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TEEMS, $1. Per Annum* “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They May.” 1 *—■ — JOHN E. HO WELL, Editor and Proprietor, VOL. XIII. NO. 4 VIENNA. GA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1894. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. In all of Persia there are only IVAI BV T[ V YT UI.NJTfi 4wenty miles of railroad. 1VUL1> O .UAiMl LMU. SEVEN WERE KILLED TELEGRAPHIC NEWSj ^ proves. 1 SOUTHERN SPECIALS NOTORIOUS OUTLAW KILLED. HALLS OF CONGRESS The overhead trolley has succeeded in providing itself more deadly than the underfoot banana peel, remarks the Washington Star. A newspaper man, who recently took a stroll across the Brooklyn Bridge, heard ten different languages on tho way, besides profane lan* guage. _______________ The British and Continental press, generally agree that the election of M. Casimir-Perier to the French Presidency is a conservative and moderate republican victory over the radicals and socialists. Secretary Morton, in the interest of farmers, urges better protection for the birds. “It is a melancholy fact,” ha says, “that our women and our boys are the birds’ most destructive and relentless enemies.” Dr. Dale, of London, who has been been writing book reviews all his life, says that he believes most books are written by people' who are not quite right in their minds. He thinks that this is about the most harmless occu* pation for such people. The Baltimore Sun calls attention to the fact that wheat sold for a cent a pound in the Baltimore market the other day while oats sold for a cent and a half a pound, oats selling for fifty per cent, more than wheat. The Sun remarks that this is probably unprecedented. By irrigation 25,000,000 acres are made fruitful in India alone. In Egypt there are about 6,000,000 acres, and in Europe about 5,000,000 acres. The United States have just begun the work of improving waste area and have already about 4,000,000 acres of irrigated land. Mulhall estimated that the agri-. cultural earnings of the United States are $3,490,000,000; tho earnings from manufactures, $4,330,000,000; from mines, $180,000,000; from transporta tion, $1,155,000,000; from commerce, $160,000,000; from shipping, $60,000,* 000; from banking, $260,000,000. In Missouri and Kansas the foreign element, or its immediate descendants, comprises over a fourth of the popula tion ; in Ohio, a little over a third; in Iowa and Nebraska, between a third and a half; in Illinois, Michigan, Wis consin, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, the persons of foreign birth, or their descendants of the first generation, outnumber the native population. There will be no nonsense about duelling in tbe Kussian army hereaf ter. The Czar has issued a decree ap pointing a court of honor to deter mine in each ease whether a duel is the proper thing. The decision is to be final, and under it any officer who refuses to accept a challenge will be cashiered in disgrace. Officers whe are not adepts with the foils will now have to guard their tongues. jVIme. Carnot is reported to have had a presentiment of the fate that awaited he? distinguished husband. She has been in constant dread of late that the assassin’s weapon, which had twice failed against his life, would at last reach it. She anxiously looked for ward to the end of his term as Presi dent, and it was her fears that largely influenced Carnot not to seek the Presidency of France for a second term. Fresh finds of rich beds of gold and silver are the order of the day. The latest announced is in a despatch from Manitoba, to the effect that an immense bed of aurifereus ore, a mile wide and two miles long, in one tract, has been discovered between Bat Portage and Port Arthur, seventy miles south of the Canadian Pacific Kailway, which assays an average of $S in gold and $4 in silver to the ton of ore. The miners who go to the new camps in West Australia and New South Wales will, in the opinion of the San Francisco Chronicle, earn all that they get. No mining in this country is at tended with such dangers and hard ships except in a few places on the Mojave and Colorado deserts. At Coolgardie water is so scarce that it commands twelve cents a quart and all provisions are extremely dear. Camels are used for transport, as the desert heat and drought prove fatal to horses and mules. Says the Boston Advertiser: There is growing a strong public opin ion that the law in its modern opera tion has been abused so. gravely thata good, shrewd lawyer with no case at all can save a client from proper pun ishment for months and even years al though it is patent to everyone that no valid reason exists why justice should be delayed a day. Legal “pleading” is now such an intricate I and many-resourced art that plain, old fashioned justice must stumble and grope through wearisome and de vious pathways before she can clutch an offender who has sharp-ey^d coum sgl to guide him. ~ ; UK ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO TIIE PEOPLE OF ALABAMA. His Managers Charge Rank Frauds in tlie Election. The conference of the Kolb leaders which convened at Birmingham con sulted on the situation and discussed a jdan of action. The following address to the people was given out as the re sult of their labors: “To the People of Alabama: The compaign committee of the Jefferson ian democracy and the people’s party of Alabama have been instructed by a conference of our state candidates, the leading supporters of that ticket and the state executive committee to pro mulgate the following: “The election returns, ns reported by the Associated Press and support ers of the ticket headed by Colonel Oates, show a repetition of tbe election frauds of 1892, with less pretext and absolutely without the least semblance of justification, in order to overcome legitimate majorities of our ticket in forty-one white counties. 'Ihese false and fradulent majorities a oK re gate 34,107 from fifteen black belt counties. In 1S92 these enme black belt counties aggregated major ities of 28,639. In addition to this, frauds have been perpetrated in white counties of not less than fifteen thous and. With the consummation of these has also been brought forth four or five fraudulently elected senators and eleven or twelve fraudulently elected representatives in the general assem bly. This outrageous action, intensified by the impudence and effrontery with which it has been taken, displays a disregard of public sentiment in such a brazen-faced manner that it seems to have been intended to add insult to injury. “The law under which the election of 1892 was held was devised to assure the perpetration of fraud with ease, facility and saFety, has been amended by the Sayers law, the purposes of which were to disfranchise illiterate voters and to assure the perpetration of greater frauds in the black belt counties ns has been demonstrated by the election just held, and as was known by the usurper who exercises the functions of governor, as was illus trated by his remark when he signed that bill. A contest law was promised to allay and prevent a popular upris ing in 1S92, to be broken in tbe most shameless manner, and the perfidy and treachery displayed was after wards boasted of as a fine piece of leg erdemain. We admonish our people not to accept promises nor pledges from those who have proven them selves recreant to every requirement of law, to every demand of honor, and to every exnction of duty, as well as demonstrated that they arc enemies to liberty and to republican institutions. “In tbe face of the facts that only a few months since the opposition de clined to submit to a state primary, in which only white voters should partic ipate, which was afterwards so amended as to meet their supposed wishes, by eliminating white republicans, which they declined to accept upon a spe cious excuse that was an afterthought and puerile, combined with the fact that only forty-two thousand were polled in the state primary that brought out the full strength of that party, they now claim, urge and insist upon the most extravagant and ridicu lous figures as correct and true. “The condition in this state has reached a climax. There is no doubt that the state ticket headed by Captain It. F. Kolb has been elected. The alternative is presented of submission to wrong, insult and robbery, or to assert the sovereign power, before which thrones totter, scepters fall, and the outrages of tyrants cease. That alternative must meet a response from manhood or silent submission from those unworthy of citizenship. A proud and chivalrous people, worthy of freedom, cannot shirk the respon sibilities the situation enforces. A distinguished patriot has asserted that ‘the man who will not fight for his liberty is unworthy of freedom.’ We do not advise fighting or lawlessness of nuy kind; but the crisis has arisen which demands that the sovereign pow< r shall assert itself to compel un worthy servants of its will to submit to its power and recognize its au thority. “Your committee recognizes that it has been entrusted with certain dutiep, and that its powers are circumscribed; nnd it feels authorized only in going to the extent of advising and urging those whom it represents to exercise the power vested only in them, and to hold meetings on Thursday, the 23d day of August, 1894, at the respective court houses, if not otherwise speci fied, to act upon this great crisis, and to insist that that manhood,patriotism and love of liberty which has always been invoked prompt and decisive ac tion from them shall find expression in their course that will be creditable to their revolutionary sires and fur nish a precedent in our history to which all will ever revert with pride aid satisfaction. “At the same time nnd place we •would urge the organization of law and order leagues to uphold the su premacy of that greatest of ail law and power—the sovereign will of a free people. “Upon the. adjournment of ihese county meetings, reports of the pro ceedings should be furnished immedi ately to W. II. Skaggs, chairman, Birmingham, Ala. “W. H. Skaggs, Chairman Central Campaign Com- 'mittee. A. T. Goodwtx, Chairman State Executive Committee Jeffersonian Democratic Party. John W. Pitts, Chairman People’s Party Executive Committee.” Boycott Declared Off. The Denver, Col., lodge of the American Railway union has declared the Pullman boycott off on the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific, Den ver and Gulf roads. Some of the strikers have been taken back. The strike is not declared off on the Santa Fe, as the receiveis have rejected all overtures from the old employes. And Many Others Wounded in a Rail road Wreck. The northbound Ilock Island pass enger train was wrecked on a high bridge between four and five miles south of Lincoln, Neb., shortly after 10 o’clock Thursday night. Seven persons are known to have been killed, five of them being burned to death. Particulars, owing to the distance to the scene of the wreck, are hard to obtain. LATEST DISPATCHES GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS. A Brief Summary of Daily Happen ings Throughout the World. There were five new cases of cholera reported in Amsterdam, Holland, Thursday. There was also one death. At Maastricht, there were three new cases, and at Barsingerhorn there was one death. Thursday was the hottest of the sea son at St. Joseph, Mo., 105 degrees. No rain has fallen for several weeks nnd the corn crop is damaged so badly in many places that rain would not now 6ave it. The Consolidated Coal Company, of Frostburg, Md., has notified ali the miners who stuck to their post during tlie recent protracted strike that they will each receive nine month’s regt and fuel free. H. M. Buies, a wealthy Chattanoo- gnn, who disappeared some days ago with a large sum of money, and of whom descriptions have been sent broadcast over the country, has been located in Houston, Tex.. It is be lieved tbnt he is deranged. He will be brought home immediately. The Southern Lumber Manufactur ers’ Association met at Memphis, Tenn., Thursday with delegates present from Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas,Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. The chief sub ject before the convention is ways and means to reduce the output of yellow pine. United States Bank Examiner Miller has closed the Second National Bank, of Atoona, Pa., pending and investiga tion of its books. The shortage of Cushier Gardner, defaulting cashier, is placed as hign ns $63,000 by street rumor, but nothing certain is yet known, ns bank officials refrain from giving out any statement. The thirteenth annual convention of the Tennessee Bar Association passed a resolution demanding that the next legislature call a convention to draft a new constitution and revise the code of the state. It was urged that laws like those of the stato of Georgia be inserted in tho new code relative to the doing away with the fee sy stem, which is now the main method of pay ing public officers in Tennessee. Ex-Secretary Tracy, Boardman & Platt, attorneys for the Jelico Manu facturing Company, have filed a com plaint in the United States court for the southern circuit ngainst John D. Vermilye, vice-president of the Hol land Trust Company, charging him with the misappropriation of over $100,000 of the funds of the Jelico company, deposited in trust with the trust company for the development of railroad property in Tennessee. At New Orleans, Thursday after noon, the grand jury came into court and presented three indictments in connection with the bribery charges against members of tbe city council. Two are ngain-t William J. Kane, chairman of the new courthouse and jail committee, and one is against Kane and Frank B. Thriffiley jointly. All three indictments were brought on evidence given before the grand jury by Mr. P. B. Ligon, and the alleged bribe taking was in connection with the new courthouse and jail affair. A BRAVE ENGINEER Thwarts Train Robbers by Rushing Through an Obstruction. Lake Shore express train No. 12, arriving from the west, puffed into the union station at Cleveland, O., Tues day morning after having enjoyed a most thrilling experience on tlie plains of Indiana during the night. An at tempt was made to hold up the train at Kessler, Indiana, upon the iden tical spot that the train was held up last fall. The train was fast approaching a split switch at Kessler when the engineer noticed that the switch was turned so as to run the train on the siding. A big obstruction of ties and lumber was piled upon the siding a few rods ahead of his engine. The obstruction did not appear to be im passable, and the engineer put on all the steam and dashed through the pile, passing safely on to the main liue Ihrough the split switch at a high rate of speed. As the train passed the obstruction the engineer noticed a group of masked men and as the engine cleared the track of all obstacles the wonld-be highwaymen fired several shots into the train, none of which, however, took effect. The United States express car was attached to the train and had on board a large amount of money. It is thought that this was known to the desperadoes who attempted to hold np the train. Their disappointment in not carrying out their plans of stop ping the train was evinced in their firing of shots when they saw that their plans had been foiled by the boldness of the engineer in dashing through the heap of ties upon the track. THE EARTH SINKS, Causing a Panic and Much Damage to Property. The greatest mine cave-in that Scran ton, Pa., has known in years occurred Thursday afternoon at the Diamond vein of the Hampton mine. Eight acres and twenty-eight dwelling houses were affected, one or two of the dwell ings being almost irreparably damaged. It is reported that the loss will reach over a quarter of a million dollars. The cave-in occasioned a great panic in the neighborhood and the residents rnshed pell-mell into the streets, bat rione of them were injured. 1 CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST IMPORTANT DISPATCHES. Short and Crisp Items of General Interest to Our Readers. A dispatch from Vienna says that sixteen districts in Galicia are affected with cholera. During the last two days there have been 126 new cases and 83 deaths in these districts. Henry E. Smith A Co., the largest wholesale dealers in boots and shoes in Worcester, Mass., have assigned. The liabilities amount to $209,000, and the assets are about $240,000. Queen & Co., the leading opticians of Philadelphia have made an assign ment to John G. Gray. Neither the liabilities nor assets are yet obtainable. The cause of the failure is not known. A dispatch from Rome to the Cen tral News agency of London says that many persons have been killed and enormous amount of damage done property by an earthquake which vis ited Sicily Wednesday afternoon. A special from Lyons says that Ca- serio Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, has persisted in his refusal to make an appeal to the court of cassa tion, and the time of appeal having elapsed, the papers have been sent to Paris for the signature of President Casimir-Perier, fixing his execution for ten days hence. Zelmer & Co., retail dry goods deal ers at 225 and 227 Sixth avenue, New York, have assigned with a preference of $34,771 to Samuel Zelmer. The firm was established about two years ago and is now one of tbe largest dry goodB establishments on Sixth avenue. The failure is said to be duo to the general financial depression and laird times. A St. Petersburg special says: From July 13th to August 4th,313 new cases of cholera and 204 deaths from the disease were reported in the city. In the town of Warsaw from July 22d to July 28th, 159 new cases of cholera and 83 deaths were reported. In the province of Warsaw during the period, 394 new cases of cholera were reported and 213 deaths. The convicted anarchists who led the memorable riots of the silk work ers in Patterson, N. J., during Mnrch and April last, and who were convict ed for assaulting workingmen, throw ing bombs and writing threatening letters, were sentenced Wednesday by Judge Hopper in the court of quarter sessions. Tbe sentences ranged from six months to five years in jail. The big anarchist trial was continued at Paris Tuesday in the court of as sizes. The prosecutor and presiding judge examined at great length Felix Fenon, formerly clerk in the war office; Armaml Matha, publicist; Philippe Ortiz, shop clerk. Van Bertani and Chericotte, All efforts to trap them into admissions of guilt were futile, as the men stoutly denied everything. A special from Fall River, Mass., says: The reasons for the reduction of the wages of the operatives voted by the cotton manufacturers’ association which affects 26,000 mill hands, ait the falling off the market price for prints to 2 5-8 cents, 1 per cent off, and the poor demand for goods even at that figure. A reduction will also take place in the fine goods depart ment. The Nebraska democratic congres sional convention of the ninth Iowa district met at Council Bluffs to nomi nate a candidate. About two months ago General James B. Weaver, late populist candidate for president, was nominated for congress by the popu lists. The democratic convention de cided to make no nomination, but en dorsed General Weaver by a vote of 72 to 20. The American Federation of Labor of Pittsburg, Pa., is waging a war against the Knights of Labor in flint city. The brewery workmen’s union has issued a circular denouncing the loefd Knights of Labor officials for adopting a scale lower than that of the union, and alleging that they are in collusion with the brewery proprietors to destroy unions affiliated with the American Federation. Dispatches have been received at Shanghai, Chinn, confirming the re port that the emperor has divested Viceroy Li Hung Chang of the order of the Yellow Riding Coat, which is the highest order in China, allowing the wearer privileges next to those of royalty. The emperor has freely ex pressed his anger at the viceroy’s hav ing allowed Japan to get ahead of China in preparing for war. The striking railway employes at Cincinnati held a meeting to hear the report of Master Workman Sheehan, who had just returned from a confer ence with Debs. Sheehan announced that Vice President Howard would soon issue a manifesto. By a vote of 254 to 224 the meeting voted to continue the strike. Meantime the railways of the city refuse to re-employ any strikers. The Denver Xews says that Joseph R. Wilson, the El Paso county deputy sheriff, who was captured by Adjutant General Tarsney in Missouri, has made a full confession and given to Chief of Police Armstrong the names of all the men connected with the outrage committed in Colorado Springs a few weeks ago. He confirmed the story that the murderer from El Paso county jail was allowed to help put the tar and feathers on Colorado’s adjutant general. The five hundred or more members of the commonweal army, under Gen- trals Calvin and Thomas, left Wash ington for their homes Tuesday night. Before their departure the command ers gave out a letter expressing grati tude to the people of Washington and vicinity who in any manner aided and assisted them, and particularly thank ing Chief of Police Moore, who proved himself a true and humane man, and also the district commis sioners, who cheerfully responded when transportation was reqnested. Once it was “tramp, .tramp, tramp, the boys are marching. ” Now it is “boys, boys, boys, tbe tramps are marching.” Bradstreet’s Report of Business for the Fast Week. Bradstreet’s Business Review of the past week says: “While little significance is attached to the moderate improvement in trade at San Francisco, Pittsburg, Balti more, Augusta and Atlanta ; when it is added that clearing house totals foi July report twenty-nine cities with larger aggregates than in July last year, contrasted with the June report, which contains only eighteen cities with aggregates larger than those in June a year ago, it is pereeived that there are influences at work at the in terior favoring an increase in the vol ume of business. Wool remains steady at last week’s 1 cent advance, speculation having been stimulated by differences of opinion as to the tariff outlook for that staple. Wheal has advanced, in sympathy with corn, on increased orders and reports of crop damage from abroad, while corn’s charp advance is due partly to exag gerated notions of damage from drought. There is little likelihood of the corn crop being smaller than in either of the two preceding years, not withstanding our advices of 25 per cent damage in Kansas and 40 per cent in Nebraska. Southern crop prospects generally are excellent. “The improvement announced in the general trade at San Sraucisco is in part based on the interest manifes ted in the war in Asia, provision deal ers particularly anticipating largely increased trade. “War between China and Japan has not affected the price of tea here yet, though there is an increased demand noted at New York, Boston and Chicago. Cable advices are that crops of tea are likely to equal those of last year. Teas are low now, and stocks here moderate. If tea ports should be closed high prices would follow quick ly. China exports but little rice, and Japan’s rice export season has passed, while we are entering upon anew crop. Prices of rice would probably be sharp ly affected should the war continue another season. They may be moder ately enhanced in any event. “Added interest in wool has charac terized the Philadeliihia as well as Boston markets. Slight increases in the demand in nearly all leading lines are reported from Pittsburg, and at Baltimore jobbers iu dry goods, no tions, hats and shoes report business more encouraging. Providence jewel ry manufacturers report orders very small and tbe outlook not promising. “Advices from southern cities re port moderate gams and fair prospects for tbe fall at Memphis, no improve ment in Charleston, the trade selling cautiously at Savannah, and business quiet at Jacksonville, where collec tions are slow. There is an improve ment in the volume of business at Au gusta, and jobbers at Atlanta are filling orders more freely, owing to good crop prospects. Nashville, too, announces an improved outlook. Chattanooga’s July trade is reported larger than for June, but at Birmingham business is quiet and collections nuimproved. Trade has been slack at New Orleans, bnt tbe boot and shoe business is im proving and manufacturers are busy. Advices from Galveston and other points in Texas continue to report im provement.” GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Situation as Reported for tlie Past Week. The Tradesman, Oattanooga. Tenn., in its report on tlie iminstrial condim n “f the sou'll for the past week says: The lumber manufac turers, who have been working for email profits for some time p 'Hi, report an increased demand and ] rosp' cts of an advance in prices. Stocks of lumb- r are lower than usual. Coal and iron operators are slowly increasing their outputs, but have not reached their full capacity. The ex ile mills throughout the state are domg well. The cotton crop will be a very large one, and wiih slight prospects of beiDg sold at prof itable prices to growers. Twenty-four new industries were established or incorporated during the week, together with six enlargements of manufactories and six een iuipor ant new buildings. Piom u nt among the new industries of the week are: the Monroe Electric Co., of Key West, Fla., capital $75- IX 0; the Railroad Compress Co., of Birin ng- ham, Ala., an 1 the Fort Smith Compress Co., of Fort Smith, Ark., each with $10,000 capital, and the Corsicana Shippers’ Compress Co., of Comicanna, Tex., capital $30,(X)0; the Rock dale Pressed Brick Co., of R .ckdale, tex., with $30,000 cap tal, and F. L. Slade & Co., incor porated, of Norfolk, Va„ capital $25,000; a can ning factory at Yailaha, Fla.; cotton mdisat Toc- eos, Ga.. and Louisburg, N. C-; cotton com press at Cartersville, Ga., and an electric light ing plant at Paducah, Kv. Flour and grist mills are to be built at Brown's Snmmit, Madi son and Raleigh, N. C.. and Fort Worth, Tex. ; iron works at i.cucv ll', Ky., and Jackson Tenn.; a knitting mill at. San Angelo, Tex.; a tobacco factory at Siloam, N. C.: a large box factory at New Orleans, La.; fibre works at Mobile, Ala., and wood working plants at New Decatur, Ala., and L ringston, Tt x. Waterworks ate to be built at Key West, Fla. The enlargements for the wetk include gas works at Helena, A’k.; iron works" at Pi dmout an l Wheeling. W. Va.; a cotton m It at Piue- v.l.e, N. C., and woodworking plants at Avou Park. Fa., and Monroe, La. Among the new buildings are a bank at Sa vannah, Ga.; a $75,000 hotel at Berkeley Sol mg 4, W. Vs.; a $25,000 business bloek a r Knoxvdle, Tenn , and others at Butler, Ga., and Abbeville, S. C.; an open house at Bowie, Tex.: pencil w iks at South Pittsburg, Tenn.; a $20,U00 residence at Knoxvide, Tenn., and one to cost $15 000 at Houston, Texas. THE GUILOTINE Will be the Fate of President Carnot’s Slayer. The trial of Santo Cesario was con cluded at Paris Friday. When tbe arg ument had been concluded tbe court gave these questions to the jury: “Did the prisoner, Santo Cesario, assassin ate President Carnot, and was the crime premeditated?” The jnry retired at 12 :05 oclock and was out just thir teen minutes. They returned to court and presented an affirmative answer to both questions. At the announcement of the verdict the supercilious grin which Cesario has worn most of the time during the trial disappeared like magic and his face blanched. Attorney General Folchier demanded the immediate imposition of the death penalty. There was a bilence for a moment and then the judge in solemn tone, bnt with a touch of harshness, pronounced the sentence that the pris oner be put to death by the guilotine. The Strike Declared Off. At a meeting in Chicago of the gen eral strike committee of the American Railway Union it was decided to declare the great strike off in Chicago. This does not include the Chicago and East ern lllinoisnor the Santa Fe, where the men have voted to continue the strike to settle local grievances and where they think they have a fair show of winning. NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY And Presenting an Epitome of the South’s Progress and Prosperity. Advices from Fort Worth, Texas, are to the effect that immense damage is being done Texas cotton fields by boll w. rms. Some fields have been entirely destroyed. The celebrated arson case is now on trial in the circuit court at Meridian, Miss. Much interest is manifested in the trial, as public opinion is strongly in favor of Belk and Scott, tho defen dants. The case of W. C. Schambers for erson will be next tried. Pensacola, Fla., was visited by one of the worst storms ever known in that locality Wednesday night. The wind came in great gusts from the gulf, driving torrents of rain, which fell without ceasing throughout the night. Nearly every honse in the city felt the effects of the storm. Alex Barlor, Washington Hudson and W. A. Hoigley, three intelligent white men of Eufaula, Ala., have been ar rested, charged with taking one-dollar bills and making tens out cf them. Southeast Alabama has been flooded with such currency, and it is claimed that it emanated from the three men in custody. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says: The state has at last caught on to the practical way of downing “blind tigers,” and a new grade of whisky will be put on sale at once at 25 cents per pint. This may prove effective, as the “tigers” charge 15 cents a drink. The label, “guaranteed U. S. 100 proof,” will be replaced by one with 80 per cent. The advisory board of the associated railroads of Virginia and the Carolinas held a meeting at Virginia Beach Wednesday. There was a large attend ance, the Southern railway, Seaboard Air-Line and Atlantic Coast line being represented by all their general officers of traffic and executive departments. Excursion and freight rates was the burden of discussion. The tenth district congressional deadlock at Hallettsville, was broken Wednesday morning after eighteen hundred and eight (pilots had been taken and State Senator Miles Crow ley, of Galveston, was nominated on tbe first ballot as the democratic nom inee for congress from the district. This was the result of a caucus by the Gresham and Lane factions. Special Agent Burns, of the secret service bureau in Washington, who was sent to Mississippi by Chief Hazen to see tho governor about the Missis sippi special warrants, is still in Jack- son. He has as yet made no demands on the governor and is personally try ing to find where special warrants have been unwittingly taken for United States currency or national bank notes. The North Carolina democratic state convention met nt Raleigh Wednesday, nearly every conuty being represented. The convention will nominate four supreme court judges and a state treasurer. The incumbents of these offices have no opposition. The interesting questions are the sil ver plank and the question of pri maries for the instruction of members of the legislature for United States senators, there being two to elect in January. The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail road company has made a proposition to the miners to give them 37J cents for mining coal as long ns foundry No. 1 was $8.50 per ton and less, and to pay them 2h cents per ton advance for every 50 cents per ton that foundry No. 1 increased until it reached $11, and then to pay them 2} cents for each dollars’ increase. The miners met at Birmingham and decided that they would not accept the proposition. They will not work f r less than 45 cents per ton. The thirteenth annual meeting of the Tennessee Bar Association assem bled on Lookout Mountain Wednesday morning. A number of the leading barristers of the state were in attend ance. The first day”was spent in re ceiving reports from the several officers and committees. The second was de voted to the discussion of a paper on “Constitution-Making in Tennessee,” and a report of the committee on new constitution and code. As a constitu tional convention will be held this fall these subjects will be vigorously dis cussed. MORE JAPANESE VICTORIES. Great Britain and Russia Fail as Peacemakers. Advices of Wednesday from Yoko- homa, Japan, state that additional battles have been fought between the Japanese and Chinese, and the latter have been defeated. Seikioan has been taken by the Japanese with trifl ing loss. The Chinese in this engage ment lost 500 killed. The enemy fled in the direction of Koshin. The Jap anese are in possession of Yashan. An imperial ordinance just issued permits Chinese to reside "in Japan on condition that they engage in peaceful pursuits. The greatest excitement prevails at Yokohoma, at Tokio and at other towns, ns a result of the victor ies of the Japanese troops. Kumors, however, are current that the Japanese naval forces have been defeated in an engagement with Chinese war ships. THE FEACEKAKEBS FAIL. It is officially reported from Tien- Tsin that the efforts of Great Britain and Russia to bring about a peaceful settlement of the disputes between China and Japan have failed. China is willing to pay an indemnity, but she refuses to surrender her sovereignty over Corea. The Chinese government haB closed the Amping andTakao light houses, on the island of Formosa. Serious Strike at Omaha. A special from Omaha, Neb., says: The crisis has arrived, and if there is no improvement several companies of militia will be sent to south Omaha and the packing house district will be placed uuder martial law. The situa tion is most serious and the 1,100 strikers have beep doing about 93 they please. Marcus De Luna Shot by a Detach ment of Mexican Soldiers. Marcus De Luna, the most notori ous outlaw in northern Mexico, has been killed by a detachment of Mexi can soldiers who had been sent in pursuit of him. De Lnna was wanted for many murders and other crimes in Mexico and Texas. He has served a long term of imprisonment in the Texas penitentiary, bnt after his re lease he continued to terrorize the lower country. NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI OUS DEPART.MENTS. Sayings and Doings of the President and Members of tho Cabinet. The senate has passed the bill to further encourage the holding of a world’s exposition at Atlanta, Ga., in 1895, admitting free of duties articles from foreign countries for exhibition purposes and providing for medals. In its brief executive session Thurs day the senate confirmed the follow ing: Amos M. Thayer, of Missouri, to be United States circuit court judge for the eighth judicial district, ns pro vided for by the act approved July 22, 1894; Henry S. Priest, of Missouri, to be United States district judge for the eastern district of Missouri. The honse democratic caucus of Tuesday afternoon adjourned after de ciding that the house conferees on the tariff bill should not be embarrassed by instructions of any character from their democratic associates. This ac tion was disappointing to tho pro moters of the caucus. Mr. Holman presided. The roll call disclosed the presence of 168 members, an unusual ly large number. The “tomorrow” upon which tlie tariff conferees have been for some weeks promising an agreement at last gives promise of fulfillment. When the tariff conferees adjourned at a few minutes before 6 o’clock Wednesday it was with the understanding that at the session Thursday morning all the details should be arranged and the re publicans called in the afternoon and informed of what their democratic colleagues bad done. The democratic tariff conference had expected to be able to announce an agreement Thursday. Instead of reach ing any definite conclusion, the day closed with the bill in quite as uncer tain a stage as ever before in its his : lory, with the situation in no wise im proved, and with the feeling between the friends of tho senate bill and the house bill intensified instead of allayed, and with no one prepared to say what fhe outcome would be, or when the end would be reached. CHINA LEVYING TRIBUTE. Viceroys Called Upon to Produce tho Wherewith. A dispatch from Tien Tain to the Central A'ewn, of London, says: “The emperor of China has directed that a levy for war tribute be made upon the viceroys of tho different provinces. A foreign war loan is mooted. “Chinese troops with European of ficers are rapidly advancing through Manchuria toward the Corean frontier. The Commissariat is experiencing great difficulty in obtaining supplies for the troops. Chiua is wary in preparations, but is unsparing in her efforts to suc ceed in the impendinfi fighting.” The Shanghai correspondent of the Central News says: “According to advices from Yoko homa and Nagasaki, Japan is pouring reinforcements into Corea, using for the purpose all available fast steamers flying tbe Japanese flag. “A fleet of Japanese transports re cently started for Chemulpo. Another fleet started for the north coast of Co rea, presumably for Gensan. “The Japanese newspapers are for bidden to refer to the war preparation or to publish any army news except such as is supplied by tbe government. “The Japanese aim to attack the Chinese before the arrival of the Manchurian corps. “The Chinese fleet makes no effort to leave the coast. Fast Japanese cruis ers are constantly watching. DARLINGTONITES ARRESTED. Four of Them Charged with the Mur der of Constable Pepper. A Columbia, S. C., special says: The state has caused the arrest of twelve prominent citizens of Darling ton for participation in the whiskey riot there last spring. The arrests were made by State Detective New- bold. Charles McCullough, L. A. Norment, K. D. Lucas and Henry Appelt are charged with the murder of Constable Pep per. C. S. Nettles, Dr. J. C. Wilcox, W. C. Byrd, S. H. Wilde, C. S. Mc Cullough, Mclver Williamson, L. M. Norment and J. H. Edmunds were re arrested for shooting into a train in which the constables were. They all gave bond and the preliminary hear ing will take place on the 14th instant. The attorney general 6ays the cases will be pnsbed to the end. Pullman Works Start Up. Steam was let into the cylinders of the big Corliss engine at PullmaD, O., Thursday morniDg and the immense fly-wheel revolved for the first time since the great strike was inaugurated. At an early hour 1,197 men -reported for work. Six hundred of these were assigned to the repair department. The others were distributed through out the various shops, and all depart ments were open for business, except the freight and street car shops. They Gave It Up. The congressional democratic con vention at Texarkana, Texas, adjourned after a ten days’ session trying to choose a successor to Hon. D. B. Cul berson. The convention adjourned to meet in Paris, Tex., August 30th. In a Hopeless Deadlock. A dispatch from Texarkana, Ark., says: The democratic congressional convention took 500 additional ballots making the total to date. 4,785. The copypntion is hopelessly deadlocked. DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE. What Our National Law-Makers are Doing for the Country. The house, Monday, voted to non concur in the senate amendments to the general deficiency bill, and asked a conference thereon. On motion of Mr. Catchings, of Mississippi, the sen ate was requested to return the con ference report on the river and harbor bill, in which an error was discovered, a sheet of it having disappeared. Mr. Paynter, of Kentucky, announced that owing to the enforced absence of Mr. Woodward, of North Carolina, who made the report for the minority in the contested election case of Williams vs. Settle,from the fifth North Carolina district in favor of Williams, nnd which had been set for consideration during the day, it has been agreed that the case should go over until next ses sion. In the house, Tuesday, the seuato amendments were agreed to tho bills to subject greenbacks and national bank notes to state taxation and to amend sections 2,401 and 2,403 of tho revised Statutes relating to the survey of public lands: also for the protection of persons furnishing labor nnd mate rial in the construction of buildings. A concurrent resolution was agreed to directing the secretary of the interior to suspend the opening to settlement of the Anndonda reservation in Flor ida. A senate bill was passed to amend the quarantine net of 1892, by reliev ing excursion boats, plying between Canadian and United States ports, from its operations. The house Wednesday passed, by unanimous consent, a billtojtay B. D. Greene, secretary for George E. Ward, $J ,900 for government work done on the Rappahannock river, Virginia. Immediately afterwards Mr. Catch ings, from the committed on rules, re ported a special order setting aside the day for the consideration of bills from the committee on public build ings and grounds, and Thursday for business from the committee on claims. The special order was adopted. The Hawaiian question came to the front again in the house Thursday, forming the subject of the most spir ited and interesting portion of the pro ceedings. Mr. Boutelle raised it as a question of privilege. He repudiated the reported imputation that in intro ducing resolutions recognizing the Ha waiian republic he had sought to ob tain a partisan advantage for the re publican party, but that ho was de sirous only of maintaining the honor and dignity of the government and of observing the unbroken traditions of the country and of congress. Ho criti cised the failure of the committee on foreign affairs to act upon his resolu tions and denounced the Hawaiian policy of tho administration. The house then proceeded to tho consider ation of the bill to increase tbe effi ciency of the militia. THE SENATE. The bill introduced by Davis, Fri day, defining options and futures and imposing special taxes thereon, was at his request read the second time in the senate, Monday morning, and laid on the table. Mr. Mills offered a res olution declaring that in the revision of national taxation, these three prin ciples should be observed: That all taxes are burdens and can only be rightfully imposed to raise a revenue for the support of the government; that when taxes are imposed on im- ported goods, the rates should be so low as not to materially restrict the im portation of an article; and that in se lecting articles to be taxed, only those ready for consumption should bo chosen, and that all those imported for manufacture or re-manufacture, should be exempt from duty. It was laid on the table temporarily at Mills’ request, Mills saying he would call it up in a few days and make some re marks upon it. The Chandler resolu tion for inquiry into the facts connect ed with the organization and history of the Dominion Coal Company, of Novia Scotia, was taken up. After an hour’s debate in tbe senate Tuesday morning, on the claim of one Leathers, for carrying the United States mail on the Mississippi river before the war, the matter went over until Wednesday and the senate took up the conference report on the Dis trict of Columbia Omnibus Street Railway bill and at 2 :05 adjonned. In the senate, Thursday, the house bill to repeal in part and limit the section of revised statues under which bounty land warrants are refused to ex-soldiers of the Meican war who af terwards served in the confederate army, gave rise to a discussion. Mr. Platt moved to postpone it till the first Monday in December. The dis cussion was interrupted by a motion by Mr. Gray to proceed to the con sideration of executive business, and at 1:15 the senate went into executive session and at 1:40 adjourned till Fri day. COMMONWEALERS CAPTURED. Sentenced to Prison for Three Months on tlie Charge of Vagrancy. A Washington dispatch says: Short ly before 4 o’clock Thursday morning, before the inmates were astir, the for ty special policemen from Baltimore; under charge of Sergeant Gilbert, swooped down on the Coxeyites en camped at Highlands near Bladens- burg, Md., about six miles from Wash ington, and arrested the entire “army of the commonweal,” eighty-eight in number, on charges of vagrancy. The arrested men were taken to Hyatts- ville and put on board a special train for Bridewell, where they will for three months work at hard labor. Their leaders, including Marshals McKee and Christopher Columbus Jones were each given one year. Iron Mills Resuming. A Pittsburg, Pa., special says: The Mahoning A r allc-y Iron Mills are re suming after a long period of idleness. Coleman Shields, of Miles, O., who have been idle a year; the Girard, Ohio, rolling mill which has been closed six months; Brown & Bonnels, Youngtown, Ohio, who have been off in part for a year, are all running full.