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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
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VOL. XII. NO. 21)
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.’
JOHH E, HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The House end Senate Caliefl to Order
in Regular Session,
Daily Sutnmaijr of Ronline Business in
the Two Houses.
THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS ';r,h° f , “d b T.r“™
duo to protection. But he gave no
proof that they were due to pro
tection. Mr. Crisp said that this
form of argument had been met and
overthrown years ago by the gentleman
from New York (S. S. Cox), from
whose well known speech on this topic
Mr. Crisp quoted, Mr. Wilson closed
the debate. Wilson finished his speech
amid great enthusiasm, and after his
eloquent peroration, men threw up
their hats and women their hand
kerchiefs, and he was carried on
the shouldeis of Bryan, of Ne
braska, and Tucker, of Yirgiuia.
The final vote was taken at 5:55
o’clock and was as follows: yens 204 ;
aays 140—a majority of 64 for the bill.
The announcement was greeted with
great cheering and applause in the
galleries and on the fioor, which was
kept up until the house adjourned.
The usual motions to reconsider and to
lay on the table were made by Mr.
Wilson and carried and the house ad
journed till Friday at 12 o’clock.
Ttifc iwtjsE.
Monday, Jan. 29.—In the house
Monday morning, Mr, Burrows asked
that unanimous consent be given
members Who had amendments which
they desired to offer to the tariff bill
and which they had no opportunity to
offer, to print them in the Record.
Mr. McMilliu objected, saying that if
amendments could not be ofl'eted in the
honse, they should not cumber the
Record. Messrs. Burrows and Beed
appealed to McMillin to withdraw his
objection, but ho persisted. Mr. Reed
said it was unjust and embarrassing to
members to be deprived of this privi
lege, for in no other way could their
constituents know that "the failure to
get amendments in was not their fault.
Mr. Burrows said that the privilege
had been extended to members in the
51st congress. Chairman McCreary
presented the report of the foreign af
fairs committee on the Hawaiian reso
lution. The minority will have until
Thursday to present their views. At
11 :15 the house went into a committee
of the whole on the income tax bill.
Mr. McMillin offered it as an amend
ment to the turift bill, and the amend
ment was read in full. Mr. McMillin,
immediately after the reading of the
internal revenue bill, addressed the
committee in support of the bill as an
amendment to the tariff bill.
Tuesday, Jnn. 30.—The house very
promptly went into committee of the
whole to consider the tariff bill, Tues
day morning, on motion of Mr. Rieh-
rrdson, of Tennessee, having dispensed
with the call of the committees for re
ports. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts,
gave notice that he proposed to offer
an amendment to the title of the Wil
son bill so as to make it read as fol
lows: “A bill to increase taxation, re
duce revenue for the government, and
tine honest men, and pay a premium
on perjury, and for other purposes. ”
Wednesday, Jan. 31.—The last day
of the general debate on the tariff bill
opened with a fair attendance in the
galleries and a rather slim attendance
on the floor. After the committee had
been called for reports, the house went
into a committee of the whole to con
sider the tariff bill. Mr. Tate, of
Georgia, offered the first amendment
to the internal revenue bill. It pro
poses to strike out the last two sec
tions of the bill, which includes the
tax of one dollar a gallon on distilled
spirits, and allow the clauses referring
to the bonding of distilled spirits and
their withdrawal from warehouses.
This would leave the existing law as to
spirits in force. After some discussion
of various amendments proposed the
honse finally succeeded in coming to
some action. Whisky will be taxed
ninety cents per gallon and the bonded
period will be three years, so far us
the house is concerned.
Thursday, Feb. 1.—The interest in
the closing hours of the tariff debat
was shown Thursday morning in the
attendance at the honse. The public
galleries were thrown open at nine
o’clock, nnd within five minutes they
wero packed to suffocation. Mean-
GEOBGIA STATE NEWS.
Interesting Cellinis for the Perusal ot
the Casual Reader.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
TIIE SENATE.
Monday, ,Tan. 29.—The petitions
against the Wilson tnriff bill present
ed in the senate Monday morning were
very numerous and were from all parts
of the country. Some presented l
Mr. Hoar were characterized by him
as “cries” of agony against that
sanctified, abominable menace,
bill was introduced by Mr. Hoar
giving United States judges the
right on petition and after hear
ing to order the resolution to
the roils of a pensioner who
had been dropped, or whose pension
had been reduced. A resolution offer
ed by Mr. Stewart, declaring it to be
the sense of the senate that the secre
tary of the treasury hns no legal nu
thority to issue and sell bonds, ns pro
posed. The senate, he snid, ought at
least to express its opinion on the sub
ject, and ho gave notice that he would
ask action on his resolution Tuesday.
The Hawaiian resolution was then
taken up and Mr. Teller addressed
the senate.
Tuesday, Jnn. 30.—Mr. Stewart’i
resolution condemning the treasury
bond policy was up in the senate Tues
day. After a speech by Stewart, Mr
Sherman made a strong speech iu sup
port of the secretary’s power and duty
to issue and sell bonds. He expressed
his regret that anybody should be
found now to question that author
ity. It was almost unpatriotic to do
so, at a time when the revenues,
of the government were insufficient to
meet the expenditures. Without re
gard to party feeling, he felt like
standing up for the honor of the
country and for the power of the-sec
retary. That power, he contended,
was given iu the strongest, clearest-
most direct language that could be used
and it had stood unchallenged and un
contradicted from that day until a few
days since, when the senator from
Nebraska, (Mr. Allen) ottered a resolu
tion denying the authority of the sec
retary of the treasury. Mr. Sherman
complained that that had been done
at the very time when bidders were
preparing their bids. It was agreed
that debate on the bill to repeal the
federal election law be closed at 4
o’clock next Tuesday with debate on
the amendments under the five min
ute rule until disposed of, the vote to be
taken on that day.
Wednesday,.Jan. 31.—The religious
societies appear to be making a sys
w hile the corridors m the vicinity of tematic fight on whiskey and"beer and
the private galleries were filled with desire to tax these articles to such
an expectant crowd, iu which ladies a degree as to make them prohibitory
chiefly predominated, and when these luxuries. A petition presented bv
were opened it was seen that their Mr. Cullom and others in the senate
capacity was not sufficient to aceommo- Wednesday prays that the internal
date a fraction of those present. The revenue tax on these articles may be
members were slow in gathering, trebled in the new tariff law. The
and when the gavel fell not more than resolutions denying the authority
a score of representatives were on the of the secretary of the treasury to is-
floor. Mr. Beed put in an appearance I sue the proposed United States bonds
at a quarter to 11. As his portly | came up and Mr. Allen took the floor
to reply to the argument of Mr. Slier
man Tuesday. When the hour of 2
arrived, the bill to repeal the election
laws was postponed, and the debate on
the bond resolution was continued,
Mr. Gorman having the floor, and re-
The eolor of the passenger coaches
on the Georgia road is to be changed
from yellow to that affected by the
Pullman people. The painters in the
shops at Augusta are already at work
on them and in a few days the fast
mail will make its appearance in a new
and glossy coat.
* * •
Uncle Jack Bich has been living in
Butts county and on the same farm for
more than a quarter of a century. He
has but one rule on finance, which is
“get in more than you pay out.” He
never makes more than three bales of
cotton to the plow, and has doubled
his real estate in the last ten years.
The old constitution of Georgia,
which several weeks ago General Phil
Cook brought to light, is calling forth
inquiries. A few days ago the gener
al received a request from a big south
ern printing house, asking for a pho-
tograph of the old wax seal of state
which it proposes to put In a history
of Georgia now in process of publica
tion.
* * *
The Planters’ bank, of Ellavillc, was
robbed Sunday night of 37,585 by
cracksmen. They drilled holes in the
safe and filled the holes with powder
and blew the door off’. There is no
clue to the identity of the burglars.
The county commissioners have offer
ed $500 reward for the burglars. The
loss falls heavily on the town, as most
every one had some money in the
bank.
* * *
Mrs. M. J. Bm-ney, ofWaycross, has
an oblong mahogany table which is
150 years old, and also a pair of pant
aloons worn by Captain John O’Neal
at his wedding during the revolution
ary war. Captain Perham has aa em
erald ring, the setting of which has
been in the family 150 years and was
worn by his mother, when she was a
child, to LaFayette’s reception atBos-
ton, on his return to this country after
the revolutionary war.
Mr. M. Nussbanm, one of Macon's
most prominent business men,died a few
days ago from paralysis. The deceas
ed was born in Bavaria and had lived
in Macon nearly thirty years. He was
about sixty-five years old. Mr. Nuss-
baum was one of Macon’s best known
nnd most highly esteemed citizens.
For many years he did a large and
prosperous wholesale dry goods and
notion business. He became quite
wealthy and invested largely iu real
estate in the city.
Considering that the road was built by
the state outright, that it is owned by
the state outright and that every tax
payer in the state has an interest in it, I
it is strange that so little is known of , The Drift ot Her Progress
its past, so little cared for its future as
the indifference of the average citizen
would indicate.
One would think that if the govern
ment owned all the railroads of this
country as the state of Georgia owns
the Western and Atlantic, it would be
the political question of every con
gress and the one theme talked about
among the politicians at home—in fine,
the one department of the government
that would be forever in the papers
and before the common people.
Not so with the Western and Atlan
tic under the ownership of the state of
Georgia. The road is known as any
other railroad is known. The men
tion of its name arouses more response
today in the heart of the stranger who
has ever journeyed over it because of
its excellent service than it arouses
pride in the heart of the average Geor
gian as a state institution. Some
how the old road is just tossed
out to a lessee now and then by the
Georgia legislature and is a matter of
no consequence to the citizen here and
there, so long as the rental is paid
promptly at the end-of every month and
the property is kept in good condition
as it is kept.
To study the history of the old road
and learn the lesson of Georgia’s
growth, the lesson of Georgia’s history
and the lesson of Georgia’s bravery and
courage in time of war is peculiarly in
teresting. Away back yonder in the
forties the Western and Atlantic was
built by the state of Georgia. Since
that time it has been paying the state
nearly enough money to defray one-
third the actual expenses of the gov
ernment. What a world of interest
there lies in this fact alone! The rail
road was finished to the city of Chat
tanooga in the year 1849. The distance
of the line between the two cities, At
lanta and Chattanooga, is 136.8 miles.
It traverses, for he most part, a
region of wonderful resources. The
exuberant fertility of the valley lauds,
and the abundance and variety of
minerals iu the hills, ridges and moun
tains make northwest Georgia
thorough which it passes one of the
most noted sections in the United
States. The gross earnings of the
Western and Atlantic railroad for the
last twenty-five years have beeu :
I860 $1,138,300 63
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
It was reported Wednesday that
| Messrs. W. E. Patterson & Sons, to-
j bacconists, of Mount Airy, N. C., have
assigned. It is estimated that their
libilities will amount to from $25,000
to $30,000. Sjiranger Bros. are named
as the assignees.
The Rosedale Manufacturing Com-
pany, at Roanoke, Ala,, spinners of
cotton thread, closed the doors of the
mill Wednesday and quit the business.
Its assets are about $50,000 and its
liabilities about one-third of that
amount. Inability to dispose of its
products forced the company’s action.
A Birmingham dispatch says: Five
hundred miners at Corona. Ala., went
out on a strike two weeks ago on ac
count of a difference between them
and the company, relative to the price
for house rents, material, etc., returned
to work Wednesday morning, the dif
ferences having been satisfactorily ad
justed.
At a conference held at Richmond,
Ya., between the representatives of
various lines composing the associated
railways of Virginia and the Carolinas
and a committee from the Richmond
.chamber of commerce, the associated
railways agreed not to remove their
offices from Richmond to Baltimore,
aa had been determined upon.
A Charleston special says: Circuit
Judge Simonton Wednesday designa
ted Augustine S. Seymour, of the
western district of North Carolina, to
hold the February term of the United
States district court, which convenes
at Greenville, S. C., on Monday, Feb
ruary 5th. Judge Brawley, the new
district judge has not, as yet, quali
fied.
A persistent rumor is current at
Knoxville, Tenn., to the effect that at
the sale of the Marietta and North
Georgia road on March 3rd the Nor
folk and Western road will buy it in.
This will be followed by building from
Bristol to Knoxville and from Marietta
to Atlanta. A branch will be con- I
las S cl II-! •ffSSSK'ESS
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THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Dnn & Co.’s Report of Trade for the
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s Review of trade
for the past- week says: Secretary
Carlisle's decision to issue bonds anil
the early reports of large bids for them
helped to accelerate the recovery* of
industries and trade, as was hoped last
week. The sale of the amount offered
will cheek the anxiety about the main
tenance of note redemption, remove
the only pretext for further issues of
papers and then give a solid basis for
greater confidence regarding the finan
cial future. The revenue is still small,
farm customs in January thus far $10,-
805,501 against $19,9S5,685 last year,
and from internal taxes $9,587,979
against $11,068,198, and the volumeof
domestic trnde is still small. The in
crease in the number of hands employ
ed adds to the purchasing power of the
people and dealers’ stocks are so re
duced that any sign of larger consump
tion quickly gives mills more orders.
In short, the conditions are such that
if not interrupted by adverso circum
stances, they will give a quick revival
of business.
In no direction are quotations of
manufactured products higher, but
while some have actually declined, tho
general tone is somewhat stronger.
Thus a distinct improvement is seen in
the demand for iron products at Phil
adelphia, though for some, which it
was thought could not go lower, quo
tations have been reduced. Sales of
pig iron are larger^hough 310.50 is
now the open quotation for Bessemer
at Pittsburg and southern forge is sold
for $6.75 at Birmingham; the lower
price telegraphed last week having
been, it is stated, for a lot of inferior
quality. The Tennessee Coal and Iron
company has made contracts for ore,
which reduce the cost of its iron 22 J
ceil taper ton and lower contracts for ore
and freights are also reducing the cost to
consumers of lake ore. Connellsville
•oke is quoted at $1 pi r ton, with the
number of ovens in operation practi
cally unchanged. The increase in de
mand for iron products is mainly in
structiial forms, caBt pipe wire rods,
barbed rods and wire nails, while in
rails and other railroad iron business
is remarkably small. Textile mills
have reduced their working force;
several woolen mills hnvo started and
others are reported about to start.
Sales of wool are larger, amounting at
'OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The flappings of a Day Chronicled In
Erie! and Concise Paragraph
And Containing the Gist of the Hews
From AH Parts of the World.
1,590,245 3
1,430,790 31
1,344,932 70
1,147,618 27
Judge John D. Stewart died at his
home at Griflin last Sunday night after
quite a long illness. He was in his
sixty-first year. He was very near to
death two months ago, and about the
first of December there was little hope
for him, but he rallied and survived
longer than expected. Judge Stewart
has for years been prominent in Geor
gia affairs. He was born in Clayton
county, three miles south of Jo’nes-
boro, on Flint river, August 2, 1833.
His father came to Georgia from North
Carolina.
figure elbowed its way through the
crowd of pages, messengers and
others grouped about tho speak
er’s desk, he was recognized by
the spectators in the galleries,
who rose to their feet and cheered him
wildly. A generous round of applause I plying to Mr. Sherman’s speech
greeted the arrival of Speaker Crisp, Thursday. Feb. 1.—The bond reso
who came in at 11 o’clock, aud imme- lution offered by Mr. Stewart soma
diately ascended to the speaker’s chair days ago having "been laid before the
and the house at ouce proceeded to I senate Thursday morning, Mr. Sher-
business. Immediately after the read- I man read an extract from a recent let-
ing of Wednesday's journal, Mr. Lock-
wood made the point of no quorum.
The roll was called, disclosing the
presence of 221 members. The honse
went into a committee of the whole
and took up tho question pending,
ter of Charles Foster, late secretary of
the treasury, explaining that the only
preparation which he had made for
issuing bonds had reference to three
per cent bonds, a bill for which had
pnssed the senate about a year ago,
when it adjourned Wednesday. Mr. I and which it was supposed would pass
Wilson’s motion to close the debate on the house. Mr. Stewart argued against
the barley amendment, and the house the secretary’s authority to issue bonds
dmded. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Warner, I under the provisions of the resump-
of New York, then took their places | tion act.
ub tellers, and the motion was ngreed
to, 179 in the affirmative, none in the
negative. The question then recurred
on the amendments to the barley
schedule offered late Wednesday nfter-
noon. These were amendments by
Mr. Wilson, raising the duty on bar
ley from 20 per cent, to 25 per cent.,
and on barley malt from 25 per cent,
to 30 per cent. Mr. Tracy, of New
York, had offered an amendment to
WITHDRAWAL OF GOLD.
It Will be Returned for the Payment
of Bonds.
A Washington special of Friday
says: Since January 17th, the date on
which Secretary Carlisle issued his cir
cular inviting bids for the purchase of
bonds, there has been withdrawn from
. the treasury department $2,800,000 in
this raising the duty on barley to 35 I gold or its equivalent, for the purpose,
per cent. At 12 o’clock the com- it- is asserted, to pay for the bonds,
mittee rose, and -the tariff bill, I Since January 1st, the treasurv has lost
■with amendments, was reported $12,440,000 in gold. Offers to take
to the house, and Mr. Reed, of I bonds continue to be received at the
Maine, took the floor in opposition to I treasury department, but no in-
it, amid loud cheers. Mr. Reed con- I formation is obtainable as to
eluded his remarks at 1:32, amid deaf- | the amount. There was a further loss
ening applause and cheers from the | $794,000 in the treasury gold re-
galleries and members on the floor. I serv "e and it now stands at $67,657,114,
Mr. Crisp's appearance at the desk of J although there is no material change
Mr. Clark, of Missouri, aud his rec- | ^ the net balance. The deficiency in
ognition by the presiding officer, Mr.
Hatch, of Missouri, was the signal for
applause and cheering equalling
in its intensity the enthusiasm
which greeted Mr. Reed. As he
took his stand the floating population
of the house drifted over to the demo
cratic side and stood about in the aisles
around Mr. Crisp. Mr. Crisp said
that he was embarrassed by the feeling
that he would be unable to meet the
expectations of his friends, but under
the rules of the house, he was per
mitted to speak in answer to the argu
ment to which they had just listened.
Conceding that the cause of protection
had been promoted by its strongest ad
vocates, he would address himself to the
task of showing that that policy could
not be maintained consistently with
jnstice and the rights of the people of
the United States. Mr. Reed had
pointed out the prosperity , and high
the revemies for the month to date ap
proximates $10,000,000.
TELEPHONES ARE CHEAP.
Big Tumble in Prices Since the Patent
Expired.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: The bottom has dropped out of
the Bell telephone monopoly, st> far as
concerns private lines. The patent on
the Bell telephone expired Tuesdar,
and the Metropolitan Telephone eom-
pany, which is the local name of the
Bell monopoly, created a sensation
that day by advertising to sell tele
phones at $2.50 each.
“If sheep had entered more largely
into our agriculture during the last
quarter of a century,” maintains the
New York World, “there would not
now be so many run-down farms.”
The Seventh Day Adventists have se
cured a reduced rate from the Southern
Passenger Association for tlieir con
vention that is to take 2dace in Atlanta.
They claim that there are many more
people in Georgia of their faith and
creed than most people think. They
say that the convention will be largely
attended and that it will be very in
teresting to the ouisider. The "rate
they receive for their delegates to the
cenvention is the same that is allowed
all conventions by the association on
the certificate plan, which is full fare
going and one-third fare returning.
* * *
Rome’s new waterworks are now
almost complete and the city’s supply
will be taken from them within a few
weeks. Some criticisms on the work
and cost have brought- out a card from
the waterworks committee of the coun-
cil, giving in detail the appropriations,
expenditures and debts. It was shown
that the original estimate of $35,000
will not be passed. This small amount
gives the city a magnificent system
with inexhaustible supply of pure wa
ter. The reservoirs will hold 3,000,000
gallons, and the pnmping capacity is
3,000,000 more each day.
A most remarkable case, and mirac
ulous as well is reported by Mr. A. J.
Vickery, who lives about three miles
from Hartwell. Mrs. Antvitch, the
wife of a German laborer living on
Mr. \ ickery’s place, was stricken with
a severe illness about tw'elve years ago,
which totally deprived her of the pow
er of speech, in which condition she
remained until the night of tlie cyclone
last summer, when the house in which
they lived was blown down, some of
the timber falling on her. She was
then heard to utter some audible
sound, and about the 1st of December
last- she suddenly and wholly regained
her vocal {towers, and can now talk as
well as she ever did. Mrs. Antvitch is
between fifty and sixty years of age.
This might be an interesting case for
tte medical profession.
1,152,197 71
1,135,648 49
1,111,174 19
1,113,014 83
1,452,777 53
1,693.059 22
1,390,421 83
1,338,624 74
1,149,478 86
1,064,918 40
1,191,532 35
1,285,148 82
1,315,735 89
1.434.002 79
1.454.002 77
1,625,195 02
1,462,780 39
The Glenn Tax Act Sustained.
The supreme court of the United States
has formally sustained the law passed
by the Georgia legislature in 1889 by
which all railroads are taxed by the
counties through wliieh they pass, just
like any other corporation or business.
There has been a hot legal fight over
it, but the state has been sustained in
all the courts, and the decision of tho
supreme court makes it final. The
bill was introduced by Hon. W. C.
Glenn, of the county of Whitfield, and
is known as the “Glenn Tax Act.” A
large amount of money is now due the
counties of the state under this act for
taxes during 1890-91-92-93. This will,
perhaps, amount to $200,000 per an
num, and is a low estimate of the
amount due. This, of course, increases
with time.
Georgia's Own Railroad.
The history of the Western and At
lantic railroad, the only road the state
of Georgia owns, presents a study that
is interesting in the extremes! sense.
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886.
1887.....
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893 l‘.308'941 94
There is scarcely a stretch of ten
miles on the line of road from Chatta
nooga to Atlnnta that is distant more
than four miles from some deposit of
minerals that will repay working.
Among these are coal and iron ore,
copper, manganese, beauxite marble,
slate, tripoli, hydraulic cement, graph
ite, yellow ochre and gold. Of the pre
cious stones may be numbered garnets,
opals, amethysts, sapphire and dia
monds, all of which have been found
in a region pierced by this line. Its
agricultural and orchard products show
the greatest variety. It is a section
more thrifty than opulent. It is a
section where men of limited means
may find desirable homes at a small
cost iu a healthful climate,where there
may be such a diversity of employ
ment as to suit all ages, sexes, condi
tions and capacity.
OUR FLAG INSULTED.
A Report that American Ships fere
Fired Upon in Rio’s Harbor.
A Sharp Engagement in Which the In
surgent Commander Surrendered.
George R, Eager.
Rnfus N. Rhodes, of the Birming
ham Keu-s president of the Southern
Afternoon Press Bureau, has appoint
ed H. H. Cabaniss, of the Atlanta
Journal, N. G. Gonzales, of the Colum
bia (S. C.) Journal, and W. W. Archer,
of the Richmond State, a committee
on the part of the bureau to confer
with the Southern Associated Press,
as provided in the agreement of No
vember 24 last.
One of the most horrible disasters in
the history of southern Kentucky oc
curred Tuesday morning, near Crow-
hickman, a station on the Owensboro
and Nashville railroad. A boiler in
the portable mill of John Mercer ex
ploded, killing five men and fatally in
juring another. The explosion" was
caused by running cold water into a
warm boiler. The bodies of two of
the men were found torn to atoms in a
tree seventy-five yards from the scene
of the accident. All the victims were
horribly mangled.
It has developed that Frank Porter
field, convioted of wrecking the Com
mercial bank, is almost at the end of
the sixty days allowed him to remain
in the Nashville jail, and that as yet
no bill of exceptions has been prepar
ed or any steps taken toward an ap
peal to the United States supreme
court, notice of which had been given.
The sixty days ill jail expire Februa
ry 6th, and he Will then be taken to
Kings county prison in Broolvn to
serve the balance of his term. The
bill of exceptions may be filed at
future time, howeter.
^ Barney Irwin, a member of the
Knoxville, Tenn., police force, was
indicted Wednesday by the Anderson
county grand jury at Clinton for the
murder of Wili Smith. Tho killing
occurred some months ago in an ex
press car oil Kno-wille nnd Ohio pas
senger train bear Coal Creek. Smith
told Irwin of a plot to rob the car into
which Fred Gerding, then a Southern
Express company employe, had drawn
him. After first informing Irwin of
the fact, Smith had several confer
ences with Gerding; in fact, urged him
on in the affair.
The robbery of the Planters’ bank of
Ellaville, Ga., was solved Wednesdnv
Despatches received at London Tues
day from Rio De Janeiro, dated Janu- ,
ary 30, state that on the morning of i Detective Bill Jones, of Atlanta. It
that day Admiral De Gama, ha vino- I YT as ro .l ) L )e< l by the cashier, Ed Clark.
opened fire upon one of the American
war ships, a sharp engagement follow
ed, with the result that Admiral De
Gama surrendered.
NEWS CONFIRMED IN WASHINGTON.
At the Davy department, it was said
Tuesday morning that word had been
received from Admiral Benham, an
nouncing his purp. se to protect the
American vessels from the insurgent
firing. The department had not yet
received word from the admiral that
he had carried out the program he
Speculation in cotton futures by Clark
caused the robbery or shortage. The
detective, after surveying the premises,
discovered that the door of the safe
had only been blown off its hinges, the
lock being in tact, and that therefore
the blowing took place after the safe
had been unlocked. He confronted
the cashier with this information, and
he promptly admitted he was the rob
ber.
The movement inaugurated in favor
of a great exposition in commemora-
outlined to the department. The navy | ** on *he centennial of the admission
department later received dispatches I Tennessee into the Union took defi-
last year, but prices at Philadelphia
are 1 to 1 cent lower, while at New
York there is more inquiry from car
pet and other mills.
Trading was checked by disappoint
ment regarding tho date at which
changes of duty are to take effect and
there is little desire to place or accept
orders until the future is more clear.
The shoe and leather trade appears
to gain a little, though shipments from
Boston for the week are again 24 per
cent smaller than last year.
Produce markets have been decided
ly dull, though wheat for May fell at
one time to the lowest point on record.
Western .receipts for tie week were
6,597,501 bushels, agaii st 3,541,381
last year and of corn 3,432,855 against
2,753,739 last year. Wheat exports
are insignificant and the stocks in
sight are too large for speculators or
short crop prophets. Coffee and pe
troleum are a shade lower.
Cotton, after a decline, hns advanced
a shade, although receipts continue
heavy.
Failures in the United States were
430 this week against 255 last year, and
fifty-five iu Canada against forty last
year. None are of great magnitude.
The liabilities of firms failing thus far
reported this year amount to $13,668.-
990, of which $6,702,878 were of manu
faofuring and $6,800,353 of trading
concerns.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
B. F. Yoakum, general manager of
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, received
a telegram Thursday evening staling
that C. D. Putnam and Sam Lazarus
had been appointed receivers of the
Texas, Louisiana and Eastern railroad
in Judge Bryant’s court at Sherman,
Texas. Mr. Putnam is president of
the road, and Mr. Lazarus one of the
creditors.
The l-ank at Forest City, Ark., was
robbed Thursday morning at 3 o’clock
by two unknown men. The vault and
inner safe were blown open, but the
time lock remained secure and the
bulk of the money which the robbers
hoped to reach was left untouched.
There was about $75,000 in the bank,
but only $300 was carried off by the
robbers. There is no clue to the
thieves.
At the 26th anniversary of the Home
for Mothers, "Widows and Daughters'
of Confederate Soldiers, held in
Charleston, S. C., Tuesday, a gift of
$20,000 from a Baltimorean, was an
nounced. The name of the giver is
withheld. This home which is the
oldest in the south, was founded and
has beeir managed by women. This
gift materially adds to its fund and is
the occasion of great satisfaction.
Lieutenant Fyft'e and fifteen soldiers,
formerly engaged in guarding the con
victs at Coal Creek, who have been
under indictment in Anderson county
since last August for the lynching of
Bichard Drummond, a free miner,
were turned loose Thursday without
even the formality of a trial. This
probably the last scene in the great
convict trouble which has been dis
turbing Tennessee for the last two
years.
The Tuscaloosa, Ala., Coal and Iron
Land Company effected a compromise
Thursday with B. Friedman and other
bondholders, by which all mortgage
bonds held by them are canceled. The
company deeds to the bondholders 30,-
416 acres of land purchased from them
several years ago, $10,000 of the Mont
gomery, Tuscaloosa and Memphis rail
road bonds aud 1,000 acres of tbe
University coal lands. The land com
pany is now entirely unhampered.
Four election officers in the late
municipal election at Knoxville, Tenn.,
were arrested Thursday charged with
perjury and violation of the election
laws. They are George Kitchen, offi
cer of election ; Thomas Muncie and
William Adcock, judges of election,
aud Barney Irwin, a policeman. Irwin
is the man who was indicted Wednes
day in the Anderson county circuit
court for the killing of Smith in the
express robbery on the Knoxville and
Ohio road.
A rather peculiar suit was filed in
tho chancery court at Chattanooga,
Thursday morning. Amos Price Gal-
lupe, an infant, by the next friend,
George Wumschow, suesSallie A. Gal-
lupe, executrix of the will of A. B.
Gallupe, for an interest in the estate.
The bill recites that iu a will made
October 9, 1878, A. K. Gallupe left his
property to his wife and when she died
to Miss Maggie Campbell. Mr. Gal
lupe died June 20, 1890, and four
months afterwards the child was born.
The Pall Mall Gazette which an
nounced that it had learned from an
authoritative source that Mr. Glad-
BENHAM’S OFFICIAL REPORT.
He Gives Some Information in Regard
to the Trouble at Rio.
Thursday Secretary Herbert made
public the dispatch received from Ad
miral Benham Monday night, telling
of the trouble with DeGama as fol
lows:
Rio, January 29, 1894.—Secretary
of the Navy, Washington, D. C.: Two
American merchant vessels Saturday
were prevented from going alongsic" e the
wharf. Today at 6 a. m. I sent the De
troit to take a position that would pro
tect vessels going alongside the wharf,
and,if fired upon, to return the fire. My
vessel was under way and cleared for
action. After the Detroit took posi
tion, a boat from one vessel running a
line preparatory to hanling it, was
fired upon with muskets from the in
surgent ship. The Detroit returned
♦he fire with a one-pounder, the shot
striking under her bow. Yhe insur
gents fired a broadside gnn over the
American merchant vessels. The De
troit returned the fire with a musket,
striking the insurgent stern post.
Passing by the insurgent, he was hail
ed, saying, “If you fire again, I wili
return your fire, and, if necessary,
will sink you.”
“The Detroit anchored to command
both vessels, one merchant vessel hav
ing been carried to a new position near
the wharf and a tug having offered her
services, gratuitously, to discharge her
eargo.
“The insurgent leader was notified
that these vessels discharge from their
present positions, but that my deter
mination was not changed—to give
American merchant vessels full pro
tection to the wharf if they desire to
go-”
ALL IS QUIET AGAIN.
Minister Thompson’s detailed report
of Admiral Beuham’s action was also
received. An abstract of it shows that
the Detroit did not fire into the insur
gents, and that Commander Brounsou
threatened to sink the insurgent ship
if the fire was returned. Everything
is now quiet at Bio and matters are
progressing smoothly. The blockade
has beeu broken and all merohant
vessels can be unloaded at the
wharves. Admiral Benham has
informed De Gama that any
attempt to search merchantmen
will be considered as an act of piracy
and that the insurgents will be treated
as pirates.
HERBERT INDORSES BENHAM.
Secretary Herbert Thursday after
noon sent a cable message to Admiral
Benham, telling him of the receipt ot
Minister Thompson's report and in
dorsing, in the name of this govern
ment, Admiral Benham’s action in
protecting American interests and in
forming him that the future will be
trusted to his discretion.
A DYNAMITE FEAST.
Horrible Tragedy Enacted by a Jeal-
ons Husband.
A cable dispatch of Sunday from St.
Petersburg, Russia, reports a shocking
tragedy of a most remarkable charac
ter at Vilna. Ivan Klakwitz, a cus
tom officer of highly respectable con
nection, became convinced that his
wife was in league with a neigh
bor to aid tho latter in a law suit
which was pending against him. There
was apparently no justification for the
charge. The law suit was tried in the
local courts last week and Klakwitz
lost. He addressed the judge in an
excited manner, and, after making a
rambling statement implicating his
wife in an intrigue against him, he left
the courtroom.
which, it is stated, fully confirm the
dispatches from Rio.
DE GAMA SAID TO HAVE SURRENDERED.
The Rothschilds’ banking hour ''as
also received a dispatch from Rio De
Janeiro, saying that Admiral DeGama
has surrendered. Baron Rothschild,
upon being questioned as to the source
from which he had received the dis
patch announcing the surrender of
Admiral De Gama, said that the cable
message came to him from what he
considered to be a most reliable source,
and that he had no reason to doubt its
accurrey.
Gladstone Will Resign.
The Pall Mall Gazette in its issue of
Wednesday declares that it learns from
a source in which it has every confi
dence that Mr. Gladstone has finally
decided to resign office immediately.
According to The Pall Mall Gazette
Mr. Gladstone will announce his de
cision in a letter to the qneen before
the reassembling of parliament. This
decision is said to be due to a sense of
his advanced age and the great strain
the late arduous session imposed upon
him.
nite shape at Nashville Tuesday night
in a meeting of the commercial club,
which appointed a committee to call
and make arrangements for a conven
tion to be held in about a month to
consider the question. The exposition
is proposed to be held in 1896 and this
coming convention is to be composed
of the editors of all the papers in the
state, th# congressmen and prominent
men generally.
Rev. C. W. Lewis, colored, with
many aliases, was jailed at Chattanoo
ga Tuesday by Special Pension Exam
iner Fitzpatrick and the most gigantic
pension frauds ever known in the
south have been unearthed, which will
lead to the arrest of probably a hun
dred negroes implicated with Lewis in
swindling the government. He ap
peared as a witness in numberless cases
and stole a notary’s seal and forged
the names of notaries to false affida
vits. He has operated also in Kansas
City, New Orleans and other points.
There are twenty-seven charges against
him up to date and more coming.
Kveryoody should read the paper an1
Keep yp with the timet
The Industrial Situation During the
Past Week.
The retbw of tho industrial eiination in the
south for the past week shows that the condi
tion of manufacturing industries continues to
be favorable and that the demind for machin
ery is larger than for some time past. Plants
which have been shut down are now starting
Up, especially in tho Inmbcr industry. South
ern textile tnilis report a fair amount of bn i-
fceas. A feature of the situation is considera
ble increaa - in tbe nnmber of enlargements of
in ami factories reported each Week.
Fifty-five industries were established or in
corporated during nhe week, together with
fourteen enlargements of manufactories, and
aetenteen important new buildings- Among
the rromiDcnt ftew industries of the Week are
the following: The Virginia Coal and Coke Co.,
of Richin did, Va., capital ♦100,000. Chartered
by \V. B- Gay and othei s( The Owl Hollow Gold
Jlitiing Co:, of Atlanta, Ga., capital $120,000,
J. H. Moore and associates, incorporators; the
New Decatur Gas, Petroleum and Mining Co.,
Of New Decatur, Ala., capital $100,000; the
Hygienic Salt Co., of Norfolk, Va., cnpital $40,-
000, E. E. Weise and associates, incorporators;
a canning factory to cost $35,000; at Jackson,
Texas, by J. F. Still and others; the Victor
FlouriDg Mill Co., of Wichita Falls, Texas,
capital $35,000, by H- M. Victor and others;
and the iEtnaLsud Co., of Fort Worth, Texas,
capital $25,000, by H. G. Hendrick and asso
ciates.
A hardware company, capital $20,000, ie re-
jorte.l at Bartow, Fla.; a stave factory with
!>16,000 capital at Jonesboro, Ark-: elodrical
works, capital $10,000, at Dawson, Ga., and a
fence machine company, capital $10,000, at
Houston, Tex.
A canning factory is reported at Terry, Mias.;
a cold storage plant at Montgomery’ Ala., a
distillery at Hope Mills, N. C„ and electrical
plants at Mearcy, Ala., Se.ircy, Ark., Quitman,
Ga.. and Shelby, N. C. Fert lizer works are
to be bnilt at Tampa, Fla.; a flouring mill at
Jacksboro, Tex a : machine shops at Dalton,
Ga., and Longview. Texas, and an oil and gas
company at Murrayi-ville, West Virginia.
Paint works are to be established at Athens,
Ga; a shoe factory at Memphis, Tenn.; steam
cotton gins at Kenedy and Richmond, Texas,
and knitting mill at Bossville, Ga. Wood
working plants are to be built at Mobile, Mur
phy and Stevenson, Ala., Blackrock, Jones
boro, Little Rock and Nettleton, Ark.. Palatka,
Fla., Cana, N. C.. and Lvnchbnrg, Va.
Water works are io be built at Marion, Ala.,
Bartow, Fla., Quince and Quitman, Ga.,
Franklin, Ky., and Crawford, Kerrville and
Wert, Iexas.— Tradesman (Cbat’anooga.Tenn.)
Refused to Appoint a Receiver.
A special from New Orleans says
that United States Circuit Judge Don
A. Pardee has refused to appoint a re
ceiver for the Atlanta, Ga., Consoli
dated Street Railway Company. The
petition was presented to the court by
holders of thirty-two bonds in a total
of about two million dollars outstand
ing bonds. Over 90 per cent of the
bondholders have signed an agreement
to come into reorganization, which
makes it effective now that the court
hns refused the application for a re
ceiver.
Harry Hili on Trial.
The trial of Harry Hill, the alleged
forger, was begun at Atlanta Tuesday
morning before Judge Clark,
Later in the day, however, he pro
fessed regret to his wife for his base-
stone intended to resign office before less insinuations and hasty temper and
the next session of parliament, pub- asked his neighbor and his wife to
lished a qualified re-assertion of its dine with him en familie. Thinking
previ ons statement Thursday. It says it better that a reconciliation should
that it was prepared for a contradic- take place the neighbor accepted and
tion of the statement oh the part of a social evening was arranged for. At
the press and government officials, but dinner there were present Klakwitz,
was not prepared for the virtual con- his wife, his two daughters, aged nine-
firmation of the story by Mr. Glad- teen and seventeen years respectively,
stone himself. I a young sod, aged eleven; his wife’s
Articles were executed at Galveston, mother and his neighbor and his wife.
Texas, Thursday whereby the Gulf and The dinner passed off very pleasantly
Interstate Railway Conqianv, the pro- I un til the third course, when Klakwitz
posed line from North Dakota to Gal- r06e > an d ordering some more cham-
veston, has secured an option on ter- P®8 ne to be opened, said that he
minal grounds for the road and a guar- L^debed all present to drink a toast
antee of $2,000,000 from the Port *° fl special dish he had prepared as a
Bolivar Town Company. Port Boli- surprise for this agreeable occasion.
He then left the room, and within two
minutes returned, bearing in his arms
a large dish, covered with a dinner
cover, and placing it quickly on the
var is on the point of the peninsula
opposite the eastern end of Galveston
island and just across the bay channel
from the city, with which it is pro
posed to make connection by means of * ft We, he lifted his glass on high and
i shouted: “To our next meeting.”
He had scarcely spoken these words
when a dynamite bomb, which had
ferry boats.
A Savannah special of Thursday says:
An analysis of the report of Receiver
Comer for the twenty-one months end
ing December 31 shows that the aver
age monthly net earnings for the
Southwestern railroad during 1893
were over two hundred and fifty per
cent greater than the average monthly
net earnings for the nine previous
years given in the report. For the
last six months of 1893 the net earn
ings were three times greater than
those for the last six months of the
previous year.
Judge Monroe delivered his decision
in New Orleans, Thursday, in the mat-
mer of an application for a rule made
by the Premium Club to set aside an
injunction issued by Judge Ellis en
joining the club from doing a busi
ness and the sequestration of the prop
erty by the sheriff. The court upheld
the injunction as originally issued. The
above refers to what is known in New
Orleans as the fraudulent Louisiana
State Lottery conducted by a set of
sharpers, who sought to fleece the
public by using the name of the late
legalized company, whose charter ex
pired January 1, 1894.
CHATTANOOGA CHINAMEN
Are Given Notice to Register Under the
Geary Act.
J. T. Essary, internal revenue col
lector for East Tennessee, has served
notice on the handful of Chinaman in
Chattanooga to comply with the regis
tration proviso of the Geary exclusion
act. Each Celestial is required to be
photographed and his picture, accom
panied by a sworn affidavit stating his
business and time of residence in this
country. This must be sent to Wash
ington before he is qualified to regis
ter if his application is in proper form.
This is the first move to enforce this
act in Tennessee. The limit of regis
tration is May 4th.
been hidden under the cover, exploded
and instantly killed every one in the
room, with the exception of the ser
vant girl and £b~e youngest daughter—
the latter living, however, only long
enough to 'tell exactly what had hap
pened. • The'*--selvnnt died within two
hours. The unfortunate people who
were the^yjetims of this insane frolic
were simply^blown to pieces and tbe
walls of the room in which they were
sitting were partly blown out. The
explosion was heard for half a mile.
BISMARCK IN BERLIN.
He Receives a Royal Welcome by the
Kaiser and People.
Prince Bismarck, his son, Count
Herbert, and several friends left
Friedreshaus Friday morning for Ber
lin. The train arrived punctually at
the Latinte station. Prince'Henry, of
Prussia, the emperor’s brother, the
governor of Berlin and a large suit of
officers were waiting the prince’s ar
rival. The cheering and salutations
from the crowd pleased Bismarck very
much.
Most of the honses along the route
to the emperor’s palace were decorated
with flags. The entire population of
Berlin, swelled by thousands from all
parts of Germany, had apparently
turned out to welcome the senior Bis
marck, and the younger element cheer
ed themselves hoarse as the coach pass
ed en route.
When the party arrived at the castle,
the reception of the old statesman was
of the warmest, most cordial nature.
His majesty embraced the prince with
the utmost heartiness, and a kiss press
ed on the old man’s cheek sealed the
reconciliation between the emperor
and his greatest subject. Prince Bis-
mark’s grave demeanor during his re
ception by his majesty was much com
mented upon.