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JOHN E HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. XII. NO. 17
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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LATEST TELEGRAMS
AGAINST REPEAL
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
THE FLIGHT OF TIME.
An insurance company in Phi la
delphia declines to insure the lives 01
football players.
The Rome papers comment favor
ably upon the United States Govern
ment's proposal to establish emigra
tion agents in Italian ports.
Tn spite of the fact that New York’s
requirements for a medical license are
:he highest in the Union, it is the
,? >onst of the Mail and Express tliRt the
Empire State heads the list of doctors
with 11,171 licensed practitioners.
A writer in Harper’s "Weekly, it.
tulogizing James M. Bailey, of Dan-
)ury, Mass., tells us that the Danbury
Sews man would never allow tut arti
cle reflecting upon the private life of
itny individual or likely to wound any
oerson’s sensibilities, to be published.
He preferred that his journal should
chronicle the good deeds of his towns
people, rather than record their weak
nesses and failures.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
The Superintendent of the Philadel
t>hia Mint has informed the National
Bank of Savannah that a disfigured or
mutilated silver dollar is worth its
weight as bullion—forty-three cent-',
and nothing more. This leads the
New Orleans Picayune to remark that
“it docs uot take much of an accident
to knock fifty-seven cents out of the
dollar of our daddies, an 1 we must be
correspondingly careful of it.”
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
opened a large new warehouse in Jer
sey City, and is prepared to give ex-
r^itionable facilities and quick trans
portation to Southern garden truck
sold in New York. The New York In
dependent is of the opinion that “in
the present condition of agrickltural
depression everywhere the action of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, in facili
tating the handling of garden truck
for city consumption, might be fol
lowed with advantage in other parts
of the United States.”
Now that it is stated that dollar
abeat may no longer be expected be
cause of competition of Argentine,
Russia and India with the United
States, attention is called by the New
York Independent to the fact that the
average number of bushels per acre
raised in the United States is but
rwelva or thirteen, about half the
average iu England. Agriculture in
Great Britain is more intensive, more
careful methods and more fertilizing
material being used, with the result of
a much larger crop. If American
farmers are to meet steady competi
tion hereafter it will be no surprise if
by means of improved methods iu
machinery and in farming they reduce
expenses by increasing production:
A writer on the public debts of na
tions presents an interesting table
comparing the figures cf 1835 with
those of 1890." During that quarter
of a century the grand total increased
Enormously. The only nations show
ing any decrease were the United
States, Great Britain and Denmark.
The latter had a debt of $13,223,009
in 1865, and $33,001,722 in 1890.
This is certainly a highly creditable
showing for a country so limited iu
resources and population. Great
Britain had a debt of $3,818,48,000 at
die earlier of these dates, and of
S3,350,719,-563 at. the latter. But the
United States was the only country
whioh made any very great reduction,
namely, from $2,756,431,371 to $91-3,-
962,112, just about two-thirds. Turn
ing now to the continent of Europe,
including Russia and Turkey, which
are partly in Asia, we find the debt-
increasing figures as follows:
The house renewed consideration of
the bill to repeal the state bank tax act
at Monday’s session, the first speaker
being Mr. Dazzell, who sustained the
constitutionality of the law. Mr. Hol
man gave notice that he would, on
Tuesday, call np the Indian appropri
ation bill for consideration.
in the house, Tuesday, the commit
tee on rules reported an order limit
lng debate on the bill to repeal the
state bank tax to Wednesday’s session,
the vote on the amendments and pass
age of the till to be taken immediate
ly upon meeting. General leave to
print remarks within a period of ten
days is given. Mr. Reed said that he
desired to call attention to the fre
quent use of this method of closing
debate in the house with nearly one
hundred majority, a method so at
variance with the good old methods
we used to revere. But he expressed
his satisfaction at the manifesta
tion of a desire on the part of the dem
ocrats to reach an opportunity to repu
diate another plank of their platform.
For, if ever there was a platform that
deserved stigmatizing in the house of
its friends, it was the platform on which
the democrats believed they were re
turned to pow. r. Mr. Catchings, re
sponding to Mr. Reed, said that ho
acknowledged with regret that the
probabilities ■* were that the repeal of
the tax would not be adopted. But he
desired to say to him and the gentle
men on the republican side that the
time would soon come when currency of
this country iu volume sufficient to do
the business of the country would be
issued by some other svstein of banks
than that now in existence. The
finaneiel thought of the country was
turning, he said, to the necessity for
relief in thiB direction. The resolu
tion was agreed to and the substitute
of the committee on banking and cur
rency for the original Brawley bill and
the amendment of Mr. Cox, of Ten
nessee, to repeal the tax law outright,
were formally laid before the house for
consideration.
The bill to repeal the bank tax act
was taken up in the house at 12 :30
Wednesday, Mr. Turner, of Georgia,
having fifteen minutes in which to
speak in favor of the repeal and there
being an honr and a quarter for argu
ment against repeal. Mr. Meiklejohn,
republican, of Nebraska, spenkiug of
the probable conditions under which
state bank issues would be madein case
the system was rehabilitated, called at
tention to a bank law passed by the
Georgia legislature last December, in
expectation of the repeal of the state
bank tax. That law, ho said, author
ized a bank with one one-quarter of
its capital in national bonds, one-
quarter in state, county or mu
nicipal bonds of the state and
one-half in currency, to issue,
upon the deposit of the bonds with
the state treasury, notes the amount
of three times the security. The sub
ject was fuither discussed by Mr.
Bingham, republican,of Pennsylvania,
Mr. Hall, democrat, of Missouri, Mr.
Robinson, republican,of Pennsylvania,
and Mr, Coekran*, democrat, of New
York. The debate closed at 2:30 and
the vote taken, resulting iu 102 yeas;
170 nays, a majority against repeal of
68 votes.
At 12:30 o’clock, Thursday, the
house went into a committee of the
whole on the Indian appropriation
bill. After Mr. Lynch of Wisconsin
had made a statement of the provisions
of the bill, Mr. Linton of Michigan
made an attack upon the system of,
contract Indian schools, which the
bureau maintained through religious
organizations, chiefly Catholic; most
of the evangelical denominations, he
said, had divorced themselves from the
bureau, and he urged the house to put
an end to the system altogether.
CONDENSED INTO SHORT AND
BREEZY PARAGRAPHS,
And Giving the Gist of the News Up
to the Time of Going to Press.
Nation-.
i333.
13W.
ffer.uauy.. ..
. $610,470,003
$1,956,2X7,017
Austria - Huu-
gary
. 1,473,220,033
2,866,389,539
France
. 2,648,503,033
4.446.793,338
Russia
. 930,030,030
S,491,018.074
Italy
2.324.826.323
>jpsin... „
. 993.600.003
1.251,453,696
Netherlands..
. 414.120,030
430,539.858
Belgium.
. 119.003,033
330 504,099
Sweden.
21,423.003
64,220.307
Norway
. 9.041,033
13,973,752
Portugal
190.400.003
493,493.590
Greece.... ...
. 34.510,000
107.336,53;
Turkey
. 223.432,030
S21.000.00J
Switzerland...
711,000
10,912,925
Totals
.$8,609,650,000 $18,655,649,61)
Some Domestic Details in China.
Cleanliness is cot strictly observed
iu cooking or about the house by the
ordinary natives. The cat is too fre
quently promenading on top of the
oven when the meals are being cooked,
helping itself to fish, meats or rice out
of the bowls that are afterward served
to the traveler. The tables are seldom
washed off. A delicate hand-broom
made of a few straws is used for brush
ing ofl’ the dust and dirt before meal-
iime. The women wash their clothing
at pools of water from which afterward
water is drawn for cooking purposes.
Were it not for the Chinese fashion of
bo ling all water before using it, dis
ease would probably long ago have
swept the empire out of existence.
3oap for washing the face is unknown.
Hot water is rubbed on with a wet rag
and left to dry, as they use nc towels.
All the domestic animals share equal
rights in the house. Pigs and dogs
are in one’s way at nearly every turn.
Sometimes under the cot of iae China
man is thrown a little straw where the
pigs, dogs, pups, ducks, chickens an 1
cate rest as peacefully side by side, as
opposing instincts may. —Outing..
THE SENATE.
The first business done by the sen
ate Monday was the passage of a joint
resolution appropriating £10,000 for
the expenses of the inquiries and
investigations ordered by the senate.
The tariff bill tvas taken up and the
amendments to paragraph 182, offered
by the finance committee, changing
the time when the repeal of the sugar
bounty is to take effect from July 1st,
1894, to June 1st, 1895, was agreed to.
Subsequently by" unanimous consent,
that action was reconsidered and the
amendments still remain open. Mr.
Allison took the floor and argued
against the repeal of the sugar bounty
and against the repeal of the sugar on
the dutiable list.
The tariff bill was taken up in the
senate Tuesday, the question being on
Mr. Jones’ amendment to the sugar
schedule, postponing its going into ef
fect from July], 1894, to July 1, 1895.
At 1 p. m., the discussion was inter
rupted by the vice president with the
declaration that the hour had arrived
for taking a vote on the amendment
offered by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas,
postponing the repeal of the sugar
bounty provision from July 1, 1894, to
July 1, 1895. The vote was taken by
yeas and nays, and the amendment was
agreed to ; yeas 38, nays 31. Mr. Pef-
fer, of Arkansas,voted with the repub
licans. Mr. Manderson offered an
amendment to continue tbe sugar
bounty in full force and effect until
July 1, 1895. It was rejected; yeas
32, nayB 40.
In the senate, Wednesday, the tariff
bill was taken up at 10:30, the qnes
tion being on the tobacco schedule.
Considerable discussion was had on
each paragraph and some changes wert
made. The next schedule (G) “agri
cultural products and provisions,” was
then taken uji.
At Thursday’s session of the senate
the tariff bill was taken up and set
speeches on the agricultural schedule
made by Messrs. Peffer, Gallinger and
Carey.
The strikers at Wheeling Creek, O,,
have posted notices warning the pub
lic to remain away and threatening to
throw newspaper reporters into the
river. They have 100 pounds of dyna
mite and small arras.
The Kansas republican state con
vention iu session nt Topeka nominat
ed I. A. Troutman of Shawnee county
for lieutenant governor on the third bal
lot; W. C. Edwards, of Pawnee county,
for secretary of state, and George C.
Cole, of Crawford county, for auditor.
General James 1>. Chalmers, former
democratic member of congress from
Mississippi, but who is now, to all in
tents and purposes, a resident of Mem
phis, Tenn., has announced his willing
ness to become the people’s party can
didate for congress in the second dis
trict of Mississippi.
The Morgan line steamship El Rio,
Captain Robert B. Quick, from New
York, with a general cargo, arrived in
port at New Orleans, Thursday. She
made the run from dock to dock in
four days, seventeen hours and twenty-
eight minutes, which breaks all previ
ous records by two hours
The Ohio state prohibition conven
tion met in Colnmbtts and nominated
the following ticket; For secretary of
state, R. G. MeCasline, of Kent; for
supreme court judge, John Rosebor-
ough, of Elmore; for school commis
sioner, F. Y. Irish, of Columbus; for
member of the board of public works,
H. T. Earles, of Ironton.
The South Carolinastate prohibition
convention met in Columbia Thursday
afternoon, ninety delegates, represent
ing thirty-four of the thirty-five coun
ties, being present. The convention
passed a resolution against making
nominations. A resolution providing
that candidates for all offices be inter
rogated as to their attitude on the pro
hibition issue was adopted.
Information has been received in
San Francisco’through a dispatch from
officers of the United States revenue
cutter Bear, which says that she is fast
on the rocks at the entrance to the
harbor at Sitka. The steamer was
'plowing her way into the harbor at a
good speed on the night of May 29,
when she struck on a rock and all ef
forts to get her off were unavailing.
Arrangements have been perfected at
Chattanooga whereby a branch factory
of the great lead pencil works of L. &
C. Hardmutb, of Bndweis, Austria,
will be estaljisbed in Chattanooga.
When completed it will give work to
fifty men and will afford a market for
hundreds of cords of southern red
cedar. The wood will be prepared for
the pencils here and sent to Budweis
to be filled with lead.
At Indianapolis, Ind., Thursday
morning, Theodore Haughey, the ex
president cf the wrecked Indianapolis
National bank, was given six years in
the penitentiary. A few months ago
he pleaded guilty to misapplying the
funds of the bank and thereby avoided
a public trial. In passing sentence
the judge broke down and cried like a
child. He said that it was the most
painfal duty of his life.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
AND BANKERS -MUST FAY TAN
ON CIRCULATING MEDIUM.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Tli ■ review of the indualrial situation iu the
Eouth for the vase we<k shows that there is no
noticeable improvement iu conditions. The
coal strike has seriously disturbed the general
situation, and miners and operators still seem
far from a settlement, but no serious tronbie
lias yet occurred, but at times it seemed immi
nent. its yet no industries have closed on ac
count of scare ty of coal. The lumber market
shows a little improvement.
Thirty-0110 new industries were estabrsh“d
or incorporated during the week, among which
may be mentioned the London National Brick,
Paint nnd Manufac U' ing Company, of Lynch
burg, Ya., capital $100,000, the Went Virginia
Artifie al Stone Company, Fail-mount, Va.,
capital $100,060; the Big Birch Biver Lumber,
Coal and O.l Company, Sutton. W. Va., capi
tal $100,000; the G. A. Dueler Manufacturing
Company, San Antonio, Texas, capital $50,000,
and an electric lighting plant at Paris, Tenn.,
capital $40,000. Brick works are to lie estab
lished at Broadway, Va.: bottling works at
Terrell, Texas; electric plants at Lexington,
Ky., and Water Valiev, Mi-s ;a corn and flouring
mill atRonda, N. C." and flouring mills at Pu
laski, Tern., and Houston, Va. A plant to
manufacture eculls and oars will be erec cd at
Galveston, Texa-; fence works at Greenville,
8. C.; a kindling wood fac ory at Suffolk, Va.;
a moss factory at Morgan City, La.; a machine
shop at C'ordele, Ga., and a paper mill at Baton
Rouge, La.; sugar refineries at B&ion Rouge
and Broussard, La.; a new batting mill at Ter
rell, Texas, and a tobacco factory at Calhoun,
La. New wo dworking plants are reported at
Buena Vista, Va., Beil’s Depot, Tenn-, Russell
ville, Ky.. Charlotte Harbor, Fla , and Sutton,
VV. Va. Water works will be built at Cnthbert,
Ga., Ronceverte, W. Ta., and Starke, Fla.
Among the enlargements reported are a foun
dry and machine shop at Jefferson, Texas; oil
mills at Kush Point, Li., San Marcos, Texas,
West Point. Ga , and West Point, Miss.; a cot
ton compress at Entow, Ala.; cotton mill at
Augusta; Ga-, and lumber company at Boilin
er, Ark.
The new buildings reported include a $20,-
000 church at Georgetown, Ky„ a $25,000 col
lege at West Point, Miss.; a $55,000 court
bi-n-e at Brazoria, Texas, and a 25,000 hospital
at Knoxville, Tenn, A $3,000 san taiium is re
ported at Atlanta. Ga., and a -$31,000 ware
house at New Orleans, La. School baildings
to cost $10,000 each will be built at Covington
Tenn., Forrest City, Ark., and Louisville, Ky.
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
The Vote Was t02 to 170—Brawley's
Bill Also Defeated.
By a vote of 102 to 170 the house
Wednesday afternoon voted down the
bill unconditionally repealing the state
bank tax. The majority against the
bill was 68. Its defeat was expected,
having been predicted for several days.
It was due to the fact that the north
ern deni derate abandoned the plank of
the democratic platform. Amos Cum
mings, of New York, was one of a half
dozen northern domocrats who voted
for the bill. The republicans and
populists voted solidly against it.
The debate closed at 2:10 o’clock,
ahd a vote was taken on the Cox
amendment to repeal the 10 per cent,
tat outright. The vote was announced
as yeas 102, nays 170. The announce-
XKWS AND GOSSIP OF WASH
INGTON CITY.
Brief Notes Concerning the Business
of Our Government.
Mrs. Cleveland, accompanied by her
two children, a nurse and maid, left
Washington Wednesday morning in a
special car over the Pennsylvania rail
road for Gray Gables, Mass.
The senate has confirmed the follow
ing nominations 1 Charles Nelson, of
Maryland, to be second assistant post
master genera]; William P. Roberts,
of North Carolina, to be consul of the
United States at Victoria, B. C.
District Attorney Birney concluded
to lay the matter of the two corre
spondents who refused to answer ques
tions asked them by the sugar investi
gating committee before the grand
jury. Mr. Birney said he did not ex
pect the indictment to be made out in
ment was received with slight ap- I less than ten davs and it will take
Battle With Miners.
One dead body, several men on the
verge of the grave, a number of others
seriously injured, $30,000 worth of
property absolutely destroyed, and
many homes made desolate was the re
sult of an attempt made Wednesday
by the miners of the Peoria district to
close the mice operated by LittleBro?,,
ip Tazewell county, 111,
THROUGH A BURNING TRESTLE.
Striking Miners are Suspected of In
cendiarism.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says;
Thnrsday morning at 5 o’clock a west
bound freight train on the Georgia Pa
cific railroad ran into a burning trestle
near Patton, sixty miles west of here.
The engine and eight cars went down
and were practically destroyed by
fire. The tire was near a big curve
and could not be seen by the engineer
nntil it was too late to stop the train.
Engineer Goodman had his ankle
broken and is badly bruised. Fireman
Charles Berry was severely cut on the
head, Brakeman Joe Mabry had a
hand broken and Joe Scott an arm
dislocated. The loss of property is
very heavy. The fact that no train
had passed over the road for ten hours
makes it appear as if the f|re was of
incendiary origin. The fact that the
train was loaded with so-called scab
coal has led some to the conclusion
that the bridge was' tired l>v strikers.
Frost in Tennessee.
There was a light fro6t in the vicini
ty of Nashville, Tenn., Friday morn
ing. There is no record of such oc
currence in any previous year as late
as the 1st of Jpne.
plause,
bbawlet’s Bill fails.
The substitute of the committee on
banking and currency for the original
Brawley bill, suspending the operation
of the 10 per cent tax as to the issues
of certificates, etc., by clearing houses
and other organizations last year,
merely changing the verbiage so as to
make it more explicit, was also defeat
ed on a viva voce vote. Then the orig
inal bill was lost. This was the end of
the ten days’ debate and a result that
occasioned some surprise, and the an
nouncement was received amid much
confusion and applause.
TRADE NOTES.
Business of the Past Week as Re
viewed by Duu & Co.
R. Gi Dun & Co. ’s weekly review of
trade says; “It is a sign of cheering
import that in finished business, rep
resented by clearings and railway ton
nage, there has been less decrease since
the strike began than might have been
expected. But in incohate business,
the orders which 6tart the wheels to
result in tonnage and payment weeks
or months later, there seems to be an
actual decrease. Not only are new
orders few and small in most depart
ments, but cancellation of orders pre
viously given is increasingly numerous.
This is, in part, the effect of the uncer
tainties which the strikes produce, but
it extends also to numerous industries
which the proposed changes of duty
might affeet. Meanwhile exports of gold
rapidly deplete the treasury reserve,
whileidle money gathers therein unus
ual amount for the season,although crop
prospects continue, on the whole, most
favorable. The stoppage of iron fur
naces between the Alleghany moun
tains and the Mississippi river has be
come complete, and a great number of
concerns manufacturing iron, and
others requiring soft coal or coke for
fuel, have been forced to stop.
“Business cannot incrensein volume
under such circumstances, and yet
payments through all clearing houses
for the week show a decrease of only
20.8 per cent, compared with last yenr
and are nearly as large as in April,
averaging about $142,000,000 daily at
all cities, against $144,000,000 in that
month and March, against $140,000,-
000 in February.
Though a large number of works
are idle, the demands for products is
not what might be expected, either in
volnme or in urgency. The output of
iron and steel has been suddenly and
sharply reduced, hut the reduced sup
ply seems about as sufficient for the
demand as it was a month ago, except
in Bessemer. Sales of small lots of
Bessemer pig at places as distant west
as Troy and Duluth for transportation
to the Carnegie works, near Pittsburg,
disclose how completely stocks are ex
hausted, and sales for delivery iu July
and August at $11 to $11.15, a price
$1.50 higher than prevailed a few
weeks ago, indicates the belief that the
termination of the strike will not soon
bring back the old prices. But for
most products, notwithstanding the
interruption, the demand is unexpect
edly nartow, and buyers feel that the
present advance is but temporary.
“The outgo of gold continues and is
now believed to be due, in part, to
preparation for gold redemption in
Austria. The loss of $5,600,000 this
week and $28,000,000 since May 1st,
has reduced the treasury gold to about
$77,000,000. Meanwhile the Bank of
England holds the largest gold reserve
since 1879, the year of specie resump
tion here. Currency continues to
come hither in great amounts from the
interior, and bankers estimate that the
sum required to be sent west, in con
nection with the crop movement next
fall, will be not half as large as usual,
At present low prices the movement of
grain is not likely to be rapid.
“Liabilities reported in failures for
the fourth week of May were $2,593,-
087, and for four weeks ending May
24th, $11,392, of which $4,445,005
were of manufacturing and $5,806,891
of trading concerns. Reports yet to
come in may increase the aggregate to
$14,000,000.
“Failures this week have been 183
in the United States against 238 last
year, and 27 in Canada against 21 last
year. Only two failures, l o h bank
ings are for $100,000 or more.”
BIG STEEL PLANT
To Cost a Million Dollars to be Built
at Bessemer, Ala.
A Montgomery special says: The
stockholders of the Bessemer, Ala.,
Land Company at their annual meet
ing have rosolved to build a million-
dollar steel plant, with a capacity of
300 tons daily, and giving employment
to 1,000 men. The company proposes
to put np a half million in cash and to
raise a half million on thirty year
bonds. The plant will be owned wholly
by the Bessemer company and no out-
side parties will be asked to subscribe for
stock. H. F. DeBardeleben, the prime de-
veloper of the industrial region of Al
abama, bas been elected president of
the company and will devote all of his
time and his splendid capacity to mak
ing the steel mill a success. A special
committee,consisting of DeBardeleben,
David Roberts and A. T. Smythe, of
Charleston, S. 0., has been appointed
to superintend the erection of the
mill. They will go to work on the de
tails without delay.
I nearly that length of time to prepare
the document.
Mr. Hottk, republican, of Tennes
see, has introduced in the house a bill
appropriating $196,000 for necessary
and special facilities on trunk lines
from Toledo, O., via Cincinnati,
Knoxville, Chattanooga and Atlanta
to New Orleans. The bill provides
that no part of the appropriation shall
be expended unless the postmaster
general shall deem it necessary in
order to promote the interest of the
postal service.
The senate, Wednesday, authorized
the appointment of a special commit
tee to investigate the prevailing dis
tress that is said to exist throughout
the country and make such report
thereon as seems best. This is the
outgrowth of the numerous petitions
presented by Senators Peffer and Al
len. The vice president appointed the
following senators to serve as members
of the special committee: Vilas, chair
man; Smith, Blackburn, Gallinger and
Patton. .
Mr. Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle
have adopted,a now policy. They have
decided no longer to annoy themselves
about maintaining the gold reserve at
$100,000, but to let it go down nntil it
goes to nothing before issuing bonds.
They have given it out in plain terms
that there will be no new bond issue.
As a matter of fact at some seasons
gold shipments from this country are
very heavy, but it nlways comes back,
and while the reserve in the treasury
gets low at some times, it comes up
again at others and evens itself up.
At last the industrial armies are to
be officially recognized by congress.
The senate has provided a special com
mittee of five senators to hear all these
people who come to talk about the in
dustrial condition of the country. Con
gress is aware that there is a wide
spread discontent throughout the
country among the industrial classes.
While congress may not be able to do
anything to relieve this, still the clam
oring people deserve to be heard when
they ask respectfully; therefore the
senate provided a committee. The
hearings will probably commence at
once, and the sessions will be open.
The claim for $15,000,000 filed
against the Stanford estate by Attor
ney General Olney, as a preliminary
step to enforce the government’s claim
against the original lioldersof the Cen
tral Pacific grant, hns awakened much
interest in San Francisco. It is now
learned that the government’s claim
was presented on May 26th, but that j
an attempt was made to keep the pro- I
ceeding secret, in order that the fiuan- !
cial operations of the estate need not
be embarrassed. The late Senator ,
Stanford’s estate was recently ap- j
praised at $17,000,000. Since the ap- j
praisement heavy obligations have
been met, and it is stated now that the j
enforcement of the government claim !
would practically wipe out the estate.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Miller states that the defeat of the
Brawley bill, to relieve certain south
BRIEFLY EPITOMIZED IN FUNG-
ENT PARAGRAPHS
Chronicling Events of Special Inter
est to Our Readers.
The wheat crop of Dallas county,
Texas, is now being harvested. It
will sum up 600,000 bushels more
than last year. The commercial value
is 400,000. This is the finest crop
produced in forty years.
The Mississippi railroad commission
completed its schedule of assessments
of the railroad, sleeping car, telegraph
nnd express companies, but it has not
given its conclusion to the public,
is believed, however, that there has
been no material change from the
schedule of last year anywhere along
the Ion,
The commencement exercises at the
Greensboro, N. C., Female college
were formally opened Wednesday
morning by the baccalaureate sermon
by Bishop Fitzgerald, of Atlanta. The
speaker took for his text, “Her price
is far above rubies.” The bishop de
voted a great deal of his time to a pro
test against woman’s suffrage.
A Memphis dispatch says: The rail
road war rages with increased vio
lence. It has broken out in another
spot and now Memphis consigners get
the benefit of an extensive cut. The
Louisville and Nashville iu Memphis
notified shippers that there will in
few days be put into effect a sweeping
reduction in freight rates from all
Ohio points and Memphis to the south
west territory.
Governor Tillman, of South Caroli
na, was interviewed Wednesday on his
return from New York. He said that
dispensaries and high license will be
the issue in the fall campaign in South
Carolina. The question will be settled
by democratic primaries in August.
“I will not be a candidate for governor
but will be in the race for Senator
Butler’s seat,” said the governor, “and
I expect to win. ”
A chapter of the Railway Employes’
Protective Association has been or
ganized at Montgomery, Ala,, with a
membership of several hundred. This
is the second chapter organized in Al
nbama. The first is at Birmingham.
The national constitution and the by
laws of the state organization of Geor
gia were adopted, with some local ad
ditions. The organizers will next
direct their attention to the South
Georgia and Florida cities.
A dispatch from Purvis, Miss., says:
There are at present hiding in the
bushes around the little interior vil
lage of Columbia, about eighty wbito-
caps, all armed to the teeth. They
are said to be holding consultations
among themselves, endeavoring to de
cide the best method to pursue in or
der to rid themselves of prosecution
at the special term of court. The
sheriff hns been furnished with the
namci of about 250 of this lawles
band.
James Plunkett and J. F. Glover,
two white men, charged with counter
feiting and passing counterfeit dollars,
were given a preliminary hearing at
Savannah, Ga., Tuesday and sent to
jail: George Johnson, a negro, was
the only witness agninst them. Accor
ding to his story they had at the time
he met them more than 300 counter
feit dollars, some of which he brought
into Savannah. The negro’s character
has been proven bad, however, and his
story is believed to be a concoction to
i shield himself and some comrades.
The Houston, Tex., Post, whose crop
; report last season proved to he accu
rate as to acreage and yield, will pub-
i lish the first report of the crop of
I 1894. The reports are from every
j cotton growing county in Texas and
arc full and complete. With scarcely
i an exception there is general increase
i in acreage, aggregating, on a conserv-
| ative estimate, at least 10 per cent,
| some of the largest cotton producing
1 counties in the state showing an in
crease of 25 per cent. In one county
CONDENSATION OF INTEREST
ING OCCURRENCES
Which Happen From Day to Day
Throngliout the Busy World.
Life is not so short but there
fllirays time enough for courtesy.
ern corporations from the penalties i where no cotton was raised last year
incurred in the issue of “scrip or 60-
called certificates” during the finan
cial stringency last summer and fall,
would not result disastrously to
any one or to the government.
The attorney-general rendered the
opinions last fall, on samples of the al
leged money submitted to him. that
they were not subject to the tax, and
on that state of the case, all efforts on
the part of the internal revenne officers
to collect the tax or to ascertain how j
much of the so-called money certifi
cates or scrip had been issued, ceased, j
No such alleged money is now iu use i
anywhere.
Troops to the Front.
Governor McKinley has sent the
Second regiment of state troops,which
rendezvoused at Columbus, Ohio, to
Belmont county to reinforce Adjutant
10,000 acres are under cultivation this
rear.
A FATAL WRECK
Iu Which Eight are Killed and Fifteen
or Twenty Injured.
An accident resulting in the loss of
eight lives and the injury of fifteen to
twenty persons, more or less seriously,
occurred at Marshfield, Wis. Train No.
26, on th9 Wisconsin Central railway
went through an open switch and was
completely wrecked. The cars after
ward took fire and were consumed.
Four persons were taken from the
wreck dead and four others are miss
ing, supposed to have been caught in
the mass of broken timbers and crushed.
Among the dead are the engineer, fire
man and one of the Tweedy brothers.
Drowned by a Clondburst. _
~ , TI - , .... . „ . ‘ A cloudburst has occurred in the
General Howe who, with two full regi- j gierra Madre motmtains> about seven-
ments of infantry and a battery of ar
tillery is in camp at Barnesville. There
the Second regiment will join him and
the whole force of about two thousand
men will go to St. Clairville Junction.
There tronbie is expected, as the
strikers number thousands and the
feeling against soldiers is intense.
Servian Cabinet Goes Under.
A cable dispatch from Sofia says:
The resignation of M. StambulofFs
ministry was dne entirely to personal
friction between the several members.
M. Giekoff has declined to undertake
the reconstruction of the cabinet and
has advised Prince Ferdinand to sum
mon some representative of the oppo
sition for that purpose. The change
in ministry .will not affect the foreign
relatione of the country.
Direct Trade with Europe.
A Washinglon dispatch says: Capf*
J. M. Berry has returned from Great
Britain and the continent, having vis
ited Liverpool, Loudon, Hamburg,
Bremen and Amsterdam in the interest
of direct trade from Augusta, Ga.
Captain Berry has appointed reliable
agents in those places lor the bale of
his flour mill product. Shipments will
be made direct from Port Royal, Sa
vannah and Charleston.
ty miles south of Mexico, and a camp
of charcoal burners were washed away
by the flood, which came raging down
the mountain gulch. Ten charcoal
burners in the camp were all drowned.
A Jealous Dee
Failed for $700,000.
The Steel & Walker Co., the largest
wholesale dealers of St. Joseph, Mo.,
has made an assignment. The liabili
ties are $700,000, and the assets, from
$900,000 to $1,000,000.
. “Judge Catron, formerly of tin
Sltpreme Court of Illinois, had a fim
deer park at his home,” said S. C
Beckwith, of Ottawa, at the South
cr:i. “In the park was a small drove
of elk. one named Frank being
especially friendly. He followed hit
keo]>cr as a dog would do, and mani
fested every sign of affection, rubbing
his nose against the man’s coat and
obeying his every command. Frank
was a great favorite, but to no on*
did lie show so much love as for hit
keeper.
“Another deer was brought inti
the compartment or yard where
Frank was kept, and the keeper made
a pet of it. Frank grew sullen,
and in a few days could stand it no
longer. Charging upon the keeper,
he knocked him down and would
have killed the man if help had not
arrived in time to save him. Then
I he cdk turned upon the pet deer, of
which he was jealous, and before be
-•ould be overpowered had inflicted
mortal injuries upon it. It was the
clearest case of jealousy I ever knew
in an animal.”—[St, Louis Globe-
Democrat.
Most men look out for number one;
most women claim to look out
number two—at the shoe store,
The Kansas republican state conven
tion, in session at Topeka, Wednes
day, nominated Congressman E. N.
Morrill for governor nnd W. A. John
son, of Minneapolis, for associate jus
tice of the supreme court.
The Ohio Central railroad discontin
ued its entire freight service Tuesday
from lack of fuel, and within three
days will have to stop passenger traffic,
if no coal can be had. The Lake Shore
road has laid off nine frieghts on three
divisions, and is burning cord wood
and old ties in freight locomotives.
One hundred and seventy-live
groes were landed at Scottdale, Pa.,
Tnesday evening and sent to the
Standard and Central works of the
Friek Coke Company. Most of them
were accompanied by their families.
Some of the labor leaders boarded the
train and tried to induce them to join
the strike. This they refused to do.
The National tube works at McKees
port, Pa., were surrounded by a crowd
of at least 5,000 strikers and sympa
thizers Wednesday night. The men
were nervous and anxious, but in no
way desperate. No trouble is looked
for unless an attempt is made to start
the works. All trains are closely
watched by the strikers for deputies,
but as yet no deputies have arrived on
the scene.
Owing to the scarcity of coal from
the great coal strike, the Mobile aud
Ohio railroad shops at Jackson, Tenn.,
have laid off thirty-five men. Two or
three trains have also been taken off.
The Jackson waterworks are mixing
wood and coal. The Illinois Central
railroad is hauling its coal stowed
along the southern divisions to the
Chicago division. Factories are find
ing it difficult to get coal.
A great drought in the far western
part of Nebraska is reported. The
farmers have been unable to raise a
crop or obtain water for stock. As a
consequence hundreds of fat ms iu
Lincoln and adjoining counties are
being deserted by their teuants, who
are moving eastward in wagons. No
rain has fallen in weeks, and all vege
tation is parched. Other portions of
the state fare very much better, but
in many places the small grain is a
failure.
William Barr, of Terre Haute, Ind.,
one of the oldest and best known of
Vamlalia engineers, was instantly kill
ed by striking coal miners. Bnrr was
bringing west a special train of sixteen
coal cars. Since the strike trainmen
have been compelled to dodge rocks
thrown at them by miners on almost
every run. When the train was be
tween Harmony aud Kinghtsville the
engineer and fireman were made the
target for a number of rocks thrown
by a group of strikers. Barr had just
dodged one rock and was in the act of
rising when he was struck aud instant
ly killed.
Chief of the Comanche*.
Quanah Parker is chief of the
Comanches, says the Little Rock
Gazette. Years ago a wagon train
was attacked in Texas by the raiding
and marauding Comanches and all
but one infant girl killed. Site was
raised by the chief and married his
son, who, at the death of his father,
was also chief. The rangers defeated
the Indians in a battle and captured
the woman and her infant child.
She could only talk Comanche and
had almost lost all resemblance, tf
the white race. She was taken te
her people, but she longed for her
Indian home and her husband, and
soon pined away and died, The
child was put at school and was being
raised as a white child. He was
called by the name his mother was
always saying “Quanah,” the name
of his father. A bitter warfare was
all this time kept up unremittingly.
It is history that there was always
war on the border. At length they
succeeded in recapturing the child.
He was much more like a white per
son in looks than his mother after her
long captivity, and he also had the
ways and education of a white man.
He was chief when his father died
and has been for a number of years.
He held the surname of his mother,
having an Indian given name and an
English surname. Owing to his edu
cation and his mother’s treatment
while with them, he has-always been
friendly to the whites. He has done
much to make peace, and is trying
to civilize his tribe. He favors and
works hard with his people for allot
ment in severalty of their lands, and
the sale of the surplus to the govern
ment. He recognizes the advantages
to his people from contact with the
white man, and if the Comanches
ever amount to anything in civiliza
tion it will be due to the efforts of
Quanah Parker.
He had talked on every snbjec-t and
The (rfrl was dreadful tired ;
He’d talked and talked and talked nutil
She wished to see him fired.
And when lie had got baek agi
To weather, she was mad ,
Enough you bet to oall down-stair-;
Her fierce and warlike dad.
“It's been a lovely day,” he saiil
“I wonder if ’twill be
Like this to-morrow, for I lova
These balmy days to see. ”
She answered him : “I do not know
And I don’t care to guess,
For in such matters, I must say
I’m not a prophetess.
“But if you really want to know
To-morrow’s weather’s fate.
Possess your soul in patience, for
You’ll not have long to wait.”
—Detroit Froe Press.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Greatly Surprised.
Lieutenant Blank of the army is
lix feet four inches tall, and tips the
scale at two hundred and fifty pounds.
He was stationed for many years in
Washington, attached to a scientific
bureau of the government, his writ-
ings being well known to the scienti
fic world.
Much of his writing was done even
ings at home, and lie would some
times carry home necessary reference
books, and return them to his office
at will. One morning he gathered
together several, none of them very
small, and putting them under his
arm, started for his office.
In the course of his walk he was
brought face to face with a very black
little negro, who, with arms akimbo,
chin dropped, and his shining black,
eyes filled with wonder, had planted
himself directly in front of Lieuten
ant Blank.
Before the gentleman had time ti
do more than take in this apparition
of darkness, the 1 if tie “piccaninny’
had thrown back his head so as to bt
ibie to gaze up intu the lieutenant':
fuce. and in a tone of comical amaze
uieiit exclaimed:
• Gude gracious,, mister, is vot
gwitie to school?'’—Youth's Com
oauion.
A Remarkable Dwarled Hunchback.
Hiram Heffner, of Reading, Penn.,
irho (lied a few days ago, was the
father of forty-one children. He was
a dwarfed hunchback and was first
married in 1840. His wife bore him
twelve children in the first eight
years of their married life. The first
child was followed by one set of trip-
I ment exciaimeo ; lets and four sets of twins. Heffner
was oae of the characters of Berk-
County. Notwithstanding his de
formity he was cheerful and jolly, amt
Don't carry all your religion in rout' * veT 7 general favorite with every.
Tfiffi's sabs, body,—St. Louis Republic.
A summer hit—Slapping a mosquito.
—Boston Courier.
A still alarm—“The revenue officers
are coming. ”—Truth.
The only really true and steadfast
love is love of self.—Hallo.
Every bird pleases us with its lay —
especially the hen.—Grip.
A masked ball— A lemonade with a
stick in it.—Philadelphia Record.
Don’t talk too much. A stiff' lower
jaw is as useful as a stiff upper lip.—
Puck.
Some people are never at home un
til they are away from home.—Atchi
son Globe.
A beetle can draw twenty times it*
own weight. So can a mustard plas
ter. —Texas Siftings.
You will notice that the mau wlic
is spoken of as “superior to clothes”
wears mighty poor clothes.—Puck.
Nothing is easier to understand thau
how we shouldn’t have made the mis
takes we have seen other people make.
—Puck.
The man who is willing to wait foi
something to turn up is usually too
blind to see it when it comes along.
—Puck.
Oddly enough the homeliest of old
maids are generally girls who were
matchless in their youth.—Buffalo
Courier.
Uncle George—“Are you good at.
guessing?” Little Dick—“Ye-, in
deed. I’m head in the spelling class. ”
—Good News.
He—“My love will have no ending,
dear.” She—“Now, I say, George,
aren’t you going to marry tn--, after
all?”—Tid-Bits.
The long-cut overcoat ii:is proved
To him the best of boons.
Biuee underneath It he can wear
His baggy pantaloons.
—New York Herald.
Musical composers should have no
trouble about proposing to their
sweethearts; they are used to making
overtures. —Philadelphia Record.
An offer to bet is not an argument,
but it frequently has the effect of si
lencing your opponent and increasing
his respect for your position.—
Puck.
“H’m!” said the burglar after he
had found that the safe wa3 empty,
“this thing lacks a whole lot of what
it was cracked up to be.”—Indianap
olis Journal.
Twickenham—“How is your daugh
ter’s French tutor getting on with
her?” Bilter—“Very nicely. He has
got so he can speak English first-rate.”
—Brooklyn Life.
“I wonder what makes Higby so un
popular?” “I give it up, but it’s s
fact. Why, that man is so disliked
that he can’t even get a bite when ha
goes fishing.”—Indianapolis Journal.
Nature abhors a vacuum,
And art a platitude.
And this is mighty hard upon
The gentle, harmless dude.
—Boston Transcript.
My son, if you are flush, associate
with the weli-to-do, for they are not
likely to borrow ; but if you are broke
keep on good terms with the poor, for
they are more willing to lead?—
Puck.
“You beat us,” said the defeated
yachtsman, “because you caught the
breeze before we did.” “That’s be
cause we watched for it with baited
breath,” replied the victor.—Chicago
Tribune.
Logical: Effie—“Mummy, why do
they hunt lion an’ tigers?” Mamina —
“Because they kill the poor little
sheep, Effie.” Effie (after a pause)—
“Then why don’t they hunt the
butchers, mummy?”—Punch.
Young Fogy--“Dad, let’s go into
the other room and see the phono
graph. It repeats every word you
say.” Old Fogy -“Just as though I
hadn’t friends enough that do that
right along.”—Boston Transcript.
Mrs. Next door- - “I have found out
one thing about that Mrs. Nleweome.
Whoever she is, she has never mo ved
in good society.” Mr. NextJo.ir —
“How do you know that?” Mrs. Next-
door—“She shakes hands as if she
meant it. ”—Tit Bits.
Museum Manager—“I’ve got too
many of .you freaks. I’ll have to dis
charge one of you.” India-Rubber
Man—“Let it be the Human Sala
mander ; he’s used to the fire. ” Man
ager—“No! I think I’ll bounce you.”
—Philadelphia Record.
Heloise (eight years old! “What
does transatlantic mean, mother?”
Mother—“Oh, across the Atlantic, of
course. Rut you mustn’t bother me.”
Heloise -“Does trans, then, always
mean across?” Mother—“I suppose
it does. Now, if you don’t stop both
ering me with your questions I shall
send you right to bed.” Heloise is
silent a few moments. Heloise—
“Then does transparent mean a cross
parent?”—Brooklyn Life.