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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
TERMS, $1. Per Annum,
Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.’
JOHN E HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XII. NO. 41)
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE %, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Yonng as Oklahoma is, her farmers
have invested $340,000 in farming im
plement?.
In Russia, as in France, Italy and
Spain, titles carry no pri vileges, either
official or social
Railroads in Holland are so carefully
managed that the accidental deaths on
them average only one a year for tho
entire country.
The statement is made in the
Courier-Journal that the products oi
Southern factories now exceed the
products of its soil.
More permanent progress has been
made in sheep culture during the last
five years, the Chicago Times avers,
than during the last half century.
Officials of tho Smithsonian Institu
tion at Washington have discovered
evidences which lead them to believe
that the mound builders were tho pro
genitors of the modern Indians.
It is not generally known that Bal
timore has become tho headquarters
of the spiritualists of tho United
States. Believers have proposed the
erection of a$l,000,000 church in that
city.
Kentucky is said to have been the
first State in the Union to grant school
suffrage to women in 1845. Kansas
followed in 1S31. To-day the women
of twenty-one States havo this privi
lege-
‘ ‘What do you think of a civiliza
tion,” tho Denver Iload asks, “that
will pay a girl six cents for making a
shirt in a sweater’s deu and gives ten
cents to a Chinaman for washing the
shirt?”
Census figures quoted by Edward
Atkinson, iu the Forum, show that the
amount of real estate encumbrances iij
tho eleven counties in and immedi
ately around New York City exceed
tho total mortgage indebtedness on
all the farms in the United States.
It is estimated that the loss of prop
erty by fire last year throughout the
whole country reached the enormous
sum of $167,000,000. This is not sim
ply guesswork, declares the Now York
Tribune, but tho result of careful es
timates made by a committee of the
National Board of Firo Underwriters,
and shows an increase of $16,000,000
over the total given for 1892. It is
not surprising that tho firo insurance
companies are alarmed at the losses
they are compelled to sustain, and
reoogniz'e the need of enforcing a
more uniform application of rules and
mothods.
A benevolent agency organized iu
New York last winter that excited
general interest was the loan society
originating with Rev. Dr. Greer, of
St. Bartholomew’s Church. Promi
nent-citizens backed it up and made it
a success. In all 171 loans have been
made. In no case was there default-
in payment. This sort of philan-
trophy has now statutory recognition
in Now York State. Governor Flower
has signed a bill incorporating the
Provident Loan Society, capitalized at
$150,009, and to charge a rate of in
terest not to exceed twolvo per cent.
Pawnbrokers ohargo thirty-six for
similar service. If any profits accrue
from the business they will bo used
for improvements and branch offices.
The incorporating act provides eight
months shall be allowed for redemp
tion after the expiration of the legal
term.
CONGRESSIONAL.
daily PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
BRIEFLY EPITOMIZED IX PUNG
ENT PARAGRAPHS
The honse spent the day Monday on
Mr. Hatch’s anti-option bill. An effort
was made by its opponents to prevent
its consideration, but they lost, the
vote standing 132 to 81.
Tuesday morning, in the absence of
Speaker Crisp, Bepresentative Baily
was appointed speaker pro tern of the
Chronicling Events of Special Inter
est to Our Readers.
The republicans of the Louisville,
Tenn., district have nominated the
Hon. Walter Evans for congress. Mr.
Evans was internal revenue commis
sioner under President Arthur’s ad
ministration.
It is stated at Columbia, S. C., that
the Carolina, Cumberland Gap and
bouse. Tho house proceeded in 001,1 - j Chicago will at once extend its line
mittee of the whole to the further con- I from Edgeficklj S . c > to Greenville,
siderntion of the anti-option bill. s C > thcre to connect wit h the Sea-
Coombs, of New lork, was tho fi-st - board Air-Line system,
speaker in opposition to the bill. m - ,, . , .
When the house, at 12:15 W< dues- ! The carefully taken census for the
day took up the anti-option bill in new city directory gives Chat anooga
committee of the whole, it was with h n r c ^ lu sJ? r s . nbu 1 rbs > »1’*’I'nlation of
tho understanding that the debate | 46 ’ 3 °, 3 - This is a loss of 3,126as com-
should close with adjournment Thurs- P«ed a similar census made m
dav, and a vote on the bill and peml-I 18j2 ’. Considering the great depres
ing amendment be taken after the ! 6,on la business, ls considered -
morning hour, Friday.
Speaker Crisp was still nnable to
discharge his duties in the house
Thursday, and Bepresentative Bailey
again took the chair. Several bills
were passed under requests for nnani
! good showing.
■ The boiler of an engine on the Mari
etta and North Georgia railroad ex-
' ploded Wednesday at Hiawasce station,
eighty-eight miles from Ivnoxvill
i with fearful results. Oue man’s head
mous consent. At 1 o’clock the house , was blown off, two others were fatally
proceeded, in committee of the whole, w-ounded and another’s life was saved
to further consider tho nnti-optiou by a miracle,
bill, Mr. Grosvenor being tbe first j
speaker. He advocated tho passage of
the bill. I
TIIE SENATE.
No business of general interest was
transacted in the morning half hour
in the senate Monday. At 10:30 tho
A circular has been issued announc
ing the consolidation of nil the ac
counting officers ef the several rail
ways composing the Plant system.
The auditing officers of all these roads
will be in Savannah after July 1st. C
T. Morrell has been appointed comp
troller of the system, S. S. Mclver
tariff bill was taken up, the pending auditor of receipts and II. II. McKee
question being on the first two para- um i; tor n f disbursement
graphs or the silk schedule—298 nn.l i
299—which had been reserved on Sat- I
urday. At tbe request of Mr. Platt, >
the paragraphs went over without uc- ■
tion until Tuesday.
The tariff bill was taken up in the
senate at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday, and
the free list reached at noon. No ac
tion wns taken on the paragraph as to
when the bill is to take effect, that
question being left open. The amend
ment offered by Senator Jones was
agreed to, adding a paragraph putting
on the free list cattle, horses, sheep,
or other domestic animals, that have
strayed or been driven for pasturage
across the border line between tbe
United States and Mexico. Fifty par
agraphs of the free list have been gone
over with very little delay or friction,
except in the matter of books, and the
Dr. John Guitera, of Philadelphia,
and Dr. J. II. White, of Savannah,
surgeons iu the marine hospital service,
arc in Florida eolltctiong data relat-
! ing to past yellow fever epidemics.
- They hope to be able to locate the
cause of such epidemics. They also
1 hope that their researches will enable
them to foretell the coming of an epi-
; demic, so that steps may be taken to
prevent its development.
| Edward S. McCandless, of Atlanta,
I On,, will be given a trial in the United
; States court on July 9th upon two of
i the four indictments charging him
I with aiding and abetting Lewis Red-
wine in the defalcation of $103,000
; from tho Gate City National bank,
j The other two indictments found
against him—there hnving been four
action of the finance committee on ■ ■ ia !l ^ were noli prossed by the coun-
that, as on all other subjects, has pro- | se ^ Die government.
A largely attended convention of
delegates from all over the state was
held at. Nashville, Tenu., Tuesday, and
the ball was started rolling for nn ex
position in 1896, in celebration of tho
ailed.
Tho tariff bill wns laid before tbe
senate at 10:30 Wednesday, the pend
ing question being paragraph 60S,
placing salt on the free list. Mr. Puf
fer moved to strike out tho paragraph ; centennial anniversary of the ndmis
and put salt on the dutiable list at 5 j si on of Tennessee into tbe union, that
cents per hundred pounds. The vote j will be commensurate with the prog-
resulted, yeas 24, nays 33. Mr. Pcffer ' ross of the state. The convention
was not sustained by his co-populists, chose directors and officials, and gave
Allen and Kyle, who voted ith j instructions that a charter for the Ten-
tlie democrats against his motion. So 1 nessee Centennial Exposition company
snlt remains on the free list. Paragraph j he at once secured.
641,“allsugars,” having boon reaehed, A Birmingham, Ala., special savs:
the amendment of the finance commit- Shortly after 2 o’clock Wednesday
tee being to strike it out. Senator Al- morning fire was discovered in the
drich demanded the yens mid nays, - Mary Lee mines, about four hundred
saying that he wanted to know- who feet from the mouth. The alarm was
wns in fnvor of free sugar and who was given and the work of rescuing the
not. The paragrniih was struck out. j miners was immediately begun. One
Tho art of flying seems to the Inde
pendent to be almost iu sight, though
it may be some time yet before we ac
tually reach it. It is already quite
clear that the amount of power re
quired to maintain a body of consid
erable weight in the air an 1 to drive
it forward with great velocity is noth
ing exorbitant; the difficulties seem
lo lie rather iu the regulation and
direction of the machinery. A recent
investigation of Professor Laugley up
on what ho calls “the internal work of
the wind” throws a flood of light upon
soma of the most puzzling problems
of aerial navigation. The “soaring”
of birds has long been a mystery; the
way in which, for hours, sometimes,
they circle round over the same spot
without an apparent motion of the
wing. Langley lind the explanation
in tho fact- (which he has demonstrated
experimentally) that the motion of the
wing is technically speaking an “un
steady motion j that is, neighboring
portious of air move wi k very differ
ent directions and velocities so that
the wind-stream is full of whirls and
eddies. By taking advantage of this
the soaring bir.l maintains his flight
without doing any “work;” he has
simply to change slightly the inclina
tion - of his wings as he steers himself
out of one eddy into another by an
action exquisitely skilful bat not
laborious. It is like the art of the
sailor who beats against the wind bv
hauling his slfeets and trimming his
sails. By running a while in one cur
rent of the wind-stream and then sud
denly steering out into mi adjoining
one of different velocity and direction
the bird is able to utilize the energy
o? the newly-easountersl breeze to
lift him o? carry him where he wiehe*
t9 m
Yeas 33, nays 22. The senate has fiu
ished the free list part of the bill.
In the Senate, Thursday, n bill was
ntroduced to define the boundaries of
the three judicial districts in Alabama
and regulate tho jurisdiction of tho
United States courts thereon. At
10 :30 the tariff bill was taken up, the
pending question being on tho income
tax sections. Mr. Hill, of New York,
nddressed the ECiiate in opposition to
tho tax. Mr. Hill began his remnrks
by announcing that, “we have now
reached the consideration of one of
tho most important features of the
pending measure; important not only
because tho tax which it seeke to im
pose, equals in the aggregate about one-
fifteenth of tho whole federal taxa
tion of the United States, but beenuso
of the peculiar nature of the burden
as well as tbe vast and varied interests
which it injuriously' affects.” It took
Mr. Hill two hours and three-quarters
to read his speech. It was well under
stood, he said, in conclusion, that tho
senators intended to vote on the income
tax sections, not according to their
convictions but according to the decree
of the party caucus. He trusted that
such a humiliating spectacle would not
be witnessed. It was even boasted by
some, be said, that tho income tax was
the best feature of the tariff bill. If
that were so, then ho could only say,
in the emphatic language of the sena
tor from New Jersey (Smith), “God
help the democratic party.”
RAMAPO WINS.
He Takes the Prize in the Suburban
Handicap—Banquet a Close Second.
A New York special says: The great
est Suburban handicap in the history
of the classic event was won by Iiarn-
apo. It was not the richest Suburban,
as the prize was worth less financially
this year thau Inst by' nearly $1,000.
The winner got nbont $17,000. He
got nearly $18,000 last year. The bnt-
tle wns a grand one and well fought,
and Ramnpo, the first favorite, carried
off tho prize from that aged gelding
Banquet, only after a bitter and cruel
struggle. That erratic beast, Sport,
took it into his head to try when
it was too late. He came like n
shot from n cannon from the rear
ranks in the final sixteenth, and pass
ing the other struggling contestants as
if they were stnnding still, secured
third place by a comfortable margin.
There wns not an admirer or supporter
of Sport in the track that did not be
lieve be would have won outright had
Taral, Garrison, Simms or some
equally capable jockey had the
mount on him. Since the future
books opened on the race, Kama-
po has been the favorite. His victory
was a most popular one, and gave
Taral, who is rightly called the “Lucky
Dutchmau,” a record enjoyed by no
other jocky, that of winning the three
big handicaps of the year. He won
the Brookly n with Dr. Rice, a discard
ed stable companion of Ramapo, and
the Metropolitan and Suburban with
Ramapo.
A man is usually most distinguished
tfte? be is extinguished,
hundred miners were tit work in the
mine at the time the fire was discov
ered, and it was diflicult to get to the
men who were on the other side of the
fire. All were resc^^l except three,
who died from suffocation.
Judge Heard of the Alabama supreme
court, decided an interesting case at
Montgomery Wednesday. Sylvester
Feslorazzi, a Catholic, died in Mobile
some years ago and bequeathed §2,000
to St. Joseph’s church, to bo expended
in masses for his soul. His heirs con
tested the legality of the bequest. The
chancery court of Mobile ruled against
them and they appealed to the supreme
court, which reversed the decision of
the lower court, and held that the be^
quest was void in that there was no
living beneficiary of the trust intend
ed to be created.
GROWTH OF TIIE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
The review of the industrial situation in the
south for the past week f-hows that there
is now h rea c onable pro-pret of an early ter
mination cf the miners’ strikes. The miuers
themselves are realizing the hopelessness of
their expectations of higher wages, and that
the condition of business d es not permit any
advances at pre-ent. Ti:-° fact that the coal
output has steadily continued, although in de
creased proportions, lias done much to con
vince them that, they will s rve their best in
terest by resuming woik. The iron producers
are preparing for increased business as soon as
fuel is to be had in sufficient supply. Prices
continue to be irregular, with a larger demand
for some grades.
In other lines of industry there is no change
of importance. Tin- texil? mills are running on
full time, and the lumber manufacturers are
still selling their outputs at low prices.
Thirty in w industries wc:o estahl shed or in-
coipurated during the week, together with ten
enlargements of manufactories, and eighteen
important new buildings- Among the mors
prominent new industries of the week nre: A
40,000 spindle cotton mill at Pelzer, S. 0-; the
Petit Jean Coal Company, of Magnolia, Ark.,
capital $500,000; tho Mingo Coal Company, of
Huntington, W- Va-. capital $100,000; and the
Lampasas Water, Ice and Electric Company,
of Lampasas, Texas, with $30,0iH}_§apita!. The
8 E Conn Lumber Company, Capital $25,000,
has been chartered at Louisville. Ky.; anelec
trical company wi h $20,000 capital at Pensa
cola, Fia., and the Spartanburg, S. C., Hedge
Fence Companv has been orean z d, capital
$15,000-
There is also reported canning factori s at
Angleton, Texas, aud Huguenot, Va; at $10,01*0
brick making plant at Glen Easton, Va., an
electrical pow. r company at Scotland Neck,
N. C.;flonr and gri-t mills at Seale, Ala., and
Almond, Va., anil gas works at Helena, Aik.
An ice factoiy will be be built at Elizabeth
town, Ky.; a knitting mill at Winchester, Va.;
horse shoe works at Orland », Fla.; c »ke ovens.
50 in number, at Dig Stone Gap. Va., and
a tannery at New Decatur, Ala. W. od work
ing plants arc reported at Florence, Ala.,
Rosedale and Rosetta, Miss., Ashbom, N. C.,
Dy-rsburg, Tenn., and Lynchbnrg, Va.
Wa*er works are to be limit at E izabethtown
and Shelbyville, Ky. The enlargements re
ported for the week include b:ick works at Dan
ville, Vs., chemical works at Dome, Ga-, iron
works at Bessemer, Ala., Lowmoor and Rad
ford, Va., a cotton mill hi Atlanta, Ga-, and
wood working plan’s at Bridgeport, Ala., and
Wilmington, N. C.
Among the new bnildiucs of the week ar©
busim88 houses at Jasp» r. Fla., Kershaw, S. C ,
Fort Worth. Tex-, and Lynchburg. Va.;
churches at Jacksonville, Fla-, and Weatliess-
ford, Va.; a 100-room hotel at Atlanta. Ga., ami
one to cost $25,000 at Charleston, S. C.: a.
$251),COO office building at New Orleans, Lt.,
and school bulld ogs at M. dway. Ky., and 1 ta
ka, Texas.—Tradesman, (Chaitanoog*, Tenu )
Try to discourage sins is eviLdoers
by refusing to look upon iheir deeds
with an eye of approv»i, r
SUMMARY OF NEWS, i NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CONDENSATION OF INTEREST
ING OCCURRENCES
Which Happen From Day to Day
Throughout the Busy World.
The Baltimore and Ohio rnilroad
broke the record Sunday in rnnniu:
691 miles in fifteen hours and twenty-
six minutes.
M. M. Estee was nominated for gov
ernor of California on the first ballot
by the republican state convention at
Sacramento, Wednesday.
The grand jury at Ottawa, 111., liave
returned indictments against thirty of
the strikers engaged in the riot at La
Salle a few weeks ago. The men are
all in jail, with the exception of a few
who were bailed out.
The Vermont republican state con
vention was held at Montpelier, Wed
nesday, and S. A. Woodbury, of Bur
lington, was chosen as candidate for
governor and L. M. Mansur, of Island
Pond, for lieutenant governor.
Judge Taft, in the United States
court at Columbus, O., Tuesdny after
noon, sentenced six Belmont county-
miners who were nrrested for interfer
ing with railway trains, to six months
each in Belmont county jail. They
plead guilty.
The grand lodge of Elks in session
t Jamestown, N. Y., Wednesday, de
cided to hold the next grand lodge
meeting in Savannah, Ga., on the th rd
Tuesday in June, 1895. A resolution
was passed calling upon the grand
treasurer to turn over the funds iu his
possession.
The Ohio miner’s convention at Co
lumbus, O., Wednesday voted down a
resolution to continue tlio strike and
adopted oue accepting the strike set
tlement, and ordering a resumption of
work nt once. The action was taken
iu executive session, but it is known
that it wns not unanimous.
Wednesday morning the miners’
strike extended to all mines iu Iron-
wood, Mich., and they nre all idle.
Following is the number of meu out
at tho various mines: Norrie, 850;
East Norrie, 300; Pabst, 350; New
Port, 175; Aurora, 350; Ashland, 250.
The strikers have so far been very or
derly.
Twenty-five more men were arrested
at Mount Olive, 111., Tuesday and
taken to Springfield, which makes al
together fifty-one of the strikers that
have been arrested. The militia and
the deputy United States marshals are
still at Mount Olive, and will remain
until all of the parties that can be
found have been taken.
The presidents of the lending banks
of New York City met Tuesday after
noon to discuss the question of sup
plying gold for export. The treasury
gold reserve has run down to $66,984,-
446, the lowest point since the bond
sale. The banks have about concluded
to come to the assistance of the gov
ernment in the matter.
The consolidation of three national
hanks of Dcadwood, S. D., lias been
made, the Merchants* National and the
Dcadwood National turned their assets
and deposits over to the First National
and closed their doors. Failure to
make money and the possession of con
siderable and almost worthless seettrity
nre assigned as the causes of the clos
ing of the two institutions.
It is announced nt Pittsburg, Pa.,
that Jones Sc Laughlin, operating the
largest iron and steel mili in the Unit
ed States, in which the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel Workers
has a footing; has declared war on the
workingmen’s union nnd will operate
a big brown-stone plant, which em
ploys about 4,000, without regard to
the practices of the union.
A cable dispatch from Berlin says:
It is reported that Sir Edward Malct,
British ambassador, has sent his resig
nation to his government in London,
stating as the reason for his wish to re
tire that it is impossible for him ti
suecessfitlly represent the interest o
England nt the court of the kaiser,
since, owing to recent acts of tho Brit
ish cabinet, the confidence of the em
peror has been lost.
A special from Scottdale, Pn., says:
The situation in the coke region con
tinues peaceable, nud all the men are
still holding out. The importation of
negroes is gradually breaking the
strike. Several carloads of negroes
arrived Tuesday and nt the same time
a large number of foreigners took their
departures. The Slavs and Hunga
rians have become disgusted at tbe
long idleness, and tnany of them art-
leaving the regions never to rc-tnru.
Nearly all of the trammer and tim
ber men at the New Port, Pabst and
Airrora mines, Mich., nnd large num
bers at Norrie have joined the strike.
Only a small number of miners are at
work at the East Norrie. Over 500
men at the Norrie mine joined the
strikers Tuesday afternoon. It is re
ported that the rnilroad men will not
handle ore if the strike becomes gene
ral. Over 1,500 men are now out.
WHOLESALE SUICIDE.
Fourteen People Kill Themselves In
New York in One Day.
A wave of suicide swept over New
York city Wednesday.
James F. Forsliay killed his little
son, and then killed himself. Con
stant brooding over the death of his
wife is supposed to be the cause. Wil
liam Alters married a rich girl, quar
reled about money matters and cut
his throat. Seven women and five
men besides the two whose names are
given committed suicide. Domestic
trouble and hard times are given ns
the causes, hut it iB probable that the
hot weather has something to do
with it.
A Newspaper Sold Out.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche,
with all its franchises, contracts, name
and good will, has been sold under the
hammer to satisfy creditors. The Mem
phis Commercial was the successful
bidder. The price paid, was $65,200.
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF WASH
INGTON CITY.
Brief Note# Concerning tlic Business
ct Our Government.
Coal Company Resumes.
The Corona Coal Company resumed
operations at the Corona coal mines,
Ala., Tuesday. The companV has se
cured an efficient force of miners and
will push forward the Fori so long
delayed by the sinks.
On the 20th nnd 21st of Jnly exami
nations will be held nndcr the aus
pices of the United States civil service
commissioners for matrons, teachers
and superintendents in the Indian
schools of the country.
The senate sugar investigating com
mittee held a brief session Thursday
afternoon nnd examined George Ran
som, son of Senator Ransom, of North
Carolina, and Arthur Barnes, Senator
Ransom’s messenger. Their evidence
was entirely corroborative of that of
Senator Ransom.
Senator Gordon has introduced the
Atlanta exposition bill ill tho senate
and it has been referred to the commit
tee on education and labor. Senators
Gordon and Walsh will urge the com
mittee to act upon it at once and both
nre sanguine that it will be attached
to the sundry civil bill by the senate.
In the senate Thursday Mr. Gordon,
of Georgia, offered nn amendment to
the hill in relation to the Atlanta ex
position, which is now before the com
mittee on appropriations. The amend
ment is to add to the bill u provision
for the appointment by the president
of a colored man as one of the com
missioners.
The lighthouse tender Maple, with
Fresident Cleveland on hoard, return
ed from her cruise down the lower
Chesapeake hay' nnd outside capes
Tuesday morning. The president re
mained oil board until the white house
carriage nnd Private Secretary Tlitir-
ber arrived, nud was then driven to tho
executive mansion. He has been much
bcnelitted by the trip.
Secretary Herbert has received a ca
blegram from Commander Thomas, of
the Bennington, announcing that one
of the refugees on his vessel, having
complied with the requirements of tho
unvy department, had landed at La
Libeltad. The man who has thus
given himself up to the tender mercies
of the victorious revolutionists is a na
tive of the United States, named Jef
feries, who served ns an aid with the
title of general to Ezeta in the recent
ly terminated conflict in Salvador.
Commodore Matthews, chief of the
bureau of yards and docks, hns re
turned to Washington from a trip to
I’ort Koynl, S. C., where he went to
inspect the new dry dock now build
ing there. The work was found to be
of excellent quality and progressing
well, so that the chief felt warranted
in recommending that the time allowed
for the completion of the dock, which
expires the end of this month, be ex
tended to next September, which rec
ommendation has secured the approval
of Secretary Herbert.
The treasury gold reserve Thursday
nt the close of business stood nt $64,-
i27,969, $1,500,000 less than the low-
water mark reached in the gold reserve
before it was built up by the $50,009,-
000 bond issue. This reduction hns
been brought about by the withdrawal
within the past two days for export to
Europe of $3,250,000. It was stated
in an Unofficial way that New York
city banks would supply gold for the
continued export movement, hut so
far ns the treasury is advised, up to
the close of business at 4 o’clock, hut
$400,000 of tbe $3,500,000 exported
has been supplied by banks.
In Consequence of bitter differences
of opinion between Mr. Walker, of
Massachusetts, and other members of
the house committee on acoustics and
ventilation, and Edward Clark, who
lias been tile architect of the capitol
for nearly thirty years, on the sub
ject of the defective ventilation of the
house, Mr. Clark’s resignation has been
isked for by Mr. Shell, of South Caro
lina, tile chairman, ami Mr. Dnrbur-
row, of Illinois, a member of the com
mittee, amt refused. The matter will
be brought up in the house, with a
probability of charges being preferred
against Architect Clark in Connection
with the administration of his office.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY
Is the Name of the New System Un
der Samuel Spencer.
The organization of tho Southern
Railway Company, the successor of
the Richmond and Danville Rnilroad
company, wns effected nt Richmond
Monday by the execution and delivery
of the speciul masters’ and receivers’
deeds to the new corporation, nnd by
the execution of the articles of the
association, by Messrs. Coster
ter and Thomas the purchasers of
the railroad, and their associates,
Messrs. Spencer, Andrews, Stetson nnd
Ewen. The deed was filed and record
ed in the chancery court nt 12 o’clock,
noon, and the articles at 12:30 p. m.
The incorporators constituted Messrs.
Spencer, Coster, Andrews, Stetson nud
Ewen to be directors and Samuel
Spencer to be president of the new
company. The general office of tho
new company will be in Richmond.
At the first meeting of the hoard of
directors of the new company officers
were elected. They will assume their
duties on the morniDg of July 1st,
when, pursuant to the court’s orders,
the properties of the Richmond aud
Danville Railroad Company will be
turned over by the receivers to the
new company.
The Southern Railway Company as
sumes the leases of the Atlanta and
Charlotte Air-Line, the Western North
Carolina railroad, the Washington,
Ohio and Western railroad, the Pied
mont railroad and the North Caro
lina railroad.
THE VANDERBILTS IN IT.
The fact that Drexel, Morgan Sc Co.,
by whom the reorganization was con
ducted, represent the Vanderbilts,
who own large interests in the Chesa
peake and Ohio, gives rise to the be- j
lief that this system and the Danville j
will be conducted on very friendly |
terms. It is believed that much of the
Danville’s business will hereafter go I
to Newport News for shipment by that
company’s steamers.
Fear has no power to hinder ns fron
doing what we believe to be right when !
prompted through love to do so.
Tsr to discourage fins iu evil-doers
by refusing to look upon their deed?
with an eye of approval. >
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And Giving the Gist of the News Up
to the Time of Going to Press.
A BIG CONFERENCE
HELD IN NEW YORK IN THE IN
TEREST OF THE SOUTH.
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
WILLIAM IS PERPLEXED ABOUT
A VARIETY OF THINGS.
Large Attendance—The Proceed- A Discussion of Both State and Na
ings in Brief. tional Polities. •
Mrs. Halliday, on trial for the mur
der of her husband and two women
named Quinlan, was convicted of mar
der iu the first degree at Monticello,
X. Y., Thursday. No plea has been
put forward in her behalf except in
sanity.
Sometime Wednesday night Dr.
Gnstavus Drolshagcn nud wife, who
live about a mile east of Lawtey, Fla.,
were murdered. The assassin entered
their room while they were asleep and
crushed their skulls with an ax. Rob
bery is supposed to have been the
motive. There is no clue to the mur
derers.
The B. F. Johnson Publishing Com
pany was chartered at Richmond, Va..
Thursday. The minimum capital is to
be $50,000, and maximum, $200,000.
The object is to issue histories' nud
other educational works thnt will be
satisfactory to southern schools. Stock
in the company has been taken by
many leading citizens.
The Rome, Ga., rolling mill nnd
cotton tie factory, recently purchased
by Mr. Harper Hnmilton, will resume
operation. It paid well before and
only stopped because of litigations.
The property' has been leased by Ore
gon capitalists and a largo force of
hands will be put to work. The num
of employes will probably be over 200.
Two life term murderers made their
escape from tho Tennessee state peni
tentiary Wednesday night nnd their
departure wns not discovered until
after 6 o’clock Thursday morniDg;
then a rope was found dangling from
a chimney" on the east end of tho pris
on. The men were West Morris, from
Perry county, nud Felix Ethington,
from Lake county.
Another lawsuit or series of suits
has spruug out of the defunct dispen
sary scheme at Columbia, S. C. Wil
liam E. Byrd, an ex-saloon keeper,
commenced Sclaim nnd delivery pro
ceedings in Trial Justice Stack’s court
against the keeper of the state dispen
sary, Traxler, for a barrel of whisky-
seized and confiscated by dispensary
constables a few days before the law
was declared unconstitutional. If the
suit is successful it will be followed by
numerous others.
A Birmingham, Ala., special of
Thursday says: The fire in the Mary
Lee mines is still raging furiously.
Further developments show the disas
ter to havo been worse than was at first
reported. Out of the 130 men in the
mines nt the time the fire was discover
ed, fifty were overcome with smoke
nnd were dragged out. Four men nre
dead, nud two more, John White and
J. A. Barker, are expected to die at
any moment. Twenty more are still
Under the treatment of physicians.
Captnin E. P. Howell on his return
from New York says that there is lit
tle new to sar with regard to tbe Cen
tral’s reorganization plan, but all par
ties interested are still working on it. He
said that Drexel, Morgan Sc Co., have
refused to take charge ofany plan thnt
does not receive the approval of Re
ceivers Comer and Hayes. The 42,000
shares will cut a big figure nnd the
holding of that stock by the terminal
Company, Captain Howell says, will
be the cause of saving the stock held
down south.
Marion Butler, president of the Na
tional Farmers’ Alliance, presided
at the meeting of the populists’ state
executive committee at Baleigb, N. C.
The plau of organization was revised.
A new feature is the system of electiou
of committees, each set of committee-
men electing the one next higher. The
basis of representation of state con
ventions is made one to each fifty votes
east two years ago, and two delegates
at large from each county. The com
mittee prescribed qualifications for
eligibility to primaries.
A FOURTH PARTY.
Alliance, Knights of Labor and Rail
road Men to Join Forces.
A Chicago morning paper prints the
following: One million men, members
of tho Farmers’ Alliance, are on the
point of allying their forces with the
Knight of Labor and the American
Bailway union. T. B. McGuire, a
member of the general executive board
of the Knights held a brief conference
on this subject, with President Debs,of
the American Kailway Union.
The tripartite agreement soon to be
entered into between these three great
organizations whose united forces will
number 1,500,000 citizens of the
United States at the end of the current
year, has for its primary object the
formation of a party for independent
political action.
As an indication of this determina
tion the general officers of the Ameri
can Railway Union will send repre
sentatives to a convention to be held
at the capitol building in Springfield,
111., July 2, 3 and 4.
Forty-Five Drowned.
A dispatch received at Berlin from
Samara, the capitjl of the Russian
government of Samara, says a ferry
boat Bank with a party of young peo
ple returning from a fete, on the river
Jek, and forty-five were drowned.
The Color Line Here..
The American Railway union dele
gates, in session at Chicago, defeated
the proposition to admit negroes to
the organization by a vote of 113 to
102. The discussion of the question
lasted nearly two days. President
Debo thus met defeat in his fight
against, the establishment of the coloi
line in the rnrfr constitution of the or
der.
FIVEYEARS FOR XVI MAN.
The Philanthropic Millionaire Goes to
State Prison.
In the court of oyer and terminer,
at New York Wednesday morning,
Justice Ingraham sentenced Erastus
Wiman, convicted of forgery in the
second degree, to imprisonment for
five years and six months.
The whale fishing industries of the
United States was at its height in 1854,
when 668 vessels were engaged in jt.
A “Napoleon of Finance” is some
time? only a corporal of integrity-
The parlors of tho Fifth Avenue
hotel, New York City, were not large
enough to accommodate the southern
New Yorkers, and the delegates from
the south proper, who met there
Thursday to discuss and further ma
terial development in the southern
states. There were representatives pres
ent from every southern state, except
Mississippi. The meeting was culled
to order by Mr. D. B. Dyer. Col.
Hugh B. Garden, the distinguished
looking ex-president of the Southern
Society', was unanimously chosen
chairman nnd Mr. J. C. Bayne was
made secretary. Mr. Garden made a
very patriotic, ns well as practical,
speech of welcome nud closed by as
suring tho heartiest co-operation of nil
New Yorkers when the southern people
united on a sound business program.
Mr. Garden, of Columbus, Ga., in
troduced a resolution, which wns
adopted, to appoint a committeo con
sisting of eight from New York nnd
nine from the south, to find the best
method of putting the resources of the
south before the country. It was de
nominated the committee on plan and
scope.
MB. SMITH SPEAKS.
After the adoption of tho resolution
there were loud calls for Secretary
Smith. He spoke in.part ns follows:
“If you can plnce the resources of
the south before all other portions of
tho country nnd before the foreign
countries, great benefits must come to
all those who have interest iu southern
investments.
‘I am one of those who believe thnt
there is to be fouud in tlio south a
force which caunot fnil to build up the
section. But when tho true condi
tions nre appreciated here and abroad,
then yon will receive nn impetus from
the outsido which will plnce the south
in a few years in a position of greater
progress and development than will be
found iu nny other portion of tho
Union. (Applause.)
“Today we have uo race problem in
the south, but the white man ami the
negro work side by side in peace;
today the presence of the negro in tho
south is no obstacle to immigration.
It should be understood that we have
millions of acres, but that only one-
half of them are under cultivation.
It should be known that the bal
ance of these lands can be purchased
at low rates.
“What an opportunity is offered for
home seekers to find profitable in vest
ments in the south? The mineral re
sources throughout the south arc more
numerous thnn in any other part of
the country, but have hardly begun to
bo developed. They offer houest, sub
stantial returns, not speculative re
turns, for we don’t want speculation,
bnt good, honest industry.”
Then he referred to the southern
climate and to the fact that no indus
trial armies had nppeared in the south.
He closed with nn eloquent appeal for
all to get to work for the south. He
wns heartily applauded.
Ex-Congressman Hemphill made a
short talk and the meeting took five
minutes recess. At this point Air.
Jack Spaulding introduced resolutions
endorsing the Atlanta exposition which
passed unanimously.
After several felicitous speeches in
regnrd to Atlanta’s prosperity, tho
convention adjourned until Friday.
Not Blown Off by the Wind.
About a year ago the telegraphic
dispatches contained an account of a
windstorm in Missouri, which not
only blew down houses and fences
and caused great loss of life, but ac
tually Stripped the feathers from a
rooster. The correspondent stated
that not even the pinfeathers were
left, and his description of how the
cock next morning strutted forth,
flapped his naked wings and crowed
with a somewhat-disfigured-but-still-
in-the-ring style caused considerable
merriment. It was reasoned that s
wind of such force would have blown
the fowl to Jericho, and the writei
was set down as a Munchausen,
i- ‘Scientific research, however, sus
tains tho story, but ascribes the
rooster’s condition to another cause.
writer in Der Stein der Weisen.
says: . ...
“Among the most astonishing ef
fects of whirlwinds must he reckoned
the well-supported facts that,on tl^eii
cessation, birds exposed to them Ikiyc
been found stripped of their feathers,
and people with every shred of cloth
ing torn from them. These effects
cannot possibly he ascribed to the
wind. The force necessary would
have sufficed to transport the objects
away bodily. Numerous similar oc
currences were observed in France in
the tornadoes which prevailed there
three yeArs ago, and these were grad
ually brought under investigation.
Over the whole region affected trees
were found rent in a manner which
could not possibly have resulted from
the wind. These were, first, oaks
split down the center for a length of
twenty to twenty-five feet; second
poplars and beeches for lengths of six
to twelve feet were shivered into
sticks of uniform thickness (for ex
ample, a beech tree sixteen inches
diameter was split into more than 500
sticks a centimeter tnick, two centi
meters broad and three and a half
centimeters long); third, firs and
other resinous trees had their steins
cut clean through, leaving almost
even surfaces. These phenomena
and others of kindred nature can b>
ascribed only to electricity.’
GRAMATICALLY CORKIX. .
Teacher—Give me an example of i
common noun.
Scholar—Man.
Teacher—Now, give me an example
of a collective noun.
Scholar — Tax man. — [Brookly-D
Life.
FRANK.
XVifey'-^Do you love me better than
any woman you have ever met?
Hpbby—I love you better than any
woman l could ever got,—JDetroit
A man can read and ruminate until he feels
discouraged. Then is tho time to get up and
CO in tho garden and wotk awhile. It is said
that when King Ahasnerus got so awful mad
with Hainan he walked out. in the garden to let
his choler down. I reckon he took a hoe and
slashed down the weeds nnd felt better. I’vo
been staking up my tomato vine this evening
and got all in a sweit of perspiration and feel
better. There is nol>ody at home, for my wife
has gone to the missionary and the girls aro
flying around trying to get up a Presbyterian
festival to make some money to pay for the vo-
calion and I was charged' to look after th-
grandchild. That is all right. I had rather
look after her than do anything, but soon hficr
my family departed a lot of nice littlo girls
cam? here visiting and I had five to look after
and he p to nmuse. They playid base and
hide and seek and set a littlo table and
played dinner and asked the Lie sing
and nursed llie d Ils and swung each
other and then played church and had a
baptizing, and they amused me more than l
did th^m. Then some ruce ladies called and
diden’t leave their cards and go off, liko most
ladi s do. but they stayed and made me a visit
and so, altogether, I had a pretty good time
nnd forgot all about the political troubles and
the strikr8 that now agitate the country. Hap
py children and charming ladies and work in
the garden beats coco-cola or any other medi
cine.
But still one can’t help being concerned and
perplexed about many things that are going
on. I was dining the other day at Durand’s
and a ta'king mm whom I dident know venti
lated his thoughts in an audible manner. He
said: ‘Tve got nothing against G neral Evans,
of course, nobody has, but I tell yon that the war
lias been over for thirty years, and this old sol
dier’s racket lias got* to stop and wc Atkin
son boys are going to stop it. We who wero
not old enough to go into the war have been
kept in the background long enough. Let the
old brigadiors have a rest and let the young
men have a chance. We haven’k had a gov
ernor nor a United States senator nor a s!a*e-
houso officer nor hardly a member of congress
since the war exc; pt ho was a general or a
colonel in tho war. Even the county offices aro
filled with old solilicrs and it is time to call
a halt.”
Well, I never said anything, of course, but it
was a revelation to me to I ear a man talk that
way in public. I know that some ai my officers
have occasionally got in the way of other men
who were better qualified, bnt not often. Asa
general rule a man who roso to he a brigadier
or a c lonel in the army uas a man of force or
character. He was fit to command nnd was lit
to hold office, and it wns right to reward him.
Bnt I don’t believe that they have had much
preference over civiliaus in this state. Ben
Hill and Alec Stephens nnd Jenkins and John
son and Joe Brown and old Father Barnett and
Thompson Allan and a host of other civilians
have held high office sinco the war. Dr. Felton
defeated a one-armed colonel in this district.
If the count should bo made the army boys
have not played the “old Foldier’ racket to ex
tremes. neither in national nor s'ate office?. I
think they have been very modest in their de
mands. But still if the boys have made up
their minds to run the machine I think the old
soldiers will stand aside, for they are now few
and far betwein and arc getting old. Most of
them have fought their last bit tie, whether
civil or military. Let them depart in peace.
That 3’oung man does not know and never can
know what these old soldiers endured, for ho .
said that his father was not in the war; but I
trust a reverence for them will be perpetuated
in their children from generation to gene a-
tion.
There seems to te a feeling of unrest per
vading the country. I hear men who are con
servative and intelligent expiessing iheir dis
couragement eve y day. They nre wearied
with the long inaction of congress nnd
say boldly that they have lost confi
dence and lost rrspect f<-r the governing
power. A fe.v machine politicians may jump
up in the courthouse and whitewash the ad
ministration. but if it was fairly tested ninc-
tenths of the people would say “Xo.” Outside
of officeholders and officeseekcrs I venture to
say that notahnndred men can be fouud in
any county who will say that they endorse ti e
administration. Whether it be right or wrong,
the people hold the administration responsib'o
for the paralyzed condition of the country.
They don’t stop - to inquire into this man’s rec
ord in congress or tliar man’s, but the} holdall
responsible, for they know that the democracy is
iu power. It is going to be a hard matter to
return any member of the present congress, for
the people are tired. It looks to them as if a
member who was getting $5,000 or S O,000 hal-
ary had forgotten the troubles of the proplc,
and was only concerned about getting hack to
the public crib. If congress docs not act soon
on the tariff bill and settle it the democratic
party will lose its prestige and i‘s votaries and
thousands will become populists or nothing.
This feeling of unrest is growing. Among tho.
laboring classes who arc not fanners it is in
tensifying and drifting into strikes and law
lessness. A few years ago strikes- were almost
unknown in southern mines ©r on southern
roads, but now they are common and the states
have to gnard the iron works and the coal
mines and the rnilroad bridges with state
troops. Idle, restless men are wandering over
the country, and it looks like history is repeat
ing itself from away back, for tho scriptures
tell us that when David fled from Haul and to >lc
refuge in the cave of Adullum all who were in
distress and all who were in debt nnd all who
were discontented came to him. That is where
Coxey got his army. D -Bardelaben, the
wealthy iron man of A'abama, gave .*3,000 to
tbe state to have his property guarded. ‘When
the governor ordered out tho troops
the First regiment raised *200 and
gave it to the miners, and the Second
regiment raised $300 for them What does
that mean? And yet all of this trouble might
have been avoided if the democratic adminis
tration had 8‘ood squaro to tho Chicago plat
form. So far as the republican* are concerned
I verily believe they would wreck the country
in order to wreck the democratic party and ger,
in power again, and it doej iceni that it would
have been infinitely better th have h t the Mc
Kinley bill alone than to have tampered this
long with a bill that if it is ever pa--B*l will bo
neither hawk nor buzzard. Bnt congress had
better do something and do it quickly. I heard
several gentlemen say the other day that if a
Georgia member dared to com? li ime to mend
k s fences before the tariff bill was passed he
would never get back again. So mote it be.
But if I keep on this line of thought I will
have to go iu the garden again and let my
choler down. Wish I was a woman awhile and
was running the missionary or getting up
mom-y for the vocnlion. The ladies bought
that beautiful music box wh.cn the times were
good and have to pay for it when they are bad
hut they will do it, for it makes delightful
church music and the women will not give it
up. They exp? ct to make $50 by a lawn party,
and some more ct something else, and we lords
of creation have got to pay it, money or no
money. Iu the first place we have got to fur-
nish tha cake ami ice cream and the bread and
meat and pickle* and all the et cetcras, and
then go to the frolic and bay them back again,
but this is woman’s way, and, of course, it is
all right. It would be cheaper to us to sub
scribe the $50. but they know we won’t do it
that way, and so they make us doit anntuci
way. They give us a frolic and make us pay
for it. Blessings on the. women. A« long a«
they are engagfd in mch work th y .won't
hanker alter female suffrage.—Bill Arp m At
lanta Constitution.
DI6FELLED THE FEAR.
He had given her the engagement
ring and was telling her fairy stories
about the trouble he had experienced
in securing a pure white, flawless
stone, when he saw a sad look creep
into the eyes but now fired with
joyous mirth and gladness.
“What is it, my own?” he whis
pered in her left auricular append
age.
“Oh, Harold, suppose—•”
“Yes, sweetheart.”
“Suppose we should get married!' :
“We will, dearest,’’ he exclaimed
with a ten-dollar-a-week nerve.
“And I should lose this ring in the
fluff of our velvet carpets?”
For a moment he was dazed. Then
a decorative possibility "rushed ath
wart his prophetic soul and he said
firmly:
“We will nave hardwood floorst