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Hoandloavian countries,
Norway is the mast generous in the 6up
]>ort of missions.
Tne Commercial Merchant savs wc are
a nation of coffee drinkers. We import
from South America 525,000,000 pounds
rnnaallT.
Fashionable entertainments have been
* normouslv extravagant in London this
f-a-on. Several have cost between $30,-
000 and $40,000. The flowers for a
bachelor party cost SSOOO.
Insubordination among the English
t oldiers doing garrison duty has occurred
so often of late as to alarm the timid and
to give the sensational newspapers ma
terial for very long editorials.
The New Orleans Timet-Democrat says:
‘ Pennsylvania has been one of the largest
investors in Southern enterprises. Phila
delphia alone has $50,000,000 invested,
mainly in Virginia and Alabama, and the
Htate probably three times as much.”
The Prairie Parmer states that the car
vrorks all over the country have advanced
Che prices of building passenger coaches.
A coach which was built a year ago for
$j?00 the works will not build now for
has than $5500, and the car-works are
readily advancing the price of box and
coal cars.
“Mark Twain” has made the discov
i ry that, whereas lecturers always affect
to have a sober end in view, which can
be best reached by sugar-coating their
bolus of ripe thought with a paste of il
lustrative anecdotes, their real aim is to
tell as many good stories as they have
time to narrate, letting the professed sub
ject-matter of the address serve merely
•is a thread on which to string them.
A clever swindler has been doiigr
Florida, ahronicles the Chicago Herald .
31c guarantees to rid cottoa fields
oi caterpillars, and on receiving his
fee—usually ss—ho goes from stalk to
s alk hunting for the “king caterpillar.”
Presently ttnding a big fat fellow, he
bangs him by a string to a tree. He
t ien tejjjs the uradulou* farmer that the
struaig-up insect will die at suusut and
t'iat then all the other caterpillars will
leave the place.
Tho London Botpitnl tells of a seam
stress, who, like Hood's pathetic heroine
n the “Song of the Shirt,” worked till
the stars shone on the roof. Her eye
sight failed, and tho story goes on:
“She saw at the same time four hands,
four needles aud four seams. She at
first treated them as an illusion, but at
■the end of some days, in consequence of
weakness and prolonged mental anxiety,
sue imagined that she was really sewing
four seems at once, and that God, touched
by her misfortune, had worked a miracle
ii her favor.”
The scarcity of most kinds of fruits
throughout the Eastern and Central States
l nkes the good crop of California fruit
t his year of greater importance than ever
before. The people of tho United States
hive the advantage, congratulates the
Huston Cultieator, of living in a country
so large that they cau supply themselves
v. ilh necessaries and most luxuries de
suite any local scarcity that may prevail.
California fruit has heretofore been reck
oned superior in appearance, but hardly
v.u to the mark in flavor and quality.
This has been due perhaps to excessive
l fiance on irrigation, jusfc as many of
cur own fruits are watery and poor iu an
i xtra wet season. But good or poor, the
fruit of the Golden State will this year be
in demand.
Only two or three years ago it looked
ns though the Mohammedans were sweep
ing everything before themia Africa, and
there seemed no reason why they should
nt acquire a controlling influence over
tie natives as far south as the Zambesi.
AU this is now changed, declares the
New York Sun. In West Africa we see
tie Mohammedan kingdoms from the
bihara to the Lower Niger and the Benue
falling, one after another, into the hands
of the Europeans. In the Egyptian Sou
dan the Mahdist dominion is dropping to
pieces On Victoria Nvanza most of the
Arabs have been.slaughtered by Mwanga,
t.icir dhows have been destroyed, and
i lie survivors have fled into Unroyo, where
hey cannot replenish their anununition
-tores, and nearly 2000 soldiers of the
hitiah East African Company are fast
upon their hgels. Mr. to
ave very good grounds for his assertion
hat there will not be a Mohammedan in
id Central Africa, south of the equator,
within tbe aezt fire y *.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
ritOCEEDINGS OF THE nOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DKUBERATtoN. OVFjt MAt
TEJiB OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUB
CDMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
In the house, on Wednesday, Mr. Hau
gen, of Wisconsin, detnanded the regular
order, the Langston-Venable con
tasted election case; but Mr. Payson in
terjtosed with the conference report on
the land grant forfeiture bill. The house
decided—yeas 02, nays 137 —not to con
sider the conference report. Mr, Haugen
then called tip the election ( use. A vote
was then taken and announced as: Yeas,
130: nays. 15— the clerk noting a quorum.
Mr. Huugcn immediately demanded the
previous question. Mr. ( beadle, of In
diana, opposed the majority resolution
and deelurcd that the republicans of the
house could n>t afford to vote Venable
out aud Iytngston in. When Mr. Cheadle
concluded he was greeted with applause
by the democrats. The case then went
over until Thursday, The speaker an
announced his signature to the river and
harbor bill, and thetl the house, at 6
o’clock, took a recess until 8 o’clock, the
evening session being for the considera
tion iff bills reported by the committee on
military affairs.
In tho senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Sher
man, from the committee on foreign rela
tions, reported a resolution, which was
agreed to, requesting the president to
communicate to the senate such informa
tion as he may have on the subject of the
a-rcst of Thomas T. Collins, a citizen of
tbe United Hlntca, residing at Manila, in
the, Philippine islands, by officers of tin
Spanish government. Mr. Evurts reported
a joint resolution which was passed, ap
propriating s'>,ooo for the new site for
Lafayette statue. The senate then devo
ted an hour to bills on the calendar, to
which there was no objection. Among
the bills [sessed were the following: Sen
t> bill appropriating $30,000 for a
public monument on the reserva
tion in the city of Washington
to the memory of John Ericsson,
inventor and constructor of the Monitor.
The senate bill appropriating $20,00 >
for the purchase of certain manuscript
papers and correspondence of Thomas
Jefferson, now in the possession of his dc
scendnnts, The senate resumed consul
eration of the senate bill to establish a
United States land court, and to provide
for the settlement of private land claims
in the states of Nevada, Colorado or Wy
oming, and in the territories of New
Mexico, Arizona or Utah. The bill occu
pied the greater part of the afternoon,
but was finally laid aside without action.
Mr. Plumb ottered a resolution to recom
mit the house bankruptcy bill to the ju
diciarv committee, with instructions b
amend it so as to provide for a system o!
voluntary bankruptcy only, nud to report
it back ns amended at the mriiist praeti
cable moment. Private pension bills oi:
the calendar were taken up, and eighty of
them were passed in thirty minutes. Tin
senate then adjourned.
In the house on lliursdny, Mr O’Fcr
roll, of Virginia, suggested that no quo
rum was present. In the course of half an
hour the speaker announced a quorum.
The joti nal was read, aud the. question
1 arose up ni s approval. Result of vote
yeas, 131; nays, 0. No quorum. A
(rill of the house was ordered. I lie rail
showed the presence of 17m membe sand
the speaker directed the clerk to call the
roll on the approval of tho journal. A
lively discussion here arose between
Crisp, of Georgia, nud Hpeaku Heed re
garding the order of business Imring
the call of the roll, one door, which lias
always hern kept open to allow ingress,
and egress was latched mid two door
keepers were stationed at it to prevent
members leaving the chamber. The first
gentleman to resent this enforced impris
onment was Mr. Kilgore, who forced back
the slight fastenings ainl stalked into the
lobby. He was soon followed by Mr.
Osin, of Texas, who adopted the same
method of procedure. Air'. Cummings, of
New York, ami Coleman, of Louisiana,
approached the door together, nud upon
being informed that there was* “no thor
oughfare, ".manifested such a disposition
to break the door from its hinges that
one of the donrkciqxTs prudently removed
the latch and permitted them to puss.
After this, the rule was somew hat relaxed.
Further proceedings under call were dis
pensed with. The journal was then ap
proved,- Mr. 11 ugen demanded the
previous question on the Langston-Vena
tile contested election case. On orderiny
the pr vi tis question the vote stood:
Yeas, 135; nays, id. This being no quo
runt, a (".ill of the house was ordered.
There were blit 151 members present, aud
the house, at 3:05, adjourned An pub
lican caucus was announced to take place
immediately.
In lie senate, on Thursday, the icso
lution ullere.l Wednesday by Mr. Plumb
to recommit the bankruptcy bill to the
judiciary committee, with instruction to
amend it so as to provide for voluntary
bankruptcy only, went over. The vice
president announced his having signed
the liver and harbor bill. The calendar
was then taken up for an hour and the
following bills, among others, passed:
Senate bill to provide for tin- inspection
of live cattle, hogs and carcasses aud pro
ducts thcreo*, which are subjects of An
terstate commerce Senate bill to revive
the grade of lieutenant general in the
amy of the United States. Senate hi I
to pension army nurses. Tho remainder
of the day's session was devoted to euto
gism of Representative Laird, of Ne
braska, and at 4 :8T o’clock the senate
adjourned.
In the house, on Saturday, after prayer
by the chaplain, Mr. O'Fcrrall, of Vir
giuia, suggested that t ere was no quo
ri.m present, but the speaker proceeuee
to count one. and the ehrk proceeded tr
read the journal. Me srs. Oates, of Ala
bama, O'Fcrrall and Crisp were the only
democrats i:i their seats. Tho journa'
having been read, Air Crisp objected U
its approval and askc and that it be amended
so as to show that the speaker had sus
t lined the point of order he had much
against the call of the roll in the Langs
ton eav. Mr Oingley, of Maine, moved
to lay the amendment on the table On
ft rising vote tbL tuition was carried—
-142 to 2—aud Air. Crisp raised the polo*
of no quorum The speaker eoun;ed 1$
members present— a quorum, Mr. L'risj
challenged the correctness of the count.
A running fire was kept up by the speaker
and Mr. Crisp. There being no quorum
the house, at 4:45 o’clock, by unanimous
consent, took a recess until Bo’clock, the
evening se:sion to lie for the considera
tion of private pension bills.
The senate began work Friday with a
discussion (if Mr. PlUmli's resolution to
recommit the bankruptcy bill with in
structions to bring in a bill to apply to
voluntary bankruptcy only. Mr. Plumb's
resolut on was finally placed on the calen
der without action. Aft- r the chief c-xe
cutive session the unobjected bills on thi
calender we e taken up. Among tin
bills passed were: House bill to diseon
tinue the coinage of $3 and $! gold pieces
and 8-cent Dickie pierei. '1 he house bill
to reduce the amount of United States
bonds to be required of national banks,
and to restore to the channels of trade
the excessive accammulation of lawful
money in the treasury, having been
reached On the calender, was the occa
sion of a long debate, but the bill went
over without action. The house, bill to
define nod regulate the jurisdiction of
courts of the FAiled States, with the
amendment reported from the judiciary
committee in the nature of a substitute,
was taken up ns “ unfinished business,”
but it also went over after a considerable
time spent in discussing it. The discus
sion of these two mils occupie 1 the,
greater part of th> day’s session. Tin
senate then adjourned.
In the house, Saturday, Air. O’Ferrall
objected to the approval of the journal.
The speaker counted only thirty-seven
democrats, not enough to order the yeas
and nays on the question present. 'Tell
ers were demanded, and the s|wnkcr tipn
counted forty-ei.ht democrats. A sharp
colloquy then took place between the
speaker on the oue side and Breoken
ridge and Crisp on the other, the Utter
accusing the speaker of making a mis
count. The yeas and nays having been
ordered, there was u democratic, exodus,
and in a moment the democratic seats
were well nigh deserted. 'Hie vote re
sulted yens, 151; nays, o—no quorum,
and the house, nt 1 o’el ek, adjourned
The senate, on Saturday, resumed
consideration of the bill to relieve na
tional banks. The bill was laid aside
without action. The following bills,
unobjected to on the calendar, were
among oth< rs passed: Hen ate bill ex
tending the pr viteges of the free delivery
of mails to towns having a population of
s,<)oi), or a gross postal revenue of
$5,000. The calendar having expired,
the senate resumed consideration of the
home bill to define tho jurisdiction of
courts of the United States and of the
substitute heretofore reported by Mr.
Evarts from the judiciary committee. An
amendment offered by’Mr. Ingalls was
adopted. It provided that appeals and
writs of error may be taken and prose
cuted from decisi ms of the United States
court in the Indian Territory.!© tlie su
preme court of the United States. The
bill was laid aside informally, and the
private pension bills on the calendar were
taken up and passed —eighty live of them
iu fifty minutes. The senate then ad
journed.
NOTES.
The president signed 'the river an 1
barber bill Friday.
The house has pawed the senate bill
creating an additional vacancy in the
grade of ensign in the navy, and au
thorizing the president to fill it by the ap
pointment of Richard 11. Jackson of Al
abama, a late naval end t.
Confeices on the tariff bill had a two
hours’ meeting Thursday morning and it
is reporte i made substantial ptogiess.
The most important action was the ac
ceptance by the house conferees of the
senate reciprocity amendment.
An official of the treasury department
Wednesday afternoon called attention to
the faet that, (including the purchase of
bonds during the day) the disbursements
by the treasury in thirty-two days had
exceeded the receipts by $05,000,1 00.
The conferees on the tariff bill were in
Wednesday morning about an
hour, when the meeting of the house re
quired the presence of its conferees, and
an adjournment was taken until 10 o’clock
Thursday morning. But little progress
was made at the session.
Speaker Reed lias at last signed the
■ river and harbor bill appropriation, and
announcement will be rnude to the house
at the first opportunity. 'I lie next step
in order will be to secure the signature oi
the presiding officer of the senate, end
the bill will then go to the president for
approval.
Tlio meeting of the house judiciary
committee on Wednesday, called to con
sider the resolutions censuring Repre
sentative Kennedy, of Ohio, for his
speech against the senate aud Senator
Quay, and to expunge tho speech from
the Congressional Record, was attended
by all the members. A resolution was
reported directing the government prin
ter to omit the speech trom the perma
nent copy of the Record.
GERMANY DENIEB
THAT SHE HAS ISSUED LICENSE FOR SUAVE
TRADING IN AFRICA.
A Berlin dispatch of Thursday, says:
Ilcrr Schmidt telegraphs officially from
Zanzibar that neither at l)ar-es-Salam,
Emo, nor at Bagamoyo, has any procla
mation with reference to , slave-trading
been issued; that no licenses have been
granted to dealers; that no actions against
freed slaves have ever occurred on the
coast; that the statement that Zanzibar
dealers have gone to the coast t > engage
in thr slave trade is unfounded, nud'ihat
the recent mendacious rep >rts were spread
for tho numose cf injuring the Germans.
ANOTHER BOSTON FAILURE.
TnE TIGHTNESS OF THE MONET MARKET
FELLS UPON A FIRM OF BROKERS.
R. Gardner Chase & Cos., bankers and
brokers, at Boston, made an assignment
Wednesday. It is stated that lately they
have been doing a large business in west
ern railway stock, and on the street the
general cause given for the failure is that
t hoy were caught short of the market.
The liabilities wiil probably amount to
$2,000,000, and may go over that. What
there is in the way of assets cau only be
Jiterminal by an examination. The fail
are is attributed, so tha firm say, to th<
virtues* of moaey.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWB OF THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
TRR GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The Louisiana Farmers’ Alliance ex
pelled nine members because they voted
in favor of the Lottery bill.
*
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The tenth annual meeting of the
National Farmers’ Congress at Council
Bluffs, lowa, was largely attended. A
number of interesting papers were read
and much enthusiasm prevailed.
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The State of Michigan has been organ
ized with rt least ten thou and metpbers.
I litis another great commonwealth wheels
into line anu joins its sister States of the
South and West in the great struggle for
justice and teform.
♦%
The Farmers’ Alliance of Texas recom
mended the establishment of factories
within the walls of our penitentiaries, for
the purpose of manufacturing cotton or
other bagging to wrap the crop of the
State. — Alliance Record.
*
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The strongest reason why the sub
treasury plan is being fought by both the
Democratic and Republican parties is be
cause both parties are under the control
of those whose interests are against its
adoption.— Rational Economitt.
*
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One of the points of most intcresUto
farmers which was acted upon at the ses
sion of Alliancemen in Atlanta, was that
of selling no cotton during the month of
September, or, at least, none except where
absolutely necessary.— Alliance Record.
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Our Country (Jonesboro’, Ark.) says:
“They tell you the laud-loan bill und
sub-treasury bill are impracticable, yet
this same American country had tried
both schemes before the present wise
acres had an existence. It worked well
for the people then. Read up a little,
gentlemen. Look at the laud-loan
scheme of Pennsylvania colony, and the
tobacco warehouse system of Virginia,
and the warehouse scheme of 1848, which
brought France out of an extremity of
dire necessity and made her people pros
perous and happy. Not practical, eh!
Well, we admit it don’t suit the rag-tag
and pob tail politicians, but it suits the
great mass of producers.”
♦
* ★
A Montgomery di-patch, of Wednes
day, says: Rev. P. M. Adams, president
of the Farmers’ Alliance, was in the city
Tuesday, and had a long conference with
promiuent alliance leaders at the alliance
exchange. It is understood that the pur
pose of the conference was to discuss the
proposition of foreign capitalists to ad
vance $32 per bale on 2,000,000 bales of
the present crop, and to call a meeting at
once of the different alliances, to be held
in this city, to take immediate and definite
action with reference to negotiations now
pending. It is expected that the pro
posed meeting of the alliance leaders in
this city will be largely attended by racm
lx-rs from this and adjoining states, Geor
gia. Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
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The secret work is uow, or should be,
uniform throughout all the States under
the jurisdiction of the National Fanners’
Alliance aud Industrial Union. The con
stitution places it entirely in charge of
the president. Consequently, the na
tional president is the supreme authority
on the secret work, and is responsible for
its purity and protection throughout the
jurisdictions. Each State Alliance is con
sidered as a complete and separate juris
diction, excepting only such powers as
bus been by it delegated to the national
nnd the authority of the national presi
dent in all matters pertaining to the
secret work. The state president is there
fore the highest authority in his state on
the secret work, and should receive all
instructions in it direct from the national
pres dent. —-Rational Economitt.
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liivingfttoii Tallin.
Col. L. F. Livingston, president of the
Georgia State Alliance, has the following
to say regarding the much talked of
gigantic warehouse scheme for the plant
ers to hold their cotton:
“The advance of thirty-two dollars a
bale on cotton won and, of courc be a
very desirable thing for the farmers, and
would relieve the stringency of the
money market, as about sixty-four mil
lion dollars wi ils.l at onoe come to our
people. The only thing that will relieve
the stringency is the shipment of cotton
to Europe nnd the return of money to
this country, 'lliis is being done as fast
ns possible, and the farmer is the only
person who suffers in consequence or
makes any sacrifice. Now, outside of
this, 1 think the concentration of cottou
iu one big warehouse would not be a very
wise thing for the farmers. There are
three 1 serious objections: First, the in
surance would be intolerable, and I doubt
if any companies could "be found that
would care to take the risk on cotton
where a million bales were stored, and if
they did the rate would be enormously
high; second,the transportation would be
a heavy item of expense, especially where
the cotton had to be carried from a long
distance; third, the bales would have to
be overhauled in order to dry out the
green and damp cotton, and just think
w hat an expense it would be to handle
ope million bales. And there are other
objections, to the concentr.itio i of cottoa.
It would not be best for trade, for the
point where the cotton is stored would be
benefitted at the expense of other sec
tions. IVhat commercial advantages there
would be in the selling of a million bales
of cotton, the point at which the cotton
was stored would have it . Then cotton
warehouses arc liable to be mismanaged
like banks, and if a manager of a ware
house with a million bales of cotton
should Weenie tangled or embarrassed,
there is no telling what disastrous results
might follow. > otre of these ob
jections might be overlooked if an ad
vance of thirtv-twn dollars ft bale could
be secured. I think iv farmer should hold
his cotton if he is not in debt. My ad
vice to the farmers on this question is
tills: Put your cotton in the h mis of
vour merchant tf yu are indebted to
him, not to be sold,’ but as a security {or
the~debt, antj let hi® draw on the cotton
to relieve bit own indebtedness."
RAILROAD HORRORS.
A TRAIN'S FEARFUL PLUNGE, WREAK INO
death and disaster.
A passenger train on the R ading road
pan thrown into the Schuylkill river
near Shoemakefville, fifteen miles from '
Reading, Pa , Friday night. The en- I
giuecr, fireman, conductor, baggage
master, mail agent and two passengers
were kil ed and thirty passengers injured,
many of them very seriously. As further
reports come from the wreck the mugni- *
tude of the disaster increases. The train
was a fast express and was i
running forty miles an hour It j
had on board 123 to 150 passengers. t
The train was composed of the engine,
mail, express and throe passenger cars.
An accident to a coal train on the other
track a few moments before had thrown
several cars ou the track the passenger
train was on, and the men on the wrecked
coal train had.no time either to clear the
track or warn the pass nger train. The
latter ran into the obstruction and the en
tire train went down a twenty-foot em
bankment into the river.
Saturday's dispatches snv: The horror
of last night’s wreck ou the Reading rail
road seemed even worse when daylight
dawned, the scene being simply fright
ful. Up to 10 o’clock twenty bodies of
dead had been taken from the wreck,
and injured will number fifty. Follow
ing is a revised list of the dead thus far
taken from the wreck: John W. Miller,
L’resson ; George Grecnawale, mail agent,
Pottsvillc; John White, engineer, I’otts
ville; James Templin fireman, Pottsvillc ;
William D. Shorn, Reading; Harry
Jacobs, stonecutter, Pottstown;
Joseph Becker, Mahoning City;
Solomon Hoover, aged sixty, Potts
ville; Mrs. Edward J. Fox, aged forty
one, Pottsville; Edward J. Fox, aged
forty-one, Pottsville; George R Ivaercher,
aged forty-five, Pottsville; Harry Loughin,
conductor of the express; John Osborne,
Philadelphia; Mrs. J. Jt. Fredericks,
Pottsville; J. E. Fredericks, husband of
the above; Joseph Ruusman, Philadel
phia; N. Yandcrslice, Phceuixville;
John Sheedle, Philadelphia, Philadelphia
and Reading engineer; Michael summers,
Mahoning City; Frank liassman, Ma
honing City.
A melancholy coincidence is presented
in the fact that the ill-fated train, the
“Pottsville express,” is the same which
was wrecked at Tuckerton on a down
trip on the 23d of June last, and En
gineer White and Fireman Templing,
who were killed in Friday’s disaster,
filled the places of the Heller brothers,
Lewis and George, engineer and fireman,
who lost their lives in the first mentioned
accident.
INDIGNATION IN IRELAND.
THE SENSATIONAL ARREST OF DILLON AND
O'BRIEN.
A dispatch from Dublin, says: Mr.
John Dillon was arrested Thursday moan
ing, at his residence near this city. He
was conveyed on a special tnyin to Tip
perary, accompanied by a large military
escort. Mr. William O’Brien was ar
rested at Glengariff and taken to Cork.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest
os Messrs. Sheeijy and Condon, members
of the house of commons, Patrick O’Brien
and Rev. David Humphreys, of Tipperary.
The charge on which Mr. Dillon Was ar
rested are conspiracy and inciting tenants
on the Smith Barry’s estate not to pay
rents. Mr. Dillon, in an interview after
his arrest, said that the object of
the government in taking such a
s‘ep is a mystery to him, unless it
was their intention to pievent the mission
of himself and associates to America. He
was sure, however, that the Americans
would not deprive the tenants of Tippe
rary and other estate of needful support,
although it might be impossible for Mr.
O’Brien aud himself to go to America and
make a personal appeal in their behalf.
DISCUSSED IN LONDON.
A London dispatch says: There was no
abatement of interest throughout the day
in Irish arrests. Up to 7 o’clock Thurs
day evening no definite information had
reached London of specific utterances of
Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, on which
warrants for their arrest were based.
WHAT THE FAHNELLITEB THINK.
The Parnellites, while greatly sur
prised, are in no wise cast down. Tlieir
experience in the past leads them to take
a philosophical view of the situation, and
to expect, as a Heal outcome, advantage
to their cause. They have expected a
general raid by the government with the
view to suppress the national league all
around. Michael Davitt was interviewed
in regard to the arrests. lie took a very
hopeful view of the situation, and
thought the effect would be entirely fa
vorable to the Irish cause.
The London Kews says: Balfour has
met Ireland’s famine appeal after his
fashion, and has committed an act of
stupendous folly. We are slow to believe
him stupid enough to desire to prevent
their mission to America, because others
are going in their stead and will meet
with n splendid reception. It is difficult,
indzed. to nvston nnv rational motive.
SUFFRAGE TALK
in Mississippi's constitutional con
YENTION.
I
A dispatch of Thursday from Jackson,
Miss., says: The debate on section 5, ol
the report of the franchise committee,
was exhausted at 8 o’clock p. m., and all
the amendments were voted and wu and
the section was adopted by the usual ma
jority. It read as follows:
S.'ctions. On and after the first day
of January, A. D. 1896, the following
qualifications are added to the foregoing:
Every qualified elector sh 11 be able to
read any section of the constitution of
this state, or he shall be able to under
stand the same when read to him or (five
a reasonable interpretation thereof. A
new registration shall be made before the
next ensuing election after these qualifi
cations are established.
In order to restrict suffrage between
now and 1896 it will be remembered that
the committee recommended the adoption
of the Dortscli law. The following pro
visions were adopted without discussion:
Electors in municipal e ections shall
possess all qualifications h- rein prescribed
and such additional qualifications as may
be prescribed by law prior to January Ist,
1896. Elections by people in this state i
shall be regulated by an ordinance of this 1
80U8tltu?i0Bi
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 DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
George R. Davis, of Illinois, was, on
Friday, elected director of the world's
fair.
Typhus fever and dysentery prevail to
an alarming extent in east Prussia and
upper Silesia.
A grain and cotton warehouse in Alex
andria, Egypt, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, £50,000.
The total population of Connecticut is
645,861, a net increase during the last
ten years of 123,161.
The bronze statue to Horace Greeby,
at the Tribune building entrance, in New
York, was unveiled Saturday.
The strike in New South Wales con
tinues. The labor conference has de
cided to call out the sheep shearers and
wool carriers.
The mayor of New York has asked the
police commissioners that a sufficient
number of policemen be detailed to assist
him in making the new census.
The merchants of Belfast arc making
every endeavor to place as much linen as
possible in the United States before the
McKinley tariff bill goes into effect.
An order declaring the New York
Central strike off was read Wednesday
morning in every local assembly between
New York and Buffalo. It emanated
from headquarters.
A special from White Hall, Mich., says
an incendiary tire swept away the business
portion of that place early Friday morn
ing. Thirty dwellings were consumed.
Loss $100,000; three-fourths covered by
insurance.
The United States grand jury, Friday
morning, returned nineteen indictments
against the alleged census padders in
Minneapolis and St. Paul, six for Minne
apolis and thirteen for St. Paul. Six
Minneapolis enumerators were immediate
ly arrested and gave $2,000 bail.
A telegram from the city of Mexico,
says: A terrible accident happened Fri
day on Uie Mexican railway. Two trains
going iff opposite directions.ran into each
other at Rinconada and the cars were
piled on one another and completely
wrecked. T?n persons were killed and
several others wounded.
A Vienna dispatch of Thursday, says:
The prospect arising from the passage of
the McKinley bill, combined with the
fall in gold, has lowered the price of
mother of-pearl 13 percent. Mother-of
pearl manufacturers have closed their
factories in order to avoid working .at a
loss, and 30,000 persons have been thrown
out of employment.
At Sand born, lud., the Meur and Blevin
families engaged in a bloody riot Thurs
day morning, in which knives, pistols and
axes were freely used, and two of the
Meurs were fatally hacked with an ax,
and Rufus Illcvin was shut and instautly
killed, while two of his brothers were
dangirously injured. Theriot grew out
of a family feud of long standing.
Mis. Rachel Stillwaggon, of Flushing,
I.ODg Island, was one hundred and flvo
years old Sunday. Bhe is the oldest
woman on Long Island, if not in New
York State. Her mental faculties are
but slightly impnred, but her sight is
poor. She was born in Tariytown aud
is a cousin of Van Watt, one of the
American soldiers who captured Major
Andre.
Infcrmutiog received Friday from
Mexico states that the government rail
road in-pector has announced that tke
Pachucha, Se icultipau and Lampico rail
road will be completed and ready for
formal opening in a very short time. This
road will lorm the southern qnd of a third
great trunk line connecting Mexico City
with the United States. The connection
will bo mude at Eagle Pass, Tex.
London dispatches of Friday state that
the Turkish man-of-war Etrogroul has
foundered at sea and that 500 of her
crew wer- drowned. The Ertrogoul was
a wooden frigate-built cruiser of 2 344
tons-displacement. fffie mounted forty
one guns of small caliber, and was built
in 1863. Osman Pasha aud Ali Pasha,
envoys of the sultan to the emperor of
Japan, were passengers auu were
drowned.
A FATAL COLLISION.
At 8 o’clock Sunday night a switch
engine on the Cnicago, Burlington and
Quincy railway ran into the rear of an
excursion train on the Illinois Central
road, near Eighteenth str< et, Chicago.
The collision resulted in a frightful
tiagedy. \N itliin half tin hour,
seven mangled corpses had been dragged
out of the heap of broken timbers and
twisted iron that marked the spot where
the collision had taken place which was
near Dotiglasss parkand the victims
were Sunday excurs’onistg just reaching
the city on their way home from the
afternoon’s outing.
STILL ANOTHER.
A frightful railroad accident occurred
on the Omaha and St. Louis railroad,
about seven miles south of Council Bluffs,
la., Saturday morning. A north bound
freight train with eighteen loaded cars
broke through a trestle fifty feet high.
When the train ran to the east end of the
trestle the engineer discovered the west
end on fire. He signaled for brakes, re
versed the throttle of the engine and
dropped sand on the iails. But, running
as the train was at the rate of twenty-five
miles an hour, it was doomed and as it
struck the burning timber there was a
crash and the entire train went through
to the bottom of the gulch. Twelve cars
took tire and were destroyed. T,:e killed
arc: Martin Eskridge, e igineer, of Stan
bury, Mo.; Joseph Burke, fireman, of
Stanbury, Mo.; K. S. Williamson, head
brakeman, Macon, Mo.,
A BOILER EXPLODES.
The boiler of an engine attached to a
freight train on the East Tenuessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia railroad, exploded at
11 o’clock Sunday, at Sherman Heights,
five miles from Chattanooga. All tbit
can be found of the engineer and fireman
Is'a coat. A. brakeman was aeriuualy in
jured., The engine blown to atoms.
AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
NAMED BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF THB
WORLD'S FAIR —WHO THEY ARE.
The world's fair commission met in
Chicago, Wednesday morning, and Presi
dent Palmer announced his selection of air
executive committee as follows. M L Mc-
Donald, California; R. C. Kerins, Mis
souri; Henry Exall, Texas; P. A. B.
Weidner, Pennsylvania, nil of whom are
commissioners at large; Jno. T. Harris,
Virginia; Win. J. Sewell, New Jersey;B.
B. Smalley, Vermont; E. B. Martindale,
Indiana; John Boyd Thacker, New York;
A. T. Ewing, Illinois; William S. King,
Iowa; 11. G. Clapp, Ohio; L. McLaws,
Georgia; Francis Breed, Massachusetts;
Euclid Martin, Nebraska; R. R. Price,
Kausas; M. D. Harrison, Minnesota;
James E. Butt, West Virginia; P. 8.
Williams, Tennessee; Joseph Hirst, Flor
ida: U. L. Saunders, Mississippi; L. H.
Ilcrshfield, Montana; R. S. Goodell, Col
orado; A. T. Britton, District of Colum
bia and James A. McKenzie, Kentucky.
The committee is composed of thirteen
democrats and thirteen republicans.
AN ALLIANCE SCHOOL.
A NEW EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT BY
NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE MEN.
A dispatch of Thursday, from Raleigh,
N. C , says: The Farmers’ Alliance will
establish a school of their own at Moore
head City. The foundation of the first
of the buildings has been laid and they
will speedily be completed. The object
is to furnish tuition and board at actual
cost. The superintendent will buy food
at wholesale, and each pupil will pay his
cSrct proportion of the cost. It is calcu
lated that this will not exceed $5 per
month. It is proposed to divide the sal
aries of the teachers among the scholars
in the same way. Agents ore now at work
among the alliance in various sections of
the state. It is the first case in which
the.alliance has taken hold of educational
mattters, and for this reason the experi
ment attracts considerable attentioiV.
R ockefellersT g“T ft.
THE GREAT PHILAN riIKOPIST ADDS SI,OOO
- MORE FOR CHICAGO UNIVERSITY.
A pledge of $1,000,000 to the new
university of Chicago was conveyed to
the trustees of the institution Thursday
in a letter from John D. Rockefeller,
who has already given to the university
$600,000. The magnificent proffer wag
promptly accepted by the board and a
committee appointed to arrange for the
filling of the conditions of the gift. Mr.
Rockefeller stipulates that SBOO,OOO of
the amount shall be used for non-| rofes
sional graduate instruction fellowships;
SIOO,OOO for theological instruction iti
the divinity school, and SIOO,OOO for the
construction of divinity buildings. The
new university begins its career with en
dowments making $1,800,000, all of
which arc pledged.
GALVESTON REJOICES
NOW THAT TIIE PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED
THE RIVER AND HARBOR Bit.
The news that the president had signed
the river and harbor bill, which gives
Galveston practically $620,000 for her har
bor improvement, caused the greatest
rejoicing there Friday night. Cannons
were fired and the- city was illuminated
with a grand pyroteclrnical display.
Bands played throughout the city, houses
were illuminated and the city presented a
grand holiday appearance. The presi
dent's signature on the river and harbor
bill crowns with success the gulf outlet
movement, liegun by the Topeka and
Denver conventions two years ago. The
general government is committed to the
completion at Galveston of a first-class
harbor, on the basis of an appropriation
of $2,000,000.
The corn crop having proved a failure,
the Kansas farmers are preparing thoir land
for wheat, and the acreage of that grain will
he very large next season.
ADVERTISE WITH
US. IT WILL PAY
Dr. F. R. Calhoun
Tenders his professional
Services to the Citizens of Carters
ville and Vicinity. For the present his
Office will be at Word’s Drug Store.
Residence The Gilbert House, near
if. H. Gilreath’s.
A. M. YOUTK. T. C. MILNF.II.
Foute & 31 iln or,
Alt orneys-at-La tv,
CAKTKBNVII.I.E,
TVTILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE
Tr courts. Prompt attention to bus
iness. Office: Up-stairs,corner Main
and Erwin Streets.
J. M. NEEL. ROBT. J. SWAIN.
Neel & Swain,
Attorneys-at-Faw,
CARTERSVILLE, CA.
Office on public square. Prompt and
careful attention given to all business
entrusted to us. In cases of importance
a stenographic report of the evidence
will be madebvone member of the firm.
Administrator's Salo.
GEORGIA, Bartow County:
By virtue of an order of the conrt of Ordinnrr
of said county will be sold *on the first Tu- eday
In October next, between the Irgal hours of sale,
at the court house door of said county, tots of
land numbers iSt an-: 31S In the 4th district nod
3d section of said county. <xcept the right-of
way of Etowah Iron Co’s railroad, same bring
strip of land 33 feet wide running acro e s thenorth
east corner of said lot 2.38. the Etowah Iron To s
railway running through therenter of said strip
of land, said strip of land containing one acre
more or less. Each of said lots of land contain
lug forty acres of land more or less, said proper
ty being the home place of Larkin Satterfield,
deceased, and contains fine manganese and Iron
ores. Sold as the property of the estate of
Larkin Satterfield, late of enid county, deceased,
for the benefit of heirs and creditors of said ps
tate, JOE M MOON. Adm r.
Letters [of Administration.
Crt EPROM. BARTOW COUNTY.— Ordinary's
Y Office, Sept. 3, IMWI. Mre. Georgia Tumlin
having, in pro( ,r form applied fo me for perma
nent letters of ad ministration on the estate of
George H. Tumlin, late of said countv, deceased,
this is to cite all and singular creditors and next
of kin of George H. Tumlin, to be and apiear
at my office within the time allowed by law. and
show cause, if any they ean. why permanent, ad
ministration should not be‘granted to Mrs.
Georgia Tumlin on George H. Tomlin's estate.
Witness njy hand usd official signature, this 2
day of September, 1880
Q, W, REKPRK'KS, vrOlWf i