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THE VIENNA PROGRESS.
TERMS, One Dollar Per Annum.
“HEW TO THE LINE: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.”
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Prop’r.
VOL. XIII. NO. 30.
VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1895.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
A scheme for supplying London with
tea water for sanitary purposes is un*
der consideration by the county coun
cil.
Germany ia considering whether it
Would not be better for her to buy
part of her cotton supply elsewhere
than the United States.
STATE NEWS ITEMS
CULLED FROM MANY SOURCES
BRIEFLY PARAGRAPHED.
Gymnastics are a healthy and
dangerous sport. At least it appears
so from the last annual report of a
society of Swiss “turners.” During
the year, 324 of its 6299 members met
with accidents while engaged in gym
nastic exercises—being hurt seriously
enough to draw a sick benefit from tho
society during on average time of 161)
days.
One effect, noted by the New York
Ledger, of emigiation to the West
v ,-/'~«ffid hard times everywhere is the fall
ing off in the value of farm lands.
People in the ceDlral part of New
York State say that many holdings
can now be had for half of what they
were rated at five or six years ago.
These farms are neither abandoned
nor played out, nor has any marked
decrease in population occurred about
them, but the farmers have the West
ern fever and want more room, or
they are anxious to get into towu and
work at trades.
“The fact,” declares the New York
Tribune, “that the Southern farmers
are going ahead in a quiet, unobtrn-
sivo way, saying nothing, but minding
their business in the most exemplary
manner. With a climate unapproached
anywhere elso on this continent, a
soil unsurpassed for its natural fertil •
ity, a wealth of fertilizers under tho
aurface/and a dogged perseverance oi
which they have heretofore given am
ple evidence, they are successfully
proving their fitness to survive in the
struggle for life, prosperity and hap
piness.”
, Nearly all legal papers are now type
written, though documents are en
countered now and then which have
been laboriously written out by the
hand of one of the counsel. The meu
who still cling to the habit of writing
t-heir own legal papers are usually old
lawyers, often of good practice, who
cannot accommodate themselves to
the new order of things. Young law
yers, no matter how small their prac
tice, manage in one way or other to
obtain the servioe3 of a stenographer.
Some of the older mea find it practi
cally impossible to work with a
stenographer or typewriter at hand.
' The famous codfish which hangs
from the base of the dome in the Mas
sachusetts Statehouse, and inside the
old room in which the Representa
tives used to meet, will be absent from
the chamber in the new extension
which they are soon to occupy. Just
why this emblem, which has always
attracted the notice of visitors and
sometimes moved them to ridicule,
should be ignored in the transfer of
movables from one room to the other
is not explained, and it is even said
that the codfish is doomed to figure in
a museum, presumably historical. The
following account of its origin is given:
“In 1866 Charles W. PalfrSy, editor
of the Salem Register, and a member
of the House for several years, under
took to gather all the facts that could
be learned about the placing of the
figure in the chamber. After exten
sive researches, be found much con
cerning the fish, which, luckily, had
been preserved. On Wednesday,
March 17, 17S4, John Rowe, a mem
ber from Boston, moved permission
to harg tho codfish in the house as a
memorial to the importance of the
codfishery to the welfare of the State.
The motion prevailed, and shortly
after the emblem was placed in posi
tion, and there it has remained undis
turbed through all the vicissitudes of
the years which have intervened.
Once it was repainted, but it has never
been taken down from the iron rod by
which it is held in position. Mr.
Rowe, who presented the figure to the
Commonwealth, was a well-known citi
zen of Boston and a conspicuous
patriot, being associated with Samuel
Adams, James Otis, John Hancock,
and other leaders of the period. He
was interested in commerce and au
extensive property owner along the
water-front, Rowe’s Wharf and con
tiguous territory being among his
possessions. He died on February 17,
1787.”
Fine Funeral of a Pet Pug,
Paris iB laughing over the extrava
gant funeral of the pet dog of an
Americen family residing in the gay
capital. The body was placed in two
caskets, one of oak, the other leaden,
conveyed in a hearse covered with
flowers to Vauoresson, and there
buried. A number of mourners in car
riages followed the hearse to the ceme
tery, and a monument costing 8300
’ s erected over the grave, the total
i jenditnre for the funeral amounting
o over $500.—Chicago Herald.
Substitutes Petroleum tor Coal,
United States Consul Richruan, at
St. Gall, Switzerland, has transmitted
io the State Department diagrams and
a detailed description of a new device
for burning petroleum to generate
steam, known as the Gleemaii-Baum-
gartner apparatus, The results ob
tained were strikingly successful, and
in the opinioii of experts indicate the
Happenings of General* Interest to
Georgia Readers.
Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary of the
interior, has purchased a lovely home
on Milledge avenue, in Athens, and
will, during the summer season, live in
that classic city.
* * *
A committee of ladies from the ex
position beard will run the Atlanta
Journal on St. Yulentine’s day, the
proceeds of the paper that day to go
to the Atlanta exposition. It is un
necessary to say that the issue of tho
paper for that day will be especially
bright and attractive.
The will of the late Senator Joseph
E. Brown and the four codicils to it
have been proven in solemn form be
fore Ordiuary Calhoun at Atlanta.
The will of the late Judge Erskine was
also proven in solemn form. His es
tate, which was not a very large one,
was left to his daughter, Mrs. Ward.
An election for officers for the Bruns
wick naval militia has been ordeied to
tako place on the lltb, to select the
new officials. It is to bo known as
Company A, Naval Reserve, Georgia
Voluuteers. It has 39 members, and
ihey are to be equipped at once. This
is the first company organized under
the law authorizing the formation of
three naval reserve artillery compan
ies and one naval reserve torpedo com
pany.
* * *
The Argentine Republic has appro
priated §25,000 for their exhibit at
the coming exposition. A letter re
ceived from General Avery, the expo
sition commissioner sent to that coun
try, contains this information. The
first appropriation made by the Ar
gentine was $15,000, but later it was
increased to §25,000. From clippings
taken from papers published in South
America and forwarded to President
Collier by General Avery, it is be
lieved that Nicaragua and Honduras
will both have large exhibits at tho ex
position.
• * *
The citizens of Douglas are rejoic
ing at the prospect of having a rail
road in tho near future. The iron is
to be purchased at once and within
the next sixty or ninety days, the
whistle of a locomotive will be heard
in the town for the first time. Some
of the enterprising citizens have taken
hold of the matter, and they have de
cided that tho county seat of Coffee
shall be without a railroad no longer.
This road will have its terminus at
Douglas, and will tap the Brunswick
and Western railroad at McDonald’s
mill.
* * +
The trial of W. J. Whitehead in
Watkinsville, charged with attempting
to assassinate Dr. E. W. Ware, has
resulted in a mistrial. This is the
third time the case has been before
the courts and it has cost the county
§22,000. Dr. Ware was shot from
ambush several years ago and the evi
dence against Whitehead is only cir
cumstantial. This last trial has suc
ceeded in getting two witnesses in jail
for perjury. Bill Smith and Bob
Griffin, both colored, swore that a ne
gro named Palmetto was near the
shooting at the time it occurred and it
was clearly proven that Palmetto was
iu South Carolina.
The grand jury of Chatham county
has concluded its investigation of the
convict camp officials for allowing con
victs to freeze and become frost bit
ten. Twenty-one of the convicts were
found to have suffered with frost bit
ten limbs, four of whom are laid up in
hospitals. The grand jury recommend
ed that the guards be given discretion
in such emergencies to avoid cruel ex
posure of the men, and that officers of
intelligence, humanity and prudence
be imployed, to whom such authority
may bo intrusted. It was further rec
ommended that no convicts be per
mitted to work in wet places during
the bitter cold weather.
competing line nnder the constitution
of 1877. The answer holds that the
court has no jurisdiction on account of
the fact that all parties concerned are
citizens of Georgia. It states also that
the complainant has no right or equity
to the relief prayed for.
Road Congress Officials.
The executive committee of the
farmers’ national congress and agri
cultural parliament, irrigation con
gress and road parliament having con
firmed the appointment of sub-officials
by Major W. G. Whidbv, assistant
secretary, they ore now authoritative
ly announced. They will receive (heir
commissions in a few days and serve
during the entire sessions of these
bodies, from October 7th to 19th, in
elusive:
Sergeant-at-armB, Colonel Wilber
force Daniel, of Augusta, Ga.
Doorkeeper, Captain F. L. Hudgens
of Clarkston, Ga.
Postmistress, Mis3 Grace Brasing-
toD, of Cincinnati, O.
Pages, John Clark McMichael, son
of Rev. J. C. McMichael, of the Chris
tian Index; Arch Avery, Jr., son of
Thomas C. Avery, Atlanta; Warren R,
Neel, son of Professor C. M. Neel, of
the Georgia Military institute; Keith
Bassett Muse, son of Mrs. Belle B
Muse, of Decatur; Lem P. Hudgens,
son of Captain F. L. Hudgens, of
Clarkston ; James H. Goldsmith, son
of James M. Goldsmith, and Willard
Washington Wliidby, son of W. G.
Whidby, of Stone Mountain.
CONGRESSIONAL
TRADE TOPICS.
Bradstreet’s Report of Business for
the Past Week.
Bradstreet’s review of trade for the
past week says: Uncertainty as to fhe
outcome of the financial situation
based on the rapid withdrawal of gold
from the treasury, has had a depress
ing effect on general trade. Mercan
tile collections, in most instances, are
slower than usual at this season. This
is emphasized by the fact that Balti
more jobbers are waiting results of
sending out bills for last fall’s busi
ness before determining as to credits
to be granted.
In textiles there is little change or
prospect of early improvement. Gen
eral lines of fancy printed fabrics are
going from jobbers’ hands fairly well
and print cloths are a shade better
than a week ago. Every eastern city
reporting specifies a moderate volume
of business or that general trade is
quiet with a hand-to-mouth demand,
Providence reports a fair outlook for
woolen goods, manufactures and man
ufacturing jewelers, but the only line
in Philadelphia reporting any like ac
tivity is dry goods. At Pittsburg
there is encouragement because of the
outlook for iron and steel.
At the south a better distribution of
shoes, clothing, rubber goods, dry
goods and groceries is sufficiently con
spicnous at Chattanooga and Galves
ton to mark trade at those points an
exception to the rule throughout tho
South Atlantic and gulf states. The
movement of hardware and dry goods
from New Orleans has increased, but
trade in general is only of moderate
proportions.
MONEY IN MATCHES.
When will the election in the tenth
district be held? That is the question
being much asked these days, as the
month of March draws near. It is
being asked not only in the counties
comprising that district, but through
out the entire state, as naturally a
great deal of interest will be felt all
over Georgia in that election when it
comes. In accordance with the agree
ment made with Mr. Watson, Con
gressman Black has tendered his resig
nation to take effect the 4th of March.
But the date of the election will not
be fixed until March 4th, and until
then the only thing for both sides to
do is to wait,
In a quiet way, which was all the
more effective perhaps for that reason,
a syndicate of the lumber interests of
Georgia and Alabama were formed in.
Atlanta several days ago. The meet
ing was kept quiet, very quiet, and it
was not intended to reach the daily
press except through its first publica
tion in lumber newspapers. But the
trust will not be confined to Georgia
and Alabama. These two states will
be a mere branch lodge of one which
will include every state in the south
which grows long leaf pine. Fat pine,
to use the common term, only grow'a
in the south Atlantic and gulf states,
and, of course, the trnst will not go
above Mason and Dixon’s line.
The answer of B. A. Denmark, the
Savannah and Western railroad and its
receipts to the petition of the Macon
and Dublin railroad, which is seeking
to condemn and secure a right of wav
thirty-five miles in length on the Sa
vannah end W estern’s proposed route
from Macon to Savannah owned by the
Central railroad, has been filed in the
United States court at Savannah. This
right of way has been graded and it
would be a matter of economy for the
Macon and Dublin to secure "it. The
Annual Meeting of the Match Trust
in Chicago.
The stockholders of the Diamond
Match Company held their annual
meeting at Chicago Wednesday. The
annual report showed a surplus of
§1,000,000, which will be issued as
stock and distributed among the stock
holders as additional dividends. The
regular quarterly dividend of 2 1-2
per cent on the capital stock of §9,000,-
000 was declared and announcement
was made of an additional issue of
$1,000,000 of 6toek, to which the
stockholders will be given the first op-
tunity to subscribe.
The committee on claims of the
senate have decided to report the
amendment to the Sundry civil bill
providing for the sugar bounty claims
of last year without makinganyrecom-
mendation or committing any mem
bers to the support of the proposition
in order to allow it to come before the
senate. It was this feature of the com
mittee’s action which Mr. Mitchell
wished to explain to the senate when
it was objected to by Senator Harris.
The anu-unt involved in the claims :
estimated at §8,000,000.
HEEDED NOT HIS LAWYERS.
. -. „. iuc is to encourage the patronage of home
displacement of coal as a steam pro- grqund is that the Central has no right industries, especially in the way of
ducing fuel wherever petroleum can : t0 jj C i4 this right of wav against a *7 g°°4 s and millinery establish-
be procured.—New York Advertiser I - H ments.
Colonel Evans Was Advised by Poli
ticians to Be Sworn In.
A Nashville special says: It has de
veloped that H. Clay Evans’s attor
neys, with the exception of Colonel
A. S. Colyar. were opposed to his be
ing sworn in and that he acted on the
advice of politicians rather than attor
neys. He has made no attempt to
assume the duties of governor, while
Governor Turney has pursued the even
tenor of his way pardoning two men
Thursday and signing several bills.
Governor Turney’s petition, setting
forth specific objections to the count
ing of the returns of the counties to
which objection was made, was filed
with Speaker Pillow, of the senate,
and a copy served on Mr. Evans by
the sergeant-at-arms of the senate.
The petition is very lengthy and takes
up each county in detail, showing the
districts of each county in which the
poll tax law was violated and the num
ber of votes cast. Mr. Evans has five
days in which to reply, and Governor
Turney has two days in which to
answer the reply.
The general assembly will probably
take a recess pending the investigation.
Evans Takes the Oath.
The legislative joint assembly met
again Wednesday and the opening and
reading of returns for governor was
concluded. Objections to the vote of
different counties were filed by Mr.
Turney, democrat, and Mr. Evans, re
publican. After the returns of the
counties had been read, Mr. Evans, re
publican, took the oath of office of
governor, which was administered by
a magistrate in the state library.
Patronize Home Industries.
At a largely attended meeting of
representative ladies of Knoxville,
Tenn., steps were taken to organize a
woman’s council. One of the objects
WHAT THE NATIONS’ LA
KERS ARE DOING.
The
Proceedings of Both Houses
Briefly Epitomized.
THE SENATE.
A sensational episode occurred in
the senate as soon as the session open
ed Tuesday. Mr. Mitchell, republi
can, of OregoD, rose to make a report
on certain sugar bounty claims on
which, he said, he desired to make a
brief explanation. “There will have
to be an explanation when the subject
comes up,” interposed Mr. Harris,
democrat, of Tennessee, “so that it
will be a.waste of time to have an ex
planation now. I therefore object.”
Mr. Mitchell urged that the explana
tion would not take three minutes, but
Mr. Harris shook his head. “Then,”
said Mr. Hitohell, with growing impa
tience, 1 ‘I will not make the report,! will
withdraw it. It is most extraordinary
that senators cannot submit a brief ex
planation if they so desire. It is re
markable.” Mr. Mitchell’s words were
snapped out vehemently. “It is need
less for the senator to protest,” said
Mr. Harris. “I objeot; and I empha
size it, I object.” This led to a regu
lar wordy battle. The presiding of
ficer had been rapping vigorously as
the controversy proceeded. “The
senators must proceed in order,” he
repeated. The colleagues of the two
angry senators gathered about them
and their indignant postulations con
tinned in subdued tones. The pre
siding officer directed the clerk to
proceed with other business and the
incident was summarily closed.
The senate took up the diplomatic
appropriations bill Wednesday and
was engaged most of the day in debate
over an amendment appropriating
§500,000 to begin the laying of a cable
to Hawaii.
The credentials ef Lucien Baker as
senator from Kansas for the term be
ginning March 4th next were presented
to the senate Thursday. A termination
to the spirited incident the other day
between Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon, and
Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, occurred
when the former presented an explan
ation of certain sugar bounty claims,
Mr. Harris, looking rather serious,
spoke of his objection the other day,
but said he would not renew it. Mr.
Mitchell said he was glad to hear the
senator admit that he had
made a mistake. It looked for
moment a's though the sparks
might fly again, but Mr. Har
ris rose to reply and then sat down
again, evidently ready to let the per
sonal incident close. Mr. Mitchell
said the sugar bounty claims had
brought out a difference of opinion of
the claims. There were two proposi
tions submitted. One was to pay in
full, the balance of the bounty earned
up to the passage of the new tariff act,
which repealed the bounty. The other
was to pay one half of the bounty for
the year 1895, since the passage of
the act. The total bounty would
lie about §15,000,000, and the
claims for one half would be $7,500,-
000. The total of claims before
and after the tariff act would thus ag
gregate about$6,000,000. Mr. Blanch
ard, democrat, of Louisiana, said these
estimates were mere conjecture. The
sugar producers questioned their cor
rectness. Mr. Cockrell, democrat, of
Missouri, chairman of the appropria
tion committee, protested against hav
ing these bounty claims “dumped” on
the appropriation committee. Mr.
Mitchell and Mr. Pasco declared there
was no disposition to shirk responsi
bility or to “dump” the question on
the appropriation committee without
action. The claims were finally re
ferred to the appropriation committee,
THE HOUSE.
The omnibus war bill was considered
in the house Monday. Some prelimi
nary routine business preceded the
presentation of the special order. The
conference reports on the fortifications
and army appropriation bills were
adopted. Bills were passed to author
ize the Arkansas and Northwestern
Railroad Company to construct a road
across the Indian Territory, to author
ize the governor of Alaska to create
precincts and appoint justices of the
peace. Mr. Catchings, from the com
mittee on rules, introduced a special
order for the consideration of omnibus
war claim bill. Opposition developed
and the bill went over without action.
The boundary dispute between Ven
ezuela and Great Britain over the de
limitation of the frontier of British
Gniana was the occasion of the pass
age of a joint resolution by the house
Wednesday recommending the parties
to submit the controversy to arbitra
tion. The joint resolution was re
ported from the committee on foreign
affairs, and was in accordance with the
suggestion of President Cleveland in
his last annnal message. Bills were
introduced to obviate objections to
the original measures pointed out by
the president, to pension Richard R.
Knight and to grant the Gila Valley,
Grove and Northern Railroad com
pany a right of way through the San
Carlos Indian reservation in Arizona.
The currency and backing and gold
loan bill was discussed for five hours,
after which amendments were in order.
The house has discussed plans for
financial relief three days, and refused
by decisive votes to pass any one of
them. When the committee of the
whole, at 3 :30 o’clock Thursday after
noon, concluded its sessions, three
propositions were reported to the
house for its action—the original
Springer bill (known as the adminis
tration bill) proposing the issue of
§500,000,000 3 per cent fifty-year gold
bonds, as amended by the committee
of the whole; the substitute proposed
by Mr. Reed, authorizing the issue of
two-year 3 per cent certificates of in
debtedness to meet current defiencies
in the revenue, end bonds to cover the
deficiency in the gold reserve with
an amendment proposed by Mr. Bry
an, of Nebraska, reaffirming the dec
laration of the Mathews resolution of
1878, to the effect that coin obliga
tions of tho government are payable
in standard silver dollars at its option;
and the substitute of Mr. Cox, -demo
crat, of Tennersee, containing a re
habilitation of state banks with an
amendment proposed by Mr. Cobb,
democrat, of Alabama, expressly de*
dining to confer the right to issue
bonds upon the secretary of ths treas
ury. Mr. Bryan’s amendment was re
fused—yeas 127, nays 169—and then
Mr. Reed’s substitute went the same
way by a vote of 109 to 187. This
was nearly a party vote, the populists
and democrats on one side and repub
licans in favor of the substitute. The
amendment proposed by Mr. Cobb
to Mr. Cox’s substitute was voted
down viva voce, and the substitute
itself received but 65 votes in the af
firmative to 184 in the negative. Mr.
Cox’s request for a yea and nay vote
was not supported by a sufficient num
ber to secure it. By the unexpectedly
large vote of 159 nays and 97 ayes the
house, upon a division, refused to or
der the engrossment and third read
ing of the amended Springer bill,
which announcement was received
with applause. A vote by the yeas and
nay6 somewhat reduced the majority
against the bill, it resulting yeas 135,
nays, 162 ; present and not voting 4.
NO GOLD BONDS.
MR. CLEVELAND’S FINANCIAL
BILL KILLED IN THE HOUSE,
Consequently He Can Issue None But
Coin Bonds.
The hopes of the president and Sec
retary Carlisle of securing from this
congress authority to issue gold bonds
have gone glimmering.
The house met at 11 o’clock Thurs
day morning amidst a driving snow
storm and with the wind blowing a
blizzard. The consideration of the
bill in committee of the whole pro
ceeded until 3:30 o’clock, when the
final voting began. A number of
amendments designed to perfect the
bill, should congress, enact it, were
adopted by the committee, and a num
ber of others designed to give renl re
lief to tho people were voted down.
Wheeler’s proposition to repeal the
state bank tax was defeated, as was
that of Bell, of Colorado, to sell the
bonds for gold and silver and make
half of them payable in the one and
half in the other metal.
Mr. Hatch’s proposition to redeem
them in treasury notes issued nnder
the Sherman law and to coin the sil
ver seigniorage now in the treasury
failed by only five votes.
Mr. Terry, of Arkansas, proposed
an amendment providing for the coin
age of standard silver dollars in any
one year at the request of any state
equal to the number of inhabitants of
such state.
The clerk had not finished reading it
when the hour for voting arrived, the
commi ttee rose, reported progress and
the house was face to face with the fi
nal scenes. There was great confusion
for the moment. Mr. Terry took up a
position immediately in front of the
speaker’s desk, in the middle aisle, and
made the point of order that as his
amendment was being read when the
committee rose, it should be regarded
as pending and be voted on by the
house. His point was promptly ruled
out of order amidst the laughter of all
who noticed what a cold trail Mr. Ter
ry was on. Then the house began
voting and voted down every material
proposition as fast as it could get to it.
The minor amendments to the bill
adopted in committee were agreed to
without a division, but when it came
to Mr. Reed’s substitute, it was done
to legislative death by nearly eighty
majority. Then the bill itself was
buried beneath an adverse majority of
nearly thirty. And thus ends for this
congress all hope, chance or prospect
of legislating absolute gold bonds into
existence.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
The hearing of the Drayton divorce
case at Jersey City which was set for
Monday in chancery chambers, has
been postponed for a week.
The National Farmers’ Alliance and
Industrial Union met at Raleigh, N.
C., Tuesday. Secretary Dunning,
Congressman Stroud and many other
Alliance leaders were present.
Two more ballots were taken in the
Deleware legislature Monday for Unit
ed States senator. They resulted as
follows: Higgins, 9; Addicks, 6; Mas
sey, 4; Wolcott, 6 "Nicholson, 2;Tun-
nell, 1.
The boiler at Earl, Carpenter &
Co.’s ice house at Providence, B. L,
•xploded Monday, killing two men
mtright, injuring a third, so that he
lied within an hour, and wounding
ten others, some of them seriously.
Bids for §140,000 six per cent. Hinds
county. Miss., funding bonds were
pened by the board of supervisors at
Jackson Monday. The prices offered
ranged from par to 177 for the entire
issue. It is the first time in the his
tory of the state, that 6 per cent,
county bonds sold for as much as par.
The report from Shanghai that a
hunting party from the United State s
ship Concord has been overpowered
and carrie'd off by the natives near
Chin Kiang because they had acci
dentally shot a Chinaman, although
not yet officially confirmed, has given
rise to grave concern at the navy and
state departments.
Advices received at Paris from Mont-
ceau Les mines show tha* fire broke
out in the St. Eugenie pit, and while
the miners were fighting this fire an
explosion occurred which wrecked the
galleries and entombed the miners.
The receue party, thus far, has recov
ered 21 bodies, and has removed from
the ruins eight terribly injured miners.
Russian Newspaper Suppressed.
The London Daily 1Veu-s corres
pondent in Berlin says that the Rus-
kera Sehin, the most liberal newspaper
in Russia, has been suppressed for
publishing an article arguing that free
thinkers ought not to be excluded from
the benefits of the pension fund pro
vided by the'czar for scholars and an-
thors a week ago. This fund amounts
to 50,000 roubles a ypar.
Entire Family Burned.
At Omer, Mich., Wednesday morn
ing, the entire family of John Bock,
consisting of himself, wife and four
children, were burned to death. It is
supposed that a hot stove pipe that
passed through the floor eansed the
fire. The bodies were charred beyond
recognition,
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The treasury gained $656,000 in
gold Tuesday, increasing the gold re
serve at the close of business to $43,-
304.642.
Another acquisition to the strength
of the republicans in the senate was
made Wednesday in the person of Mr.
Clark, of Wyoming, who appeared and
took the oath of office. The senate now
consists of 87 members, of whom 43
are democrats, 39 republicans and 5
populists.
The cabinet was engaged for four
and a half hours Tuesday in discuss
ing the impending bond issue; but if
BDy conclusion was reached the time
for giving publicity thereto has not
arrived. That a bond issue is likely
to occur within a day or two is, how
ever, generally regarded as certain,
this impression finding a basis in
active preparations therefor, which
were initiated during the day Et the
treasury department, into which the
officials of the bureau of engraving
and printing were called as partici
pants in the arrangements.
Another fisticuff seemed imminent
in the house Monday afternoon. Mr.
Hatch, of Missouri, charged that the
banking and currency committee did
not represent the people. Mr. Hall,
of Missouri, replied that the statement
was unqualifiedly false. Members
gathered around looking for another
scrap. Mr. Hatch replied: “The gen
tlemen is using language in this house
that he would not dare repeat outside. ”
At this point there was intense excite
ment, when Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, again appeared on the scene,
this time as peacemaker. His point
of order on the language used set the
house in a roar, in which the two be-
ligerent members were forced to join.
Postofflce Appropriations.
The postoffice appropriation bill for
the year ending June 30, 1896, has
been reported to the senate from the
committee on appropriations. As
passed by the house it carried a total
of $89,442,998 and the senate commit
tee made a net reduction of $105,614.
The appropriation for railway postal
car service is increased by $100,000
and the appropriation for that service
(§3,205,000) is to be nnder the direc
tion and at the discretion of the post
master general, all conflicting laws be-
ingrepealed. The item of $196,614 for
"special facilities on trunk lines from
Springfield, Mass., to Atlanta and New
Orleans by way of New York and
Washington” is stricken out. These
were the only important changes.
The Treaty Changed.
The senate in executive session,
Tuesday afternoon, reconsidered the
Japanese treaty and made the change
in its text to which attention was call
ed some clays ago by the state depart
ment. As the treaty was amended
last week the senate provided that it
should be within the power of either
of the contracting parties to abrogate
it after twelve months’ notice. Inas
much as the treaty does not go into
effect until four years from now, in
1899, this puts it within the power of
the United States to aborogate the
convention before it went into opera
tion, a condition which the Japanese
minister represented would be mani
festly unfair to the government of Ja
pan. He urged that the treaty be recon
sidered and the amendment changed
so that it could be abrogated after
twelve months only after the same had
been in operation.
Reed’s Substitute.
The first day’s debate in the house
on the currency and banking bill, with
anthority'to issue low interest long
time bonds to maintain the gold re
serve, brought out Mr. Reed’s sub
stitute for the measure which has been
discussed the past day or two. The
speech in which he presented the prop
osition was the principal feature of the
day. The bill is in brief that the sec
retary of the treasury be directed to
issue 3 per cent certificates of indebted
ness to meet the deficiency in receipts,
the gold reserve to be used only for
the redemption of greenbacks. These
certificates, he said, might be for two
years or less, and could be redeemed
out of the surplus receipts, which the
secretary of the treasury will have
this year. This would avoid all ques
tions, he said, which hinder the pas
sage of the committee’s bill, and meet
the present exigency. The republi
cans, he said, were willing to forego
any party advantage that might be ob
tained from a measure that would re
lieve the country; but it must be such
a measure as commended itself to their
ideas of right and justice and practica
bility.
LIL’S ABDICATION. I BLIZZARDS GAL0EE.
HAWAII’S QUEEN RELINQUISHES
HER THRONE.
Her Action Supposed to be a Ruse to
Escape Punishment.
Advices from Honolulu have reached
San Francisco to the effect that Lilu-
okalani has abdicated in favor of the
republic. This is by far the most im
portant outcome of the late rebellion.
The document was drawn up by A. S.
Hartwell, at the request of the ex-
queen. It was preseuted on the 26th
instant to President Dole. The docu
ment, according to the wording, was
executed freely and voluntarily. It
was addressed to the president. The
ex-qneen is yet under arrest.
MANY AKP.ESTS FOB TREASON.
Arrests for treason and conspiracy
have been numerous. In all, there
are about 350 under lock and key.
Their number includes the prisoners
of war. It it thought the government
has under arrest nearly all who took
part in the rebellion.
ONX.Y LAWFUL GOVERNMENT.
The letter of abdication, among
other things, says:
“In order to avoid any possibility
of misunderstanding on the subject,
although I do not think that any doubt
or misunderstanding is either proper
or possible, I do hereby fully and un
equivocally admit and declare the
government of the republic of Hawaii
as the only lawful government of the
Hawaiian Islands, and that the late
Hawaiian monarchy is finally and
forever ended, and no longer
of any legal or actual validity,
force or effect whatsoever; and I do
hereby forever absolve all persons
whomsoever whether in the Hawaiian
Islands or elsewhere, from all and
every manner of allegiance, or official
obligation or duty to me and my heirs
and successors forever, and I hereby
declare to all such persons in tho
Hawaiian Islands, that I consider them
as bound in duty and honor hence
forth to support and sustain the gov
ernment of Hawaii.”
ANXIETY IN FLORIDA.
GREENHUT REMOVED.
Judge Grosscup Appoints a Receiver
for the Whisky Trust.
In the United States circuit court at
Chicago, Monday morning Judge Gross-
enp removed Joseph Greenhut from
the receivership of the whisky trust
and appointed John C. McNulta and
John J. Mitchell to act with Mr. Law
rence, who was appointed receiver
when Greenhut was appointed. Gen
eral McNulta will be principal or di
recting receiver. He officiated in that
capacity during several years for the
Wabash Bystem of railroads. In deliv
ering his opinion, Judge Grosscup took
occasion to score the stock-jobbing di-
l ectors of the corporations and declared
that Greenhut’s action in applying for
the receivership was simply an imposi
tion upon the court. Judge Grosscup
also felt it due to himself to declare
that the action of the court in the first
receivership was not unusual or im
proper. The opinion of the court is
quite long and goes into the condition
of affairs that led np to the receiver
ship. The judge finds that both sides
admit that a receivership is necessary
and that the question is merely as to
the personnel of the receivers.
Orange Trees and Early Vegetables In
Extreme Danger.
Thursday morning’s weather report,
predicting freezing weather iu Florida,
created consternation among the fruit
and vegetable growers and shippers of
these products as well as in the general
office of the transportation companies
which haul them to market. The local
signal station issued the following fore
cast Thursday morning:
“Showers today, followed by clear
ing weather. Temperature will fall
to about freezing Friday morning.
Severe freeze Friday night. Tempera
ture will probably go as low or lower
than on December 29th; southwest
winds, shifting to high northwest.”
President George B. Fairbanks, of
the Florida Fruit Exchange said: “If
Florida has this freeze as predicted
today its effect will be far more disas
trous than that of December 29th.
Theu the orange and lemon trees were
thickly covered with foliage and were
in fruit. The crop was lost, but the
trees, except in a few instances, were
uninjured. Now the trees are naked
and just beginning to leaf out again
and to bud. A freeze would kill them.
The new crop of vegetables is now in
the most tender stage of growth. A
freeze would kill the crop.”
BIG TOBACCO LOSS.
A Warehouse in Cincinnati Bums.
Heavy Damage.
Tho Bodman leaf tobacco warehouse
at Cincinnati was destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning. The place was full
of valuable leaf tobacco in hogsheads,
all of which was destroyed. The loss
on the 6tock is estimated at $240,000,
anil on the building §60,000.
The list of insurance has not yet
been made np, but it is said to fully
cover the loss. The firemen suffered
severely from the bitter cold weather.
PROSPECT OF SETTLEMENT
Between Mexico and Gauteniala—In
demnity Discussed.
Minister Mariscat and President
Diaz have held another consultation
on the Guatemala matter in which the
subject of indemnities for Mexico was
further discussed. Mr. Mariscat inti
mated to the newspaper correspond
ents that the amount and general na
ture of the indemnity due from Guate
mala is practically the only question
being considered at the present time.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
INTENSE COLD AND VIOLENT
GALES NORTH AND WEST.
Senator Berry Wins.
Both houses of the Arkansas legis
lature chose James H. Berry for sena
tor. There was practically no opposi-
I tioff.
The Industrial Sitnation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Reports from all over the son b, for the past
(reek, indicate that the ojtton planter* are
aroused to the necessity of reducing the crop,
and that the area to be planted next season, as
shown by the demand for fertilizers, will be
much less than !a<t year , it being too early as
yet io make a definite estimate.
1 he inter, st in establishing new cotton mills
is now very great iu all parts of the sonth.
Daring ihe week a $490,GK) mill was reported
tobo established near Aiken. 8. C ; one with
the same capital at M icon, Ga ; a $250,000 one
at Bat- n Reuge, La.; one with $100,OkOcapital,
at Dawson, Ga.; two at LaGrange. Ga., one of
them w.tli $100,000 capital; a $75,000 woolen
mill at Chattanooga, Tenn.: a - 50.000 cotton
mi 1 at Waco, Tex: one with $35,000capital
at Augusta, G... ando hers at Athena. Barnes-
v lie, Cartersville and Chipley, Ga., Franklin-
ton, N. C.. Laurens and Rock Hil 1 , 8. C.. Bel
ton and Temple, Tex., Norfolk Va. It is also
l-porte 1 (hat a large mil at New Hartford,
Conn., is seeking a location in the south.
Iron pro lucers say that the unsettled condi
tion of financial affairs is preventing large sales
of p g iron, I ut the output ha) not been re- j Huntingdon
duced. Coal mining is active in all southern I
mines, and the demand for coal and coke con
tinues to b - largo Lumber production in
creases and prospects atv favorable.
Amott g important new indu-tries in the south,
r. ported during th? we. k, are: A phosphate
mining company and fer iliz -r works at Charles
ton, 8. C.. with $250,000 capi-al; a manufac
turing com: any with *150,000 capi al at New
Berne, S. C.; a $100,000 brick plant at La-
Grange, Ga.; a 5100,000 compress at Waco,
Tex; a $100,001 laud company at Columbia,
8. C.; a $50,000 trnuk factory at Petersburg,
Va., and a $50,000 lamp black factory at Sa
vannah, Ga.
There was also reported among th? fifty-four
new industries of the week organized or estab
lished in he southern etacs; A flouring mill
at Giinesvi le, Fla. a foundry at Aiken. 8. C ;
tnio ng companies at Clement’s D pot, Ala.,
n. lex., and Big Stone Gap, Va.; a $50,-
Wisconsin Reports Fifty Degrees Be
low—Other Places Nearly as Cold.
Uncle Sam’s weather bureau special
bulletin says: Emergency warnings,
indicating violent gales with snow,
have been sent to the states in the up
per and middle Mississippi and lower
Ohio valleys and the npper lake re
gion. The indications are for the se
verest cold wave of the season in Col-
crada, northern Texas, Oklahoma, In
dian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, Ar
kansas, Missouri, Indiana and upper
lake regions.
The following low temperatures
were reported Wednesday: Middle-
town, N. Y., 12 below; Plattsburg, N.
Y., 24 below; Monticello, N. Y., 18
below; Cincinnati, 16 below; McKees
port, 8 Below; Columbus, O., and
Pittsburg, Pa., 5 below, and snow fall
ing; Newport, R. I., zero; Hanover,
N. H., 14 to 18; Concord, N. H., 18 to
20 below: Lock Haven, Pa., 22 to 28
below throughout that entire section;
Garfield, Pa., 20 to 30 below; Milwau
kee, Wis., a blizzard; Wheeling, W.
Va., from zero to 10 below through
out the western part of the state; St.
Louis, zero; Detroit, Mich., range of
6tate 7 to 30 below; Duluth, Minn., 13
below and a blizzard; Pittsburg, Pa.,
6 below; Erie, Pa., 12 below in the
city and 20 below in the eouutry.
THE NORTH RIVER FROZEN.
A New York special says: Wed
nesday was the coldest since Decem
ber 31, 1880. In tho ferry slips and
for about a quarter of a mile out into
the North river the ice was solid.
Ferry boats had to ram their way into
slips and in many cases made a dozen
attempts to reach the landing.
THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA.
The coldest weather in February
that Philadelphia ever experienced is
now manifesting itself. The tempera
ture at the weather bureau is 3 degrees
below zero, with no immediate pros
pect of a rise. The weather is clear.
Advices from points throughout the
state report extremely cold weather,
the lowest temperature being recorded
at Cresson, where the mercury dropped
to 20 degrees below zero. Cresson is
on the summit of the Allegheny moun
tains. At Reading the thermometer
registered 5 below.
COLDEST IN TWENTY- ONE YEARS.
The temperature at the signal office
at Baltimore Wednesday morning was
1 degree above zero, the coldest Feb
ruary weather, with one exception, iD
twenty-one years.
EVANS ENTERS A PROTEST.
The Counting of the Vote for Governor
of Tennessee Begun.
When the two houses of the general
assembly of Tennessee met Tuesday to
open the returns of election for gov
ernor in November last. Senator But
ler, republican, read a protest from
Hon. H. Clay Evans, the republican
claimant for the governorship.
Mr. Evans protested that the elec
tion contest law enacted by the legis
lature was unconstitutional, and be in
sisted that the joint assembly open
and publish the returns as the consti
tution required without any interfer
ence on the part of the joint legislative
assembly.
The reading of the protest was fol
lowed by applause from the galleries.
The returns of the counties were
then opened and objections were filed
by Messrs. Evans and Turney to the
reception of the votes of various coun
ties.
When the convention took a recess
at 2 :30 o’clock sixty-seven counties had
been opened. Of the sixty-seven
counties opened fifty-one have so far
been objected to. The attorneys for
both Governor Turney and Mr. Evans
made a protest against counting the
vote of the four counties of Bedford,
Franklin, Henry and Lawrence. The
attorneys for Governor Turney ob
jected to twenty-three counties, as
follows:
Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Camp
bell, Cooke, Crockett, DeKalb, Car
rol], Carter, Claiborne.Fentress, Gran
ger, Greene, Hambiin, Hancock, Har
din, Hawkins, Johnson, Knox, Lon
don, Macon, Marion and Morgan.
The attorneys for Governor Evans
objected to twenty-four counties, as
follows: Benton, Cannon, Chatham,
Chester, Clay, Coffee, Davidson,Dick
son, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Giles,
Grnndy, Hardeman, Haywood, fium-
phreys, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lincoln,
Madison, Marshall, Maury, Moore and
Obion.
The sixteen counties of Bledsoe,
Cumberland, Decatur, Hamilton,
Henderson, Hickman, Houston,
James, Jefferson, Lake, Lewis, Mc-
Minn, McNairy, Meigs, Monroe and
Montgomery were not objected to.
Colonel John J. Vertrees acted as
spokesman for Governor Turney and
Robert Pritchard, of Chattanooga, for
Mr. Evans. Governor Turney’s other
counsel were W. M. Vertrees, J. D.
Anderson, J. M. Dickinson, J. W.
Gaines and W. H. Carroll, chairman
of the democratic state executive
committee.
Mr. Evans was on the floor in per
son and was represented by Congress
man-elect Henry R. Gibson, Jesse
Rogers, of Knoxville, John Ruhm, G.
H. Tillman and W. S. Colyar, of
Nashville, and Sam W. Hawkins, of
The returns so far as
opened do not vary from the returns
received by Secretary of State Morgan.
The objections now made are only
formal. Specific objections will be
filed later.
COLONEL CLE3IENTS,
Alabama’s President of Cotton Grow
ers’ Association.
Colonel N. N. Clements, of Tusca
loosa, has been commissioned state
president of the American Cotton
Growers’ Protective Association for
Alabama. ?.Ir. Clements is one of the
most prominent public men of Ala-
090 p»p r mill ar. Lexington. Ky.; a $25,000 i bama, having served as speaker of the
bleachery at West Point, Ga-; tobacco nor-s
(Vitli S5C.G00 capital at Wincbesti r, Y«., anti
woodworking plants at Brew:on and Bedford,
Ala. Newport au 1 Pin-) Bluff. Ark., Crandalls,
Fla.. Ail-1, Gi. Ashland and Gu lire, Ky-,
High Point au 1 WeJdo , N. C., and Lcwisourg
and Riceviiie, Tenn.—Tradesman ( Chat tanooga,
Tenn.)
lower house in 1890, besides filling
other prominent political stations.
IJe commanded the North Alabama
men in the late war, and was widely
known for his gallantry. Colonel
Clements is a large planter.