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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. > LATEST TELEGRAMS CONDENSED INTO SHORT AND BREEZY PARAGRAPHS, 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