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Tfite Gouiant-Hmeiican. 1.50 PER ANNUM—IN ADVANCE. KATE* OP AI>TEKTIRIN(I. space. I lmo. llboi. moa lrar. Oa# Inch. I2 M 6 M 710 flO M Toinches, SMI 75* MOO UN Thrs* Inches, ROO 10 00 12 60 JO 00 Four Inches. H> 11 to 18 00 23 00 Fourth column. 7 00 1 18 no 28 00 *0 DO Holt column, 11 00 20 00 40 00 60 00 On* column, 16 00) 85 0# 60 00 100 00 Local notices ten cents per lino for flrst Inser 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.