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PROGRESS.
THE VIENNA
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JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XlIE 1S T 0. 17
A LANDSLIDE
VIENNA, GA. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1894.
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PUBLISHEI) WEEKLY.
Henry G. Turner, of Georgin, are the
ouiy two democrats of this committee
"ho go back to congress. The demo
cratic ranks are broken all along the
line.
Details of the Slump.
The election in New York city was
remarkable for the general quietude
that prevailed despite the intense par
ty feeling that ran with great fierce
ness
the senate. The indications arc now
that these tickets will fail of election
in Dearly every county. It was the
last chance of Senator Bnilei - .
Louisiana;
A New Orleans special says: 3k:
democratic congressmen are elected
...... ,, ... , from Louisiana. The vote was gen-
i in every district from the battery , era „ light thronghont the state, only
o puy eu »)'■ . • ith the excep- | a 6ma ]] proportion of the negroes vot-
few ordinary ^counters j ing> and in some of the parishes none
at all.
David B. Bill aid Combsm
Wilson Bolt Snowed Under.
Democracy Suffers Disastrous
Defeat at Nearly All Points.
Va-
Details of the Elections in llie
lions Stales of ‘Jhe Union.
The election of 1894 has passed into
history and the solid south is no more.
Following a phenomenal victory, in
which the people were bouyant and
hopeful, the disaster of defeat is fvd'y
as crushing.
Out of the wreck of the battle the
salient points in view indicate the cen
ters of popular displeasure.
Not only was Mr. Wilson, of West
A irginia, defeated by his people, but
his state, one that has been democratic
from its birth, has elected a solid re
publican delegation. Nor is this all,
for the next seDatorship from that state
will b? in republican hands.
Then there is Delaware, which re
mained democratic under all circum
stances until its senior senator accept
ed a place in Fresident Cleveland’s
cabinet. Then it sent republicans to
both branches of congress, and now
(hat the ex-secretary, who is minister
to England, has Returned homo to can
vass the slat^A. finishes up the task
of becoming wholly republican.
Crossing over to Tennessee, where
democratic majorities have ranged
high ns 40,000, the latest dispatch
show Governor Turney is hangin
to an election by the skin of his teeth,
with Candidate Evans claiming that he
has carried the state for governor.
From the southern point of Louisi
ana there is a story of disaster bound
to be heard from in the future, and i
Virginia and North Carolina the neck
aud neck character of the voting was
decidedly uncomfortable. Alabama is
solidly democratic, ns arc Florida and
Mississippi, while two districts
Texas await (he official count.
South Carolina has been enjoying a
quarrel of her own, resulting in the
continued triumph of Governor Till
man, but the ugly threat is made by
. Dr. Pojie that he is intent upon neon
test, both state and federal, which is
bound to invite the investigation of
republican south haters, now once
more in pow-cr. Thi3 is briefly the
story of Tuesday’s election in the
southern states.
McKinley’s State.
The Ohio election was simply an
overwhelming republican victory,such
_ a one as the state hasn’t known since
Vallandingham was buried under
avalanche of votes when ho ran off to
Canada. The McKinley majority of
89,000 simply isn’t in it. Governor
McKinley was naturally the center of
attraction Tuesday night,ns his friends
believe this victory, which is so close
ly drawn on tariff lines, foreshadows
his nomination to the presidency.
Latest advices indicate that the ma
jority may reaqji 100,000 or more.
The West Strongly Republican,
The republican cyclone swept through
the west, and with results just ns fatnl
to the demociatic candidates us in New
York and Pennsylvania. It is all one
way through Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois, and, up in the northwest, wher
democratic managers have fondly
counted on building up the party, the
results were just as disastrous. From
the far west—the Pacific slope—the re
turns are necessarily very much de
laved on account of the difference of
time, but the early advices all point to
republican gains and republican victo
lies all along the line.
In tlie New England States.
In the New England and eastern states
the republicans have sweptthings. Mor
ton carries New York for governor by
about 100,000 plurality over Hill;
Strong is elected mayor of New York
city over Grant and the republicans nave
won in two-thirds of the congressional
districts. It was a genuine landslide
in New York. Everything democratic
went to pieces.
In the New England states every
thing is republican. Massachusetts
sends a solid republican delegation of
thirteen to the house. Connecticut
sends a solid republican delegation.
New Jersey goes overwhelmingly re
publican, electing only three demo
crats out of eight congressmen, and
electing a republican legislature which
chooses a successor to Senator Mc
Pherson, democrat. This will prob
ably mean a republican senate us well
as a republican house of representa
tives. Indeed the republicans gain in
every eastern state. But the greatest
democratic slump of all is in New York,
where everything goes against the
party.
The House Republican.
Latest advices from Washington
state that tho next house will stand:
Democrats, 140; repuolicaus, 211;
.opulists, 4. Total, 356. This means
%rge working majority for the re-
rblicans. It means that Tom Reed
til again be speaker. Such demo-
^ tic leaders as William L. Wilson,
of West Virginia; William M. Springer,
of Illinois; John Tarsney, of Missouri;
William D. Bynum, of Indiana; Jo
seph H. Oathwaite, of Ohio; John D.
Alderson, of West Virginia; A. B.
Montgomery, of Kentucky, and others
have been defeated by republicans.
It looks like the republicans made a
tight all along the line against the
democratic members of the ways and
beans committee. Of the eleven dem-
erats on that committee, only two
\ ill be returned to the next bouse.
• ? ive failed of renomination either rol-
iitarily or involuntarily, aud four
•ore defeated in Tuesday's election,
eutoo MpMfllin, of Tennessee, and
tion of
there was no happening that could be
called riotous in any section. There
was actual disfranchisement in hun
dreds of cases in various parts of the
city. Unfortunate fellows who, be
cause of their illiteracy and who were
allowed no guide posts behind the
screens, were unable to make ballot
ends meet legally and had to give up
the job finally, were very many,
coarse of it all was unquestionably the
lack of booths. Extra booths were
quickly put in place the night before
election day ; hut all that did not alter
the fact that hundreds of men in the
city stood in line and had finally
to see the polls closed in their
fact s before they could reach the bal
lot boxes. All the election districts
in New York give Morton 124,373;
Hill 127,177; Wheeler 8,749. 2,162
districts outside of New York and
Brooklyn give Morton 309,567; Hill
2! 2,nl4; Wheeler 4,425. The same
districts in 1891 gave Fassett 236,772;
Flower 219,674. Both Senator Hill
and Governor Flower concede that
the democratic party is beaten in „he
state.
l.umber of members in the legislature I I , Georgia.
• 9 re-elect Senator Butler over Gover- Gjscrgia is to be represented in the
nor Tillman, the democratic choice for nativnal congress by b solid democrat
ic delegation. The ninth, seventh,
fourth, and tenth districts were the
ones that were regarded as the weakest
democratic districts in the state; and
if there was any fear lit all amoflg the
party leaders it was hinged upon these
districts. But they all went democrat
ic. Congressman Tate succeeds hiriiself
in the ninth by about 3,500 majority. In
the fourth Congressman Moaes defeated
Mr. ThorntoD, the populist nominee, by
something more than 3,000 majority.
The Seventh district went for democ
racy and Congressman Maddox by
1,602, according to the most reliable
reports from all the counties in the
FROM WASHINGTON.
A TUMBLE IN' TEXAS.
Staid Old North Carolina in the Re
publican Column.
SOUTHERN FLASHES.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
The national CAPiToL.
Special dispatches from Dallas, Tex-, j A SUMMARY OF INTERESTING
Sayings and Doings of the Official
HCads bf the Government.
VIRGINIA.
When the roll of the noaI house of
representatives is called eight, and
perhaps ten, democratic congressmen | district. Dr. Felton, who was the pop-
WEST VIRGINIA.
Returns from West Virginia indicate
republican gains throughout the state.
A dispatch to the republican commit
tee from J. W. Poe, Charleston, W.
Va., says Congressman Wilson, demo
crat, loses heavily; Dayton, republi
can, is elected almost certainly, while
(he republican state committee claims
that Wilson is defeated for congress by
1,000. Another special says that Day-
ton, republican, has been elected to
congress from the Charleston district,
defeating W. L. Wilson. Miller has
also defeated Harvey in the fourth dis
trict, and the republican committee
claims all four congressmen. The in
dications are that a republican legisla
ture has been elected.' This will give
the republicans a United States senator
in place of Camden, democrat.
TENNESSEE.
A Nashville special says: Thero is
now no doubt that Henry Clay Evans
is to be the next governor of Tennes
see. Chairman Carroll, of the demo
cratic state committee, reluctantly ad
mits that the returns indicate Evans’
election, while Gen. John M. Taylor
and other prominent democrats say h-3
is elected beyond question. Chairman
Newell Sanders, of the state executive
committee, claims Evans’ election by
at least 12,000. In all the big demo
cratic counties there are heavy
losses in pluralities, 4,100 in
Shelby, 1,200 in Davidson, 300
in Bedford, 400 in Moore and so
on throughout middle and western
Tennessee, while there are republican
gains in the republican counties. In
middle and west Tennessee the demo
cratic losses arc due to apathy alone,
as the vote was very light. Mimms,
the populist, will poll less than 30,000.
The republicans here were as much
surprised at the result as the demo
crats were. The legislature will be
democratic by a reduced majority on
joint ballot, and ft democrat will be
returned to the United States senato.
will respond to their names. This, in
brief, is the result of the election in
Virginia Tuesday as shown from the
The j latest returns.
Tho AValton election law, passed by
the last general assembly, which grafts
the Australian ballot on the Anderson-
T.cCormick system, and adds the
jDecial constable feature, which
all the opposition parties have
raised such vigorous objections
to, was given its first general trial. So
far ns the democrats are concerned, it
worked most satisfactorily, though
there is no doubt that it kept many
who feured the constable or shrunk
from exposing their illiteracy to re-
frai.i from voting. The republicans
and populists are loud in their denun
ciation of the system. The vote was
small as a general thing, but demo
cratic majorities in most districts are
large, the tariff having been the oilC-
issue on which the canvass was made.
The result is construed as an emphatic
endorsement of the legislation of the
last session of congress in the matter
of reform.
ulist nominee in the district, carried
five out of the thirteen counties in the :
district. His majorities in the district
were as follows: Gordon, 150; Bar
tow, 500; Haralson, 260; Polk, 400, |
and Paulding, 375; total, 1,085. Ths i
result in the tenth was interesting,
and the vote in Richmond was surpris
ing, as many as 15,053 votes having j
been reported from the county alone.
Of this number Congressman Elack i
received an overwhelming majority in i
the county.
The president Las pkrdoned James
A. Jassul, sentenced in Mississippi to
four years imprisonment for pension
frauds. Application for pardon was
denied in the case of John H. Sloan,
sentenced in South Carolina to three
and a half years imprisonment for
counterfeiting.
The fact has leaked out at Washing
ton that the department clerks under
the civil service commission are large
ly responsible for the defeat of Dock
ery in Missouri. It was discovered
through the boasting of a brood of de
partment clerks, that $5,000 had been
sent to assist Dockery’s opponent.
Their only quarrel with him was his
successful effort, as chairman of a com
mission, to reform the department, to
put each department on a purely busi-
SITSSISSIPPI.
A special from Jackson, Miss.,states
that seven democrats are elected to
congress from Mississippi. The vote is
reported light, but no figures are ob
tainable.
ALABAMA.
The congressional election in Ala
bama passed very quietly, very little
ever half a vote being polled. Meager
reports from the precincts show a ma
jority of about 300 in favor of Wheeler,
democrat, over Randall, populist.
Conservative estimates place Wheeler’s
majority in Jackson county at 700,
The latest returns indicate the election
of all the democratic nominees. The
republicans were very active in the
fourth and ninth districts, but Rob
bins and Underwood have good ma-
orities. In the fifth, Cobb defeats
Joodwyn, leader of the populists.
TEXAS.
A Galveston special says: The weath
er throughout the state is fine and a
heavy vote ha3 been polled. The Gal
veston News predicts tho usual demo
cratic majority for state officers and
the legislature, and also the election of
democratic congressmen in all the dis
tricts, with the possible exception of
the ninth and tenth districts. Nothing
definite is yet known.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Chairman Pon, of the North Caroli
na democratic state committee, has ad
vices of democratic majorities of 1,000
in Wilson county, 600 in Wayne, 400
in Buncombe and 800 in Alamance.
The democrats are gaining in Frank
lin, where the negroes are voting sol
idly for that ticket. The democratic
state and judicial tickets are, no doubt,
elected by reduced majorities. The
legislature will be democratic by a
good majority. The democrats will
carry seven districts certain—proba
bly nine. The democratic vote was
cut down everywhere.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The election in South Carolina was
the most exciting in years. In addi
tion to the congressional contests there
has been a hot fight between the reg
ular democratic candidate for govern
or, John Gary Evans, of Aiken, and
Dr. Sampson Pope, of Newberry,inde
pendent candidate, supported by white
men who have left the democratic
party because of their bitter feel-
toward the present state adminis
tration, backed by the negroes of the
cities and towns. In addition to all
this the state has been agitated over
the question of holding a constitu
tional convention, which, if held,
ould disfranchise the negro and
liminote h ; y} u from politics. This
aroused the \' v j-roes, and on this ques
tion they have) ‘aen supported by the
independents, -who wish to use the ne
gro in the future.
In about half the counties inde
pendent tickets for the legislature were
run in the jjope of getting a sufficient
FLORIDA.
The vole was light all over Florida,
although the weather was fine. Spark
man, democrat, had a walkover in the
first district and may run ahead of the
vote for Mallory, democrat, iu 1892.
In the second, Cooper, democrat, is
opposed hj Atkinson, populist. No
republican nomination.
ARKANSAS.
Returns from all portions of Ar
kansas show that all the six democratic
congressmen are elected—McCulloch
first, Little second, McCrae third,
Terry fourth, Densmore fifth and
Neill sixth.
KENTUCKY.
Reports from all over the Ashland
district indicate a heavy vote. The
Breckinridge and exconfederate ele
ment is voting largely with the repub
licans for Judge Denny for congress.
Owen’s friends are discouraged over
the outward indications at all points,
but do not concede his defeat. The
contest for governor is so close now
that an estimate cannot as yet be made
with any degree of accuracy.
IN MINNESOTA.
The returns from none of the con
gressional districts of Minnesota are in
complete, but the few at hand indicate
the election of republican candidates.
NEBRASKA.
An Omaha special says: Indications
arc that Holcomb, democrat and pop-
utist candidate for governor, is elected
by 2,500 plurality over Thomas Ma
jors. The legislature is in doubt, but
indications point to a majority for the
democrats and populists,which insures
Biyan’s election to tho senate.
WISCONSIN by 80,000.
The republicans have carried Wis
consin by at least 80,000, electing Up
born governor over Peck, the present
incumbent. The republicans also i
elected ten to the democrats’ one con
gressmen, and carried the state legis
lature almost entire. No United States
senntor will be elected in Wisconsin
this year.
IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
Returns from all portions of South
Dakota though meager, indicate that
the republican ticket, including two
congressmen at large, is elected by not
less than 12,000 plurality. Returns
from legislative districts are not in ex
cept from cities and towns, but these
fairly indicate that the legislature will
be two-thirds republican. Pierre, the
capital, has rolled up the largest re
publican majority ever known.
NORTH DAKOTA.
Meager dispatches only have been
received from the election in North
Dakota. Seven fusionist congressmen
are reported as elected. The chair
man of the democratic state commit
tee claims the state for Budd, demo
crat, for governor, by 10,000.
MARYLAND.
Maryland joined the republican pro
cession and will, for the first time iu
the history of the state, send more re
publicans than democrats to represent
her in the halls of congress. Four of
the six congressmen elected Tuesday
are republicans, a net gain of four.
Unprecedented gains were also made
by the republicans in other directions
and the first branch of the Baltimore
city council will, for the first time, be
controlled by the republicans.
IDAHO.
Returns from Idaho favor the repub
lican stale ticket and the republican
congressmen from Boise City district.
The election of the entire republican
ticket is claimed.
\j\jl.u.*t. Hancock was the only , ... . . „ , ,,
other county in the district, however, j
that went for Black, the majority
there being about 1,000. The coun
ties carried by Mr. Watson, the popu
list nominee, gave him a total majori
ty of 4,773. Ihe overwhelming
/ote reported from Richmond and
tho 1,000 majority for Black in Han
cock offsets this total majority for
the populists and gives the district to
Black fcyTiSSStlliDg ElCre than 5,000
majority. Speaker Crisp had but one
county in his district to leave him this
time and that was Taylor. His major
ities in. all the other counties were
large, and. he claims the district by at
least six thousand majority, which is
perhaps the largest of all the districts.
Taylor county gave Mr. White, the
Dopuhst candidate, only tv.o hundred
majority. Congressman Lawson sue
ceeda himself in the eighth dis
trict by about 2,800. In tho first
district Congressman Lester is.
re-elected without any trouble at all.
Hia majority is handsome, and the
remarkable thing is that only fifty-
seven populist votes were cast iu the
city of Savannah out of the total of
more than,6,009. The second district
has given Congressman Ben Bussell a
strikingly large majority, and this is a
most complimentary endorsement o.
his work. Hon. Charles Bartlett
carried the sixth by more than 5,000.
Colonel Livingston will succeed bimself
in the fifth by 2,619 majority. In the
eleventh Congressman Turner goes
back to congress with a majority of
more than 3,00(?£\
The Total Vote in New York.
The total corrected vote for gov
ernor in New Y’ork state, Sullivan
county out, stands as follows: Hill,
514,073; Morton, 667,419; Wheeler,
27,108; total, 1,208,600; Morton spin
rality. 153,346; Morton’s majority,
126,238.
The adoption of the constitutional
amendments, of which there is little
question, establishes the following
principles: Laws authorizing pool
selling and all forms of gambling are
prohibited; election and registration
boards throughout the state must be
bi-partisan ; no public money shalfltbe
granted to sectarian schools; the legis
lature is forbidden to enact laws limit
ing damages for injuries resulting id
death; personal registration is not to
be required in towns of fewer than
5,000 inhabitants; public officers shall
not accept passes on railroads or
franks from telegraph and telephone
companies. Beturns for the vote in
New York city and Brooklyn on the
“Greater New York” scheme indicate
that a majority oljthe votes, have been
cast in favor of consolidation.
Late returns show that the republi
cans in Illinois have elected their state
ticket by a plurality of at least 90,000.
Cook county goes republican by ma
jorities ranging from 25,000 to 40,000.
The new legislature will be republican
iu both branches by a majority of
from 25 to 40 on joint ballot. This
practically insures the re-election of
Collum to the United States senate.
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WYOMING.
The Australian ballot system was
used in Wyoming and thus the returns
art coming in very slowly. The re
publicans claim the state. The popu
lists claim that they will win when the
northern counties, 300 miles from s,
telegraph office, come in. This state
elects a congressman and the legisla
ture elects two senators this fall.
IN WASHINGTON.
There was a light vote cast in the
state of Washington on account of bad
weather. The indications are that the
republican state ticket is elected by
5,000. The republicans claim 14 ma
jority in the legislature, and there is
no donbt of the election of two repub
lican congressmen.
UTAH.
The excitement is intense all over
Utah and an enormous vote was polled
for delegates to congress and members
of the convention to frame the consti
tution for the new state. It is the first
6tate election ever held in Utah in
which the lines werg clearly drawn on
national itsues.
The republicans have carried Indi
ana by upwards of 40,000, capturing
both branches of the legislature. They
carry every one of the thirteen con
gressional districts by pluralities rang
ing from 400, the figures by which
Holman is defeated, to 12,000.
The returns now show that the re-
publican plurality in Ohio is about New Jersey
135.000. The reiiublicans have elect
ed nineteen of the twenty-one con
gressmen, beyond a doubt, and pos
sibly one other.
A special from Columbia, S. C.,
says: Out of 50,000 votes reported,
Pope gets 16,631, Evans 29,367. The
total vote will aggregate about 65,000,
and the Evans majority will approach
25.000. So far the returns show tht
constitutional convention—affirmative,
21,471; negative, 22,532. If is prob
able that the affirmative will win by a
few thousand majority, but this is inert-
conjecture. The legislature will con
tain 127 Tillraanites, 30 anti-Tillman
ites and 3 renublirans.
who were merely pensioners.
Work preliminary to carrying into
effect the new income tax law is going
forward as rapidly as its nature will
permit-, under the direction of Mr.
William H. Pugh, who, in October
last, was appointed superintendent of
the income tax. A number of compli
cated and interesting questions having
arisen under former laws, and antici
pating that questions will .".rise in the
future of equal importance, it is essen
tial for their solution to understand
what has been the former legislation
of congress, the decisions of the courts
and the rulings of the department on
the subject of the income tax.
Newspapers as Educators.
The annual report of Dr. W. T.
Harris, commissioner of edneation,
says that 23 per cent of tho population
attend school daring the same period
of the year. The average period of
attendance in the year, however, is
only eighty-nine days for each pupil.
The report says: “It would seem to be
the purpose of our system to give
in the elementary schools to every
child the ability to read. Aftei
he leaves school he is expected
to contsuuo his education by reading
the printed page of newspaper and
book. The great increase of public li
braries in the United States is signifi
cant of progress toward the realization
of this ideal. In 1892 we had over
4.000 public libraries, with more than
1.000 volumes in each. The schools
I teach how to rend ; tho libraries fur-
| nish what to read. But far surpass-
i ing the libraries in educative influence
are the daily newspapers and mag
azines.. We are governed by
public opinion as ascertained
and expressed by the newspapers, to
such a degree that our civilization is
justly to be called a newspaper civili
zation. The library and newspaper
ire our chief instrumentalities for the
continuation of the school and the uni
versity. Lecture courses, scientific
and literary associations, are assisting
largely. The work in the churches of
the land is an even more potent factor
iu school extension.”
How the Next House Will Stand.
The following table as to bow the
new house stands is made up from the
latest advices ou the congressional sit
uation :
Dem.
Alabama 8
Arkansas 6
California 1
Colorado 0
Connecticut, 0
Delaware 0
Florida 2
Georgia 11
Idaho 0
Illinois 2
Indiana 0
Iowa 0
Kentucky 7
Kansas 0
Louisiana 6
Maine - 0
Maryland 3
Massachuseiis 1
Michigan 0
! Minnesota 1
Mississippi .... 7
Missouri 9
Montana . 0
Nebraska 0
New Hampshire
Nevada
New York 6
North Carolina .- 4\
North Dakota 0
Ohio 2
Oregon 0
Pennsylvania 1
Rhode Island 0
South Carolina 7
South Dakota 0
Tennessee 6
Texas 12
Vermont 0
Virginia 8 2
Washington 0 2
Wisconsin 1 9
Wyoming 0 1
West Virginia 0 4
says: Even the rock-ribbed democratic
j state of Texas has parted from the
faith, and partially gone over to the
enemy. She was caught in the slide,
. not of republicans, but of populists.
; The democrats certainly lost two and
■ possibly four congressmen. Nugent,
! populist, for governor, is running like
, a seared hound, and the popnlists are
actually claiming his election. While
many leading democrats arc dum-
! founded at the cyclone which has well
nigh swept the party out of existence,
others are not at all astonished. They
, say that Cleveland and congress have
: utterly failed to carry out the wishes
: of the people, and have betrayed every
trust and all confidence pul iu them.
There is loud talk of forming a new
national party with a new name, upon
the best planks of the democratic-
populist an 1 old line whig platforms.
The time-worn plurality of 180,000 for
democracy is a thing of the past.
Every return throughout the state
Thursday showed phenomenal popu
list gains, and may possibly indicate
the eleclion of Nugent, the populists’
nominee for governor. The state is
claimed by both parties. The popu
lists claim a plurality of 80,000 for
Nugent, while the democrats only
claim the state for Culberson bv
30,000.
North Carolina, Too?
A Raleigh, N. C., special of Thurs
day night says: Semi-official returns
from nearly every county in the state
indicate that the fusion ticket, state,
judicial unit legislative, put out by the
republicans and popnlists, is'elected by
some 20,000 majority. This gives them
the state treasurer, chief justice and
two associate justices of the mpreme
court, and five judges of the superior
court. Chairman Butler, of the popn
lists, claims the state by 30,000, and
says that the fusionists will have a ma
jority of 30 on joint ballot. This lat
ter estimate is believed to be correct.
They will have the senate by ten ma
jority. It is not yet possible to esti
mate their strength in the house. Only
three democratic congressmen have
been elected—Woodward in the sec
ond, Shaw in the third, and Lockhart
in the sixth district. Crawford is de
feated by Pearson in the ninth by a
very small majority.
HAPPENINGS,
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
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COTTON SHIPS FIRED.
Seven Vessels Suffer From tlie Incen
diary’s Torch.
A Savannah special says: Fire
broke out Monday almost simultane
ously in six of the British cotton ships
in port. At midnight the seventh ship
was reported on fire. The alarm first
called the department to the British
steamship Skidby. The fire broke out
about 6:30 o’clock in the No. 3 hold,
where there were fully 2,600 bales,
all of which were more or less dam-
^A ed.
At was not fifteen minutes later when
the firemen were called to the steam
ship Baltimore City, (British) at the
Savannah, Florida and Western wharf.
The fire was found in tho fore held of
the Baltimore City, where it was soon
put out with a damage to about 100
bales.
The fire on the Baltimore City had
not been discovered a minute before
an alarm was given from tno British
steamship CftBtlegarth, v/hieh was tied
alongside the Baltimore City, and here
fire was discovered in three holds.
There were 4,500 bales on this steamer,
and about 500 of them were damaged
by fire and water.
Shortly after the firemen got to
work on the Castlegarth fire was dis
covered in the British Stag, at the
Gordon wharf, about half a mile from
the Baltimore City. This fire was dis
covered in the bunker, and before it
was under way there it broke out in
hold No. 1, and then in hold No. 4.
In this hold wa3 found some phos
phorus, which gives a clue, it is be
lieved, to the origin of the fires.
A few minutes later an alarm was
sounded for fire on the Delgartb, a
British steamer at the Central wharf,
half a mile from any of the other
steamers. The fire on tho Delgartb
damaged about 400 bales and was dis
covered about the same time in two
holds.
The Petunia was the sixth to give
the alarm and it was lying near the
Delgartb. The damage on this ship
was to about 200 bales. In all it is es
timated that about 3,000 to 4,000 bales
have been damaged by the fire, repre
senting a financial loss of between
$6,0000 and $75,000.
Total Ill 239
Of the Southern Which are Being
Made by Drexei, Morgan & Co.
The delivery of the new securities of
the Southern railway in exchange for
Richmond Terminal reorganization
certificates has begun. The exchange
is being made at the office of Drexei,
Morgan & Co. The stock will be issued
in the form of voting trust certificates.
Of the bonds there are $4,500,000 East
Tennessee reorganization mortgage
bonds bearing 4 percent interest from
March 1, 1895, and 5 per cent after
March 1, 1898, and an authorized is
sue of $120,000,000 first- consolidated
5 per cent bonds of the Southern Rail
way Company of which about $8,000,-
000 bear interest from July 1, 1894;
Republican majority over all, 122.
FOR SEBASTOPOL.
Removal of the Remains of the Czar
from Livadia.
A St. Petersburg cable dispatch
says: The most solemn of religious
services was held at noon Thursday in
the church at Livadia, to which* the
body of Alexander ITT was removed
the previous night. Masses were said
in the presence of the body. Tlie
services were attended by Emperor
Nicholas H, the czarina, and the
prince and princess of Wales, the rep
resentatives of the various foreign
powers and many others. The czar
was deeply affected.
At the conclusion of the services and
after the royal visitors present and the
$4,000,000 from January 1 1895 ; i troops had^ewed theTody,7he popu-
July 1 189o, aud lo „„ , A ■ •'k 4 J. r .
j $3,000,000 from July
$7,911,000 from January 1, 1996.
I Tennessee’s Republican Governor.
A Nashville special of Thursday
i says: Official and unofficial returns
have now been received from e. ghty-
one of the ninety-sis counties. Esti
mates on theremainingcounties make
Evan’s (republican) plurality over Tur
ney (democrat) 9.500. The legislature
will certainly be democratic.
lace were formed in line and filed past
the coffin to take a farewell look at
{ their dead ruler. Many of those who
looked upon the face of the dead czar
j were visibly affected and expressions
of sorrow were heard on all sides. The
! coffin was then placed on board the
! cruiser Pamiat Merkooria, and the
journey to Sebastopol was begun.
Pure air is fully as important in
j sleeping as in waking hours.
CHINA A SUPPLIANT.
She Asks the Powers to Intervene aud
Stop the War.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Tien-Tsin says that the repre
sentatives of all the powers were as
sembled ou Saturday last by tho
Tsung Li Y'amen to hear the Chinese
government’s statement respecting the
critical situation of a flairs.
Price Kung, president of the Tsung
Li Yamen, the dispatch adds, calmly
avowed the impotence of China to
withstand the Japanese attack and ap
pealed to the powers to intervene,
saying that China was willing to aban
don -her sovereignty over Corea and to
pay a war indemnity. The ministers
applauded the frankness of this con
fession and promised to report China’s
appeal to their respective governments
with a view to the restoration of peace
in order to avert the dangers threat
ening all interests. The French min
ister believed in taking R leading part
in the proposed intervention.
Longest Balloon Voyage.
The longest balloon voyage as far
as we know was one undertaken in
1883, in which the distance traveled
saw more than twelve hundred miles.
Three voyagers on that occasion
made an ascent in France, with the
intention of crossing the Mediterra
nean and landing in Algeria. The
wind, provint" unfavorable, carried
them 1 oward\Corsica. When they
were neer t-hirfc island the balloon
descended toward the water, and for
a time thair lives were in great
jeopardy. By throwing out all their
apparatus thej succeeded in getting
the balloon to ri^e to a height of be
tween two thousand and three thou
sand feet,and, traveling r>n to Italy,
they safely descended in that country
at a little village near Brescia.
Two hundred Italian laborers ar
rived in Brunswick, Ga., from New
York Tuesday, and located iu the
suburbs of the city. They will be
placed at work on the sewerage sys
tem.
The United States court of claims
has entered up judgments for extra
pay under the eight-hour law for thirty-
three letter carriers in Richmond, six
in Pettersburg, Va., and five in Roa
noke, Ya.
The Southern Seating and Cabinet
Company, at Jackson, Tenn., burned
Wednesday night. It was one of the
largest plants in the south. The loss is
probably $25,000; $15,000 insurance.
The fire is believed to have been in
cendiary.
.William. Cruse was shot and killed
in an election riot in South Amreica,
Ky., by Tom Jones. Will Jones and
Tom Buchanan were killed by the
Somers brothers in an election riot in
Wise county, Virginia. The murder
ers escaped.
A fire broke ont in the Foreigners’
hotel at Evergreen, Ala., Tuesday
afternoon, which soon spread to the en
tire block. A high wind prevailed and
carried the flames across the street and
before the fire was stopped property to
the value of 40,000 was destroyed. The
tBjnrftnce wfisdight.
General Gordon,comrnamfiiig Uiiiteil
Confederate Veterans, has appointed
General S. D. Lee, of Mississippi, to
the command of the department east
of the Mississippi. General Gordon,
owing to disagreements, has decided
to withhold the official promulgation
of the constitution adopted nt Bir
mingham, and the old constitution is
still in force.
S. M. Inman & Co’s big cotton jilat-
form at Toecoa, Ga., was burned Tues
day afternoon. Seventeen hundred
bales of cotton were entirely con
sumed; loss, $50,000, fully covered by
insurance. The residence of G. W.
Swilling was also burned. The cotton
compress and Southern railroad cot
ton platform were saved by hard
work.
A disastrous collision between a pas
senger and freight train, resulting in
the loss of six lives, occurred at Rosen-
steel siding, 103 miles east Of Pitts
burg, Pa., on the Baltimore and Ohio
road at 5:40 o’clock Wednesday even
ing. The killed are as follows: En
gineer Henry Bush, of tho passenger
train; his fireman, McCarthy; En
gineer Browning, of the freight train ;
Brakeman Manning, of the freight
train; two mail clerkp, names unknown.
The whaleback steamship Joseph L.
Colley, which put in nt .Savannah
Tuesday to coal, attracted large
crowds especially on account of her
cargo. She is a vessel of 914 tons, and
her decks are almost bare with the ex
ception of a cabin and a small pilot
house near the stern. She is from
Tampico, Mexico, for New York, with
ten tons of silver bullion for the
United States government, beside a
ot of hides and other stuff.
A special from Dallas says: The cot
ton situation continues to favor the
biggest crop ever raised in Texas.
Bottom, middle and top crops are full.
Many farmers speak of abandoning
what is left. They soy it will scarcely
pay the expense of picking, packing,
ties aDd ginning and marketing. They
scarcely know what else to do unless
the price is considerably raised. It is
certain thousands of bales raised will
never be taken from the stalks. Just
about now everybody is swearing he
will not plant a seed of cotton next
year.
A party of ten Spaniards dug up a
large iron chest, supposed to be filled
with treasures, on the old Christeval
Brova property, at St. Augustine, Fla.,
before daylight Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Reddick, who occupies the prem
ises, not knowing wbat the men were
doing, appeared with a shotgun and
drove them off, blit not until they had
loaded the chest, requiring several men
to carry it, into a vehicle. No trace
of the men can be found. Nothing but
a hole, some old pottery and. an iron
hook and one silver coin were left by
them.
The cotton exchange of Savannah,
at a called meeting Wednesday, con
sidered ft resolution appropriating $500
to the work of detecting those who set
fire to, the cotton ships on Monday
night. This resolution will be passed
at the annual meeting of the exchange.
The board of trade will hold a meet
ing to urge the city to offer larger re
wards than $500 for the capture of
each of the criminals. This reward
offered by the city is considered too
small. There are no new develop
ments in the situation, and the men
are working on the ships, loading those
from which the burned cotton is not
being removed.
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LATEST FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
Evans Too Far Ahead for Pope to
Trouble His Claim.
A Columbia special says: Latest re
turns confirm the opinion that South
Carolina will be represented in the
next congress by a solid democratic
delegation. J. W. Stokes has been
elected beyond all doubt in the sev
enth district, and each successive re
port from the first district in
creases the majority of William El
liott, democrat, over tho negro repub
lican, Murray. The defeated repub
lican candidates iu the first, seventh
and fourth districts will contest the
elections. Complete returns from
twenty-three counties and partial re
turns for the other twelve, give Evans
36,197, and Pope 17,371. The count
ies yet to be heard from will likely in
crease Evans’ majority. The vote on
the constitutional convention on the
same reports are 24,464 yes, and 23,-
637 no. ‘ The majority will likely be
favorable to the convention when all
the reports come in.
Ip you would have your son to have
confidence in you, let him know uIsj
that you have confidence in him.
In clearing away the wreck on the
Baltimore and Ohio roadatRosensteel
siding, twe miles east of Rockwood,
Pa., the body of G. W. Minear, brake-
man on the freight train, was found
Thursday morning in the debris. This
makes a total of six killed.
The Central News Company has this
dispatch of Thursday from Shanghai:
“The panic in New Chwang and
throughout Manchuria continues. Nu
merous country, people are arriving at
New Chwang and two-thirds of the
stores have been closed.
Now that it is and assured fact that
the anti-gambling amendment to the
constitution has been carried in New
York the turfmen have began to lose
heart. At first they did not regard
the amendment which prohibits bet
ting, pool selling or gambling of any
kind seriously.
A service in memory of the late czar
of Russia was held at New York Thurs
day morning iu the Greek church.
The little church was draped in white
and black and the Russian, Greek and
American colors hung in the forepart
of the edifice. Tho church was crowded
with distinguished people, most of
whom wore uniforms and medals.
Special Agent Burns, of the United
States secret service, and .iacaL-bwk
officials of Jackson, I*
fndfietf before the federal o-..
city Thursday, which is investigating*
the special state warrant eases, to give
testimony as to the similarity of the
warrants and United States currency
and national bank bills.
The trial of Detective Richardson
and Ed Smith, two of the alleged
lynchers of the six negro prisoners
near Kerrville, on August 21st, was be
gun in the criminal court at Memphis,
Tenn., Thursday. Four jurors were
secured out of 100 men examined. It
is not probable that the remainder of
the jury will be secured this week.
On account of the labor troubles at
New Orleans brought about by the
white laborers in an effort to get rid
of the colored laborer as a competitor
an evangelical alliance meeting was
held Thursday at the Wesley chapel of
the Methodist church attended by fifty
ministers and 1,500 people, and pray
ers were offered for guidance, bless
ings and protection.
The First National bank of San Ber
nardino, Cal., closed its doors Thur-
day morning. A quiet run was or
ganized that went on all day Wednes
day. TVonnng was tuougnt oni,' Dfli
on opening Thursday morning tho
rush commenced and Cashier Kohl
closed the doors and posted the notice
to protect nil depositors. The bank
was doing the largest business in the
city.
At Waco, Texas, Thursday, Gov
ernor Hogg delivered an address to
thousands who witnessed the opening
of the Texas cotton palace. Fully 50,-
000 strangers were in the city and the
management anticipated success in
this, the first year of the exposition.
Jerome E. Hill, of St. Louis, also
made an address, after which the build
ing was thrown open to the visitors.
The exposition closes December 6th.
The Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst,
the New Yorkpreacher and re
former, has been elected an
honorary member of the Union
League Club at the regular monthly
meeting of the club. Until Dr. Park-
hurst’s name was added to the number
there were just a dozen of such mem
bers, including General Harrison, Gen
eral O. O. Howard and Governor-elect
Morton. Dr. Parkhurst makes the
only clergyman to be thus honored.
Among the sporting men of Jackson
ville, Fla., there is much surprise and
more indignation at the action of the
city council in repealing the municipal
ordinance permitting contests with
five-ounce gloves. This ordinance was
passed in December last, was vetoed by
the mayor and then passed over his
veto. Its object was to allow the Cor-
ljett-Mitchell fight to come off at Jack
sonville and thus to thwart Governor
Mitchell in his determination to stop it.
Governor Waite is going to leave
Colorado. “He is tired of the state
and disgusted with his defeat,” Baid a
well known populist. He also said
that the governor is consideiing a
proposition made to him to take up his
residence in Illinois. The story is
that the populists in Illinois have
taken such a liking to the governor
that they want him not only to reside
among them, but also to lead them to
victory as their candidate for governor
in 1896.
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