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- / M THE VIENNA PROGRESS. \A \ TERMS, $1. Per Animm, 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 1,807,741 60 I S^ l " K, 5n a SW^2n; W-'W! W-.W-* 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.