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THE TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” JOHN E HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor, VOL. XII. NO. 17 VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1894. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. One student out of every sixteen ia ' pAFri pUcCTll Y \ T America is studying for the ministry. | 'JltLOuHJil ALi 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.