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Dr. Austin Flint, the distinguished I
American physician, says that when ■ 1
healthy person adopts a certain course o!
diet he invariably becomes u dysp - .tie
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A region 1400 mile3 square and capa
ble of supporting a hundred million |ro
ple, includes the arid lands which make
most of the “Great American Desert - ’
that we wed to see in our geographies.
The Illinois Central Ilailroad Company
invites purchases of stock iu the ia*<l by
the men in its employ. Stock 'c in be paid
for in instalments of $5 or over, interest
to be paid on the money advanced until
enough has accumulated to equal a fair
market price for a share, when this
certificate will be delivered.
The Baron de Cosson, who surprise !
and disgusted many persons by s owing
that the greater part of the old armor
preserved in public museums in Europe
is work of the present century or of the
last century, has sold his own collection
in London. One of his treasures is the
Highland pistol which belonged to ths
Earl of Montrose (1615).
Says the Chicago Herald: Georgia has
plenty of room for immigrants. There
are in Pierce County 400,037 acres of
land, of which only 12,118 are improved.
Ware contains 117,903 acres, of which
10,037 are improved; Wayne, 249,000,
and 9997 improved; Appling, 357,075,
and 13,352 improved. Other counties
make a similar showing.
, *1 dangerous now to gather wood on
the line between France and Germany.
One poor French peasant was wounded
lately because ho ventured a few feet into
German territory after faggots. “If such
an outrage were perpetrated on ths
American border” comments the San
Francisco Chronicle , “our relations with
the offending nation would be strained
■beyond mending.”
Curiously enough, newspapers very
generally pcrsyit in putting whatever
they have to say about the phonograph
under the head of “electrical news,’’ ob
serves the New York Commercial Adeer
tieer. The phonograph is a mechanical,
and iu no sense an electrical device. It
is true that an electric motor is often
used to operate it, but the same may be
said of a printing press. The phonograph
no more depends upon electricity for its
action than does a clothes-wringer.
Sirs. Jefferson Davis in a letter to a
friend in New York us writes: “lain
not surprised that you believe that our
daughter Varina (‘Winnie’) is our only
surviving child, as almost in every notice
of her it is stated that she is ‘the only
daughter of the late Jefferson Davis.’
But it is a cause of constantly recurring
thankfulqpse to tno that tf wo wore to
be deprived of our sons by death two
daughters survive. Margaret, the elder,
k the wife of J A. Hayes, a Miasissip
pian by birth, now a banker in Colorado
Springs. She was most tenderly beloved
by her father, and it was ono of the sor
rows of his later years that Mrs. Hayes’s
health required her residence to be so
far removed from ours.”
Thousands of Southern colored peo
ple, wear the cast-off clothing of New
Yorkers, asserts the Chicago Herald.
Such clothing is bought for little or
nothing by peddlers, who sell it to whole
salers in the central European quarter.
The wholesalers clean, patch and pross
the garments, arrange them according to
size in dozens and await the Southern
merchants. The latter come from Wash
ington, Hichmond, Charleston, Mobile
and half a dozen other considerable cities
and buy as best as they may. The whole
salers sell on ninety days’ credit, nnd if
one merchant does not offer fair prices
they await the coming of others. No
body’s profits are extraordinarily large,
but those of the Southern retailer aro
probably the best.
Not long ago a savant made the dis
covery that an egg could easily be poi
soned by the insertion of a thin wire
that would leave no mark on the shell.
Until then the Csar of Russia had eaten
eggs with absolute security; but now,
a continental correspondent avers, they
are sent him in all sorts of mysterious
receptacles—sometimes in hat boxes—
and they are boiled or converted into
omelettes in a little kitchca contiguous
to the Czar’s study. Here a Parisian
cook named Iteynaud operates under the
personal superintendence of the Czarina,
who goes in and out of the kitchen at
all hours, and often prepares a dish with
hr own hand*. The Czar never eats
tlifqE soup or thick sauces, llis food is
meat, “boiled or broiled, but the broth or
gravy must always be perfectly clear.
The vegetables are served whole, and
rut before him with a silver knife. The
sugar which he eats with his fruit is also
pounded in his sight, and his salt is ,\ie
common gray salt iu largo grains, with
which it would be impossible to mix ar
senic, as could bu done with the liua
fvhit£'-{aj}i@ sat.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCF.KDrNGS OF TItF. IWrsF. AND SENATE
IJIUF.FED DKIJBKKATIOXB OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS ISTEP.SST TO OIH
COMMON COGKTBV.—NOTE*.
In the senate, on Wednesday, the
house amendments to the senate bills to
adopt regulations to prevent collisions at
-ca, and to amend the net relutive to the
shipping commissioners were presented,
anti concurred in. Ihe senate proceeded
to executive business, and the floors were
reopened at 11:10 o’clock. The resolu
tion offered by Mr. Edmunds, Tuesday,
limiting the debate on the tnriff bill, was
laid before the senate, and was referred
to the committee on rules. Mr. (Quay’s
resolution providing, among other thing*,
for a vote on the tariff bill on the 80th ol
August, was al*o referred to the com
mittee on rules, after a statement
1 y .Mr. Quay that he understood
the reservation of general appro
priation bills to ihelude the river and
harbor bill The house join* resolution
i xtending the provisions of existing lawr
providing for the teinjierury expenditures
of the government, to the 29th of Au
gust, was laid before the senate. Passed.
The tariff bill was then taken Up. the
pending question being on Mr. Vest’s
amendment, reducing the duty on tin
plates from 2 2 10 cents to 1 Cent per
pound, tlie existing fate, mid Mr. Gray
continued his argument against the pro
posed increase. The bill was tempora
rily laid aside mid the conference report
on the Indian appropriation bill wus pre
sented and agreed to. Mr. Gorman then
took up the debate and made a speech
against the proposed Increased duty.
The tariff bill was laid aside informally
and a conference was ordered on the sen
ate bill in regard to collisions at sea, and
Messrs. Frye, Washburnc and* Gorman
were appointed confer is on part of the
senate. .Mr. Plumb, from the c< mmittce
on appropriations, reported r Joint reso
lution for the relief of destitution in
Oklahoma. The house bill making ap
propriations for additional clerical force
in the pension office, was taken from the
calendar nnd read for amendment. The
various amendments reported by the com
mittee on appropriations were agreed to
and the hill ws passed. Tile senate then
proceeded to the consideration of execu
tive business and at 5 ;40 o’clock adjourn
ed.
First business ill nhder Thursday morn
tug in the house was a vote on sustaining
the decision of the chair, overruling the
point of order made by Mt. Springe! - , of
Illinois, that the Net McKay relief bill
must be c. tisiiiered iu committee of the
whole. The decision was sustained. Mr.
St ruble, of lowa, asked unanimous con
sent fur the consideration of a joint reso
lution for the aid of destitute person* in
Oklahoma. Mr. Walker, Of Massachu
setts, and Mr. Mt 1 .’lathltiy, of North Car
olina, objected. Mr. bidden, of New
York, asked unanimous consent for the
consideration of the bill granting leave of
absence t > per diem employes in the cus
toms service. Mr. Cheud'le, of Indiana,
objected. The house then resumed con
sideration of the Nat McKay bill. No
quorum was developed, nnd subsequent
efforts to pi oi ure one proving unavailing,
Ihc house, at 4 :05 o'clock, adjourned.
Iu the senate,on Thursday, Mr. Plumb,
from the committee on appropria
tioiis, reported the senate joiat resolu
film appropriating for tho relief of the
• ♦ i 'stitution of Oklahoma the expended
balance of the appropriation made last
April for the relief of ihe district over
flowed by the Mississippi river, and It
was passed. The tariff bill was ink. n up,
tlie pending question being on Mr. Vest’s
amendment (offered Inst Monday) to re
duce the duty on tin plate (paragraph
FIT, page 28), from 2 2 10 ce ts to f cent
per pound. Mr. Mitchell nddrcsSfed the
senate in defense of tlie high protective
system, lie was followed by Mr. Reagan
in an argument to Controvert the position
taken by Mr. Mitchell, to the effect that
congress had the ton stitutional power to
levy taxes in order to rigu'nte trade nnd
industrii s. After a lengthy debate on tlie
tin plate clause, and without action, the
senate adjourned.
The house, on Friday, proceeded to
the consideration of tlie conference re
port on 1 lie Indian appropriation bill.
After a short di-cus-ion the bill was laid
aside ami Mr ( tinnon, by .unanimous con
sent, Called up the senate joint resolu
tion, providing find"the u i xpemled Iml
aticc of the appropriation for the alii of
Mississippi flood sufferers shall be used
to aid destitute persons in Oklahoma.
After the adoption of the ami ndment
providing that money shall he disbursed
under direction of the secretary of war,
tlie joint resolution was passed. The
NaFMcKay bill was then resumed. Af
ter some dilatory tactics, the house took
a recess until 8 o’clock, tho evening ses
sion to be for the consideration of private
pension bills.
In the senate, on Friday, the river nnd
harbor bill was taken up. A number of
committee amendments to the bill were
agreed to, including an increase in the
appropriation for Charleston, S. C., har
bor from $350,000 to $375,00 >. Also
increasing the appropriation for Cape
Fear river at and below Wilmington, N.
C., from SIOO,OOO to $200,000; for Oou
tentnia creek, N. C., from $5,000 to
$7,000; for Neuso river up to Smithfie'd,
N. C., from $12,000 to $20,000, ami for
Mackey’s creek, N. C!., from SIO,OOO to
$15,000; inserting an item of $3.00 ) for
Pasquotank river, N. C.; increa -ing tlie
appropriation for the " Tennessee river,
below Chattanooga, from $475,000 to
$500,000. Upon the item of $35,000 for
continuing the improvement of Harlem
river, a good deal of discussion arose bo
tween New York nnd New England son"
ators as to the method iu which tills im
provement should proceed. No action
was taken on the amendment, which
went over ti l Saturday, and the senate,
at C o’clock p. til., adjourned.
In tho house, on Saturday, Mr. Snider,
of Minnesota, submitted the conference
report on the bill to establish a national
park at the battifield of Chickamauga,
and it was agreed to. Mr. Bingham, of
Pennsylvania,from the committee on post
offices and postroads, reported a resolu
tion calling on the postmaster general for
information relative to alleged frauds prac
ticed by A J. Wedderbum, Adopted.
The Nut McKay bill was then passed.
Mr. Cannon, of Ilinois, from the commit
tee on rule*, reported a resolution for the
immediate consideration of the anti-lottery
bill, the previous question to be consid
ered as ordered. After a short debate,
’he bill was pagsed and the hoOse ad
journed.
On Saturday the senate resumed con
sideration of the river and haibor bill.
Mr. Quay asked unanimous consent to
tier a resolution for n change of rules, so
as to bring the senate to a vote on the
taiiff*bill on the 30th of August, and to
limit other legislation to appropriation
bills, public building bills, etc., objected
to. Consideration of the river and harbor
bill was then proceeded with, on the
amendments offered by individual sena
tors. All ami ndment* adopted by the
committee of the whole were agreed to,
and tlie bill was passed. A conference
was asked, end Messrs. Frye, Dolph and
Hansom were appointed conferee*on part
of the senate. The conference report on
the house bill to establish a national mili
tary park at the Imttlcficld at Chieka
niauga, was presented by Mr. Hawley
and agreed to. Mr. Quay gave notice of
bis intention to move for a change of
rules as set out in the resolution which
lie had asked unanimous consent to offer,
and said that he would not call it up be
fore Tuesday. After a brief executive
session, the senate adjourned. •
NOTES.
The president, on Saturday, nominated
Colonel Jedediah H. Baxter, chief medi
cal purveyor of the army, to he surgeon
general with the rank of brigadier gcueral.
The senate, -on Wednesday, confirmed
the following nominations: S. B. Horne,
consul at St. Thomas. West Indies; S. M.
Griffin, postmaster at Quitman, Ga., and
.1. 11. Triplet, at Dalton, Ga.
The senate committee on appropriation*
on Friday, completed consideration of
the general deficiency appropriation bill
and reported it to tlie senate with a num
l>er of amendments which, with one ex
ception, do not largely increase the total
of tlie bilk a* it carat: from the house.
NEWS OF THE SOOTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
rmiY ITEMS FROM AM, TOINT* IN TUK
SOtTtllitlN STATES THAT WILL F.NTKR
TAIN THE READER —ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Robert Bullock, who Was fecently Un
seated in the national house of represent
atives, was, on Thursday, nominated by
acclamation by the democrats of the sec
ond Florida district.
Ifume Clay, nged twenty-seven years,
who is connected with the best people of
Kentucky, has disappeared, and now it
leaks out that he forged the name of his
grandfather, Matthew Hume, for many
thousands of dollars.
The first bale of feouth Carolina cot
ton, of this year’s crop, was sold Friday
at 12 cents per pound, in Columbia. This
is nine;days earlier than tho first bale of
Inst season, nnd two day* earlier than for
the last seven year*.
The Anti Lottery League convention of
Louisiana has issued an address to the
people of the United States, and asks
i heir aid in bringing about such a na
tional legislation as will break down the
power of the lottery.
The Texas state democratic convention,
on Wednesday, nominated General James
3. Hogg for governor unanimously.
General Hogg was the railway commis
sioner candidate. The platform adopted
contains a plank favoring the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
News comes from Newberry, 8, C.,
of a terrible boiler explosion, Which oc
curred Thursday morning at a county
•-■aw mill twelve miles west of that place,
and by which four men, one white and
tiiree colored, were killed aud two col
ored men seriously wounded.
A special from Dallns, Texas, says that
when the Btate Republican convention
meets in San Antonio on September 3d,
that it will be controlled by white Re
publicans, of Southern birth, who will
form a white Republican party. They
w ill denounce the force bill and demand
the passage of an Australian ballot law.
The New Orleans Picayune notices tho
departure from that city of a solid train
loaded with rosin, for the far destination
of Denver, Colorado. The amount of
rosin carried by tlie train, which consist
ed of a number of cars, aggregated a
round million pound*, and the whole
amount was shipped by a New Orleans
firm to a Colorado soap manufacturing
establishment located in the thriving city
of Denver.
THE Q. A. R. MEETING.
WORK OF THE CONVENTION—TO MEET IN
DETROIT NEXT YEAR.
The convention of the twenty-fourth
national encampment of the Grand Array
of the Republic came to order in Music
llall at 11 o’clock a. in. Wednesday, in
Boston. 'I he annual address was delivered
by Commander in Chief General Alger.
The address was received with
frequent expressions of approval by
the I t rge body of delegatesjpresent. The
reports of Adjutant General George H.
Hopkins, of Detroit, and Quartermaster
General Taylor, of Philadelphia, were
presented. These indicated a healthy
financial condition of the order. The
Grant monument fund now amounts to
$11,115. Inspector General L. E. Grif
fith, of Troy, N. Y., reported the order
growing numerically stronger and
working earnestly and harmoni
ously in furthering the grand objects for
which it was organized. No organiza
tion on earth does more ta minister to the
helpless and unfortunate. He presented
a table showing that the number of posts
in the Grand Army on Juue 80, 1890,
were 6,928; number of comrades in good
standing in poßts inspected to Juno 30th,
351,244; number of posts inspected, 5,-
010; number of posts not inspected. 1 -
051. Total amount expended for char
ity, $282,556: amount remaining in relief
fund, $475,350. Colonel Wheelock C.
\ eazy, of Now Hampshire, at present one
of the interstate commerce commissioners,
was elected commander-ituchief. Detroit
was elected as the place of mieting nest
tear. 9
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT 18 BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE OREAT ORGANIZATION. LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
There are 293 good and strong Alli
ances in Ohio.
*
* *
Pennsylvania State Alliance was or
ganized August 1.
+ *
Early county is going to have an Alli
ance w arehouse at Blakeley.
* A*
* *
The Farmers’ Alliance in Maryland is
2,000 strong, and is rapidly increasing,
*
Without a kind word or a single sign
of recognition fiom either of the old
parties, it ought to be comparatively
easy for the average Alliance member
to rid himself of a part of the fealty he
now thinks due his party. — National
Rcorwmiet.
***
The State Farmers’ Alliance, of North
Carolina, met at Asheville, Tuesday, with
500 delegates in attendance, every county
in tlie state being represented. It is
said thut the Alliance, as a body, would
not oppose the rc-clcction of Benatot
Vance, and he was certain that he would
be renominated.
+
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The Living lasut (Cincinnati) contains
the platform of the Ohio Union Labor
convention. The second plank is:
“That the farmer shall be placed on a
financial equality with the whisky dis
tiller, the national banker, the importer
of foreign goods, and the owner of gold
and silver mines."
***
The Alliance Herald (Montgomery,
Ala.,) says: Congress ha* refused to
even give the sub-treasury bill respectful
consideration or deal with it Other that!
with contempt. The money power has
over-reached itself in this and committed
a blunder that will scatter the remains of
its servants very promiscuously over the
country. Alabama may furnish several
of the political corpses.
*%
At a meeting of the Alliance of Oco
nee county, held in Wutkinsville, Ga.,
Wednesday, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted; "Reiolved, That
we take no action in the congressional
race in the eighth district as Allinuce
mcn, but we ull vole in said primary as
Democratic citizens. Tills action on the
part of the Alliance throws a shadow of
uncertainty over the political situation in
Oconee.”
* *
The National Alliance (Houston, Tex.)
italicises a proposition which it puts be
fore the members of the colored Alli
ance, of which it is the organ: “The
question in the present state and congres
sional political contest is. that superla
tive, important, majestic burning, over
powering, all-consuming one, which shall
govern—the people or aggregated capital?
Let others do os they may, but as for us
and our household, we will serve the
people to the end."
*\
The Putnam county, Ga., Alliance, at
their last meeting, adopted the following
resolution: “Resolved, 'flint our dele
gates to the Stßte Alliance, soon to con
vene in Atlanta, are hereby instructed to
use their best efforts to secure the elec
tion of state officers, from that of presi
dent down, who, in his judgment, will
not use snch office for their personal po
litical preferment, aud the great injury
of our order. Second, That the office of
president of the State Alliance ol Geor
gia ought to fill the full measure of any
brother's ainbitiou, and he should, in the
judgment of Iris Alliance, lidld himself
aloof from partisan politics.
* *
7'he Frogremte Farmer (Mt. Yemon,
111.) organ of the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit
Association, states that order has no na
tioual organizer, leaving the inference
that the public has been imposed upon.
It says: “Common courtesy demands
that farm and labor organizations should
treat each other with fairness, and no one
in the F. M. B. A, is authorized to assail
any kindred organization. There are
good points enough in our organization
to engage cgir attention and to convince
the public of its merits without parading
the defects or weaknesses of other orders.
Should the reason of our preferences be
asked, lot them be given, but let i t be
done courteously ana calmly.”
** '.
The following resolutions were adopted
by the Denton County, (Texas), Farmers’
Alliance at a recent meeting:
“Bo it resolved (by Denton County
Farmers’ Alliance, now in session), That
we view with alarm the tendencies of this
Government to paternalism in the national
banking system and the existing laws
which provide storage for whisky, which
makes the rich richer and the poor
Doorer.
“Resolved further, That while we op
pose these iniquities, we demand of Con
gress a fair and impartial consideration
of what is known as the sub-treasury bill
or something better, to the end that we
have equal rights to all and special priv
ileges to none, without discrimination
against individuals or communities.”
*
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If there has ever been a time in party
history when a leader was needed, dis
passionate observers must agree that such
is the present condition of the Demo
cratic party. At sea as to policy, the
minority from Republican States thwart
ing the majority from Democratic States,
no advantage is seized amid the many
offered by the course of legislation.
With Fabian tactics, but without the
purpose of Fabius, the party is kept to
gether by the devotion of the
people to principles, despite the
fact that those principles have
no exponent in high place. If from
among the new members of the next
Congress there shall be ono or more Alli
ance men with a vigorous conception of
what is needed to put the party on a
fiwhting basis, and tho courage and force
of character to impress himself upon its
counsels, there is hope for the disciples
of Jefferson and Jackson. From such a
source only does leadership seem possible.
The hour has arrived; where Is the man!
£&nomist.
A Richmond, Va , dispatch of Wednes
day, says: All three of the aspirants for
the democratic nomination for congress
from this district have l>een served w ith
papers setting forth at considerable length
the “demands of the National Fanners’
Alliance and Industrial Union,” which
they are asked to pledge themselves to
recognize uninfluenced by party caucaus
before the alliance will support them for
office. In most respects the deinan'ls are
similar to the platforms adopted in other
states. The first section says:
“We demand the alrolition of national
“'vnks and the aulistitution of legal tender
treasury note issues in sufficient volume
to do the business of the country on acash
system, regulating the amount needed on
a per capita basis, as the business inter
ests of the country expand; that all
money issued by the government shall be
legal tender in payment of all debts both
public and private.”
Section two demands that Congress
shall pass laws that will effectually pre
vent the scaling features of all agricultu
ral and mechanical' productions, reserv
ing a stringent system of procedure in
trials that will secure prompt conviction
and imposing heavy penalties. They de
clare in favor of the free coinage of sil
ver; ask that all lands held by aliens,
foreign syndicates and by railroads in ex
cess of tneir actual needs be reclaimed by
the government to be held for actual set
tlers.
Section seven demands that the means
of communication and transportation
shall be owned by and operated in the
interest of the people as is the United
States postal system. They declare in
favor of repealing the internal revenue
tax and license on tobacco, and condemn
the purchase of govi rmnent lnds at n
premium, aud demand that they be re
deemed according to the provisions ol
the revised statutes of the United States.
CROP REPORT
FOR THE PAST WEEK, ISSUED FP.OM THE
bEPARTMKNT OP AGRICULTURE.
The week ended August 10th has been
cooler than usual ovtr the entire cotihtry
east of the ninety-seventh meridian, the
daily temperature being about three de
crees below normal for the week, except
in northern New England and the lower
Mississippi valley, where about a seasona
ble temperature prevailed. There lias
been less than the usual amount of rain
generally over the region east of fhe
Rocky mountains, except along the At
lantic coast south of Boston and in a por
tion of Georgia, A'abama, Arkansas,
southern Missouri,northern Minnesota and
western Kansas and Nebraska, where lo
cal excesses are reported.
Throughout the cotton region from
South Carolina westward to Texas the
weather during the past week has been
favorable for all crops except in. western
Texas where drought continues and has
Caused some injury to late cotton. Cot
ton picking is in progress in eastern
Texas and Louisiana, where some damage
is reported from drought, although gen
erally the crop is in good condition. The
weather has been favorable in the rice
and sugar region, where the rice harvest
is in progress, and canc is in an unusually
good cond.tion. In some sections of Ala
bama, cotton has been injured by rust,
and in North Carolina cotton is still
shedding, although the weather was fa
vorable. More sunshine is needed in
South Carolina, where rhe crop is begin
ning to open. Crops were generally im
proved by the favorable weather of the
week in the middle Atlantic states, al
though some sections need more rain.
All crops are growing rapidly. New
England reports drought affecting crops;
potatoes rotting slightly; tobacco cutting
is in progress it. Connecticut, with fine
croy promised.
MISSOURI ALLIANCEMEN
ADOPT SOME IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS
TIIE SUB-TREASURY DEFEATED.
A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., says:
The last day’s proceedings of the Farm
ers and Laborers’ Union, which has been
in session at Sedalia, Mo., for the past
three days, did not end until 4:30 o’clock
Sunday morning. There was a protracted
fight over the report of the committee on
resolutions. A resolution favoring the
sub-treasury scheme was defeated. The
resolutions adopted demand the pas-age
of laws by congress taxing all lands held
for speculative purposes at their full
value; that alien ownership of land shall
be forever prohibited; that all money
shall be issued and its volume controlled
by the national government; that there
shall be free silver coinage; that
the national banking system be abolished;
that an income tax shall be placed upon
all net incomes over $1,060; that option
dealing or gambliug in agricultural and
mechanical productions shall be prohib
ited by law r . The resolutions conclude
w'ith this declaration: “We will not sup
port any man for legislative office of any
political party who will not pledge him
self in writing to use his influence for
the formulation of these demands into
laws.”
A WHISKY BLAZE.
23,000 BARRELS OF THE ARDENT BURNED
IN LOUISVILLE.
The immense distillery and warehouse
of the Kentucky Distilling Company, at
Louisville, Ky., owned by Bark house &
Cos., were burned Thursday, along with
25,000 barrels of whisky. The fire be
gan in the warehouse and was caused by
the carelessness of a colored laborer who
was shifting the barrels with a lighted
lamp standing on the floor. A barrel
rolled against the lamp, breaking it.
The barrel was leaking and the
whisky and oil flashed up like gun
powder and the flames filled the
building at once. Not a single barrel of
the liquor was saved. All the buildings
belonging to the plant were destroyed.
The loss on whisky was $500,000; on
buildings, perhaps SIOO,OOO or more; all
well insured. It was 2 o’clock before
theJirewen got control, and this was not
until the immense warehouse, distillery
proper, cattle sheds aud slaughter house
and pork packing establishment ot
Comrad & Seller, which adjoin the ware
house, had lieen wiped out completely.
The loss to the potk packing company
will be about sst*,ooo. The remaining
loss of nearly or quite SBOO,OOO is on the
distillery proper and destroyed whisky.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE,
WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIS AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
RRussia has ordered 500,000 rifles in
France.
It is estimated that the fortifying of
Heligoland by Germany will cost $7,500,-
000.
The work of the census enumerators
shows the population of Muiue to be
658,454, an increase of 9,500 since 1880.
The machine paper mill of the Paper
Pattern Company was burned Saturday
afternoon at Appleton, Wis. Loss_slso,-
000; insurance $75,900.
The London Time* believes that the
eventual result of the American silver
coinage act will be the adoption by Amer
ica of a silver standard.
A boat of the German torpedo flotilla,
which left Heligoland after the transfer
of the island, is missing, and nothing is
known of her whereabouts.
Syria has been dreadfully ravaged by
storm and flood. The losses attain di
mensions of national calamity. Many
persons have been drowned.
The French aeronaut, Bresanon, Dd
Astronomer Hermite propose to make a
balloon expedition to the north pole,
starting from Spitsbergen.
The Queen's theater at Manchester,
England, has been destroyed by fire. The
Hollands at Millsplatting, near Manches
ter, has also been burned; loss £20,000.
(L\. clyclone and hailstorm in the depart
ment of Aube, France, Sunday, ravaged
eighteen communes, destroying harvested
and growing crops. The loss is estimated
at nearly 20,000,000 francs.
The super visor of the census authorizes
the statement that in round numbers the
present population of Vermont is 882,000.
The census returns of 1880 gave the popu
lation ns 832,280.
The carpenters’ council, of Chicago,
Thursday night, ordered out all carpen
ters on a general strike in the city of Chi
cago, under its jurisdiction, on Septem
ber Ist.
A tremendous cloudburst broke over
Colorado Springs, Col., . Thursday after
noon. deluging the town, beating in roofs
and undermining walls. Two people were
swept away and drowned.
A dispatch of Friday from Madrid,
Spain, says: Cholera is nearly extinct
in Bndajoz. There are still a few cases
in Alicante and Valencia. At the lattef
place two deaths have occurred in a
prison which contains 1,500 convicts.
Alfred Ludington and George D. Ros
siler, ot Philadelphia, two of Pinkerton’s
detectives, stationed at West Albany, N.
Y., were killed by a passenger train Fri
day morning. They had been to get a
drink of water and were returning to their
posts at the time.
The official rough count of the state of
Delaware was, on Friday, completed by
the census bureau. It shows the popu
lation of the state to be 167.871. The
population in 1880 was 146,608. The
increase, therefore, has been 21,453, or
14.50 per cent.
Adi-patch of Sunday, from Dublin,
Ireland, says: In Skibberecu a measure
of potatoes which last year sold at 4d
now sells at 10J. The crop is certain to
be exhausted by October. The famine
fever has appeared in Blasket Island, on
the west coast of Ireland.
A dispatch from Constantinople says:
Thirty-four persons died from cholera in
Mecca 8 turd ay, and twenty-eight died
in Jeddah. Another dispatch from Cairo,
Egypt, says: There have been eighteen
deaths from cholera among the 1,000 pil
grims at Eltor quarantine.
Friday’s offers for the sale of silver to
the government were at rates varying
from $1.14 to $1.15}. The treasury de
partment accepted all offers at prices be
low $1,15. Four hundred and seventeen
thousand ounces were accepted, for de
livery at Philadelphia, ban Francisco
and New Orleans.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says
a strike of the mechanics for nine hours
has been inaugurated in that city, and is
spreading. About three thousand men
are idle. The principal tight seems to be
against the West inghouse interest, and if
is said all employes of Westingliouse,
numbering 4,000, will be out.
Exports of specie from the port of
New Y, rk for the piist week amounted to
$569,800, of which $40,500 was in gold
aud $527,800 iu silver. All the gold went
to South America and all the silver to
Europe, Imports of specie for the week
amounted to $278,129, of which $145,-
960 was in gold and $132,149 in silver.
A New York dispatch says: The
steamship Tuetonic, of the White Star
Line, lias smashed all record. The ves
sel made the run from Roches Point to
Sandy Hook in five days, nineteen hours
and live minutes, beating the City of
Paris’ yeeord by thirteen minutes, besides
logging 2,806 knots against the City of
* Pnris’ 2,789 knots.
A union secret meeting of engineers,
conductors, brakemen, ~ firemen and
switchmen was held at Bellevue, Ohio,
on Sunday. The object of; the meeting
was to discuss the different phases of
work in their several departments, and to
form some sort of an amalgamation
whereby they would better understand
each other.
A dispatch oi Friday to the London
Timu, from Buenos Ayres, states that a
bill will be introduced iu congress au
thorizing the government to lease
35,000,000 acres of the national lands.
Funds to meet the coupons of fhe na
tional loan, which are payable on Sep
tember Ist, have been provided. The
new president and directors of the na
tional bank are all men who have the
confidence of the public. Gold is quoted
at 172 per cent, premium.
AT AN EBB.
Mr Van Etten (trying to conceal a
yawn)—Where did you sav you were
going this summer?
Miss Marigold (who has seen his strug
fp e )~Mr. 1 an Etten, I am having just as
•I, “ t i mP 88 y° u lirp - and I should feel
indebted if you would yawn for me, also.
B-{Life-
LOOKS SQUALLY.
THE GREAT STRIKE, THOUGH RErOHTED
ENDED, 18 GROWING WOBBK.
A Buffalo, N. Y., dispatch says: The
strike on the Central, which was sup
posed to be over, took a serious turn Sat
urday morning, when, at 3 o’clock a. m
the switchmen on that road in the city'
as well as the men of the West Shore
road, went out in a body. The cause of
this new complication, it is understood,
originated Friday afternoon. The yard
master at Blackrock was ordered to* send
three men to the Exchange street depot
to take the places of others who went out
a week ago, which he did. Upon arriv
ing at the depot and being told
what was wanted of them, the
Blackrock men declined to go to
work, whereupon the yardmastcr was
called upon and requested to do some
thing which, it was claimed, was in the
nature of taking another man’s place,
and he declined. He was discharged and
six others with him. The Switchmen's
Union then called a meeting for Saturday
night, and after looking into the subject,
a strike was ordered. The situation
about the Central depot and yards is now
a serious one. All trains, both in and
out, are delayed, and much difficulty is
experienced in handling the cars.
Hardly a wheel is turning.
A dispatch from Albany says: Early
Saturday evening, as a freight train
manned by Pinkerton men was passing
through the northern part of the city,
several boys stoned the train. Two. of
the Pinkerton men fired into the crowd,
one of the balls passing through the
ankle of John McCarthy,aged twenty-two,
who was standing near by. The police
arrested Robert Tyler, James Patterson
and Thomas O’Connor, three detectives.
QUIET IN NEW YORK.
Trains arrived and left the Grand
Central depot in New York Sunday on
regular time. No freight was started out,
but it is announced that freight would be
received Monday at all yards and regular
freight trains started.
Ac ling Superintendent Byrnes notified
the police to be extra vigilant on that
day, when freight trains are started, and
prevent any interference with new men.
Business outlook.
DUN * OO.’S REVIEW OF TTADE FOR THE
PAST WEEK.
Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade
says; Industries are doing rather less and
speculators are doing more, but tho vol
ume of legitimate business is still large,
exceeding last year’s at this season by ten
per cent, and the outlook for the fall
trade is considered excellent at almost all
commercial centers. The average prices
of commodities has advanced more than.
2} per cent during the past week. Cot
ton has fallen 3-16s, but is still so high
that purchasers are limited. A heavy de
cline appears in the weekly output of pig
iron, 'lhe demand for finished products
is we'l sustained and some forms of plate
iron are a little higher. Reports are gen
erally favorable, Do complaint being any
where made as to the volume of current
business. Exports of merchandise from
New York fall below last year's by 29 per
cent for half of August.
Business failures for the week lumber
for the United States, 174; Canada, 23.
Total, 197, against 208 last week.
ATLANTA’S FESTIVAL
WAS A BIG SUCCESS —AN IMMENSE TRADES’
PROCESSION.
The south has never known such ir
thorough and complete trade display as
took place in Atlanta Thursday. The
midsummer festival surpassed the fondest
dreams of those most interested in it, and
was iu every respect the grandest spec,
tacular show ever witnessed in the south.
All Atlanta turned out to make it a suc
cess, and the peop’c came from every part
of the state, from Alabama, Mississippi,
Florida and the Curolinas to witness it,
and everybody seemed delighted. So
perfect and complete was the and splay that,
steps have already been taken to make tho
midsummer festival a permanency. Every
year the display will be repeated. At
lanta’s varied industries were never known
to the people, and the show gave them
an inkling only of what surrounds them.
Every business was represented iu tho
line, ad the great throngs which saw it
pass added anew and interesting chap
ter to their book of knowledge.
PRINT WORKS BURNED.
THE BUNNELL PLANT DESTROYED—LOSS
BETWEEN $150,000 AND $200,000.
Fire at Pawtucket, R. 1., Saturday
morning, destroyed a large part of tlw
Dunnell print works, one of tho largest
establishments in the state. All the old
works, covering about three acres, were
burned. The new buildings covering an
acre, were saved, but in a damaged con
dition. The print works and drying de
partment were totally destroyed. All the
costly printing machines and 500 brass
rolls engraved were lost, Loss $150,000
to $200,0000; fully insured.
The Most Offensive Odor.
Some researches by two German chem
ists have been brought to a close in a
somewhat ludicrous manner. Among
several products obtained by them from
the reaction of sulphuretcd hydrogen on
acetone was a small quantity of an ex
tremely volatile body, which seemed to
be monnsulphureted acetone, or thioke
tone. It uas impossible, ho /. ever, to ob
tain the substance, pure on account of its
odor, which makes all other foul smells,
sweet by comparison, and entitles this;
compound—whatever it is—to rack as the
w’orst smelling substance known. Iu the
attempts made to purify the product, with
every precaution to prevent its escape, the
atmosphere about tiie laboratory was so
infeeted to a distance of at least a quar
ter of a mile that a storm of complaint
from the citizens of tiie town male it
necessary to abandon the investigation.
(N. J.) American.
A BOOMER.
ne— That man hrj lots on his mind.
She—Who is he.
He—Jones, the real estate agent.—
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