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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESB,
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT*
TF.R* OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OCR
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
lei the house, Wednesday, Mr. Farquhar,
of \< w \ ork, called up the conference
report on the bill appropriating $73,000
for the relisf of Albert 11. Emery, and
demanded the previous question thereon.
After a good deal of time, used up by
debate, the conference report was agreed
to. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, from the com
ii> it tee on foreign affairs, rcjKirted back the
resolution requesting the president to
furnish the house with the correspondence
between the government of the United
States ami Great Britain, touching the
subjects in dispute in Behring sea since
March 4, 1880. The resolution was
adopted. Mr. Hitt presented the con-
Terence report on the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill. After con
siderable discussion the report was laid
iside for the present. Mr. Dingley
entered a motion to consider the vote by
w hich the marine signal bill was passed,
and then, at 5:55, the house adjourned.
In the senate, Wednesday, Mr.
Tngalls announced his signature to
ti i bill for the admission of Wyoming as
a State. The bill now goes to the Presi
dent for his signature. On motion of Mr.
Blair, the senate proceeded to executive
business. The doors were reopened at 1
i> clock. The sundry civil appropriation
bill was reported, and Mr. Allison stated
tli t he would ask for its consideration
1 hursday. Consideration of the confer
vnee report on the silver bill was resumed,
and Mr. Cockrell continued his argument
against the report. At the conclusion of
-•tr. Cockrell’s speech, a lengthy discus
son was indulged in. Sherman proposed
that an agreement should lie made to
take a vote at 3 o’clock Thursday. The
senate then, at 3 •30. adjourned.
In the house,on Thursday, thedemoern
tic programme was carried out bv Mr.
Outhwaite, of Ohio, raising the point ol
order of no quorum present. After con
f-idorable skirmishing the journal ol
ednesday's proceedings was read and
approved. The conference report on di
plomatic and consular appropriation bills
was adopted. Yeas, 114; nays, 60. Mr.
Fuuston, of Kansas, submitted, and the
house passed, the conference report on
the agricultural appropriation bill. The
house then went into committee of the
whole on the land grant forfeiture bill.
Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, after speak
ing of the immense benefit accruing to the
country from the building of the great
transcontinental line of railroad, argued
against the forfeiture of land granted to
aid in the construction of the Gulf and
chip island railroad. Pending further
Urieiissinn, the committee rose and the
house, at 5:85, adjourned.
In the senate, on Thursday, Mr. Dawes
presented a memorial from Lynn, Mass.,
protesting against the appropriations for
w etarian Indian schools, Deferred. Mr.
1 fewart offered a resolution, which was
i Treed to, calling on the secretary of the
interior for information ns to the selec
tion of sites for reservoirs by the direc
tor of the geological survey. The senate
ksinned the consideration of the confer
ct ce report on the silver bill, mid was ad
dressed by Mr. Morgan in opposition to
the report Messrs. Dolph, Teller, Mitch
i 11 and Blair also participated in the de
bate. The vote was then taken, and the
conference report was agreed to—yeas
39. nays 28. The senate then adjourned.
In the house, on Friday, Mr. Perkins,
ii Kansas, presented the conference re
port on the hill granting right of way
across Mille Laos, Indian reservation, to.
ti e Lime Fills, Mille Lars and Lake 8u-
I efiorl! ilroad company. Adopted. Af
the pnssng > of one private relief bill, 1
1 .r. Conger, of lowa, presented the con
ti ence report on the silver bill. It was
agreed, on the suggestion of Mr. Blount,
oi Georgia, that four hours’debate should
b allowed Saturday on the silver confer
ence report, at the end of which time tin
| revious question should be considered as
ordered. The hous • then, at 4 :25, took
i recess until 8 o’clock, the evening ses
tson to be for the consideration of private
pension bills. The house met at 8 o’clock
ud on the first pension bill that war
-ailed up, Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, made
it e point of • o quorum and the house ad
Earned uutil Saturday.
In the senate, on Friday, A?r. Tellor
ii trodueed a ioint resolution dcclarinir it
t' be tlic determined policy of the United
t'ate" poveremet t-to use both gold and
; i ver as lull legal tender money, and in
sl'ucticg the pic-ideat to invite the gov
tinmen sof Latin Uni'n countries, and
e,i sueh ot or nations as he may deem ad
\ sable, to join the United States in s
i ■ nference to adopt a common ratio be
l\ een gold anti silver, for the purpose ol
i ablishing internationally the use ol
1 mctalic money, and set uring a fixity ol
< 'ative value Iktween thtse metals, The
y ut rifolu ion was referred to tin
I anre eommittec, l tie senate tnen took
Uji the senate hill to establish a United
Mates land court, and-to provide for the
ft ttlcment of private land claims in X™
A exico, Wyoming, Ariz.ua, Utah, Me
va.da and Colorado, such claims being by
virtue of Spanish or Mexican rights. The
bid was discussed until ~ o’clock, when
ti e shipping bills were in order as unfin
ished business, and Mr. Gibson addressed
the senate. Me argued against the pro
j sed subsidies for ships, but in favor of
n derate postal susidies. Air. Coke
stated some of the reasons why he op
p sed the bill to grant subsidies iu aid of
td • merchant marine. Mr. Vest offered
; a substitute for the bill as tothe Amer
ican merchant marine a provision for free
s’dps to be used only iu the foreign car
-1 y ng trade, not in the coastwise or lake
ti ae. ine mils went over without ne
tion. After n brief executive session,
the senate at 5:40 adjourned.
In the house, on Saturday, Mr. Conger,
nt lowa, called up the conference report
o t the silver bill The four h urs' and
- e, which followed, was participated
3' ]>y Messrs Cutcheon, Herman, Mor
jc.v, of California; Cannon, Allen, ol
X i-sissippi; Mcltae, Williams, of Illinois:
urly, Peel. Grosvencr, Niedringhaus,
1 reins, of Kansas; Townsend, of Colo
i > !<•: Beckwith, Darlington, Millikcn.
i lith,' of Illinois, and Dingier. The
J ir hours allowed for debate having ex
pired. the previous question was consid
creel ordered, nnet a vote was taken upon
agreeing to the conb rence report. It
wis agreed to by a Strict party Vote.
Tnc silver bill ha* rtow passed both
h uis'.-s of congress in the identical time
ii which it came from the conference
c >mmittce las' Monday, when it was tel
egraphed in full. After being enrolled,
il will rerrivc the signatures of the pre
ssing officers of the two houses, and will
b ■ sent to the president immediately.
Without transacting anyturther business,
the house, at 5 o’clock, adjourned.
The senate,on 8a urday,resumed consid
eration of two shipping bills, and was
uldress il bv Mr. Vest. The remon
strance of the board of trade of jack
son, Tenn.. was presented by Mr. Harris.
The two shipping bills were taken tip,
and Mr. Vest spoke in opposition to
these subsidy bills, as he characterized
them. Mr. Stewart gave it ns his opin
ion that the plan proposi and in the pend
ifig bill was the only mode of reviving
the.ocean carrying trade of the United
States, and that free ship would simply
destroy the American ship building yards
w ithout affording any relief. Mr. George
addressed the senate in opposition to the
bills. Mr. Call said that several boards
af trade in Florida had expressed a fa
vorable opinion of one of the pending
bills, and to some extent of the other.
Mr. Telleroffercd an amendment provid
ing that no vesst 1 shall be entitled to
payment under the act that make! any
discrimination between or gives unequal
facilities to competitive transportation
lines in the receiving or forwarding of
freights or baggage at any American port
or at any foreign port, which was agreed
to. The bill was then passed—yeas 20,
nays It}. This was the tonnage bounty
bill of the Ame iean Shipping league.
A vote was then taken on the postal sub
sidy bill, and it was passed—yeas 28,
nays lfl. The tariff hill was, oh motion
of -Mr. Morrill, taken up, nnd has be
come the “unfinished business.” Aftei
an executive session, the senate, at 5
o'clock, adjourned.
NOTES.
The president, on Friday, transmitted to
congress two co'iununicatinn* from the
secretary of the state, enclosing the report
of the action of the international Ameri
can conference, concerning the protection
of patents, trade marks and copyrights in
commerce between the American republics
nnd other aerion of the Same body for the
better protection of public health against
contagious diseases
Lieutenant G. J. Fieberger, corps of
engineers, has made the following esti
mates of the cost of river and harbor im
provements in Virginia nnd North Caro
lina: Harbor of Norfolk for the year end
ing dune 30, 1802, $150,000, and to
complete existing project, $457,744 ; ap
proach to Norfolk harbor nnd United
States navy yard to complete, $108,000;
Nanscmond river, Va., for this year, $25,-
1)00, and to complete, $142,500; Appo
matox river, Va., for the year and to
:-omplctc, $30,080; Currituck sound,
< onnjok bay and North river liar, N. C’.,
for the year, $20,000, and to complete,
Mo AM
A DAKOTA STORM.
FAIUIO REPORTED TO BE IN 11¥INS-
A NUMBER OF PEOPLE KILLED.
A Walipcton, N. I) , correspondent o'.
the St. Paul Pioneer Press, telegraphs ai
follows: A straight wind from the
northwest struck Fargo at 2:30 Monday
morning. Great dumago was done the
city. Electric light towers were blown
down, who'c blocks were unroofed, the
Yurxia Wigwam, McGill and Co.’s ware
house, opera ljousc, the Rqmbliean office,
Keene's block, the Chopin block, Ex
change hotel, Centennial block nnd Man
itenu freight house were unroofed and
the Milwaukee depot blown down. Doz
ens of small houses wire razed, and al
most every plate glass window on Front
street and Broadway was broken. Jay
Cooke hotel and the Grand I’ncifie. n't
Moonhead, were unroofed The resi
lience of the late Captain McCarthy was
demolished. Several children were in
stantly kill'd, and Mrs McCarthy is not
expected to live. Two unknown tramps
sleep ug in a box ear was killed. No. 1
passenger train on the Northern Pacific,
going west, had just pulled out of the
yard, and had stopped at the Milwaukee
crossing. The tam was made of three
baggage, nine c.oachi s nnd sleepers, a
parly of Chicago and Northwestern offi
cial- ina private ear ami Superintendent
McCab 's e >r. All of the coaches and
the tender wire blown from the track
but no ivis were lost and nobodv sp
riously hurt
The lottery wins.
THE GOVERNOR'S VETO RETURNED TO Tit*
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A Baton Rouge, Ea., special says
Wednesday night the lottery questiot
and governor’s veto were submitted ti
the judiciary committee of the seuate,
with instructions to report within nr
hour. The committee, bv a vote ot
eight to three, made the following re
port, which was adopted by the senate,
thus disposing of the whole matter:
Resolved, By the Senate of the Stab
of Louisiana, in general assembly con
vened, that in vindication of the consti
tutionnl right of the people of the State,
and in keeping with the dignity of this
Senate, a distinct and separate, though
co-ordinate branch of the government,
the veto of thu governor, which is with
out authority or right, be respectfully
returned to the house of representatives,
and the clerk of the senate be instructed
to furnish his excellency, the Governor,
with a copy of this resolution.
The rejKm was adopted, anil the whole
meter snow dis,->o*B *.*
SWITCHMEN STRIKE
ON THE LOUISVIL' E AND N ASHVILLE ftAIL
. OAD —TROUBLE EXPECTED.
A Louisville, Ky., dispatch says: The
switchmen’s strike on the Louisville and
Nashville which was organized a few days
ago is beginning to assume an ugly look
mil ti ft v special officers were sworn in
Wednesday morning. No acts of vio
lence have been committed as yet, but
the striker- gathered at the yards and
depots and its-uined a threatening atti
•vle toward the new men. The strikers
aim that the strike, which started orig
i lily .it Cineinnatti, will be extended all
along the line if their demands are not
granted.
FARMERS' ALLIANCE NOTES,
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
TIWS GREAT ORGANIZATION. —LEGISLA-
TION, NOTE*, ETC.
The Alliance is a power in the land.
It is real amusing to see hoW men who
have heretofore been leaders in politics
quail before it.— •Dauom Journal.
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The farmers of Texas seem determined
to cover their cotton this year with cotton
bagging. It will require 50,000,000 yards
to wrap the cotton crop of the South.
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The sub-treasury aeems to be an issue in
South Carolina politics, despite tho fact
that the candidates have as yet not been
asked to declare their views upon it.
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We are for the sub-treasury bill because
it is sure to protect the product of the
farmers from the wholesale robbery of
•peculators. And isn’t that enough?—
Southern Messenger.
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The secretary of Greenville, Fla., Al
liance reports that the wholesale mer
chant i have ordered their salesmen not
to sell to Alliance stores. A general war
ever the matter is brewing in that sec
tion.
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Minnesota has .30.000 Alliancemen and
still coming. Kansas has over 100,000
members and still increasing. Most of
the states are pretty well organized. The
other labor organizations are also flour
ishing. People are having their eyes
ripened.
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At present over 100 papers are support
ing the Alliance in Kansas. When the
Free Pr*.i came out in the interest of the
farmers over a year ago, the papers that
were even friendly to the cause were very
scarce. Surely tne organization is be
coming more popular.— Kan. Fret Press.
♦
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Instead of criticising the farmers in
their efforts to rid themselves of some of
the burthens placed on them by clsss
legislation, would it not be well for some
of our wise statesmen to suggest some
thing better, or give place to some one
who will vote for the present demands.
—Southern Mercury.
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The National Alliance lllouston,Tex.,)
national organ of the Colored Farmers’
Alliance, in commenting upon Mr. Mills’
letter upon the sub-treasury plan, says;
“The farmers want to know why they
havo been discriminated against, and
while they create seven-eights of the
wealth and pay directly and indirectly
seven-eighths of the taxes, that they eun’t
borrow one dollar from the government
while the national bankers can borrow
$350,0i 0,000 to loan to the people at
from 8 to 20 per cent.
If the farmers’ organization could ac
complish nothing more, they have proved
to be one of the greatest schools of cpoli
fical economy ever Roown and are dhing
more to set the people-to thinking fot
themselves instead of allowing others tc
think for them, than any other society in
existence. Go where yon may and you
will find the masses talkitig intelligently
upan subjects that two years ago they
were wholly ignorant of. They no longei
look to party bosses for their opinions,
but study for themselves.— Torch of Lib
erty.
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The lowa (Des Moines) Tribune, says;
“If ever there was a proposition spit upon
and kicked out w ith ridicule, that is just
the treatment which the Farme s’ Alli
ance sub-treasury hill has received nt the
hands of both old parties in Congress.
At the same time that ridicule is heaped
upon the proposition of the farmers that
the Government shall issue money upon
the non-perishable products of thcii
farms, a bill is railroaded through tc
issue hundreds of millions of money upon
the products of our mines.
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SVe understand that another one of tli
Infamous Buel bank circulars from the
Bank Association of Wall street, is on the
secret breeze, calling upon all the bank!
in the South to see that no Allinnceman
goes to Congress from the South, nnd not
to extend credit to any 0.. e favorable to
the Alliance measures. Is this not enough
to exasperate the neojile to desperation ?
Go to the conventions, brethren, if you
have to sell tho shirts off your hacks
to get there, and when there stand ns firm
ns the everlasting hills in your righteous
demands. — Fanners' Alliance, Jacksonville
Fla,
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The Kansas (Newton") Courier my* : “The
farmers of this country hove at last real
ized the necessity of organi ing and
looking after their own inter sts anil not
waiting for others to do so for them.
The time has come when every toiling
son of America will have to be up ancl
doing. We have been slaves of capital
ists for many years, and our condition
has been growing worse, and now we can
look around us and see nothing but star
vation staring us in the fare. How long
will this state of affairs Inst? We have
hut one way out of the trouble, and that
is to band ourselves together and be true
lo ourselves, our families, and our God.”
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The Democrats of Wayne county,
North Carolina, de< lare in their plat
form : “That we favor the abolition of
the national banking system, and the
substitution of a better system that will
take the control of the money of the coun
try out of the hands of the few, a system
that will give us an elastic and flexible
currency, one that will contract and ex
pand exactly with the annual products of
the country, thereby furnishing h just and
fixed measure of their value, and that the
sub-treasury bill lately Introduced in both
Houses of Congress comes more nearly ef
fecting this than any other measure' yet
offered, and that we approve of and "in
dorse said bill.”
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The Alliance asked congress to pass the
sub-treasury bill or something as good or
better in the interest of the farmers, but
congress failed to pass the bill or any
thing else pertaining to the great agricul
tural interest of our land, but on the
other hand they can and do grant prince
ly appropriations to this riTeraud to that
harbor, to thi big man’s widow, to that
city for a fine government building, to
this national park, and that road to the
national cemetery, to this battleship, and
that military post foe libraries, gymnasi
ums, amusement rooms, etc. While this
may be well enough, w e think the farm
era who have nothing that is not taxed
to pay these appropriations, should have
some consideration. Farmers, are you
going to submit to such measures forever?
—Southern Messenger.
A Greensboro, N. C., tiispatfch of
Wednesday, says: During the past year
the Farmers’ Alliance of North Carolina
has grown rapidly, and to-day they num
ber more than a round 100,000 souls in
this State. While the organization is
non-political, nevertheless its leaders and
members are determined that it shall be
heard in the halls of legislation. This
fall nine congressmen are to be elected,
besides the other state officers. The first
congressional convention met at Greens
boro, on Wednesday, for the purpose of
nominating a Democratic candidate for
congress from the fifth district. There
were three candidates, viz: J. C. Buxton,
of Forsyth county, a lawyer and very
able man; David Settle, of Rockinghaltl
county, a popular politician, and “Uncle”
Maldy Williams, of Granville county, a
farmer and member of the Alliance. The
first ballot resulted in the nomination of
tl e Alliance candidate by 213 votes. The
fi rmer* arc jubilant over their sucaess,
and declare this is only the signal for a
sweeping victory all along the line.
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The Industrial Free Frees (Winfield,
Ivans.) says: “The money kings hate the
Alliance because it is educating tho peo
p e, and showing the money kings up in
their true light. The professional politician
hates the Alliance, for in educating the
masses it shows up the politician as a
trickster and traitor, and makes him lose
his influence. The chronic office seeker
bates the Alliance, for it shows him up
ns the tool of the money kings, and they
have no use for him. It hurts all
their pocket books and that is
the tenderest part about them,
i'he partisan press hates tho Alliance
because it shows the masses how they
have been duped by the press in the em
ploy of the liberty assassins (the money
kings). It also has a tendency to cut in
on their financial outlook. None of those
fellows want, the farmers to join the Alii
aueu or any other labor organization, be
cause they show those fallows up in their
corruption and viciousness, and will
cause all sensible men to abandon them.
That takes the power to oppress away
from them, and without that power they
cannot steal the hard earned wages of the
farmer and laboier, hence no spoils, no
money, no prestige, no influence, no
ilaves, but all equal. That is why they
kick.”
DESTRUCITVE FIRES.
JACKSONVILLE, CINCINNATI, ATLANTA AND
CHARLOTTE, N. C., THE SUFFERERS.
Fire was discovered in the storage loft
of the extensive crockery establishment
of Raymond D. Knight* Cos., nt Jackson
ville, Fla.,iThursday. The building was
completely' gutted. The loss will be
heavy, though well covered by insurance.
The smaller of the buildings known as
the Globe warehouse, belonging to
Brooks, Wntterfield & Cos., at Cincinnati,
was, with all its contents, burned Thurs
day night, causing a loss of $130,000.
Tobacco in the cellar of the larger ware
house, belonging to the same firm, was
damaged by water $5,000 worth. In the
burned building were stored 1,000 hogs
heads of tobacco, valued at $125,000.
A1 of these are losses. Lorillard * Cos.,
of New Jersey; Drummond & Cos., and
Liggett & Myers & Cos., of St. Louis, hnd
tobacco stored in the building, which
should have been shipped Wednesday,
but owing to the present freight strike
could not he removed. The loss on the
building is placed at slo,ooo. There is
$75,000 of insurance on the tobacco.
A disastrous fire raged all of Thursday
night at Gaffney, South Carolina, fifty
miles south of Charlotte, on the Air Line
road. Four largo store houses with their
contents were lot illy destroyed.
Early Thursday morning the oil re
finery building of the Southern Cotton
Seed Oil mills of Atlanta was burned to
the ground, an 1 about 215,009 gallons of
refined cotton seed oil lost. The stables
were also burned, together with oil tanks
and fiat ears, altogether worth about
$30,000. The total loss is something be
tween ninety and a hundred thousand
dollars. This was what was known
among insurance men as a first rate mill,
and the rate of insurance was not so
large as on all oil mills. It was well in
sured, however, carrying policies amount
ing to SIOO,OOO. The insurance is scat
tered iu a uumber of companies.
THE NEW OFFICERS
ELECTED BY THE SUPREME LODGE OP
THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
A Milwaukee dispated says: The su
preme lodge of the Knights of Pythias
of the world, on Thursday, elected thcii
supreme officers: Chancellor, George B.
Shaw, Eau Claire, Wis.; vice chancellor.
IV. W. Blackwell, of Henderson; pre
late, Ed. L. Blackmer, of San Diego.
Cal.; master of exchequer, S. J. Wilfai,
of Wilmington, Del.; keeper of records
and seal, R. L. C. White, of Nashville,
Tenn.; master of arms, G. H. Morrison,
of San Francisco; secretary of endowment
rank W. B. Kennedy, of Chicago; iunei
guai and, Dr. 51. 0. Bart well, of Cheyenne;
outer guard, J. W. Thompson, of Wash
f on. 1). C.
THE BOODLE ALDERMEN
OF NEW YORK, RETURN AND ARE BOND El
OUT.
A New York dispatch says: To the sur
prise of a great many people Billy Molonv
reading clerk of the board of aldermen ol
1884, and Alderman Delaey, walked inti
the district, attorney's office Wednesday
morning. Both were indicted for compile
ity in the Broadway surface load bribery
case, and both have been refugees in Can
ada and Europe since the first of thosi
celebrated arrests was made. They wen
at once taken before Judge Martine in tin
court of general sessions. Bail was fixed
at $40,000 each, which they g ive uud
they were released.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE,
WHAT 16 GOING ON IN tHi
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’s DOMAIN AND W r HAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
Influenza is epidemic to Iceland.
The dirtctot Of ftife Maryland peniten
tiary says ex-Treasurer Archer is insane.
♦ Cholera bulletins from Valencia, Spain,
how a steady decrease of the epidemic.
Mrs. Elizabeth White; of Newburyport,
Mass., Ried Wednesday, aged 101 years
and 7 months.
The London Newt of Friday morning
states that Mrs. Frank Leslie will mairy
Marquis de Lenville.
The locked out cloak makers in New
York held a monster meeting in Cooper
Union hall Thursday night.
Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio,
has been elected secretary by the board
of directors, of the World's Columbian
exposition.
The president, accompanied by General
and Mrs. Sewell, Miss Sewell, and Secre
tary and Mrs. Halford, returned to Wash
ington, Tuesday from Cape May.
The thermometer on Mount Washing
ton, N. H., on Thursday, indicated
tweaty-five degrees above zero. The top
of Mount Washington is white with snow
and frost.
A dispatch from Quebec says: The two
hundred passengers of the steamer Buenos
Ayres, most, of whom are Icelanders,
w ere detained at Grosse Isle Wednesday
morning to be Vaccibated,
The Pythian camp at Milwaukee has
broken up and the Knights are returning
home. Hastings, Mich., division was
awarded first prize for drill, $1,030; and
the Erie division, second prize, SBOO.
The first bale of Georgia cotton, ship
ped from Albany, Ga., was sold at auc
tion in New York Friday in front of the
cotton exchange. It classed strict low
midding, aud sold at 10 5-8 per pound.
The Turkish government has sent a
new note to the British governmefit de
manding that it fix a date upon which
Egypt will be evacuated by British troops,
without the right of again occupying that
country.
A London dispatch says : Queen Victo
ria, though not sick is represented as
suffering from decidedly low spirits since
the recent death of tire Dowager Marchio
ness Ely. The marchioness was about
the queen’s own age.
The Syracuse (N, Y.) Journal. Con
gressman Bolden's home organ, and a
leading Hepiiblican paper in central New
York, bitterly resents Congressman Bel
rlen’s appeal to editors to pass the force
bill, and tells him to tend to his own
Mrs. James Williams, who resides
ibout. two miles east of Fairhaven, Vt.,
on Friday morning murdered her two
children, a girl of seventeen and a boy of
six, set fire to the house, and cut her own
throat Two weeks ago her husband was
killed by accident.
A Toledo, 0., dispatch says: Thurs
day afternoon, about half the striking
freight handlers at the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton freight house went hack
to work, and several at Lake Shore. A
portion of the old men are back at the
Michigan Central, and St. Louis and Kan
sas City,
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says:
The president of the Argentine Republic
lias authorized the issue of hank notes to
the amount of $100,(-00,000 for the pur
pose of relieving the financial situation.
The rejection of the proposed sterling
loan has caused great excitement on the
bourse here.
A dispatch from Halifax, N. H., says:
A terrible disaster occurred in Dartmouth
Friday night. A ferry landing stage,
while crowded with one hundred and
fifty persons collapsed, and precipitated
the throng into the water, causing an
immense loss of life. Five bodies so far
have been recovered.
A dispatch of Thursday says: The
Clothing manufacturers’ association, of
New York, has given notice to their 1,000
cutters that they would be locked out
Saturday. The manufacturers state that
this step is taken in retaliation for the
boycott placed on one of their number at
Fred Benjamin & Co's. Over 20,000 per
sons will be thrown out of work.
A New Nork dispatch says: Foreign
bankers on Friday ordered $1,000,000
more gold for shipment to Europe, mak
ing so far $2,000,000 in gold bars to go
to Liverpool. There was considerable
discussion on Wall street as to the reason
if the shipments, and nearly every one
had a different theory to account for the
movement.
While the steamer Tioga, from Buffalo,
was lying in Chicago river at the foot of
Washington street Friday night, unload
ing, an explosion occurred in her hold
and the vessel took fire and was burned.
Three of her crew are missing. A num
ber of negro stevedores were in the hold
getting out the cargo, and it is thought
eight or len of them were killed, and
more injured.
Prince Bismarck, in an interview, says
that be would not have sigued the Anglo-
German agreement in its present form.
The. ex-chancellor holds that Heligoland,
which the Emperor wished to secure to
Germany, mig l t have been obtained at
less cost. Unless the island is strongly
fortified, lie s tys, it might prove danger
ous to Germany in the event of war.
Exports of spec e from the port of New
York during (he week ended Saturday,
July 12th, amounted to $019,280, of
which $574,630 was in gold, and $44,650
in silver All the silver and $507,699 in
gold went to Eurojre, and $06,931 in gold
went to South America. Imports of
specie for the week amounted to $357,-
278, of which $333,285 was in gold, and
$23,995 in silver.
A strike of freight handlers on all the
leading rrilroads of Toledo, 0., took place
Wednesday afternoon. Men who have
been working at 12 and 12$ cents per
hour demanded to cents The Lake
Shore; Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton;
Wabash and St. Louis and Kansas'City
offered one qmirter cent, but this was not
satisfactory, and 30.> men in the I.ake
Shore yards went out: ninety five men in
the Wabash freight house went next; the
Michigan Central and Toledo, St. Loui*
ind Kansas City went next.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday,says:
A big fight is on among the brewers of
the Citt,- Which prffSiises to be exceed
ingly bitter. The battle lies between the
English syndicate and a number of
smaller brewers who have not been taken
into the combination, or who have re
fused to become partners to it. The
wholesale price of beer dropped from $0
to $5 a barrel, and one brewery has re
duced the price to $3.50 a barrol. It is
believed in brewing circles that the war
will go on until beer will be sold at less
than $3 a baffe'l.
. NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THU
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER —ACCIDENTS, PIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
A Baton Rouge, La., dispatch says:
The lottery bill passed the house not
withstanding the governor’s veto, yeai
88, nays 31.
Ex-Senator Thomas McCreary died at
xt his home, near Owensboro, Ky., Thurs
day in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
He had been a paralitic for years.
The first hale of Texas’ cotton crop of
1890 arrived at Galveston Wednesday
night, from Duval. It classed good mid
dling, good staple, weighed 650 pounds
nd sold for sloo.
A dispatch from • Day's Gap, Ala.,
says: Dr. John Monroe killed his four
children on Sunday and then committed
Suicide. It is thought Monroe was in
sane on the subject of religion.
Enumerator J. P. Cameron, of Rich
mond county, N. C., reports the discov
ery of a colored man who calls himself
John Ditcher, and claims to he 108 years
old. He was born near Petersburg, Ya,
A collision occurred on the Alleghaney
division of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road near Scottsvilie, Vs., Friday morn
ing, The engines and six freight cars
Were badly wrecked. No one was hurt.
Word reached gan Antonio, Texas, from
Laredo Thursday evening, that smallpox is
raging there, although every effort is be
ing made to keep the fact quiet. A large
number of deaths have occurred, and
there are many new cases.
A San Antonio Texas, special says: Id
Columbus, Colorado county, City Mar
shal Pipe shot and instantly killed Ed.
Young, John and Robert Stafford, vons
of R. 11. Stafford. 'lhe fight occurred
in a saloon, and thirty shots were fired.
The board of trade of Paris, Texas, has
appointed six enumerators to take anew
census of the city, being satisfied that
the federal census is imperfect. Austin,
too, Is greatly disappointed, and claims
5,000 more people than the census shows.
The Republicans at Raleigh, N. C., are
indulging in some strong talk against the
Federal election law, now before con
gress. There is a sentiment crystalizing
to the effect that any Republican who
signs a petition to put the law in opera
tion in that section must tie “crucified.’ -
Armstead Jones, colored, was hanged in
Orangeburg, S. C., Friday. He was on*
of the youngest persons ever hanged i>-
that state. His age was given byhimscli
as sixteen years, but others reported him
as seventeen. He was hanged for the
cold blooded and deliberate assassination
of his stepmother last February.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Ecu is
ville, Kv., says: The family of Mr.
Watson, consisting of his wife, eight
year old son and a fifteen months old
infant, were burned to death near Har
mony, Ky.. on Saturday night in theii
beds, aloug with their house. Mr. Wat
son was away from home. The fire war
incendiary.
A Telegram received Saturday from
Yeletn,.Texas, says a pitched battle is in
progress there between two local factions,
both of which claim control of the towr
government. They held an election it
Apiil and each side c aimed the election.
Both sets of officials were sworn in, and
the town has had two governments evet
since. *
George H. McFndden & Bro., of Phila
delphia, hnve leased a large tract of land
at the Air Line Junction, near Charlotte,
N. C., for the purpose of erecting a cotton
compress, which is to be one of the lar
gest in the south. They have a frontage
of 800 feet on the Richmond and Danville
railroad platform, and will at om-c erect
the compress and the necessary buildings.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Ral
eigh, says: By the terms of the amended
funding law, the funding of North Caro
lina bonds has tea ed. There remains
nearly $1,600,000 of bonds in the hands
of holders unfunded and not presented
to the state treasurer. The act of 1871
enumerated $17,728,000 of bonds as the
recognized general debt of the state, and
the bonds issued for the old ones heat
four per cent interest.
COOLER WEATHER,
THE SIGNAL OFrKE AT WASHINGTON ISSUES
A SPECIAL rHKSS BULLETIN.
The signal office, on Friday, furnishec
the following special bulletin to the press
This morning the weather reports show
that throughout the south Atlantic ano
middle states, from Georgia northward tc
Lake Erie, and in portions of New Eng
land, Thursday night was one of the
coolest on recoid for this season ol the
year. Following are some minimum tem
peratures, with relation to the lowest evei
before reported during the second decade
of July. Savannah, 66 degrees, one be
low : Wilmington, 58 degrees,-three be
low; Haleigh, 56 degrees, two below;
Chariot c. 56 degrees, four below; Lynch
burg and Harrisonburg, 54 degrees, seven
below; Northfield, Yt., 40 degrees, twe
bel w; Washington City and Sandusky.
56 degrei s, and Boston 54—no difiii rence.
THE FATAL KEROSENE.
THE USUAL RESLLT FOLLOWS ITS USE A!
A FIRE-KINDLKR.
A dispatch from Erie, Pa., says: Sirs
Mary Gallenstein undertook to stimulati
her kitchen fire with kerosene Wednesday.
An explosion followed, and she was roas
ted to a crisp. Her baby was also badh
burned
GEORGIA NBWS NOTES.
PICKED DP HERE AND THEBE
THROUGHOUT THE STATE-
The blackberry crop throughout Geor
gia was almost a complete failure.
The postoffice at Lake Creek, Polk
county, has been reopened for business.
CedartowD claims an increase of ninety
five per cent in its population since 1880.
There will be a confederate veterans’
re-union at Cedartown on Saturdav, Ju y
26.
Active preparations arc Ireing made for
bolding the Warren county fair next
fall.
The iron furnace at Cedartown will
soon have an output of seventy-five tons
per day.
The confederate veterans of Franklin
county will have a reunion on the 6th of
August. #
The work of remodeling the Central
railroad yards at Columbus has been com
menced.
Not being satisfied with the census
lately taken, Brunswick will do tome
enumerating on her own account.
At an election held in Amerieus on-
it was decided to issue $25,.
Odd in bonds to build waterworks.
The survivors’ association of the Eight
eenth Georgia regiment will hold their
next reunion at Jefferson, Jackson coun
ty, on July 24th.
The Contrnl railroad is preparing to
erect anew iron bridge across the Chat
tahoochee rivi rat Columbus. The struc
ture will cost $50,000.
The loss in the Southern Cotton Mill
fire at Atlanta is in the near neighbor
hood of $75,000. That is nearly covered
by insurance. The loss to the company
is ab ut $4,000. .
A damage suit was filed in the superior
court at Atlanta Friday by Mrs. Leana
Dryer vs. the Richmond and Danville
Kallrond company, and was for $20,000
damages. Plaintiff claims the above dam
ages for the killing of her husband, an
employe of the road.
The board of education of Augusta
have decided to open and close the pub
lic schools of Richmond county two
weeks earlier. Instead of opening the
first Monday in October they will in futnye
open September 15th*and close-Tune 15tb,-
instcud of June 80th.
The Coming £*j>osltion-
Great interest is being manifested
among the people of Georgia over the ap
proaching Piedmont exposition. Every
mail brings letters to the exposition office
asking about the great show, and there is
no doubt entertained in the minds of the
managers that the greatest crowd ever
seen in Atlanta on any occasion will
throng the streets each day during the
next exposition. Greater efforts are being
made in behalf of the exposition than
were ever known. More.attractions anti
better displays are being added to the
vast array of amusements than were ever
gained before, and even this early in the
work of preparation tba exposition i tmt
ter equipped than ever before.
A Riot In Fayette County.
A race riot occurred at Starr's Mill, in
Fayette county, on Thursday, in which
two negroes—Harrison Hastings and An
derson Williams,were killed outright, anef.
fully fifteen other persons received gun
shot and pistol wounds. Eleven are white
men, and from the best information three’
or four other negroes besides those dead
were badly wounded. None of the white
men have died so far, hut two of them
are considered in a very precarious condi
tion. Nearly 1,500 people of both races
from all parts of the county had been
attracted to the place by the report that
the pond, which covers three acres, was
to be drawn off in order to build anew
dam, and as tint pond was full of the finny
tfribe there was great rivalry manifested
in their capture. Things went well and!
everybody was in a jolly humor until the 4
crowd began to feel the effects of mean
whisky, which was sold during the day
from a dozen or more blind tigers. As
tire effects of the whisky began to tell on
those who had imbibed too freely, they
became boisterous, and from a few small
fights a bloody riot was precipitated
with the above result.
Plßßßtroiiß Fir#* in BriiowwicJ*.
Fire swept away $300,000 worth of
Brunswick property Sunday. The fire
originated in the coal warehouse or-
Littlefield & Co.’s wharf and spread
ulong the bay for blocks. On the
wnawes were immense cargt es of tgr
pentine and rosin, and t’ c fire was in
tensely hot. From the I.fttlcfield wharl
the fire quickly spread northward alone
the hay front, destroying Littlefield &
Co.’s warehouse; store house of Frank
lin s warehouse: Glanher & Isaac's store
and warehouse; Segue's fish house; Han
cock's & Ogg's office: C Downing’s two
warehouses and wlarf; three warehouse!
formerly owned hv James Drurey: St. Si
mon's boat line wharf and warehouse:
nart of Brunswick and Western Railroad
wha f and wharfmaster’s house. Large
quantities of grain, hay, groceries and li
quors were consumed. Many barrels of
turpentine and thousands of barrels of
rosiD were burned. Two vessels narrowh
escaped destruction. Had it not I eer
for the wind changing and the hard work
of the firemen, the Ocean house, the
Timex building and many valuable stores
would have been burned. Several men
were prostrated hy heat. Three are re
ported as burned to death.
STANLEYS MARRIAGE.
A BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT IN LONDON
MANY notables present.
A cablegram from London says: Ilcnrv
Stanley and Dorothy Tennant were mar
ried at Westminster abbey at 2 o'< lock
Saturday aftornoou. The abbey was
densely crowded. The wedding wa- a
brilliant social event, and was attended
by the Prince and Princess of Wales, tie
ceremony wan performed hy the bishop n(
Ripon, assisted by Dean Bradley. I ■-<
bride was overwhelmed with wedilii l
presents, which flowed in from nil pait
of England, and frequently from poop!'
that neither she nor Stanley has ever
heard of. 'I he bride and "groom will
spend the honeymoon at Metele t court,
Hampshire, which has l*ecn _t' pd'-D and
them bv Ldv Ashlmrt u