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tion. For a losut-r thus, lower rates.
It has been decided by Judge Thayer,
of the United States rtistriet court, at St.
Louis, that it is unlawful to dun a man
through the mails by means of a postal
card.
The first thing Explorer Stanley did
when he reached the coast of Africa wai
to ask for files of newspapers for the past
three years. The world's history for that
period was a blank to him, and he will
hare to do some hard reading in order to
understand the situation.
One method of preventing fires seems
to hare beers overlooked in the discussion
which has followed the disasters in Lynn,
Boston and Minneapolis. It is frha French
regulation which makes a tenant or
house-owner financially responsible foi
damage by fires that spread beyond his
It is estimated that our American tour
ists in 1889 spent ninety million dollars
in Europe, and it is almost certain that
scarcely a bagatelle of all this will ever
float back to our shores. This is an enor
mous amount of money. It ia double the
amount Uncle Bam has on deposit in all
the National banks of the country. It is
nearly the sum which Secretary Noble
estimates lor the entire pension list in
1890. It is far more than it takes to run
two or three department of the Govern
ment for u year. It is about time, the
New York Telegram believes we had a
fair on this side of the water and pre
vented all this flow of good cash to
Europe.
Dr. Alfredo di Luy, of Rio .Tsueiro,
believes that, the climate of Brazil is de
generating to Europeans, especially to
persons from the north. He has noticed
that Brazilians in general are more pal
litl, and are less vigorous and energetic,
than persons coming from temperate and
cold climates. The degeneration of the
Portuguese race may also be noted in
Rio de Janeiro. An amende condition,
caused bv malarious Influences, is com
mon among them, and, while it does not
kill by itself, weakens the hold on life and
greatly increases the infant mortality.
The childreu of Portuguese and Italian*
ilo not seem to fare so badly ns the chil
dren of parents coming from more north
ern countries.
Even in conservative England the
times are indeed changed. The cane
has always been considered as necessary
a part of the schoolmaster’s possessions
as the spelling book and corporal punish
ment prevails there to an extent that
would not be tolerated here. A school
master was recently sued by the fat lift
of a pupil whom he had unmercifully
beaten by caning him on the hand, and
the magistrate gave judgment against the
pedagogue on the grouud that caning on
ihe baud was attended by a risk of in
jury, and there were “methods of cor
poral punishment quite as available,
efticacious and uot necessarily attended
by any risk, which the defendant might
have used.”
There iR a vast deal of patriotism
srnong the women of the Country. The
Ladies’ Hermitage Association, with
headquarters at Nashville, Tenn., has
undertaken to raise a fund for the pre
servation of Andrew Jackson’s grave ami
homestead. The intention is to make
the Hermitage, like Mount Vernoy, a
Mecca for patriots. Mrs. Nathaniel
Baxter is the President of the Associa
tion. The Mary Washington Monument
Association, of Fredericksburg, Va., is
also in the hands of earnest and loyal
women, who wish to see the grave of the
first President’s mother marked by an
appropriate monument. Mrs. James
Power Smith, of Fredericksburg, Va., is
the President.
M. Valin, formerly a United States
Congressman, from Louisiana, and now
editor of La PcUrie , the leading French
Liberal paper in Canada, has made a dis
covery that may have great import on
the relations between this country and
Canada. He says that France had ceded
all her rights in America to the United
States by a formal treaty signed at the
outbreak of the American war, so that
the United States is still now the natural
protector of the French Canadian 4
against England, should any attempt be
made by her to deprive them of the
rights to their faith and language con
ferred to them by the treaty of 17fi3.
The French Canadians of Manitoba are
consequently starting a movement tc
frame a declaration of grievance and for
ward it to the United States Govern
ment, with an appeal for protection
against any law forbidding the use of the
French language in that province.
During 1889 there were no fewer than
439 suicides in the Anatro-llungariais
army, of which number 23 were officer*
and the remainder non-commissioned offi
cers and privates.
According to the latest records tlu
number of Indians in this country is 250,-
000, and the reservations which they hold
comprise 118,830,103 acres, or 4*o* acre
for each man, woman and child.
EJ!E 1 ■ S' . .. 1 ■ "
It will, perhaps, interest some reader*
to know how much fuel n locomotive
burns. On freight trains an nverage con
sumption may lx; taken at about one to
one and one-half pounds of coal consumed
per car per mile. With pasieoger !rniu|,
the cars of which are heavier and the
speed higher, the coal consumption i*
greater. A freight train of thirty cars,
at a speed of thirty miles per hour,
would, therefore, burn from 900 to 1350
pounds of coal per hour.
The Chinese are fairly overrunning the
Sandwich Islands. They number one
fifth of the population and nearly mon
opolize many branches of mercantile busi
ness, while there are six Chinese mechan
ics out of every seven of this class on the
islands. The natives feel their predomi
nance keenly, but as the Chinese are the
most vigorous ami progressive race the
islanders will have to submit to the logic
of events. It seems to be their manifest
destiny to give place to a stronger people.
The indolent islanders of the Pacific are
no match for the hardy and energetic
Chinese.
There is a strong probability that the
five Republics of Nicaragua, Costa Rina,
Honduras, Ban Salvador anil Guatemala
will shortly become one Republic, which
will be kuown as tho United Slates of
Central America. Tlie President of the
union will have charge of tlie diplomatic
and foreign relations of the five Republic*
only for the first ten years of the federa
tion. At the expiration of that period a
constitution embracing nil political, com.
mercial anil oilier relutious, will l
adopted. The treaty has been signed by
Honduras, Guatemala anil Ban Balvadot
and Costa Rica, it is expected, will dc
the same ns soon ns Nicaragua bus
signed.
The post schools of the army may re
eeivo acme attention from Congress dur
ing the curreut session. It is not likely
that any attempt will be made to carry
out General Tew Wallace's idea of con
verting every military station into an
academy ; but, according to the New Vork
Time*, this view is gaining adherents that
a somewhat, better use could be made of a
part of the time of the enlisted men than
employing it in endless repetitions ot
rudimentary drills. The recruit must ot
course be made first of all a good soldier,
arid have such daily training as will keep
him a good soldier; but. it is not neces
sary to look at West Point to see about
what proportiou of the day is really re
quired for that and how much is left foi
mental improvement.
Men of the present day who attend
concerts and arc debarred the plaasure
of seeing the singes* by the high-hat
nuisance, may take comfort from the fact
that their grandfathers and great -grand
fathers suffered a similar infliction. In
the Magazine, published it
London, for December, 1753, is the fol
lowing- “It is the fashion in Paris foi
the ladies to wear straw hats of a mon
strous size, made in imitations of the are
ostatic globes; on which account they
arc called ‘les chapeaux ait ballon.’ It
is to ho hoped that the whimsical mode
will not be introduced amoug the people
of England, as it would prove still more
inconvenient at the play houses than the
late high heads.” And again we read:
“Woe to the frequenters of the play
houses if the new French balloon hats
are ever brought into fashion here in
their present form.” But they were.
The proposal of Secretary Tracy to al
low men to enlist iu the navy for life and
then to insure them retirement attei
thirty years’ service seems, to the New
York Time*, “to be a very good one.
There is no reason why Jack Tar should
not have the benefit of a retired list like
his brother of the land service, and it is
an excellent plan to couple with the
privilege measures to insure long and
faithful service. If at the end of four
years he should tire of his life eulistraent,
he is then to have a full chance to put an
end to it and be discharged; and this
option will prevent him from being
alarmed at the prospect of entering iuto
a life Agreement to begin with. But if
he does take a discharge at the eud of
four years, he is to forfeit the privilege
connected with a life enlistment. On
the other hand, he is to be allowed a
month’s leave of absence in each twelve,
and he can accumulate these leaves foras
many as four years together, and then
take a long tour months' vacation with
out forfeiting his rights. The system is
simple, yet promising, and we should
judge that it would at least have the ef
fect of inducing Congiess to establish re
tired pay for the enlisted men of the
navy.”
CURRENT NEWS.
CGNDRNHED FROM THE TELE-
Qll.\PH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO WAV
THROUGHOUT THE WORM), CUtI.ED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Two hundred anil seventy-live out oi
1.000 of tlie Elmira, N. Y., reformary,
nre down with the grippe.
Five hundred grain porters of the
North anil Boutli ducks, Liverpool, have
struck for an advance in wages.
M Jaffrln, one of Boulanger's lieuten
ants, was forcibly ejected from the French
chamber of deputies on Monday.*
The influenza is spreading in Mexico.
Heveral ilcatlis from the disease are re
ported as having occurred at Villa Lobas.
The editor of the newspaper El Pro
gie*t, published in the City of Mexico,
has been sent to jail for defaming Adelina
Patti.
Julius Barnes <fc Cos., dry goods dealers
in Lajiorte, Iml., made an assignment
Saturday. Liabilities *30,000; assets
*311,000'
The bill granting a subsidy to the Fast
African Steamship company passed its
second reading in the German reichstag
on Monday.
The Murk Lane Expect*, in its weekly
review of the British grain trade, says
that English wheat is depressed ill conse
quent of damp deliveries.
The German Czech conference, held in
Vienna Austria, has succeeded In recon
ciling all differences between the Czech*
and Germans in Bohemia.
The sultan of Turkey and kings of
Greece anil Roumania, have invited the
crown prince of Itily to sojourn in their
palaces during his tour in the cast.
The official report of the Congo Free
State publishes decrees granting civil
st ilus in legal matters to Catholic and
Protestant missions in that country.
Three thousand shoemakers who have
been locked out for a week returned to
work at Haverhill, Mass., Monday. The
trouble has lieen satisfactorily settled.
It is proposed to organize at Berlin,
(icrmimy, for 1897, an' international ex
hibition which shall be fur grander than
the French exhibition.
Editor Purke, of the North Loudon
Time*, was found guilty of libel in the
case aguinst him brought by the earl of
Elision, and sentenced to one year's im
prisonment.
A telegram from Victoria mines, near
Trinidad, Col., says that a eavc-in oc
curred iu that mine Wednesday morning,
and Hint five men were buried.
Alderman W. 11. Porter, convicted of
conspiracy and blackmail, was sentenced
at Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday, to eighteen
months in the western penitentiary, anil
to pay a fine of SSO.
Authentic news lias been received at
Cairo, Egypt, of terrible mortality among
the natives in the Soudan, owing to a
famine resulting from a lack of rain (lur
ing the autumn.
The president on Monday nominated
John Vigneaiix United States marshal for
the western district of Louisiana, and
withdrew the nomination of William P.
Roller, postmaster at Bristol, Teuu.
Thirteen prisoners escaped from Hit
Quincy, 111., jail Monthly night. One of
them, who escaped, was being held for an
attempted murder; the others were pick
pockets, burglars and confidence men.
Influenza, in a severe form, prevails
among the officers and crews of the
American squadron of evolution, now in
the Mediterranean. There are 180 cases
of the disease on board the Chicago alone.
A spun of a highway bridge in course
of construction over Little Miami River,
at Oregouiii station, in Warren county,
Ohio, fell Monday, carrying down several
workmen. One was killed and ten in
jured.
A dispatch from New York says: The
Argentine republic has fully recognized
the newly established republic of Brazil.
The Argentine consul-general iu New
York has just received an official circular
from his government conveying this no
tice.
The jury in the suit of Miss Caroline
Citiuinerer against (demons Muller,ut New
York, for SIOO,OOO for breach of promise,
on Sunday attended the opening of their
scaled verdict in the supreme court. They
found for the plaintiff in the sum of
$12,(400.
f’lattin, Coburn & Cos,, boot and shot,
dealers, of Boston, Mass., were burned
out Friday morning. Loss between $150,-
000 and $200,000; insurance SIOO,OOO.
The building was a four story stone, be
longing to the Boston university. Loss
SIOO,OOO, fully insured.
The Standard Oil company's works at
Constable Hooks. N. J.. was the scene of
another costly oil tire Saturday afternoon.
A large tank exploded, presumably from
gas generated by pumping hot oil on the
cold oil already in the tank. The loss is
estimated at $35,000.
It was announced Saturday that an
English trust had accepted terms offered
for the sale of five Trenton, N. J.,potter
ies. Eleven potteries at East Liverpool,
(>hio, are also embraced in the transac
tion, receiving about $5,000,000. Tren
ton’s share will he about $1,500,000.
A dispatch from Shamokin, Pa., says:
Locust Springs, Reliance, Burnside, Potts
and Fuuuell collieries, operated by the
Philadelphia and Heading railroad com
jvany, shut down Saturday evening, turn
ing 2,000 men out of employment. Dull
ness in the coal trade is the cause.
Judge Ingraham, of New York, on
Monday, denied the motion to set aside
the verdict giving $12,000 to Miss Caro
line Cammerer, of Philadelphia, iu her
-uit for SIOO,OOO from Clemens Muller as
damages for a breach of promise of mar
riage.
A deputation from Barcelona. Spain,
has presented a petition to the govern
ment against the Auglo-Spauish treaty of
IS3B, under which meu-of-war of both
countries have the right to search vessels
trading iu Afriiwu waters. The petition
holds that the measure is injurious to
i ocimerce.
On Saturday, ut St. Paul, the Grand
lodge of Minnesota, A. and F, A. M.. by
an overwhelming vote condemned that
branch of the Scottish rite known as C'e
renauism. and hereafter Minnesota, lik
New York, Pennsylvania and other state
of the southern jurisdiction in general,
will have nothing but straight Masonry.
It was rejiorted Saturday that six o*
the leading breweries of Cleveland. Ohio,
laid lieen purchased by an English syndi
cate, the price paid being 973,000. They
are the Stoppel company, Operative
Brewing company, George A Moths, J.
A. Schneider. Cleveland Brewing eoumr.-
uy, Oppman Brewing company and Mrs.
J. Bachr’s.
The Brazilian government has issued a
decree dividing the country into threo
bonking districts, and providing for three
issue binkH with a capital of $230,000,000
in government stock, the circulation of
each bank's notes to be confined to its
wn district. Ten per cent of the ei r.i
ings will be applied to the redemption of
the capital stock.
The new cabinet of Spain, which has
just been formed at Madrid, is as follows:
Prime minister and president of eoum il,
Bagaata; minister of foreign affairs.
Marquis de L< Vegarde Armijo; minister
of war, General Bermudez Reina; minis
ter of justice, Senor Pulgeervcr; minister
of finance, Ben or Kguilioir: marine. Ad
miral Romero; colonics, Senor Gullon;
trade, agriculture* and public works.
Benor Ueoerm; interior, Don Trinitario
Ruiz Capdenon.
Tlie following circular was sent out
from New York, Thursday! “To ul! Sub
scribers of the Commercial Telegram
Company: 'Hie Commercial Telegram
company is compelled to announce that
the property heretofore operated by it has
been sold it aejpl -Aside to satisfy judg
ments agnitu? the company, and now
finds itself unable to continue to distrib
ute, after this date, quotations which
have heretofore been supplied to its cus
tomers. Georoe W. Caspar, Secretary.”
It is understood that the Postal Tele
graph company were the purchasers.
THE NEGROS PARADISE.
OKLAHOMA HEINO RAPIDLY COLONIZED RY
THE COLORED PEOPLE.
Letters received by W L. Eagleson,
business manager of the Oklahoma Immi
gration society, in Kansas, from points iu
North Carolina, say that a large numbei
of negroes in that state are going through
In wagons this winter to the new
territory. Eagleson says there arc now
about 22,000 negroes in Oklahoma,
and that by spring there will be ai
least 50,000. lie claims they ought
to have that country, and says presi
dent Lincoln and the republican party
promised to give it to them. lie adds:
“We are determined to take it any how
and w r o will make it one of the grandest
in the Union. 1 favor Colonel Morgan's
scheme to purchase the Cherokee strip and
other lands in the Indian territory, ex
clusively for negro settlement. Give us
the Blair bill, the Indian territory, and
Senator Butler’s $3,000,000, and we will
be content. Oklahoma, in my judgment,
is the land of promise for the race, and
migration the panacea for every ill now
effecting the negroes <n the south.”
THE K* E LON GROWERS
■ A* ti*
ARE despondent OVER THE OUT LOOK —UN-
FAVORABLE FREIGHT REPORTS.
The melon growers of south Georgia
feel rather blue over the prospect for the
coming year. At tlie last meeting of tlie
South Georgia Fruit and Melon Growers’
association, a committee was appointed to
confer with the Southern Steamship and
Railway association as to correcting its
errors as to weight per ear. Complaints
arc made that the weights at Albany are
carelessly determined, the cars being
weighed while passing over the
scale.;, without being uncoupled.
Thousands of pounds of excess weight
have thus been put upon the cars. Fur
thermore, are re-weighed by each
connecting road and in many cases os
much as two thousand pounds are added
by each road until tlie overcharge of
weight would amount to seven or eight
thousand pounds. The committees were
met cordially, but no concessions were
made.
AN ALLIANCE CONVENTION-
HELD iv- AUGUSTA, OA. —■•RESULT OF TUB
DELIBERATIONS.
A convention held on Tuesday, in Au
gusta, Ga., of the Alliances iu the terri
tory contiguous to that city, has adopted
a resolution to tlgow their trade with cot
ton fuctors who doTiot charge more than
seventy-live cents commission per bale
when no advance is made, or a dollar
when an advance is made. A resolution
was also adopted favoring those commis
sion merchants who do not charge full
commissions duriug years when a full crop
of the staple is not made. A committee
of one from each county was appointed
to consider the practicability of establish
ing an Alliance warehouse in Augusta.
Thev will report August loth. Meantime
the sub-Alliances will consider the ques
tson.
TROUBLE EXPECTED.
SALOON KEEPERS OF DENX’ER SAY THEY
WILL DISREGARD THE SUNDAY LAW.
Sheriff Barton, of Denver, Colorado,
on Friday, created a sensation by mak
ing his first order, which is to the effect
that hereafter all saloons must close on
Sunday. Heretofore the law has practi
cally been a dead letter. A number of
special deputies have been sworn in for
this purpose and given their orders.
Several saloon men declare they will pay
no attention to the sheriff’s orders, and
some sensational developments are antici
pated.
A FATAL INITIATION.
KILLED BY ACCIDENT WHILE TAKING A
LODGE DEGREE.
While taking the Iloyal Arcli degree at
Huntington, W. Ya., Tuesday night,
Rev. J. W. Johnson lost his life. Masonic
circles are greatlyagitatedover the shock
ing accident. It is the ffrst in
stance on record where any accident of a
serious nature has occurred in the ceremo
nies of that degree. In fact, the ritual
which initiates the candidate into the
royal arch mysteries is considered much
less dangerous than that of any other
degree.
AT TOECAPITAL.
WE AT THE FIFTY-FIRST COS
(iHESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OP XATIONAI. IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
lu secret session, Monday afternoon, the
-enate confirmed the following nomina
tions: Collectors of Custom* —Robert
Smalls, Beaufort, 8. C. 1 T. F. Johnson,
Savannah, Oa.; United States District
Attorney—Henry C. Niles, northern dis
trict of Mississippi. United States Mar
shal—Carter B. Morrison, middle district
of Tennessee. Postmasters—T. J. Fuller,
Way cross: R. B. Locke, Macon, Oa.
A number of bills have been introduced
in both houses of congress, providing
for reciprocity with Canada. Canada 1*
in favor of free commercial union with
the United States. The republican mem
bers of the committee, being protection
ists, are opposed to reciprocity. They
want Canada annexed, but they would
not allow Canada to send her goods here
free until annexation. They believe that
Canada would consent to annexation il
reciprocity is witheld.
Mr. Carlton, of Georgia, went before
the judiciary committee, on Tuesday, to
be heard in favor of his bill to change the
date of the inauguration of presidents
from the 4th of March to the first Wednes
day in March. Mr. Carlton says Wash
ington's inauguration occurred on
Wednesday, which happened to be the
4th of Match, sliid perhaps, thoughtlessly,
the day of the month instead of the day
of the week was incorporated in the
statutes. The fourth often comes oir Sun
day or Monday, as it did last year, which
necessitates congress setting on Sunday'.
Mr. Carlton has received letters from all
over the country favoring his proposition,
and he will push it to a vote in the
house.
Tlie senate has passed the concurrent
resolution, reported from the committee
on finance, requesting the secretary of the
treasury not to take any steps towards
making anew lease of seal fisheries until
after February 20th.
The liotise committee on election of
president and vice-president bad set apart
Thursday for a hearing for the delegation
of colored men, appointed at the conven
tion Held at Richmond, Ya., some time
ago, who desired to speak on the subject
of an election law. The delegation did
not put in appearance, however.
Although the world's fair bills occupied
the attention of the house on Thu'-sdav to
the exclusion of other matters, still there
is yet a chance to reconsider the vote of
Wednesday by which the house refused to
appropriate money to pay its members fot
the loss by the Shcott defalcation.
On Thursday the judiciary committee
decided upon a favorable report on the bill
recently introduced Itv Mr. Stewart, of
Georgia, for the establisliment of two
nntional penitentiaries, one to be Ideated
north of the 39th degree of latitude, and
the other south of it. The bill appro
imated for oseh bmklsng, ullu
SIOO,OOO additional for machinery and im
plements. Atlanta, Ga., is favorably men
tioned as a good location on account of the
number of prisoners sentenced from
Georgia and neighboring states.
NOTES.
The following fourth class postmasters
were appointed for Georgia on Saturday:
J. O. Marcy, Dry Branch, Bibb county;
A. C. Johnson, Etftc, AVllitiield county;
J. T. Btiston, Rutland, Bibb county. W.
T. Cromley was appointed light house
keeper at SapPlo Island.
Secretary Wiiidom. on Thursday, sent
to the speaker of the House a letter rec
ommending appropriations for the follow
ing named public buildings, for the pur
poses set forth: Charleston, S. C., cus
tomhouse. $31,000, for the general repair
of the building and heating apparatus;
Macon, tit., courthouse, postoffiee, etc.,
$5,000, to construct a sewer from the
building to the river, and waterproofing
the boiler pit in the basement.
Secretary Noble is busily engaged in the
examination of papers in connection with
the appointment of supervisors of the
eleventh census. Of 175 supervisors pro
vided for by the census act, quite a large
number have been practically decided
upon, and it is the intention of the secre
tary to make his recommendations to the
president at once in as many as eight or
ted states. Others will follow as rapidly
as is consistent with the importance of the
positions to be filled.
The following nominations have Ireen
confirmed by the Senate: Civil Service
Commissioners Theodore Roosevelt, ol
New York, and Hugh S. Thompson, of
South Carolina; Collectors of Customs
,T. 11. Deveaux, Brunswick, Ga.; F. R.
Gungy, Tampa, Florida; T. B. Johnson,
Charleston, S. C.; H. W. Dangertield,
Tappahaunoek, Va,‘; T. J. Jarret, Peters
burg, Va.; J. W. Fisher, Richmond, Va.;
E. J. Penny packer, Wilmington, N. C.;
Robert Hancock, Jr., Pamlico, N. C.;
W. G. Henderson. Pearl River, Miss.: W.
R. Sheppard, Apalachicola,Fla.; H. Deß.
Clay, Newport News, Ya.; Surveyor of
Customs, C. C. Wimbish, Atlanta, Ga.
The following is the first section, of
which there are fourteen, of the bill pre
pared by Secretary Windom for presenta
tion to congress, authorizing the issue of
treasury notes on deposits of silver bul
lion, in accordance with the plan pro
posed in his report to congress: Be it
enacted by the senate and house of rep
resentatives of the United States, iu cou
gress assembled, that any owner of silver
bullion, the product of mines of the
United States, or of ores smelted or re
fined in the United States, mhy deposit
the same at any coinage mint, or at any
assav office in the United States that the
secretary of the treasury may designate,
and receive thereafter the treasury notes
hereinafter provided for, equal at the
date of deposit to the net value of
such silver, at the market price, such
price to be determined by the secretary of
the treasury tinder the rules and regula
tions prescribed, based upon the price
current in the leading silver markets of
the world; but no deposit, consisting in
whole or in part of silver bullion or for
eign silver coins imported into this coun
try. or bars resulting from melted or
refined foreign silver coins, shall be
received under the provisions of this act.
a. vast number of foreign residents ol
Brazil have protested against the naturaliza
tion scheme of the Provisional Government
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
PI N AND CO.’h REVIEW OF TRAD* FOR
WEEK ENDED .1 ANVARY 18.
R, G. Dim A Co.’s trade review for the
week says: Important improvement in i
business is noted wherever the recent
change to cold weather has been felt.
Elsewhere the unseasonable weather is
the chief complaint, but everywhere in
terruption of business and manufacturing
by the prevailing sickness is observed, and
niany factories have been forced to close
because so many of their employes were
uuable to work. The export of provis
ions are heavy, the lard movement last
week reached 14,582,862 pounds. Clear
ings of banks last week were not only the
largest on record for the past year, but
showed an increase over last year of twelve
per cent, outside ef New York The
weekly output of pig iron January Ist
was 174,038 tons, against 109,151 Decem
ber Ist, and 154,398 a year ago. This ini
plies a slight iocrease in production last
year over previous estimates-
COTTON AND WOOLEN GOODS.
The cotton industry is disturbed only
by sickness; the demand for goods is
slightly improved. Staple and prints are
firm. ‘Now, for the first time, wool man
ufacturers are busy auu hopeful, and the
demand for such wool as they can use is
strong, prices being firm. Reports from
various quarters are, on the whole, more
favorable. The mild weather has caused
much depression, lint wherever cold
weather has appeared there is a clear and
quick recovery. Collections are quite
generally slow* because of retarded dis
tribution, but uneasiness is reported at
only a few points. All southern reports
note an active trade. Lxpofts of cotton,
jrovisions, oil. and breadstuffs, in Decem
>er, were $74,449,727, against $67,045,-
545 in 1888, which points to an aggregate
of exports exceeding $94,000,000 for the
month, and again surpassing imports by
$26,000,000.
The speculative markets for products arc
irregular, hut not very active. Wheat is
nearly a cent higher with sales of only
12,000.000 bushels for the week. Corn a
cent lower with sales nearly as large, and
pork products a shade weaker. Cotton
has been marked up a shade, though re
ceipts again exceed last year s. Coffee is
steady. Oil ljc higher on light dealings,
and raw sugar is again advanced a shade,
though estimates of the European beet
crop l* 3,445,000 tons against 2,764,457
for the previous year. The general level
~f prices is a shade lower than a week
rgo. Business failures occurring through
out the country last week, number for the
United States 807; Canada sl, a total of
356 against 375 last week.
A BAD WRECK.
several People killed and a number
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
A Cincinnati dispatch says: Friday
evening, as the Glendale accommodation,
bound for Cincinuatii, was leaving the
station, near College Hill Junction, the
Chicago Vestibule train ran into the rear
of the accommodation. There were
three passengers cars of the Glendale
train, containing about seventy-five peo
ple. The locomotive of the vestibule
train ran half way through the rear car of
the accommodation, piling passenger cars
in a heap and setting them oil fire. The
tire department anti patrol wagons were
railed Horn Cincinnati and the lire extin
guished. Tlie following persons were
taken from the wreck dead : John Wil
son, superintendent of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company in Cincinnati;
F. W. Witherbee, conductor No. 77, res
idence Toledo; an unknown woman;
James Staley, baggemastcr, train No. 77,
of Dayton, O.; William Klamitz, a boy
of Carthage, Ohio. About a dozen peo
yle were badly injured, some of them
perhaps fatally.
ONE MILLION DONATED.
FOR ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL BAPTIST
UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO.
It was announced at Chicago, Sunday,
that Mr. Marshall Field lias supplied a
site for the proposed new Baptist Univer
sity. He Ims done it by donating for the
purpose ten acres of land, valued at
SIOO,OOO. The tract is in the southern
portion of Chicago,and fronts on Ellis Ave.,
between Eighty-fifth and Eighty-seventh
streets. Mr. Field's gift fills the last of
the requirements of the originator of the
university project, J. I). Rockefeller, the
oil king. Mr. Rockefeller gave SOOO,OOO
to found the university, on the condition
that $400,000 should be raised, and that
none of the total $ 1,000.000 should be used
fot '.he purpose of a site. The value of
Mr. Field’s land, together with the money
already raised, more than completes the
$1,000,000. It is intended, however, to
consider it as no part of that sum, but to
complete the round amount, regardless of
the Field donation.
HUMBUGGING IMMIGRANTS.
A SWINDLING SCHEME TO INDUCE DUTCH
IMMIGRATION TO FLORIDA.
The United States consul at Amsterdam
recently reported that an effort was made
to induce citizens of that country to emmi
grate to Florida, by representing that
each emigrant depositing one hundred
and fifty pounds would be given ten acres
of rich Florida land, together with imple
ments for cultivativation and would be
given board and lodging free for one
year. The matter was reported to the
treasury department, and Secretary Win
dom has written the state department,
suggesting that while such immigrants
would not be prohibited from landing, it
would be well'for the consul to advise the
people to move cautiously in the matter,
and to correspond witli'the governor of
Florida before taking any decisive action.
HONORING AN OARSMAN
A GRAND FUNERAL PROCESSION IN SYDNEY
IN HONOR OF HENRY S. EARLE.
Advice 1 ) from Australia, says the funeral
of Henry S. Earle, the deceased champion
oavsman, took place at Sydney December
14. The ceremony was witnessed by fully
70,000 people. The mayor and aldermen
of parliament formed part of the proces
sion, which was one of the longest of its
kind ever seen in Sydney. There is a
movement on foot \> erect a monument
to his memory.
SOUTH EI!N NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARK HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON'S AND DIXON’S LINE.
George Penley. bookkeeper of the
Kentucky Lumber company, which has a
heavy business, with large capital, head
quarters at Burnside, Ky., i H a defaultet
and fugitive. The amouut of defalcation
is not yet known.
Craven Bros., on Thursday, started tire.
in three furnaces in their glassworks at
Salem, N. C. Propositions have been
made to the locked-out union men, but if
they do not accept the terms offered, th
works will be run by non-union labor.
While four boys, between the ages of
six and eight years, were playing under
the edge of a sand bank in Jackson,'
Tenn., on Tuesday, the bank caved in,
burying them under about ten feet of
sand. They were dead when extricated.
Conductor Frank Layton, of the Ala
bama Great Southern railroad, was
knocked from his train by a water tank
and killed Friday night. He was leaning
out of the door of the caboose too far as
the train passed the water tank, and was
on the head.
The Zazoo and Tallahatchie Transpor
tation company’s steamboat, Katie Rob
bins, collided Sunday night with a barge
towed by the Jessie Harkins, from Sun
flower river, for Vicksburg, Miss. The
barge sunk with her load of three thou
sand sacks of seed and thirty bales of
cotton. The hull of the Robbins was
crushed, and she sank to her hurricane
deck, Four of her crue were drowned.
If Savannah, Ga., does not get a million
bales of cotton this year, she is going to
get pretty close to the seven figures. On
Saturday the receipts were 12,000 short of
the total for last year. This mouth’s ex
port. too, are now just about equal to
those of all last January, and there are
live large British steamships to clear.
They will carry away about 30,000 bales.
Upland cotton" is still advancing. During
the month the market has gone up nearly
| of a cent, and January 2d middling
cotton was quoted 9 9-10. On Saturday
it was quoted 10$. Sales are said to have
been made at 10$.
SNOWED IN.
A SNOW BLOCKADE IN TIIE WEST —TRAINS
HEMMED IN AND WIRES DOWN.
A dispatch of Monday from Chicago
says: Tlie snow blockade in the west
and northwest is one of the most com
plete on record. Not only has travel be
come impossible on western divisions of
the Central and Northern Pacific, but the
Telegraph companies are equal sufferers,
and ° every through wire is down
on Ixith of these routes. Washing
ton and Oregon are shut off
from communication wi th the entire
world, with the exception of one little zig
zag wire that still ticks feebly between
San Francisco and Portland. The Wes
tern Union repairers are snowed up at
half a dozen places in the west and there is
little prospect of renewed communication
until the mads have mastered the dements.
Monday night eight west bound trains were
snowed in, and the, prospect of the road
being opened in the next forty-eight
hours is poor, as snow plows cauno work
through the freezing ice and the force of
ihovelers is inadequate.
ENGLAND APPREHENSIVE.
THAT AN INCREASE OF DUTIES WILL STOI
IMPORTATIONS.
A cablegram from Loudon says: The
testimony before the congressional com
mittee of ways and means at Washington
is followed with great interest by Euro
pean manufacturers. A slight increase on
the tariff on many lines of goods means
the cessation of exportation; and the al
most unanimous recommendation of wit
nesses that the duties should be made
higher, fills continental jobbers and man
ufacturers with consternation. They say
that owing to the strict interpretation of
the laws by the United States consuls in
Europe, and endless squabbles about
invoices, their business lias been greatly
damaged, and any additional burden
placed upon it would prove ruinous to
them.
A CEMETERY BATTLE.
BLOODY FIGHT BETWEEN TWO WARRING
CHURCH FACTIONS.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa., dispatch says: A
bloody riot took place between the two
warring factions of the Polish church at
Plymouth, Monday evening. The Luther
ans faction endeavored to bury one of
their number in the cemetery. The Poles
resisted and a fierce battle took place, in
which pistols, stones and clubs were used.
During the shooting thirty men were
prostrated by wounds.
THE CYCLONES WORk.
Great destitution in wickliffe and
CLINTON, KENTUCKY.
There is much suffering at Wickiifb
and Clinton, Ky., in consequence of the
recent cyclone. At the former place
twenty-seven houses were destroyed oi
made uninhabitable, and at the lattei
place upward of fifty houses are gone.
Fifty-seven people at Wickliffe and
nearly one hundred at Clinton, arc in des
titute circumstances.
SIX INDIANS HANGED.
Six Indians. Austin,Dilley. Willis, Jones,
Goin and Burris, were hanged for murdcri
committed in the Indian territory.
Austin was a Chickasaw; Dilley, Willi?,
Jones, Goin and Burris were Choctaws.
The victims were all white men and rob
bery was the object in each case. Two
other Choctaws were to have been hanged
with them, but their sentences were com
muted by the president.
Several of the Ir.d Vi ch e s who
have b en vis t'.ng V ashington haie
never t*ea East b f re. They were
creaTy improve 1 with two tiling?- ■
fable Vans aid teg-. One of them
said to the ag.il': “White man
j.re it. Makes wagons g-> ; without
ho.ses rn 1 makes wind b ”.n.