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TEEMS, $1. Per Annum.
“Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where They Way.”
JOHN E HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XIII. NO. g
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1894.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Dark brown is the prevailing color
of the hair of the people of English
nationality.
An estimate of the charitable be
quests in England during 1893 puts
the total sum at about $7,000,000.
Ninety thousand dollars a year is
paid to New York City for the privilege
of picking over its garbage for what
ever of value it may contain.
According to the official report o'
the department of agriculture there
are 10,206,802 horses in the United
States, or one to about every four in
habitants.
In the matter of woman’s rights
Abyssinia is far ahead of Europe, the
Detroit Free Press notes. The house
and all its contents belong to her,
and if the husband offends she turns
him out until he is duly repentant
and makes amends.
The annual wool clip of Australia is
530.000. 000 pounds. Argentina yields
400.000. 000 pounds and the United
States 300,000,009 pounds of wool.
The other great wool producing coun
tries are respectively Russia, Great
Britain, France and Spain.
Lieutenant Colonel A. R. Seville,
of the English service, claims that the
cycle possesses numerous qualifica
tions as a suitable mount which are
not fulfilled in the body of any living
animal, and argues that cyclists should
be included among armed forces.
Official German reports show that
the number of deaths caused by light
ning have been increased by about 200
per cent, from the season of 1870 to
1882. The author attributes this to
the gradual disappearance of forests
nnd to the greater use of metals iu
building construction. Lightning
protectors have yielded excellent re
sults in most cases, and it is deemed
essential that all high buildings should
be provided with them.
The Russian Ministry of Justice is
considering a system of providing
State-paid people’s attorneys for the
gratuitous defence of the poor in
criminal and civil cases. The argu
ment is that wherever the State pro
vides a prosecutor, it ought also to
provide an advocate for the accused.
This practice already exists in Anstro-
Hnngary in the form of ex-officio
counsel; but this is for criminal
cases only. An association exists in
Vienna to provide counsel for the
poor in civil cases.
The rich frescoing on the walls o:
♦he room of the Committee on Naval
, Tairs in the Capitol at Washington
attracts a great deal of attention from
visitors. Conspicuous on the walls
are a half dozen female figures, which
show remarkable artistic skill, and are
also wonderful for the peculiar beauty
1 of the face and form of each figure.
It is apparent at almost a glance that
oue model served for the whole group.
The painting was done by Brumidi,
tho famous Italian artist, and the
model was the artist’s lovely wife. .
A curious and interesting fact given
by the Registrar-General in his statis
tics for 1893 is that in the Celtic por
tions of the United Kingdom the pro
portions of the female births is much
higher than it is in the non-Celtic
portions. Tho highest proportions
are found in Cumberland, Cornwall
nnd North Wales, while South Wales
is only a little way down in the list
and has a proportion considerably
above the average for the whole coun
try, The proportion of female births
is higher in Ireland and Scotland lhan
in England.
The credentials of Thomas Staples
Martin, the next Senator from Vir
ginia, which have been presented to
tho United States Senate, were en
grossed upon a huge sheet of bristol
board, nearly three feet square, to
which were attached several yards o'
light blue ribbon bearing the golden
seal of the State. The letters were
beautifully executed in pen and ink,
the body of the credentials appearing
in ornate script, while the important
clauses and words, such as the uew
Senator’s name, were made prominent
with all the decoration of which the
artist was capable.
The late President Carnot was noti
fied nearly every day during his term
of office that he would bo assassinated.
More than 2090 such threats reache 1
him in seven years. As the Atlanta
Constitution observes he literally
faced death every day, and yet he
went about with a smiling face, shirk
ing none of his duties, and making
one of the best rulers that France ever
had. The French President was a
great man, a brave man, and made cf
the genuine martyr stuff. Few men
could have endured his mental strain
for so many years without breaking
down. It would be hard to find a
nobler example for all men in what
ever station who bear great responsi
bilities and have important unties to
discharge. Life was sweet to Carnol,
but he never weighed it iu the balance
against principle and duty. The daily
threat of murder never caused him to
waver or halt. He lived and died
Without fear and wjthput reproach,
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
CONDENSED FROM OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Items of General
Interest to Onr Readers.
The big strike of the miners at
Spring Valley, 111., has ended by an
agreement between the coal company
and the strikers as to terms. The
men will resume work at once.
It developed Wednesday that tho
two hundred employes of the Ports
mouth Manufacturing Company, South
Berwick, Me., had not been paid sala
ries for six weeks when the mills closed
down last week.
After making a thorongh investiga
tion of the conditions existing among
the employes of the Pullman company
who participated in the recent boycott
nnd strike, Governor Altgeld has is
sued an appeal to the people of Illinois
or relief.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
the court of inquiry has established
the fact that the Japanese war ship
Naniwa ordered the destruction of the
drowning men from the Chinese trans
port Kow Shing, which was sunk by
the Japanese.
The whisky trust has succeeded in
borrowing all tho money it needs for
the present and on Wednesday depos
ited over $1,000,000 in one of the city
banks of Peoria, 111. This was bor
rowed in small lots and parties are of
fering the trust money iu all direc
tions.
The spinners at tho Standard Spin
ning Company’s works, Fall River,
went out on a strike Wednesday re
fusing to work under a further reduc
tion. They have been working at
lower wages than are usually paid iu
mills where colored hosiery yarns are
made.
A Chicago special says: Officials of
the American Railway Union and local
labor leaders are much pleased with
tht methods of the notional strike com
mittee so far. Several of them have
expressed themselves ns satisfied that
both sides of the question will receive
a fair aud impartial hearing.
The triennial convocation of the gen
eral grnnd chapter of the United
States Royal Arch Masons was held at
the Masonic temple at Topeka, Kas.,
Wednesday. Three hundred and fifty
members of the fraternity, represen
ting grand chapters with an aggregate
membership of over 150,000, were
present. The sessions will centinue
for one week.
An Indianapolis special says: A call
is being circulated for a state mass
meeting to be held in that city to or
ganize a good citizenship political par
ty. The Christian Endeavor, with its
45.000 members; the EpworthLeague,
with 30,000 members, and the Baptist
Young People’s Society, with perhaps
10.000 members, have recently gone
into the movement.
A dispatch of Wednesday to the
Central News, London, from Shang
hai stntes that advices have been re
ceived there from Chemupo to the
effect that some unimportant skir
mishes have taken place on the great
road north of Pongsan between the
Chinese aud Japanese forces. The po
sition of the Japanese troops is un
changed, nud all the passes are strongly
held by Japanese soldiers.
General officers of the Illinois Cen
tral railroad have given ^out informa
tion that after September 1st that road
will own and control the Chesapeake,
Ohio and Southwestern, and would run
its fast passenger and freight trains
from New Orleans to Chicago through
Memphis over the Yazoo and Missis
sippi Valley and the Chespeake and
Ohio, abandoning the route for fast
trains through Jackson, Miss., and
Jackson, Tenn.
The Tokio, Japan, correspondent
telegraphs that the court of inquiry
which has been investigating at Shan
ghai the circumstances of the sinking
of the Chinese transport Kow-Slmng
by the Japauese warship Naniwa, has
returned a decision holding that the
action of the Japanese commander in
firing upon the transport was justified,
aud that, therefore, the Japanese gov
ernment will not be called npon to
make any compensation for the de
struction of the vessel.
The Big Four freight depot at Cin
cinnati burned Tuesday afternoon.
The building was two squares long
nnd was valued, with its contents and
Wagner sleepers and coaches, at $500,-
000. Owing to the material of which
the strncture was built the flames
could not be checked. A row of frame
buildings opposite the depot caught
fire several times, but the incipient
blaze was extinguished in every case.
About twenty of the Wagner sleepers
and chair cars were destroyed.
The window glass manufacturers of
Indiana met nt Anderson Wednesday
afternoon to consider the wage scale
for the next year. There were repre
sentatives from thirty glass manufac
turing towns, where 6,000 men are
employed. The manufacturers named
representatives to meet the wage com
mittee at Pittsburg and announce that
the Indiana manufacturers must have
a 30 per cent, reduction. The local
glassworkers say it will never be
agreed to. They are demanding a 20
per cent, advance in some branches.
The affairs of the Second National
bank of Altoona, Pa., where Bank Ex
aminer Miller committed suicide, are
furnishing a new crop of sensations.
Mayberry Miller, one of the clerks,
has been arrested, charged with fasi-
fving the books of the bank. Tues
day Harry Clabaugh, assistant cashier,
was also arrested on a similar charge
and Tuesday night a dispatch was re
ceived from a Pittsburg detective
agency saying that Gardner, the ab
sconding cashier, was seen in Pitts
burg and asking for authority for his
arrest.
A fire started at an early hour Tues
day morning in the four-story build
ing at Nos. 367 and 378 Shelby street,
Memphis* Tenn., occupied by the
Mansfield Drug Company, and within
less than an hour’s time nearly $250,-
000 worth of property was destroyed.
The fire started amoug chemicals and
oils in the rear of the Mansfield build
ing and spread so rapidly that the fire
men sopu lost control of it. Among
the heaviest losers are the Mansfield
Drug Company, Fader & Co., whole
sale grocers, and A. B. Treadwell A
Co., wholesale grocers and cotton
factors.
Thomas Harris, of Ellensbnrgb, Pa.,
returned from Monnt Clemens, where
he had been for his health. He found
his home closed, and, after considera
ble trouble, broke in. He found the
dead and decomposed body of his wife
ou the bed and by her side slept their
two children, aged two and four years,
respectively. The woman died last
Thursday with hemorrhages and the
bed was saturated with blood. The
neighbors supposed that the family
was away. The children are in a pre
carious condition from lack of food
and breathing the contaminated at
mosphere so long.
The American Bar Association, of
which Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of
Ann Arbor, Mich., is president, began
its seventeenth annual meeting at Sar
atoga, N. Y., Wednesday morning.
The president’s address was read. It
was very lengthy and he commented
on the most noteworthy changes in
statutory law ou points of general in
terest which have been mado in the
several states and by congress during
the preceding year. The secretary re
ported the membership as 1,113, and
the election of sixty new members.
Every state l>ut Nevada and three out
of five territories are represented.
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Brief Summary of Dally Happen
ings Throughout the World.
Four hundred weavers in the China
mills at Suncock, N. H., did not go to
work Thursday because of the reduc
tion in wages, equal to the cut-down
in the Fall River mills. Wages paid
at the China mills are governed by
the scale paid in Fall River, and the
operatives wire accordingly notified
of a ten per cent, cut-down Tuesday.
The south Dakota state republican
convention went through the entire
list of business at Yankton Thursday.
Permanent organization was effected,
with W. C. Palmer, of Sionx Falls, as
chairman. The following ticket was
nominated: Two congressmen, B. J.
Gamble, of Yankton, and J. A. Pickier,
of Faulkton ; governor, C. A. Sheldon,
of Pierre.
Wabash freight train No. 97, in
charge of Conductor William Bryant
and Engineer Charles Charles Felton,
which left Johnsburg, Mo., W^jlnes-
day night, just ahead of the Kansas
City express, ran into a herd of horses
two miles west of the town and was
badly wrecked. Those killed were:
Engineer Charles Felton; William
Fidler, of St. Joseph ; William Miller,
residence unknown. A large number
of the crew were injured.
Three Indianapolis banks—the mer
chants’ National, Fletcher’s and the
Indiana National—have advanced $40,-
962 to Governor Matthews to pay off
the state militia for services during
tho riots at Hammond, Ind., in the
mining region. There was no regular
fund in the state treasury from which
the amount could legally be drawn. It
is understood that Governor Matthews
mortgaged his'fine stock farm in Ver
million county to the banks in order
to secure the loan.
Applications from individual exhib
itors from Morocco, Ceylon and San
Francisco for space at the Atlanta ex
position were received and filed in the
exposition, office Thursday morning.
It is probable that all of the foreign
exhibitors which were at the World’s
Fair will come to Atlanta. They will
have new exhibits, however, and the
exposition authorities will see that all
of their displays are new and not re
productions of the exhibits at the
World’s Fair.
A distressing accident occurred near
Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, which
resulted in the death of three estima
ble young ladies, and which has cast a
gloom over the entire capital. The
unfortunates were Misses Mar Lee
Read, Belle Chambers and Elenore
Garland. The young ladies were
bathing in the Amite river, when one
of their number got beyond her depth.
She screamed and the other two went
to her assistance, and all of them were
drowned.
While threshers were at work on a
farm of George Whitmer, near Akron,
O., a box of dynamite was found con
cealed in a sheaf of wheat. Half an
hour later a dynamite cartridge, which
had been secreted in another sheaf,
was exploded in the separator, wreck
ing the machine and setting fire to the
barn. John W. Hines, Jacob and
Charles Lacy attempted to rescue the
horses in the barn. Hines was fatally
injured. Four horses, one mule and
several head of cattle were burned to
death, and Whitner’s entire wheat and
oat crop and many farm implements
were destroyed.
TO BUILD FACTORIES.
A Plausible Scheme of the North
Carolina Alliance.
At the annual meeting of the North
Carolina Farmers’ Alliance, held at
Greensborough C. P. Simmons, of
Halifax county, proposed a novel
scheme for building a number of cot
ton factories in the state. His plan is
to open subscription books iu each
congressional district, under the man
agement of a special committee for
subscriptions, to be held monthly,
ranging from $1 per month up. When
the total amount of subscriptions is
sufficient to warrant steps being
taken for the erection of a
factory, the committee will in
invite propositions from the differ
ent towns aud communities for its lo
cation, and the place which offers the
best inducements, in the opinion of
the committee, will secure the factory.
It is proposed that every subscriber
shall be a stockholder, and be entitled
to a vote according to the amount of
his stock, and that the matter shall be
entirely free from all party and politi
cal influence, a purely progressive
manufacturing movement, to be open
to farmers, business men and capital
ists alike. The plan is meeting with
much favor,
HALLS OF CONGRESS
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
What Our National Law-Makers are
Doing for the Country.
Less than fifty members were pres
ent when the house met at noon Mon
day. There were the usual indica
tions that congress wns on the eve of
adjournment. Members were crowd
ing eagerly about the arena in front of
the speaker’s desk with requests for a
unanimous consent for passage of bills
of local interest to them. Mr. Say
ers, chairman of the appropriations
committee, secured unanimous con
sent for the consideration of a bill ap
propriating $ff,000 for an additional
force for collection of internal reve
nue and $5,000 for carrying into effect
the arbitrations convention between
the United States and Venezuela, sign
ed at Caracas in January last. It was
passed without objection. The house
then adjourned at 12 :50 until Tuesday.
In the house, Tuesday, Mr. Boatner
endeavored to secure the immediate
consideration of Senator Hill’s anti-
anarcliist bill, but Mr. Warner, of
New York, objected so strenuously
that the bill went over. The consid
eration of Mr. Hoar’s anti-lottery bill
was prevented by objection from Mr.
Davey, of Louisiana. The house then
adjourned until Thursday.
About fifty members were present
when the house met Thursday morn
ing. A number of senate bills were
laid before the house and several
passed. Mr. Cummings, chairman of
the committee of naval affairs, pre
sented a report of the committee’s in
vestigation of alleged frauds in the
manufacture of armor plate. At 1:10
the house adjourned.
TUP. SENATE.
In the senate, Monday, Mr. Harris,
from the finance committee, reported
back to the senate the sugar bill
amended so as to provide a duty of
forty per cent fiat on all sugars. The
committee did not report back any of
the amendments and several senators
who had previously given notice of
amendments reserved them, notably
Mr. Quay, who brought forwnrd his
McKinley act entire as an amendment,
and Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, who pro
posed the McKinley duty on the free
coal bill was reported back amended
so as to provide for reciprocal
free coal. The iron ore bill was re
ported back without- amendment.
The barbed wire fencing bill was
amended so as to make barbed wire
iree, the house making free only the
material from which it was made. The
senate agreed that when it adjourned
it would be until Wednesday. The
finance committee decided to re
port these bills at a meeting Monday
morning by a strict party vote, Mr.
White (democrat, California,) acting
with the committee for the first time.
The bill went to the calendar and can
now be called up by a majority vote
only.
When the senate met Wednesday
morning 21 senators Were present—
less than half of a quorum. Upon a
later call 32 answered. Mr. Harris
moved that absentees be sent for, nnd
this was agreed to. At 1:20 o’clock a
quorum was secured and the senate
went into executive session. The ex
ecutive session lasted but a few min
utes, and at 1:40 the senate adjourned
until Thursday. Immediately after
wards a long list of confirmations of
presidential nominations to minor of
fices were made public.
Even before the reading of Wednes
day’s journal the absence of a quorum
in the senate Thursday morning was
pointed out by Mr. Manderson and
the roll was called, showing the pres
ence of thirty-three senators, ten less
than a quorum. Mr. Harris moved
that the sergeant at arms be directed
to request the presence of absent sena
tors, but Pasco and Cockrell pointed
out that the order made Tlmrsday was
still in force and the latter asked that
the report of the sergeant at arms be
read. This was done aud reported
that of forty-two senators who had
failed to answer to their names the
previous day only two were in the city
and one of these, Mr. Yoorhees, wns
too ill to attend. The others were tel
egraphed to attend immediately. Up
to 12:30 o’clock thirty-five senators
had responded. At that hour it
being apparent that a quorum
eould not be secured, npon mo
tion of Mr. Harris, the sergeant-at-
arms was directed to compel the atten
dance of the absent senators. This, it
is said, will not amount to anything as
the sergeant-at-arms has always and
now refuses to arrest the senators, and
bring them before the bar of the
senate, unless he is given a warrant
for their arrest. The senate has al
ways likewise refused to issue its war
rant. As a matter of fact, a quorum
could be obtained if all the republi
cans would vote, as there are a number
about the building who have so far
declined to enter the chamber. At
1 :18, the senate, pending the ex
ecution of an order to compel the
members to attend, adjourned un
til Friday. This was owing
to the fact, that it was de
monstrated to be impossible to get a
quorum. Executive clerk, Pruden,
reached the eapitol at 1:15 with some
important nominations, but owing to
the absence of a quorum they could
not be laid before the senate. They
were taken back to the white house.
Jumped From a Tower.
Colonel J. M. Winstead, president
of the Piedmont and People’s Savings
bank, of Greensboro, N. C., Thursday
morning removed his shoes and jumped
from one of the towers of the city hall,
a distance of one hundred and twenty
feet. He wns cruelly mangled. His
left leg caught on a projection of the
tower and was torn from its socket.
No cause is known for his conduct.
Aid for Pullman Strikers.
A Chicago special says: Governor
Altgeld and Mayor Hopkins have de
cided on a plan of relief for the starv
ing Pullman strikers. The scheme is
to secure the aid of the railroads by
their furnishing free transportation to
all those of the town people who de
sire to seek work elsewhere.
FAILED TO COME ACROSS.
Chiua’s Effort to Float a Loan Falls
Flat.
The Central News, (London) has ad
vices from Shanghai to the effect that
the attempt of the Chinese government
to float a loan of 1,000,000 taels, to be
guaranteed by Chinese merchants, has
proved a flat failure.
The American consul at Shanghai
has ordered the Japanese living in that
city to discard Chinese costumes and
advises a majority of them to return to
their native country.
Mr. Oteri, the Japanese minister at
Seoul, is reported to have been killed.
The stories in circulation as to the
manner of his death are conflicting.
SOUTHERN SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY.
And Presenting au Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
A special from Statesville, N. C.,
says the Southern Railway Company
has bought the Western North Caro
lina railway for $500,000.
The sixth Texas state democratic
convention, adjourned from Corsicana,
met at Dallas Tuesday. At adjourn
ment the 1262d roll call had been
reached without a break in the vote,
which was as follows: Burke 37, Poin
dexter 32, Abbott 12, Hardy 10.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says:
Henry Clay Evans, of Chattanooga,
ex-congressman from the third dis
trict, has been made the republican
nominee for governor, after one of the
most prolonged and bitter contests
ever witnessed in a republican conven
tion.
Henry Dangerfield, a prominent nnd
wealthy citizen of Alexandria, Va.,
suicided by shooting himself. He had
been a hypochondriac for some time.
Dangerfield was about fifty yenrs old
and a man of considerable wealth nnd
owned “Springfield,” a fine estate in
Franklin county, Va.
The Tennessee River, Asheville and
Coosa railroad was sold nt auction at
Birmingham, Ala., for $14,000. The
road Was bid in by James Little for J.
E. Zunts, trustee for the bondholders.
The line runs from Whitney to Ashe
ville, a distance of fouf aud a half
miles. The road will now be com
pleted from Asheville to Anderson.
One of the heaviest rainstorms and
rainfalls that Alabama has ever expe-
rienced passed across the state Wed
nesday, doing irreparable damage to
the cotton crop. The young cotton
was beaten off tho plant and cotton
that had opened was knocked down
on the ground. No casualties were
reported. Telegraph communication
south was cut off, the wires being
down.
A terrible accident happened on the
Paducah, Tennessee and Alabama rail
road Wednesday evening. As the
northbound train was nearing Hazel,
Ky., about fifteen miles north of
Paris, in passing a crossing it struck
a Wagon loaded with people and five of
the occupants met their death. The
killed are: Misses Jennie nnd Lillie
Ray, aged eighteen, nnd twenty,
daughters of J. T. Ray; his son Tobe
Ray and two young ladies, Misses
Hannon.
Henry Harman, of Logan county,
Va., was showing to his friends a rifle
with which he proposed to square
things with a neighbor, who, in a
quarrel recently, had shot his (Har
man’s) hand off. Harman dropped
the rifle and it went off, lodging a bul
let in his brain. William Workman
started through the woods for a doc
tor. He passed some men who were
felling trees, and one of the trees fell
on him, crushing him to death. Har
man died from his wound.
In the petition of Receivers Comer
and Hays, of the Central railroad, set
ting up claims against the Port Royal
and Western Carolina railroad for bal
ance due on operating expenses, $130,-
000; for new rails, $40,000, and for
interest on Augusta and Knoxville
bonds for $22,000 and praying that re
ceivers’ certificates may be issued for
the total amount thus due, Judge Si
monton has filed an opinion refusing
the petition and only allowing certain
sums for new rails laid.
SUGAR BAG CLOTH O. K.
The New York Exchange Says That It
Is Good Delivery.
Many letters have been received by
the New York cotton exchange, both
for and against the use of sugar bag
cloth for baling cotton. The board of
managers, after a full discussion of the
matter, have passed the following res
olutions :
“Resolved, That many inquiries
having been received by the New York
cotton exchange as to whether or not
the use of what is known as sugar Lag
cloth in covering cotton is contrary to
the rules of the exchange, the set r tary
is instructed to advise the southern ex
changes and others known to be inter
ested in this matter of the fact that
cotton covered by such bagging con
stitutes a good delivery under the
rules of this exchange.’’
INDICTMENTS GALORE.
The Grand Jury of Shelby County,
Tenn., After the Liquor Dealers.
The Shelby county, Tenn., grand
jury have found two hundred more in
dictments against liquor dealers in and
near Memphis, making a total of seven
hundred un to date. Indictments have
also been found against a score of real
estate dealers and more are expected
to follow, running the total to a thou
sand, all for failure to pay privilege
taxes. The disclosures of this grand
jury, showing that a million and a half
has been lost by the state, county and
city in the last eight years,has created
such a popular feeling that a “Good
Government Club,” has been organ
ized, embracing leading citizens whose
announced purpose it is to enforce the
laws and especially the revenue laws.
Know Nothing of It.
The officials at the Japauese lega
tion iu London say that th.y have
heard nothing to the eff-ct that seven
Chinese vessels were sunk by th-.- Jr=r-
anese fleet on August 10th or 11 L.
The report ig discredited,
WASHINGTON NOTES
NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
Sayings and Doings of the President
and Members of the Cabinet.
Cleveland Will Not Sign It.
The honse leaders received a straight
tip Tuesday. It was that President
Cleveland had finally decided not to
sign the tariff bill. He will not veto
it, but will permit it to become a law
at the expiration of ten days. This
would send congress home on the 29th.
Several members of the cabinet who
saw the president Thursday morning
afterwards stated their belief that no
change had come over the president
during his stay at Buzzard’s Bay, and
that he would permit the tariff bill to
become a law without his signature.
It is generally thought, however, that
the president will send a message to
the house announcing that he has per
mitted it to become a law and giving
his reasons therefor.
The house and senate now meet only
to adjourn. The end of the long ses
sion of congress is practically at an
end. A quorum could not be produced
in either house even by the aid of the
sergeont-at-arms. Members of congress
are leaving on every train to escape
the stifling heat of the national capi
tal, and to work for their own re-elec
tion. The senators who are not in
danger of defeat nre sojourning at
near-by watering places.
Secretary Carlisle. Thursday ad
dressed letters to Dr. Jos. B. Graham,
United States quarantine officer at
Savannah, Ga., and Mr. Peter Dodge,
of Suvannah, awarding them silver
and gold life saving medals of honor,
under the provisions of act of congress
of June 20, 1876, and May 4, 1882, for
their courageous rescue of three sail
ors of the British bark "Mary E.
Chapman,” wrecked near Tybee island
on the afternoon of July 25, 1894.
President Cleveland returned to
Washington Wednesday, but his inten
tions in regard to the tariff bill are as
much surrounded in mystery as if he
were still on board the Buth in Bnz-
zard Bay. The opinion has been that
he would sign the bill and accompany
its return with a characteristic mes
sage urging the passage of the pop
gun bills. Opinion, however, has
shifted and it is thought he will per
mit the bill to become a law With
out his signature. The constitutional
term of ten days will expire on Tues
day next. Those who think he will let
it become a law without his signature
believe he will send a message urging
the passage of the popgun bills on
Monday, prefacing it with a statement
to tho effect that, while he cannot ap
prove of the bill by fixing his signature
to it. nevertheless he can feel justified
in disapproving it, and therefore, per
mit it to become a law in this negative
manner.
Concerning the Tariff Bill.
There is great uncertainty as to when
the tariff act goes into effect. Many
conflicted stories have been telegraph
ed broadcast, and the public mind
has naturally become much befuddled.
Wednesday morning, Secretary Car
lisle and attorney General Olney held
a conference over the disputed points.
After the meeting Secretary Carlisle
said to a press representative: “The
bill provides that so far as the
internal revenue and whisky taxes are
concerned, they are payable as soon as
the bill is signed, or it becomes a
law, but on the other articles, the su
preme court has held that persons pay
ing taxes can prove the hour and min
ute in which a bill becomes a law. If
the president does not sign the bill, it
will become a law at midnight on the
27th, and will l>e in fnll effect aDd
force the whole of the 28th.” Iu re
gard to those goods which are now
held in bond and which are placed
on the free list by the new tariff bill,
the secretary holds that they cannot
be withdrawn from bund for consump
tion without paying the McKinley du
ty. To escape this tax. these articles
will have to be re-shipped to a foreign
port and theu sent back to this conn-
try. This is not true of dutiable goods
because the section of the bill which
relntes to them provides that they may
be withdrawn for consumption. The
second section, which relates to the
free list, makes no such provision.
THE CORBETT-JACKSON fight.
Manager Brady Accepts the Offer of
the Sioux City Club.
A dispatch from Sioux City, Is.,
says: Corbett’s manager, William A.
Brady, has telegraphed his acceptance
of the Sioux City Athletic Club’s $25,-
000 offer for the Corbett-Jackson
fight. Jackson telegraphed that he
would accept if training expenses
were guaranteed him, provided the
fight did not take place. The guaran
tee was made. The club is composed
of forty of the leading business and
professional men, who have jointly
signed a note for the $25,000 to be
taken up and the cash deposited with
the articles when signed. The club
manager does not tell how they expect
to pull the fight off.
FALL RIVER MILLS TO CLOSE.
This Move Will Throw 2,500 People
Out of Work.
It has been learned beyond question
that the executive committee of the
Manufacturers’ association at Fall
River, Mass., met Wednesday after-
noen and voted to order all mills under
their control to close for an indefinite
period. The order will cause the
throwing of 2,500 people out of work,
and the stoppage of plants variously
estimated at from $40,000,000 to $50,-
000,000 in value. No one seems able
to predict how long the lockout will
continue, but it is generally expected
that it will go on until the market
shows improvement.
Watson for Congress.
The populist convention for the
10th congressional district met at
Thomson, Ga., Tnes lay and nomi
nated Thomas E. Watson to again op
pose Major Black for congress. Reso
lutions were passed calling tor a free
b&ilot and a fair count,
TRADE TOPICS.
Bradstreet’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
Bradstreet’s review of trade for the
past week says:
“The special telegraphic and mail
advices summarizing interviews with
more than five hundred leading whole
sale dealers and manufacturers at
forty-seven cities throughout the
country as to the present effect, if any,
of the prospective tariff settlement,
and the outlook as to the efieet of tho
Benate tariff bill, should it become a
law, indicate relatively less enthusi
asm at large eastern centers, except at
New York and Baltimore; almost uni
form satisfaction throughout the
southern states and similar advices
from the central and northwestern
states, except where serious crop dam
age has taken place. In the far west
little interest is manifested in tariff
legislation, notably at Denver and
Helena, where silver attracts more at
tention. Portland fears the result in
the reduction of the tariff on lumber,
but at San Francisco an improve
ment iu demand is expected aud con
siderable freight is offering for ship
ment to China.
“A feature is found in declarations
from manufacturers of woolen goods,
glassware, pottery and iron and steel
at various centers of production, that
wages will probably be reduced.
“Aside from the probable improve
ment due to the ending of the uncer
tainty in business, neither Boston,
Providence, Buffalo, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Newark nor Rochester mer
chants interviewed express noteworthy
enthusiasm as to the trade prospect.
While no gain is reported in trade
circles at southern cities, several thous
and coal strikers have gone back to
work in the Birmingham district, sev
eral southern railways are calling for
more coal nud southern iron works are
shipping more iron than a year ngo.
It is reported ‘.hat Atlanta hardware
jobbers based recent prices on the
Wilson bill, and the prospective pas
sage of the senate bill and will make a
difference in profits in consequence.
Little Rock expects eastern cotton
manufacturers to buy more freely now,
and three leading Texas cities, in view
of the excellent, crop prospects in that
state and prospectively the largest
cotton crop on record, regard the bus
iness outlook very favorably. The
proposed change in the sugar sched
ule exerts material depression in Louis
iana.
“The region west of Pennsylvania
and east of the Mississippi rivtr re
ports almost uniformly favorable trade
conditions, with gains in demand nnd
in industrial activity, except in Indi
ana and Illinois pottery industries,nud
among Indiana clothing manufactu
rers, who report that they expect to
reduce wages.
“Money at nearly all leading finan
cial centers has hardened. Demand
for shipment west to move and carry
the crops has begun to exert an appre
ciable influence.”
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Fast Week.
The Tr:,de-man, Chattanooga, Tenn., in re
report on the Industrial condition of the south
for the pa.-t Week says: The long strike among
the Alabama coal miners is now viitnally at an
end, and 'he m ne op ratora will now increase
thetr output to the maximum. Preparations
are being made to further increase the number
of iron furnaces in operati n, and iron pro-
tlnc is are much encouraged by increased de
mands for pig it on. stocks of which are low
and some grades in scant simply. Producers of
southern pine are preparing to reduce their
ontpnts by concerted action, hoping thereby to
iccrease the price, which is now very low.
Crop condi ions continue to be very favor
able.
Thirty-nine new industries were established
or tncorpora od daring the week, together with
five enlargements of manufactories, and twen
ty-tliree important ue.v buildings. Prominent
among the new industries of the week ar, :
The Cherokee Ochre and Iiaryti sCo, of Car-
tersviile, Ga., capital §50,000; the Vulcan Ma
chine Works, < f JIillBboro, Texas, aud the Jit.
Clan- Coal and Coke Co.. Bnekhannon. W. Va..
each w.tli $40,000 capital; a §‘.’0,000 school
furniture factory at Hou-ton. Texas; a large
saw and planing’ mill, near Mobile, Ala., and
the Walltalla Manufacturing Co , cap.tal 310,-
000, of Walhalla, 8. C-
Car works arc reported as to be established
at Augusta. Ga.; a cannery at Tampa, Fla.;
coal mines are to b- opened at Pahitsville. Ky.,
and Prison City, N. C., and electrical plants
established at Hammond and New Orleans, La.
Flour and grist mills are reported at Huntsville.
Ala., l’.om ', Ga.. and Fall Mills, Tenn.; a fur-
nituie factory it Charleston, W. Va. ;ice facto
ries at Jiammo:h Springs, Ark , St. Petersburg,
Fla., Cliarlo to. N 0., and Greenville and Sau
Angelo, Texas, and machinery works at Bir
mingham. A a. A cotton oil mill is to be built
at Newport, Ark.; steel works are reported as to
be established at S stersvilio,W. Va.; phosphate
wotks at Floral C.ty, Fla.; a tannery at Sp ing-
ville, Ala., and woodworking plants at Mobile,
Ala.. Fort Smith, Ark., Becks, Ga., Like
Charles, La.. Elizibe hti n. Tenn., Fredericks
burg and Norfolk, Va., and Central City, W.
Va.
Waterworks are to be built at Forest. City,
Aik., aud to be enlarg 'd at Winston, N- C.
The enlargements for tl e week include irou
works at Wkee ing, W. Va.. phosphate works
at Orlando, Fla., and woodworking plants at
L itle Koch, Ark., and Be umont, Texas.
'J he new buddings for the week inelnde
bank buddings at Eilisvil e, Miss., and Mem
phis, Tenn.; business houses at Demopolis,
Ala.. Tampa. F.a., Louisville, Ga., and Mon
roe, La.; a $20,00J church at Mobile, Ala.; a
$35,000 court house at Sinton, Tex., and one at
Waxahatchie, Tex.; hotels at H 11-boro, T x..
and Clarksburg, W. Va ; schools at New Or
leans, La., and Boyd. Tex., and warehouses at
Louisville, Ky., and Edwards. Jliss.
COTTON OPERATIVES STRIKE.
Eleven Thousand Idle pit New Bed
ford, Massachusetts.
Monday morning the cotton opera
tives of New Bedford, Mass., inaugu
rated their general strike and nearly
11,000 are idle. The machinery of but
five of the twenty-seven mills in the
city will be shut down with the others.
The manufacturers have nothing to
say, but the notices of reduction
against which help rebel are still
posted.
The strike promises to be the most
important that ever occurred in the
textile industry in Massachusetts. The
manufacturers must fight perfectly or
ganized unions, some of which are
fairly wealthy. Notable in this par
ticular is the Spinners’ Union, which
has a fund in its treasury aggregating
at least $30,000. The spinners have
voted, however, Dot to touch auy of
this money for a month.
The executive committee of the Na c
tional Spinners’ Union met at Boston,
pnd it was the sentiment of the meet
ing that the action of the New Bed
ford spinners in striking was just, as
was also that of Fall River spinners in
voting to accept a reduction and sup
port them. It was voted to assess all
spinners in the country 50 cents a
week for three weeks, aud at the end
of that time, if a settlement was not
reached, to call a convention of mule
spinners in Boston.
CHINA WINS ONE
Luck Finally Changes in Her
Favor.
The London Times has received the
following dispatch from Shanghai,
dated August 21st:
“General Tio, commander of the
Tien-Tsin division of the Chineso
forces, telegraphs as follows: “Tho
Chinese on Friday attacked the Japan
ese forces at Ping-Yang driving them
back with a heavy loss, a distance of
eleven miles to Chung-Ho. The Chi
nese made a second attack on Satur
day and drove the Japanese from
Chung-Ho, which is now in Chineso
hands. The Japanese again lost heav
ily in Saturday’s lighting. Another
great battle is expected today.
“ ‘Admiral Freemantle, the British
commander, has established tho head
quarters of his fleet provisionally at
Chee-Foo, where the British, Russian
and Italian ministers now are. The
Chinese fleet is enjoying full possession
of the gulf of Pe-chi-li.’
“The Japnnose are re-embarking
large nnmbers of troops at Fuesan.
Nothing is known regarding their des
tination.
“The Chinese forces which occupied
v ashan have evacuated that place and
have reached eastward in the direction
of Seoul. The force, which is under
General Yeh, who was falsely reported
to have been killed in a recent battle,
has been augmented by the adhesion of
number of sympathizing Corenns.
“The Chinese forces nre converging
on Ping-Yang. The telegraph line at
the latter point remains in the posses
sion of the Chinesp.
“Nine thousand Japanese troops
have left Seoul nnd marched in the di
rection of Ping-Y'aug. ”
ALLIANCE OFFICERS ELECTED.
The Men Who Will Watch Over tho
Order iu Georgia.
Before adjourning the convention nt
Dublin the Georgia State Farmers’Al
liance elected M. D. Irwin, editor of
Living Issues, president, nnd Felix
Corput, of Cave Spring, chnirman of
the executive committee. The other
officers elected were as follows:
Vice president, W. R. Kemp, of
Swainsboro; secretary, F. M.Waddell,
of Nelson; treasurer, R. H. Pearce, of
Thomson ; state lecturer, F. D. Wim
berly, of Cochran ; assistant lecturer,
W. Yancey Carter, of Hartwell; chnp-
lnin, H. G. Edenfield, of Millen; door
keeper, F. M. Brand;sergeant-at-arms,
W. H. Bryan, of McDonough; execu
tive committee, Felix Corput, Cavo
Spring; Sam Walker, of Thomson ; Jf.
W. Wilson, of Cannon; J. N. Bucllar,
of Gresston; Russell, of Carrollton.
Fatal Mine Disaster.
A special to the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat from Durango, Mexico, says
tho mining disaster reported fromLam-
irena district, southwest of Durango,
occurred in one of tho mines. Six
were rescued alive, but the otherswere
dead when found. The cause of the
cave-in is being investigated by the
government. Tho superintendent ol
the mine has been arrested pending
the investigation.
Alabama’s Official Vote.
A Montgomery speciel says: Official
returns from all but three small coun-
ties m Alabama gives the total vote
for Oates and tho democratic ticket at
106,292, aud for Kolb and the pojm-
lists 80,378. The three remaining
counties will add about 3,000 to tho
vote and leave the democratic majority
in the neighborhood of 26,000.
Distillers Withdrawing Goods.
The Distillers and Cattle Feeders
Company at Peoria, 111., Wednesday
withdrew from bond the goods in the
great northern distillery, paying the
taxes thereon which amounted to $289,-
000. That in the warehouse at Man
hattan was also withdrawn which will
swell the internal revenue receipts for
the day to tip-wards of $500,000.
The Sunflower.
Few persons appreciate the value
and profit of this common flower.
By many it is regarded a nuisance,
and yet its cultivation will pay
largely more than cotton and grown
at much less cost. An acre of land
planted about twenty inches apart
will yield an average of eighty
bushels of seed, the oil from which
will produce about 150 gallons. The
oil cake is a valuable food for live
stock. The oil is said to be equal to
olive oil, is superior to linseed oil for
painting in spreading and drying
qualities. The stalks having long,
strong fibers, make superior paper.
The green leaves are very nutritious
as stock food and the young flower
cups very palatable to man. Machin
ery for expressing the oil is easily
obtainable and Inexpensive. Bees
have a perfect “bonanzo” in a sun
flower patch, and the seed is very
valuable for poultry as an egg pro
ducer. The sunflower is independent
of weather and persists in growing
under the most unfavorable condi
tions.—(Atlanta Constitution.
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