spathite Iron Company, at
Florence, went into blast Tuesday even
ing. The furnace will make spathite
iron from ore found near Iron City,
Tenn. It is a new and valuable kind of
ore, hitherto unknown in the south.
Truck farmers of South Carolina met
at Charleston Wednesday and took steps
for applying to the interstate railroad
commission for a reduction in rates on
fruit and vegetables to northern points.
They have called on northern dealers to
assist them in making their application.
Captain Harry Jackson, of Atlanta,
has been employed as special counsel by
the attorney general of the United States
to prosecute the Gate City bank case or
cases if more than one grows out of the
investigation. He was already connected
with the case as bank council, but now
both are merged.
The nomination by the president of
Hon. S. S. Sims, of Columbus Miss., as
assistant secretary of the interior, created
much favorable comment at Jackson, it
being generally remarked that Governor
Sims will adorn the position, should he
accept the same, as he has the ability to
serve in any station.
The railway commission of North Car
olina heard an important ca3e at Raleigh,
Thursday. It was the case of Ormond
aaainst the Richmond and Danville rail
way, the complaint being that the rail
way refused to refund the unused portions
of two tickets from Winston to Goldsbo
ro. The commission ordered the railway
to refund.
Dr. P. W. Peoples, chairman of the
Central Davis Monument Association,
has issued a call for the directors to
meet in the office of the secretary of
state, at Jackson, 51iss., on Friday,
March 31st, at 10 o’clock a. m., to con
sider what- disposition shall be made of
the funds in the treasury of the associa
tion subscribed for the erection of a mon
ument to Jefferson Davis.
Official announcement having been
made by the Mississippi stab: land com
missioner that the state 1 mds would be
put on the market April 21, as prescrib
ed by law, and it appearing that April
2d, falls on Sunday, the land commis
sioner announces that no applications
will be received or filed for lands, and
no lands put on sale until 9 o’clock Mon
day morning, April 3. 1893.
The town of Purvis, Alisa., on theNew
Orleans and Northeastern railroad,fifteen
miles east of Meridian, was destroyed by
incendiaries Wednesday night. Shortly
after midnight the torch was applied to
five buildings in different portions of the
town, and within two hours’ time almost
every store and residence in the place
was wiped out. The people ran panic-
stricken into the streets and the greatest
excitement prevailed.
The North Carolina railway commis
sion is placed in a very awkward posi
tion by the supreme court’s decision m
the case of 5Iayo against the Western
Union Telegraph Company. The court
decides that the commisson has authori
ty to enforce penalties it may require
for failure to deliver telegrams within a
reasonable time. Tuesday the case of
Yopp against the Western Union for this
reason was dismissed for want of juris-
tion.
Bills were passed Thursday in the
North Carolina legislature,providing that
the speaker of the senate and the speaker
of the house shall be in the line of suc
cession to the gubernatorial chair in case
of the death of the governor. In the
senate bills were passed ceding jurisdic
tion over certain lands to the United
States for the use of Chicksmauga Na
tional park,and creating the office of pri
vate secretary to the governor at a salary
of $1,200 per annum.
The Southern Land and Lumber com
pany of Dry Run, Ark., one of the
largest saw mill plants in Arkansas, was
put into the hands of a receiver Thurs
day by Judge Williams, of the United
States circuit court, on the application
of N. C. Foster, president of the com
pany, of Chicago. George K. Smith,
secretary and manager, was appointed
receiver. The company’s assets are
$200,000. It is believed they will pay
dollar for dollar.
Well authenticated reports say the
town of Tupelo, 5Iis»., was destroyed
by a severe storm Thursday. The little
town of Kelly, fifteen miles from 3Iem-
phis, Tenn., on the 5Iemphis and Bir
mingham railway, was wiped out during
the same storm. No lives lost. Partic
ulars not obtainable at present. A dis
patch from Cleveland, Miss., states that
a cloudburst and storm destroyed con
siderable property in that vicinit y Thurs
day.
The Louisiana state immigration con
vention was organized at New Orleans,
Tuesday. It was attended by represen
tatives from the leading parishes of the
state and the city of New Orleans, and
met in response to a call by Governor
Foster. The Governor delivered an able
address on the immigration nbjec% urg
ing the convention to adopt piaDS for the
establishment of permanent associations
throughout the state for the dissemina
tion of information touching the te-
sources of the state, and designed to at
tract immigrants from ail sections.
The cotton firm of Dobbins & Dazey,
of Nashville, Teen., with branch houses
in Memphis, New Orleans, Little Rock,
Montgomery, Mobile and other cities made
a special assignment Thursday afternoon
to secure special liahililies. The special
debts covered amount to over $300,000,
and the assets are scattered over mmy
states. The bulk of the indebtedness
sought to be secured by the assignment
is held in New York and Hartford,
Conn. The failure has created a sensa
tion. How much the firm owes over and
above the amounts set forth in this as
signment is not obtainable.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of Thurs
day says: Inquiries carefully made of
many farmers show that a reduction of
18 to 20 per cent in the tobacco acreage
may be expected for the approaching
season. Inquiries also show that there
will be a considerable increase in the
cotton acreage, estimates ranging from
10 to 20 per cent as compared with last
season. The agricultural commissioner
states that an increase is certain despite
attempts of his department and of many
merchants to stop it. The sales of fer
tilizers ate unusually heavy, and that is
good proof of a large crop. The farm
ers in most cases will not listen to argu
ments for a reduced acreage.
TRADE NOTES.
Bradstreet’s and Dun’s Review of
Business for Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: The distribution of goods
continues very large for the season in
spite of the extraordinary weather, some
failures and a tight money market.
Storms and severe cold have retarded
trading and collecting throughout a
large part of the country, and doubtless
caused much of tne monetary pressure,
though a larger part is due to the great
excess of imports over exports.
Money is not, as usual, tight, only as
on call or for speculation, but there has
been greater difficulty here than for many
years past in effecting commercial loans.
In spite of all these things, confidence
is unabated and business is remarkably
large with some signs of improvement.
Exports of breadstuffs, cotton, provis
ions, cattle and oil in Febiuary were but
$40,982,231, against $66,304,712 last
year, which, with the increase of nearly
$8,000,000 in imports at New York, in
dicates a probable excess in that month
of about $15 ,000,000, against an excesss
of exports in the same months last year
of $21,000,000. Exports in 5Iareh also
have been small, at New York $4,540,-
000 less than a weeks than last
year. Speculation in product has
been naturally depressed, cotton being
at one time 1-4 and now 3-16 lower than
a weak ago, with sales of over 2,200,000.
Wheat is 2 1-2 cents lower, with sales of
26,000,000 bushels, the government esti
mate of 185,000,000 bushels in the farm
er’s hands, besides 79,000.000 bushels in
visible supply, making it clear that a
great surplus would havo to be carried
over next July. Receipts at the west
continue heavy, 1,700,000 bushels in four
day9 this week, against less]than 400,000
exported.
Corn is nearly a cent lower and pork
products have declined a little. Yet the
enormous strength of speculative combi
nations to uphold prices still prevents
free movement of products abroad,
Chicago reports great demand for cur
rency in farming regions, active trade
in merchandise, with satisfactory orders,
but at St. Louis trade Is very heavy, es
pecially with the southwest, while lead
is very strong, but flour mills
are running half time. Cattle re
ceipts at Kansas City are lib
eral, the tone at Omaha is sanguine and
collections are improved at St. Joseph.
No improvement is seen at St. Paul, but
trade ut Denver and Little Rock is fair;
at Atlanta and ilontgomery fair. At
Columbus collections are slow and money
very tight, but at Mobile business i$
good. At New Orleans sugar is dull and
rice not improved, with money firm but
in ample supply. The iron industry
shows improvement. Prices are steady,
though extremely low, with less pressure
to realize, and little more demand is seen
for bar and plate iron and steel, while
structural works are well employed,
though not at better priors. Copper is
steady, lead firm, at $3.90, but tin is a
quarter lower. The shoe business is large.
Cattle receipts at the west are smaller
and bad weather or strikes, or fear of
strikes, effect all railway movements to
some extent.
The business failures occurring
throughout the country during last seven
days number 220, as compared with 225
last week. For the corresponding week
last year the figures were 240.
WHAT BRADSTllEKT SAYS.
Bradstreet’s report says: The general
trend of prices is downward. Cotton
has been down 3-8 on the prolongation
of the English strike and the liquidation
of holders who felt the squeeze in money,
but later in the week it recovered 1-4
cents due to purchases on speculative ac
count. Wheat shows a small gain and
corn is no worse off. Foreign trade in
the United States for the seventh month
ended Jan. 81st was 5 per cent less in
value than in a like portion of 1891-’92,
owing to a decrease in the value of ex
ports amounting to nearly 20 per cent,
while importations, both free and dutia
ble, increased only 15 per cent. The fal
ling off in values of domestic exports is
more than accounted for by the decreases
in values of breadstuffs, cotton and other
agricultural produce sent abroad.
In interviews with Bradstreets leading
financiers admit that the commercial dis
counts are still greatly restricted, but
claim that while money is tight the abil
ity of commercial interests to resist the
pressure and postpone borrowing is as
remarkable as it is unquestioned.
The interruption to trade west and
northwest, due to unfaborable weather,
high water and railroad block ides, con
tinues. The exceptions are Chicago and
St. Louis, where leading staple lines are
in excellent condition and the volume
of transactions during February is
larger than the total for that month in
1892.
The surprising strength of the price of
wheat in the face of the most bearish
statistical position ever reported at a like
season of the year is a tribute to the
ability of the bull clique at Chicago,
aided by the enormous short interest
there. The stocks of wheat available
here and abroad leave no doubt that the
world’s reserves on July 1st next will be
heavy. The United States is evidently
able to export 6,000,000 bushels of wheat
each week, flour Included, for the re
mainder of the crop year, if required,
whereas thb weekly exports are hardly
more than 8,000. This week the total
sent abroad, from both coasts, is 2,086,-
000 bushels, compared with 2,984,000
bushels last week and with 3,818,000
bushels in the same week a year ago and
2,733,000 bushels two years ago. The
general trade is dull in the province of
Quebec. The wholesale trade through
out the province of Ontario is fairly sat
isfactory and prices generally firm except
for grain, which is dull. The spring
trade in Nova Scotia will be later this
year than last, as the interior is still cov
ered with ice and Bnow.
A REMARKABLE IHDDSTRY.
Ssscial Report oa Ptepiiale Mum ii
Prepared by Commissioner Tucker* au Ex
perl—Million* Invested in Land
Plants, aud .Millions More Expended for
Labor—Millions of Tons Yet in Sight.
Hr. Blount Satis tor Hawaii.
Ex-Congressman Blount, commissioner
to Hawaii, arrived at San Francisco
Monday morning and shortly after 16
o’clock sailed for Honolulu on the Uni
ted Stat as cutter Rush. It is expected
that ha will make the trip in about eight
Washington, 5Iarch 20.—Commission
er of Labor Carroll D. Wright ha
compliance with a resolution of the Sen
ate, just forwarded to that body a report
on the phosphate industry. The chief
materials for this report have been col-
b cted by Capt. James F. Tucker, one of
the department’s special agents, and a
gentleman thoroughly familiar with the
industry. The report gives, in the intro
duction, a brief resume of the character
of phosphate as used for fertilizing, and
then, in chapters 1 and 3, a very full ac
count of the industry as it has grown
and now exists in Florida and South
Carolina. The industry is located in the
Statig of North and South Carolina,
Florida and Georgia. But little is done,
however, in the first and the last named
States. The Commissioner’s report cov
ers 137 phosphate mining establishments,
106 being in Florida, 30 In South Caro
lina and 1 in North Carolina.
Phosphates were discovered in South
Carolina in 1867-’8, and the importance
of discovery was promptly recognized
and appreciated, both by scientific and
by business men. In 1868 the South
Carolina mines produced 12,262 tons,
while in 1891 they produced 572,949
tons.
The Florida phosphate deposits were
discovi red in 1878, snd their last annual
output was 582,027 tons. The last an
nual output of South Carolina mines was
698,979 tons, and of the North Carolina
mines reported 8,700 tons, or a total for
the whole industry of 1,231,703 tons.
This quantity was valued at the mines at
$7,153,201.
Operators in all the four states men
tioned control 265,638 acres of land and
170} miles of river. Of the land, 193,-
848 acres are in Florida. The total value
of the capital invested in plants in the
industry is $4,705,582, and in land,
$14,366,067. The average number of
hands employed in the industry is 9,165,
and of this number 5,242 are employed
in South Carolina mines. The total ex
penditure for labor for the last year was
$2,473,265.
The average earnings in the Florida
land mines was $211 for each person em
ployed, and in the river mines $355, a
higher grade of skill being required in
the river mines than in the land mines.
In South Carolina the average earn
ings in the land mines was $287 per an
num, and in the river mines $278.
The report gives all the available facts
relating to the cost of production and
opportunities for labor, as well as the
general statistics, these being given in
detail and by summaries. Relative to
the opportunities for labor, it is found
that wages are very fair, so far as rates
are concerned, the annual earnings, of
course, depending upon the number of
days the mines are operated in each lo
cality.
The average pay of blacksmiths in
Florida is $1.85; blasters, $1.25; dredge-
men, $1.25; engineers,$1.98; carpenters,
$1.99; captains of dredges, $3.93; ma
chinists, $2.45; firemen, $1.33 and fore
men, $1.93.
In South Carolina chief engineers and
mechanics receive $4.16 per day on the
average; engineers, $2.27; foremen, $2.28;
machin’sts, $2.54; blacksmiths, $1.45,
and cirpenters, $1.63. AU of these
wages, for both Florida and South Caro
lina, are for land mines.
In river mining the averages are usual
ly higher in some respects, carpenters
receiving $2.33 per day;engineers,$2.26,
and machinists, $3.48 in Florida. In
South Carolina, engineers receive $3.24;
foremen, $3.88; machinists, $2.81, et«.
In addition to the wag@3 paid in the
mines, a large body of longshoremen
have been brought into employment
through the phosphate industry, the
amount of wages paid to this class of
men being, for 1892, $121,695; while the
wages paid for manipulating and con
verting phosphate into super-phosphate
are estimated at $1,587,600, or a total
wage roll added to the industry of the
States named, through the discovery of
phosphate, of $4,182,910, the payment
of this large sum being due entirely to
the new indus'rv of phosphate mining,
and it is of course a constant yearly ad -
dition to the economic force of States in
which the industry is carried on. In ad
dition to this, labor is benefited through
the wage cost of transportation,drayage,
warehousing and other handling, which
in the aggregate amounts to a very con
siderable sum.
The future opportunities for labor in
this industry are best illustrated by con
sidering the quantities of phosphate in
sight. The Di-pactment of Labor has
Taken greatest pains to ascertain the
uture opportunities for labor by collect
ing information on this particular point.
Dr. Wyatt, in “Posphates of America,”
gives the lowest estimate for South Caro
lina, in round numbers, as 15,000,000
tons in sight. This amount, at the pres
ent rate of production, would keep the
industry in full activity for twenty-eight
years from 1891.
Captain Tucker of the Department of
Labor has made very careful estimates
relative to Florida, North Carolina and
Georgia, and other States, and he con
cludes that in the State of Florida the
amount in sight is 133.095,835 tons; for
the other States, 1,000,000. These vari
ous estimates show a total of 149,055,-
835 tons of phosphate in sight, and this
statement shows better than any other
the future opportunities for employment
of labor in this industry.
No discoveries of any considerable
quantities of phosphate have been made
(luring the past two years. Of course,
as the commissioner remarks, it is im
possible to say what developments will
take place in the future in the way of
discoveries. Opportunities for labor,
therefore, have been considered solely
with reference to existing conditions.
The estimates are conservative, and prob
ably below rather than above the real facts
The endeavor has been to avoid all ex-
aggerations, which come from specula
tive estimates, and to secure only those
judgments which are based upon abso
lute knowledge and in many cases, upon
actual measurements.
TREMONT TEMPLE IN RUINS.
Horrible Fate of Siberian Exiles.
Advices of Monday from St. Peters
burg, Russia, give the details of a sad
iocs of life among a band of convicts
bound for the prisons of Siberia. The
baud numbered three hundred and
seventy-four persons, including a large
number sentenced to exile for political
crimes. In accordance with the custom,
the convicts were marching to their va
rious destinations. Two hundred and
Derished. including seven
One of Boston’s Old Landmark’s De«
stroyed by Fire.
Fire broke out about 7 o’clock Sunday
morning in Tremont temple ob Tremont
street, Boston, Mass., and before noon
the entire structure was gutted. The
loss is variously estimated at from $325,-
000 to $375,000, while the Parker house,
opposite, is believed to have been dam
aged by water to tho extent of $5,000.
Besides the Union Temple church, there
were a number of offices in the building,
including the American Baptist Mission
ary Mission, Home Mission Society, the
business and editorial departments of the
Watchman and the Baptist Social Union,
office of Woman’s Voice, loyal women of
America.
Tremont temple, which was originally
a theater, has been one of the most con
spicuous buildings of Boston in the gen
eration. Since 1863 it has been cele
brated all over the country as the largest
Baptist church iu New England, if not
in America, and the headquarters of that
denomination. The purpose of taking it
for religious purposes was stated in the
original appeal for purchase money '
found a church in Boston where ail pe:
sous, whether rich or poor, without difi
tinction of color or condition, might
worship. On December 7th, after re
modeling, the house was dedicated, but
on the night of March 31, 1853, the tem
ple was burned. The loss was $178,365;
insurance $45,244.
A new building on the old site was
completed, however, in December, 1853,
at a cost of $166,000. On August 14,
1879, the building was destroyed again
by fire but was promptly rebuilt and re
opened on October 17, 1880, at a cost of
more than $230,000.
The auditorium was one of the largest
in the country, beiDg 122 feet in length,
seventy-two in width and sixty-six in
heighth.
A NEW PARTY.
To be Organized by Ministers, Prohi
bitionists and Women.
A conference of ministers and prohi
bitionists interested in the formation of
a new national political organization was
begun in LaFavette hall, PitLburg, Pa.,
the birthplace of the republican party,
Thursday morning. When the confer
ence was called to order there was just
twenty-three men and ten women pres
ent and a majority of these were from
the immediate vicinity. After welcom
ing the delegates, the chairman read the
platform of the propos'd party and a
call for the meeting signed by two thous
and persons. The 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
trial reforms as are nteded in this coun
try.
A committee on permanent organiza
tion was appointed. The question of
naming the new party occupied most of
the time of the convention. It was de
cided to let the matter go over to some
future time. Among the names suggested
were “national reform party” “national
prohibition party,” “abolition party”
and “national party.” A committee was
appointed to arrange for a state confer
ence to take place June 6th, after which
the conference adjourned.
REORGANIZATION TALK.
Drexel, Morgan & Co., Will Take
Charge of the Richmond Terminal.
The New York Herald in its issue of
Tuesday says: The ieorganiz:ng of the big
Richmond Terminal system of more than
eight thousand milts of railway by
Drexel, Morgan & Co., may now be said
to be assured. The plan is about ready
and may be announced any day. One
of the first steps toward restoring order
out of chaos will be the appointment of
a receiver for the Richmond and Dan
ville railroad, who will represent Drexel,
Morgan & Co., and be entirely independ
ent of either faction in the company.
Samuel Spencer, who is connected with
the banking firm, will be selected for
the position.
It is understood that Receiver Reuben
Foster will be the one to retire. Receiv
er Huidekoper will remain, but will act
in harmony with the proposed scheme of
reorganization. Drexel, Morgan & Co.
thus have complete access to the books
and all Deces3ary legal steps can be taken
without interruption. There had been
extensive preparations for the reorgani
zation before the banking firm found
their way clear to take charge. All of
the prominent gentlemen who have been
associated with the management in re
cent times have willingly submitted to
questioning and agreed to assist any
scheme that may b': suggested.
AN EXTRA SESSION CERTAIN.
Congress Will be Called Together
About the First of September.
President Cleveland has decided to
call an extra session of congress about
the 1st of September. It may be a lit
tle earlier. He will do it for the pur
pose of giving more time for the prep
aration of a tariff bill in order that
it may be passed in time to go into effect
on the 1st of July, 1894. He discussed
the matter with Mr. Springer and several
other callers Tuesday and notified them
that he had decided upon this program.
He would not call it later than the 1st of
September, though it may be a little
earlier. The principal object Mr. Cleve
land has in view is the repeal of the Mc
Kinley law and the substitution of a
democratic tariff measure in accordance
with the Chicago platform. He also ex
pects congress soon after its meeting to
repeal the Sherman silver law and enact
some substitute legislation.
SNOW IN THE NORTHWEST.
The Fall so Great as to Interfere with
Railway Traffic at Many Points.
Dispatches from fifty points in western
and southern Minnesota and south Da
kota indicate that a great storm is rag
ing. At Faribault, and neighboring
points, eight inches of snow fell, and
this was followed by a heavy fall of
hail and thunder and lightning. West
of Aberdeen, S. D., the fall of snow was
so great as to delay trains at St. Paul.
The storm is followed in the far west
by winds and a big thaw and possible
floods are expected to follow.
MACKAY GROWS WORSE.
The Wound Inflicted Upon Him Some
Time Ago May Prove Fatal.
Millionaire John W. Mackay, who was
shot a few weeks ago, has had a change
for the worse, and is said to be in a dan
gerous condition. Peritonitis has set in,
and an operation will be necessary, and
this, in Mackav’s weakened condition,
will be dangerous. He knows his con
dition and has cabled his wife’s son, who
is in Liverpool, to come over at once.