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THE IENNA PROGRESS. 0 TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They Wlay.” JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor, YOL. XII. NO. 5 lirOTTT^TI TTIkT* TlVTTrTlTfn e ir nr TY n ty VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ONE OF THE MOST COMPLETE TO BE SEEN' AT THE FAIR. 3^ Specimens of Fre»Ii and Salt Mater F'ish—Hare Marine Pro ducts—Anglers’ Appliances of Every Kind. I HE exhibit of the United States Fish Commission at the Fair is displayed chiefly in the Gov ernment Building, in which it occu pies about 15,000 square feet of floor surface in the north end of the building. It is located be tween the exhibits of the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture. In addition to this space the commission maintains a live fish exhibit in the aquarium annex of the Fisheries Build ing, the annex being circular and hav ing a diameter of 125 feet. The total ell, with the co-operation of the com missioner. In the scientific inquiry section are to be found illustrations ol mter capacity of the tanks is 140,000 GALE FISH. gallons, of which 40,000 are devoted to the exhibit of marine animals and plants. The surface of the glass iu the front of the aquaria aggregates tbout 3000 square feet. Iu the center of the uquarium building is a large pool containing a mass of rocks, over which water is conveyed, and which ire ornamented by aquatic plants. The iquaria are in two series, with a wide passage way between. The pool is twenty-six feet in diameter, and, ilthough not deep is large enough to maintain a great number of fishes, in- the marine library and fish culture station at Wood’s Holl, models audit lustrations of the vessels of the com' mission, specimens of the seines, trolls nets, dredges and other collecting ap paratns, together with wire rope used in dredging operations and the other accessories for scraping the ocean hot tom. The apparatus used in sorting and preserving collections is also shown. There is a model of the sound iug machine used in deep sea work and there are examples of the varions tlier mometers used in physical observa tions. The results of scientific ex plorations of the commission appear in the form of charts and models of the areas over which the vessels have made their investigations. Iu the cases preserved iu alcohol or in a dry state are many curious animals, both from the deep sea and from the sur face—the cranoids, corals, crabs, pen, starfish, sea robins, the various invertebrate animals that form the food of fishes and foramini fera, sponges, gores and mollusks. In this latter class extensive series of oysters are exhibited, which show the rate of growth on different kinds of bottoms, the method of attachment of the spat, the injuries brought about by star fish, grills and other enemies of the oyster. AYhen it is considered that collections have been made depths greater than three miles, it will be evident that the apparatus success fully used in such operations is of great public interest. This division is rounded out by a collection of about 150 flexible casts of fishes pointed from the fresh or living specimens and re produced with exceeding faithfulness and skill. The apparatus used in the fisheries is well illustrated by means of models and full sized specimens of vessels, boats and canoes, together with many A GKOUP OF SEA LIONS. luding several sturgeon and other srge fish nearly five feet in length. ?he number of kinds of animals kept live in the aquarium is not far from 150. These have been gathered from rarious parts of the Mississippi valley, he great lakes, the Atlantic Ocean, and ,’ecently a successful shipment was ironght from the Pacific iu salt water. The 40,000 gallons of salt water were ♦fought from the Atlantic in tank cars it one time, and each car of the com- nission bringing a load of fish in- ireases the supply by about 2000 gal- ons. The experiment has proved so luceessful that the sea animals, tube rorms, star fish, king crabs and many ither fishes have reproduced since heir arrival in Chicago. In the fresh-water section may be iound all the well-known kinds of Tout, the pike trout, rainbow, lake, ochleven, black spotted, the grayling, rliite fish, black bass, pike, pike perch, laddie fish, tench, buffalo, fresh-water Irum and a host of other fishes known o the augler and fishermen. The narine tanks contains sheepshead, sea obins, tantog, sea bass, croker, spot, icup, swell fish, bur fish, file fish, ikate, shark, remora, sailor's choice, mnuer, mummyehogs, several kiuds )f sea turtles, ciabs, anemones, whelps, itar fish, lobsters and pompano, bo lide some viviparous perch and other ish from California. It is certain that ully two-thirds of all the people who inter the grounds visit the aquarium, ind it is usually a matter of great diffi culty to pass through the crowd of risitors in that building. The collection in the Government Building was intended to show the of the fittings and instruments asso ciated, with them, the pounds, seines, weirs pot seines, easting nets, dip nets, trolls and dredges used for tak ing fish, oysters, clams and other ob jects. The lines used by commercial fish ermen are to be found in great variety, from the sinew and grass lines of the Indians and Esquimaux to the best quality of silk lines for the capture of salmon trout, bass and other game fish. They are supplemented by large exhibits of rods, reels, hooks, etc., many of which have been lent to the commission by prominent manufac turers. The collection of artificial CAST OF A 120-POUND TARPON’. flies made by Chas. F. Orvis, of Man chester, Vt., numbers nearly 1000 specimens, and is associated with pho tographs of fishing waters and angling scenes arranged by Mrs. Mary Orvis Marbury. Two striking features of this exhibit are the boats fully equipped for the pelagic capture of the fur seal and for the whale fisheries. For this portion of the exhibit also Mr. Henry W. Elliott lent the commission his ex tensive series of water color pictures of seal life and AJaskan scenery, and from Dr. G. Brown Goode was ob tained a fine series of pictures of game fish, accompanying his workpnblished by the Scribners in 1830. One principal object in this portion of the exhibit has been to show the va riations in fishing apparatus from the crudest forms in use among primitive people to the most recent devices of scientific anglers. The subject is like wise further illustrated by means of enlarged photographs and cartoons as well as statistical charts. The exhibit of the United States Fish j Commission was the first department ready for the inspection of the public, and is certainly proving - to be one of the most popular.—Washington Star. CONGRESS IN SESSION. Tiie Daily Routine of Both Houses Briefly Epitomized. man of whom would pledde “his life, fortune and his sacred honor” to abide by the decision. AT TIE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Sixteenth Day.-The house joint jJ GOTEHlieilt M ROlltillB the House and Senate Discussed. What is Being Done to Allay Finan cial Depression and Bring Relief. calendar. A question of precedence I between Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, and I Mr. Peffer, of Kansas, as to which houKTEENTH Dat. In the senate ^v a s entitled to the floor, was Tuesday morning Mr. Allen offered an decided in favor of Mr Stewart, amendment to Mr. Voorhees’ repeal who then offered to yield his right- bill in the form of a provision for the jf Mr. Peffer desired “particularly to coinage of silver at the present ratio ; address the senate. Mr. Peffer de clined the offer, but said that he would he very much pleased if he could proceed now. [Laughter. ] The vice-president, however, took Mr. Stewart at his word and recognized Mr. Peffer. Mr. Peffer thereupon -proceeded to address the senate on the silver question. He requested that he should have resolution as to town sites in the Cher okee outlet was reported in the senate Thursday morning and an attempt was made to have it passed but objection was made and it was placed on the Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo- DULL BUSINESS. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. ; growth of the south. Dun £ Co.’s Repoit of Trade for the Past Week. K. G. Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of trade says: There is a rift in the clouds. Faint and indefinite signs of improvement are all the better because they come, not from p^j^dy delusive Condensed iroin Our Most Important Telegraphic Aflyices pie and Their General Welfare. hopes or from_. but : aid, And Presented in Pointed and Reada ble Paragraphs. of 16 to 1, under the same conditions enforced as to the coinage of gold, and directing the coinage of the silver bul lion now in the treasury. It was re ferred to the finance committee, as was also the bill introduced by Mr. Peffer for the reduction of the salaries of all of the government employes from §1,000 and upwards by 15 and 20" per cent. Mr. Yoorhees, chairman of the finance committee, then addressed the senate in advocacy of the bill reported by him last Friday, discontinuing the purchase of silver bullion. Yoorhees’ speech was listened to with the great est attention. Such a scene as was being witnessed in the sen ate chamber is rare. It is like ly to become historic. There was not an inch of space left in the galleries. Rows of people three deep lined the aisles and they were fringed against the wall in a black mass. On the floor every seat was occupied. The sofas were crowded with the leaders in the house on both sides of the financial question. Fifteenth Day.—Among the bills introduced in the senate Wednesday was one by Mr. Pasco, as a substitute for the minority bill of the finance committee (proposing silver coinage at 20 to 1). The substitute proposes a commission of three citizens of the United States to ascertain and report before January, 1894, the intrinsic re lative value of gold and silver, and that on that report the secretary of the treasury shall fix and determine the ra tio. The resolution offered Tuesday by Peffer, inquiring of the secretary of the treasury as to the conduct of national banks in refusing to pay promptly in currency in checks of depositors, was then taken up, and a motion to refer it to the finance committee made by Mr. Hoar. Mr. Voorhees favored a reference of the resolution, and said that it would not be buried in the com mittee. Messrs. Manderson, Kyle and Hill opposed it, and insisted on the adoption of the resolution. Mr. Goiman spoke against its adoption. The discussion was cut off by the ex piration of the morning hour and the resolution went over without action. Mr. Hoar made an argument against Mr. Butler’s amendment to the na tional bank circulation act—repealing the 10 per cent tax on state bank circulation. At the close of Hoar’s remarks the • national bank circulation bill was laid aside without action and the report of the committee on privileges and elec tions in favor of seating Lee Mantle as senator from Montana was taken up but, without action on it, the sen ate, at 5:45 o’clock, adjourned until Thursday leaving the Lee Mantle case still open. Sixteenth Day.—The five-minute debate in the house on the Wilson bill began Thursday morning with a speech by Mr. Waugh, of Indiana, who spoke for repeal as to the interest of bi-met allism. Mr. Somers, of Wisconsin, favored bi-metallism, but would not ote for unconditional repeal. Mr. Johnson, of North Dakota, spoke for silver. Mr. Pickier, of South Dakota, asked unanimous consent to change the voting order so as to take a vote Monday on the amendment confining free coinage to the American pro duct. This was objected to by Wilson, in charge of the admin istration bill. Mr. Pickier then tried to arrange for a vote on the American product free coinage propo sition after the Wilson bill had been passed, but again objection was made. He then proceeded to criticise Presi dent Cleveland as being under English influence. Lucas, of South Dakota, and Mr. Hartman, of Montana, spoke for free coinage. Mr. Barthold, of Mis souri, declared for repeal and the ex tension of bank circulation. Mr. Henk, of Ohio, spoke for uncondi tional repeal. Mr. Heard, of Missou- was against the Wilson bill, hold- that the people were entitled something more. Mr. Dingley, of Maine, advocated the repeal of the purchasing clause. He had voted for the Sherman bill only because it contained restrictions that would postpone the evil day. Surgeon General Wyman, of the marine hospital service, received i cablegram Wednesday from the hij rean officer at Antwerp, Belgiuij stating that the new cholera there average two daily. Dr. Wyman, of the marine hospij service, has been notified that cholij is present in St. Petersburg in ej demic form. There is no immigratl from St. Petersburg. The Russ authorities do not allow emigrant:] , pass out by that way. , • , , * " nd a “ en A h ' 0 Six hundred and thirtv-six thousj hearing (such as he hud given to other , onnce of silveE were offe ' red for Ea ,l senators), as he represented at least a . the tre department Wednef mil linn and ft half nf voters WHO be- I ■ 1st million and a half of lieved just as he did. OUR LATEST DISPATCHES, TAe Happenings of a Day CAronieM in Brio! and Concise Paragraphs And Containing tie Gist of the News From All Parts of the World. at prices ranging from 76 cents tc] 3-4 cents an ounce. The amount was declined at the prices j ed and 75 1-4 cents tendered. Ex-Minister Blount slipped Washington Tuesday afternoon has since that time been almost | continual conference with Secre Gresham. He is looking splencj and is in excellent spirits. The re J which Minister Blount makes 1 course a secret. The committee on ways and nl I held its first meeting Wednt" morning. All the members were ] I Lit ent. Chairman Wilson was aul ized to appoint sub-committees, cl and other employes. Tuesdays j Fridays were fixed as the regular ■ tions have been sent out as a itj a recent hearing on the snbjtH delegation representing Misti river interests. A Washington special of Wj day says: As viewed from a trl standpoint the general financial] WHIP KAY—GULF 3F MEXICO. methods and functions of the United Mates Fish Commission in its relation ;o scientific inquiry, fish culture and she fisheries, three of the principal divisions of the Fish Commission or ganization. The amount of money available for this purpose was about B90,000. Preparations were begun in ! 1890 under the direction of the com missioner, through his representative, i Captain J. W. Collins. In December, 1892. Captain Collins severed his con nection with the United States Fish Commission and Dr. X. H. Bean, the Assistant in charge of the division of fish culture, was nominated, as repre sentative and approved by the Presi- ; dent. Through the admirable and j painstaking supervision of Dr. Bean, A Straw Hat For a Horse. To protect the horse in hot weather ' some thoughtful man has cut holes in I an old straw hat, thrust the horse’e j ears, through them—and there you apd the intelligent co-operation of Ins ; flre wh should not a horsc wear a assistants, tlffi exhibit at the Fair has , hat tbis boiling bot weather? Protect been brought to a start of perfection . bis bea d. You need his brains as well JgJf >1° r l 8ttw ? ed ; .^ arCb ’ I bis muscles, and stewed brains are 1893, the office ot the exhibit was j of no use to aIlvbody . Don’t cut vonr rnoynd from Washington to Chicago, ; aew straw bat up> but do something and the installation ot the collection to kee the Worse’s head cool.-New was actively begun. j York Herald. The exhibit illustrating scientific I — inquiry was prepared under the diree- Paper was in use in Egypt as far tion of Mr. Kichard Rathbun, and that ! back as 2300 B. C. THE HOUSE. Fouetkenth Day - .—The house pass ed the senate bill in aid of the Cali fornia Mid-Winter International ex position. Mr. Johnson, of Ohio, in troduced his interconvertible bond bill and had it referred to the bank ing and currency committee, with leave to report at any time after the silver debate. The silver debate was then resumed, and Mr. Brickner spoke in faYor of the repeal of the purchas ing clause of tho Sherman act. Mr. Mallory made a speech in opposition to the unconditional repeal of the pur chasing clause of the Sherman law. He did not believe that this repeal would restore confidence or remedy the evils which now existed, Mr. Hopkins of Illinois, charged the democrats with partisanship in mapping out the plans of procedure for the consideration of this great question, and then proceed ed to speak in favor of the Wilson bill. Mr. Lane, of Illinois spoke in favor of free silver. Fifteenth Day.—The bouse met at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning, and the silver debate wa6 opened at once by C. W. Stone, of Pennsylvania, who spoke for repeal and adjured the mem bers to disregard partisan feeling in dealing with the subject. Mr. Covert, of New York pleaded for uncondition al repeal, and comparing silver to a j faithful servant fallen into bad habits, held that nothing would suffice to re store it but the goldcnre. Mr. Fitch, of New York, followed in the same line. Daizell contended for the re peal of the purchase act and ascribed all difficulties of the present situation to democratic hostility to the tariff. Mr. Hatch, in speaking in favor of free coinage, advocated a cancus of democrats of the house and seneate to The Western Brass Foundry, at St. Louis, Mo., was burned Thursday. The loss is very heavy. F. C. Turner & Co.’s sash factory at Mobile, Ala., a two-storv brick build- j ing days. ing, was burned Thursday night. Loss Chairman Wilson Thursday np §20,000; insurance §10,000. ed Henry Talbot, of Illinois, cle: The Standard Oil company has pur- the committee on ways and mean chased a lot in Spartanburg, S. C., j Talbot Yvas employed in the sam and will erect three oil tanks with a pacity under the chairmanship of, capacity of 25,000 gallons each. Spar- rison and Mills, and since the fij tanburg will be made a bulk station congress has been connected wit' and distributing point. interstate commerce commission. A London cable dispatch says: At Assistant Secretary Curtis h; the regular weekly meeting Thursday structed special treasury age: of the directors of the Bank of Eng- construe as liberally as possib land, it was decided to raise the bank’s laws as to the packing of cott rate of discount to five per cent. This passenger steamers. These is an advance of one per cent. The town of Merced Falls, Cal., was destroyed by fire Thursday. The Merced woolen mills, valued at $125,- 000; Nelson’s flour mills, §25,000; and the warehouse of the woolen mill, containing goods worth §50,000, were burned. The town has about 150 in- tion of the eoun try shows in;pro habitants, mostly employes of the slight perhaps, hut believed mills. * permanent. Bank failures hav The free silverites held a meeting at ! entirely ceased, banks that Cooper union, New York City, Thurs- are resuming business, day night. There were 3,000 persons P°” red out ° f ^country is present and much enthusiasm was die- and a general Reeling of confid? played. 1 Resolutions favoring the free coinage of silver were adopted. Speeches were made by Hon. W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, John G. Boyd and Gen. A. J. Warner. The directors of the first national hank of Dayton, Tennessee, have de cided to suspend the payment of de positors for sixty days and a circular to that effect has been mailed to the depositors. The assets are more than double the liabilities, hut the strin gency in the money market makes the stoppage of business necessary. The bank hopes to resume in two months or less. Fire broke out Thursday afternoon in South Chicago. A gale was blow ing and the flames quickly swept through five blocks to the lake. Most of the buildings destroyed were frame dwellings occupied by employes of the large steel mills of the Illinois Steel company. Two hundred and fifty houses were burned and 7,000 people were made homeless. The money loss is estimated at a million dollars, A dispatch of Thursday from Fort McKavett, Texas, states that the nu merous cattle ihieY r es and smugglers j Montgomery; on cotton shippe who infest that section of the upper Troy via Montgomery to New Rio Grande hoi ler, are being rounded j a rate not higher than 50 ce: up and that there is much excitement hundred, and on class goods over the arrests which have already been made. Sheriffs from Yalverde and the surrounding counties have been out night and day for the lust week; in all, about fifty men. The "hunt is not over yet, and more arrests are exected to follow in a few days. The appraisement of the personal effects of the hanking firm of E. K. being restored. The treasury officials are now] cussing a plan to supply the thre ing deficiency in the treasury, ti] rid of the accumulation of 6,000 of silver bullion and supply the i try with $150,000,000 of new enj cy. The cash ballance on last day dropped half a million. T stant fill in the cash balance* tracted the attention of Mr. C again and he has several plans consideration to relieve this pressure. One of these plans issue of temporary loan cert against the future revenues, as are regularly issued by th ish government, hearing 1 per d< terest. A Washington special of Ti says: The interstate commerce mission, by Commissioner Clei has rendered a decision in the cil the hoard of trade of Troy, Alai the Alabama Midland and Gil Central railways, et al. The def i6 in favor of the complainnnt ai| | rects that the defendant roads res their tariffs so as to give Troy a rj cotton not higher than those :k. I case [wing irom .Louisville, Cincinnati Louis rates not in excess of Columbus, Ga. Members of the Georgia di in congress Thursday morning a telegraphic appeal from a committee of Brunswick, immediate aid in the way ofpr- - . or money. Congressman Tu 1 Smith <£r Co., of Columbia, Pa., which -whose district Brunswick liei failed recently, shows their affaire to he in a deplorable condition. The cash on hand with the securities will amount to less than §4,000. The de posits amount to §151,000, and the claims of preferred creditors, not de positors, to over §69,000; so that, un less the latter are set aside as fraudu lent, the creditors will get next to nothing. A dispatch of Thursday from Little j effort will he made to furnish Rock, Ark., states that a movement is medicine out of the epidemi on foot in that state to have the gov- the disposal of the bareau ernor call an extra session of the leg- j be thus utilized. This con islature. The legislature abolished the taken under consideratigA and it convict lease system at its last session hoped that a favorable decision will he and only appropriated §30,000 to reached. maintain it the next two years. This Eleven .IliiJorit.T in iheSenitr. fund is likely to be soon exhausted, ‘ That the bill for unconditional re- the state being nnabie to hire them peal will pass the senate is quite as out. The session is to be called to certain as that it will pass the house, enact legislation that will enable the The supporters,at the Yoorhees bill state to use the convicts in building j confidently-' claim eleven majority long conference with Surgeon ' Wayman after receiving the til The object of the conference w^ certain if help for the unfortua izens could be given by the marl pital service. Surgeon Genel man was very sympathetic anf ised to do all in his power to the miserable condition of ti people who are left in Brunswj the , im- that any of pwick. ■ min- lames |tiona re all old poor Ld the Idated fation. fol- railroads to be owned and controlled by the state. The New Orleans Clearing House Association met Thursday and took action on the proposition made to is sue clearing house certificates for small sums to take the place of cur rency. The recent action df the banks left the planters without the money to move the crops and a plan to over come this state of affairs wag thus ren dered advisable. After discussion the following plan was adopted: Issne cer tificates of deposit to pengogs having money on deposit, payable to them selves or bearer, in sums of §5, §10 §20 or more, aDd make the certificates payable through the clearing house. without the three new senatoas from the western states, who may or may not be in their seats at this time. There are eleven senators who have not as yet annouced their final determina tion as to how they will vote. Of these seven are said to be wavering toward unconditional repeal and four towards the substitute. A great deal would seem to depend on the vote in the house, the size and character of the majority the Wilson bill receives. It is decisive and unmistakable, the sen ate will probably be careful not to have the wrath of the country direct ed at that body, as it surely will if they long delay matters. that a per- solated Pres- occur- 'by the being e has fever hours we have n ti Several cases, which have been announced upon the street are absolutely false. A. Y. Wood, Secretary.” Monday night twelve coaches full left over the Brunswick and Western, and later the East Tennessee train went away jammed. About 3,000 people wiil leave and this alone will prevent it Bpreading rapidly if at all. Ravages of Cholera in Rnssia. A supplementary official cholera re port issued at St. Petersburg, Russia, Thursday gives the following statis tics of the ravages of the disease in the affected governments during the past week: Orel, new cases647, deaths 213 ; Cossacks of the Don, new cases 498, deaths 202; Koorsk, sew cases 296, deaths 103 ; Yiedimir, new cases 156, deaths 52 ; Lomza, new cases 52, deaths 22; Moscow, new cases 72, deaths 24; Viatka, new eases 47, deaths 22; Voronezh, new- cases 30, deaths 23. No Fever in Tampa. State Health Officer Porter, of Flor- Keassnring News from Brunswick. The Brunswick board of health an- Charloston’s First Dispensary. The first dispensary for the disposal ida, issued an official proclamation to j Bounced at noon Thursday that there >>f the Palmetto jag was opened in the public Monday in which he states ; were no new east s of lever of any Charleston, S. C., Tuesday. From 10 that there is no yellow fever or quar- kind. Harris died at 11 o’clock Ved- -‘’clock in the morning tiljl 7 p. in., antinable disease at the docks in Port nesday night. The child, whose ill- the legal hours of closing, J fifty-five Tampa, in Port Tampa City, in Tam- ness was reported as suspicious, is pa or at Ybor City, and that the estab- i convalf'seent, and it is denied that it lishment of a quarantine against this section of the state is entirely unnec- citizens were supplied with toddy bearing the state’s official tralie mark. There was quite a crowd of heople at the opening of the state’s barfloom, is a cute of yellow fever at all. The situation is encouraging and reassur- the public at large, Clark’s thread mills at Newark, N. J.. which have been shut down for the past three weeks, resumed operations Wednesday morning on three-quarters time. Silver took a jnmp upward Tues day, the London quotations as sent to the treasury department being §0,7634 per ounce. This is two cents higher than Monday’s purchases by the de partment, which amounted to 165,000 ounces at §0.7425 per ounce. The Findlay, Ohio, Bolling Mill Company, employing four hundred men has resumed operations. The men have signed a contract to accept as much cash ns can be paid by the compa ny and time cheeks and notes payable in sixty days for the remainder. Other mills in Findlay will resume on a like basis. A cable dispatch of Wednesday from Constantinople states that owing to the prevalence of cholera in Russia, the Turkish government has ordered five days’ quarantine against all vessels ar riving from Russian ports. Excep tions will be made, however, in the cases of vessels from Batonm, Odessa and Sebastopol, which will not be subjected to any quarantine delay. A New York special of Tuesday says: The belief is steadily growing in the stock exchange financial circles that the Sherman silver law .will be re pealed. This, coupled wiilffi the con stant arrival of gold, has created quite a little bullish sentiment on the board, and operators are more willing than for some time past to buy stocks. As a result, the market after opening of business, began to harden and prices rose 14 to If per cent. A special from the Salt Lake, Utah, says that, in speaking of the conven tion of the western and southern states, which he has been petitioned to call, Governor Stone said that he would be glad to do anything that was essential and proper for the well be ing of the south and west. He said that such a convention for the consid eration of questions affecting particu larly tohse two sections without refer ence to the east, might result benefi cially. A New York special of Tuesday says: The silver men are going to carry the fight into the camp of the gohlbugs. They have engaged Cooper Union for their headquarters and they will hold a mass meeting there and demand the fulfillment of one of the pledges upon the strength of which a democratic president and congress were elected last November. The meeting will he under the auspices of the executive committee of the Chicago silver con vention. The Italian government is taking steps to punish the officials who are held responsible for not preventing the recent rioting in Rome. The mas sacre of Italians by Frenchmen at Aigues-Mortes on Thursday came as sudden thunder from the clear interna tional sky. Already it has become the subject of volnmnious correspondence among the foreign offices of the Triple Alliance, and during the next few days probably will he made the most im- poitant incident in this dull season among the Continental powers. The Michigan Peninsular car shops at Detroit will he shut down for three months. The shops have a capacity for building 100 cars a day, and be fore the financial stringency arose employed six thousand men. All office employes will be laid off without pay, and all superintendents and chiefs of departments will he on half pay. An official of the company says contracts can be secured easily enough, but railroad companies are not able to pay for cars and the shops cannot be run on credit. Governor Peter Turney issned a proclamation Monday addressed to the people of Tennessee concerning the recent assassination of a soldier named Langherty, and the subsequent lynching of a miner named Drum mond, at Briceville. He says they were cold-blooded murders and out rages that cannot he passed unnoticed. He says time, expense and labor will not be spared, and the perpetrators who are guilty of murder in the first degree will he hanged if the law is enforced. Owing to the stringency of money and general depressed condition of af fairs, the city of Birmingham, Ala., Wednesday night voted to issue city paper. Scrip or promises to pay bear er will be issued in denominations from 25 cents np. It is estimated that §75,000 at least will be issued in this form. The bond sale the first of next year will liquidate the paper which will be discontinued. The interest and bonds to he taken up between now and Janury have been provided for. The Memphis, Tenn., cotton ex change held a meeting Tuesday and passed resolutions calling upon con gress to unconditionally repeal the Sherman law without delay. The fes- olutions state that “we believe that the repeal of this law will renew con fidence, create a better and more sat isfactory feeling in the minds of the mercantile community and instill new life into financial affairs. Every day’s delay in this matter by congress, in tensifies the strained condition of af fairs now prevailing and retard re covery when the law is finally retard ed. ” The Industrial Deveiopement Dur the Past Week. A review of tho indnstrial situation in . South for the past week thowg a further fallii off in iron production, there being now but t blast furnaces in operation out of twenty-fi in the Birmingham district, and four out twelve in the Chattanooga district. Mills I over the South are running on short time, son have closed on account of failure to procui currency, and some are issuing Bcrip for pa; rolls, maturing in ninety days. I There is falling off in the' demand for mi chinery, but in new industries there is an ii crease over the preceding week. During th week there were forty-five new manufactorii organized in the Southern States, chief amon which were the American Economic Bode Company, of Savanuah, Ga„ capital $125,000 the Economy Noveltv Manufacturing Compaq of Charleston, \V. Va.. with $100,000 capitL ind the T. Dumas Furniture Manufacture Company, of New Orleans, La., with $75,001 tapital.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, TennJ SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS Tbe Drift ot Her Progress and Pros perity Briefly Noted Happenings of Interest Portrayed ii Pithy Paragraphs. A Cut of Ten Per Cent. Eight thousand machinists, pattern makers, molders, roller turners and laborers in Pittsburg, Pa., district have been notified of a reduction of 10 per cent in their wages. The cut is vigorously objected to, and a strike is openly talked of. The proposed reduction affects the employes of 26 firms in Pittsburg. A special meeting of the varions trades interested will be held immediately, and a course of action decided upon. Chairman T. A. Goodwyn, of the Alabama state Jeffersonian democrat! executive committee, has called a meet ing of that body to be held on Sep tember 7th in the city of Montgomery. The call announces that matters of im portance will be considered and acted upon. Pensacola, Fla., for nine years has been under a provisional municipality government, appointed by the gover nor of the state. At the first city elec tion held Tuesday since 1S84, William E. Anderson was elected mayor. There was hut little contest, all the candi dates being democratic. A Nashville dispateh of Wednesday says: J ere Baxter has secured back ing and will at once proceed with the completion of the Nashville and Knox ville railroad, which is intended to run from Nashville to a point on the Cin cinnati Southern. The road is already in operation from Lebanon to the Crawford coal field, a distance of fifty- six miles, having eighty-four miles to be built. The board of health of Charleston, at a meeting Tuesday, determined to send one medical sanitary expert to each of the three railroad junctions leading to Charleston via Lanes, Branchville and Yemassee. The ex perts were at once detailed for work and dispatched to these places with instructions to inspect all incoming passengers on every train. They are accompanied by detectives to aid them. A Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of Monday is to the effect that Major Fink, receiver for the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad, says that a cut of the salaries of the em ployes of his road is a sure thing. All salaries will be reduced to from 10 to 30 per cent. He says the earnings of the road for the past month have de creased §100,000. The cut will per haps gc into effect September 1st. A Raleigh special says: On Mon day Governor Carr honored the requi sition of Governor Northen for five noted desperadoes, who have, as a gang, committed many robberies in various counties. Their names are: Henry Seabolt, A. J. Seabolt, Sylva- nus Seabolt, Ray Seabolt and John Ray. They are all in jail at Murphy, N. C., having fled to Cherokee county upon pursuit in Georgia. Charles A. Bonin, for years joint cashier of the Louisville and Nashville and Nashville and Chespeake and Ohio railroads at Cincinnati is missing. Experts are examining his hooks and say that his shortage, if any, will not exceed §1,500, making his disappear ance a mystery. The shortage of Joseph R. Patton, the missing super intendent of the Cincinnati River and Transfer Company, was found to be §1,300. A strike of printers was inaugurated at Richmond, Va., Monday. The compositors in the newspaper offices of the -Dixjjatch and Times refused to go to work. This course xvas decided at a meeting of the Typographical Union held Monday evening. The trouble grows out of a disagreement over the scale of prices on typesetting ma chines and shorter hours between the Newspaper Publishers’ Association and the Typographical Union. A Savannah special of Monday says: The quarantine authorities have sent two vessels from Tybee roads to the government station at Sapelo. The British steamship Mura had smallpox 'aboard. The other, a bark from Cien- fuegos, an infected port, ivas sent as a precautionary measure. No vessel from an infected or suspicious port is permitted to come up to the city. Steps have been taken to enforce a most rigid quarantine against Tampa and its suburbs and Brunswick. General Turner Ashby, camp No. 2, confederate veterans, of Winchester, Va., spent Wednesday upon Gettys burg battlefield. The visit of these veterans of Lee’s army was utilized l>y the United States government commis sioners, for the purpose of marking the position of'nineteen confederate com mands, composing the regiments of Johnson’s brigade, of Ewell’s corps, Smith’s brigade of Early’s division and the Stonewall brigade of the Second Virginia Infantry, Carpenter,s Virgin ia battery and Crenshaw’s battery of Pegram’s battalion. A riot occurred at Gilberton, Pa., Tuesday which grew out of a dispute between the borough officials and the Schuylkill Traction Company over the right of the latter to lay its tracks through the town. The citizens tore np the tracks already laid and the rail road company sent a party of armed men to the spot in charge of one of its special officers. While negotiations were progressing for a . settlement, a wordy quarrel arose between the citi zens and. the railroad company’s arm ed men. The result was a regular bat tle in which two men were killed and several dangerously wounded. ** Worth makes the raau.” The poet much mistakes; Worth makes the woman— The man he merely breaks. To Open the Cherokee Strip. The president Tuesday issued his proclamation opening the Cherokee stirp to settlement at the hour of 12 ! o’clock, noon, central standard time Saturday, I6th of September. Everybody should read the paper and keep up with the times.